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Tribute, Poplars of May
□ Xue Kaimin
The poplar trees scattered a field of ears on the road, and after these ears landed, they dried and became a hairy fly, spreading out over the entire road, looking like snow that had not yet melted in winter.
The rows of poplars in my hometown grew up with me.
On the bank of the river, rows of poplars grew rapidly day by day after the "nine-nine poplars landed", and the turquoise leaves slipped and watery, especially the green, fresh, as if an emerald was waiting for the light to shine. The breeze is blowing, the sound of brushing between the leaves is more like a group of childhood friends chasing and frolicking...
The deepest impression of the poplar tree is still in Mao Dun's "Poplar Praise". When I read poplar praise in school, I didn't think there was anything amazing about poplar trees, but I remembered by rote that "it is a kind of tree that strives to go upstream, straight stem, straight branches." Its stems are usually tall, as if artificial, and within a zhang, there are no side branches; all its branches are all upwards, and they are close together, as if artificial, becoming a bunch, and there is no horizontal escape; its wide leaves are also upwards, almost no oblique, let alone upside down; its skin, smooth and silvery halo, slightly glowing pale blue. This is a tree that stands stubbornly under the pressure of the wind and snow in the north! Even if only the bowl is thick and thin, it strives to develop upwards, as high as Zhangxu, two Zhangzhang, towering in the sky, not bending, against the northwest wind. ”
Now, recalling these words that have been precipitated in memory for more than 40 years, I seem to see the author's excitement at the height of the northwest wasteland and the poplar trees standing on the side of the road in the distance. Yes, in the northwest of the "ten miles without seeing people, a hundred miles of yellow sand", poplar trees are against the wind and sand, and grow hard in the environment of extreme lack of water sources, much like the founders of our new China, in order to tomorrow's motherland is not eroded by the "yellow sand", willing to take root in the great northwest and become a barrier against the Wokou.
Reading "Poplar Praise" again today, I feel the profound wisdom of the character of the poplar tree, which is not only the character of a plant, but also a character of the author. In this essay written by the author in 1941, the indomitable spirit between the lines is still the treasure of our nation, and the patriotic feelings that run in the blood are like poplar trees that have guarded the land of China for generations.
The author has been writing this essay for 81 years today, I went to school to read this essay to today for more than 40 years, the stars are shifting, why do you think of this essay when you see a poplar tree, remember the paragraphs in it? One of the most important reasons is that this prose exudes a bone that is never discouraged.
May, is the season of vigorous growth of poplar trees, but also a symbol of life recovery, in this season, the dead branches and old leaves of winter have long been reborn in the mighty spring wind, green poplar trees stand on the edge of my family's fields, like the big girl of the country water spirit, the breeze blows, the whole forest begins to sing.
From the homes shrouded under the poplar trees, the green elements of the synthesis of those extremely realistic leaves are being combined into a new life for generations, greening deserts, returning farmland to forests, yellow river wetlands... These are restoring the essence of nature. And the laborers silently stick to the poplar trees on the embankment, the road edge, and the river beach, and in May, they are more like sweating laborers, practicing the survival concept that green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains.
Walking on the field path where poplar trees stand, I have a kind of thought: treat me without worrying about you, and return to the end of the world; the old houses in the mountains are home, far away from the prosperity; when busy, repair fences and plant flowers, idle friends, small wine and tea. How pleasant this scene is.
However, poplar trees are meant to grow, towards the higher sky.
To pay tribute to them is to pay tribute to ecology, to pay tribute to nature, to pay tribute to every life.
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