There is a Tao village in Yixian County, Anhui Province, which is the place where the descendants of Tao Yuanming, the founder of the pastoral poetry school, resided. Tao Gengsi, a descendant of the Tao family, once lived in Tao Village, and there are still a large number of historical monuments and cultural relics in the village, such as Tao ancestors, Tao ancestral halls, Tao family ponds, Taoling ancient post roads, "Tao genealogy" and so on.
Walking into Tao Village, you will be greeted by the most representative archway of Hui culture. On the high steps, the word "Shou Humble Garden" is written in the middle of the towering torii. The simple and exquisite stone carvings and antique buildings allow us to get rid of the hustle and bustle of the city and enter the pastoral culture.
The name of "Shou Humble Garden" comes from Tao Yuanming's poem "Open up the wilderness in the south, and return to the garden field". It reminds us that we must be clumsy in our lives and things, and keep the original innocence and self in our hearts. Walk through the archway and go up the stairs is the gatehouse of the ancient dwelling, there is a screen on the side of the house, and the full text of the "Peach Blossom Spring" is engraved. In this situation, read this article again, and have a lot of thoughts in mind.
Walking forward, there is an ancient wall, and green plants grow wantonly on the wall. Stepping through the small doorway, it suddenly dawned on a circular pond. The clear water, the blue sky, and the slightly floating clouds make it feel like stepping into the sky. Later generations named this pond "the old abyss", from Tao Yuanming's poem "The bird loves the old forest, and the pond fish thinks of the old abyss". The old abyss of the water and sky seems to tell visitors that there is a thick history, the fragrance of culture, the beautiful scenery of nature, and a corner that makes us quiet and relax.
On one side of the pond near the village is a corridor of ancient buildings, under which are round arches. From a distance, dozens of arches are arranged in a ring, like a space-time tunnel. The children who traveled with them ran happily between the doorways, laughing crisply. At that moment, I couldn't help but wonder if the tourists who came and went, the villagers who lived here, and the laughter that everyone stayed here could travel through time and space, go back to the turbulent last years of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and tell the idyllic poet who kept to himself that your uprightness was not in vain, and people will still remember it thousands of years later.
On the other side of the corridor is the Cultural Square, where the ancients set up a stage to sing operas, and we still enjoy ourselves here today. On the inside of the square is a wall called the "Bending Wall", on which there are many stone inscriptions of calligraphers. When I stopped and looked closely, I didn't recognize many of the words on the stone carvings. According to the villagers, the "bending wall" is meant to be modest, and few tourists can confidently recognize all the words on the wall. Looking around the village, I feel that the "bending wall" is also a tribute to Tao Yuanming's backbone of not bending his waist for five buckets of rice.
In the middle of the village is a hill with a hexagonal pagoda called "Forgetting Words Wooden Tower", which is taken from the poem "There is a true meaning in this, and you want to distinguish what you have forgotten". Looking at it from afar, all kinds of beauty in the mountains and the troubles that linger in the heart outside the mountains are all blown away by the evening breeze at this moment, leaving only a piece of pure clarity in my heart.
Walking on the narrow path of the hill, the sunset on the horizon is gradually setting, the mountain birds fly at will, the sound of chirping is intermittent, and I can't help but think of Tao Yuanming's poem: "The mountain air is beautiful at sunset, and the birds are returning to each other." "How fortunate I am to have felt the joy of retreat here for thousands of years. Before sunset, slowly walk at the foot of the green mountain, on the bank of the stream, from time to time to encounter a few wild chrysanthemums, at this time will think of the "picking chrysanthemums under the east fence, leisurely see the South Mountain" comfort.
The journey is short, but life is long. Returning to work, there will still be cases and hard work, but the trip to Tao Village may make us occasionally think of the tranquility and far-reaching of "settling in the human realm, without the noise of cars and horses" in the busyness, learning the way of doing things of "asking the gentleman how can he be, and the heart is far away from itself", keeping it clumsy in my heart, and leaving a picture of the countryside and the Yanyu Jiangnan of Yixian County in the memory of the landscape in the painting.
On the way back, I saw a couplet at the entrance of the newly built high-speed rail Yixian East Station: "Shenchi Qin and Han Dynasties, two thousand years of ancient cultural county, Taoyuan artistic conception;."Back in the Ming and Qing dynasties, nine hundred miles of scenery and long scrolls, painting the countryside. With a wave of his hand, say goodbye to Yixian, a small city built in the period of Qin Shi Huang, and Taocun, a small village with beautiful culture and nature, and let them leave ripples in their memories.
Author: Shang Pengmin;Editor: Song Yuqiu).