Mangseed season
Text/Wu Wei
When I got up in the morning, I opened my mobile phone, and the literary friends in the WeChat group sent out poems about Mangchang. "Dudao Mangseed burns the sky, and survives until the summer solstice rains ripples..., today's Mangseed, grateful to the village farmers, the dragon's mouth grabs grain, every second robs"..., one by one, one by one, there are five words, there are quaint sentences, there are ancient style poems, there are modern poems, and the meaning and situation of the mangsang are described to the fullest. It also makes the Mangseed solar term full of poetry and interest in the land of the north and south of the mainland and the hills and fertile fields. Seeing the excellent works of pen pals, to this day, I also want to talk about Mangseed, and talk about the different Mangseed solar term scene that remained in my childhood memory.
Mangchang is the ninth of the twenty-four solar terms and the third solar term in summer. Mangseed is the busiest season of the year for farmers, and the wheat with mango is cut quickly, and the rice seeds with mango are planted quickly, which is the season to carry on the upper and lower levels. In the eyes of the literati, the Mangchong season is full of romantic passion and poetry, and is a beautiful seasonal solar term. Lin Qingxuan said: "The burden of rice is the mango seed, the bear of the ear of wheat is the mangseed, the wave of sorghum is the mangseed, and the bloom of tianren chrysanthemum in the wild wind is the mangseed."
But in my childhood memories, the mango season was a season of overwhelm of eating, a harvest under the scorching sun, a hoe in hand, a season full of sweat and hard work.
"Mangsang busy, three or two". Whenever the Mangchang solar term arrives, it is the busiest season in the countryside. Summer harvest, summer seeding, summer tube, three summers are busy kicking off. In fact, on the day of the mango seed, the wheat has been harvested for several days. There are many families who have a lot of labor and harvest wheat quickly, and they have already beaten the harvested wheat in the wheat farm for a few times. At that time, harvesting wheat was not as mechanized as it is now, and the family had ten acres of wheat and eight acres, which was harvested in one day. At that time, it was all harvested by hand. When the wheat harvest began, adults and children went into battle, from seventy or eighty years old to seven or eight years old to play children, as long as they could handle the sickle, everyone had to go down to the ground to cut the wheat. The scorching sun was in the sky, and the hot sun was blazing on the people who wielded the sickle and cut the wheat, their clothes were already attached to their bodies, and they kept wiping their sweat and cutting the wheat. Because the children could not stand the scorching sun, they ran to the shade of the trees to cool off. But the adults did not dare to stop the sickle in their hands, they knew that the agricultural proverb has "marry a wife for a lifetime, farm for one season", and the season cannot be delayed. It is necessary to harvest the wheat in the field in the shortest time before and after the mango seed, and if the moisture conditions allow or rain falls, the autumn crop species should be put into the field in time. Summer seeding is also very time-consuming and laborious, unlike now when the seeder drives to the field, and the seeds are sown in a while. At that time, the seeds were planted manually, in teams of two, the adults took hoes, carved out small pits, children threw seeds into them, and then the adults sealed the soil with hoes. Plant it one by one. At first, I felt good, but working in hot weather for a long time, how hard it is. At that time, our siblings were always reluctant and reluctant to throw seeds into the earthen cave that my father had planed under the kind words and reprimands of our parents. (At that time, I also seemed to feel the difficulty of life and the hardship of labor). Within a few days, the sprouts will drill out of the ground and grow vigorously upwards, and the seedlings will be the same every day. After that, it is also the agricultural season of summer management. Next is the removal of seedlings, fertilization, weeding, etc... At that time, there was farm work that could never be done. This is the scene of the busy farming in the days before and after the mangsan seed, which remains in my childhood memory. There is a poem: the mango planting season is busy, and the wheat rice enters the granary. The seedlings enter the field, and the autumn harvest is fragrant. It was the season of the seeds, the season when the fathers reaped a good harvest and planted hope, and it was also the season when they withstood the scorching sun, fought the scorching heat, and worked hard with sweat.
Looking at today's planting season, the harvester enters the field, and after a while, the wheat is harvested, and then the seeder sows into the field together with seeds and fertilizer. Wait a few days for the seedlings to come out, spray insecticidal and weedicide pesticides, and some large grain farmers use drones to spray pesticides to manage farmland. Marvel at the development of the times and the progress of science and technology. Fortunately for the peasants, the new era has transformed the agriculture of the past into a modern agriculture that enjoys life. Today's agriculture and farmers have moved away from slash-and-burn traditional agriculture and have become new agricultural farmers under the new era and new development.
Today's mango seeds are harvested and planted, and they are not busy, and they have a new scene in the new mango season.
About the author:
Wu Wei, male, member of the Communist Party of China. A native of Luyi, Henan, he likes to read in his spare time, and has published many poems and other works in various media.
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