One sunny afternoon, surfing through Facebook, I accidentally saw an article selling digging seeds. Childhood memories with peach picking summer noonas appeared right in front of my eyes. That day, in Pho Cuong (Duc Pho), my hometown, each house had at least a few trees. Peaches are easy to grow, with little maintenance, so it is especially suitable for the arid land of my hometown. The Lunar New Year has passed. In the February of lunar year every year, when the weather is warm, it is also the time for the trees to bear fruit. Although not sweet and easy to eat like other fruits, peaches are very attractive. Then when summer comes, our children are again eagerly facing the plump peach bunches, dangling from the branches. When ripe, peaches emit a very attractive aroma. So instead of getting tired of looking for peaches, we often walk around the garden, stand under the peaches to inhale to, where there is a fragrant peach smell, we know there are delicious fruits waiting for us to enjoy. The nut is divided into two parts: the seed and the fruit. Fruit eaten will have a sour taste, sweet sweet, slightly acrid. If you eat a lot, you still feel your tongue hurt. Especially eating peaches is easy to choke. Every time I saw me picking peach trees, my grandmother always told me to cut peaches into small pieces and squeeze out the water to remove choking and not to eat too much, lest my tongue get sick. However, my joy is to hold a large peach, dab in a bowl of salt and chilli and bite a piece of the teeth, then choke many times because of the peach juice. Although not sweet and easy to eat like other fruits, peaches are very attractive. Nuts are initially green, but when ripe, they can be yellow, pink, or red, depending on the variety. Whatever the color, the peach flavor is the same. The tree is planted with nuts mainly. Many ripe fruit trees fall in the orchard and whoever wants to eat the fruit, they just need to leave the seeds. So our children back then often gathered around the neighborhood to look for a basket of peaches of all kinds of beautiful colors to bring back. After eating, many new children discovered that they did not carefully fill the clothes with water, and then they were full because the clothes with peach pus did not come out much wash. Besides the fruit, peach seeds are also a very high-class dish. Every time she goes around the garden, she picks up peach seeds and waits for the day to sell, I often spend a small handful of fresh peach seeds. Put the peach seeds in the stove to burn back ashes. After little by little of the peach oil was burned and sizzled, the aroma gradually emitted that the seeds were ripe. Use a pearberry tree to hold peach seeds from the fire and then smash the outer shell to have a crisp, fragrant, delicious cashew nut that people often process canned and sold at a high price. A special feature of the peach tree that I like very much is the melted sap tree. In the summer noon, besides picking fruit and picking peaches, I often go to the big old peach stumps, a hug can’t help. Then notice if any ticks are disguising themselves on the peach stump or if there is a tree stump that is melting sap. The beautiful, frozen, orange-yellow peach resin droplets as well as the cicadas are a precious gift that any child would love at that time. Now, the children who used to walk around looking for peaches in the past have all grown up. The child is still in the countryside, who has moved to other cities for a living. The old peach gardens have also gradually thinned, giving way to other fruit trees or trees. But those years of peaches will forever be engraved in our memories with each sweet, sour, acrid and faint aroma of acerola.

Living in a riverside village in Van Giang district (Hung Yen), Ms. Nguyen Thi Thuy said, the pretend is a specialty only available in the Red River. Their larvae live in water, only surface once a year to molt and then fly to the surface to lay eggs. Close-up of the child pretending to be outside the Red River. (Photo: Van Thanh). According to Ms. Thuy, when she was a child, many children appeared pretending to be, but suddenly about 20 years they disappeared, causing nostalgia for generations of fishing villages. However, about 3 years ago, pretending to appear many times made the people of the fishing village excited to come out and get together to go out and pretend from 3am. “I pretend to only appear once a year around February to March of the lunar calendar and only live about 2 hours. To get rid of it, most of my family had to stay up all night to see if the next day’s situation would pretend or not. If there is, by about 4 am, the pretense will start to float, and the river will be completely flown by about 6am, ”Ms. Thuy said. The child pretends to be a specialty only available in the Red River, which can be purchased at quite high prices. On the day of pretending to appear, dozens of fishing boats with nets attached to the nose of the boat ran along the river. When it is clear, it is also the end of the fake harvest. Because people were brought up from the riverbank, people gathered and bought them all. At the beginning of the crop, the price was high, about 500,000 VND / kg, every day when it was picked up, it was about 300,000 VND / kg. “On average, my family can salvage about 3-5 kg ​​a day, but there is a record day that my house can salvage nearly 40 kg. Bring it to the market, have not yet sold out all. Because it only appears a few days / month, it is necessary to be able to watch it to avoid the end of the season ”, Ms. Thuy said. Nearly 20 years of “losing track”, about 3 years ago, the pretend started to appear again. As the owner of a famous restaurant in Ngoc Thuy, Long Bien (Hanoi), but Van Thanh still goes out and pretends because this is an insect that has attached to the childhood of riverside children like him. At the same time, he used pretend to cook into dishes to serve guests to eat at his restaurant. In order to catch the pretense, fishermen like Thanh had to prepare from 3am, use a fixed net at the nose of the boat and pick them up because they only appeared from 4-6am and disappeared. According to Thanh, there are not every place where there are pretensions, but only at the confluence of the river where there is a lot of soil for them to nest. “Usually it takes a lot of attention to be able to watch the right day of pretending to molt because only 1-2 times a month. After 2 molting, they lay eggs and then die. Eggs hatch into larvae and return to the river bed waiting for the day to be molested on the surface “, Mr. Thanh said. After being processed, the baby becomes a specialty, with the price up to a million VND / kg. After picking up, Mr. Thanh processed many dishes to serve diners such as pretending to braise fish, pretend soup, pretending to roast honey leaves, and pretending to fry eggs … If he can save a lot, he proceeds to preserve it. separate to be used all year. “From the beginning of the crop up to now I have picked up 2 times, each time about 10-20kg. If selling fresh, it is only about 500,000 VND / kg but processed, each kilo can make 4 plates with the price from 200-300,000 VND / plate. So, each kilo of pretense will cost about 1 million dong ”, Mr. Thanh shared. I pretended to be a phytoplankton, after molting, only lived a few hours on the water. According to the book “Ten thousand questions of why”, I pretend to belong to the set of Ephemeral Wings, a set belonging to a group of Palaeoptera, together with the order of Dragonflies, whose scientific name is Ephemeroptera. They are twofold. After the second time, they only have one pair of wings and then live for only a few hours. The longest lifespan of pretending is not more than a week. The larvae of the child pretend to live in the water, after rolling a few times to become the same. When it becomes a coincidence, its body is soft, light emitting, the two antennae on the head are like a dagger, at the end of the abdomen grows 3 tail feathers. In the evening the children pretend to gather, fly over the water to perform mating. After the sex is finished, pretend the female spawns the eggs in the water. The vast majority of them to the next day “deadlock”.

Child supermodels show fashion At the announcement ceremony, the organizers also revealed 6 faces representing the program, including: Huu Nhat, Phan Trang Anh, Tran Phuong Anh, Nguyen Hoa Tu Quyen, Susi Bao Tran, Vu Nguyen Khanh Linh. These are all particularly familiar and impressive names for fashion connoisseurs. Although they are young, these child models have had a lot of experience on domestic and international catwalks. 650 child models gathered at the 2021 child supermodel congress. Head of the Organizing Committee, designer Le Tran Dac Ngoc shared: “The 2021 Child Supermodel Congress is not only a playground for young talents who are passionate about fashion, but also discovers and incubates potential child models for fashion industry in Vietnam and the world. Not only that, but this is also a bridge to bring the young designers closer to the fashion-loving public. They are all passionate students and are studying fashion design at universities across the country. For the first time in Vietnam, the students realized their collections and performed on the big catwalk with the consultation and support of leading experts in the country and internationally. The 2021 Child Supermodel Congress is a special mark on the journey to bring Vietnamese children’s fashion to the big sea, contributing to the “voice” of Vietnamese fashion rising strongly in Asia and the world. .

650 child models gathered at the 2021 child supermodel congress. At the announcement ceremony, the organizers also revealed 6 faces representing the program, including child models: Huu Nhat, Phan Trang Anh, Tran Phuong Anh, Nguyen Hoa Tu Quyen, Susi Bao Tran, Vu Nguyen Khanh Linh. These are all particularly familiar and impressive names for fashion connoisseurs. Although they are young, these child models have a lot of experience on catwalks. Designer Le Tran Dac Ngoc, the head of the organizer, shared: “The 2021 Child Supermodel Congress is not only a playground for young talents who are passionate about fashion, but also discovers and incubates potential child models for fashion industry in Vietnam and the world. Not only that, but this is also a bridge to bring the young designers closer to the fashion-loving public. They are all passionate students and are studying fashion design at universities across the country. For the first time in Vietnam, the students realized their collections and performed on a big catwalk with the consultation and support of leading experts in the country and internationally. 650 child models gathered at the 2021 child supermodel congress The 2021 Children’s Supermodel Congress is the bridge to bring Vietnamese “long legs” to the international hit catwalks.

After many months of closing due to the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic, Ha Long tourism is gradually recovering to reopen its doors. A series of tourism stimulus packages have been activated by Quang Ninh province with the desire to welcome about 10 million visitors this year, but the number of visitors coming to Ha Long is still moderate and showing signs of slack. Present at Ha Long International Passenger Port on the morning of April 10, the reporter Tien Phong noted the deserted and lonely images at this port. Inside, the ticketing area is not for tourists, just whispering loudly and loudly by the free staff to chat. At the pier, hundreds of cruise ships are lying dormant by the wharf These are rare images of Ha Long tourism before the pandemic occurs “We are dying, dying to wait for customers. Not running the train, but we still have to operate, repair and maintain the ship. Bank interest is still payable every month. Rice still has to eat but tau cannot run”, said a ship owner anchored at the port boredly Ha Long international passenger ship port is good on weekends (April 10). In particular, many moored ships are deteriorating due to not being operated and maintained periodically On the shore, the restaurant is closed, there is no longer the bustle and excitement of the busiest neighborhood in Ha Long At 8:00 am on weekends, there are no passersby on Ha Long and Bai Chay streets Ha Long Sun World, the best entertainment area, only holds a few hundred guests Restaurants and eateries also reopened, but only shop owners and staff wait for customers Tuan Chau international passenger ship is in the same situation. The yard is only full of private cars, of which more than half are cars of staff working at the port Train owners and ticket brokers gather and chat in the waiting room area The instructor dejectedly sat with her face down on the desk At the wharf, a group of tourists took the highway to Co To. The boat visiting the bay was still damp because there were no visitors.