There are no two identical leaves in the world.

A friend's circle of friends exposed two photos of leaves with a comment: "What leaf is this? It's amazing, one side is green and the other is white. "

As a senior northerner, I can tell at a glance that it is the leaf of poplar in the north, and I even scoff at this "simple" question. The habit of preaching makes me want to show off photosynthesis and too little chlorophyll. Let's go But the word "North-South differences" instantly calmed me down. As the German philosopher Leibniz said, "There are no two identical leaves in the world", let alone two people affected by the difference between North and South.

If you don't follow other people's path, you have to carefully evaluate other people's shoes.

Poplar, a tree species familiar to northerners, especially northern children, plays an indispensable role in childhood game memory.

In spring and March, the grass grows and the warblers fly. When the willow just sprouted and grew leaves, several big poplar trees by the pond became a paradise for children to play. Several bold older children climbed the tree with a swish in the envious eyes of others. Sitting on a branch, folding a few leaves to weave a hat, taking out a knife, breaking a branch and starting to whistle, the village dialect is called "twisting flute".

The method of "twisting flute" is also very simple: choose poplar branches with moderate thickness and uniform appearance; After bud removal, hold the branches with both hands and gently twist them until the bark and wood parts are debonded; When the branches and bark are all loose, take out the wood core, thus forming a tube; Trim both ends neatly, choose a section and scrape off the skin with a knife, and the whistle will be done.

Brave children blew their whistles on the tree, and then began to break branches and throw them on the ground, causing a group of children who dare not climb the tree and can't climb it to compete around the ground. Whistles by the pond began to ring, blowing one by one, making my cheeks ache.

Poplar brings more happiness to rural children than that. After the autumn wind, the leaves of poplar fell to the ground. So poplar leaves become another kind of toy, specifically the vein of poplar leaves-the handle of the leaves.

The way of the competition is also simple and rude: everyone chooses a vein, pulls it hard after crossing it, and whoever breaks it first loses. Leaves that are too tender are greener; Too old to do it, so flexible leaves become the first choice, which is easy to produce victorious generals. A gust of autumn wind blows leaves, and children often turn over the fallen leaves on the ground and have fun.

Think about it carefully, such a game scene is hard to meet in the south, and it is no wonder that friends don't know the leaves of poplar trees and don't understand the difference between the front and back colors.

When it comes to the differences between the north and the south, we have to mention the different eating habits, customs, human geography and language differences between the north and the south of the motherland.

Whether to put sugar or salt in tofu has opened up the dietary difference between north and south;

Whether to put dates or meat on zongzi intensifies the difference between north and south cultural exchanges;

Do you want to peel peaches? Drinking is fierce in the north or in the south; Buy a potato or a sack; Which team is called "Henan Jianye" or "Holland Jianye" ...

What's more, there is a saying: "When black fertilizer volatilizes, it will turn gray and fly; When the gray fertilizer volatilizes and turns black, it will fly, which can distinguish people from north and south. But so what? It does not affect the local popularity of Sichuan dialect, Hunan dialect, Jiangsu dialect, Fujian dialect, Guizhou dialect and Cantonese at all. On the contrary, it makes a group of people who speak Mandarin look confused.

I can't help but think of a joke circulating in the village: in the 1980s, a child asked his parents to take him to the provincial capital and then came back to show off: the zoo in the city had everything except cows and donkeys; The first time I went, I met a market. I sold everything except pigs. ...

We have all lived in our own environment for too long and know nothing about other people's sky. Children in cities can't tell leeks from wheat seedlings, and children in rural areas will never know whether there is the Monkey King in the Children's Palace.

In this way, a southerner must not know the poplar leaves in the north.

There are no two identical leaves, no two identical leaves, and no two identical people.

Sugarcane forest in the south and green gauze tent in the north. However, when it comes to poplars, the first thing that comes to mind is "Praise of Poplar", which is a very common tree in the northwest, but it is by no means an ordinary tree!

It is a tree that strives for the upper reaches. This is a tree that stands tenaciously despite the oppression of heavy snow in the north. Even if it's only as thick as a bowl, try to develop upwards. ...

This is actually a person, a person.

My friend, Xiao W, was admitted to a key university with tuition fees funded by relatives. During the summer vacation, when other peers were blowing air conditioners to eat watermelons, he worked as a coolie on the construction site and weeding on the highway to earn tuition.

After graduating from college, it was successfully assigned to well-known enterprises in the province. In the eyes of others, it is smooth. He is unwilling to be lonely, and his thirst for knowledge urges him to read all kinds of books and learn all kinds of professional knowledge. Because of his obsession with his career, he was once "punished" by the leader to be a security guard. However, the amazing results are far more than that.

At the age of 24, he resigned from a famous enterprise and started a company with a desk and a computer in a one-bedroom residential building.

At the age of 25, he evaluated an accident in Inner Mongolia as a representative of the expert group.

At the age of 26, his company's operating performance has surpassed that of provincial design institutes.

At the age of 28, he became the youngest dean of a private design institute in the province.

At the age of 32, he became the youngest dean of Grade A qualification design and research institute approved by the Ministry of Construction.

However, such an engineer, entrepreneur and entrepreneur who is persistent in technology is an elite boss in the eyes of employees. In the eyes of friends, it is another evaluation: Dionysus, a poet, a well-read musician.

Perhaps many people pay too much attention to success, but ignore the efforts behind it, ignoring that an engineering drawing has to be revised several times before it can be finalized, ignoring how many sleepless nights after drinking, and ignoring reading thousands of books on philosophy, history and specialty.

Just like the two sides of poplar leaves, one side is green and the other is white; On the one hand, it is publicity, on the other hand, it is introverted; On the one hand, it is the display of image, on the other hand, it is the accumulation of connotation; On the one hand, he is a warrior on the battlefield, and on the other hand, he is a Confucian general with a black scarf.

The sweetness of the sugarcane forest in the south will never experience the sandstorm of poplar trees in the north.

Someone asked, what color are the leaves? Many answers are: green.

What if the color of the leaves is reversed? What's the color of leaves in autumn?

Autumn leaves are all kinds of collections, except maple leaf red, ginkgo yellow and green maple, whose colors change from orange to red; Liquidambar formosana, the color changes from yellow to orange; Taiwan Province red maple, the color gradually changes from orange to red; Beech in Taiwan Province Province, whose leaves turn from yellow to red; Mountain lacquer, the leaves gradually turn from orange to red ...

Just like the slash youth now, the white-collar workers in the company during the day may be the resident singers in the bar; The attending doctor of the hospital may gallop on the court; Hot girls dancing on the stage may be part-time students; A programmer with glasses may be a password hacker; Even the cleaning lady may be a master of calculus.

Whether they can see clearly or not, they are experiencing life and burning life in their own mode. Whether it is positive or negative, it is equally wonderful.