Every time I go home, I can accidentally dig up some interesting and valuable things from my parents.
For example, last year, after looking at the album of their youth traveling around China and asking many of the seemingly incredible details, I wrote: Honeymoon, in the 1980s. Unexpectedly, it attracted interviews from central media~
This day during the Spring Festival, my dad came over with a few pieces of paper and pulled me mysteriously and said, Come on, let me show you the summary of income and expenditures in the past 30 years I just finished. It's quite fun.
OK! I was immediately aroused. My dad has always had the habit of keeping books. From the long time when I didn’t know what a computer was, I always saw my dad take out a small notebook from the drawer for a while and write and draw.
time, starting more than 30 years ago.
1983-1984 --
In this year, CCTV held the first Spring Festival Gala; the first Santana was successfully assembled in Shanghai; including Dalian, Tianjin, Shanghai, Guangzhou, etc., it was approved to become the 14 major coastal open cities; the resident ID card system was implemented.
This year, my parents have been assigned to different units in my hometown second-tier cities as the first batch of college students after the resumption of the college entrance examination. After the group wedding, the two began a self-sufficient and hard-working life in a single dormitory.
Although he is considered an intellectual or middle class in his identity, ordinary families in that era had almost no savings. Their monthly salary that year was 68 yuan.
As a civil servant, their income and family expenditure changes can be regarded as a microcosm of a generation in the era of collectivism.
1986 --
TV series " Journey to the West " was broadcast; 76 years later, Halley's Comet returned; Cui Jian The song "Nothing" shocked the rock world.
This year, parents' salary increased to 102 and 107 yuan. In order to save more money for their future life, they take turns to take a long way to teach part-time classes after get off work and weekends, and they can earn more than ten yuan at a time if they are too much!
The first time I had two big purchases at home: one was a bicycle worth 170 yuan; the other was a 21-inch color TV worth 1,530 yuan (no wonder it was the dowry gift from that era!)
For this reason, I specially clicked on a home appliance mall app on my mobile phone and glanced at it: almost all the high-definition LCD screens of 50-60-inch colors; when I pulled it down, it was easy to see that the price of more than 30-inches was mostly around 1,000 yuan; that is to say, in more than 30 years, the salary has generally increased dozens or hundreds of times, and the price of home appliances has even dropped! !
What’s more interesting is that my dad is on the note next to him: add 11 overseas Chinese coupons.
Could it be that this is like food coupons and meat coupons, and the planned economy still needs to be purchased with tickets?
My dad showed a look of: Hehe, you don’t understand~, saying that these large appliances were only available in external friendship stores! Specially sold to a few foreigners and overseas Chinese. It took me a lot of effort to get this qualification after working a few times!
Overseas Chinese Voucher Schematic
Hey, even if you have no money, you can't spend money...+ω+
1987-1988 --
The tenth anniversary of reform and opening up; the first mainland citizen was allowed to go to Taiwan, China; six major airlines including Air China, China Southern Airlines and China Eastern Airlines were established.
This year, parents' monthly salary increased to 154 and 142 yuan. They moved to two dormitories with public kitchens in the Tongzi Building, and spent 650 yuan to buy a dual-purpose sofa that can be pushed and pulled into a bed. Immediately the following year, I spent all my remaining savings and bought a washing machine worth 938 yuan and a refrigerator worth up to 2,070 yuan!
Oh my god~ I couldn't help but look at my refrigerator that has been replaced by two rounds.
1990 --
The first comprehensive international sports competition hosted by China - the Asian Games was successfully held, and the mascot "Panda Panpan" became the most popular decoration on the streets overnight; " Variety Show Grand View ", which lasted for 14 years, was broadcast; the first McDonald's opened in Shenzhen.
This year, relatives from Taiwan, China, who had lost contact since 1949, returned to their hometown to visit relatives.They brought handheld video cameras to capture the scenery back home, which attracted everyone's surprise and curiously fiddling with this advanced technology that they had never seen before.
Taiwan relatives brought us a lot of things and said with a little pride that every household there has its own bathroom and phone number! It aroused everyone's praise and silently envious~
You should know that at that time, in our residential buildings, the unit installed a rotating dialing public telephone on the corridor every two or three floors, and dialing in and out had to be transferred through the switchboard. It is already beyond the treatment of ordinary commercial housing outside! Therefore, I often hear the shouting in the corridor: XXX, your phone number! ... It's really impossible to imagine now~ ╯▽╰)
At the same time, I remember one thing that I was very young now is a future fantasy I saw on TV one night. By 1994, the whole world had become as surreal and fun as Disneyland~ It seemed to be a self-produced program by the National Channel. From then on, I have been very, very naive and looking forward to the arrival of 1994.
1992 - 1993 --
After the collapse of my country and the Soviet Union, various countries have successively established diplomatic relations; Deng Xiaoping's southern tour; the TV series " Xiaolongren " and the movie "Qiu Ju False" have been released one after another;
My parents' monthly salary has increased to 258 and 267; our family has also moved into a small suite of more than 70 square meters for the first time and spent 3,500 yuan to decorate. I still remember that the wall facing the living room when I entered the door was the most popular scenery that was enlarged into the entire wall; the one behind our house was Huangguoshu Waterfall.
As soon as I talked about decoration, my dad was excited again: Do you know that after the decoration, everyone from our entire unit came to visit and said, "Wow! Lao Cai's house~ It's so luxurious!" Actually, I just discovered the good thing of tiled flooring when I was on a business trip.
Early, everyone was used to applying a layer of light green paint on the cement floor, extending to a place half a person high on the wall. Most of our money for decoration costs for several thousand yuan was spent on laying tiles, and the effect was really good! My dad was a little proud as he said, but he couldn't help laughing~
In the same year, we spent 719 yuan to own an electric water heater for the first time, and finally we didn't have to carry the basin to queue up in the public bathhouse in the middle of winter! Later, I installed my own phone for 2,930 yuan.
My dad said that the most impressive thing back then was to pretend to be careless and hand over a business card: This is my phone number, please save it~ Wow, that admiration! I got kidney x at the first time now, and I don’t know how high it is.
In 2018, our landline phone was permanently shut down a few years ago because we really couldn't use it and we were too lazy to renew it.
1994 --
This day, the fantasy was a distant future of 94 years -- It seems that the huge scene leap in the picture did not happen. ˘•ε•˘｡)
In this year, Southeast TV , Shandong TV, and Zhejiang TV were all on the air; " Focus Interview " was broadcast on CCTV One; China was officially recognized as having the Internet; the Three Gorges Project started.
My parents’ monthly salary has increased to 451 and 495.
I spent 1,650 to buy Gree air conditioner and another 7,800 to buy a Pearl River piano for me. I couldn't help but feel moved~ Ah my piano is actually the biggest expense in the 10 years since my parents got married so far! !
Talking about the story of buying a piano back then, it is very touching. My parents think it’s good to cultivate some interest in music. So I asked me if I want to learn the electronic piano? I didn’t know where I got the idea back then, so I told my parents that if I want to learn, learn piano! ! They said, are you sure? I nodded, yes!
Then I forgot about this. One evening, my mother came to pick me up, and as soon as we met, she said mysteriously: Come home with me, see what gift your dad bought you! I was so stupid that I didn't think much, thinking that it might be like Christmas, putting a box of candy on my shoes, right? Run home excitedly.
When I saw a huge creature standing in the living room, the packaging plastic was unveiled layer by layer - I couldn't believe my eyes! ! Such a big gift is really shocking for me.
1997 --
Everyone remembers that Hong Kong is back; Princess Diana died in a car accident; Asian financial storm began; Ke Shouliang drives to fly Yellow River ; Hunan Satellite TV's "Happy Camp" is broadcast.
This year, parents' salary increased to 744 and 727 per month.
My dad didn't have a pager worth 1,630 yuan (I liked it as a BP machine at that time). You can contact us at any time when the displacement is moved! When I was a child, I often called the manual paging station, and a sweet question would come from the opposite side: Which number do you want to call? Any comments?
In the same year, our family spent more than 22,000 yuan on car purchase fees and nearly 30,000 yuan on license fees to buy a 125cc motorcycle. In the key elementary school I attended and the wealthy or noble family, this was already slow, but we were still very happy. Many weekends after
, my dad rode a motorcycle to carry our family of three on an outing. Once I drove into the ridge of the field and couldn't get around for a long time. At that time, I thought... Ah, what a remote place! ! Looking back now, it is already on the second ring road of the city, and the housing prices per square meter soar to 30,000 yuan. ⊙▽⊙||
1998 - 1999 --
Windows 98 was released; Tencent was registered and established in Shenzhen; Yangtze River flood control; "Titanic" and "My Fair Princess" that set off a huge trend was released; the first "New Concept Composition Competition" was held; Macau's return; the 50th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
My parents’ salary finally exceeded 1,000! !
This year, we bought a large color TV worth 11,000 yuan, which is still placed in my living room. We spent 6,000 yuan to buy an desktop computer , and for a long time, we used "Modem" (Modem) to dial up the Internet. After that, I learned to type, learned to chat with OICQ, spent a lot of time to tossing out "personal signatures" in a limited space, and also learned to play "Monopoly" and "Legend of Sword and Fairy".
In the same year, I spent 70,000 yuan to participate in the unit to raise funds to build a house. At the price of about 1/2 of the market price at that time, I owned my own property of more than 100 square meters.
I was still young at that time and didn't think it was such a great thing. Now it seems -- Nani, 7W blocks? ! It's really not a square meter price? Tell me where to pay! ! Send a few more sets! ! ! ( ◇
2000 - 2001 --
The millennium is coming in anticipation, which also triggered panic among the "millennial insects"; Baidu was founded; Beijing successfully bid for the Olympic Games, China officially joined the WTO; 9/11 incident broke out; Jay Chou , Stefanie Sun and other singers debuted, and the Taiwanese version of "Meteor Garden" was launched.
This year, we used the huge amount of money at that time to decorate a new house and moved into our new home. At the same time, we updated and replaced electrical appliances such as Siemens washing machines, variable frequency air conditioners and other appliances. After
, our parents spent 1,578 yuan to buy the predecessor of the mobile phone -- "Little Lingtong" that can't do anything except make phone calls, it's the first time to realize mobile two-way calls!
's monthly salary has risen to about 1,400 yuan.
2003-2004 --
SARS broke out; the US-Iran war broke out; Taobao and Alipay were born; Beijing's Fifth Ring Road was opened to traffic; Maglev trains were officially put into operation in Shanghai; " Super Girl " became an epoch-making talent show.
This year, the salary exceeded 2,000 yuan.
In order to learn English, he spent nearly 1,000 yuan to buy the super popular artifact at that time "Haoyitong", with various real-time translations of English-Chinese dictionaries; for the convenience of taking pictures, I spent more than 1,000 to buy a fashionable digital camera. From then on, I can take pictures at will and no longer have to worry. I found the only one I closed my eyes after washing it /
2008 --
"Bird's Nest" and Water Cube were completed, and Beijing successfully held the 29th Summer Olympics; Wenchuan earthquake; nude photo gate caused shock in the entertainment industry.
This year, the salary quickly doubled compared with before, breaking the 5,000 mark.
spent 3,000 yuan to get a driver's license, and spent 5,000 yuan to buy a second-hand Audi (often shut down), becoming a car owner.
bought an Apple laptop and Nikon SLR camera in the same year; after going to the United States, he resolutely bought a "shocking" iPhone 3G for about 2,000 yuan.I spent a lot of time familiarizing myself with the iOS system and various apps, and since then, the era of smartphones that opened the door to a new world has been opened.
2012 --
2012 The prophecy of the end of the world in Maya calendar was broken; WeChat Moments function was launched; "The Voice of China" became another phenomenal variety show after the Super Girl Express Boy.
This year, my parents’ salary reached 7,000+. We exchanged 20W for a new SUV and started to travel on our own frequently; we bought a new desktop computer and updated a batch of electrical appliances at home.
After 2013
Interestingly, the large-scale consumption on my father's account book has begun to become " Cambodia travel", "Australia travel", "Mexico travel", "Turkey travel"...
no longer has to worry about collecting a few large appliances and living a less tight life like in the 1990s; there is no need to accumulate some basic items for "going well-off"; it is not even like in the 2000s, when I bought a lot of new things for the first time to improve my quality of life.
In recent years, the concept of consumption upgrading has become a daily topic. The income of first-tier cities can easily exceed 10,000 yuan, and everyone's expenditure is more about eating, drinking, having fun, and constantly updating existing products. Of course, housing prices have also risen sharply in recent years. This is the only thing I used to be unable to afford, but now I may not be able to afford it! (/ω＼)
I read the detailed bills of the previous generation full of life, recalling the situation corresponding to the past, and I felt a lot of emotion.
Life has always been smooth and rapid since childhood. It is truly a blessing for us born in the 1980s and 1990s and even born in the 2000s. When studying in Japan, I saw many young Japanese people, or many Taiwanese friends, facing the stagnant economy, their choices were really limited ~
In a word, development is the bottom line! !
(The author of this article is the co-founder of "Wu Er Journey", and the WeChat public account "Cai Yun Iris")
column editor: Li Baohua Text editor: Li Baohua
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