Around the 60s of the last century, around the 60s of the last century, when children were out of school, on holidays or on Sundays, parents often asked them to carry sickles, baskets or ropes to mow grass on slopes or mountains. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoIn fact, there are a lot of famous names for mowing grass, most of the younger children cut pigweed, rabbit grass, cut some tender grass, pigs and rabbits love to eat; older children cut cattle grass for the production team, and most of them cut some older grass, such grass cows love to eat; but also cut green grass and green manure, cut mountain grass to cook, and when the mountain is released, the whole village goes up the mountain to cut grass. Mowing the grass is also an unforgettable experience on the road of life.

I remember when I first learned to mow the grass, I didn't even know how to choose a scythe for mowing the grass. Once, when I came home from school, I hurried to the West Wing to look for a sickle, ready to mow the grass, but I couldn't find the grass sickle, I remember that when I first learned to mow the grass, I didn't even know how to choose a sickle to cut the grass. Once, when I came home from school, I hurried to the west wing to look for a sickle, ready to mow the grass, but I couldn't find a grass sickle, so I was so anxious that I simply took a firewood sickle and went up the slope, and my neighbor who was a year older laughed at me: "Why do you take a firewood sickle to cut the grass?" I said, "I didn't find a grass sickle, and I used a firewood sickle." The neighbor's partner Cheng Zhu was in his chest: "Almost? As a result, the neighbor and partner couldn't see people from behind with the mowed grass on their backs, and I didn't have less strength, but I cut a "dog neck" and carried it home, and when I arrived at the village, the uncle of my family said jokingly when he saw it: "You see that people XX cut so much grass, you cut a 'dog neck'." Anyone who has ever cut grass knows what "dog neck" means, describing the cut grass as thick as a dog's neck, which is a joke for people in the countryside who cut less grass. People who often mow grass in the countryside know the importance of the sickle in mowing the grass, and they are carefully choosing a good sickle, the blade is sharp, the knife handle is bent to a degree, it looks smooth, the grass is easy to mow, or the capital to show off, a sickle is well maintained, and it can be used for many years. Since then, I have understood the difference between the quality of the sickle and the quality of the grass, and I have never taken the sickle to mow the grass again. As I grew up, I gradually understood that there is a deep philosophy in this: "If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools".

Mowing grass also has a posture, when mowing the grass need to squat, the left hand holds a handful of grass, the right hand pushes the sickle close to the ground to the position of the grass, pulls the sickle back hard, the weeds will fall down instantly, the sound of "rustling" will come to the ear, if several people mow the grass at the same time, you will hear a rhythmic "rustle, rustle" sound, it sounds like ancient music in childhood, the more urgent the mowing grass, the more pleasant it sounds, this is a wonderful sound that outsiders can not hear. There is also a way to cut grass called "cutting grass", as the name suggests, it is to cut the grass with a sickle. When cutting grass, you need to bow up, first cut a large handful of grass in your hand as a "primer", guide the grass horizontally to the top of the grass to be cut, about a right angle, then cut the grass hard, the ears are full of the "brush" sound of the sickle cutting grass, the sickle flies through, like cutting cloth, in the dense grass tearing open a gap. Look at the action of the lawn mower, while chopping the grass, while bowing and moving forward, just like the display of strength and beauty in the vast nature, you can see the real kung fu of mowing the grass from the grass, and the people who can cut the grass are passed down by the villagers as a beautiful talk.

After mowing the grass, arrange it into a bunk, a bunk, and then stack it up one by one, tie up the "grass waist" into a bundle, a bundle, like a simple "handicraft", and then stack this bundle one by one, trap it into a large bundle with a rope, or carry it, or carry it, or push it, and it is done. Of course, there are also mowed grass that is put in baskets, mostly when there is less mowing.

When mowing the grass, for the sake of excitement and safety, the friends often go to this house and that house to greet and go together, and they unconsciously arrive in the slopes and mountains. As soon as they arrived at the slope, they threw baskets, ropes, and sickles, and threw the wheels of the cart -- there was no block, or they ran to the weir to dig out the rats' nests and dig up the rats' "grain hoards"; or one by one they jumped naked into the reservoir like dumplings, first swimming and then having water fights; or ran to the shore of the reservoir to pick up stones and tiles to float in the water and enjoy the ripples; or hid under the bridge. Playing cards in the shade under the tree, even if you have a red face and red ears, you are not willing to give up; or go all over the mountains and fields to pick wild fruits, and the wild fruits picked by your own hands are extraordinarily sweet; or dig up birds on the tree on your shoulders, and play with the nestlings in your hands; or go down to the river naked to touch the fish, and it is so comfortable when you catch the fish; or go into the woods to hide and seek, look up to the woods to find the slingshot fork, and look down at the birds' eggs in the field...... Never tired of it, endlessly, when you have fun, you have long forgotten to mow the grass to the clouds. Often when it is almost dark and dark, I think of mowing the grass, afraid that it will be difficult to go home, but it is over, there is no way, so I hurriedly cut a little bit of grass indiscriminately, cut some branches under the basket, and set up a "small tent", and put some grass loosely on it.

In school, most of the male classmates are together and the female classmates are together, so it seems natural, but once the male and female classmates are mowing the grass together, there will be more topics, and it is not called a scandal in that era. Someone said in a matter-of-fact manner: "XX (male classmate) and XX (female classmate) are the only two of them mowing the grass together." "XX and XX mowed the grass and cut it into the cornfield. Listening to such words, I always laughed, but other classmates talked about it, so that it was spread in the class and school, and this was a digression story caused by mowing the grass in that era

There is also a big action to mow the grass, that is, the whole village action to mow the grass, such an action is really exciting, remembered, and even a lifetime can not forget such a thing, in my life experience rarely encountered such a large group, so proactive, risking the dark to do one thing. At that time, in the early morning of the day of the release of the mountain, the loudspeaker in the village would suddenly sound, which was a bit surprising: "Please pay attention, please pay attention, please pay attention, release the mountain today, release the mountain today......" The shouting of the loudspeaker, like an order in wartime, the villagers quickly got up, put on their clothes indiscriminately, carefully listened to the sound of the loudspeaker, and prepared to go up the mountain to cut the grass.

My parents were both working in the village, and as soon as the loudspeaker sounded, I knew that it was about releasing the mountain, but in fact, they had already told my brother and me in advance, but my parents still did