In the memory of my hometown, there are too many memories that I cannot forget. As a member of the Jiangnan Water Town, the most unforgettable thing for me is the ditches in my hometown. In my hometown, there are too many nameless ditches, filled with too many childhood memories, but we can never go back to the past. Below is the lyrical prose I brought about the ditches in my hometown.

I grew up in a rural market town in a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, surrounded by vast fields. There are many manually dug ditches of various sizes crisscrossing the vast fields. Sometimes called ditches or ditches, they are channels for irrigation. These ditches may be open or dark, and they are all nameless ditches without names.

The water in these ditches is pumped up from the river through the machine port, pumped to the main channel, and then diverted from the main channel to various criss-crossing sub-channels, and irrigated by each sub-channel into the vast fields, forming a It has numerous water systems that nourish thousands of hectares of crops.

Each village has multiple airports of different sizes, with channels ranging from hundreds to thousands of meters. The channels connecting a township can be tens of thousands of meters long. The ditches range from more than one meter wide to less than one meter narrow. There are long-term fixed ditches and temporarily dug ditches. Numerous ditches form a strong water system network for crops, and also provide life support for the growth of crops.

Among the many ditches, the one that has the deepest impact on me is the main ditch in the open ditch in my hometown. This main channel directly connects the airport. Every summer is the busy season for rural areas, which is also the peak season for crop irrigation. I met many friends of my age to play by the ditch, and watched the water pump pumping white water from the river into the ditch at the airport.

The water flows from fast to slow, from fast to slow, from west to east or from east to west, north, and south, flowing meanderingly, like a silver belt, like music. , sometimes splashing with small white flowers, playing various notes, flowing calmly and freely to the distance designated by people.

The straight ditches may be deep or shallow, wide or narrow. When the narrow part is less than one meter, I can jump across it in one step while standing on the edge of the ditch. There are green weeds along the sides and bottom of the ditch, which are clear and visible. Occasionally, fish can be seen swimming in the ditch. My friends and I would curiously go barefoot into thigh-deep ditches to catch fish for fun, play with water, and splash water for fun.

There are green grass, wild vegetables, and mulberry sprouts growing along the edge of the ditch. I sometimes take a bamboo basket to the edge of the ditch to cut grass and pick wild vegetables and mulberry sprouts. Sometimes I also walk a section of the ditch with interest, following the water. Walking along the narrow channel, I gazed at the endless flow of water in the canal.

I would hesitate, take out a piece of paper, fold it into a paper boat, and throw it into the canal. The paper boat floated in the canal, disappearing and reappearing. I chased it in the ditch, a slow wave a few times. There was a wave of water, and the paper boat disappeared instantly. I suddenly felt very sad.

Sometimes, I also traced the source of the ditch, standing at the riverside, watching the wide river water pumped into the ditches at regular intervals, and the water gradually slowed down from sudden to docile. , and full of rhythm, flowing into the vast fields through branch canals and ditches.

At this time, I walked in the vast fields again, looking at the crisscrossing ditches, and found that the water patterns and waves of the flowing water revealed a bit of aura, and that stretch of land was soaked and irrigated by the overflowing water. : The green seedlings of the fragrant land grow vigorously, bloom and bear fruit.

Water and human blood are connected, and life and water have an indissoluble bond. The ditch is an important water conservancy hub in the countryside. After the main ditch was completed, branch ditches leading to each village group were built, many underground pipes were buried, and many open ditches that were prone to water and soil erosion were transformed. The bottom and left sides Both sides were built with cement, or pre-made tile tubes were buried underground to build underground ditches; a team of part-time water drainers were also formed to supervise the opening and blocking of ditch water and control the water gates.

I looked at the cheerful smiles of people harvesting fruits in autumn. I deeply felt that the combination of people and land, land and water is so magical and great. Ditches, which are unique water conservancy facilities and attractions in the countryside of our hometown, are closely related to our lives; ditches nourish the land in our hometown and give birth to the people in our hometown.

As times develop and society progresses, the ditches of the past have also undergone great changes. The earthen ditches of the past are rarely seen and have long been replaced by hardened lining ditches. There are only a small number of small earthen ditches. Open ditches are still preserved, and farmland ditch irrigation has also undergone great changes.

The gradual development from a single flood irrigation to a modern irrigation model that uses flood irrigation, sprinkler irrigation, and drip irrigation according to farmland water conservancy needs has greatly improved the scientific, mechanized, and intelligent level of water conservancy irrigation. However, the life and farmland irrigation scenes in Tumin ditch in those days have always remained deep in my memory and will not be forgotten for a long time.