autumn
There are too many idioms about autumn, representing the time of thousands of generations, spring and autumn, spring to autumn, spring flowers and autumn moon, representing the autumn of the season
, a leaf knows autumn, the autumn wind sweeps the leaves, etc., and I see the golden, the fruit, and immediately think of the scene is like this:
Harvest rice
When I was a child, I was born in the countryside, and in addition to teaching us lessons, the teachers must have planted rice, camellia trees, sweet potatoes, corn and other crops at home. Therefore, when the school went to the farm, there was a local special holiday: the farm vacation (this is after going to college, I learned that only I experienced the farm leave)
Among them, there are two most important tasks, one is to pick camellia fruits, and all over the mountains are tea mountains, each household, their own mountains, their own planting, their own management, weeding, picking. A piece of the mountain, turning the soil, weeding, the family has to use two or three days to dry, picking camellia fruit depends on whether the individual's hand is fast, the spirit is not flexible, and the fruit is not much. Harvest in the new year, good mood, a piece of the mountain picked in one or two days, can pick thousands of pounds of camellia fruit, equivalent to being able to squeeze out more than 30 pounds of tea seed oil. Cooking oil for a family for a whole year.
Camellia fruit
Although I am very tired and busy, there are still many happy things in the mountain fields. As a child, I am most happy to be able to pick delicious wild fruits when I am busy farming.
August melon
Prickly pear
Ground eggplant
Hook dates
Chicken mother-in-law
Cold powder fruit
Wild chestnuts
Wild hairy kiwifruit
Wild light kiwi
Mountain gardenia
Black rice
Wild grapes
Wild hawthorn pear
Whenever the autumn harvest is harvested, children must follow the adults to the fields, deep mountains and old forests, and work together. Because everyone is busy, parents are too busy, and children can help a little.
Drying rice
Although the rice harvest in the second season does not need to be replanted, the straw that has been beaten should be bundled and dried as a material for repairing the roof at the end of the year and the grain and grass for cattle and sheep in autumn and winter.
When the rice is harvested well, the whole family needs to hurry up and dry all the rice in a week or so to facilitate storage and preservation.
Yang rice
After drying, each household will first use the windmill that every household has, sift through the rice that is not full, feed the chickens, ducks and geese that are not full, and keep it full, and then grind the rice into white rice. Usually the mother will remember the hard work of the year and the gift of heaven, and make a sweet, delicious and fun seven-layer cake that we have in mind at the first time the new rice comes out.
In addition, what needs to be done at the same time is to select tea seeds, dry them, and then take them to squeeze the oil, and the last staple food and cooking oil of the family are all done in the autumn. At the same time, there are also rations for livestock, houses in winter, and fertilizer for the coming year.
The oil cake left after the oil pressing is the best fuel for heating in winter, and it is also the best farm manure after burning. Every year after the camellia oil came out, my mother would use the new oil to make us a meal of oil fruit.
Potato balls
What was the impression of your childhood on the harvest season? What scenes have you never forgotten to this day? Is it a busy autumn harvest farm work, or a joyful family reunion? Or a delicious harvest feast? Welcome to share in the comments section.