He maha aku haerenga puta noa i te whenua o te raki me te tonga o te whenua.
I runga i te tereina haere, he pai ki ahau te noho i te taha o te matapihi o te tereina, e titiro ana ki ngā tirohanga i waho. I aua mara whānui o te whenua tupu, i ētahi wā ka kite ahau i ngā kaiahuwhenua e mau ana i ngā pōtae kakau witi uaua e ahua kanapa ana.
E mōhio ana ahau, ko ēnei pōtae kakau witi kanapa, koinei te tirohanga tino ataahua o te haerenga.
Ia kite ahau i te pōtae kakau witi i runga i te māhunga o aua teina kaiahuwhenua, ka rongo ahau i tētahi momo nekehanga ngaro. I ahau e tamariki ana, he maha ngā wā i mau ai ahau i te pōtae kakau witi, i a au e kai ana i ngā mara ataahua o tōku kāinga.
I te marama o Ākuhata 2001, i haere ahau ki te mātakitaki i te whare whakamaumaharatanga o te Whakakeketanga o te 1 o Ākuhata i Nanchang. I te kokonga rawhiti o te papa tuarua o te whare whakaaturanga, he maha ngā mātāra i mau i te pōtae kakau pango o ō rātou makawe. Ko ēnei pōtae kakau, i roto i te wahangu, e whakaatu mai ana i te pono o tō rātou ariki ki te hurihanga.
I te kitenga i ēnei pōtae kakau witi kua mōhiotia, i tino ohorere tōku hinengaro. Nā te mea, i mua atu i tēnei, kāore au i whakaaro ki te whanaungatanga i waenga i ngā pōtae kakau witi me te hurihanga Hainamana.
He rite ēnei pōtae kakau witi ki te hītori o te hurihanga Hainamana.
I te huarahi roa o Poutū-te-rangi, e hia ngā hōia o te Ope Taua Whero e mau ana i ngā pōtae kakau witi i whawhai ki te awa o Xiangjiang, i whiti i te awa o Jinsha, i horomia te piriti o Luding, i whiti i te maunga hukarere, e hia ngā pōtae kakau witi mai i ngā patunga ki te upoko o ngā patunga, ā, i tīmata i tētahi haerenga hou o te ao hurihuri.
Ko tēnei pōtae kakau witi noa, rerekē hoki, i tāpirihia ki te kaha me te matotoru o te hītori o te hurihanga Hainamana, i riro hei rārangi tirohanga ataahua, i riro hoki hei āniwaniwa kanapa i te Hīkoi Roa!
I ēnei rā, ko te hunga e whakamahi ana i ngā pōtae kakau witi ko te hunga mahi pāmu, ko te hunga e anga atu ana ki te whenua whānui, e rui ana i te tumanako, e hauhake ana i te turanga rauemi e tautoko ana i te hanganga o te whenua tupu. Ā, ka taea e rātou te tuku i tētahi tohu o te hauhautanga, arā, ko te pōtae kakau witi.
Ā, ko te whakahua i te pōtae kakau witi he whakahua anō hoki i tōku pāpā.
He tauira noa tōku pāpā i ngā tau 1950 o te rautau kua taha ake nei. I muri i tana wehenga atu i te kura, ka piki ia ki te papa toru putu te teitei, ā, ka tuhituhi i tōna taiohinga ki te uku.
Heoi, i aua tau motuhake, i whakakahoretia te tika o tōku pāpā ki te eke ki te atamira. Nō reira i kakahuria e ia tōna pōtae kakau witi tawhito, ā, ka haere ki ngā mara o tōna kāinga ki te mahi kaha.
I taua wā, i āwangawanga tōku whaea kei kore tōku pāpā e tae mai. He menemene tonu tōna pāpā, ā, i rūrū i tōna pōtae kakau witi i roto i tōna ringa: "Kua mau pōtae kakau witi ōku tūpuna i te wā e haere mai ana, ināianei kua mau pōtae kakau witi anō hoki ahau, i roto i te ao, kāore he uaua. Haunga tēnā, e tino mōhio ana ahau ka pai ngā mea katoa."
Ae, kāore i roa ka hoki anō tōku pāpā ki te papa tapu. Mai i taua wā, i roto i te akomanga o tōku pāpā, he kaupapa tonu mō ngā pōtae kakau witi.
Ināianei, whai muri i tana reti, ka mau taku pāpā i tētahi pōtae kakau witi i ia wā e haere ana ia ki waho. I muri i tana hokinga ki te kāinga, ka horoia e ia te puehu o tana pōtae kakau witi i mua i te whakairi ki te pakitara.
Wā tuku: Hepetema-15-2022
