Prose: Singing in a low voice, Yangshe Village

Mondo Culture Updated on 2024-01-31

Wen Chen Yingshi

People gathered, watched and helped each other, multiplied, and became villages. However, when I stepped into Yangshe Village, which is only a few kilometers away from the county seat, I completely subverted my imagination of "village" - I couldn't find the feeling of a "group" natural village in the whole village, and the villagers were almost all scattered in the mountains and mountains. In the clouds and mist, Yangshe Village seems to be a string of pearls hanging in the air, and being in it makes me wonder if I am in Tianfu or in the worldUnder the lush forest and bamboo, the farmhouses are like naturally beautiful girls, or they don't look at each other without powder, or they want to talk about it silently. The mountain, the water, the man, the legend ......The wonderful prose like "the form is scattered but the spirit is not dispersed" makes me fascinated and unforgettable.

A stone tells a poignant swan song.

Chen Bin, a villager, told me that the name of Yangshe Village is derived from a stone in the village that resembles a sheep's horn. With great curiosity, under his leadership, he found the "sheep's horn stone" that was regarded as a sacred object by the villagers.

However, when I saw this stone, it was a big difference from my imagination - this stone is too small and exquisite, neither tall nor big, and it is a bit of a landmark stone to be placed in a small park, but in this majestic mountain, in comparison, it is not conspicuous at all.

Chen Bin saw that I was less interested when I came, and said with a smile, "The mountain is not high, and if there is an immortal, it is famous;The water is not deep, and if there is a dragon, it will be spiritual. Although this stone is small, it has a beautiful and moving legend. ”

He couldn't wait to tell me a story that has been passed down from mouth to generation by the people of the Sheep Society.

200 meters away from the north of the sheep's horn stone, there is a small basin surrounded by mountains called the sheep's stone pass, which was originally a rippling blue wave and unfathomable lake in ancient times. The wife of a young man by the lake was dragged into the lake by a water monster in the lake because of collecting medicine, and the mother died of fruitless anger when she heard the news of looking for her daughter-in-law. In order to find his wife, he wanted to see people and corpses, and at the same time avenged his mother, and desperately dug a gap with a hoe to drain the lake. But day after day, the hoe dug up handful after handful, and drained the lake but it was still far away. By the time the last hoe became like a hammer, the work was not yet one percent complete.

The stubborn young man swore to bite a gap even with his teeth. Finally, with all his strength, he fell to the ground exhausted.

Suddenly, a sheep crashed into the rock that the young man had dug like an arrow flying from the sky, and was knocked into the flesh and blood, and the blood flowed to the young man's mouth, and the sheep slowly closed his eyes towards the young man with great nostalgia and helplessness.

In a daze, the young man heard someone calling, "Drink goat's blood with ram's horns, drink goat's blood with ram's horns......”

The young man turned his head and drank the blood of the sheep, and tearfully removed the horns. Strange to say, this ram's horn is like a god helping to sharpen iron like clay. Soon, as a gap quickly sinks, a lake finally drains up, revealing bare pebbles at the bottom of the lake. The young man chased after the water monster and searched for traces, and found the dragon king to ask for an explanation. The Dragon King was moved by this, and personally went to the Heavenly Palace to ask Taishang Laojun for two Soul Rejuvenation Pills, resurrecting the young man's mother and wife. Since then, husbands and wives have taken root in the mountains with their children and enjoyed their families.

In order to repay the sheep for his righteous act of calmly dying, the young man buried the remains of the sheep. A miracle happened, and a stone like a sheep's horn grew on the tomb, which later generations called "sheep's horn stone". People call the place near Yangjiao Stone "Yangshi Village", and then it evolves from "Yangshi Village" to the current "Yangshe Village".

A friend said that there are only three ways to develop tourism now: one is "fake", there is no natural landscape, and the conditions are created to create landscape;The second is to "spread rumors" and make up the storyThe third is to "build momentum" and expand influence with the help of publicity. This gentleman's view is biased, but it is not unreasonable to tap local cultural resources and strengthen publicity and promotion. Therefore, the poignant story of Yangshe Village gave me and other literati an impulse to create literature.

A curtain of waterfalls shows off the charming ecology.

Led by the villagers, we followed a winding mountain road up the stream, with green grass on both sides of the road and a clear and sweet stream. The sound of the mountain spring is like a curling fairy music, refreshing people's hearts. Before you can relax your senses, a curtain of waterfalls cascades down in front of you, shining in the sunlight.

I sat on the stone under the waterfall, looking at the white clouds in the sky and the flying beads of the waterfall, feeling the romance and tenderness of the water splash under my feet, and clearly feeling the rhythm of nature and the pulse of life, which is a kind of inspiring force, a kind of warmth that people can't help but want to embrace. I enjoyed the calmness of the mountains, the agility of the water, and the refreshment, relaxation and comfort of the blending of mountains and rivers, and the harmony between man and nature.

Go up further, there are two curtains in the waterfall, such as three slim beauties looking forward to flirting, a graceful posture of a small jasper.

Because the top of the mountain is called Monkey Ridge, the waterfall is named "Spirit Monkey Waterfall", which is a treasure given by God to the people of Yangshe.

Along the way, the fragrance of mountain flowers floats in the fresh air, sometimes elegant, sometimes strong, like the beauty of Yangshe Village, the beauty of self-confidence is plain face to the sky, the beauty of self-esteem is the beauty of thin powder, and it is always appropriate to apply light makeup and heavy makeup. I soaked in the spirituality of this mountain wind and water charm to the fullest, so that my body and mind were more aura and less impetuous, and from then on became light, agile, romantic and beautiful.

Villagers told me that natural landscapes like Yangshe Village abound. Unfortunately, due to the late day, we couldn't see a few more places.

Back to the village, Luo Yaquan, the village party secretary, told me that in recent years, Yangshe Village has firmly established the concept of "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets", closely followed the goal of "green mountains, green water, beautiful scenery, livable and prosperous", vigorously promoted the construction of ecological civilization, and embarked on the road of green development with blue sky and green land, thriving industry, livable and business-friendly, and simple folk customs, and has successively won the "Rural Revitalization Demonstration Village in Hunan and Jiangxi Border District", "Beautiful Rural Demonstration Village in Chenzhou", "Concentric Demonstration Village in Chenzhou City", "Rural Revitalization Demonstration Village in Guidong County" and "Credit Village in Guidong County" Guidong County Civilized Village" and "Guidong County Excellent Party Branch" and other titles.

A seat of the country is full of nostalgia.

Sweet or not, hometown water;Kiss or not, hometown people. Although my temples are gray, my native accent has not changed. When the villagers heard that I was returning to my hometown as a writer for interviews, there was no superfluous politeness and red tape, but all cordiality and trust.

Liu Lifang, the first secretary of the county financial ** center in Yangshe Village and the leader of the work team, is not only gentle and beautiful, generous, but also dignified and virtuous, and empatheticIt is both pure and sincere, but also mature and optimistic. It can be seen from her speech and demeanor that she has long been in harmony with the local people. She told me that more than 2,000 acres of Chinese medicinal materials, more than 200 acres of yellow peaches and more than 3,000 acres of nanzhu have been planted in Yangshe Village. There are 33 homestays in the village, and it is difficult to find a "house" in summer, and it accepts more than 50,000 tourists throughout the year. The villagers' money bags were bulging, and their waists were straight. What is particularly gratifying is that half of the more than 1,000 people in the village have walked out of the sheep society and devoted themselves to the modernization of the motherland with their diligence and wisdom throughout the country. The transportation in the village is even more convenient, and almost every group has a cement road.

The ** group that traveled with me, the pen name Apple, wrote on the Internet** is famous, and is the only beautiful writer in Guidong who has won dignity and pride by earning manuscript fees by writing. Don't look at her shy, shy, soft-spoken, and soft-spoken, she hides a delicate and clear heart. She said that the poetic life, high-spirited spirit and longing for a better life of the people in Yangshe Village made her fascinated and excited. In the future, she must write the beauty of Yangshe Village into her works.

The villagers warmly prepared a dinner for us and made a table of authentic hometown dishes. Native chicken, duck, eggs, ginger, garlic, winter bamboo shoots, as well as rice noodles, beans, yellow glutinous cakes, and the best-selling "Yangshe spring tofu" ...... inside and outside the county

Guo Hongbo, Secretary of the Party Committee of Lijiang Town, Li Zhimin, Principal of Guidong No. 2 Middle School, Zhang Qianbao, Director of the County Financial ** Center, and Guo Lansheng, Deputy Director, also came to reunite after a long absence, and spent a warm weekend night in Yangshe Village.

Nostalgia is like wine, a little romantic;The sheep society is picturesque and a little warm. The soft and beautiful Yangshe Village is half fireworks, half poetic.

With the beautiful singing voice down the mountain, and then reluctantly look back at Yangshe Village, I saw the lights on the mountain like the stars in the sky, I seemed to return from the Milky Way in the sky.

The nostalgia will never be forgotten, and the ...... of Yangshe Village will be sung in a low voice

The author is a member of the Chinese Writers Association, a member of the Chinese Reportage Society, a member of the Chinese Prose Literature Society, a graduate of the ninth writers' class of the Academy of Letters, a native of Guidong, Hunan, and has published a long story ** "Official Insurance", "Color Insurance", "Business Insurance" and a selection of literary works "Distant Girl").

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