Nostalgia in Memory- Author Wang Tianyin (22)

Apricots grow up unconsciously, when people are short of food, hungry, we try to eat unripe apricots, that green apricot is incredibly sour, eat one or two teeth can not stand, only now a few decades have passed, I will have a conditioned reflex whenever I see others eating apricots, feel the teeth sour saliva straight, is the memory left at that time can not be forgotten. When the wheat in the field is yellowed, there is a kind of apricot ripening called wheat yellow apricot, which can basically be eaten. When it comes to the name of apricots, there are learned, there are called wheat yellow apricots, chicken crown apricots, white sand apricots, moving apricots, Guan Ye face apricots and so on. Chicken crown apricot shaped like a chicken crown and named, Guan Ye's face is somewhat flat, both sides of the red commonly known as Guan Ye face, there is a kind of apricot called the big festival apricot is relatively large. Almost every family in our village has a few apricot trees, and when the apricots are ripe, people will pick up apricots to sell in other villages, and they will shout loudly - selling apricots, apricots in Panyu Village, picking up two baskets of ripe apricots in the process of selling. At that time, the rural people's families had no money, so they took the eggs they had saved to change the salt and exchanged them for some apricots to taste. This will bring us some economic income. In that period, the conditions here, in addition to the need to go up the mountain for farming, were still quite superior compared with the more flat places. In the spring, there are wild vegetables and wild fruits on the mountain that can be used to fill the hunger, apricots in the summer, and persimmons in the autumn. Speaking of persimmons, this is a kind of fruit that can save lives in the year of famine, and some of the fruits on the persimmon trees are ripened first during the autumn harvest, and the mountain people have dealt with this fruit tree since birth. At this time, the persimmons on the tree turn yellowish, and the one that can eat the one that cannot eat the one we know at a glance. People on the plains who do not have persimmon trees are generally indistinguishable. When hungry, eat a few ripe persimmons, and the one we call "persimmons" can withstand hunger. Unripe persimmons our ancestors also have a way, the unripe persimmons with warm water soaked in a sand pot, placed on the fire, this sand pot insulation is particularly good, can often maintain the water temperature, persimmon through this treatment, will be removed from the astringent part of the inside, you can eat, the taste is very good, in the past people in the city can eat this persimmon, this is how processed, we call it "persimmon". Later, with the progress of society, people slowly explored a new method of astringency removal, dipping raw persimmons in highly liquor, placing them in an airtight container, and basically eating them in two days, which saved a lot of time than in the past. Persimmon has a variety of methods and ways to eat, plucked persimmons can be processed into persimmon cakes (persimmon eggs), the next one can be cut into persimmon pieces, these two can not be done can be processed into persimmon bran, (persimmon bran is the broken persimmon added to the rice after the coarse bran left behind and up by hand squeezed into irregular knots on the hillside stone slab, after a long period of cool sun drying the water becomes persimmon bran,) persimmon bran after reprocessing our people here call fried noodles. Because there are all kinds of mountain goods, apricots, persimmons, hawthorns, plums, walnuts and other mountain fruits, the mountain people in the age of not being able to eat stomachs can give a little supplement to the hungry stomach, alleviate the situation of its grunting, because there are many kinds of edible things that are not available outside the mountains, as well as processed fried noodles. When you are really hungry, you are still hungry to use boiling water with a bowl of fried noodles. It is precisely because of these many benefits that many women down the mountain have married into my village. Persimmons can also be processed into persimmon vinegar, which in later scientific experiments, it was concluded that persimmon vinegar has a good health effect, can lower blood pressure, lower blood sugar, diarrhea and flat liver, laxative, contain a variety of essential amino acids in the human body. It is found in the data that some people of insight have promoted this vinegar as an industry in the market. In the future, this kind of persimmon that is unknown to people in the boudoir will definitely develop more products, so that it can better benefit society and benefit mankind.

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