上个世纪六十年代初,国家遭受三年自然灾害时的一个冬天,正当饥饿无情地肆虐人们的时候,刚念初中的我为了替父母解忧和换取自己的读书费用,在寒假里,与邻居小伙伴到故乡小镇北面十里之遥的大山里去砍柴。在山脚下的路旁,我熟识了一棵老榆树。这棵老榆树实在太老了。它露出地面的几条粗根,被车碾人踏磨得光光的。极粗的树干上布满了大大小小的结包和累累瘢痕,底部烂出一个朽洞。树皮绽裂之处裸露着灰白色的木质。它伸向半空密密匝匝的大小枝杈,有几枝枯死年久,黑漆漆的。但是,它看上去却仍苍老而不失凛然,古迈而不失刚健。老干虬枝游龙般盘旋于半空,分蘖出粗细不一的枝节,结包堆积成的树疙瘩极似健美运动员身上隆起的肌肉,有力的支撑着上面庞大的树冠。我第一次见到它,就有 In the early 1960s, one winter when the country suffered three years of natural disasters, just as hunger and ruthless rage of people, I just went to junior high school in order to worry about their parents and in exchange for their own reading costs in the winter vacation, and neighbors Small partner to the town ten miles north of the mountain to cut wood. At the foot of the hill, I got acquainted with an old elm tree. This old elm tree is too old. It exposed a few rough roots on the ground, was grinded by the car grinding lightly. Very thick trunk covered with large and small knots and a scar, the bottom rotten a rotten hole. Bark bark exposed with white wood. It stretched to the size of the semilunar-toothed twigs, a few dead and dark, dark. However, it seems old but still awe-inspiring, ancient and yet healthy. Laoqijian You Long like hovering in mid-air, tillering out the thickness of the branches, knot accumulation of the tree bumps like the bodybuilders muscular body uplift, effectively supporting the huge crown above. I saw it for the first time