我爱南国,也爱南国的榕树。“红豆生南国,春来发几枝。”由于唐诗上有这两句,好几位北方及江南的朋友向我打听过红豆的印象,或托我觅寄过红豆。其实,红豆树虽生于南方,我们常住在南方的人也不容易见到,未免太罕有,太矜贵了。至于榕树,就完全不同,无论城乡,到处皆有;它同人们的生活息息 I love the South, but also love the banyan tree in the South. “Because of the two words in the Tang poetry, several friends from the north and south China asked me about the impression of red beans or asked me to search for red beans.” In fact, although the red beans were born in the south, we are often not easily seen in the south, it is too rare, too expensive. As for the banyan trees, they are totally different, no matter in urban or rural areas; they live in harmony with people’s lives