Wen | Zu Xinlan
Valley rain, is the last festival of spring, the field is full of vitality, in our hometown, there is a custom of "walking the valley rain, picking the valley". If you grew up in the countryside, you must remember it, when you were a child, the fields, the ditches, and the grasses that grew close together were everywhere. Today, do you remember what your hometown dialect called them? We call it Hagi Valley (some call it thatch root), and the old people say that eating it can cure all diseases. According to the demonstration of traditional Chinese medicine, soon after the buds of "mao root" in the spring, nourished by the earth in winter, the water is rich in nutrients, contains minerals, and has the effects of cooling blood, nourishing yin, moisturizing and drying. It is a perennial herb with wide, flat leaves, intricate underground roots, and is a habitual haystack, creeping root-like white stems, young buds and thatch needles are edible.
I was born in the 70s, Ogi Valley is a snack in the past, in the past in the era of lack of materials, eating this can also relieve hunger. In my memory, when I was a child, when I was a child, when I went on a spring trip every year, my friends were in groups of three or five, carrying school bags and running happily on the embankment by the river, on the field, and there were cute hair buds everywhere. Be sure to pick up the fresh and freshly broken soil to pick, the formed Hagi Valley is wrapped in green skin, like a baby in the swaddling quietly protruding from the tip of the head, just a light pump it is completely carried out, and in a short while it is filled with school bags, and I still have the situation of eating hagi valley in the field and playing in the field. Sometimes I still have a big handful of idle smoke, sit by the crystal clear stream, gently peel off a layer, peel off another layer, slowly reveal the blue and white inside, suck like a cotton core, soft, sweet, as chewing gum today, and finally throw its skin in the water to play with the little fish, a trace of comfort slowly rippled in the bottom of the heart.
Its most delicious part is the root, which our hometown calls "sweet root". I remember when I was a child after school, a few good friends together carrying baskets to cut grass, like to go to the sand river or canal to dig the crisscrossing roots under the grass, the newly unearthed "sweet roots" white and crispy very water spirit, but also emitted a faint smell of earth, hungry children can not take care of hygiene, with their hands rubbed a few times can not wait to put into the mouth, that sweet taste, warm feeling will never be forgotten. When it grows to a little older, it is beautiful to see spikes emerge one by one, swaying and dancing with the wind like reeds. After that, the grass roots are also the thickest in the season, and the tightly wound white roots are cut out of the ground and dried at home, and in the winter, they can also be used for heating or feeding cattle and sheep as feed.
Ogi valley has become an infinite pleasure of the past era, and it has nourished the entire childhood of country children. Today, you can still find these tenacious grasses in the fields, take advantage of the bright spring, and quickly find the good memories that have been missing for a long time!
About author:Zu Xinlan, female, member of Dezhou Writers Association, member of Shandong Provincial Prose Literature Society, 2019 stationed in Qilu Yidian, one point number "Cow Cow's Book Fragrant Cottage" author. In 2019, in the Qilu Yidian "This is Shandong" essay, "The Four Daughters Temple, a Beautiful Legend and the Rise of a Thousand-Year Ancient Town" won the first prize; in the same year, in the Qilu Yidian "National Day Essay on the 70th Anniversary of the Founding of New China growing with the Republic", "See how people who have gone through the years spend money" was selected as a high-quality article and awarded an honorary certificate; in 2020, "The Fragrance on the Tip of the Tongue - The Grand Canal Fragrant Oil Dumplings" was selected into the Qilu Evening News. In 2021, in the essay celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Party organized by the Shandong Provincial Agriculture, Forestry and Water Trade Union Committee, the prose work won two second prizes and one third prize.
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