父亲是八月出生,那年满山的枣林红彤彤的。祖母为了纪念这个珍贵的时刻,便亲手在老家的院子里栽了一颗枣树。《杂五行书》有云“服枣核中人二七枚,辟疾病。能常服枣核中人及刺,百邪不复干矣。”由此看来,这棵树是为甫出生的父亲而种的。枣树与父亲同龄,我出世的时候,它已经近三十岁了。印象里,枣树很老、很矮,仿佛不曾年轻过。我一探手就能挨着主干的顶部;它也不粗,只有两双手的长 His father was born in August, that year full of jujube red bright. In memory of this precious moment, my grandmother planted a jujube tree in her home yard. “Miscellaneous Five Books” There are clouds “serving jujube nucleus human twenty-seven, the provision of disease .Often served the jujube nucleus and thorns, hundreds of evil no longer carry on.” "In view of this tree is for just Kind of born father. Jujube and his father the same age, when I was born, it has been nearly thirty years old. The impression, jujube is very old, very short, as if never young. As soon as I explored my hand, I was able to sit next to the top of the trunk; it was not thick, only the length of both hands