Due to the weather the day before, I didn't see many birds, and the first goal the next day was to ride the painting boat again to go bird watching.
Most of the time, this activity is open to children, and during the drive, there will be staff members with relevant pictures to popularize the knowledge of birds for tourists. After the trip, the knowledge in the books has become a living bird in front of them, which can make children deeply feel the magic of nature and the types and living environment of birds, and will also arouse their awareness of protecting nature.
The originally gloomy sky shone a little light, and after driving on the river for a while, we came to the gathering area of birds. Shajiabang is a national wetland park with over 100 species of rare birds. In order to protect these birds and ensure their habitat and breeding, this water area is rarely accessible to tourists. In the deep green reeds, thousands of egrets, autumn sand ducks, black cheeks, and white cheeks rest here or on the reeds, or hunt against the surface of the water, or spread their wings in the sky. Our little boat marched slowly through the waterways, and at this moment, as if we were the other, the birds were attracted by the peculiar object and the animals on board who kept watching them.
After touring the paradise of birds, we came to the classroom on the shore. Here we will experience the making of reed paintings. Reed painting has a strong water town characteristic, and it is also a wonderful flower of traditional Chinese folk art.
The material of the reed painting we got our hands on is already a semi-finished product after selection, trimming, ironing, polishing and polishing, which can be used directly to make a reed painting, so that you can make a reed painting by hand and save time as much as possible.
The entire picture of the reed painting is 80% of the natural color difference of the reeds, and about 20% is carbonized by ironing. The first step we had to do was to conceive the whole picture and then sketch it out with a pencil on the back of the reed sheet. At the same time, for the convenience of the back cutting, the outlined lines should also follow the texture of the reeds as much as possible, so that it is not easy to cut the pattern.
I just saw the birds, so my picture is two water birds perched in the reeds, after all, this reed is their home. When cutting, I was also careful, for fear that an inattention would ruin the overall sense of the picture. In a few moments, the two reed birds were formed, and the next thing was to paste them on the black flannel. At the end of the production, I also found a few reed flowers to put in the middle of the birds to embellish.
When you're done, the staff will come forward and frame your work with plastic and wooden frames, whether it's a gift or a home decoration yourself.
At lunchtime, we came to the National Defense Park in Shajiabang, and in front of us was not a hot meal that had been prepared, but bags of fresh vegetables and fish and shrimp and an earthen stove that was only found in the countryside. Today we are going to go back to life and cook our own food. But it seems that this has not been able to overwhelm those of us who grew up in the city, everyone divides labor and cooperates, washing vegetables, cutting vegetables. And I chose what I used to do as a child — making a fire.
The earth stove has a very important weight in my memory. When I was a child, I went to my grandmother's house, and my favorite thing was to sit on the small bench next to my grandmother at the mouth of the stove, watch the crackling and burning wood in the stove, and listen to her tell all kinds of funny stories. It was probably the best time of my childhood. Looking at the flames in the earth stove, I couldn't help but start to miss my grandmother.
After a while, a plate of colorful and fragrant delicacies was served on the table, and everyone who was already hungry picked up chopsticks to taste the fruits of their labor. Such a lunch should be unforgettable, right?