Every winter, the plum blossoms in my hometown bloom.
The hometown is located at the junction of Jiangxi and Guangdong, under the Dayu Ridge, the village name is "Ranshipu", which belongs to Dayu County, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province. The plum blossom in the "stone shop" is a must, whenever the cold condenses the earth, the plum blossom blooms alone, proudly blooming a beautiful flower, or white in red, or bright white and elegant, or pink like a ......
The plum blossoms with dark fragrance and sparse shadows are in a variety of forms, and when winter comes, the whole village is shrouded in the refreshing fragrance of plums. And the fragrance of plum blossoms is not only the small village, but also the ancient post road next to the village.
As for why the small village is called "Ranshi Shop", it is difficult for the people in the village to say. However, the main road of "Ranshi Pu" was indeed a chaotic stone road originally, and the stone road was connected with the ancient post road, and out of the village, less than a kilometer was the ancient post road.
In ancient times, this ancient post road was the main road connecting the Central Plains and Guangzhou. After Qin Shi Huang destroyed the Six Kingdoms, he opened a mountain and built a pass on the five mountains as a passage to Lingnan, and the Hengpu Pass was built on top of Meiling. However, the checkpoints forged in the Qin Dynasty were later destroyed in the war.
During the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Jiuling, the famous minister of Lingnan, passed by Meiling, and saw that "Lingdong Road is wasted, and people are extremely miserable", so he wrote a letter to request the new opening of Da Yuling Road, which was approved by Tang Xuanzong. After hard work, the new Meiguan Ancient Road was finally opened, and the north-south traffic was greatly improved.
When Su Shi, the great writer of the Song Dynasty, was demoted to Lingnan, he passed through the ancient post road and left a poem "The great river goes to the east for thousands of miles, and the south of Yuling comes to the first state". When the Ming Dynasty opera artist Tang Xianzu was demoted to Xu Wendian History, he also went south along the Meiguan Ancient Road, and it was in Nan'an Mansion under the Great Yuling Mountains that he got inspiration and created the legendary opera "Peony Pavilion". "The Meiguan here is the Meiguan on the Meiguan Ancient Road.
However, in modern times, the Meiguan Ancient Road has also had a different experience. In particular, with the construction of railways and highways, the steep and walkable Meiguan Ancient Road has gradually been abandoned, and the ancient road hidden in the depths of the plum blossoms and the village called "Ranshipu" seem to have disappeared from people's vision. Travelers may know that Meiling is a place where plum blossoms bloom, but few know that there is also a small village and an ancient post road inside.
Later, the value of the Meiguan Ancient Road was valued. Therefore, the ancient post road was developed into a scenic spot, and people climbed to the top of Meiling Mountain along the ancient road full of plum blossoms, and they could see the Guan Lou built in the Jiayou period of the Northern Song Dynasty. There is a stone tablet more than two meters high in front of the building, and two big characters of "Meiling" are engraved on it. The two sides of the building are engraved with the couplet of "Mei stops the thirst of pedestrians, and the riot control customers come", and the four big characters of "Nanyue Xiongguan" are signed. Crossing the gate building is Lingnan, which is already the boundary of Nanxiong City, Guangdong Province, and the south door forehead is written on the "first pass of Lingnan".
In recent years, social development has changed with each passing day, the people's living standards have also been continuously improved, and the construction of urban and rural infrastructure has been greatly improved. Today, the wide asphalt road leads directly to the ancient post road, buses carry tourists to and fro, and the "Meiling Three Chapters" memorial hall also tells people the story of the Red Revolution.
Walking on the ancient post road, you can not only taste the charm of the simple and majestic ancient buildings, but also experience the fun of crossing the two provinces in one step. The construction and improvement of infrastructure not only injected new vitality into the scenic spot, but also brought a prosperous day to the villagers of "stone shop".
Nowadays, the Meiling Ancient Road is the most intact ancient post road in the country, and the paving stone has been polished by people's footsteps, but in winter, the plum blossoms on both sides of the post road are still in full bloom. Today's hometown is still nestled in the depths of plum blossoms, but the fragrance of plum blossoms seems to be more intense.
The ancient road of the hometown in the depths of the plum blossoms is radiating unprecedented vitality!
*:Farmer**.
Release: China Economic and Trade Finance Center.
Editor-in-charge: black and white.