In 1971, ten piles of melons were pressed in Shanghou village, two miles from Taoqu village. Why is it called melon pressing instead of melon planting? Because, anyone can plant a melon, dig a hole, point the seeds and water, the melon will grow out. But the people who will press the melon in 100 people can not pick one. The melon grows well, sweet or not, all in a “pressure” on the word trick. Watermelon sprouted after the growth of multiple vines, vines to a certain length to use a special small shovel to cultivate a small mound of soil to press the vine, the vine on this mound will send out a secondary vine, but also continue to press. The selection of the vine, the selection of the vine pressure, the size of the mound, the tightness of the pressure, depending on the plant, depending on the location, all based on experience, is the highest level of farming technology. It seems that all the people who can press the melon are foreigners, and the locals don’t see a good situation.
Today, in the 21st century, the technology of melon pressing has retired from the stage of history. Nowadays, 90% of watermelons are grafted on pumpkin seedlings.
Taoqu Village in 1970 pressed 10 piles of melons, the pressure of the melon is the village’s highest farming skills of foreign households – the old man from Shandong Fan Quncai, remember that it seems to be to the team’s contracting indicators is 4,000 pounds of watermelon, the extra is their own. This is also an alternative contracting system pioneer, only in that year on the planting of watermelon villages generally use the contracting system, because the vast majority of the village no one will press melon, to plant melon can only hire foreign melon handle potential to press melon, the employment method can only use the contracting system.
In 1970 Fan Quncai old man’s pressed watermelon is big and sweet, see the melon grow well, Fan old man to earn a lot of money, which has caused the eyes of others, members of the community unanimously support the team to tear up the contract system, the melon field collected, to Fan old man 12 points per day to record the matter. Fan Lao Han was alone and had to swallow his anger. Do not only see the simple side of the peasants in northern Shaanxi, bullying outsiders are also very heartfelt.
In 1971, the village of Taoqu let Lanping (a local) press 10 piles of melons, but the result was that it was easier to watch others do it, but they knew it was harder than climbing to the top. This year, the village of Taoqu melon grows small not to mention, simply can not find a sweet. The young people of Taoqu village had to go to Shanghou village to eat melon.
The village of Shanghou pressed the melon is old Huang, and I do not know how they are the interests of the share. Old Huang is a single man, more than 50 years old. Dark angular face, deep sunken shining eyes, is a Cantonese, the original in the Nationalist Central Army as a soldier, may be in the war in the battle of Zhongtiao Mountain was scattered here. Auxiliary to see the melon is the youth, daytime is Zhang Xiaoping classmates, the night is Hu Bo (is the year opposed to the Central Cultural Revolution was imprisoned in the Public Security Bureau study class buddy).
Jing Wen’s stream (a total of two people, the other one will save some face not to reveal their names) ate a meal of watermelon, really sweet which! Old Huang’s melon pressure technology “the wife of the world”. When eating melon Zhang Xiaoping students for the flow of Jing Wen performed a high melon eating technology, pick up a tooth melon like playing a harmonica in the mouth to the left, a stroke to the right, while the corners of the mouth constantly flying out melon seeds. Two times a tooth melon will be eaten. Watch a few days melon, eat melon into a fine.
After eating melon Zhang Xiaoping students cited Jing Wen stream to his kiln “bragging pass”, this time on the village of Hou and Taoqu village youth has become an iron buddy. The knowledge about pressing melon introduced earlier was taught by Zhang Xiaoping in this gossip. Zhang Xiaoping also taught Jing Wen the trick of picking melons. The method of picking a melon by patting and knocking has fallen short. In fact, just take a look at the shape of the melon ribs whether to grow clear, the most important thing is the belly button of the melon, the melon’s belly button deep on the ripe, the so-called pat, just to see if it is overripe. Seeing two large watermelons placed in the depths of the kiln, go over to verify that the melon ribs grow clear, the melon’s navel deep concave, patting sound just right.
Zhang Xiaoping students suddenly made a surprising statement: these two melons are I stole last night to.
Jing Wen’s stream of stunned, look at the melon free, unlimited eat melon, why say steal melon? Why is it necessary to midnight? Zhang Xiaoping students look at the melon during the day, Hu Bo students look at the melon at night, Zhang Xiaoping directly to get it during the day.
Zhang Xiaoping students said, I just want to see if Hu Bo brothers can see the melon at night!
Jing Wen’s stream asked, Hu Bo brothers found out?
Zhang Xiaoping students laughed and fell and said, found what? I climbed to the melon field far away can hear the melon shed snoring, and I do not know whether it is old Huang or Hu Bo, snoring the sky.
Hearing Zhang Xiaoping students “steal melon” feat (Zhang Xiaoping students “steal melon” of course, is not the scope of theft), Jing Wen’s flow of excitement, and the fellow students back to the village unanimously decided that this night, raiding the melon field on Hou village.
At twelve o’clock that night, Jing Wenzhiliu and his party of two set off for the melon patch in Shanghou. Although it was very hot in early August during the day, but late at night the daytime heat receded, the moonlight like water, cool breeze, very pleasant, do not realize that between the two miles to the mouth of the village of Shanghou. There is a wheat field at the entrance of the village, near the roadside there is a shack, remember this shack, come back in this shack to accident. Later, when I walked this road at night with another student, I also saw a ghost (Daoist beings) near this shack, and there is a special article about seeing ghosts (Daoist beings), I wonder if I can be allowed to publish it? The stream of Jing Wen bypassed the village and went straight to the melon field.
After passing through a one-person high corn field, the melon field was in front of them. Jing Wen’s flow in the corn field to observe a while, see no movement in the shack to watch the melon, so Jing Wen into the melon field, another person in the corn field to watch the wind. Jing Wen bowed with both hands on the ground, like a gorilla half crawl half walk into the melon field. First touched a large watermelon, with the hand to pat two to identify raw and ripe, did not expect the sound of the thud of gently patting the watermelon, in the dead of night, sounding simply than the death knell of the end of the world is also loud, the Jing Wen himself was startled, quickly withdrew, ambush, observe around for a while, no movement.
Suddenly remembered to pick the melon according to the method taught by Zhang Xiaoping students. Hand touch, very smooth (can not have hair, hair is raw melon), faintly growing fluting flap, and then touch the end of the melon navel, navel depression, and then touch the melon head of the melon seedlings (tee), fingers gently pushed, the melon off the tee, as the so-called melon ripe tee off. A good watermelon in hand, quickly sent into the corn field, to the receiver. Jing Wen picked five watermelons in one breath and sent them into the corn field. The receiver even whispered that it was enough.
In a piece of ground below the watermelon, some melons were planted. At this time Jing Wen greedy, and ran to the melon field to pick melons. Just to the melon field, I heard movement in the melon shed, the melon shed horse lights up, someone came out of the shed, a flashlight column swept over. Jing Wen is squatting in the ground to find melons, lying down are too late, lying backwards, lying on his back can not see the person coming, only to hear the sound of footsteps.
If the person coming is Hu Bo okay, but listen to the coughing sound is old Huang. Old Huang shook the flashlight to this side, Jing Wen was so scared that the blood in his body condensed, his ears only heard his heart beating louder than a drum. Jing Wen wanted to run, but above the road back to stand old Huang, below is a big ditch no road to go. Jing Wen even grabbed a handful of soil with his hands, ready to come over a little bit, then raise a handful of yellow soil, confuse the old yellow eyes, and then escape.
At that time, although not seen “The Legend of the Deer,” but forced Jing Wen even thought of Wei Xiaobao’s scattering lime charming eyes of the next three rascal tricks. This Jing Wen’s soul is not hidden in the depths of the seeds of Wei-Shou-Bou type of scoundrel?
The good thing is that the old yellow forward a few steps to stop and turn in another direction, after a while back to the shack to sleep. Jing Wen fixed his soul, quietly crawl back to the cornfield, but found that the receiver disappeared. Jing Wen also did not dare to shout, in the cornfield to find a while, saw the ground put three large watermelon, the receiver probably hugged two watermelons and ran away. Jing Wen wanted to pick up the watermelon to go, but 3 watermelon is difficult to hold up, barely hold up can not walk.
So Jing Wen took off his pants to load the watermelon, then wearing the old native cloth of northern Shaanxi Maengcrotch pants, trouser legs and crotch is extremely fat, tied the trouser legs, you can load the watermelon. The two trouser legs are loaded with one each, the crotch is loaded with one, tie the trouser waistband, to the shoulder a carry quickly evacuated. At this time Jing Wen found that although the night is cool as water, they are sweating like rain, it is really a thief’s heart sweating.
Jing Wen jogged all the way out of Shanghou village, ran through the wheat field a few hundred meters, saw a man sitting on the side of the road in the darkness, fixed his eyes on the receiver, he was eating watermelon.
The man said, he saw the old yellow from the shack out of the flashlight to his side shine (Jing Wen how to feel that flashlight is to their own shine), scared out of his mind, pick up two watermelons, run away quickly, knocked down and stepped on several corn, making a huge noise, just care about running away and do not care about the sound, and I do not know if the old yellow heard? Run to the wheat field, see Jing Wen has not returned, so into the wheat field on the shack to hide. Waiting for half a day still no one came, from the other end of the shack to walk out in the dark, not three steps, a hollow underfoot, fell into a two-meter-deep pit.
The man in Peking University High School, is a running, jumping, throwing, basketball, soccer sports excellence in sports, he is also really tough, holding two large watermelon lost his footing into a deep pit, a little injury, not even broken feet, just a large watermelon fell into four pieces. So hold the watermelon up on the roadside to eat up. Jing Wen is also dry-mouthed, the two watermelon eaten, only to feel weak, not tired, is scared, really is not a thief material.
The next day, Jing Wen’s stream to find Hu Bo on Hou Village, Hu Bo said last night lost five large watermelon. Jing Wenzhiliu asked how do you know that 5 were lost? Hu Bo said the old Huang told. Hu Bo told Jing Wen, the person who pressed the melon, the melon is like his children, each melon is carefully selected and cultivated by many hands, so each of them recognize and remember. Hearing this, Jing Wen’s heart suddenly gave birth to a trace of shame, and then disappeared. Jing Wen’s stream told Hu Bo last night was their sneak attack on the watermelon field in Shanghou, after finishing several people laughed.
For many years after that, Jing Wen has been taking this as a funny memory. But as his age increased to the age of manhood, the age of confusion and even the age of life, he gradually felt ashamed. As his knowledge of the truth of life deepened, he realized that although this act was a juvenile act and was mostly a joke, it was also an evil act, although it was a small evil act, it was also an act of stealing.
The act of stealing is strictly forbidden by all religions and is also prohibited by the laws of every country. The second of the five basic Buddhist precepts is to abstain from stealing (the five Buddhist precepts are: abstaining from killing, abstaining from stealing, abstaining from prostitution, abstaining from delusion, and abstaining from alcohol. (The five precepts of Buddhism are: abstaining from killing, abstaining from stealing, abstaining from prostitution, abstaining from extramarital affairs, abstaining from lying, and abstaining from drinking, except for those who are sick and need to drink medicinal alcohol. The Ten Catholic Commandments also include the commandment to abstain from stealing.
Jingwen also considered whether to write down the absurd act of stealing melons and make it public, because it was not something honorable after all. But in the spirit of repentance to reveal his sin and repent of his evil deeds, he wrote it down and made it public.
After I reached the age of maturity, I often regret all the absurdities and evil deeds I did in the first half of my life when I did not know what to do, and I have to treat them in the spirit of repentance.
All the evil deeds I did in the past were caused by greed, anger, and dullness.
I repent of everything now
The words
The word “confession” in the word “repentance” is an exotic word from the Buddhist scriptures, meaning to reveal the cause of sin. In repentance, one can reveal one’s sins to the public in order to show one’s will to change, and one can reveal one’s sins to one’s own conscience, to the gods of heaven and earth, and to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas for sins that are difficult to speak of and cannot be disclosed. Repentance is the most important and essential act and good deed to eliminate all evil deeds and their evil consequences, and to purify the mind.
Liang Qichao once proved that in his time, at least 25,000 words in Chinese were directly derived from the Buddhist scriptures. The influence of Buddhism on Chinese culture is much deeper than the general understanding, and has become one of the important cores of Chinese culture. Many of our popular everyday terms come from Buddhism, such as world, actual, as-it-is, equality, kshetras, relative, absolute, clear precepts, hope, condemnation, sufficiency, digestion, enjoyment, comfort, comment, patronage, aversion, savings, opportunity, authentic, arrogance, mindfulness, return, assistance… …
To be disrespectful, many things of the Cultural Revolution were plagiarized from religious rituals in a very straightforward and shameless way. For example, in Buddhism, there are morning and evening recitations, and during the Cultural Revolution, there was an early request for instructions and an evening report; Buddhist classics were called by the believers as treasure books, and here there was a red treasure book; Zen ancestor’s words and 700 cases were gathered into a book called quotations; here the words of great men were also called quotations. In Buddhism, there are bodhisattva precepts, vajra precepts, not only to abstain from all evil deeds, but also to abstain from all evil thoughts, and if you have evil thoughts, you can repent at any time to eliminate the sin; “Cultural Revolution” in a fierce fight private word a flash of thought, but unfortunately that is just empty slogans singing high tones. In the “Cultural Revolution” I also followed the slogan of fighting the word private a flash of thought, the result is that the word private a flash of thought not only did not fight off, but also became a private word in a row. Infinite worship is a religious language, but unfortunately that person is not God and Buddha.
Premier Zhou said during the Cultural Revolution: “If I don’t go to hell, who will go to hell? This is a Buddhist spirit of self-sacrifice. This quote is from the Ksitigarbha Sutra. If I don’t go to hell, who will go to hell? If hell is not empty, I vow not to attain righteousness. This is the fundamental vow of Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva.
“The vast majority of the youths who are successful in the “New Third” period only account for a minority of the youths, and most of them lost their education when they were teenagers or even children. The “Cultural Revolution” was a terrible crime! May those who have done evil truly repent of their heinous sins!
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