The scientific name of Youzi is You Ji, but here, it is called Youzi. Baskets are utensils used to hold things woven with bamboo poles. It is called a dustpan because its shape is similar to a dustpan. A dustpan is an appliance made of bamboo, wicker or iron, which can lift chaff or remove garbage. Different from the dustpan, there is a "handle" above the dustpan, which is easy to lift by hand.
When I was a child, almost every household had a pair of baskets: they were usually used to put garbage or take out garbage; Occasionally use it to pick soil, bricks, stones and grain. Farmhouses are more widely used, such as fertilizing and collecting manure. Youzi seemed to be an indispensable tool for people at that time. For children, the water pole has another beauty, that is, it is used to stop fish in river ditches or in places where water is released or flooded in ponds after heavy rain. In that era when everything was scarce, it seemed that the most important thing was fish: there were fish in rivers, ponds and reservoirs. Strangely, where there is water, there are fish: a stream flows down the mountain for no reason, and a pond is dug under it, which contains fish; If it is cloudy, there are fish in the cow's hoof pit. The ancients said that fish is changed by vegetation, so it is not all empty.
An ordinary ditch can take me back to my childhood and remind me of a long-lost bamboo pole, because I suddenly remembered the scene of using bamboo poles to stop fish when I was a child: when it rains in summer, the water from the moat in the north of my house will rush over and block the downstream of the outlet with bamboo poles. The time is not long, and the crucian carp, slender as willow leaves, is covered with colorful patterns. In an afternoon or half a night, you can harvest a full pot.
Although food was scarce at that time, eating fish was not the most pleasant memory. The most exciting thing is the process of blocking fish. Later, every time I think of that era, I gradually understand that all human pain or happiness is a psychological feeling of living in the situation at that time. This kind of feeling mainly comes from comparison besides one's own physical and mental experience: comparison with others; Compared with one's past or imagined future; Compared with virtual or foreign information. Therefore, there is happiness in the most difficult times, but even if you live in heaven, there is no lack of pain.
At that time, it seemed that my family was not good at cooking fish. For this kind of fish, they will only fry it with salt, noodles and spiced powder until it is crisp.
At that time, an old woman in the neighbor's house often shouted to her grandson in the cross-river dialect: "Wind (flood), rain (ru), take a Ruan and go to the weir to stop the fish (ru)!" At the same time, it was impressive, which also showed that there were many fish at that time.
Later, the river began to cut off, the weir began to dry up, and the water was no longer clear. People began to do childless activities, dry fishing. And we will never see children using baskets to stop fish again, because there is no fish to stop, and the water is too dirty to waste.
Nowadays, people no longer use baskets, and baskets have long since disappeared from our sight.
Come to think of it, it seems that the scorpion disappeared. In fact, with us, there are also our years, the almost spotless thoughts of that era.
Looking at this stream, I wonder where this cheerful, tinkling and unpolluted water will eventually flow: first, it will flow to the rice field covered with chemical fertilizer and sprayed with pesticides. When the paddy field is full of water, it will flow into the river where municipal domestic wastewater and industrial wastewater are dumped, and finally it will run to the sea.
"Ask the canal to be so clear, because there is running water at the source." Now the water at the source is very clear, but it is polluted by the water behind it.
It is difficult for those so-called big shots to take responsibility for the unbearable situation at present. ? The human mind is like blue sky and clear water. It only takes time to destroy them, but it takes a lifetime to restore them.