Cheng Yingfeng, China Energy News (2024-01-15, 20th Edition).
Go to Yanglou Cave and rain all the way. I think that the Yanglou Cave in the rain has deep alleys and quaint bluestone slabs, just as affectionate as Dai Wangshu depicted in "Rain Alley".
Yanglou Cave is the source of the Wanli Tea Ceremony - the ancient Eurasian Tea Horse Road, located in Chibi City, Hubei Province, and is one of the six ancient towns of Puqi in the Ming and Qing dynasties. The name of Yangloudong is derived from a legend of escaping marriage, it is said that a young man and woman fled to the foot of Songfeng Mountain, and the white horse they rode turned into goats, and the goat's excrement turned into tea seeds, and the camellia trees grew in the mountains. They set up a bamboo building at the foot of the mountain, and people lived upstairs and raised sheep downstairs. Especially here the mountains are green, the sheep are running, and there is a unique cave, so it gets the name of "Yanglou Cave".
Arrive at the rain-soaked Yanglou Cave, step on the ancient streets and alleys paved with bluestone slabs, and your heart is full of the ancient meaning of the green onion cage. Looking at the tea shops with mottled oil paint and vague scenery, it seems that you can feel the bustling traffic and the hustle and bustle of the people here.
There are tea trees on the mountain and there are bamboo repairs, and the villagers of Yanglou Cave make a living from Nanzhu tea, eat bamboo shoots, weave bamboo baskets, drink clear tea, and rely on the mountains to eat the mountains. Nowadays, inside and outside the alley, quiet and peaceful, it can be described as "the bluestone of the ancient alley of Yanglou, the autumn of the wooden building in the cave village, the tea fragrance is wrapped in thousands of years, and the rhyme of Guanyin Spring is washed and flowing".
The three big characters of Yanglou Cave are engraved on the antique gatehouse of Dongzhuang Manor. There is no hole in the Yanglou hole, and the building refers to the gatehouse of the cave.
Since the Tang and Song dynasties, the three springs of Yanglou have been drunk for thousands of years, and the words of Zhuangchuan in the east and west mouths are fragrant. Through this couplet and the old traces in the manor, it is conceivable that the former owner of the manor must be a good hand at making tea, otherwise there would be no "cave tea" famous for its "rich tea fragrance and refreshing heart". Because of the "cave tea", it has become a place for visitors to rest on the ancient Silk Road, and a good place to taste tea, drink tea, buy tea and sell tea.
The workshop in the front yard of Dongzhuang is equipped with all kinds of farm tools, leaving traces of the work of the workshop workers. In the cave village, those unique style buildings seem to tell the long anecdotes on the ancient Eurasian tea horse road. The courtyard of Dongzhuang has exquisitely carved caisson wells, intricate beam structures, orderly garden layout, perfect drainage system, warm in winter and cool in summer, which is a very suitable place to live.
The most popular thing is the manor embroidery building. Here, the lintel of the courtyard is exquisitely clear, and the carved bed in the room is staggered and gilded. Stopping in front of the embroidery building, it seems that you can hear the elegant talk of a lady. In front of the embroidery building, there is a bluestone masonry, the ancient stone well of exquisite workmanship, and there is an uninterrupted spring water gushing out.
The blue bricks and gray tiles, the eaves and arches, tell the story of the prosperity of the past; The hollow wood carving and the ink inkstone in the study show the endless elegance. In the scene with strong ancient meaning, the fragrance of tea and the rhyme of the scenery extend from the depths of time with different postures, different melancholy, and different customs.
Horses have stepped on the ancient road since the spring and autumn, and the road has been empty and sighing. "The car is sparkling, the horses are sparkling, and the hooves of the horses are endless. The fragrance of tea lingers in the ancient town, the popularity is dense in the ancient town, it is conceivable that the former Yanglou Cave has returned to the people, there are guests, no matter day or night, there are always laughs and voices in the pavilions, and the sheng songs do not stop.
For thousands of years, tea has been indispensable in Chinese life. The tea of Dongzhuang contains a dream-like atmosphere, with ups and downs, ups and downs, tactful and tactful, fragrant and vulgar.
Take a trip to Yanglou Cave and taste a cup of Dongzhuang tea, only to know that there is mellow moisture, life will be gorgeous in every way, and there will be spirituality lingering, and life can go out of thousands of miles.
The author is a freelance writer).