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The author:(作者)aaapublished in(发表于) 2013/12/16 0:37:32 Hosted American newspaper had winter cabbage Beijing recollection
"The United States the New York Times website reported on December 11," question: as winter draws near, China covered in green (reporter andelu·ya Jacobs from Beijing)
Grey skies are not only reliable sign of winter has finally come to the Chinese capital. Small vendors selling baked sweet potato with their modified tanks occupying the street corner of oven. Also, common yard, high-rise buildings in Beijing community within the corridor, as well as on the windowsill, piled mounds of cabbage.
62-year old retired government employee Wang Jianrong (sound) said: "when you're at the door and see a lot of cabbage, you'll feel confident about won't starve in the winter. ”
BMW car in a crowded, upscale department stores and supermarkets in the city has all kinds of goods, storage of cabbage is an instinct left over from proved era of shortage of materials still haunts the people of a certain age.
Every November, storage of cabbage began to peak, Beijing suburb farmers harvested cabbage shipped to a large number of new downtown sidewalk sale, selling Chinese cabbage won government permission.
46 year old vegetable farmer Li Xueqing (sound) planted Chinese cabbage for 20 years, he slept on the sidewalk next to the pile of cabbage. He said that snapped up within a two-week peak of Chinese cabbage in Beijing, where he sold nearly 1 ton of cabbage.
But he deplored the brutal decline in business of Chinese cabbage. He pointed out that people on average purchases less than 100 pounds (1 pound equals 0.45 kg---the note of the network), was lower than the early 80 500-pound, when market reforms began transforming China-commune's agricultural system, making richer food supply.
While the practice of young Beijing people make fun of storing Chinese cabbage, but they are often forced to let old people do at home. Many old people rarely eat their stored cabbage, having to throw away in the spring of the following year the remaining rotting cabbage.
A 68 year old, only willing to disclose surname Xia aunt said: "my 90 year old mother asked me out today and see how the quality of Chinese cabbage and are cheap. Until we buy enough cabbage, she stopped letting me out. No Chinese cabbage she couldn't live without it. ”
However, the practice of buying cheap Chinese cabbage once a year simply treated as an innate behavior is unfair to seek livelihoods.
60 year old retired teacher by Yang Ren (sound) said cabbage in storage of meaning beyond food. "This is a time of a simple life of Miss, maybe old people romanticize this period," she said while strapped to a bicycle in Chinese cabbage back seat, "when my father saw cabbage piled at the 16-floor balcony when he smiled, he knew everything. "(Reference)
【美国《纽约时报》网站12月11日报道】题：随着冬季临近，中国被绿色覆盖(记者安德鲁·雅各布斯发自北京)
灰暗的天空并非冬季已最终降临中国首都的唯一可靠迹象。叫卖烤红薯的小摊贩用他们改装过的油桶烤炉占据着街道的角落。还有，在北京社区的公共院子里、高楼大厦的走廊内以及窗台上，都堆放着成堆的大白菜。
62岁的退休政府职员王建荣(音)说：“当你在门外看到一堆大白菜，你将对不会在冬天饿死感到信心十足。”
在一个挤满宝马车、高档商场和拥有各类商品的超市的城市里，储存大白菜是一个遗留下来的本能，证明物资匮乏的年代仍然萦绕在一定年龄的人心头。
每年11月，储存大白菜开始进入高峰，此时北京郊区的农民把大量新收获的大白菜运至市区的人行道上出售，这样出售大白菜获得了政府的许可。
46岁的菜农李学庆(音)种植大白菜已达20年，他就睡在人行道上堆积的大白菜旁。他说，在北京抢购大白菜的两周高峰期内，他每天卖出近1吨大白菜。
但他哀叹大白菜生意的无情下滑。他指出，人们的平均购买量少于100磅(1磅约合0.45千克———本网注)，低于上世纪80年代初的500磅，那时市场改革开始改变中国公社式农业体系，使得食物供应更加丰富。
尽管年轻的北京人嘲笑储存大白菜的做法，但他们常常被迫放任家中老人这样做。许多老人很少能吃完他们储存的大白菜，不得不在来年春季扔掉剩下的腐烂大白菜。
一位68岁、只愿透露姓氏的夏姓阿姨说：“我90岁的母亲今天让我出来看看大白菜质量如何以及是否便宜。直到我们购买到足够大白菜，她才会停止让我出来。没有大白菜她就活不下去。”
但是，把这些每年一度购买廉价大白菜的做法简单视为与生俱来的寻求生计的行为是不公平的。
60岁的退休教师杨人致(音)说，储存大白菜的意义超出了食物。“这是对一个生活简单的时期的怀念，也许老人把这段时期浪漫化了，”她一边说着，一边把大白菜绑在自行车后座上，“当我父亲看到大白菜堆放在我们16楼的阳台上时，他笑了，他知道一切都会顺利。”（参考消息）
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