Leave a message for a young locust tree
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I have three pots of tulips at home, and the day of flowering is the nineteenth day of the first month of the Year of the Tiger, which coincides with the "rain" festival. The "rain" poured out a few tulips, and the family felt auspicious and festive. I also took a small video to share it with a few narrations: Bloom, that is, happy; Bloom, that is, sing; Bloom, that is, amuse; Bloom, that is, "invite" lovers to go to the future together!
Who knew that this "invitation" had an immediate effect, and indeed invited a treasure, I seemed to suddenly find: the flower pot was close to the root of a tulip sticking out of a locust tree seedling, delicate as a bean sprout, the stem was milky white, twenty-one leaf petals grew on the four thin lines of branches, a leafy appearance, I immediately called my wife to take a steel tape measure to measure its height - 11 cm. If such a small locust sapling were encountered in the wild, I might ignore it, but in my study, in the tulip bushes, in the "rain" season, it broke ground, and it was an unexpected encounter with me, who had visited many ancient locusts, and it seemed that the way was extraordinary, and I couldn't help but be overjoyed.
The author likes the locust tree from the beginning of the reverence for the ancient locust. I also wrote an essay for the thousand-year-old locust tree on the ancient locust road in Jining that is still recited today: "The Reverie of the Ancient Locust". Among them is the following text: The ancient locust is a symbol of ancient and youthful, the result of continuous accumulation. Ancient and immortal, its descendants are still thriving. To be born, to hope; to rest, to look forward to. This is probably the reason why the ancient locust is particularly admired.
The author believes that where the thousand-year-old locust is covered, it is a sacred product in the locust. The aura of vitality and spirit is gathered in one body, and it is often a noble tree that is revered by the people as a god. The thousand-year-old locust tree in the middle of Jining Ancient Locust Road was treated with courtesy by the local people, and the incense was continuous all year round, wrapped in red cloth, and the red streamer was hung with branches. It is rumored that in the year of the Great Leap Forward, some people wanted to move the nest for it on a whim, and immediately attracted the tragic disaster of lightning and thunder casualties. Since then, no one has dared to move it, no one has ever dared to move it, wants to move it. The road has been expanded several times, and it has not moved!
All locusts have a thousand years of life, and this "uninvited guest" of my family needs to be carefully served. I chose a more elegant flowerpot and carefully transplanted it into it. A few more stones were found to cover its side. Five or six days passed, and it grew three more leaf petals. The addition of such an almost "original" and quite fairy tale treasure in the study is really charming!
It is impossible to predict its future, so anything is possible. If this young locust can live to a thousand years, then this small article is the earliest and most original text left for it...
(Sketched on February 25, 2022)
【About the author】Zhou Changxing (male), born in February 1949 in Huangnan Village, Nanzhan Town, Wenshang County, Shandong Province. He joined the army in February 1969. In September 1990, he returned to the local government to work for Jining Television. He is a member of the Chinese Writers Association, a senior journalist and a poet. He has published long-form reportage "The Place where Kunpeng Took Off", long-form biographical literature "Don't Get Drunk and Don't Say Qiao Yu's Love of the Great River", "Qiao Yu's Love Song", "Great Us", "Big Wave Gold Rush" and so on. He was the author of the 39-episode large-scale TV series "Dajingjiu" of CCTV, and its "Commentary on Dajingjiu" published by Railway Publishing House has been used as an official textbook by the Communication University of China. After retirement, he devoted himself to the writing of online literature and won praise from readers at home and abroad for his grounded and independent works. The concept of "work first, reader first, life first" is the motivation and goal of his efforts to cultivate the subliminal folk.