蝉鸣响，眨眼夏日长；树叶晃，树荫下乘凉。树下一簇又一簇的龙船花，如红色的绣球般灿烂绽放。
Cicadas chirp and blink, summer is long; Leaves sway, enjoying the shade under the trees. Under the tree, clusters of dragon boat flowers bloomed brilliantly like red hydrangeas.
说起龙船花，我在幼年时期就认识。那时候，母亲经常带我回外婆家，当时我的外婆还在开茶店，一般都很忙，母亲回去会帮外婆分担茶店的生意。外婆有时忙完了会过来陪我，为了不让我感到无聊或者厌烦，外婆会带着我玩各类游戏，什么弹珠、猜拳、木头人等等，有很多我已经记不太清了。但我还记得最有趣的是“捉蚂蚱”和“织花圈”。外婆的茶店旁有绿化带，里边有花丛和杂草，只要见着蚂蚱，外婆就会缓缓伸出一只手，伸到估计能成功捕捉的距离，就以迅雷不及掩耳之势捉住蚂蚱，这样我就能得到一只绿油油的蚂蚱了。当然，外婆也教我如何区分蚂蚱和螳螂，避免捉错了被螳螂弄伤。
Speaking of dragon boat flowers, I have known them since childhood. At that time, my mother often took me back to my mother-in-law's house. At that time, my grandmother was still running a tea shop and was usually very busy. When my mother went back, she would help her grandmother share the business of the tea shop. My grandmother sometimes comes over to accompany me after finishing her work. In order not to make me feel bored or bored, she takes me to play various games such as marbles, rock paper scissors, wooden figures, etc., many of which I can't quite remember. But I still remember the most interesting ones were "catching grasshoppers" and "weaving wreaths". There is a green belt next to my grandmother's tea shop, with flowers and weeds inside. Whenever I see a grasshopper, my grandmother will slowly extend her hand to a distance where she is likely to successfully catch it, and then catch it with lightning speed. This way, I can get a green grasshopper. Of course, my grandmother also taught me how to distinguish between grasshoppers and mantises, in order to avoid getting hurt by mantises if I catch the wrong one.
在绿化带里的花丛中，最多的还是龙船花丛。有时外婆为了管住我不要乱跑，就会摘几簇龙船花过来，教我织花圈——先把花的基部去掉，然后把一朵花的花丝插在另一朵花瓣的中间，这样两朵花就会连在一起。只要重复多次，就能得到一个较长的“花线”，再把头和尾相接，就可以得到一个花圈了。外婆织一个花圈用不了多长时间，当时的我也很想织一个比外婆的更大的花圈。可是那时候的我缺乏耐心，总是急于求成，因此连一个花圈都织不好，于是就在那一直研究怎么织成一个圈。在这期间，外婆也提醒我不要心急，要一步一个脚印来……
Among the flowers in the green belt, the most abundant are still dragon boat flowers. Sometimes, in order to control me from running around, my grandmother would pick a few clusters of dragon boat flowers and teach me how to weave wreaths - first remove the base of the flowers, and then insert the filaments of one flower into the middle of another petal, so that the two flowers would be connected together. As long as you repeat it multiple times, you can get a longer "flower line", and then connect the head and tail to get a wreath. It won't take long for my grandmother to weave a wreath, and at that time, I also really wanted to weave a bigger wreath than her. But at that time, I lacked patience and was always eager for success, so I couldn't even weave a wreath well. So I kept studying how to weave it into a circle. During this period, my grandmother also reminded me not to be impatient and to take one step at a time
现在，我仍会在空闲时去摘簇龙船花来织花圈。相比幼年时期，我已然多了几分耐心和细心，很轻松地就能织好一个花圈。我织好花圈后，一阵清凉的风吹来，把花圈吹落在地，散开了。我望着它，觉得这就像是我的幼年时光，已经逝去只能回味。
Now, I still pick clusters of dragon boat flowers to weave wreaths in my free time. Compared to my childhood, I have become more patient and meticulous, and can easily weave a wreath. After I finished weaving the wreath, a cool breeze blew and scattered it to the ground. I look at it and feel like my childhood has passed, only to reminisce.