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When I was a little girl,I leave in my grandparents's home,there was so many Tung tree planted in front of the old house.By accident,i search internet and learnt that there was some connection between Tung tree and Hakka,that makes me have more intereting in Tung tree,because i am a Hakka,Tung tree was always planted in or around Hakka village,that's why our small village have so many Tung tree,now I fully understand.
While an individual Tung leaf is shaped like a heart,the five petals of its flower take an asteroid from with light red and yellow pistils.Tung tree come to full blossom in late April and early May,and it is said that its bud will burst completely when the temperature is over 28 degrees celsius and then swirl down gracefully to the ground,the best hour to observe Tung blossom is in a sunny morning,for its flowers appear shiny white in the sun.it looks like the winter floating snow in the wind.how beautiful they are!
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- Reply Elvaa..
- I always see that trees when i am a little girl..
your words is nice , just like these pictures//
- Reply candy568
- Elvaa..: I always see that trees when i am a little girl..Thank you for your comment.your words is nice , just like these pictures//
- Reply Elrond
- Let me give some notes,
Hakka, there's no this word in most dictionary, but can be looked up in wikipedia, which should be written as 客家 in Chinese.
Actually there're mainly two nations in Canton, Hakka and Vietnamese, those who are not Hakka are mostly vietnamese in ethnic, despite they are registered or called as Han.
Only Hakka is the purest ethnic Han in blood, for they are descendants of ancient refugees migrated from North China during the invasions of barbarians from northern steppes.
Tung Tree, also as Tung-oil Tree, Airy-Shaw in English, Vernicia fordii in Latin, is called 油桐 in Chinese.
But I haven't seen this tree till now.
- Reply Elrond
- Here're some words learned from this passage
petal ['petl] 花瓣
pistil ['pistil] 雌蕊 (stamen ['steimən] 雄蕊)
asteroid ['æstərɔid] a. 星状的 n.海星
all professional words in botany (knowledge about plants, 植物学)
very recondite.
- Reply candy568
- Elrond: Let me give some notes,HEY thanks very much for your comment,and there are more information ahout Hakka as below,maybe you can learnt more from here.
Hakka, there's no this word in most dictionary, but can be looked up in wikipedia, which should be written as 客家 in Chinese.
The spelling "Hakka" is derived from the pronunciation in Hakka dialect ( pronounced as "haagga" in Hakka and "kejia" in Mandarin).
The Kejia or Hakka people have a long history of migration. Kejia history states that their ancestors originated from Shandong or Shanxi province in northern China. They began their first wave of migration between the 4th and 9th centuries, traveling from Henan and the adjoining northern provinces into Anhui and its vicinity.
A second wave of migration took place between the 9th and 12th centuries, when the Kejia migrated along the mountains and foothills of eastern Jiangxi into south Jiangxi and inland Fujian.
A final wave of migration took place between the 12th and 17th centuries, as Kejia moved into northeast Guangdong province.
The Cantonese of Guangdong saw the Kejia as poor, uneducated and uncultured. The Kejia, considered the Cantonese greedy, unrefined Southerners. There is no love lost between the two groups.
