Spring picking
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My family often worries about me always hanging at home, so I try my best to get me out of the study, spring must not be missed, and it is also mandatory that at least on big Sundays (Saturdays, Sundays) must put down the obsessive "reading and writing" to embrace spring. Madame enthusiastically became a "supervisor", and every time she dragged me to the suburbs.
I insisted on going out to explore spring the day after I published the little article "Lichun Reverie". It seems that we can't just "reverie", but also go outdoors to share the blessings of spring. For example, bathing in the bright spring light in the rolling fields of wheat waves, such as breathing the humid and cool air along the willow embankment of the Grand Canal, such as going to the soft grass to really feel the charm of "seeing the grass color close but not there", such as going to the "place where the peach blossoms bloom" to explore the ins and outs of "flowers and fruits", and so on, "such as" is waiting for my dabbling. However, when I go out of the house, it is difficult to get out of the "entanglement", it is difficult to get rid of the "deep-rooted" temptation that is innate.
First of all, let's talk about the "equipment" that we must bring when we go out, one is a plastic bag that is large enough, and a backpack with a double shoulder may be better. The second is at least one or two shovels. The third is to lift a bamboo pole with an iron hook. What is this for? But those who have come from three years of natural disasters, those who have the life experience of "guadai cuisine", when they see this thing, they know it. But all compatriots who are "well-known" will almost have similar "equipment", the same motives and whereabouts.
In fact, any "shotgun" is for prey. To put it bluntly, we take the "equipment" out of the city to find wild vegetables such as cabbage, bitter bitters, dandelions, buds, purslane and sheep's hooves, etc. If we meet the willow buds at the right time or the caterpillars on the poplar trees or the locust flowers or elm money, all the flowers that can be used to "remember the bittersweet" will come in handy, and we will "meet" them one by one, but we must remind that we must pick them in a civilized way!
People often say that spring is the season of sowing, spring and autumn, in fact, spring is also the season of picking, the season of harvest. Believe it or not, wherever there are "prey", there will always be three or three "hunters" busy. At the scene of digging wild vegetables, all the "low-headed tribes", men and women, looking east and west, greeting each other hilariously, and exclaiming when they found the "New World"! The "hunters" sometimes exchanged enthusiastically about their wild vegetable cooking skills...
Originally it was said that it was good, going out was to let me scatter my mind, walk around, do not live up to the good spring light, however, people are helpless is that as long as the lady sees wild vegetables, she will "crash headlong into the south wall". Her spirit of picking wild vegetables is full of heads, which can also be described as "perseverance". When the "prey" was long, she wanted me to shovel and dig with her, and she was busy. When the "prey" is small, we have to "look for it in the crowd for thousands of degrees", "drag-net" search, endless, searching, until the last train into the city, she is willing to give up. When I came home with a full load, it was also a time when I was exhausted.
Therefore, to be honest, most of the elderly are busy picking in the wild, rushing to the memory of the past, but few people can revel in the spring color of reality. Therefore, the author suggests that some elderly friends, naturally including young friends, are best not to "bet desperately" on which activity. Spring is a colorful season, to strive for a little more romantic, roaming options, open the horizon, open the heart, the more the merrier, let the spring awaken your childlike heart, let the spring return you a "peach blossom garden" away from the hustle and bustle, let the spring give you more opportunities and beautiful scenery. Not only to satisfy the interest in picking wild game, but also to "pick" more joy and yaxing in the spring, is not everyone happy!
If so, you have not been white this spring...
(Essay on March 9, 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.