Knead the walnuts.
This kind of walnut that is kneaded and played with your hands and belongs to the plaything, although its shape is similar to that of the walnut eaten, but the walnut that is kneaded cannot be smashed and eaten. Because within its crust, there is nothing to empty the city!
This walnut is specially designed for people to play with their hands. There are idle old men in Beiping, like those who often sit in teahouses and drink tea, and they like to rub a pair of walnuts with one hand in their hands.
The real old thing, this pair of walnuts on the table, is really red Dengden, the whole body is shiny, because it has been soaked in oil and sweat for many years, and it has become this antique appearance!
In the past, I couldn't think of the reason why old men love to knead walnutsNow I understand!
For example, young people, walking, jumping, eating, playing, casually put their spiritual emotions wherever they are willing to place, there are many ways. Not so for the elderly. For example, if he wants to drink, he can't "hold" the wine, and the wine can make him sick. I want to see the excitement, but I can't squeeze in!
If you knead the walnuts in your hands, listen to its "chirp......Whoop ......"Ringing. Then appreciate the coarse and fine lines of this pair of walnuts, and then look at its color, and then use a small brush to brush its inner mud, this is the old man's way of sustenance!
The author bought a few pairs of good walnuts from the hands of "Mountain Back". "Yamabeizi" sells new walnuts, which are two large baskets, which need to be carefully selected. To choose two shapes are the same, the size is the same, the pattern is the same, and even the weight is the same, and the most important thing is the same thickness pattern. Two are not the same size, and they are not worth much!
The new walnut has just been kneaded, and it is the color of white and flawless, but it must be kneaded by hand and over time to make it red, which is interesting enough. If you use manual methods, what to color, fry in the pot, it will be difficult to climb the elegant hall again, and there is no value in kneading it again!
In addition to walnuts, there were also iron balls one or two times larger than walnuts, as if they had been plated, and they were bright and bright. Although the name is an iron ball, it is really hollow. Although it is hollow, the weight is not light. In the hollow, there is also a "guts", which shakes the ball and clangs.
Kneading this kind of thing is an old man's pastime. Another function is to move the tendons and veins. In the teahouse, I saw an old man, kneading four balls with one hand, four balls in the palm of his hand, three below, and one ball on the top. While chatting, he rubbed it like this, without looking, he was used to casually playing, not a trick!
Keep pigeons. I think there are pigeons in Beiping, because every family no matter how big or small there is always a yard, live in a bungalow, it is more convenient to raise pigeons, if there are dozens of houses in a building, people are crowded like pigeon cages, and raise fart pigeons!
To keep pigeons, a pigeon cage must be erected in the yard. The pigeon cage is half a room high and a quarter the size of a house. On all sides there are holes made of reed poles to make bean flags, and one side must be left out of the door.
On the side against the wall, the ruler was raised with wood, and then the kerosene box was used to overlap one by one. Each horizontal kerosene box, separated by a board in the middle, is equal to a kerosene box, which is the nest of two pigeons.
On top of the coop, it is best to put up rainproof equipment such as a tarpaulin. In the pigeon's nest, straw and flower straw should be covered. Put a basin of water in the pigeon coop. In one cage, you can build thirty or forty pigeon nests, which looks like a pheasant nest on Sima Road in Shanghai from a distance.
Silkworms spinning silk, bees making honey, dog vigils, chickens in the morning, make one thing, there is a use for the same thing. The people of Peking raise pigeons, which is known to be of little use. One is not to prepare for the pigeon meat, and the other is not to ask the pigeon to lay eggs to sell for money. Except for putting the pigeons in the sky every morning and evening, flying and playing, it is of no use.
Feeding the pigeon, not scattering the food in the cage, telling it to eat lazy flyers, eating "squatting" to eat fat, slaughtering and eating meat. Before feeding the pigeons, the pigeons must be released. Kick the pigeon out of the cage, tie a strip of cloth with a bamboo pole, shake it with your hand, and the pigeon flies into the sky.
Something with wings, let go of it, fly out, don't you just fly away?Tell you, the pigeon knows the family, no matter how many flocks, how high and low it flies, it always flies around the house and flies again and again. It will not fly from Beiping City to Changxindian and back again. When the pigeon is tired, it will naturally land on your ridge.
On the back of the pigeon's tail, you can also carry a pigeon bell that rings in the wind. This kind of whistle is called "gourd", and there are single gourds and double gourds. There are large gourds, there are small gourds, and there is a row of three long whistles.
The pigeon flies around the house, the gourd roars around the air, there are high tones, low tones, coarse sounds, and thin sounds, it is really a beautiful **. It is the weather of March 9, and the pigeons are still released on time every day. Since you love pigeons, you don't care if it's cold or not!
Chen Hongnian.