It’s the season to harvest wild jujubes again
Written by Ruyue
The heat of summer has not faded yet, and autumn has arrived unexpectedly.
It was early autumn, and when walking in the fields, I saw that the ears of corn were not yet full, the apples were not yet fully colored, and the fruits were like immature teenagers, full of childishness and greenness, and were growing. Growing up. At this time, I suddenly heard the shouts of "picking up wild jujubes". Looking for the sound, I saw a tricycle pulling several bags of wild jujubes on the road beside the village. The owner's loudspeaker was playing "picking up wild jujubes - picking up wild jujubes" repeatedly.
As I got closer, I saw that the open bag was like a big mouth. What was swallowed inside were some green immature jujubes, mixed with some green leaves. This made me feel a little pain in my heart. I know that these jujubes are harvested by people who cut off jujube branches and whip them with sticks.
I remember when I was a child, every time when the wild jujubes were ripe, the mountains and plains were filled with red fruits. They were like agates and gems, shining attractively in the autumn sunshine. My friends in the village and I would Picking wild jujubes all over the hillside, we picked the reddest jujubes one by one, and sat on the hillside to eat them together. The jujubes taste sour and sweet. In those poor years, they were a gift from nature to children. Our best snacks and delicacies. At that time, adults would also pick wild jujubes and sell them for money, but they had to wait until the wild jujubes were completely red, soft and ripe before picking them. After picking, they had to put them in bags and cover them at home for several days until the skins of the wild jujubes were completely covered, and then went to the river. Wash the date cores cleanly before selling them. As long as they can exchange money for oil and salt, people are happy and satisfied.
I don’t remember which autumn, the price of wild jujubes started to rise all the way, and the price of wild jujubes was even better when the wild jujubes were in the green stage. This made people rush up the hillside in the season when the wild jujubes were not yet mature. They still picked by hand. Later, many people began to go up the mountain to cut down jujube trees with axes and sickles, and then whipped the branches with sticks. This way they could earn more and faster, which attracted many people to follow suit. This method is undoubtedly killing the goose to obtain the eggs, and then depleting the lake to catch the fish. In recent years, I heard that due to over-logging, there are fewer and fewer wild jujubes in the mountains. However, the fewer wild jujubes there are, the higher the purchase price. The higher the price, the more frantically people cut down, and then fell into an endless vicious cycle. In the cycle...
I don't know how long this vicious cycle will last. Every time I see these unripe jujube green fruits with green leaves, my heart always aches. All things have spirits, and I seem to be able to hear the painful groans of the jujube trees when the ruthless knives and sticks cut them down and whipped them. They must not understand that they grow well in nature, and they also bring benefits to people. They have medicinal value and economic income, but why do people harm them so much? In fact, not only wild jujubes, but also sophora flowers in spring, forsythia, cypress seeds in summer... all the things that can be sold in nature suffer the same fate as wild jujubes - excessive harvesting and logging, greedy people Wherever you go, after the full harvest, there are left behind a piece of broken branches and leaves...
People are always enjoying the gifts of nature, while ruthlessly destroying nature. All greed will eventually pay a heavy price. At present, various disasters have given us a warning. Nature's revenge has just begun. It is mankind itself that destroys mankind. I hope people can seriously reflect on their actions. , care for nature and save yourself!