Walking in the Lotus Pond

Under the setting sun, the red letters of the new walled road sign at the intersection of Lotus Pond are glittering.

Walking dozens of steps, the sunlight like water from the roof cascades down, taking away the humidity, the air is filled with a faint long-lost hot and spicy , in this April rainy season, like just growing buds, a fragrant floral aroma in the ancient alley on the rampant spread of my footsteps can not help but slow down, stop and stare. At the foot of the mountain, the street surface of the green stone board, was ten million pairs of feet polished very smooth, grinding shiny. Ancient alley width of about one meter eight, a little narrow, in the transport mechanization of the present can not adapt to the need to travel. But it does not lose simplicity, mottled walls, old walls, scattered fragments of tiles, which is fortunate, when those unfortunate directly to the ground, rather than for the shattered, that is a legend, when as rare as antique tiles accidentally slipped to the ground, "pop" sound is clearly bleak. Moss quietly climbed all over the alley on both sides of the green stone plate, with a fingertip gently a scratch, crossed a world of life is a life of vicissitudes of helplessness.

Hotang Village is located in Zhongshan Hotang Scenic Area, Hotang Old Village is the main village of the scenic area. About 15 kilometers from the county town. The village is surrounded by mountains on all sides, lotus according to the center, the village around the pond to turn, the house built next to the pool, and green stone pavement, green trees. Ancient road old house, is an ancient countryside of the original specimens. 1970s cultural relics archaeology, census, in the village of the mountains found a large number of wildlife remains, and collected a large number of pandas, rhinoceros, Asian elephants, wild boars, deer and other wildlife fossilized bones, so far, the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Museum of Nature is listed in the pandas fossilized specimens are still in the village behind the rocky caves by the collection. The fossilized specimens of giant pandas listed in the Nature Museum of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region are still collected in the caverns behind the village. Zhongshan County Public Security Town Lotus Village, jurisdiction Laozhai, Xinzhai, Jiuya, Jitang, Longyankou, Partridge Bay, Baixia Street, and the Bay Island Mountain **** 8 natural villages, is the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" depth of poverty village, the village has 730 households 3235 people, of which 208 households 958 people file card poor households.

From a "one-man pass, ten thousand-man pass" pass over, along a four or five-meter-wide path to walk about a kilometer, to the old cottage of the village of Hetang - soil named Hetang belly. On the right is the theater, facing the mountain and living, in front of the theater is two rows of tiled houses, the former Lotang elementary school site. The old cottage building will Lingnan ancient architectural style into which, red brick tile, brick and wood structure, for the protection of the need to maximize the maintenance of the original flavor of the style.

In the old village, I looked left and right in the ancient theater, "see what it is," a baritone voice echoed in the ears. It turned out to be an old buddy Zhong Dachao, he was laboring back, see me here, took the initiative to come over to accost, "Wait a minute to go in to get two cups ah!" His smile was like a flower, and he was as enthusiastic as ever. I still remember clearly the first time I met Zhong Dachao - on the 25th day of the first month of a clan's family gathering, we sat around a long table and ate while chatting, during the meeting, someone proposed to use the remaining funds from the Bun Festival of the Hou Lie Temple to build a road, and there were divergent views, and Dachao expressed his own opinion, "First of all, it is correct to suggest repairing the road, and if the Council Fund is able to do so, we can use the funds to build a road. Council funds within its capacity, can be proposed at the meeting of representatives to discuss the adoption; secondly, do things on principle, should not be changed from one day to the next, road repair matters are not in the construction of the Jiaojiao activities within the project, if you see that there is a surplus of funds for the project will be arbitrarily used, chaotic outside the rules and regulations, but also lead to different voices; a combination of the above can be said that, road repair matters can be proposed in the next Council meeting, can be passed on the implementation of the. " Unbiased, sensible and reasonable, get everyone's approval, the first advocate of road repair clansmen gladly accepted, no more words.

Walking in the old cottage in the old alley, where there have long been no children jumping figure, the tender voice of the children in this disappeared, leaving only the imprint of history, with the memory of the river rushing left and right scouring, when the crowded old house, now people go empty buildings. Gently snap back to the old wooden fence, wooden door of the round handles, black, like the face of a hundred-year-old man, written full of vicissitudes. Ancient alley without the city's clamor and noise, like calm water, but also like a cup of tea, a not long road, separated the left and right two worlds. The young man who went out to work to put together a sky, stepped out on the green stone street only to realize that behind the story lies a lot of stories.

Traditional Chinese villages are the essence of the farming civilization and the foundation of the Chinese nation, rich in historical and cultural information and natural ecological landscape resources, is China's rural historical, cultural and natural heritage of the "living fossil" and "museum", is an important carrier of traditional Chinese culture and the Chinese traditional culture. It is the "living fossil" and "museum" of China's rural historical, cultural and natural heritage, an important carrier of traditional Chinese culture and the spiritual home of the Chinese nation. As one of the sixth batch of historical villages selected by the State, the ancient tombs found in Hetang Village include the Mingfu Cemetery, which is more than 600 years old. For example, the tomb of Mingfu XVII Gong of the late great-grandfather Kao Zhong Gui Hui Mingfu in the soil name of Shoulder Pond Ridge. "My great-grandfather is Mingfu Gong also ancestor Yong Yang Gong's great-grandson was also born in the late Yuan finally Yongle years buried in the earth's name to carry Tangling C mountain non to the cemetery Ban Jiangnan Roy since the early Yuan when my ancestor Yang Gong lived in Fushui Baixia pond after the square a six are a ...... propecia year eleven grandson propecia rate of the clan according to the original monument to restore the re-establishment of the Qing Qian The twenty-first year bazi year Qingming day".

This inscription is a genealogical researcher Zhong Zhiping of the village of Lotang combed out after some sorting. "From the second Zhongkang Gong downwards, Nanying Gong is the 10th, to my generation is the 22nd." Zhong Zhiping is a vocational school teacher in the city, one of the hobbies is to study genealogy with like-minded people, happy. Tombstones on the mountain, due to years of wind and rain, weathering and erosion serious, do Qingming time, people often just a symbolic hand wipe, look at the name of the owner of the tomb, their families, stop; separated by a few generations, cleaning work cut again, over time, into a cemetery, people do public worship only to come, the degree of care is even smaller. In order to straighten out the "where I come from" ancestry relationship, Zhong Zhiping teacher bare hands to go, with mugwort and leaves chewed for juice, little by little smeared in the fuzzy words, and then cover with glutinous rice powder, and finally rinsed with water, and finally make the century-old monument look new. Mr. Zhong used this method to search for graves one after another to get first-hand information.

According to the old man's oral tradition of peace barbarians fiefdom monument records, the traditional village of Hetang traditional ancestor Zhong Yi (No. Bao) Gong, with Zhu, eight sons: Zhong Chao, Zhong Ting, Zhong Fu, Zhong Gui, Zhong Fu, Zhong Shou, Zhong Kang, Zhong Ning (the local history of the eight households Zhong). Yigong Department of Shandong Jinan Province, Lixing County, Zhu Jiaxiang fourteen are people. Ming Hongwu 23 years (1390 AD), Guangxi Pingle Fu Chuan County, sixteen of the sixteen all Huashan Pangyong Yao rebellion, Yik was ordered by the emperor to personally rate eight sons into the Gui Ping barbarians. After the success of the Royal Edict Yik Gong for Fuchuan additional guards of the Royal Household (people say: 19 commanding officer), descendants hereditary, Huashan boundary of the forest that is given to the army, and then set up a base in the small South Gate to multiply. Passed to the tenth generation of Zhong Nanying, about the middle of the Ming Dynasty, rumor has it that because of the help of Baotang Mountain Liao's family won the lawsuit, Liao's family will be given to the Lotus pond the land to raise horses, after Zhong Nanying and his descendants in the land to build villages and fortresses. Its descendants are mainly distributed in the old cottage, new cottage, nine houses, Longyan mouth, Partridge Bay and relocated Qingtang, Yantang, Yingjia and other places **** 6 natural villages more than 2,000 people. So far the village Lotang Xinzhai Laozhai surnamed Zhong clan reproduced 22 generations, in 2017, published the village's first family tree.

The slang dialect of Hetang Village is dominated by Zhongshan dialect, which belongs to the sub-dialect of Cantonese. Although it is quite different from the modern Cantonese spoken in Guangzhou, it is a remnant of the early Cantonese spoken in the ancient Guangxin period, and it retains the words "羹""箸", "渠", "" and "" and "" and "" and "" and "" in the Chinese language. "湯" "箸" "渠" and other ancient Chinese words.

Located in the old walled village northwest of the mountainside between a cavern, which is a wide place of more than 100 square meters, it is said that this place was once in the anti-Japanese war period also play a role in hiding the people's food, the Japanese army a squad scampered to the village of Hetang grabbing husband robbing ding, make inside and outside the people on tenterhooks, chickens and dogs jumping, rummaging through boxes and cupboards, wondered how the food is so little here? After interrogating them one by one, the attempt was unsuccessful. Intentionally burning the entire village to revenge the villagers' lack of cooperation. Abruptly, an ancient old man came to the Japanese army's small chief and said, "Your Excellency, before you set fire to this place, take a look at the terrain here!" After the second dog translated, the little chief, half-convinced, looked around. Only to see in and out of the road is nowhere to be seen, surrounded by mountains under the village thatched houses a close to one, they are a small little thing, in the fire, "under the nest, how to have egg", can not help but sweating, and then dismissed the idea of a burned out.

Benevolent people love the mountains, wise people happy water, walking in the landscape ecological Lotus old cottage, into a natural new normal, the heart has become as beautiful as flowers, such as water is generally broad, with the sea and the charm of the mind and experience the harmony between man and nature, this scenario is really beautiful! If you come in May or June, overlooking the mountain, in the middle of the houses, a lotus pond with lotus leaves, Nymphaea in bloom, the fragrance is far away and new. The water of the pond is as green as a dye, the level is like a mirror, it is as quiet as a place, and the houses are like weaving. Most of the old houses are of the old-fashioned three-story, two-story, hard-roofed type, and there are some older ones, with green bricks and tiles and brick and wood structures, revealing the vicissitudes of time and water.

Through every piece of forest, over every peak, walk through every piece of fertile land, will show the harmony between man and nature, soft music, and that flowers, trees, houses, trails will become the notes of the beating. That the distant mountains, layers and layers, cloudy, near the lush green wilderness, the shape of the peaks of the reflection and precious trees and plants, so that the lotus pond broad and quiet and ingenious natural creation, *** with the same composition of an unparalleled scenery.

Hotang village near a natural village, which is the cultural relics of the Baixia Street inspection division of the ancient site of the Baixia Street. According to the county records: Ming Zhengde twelve years (1517 AD), set up the inspection division in the public security town of Lotus Village, Baixia Street. In the Ming Dynasty, Guangxi's local armed forces known as the Royal Guard, Fort Sentry, Inspection Division, the Qing Dynasty was changed to camps, floods, ponds. At that time, these governmental organizations in Baixia Street were called the Eight Divisions. Baixia Street as the inspection division and camp flood ponds for 316 years, until the Qing Daoguang thirteen years (1833 AD) Baixia Street inspection division moved to Zhaoping Zhangmulin.

Like other traditional villages, Hotang Village faces improvement and development, which is directly related to the quality of life of village residents. Protection must be combined with development. In recent years, the unique landscape and humanistic landscape of Laozhai has become an important part of the 100-mile ink painting gallery, and the tourism development industry has been greatly developed. Many people have been relocated to the outside one after another, the old house will be resold, but also do it yourself. There is an endless stream of tourists traveling to and from the area every day, in groups of three or five. While traveling, you can enjoy the natural wonder of water in the village and people in the water, which is pleasing to the eyes. The clear reflection presents a pure natural translucent stunning emerald, tugging at the heartstrings, intoxicating.

The state continues to pay attention to the production and life of the people, like other poor villages, Hetang village precision poverty alleviation early into the hearts of the county, town and village cadres of the three levels, industrial poverty alleviation has become a top priority. Combined with the Lotus pond is an ancient village, where the strange mountain Lotus pond peak shadow famous, superior natural resources, contributed to the upgrading and development of the hundred miles of ink painting gallery scenic area, now, the beginning of the scenic area every day visitors come and go, not only the local people come to sightseeing, far away from the region of the tourists also come to the name. This year's Lunar March 3 festival, 100 miles of ink painting gallery ushered in the CCTV news channel here to record and broadcast documentary video.

From the national highway 323 north side of the Lotang village committee was informed that the 100 miles of ink painting gallery project land area of 3580.56 acres, the goal is to rest and leisure vacation as the focus of Zhongshan County foreign propaganda business card. This positioning is undoubtedly a new starting point for the rural revitalization of the ancient village of Hetang. Relying on the platform of this project, villagers can be employed nearby, which is also an important measure for industrial poverty alleviation. The project intends to build an ecotourism idyllic complex with leisure, tourism and sightseeing as its core. The main construction content includes welcome square, hundred lotus welcome, visitor service center, scenic spot gate, cruise terminal, lotus pond smell, lotus sea wa Ming, flower field state happy event, caravan camp, extreme rock climbing, sun porch light lawn, garden elegant building, dream paradise, sightseeing hot air balloon, rice paddy camping, garden fans filled with the village palace, colorful flower field, picking orchard, lotus pond reflecting the moon, ecological parking lot and so on. So far the main body of the project has been completed, one after another to meet the tourists.

Hundred miles of ink painting corridor to bring life to the Lotus Village, the Lotus Village to get the new life of the phoenix nirvana. This year, the loudest sound of a thunderbolt blew up, woke up the dormant winter insects and birds, blew out the tips of the buds of young green, blew up the people of the ancient village: "Spring is coming!" This is the most energetic day in 600 years, the heavy gray history has become the past! The light and bright new life is coming, poverty alleviation and enrichment is like a peach blossom in bud, all the way down the road full of surprises waiting for the hardworking people!

Lotus, with you - life is more meaningful.