Single persimmon photography

After seeing the golden and colorful autumn, there is a color called persimmon red in winter in my hometown, which blends with the mountains and villages and is amazing.

In winter, leaves of persimmon trees are scattered in front of and behind the house and in the corner of the field, and persimmon trees covered with branches float in the countryside like little red lanterns, which has become a beautiful scenery in the countryside in winter.

My hometown is Songyang, Nanshan District, southwest of Zhejiang Province. It has a strong traditional farming culture and enjoys the reputation of "national granary" since ancient times. The farming civilization is profound, and the villagers are good at traditional farming techniques. Besides growing all kinds of crops, they are also willing to grow all kinds of fruits. Persimmon is one of them. Persimmon trees are planted sporadically in most mountain villages, probably for the convenience of management. These persimmon trees are planted in front of and behind the house, ranging from 35 to dozens. Some trees are decades old, others are hundreds of years old, and most of them are handed down by ancestors, belonging to different farmers and passed down from generation to generation, becoming the family business left by ancestors to future generations. In the era of lack of self-sufficiency in commodity economy, there are several persimmon trees at home looking for some change to make up for their family. Picked green persimmons or dried persimmons can be sold in towns and markets, and they can also be peeled and made into persimmons after sun exposure, but they are all excellent foods. At that time, there were several persimmon trees at home, just like there were several acres of thin land at home in the old society. Every autumn and winter, farmers who have persimmons sell persimmons in baskets and exchange money for oil, salt, sauce and vinegar to supplement their families.

In that distant era, persimmons added happiness to farmers and reduced some troubles. In the era of material shortage, persimmon is not only a rare agricultural and sideline product, but also a rare delicacy. There are many ways to eat persimmons. Peel and dry persimmon to make persimmon. The meat is crystal clear and delicate, and the taste is sweet and moist. They are used as gifts. It is a very respectable and popular thing to send a pack of persimmons to friends and relatives during the Spring Festival. Green persimmons with relatively hard pulp are picked and stored (they are easier to soften when buried in chaff or rice) to become red and tender persimmons with tender pulp. Eating in the mouth is sweet and cold, and it also has the effect of cooling and reducing fire. If your throat gets angry, eating a few tender persimmons can solve the problem. The best tender persimmon is the red tender persimmon hanging on the tree, which is delicious and not astringent. Picking this persimmon is very particular. You have to break one end of the bamboo pole into a cross, then spread the cross into a bracket, aim at the persimmon to be picked, put the persimmon in the bracket, rotate the bamboo pole counterclockwise, and completely unscrew the red and tender persimmon hanging on the tree.

In those years, that red persimmon broke into my childhood dream many times. At that time, there were basically no persimmons hanging on persimmon trees in winter, and farmers picked persimmons early for sale or made them into dry goods, leaving only the bare persimmon trees shivering in front of and behind the house, which was a depression. Time has passed, the countryside has developed, farmers' lives have improved, and their mouths have become awkward. The once cherished persimmons have also lost their favorite in the past, and are gradually forgotten in the trees, and no one picks them. However, the misfortune of persimmons has brought new opportunities to the countryside in winter. In the warm sunshine in winter, persimmon red has become a landscape in the countryside.

The red persimmons on the persimmon tree in front of the house are blooming in clusters. The vicissitudes of persimmon trees, fiery persimmons, old houses with yellow walls and old people basking in the sun combine to form a beautiful scenery of mountains and rivers. The old house with tomatoes is a simple celebration in the winter countryside; The old farmer who turned over the autumn harvest under the red persimmon tree has a bumper harvest scene in the mountain village; The old cows basking in the warm sun leisurely on the hillside set off the red persimmon trees, which is the original flavor of the countryside. On a snowy day, the red persimmon in the snow is another scene. If it snows in the sky, there will be snow everywhere, and the branches of persimmon trees will be covered with snow. The red persimmon is like a small red lantern hanging on the trunk, which is particularly dazzling and another scene, becoming a unique scenery in the winter countryside in my hometown. This beautiful scene comes from the red persimmon, just like a beautiful picture painted on the earth. The previously unknown and lonely red persimmon has become another kind of "pet" in people's eyes, and has become a homesick memory and a dream home that urbanites are looking for. Once that remote, isolated and lonely mountain village became lively. Tourists come, photographers come, painters come, and business opportunities come. After the renovation of a century-old house, farmhouses and homestays came into being, and the national "house rescue" project also settled in my hometown. Villagers who used to sell persimmons raised trees full of persimmons to sell scenery, but now they can only exchange red persimmons for salt, oil, sauce and vinegar.

Hometown Mountain is famous for its red persimmons, which has become a good place for urbanites to experience homesickness and find beautiful scenery in the mountains. They can watch persimmons in winter, listen to frogs in summer, stay away from the hubbub, let go of their mood, and live an idyllic life of "picking chrysanthemums under the east fence and seeing Nanshan leisurely". Go to Songyang to see persimmon red in winter.