It's wonderful to be alive

It's wonderful to be alive

Kong Fansheng

Walking in Shan Ye, I have the impression that trees have their own characteristics just like people.

Yangliu is particularly fond of being clean and somewhat smelly, and likes to live by the water. Sometimes she even stands directly in the water, and most days she looks at the mirror on the shore. It's amazing to describe the charming posture of young women walking with "the wind swinging willows"! As soon as the wind blows, the willow tree is agitated all over, which reminds me of the old man in the band on the dance floor by the river, dancing with a woman twenty years younger than him. It' s so elegant. The old willow beside the pond and the mountain stream will talk to the old man as a teenager every spring. Willows fling and fling, like a male actor tugging at a partner in ballroom dancing, and blossom incomparable happiness with the beat. Those people who are comfortable with mountains and rivers and happy squares are so elegant and confident, and they are so comfortable. It's really "willows and willows". Poplar is a fast-growing tree, which stands tall in a flash, but its skeleton is not hard. It is a guy who can't stand the impact and grinding pressure. In the vernacular, it is called "the egg is big and hollow", which is useless. If there is a tree life test or a tree movement, it is easy to lose its chastity. Willow branches are bent and twisted, and the material toughness and high density are poor, so it is not practical to take it, and even it is too bad to make firewood. There are so many hard firewood in the mountains, which is flammable, resistant to burning, strong in fire and less in smoke, which round can match the willow with crooked neck and disability. Generally, it's useless, like me. At most, I can put some light sadness and poetry.

Pine and cypress are a drought master, and for fear of getting wet, they found a sandy place far and high. Cypress is always slow-witted, does not bloom, does not fight for height, and lives as if asleep in the forest. It's a bit dull, so silly, like a tough bachelor who wants nothing, and no one is destined to disturb him. The most popular era of cypress trees was before the last century. When making coffins, it was not easy to be eaten by insects, corroded and heavy. Farmers had this kind of "Millennium House", and they were as happy as making three rooms in a row. Most of the pines in the south belong to Pinus massoniana, which are clean and tidy, capable and slim from head to toe. The trunk is flesh red, like very few boys and girls, and the skin is tender, smooth and elastic. It's pleasant to look at and comfortable to touch. Pine trees are alive and energetic, and they cry when they are injured. The flowing oil is very fragrant, which can be lit, smells fragrant when you die, burns fragrant when you make firewood, and does not rot when you pile on a house. Moreover, rosin oil can also be used for falls and injuries, and mushrooms grown under pine trees are even more delicious. They are born with dedication and are particularly pleasing. There are camphor trees as fragrant as pine trees, such as the thin application of spices on beautiful women, which makes people happy.

The 885-year-old camphor tree in Chetian Village, Honggang Town, Tongshan County, southern Hubei Province, stands alone in a forest, and its branches and crowns are like a forest growing in the sky, with countless curved dragons, and it is full of energy to take off. According to legend, this tree was planted by Wu Zhongfu, a local celebrity. Wu Zhongfu was a Jinshi in Song Renzong's reign. His three brothers, Wu Zhongfu, Wu Jifu and Wu Sifu, were all Jinshi, so-called "Wu Sangui". Wu Zhongfu has served as the governor of seven prefectures, and he has been a bachelor in Longtuge. There is still a Beitai Temple on the other side of Chetian Village Mountain, which contains the Longtu Academy. It is rumored that Wu Zhongfu will have friends here every time he studies and drinks tea. Song Renzong once gave him the title of "iron suggestion". Because of Wu Zhongfu's integrity, he impeached two prime ministers. In his later years, he was demoted to retire to his hometown, studied in seclusion, planted many camphor trees, and received many celebrities at home. It is reported that Ceng Gong, one of the eight masters in Tang and Song Dynasties, once settled in the Wu family. Today, the descendants of Shuren still live under the tree. Although the underground roots are developed to a new building dozens of meters away from the tree pocket, the wall of the building is cracked, and the owner doesn't say that the tree is anything bad. He also cleans the leaves every day to clear the garbage for the tree. In addition to vines, camphor trees also cherish their neighbors in return for mosquito repellent. This tree is like a classic book that is often read and always new, and a history book with endless charm, which makes people worship. It is the cultivation and reading culture that is advocated. A small local village of 2 people has produced many achievers in ancient and modern times.

some trees are flowering, some are non-flowering, some are flowering and non-fruiting, some are neither flowering nor fruiting, and some are fragrant and non-fragrant. Some trees don't play cards according to common sense, they bloom first and then release their leaves. Looking at the spring tree, it blooms strangely. When it snows, it opens with phoenix flowers and monkey flowers, and when it blooms, it bears seeds. The seeds of Broussonetia papyrifera are round with a hard shell, and there is a mouth like a needle tip at the top. The seeds are full and blown to the ground, under the rotten leaves in the thorn forest, under the cracks in the stones and under the bumps in the soil, everywhere. In the era when hunger is a problem, children use it to burn and eat it. It is crispy and bitter, and it is still a very good food. Adults use it to grind tofu, which tastes delicious, and can also entertain guests to solve the problem of no eggs. Davidia involucrata is a purple and white flower, and green leaves appear in early summer. Some trees are still old-fashioned when people embroider beautifully, showing off their muscles and tendons, and they are naked. When March comes, they are still hard and don't want to wear makeup. Trees that blossom and bear fruit include peach, plum, apricot, pear, chestnut, camellia, pine, wild cherry, orange, torreya grandis and so on. They are destined to give people both the beauty of color and the beauty of taste. It can be said that the kitchen is under the hall, so it is no wonder that people want to plant them next to the village, facing each other at all times. Orange trees have fragrant white flowers and orange-red and green fruits beside Fushui Lake. No matter being eroded by insects and cold, they grow and breed as scheduled every year. When they are married to barren land from other places, they will take root to have children and bloom fragrance, so that people in the reservoir area can taste the sweetness they have never tasted before. There are also some trees, such as intellectuals with conscience, who are independent and dedicated, and are purely a tree that does not blossom and bear fruit. They only stick to the tree path and are not attractive to humanity. Most of them have grown into towering trees and pillars.

The trees in the mountains, or the beams and doors of houses, or the pigsty and cowshed, or the boating and furniture, are also closely related to people when they die. Since entering the new era, trees have been getting along less with people and more with nebulae. When the sun shines into the Woods, those gaps become channels of light, which clearly arouse people's feelings. And the tree can't help narcissism, paying tribute to its own shadow. Sometimes I feel sorry for myself. I think this tree is just like me in the prime of literature, in the realm of nothingness. Of course, most of the trees I see are frivolous. They are great wise men who think carefully and live according to their own hearts. The wind can't blow, the water can't wash away, the flowers can't be lured, and the birds can't disturb their hearts. I insisted that the land should look up at the sky and send away wind, frost, rain, snow and drought.

In spring, some trees can't help but be full of flowers and intestines. Magnolia and Davidia involucrata are as tall as men. They don't expect to boast when they are warm, and they are not afraid of being laughed at. They are covered in red and white flowers and dazzled. There are also wooden or confident people who want nothing, as bald as the man who deliberately shaved his head, and the picture is that masculine and special, but it can attract more attention.

The growth of a tree has experienced many irresistible pains. People and animals will change the shape and fate of a tree at any time. But trees live freely, have determination and patience than people, and love their homes more than people. I remember that there was a big maple tree in the village, and the three adults couldn't hold it, and it grew by the grave of their ancestors. In many places, there are big trees beside the ancient graves. People fear the invisible people, so they dare not move their knives and axes. The tree that grows in other places is not so lucky. It is always cut down for firewood before it grows up, but it is hard to find an old tree when it is cut down to make houses and furniture.

It's no wonder that some trees are regarded as gods. How much essence of the earth has been absorbed after thousands of years of practice! There is a ginkgo tree in Jieshuiling, which is 3 meters high, 5.5 meters in bust and 1 square meters in crown. It has lived for more than a thousand years! There is a elm tree in Baiyan Village, with mottled bark. Many hoes grow on the tree and turn the big young trees up in dense circles. It was covered with scars and furuncles, but it survived the emperor who borrowed from heaven for another 5 years. How terrible! After enjoying some ancient trees, I said to myself: Never put on airs in front of them, or you will be ridiculously naive. By extension, great men are lonely, hard and struggling. Time will retain their reputation and distort and attack them at will. How shallow and ignorant it is!

some trees are not classic, but they are very durable. Dead trees meet spring, which may refer to the kind of trees that seem to wither, but actually still have tenacious vitality. It doesn't worry, it falls asleep slowly, and it stays quietly in a corner, where people around it are full of spring, fighting for bees and butterflies, and it doesn't jump out in a hurry to support what face and express what opinions. However, when we were saddened by its dryness, it suddenly woke up at a certain day. What a surprise to wake up! You will find its peristalsis, and you will be surprised and moved by the newness of a newborn.

it's April on earth, and the mountains are full of fragrance. All the flowers bloom in order, and all the trees are full of vitality. Spring, in fact, has not yet left, and spring will not go out of the field of vision of you. Some trees will sprout sooner or later, but they can only keep lonely; Some plants will bloom inadvertently, but the unrestrained seasons are different; Some scenes are complicated, so let them expand our imagination! Some empty floating and flamboyant are always short-lived; Some live introverted lives, but remain charming forever; Some people we care about, love and cherish him, just watch and bless quietly, and pour your feelings without regrets! As for those things that we hate, please give them to the wind completely.