Whenever I see the land in my hometown, I feel anxious. This is probably because I come from a peasant family who has been farming for generations. I have a special feeling for the land. Later, after listening to Qin Mu's radio essay "Land", I was so excited that I burst into tears and had a deep understanding of "Land is the lifeblood of farmers". Although I will never farm again in my life, I often dream that "beans are planted in Nanshan" and my feelings for the land remain the same. However, the folks in my hometown, the farmers who used to be proud of the owners of the land, don't cherish it now. Use. It is no exaggeration to describe it as "profligacy" and "cutting the moon every day"
With the reform and opening up, land has been contracted, and large areas of land have been divided into small pieces and distributed to farmers, so farmers have the autonomy of land use. The small courtyard where previous generations lived felt uncomfortable, so they rushed to build houses in the contracted land. Past tile-roofed houses have sprung up like a new army, with dense forests. In this way, the central part of the original village is empty, while the surrounding areas of the village are expanding indefinitely, resulting in large areas of fertile land being occupied and abandoned. Let's say the high-yield field in the north of our village, which is the only gift left by the Yellow River water-the fat red silt. It once broke the record of high yield of 1000 kilograms per mu of wheat. A few days after graduating from high school and returning to my hometown to work, I participated in the scientific experimental group of creating high yield organized by the production team. The experimental field was selected on the red silt land in the north of the village. For several years, we dug wells there for irrigation, and we weeded and fertilized there. Hard work pays off, and we have set a record of high yield of 680 kg, 820 kg and 980 kg per mu of wheat for three consecutive years. So, the newspaper reporter interviewed and the TV station took photos. I was very popular and participated in the county model association.
It is this land that records a glorious experience of my growth and makes our production team get rid of the hat of lack of food; It is this land that has become the object of hundreds of people's visits, and it has been made into a documentary "Ten Thousand Mu of Wheat Harvest", which has become the glory and pride of our village people. Nowadays, in this land, houses are built, trees are planted, and even some farmers dig pits to burn bricks and pull soil to sell money. A good fertile land has become fragmented and riddled with holes. The land is as flat as a mirror and the wheat waves are rolling, which can never be seen again. As the son of a farmer born and raised in Sri Lanka, people and themselves feel sad.
Once, I asked an uncle who was building a house on cultivated land: "Isn't it painful to build a house on such good land?"
He shook his head helplessly: "If you don't feel bad, it's a lie, but what can you do?" ! Now that a small piece of yours and a small piece of mine have been divided, who can't build it? Didn't you watch the story before and after? Those who don't build houses are densely planted with trees. " \
"Do you know this is illegal?"
"What is illegal? This method, that method, there is no way to go below. "
After a long silence, I was speechless.
What else can I say? Loving the land has always been a fine tradition of farmers in China. In order to get land, they can voluntarily participate in the revolution and smash the shackles that bind the land; In order to defend the land, they can voluntarily participate in bloody wars. "A cow in 30 acres of land, a child's wife hot kang" was once the ideal of a generation of farmers. How eager people were to get land at that time! I witnessed people and villages fighting for a line of land, and I also saw people bleeding for that little land. They can work hard and fight for it. But now, their feelings for the land are so numb and indifferent, and wasting and ruining the land is so generous and generous. In the face of decreasing land, I want to warn people with a saying in the environmental protection field: "Don't wait until the last drop of water left on the earth is people's tears before you begin to regret." Similarly, cherish our land, people! Don't wait until there is nothing to eat on the earth before you begin to know the preciousness of the land!