This picture was taken at my grandparents’ flat house, which is now gone. The house, along with other old structures has been taken over by new buildings, bridges and roads after twenty years. I still remember the guava tree that bore sour fruit in my grandmother’s yard, the shabby kitchen in which we made dumplings during Spring Festival, the kind neighbors, and the naughty kids I played with in the yard. How I miss them all, now that I have moved into a tall building at the city center. The living conditions have been improved, but the smell of guava tree and laughter of my grandmother is gone forever. On the wall of the picture there is a calendar with a man and horse hanging, how time flies! My parents looked very young in the picture. I have grown up and my parents have grown old.
Now I have become a college student, accumulating knowledge. I learned and value the slogan “Advancing with time”. Life reflected by the picture has changed dramatically, living standards of the Chinese people have been much enhanced under reform and opening up policy. Yet we must not forget the past. Without hard work, we wouldn’t have today’s happy life. This is the reason why, I, like my mother, love this old family photo very much.
