In the eyes of the farmers, the ox and the plow are closely linked, so called the plow ox. In fact, in our country for nearly two thousand years of farming culture, cattle have never been detached from the word "plow".
Crop farmers raise cattle for the word "plow".
As the farming era went by, the cow gradually faded out from the countryside. How many years later, when people again mentioned cattle, perhaps not too much too deep feelings. But in the eyes of a generation of farmers, cattle and land relations, is closely linked together, the love and cherish the cattle, is always a generation of farmers hard to erase the memory.
Some years ago, I went home and occasionally talked to my neighbors about the cattle, when asked how many people still have cattle in the village, neighbors said: "Now all the mechanized farming, there have been very few people who have cattle in their homes." So I counted them on my fingers, and I was surprised to see that I could only count two families. I smiled and said, "The ox has been plowing the earth with mankind for 2,000 years, so it's time to retire from the stage of history." I said this on my lips, but in my heart, I remembered some of the old stories related to the cow.
First, the three masters teach cattle
Children in the village, there are naughty or disobedient, the parents will be counted down a sentence, said: "You kid, how to teach the unchanged it? It's a cow that's been taught to come over!" When those words were spoken, they made people think that the child was as stubborn as an ox.
The farmers call the training of the oxen to plow the land "teaching the oxen" and never call them "taming the oxen". In their eyes, the cow is tame enough, and not a lion or tiger, why call it tame! Therefore, the word "teach" sounds humane and vivid. The first thing I'd like to say is that I don't know what to say, but I'd like to say that I don't know what to say, and I don't know what to say. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on some of the most popular products in the world, and you'll be able to do it all in one place. Whenever the team from the cattle market to buy back a not yet learned to plow the cattle, or the team of the mother of the calves gradually grew up, out of the strength of the time, the team will arrange for people to teach those cattle set up the plow plow plow. Occasionally, if there is a strong character, or if they have not been taught for a long time, the team will ask the third master to teach them. The first thing I did was to ask the owner of the house to let me know if he was going to be able to get the money to pay for it, but I didn't think he would. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a new one, and you'll be able to do that.
Teaching cows is usually done in the winter months, when the land is idle and the crops are idle. The second is to take advantage of the winter leisure time to teach the cattle, the next year when the spring plowing can directly make the cattle down to the ground. So they chose a piece of empty dry land, one person to lead the oxen, and one person to support the plow. The one who holds the ox is usually a veteran, and the one who holds the plow can plow the land skillfully. The ground does not have to plow too deep, plow deep afraid of cattle can not eat, more afraid of cattle can not stand to pull the plow upside down.
That year, the team bought back a cow from the town's cattle market, and it was said that the cow's temperament was too strong, and no one on the team that sold the cow dared to make that cow, so it was sold. After the sale, no one on the team dared to get close to the cow, so they asked the third master to teach it to them. The third master picked a good hand to support the plow, and instructed that the plow should not be too deep. The two men set up the plow, the third master took the ox in front of him, and the third master took the plow behind him. But no matter how much he tugged, the oxen just didn't want to follow the route, always running to the side. The third master tugged hard on the rope, trying to make it go straight, but the third master tugged hard on it, and it went astray. The first time I saw this, I was so impressed with the way it looked and the way it looked and the way it looked. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a new one, and you'll be able to do that.
Then, the third master finally came up with a solution, he found a piece of tattered clothing, the cow's head and eyes are blindfolded, so that the cow can not see the people, and also can not see the ground. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on some of the most popular products and services in the world, and then you'll be able to get your hands on some of the most popular ones. After half a month of teaching the oxen this way, the oxen were finally tamed. Later, the cow gradually get used to, remove the blindfolded cloth, the cow as well as walking very upright, but also very fast.
The third master said, "Generally, the oxen with strong temperament will pull the plow more vigorously!"
II. The Second Damsel Chants the Ox
"An ox with a strong nature pulls the plow harder and plows the land faster." Erda Niang recited.
"It's all my fault, letting you break free from the cow's twist to go to the fight, and ended up fighting to death in this ditch!" The second eldest mother squatted in the ditch side of the cow fell dead, while saying, while wiping tears, as if in the remorse of a dead body
That day, the second eldest mother did not eat, the team gave her beef, she did not want to, to return. The first time I saw this, I was able to see that the whole thing was a bit of a joke, and I was able to see that it was not a joke.
Some people ran to persuade her, and she said: "The cow is their own free cattle cord to go to the fight, not your fault, the cattle nature strong, how can you hold!
But she just can't convince herself, she repeatedly recited: "The ox with a strong temperament is the one that plows the land faster. ......"
The second eldest mother is old, and can't keep up with the land, so the team sent a cow for her to put.
In the morning, she took the cow to the mountain. Suddenly, a cow from a neighboring village on the other side of the mountain moo-mooed a few times. When the cow she was leading heard this, she also raised her head and "moo-mooed" back. The cows on the other side of the mountain, heard and responded to a sound, her cows can no longer resist, they broke free from her hands of the cord, and went straight to the mountain side.
The two cows met, chased each other for a while, and finally chased them to the edge of the field at the bottom of the hill, where they fought.
It was two strong male buffaloes, evenly matched. The buffalo horn is long, big, and fight very fierce, it is easy to fight the dead bull. When the two villages saw it, they shouted and ran over, but they didn't dare to get close. So some people found a ladder and tried to put it between the two bulls to separate them. The women and children, then, gathered around and watched from afar.
People are very anxious, but no one can do anything, can only stay and watch, no one can intervene. As expected, the cow raised by the second lady was toppled down the slope, fell to the bottom of the ditch, and then did not get up.
People rushed down the ditch to retrieve the cow, which had broken two legs, and the remaining two legs could no longer support it to stand up.
That day, the second eldest mother shed tears for a day, aching like the loss of her son. She repented, as if she had really done something wrong. Overnight, she suddenly aged a lot.
Later, the team did not let her go down to the ground, and did not send cattle to her. The first time I saw this, I was in the middle of the night, and I was in the middle of the night. Occasionally, children yelled their oxen and walked past her door. When she saw the children raise the bullwhip and whip it at the ox, she went up to stop them and said to them, "Don't ever drop this bullwhip on the ox, the ox is very obedient, you only have to raise the whip and shake it, and it will go very fast."
Third, the father said plowing
"The ox is very obedient, you just have to raise the whip and shake it, and it will go very fast." Father often said so.
Every time he went down to the ground, his father's bullwhip was always raised high, but never fell towards the back of the ox. Only the long yell, always shouted all over the mountain slopes can be heard.
That year, I came back from school, followed by my father to learn to support the plow, my father said: "support the plow, you don't have to make too much effort, as long as you walk alongside the plow on the line, neither can walk to the front of the plow, and can not fall behind the plow. Walking in front of the plow, the plow wedge in will be too deep, the oxen can not pull; fall behind the plow, the plow will be buckled out of the ground, the plow does not go in." I used to not believe in it, but I tried it and it was true.
The first time I learned to plow, plowing the plow on the plough out of the side, so desperately shaking the plow, thinking that this will be able to put the plow right. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to get a good deal on a new product, but I'm sure you're going to be able to get a good deal on a new product, and I'm sure you're going to be able to get a good deal on a new product.
I am impatient, once, I think the ox is running slowly, want to push the ox faster, but yell half a day, the ox is not fast. I held the plow, followed behind the cow is really impatient, and then swung the bullwhip to the cattle on the whip. My father saw this and came over to me, snatched the whip from my hand and threw it out, saying angrily, "That whip is not for you to whip the ox, it is for bluffing the ox, you only need to shake the whip a little bit, and the ox will drive forward with vigor." After that, he glared at me again and said to me, "I have to find the whip after pulling the plow, but you can bear it!"
I listened to the thought: in the end I am your child or the cow is your child ah!
That time, my father picked up his own thrown away cattle prod, asked for the plow from my hand, and finished the half-mu paddy field by himself.
In my memory, the winter is cold, and occasionally a good weather, my father will take out the ox, while giving the ox grate fleas, while accompanying the ox sunshine. Once, my father said to me: "The water buffalo is big and strong, and plows the land quickly, if you are in a hurry, it is best to use the water buffalo when plowing. If you use a yellow ox, you can only be patient!"
I listened, and looked at the cow in awe.
Fourth, distant memory
Whether it is a yellow ox or a buffalo, the crop people on the cattle of that feeling and sentiment, is no one can taste.
That year, the team's fastest plow ox was old, and the team wanted to sell it. The cow has been letting the seven aunt's family keep, the day before being taken away, the seven aunt sent out half a mile, accompanied by all the way to tears.
When I was a kid, I took a cow into the mountains to put it on the way back, and suddenly remembered the cowboy riding the cow in the language textbook. I then also climbed onto the back of the cow, wanting to ride the cow to play. Unexpectedly, I lie on the back of the cow, that cow a walk, I slipped from the back of the cow, fell to the buttocks raw pain.
As a child, those memories related to the cow have been far away.
These memories of the cow are far away, but the simplicity and honesty of the cow is always engraved in my heart.
Over the years, there have been a lot of cows in the hills and mountains, on and off the slopes. When asked, the farmers said, before the cattle are sold, do not use the cattle to plow the land, they do not want to spend a lot of time to raise a cow.
But no, the relationship between the farmers and the cattle, has been maintained in a plow word. It's not just a closeness, it's a sentiment.
I am sighing, suddenly I do not know who is the daughter-in-law, picked up a stick to chase out the door, while chasing, while roaring their own children: I see you are stubborn, stubborn as a cow ......