"Compendium of Materia Medica" records, buckwheat cold, cool and non-toxic, buckwheat hulls as a pillow, bright eyes and refreshing, soothing and invigorating. Modern medicine has proved: long-term use of buckwheat hulls pillow, the head has a brain and eyesight, eliminate fatigue, convergence of sweat, regulating qi and blood, cool, cool, warm in winter and summer effect, can prevent capillary fragility induced hemorrhagic syndrome, especially for diabetes, hypertension, migraine, insomnia, cervical spondylosis and other preventive effects.
Most of the time in the north of the fall is sunny, high and cool weather, at this time, farmers will be bundles of buckwheat harvested from the ground back to the yard to dry, a full grain of seed as if that a black tricone diamond, in the red sun shine glitter. Waiting for the basic end of the farm work, will be in the stone mill buckwheat over again, the wheat hull and wheat kernel separation, to go to the corner of the buckwheat kernel is milky white, just like a grain of pearl, very popular. At this time, the peasant woman will sweep out a clean area in the yard used to dry buckwheat hulls, a time, the whole yard is filled with buckwheat hulls of light fragrance. Good sunshine buckwheat hulls are used to load the pillow, to the night before going to bed, the farm family of several siblings holding their respective newly installed buckwheat hulls pillow, love.
After working in Beijing, buckwheat hull pillows have gradually become the carrier of homesickness and missing relatives. Beijing summer heat and humidity, making the buckwheat skin pillow often exudes a musty smell, and decided to find a day to take apart the pillow washed, the inside of the buckwheat skin also re-sun. Waiting for a sunny day, early in the morning to get up from bed, can not wait to dismantle the pillow, the buckwheat hulls all brain pour out, like the farmer's wife took a funnel will be crushed in the fine end of the filter, repeatedly washed more than one time, spread on the balcony to dry for several days.
Whenever re-disassembling and washing buckwheat hull pillows, the mind will always come back to childhood in the hometown yard installed buckwheat pillow scene, the inner feelings of nostalgia can not help but flooded to open. Childhood has long been interpreted into a movie in the depths of my memory, each frame is full of travelers engraved in the heart of the hometown of the reluctant to give up, the loved ones of the thick thoughts, the old things of deep attachment.
1/3 of a person's life is spent in bed, the pillow is extremely important. Nowadays, down, latex, cassia and other types of pillows have their own, regardless of the benefits and harms, often accompanied by buckwheat pillows but carries the insomnia when tossing and turning, supporting the disillusionment of the spine is not willing to bend down, soothing in his hometown to get the achievements of the sound sleep, inadvertently harvested a strong sense of countryside, warm feelings of kinship and simple happiness. Sometimes, I will be in a dream thinking of the northwestern Loess Plateau in the natural villages and customs, the depths of feeling and even shed a few lines of tears dripping on the pillow, slowly moistened in the dark buckwheat hulls......