Childhood Memory: Man and Nature

Whenever spring is in full bloom, excited children will go into the mountains with adults and get close to nature. Carrying baskets, carrying baskets, we invited three or five friends to set off for the mountains in droves. Spring has arrived. There are all kinds of wild vegetables in the mountains. Wild vegetables are also a rare delicacy for foresters who eat pickles all winter. The earliest ferns came down, and the local name was old bracken. They are tender, boiled in water at home and fried with meat. They are so fragrant that they are unforgettable today. What other wild vegetables are there, such as celery, leek, willow bud, thorn bud and so on. Most of them are boiled in water and then fried or eaten directly in sauce. If you go further, you can pick fungus when you encounter rotten trees. The fungus in spring is the most tender and tastes the best. Auricularia auricula is also the most expensive in spring now. The biggest feature of wild vegetables in spring is tenderness. Once out of season, the taste will get worse and it will be almost inedible. I didn't feel anything when I ate it. Now look, the screen is full of vegetables! Similarly, the taste of wild vegetables is also the most important taste in my hometown.

Summer is an ocean of joy. Northeasters like water. No one knows why, and neither do the children. The riverside in summer is always a happy paradise. When it was hot, I fluttered by the river, and the heat suddenly disappeared without a trace. Small fish and shrimp in the river are also delicious on the table. Fishing is also a compulsory course in childhood. Willow root, white drift, catfish and loach all taste so delicious. Fish sauce if you catch less, and stew in one pot if you catch more. Older children can fish a lot in one night with homemade fishing gear. A dish on the table was finished in a playful room. Small fish that can't be eaten are dried and made into dried fish, which is a side dish of parents. Of course, many times, parents will not allow their children to go to the river alone because they are afraid of danger. Basically, they did it in secret. Once found out, they will definitely get a fat beating.

Autumn is the harvest season, and so are mountains. The mountains in autumn can always bring full harvest and satisfaction to children. Adults gather all kinds of mushrooms, such as white mushrooms, oil mushrooms, green mushrooms and Hericium erinaceus, and when they come back, they either dry them or pickle them, so that they can eat them for a long time. The mushrooms in the famous stewed chicken mushrooms in Northeast China are all picked and dried in this season. It's delicious when you just soak it in warm water. Children prefer all kinds of wild fruits and nuts in the mountains. Yamanashi, wild grapes, blueberries, wild Queena Ding, smelly plums, wild strawberries, pine nuts, hazelnuts, walnuts and so on. Yamanashi is raw when it is picked and needs to be slowly covered under the quilt. When the pears are ripe, the room is filled with the fragrance of yamanashi. Ding Zishan is sour and can't be eaten raw. Put some sugar after steaming. God, it's sour and sweet, and petty bourgeoisie life has begun. Nuts unique to forest areas: pine nuts, hazelnuts and walnuts are also on the market at this time. The freshly picked walnuts are like mangoes, and the outer layer is green. At home, the outer layer is rotten. Then pull them out and put them on the fire, and the tip of the walnut cracks, indicating that the walnut is ripe. Then cut it with a kitchen knife and pick out the walnuts with a needle. It's delicious! Pine nuts are all in pine cones and need to be pulled out. Is it technical work or dirty work? It's all pine oil, which is particularly difficult to handle. But the boiled pine nuts are also delicious.

In winter, the mountains are white, the rivers are white, and the whole world is white, but this does not stop children from going to nature in person, putting sledges and rabbits on the mountains and pumping ice in the rivers. Winter in Heilongjiang is really cold, and winter in Yichun is even colder. Even if you stay outdoors for a long time, you can freeze through, but the children are not afraid. They are all small stoves. In winter, the industry likes to go to the mountains, and rabbit covers are everywhere. Because there are many rabbits in the mountains in winter, and the meat is fat and tender, it is the top grade delicious in winter. Adults and children love it. For a rabbit meat meal, the cold weather is nothing!

The mountains and rivers in my hometown are like a dream, which makes people dream. It made my childhood colorful, and now we can't forget to return to our hometown. The taste of hometown is actually the taste of mountains and rivers. Into the landscape, into nature, into hometown, into home. what do you think?