Don't cut pine on the ridge when cutting wood.

With the popularity of honeycomb coal and gas, firewood burning has been eliminated by history. Rice cookers and induction cookers have entered thousands of households, and honeycomb coal and gas are estimated to be almost the same. In this era, only those particularly poor and backward areas are still burning firewood.

If you burn firewood, you have to chop it. There was no gas, no electricity and no coal in ancient times. Burning wood is very serious. Cutting and selling firewood has become a way to make a living. In The Romance of Gods, Jiang Taigong opened a fortune-telling shop. The first person who found Jiang Taigong to try water and eat crabs was a woodcutter who sold firewood. Jiang Taigong counted him as a load of firewood and got120p. He is dubious. When selling firewood, he deliberately lowered the price, only selling100p. As a result, the buyer held a wedding at home and gave him a 20p red envelope, exactly the same. He praised Jiang Taigong as a living immortal. After his praise,

The Romance of the Gods is not a farming text, and there is not much description of living expenses. Jiang Taigong sells flour. He doesn't know the price, but the people who buy flour do. They say they will buy him a bowl for a penny. It is not excluded that some people want to take advantage, but buying a bowl of flour for a penny really doesn't take much advantage. In that society, a load of firewood can be sold to 100 to 120 pence, which is considered as a high income for those who work hard at the bottom. Burning wood is a big expense.

There are many stories about woodcutters in ancient times. I believe many people have heard the story of the rotten king Ke Xian. It tells the story that when he saw someone playing chess, he stood there watching others play chess. As a result, the handle of his axe was rotten before he finished playing chess. After he went down the mountain, he found that more than one hundred years had passed and his contemporaries had long since disappeared. This is where the saying "seven days on the mountain, a thousand years on earth" comes from.

Journey to the West, Water Margin and other famous works, as well as the story of the woodcutter. Although it doesn't take up much space, it has a high artistic conception, all for fun. The woodcutter said, "Meeting is not a fairy, just sit and talk about Huang Ting", and he had a conversation to send King Jinghe to the chopping block. The black whirlwind Li Kui jy used to be a woodcutter in Liangshan, so he just needed to have a good time.

In the immortal Buddhist culture, there are also stories of woodcutter. Taoism has the story of Liu Hai splitting firewood to become immortal, and Buddhist scriptures record the story that the woodcutter was guided by Baoji Buddha and became Guanyin.

From this point of view, chopping and selling firewood was an indispensable and important occupation in ancient times. What the woodcutter craves is not wealth, but freedom. This yearning, in a popular sense, belongs to a small-scale peasant thought, which can be said to be the development of Tao's inner dependence on elegance.

The protagonist of the old movie Sister Liu is also a woodcutter with a story. At the beginning of the film, I sang "I'm not a fairy, I'm a woodcutter in the mountains", "I'm not afraid of the height of the cliff, but I can cut wood by climbing the green vine with my bare hands", echoing the later "cutting wood over mountains and slopes".

Cutting wood is manual work. You have to climb mountains, wield knives and axes, tie green vines and sell them in the streets. In rural areas, every household can cut wood and be self-sufficient. There is no market for selling firewood, so it can only be sold on the street.

As can be seen from the movie Sister Liu, chopping wood is also asked by the university. Look at the duet between Zhou Mei and Sanjie Liu: "I'll help you chop wood. How long will you chop wood?" "Cut long and short, which one has a ruler?" . Zhou Mei is the daughter of a fisherman. She used to farm before fishing. Farming, netting and fishing are all manual labor, but she can't cut wood. She needs to ask and learn.

After Liu Sanjie answered, Zhou Mei went to cut pine trees, but Liu Sanjie stopped her and sang, "Don't cut pine trees on the ridge when cutting wood. Small pine trees are very useful. One day, pine trees will support the sky and dare to block the southeast and northwest winds. " Sister Zhou went to cut down other trees.

A common sense is mentioned in Journey to the West: the name of a pot of cigarettes is white grass ash. How did the pot smoke come from? Don't they burn wood? The name "Baicaohui" obviously means that firewood is all kinds of wood. Pine, as one of hundreds of plants, can also be used as firewood.

Moreover, there is also a feature of burning wood. The heavier the wood, the more it burns. With the same load of firewood, Chinese fir firewood will burn fast, while miscellaneous wood firewood can burn for a long time. Pines are called "heavy trees" in many places. If they are used as firewood, they are definitely one of the most burned firewood.

But in ancient times, it was also interesting for woodcutters to cut and sell firewood, but they didn't cut pine trees for firewood. Some people may think it's a profiteer. He doesn't cut the cooked firewood because he can burn it quickly so that he can continue to sell it.

But is this reason reasonable? Of course it doesn't make sense. On the one hand, people just don't cut down pine trees to sell firewood, and don't sell other burnt firewood. Secondly, the buyer is not a fool. Can you get a good price without burning firewood for a penny? Therefore, people who cut and sell firewood are labeled as "profiteers". It's no use. Let's just say that people who label people like this are stupid.

So why "cutting wood on the ridge is not pine"? Liu Sanjie in the film certainly gave the answer, but in ancient times, so many people cut wood, or burned it themselves, or sold it on the street. Does everyone want pine trees to hold the sky against the northeast wind?

This will start with another feature of pine trees. Pine is an oily plant. Rosin and amber are both related to pine trees, specifically, to pine oil.

Anyone who has burned pine probably knows that pine does burn well, but there are many burns on pine, and there are very few pine without burns. Moreover, once the pine used in barbershops is burned, it will produce a very unpleasant smell, and it will also burn a lot of dirty black fly ash and fly everywhere. No matter how clean the kitchen is, just throw a piece of pine from the barber shop into the stove and burn it, and it will be a layer of ash before it is finished.

This kind of pine is burned several times, and it will be uncomfortable in the kitchen for a while at most. It's a bit troublesome to clean up after burning, but if it burns too much, people who work in the kitchen will get sick. Which family often burns firewood like this? Who else will buy it and burn it?

Buyers can't ask people to tear down all the pine trees when selling firewood. Can you say that many of them are invisible and there is no way to tear them down? Even if it can be removed, how much effort will it take? How much is a load of firewood? Is this a good deal? If the expensive ones can't be sold and the other firewood has been burned, there is no need to choose. It must be cheaper than picking up pine wood, right?

Therefore, it is impossible to sell pine trees as firewood. Even if you cut and burn it yourself, it is unhealthy. Burning pine is obviously your own problem, which is not only harmful to health, but also requires extra cleaning. Under such circumstances, people who cut and sell firewood will cut pine trees for firewood. Isn't that full?

Pine trees are not suitable for firewood. People who cut and sell firewood can only cut firewood, not pine trees on the mountain. Raising small pine trees is of great use, and when the pine trees hold up the sky, use them to block the southeast and northwest winds. Otherwise, what use can pine trees have to loggers?