In my hometown, you can see jujube trees everywhere, on the ridges, beside the roads, on the barren slopes and cliffs, and even in front of and behind the house. In fact, the distribution of jujube trees is very wide, and wild jujube trees can be seen in Henan, Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Liaoning and other regions in China. Therefore, it has also become the object of description of literati and writers in the past dynasties, "The green edge of the lane is sour jujube trees, and there are many green vines and bitter gourds in the fields." "The post road is full of sour dates, and the pedestrians are emerald in color. "The road is full of sour jujube trees, and the city is connected to the ancient Huaiyin. And so on, these poems all reflect the widespread distribution and luxuriance of the jujube tree.
The jujube tree is a plant that can adapt to poor growing conditions, usually born in arid and poor soils, and its root system is particularly well developed, allowing it to penetrate several meters deep into the soil. It can thrive even in high temperatures and low moisture conditions, even in deserts and saline soils. The more difficult the growing conditions, the better the quality of the jujubes. Every year in July and August of the lunar calendar, the red sour dates gradually hang all over the branches, like pearl agate, shining under the sun, making people salivate. A shot down, the sour jujube fell like hail, picked up and tasted sweet and crisp, accompanied by a different kind of sour taste, sour does not irritate the mouth, but brings a subtle sweet and sour fragrance, producing a refreshing and delicious feeling, making people love to eat more and more. Jujube is rich in citric acid and malic acid, as well as a considerable amount of dietary fiber, which can promote the secretion of digestive juices in the stomach and intestines, speed up gastrointestinal peristalsis, and help food digestion. At the same time, jujube is also one of the foods that contain the most vitamin C, eating jujube can improve the body's immunity and enhance the body's disease resistance. What's more valuable is that the medicinal value of jujube is very high, jujube kernel nourishes the heart and liver, calms the heart and calms the nerves, often used for insomnia, palpitations and dreams, body weakness and night sweats, and thirst. Jujube meat has the effect of stopping bleeding and stopping diarrhea. The sour jujube root sour jujube skin is calming and astringent, and has the effect of burning and scalding. 
The jujube tree can grow to a height of four or five meters, and the mouth of the bowl is thick, which takes decades or hundreds of years, which is relatively rare in our place. The most commonly seen are three or four feet tall bushes, which are covered with long needles all over their bodies, so they are commonly called "sour jujube trees". The needle is also useful, and the farmers surround it around the crop fields, around the vegetable fields, and at the wells at the head of the wall, and the cows, sheep, poultry, and beasts will avoid it. It can be said that the jujube tree is full of treasures, so it has a very close relationship with people. There is a folk song that says: "In August, the autumn breeze is cool, and the three of us sisters go to beat sour dates." The eldest sister held a bamboo pole in her hand, and the second sister carried a bamboo basket. On this mountain, I saw that the mountain was high, and the sour dates on that mountain grew well. The sour dates ran all over the mountain, and the three of us sisters picked up the sour dates. The basket of sour dates was picked up, and the three of us sisters went home for a turn. "When the sour jujube is ripe, people will go to beat the sour jujube once or twice. On the one hand, sour jujube is used as a snack for children in winterOn the other hand, jujube is a medicinal herb that can be sold for money. When I was a child, one day the four neighbors came to my house and said to my mother: "Let's go and make sour dates. (At that time, kazabu was more fashionable, about four or five dimes to buy a foot). "How can you lay so much. "You can't buy a pair of pants and wear them. The two of them agreed to fight the next day. I cried out to go too, but my mother brought me a nest for dry food, and found a bottle of dew wine and filled it with water. The autumn breeze caresses the sour jujube wood, and the light smokers cross the horse and throw themselves into the cliff. It was a sunny day, with a beautiful day and a slight breeze. As soon as I left the village, I saw many jujube trees guarding the ridge and roadside like a team of brave guards. It not only decorates the remote mountain village, but also builds beautiful scenery in the empty field. Although there are jujube trees everywhere, but the people near have been beaten, and the four mothers took us four or five miles to a ravine. The sour jujube trees on the cliff head along the edge of the ditch grow very densely, and the fiery red jujube is full of branches, but the cliff head is too high to hit. The four mothers asked my mother to fight below, and she climbed to the top of the cliff and hit down from above. After playing for a while, the four mothers opened the needle and climbed to the half-cliff waist, where the slope was very steep, and she knocked down the sour dates up and down, left and right. But picking up sour dates is not easy, there are many small needles mixed with weeds and thorns under the soil cliff, you must reach into your hand to pick up slowly one by one, and it is easy to prick the needles when the action is fast. I followed my mother's example and carefully picked up the sour dates from the grass. The fourth lady is more experienced than us, she first used a few small wooden sticks to pick out the sour dates, grabbed a handful and put it on the palm of her hand, and picked up the impurities of the leaves, which was much better. Picking it up, I suddenly screamed, and a deep needle prick was stuck in my thumb and belly, and it hurt so much that I screamed mother. My mother took my hand and looked at it and said, "What can I do?"The fourth lady came over and pulled out a sewing needle pinned to her chest, "I'll pick a thorn for you." She squeezed my fingers and said with a smile: "There is no root in the thorn, look at the bottom of the needle, the teeth are clenched, and it doesn't hurt at all." As he spoke, he picked out the thorns. The mother also stretched out her hand and asked the four mothers to pick thorns for her. My mother told me to take a break in the shade and drink some water. The thorn was picked out, but the finger still hurt terribly. After sitting for a while, I saw the two of them bending over, burying their heads, and concentrating on picking up sour dates, and I endured the pain and picked them up again. The eldest lady said to me: "I have several thorns in my hand, ignore it, and I won't feel pain when I pick up the sour dates." "The sun had already set in the west, and although I had eaten dry food, my stomach was still rumbling. After changing a few more locations to pick up sour dates, the four mothers straightened up and looked up at the sun and said, "It's not too early, let's settle down and go home!."She picked up most of the bags with fifty or sixty catties, and she checked our pockets again and said, "You guys are enough for fifty catties, and you can dry more than twenty catties of dried sour dates." "Selling sour dates is divided into grades, and a pound of good sour dates that are dry can be sold for two dimes when they are carried to the city. On the one hand, the transportation is inconvenient, and the round-trip for dozens of miles is all on foot, and the pickiness is very strict when selling, so there are not too many people who go to the city to sell sour dates. 
At that time, the countryside was materially poor, life was simple, there was no pressing pressure from the outside world, and many people would look for fun in nature. There is also a folk song "Playing Sour Jujubes" that expresses love: "This mountain looks at that mountain and sees that mountain high, and the sour jujube on that mountain grows well." Tell my sister to hurry up, grab your basket, and let's go beat sour dates. The red sour jujube hillside is long, and my sister and I beat the sour jujube. Brother has *** you are interested, and the whole village picks people to count you sister. Turning over a beam and crossing a ditch, sister, don't your heartbeat, you hold your brother's hand. The sour jujube jujube is round and the sour jujube is sweet, and the elder brother will call the younger sister, you hurry up and pick it up. "Young men and women in rural areas are not like in the city, they can use places such as visiting parks and watching movies to fall in love, so they adapt measures to local conditions, through activities such as beating cherries and sour dates, and go to these secluded places in the mountains, valleys, ditches, and forks, while playing sour dates, while talking about love, and indeed achieved many beautiful marriages. 
During the three-year difficult period, there were many disasters and little food. The weather is dry and does not rain, and the fields are half scorched. Some people go outside the mouth, and some people beg for food. Tong Suo digs bitter vegetables, and the woman beats sour dates. "In the early 60s of the last century, the country suffered three years of natural disasters, the grain harvest failed, and hunger and hunger became a big problem. The roots of jujube are four or five meters deep, and when the weather is dry and rainy, other plants are dry and wilted, and the jujube tree is still strong and lush, growing as usual. People swallow the sour jujube with the core, which not only fills the stomach, but also is very hungry. It was the sour dates that helped people get through the difficult times. Therefore, although the sour jujube tree is full of thorns, its appearance is not good, people are not disgusted, but also make up a song to praise it: "The needle needle is high, the needle is low, and you have a sour jujube to save my urgency." "In recent years, the face of society has changed rapidly and has been constantly undergoing earth-shaking changes. The value of sour jujube has also been further favored by people, and all localities have increased their efforts in scientific research and development. And in the past, only dried sour dates were collected, and now the wet sour dates have also come into being, going out in the morning to play, and taking them back in the evening can be turned into money. A pound of wet sour dates costs eleven or twelve yuan, and can be sold for more than 20 yuan after drying. "Collect sour dates, collect sour dates......From morning to night, the hawkers who buy sour dates in the streets and alleys shout one after another. After a long time, some hawkers do not go out during the day, and go straight to the door of some people's homes in the evening to buy, because people are busy going to the ground to fight during the day, and return with a full load at night. 
The value of sour jujube has increased, which is a good thing, yes, for those who beat sour jujube and harvest sour jujube, it has indeed increased their income, but as far as sour jujube trees are concerned, it has become an unprecedented disaster for them. Due to the high income from sour dates, the locals "rushed to the ground" and flocked to it. Every year in the middle and late seventh month of the lunar calendar, the sour dates have just turned white and red, and their doom has also come. Some of the villagers cooperated in pairs, and some of them went out as a family, carrying sickles and sticks, and flocked to the fields in droves. Today, the village has asphalt roads, and the main side roads in the fields are hardened with cement and stone, and the roads are leading in all directions, and many people are driving tricycles. Look, outside the village, on the edge of the ground and on the beams, there are people beating sour dates everywhere. Some people from Pingchuan also came in cars. The way of beating jujube has also changed, the traditional bamboo pole and wooden stick has been unable to keep up with the situation, and has changed to a new style, fruit branch shears, high branch shears, saws, sickles, as well as what wire cutters, iron sticks, etc., are complete. When beating jujubes, there are those who are specifically responsible for cutting the trees, and they use fruit branch shears or wire cutters to directly cut the jujube treesThere are special transporters, and they use iron sticks to put the cut jujube branches into three-wheeled carriages. There was a person standing next to the carriage, holding a short wooden stick and "** popping" and beating non-stop. Another person shoveled the beaten jujube out of the car with a dustpan, cleaned it, and put it in his pocket. If they come across a jujube tree that grows out of reach in a high place, they cut it down with tall shears. There are also those who drag the cut jujube branches to a flat road or canvas. Several people work closely and work in one stop, and the effect is naturally very high. Such a combination can lay four or five hundred catties of sour dates a day at most, and the economic benefits are considerable. Let's take a look at the sour jujube tree, after a catastrophe, the original leafy demeanor has become ruined, missing heads and broken arms, leaving only a lonely bare wooden stake, in the bleak autumn wind to feel sorry for themselves. In the past few years, the once eye-catching sour jujube tree has lost its demeanor, and people can no longer see the vigorous scene of "sour jujube as spring flowers, or last year's branches". The growth cycle of the jujube tree is relatively long, although there is a proverb that "three peaches and four pears are five years, and the jujube will see the money that year", but in fact, it takes three or four years for the jujube tree to bear fruit on a large scale. Nowadays, people are cutting and deforesting indiscriminately, which is tantamount to fishing and killing chickens to get eggs, which is a very short-sighted behavior. It is not conducive to long-term economic benefits or a trivial matter, but it is serious that it destroys the ecological balance and directly affects the local climate change, and the losses caused cannot be compensated for by selling for a few dollars. Therefore, this phenomenon of unrestricted and unorganized indiscriminate cutting should attract the attention of relevant departments, and some relevant measures for artificial planting can be adopted and promoted.