Fireworks in my hometown-market.

Going to the market is a folk custom in our hometown, also called going to the market or driving the streets. Market is a form of commodity trading activities gathered in a specific period. Mainly refers to a form of trade organization left over from the underdeveloped era or region of commodity economy, also known as market. Going to the market is an indispensable activity in the lives of working people. According to the earliest existing market records in Guizhou, this is the first provincial history book in Guizhou in Hongzhi's New Records of Guizhou in the Ming Dynasty. From the beginning, the author put down the cold eyes of historians and lamented that the fairs in Guizhou were rich in information and orderly. Five hundred years ago, most people in Guizhou took their calendars to the fair, such as ugly day cattle farm and racecourse at noon. This way of going to the market according to the classical calendar is still practiced in Guizhou, and the names of racecourse, monkey farm and chicken farm are left behind.

Speaking of our activities in Guizhou, we have to mention Jinsha, which is the most representative. 1934, a scholar of the Republic of China, Xue, mentioned in Travel Notes of Guizhou, Yunnan and Sichuan that the new drum field became one of the four famous towns in northern Guizhou by virtue of its market prosperity. You know, at that time, together with the new drum field, it was Maotai Town that tied for the four famous towns. Because of the fair trade, the new drum field became the first of the four famous towns and was first placed under the county administration. Now it is my hometown Jinsha County.

Fair is a regular activity. In our hometown, it is postponed every five days after the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, followed by the ninth, fourteenth, nineteenth, twenty-fourth, twenty-ninth and fourth days. On average, there are 5 market days every month, totaling about 72 games a year. Every market day is a trading day for all rural people. People in the surrounding villages take their crops to the market and buy back household necessities. When I was young, there were also places for livestock trading in our township markets, such as pig market, bull market and horse market. In addition, this day is also a day that all farmers pay more attention to. Even those farmers who are usually sloppy will simply dress up, and about three or five neighbors will walk in the street together and enjoy this periodic leisure day, which is somewhat similar to the weekend when we are working now.

Of course, in addition to our market activities in Jinsha, Qiandongnan is no exception. Today's market is still pure and primitive, the most primitive minority settlement. In the south of Leigong Mountain, where the market was triggered by bullfighting, people not only cheered and visited bullfighting activities, but also inevitably slaughtered dozens of cows, especially during the Drum Zang Festival, which was held only once every 13 years. A village will slaughter dozens of cows at one time, and the scene is extremely grand. Some people watch bullfighting for excitement, while others watch bullfighting to maintain the etiquette of the whole area. It can even be said that if there were no bullfighting, the Miao and Dong dances here would also lack soul. Guizhou men are keen on fighting animals. Here, in addition to the temporary market of bullfighting, in the regular market, you can also see dog fighting, chicken fighting, fighting thrush and other fighting activities. A tense atmosphere will make your hormones spill all over the floor.

We are all busy, rushing to the streets, rushing to trade, rushing to shop, and rushing home. In fact, there are few idle people in the countryside. It seems that I have been busy all my life since I was a child, and I have my own acre and three points to take care of. Secondly, there are too many dazzling commodities in the market. Compared with places with poor material foundation in rural areas, they are simply overwhelmed, so it is a feeling of sightseeing to take the time to enjoy them. Every once in a while, so every time is busy and precious, especially for the elderly and children.

Every market day, people come and go, department stores gather, and everything is famous and has a surname, which is a lively scene. On the day of the fair, you can see the traditional handwork of repairing shoes, mending pots and cutting clothes everywhere. Many rural people take their agricultural products to the market for sale. In the street, all kinds of local products and agricultural and sideline products, as well as all kinds of delicious food are sold on both sides of the street, and people from three townships and five miles gather here on this day. They are looking for their own "prey" everywhere in the unique way of northern Guizhou people, or carrying backpacks, baskets or pockets, and the children are skipping and entertaining themselves. I will meet many neighbors I haven't seen for a long time and say hello to catch up. Market day must be a good day for the elderly and children in their hometown. Every market day, the whole family meets the neighborhood again and goes out in groups of three or five. Generally, children and old people are either making a deal or simply having fun and buying delicious food. If children can buy some sweets from market day, they will be sweet until the next market day. Old men are basically for that sip of wine. When they go to the street, they spend a few cents to buy a small glass of white wine in the white wine workshop. A bunch of old men sit together, generous old men take turns sipping the glass of wine they bought, while slightly stingy old men generally drink it off and then stroll slowly. With the setting sun on the horizon, I walked home slowly, chatting about what I saw and heard recently or the brevity of my parents' journey, and occasionally teasing the villagers who usually dare not ridicule, and the days passed like this.

The custom of going to the market has existed since ancient times. In relatively closed rural areas, people come to a fixed place at a fixed time to buy and sell, or get information through interpersonal communication, or just go shopping, but it has become an irreplaceable human fireworks. As an ancient trade activity, it has a long history and is mixed with complex emotional factors. Many people in Guizhou are the most. Nowadays, "going to the market" is about to become the memory of a generation. In recent years, even some counties in northern Guizhou have introduced the system of canceling fairs, turning the tradition of having fairs every few days into a "hundred-day fair", which can be held 365 days a year. In my opinion, this should be a pity. The rapid urbanization movement should at least keep the last trace of our childhood memories for the post-80s generation.

Now the market in my hometown has long been occupied by many supermarkets, the livestock market has been replaced by centralized livestock farms, rural people have long stopped growing crops, and the market in towns and villages has basically become a big vegetable market. In the past, markets were always walking, with time, space and environment for communication. Today, they all take the country bus. They used to walk for half an hour, but today they go back and forth every 8 minutes. Many interesting elements in the Expo activities have disappeared. Some people who went to the fair in those days were really old and couldn't walk, while others were young and didn't want to move their legs when they entered the city. So, we leave too much fun in life behind.

Occasionally, when I go back to my hometown, I will still feel the childhood scene early on the day of the market. After all, those childhood scenes are my past today and the support for my further development in the future. How can I forget, let alone remember, because this is part of building my life.