received enthusiastic responses from witnesses and their families. The above picture is taken by Tan Yingzhou in Guiyang Huaxi Park when he returned to Guizhou in 2018. The pictures in this article are from the revisited
. When I was a child, I would have a big reaction to being stung by an insect. My earliest memory (none of them) is that I was hugged by someone — maybe only one or two years old — and then I was bitten by a mosquito on my hand, and a round blisters formed. I hate this blister, so I pinch it with my index finger and thumb, trying to pinch it.
Generally, people who are stinged by insects have a small reaction, and they will pick up a bag when they are stung by insects, and after a little itching, they will not itch and the bag will disappear. I am not. First it will itch, then it will get blisters. I was stung by mosquitoes on my eyelids once or twice at night, and when I woke up in the morning, I found that my eyelids were swollen and my eyes were sealed by eye feces. Fortunately, the stinged person always has only one eye, otherwise he won't see anything.
later went to Guizhou and went to the 3417 hospital where my parents worked in the mountainous branch near Zunyi, and I saw the insects that sting people in Guizhou.
Hailongtan near Zunyi
Shanghai also has mosquitoes. In the 1970s, in the early summer of each year, the "patriotic sanitation campaign" was also carried out in Lilongli, which sprayed insecticides on gutters and wet corners, so there were relatively few mosquitoes.
The mosquitoes in Guizhou may have relatively few interactions with humans, so they are stupid and easier to kill, but they are more numerous than in Shanghai. There is a strong black mosquito, with a pointed head, like a fighter plane, it rushes at the smell of humans. There is also a relatively delicate gray mosquito. At that time, there seemed to be no black and white flower mosquitoes that are common nowadays.
The No. 7 building where we lived at that time was a dormitory of the hospital. Although the room and kitchen were all for exclusive use, the toilet was shared. There are four households on each floor, and there is a flush toilet in the corridor, which is divided into several rooms. Because of the water in the toilet, there are a lot of mosquitoes. When you walk in, you can see many flying, and many parked on the wall, waiting for you to rush over and bite your ass or leg when you squat. The walls in each single room are tired of mosquitoes killed by people who go to the toilet, but they can't finish them.
At the beginning of the house there was no screen door and window screen, so I had to drill mosquito nets at night. Before I go to bed, my mother always checks the mosquito net carefully, because even if she hides a mosquito, she will be bitten by it several times. However, children do not sleep well. Sometimes they roll to the side of the bed while sleeping, with their arms or legs next to the mosquito net, and they will be bitten by the mosquitoes through the thin net. After
had screen doors and screen windows, I felt so much better. I usually stay at home and don't have to worry about being bitten by mosquitoes. Of course, you have to be careful when you go in and out, and you can't put mosquitoes into your home.
There is another kind of nasty bug in Guizhou that can sting people, which is not available in Shanghai, and that is fleas. This flea used to suck blood in the fur of other animals. Sometimes it would live in the mud or grass. If a person walks near it, it will jump on a person, which is a change of taste. A little boy like me who wanders in the countryside, runs around in the grass all day, and also goes by the cowshed and pigsty, so fleas often jump on me.
Sometimes it gets into the socks, sometimes it runs into the trouser legs. If it jumps on your body, most of the time it will fall on the waist of your trousers, drill around in the pleats, and sting you twenty or thirty bites by the way.
If I find fleas on my body, my mother will ask me to take off all my clothes, take it outside to shake, and shake off the fleas. She has sharp eyes and has caught fleas. Her body is flat, only the size of a sesame seed, and it takes a lot of effort to choke. My mother has a pair of good eyes that are important to surgeons. In middle age, binocular vision was still 1.5. The annoying thing about
fleas is that once they hit you, they will not only bite you, but will bite a few or dozens of bites. It's such a small body, and it's not full of blood. I don't understand why it stings so many mouths.
The third type of insect that stings is a small bite, which is not found in Shanghai. I have only been bitten by a small bite once, but I am impressed.
remember that a truck from the hospital brought a car of sand and unloaded it near the dormitory building. The sand was never used to build a house, and it was piled there for a while.
Sand is one of children's favorite things to play with. One day at dusk, I was playing on the sand, digging caves, building bunkers, and driving roads. I was very busy. At this moment, I caught some small bugs from the corner of my eye.Flying around me. The
bug is so small that I can't see clearly, so I didn't care. As a result, when I went home to eat, I got itchy all over and made dozens of bags!
Later, I heard people say that this kind of bug is called Xiaobite by the locals. Although it is small, it bites people badly. (Before writing this article, I checked some information, and it has a more formal name, which is "midge".) What happens after
is stung by an insect? Needless to say, itching, and you can't scratch, the more you scratch, the more itchy. After being stung by a bug in Guizhou, it itch for a long time. Then blisters. It is generally a round blister. When encountering a particularly poisonous insect, many small blisters will be formed on the stinged bag, and then these small blisters will continue to expand, and finally become one big blister. The
blisters will become more and more bulging, and the upper layer of skin will become thinner and thinner until it is transparent. Then one day it will finally burst and the juice inside will flow out, that is, the bag is almost ready and it is almost no longer itchy. However, it will leave an unsightly dark spot on the skin, which will only fade away in one or two years. One summer, I will have many such dark spots on my legs and arms.
Sometimes the blisters become too big, my mother will take a sewing needle and burn it on the fire to disinfect, then help me to break the blisters, saying that it is to drain it. Later, I will pick it myself, so I don't need my mother to pick it.
These biting bugs were also a kind of pain that the people in the branch had to endure.
Huangguoshu Scenic Area
In the summer of 2018, my wife and I returned to Zunyi to revisit the site of the 3417 Hospital in Simian Mountain. After going there, because my wife was in Guizhou for the first time, I went with her to Hailongdun near Zunyi, then to Guiyang, and went to see Qingyan Ancient Town and Huangguoshu Waterfall. No fleas or bites were encountered along the way, and even mosquitoes did not bite us. The last stop of
is Guiyang Huaxi Park. I have never been to Huaxi before, but it has been famous for a long time, so I thought of going to see it this time. After entering the scenic spot, I feel that it is indeed well-deserved. There are mountains and waters, flowers and streams, and there are multi-level small dams in the streams, creating layered weirs and ponds, which is really beautiful.
Guiyang Huaxi Park
However, soon I found out that there are many mosquitoes because of more water. Soon there were black mosquitoes and launched a crazy attack on me. After a while, there was another tiny bug flying around me in a shadowy manner. It turns out that the little bite is here too!
Although I maintained a high degree of vigilance, I kept waving my arms and killed several bold mosquitoes. In the end, I was hit. Not only was I bitten by mosquitoes, especially those behind my elbows. Location, because it is out of sight. Mosquitoes and small bites are also very cunning!
There are a lot of bags on the places where mosquitoes and small bites have been bitten, especially the places that have been bitten by small bites. After returning to Shanghai, they still itch for a month or two, and the dark spots left after a year did not fade. Drop.
My Guizhou experience is back!
