I heard that every Mid-Autumn Festival, chestnuts in Huangyu will fall all over the mountains and rivers in Qinling Mountains. In autumn, outdoor people often go to Nanling Mountain in Huangyu to pick chestnuts.
Bump all the way to the mouth of Huangyu. The resplendent ancestral hall is located in Yukou. Go up the mountain road and enter the valley. Before the continuous autumn rain, the sound of flowing water sounded first. There are fallen trees in the lush mountains, and the autumn wind happily tells the leaves of the branches first. Walking on the newly fallen leaves, you can smell the fragrance of fallen trees. There is a soft feeling under your feet. Chestnut forest is deep in the mountain, and we walk up along the gurgling stream. From time to time, there are purple flowers in the sun, and the purple and yellow wild impatiens are very warm. All kinds of trees still cover the sky overhead. Vines are still wrapped around green trees, and some of them are still hugging each other heavily. Through the natural arch formed by vines, you can see the handsome mountains in the distance.
An arrogant sound of water brought us to a waterfall. The water is very strong, like a silver chain. It rushes down from a high rock in the sun and flies into the deep blue shallow pool at the foot, but there are not many waves in the shallow pool, only a few shallow ripples.
Where there are waterfalls, there is a big drop and the mountains are steep, so it is difficult to climb the stones. The foot is covered with a thick furry chestnut shell, and the chestnut forest has arrived.
Walking in Huangyu in early autumn, the sky above is covered with green, and the tall chestnut tree has never seen it carefully. Today, I seriously looked up to see this tall chestnut tree. The tree is tall, with slender leaves and smooth leaves. I can't imagine why this kind of hedgehog-covered fruit grows on the trunk. Wild chestnuts are basically grown in the mountains of Huangyu. I didn't know why chestnuts grew in this valley before. Furry chestnut shells were scattered all over the floor. Originally, one piece of fruit was covered with hard and sharp thorns. When it matures, it will open a mouth where fruit can be drilled. As soon as the wind passed, the open shell collapsed to the ground with the wind, and the mother and son separated. The ochre red fruit is separated from the furry shell. The ground is wet and the sun is warm. After a period of gestation, they germinated on a warm spring day, so there was this chestnut forest full of valleys.
The chestnuts I used to eat were fried with sugar bought in the street this season. Peel off its hard and noble ochre shell, and after a long time, the egg-yellow flesh will come out. Take a bite, soft and sweet, and dry glutinous rice is cool. The taste will always linger for three days, and the teeth and cheeks will remain fragrant for months.
Fireworks on earth are just a bag of fried chestnuts. Now you can understand Wang Zengqi's Fireworks.
Eating chestnuts is only thought to stimulate appetite. In fact, chestnuts have many health functions. It is recorded in Chinese medicine that chestnuts can replenish qi, thicken stomach and tonify kidney qi, which makes people hungry. Raw chestnut is effective in treating waist and leg deficiency, treating bones and muscles, reducing swelling and removing blood stasis, and raw chewing and coating. It is said that there used to be a young man in this Nanshan, who was strong and good at chopping wood. One year, his waist was sore and his legs were weak, and he didn't look good after seeing many doctors. He was anxious and wronged, and he had the idea of suicide. One day, he came under his chestnut tree, hung a rope and brought stones. Before he could go up, a chestnut canopy hit him right on the head, thinking that instead of being a hungry ghost, it would be better to eat something before leaving. So he shook the tree, picked up chestnuts and began to eat. After eating a few liters, he fell asleep on the ground. When I woke up and stood up, I found that my legs and feet were strong and my waist didn't hurt. From then on, everyone told me that the father-in-law of Qinling gave him fairy fruit, and he recovered. Legend has it that the story only touches on the role of chestnuts, but chestnuts are really a medicinal treasure, which can be eaten raw, fried with sugar, boiled in water, and stewed with chicken soup to make people healthy and relieve their appetite.
Began to follow the footsteps of people who have been there, bowed their heads and carefully searched for mature fallen chestnut fruits in grass nests and fallen leaves. At first, I glanced at the hillside, but I couldn't see it. I am anxious to watch my teammates pick them up one by one. I eagerly looked up at others to see if anyone could help me find the maze, so that I could find it, but no one paid attention to me. Everyone was looking for it seriously, so I suppressed my impetuous heart and began to look for it slowly with my waist down and on the ground. Finally, a big clean chestnut fruit fell with the wind and landed at my feet, so I picked up the first fruit against the heat of the sun. Second, third, I have everything. I actually fell a lot on the mountain I just walked on. I didn't find it the first time. In fact, no matter what you do, you can do it well as long as you are down to earth.
Chestnut flowers with thorns prick their hands from time to time, but they also realize that this is the self-protection of the fruit. They evolved to resist the abuse of wild animals and birds. Bow your head for dozens of minutes in a row, your neck aches and you can't stretch your back. Everything is so hard to get, but after getting it, I feel so at ease. Bowing your head to possess yourself is also a respect for the land. They gave birth to fruit trees, and fruit trees bore fruit. If we want to enjoy them, we must respect everything. I earned it by my own labor, and I feel at ease, even though I am very tired. In the process of serious collection, I met the same kind of white snake, and I was very scared. I cringed and shouted to my companion. I watched the black snake bend its stout body and whisper leisurely in front of me, and my soul was scared away. My companion rushed over, but people and animals were so harmonious and reconciled. It returned to the grass nest, and I walked out of it.
Qinling Mountain is not only full of flowers in spring, but also lush in summer and fruitful in autumn. Dashan is so generous in this season. Residents living in the mountains pick chestnuts in groups or in pairs from time to time. They were born and raised in the mountains. After the first autumn wind, the news that chestnuts were ripe was brought to the people in the mountains by the wind. From seeing them alone to seeing them again at noon, they were already burdened. They put a big bag of chestnuts in their pockets. Most people sell them for money and keep a little to satisfy their desire. It is said that chestnuts can save lives when food is in short supply.
When I picked it up, I turned over the valley of Huangyushan unconsciously, and then I looked up. I have arrived at Baishiyu. There are very few people walking in Baishiyu at ordinary times, and chestnut forests are everywhere. We were a little tired, but almost all chestnuts fell on this south slope, a pile, a group, a family ... I can't describe it. We all agreed not to pick it up and go home in the footsteps of the sunset. But there are always round and big fruits on the slopes of the roadside to tempt everyone. I couldn't resist the temptation, so I bent down to pick it up. The bag is full and put in my trouser pocket. The trouser pocket is already burdened, and it seems that it still can't stop. Suddenly remembered the story of picking up gold. You can get a lot of gold by any means, as long as you can take it home before sunset. People constantly possess the gold that they want for themselves, but few people correctly estimate their own strength. Only one or two people only take a little gold in others' eyes. It's time to go home. The people who account for more money are very entangled. When the sun goes down, they only walk a few steps, but they walk back easily with less things. The sun went down, and the man who took a lot of gold turned to stone with the gold. So, everything is just right. So we reminded each other not to pick up any of them, bid farewell to Mao, invited them to meet again next year, and hurried home by sunset. Everything is outside, it is enough to suit yourself, not so much.
The footsteps kept coming, and the falling fruit pounded my hair from time to time. I bid farewell to this naughty chestnut in laughter. The bird's nest on the vine surprised me. The structure and technology are so fine. It seems that the intelligence and execution of birds are so powerful, and the animal kingdom is crouching tiger, hidden dragon.
The sunset bid farewell to the Qinling Mountains in a pool of blood, walked out of the valley, and went home with chestnut fruits deep in the autumn wind, autumn breath of the Qinling Mountains, and fruits of labor. ...