Author | Chen Wanqing and the Poor and Thin Book House (Kong Net Shop: Chen Wanqing and the Poor and Thin Book House)
Source | Confucius old book network App dynamics
Go on a trip and love to bring something back with a local twist.
What he brought back to Cambodia was a bamboo bell, a pair of colorful wood sculptures dressed in ethnic costumes from Vietnam, and African wood carvings of giraffes, rhinos and elephants from South Africa. Even, picking up a stone, leaf or something, also brought back as a treasure, such as seeing natural rubber from the Dai family village in Xishuangbanna, and also grabbing a piece back.
Cambodian bamboo bells feel the most meaningful. The bamboo bell was bought from a child with a broken leg in Cambodia. When visiting the old castle, the sound of knocking on the poles was heard from afar, but it was crisper than the wooden pole, tight and slow, coming out from the side of the castle, which was very special. Walking through the ruins of the castle, the sound was getting closer and closer, and I saw three or four teenagers shaking the bamboo bells in their hands, and two children had one hanging from their necks.
When they saw us coming, they shook even louder. The bamboo bell is a 10 cm bamboo tube, the fist is thick, and there is a small wooden hammer that can swing on each side, shake it, and knock the bamboo tube to make a sound of snapping and snapping. The lower part of the bamboo tube has openings, so it makes the sound more crisp. A child, shaking a bamboo bell, asked me to buy one in words I didn't understand, and used a finger to indicate 1 beautiful one. After taking a closer look, the bamboo bell is engraved with the symbol of the little Angkor, and the bamboo knot in the middle is still emerald green, which may have just been made.
I looked closely at the child, his dark face, his eyes large and bright, but with a melancholy and shy expression. Found in Cambodia, the children here are almost all like this, no arrogance, no smiling faces, just staring at you with two big eyes. I found that one of the children's legs was missing, and his body was supported by a metal crutch under his armpit. In Cambodia, many people have been killed by landmines, and people who have lost their legs or arms, many of them children, have made their lives even more difficult since then. Children who think of selling bamboo bells are their means of earning income.
I love this bamboo bell. I like it from the moment I hear this rustic sound, and I like it even more when I see the real thing. Idle at home, see the bamboo bell, sometimes the letter of the hand shake a few times, 梆, 梆... Then the eyes of those shy children came to mind.