Cooking Smoke
Cooking smoke often reminds us of the quiet harmony of the agricultural society, and the sunrise and sunset often make us feel nostalgic for the simple years. With the days away from the homeland is getting longer and longer, the impression of the hometown of the smoke but also gradually blurred, as if the smoke can only be seen from the comic books or cartoons, very nostalgic. The smoke of the hometown is not the "desert, the long river sunset round" of the magnificent bleak, hometown of the smoke is accompanied by the smell of home under the night gradual thickening.
Sunset
Cooking smoke and sunset is a beautiful picture, and the morning and evening are different throughout the year. The spring winds are the strongest, and the wind and rain make it easy for the smoke to blow away, like a running girl's hair dancing in the wind. Everything is revived in the spring is also easy to get up early in the season, after a whole winter of bed in the spring of a few spring rains and thunder slowly woke up, began to put into a busy spring plowing campaign, but there are always some young people still attached to the nest, and thus in the countryside, the smoke of the morning is often the hostess of the weather vane is judged to be industrious or not. Late risers find that their neighbors are eating well and ready to go down to the field, while their own stove is just heating up, more or less over the years is also a kind of incentive and test, right? Summer smoke is relatively late, because the sun is the strongest day is also the longest, and almost the whole family are in the field "double grab", the smoke is the most late testimony of hard work. However, this is not entirely true, because some families in the busiest season of the year with the help of the elderly, for the children to make a good meal to entertain the children of a busy day, even if they have been married and separated from the family, the parents will still be in this particular season to give the children to find the warmth of the family of origin feeling, which for the easing of the relationship between mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law is a good way to do so, but the only child is okay, met three or two sons of the very difficult to help out! The first is that it is difficult to take into account the situation of each family, and it is easy to lay the foundation for the future relationship between the sisters-in-law.
Autumn Observations
Compared to the sparse spring and summer nights, the smoke of the fall is the most beautiful, the beauty of the quiet, the beauty of the narrative. In the fall, it is the time of the year, while the night is not dark, the hostess will start cooking, in order to still work outside the male host will not be hungry too long. Autumn wind and warm days cooking smoke is the easiest to keep their original face, dry wood from the chimney is green smoke, if it is some moisture of the wet wood or not fully burned stove will be very easy to smoke rolling, no wind and rain invasion, cooking is the most vibrant moment of a village. At this time, if you look at the whole village from the hillside not far away, it should not be any weaker than the border area where there is a lot of smoke! The blue sky occasionally a few airplanes from the sky, leaving a long trail, this time the mountain children are always used to these new things happy shouting, the mountain men with the smoke rising also went home one after another. This smoke is in a sense a symbol of the home, if the wife is separated and how the smoke rises, if the parents are far away and talk about home for dinner. The winter night is the longest, often the sun slopes to the west on the night gradually thick, gray weather always feel the smoke is also one of the culprits. Cooking smoke in the village of the four seasons is always the shadow of life, is a family's spirit of style is also the whole village of vitality and vigor of the portrayal, if the villagers relocated to leave the empty houses, that the only thing left is a pool of stagnant silence and countless people's memories.
A Faraway Home
My home is in the hilly area of the south, where the mountains are dense and lush, so there is never a shortage of firewood. Every year, after the agricultural season, all kinds of birds and animals in the mountains slowly enter the hibernation state, it is also the time for farmers to go up to the mountains to busy reserve firewood for the next year. At that time, there are many dry bamboo, miscellaneous branches are also dry, so the working people choose to go to the mountains at this time is the most appropriate. Some people's entire families, with their wagons and oxcarts and dried food, a few days down the entire grocery room piled up to the brim, there are also industrious people single-handedly on the battlefield, morning and night for more than a month can be harvested, can not use so much and afraid of firewood rotting family, so the firewood will be sold to outsiders in order to subsidize the family. At that time, in addition to purchasing new firewood for our own family, we also had to join forces with our uncles and aunts to stock up enough firewood for our grandparents' house. Compared to the young families who needed only small firewood, our grandparents' family needed very large tree trunks because the whole winter was the hardest time for the old people, who were not accustomed to warming themselves with charcoal because the heat from the roasting fire was not uniform, and their cheeks were red, but their backs were too cold. But the spine is cold, so since I can remember my grandparents in the winter of each year to the spring of the next year is to be in a small room with firewood heating, so the thick firewood not only resistant to burning and emit enough heat also meet the needs of the elderly over the winter. The need for such scattered heat to keep warm is of course not only the elderly, early winter frost season is always some mornings and late at night when it is cold, carrying two hands to the pocket feel a little cold generation will always come to the fire from time to time, and not only this, the neighborhood some of the old and middle-aged people living alone will often come to chat about family life. Sitting around the fire to keep warm, you can always hear the latest happenings in the village, who dug up a lot of asparagus today, whose daughter got married, whose mother-in-law and daughter-in-law quarreled with each other, in the hearts of the elderly and the state of affairs should not be any different, in short, these parents and short things such as flames like a general up and down, but with the oil and lamps withered to see a pile of dust gradually into a pile of light floating.
Firewood Memories
With enough firewood reserves, the next year, the crops and can rest assured that the fists and feet to work hard, which to some extent is the "food at home, the heart does not panic" portrayal of the people to food for the day in the situation of the ingenious woman is difficult to cook without rice, so there is no fear of rice, and the people are not afraid of the food, so the people have to eat, so they are not afraid of the food. So with firewood is not afraid of cooking rice is not cooked, so eat enough to have the strength to make the next year's grain harvest. In this way, year after year, I do not know when to start, once a huge team of firewood slowly disappeared, and occasionally just a few old people's figures, bowed rickety back carrying some heavy firewood. The people who burned wood gradually less and less, once the old house is also in the poverty gradually knocked down, the smoke is also in today's new house gradually engulfed. A higher than a house, a family than a luxurious decoration let, natural gas slowly replaced the firewood, new houses gradually replaced the old-fashioned tiled houses, cooking smoke rose when the lights became a luxury, the development of the times will always make the countryside lost too much of the beauty of the once commonplace. (text / 2125 words)
(Author: Lok Shan, male, born under the Jinggang Mountains, 90 after the literature enthusiasts. He loves tennis, practicing and trying to use the tip of the pen to record the life of the drop touched, had lasted a month riding 109 Qinghai-Tibet line. The original purpose of writing the public number is to read the nostalgia and the life of a little bit, the motivation comes from if there is additional income will be properly invested in public welfare.)