Jiangnan March cauliflower yellow prose

The spring equinox, rapeseed blossoms, it is the Jiangnan good spring. March 18 and 19, we a group of photography enthusiasts, in the figure tour of the nine states in Anhui WeChat group of Xu Hui, music (yue) Ling Ling teacher led, south of Chizhou Shitai, walk to watch the flowers yellow bamboo cui, line shooting rain scenery mountain color, appreciate the deep humanistic heritage of the Gao Lu Pavilion, to appreciate the wonderful nature of the Baishi Ridge, it is really physically and mentally pleasurable, a false trip.

Shidai County, formerly known as Shi Dai (dai), the old metallurgy (Chizhou City Local Records Office, Li Jianjun test), more than 1480 years ago, the South Liang Datong two years (536 years), Emperor Xiaoyan to the Three Kingdoms, Shi Dai field (smelting copper workshop) set Shi Dai County (Tang, "Yuanhe County Map"), "because of the source of the Guizhi there are two small Shi Dai weir creeks, and then thought of as the name! " (Song "Taiping Huan Yu Ji"), the county seat of seven miles (Shidai County Local Records Office Wang Xizheng examination). Since then, the establishment, name, governance are the survival of the frequent overlapping, the current Shitai County was re-established in July 1965, due to the simplification of the Chinese characters and change Dai for Taiwan, the county seat of the county seven miles also due to the withdrawal of the district in January 2007 and townships renamed Renli. From the map, Shidai County, left hook Yangtze River, right lapel Huangshan, on top of Jiuhua, the next pedal bull, in the mountains and valleys, located in the side of the Qiu Pu Qingxi, the material Huatianfu, sparsely populated (covering an area of more than 1,400 square kilometers, the population of only 100,000 people), is really a side of the world of fairyland.

Mr. Xu Hui contacted Wang Fan, a young photographer from Renli, to be our guide. The young man is not high in elevation, and his face, simple and honest, is quick and enthusiastic, which left a good impression on us. He designed the itinerary for us is the first day to go to the high road Pavilion, see the ancient houses, eat a farm dinner, the night of the Renli town. The next day early in the morning to go to Baishi Ling, to participate in the opening ceremony of Shidai rapeseed flower festival, enjoy Baishi Ling rapeseed flowers, tour Baishi Ling on the ancient villages, watching the local customs and people, see the folk traditional opera. Return in the afternoon, random picking along the way.

Hefei to the high pavilion from Tongling Yangtze River Bridge to go 230 kilometers, we 7:30 a.m. on time from the House of Taoxiang, because to Lujiang South Highway exit to pick up halfway on the car of the two friends, the driver wrongly ran to the mud river and then turn back, delayed quite a lot of time, more than 11 o'clock at noon to the high pavilion. Wang Fan has long rushed from the county to wait here, and arranged a good lunch. We got out of the car directly into the roadside farmhouse restaurant, tasted the local real farmhouse dishes, cured meat, Malan, screw chicken, spring bamboo shoots, ferns, stove pot. Although there are sour and spicy, slightly heavy taste, but the original flavor, fresh and authentic, worthy of the local specialties, we are happy to feast.

GaoLuTing is a small ancient village with a lot of flavor in Qidu Town, Shitai County. Here is a small piece of valley surrounded by mountains, the provincial highway S325 and county road X019 intersect here, the village is on the southeast side of the provincial highway. Dozens of families and homes are scattered into a narrow strip of 100 meters from southwest to northeast. Two small tributaries of the Qingxi River, the Kaojiao River and the Xiyankeng River, encircle the village from the east and west, converge in the south of the village, and then flow east into the Qingxi River, which ultimately flows into Taiping Lake. South of the village of the two intersection of the creek, standing an ancient pavilion, there is a red background, yellow plaque hanging high, written on the "High Road Pavilion" three big words. From afar, the road, streams, mountains, fields, villages, pavilions, in the yellow rapeseed flower embellishment, constituting a landscape habitat picture, exquisite.

GaoLuTing since ancient times is connected to the four sides of the channel node, in the transportation blockage of the farming era, this is the people north of jiuhua must pass through the ancient Hui road through here far and long. Gao Lu Pavilion is not a Gao clan settlement, but 20 miles north of the pavilion in Guiqi Tangxi thirty-six mountains, there is a famous Gao ancient village Shimen Gao village, named after the ancient legend of "mountain for the city, stone for the door", according to the present more than 1,000 years of history. During the heyday of the Shimen Gao family, there were 14 people serving as officials in the imperial court at the same time, and there was once a grand scene of "ten miles of long runway ban, five miles of vegetable garden land". According to legend, thirty-six mountains outside of Shidai Gao Road Pavilion, is designed to travel the road for the Gao family members to rest their feet and built that road is called Gao Road, Pavilion name Gao Road Pavilion. However, the ancients are elegant, unlike today's people so blunt, so the original name of the High Road Pavilion is "Gao Lu Pavilion", although the difference in the word, the meaning is very different. Although the high in the Red Turbans often encounter spring fire and the Taiping army Shi Dakai blood wash after the decline, but the high Lu Pavilion is still tenacious in front of the present day, vaguely demonstrated when the Shimen Gao's dominance and eminence.

Gao Lu Ting's location in the key, so it gradually became a place of commerce, the most famous is the production and trade of special high-quality wine quartz. Also known as "Jiu Mu", it was used to brew rice wine and also to make flour for steaming buns. Gao Lu Ting has a history of more than 300 years of producing and selling liquor quat, which was at its peak during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, and was especially famous among the three brothers of Li's liquor quat workshop. At that time, merchants from all over the world gathered in Gao Lu Ting, the hometown of wine, so that wine products marketed at home and abroad, which is a miracle in the extremely underdeveloped commodity economy of the inland mountains of southern Anhui Province. A netizen wrote an article recalling that in the early years of the Republic of China at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the descendants of Cao's family in Gao Lu Ting moved to Quzhou and brought Gao Lu Ting's liquor quill production skills to the settlement, and on this basis created the brand of "Above the Sweet Liquor Quill", which became the local intangible cultural heritage under key protection. The local wine brewing in Gao Lu Ting has gradually withered in the collectivization process after the liberation, and the traditional craft has long been lost, only some of the remnants of the old houses and ancient workshop group, seems to be able to see a trace of the past red hot and brilliant.

In recent years, the local government has taken a series of measures to protect and develop the village, and has seen initial results. Behind the newly built tall ancient houses at the entrance of the village, there are dozens of new and old mixed, staggered south Anhui Hui architecture, green tile white walls, horse head warping, stacked courtyard, pavilions and pavilions, the small street bends, stone paths, elegant and chic, quite good-looking. Provincial road west of the spring on the Lailong Mountain, along the artificially constructed aqueduct, around the village, flowing through the house, the villagers are in front of the door to wash rice and vegetables, draw water to wash the yarn, is a real bridge and water home. There are also various handmade workshops such as those wine factories, oil factories, mills, butcher stores and so on in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, which have been repaired and restored as they were in the old days. There are famous ancient buildings such as Qiankunli, Liwantai, Eigu Hall, Shangzhi Hall, Yongtai Qufang, Qiantai Qufang, Buyun Bookstore, etc., all of which are repaired, protected and constructed in accordance with the style of the original Huizhou style of architecture of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and the structure, style and carvings, characters and paintings of the ancient buildings are reproduced and displayed in an intact manner. Gao Lu Ting has become an important tourist attraction in Shitai County characterized by ancient houses and workshops, attracting visitors from all directions.

After the meal, stomach full of body ambiguous, Wang Fan took us on a bus to the northeast of the village on the top of the mountain, overlooking the valley layers of terraces, winding creek beds, smoke curls of the residence, cauliflower yellow, white streams, green forests, the village of Dai, the beauty of ah! Everyone spread out, took out all kinds of long guns and short guns, looking for their own point of view, all the way to crazy photography, no time to take care of the left and right. Down to the village pavilion, with red with colorful beauties volunteered to act as a model, leaning over the peach and willow under the green, through the yellow flowers between the strata, the picture is even more beautiful up. And into the village, those weathered ancient homes, those who have been through the vicissitudes of the old workshop, as well as those simple and kind-hearted villagers, all to the tourists and photography enthusiasts to bring a deep sense of emotion, leaving endless reverie.

Because it is the peak season for tourism and the opening of the Rapeseed Flower Festival, the hotel is relatively tense, we live in a small hostel on the old street of the county town. In the early morning of the next day I wanted to go to the saddle hill outside the city to see the whole picture of the county, the results of the first out of the door to catch the rain, and more and more rain. I walked along the street for two intersections, finally couldn't stand it, and had to go back to the hostel. Passed by a steaming bun store, store called Maixiang, some attraction, so I went in and asked for three buns and a bowl of rice congee, while eating and chatting with the boss. The boss surnamed Zhang, his appearance, Lujiang County people, the early years of poverty, three brothers fled to Shidai, first do some hard labor, slowly settled. The old Zhang once opened a large truck to run transportation for more than ten years, said he could not earn any money, opened this baozi store, a wobble is more than ten years. Bun store is very small, but the material is fresh and hygienic, handmade, now packaged hot, business is very good, a family of four or five people get up early in the morning to pack the buns, and the demand still exceeds supply. Now the children outside the university, the family has long been assets solid, food and clothing, but the two mouths just can not be idle, so the baozi store has been open. Back to the hostel, just started serving breakfast, and sat down to eat a few pot sticker dumplings, the feeling does not seem to have the old Zhang's handmade buns taste delicious. I was thinking, Shidai and even the history of the South Anhui has many government-led population migration, but also countless spontaneous immigrants like Lao Zhang, the South Anhui landscape acceptance and tolerance and eclecticism, contributing to the old and the new Shidai and even the South Anhui people convergence, hand in hand to create a long history of the South Anhui and the splendid South Anhui culture.

The opening ceremony of the Rapeseed Flower Festival was held at Sanfang Natural Village, Baishiling, Xinlian Village, Dajian Township, and we rushed there early to take into account the traffic control factor. The village of Sanfang is 20 kilometers south of Renli, and is located in the north-eastern foot of the Gu'niujiang mountain range under the Daqi Mountain, a white stone mountain ridge with an elevation of nearly 600 meters. Our car drove into a white stone ridge cottage door, a few hundred meters from the village in front of the ruins of the Wenxiao Temple was stopped, this is a small temporary parking lot, built for the opening ceremony, only the leaders of the small car can be parked here, if not up early, our big car will not be allowed to drive here. We all hurriedly abandoned the car and walked along the steep mountain road to the village.

On both sides of the mountain road are high mountains, because of the rainy day, half of the mountains are covered in gloomy fog, let a person's mood a little depressing. The first thing I've noticed is that there are a few dozen tall, sturdy, and sun-drenched trees that stand tall and strong, and the spirit of the people has been invigorated by them. Closer look, the ancient trees are mostly oak camphor tree, the trunk is covered with moss and green vines, tree roots are exposed, intertwined, the age of a hundred years to more than a thousand years, most of the three or five people around the over, like loyal guards, protecting the tree behind the three houses of the village and across the river on the hillside of the four houses of the village. Passing through the group of ancient trees, on the right side is the back wall of the houses and the stone path of Sanfang Village, and under the cliff on the left side is a river named Wuxi, and on the high `rock bank by the river there is a four-sided pavilion called Baishite Pavilion, just like a post in a military barracks. Between the White Stone Pavilion and the Three Houses Stone Trail is a stone arch bridge, and at the end of the bridge are the Four Houses village houses that are next to each other. The stone bridge under the Wuxi River riverbed exposed, the river both large boulders, but also a variety of colors, shapes and sizes of cobblestones, a clear trickle of fine streams flowing during the period, there is a lot of fun.

Just now in the Wenxiao Temple parking lot, I saw an attraction publicity wooden sign, painted on the top of the schematic map of the mountain, labeled the name of the mountain stream is the Wuxi River. I've done my homework before I came to the stone table, see many netizens hearsay to this river as the carp stream, and the three women picking medicine, eating peach carp mythological story inserted here, the four rooms on the village Shu clan ancestral temple will be Shu aunt temple, the white stone pavilion mistakenly Shu aunt temple next to the six-pointed pavilion, in fact, really is the Zhang Guan Li Dai, referring to the stag as a horse. I also picked up the three women into carp mythological story of the place, found that not Shidai Dajian Township of the White Stone Ridge, but the Huangshan Wushixiang Shibi Chen. Although both places belonged to the ancient Shidai County, there is a difference of about 50 kilometers in straight-line distance between the two places, which is not a short journey in the rolling hills where traveling is difficult. Although the rivers to which the story points are both major tributaries of Taiping Lake, the former is the Qingxi River to the west, and the latter is the Shuxi River to the south, which is also apparently the opposite of the other. The records of Shidai County Records are even clearer: the temple of "Three Immortal Nuns" was built in Gai Shan in the Han Dynasty, and beside the temple there is the Carp Stream, the Hexagonal Pavilion, and the Shugu Ancestral Hall. Tao Yuanming, a poet of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, came here and not only praised the story of "Shu's three daughters who ate peaches and turned carp into immortality", but also wrote the legend of "Carp Stream" into the book of "Searching for God". Shibi Chen family unearthed in the Qing Dynasty Daoguang years "reconstruction of the Three Sacred Temple of music to lose the inscription" on the stone tablet, there is also "Gaisan Shuguquan to Shu's three women eat peaches and carp immortalized in the name of the immortal. Carp Stream in the Jin Tao Yuanming after the record of the search for God". Although Shibi Chenjia ancient village because of the Chencun reservoir construction and submerged and disappeared, we do not need to move flowers and wood, make a mystery, in order to claptrap effect.

We came on the early, and a light rain, there is no tourists in the mountain pass, the villagers are mostly in the house fire cooking. I stood on the stone arch bridge and looked around, the bridge north of the four houses village houses along the foot of the mountain has been built to look up to see halfway up the mountainside, hidden in the clouds and trees. The houses in Sanfang Village, east of the bridge, were built along the Wuxi River to the southeast on the mountainside, and are even more "deep in the white clouds there are houses". Above the stone bridge, the Wuxi River comes from the mountains to the northeast, and on both sides of the river is a long and narrow valley surrounded by mountains, with rape fields full of yellow flowers spreading out in a fan shape, extending upward with the river at one level and gradually narrowing down until it disappears into the mountains in the distance. The two small natural villages of Sanfang and Sifang are dotted on the hillside, between the stream and the terraces, and scattered on both sides of the Wuxi River, with the smoke from the cooking on the houses, the green trees and wildflowers in front of and behind the houses, the sea of rapeseed blossoms, as well as the murmuring water and the chirping of the birds, which are in the intermittent drizzle and the erratic mist, which makes people in a trance, and also makes people intoxicated.

I shook my head, came back from my dream, and retraced my steps along the stone-paneled trail between the Wuxi River and Sanfang Village, ready to circle the valley and return to the stone arch bridge. The photographic head umbrellas that Ms. Le Lingling had prepared for us were put to great use at this time. Alone, with umbrella on my head and camera in my hand, I walked alone on the slippery trail, feeling like a righteous and lonely warrior. In the highest part of the village of three houses in front of a house, there is a stage built in the rape field, here is the main venue of the opening ceremony of the rape festival, a group of young men and women are on the stage under the rain busy. I continue to go up, a moment to a broken wall, there are signs suggesting that this is the site of an ancient cottage. Look at the surrounding terrain, has been in the mid-levels above, only a small path to the village below the three houses, in the lower valley is the river and fields, is indeed a place to set up camp, easy to defend and difficult to attack. As for what era this cottage is built, who is the owner, are unknown. Thus, the significance of this site has not been fully realized.

Further northeast, is the highest part of the valley, but also the most narrow. But here there is actually a single house, named Sun family, the house is old, typical of southern Anhui architecture, before the pond behind the courtyard, surrounded by peaches, plums and sycamores, looks like a wealthy family, in the past may be very famous, because on the map is actually marked with the name of this place. Sun family in front of a large piece of hundreds of acres of sloping land, suitable for planting crops, is now a field of rapeseed, it is full of golden slopes. From a distance, a yellow flower in the field between a withered yellow thatched shed is very eye-catching, to the front to realize that the original is an attraction, called the wild boar hut, also known as the cremation of the wedding. It was raining heavily, I went into the shed to sit down to hide from the rain, while reading the side of the signage text, but it is an ancient love story. Legend has it that Baishi Ling has a traditional Chinese medicine heirloom family of students, dating on the way to meet a village girl, love but not compatible. Later, the latter should be parents of the matchmaker's words into marriage, the village girl also married to the village where the latter, the plaque says: "the day in the morning smoke and sunset in the return to the flow. Later on, the latter built a wild boar hut in Sun's house on the pretext of watching wild boars. It was on the windy, dark night of August 16th that the wild boar hut burst into flames, and the next day people found two charred skeletons in the ashes, while the two families of Baishi Ling, the village girl and the dowry quietly disappeared, and the descendant and the medicine book disappeared." This story is simple, but the moral is still deep and long, the mountains are high and the Yellow Emperor is far away, feudal rites and rituals can also be seamless and stifle freedom.

Turning through the Jiao Long Wu, is the highest point in the valley on the Wuxi River, a stone bridge. The bridge is a little steeper, the bridge upstream and downstream difference is slightly larger, the sound of water is not murmuring but clattering. The rain is also competing with the stream, and it is getting heavier and heavier. My head umbrella is not small, and I can still take pictures freely, when I saw a team broke into the camera, it turned out to be the Shu family Meilian opera troupe of the villagers of the three houses and four houses. They wore costumes, masks, and sedan chairs, and they made a tour of the mountains to show off the various roles and colorful costumes of the Meilian Opera, to mark the opening of the Cauliflower Festival. The name of the family or to send relatives I have not understood, the team because of heavy rain and scattered, really difficult for the simple mountain people.

The Meilian play is also known as the good advice play, set of folk comical stories, juggling, a hundred plays in one, mainly to play the Buddhist disciple Meilian monk into the story of his mother's rescue, to promote the "virtues of good deeds," is China's only surviving religious drama. Shidai is the birthplace of the Meilian opera, and since ancient times there has been a historical record of "compiling in the river, acting in the qiupu". In the Ming Dynasty, Qimen Qingxi Zheng Zhizhen, on the basis of the popular miscellaneous dramas, variations, and legends of the Meilian play, compiled a complete plot of the play "Newly edited Meilian to save his mother and persuade her to do good," also known as the Zheng Ben Meilian play, or the Hepei Heihe Meilian play, in the year 1579. Ming Chongzhen nine years, the leader of the Jiangnan celebrities Fuxie Wu Yingji returned to his hometown, coinciding with Wu's Gao Tianban ready to perform the Meilian play, then gladly penned a link, embedded in the beginning of the link "Daxing" two words, and explains that "my township name Xingxiao, but I am afraid that filial piety is not enough, the play persuade the good Xingxiao, when the big show carry on! "The play is to encourage goodness and filial piety, and it should be performed in a big way. Due to Wu Yingji's promotion, the Meilian opera in the Qiupu River Basin competed to move to open, Dajian also replaced Xingxiao, became the local name, used to this day. Although it was raining and could not watch the Meilian theater, but the wonderful scene of the Shu family class patrolling the mountain in the rain, has been y imprinted in my mind, enough.

A large circle of the valley turn down, and then the three houses and four houses in the village of the residence to see once, I feel that Baishi Ling is really a natural pure, beautiful scenery of a good place. It is now just a base for some photography and art organizations, and has not yet been overdeveloped. However, the rapeseed flower festival has attracted a lot of people, and I am afraid that there will be no more quiet days here. I hope that the local government can keep a clear head, rational development and effective protection of green mountains and green water, do not let the natural beauty of Baishi Ling in the commercial tide lost.

I didn't realize that a few hours had passed, and my feet were aching from being soaked in rainwater, so I hurried down the mountain. By this time, the crowd has been very large, up and down the endless, every paragraph of the road there are one or two traffic police in order to maintain order. I walked for several kilometers without seeing our car, and my feet were too painful to walk. Had to find the traffic police, stopped the ferry, a gas drive to five or six kilometers away from the S464 Provincial Highway and Baishiling Mountain Road intersection of the temporary parking lot. Looking for half a day or did not find our car, open the WeChat group, found the car parked in the halfway, really laugh and cry. Waiting for people to get together, the car from the mountain down, I was also cold and hungry almost paralyzed. The good thing is that the place where we eat is not far away, and when I get out of the car, I rush into the small supermarket and buy a pair of cloth shoes and cotton socks to change, and my feet immediately warm up.

After returning to Hefei, a few days of Baishi Ling scenery are in the mind over the movie, so when I want to go once again, take a closer look. I'd like to go back and take a closer look at it. Tonight, Mr. Xu Hui will be reviewing the works in the building, so I'm sure I'll go and listen to him, and I'll be able to take a look at the meandering scenery of Baishi Ridge again.

The second day of March in the Year of the Rooster Ding You, Wednesday, March 29, 2017, at the side of Tianwang Lane in Hefei