How many of the post 80s generations have shone kerosene lamps when they were young?

People born in the 85s said that kerosene lamps were only used when the power was out.

Don't talk about the post-80s, I used it when I was a child after the 90s. It took about 97 years for the house to be electrified.

I lit it, I illuminated it when I was a child, it didn't seem to have electric lights in my house at that time, there seemed to be no electric lights in my memory, so our homes were lit by kerosene lamps, and I lit them, at that time it was still matches, and lighters were not so common, I can't remember if there were lighters, anyway, I used matches.

I seem to be eight years old at that time, of course, kerosene lamps are fueled by kerosene, and when the kerosene is gone, you have to go to the lamp yourself, fill it up and continue to use it, and then there is a wick, I also use scissors to cut the wick, because the wick has to be reduced after a period of time, and the black whirring on it is burned, and it is not easy to light, so it is necessary to cut it off and leak out a new one, continue to use it, and there is a rotation on the side of the lamp to adjust the wick, turn it out and cut the blackened one, and then light it again, the lamp will be much brighter, and the brightness can also be adjusted, Of course, it will be brighter if it is turned up, but this is a bit of a waste, my family is to adjust the wick to the bottom, just be able to illuminate, anyway, there was no homework at that time, and there is no need to do anything at night, so I go to bed early at night, get up early in the morning, no wonder I like to sleep lazy now, it is estimated that I got up early when I was a child, so I like to be lazy now.

Later, I installed electric lights in my house, so the kerosene lamp at home was not used, but it was used when the power went out occasionally, and the lamp was just installed at home at that time, so it was often used, and then the electricity was stable, and the kerosene lamp seemed to be broken when I was cleaning, so I bought a new one.

The picture above is similar to the appearance of my home, and I have seen this kind of kerosene lamp, but I have never seen anything else!

By the dim light, my mother put on an apron and cleaned up the stove after dinner. We would take out our school bags, take out our textbooks and homework books, and lie down in front of the kerosene lamp to write our homework and review our homework for the day. From time to time, my mother would pay attention to the wick of the kerosene lamp, and the flames would beat happily.

In the past, rural people called iron nails "foreign nails", kerosene called "foreign oil", and matches were called'"Foreign fire", a "foreign" character, reflects that it is a foreign object, and also reflects the isolation and backwardness of the countryside in the past.

Bozhou people call it - lantern (horse lantern).

Most of the kerosene lamps used in rural households are made of empty bottles and waste tin caps, although the materials are extremely rudimentary, the workmanship is extremely crude, but in the era when there are no electric lights, lamps have become an indispensable object in every household. There is also the use of pine branches, tobacco bones and firewood (the main trunk of tobacco is salted and dried) as lighting fuel. Now that I think about it, in just a few decades, it is really different from what it used to be, and the world has been turned upside down!

Modern people don't want to "be in the midst of blessings and don't know blessings"!

Families with better conditions have used high-grade kerosene lamps with glass covers, which burn sufficiently, have good brightness, and have low oil smoke and fuel saving. At least the light of the fire is not erratic and not easily blown out by the wind. Because "foreign fire" also requires money to buy.

But I often get beaten because the glass cover is accidentally broken.

At that time, kerosene lamps also became an indispensable object for our Bozhou people to get married, which shows its importance, and this custom is still retained today. Maybe the lanterns at that time were only used for lighting when the woman got married at night, but now the lanterns mean that after the woman gets married, the new family will make a fortune and the days will be prosperous!

At that time, kerosene lamps were of all kinds.

There is a finished glass lamp that I bought. The style is basically an inverted trumpet-shaped base at the bottom, the upper part is spherical, and there is a bottle mouth on the top, which can not only pour oil into it, but also place the wick, which is beautiful and generous.

In the seventies of the last century, it was an era of scarcity. It was a luxury to have a decent lamp, and at that time, rural families generally made small oil lamps out of ink bottles or empty glass bottles, the lamp tube was rolled into toothpaste skin, the cotton wick was threaded out of the lamp, and a small amount of kerosene was placed in the bottle, and the light could be used to illuminate it.

I still remember the kerosene lamp I used when I was a child, when I was a child, I had no electric light, I had to use no lamp, and when I slept up, my face was black, and it was all smoked by kerosene lamp.

I don't remember. I can remember the electric lights used at home since I started, and when the power went out, I used candles instead, and I have never used kerosene lamps or seen them.

I remember that when I was a child, my grandmother's house had a kerosene lamp, and the smoke was black, and my father said that when I was a child, my face was black when I was around doing homework.

Of course, I remember that although there was no light at that time, I felt that I was the happiest at that time.

I remember. Some kerosene is put in the kerosene lamp as fuel, and its shell is made of glass.