An article on landscape description: an ancient village submerged by flowers.

In April, the world is green and red. Invited by a friend, we embarked on a deer head trip together. Reuters is not

An article on landscape description: an ancient village submerged by flowers.

In April, the world is green and red. Invited by a friend, we embarked on a deer head trip together. Reuters is not far from my hometown. At first, I only knew that there was a Chiang family courtyard, and Zhao Jinyang and Zhu Jian had a martyrs cemetery. But I have never been close to his history. Like apricot flowers, peach blossoms and forsythia flowers blooming all over the mountains, I know them, but they don't know me. I'm not coming. It's still romantic. I am here, and it blooms more charming and enchanting in the spring breeze, so vivid that I can't imagine it.

As far as I can remember, Reuters is one of the towns with the largest number of natural villages in Shexian County, with more than 50 villages. The impression left by these villages is always covered by mountains because of traffic jams. In the past years, the only way for people in these villages to get out of the mountains for generations was to bump along the winding and narrow paths. The opportunity has finally come. Last year, a wide and flat asphalt road named Fu Sheng Tianlu crossed the mountains, and these villages hidden in unknown boudoir were strung together like pearls, which made people walk easily.

Wandering in uninhabited villages such as Laozhoubei, wasteland, slate and willow canal always gives people a feeling of returning home. Although I am not a returnee, I am a passer-by, but a strange and familiar village has taught me what it means to be homesick silently.

In early spring, when some trees and shrubs are still lazy, apricot flowers and peach blossoms are particularly enchanting. In the shadow of flowers, rows of dilapidated houses came into my eyes. There is no one in the village. Most villagers moved out after the flood in the last century 1996 and concentrated in the new village. At that time, people did not necessarily want to leave their homes, but were forced to leave their homes because of the constraints of terrain and traffic, leaving these old houses silent.

Sleeping in the ravine, going out is a stone. Most of these houses are stone walls, which are low and narrow. They seem to have been built in the 1980s. Some houses grind a front wall with blue bricks to look good, while others use local materials and stones. What about the roof? It's still a traditional wooden structure, and some roofs have collapsed.

When people live in these villages, there are more than 100 families in the big ones and only a dozen in the small ones. When I was a child, I heard that the house would be strong if I lived in it. Because the room is ventilated, the beam purlin will not be moth-eaten or even collapsed due to temperature and humidity. At this time, the village seems to have lost its soul. The door is closed, the iron lock is locked, and everything is pale. I don't think it's too much to describe it as inaccessible. Walking in these villages, the streets that were once paved with gravel were attacked by grass that just poked its head out of the cracks in the stones, and it seemed as if you were a long-lost visitor. The smoke and humble faces of the past are gone forever. Only under the blue sky, a few white clouds float leisurely between the new village and the old village, telling the end of an era and yearning for a better life.

It is necessary to enjoy flowers in early spring, not when they are old. Walking on the road in Reuters, the sea of flowers all over the mountain surrounds the village. Everywhere, pieces of apricot blossom are white, like snow, like jade, like silver waves, like Chun Xue, like hazy frosty moon. A spring breeze blows, and the petals form a beautiful apricot blossom rain. Apricot rain flies like fish scales, like flying water drops, bubbling and fluttering, flying in the air and landing on buildings. In an instant, the ground was paved into a snowy world, just like the bright moonlight. Looking at the peach blossoms and pink flowers not far away, they are also quietly blooming, swaying with the wind, and the faint fragrance released is enough to make people feel relaxed and happy.

Between apricot blossom and peach blossom, the yellow flower on the mountain is forsythia. Forsythia suspensa is a kind of Chinese herbal medicine, which can clear away heat and detoxify. Compared with the charm of apricot blossom and peach blossom, forsythia suspensa flower is not as enchanting as them, nor as charming as Leng Yan, but it is not inferior. Clouds are pure and warm, like gold, like Huang Ju in September, with a noble gliding bone. Unlike apricot flowers and peach blossoms, petals fall apart when a gust of wind blows.

I think these three kinds of flowers are the messengers of deer head to herald spring, and it is precisely because of these flowers that the mountains of deer head are decorated with appropriate shades. The black and pink Cai Huacai unfolds slowly like a picture scroll in a fairy tale world, and also like a palette of nature.

Flowers are always similar year after year, and people are different year after year. Standing on the hill in Reuters, breathing the fresh air and looking at the blooming flowers will always leave people with a little comfort and a different feeling. At that time, these flowers were always accompanied by familiar figures, but now they are facing visitors from all directions.

What interests me most about Lutou culture is the Jiangjia Courtyard here. According to the Records of Shexian County, Jiang's ancestral home was in Geng Le Village of Shexian County, and he came to Reuters during the Jiaqing period of Qing Dynasty. Later, famous calligraphers and many businessmen appeared in the family. After several years of hard work and self-reliance, they have turned a small village in a remote area into a treasure house for businessmen.

Jiangjia Courtyard is neck and neck with Liu Jia Courtyard and Majia Courtyard in Mu Jing, which is called "Three big noble" in Shexian County in Ming and Qing Dynasties. The layout of the Chiang family compound is no different from that of the two. It is also an old house with two or three entrances. It is said that in that crowded era, the merchants and businesses here were not only popular in China, but also spread to Europe. No wonder the gatehouses of Jiangjia Courtyard have some national characteristics and some European styles.

Speaking of the gatehouse, I want to focus on the vertical stones here. Looking at the vertical stone full of cultural heritage, my interest arises spontaneously. ? Listen to the autumn sound and move the bamboo mother, sleep peacefully and cool the moon and pillow the grandson. ? Through the content, we can see how comfortable the host is with life. It goes without saying that you will also understand what kind of state this is. If this is a kind of happiness, then another vision may also inspire his descendants to work hard to inherit and create this lifestyle. ? Old learning is more intimate, and new knowledge is deeper. ? Presumably, the Chiang family will never be narcissistic. They have accumulated their own management principles and knowledge-seeking experience from generation to generation. Looking at these brilliant couplets, I think of Confucius' famous words, which I believe is a brand-new interpretation of Jiang's modesty, prudence and diligence. ? Solid density is also a hole, and light things are bright. ? Honest, diligent and virtuous, learn from others. ? Good couplets always make people more and more interesting. When I pressed the shutter, I had to respect the Jiang family's diligent and studious family rules and instructions. Let his image be engraved in my memory.

It's not that all the vertical courtyards of Jiangjia Courtyard are lettering, but all the vertical courtyards of Ming Dynasty are not lettering, because lettering was not popular in the vertical courtyards of Ming Dynasty and before. If you don't carve, then carve fine lines and form geometric figures to decorate the stone surface. Don't despise these humble lines and stone faces, but there is a hole in the sky. According to Cao, editor-in-chief of Jiangjia Courtyard, the parallelogram pattern in these lines is only one inch wide, but it needs masons to carve 18 lines to be considered as top grade. Otherwise, they are not allowed to install it under Jiang's door.

On the way back, the car galloped on Shengfutian Road at an altitude of 1000 meters, accompanied by flowers all the way. Faced with the rapid rotation of the wheels, I don't want to go too hastily, thinking that it will go against the slow life of the ancient villages in Reuters. Although a broad road will drive their development, Reuters's natural scenery and cultural heritage need to be slowly precipitated and savored.

Author: Zhao

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