Rubber trees in the red soil of the East

1. Rubber forests are beautiful in every season. The beauty of nature revolves with time. The main color is the green of the lush branches and leaves from March to November. In late autumn, when the weather is cold, it is also the time when rubber trees enter the leaf-changing season. Interestingly, rubber leaves do not turn yellow at once but change in turn with many different colors. This is also the time when rubber forests put on their most brilliant coat of the year.

Rubber forest in leaf changing season

Layers of yellow, red, brown, and green leaves intermingle with each other, making the traveler's steps hesitate a bit because he feels like he is lost in a maple forest in a cold country. Only when you have the opportunity to walk around under the rubber trees at dawn, when the morning light shines through the leaves, can you fully feel the splendid beauty of the rubber forest in the season of changing leaves.

In the last days of winter, just a passing breeze is enough to make the leaves on the branches flutter like countless fluttering butterflies and then gently land on the carpet of dry, crispy leaves. The once lush rubber canopy now has only bare branches like a watercolor painting between the sky and earth.

When spring comes, the green buds compete to show off their colors, marking the new harvest season.

2. Since the end of the 19th century, the first rubber trees brought by the French have quickly adapted to the red basalt soil here. The roots dig deep into the ground to keep the tree trunk steady, while at the same time absorbing nutrients into a source of life. Whether planted along the road or deep in the forest, rubber trees do not need anyone to know, always diligently growing tall, welcoming the sunlight. To give life the pure white sap, the tree must go through pain all its life with the wound on its trunk deepening day by day.

Each rubber tree with its canopy spreads out, intertwining to form sturdy forests against the harshness of nature. When old, the tree trunks continue to be used to make valuable products. Rubber wood is durable, has beautiful grain, and is considered an environmentally friendly wood because it is only exploited when the tree no longer produces resin.

The process of growth, adaptation and development of rubber trees somehow reflects the character of the people in the Southeast region who are hard-working, loyal, indomitable and steadfast. Over time, many generations of people have come and settled on this land. They have faced countless dangers from poisonous water, wild forests; from oppression and exploitation by tyrants. However, they have joined hands to unite to resist the injustice and injustice hanging over their necks. Then victory and justice have belonged to the honest workers.

3. She said that her childhood was closely associated with rubber trees. Since she was a child, she saw rows and layers of rubber trees stretching endlessly around her. The green rubber trees always sheltered and provided a livelihood for her family as well as many others who came here to make a living.

Adults start work at 2-3am, so children like me have been used to being independent and taking care of everything in the house since childhood. When we are a little older, we help our parents carry buckets to each tree to pour latex or bring food and water from home to the plot. Under the canopy of the rubber forest, there are many fun games associated with childhood. In the dry season, we gather to collect rubber seeds to sell to people who collect essential oils. In the rainy season, thanks to digging for termite mushrooms and picking wild vegetables, the children have a little money to save for books.

Rubber trees contribute to changing the face of the country, creating prosperity in today's homeland and a full life for tens of thousands of workers.

My parents came here to start a business with nothing. The land of the Southeast is full of vitality and the kind neighbors have warmly welcomed and supported us. The people of the Southeast are enthusiastic and generous, accepting everyone, without excluding, discriminating or prying into the past of anyone who comes here. Those who have lived before teach those who have come after, treating each other as relatives. Everyone works, lives together, and shares the joys and sorrows on this land filled with human love.

In the middle of the rubber forest, although there are still difficulties, life is always warm and joyful with the love of neighbors and villagers. And now my family has become a true Eastern people, always opening their arms to everyone.

4. Rubber trees also carry within them the heroic historical story of the working class, with Phu Rieng Do - one of the first workers' movements in Vietnam carried out by rubber workers at Phu Rieng plantation, this is where the first Indochinese Communist Party cell in the Southeast region was established.

Moreover, in the two resistance wars against foreign invaders, rubber forests were a place to protect our troops and act as a "heavenly net" to stop the enemy, contributing to resounding victories.

After peace was restored, natural rubber became one of the country's main export products. Rubber trees contributed to changing the face of the country, creating prosperity in the homeland today and a full life for tens of thousands of workers.

In the red soil of the East, the rubber tree is not only a tree but also a long story associated with the love of land and people...

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