Chapter 20 talk about nature

We live in this world, so we should try our best to observe the world, appreciate its beauty, and recognize its wonder.The more you know, the more fulfilling your life will be. Understanding nature is a homework for each of us to "live and learn"! panacea for the yard Today I waited for you at the alley after school, walked with you on the way home, reached out and plucked a leaf from the bushes, rubbed it, and asked you to smell it.You hide first, as if you are afraid of insects. "It's fragrant." I said. You sniffed it carefully, then laughed and said, "It's really fragrant!" Then asked, "What kind of leaf is it?"

"It's a sassafras tree." I pointed it out to you: "When the seeds fall off, they will grow a lot by themselves every year, and they must be cleaned frequently." Then I picked off a few leaves and gave them to you: "Go back and check, this tree is useful Extremely." Just after entering the door, I handed you a copy of "Field Guide to North American Trees" published by the "Audubon society". You were stunned and asked how I had such a book. "Because when I first came to the United States, I found that many streets were named after plants, and I felt that I must recognize those trees, so I bought this book a long time ago." Then, I will teach you to put the leaf of the sassafras tree on the table Compare it with the pictures in the book.

You were reluctant at first, saying that you were busy with homework and had no time, but you checked it out at my insistence. "It's Sassafras!" You pointed to the picture and said, then turned to the text explanation, and then shouted: "It turns out that the bark and roots of Sassafras can be used to extract essence, make perfume, soap, and tea. Immigrants are being sent to Europe in large numbers, thought to be a panacea!" "Look! How wonderful!" I said, "We have so many panaceas in our yard, and when you see a new sapling popping up on the ground in the future, you won't think it's a weed.

In the evening, it was raining outside, and I went out with an umbrella to pick three different kinds of leaves and came back. My mother scolded my dad why I ran out on a rainy day. She didn’t know that it was the season of flowering, and the flowers and leaves drooped especially when it rained Low, I can pick it up with just one hop. I put those three kinds of leaves with flowers on the table, and asked you to come and look them up, and I helped you look up the English-Chinese dictionary, and found out their English names—— The one with the long fringed flowers is the Sweet Birch. The one with small round and flat seeds is the elm tree (Elm).

The one with clusters of fragrant white flowers is the locust tree (Locust). "Birch sap can be used to make sugar, and can we make birch beer?" You said, "We can collect the syrup by cutting the bark according to the book." And cried: "Now I know why squirrels I will bite the leaves of the elm tree all over the ground. It turns out that the twigs of the elm tree are fragrant and sweet, and they can also be used as cough medicine; there is also the locust tree, which was used by the early immigrants to build houses, and the Indians used it to make bows. " I will tell you that Sophora japonica can be used for appreciation, smelling fragrance, and fried eggs; the street lamps in Dalian City, China, are called "Sophora japonica lamps" in strings.It is also said that the flat seeds of the elm tree look like round copper coins, so there are sentences in Chinese literature such as "spring breeze scattered elm coins", which means that the spring breeze scattered thousands of elm seeds like money. It blows all over the sky.

"Aren't there a lot of green things piled up on our driveway and balcony? If you don't look closely, you wouldn't know, those are elm money!" I pointed it out to you. Boy, I know the term is coming to an end and there are a lot of reports to pay, but now is the best time to identify trees when they are blooming, so I insist that you do it today. And you will find that when you walked through the yard in the past, you just saw many trees, but now you can see many trees you know, you can name them, tell what they are used for, and even describe their appearance. Taste, it's as if you only met a group of Yangsheng people in the past, but now you can know them, know their names, characteristics, specialties, those strangers who had nothing to do with you before, all of a sudden become your friends.

Children, we live in this world, we must try our best to observe this world, appreciate its beauty, and recognize its wonder; the more you know, the more fulfilling your life will be.You may even find that seeing a tree feels different the day before you get to know it and the day after.It's like the strange neighbors who passed by in the past, from the day you know him, you can greet each other.This is happy learning and living knowledge! Let me tell you a little secret. A few days ago, I also read the "Magical Multipurpose Plant Illustrated Book" brought by Taiwan, only to find out that the hibiscus (hibiscus flower) planted in my yard when I was a child, besides enjoying the vermilion flowers and sucking it The sweet flower juice, the root, stem and leaves of the flower can also be used as medicine, not only can reduce inflammation and detoxify, laxative and stop bleeding, but also can cure high blood pressure, stomatitis, urethritis, enteritis and gynecological diseases!

So the next time I go back to Taiwan, whenever I meet Hibiscus, I must say hello to that flower and say to "her": "I'm so sorry", I have known you for fifty years, I have painted you for forty years, and I have been your neighbor for decades, but I don't know how great you are until today!" Understanding nature is a homework for each of us to "live and learn"!