Tour of Taochuan Town, Yongzhou

Taochuan, a beautiful name

Taochuan, a lively town.

Taochuan, called Taoxi in ancient times, is named after Taochuan Cave, which is surrounded by mountains to the west, with a peach-shaped mountain basin and a river running through it. The climate on both sides of the river is mild, the terrain is flat, pink and green alternate with each other, and the seasons are like spring.

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Taochuan, a national key town, belongs to Jiangyong County, Yongzhou City, Hunan Province, with Gongcheng County, Guilin City, Guangxi in the west and fuchuan county, Guilin City, Guangxi in the south. Three rivers, namely Shui Mu, Dayuan (Xiao Yuan) and Yuankou, flow through the territory. The territory is flat and beautiful, surrounded by mountains, with 10,000 mu of fertile land in the middle, rich in grapefruit, taro, summer orange and citrus.

Mondays, Thursdays and July are market days in the town. Because it is located in the border area and belongs to the southwest mandarin area, Guangxi people and Hunan people will go to the market together on every market day. A sea of people, bustling, chickens call ducks, dogs call fish gasp, peddle, ask, answer and bargain. Even the crayfish in the bucket will take out two big pliers and add them to two sentences. The day is awakened, illuminated and heard.

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Taochuan people's day starts with a bowl of powder.

After soaking rice for a period of time, it is ground into rice slurry with stones, mixed with some gypsum, shaped into slender powder, dried and preserved, and usually soaked in hot water before eating. A stove made of honeycomb coal, the water is boiled, put it in, scald it gently, and then pour it into a bowl with good seasoning. A new day begins with this spicy mouth.

Eat a bowl of powder when you come. No matter how many people there are and how good the business is, you don't care about the time of this bowl of powder. Go up to ninety-nine and just go down.

Of course, it's not just rice that is delicious, but also rice. How about Ciba? Glutinous rice paste wrapped in sesame sugar, leaves are my shining clothes, sallow childhood, sweeter than first love. What? Don't like steaming? Then fry it. It's tender outside and crispy inside, and I'm afraid of getting angry, so I eat it when it's cold, but it's easier to get angry if I can't eat it.

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Lu Xun said that there is no road in this world. If there are more people walking, it will become a road. However, in Taochuan, Lu Xun was wrong. In this town, there is a road and a wide road. On the day of the fair, there were many people walking, so there was no road.

It is certainly not easy to pull a cart of watermelons to the market for sale. Look at this skillful pumping action, it must be a common problem. The water pump has the rust color of time. After all these years, it must be in love with tires.

At this time, the local watermelon is only the size of a palm. Of course, watermelons from other places want to sell at a good price in advance, but oranges in summer are mature and listed. It's too much. It's as cheap as giving it away. The boss was too lazy to take the steelyard, so he simply stepped on the steelyard. When the buyer buys less, he says it's too light to lift the pole. So I have to add more.

Sweet, summer oranges? Of course it's sweet! I bought eight kilos to make myself sweeter.

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Yes, I came by smelling it. Is this indigenous steelmaking? Making wine by indigenous methods smells like firewood. When I was a child, I would brew sweet potato wine with my grandmother every year. I built a jar on the stove, sealed it, inserted a straw stick into it, and the brewed wine flowed out along the stick. My grandmother took another jar. I watched my grandmother dip some wine in her mouth with chopsticks. When she turned around, I secretly picked up chopsticks and dipped some wine in her mouth. After a while, I only heard from my grandmother that this was the first can of wine, and then I didn't know anything.

Sichuanese put up a sign on their own land: I am a fairy board, you are poor and crazy, pull out my seedlings! I really didn't expect that there were still seedlings on the market. You can't just pull this. This is a fair deal for cash on delivery. They are all spring vegetables: eggplant, pepper, watermelon, cantaloupe, bitter gourd and so on. That's not bad either. Professional cultivation saves farmers from sprouting themselves, and they can't germinate in bad rain, which is costly and laborious.

Taochuan people are very thoughtful. Purple ginger is sold as a whole, with fresh soil, which proves that the fresh green leaves just pulled out of the ground show that it is growing well and selling well. Even if you don't use it immediately after buying it, you can plant it in the soil to judge its survival. Buddhists don't eat onions, ginger and garlic, but Taochuan people don't care so much. Otherwise, how can they be willing to eat Yongzhou blood duck that makes people drool!

The market is so big that there is no end in sight, but you can still see the butcher shop in the distance. This leg is hanging too high. Here, taro and grapefruit grow in pieces. Without strength, it is impossible. Without meat, there can be no great strength. Although it's only after nine o'clock, it's a little late for people to go to the market, and the meat will be sold out soon. People who depend on the weather really have no time to manage. Missing a moment is a season, and missing a season is a year. No matter how hungry you are, you won't last the next year.

I'm full, and I caught up with this evening's episode. Why don't we play a game now: let's find fault? Anyway, I am dizzy. This childhood duck croaked as you did when you were a child, and no one could understand it. So many people crowded together, looking dizzy and listening upset. I really want to use chopsticks as a baton. Come on, sing with me: please be quiet, please be quiet.

Luo Guo should like this. I don't quite understand. He can see what kind of net it is and what kind of net it is. In my opinion, these are mosquito nets or tents in water. I prefer watching others fish than fishing since I was a child. I am happier than others when they catch fish. I haven't figured out why. Oh, yes, Luo likes fishing, but he doesn't like eating fish. I prefer cooking to fishing; Shengji likes eating fish, but he doesn't like cooking fish. Later, we reached an agreement. Luo Guo came back from fishing, and I took it to Shengji's house to cook after work. Shengji is responsible for making a fire, buying wine and cooking. Then we all gained weight.

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What is this?

When I was a child, the quilt was covered warmly because it popped out;

When I was a child, the movies were very good, because they also popped up;

In "Skillful Running and Escape", facing the Japanese, a touching melody was calmly played with a cotton elastic machine. Looking back now, it's really classic, and both the effect and the joke are unforgettable.

Grandpa smiled, so did I. It's a pity that my long hair was cut in advance, and I especially want to feel this old craft. The bigger cities are gone, and the craftsmen I saw in the barber shop are old.

There are not so many kinds of scissors, hair dryers, lift chairs and other messy things, only a pair of scissors is left, and it has a single purpose, and even the face frame is Ming and Qing furniture. The world moves so fast that these old artists can only use their pure skills to fight against the changes in the outside world.

How can a lively place get the quintessence of China? Mahjong, poker, cards, prevent Alzheimer's disease, and make some old friends to make it scream outside. I should hold the cards, play it by ear and wait for my work. As the saying goes, those who have thunder in their chests and face like Pinghu can worship the general.

Everyone with white hair has a "longing for the past". Nowadays, people are old and yellow, and only when they are three feet square inches can they show their youthful style of "talking and laughing, driving the fly ash to annihilate". Strategically, the blood of the former teenager is not cold yet, but it won't be given to me. Just laugh with the wind.

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There are fish shops, rice shops, duck shops, goose shops, clothing stores, egg shops, pharmacies, tofu shops, hardware stores, specialty shops, spice shops, market canteens ... I have no time to understand their stories. Compared with them, I am just a passer-by.

But I am especially grateful that I can stay here and go to the market with them. Perhaps the best and biggest stage in the countryside is the market. How long do they have to prepare to show their works? Get up two hours in advance to prepare for departure, pick vegetables and tie vegetables four hours in advance, arrange housework one day in advance, weed and fertilize the vegetables in the field one week in advance, and sow them two or three months in advance. ......

Farming season can't be violated, so let it go, let it go, let it go.

The noise dispersed, and in the evening, the lights reflected the sunset, illuminating the chicken feathers all over the place, and the noise became sparse. It's time for bed. We should have a rest.

The night watchman is lonely, and the dusk of others is my dawn. After cleaning up the chicken feathers here, you can see my work tomorrow morning.

I can't see the endless market, from the dazzling things in the daytime to the unobstructed view at this moment. This is my own market, quiet, this is my night. If he gives me peace, I will repay him.

If you love Ta, take her to a party. There are trivial things, disturbances, bargains, visible colors and smells, and the taste of life: trivial things and jokes.

Don't forget, we live by our hearts with two hands: rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea with our left hand and hops with our right hand.