Essay on Hometown Wild Fruit Prose

My hometown is located in a small village beside Zhemiao River, a tributary of Tuoniang River, with beautiful scenery. Many well-known or unknown wild fruits grow on the hillside. The famous ones are Myrica rubra, beef liver fruit, guava, mulberry and so on. Unknown, the locals call it "Ma Bao", "Ma Buddha" and "Ma Ying". Every time the wild fruits are ripe, the fragrance of fruits is everywhere, and people are picking wild fruits everywhere, rippling with laughter, which is very lively.

The newly grown waxberry fruit is turquoise, and then slowly turns red. When cooked, it becomes purple-black, crystal clear, and the gravy is sweet and slightly sour. Early summer is the mature season of wild bayberry. At this time, we will rush into the forest to pick bayberry. The branches of Myrica rubra are very fragile, and the twigs will break as long as they are pulled or stepped on. We know the characteristics of bayberry very well, so we dare not climb too high when picking bayberry. To pick the fruit on the top of the tree, you can only lay a film under the Myrica rubra tree and knock it down with a bamboo pole. Myrica rubra seeds can also be eaten, but eating too many seeds will cause constipation. Because there are many bayberry trees and fruits, the masses take the inexhaustible bayberry to the market for sale, or take it home to make bayberry wine. Myrica rubra wine is sweet and delicious, and it is a good product for receiving distinguished guests.

Cattle Gan Guo generally grows near villages and matures in early summer. Eating Angang has a sweet taste, especially drinking water after eating beef liver fruit is as sweet as drinking sugar water. In our local area, there is a legend: A long time ago, a foreigner came to see us and saw a Gan Guo cow by the roadside, with a spring beside it. He sat down to rest, picked the cow Gan Guo to eat, and after eating the cow Gan Guo, he picked up the spring water and drank it. He doesn't want the spring water to be cold and sweet. He felt very strange, thinking that the spring water was different and sweet, so he took it away. At the destination, he took out the pot of spring water and drank it. He doesn't want the spring water to fade, unlike before. Later, when the local people told him the reason, he realized that Gan Guo, a cow, "lured" him to pour wine. He was very upset. Cattle Gan Guo can be picked and eaten casually or made into sour fruit. Moderate sweet and sour, very appetizing. It is said that a few years ago, an old lady selling candied fruit wanted to build a building in a market.

Guava also grows near the village, with red hearts and white hearts. The lunar calendar matures in July, which is sweet and delicious. Guava is barren and can grow on barren land. Guava facing the sun is especially sweet. Wild guava is smaller than cultivated guava, but its sweetness is higher than cultivated guava.

These wild fruits have brought many benefits to the local people. When there was a famine in difficult times, they provided food for the masses. With the development of market economy, those native products, Chinese herbal medicines and wild fruits in the mountains have become the source of income for local people. For example, bayberry and beef liver fruit trees are all treasures. Fruits are not only delicious, but also their bark can be used to make glue. Myrica rubra and beef liver fruit trees have strong vitality. As long as you don't cut them down, they won't die even if they are skinned. Next year, they will grow new bark, blossom and bear fruit. A few years ago, many vendors often came to us to buy bayberry bark and beef liver fruit tree bark. As the saying goes, "trees are afraid of peeling", although these trees are peeled, they will grow new skins next year. However, if they are overfished, they will suffer more and more injuries and eventually die over time.

Now there are fewer and fewer wild fruits in the mountains, and even some are hard to find. Not long ago, it was the season when some wild fruits matured. I went back to the village and asked young people about wild fruits such as mulberries and "Ma Ying". They even said they didn't know that these wild fruits might have been extinct.

I hope that the villagers will cherish the existing wild fruits, pay equal attention to protection and utilization, and make the wild fruits everywhere fragrant for generations.