Text/Tan Yufeng
"There are few idle people in the countryside in April, so the silkworms are planted in the fields." Under the front porch of the house, bright flowers, buzzing bees, brewing the spring mood of a court and a courtyard, and singing in the countryside at the right time.
In the blue sky came the cuckoo's cry of "Sowing The Valley-Sowing The Valley--", and the previous one was flat, leisurely clear and plain, like a young woman who was cooking early to wake up the man lying in a dream--get up and go to the field to farm. The latter sound is raised, and with this in-tone twist, the cry becomes more and more moving and affectionate, like a warning, like a begging, or an unspeakable and irrevocable word—come, come, how beautiful spring is.
Spring in Mengzhuang Village is a charming season, there are surprises everywhere, and everywhere there is an accident that makes you can't help it. Like a deliberate arrangement, the spring flowers are like wonderful performances, one scene after another. This is not peach Lee has just come to an end, and the next protagonist will always appear inadvertently. You can smell new flowers, you are familiar with the season of each flower, and you will also chant which flower will bloom this month, but you can't predict at what moment you will smell it, only when it stimulates your sense of smell, and then gushes joy from the bottom of your heart.
The strawberry base of the Baonong Cooperative attracts waves of people who come to pick them. "Strawberries, a cute and girly fruit, must be picked by yourself to enjoy it!" Visitors to the greenhouses of the Mengzhuang Strawberry Picking Garden will be enchanted by the bright aroma and color of strawberries. Take a gentle bite, some sweet and juicy, some soft and sweet. It is understood that the unique terrain and water source advantages of the village ensure the quality characteristics of Mengzhuang strawberry fruit large, juicy and fresh and sweet, and the varieties of strawberries planted have expanded from the original several to dozens of high-quality varieties such as Snow White, Zuo He Qingxiang, Sweet Treasure, Yanli, Red Apricot, Coffee, and Sweet Charlie. The harvest time is from the end of November to the end of June.
With the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy in the new era, the rural industrial structure and development quality have entered the fast lane. In recent years, Mengzhuang Town has adopted the development of strawberry planting mode of "cooperative + base + farmer", through the use of new technologies, the promotion of new varieties, the development of greenhouses anti-seasonal strawberry planting according to local conditions, the strawberry planting base into a farmer's leisure picking garden, at present, the planting area of 350 acres, the establishment of Zaozhuang City Central District Zi Cheng Fruit Planting Farmers Professional Cooperative, Zaozhuang City Central District Baonong Crop Planting Professional Cooperative, Zaozhuang City Central District Yubao Crop Planting Professional Cooperative, etc. 5, There are 2 Shuofeng family farms in Shizhong District, Zaozhuang City, which have driven more than 40 poor households and poor families to embark on the road to prosperity from strawberry cultivation. Mengzhuang Village currently has 14 greenhouses with a total of more than 50 acres of strawberries. Manager Tian, the person in charge of the Mengzhuang Strawberry Base, said: "Our strawberries use the way of natural pollination and ripening by bees, so that strawberries grow naturally and bring everyone the most natural taste. ”
Traditional farming was gradually replaced by new technologies, new concepts and new models, but the traditional culture brought about by agricultural civilization at that time was not easy to change. The countdown to the 24 solar terms of the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics can make people reminisce about the glory and pride of China's more than 5,000 years of civilization history.
For our generation, the countryside is not an infinitely good countryside, but an infinite hardship of labor. Spring ploughing and spring sowing is another life of the soil after winter, and the field reveals a strong earthy smell after ploughing. The peasants carried the plough on their shoulders and the morning glory, and they were busy again on the land that had been cultivated for hundreds of years. Father and spring ploughing were always linked together, so much so that I remember that spring ploughing was the most tired and the most bitter, because the water was still cold, and the earth had not yet fully recovered. I believe that my father was afraid of farming, and I believe that many people who have planted fields are reluctant to return to the countryside after leaving the countryside. I could not have read a peasant-style poem in the fragrance of the earth, in fact, a real peasant has no time to write poetry, and if he had that kung fu, he would have already put his feet into the soil that fascinated him.
Father said that there has never been a lazy field, only a lazy person. The more the field is cultivated, the more lazy people are, the lazier they are.
Only I, watching the apricot blossom silk rain, the willow breeze, watching the spring feminine and gorgeous, evoking a fresh feeling. Father looked forward to the spring rain coming, and he sat quietly on the side, lit a cigarette, listened to the raindrops singing, and calculated the summer harvest. From the sound of the rain, I heard a delicate and dense whisper, and this rain sounded the Tang poems and Song poems in the Song of the Building, and wet the spring thoughts of the moon moving flowers, but how could it be wet yellow bell da lu and dong zhen blowing horizontally? On the wet spring morning, the spring breeze also came, hula, a journey to the ground, reverberating in the valley, the wilderness, like a long call, like a high song, involving the beautiful wind of the coming day, full of sounds and colors are dazzling. In the hot spring, there is a hot sowing – the vocation of every grain crop! Go and sprinkle the yellow grain seeds on the land that has been covered by snowflakes all winter and soaked by spring rain, and go to control your own livestock and shout, "Hey... Boom! Holding the horns of the majestic cattle, holding the plough with the smell of fresh earth, in the unchanging monsoon, with this roar, the days of the year are counted on. That spring was really good, because "the forest warblers cried to the point of silence, and the grass pond listened to the frogs alone." When the noisy frog sound finally replaces the gentle and pleasant yellow warbler chirping, the twilight spring's purple and red dye the helplessness of time. Spring thunder reverberated and rumbled across the sky, and tonight's rain must have come and gone.
The times are developing, and science is progressing. Popularization of mechanization. Greatly liberated the labor force. Nowadays, most of the villagers use agricultural machinery such as power rotary cultivators, which is convenient and fast. Due to its small and chaotic location in the mountains, my father still followed the ancestral custom and used the most primitive tools such as the iron fork of the hook. No matter how much I tried to persuade him, he insisted on not changing.
My father told me that the mentality of doing farm work should be relaxed, and you are full of thoughts about finishing it quickly, and if your heart is too anxious and tired, you will come from your heart, and your heart will become more and more burdened. Covered in golden sunshine, listening to the cheerful birdsong, you imagine the emerald green fields, the golden rice in autumn, and the joy of the harvest in your heart, you will feel extra pride, and slowly in the process of enjoying this, you can unconsciously finish a piece of land very easily.
Listening to my father's nagging, I felt strange to him at once. The countryside I had always thought of, the farm work I had always wanted to escape, could grow extraordinary truths in my father's mouth. I looked up and saw that in the fields of the countryside, I was greeted by either yellow or green, and the yellow was the vast wheat field and the fragrance of rape flowers. In the spring, they are green, a bit like cute grass, and like a tender green garment; in the summer, the wheat field is replaced with a dazzling pale yellow new outfit; each wheat straw is full of plump ears, very cute.
As I grew older, my original conceit and assumption were slowly shattered by some simple sentences of my father. Every time I return to that small village, stepping on the dirt road in the countryside has a feeling of anti-pu, instantly abandoning the fear and depression that are everywhere in the city. The city carved out of the reinforced concrete is a park-like formatted mass-produced plastic potted plant, only the rural scenery is natural and real, so that people instantly begin to love life, cherish life, instant enlightenment, return to the truth.
Spring to spring, flowers blossom and fall, I want to treasure every spring, let the faint melancholy turn into a wisp of light smoke with the wind. In the cycle of the four seasons, although there are many surprises, all the prosperity must still be calm after all the prosperity. So I like to feel a faint feeling in the plain, feel the true feeling in the indifference, as clear as water, warm heart. Listening to the rain gently slide down the eaves like flowing water, as if pouring out a sincere story of friendship; and as if calling for friends from afar, like flowing water all the way to singing away. Only because of it, there is a frank affection for the sea in the heart, can it be integrated into the embrace of the sea and compose a perfect spring song.
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