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Heart to earth
Yang Xiayu
When the mainland's first Mars rover "Zhu Rong" successfully landed on Mars, one of the topics that netizens discussed was "Can we grow vegetables on Mars?" "Chinese's dedication to growing vegetables is engraved in the genes", such jokes and words really reveal a characteristic of the Chinese nation.
The Chinese civilization is an agricultural civilization built in the Great River Basin, and for thousands of years, the vast land has nurtured generations of Chinese. "Before and after the Qingming Dynasty, plant melons and beans" and "sorghum is ripe and rice is harvested". These proverbs are taught by adults to children, and agricultural civilization is also passed on invisibly. When I was a child, whenever I saw adults ploughing in the fields, sprinkling grain seeds with sweat, I always had an expectation in my heart, because I knew that these small seeds would take root in the soil and bear full fruit.
Chinese's concern and attachment to the land is far superior to that of other countries. The land has bred the sweetness of melons and fruits, the soft glutinousness of rice, and the freshness of vegetables, and the bouquet of soil carries not only hope, but also a sense of peace. Children who grow up in the countryside must have deeply felt the power of the soil. Sown in the spring, a small seed grows tender green and fragile buds in the soil, and grows freely under the bath of spring light and spring rain. In the summer, when the rainstorm is pouring, the mud and water meet, but the roots in the soil are intact. Dirt hides moisture in the body and gives selflessly in the scorching sun. The fields with green waves became the greatest wealth of the peasants in autumn. Even in concrete and reinforced cities, people's love for dirt is undiminished. The flowerpots on the balcony were always planted by my mother with a few shallots, or found a foam box, filled with dirt, and a few pieces of green vegetables when cooking the noodles were settled.
Pick up a handful of dirt and smell it carefully, it is with a little unspeakable fishy smell, in fact, it does not smell good. But the freshness of the grass after the rain, the sweetness and intoxication of the flowers when they bloom, or the fragrance of melons and fruits on the hillside, all of this is inseparable from the support of the soil at the bottom, and behind the beauty of everything there is a silent dedication role. In the eyes of farmers, it is gold and treasure; in the eyes of city dwellers, it is the embellishment of life and the sustenance of agricultural life; in the eyes of wanderers, it grows the roots of its hometown. "The soil wants to move the rain frequently, and the grass is a thousand flowers", as early as ancient times, people realized that the land was full of infinite vitality to give birth to new life, but now people have forgotten the role of soil.
The agricultural population of the mainland is declining every year, and there are more and more wastelands in the countryside, and although there are now vegetable bases and grain bases to solve the supply problem, who will inherit the civilization of farming? I'm afraid that in a few years, I'm afraid no one will be able to farm? If future children can't distinguish between rice and wheat, and can't recognize weeds and vegetables, how sad it is for a people with a thriving agricultural civilization! The sustainable development of society, but in the process of development, we must not forget the inheritance of excellent traditional civilization.
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Source: Sichuan Provincial Local History Work Office
Author: Yang Xiayu (Class 4, Class of 2021, Faculty of Literature and Art, Yibin University, member of Jiang Dejun Shujian Creative Writing Workshop)
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