Qian Weijun is a native of Chongming, and his hometown is Baziqiao River, Gangxi Town. In 1984, he studied in Shanghai, and has been working and living © in Shanghai since then, and this article has been published with permission.
Childhood Wild Fun - Fishing for Wheat Dogs
When the season is approaching the valley rain, Sanmai begins to swell its belly, and I can't help but think of the nursery rhymes and processes of fishing for wheat dogs in my childhood. The scene of the wheat dog fishing came back to mind, and everything seemed like yesterday.
As soon as the wheat harvest was revealed, it was a good time to fish for wheat dogs in the old days, and it lasted for nearly a month.
"Wheat dog, wheat dog, come out and eat soup! Three bowls of tofu and four bowls of vegetables, eat some wine, eat some food. If you come out, you will move, and if you come out, you will move! The master also comes, the mother also comes, and the leader of the collar comes together...... "This is a slip of the tongue shouted by the Chongming Xiaonan in the past when he was fishing for a wheat dog, does anyone still remember?"
In the past, the children of Chongming peasant families had to engage in housework such as picking sheep grass, distributing chicken and duck food, and preventing chickens and ducks from entering the shed, so as to share the responsibility for their parents. Even if they have free time and basically don't have any toys, it is the nature of children to be active, so they have to dig out their minds and try their best to find all kinds of ways to vent. When there are playmates, they erect their feet together, fight with their heels, jump tigers, throw bean sacs, pick flowers, betray wild cats (hide and seek), touch faint (blindfolded games that make people look for people everywhere), build houses, cats and mice (eagles catch chickens), etc.; only suitable for boys to play are also playing card handles, spinning tops, marbles, cockfights, etc., girls have jumping rubber bands, kicking shuttlecocks, etc.; when alone, pushing iron hoops, pushing small carts (bamboo poles split one end at each end, a homemade toy with a small wooden wheel), etc.; in different seasons, there are small sticks, Pushing the ice car, climbing the ice, building a snowman, taking a cold water bath, etc.; local materials, there are a kind of labor car car (there are a variety of ways to play), a gray sieve, and a bamboo branch in the bamboo garden (to the height of the bamboo, from one bamboo head to another)...... After the rain in the valley, fishing for wheat dogs has become a special fun project for children of both men and women.
At that time, on the way to school, during recess or between picking sheep weed, children often got together to play with wheat dogs. The children stomped on the ground with their feet on the ground, cocked their buttocks, or fell to the ground with their hands supported, and the ridges, the hearts of the community, and the playground of the school left a vivid scene of children fishing for wheat dogs.
The wheat dog is a very thin worm slightly longer than the grain of rice, at first it is milky white, and then gradually turns black, and when the wheat is about to mature, it wants to pupate and pupate, and then become a small winged moth, so people name it the wheat dog. You can use small garlic leaves, green wheat mangos, etc. to reach into the hole to catch it, and children call it "fishing wheat dog". The wheat dog in memory is a small worm less than a centimeter long, with a large head and a small tail, and that head is somewhat like the shape of a lion's head.
As long as you scrape a little bit of the surface soil layer on the side of the wheat field or on the ridge of the wheat field, or cut a thin layer on the ground in the school playground and the center of the social field, you will reveal a wheat dog hole as big as a stick eye. The wheat dog hole is facing the sky, the children put the small garlic leaves, wheat mangs, etc., carefully along the hole mouth into the inside, and then with their little hands on the ground at the edge of the hole gently patting, while slowly repeating the nursery rhyme of fishing wheat dogs:
McDog, McDog,
Come out for a soup!
Three bowls of tofu and four bowls of vegetables,
Have some wine and some food.
If you come out, you will move,
When he comes out, he moves!
My lord is coming, my mother is coming,
领子小倌头子一道来。
Mingdang loud is to kill all over the door, and the wheat dog is indeed a stupid little guy, the vigilance is very poor, after a while, they smell the fragrance of the garlic leaves, they will start to bite the garlic leaves. At this time, when the small garlic leaves on the ground began to move slightly, it indicated that the wheat dog had been hooked, and a wheat dog was fished out with a light mention. For example, fishing for wheat dogs is used in green wheat mangs, and the yuan wheat (March yellow, six o'clock head) planted that year is longer, and there are dense small grains on the side, even if the wheat dog does not bite, the wheat dog can be hooked up.
If the wheat dog can't catch it for a while, the children will continue to pat the ground on the edge of the hole, and continue to talk to the hole:
McDog, McDog,
Hurry up and come out for a soup!
I can't wait,
You see Iterham out of special,
You hurry, hurry!
Then they continued to recite the previous nursery rhyme until they caught it. There are even more cruel words, even curses and swearing:
Fishing for wheat dogs,
switch to white rice;
Don't catch a wheat dog,
Switched to eating rice and rice......
It's funny to say, what the children say when they fish for wheat dogs, and the nursery rhymes they read, are completely like talking to another group of children, and you don't realize that they are talking to insects, showing innocence and childlike fun.
At the same time as the wheat dog fishing, there is also playing with gray wheat grains, waiting for the wheat dog to take the bait, not idle. Grey wheat is a fungal disease caused by the scab and bacterial wisk fungus, which usually occurs from the jointing stage to the heading stage of the three wheat grains, and often occurs in a humid and rainy environment. If the plant has poor growth and decreased disease resistance, it is susceptible to gray squirt disease. At that time, there was always more or less gray wheat in the wheat field, and the children often pulled it to play. There is a way to play with spitting and spitting on the ball, after beating a few times on the ground with gray wheat grains, waiting for the black powder to shake off the ground, then spitting on the saliva, and then paddling with the wheat stalk, it forms a small black ball, rolling around, it is fun. There is also a way to use gray wheat to shoot powder on the smooth ground, you can collect various shapes of leaves, put them on the ground according to your own ideas, and then use gray wheat ears to knock, the black powder shakes off, and then takes away the leaves, and the ground shows a variety of beautiful patterns.
When the dogs are fished out, the children will leave the dog hole happily with a string of dogs, and continue to pick sheep grass or go to school.
The fun at the edge of the wheat field made everyone become a gray mud ghost, and their clothes were covered with mud and grass stains, but the joy and satisfaction in their hearts were indescribable, and even if they went home and were punished and scolded, they would have no regrets.
Reciting nursery rhymes to catch wheat dogs, plucking gray wheat and shaking black balls. The kind of childlike fun that we had as a child still leaves us with deep memories to this day.
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