"Fishing"
The closest water to home is The Dragon Pond. Originally very wide, like a huge crocodile lying at the foot of Snake Mountain, The Dragon Pond has long been squeezed into a thin gecko by the city. At that time, it was always felt that it was not like a pool, but more like a river. I heard that the pond has never dried up, so I often see people fishing under the willow trees on the edge of the pond. It is better to go back and tie the net, but I just like to stand on the shore and watch others fish.
There is a very peculiar way of fishing, so it is very impressive and clear. I saw a few middle-aged men using a long hemp rope to tie a few half-cut red bricks in the middle. Two people took each end of the hemp rope, lowered the rope from one end of the river, and let the red bricks stick to the bottom of the river and slowly pulled towards the other end of the river. Is it possible to catch fish this way? Anyone who is here to watch the hilarity will surely have the same questions.
In the midst of doubt, I saw that the others had only a trouser fork and a cloth belt tied around their waist, and a fish basket made of grass was tied to the cloth belt. Several people followed the rope and went into the water, swimming while searching for something on the surface of the water with their eyes. One moment the man plunged headlong into the water, two mud feet darting in the air, and then the man plunged headlong into the water, half of his ass exposed. More and more people are watching the liveliness on the shore, and the shore in the water is a scenery worth enjoying and playing.
When the rope tied with red bricks is slowly dragged from one end of the river to the other end of the river, all the way to the shore, the fishing process is over. Several people came ashore naked from the water, but the bags around their waists became very full and swollen. The bag was still writhing, and you could imagine the fish churning in it. Opening the bag like a trick, he took out a variety of fish, the golden one was the carp, the black and dull was the catfish, and the silver dangling was either white fish or bream, and they were all big fish of more than one or two pounds or two or three pounds. How did they catch these fish? Didn't you see them catching fish? Is it difficult to catch a fish when you stab a fierce son? As a child, my mind was filled with curiosity and a whole bunch of questions.
The fishing people dried their bodies and got dressed, carried the straightened hemp rope and carried the basket filled with various kinds of fish, and the people watching the bustle also dispersed one after another, leaving me alone still standing on the shore in a daze. Fish without a fishing rod or a harpoon net, but with only a rope tied to a brick? What's the secret? What is the name of this method of fishing? Who invented this method of fishing?
Later, by chance, I heard the origin of it. First of all, we must understand and master the habits of fish, when the fish is frightened, it will often panic and go into the mud, and the bubbles in the mud will follow. The second is the ability to distinguish and judge bubbles, and it is precisely according to these different bubbles that the fisherman follows these different bubbles to determine whether there are fish in the mud below. Third, even if you know that there are fish in the mud, you must have the ability to dive and the ability to catch fish in order to catch big fish in this way.
Seemingly simple and easy things, perhaps after many generations of pondering and summarizing, how many times of failure and lessons, how many times of accumulation and improvement, in order to make a complex thing so easy and natural. Seemingly ordinary or commonplace things, they often contain brilliant wisdom and reasonable methods and valuable experience. Big things and small things in the world, any ordinary thing to do well, even if it is like touching fish in muddy waters, this kind of carving insects and small skills, it must be paid for a long time, and it must be accumulated by many generations, in order to change from quantity to quality, from decay to magic, from ordinary to extraordinary.
