Behind the house in my hometown, on the river bank and on the hill, there is one tung tree here and one there, standing quietly. It is not ostentatious or flattering, and its tall branches are bare and silent, which is so ugly compared with the peaches and plums that have been covered with green colors. Only when the soft breeze of Qingming comes with wet rain and meets it, will the flowers come out slowly. The white of that branch contains a shallow red, just like rouge, just right.
in front of the mountain and behind the house, it is too common to see, even if the flowers can't stop the car. White flowers clustered around the village, brightening the whole world a little. My father, mother and uncles next door, who are busy in the fields, have become the swinging lines in this white frame. The old cow slowly followed by his father holding the rope, shouting one by one, and the turned-up soil became soft in coming and going. Over time, the rich spring water will nourish the tender seedlings, which is his father's hope. And my mother turned the wide vegetable garden into a rich business with a hoe. Her rough hands carefully touched the bean sprouts that had sprouted, and she must be very pleased with her smile.
tung flowers are so flourishing, and like this busy farming, it is going on enthusiastically. So it's cheaper for us kids. When I was young, I carried my mother's plaid backpack and went to the school in the village to study. After school in the evening, the little body immersed in the textbook suddenly loosened its tie, and no one could stop the happy heart.
There is a small arch bridge opposite our home. There is a big bluestone beside the bridge, and a paulownia stands beside the stone. That is our playground. Jump a variety of rope, pick up a stone and hit "Shui Piao" in the water. When you are tired, sit on a big stone, and you lean against me and I lean against you, dreaming many unrealistic dreams. When the wind comes, tung flowers fall in succession, and the girls reach out their hands, take a few pieces and pass them to their mouths. When they blow, the petals float gently and then land gently. Tung flowers are like white snow. Many years later, the little girl who blew the flowers learned that this tung flower was also called "Five In the snow".
The field is the home of farm children except the school. In spring, I went to dig wild vegetables in the field with a small basket. At that time, the tung flowers were not in bloom, and there were no leaves, only bundles of branches stretched out, and the bark was chapped. It was really ugly! We dug wild vegetables in the field and rolled them. When the wild vegetables in season have changed from fresh to tender and can no longer be chewed, the Na Tong tree seems to have been enchanted overnight, and flowers have sprung up all over the tree, covering the whole sky with snow white. As soon as the flowers bloom, the children are happy, and they are full of joy, because when the tung tree is full of tung trees, the basket for digging wild vegetables will be replaced by the basket for picking up tung trees, and they will look for it in the grass under the big tree. Tung nuts are dried and then sent to the town's purchasing point to get some bills. We always count the bills back and forth, and carefully consider whether to buy our favorite candy or a pack of biscuits. Young happiness, so real, was brought by the paulownia trees.
this tung tree is actually tung tree, not paulownia or phoenix tree. These plants, all called paulownia trees, didn't know that they were not the kind that accompanied me when I grew up until I saw the continuous phoenix trees in Nanjing and the paulownia trees in other places. Indus is noble, paulownia can be used to make furniture. Only paulownia can be seen everywhere in the countryside, and it can't be used as a pillar of houses or turned into good furniture in the hands of craftsmen. Even as firewood, people can't help complaining, can't endure it, can't stand the fierce fire, and the kung fu will be ashes in an instant. Tung oil, as an excellent raw material for paints and inks, is widely used as waterproof and anticorrosive coatings for buildings, machinery and weapons, and can also be used as an emetic in medicine and an insecticide in agriculture.
It is said that the board brushed with tung oil is very strong. In the old peasant wedding banquet, the accompanying objects such as wooden barrels and pots were oiled with tung oil, which was extremely strong and durable. In the sound of suona, I don't know if the bride will make a wish silently when she looks at this dowry with tung oil. I only hope that this marriage will be the same, lasting for a long time and never broken.
tung blossoms bloom and wither. The little girl of that year has matured from a young girl and become a new bride. With the change of the times, modern plastic products are dazzling, and my mother did not use the wooden furniture brushed with tung oil as my dowry. However, my husband and I met in May, when flowers were in full bloom, and there were clusters of tung flowers standing on the branches. I took him back to the village where he grew up. We walked under the snow-like tung flowers, which were fresh and moving, like love.
It's spring again. When the wind is stronger and stronger, the flowers will bloom all over the mountain!
but I haven't seen tung flowers in my hometown for many years. I don't know if it can enter a homesick dream tonight.
About the author: Nangong Suqian, born in 199s, is a woman from southern Jiangxi, a general educator. Love reading, writing, walking, handcraft and delicious food. I wish to write more words to be seen by many people in my lifetime, and I also wish to teach and educate Do not forget your initiative mind to sing childhood songs with her children, and I wish to live a plain life by myself.