Chapter 41 41. Butterfly and Acacia Tree

Laoshan collection fever spread to the whole country.Letters from all over the world asked for Laoshanlan and Hongtu, a song advertised Laoshanlan, and literary works increased the popularity of Hongtu, but people in the war zone did not value these two things.Laoshanlan is the most beautiful in imagination, but I see it, it is very ordinary, far less gorgeous than banana flowers.There are also canned orchids planted with one or two old orchids, which are only used to embellish life on the battlefield, and are not included in the collection.One is that there are landmines everywhere, and it is not easy to dig; two, it is not as special as those in the mainland;When you arrive at Laoshan, you always have to collect some souvenirs. Some of the collection items are very elegant and show a high aesthetic taste.

The poem Guo Moruo wrote when he visited the Butterfly Spring in Dali in 1961 is also very appropriate to describe the butterfly in Laoshan.Every year in the late spring and early summer, the Laoshan war zone is covered with flowers and butterflies, and the butterflies compete to dance, colorful and spectacular.Colorful butterflies are flying around on the battlefield, and some are hung end to end on flower trees, like ribbons in the wind.The soldiers drilled out the cat's ear holes, took them at hand, and made them into specimens.The colorful butterfly is as big as a palm and as small as a coin. After catching it, use a small stick to pick a little smoke oil on its beak, and the butterfly will die young.A battalion commander collected a lot, and the walls were covered with butterflies. Clusters of clusters looked like a group of beautiful butterflies. At night, he held candles to admire the butterflies. The seven-color scales on the wings of the butterflies were illuminated by the candlelight, as if they had entered a crystal palace.Liu Guozhi, Director of the Political Department of a regiment, showed us his butterflies. Two of them are extremely beautiful, both with black background, with peach-shaped red and yellow spots on the big wings, and eye-catching peacock blue spots on the small wings Half of the area, the two butterflies are of the same species, the color matching and distribution are exactly the same, and the decorations are slightly different, like a pair of graceful and elegant ladies.Liu Guozhi also has a brilliant yellow butterfly with a wingspan of 22 centimeters, which he is proud of.We told him it wasn't Butterfly.Yang Aimin, the head of the training section of the Laoshan main peak group, collected a giant butterfly with a wingspan of 24 centimeters. He was very happy and hung it in the cat's ear hole like a brilliant kite. The head of the group, Sheng Xiaoming, went to his hole to explain the work. Seeing this butterfly repeatedly being amazed, Chief Yang had no choice but to give up.If Chief Yang knew that this was the biggest butterfly in the world, he would definitely not let it go.According to reports, there are more than 14,000 species of butterflies in the world, the smallest with a wingspan of only 1.6 centimeters and the largest with a wingspan of 24 centimeters.The size of the Laoshan butterfly is indeed the largest in the world, and it is also the mascot of Maoerdong.However, the mountains are full of butterflies, and so are the mountains with mines. The theater newspapers specially published articles to remind commanders and fighters to beware of chasing butterflies and hitting mines. From the perspective of resource protection, catching butterflies is not advocated.Thankfully, butterflies share an identity with landmines.There are more than a dozen types of landmines displayed in the reception room of the main peak of Laoshan, all of which have their explosives removed, to introduce mine warfare.Condolence groups from all over the country came here and took away all the landmines, as if they had found a treasure.They come and go in a hurry, and few know that the specialty of Laoshan is butterflies.

Acacia is also known as Taiwan Acacia.The acacia tree in Laoshan is not this kind. Its real name is "red bean tree", and it is also called acacia tree, which is also recognized by "Ci Hai".Laoshan acacia tree bears red beans, people say: "Laoshan red beans are also lovesick", so it is a treasure for collection.Laoshan has four treasures: butterfly acacia beans, crutches and doves.The crutches are welded with bullet casings of anti-aircraft machine guns, and the doves of peace are engraved with cartridges of large-caliber shells (commonly known as "shell casings"), which are man-made souvenirs.Acacia beans or red beans are natural souvenirs.Acacia trees are rare, and because of war damage, acacia beans are not easy to find, so it is really the crown of the four treasures.The red beans are agate red, and it is a pride to collect a pair, which is of great ornamental value.In Laoshan, there are many people who can't collect acacia beans or even don't know acacia beans.Someone gave Huisheng a pair of "Acacia Beans", light maroon, as bright as lacquer, the size of a quail egg, and they shake loudly.Ask some people, some say yes, some say no, it is difficult to tell the truth from the false, and it is finally confirmed that it is Tongzi, which has failed many sincere lovesickness bean lovers.