Rainy season in northern Fujian
The northern Fujian in memory is humid, and the summer in childhood memory is the summer washed by rain. Seeing the report of rainstorm in Songxi on the news, while worrying about my parents, I recalled the rainy season in my hometown when I was a child and found out the picture of rainy season in my hometown.
The rainy season in my hometown lasts for a long time. From March to June, it almost rains. Rain comes in various forms, but all the conditions are almost the same, that is, huge clouds are concentrated overhead, and dark clouds are gathering, waiting for unscrupulous scouring. Sometimes it hails. The folk solar term "moving the dragon" in my hometown is these days, and it rains so much that it can only be described as "rolling the dragon".
Our houses are all built along the river, and our hometown belongs to the upper reaches of Songxi River. I remember when I was a child, when the rainy season came, the village staff would beat gongs and drums to remind me to prevent flash floods. The river is always full in rainy season, which is different from the gentle stream in peaceful days. There seems to be an inexhaustible temper, which runs madly downstream. In my memory, the flood of 1998 is only the beginning of our junior high school. Because of the landslide in Laohuling, everyone has to take the primary school exam. There is only one road in the mountainous area of northern Fujian. When the only road is broken, it can only be isolated from the outside world.
Before it rained, we were all like a pot of frogs waiting to be cooked, which was very boring. When it rains, it's like a child holding a water pipe and washing away the pushed mound. This season's rain seems to take pleasure in destruction, soaking every inch of land and mountains. Watching the landslide collapse, the river is no longer clear, and a Yellow River flows in the mountains.
Nowadays, building houses is more about bare mountains. The whole area of Chengguan is very small, and a small county has limited infrastructure and poor drainage system. In recent years, the whole Fujian area has been flooded as soon as it rains. This is basically the case in Nanping, Jian 'ou and Songxi counties and cities in northern Fujian. In the rainy season when I was young, there was no such big water, only a flood once in a few years. Perhaps because the population is concentrated in the county, the street drainage system is not good, or because this landform is a small basin, the river can't carry a lot of rainfall and water flowing from higher altitudes in Zhejiang.
The rainy season in childhood is at least fresh in my memory. After the rain in my memory, I washed every corner of the mountain more cleanly. Now the rainy season looks like yellow mud, and what I see is the mess all over the ground. For more than ten years, I have felt the difference in the environment.
Being in a foreign land, thinking about the safety of relatives in my hometown, always paying attention to the weather in my hometown and contacting my family to pay attention to safety. I believe that many children who are not with their parents are the same, and I am trying to be better with my parents all the time.