Yesterday, on the third day of the third lunar month, the temperature reached 30 in the afternoon, and many young people changed into short-sleeved shirts. It was windy and rainy at night, and the temperature was only 13 this afternoon, and many middle-aged and elderly people changed into down jackets. This is the cold spring, I remembered a weather proverb I heard at this time of year: frozen tung flowers.
Childhood time spent on the bank of the Fujiang River, March 3, is the time when the paulownia flowers are in full bloom, after the mountain Tianjiao roadside, you can see the paulownia trees everywhere, as well as the white with red paulownia flowers.
It was an era of backward land transportation, and in my memory, I went up to Taihe Town (Wildcat Creek, now renamed Shanghe Town) in Tongnan and down to Taihe Town (Daheba) in Hechuan, all by boat.
Every day, you can see at any time on the bank of the Fujiang River, the wooden boats flowing endlessly in the Fujiang River, and the continuous slender men, walking on the paths on both sides of the Fujiang River. The appearance of the slender men carrying the rope on their backs, almost crawling forward, has always been remembered.
Each production team on our dam has a wooden boat to transport all kinds of goods to and from other places.
Wooden boats need to be coated with tung oil to prevent wood from rotting and leaking, so paulownia trees can be seen everywhere in the back mountains.
With the popularity of automobiles and the rise of land transportation, the former water wharf gradually declined and became an ancient town. Now that the tourism boom is booming, these ancient towns have been built and are moving towards a new life.
However, what was once wooden boats and water transportation is irreversibly history. The paulownia trees in the back mountain are no longer noticed, and they are gradually disappearing. Now on the mountain behind my hometown, there is no trace of the paulownia tree.
An era is over, an era has begun.
Whenever the spring flowers bloom and we all prepare to collect our winter clothes, the old elders always remind us: "I still need to freeze the tung blossoms." "Evokes a long memory of the paulownia flower.
Nowadays, only on the side of the road in the middle of nowadays can you come across a paulownia tree. A paulownia tree for many years, standing in a place that is not easy for people to visit, when the paulownia flowers full of trees open, it is magnificent, just like the sails of the successive ships in the Fujiang River in those years.