This article is from WeChat public account: high upFlow (ID: heyupflow) , of: Li Nuomi, from FIG title: Oriental IC

Autumn may be the most anticipated season in Beijing, but for Beijing children, the fallen leaves are the root cause of autumn. Every season, the annual Rooting Competition begins.

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After school, go home, as long as you have a tree, you can come to a “scratch” anytime, anywhere: the leaves are falling, the leaves are smashed, and the two people put the leaf roots together, each Hold the two ends of the leaf root, find a good angle, and at the same time force the child to go in the opposite direction: one, two, three – take you.

Whoever breaks first, will be laughed at by the big guys collectively: “You have no roots.”

“Baibaicao” includes “Wendou” and “Wardou”. Wendou refers to finding grass, understanding grass, and reporting grass names in pairs. It is impossible to have no literature and herbal knowledge. “Wardou” is similar to the current roots, but at that time it was used to pull up the grass.

And now, from generation to generation, “Herbs” has become the root of the poplar, and the “fighting” of certain festivals has become the “rooting” that can be played every day in the fall.

part.2 The secret that the old cannon knows

There are always people who have won the top prize in the Rooting Competition and defeated the invincible. The big guy knows that he is not a brute force, but a secret.

The key to rooting is still on the roots, the leaves on the ground, you want to have a good root, you have to look at the ass repeatedly, more active than the sanitation workers, because for the roots Saying that finding the right root means winning half.

▲A large piece of fallen leaves, when you are a child, it is a paradise

How to find a good root? The old cannons of the roots will tell you – The only criterion is to have the tenacity, and pay attention to how to keep on.


“The new one is not necessarily the best. The green leaves that have just fallen, you can’t choose it. If there is too much water, it will break off with a slight break; don’t pick dry yellow, that is The old leaves are too fragile, and they have been broken before they are smashed. The leaves are black and red, and the skin is almost detached. It seems that there are even some ‘deaf’, maybe it is the best root.” /p>