15/08/2024
Lychee - Brown Root.
When talking about brown root, I remember when I was a child, I followed my grandmother to the forest to pick bamboo shoots. As we went, my grandmother told me: in the old days, when we were poor, I often went to this forest to get brown roots to mix with steamed rice to feed my father and my aunts. Now everyone is grown up and healthy and I have become a grandmother.
In my generation, I no longer eat brown roots mixed with rice, but instead I eat cassava mixed with rice, 2 parts cassava and 1 part rice, but I eat a lot, because there is no food. Every now and then, when some women from the lowlands bring fish sauce to the village, the whole village goes to the beginning of the road to wait. For every bowl of rice, I can exchange it for a dozen fish sauce, which is also called seafood, so I really like it. And that fish is very salty, so I usually pound it with sour bamboo shoots from my hometown, which we call "Chéo may pột", and it is very delicious. Now, in the countryside, it is a luxury dish, so this dish is called a specialty when distinguished guests come, the host will make it to serve.
Back to the story of Thai people's Fabric and Brown Root, here people often grow cotton and raise silkworms to weave fabric, a process that lasts from month to month, year to year. Weaving fabric is part of the daily life of our local people. Weaving fabric this year for next year's use, and since we know how to weave our own fabric to make clothes, the main dye for the color tones that the elderly in the village still use the most is brown root. Because brown root grows naturally, is easy to find and easy to make, so clothes and blankets mostly use brown root.
Nowadays, it's different, few people still use hand-woven fabric or brown root-dyed fabric. Because weaving takes a long time, it’s hard for children to interfere, and it’s not convenient for washing, so they just go to the store to choose that set quickly. But then again, some young people who live a natural way are now hot for brown root-dyed fabric.
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