Du Fu, the scientific name of Du Fu, is also called Zigui. Hometown people call it "scraping the pot sparrow" because it sounds like "scraping the pot, scraping the pot" Every early summer, they fly from the south, "scraping pot, scraping pot, scraping pot", singing and flying over rural fields and villages. When I was a child, we sang happily at this moment: "Scrape the pot, scrape the pot, and the masons polish it, and the leeks will grow eggs." Eat it and get out of here. " The wheat will be harvested soon, so we should grind it first to make the teeth grind faster and make it easier to grind the noodles. There are already broad beans and rice to eat at this time. Some families with difficulties occasionally eat Macaulay once or twice. That is, rice cooked with immature wheat grains. Of course, you can also add some vegetables and broad bean rice to cook porridge. There is a smell of green. This is really delicious food for hungry people. Can you not be happy that the spring of starvation has passed? Perhaps because of this, it comes at the right time. Everyone likes "scraping the sparrow" very much, and no one has hurt it.
At this time, people are also busy, first of all, "make a scene." Prepare a clearing, turn it over, sprinkle it with water, sprinkle with wheat awn shells that were threshed last year, and then flatten it with stones. It is slightly higher in the middle and slightly lower around, and it is a threshing floor when the wind blows and the sun shines. Harvest rapeseed first, then barley and broad beans. There is a saying that barley goes to the field and wheat turns yellow. If you are busy with this, the wheat in the field will be ripe. So I continued to harvest wheat. Soon you will have white steamed bread and noodles.
With the end of the wheat harvest, the cuckoo's call gradually decreased. It is said that they lay their eggs in other nests and don't hatch themselves. Soon, they will return to the south. I think this opportunistic breeding method may be the main reason for its sharp decline. The times are advancing. Now people's lives have been greatly improved, and they have also been freed from those heavy farm work. Unfortunately, I can't hear the cries I used to know. I am really worried that it will disappear forever in the near future. I hope this is my worry.
The cuckoo's singing day and night really adds a lot of charm to the season in late spring and early summer, which should be said to be a unique scenery in this season. I like to listen to the cuckoo.
It is the busiest time of the year in the countryside, when Bugu came out to sing, and his cries were interpreted by farmers everywhere. Cuckoo has several names. The word "cuckoo" should come from the mouth of farmers. This name is obviously related to seasons and farming, and it is full of local flavor. The cuckoo's cry is very strange, as if four words were connected. What are these four words? Where wheat is planted, people say it is "yellow cutting", and when the wheat is yellow, it will be harvested; Where rice is planted, people say it is "transplanting rice quickly" ... We grow rice and some wheat here, so people have two methods called cuckoo: "cutting wheat and inserting rice" and "early rice grows trees". But in my first memory, it seems that I only heard adults say "planting trees in early rice", so I agree with these four words most and think they are the most accurate. For a long time, whenever the cuckoo's cry came, the word "early rice sprouting trees" came into my ear. Isn't it? In the cuckoo's cry, farmers planted early rice seedlings in time, and the rice fields were green. Seedlings are constantly "growing" and growing up under the urging of cuckoo day and night. ...
Farmers have feelings for cuckoos. No matter how they interpret its cry, the general idea is similar, and they all want to urge people to work and not miss the farming season. I have feelings for cuckoo, too. In my childhood memory, cuckoo often cries.
When I was a child, I thought I heard my grandmother say that when people first heard cuckoo calls in a year, their luck would be different this year because they were in different places (such as lying in bed or in the toilet). This is, of course, groundless. But until now, I still care about this statement. When I hear the cuckoo for the first time every year, I always pay attention to where I am and what I am doing. Grandma's words are most likely to take root in people's hearts.
Cuckoo calls are seasonal, so you can't hear them all the time. And now the number of cuckoos seems to be very limited. It is often a bird that flies from a distance and then leaves. The closer you get, the louder you get, and the farther you go until you can't hear it. Two birds belong to echo each other, rarely. Therefore, I am worried that the cuckoo's cry will disappear from us. There's no need to worry. Sparrows have all disappeared here, but now they are increasing and flying in droves. But the magpie didn't come back at last. I remember when I was a child, magpies used twigs everywhere to build nests on the branches of big trees. Adults often poke them down as firewood, saying that a big nest can burn several pots.
I am afraid that the cuckoo will disappear like a magpie, and I hope that the cuckoo "family" will flourish. Recently, my mind has changed. Because I know Rhododendron better, I know that it is a parasitic bird, and it can't build nests or feed young birds. Cuckoo parasitizes eggs in other birds' nests, and borrows other birds to hatch and brood. The hatched little cuckoo will push all the young owners out of the nest and die. In other words, the appearance of a cuckoo is based on the sacrifice of several other birds, so the team of cuckoos doesn't seem to really grow up.
But the cuckoo can't live without it.
There is no cuckoo singing season in late spring and early summer, which must be lonely and boring, just like there is no peach, plum and apricot trees in spring, no cicada singing in summer, and the season lacks interest. Every season should have its own unique "scenery". Because cuckoos sing day and night, it is more charming in late spring and early summer. I like to listen to the cuckoo's cry, and I don't want the cuckoo to stay in our memory.