俗话说:树大发丫,儿大分家。凡家都有灶,另立锅灶,便成为家,于是,灶就成了家的一种凸出标志了。我从与父母“分家”另起炉灶过日子,至今仅15年,却经历了五种常用的灶,便有了五个朴实的灶的故事。第一口灶,是我刚从师范学校毕业分配到一个叫“庙屋”的山村小学任教时,质朴粗犷而热情的山民给糊制的。它憨大蛮实,灶口可容纳 As the saying goes: The tree is big and the children are divided. All homes have stoves, and they set up pots and stoves, and they become homes. Therefore, the stove became a prominent symbol of the home. I lived off with my parents’ “separate family”. Only 15 years ago, I experienced five kinds of commonly used stoves and I had five simple stoves. The first cooking stove, when I had just graduated from a normal school and was assigned to a village school named “museum”, was taught by primitive and warm mountain people. It’s pretty big and the stove can accommodate