When people lie comfortably on Simmons and enjoy modern life, it may be difficult to associate Simmons with straw. People seem to have forgotten or been at a loss to know that Simmons' predecessor was wooden boards and straw. In the fifties and sixties, straw was indispensable in the bedding of Wuhan people. At that time, the residents who used wooden boards accounted for the majority. Cotton was planned to be supplied by ticket, and quilts were basically guaranteed, but cotton wool was not. It is estimated that about 80% residents still use straw to make their beds. After all, the residents who use brown beds are a minority. In the era of having more children, it is not unusual for a family to have three or four beds. In autumn and winter, farmers pull carts in the street and sell them in the city, filled with straw piled high. You can buy a bundle for ten cents and use it for one season. When the sun comes out in winter, every household takes straw to the streets to "grab the sun" to dry it, so that bubbles can have a warm sleep. By the turn of the next spring and summer, they were carried to the street and burned, and many asphalt pavements were damaged. Children like playing with fire best, helping them with forks and sticks while watching, and finally rushing to douse them with washbasins or buckets. The local flavor emitted when burning straw is still fresh in my memory. Straw is often spread unevenly and is not easy to carry, so "draft recommendation" is used for advanced ones. Old people and young people have different understandings of the word recommendation. Contemporary people believe that it is recommended to publish other people's manuscripts. In fact, as a dialect, it has been widely used in ancient times, both north and south. It means a straw mat woven from straw, cattail or wheat straw, which is placed between the bedding and the bed board to keep warm. We can know their original meanings from the radicals of these two words. Draft, He Cong, originally refers to the stems of cereal plants; Recommended, from grass, refers to grass. In the 28th episode of Water Margin, Song Wu was sent to Mengzhou. When he first arrived at the prison camp, the prisoners introduced him to the darkness in the prison: "... tie the suozi upside down, and a dry draft recommends rolling you up, blocking your seven orifices and hanging upside down on the wall;" It doesn't take half a change to kill you. -This is called a basin crane. " In the 1970s, when I went to the countryside, I also invited the old farmer to make a manuscript, which was hand-woven and took a day. It has a smooth surface, a rough back, decorative edges, dense, thick and durable. I'm afraid there are only a few people who can recommend now. A few years ago, a well-known young writer published an essay in the form of prose, in which he mentioned that a friend gave him Suzhou cuisine, a specialty of "Lu Manuscript Recommended Sauced Meat", which was fat but not greasy, crisp and rotten, with thick red sauce and salty and sweet sauce. He didn't understand the word "recommended manuscript", so he skillfully interpreted it as: the shopkeeper must be a scholar, and his sauce meat is like recommending a beautiful manuscript to readers, so he took such an elegant name. Famous writers actually make such jokes, and the editors of magazines are not rigorous, which all stem from their disdain for historical life and their pursuit of fast food literature. There are many versions of Suzhou's "Lu Gao Jian Jiang rou" and Wuxi's "Zhen Lao Gao Jian". It is more credible that there is a butcher shop in Guanqian vinegar workshop bridge in Suzhou, and the owner's surname is Lu. One summer, the stone roads in Guanqian Street were all baked, and no one was seen on the road. There is still a lot of pork in the shop that has not been sold, and the young couple are in a hurry. At this time, there was an old beggar with a bamboo pole, a broken bowl and a manuscript to recommend. When he reached the butcher's door, he lay down. When the young couple saw someone fall, they quickly went out and carried the old man into the house, made a fan to make tea, and served mung bean porridge to the old man. When the old man left, he left a manuscript recommendation and said, "It's hot outside. You should cook fresh meat before selling it. The manuscript recommendation is left to the fire. " Say that finish out of the store, disappeared. As soon as the old man left, the young couple cooked the meat and burned it for a long time. The firewood has burned out, and the meat is not crisp. So I stuffed the manuscript recommended by the old man into the stove, and suddenly the room was full of fragrance, and then the meat was crisp and rotten. At this time, someone at the door clamored for cooked meat, which was sold out in a short time. Since then, the butcher shop has changed to selling cooked meat, and the business has become more and more prosperous. In order not to forget the kindness of the old man, the couple changed the name of the store to "Lu manuscript recommendation". By the mid-1970s, straw and manuscript recommendation had disappeared from Wuhan people's homes, along with extremely annoying bugs. In addition to cotton wool, there are brown mats, Chinese alpine rush mats, old blankets and sponge mats instead of straw and manuscripts. In the 1970s, the main furniture necessary for marriage was wardrobe, chest of drawers, square table (stool) and "mattress bed". Brown beds were basically popularized in the 1980 s and spread to surrounding counties. After 1990s, Simmons became more and more popular, occupying the bedroom space of thousands of families in Qian Qian. The streets are mostly the remains of old brown beds, which ruthlessly announce the arrival of the trendy era. When we recall these old things, we can't help but marvel that human wisdom and creation are often accompanied by long-term cognition and tolerance.