The anchor reads the classics and accompanies you to say goodnight. Hello everyone, here is lightning night reading, I am Mu Pingrong Media Center anchor Xia Changhao. Tonight, I will share with you Lin Qingxuan's "Summer Little Spring" (excerpt).
Summer Spring (Excerpt)
Wen | Lin Qingxuan
Although the summer is sweltering, in southern Taiwan, where the temperature difference is large, the cool morning, the windy dusk, and the quiet late night feel like a small spring. In the early morning, I walked along the mountain trail, saw all kinds of small flowers that had been cool after a night of cool sleep, and were made into a morning bath by dewdrops, and smiled, and felt that it was very similar to my morning worry-free mood. Occasionally, I saw a few colorful flowers of wild jasmine and mountain morning glory blossoming, as if my chest cavity was full of verses, and fell to the ground on the grass with my breath. At dusk, I often take my children to pick fruit, and there is a tree called "mountain cherry" on the top of the ancient mountain, which blooms with white flowers in spring and red fruits in summer, the size and color are the same as cherries, and the taste is like honey and better than cherries.
These mountain cherry trees have been on the top of the ancient mountain since the Japanese occupation era, we do not know its Chinese name, not even Hokkien, since childhood, we have called it sakulanbo ( sakulanbo ), is my favorite wild fruit since childhood, it has a slight aroma in the sweetness, I believe it is an excellent material for making jam, although the mountain cherries in abundance can be picked every three days, but I have never made jam, because "raw food is not enough, which can be dried."
When I said to the children at dusk, "Let's go to the SaguRambo", everyone immediately felt a joyful emotion, as if there was some magic in the rhythm of the words Shaguranbo. We ate mountain cherries while playing, and when we didn't want to eat them, we wrapped the newly picked mountain cherries in the leaves of the annatto or aunt's taro and went home, opened them for my mother to eat, and she saw that there were tender yellow, pink, orange-red, and bright red mountain cherry fruits in the green leaves, and said happily: "It's so beautiful that I don't know how to eat it." "She always tastes a few grains and takes them to ice. At night, when the weather cooled down, our whole family ate iced mountain cherries, every bite was very sweet, and the TV was still playing "Joke about Qianlong", and my brother's child suddenly said: "Even the emperor can't eat such a good Shagu Lanbo." "Everyone laughed, I thought, very simple, can also have a very deep happiness."
About the Author:
Lin Qingxuan is a contemporary Writer and Essayist from Taiwan, pen name Qin Qing, Lin Li, Lin Dabei, Lin Wanxiao, Xia An, Qingxuan, and Yuanting.
Born on February 26, 1953 in Qishan Township, Kaohsiung County, Taiwan Province. Since 1967, he has lived in Tainan and studied at Yinghai Middle School. In 1970, he published the "Ten Posts of Travel Notes" in the newspaper. In 1972, he was admitted to the World Journalism College. In 1981, he published a collection of essays, Wen A Pot of Wine in the Moonlight. In 1986, the collection of essays, Purple Bodhi, was published in Chinese mainland. In 1990, the collection of essays" "Red Dust Bodhi" was published in Chinese mainland. In 2008, the essay collection "Ordinary Tea Is Not Very Good" was published in Chinese mainland. In 2014, the essay collection "Qinghuan Xuanxiang" was published in Chinese mainland. In 2016, the collection of essays "Living a Life with Joy in Your Heart" was published in Chinese mainland.
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Xia Changhao, News Anchor of Mu Pingrong Media Center