Thursday, December 29, 2011
The treasure of the village
Village Super Pants, Phong Binh Phong Dien district, Thua Thien - Hue sesame fortune there are thousands of trees hundreds of years old. Villagers see this treasure of their ancestors left so everyone was very protective.
The eminent agricultural village, on the road linking the town center Binh Phong, Phong Dien district, Thua Thien - Hue province where the first one also sees the trees buds bathe straight sesame, blue running along the embankment or between rice fields. Hundreds of trees holding hands no Xue, more than ten meters high, shaggy moss cover mold with how the world is beautiful as transcendent whole village.
Mr. Tran Thanh Hoa, the village head transcendent, said the village is the fifth row with sesame fortune by his father put the name from the ancient times: positive (row) or positives Na, its way, intercede W, intercede paintings. Number of plants sesame buds up to thousands, including about 1,000 trees over 500 years old, nearly 0.5 m in diameter; small trees several decades old, a diameter of about 0.2 to 0.3 m shall not count Xue.
A sesame plant buds of a kind sold at the end of the village college are outstanding people hundreds of years to preserveThe opening in the old farming region known as eminent place cards, surrounding water and floods every year should constantly planting sesame fortune to protect the village. "Grandfather, my father and older people in the village said that the name of the sesame buds are used by the ancients placed and exist until now. It is the treasure of their ancestors left for us "- Mr. Hoa said.
A story is always transcendent villagers of mouth is the "soup he declared" calls for sesame growers buds. Over 500 years ago, "he declared farming" has encouraged villagers who planted many buds will be rewarded with sesame rice and enjoy shirt. The villagers rush to grow rice but only his reward, and then waited like that shirt.
A long time after, on a cold winter day, people from the village plow and could not stand the bitter freeze when returning the bones, but feel very warm. Since then, people realize that the clothes that "he declared farming" is the reward of this area using good fresh buds.
Cover transport, food aid
In the childhood memories of Mrs. Nguyen Thi Mary (83 years old, his mother Chemistry) are strings attached to the tree buds on sesame. She told Mary: "Back then, every time the contract is finished buffalo drop our kids go to the sesame plant buds to play. Some days busy playing that they forget about the house, we immediately nap under a tree. In examinations, the flood season the whole village took each student to learn all that. "
Take most of her life, she saw Mary not know how many trees sesame fortune faded old to make room for the young trees reach germ of life. Through many wars and how the flooding season, celebrate with the people she saw the transcendent importance of the sesame plant buds and the more they admire the ingenious calculation of his father.
At the time against the French, under the canopy buds are sesame secret cellar of the revolutionaries to hide the war. Also on the anti-American, Super village population concentrated unit of soldiers, militia and guerrillas, they fought under the auspices of the sesame plant buds. Although the U.S. military does not know how many times bombed, but the tree buds watering sesame burning gasoline still rising living intensely.
Not only protect the village, sesame fortune has food aid to people in the days outstanding harvest. Ms. Good said that in wartime, people can not produce outstanding, houses frequented by the enemy fired. Ash of rice, cassava, sweet potatoes do not have people out forest transcendent sesame buds off young leaves of sun exposure through life chewing or eating soup temporarily through the day. "I have six children, her husband die prematurely kill U.S. invaders, because plant sesame fortune which my children survived the bombing of the month on the war" - Mrs. Mary proud.
To take us to see the tree buds used sesame, Nguyen Van Thuan constant praise of the village's treasures. "If the village transcendent sesame buds ni no it sure can not bear to be stormy, home e unsteady model" - Mr. Thuan said.
Mr. Thuan said in 1985, Cecil hurricane landfall in Thua Thien - Hue is very strong. Although many villages around the disaster devastated the village but transcendent sesame buds for tea should be unharmed. In 1999, the historic flood waters that engulfed O Lau rising to the roof, many houses collapsed when water is withdrawn. In danger, tree buds sesame became a shelter for people waiting for rescuers to rescue. "Also in that flood, there are many people in Vinh An, Phong Binh was water washed away but luckily drifted into the woods sesame buds should be rescued by villagers Super Pants" - he recalled Thuan.
Village millionaire
Therefore, although there is still outstanding village close to 70 poor and near poor, or nearly 45% of households in the village but no one wants to sell treasures to life less difficult. He mentally calculated Chemistry: "A tree buds sesame lowest priced 20 million, higher then the 100 million if sold by the nuns of the village who will become millionaires. The village will have a lot of money to do everything but we decided to keep intact his father's treasures for the children, is to keep the shirt for the village, the village also took sesame fortune lost. "
To protect the buds sesame, from the ancient custom of eminent if someone had cut down a tree even though the village had also been arrested a day kept fine, until the family released a new guarantee. And yet, the violator must prepare a tray areca, betel, wine making villages the village to plead guilty and hope for forgiveness. As from 2003, in the village conventions have provisions that someone cut down in Super Pants, sesame fortune selling theft, be it outside the village caught the penalty prescribed by law, must also have wheels areca, betel, alcohol apologized to the village.
In 2007 or so, many strangers to the scrutiny of village forest transcendent sesame fortune, not buy, those who seek to bung theft. To deal with the theft of sesame fortune, created transcendent patrol at night to protect the main pillar of village officials. But to deal with thieves treacherous and full of sophisticated, the successful protection of the village today is thanks to the people. "We used to propagate protected sesame buds at branch meetings, meeting people, the daily sessions of the Assembly the elderly, youth, women. Even children have very high awareness of it "- Mr. Hoa said.
Under the provisions of the village, only the wind storm hit the tree was uprooted last sold. However, they want to sell must meet outstanding people, public buyers and sell all the money must be used for the benefit of all villagers. After the sale, the village also includes a wheel ceremony areca, betel, wine to worship at the tree and replant a tree.
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