Urgent Notice: The following people are requested to return to Shandong immediately
Notice! Notice! Urgent notice!
Girls and boys of Shandong,
whether you work at a danwei or a company, whether you are a boss or a wage earner;
no matter whether you hold a Samsung, an Apple, or a domestic Xiaomi or Huawei;
no matter whether you wear Adidas, Nike, or Louis Vuitton;
no matter how glamorous a life you lead out there,
whether you are decked out in GUCCI, Chanel, or Hermes;
and no matter whether you are called Lily or Tom.......
You are now formally notified:
Nizi, Erdan, Dawei, Chunhua, Dujuan, Goudan'er and the rest of you,
your family's grapes are about to be harvested,
please hop on a bus or a train and hurry home,
put on your Liberation shoes, old clothes, old trousers,
your mother is calling you home to help pick grapes!!
The autumn breeze clears after rain, floating a tender cool; opening the wine jar, idly picking grapes to taste
A full basket of round fruit, smooth as black pearls; sweet and fragrant on the tongue, cold as ice and jade
In the fields and along the paths of Pingdu, a scene of bustling harvest
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In Shandong,
the densely clustered grapes are about to ripen,
everywhere there is a scene of abundant harvest,
orchardist friends seize the favorable moment,
to carry out picking and sorting.
The fresh fragrance all over the hills,
the azure sky,
the lush green trees,
yet the grape-picking scene is also full of poetic charm~
Rewind fifteen to twenty years,
when it came to picking grapes, in the orchardists' own words,
it was "work that wears you to death."
Back then, the village was small, with twenty or thirty households,
the grapes on the trees were the family's main source of income,
unchanged for thousands of years,
picking the grapes bunch by bunch with both hands.
Harvesting, sorting, packing, transporting...
always wandering along the small roads between the countryside and the county town.
As soon as the grape "takedown" season arrived,
the orchardists were so busy it was simply "nonstop,"
wishing one person could be used as two,
wishing they could go without food or sleep.
Adults and children, men and women, even the very elderly all joined in.
Relatives who worked away from home also took leave and returned to the village to help with the picking.
The scenes of picking grapes back home in childhood,
do Shandong friends still remember them?
The chengzhu takes you back to the grape-picking scenes of many years ago,
to look at the familiar scenery of your hometown and sigh over the passing years~
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In memory,
as soon as March or April came everyone started getting busy,
after the Start of Spring it was time to prepare the land, fertilize, and plant cuttings,
tending them day and night, until finally June or July arrived
bud rubbing and shoot positioning, pinching tips, thinning berries and clusters,
the cut weeds became the best fertilizer for the vines,
and ample sunlight made the grapes even sweeter.
In August or September, the grapes ripened,
the busiest season arrived,
often getting up at five in the morning,
a quick wash, then following father up the hill to lend a hand,
and the rugged mountain path became a small trail day after day!
——There was no path underfoot to begin with, but when many people walk it, a path is made [Lu Xun]
Finally, to those days that are gone and will never return.
If your heart is moved, then hurry home!
Shandong kid, your mother is calling you home to pick grapes!