And to the month of may, when the date-palms will fragrance。
At this point, the fragrance of date-palms is always remembered for decades. Especially when the trees bloom. See, the date-palms are scattered silently in the warm wind, as if it were whispering, and it slowly spreads the sweetest and most fragrances around it, and brings the little bees in a hum。
The fragrance of date-palms is a spoon of honey in a plentiful life, unopened, but enough to make the day sweet. The fragrance of the date-palms, when they are light and far away. It is the sweetness of the bouquets of grain, and the fruit of the tree from which the heavens and the earth bring forth。
The date tree, which is a particularly common fruit tree in our country, is well nourished, has early results and is well-meaning, both in the yard and in the field。
I love dates. As a child, there were more than a dozen dates behind the house. At that time, there were many families with difficult living conditions, with a few date trees and some money to subsidize the household a year. Every year, starting with the may tree, we watch the changes on the dates. From the twilight of the roots of the leaves to the flower of the grain of rice, to the sweet smell of the sucking nose。
From the date-born to the day-to-day age, to the child-to-child-to-child-to-child-to-child-to-child-to-child-to-child-to-child-to-child-to-child-to-child-to-child-to-child-to-child-to-child-to-child-to-child-to-child-to-child-to-child-to-child-to-child-to-child-to-child-to-child-to-child-to-to-child-to-to-child-to-child-to-child-to-child-to-to-child-to-child-to-child-to-child-to-to-child-to-to-child-to-child-to-child-to-child-to-child-to-child-to-child-to-child-to-child-to-child-to-child-to-child-to-child-to-child-to-child-to-child-to-child-to-child-to-to-to-child-to-to- we always wanted it to grow up. The date grows into a child and, with the light of the sun, the date turns yellow from the roots to red, and they move towards the ripe red until it becomes light red and red. And then a tree will cover its palms, and it will wait for the harvest。
And the date-palms, in the course of their growth, are often touched by bad weather. Sometimes the date grows into an hour of bean, and suddenly a storm falls and the ground is filled with green dates. Sometimes dates grow and a storm falls. When the rain stopped, we carried a basket to pick up the dates from the wind, to wash them home, and then we scrutinised them。
When the date matures, the family sets the date with long wooden poles. And the chain of red twigs rolling round dates, with their head full of branches, and they fell on the ground with their fists, and they fell down with them. We kids pick dates on the floor with baskets. And whoever sets the date-palms, he who picks the date-palms, is only a bang-up。
The date-pickers picked them up quickly at the risk of being hit on their head at any time. Sometimes, there's the sound of date-palms on the head, and it hurts. Even though the head was smashed, the date-picking movement continued until all the dates were picked up。
The dates are usually laid on the roof of the flat. After drying up, it's around mid-autumn. During the mid-autumn festival, tanned dates were cooked and mashed into date mud for moon cakes. The mooncakes made from the dates were very sweet and, without exaggeration, she said that the datecakes made from her home were better than the hundreds of thousands of boxes of them now。
Unfortunately, no one's done it now, and they can't eat that sweet mooncake. In addition to making moon cakes, date dates are also made for beans during spring holidays. When making bean buns, the dates are also cooked with well-cooked green beans or soybeans. Put them together into bean wraps。
Then the white-haired face will be covered in skins, then will be wrapped into date-palms, and will be lumped into a round head and steamed in a big pot. Ten or twenty minutes later, the smell of a fragrance is already glamorous。
Once the lids are lifted, a pot of white, turpentine bean buns appear. And to pick up one, and to bite away, the sweet of the white-faced scent and the sweet of the dates, and to wander through the mouth. In times of hardship, it's like a fairy's pleasure。
My old house, there's a date tree. There is a thick tree, rough and dark, and a slightly bent tree is empty in the north. The tree is said to be over 100 years old. Despite its age, the tree thrives, covering half of the courtyard with cylindrical dates。
The date is later than the ripe date tree, and it is not tanned, it is particularly good to eat, it has a little sour taste in its sweetness, and the core is small. In the fall, the other dates were long gone. But its dates are still swaying on high branches, waiting for people to reap it。
In 1997, when the second round of land contracts was introduced in rural areas, my family was given plots of more than 10 dates. That year we brought a tree seedling from the earth into the garden. A few years later, the date trees grew up with fruit. This tree has big dates, sweet meat, but thick skin。
A lot of dry dates are tanned every year, and some are given to relatives and relatives after eating at home. But after more than 20 years of growing, the tree has gone mad, with tiny leaves full of trees, and no more normal flowering. I just had to go through the root。
Out of a preference for date trees, in the autumn of 2019, i moved from my nephew's house an eight to nine centimetres in diameter, which was also said to have been derived from that tree in my home. And we moved with joy, and thought that we would continue to eat the sweet, thinly-skinned dates of the old sour。
In september of that year, we took our granddaughter to school at the son's house. In december of that year, there was an outbreak in wuhan, followed by others, with many places sealed and the movement of people strictly controlled. The following spring, the epidemic intensified. Spring, the flowers bloom, the trees grow. I can't go home, but i'm thinking about the new dates
So i called the nephew next door to see if the date tree was sprouts. My nephew sent me a video, and i saw the tree sprout and the heart fell down。
This tree began to have a few dates. Last year, when the dates were red, i took them off, and then i felt like there was no more of them. We put it in the pot, but it's sweet, it's a little sour. This year, the tree has grown to 10 metres high。
On the high top, the young branches are still rushing into the sky, with green leaves and yellow dates, fragrance and sweetness. It seems that this year's dates will be more dense. This bloated date tree will bring us more sweetness。
And the date-palms are sweet brewers, a symbol of joy and happiness, and a tree that i love all my life。
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