一我五岁的时候,外婆五十五岁。我还没有出生时,外公就患病死了。我从小就和外婆一起住在冷家湾,那是一个有山有树又有水的大山湾。湾里的大男人们很少,都在外边做事,没有回家。外婆在土屋的门前种了五株菊花。雨水节那天,外婆拿着小栽锄把几株菊花全部挖出来,叫我用小铁锹将泥土捣松。外婆用剪刀把老菊枝剪了,将五株菊花又全部重栽。外婆说,这叫翻根,翻了根的菊花才会开得更好。 When I was five, my grandmother was fifty-five years old. My grandfather died of illness when I was not born yet. I grew up living in Lengjiawan with my grandmother, a mountain bay with trees and water. Little men in the bay, are working outside, did not go home. Grandmother planted five chrysanthemums in front of Tsuchiya. Rainy day, my grandmother holding a small plank hoe to dig out a few strains of chrysanthemum, told me to use a small shovel to smash the soil. Grandmother with scissors to cut the old daisy branch, the five plants and all heavy replanting. Grandmother said that this is called turning the roots of the daisy will open better.