The original text and appreciation of the hitching stone

Hitchhiking is an article written by Liu Zhang, a famous vernacular poet. The article mainly depicts a few ordinary scenes in the life of the townspeople, such as setting up hitchhiking and walking on hitchhiking, which expresses the traditional virtue of respecting and loving the old.

My hometown has a nameless creek, and five or six small villages are spread on both sides of the creek. The water in the creek flows continuously all year round. Every year during the flood season, flash floods occur, and the water in the creek rises sharply. After the flash flood, people had to take off their shoes and pants to go to work, to finish work, to go to the market, to visit friends, and to come and go. Into the fall, the weather became cooler, people in their hometown according to the depth of the water, from both sides of the river to find some flat square stone, according to the interval of two feet or so, in the creek across the row, so that people from the top of the tread, which is the hitching stone.

The stone, constitutes a landscape of the hometown. After the fall, people will put the stone in place early. If there is a stone elsewhere, but not here, people will condemn the people here for being lazy. The old man, no matter how anxious to hurry, as long as you find a hitching stone is not smooth, will certainly put down the things with, find a suitable stone to build, and then in the upper side of the pedal a few back and forth, until satisfied with the willingness to leave.

There is a saying in my hometown that "tightly walking on the stone is slow to cross the bridge". People walking on the stone can not grab the road, also can not suddenly stop. If the person in front of them stops suddenly, the person behind them will fall into the water if they have no place to land. Whenever you go up or down, a line of people walking the hitching stone moves in such a coordinated and orderly way! The front of the feet up, the back of the tightly followed up, the sound of the pedal, like light music; clear waves rippling, silhouettes, giving people a general sense of beauty of the painting.

People often to the mountains, probably have seen such a scene: if there are two people face to face at the same time to walk to the stream, always in the first hitching stone in front of the stop, beckoning, let the other side first, and so the other side of the river, the two people and then say a few words of home, only to go back to each other. If you meet the old man to walk on the stone, the young man always have to crouch down to carry the old man over, people take this as a matter of course.

Rows and rows of stones, let people walk, let people step on, they are linked to the hometown of the trail, but also linked to the good feelings of the townspeople.

Hitching stone is a kind of simple passageway laid with stones when people cross the streams and gorges without bridges, or shallow and dry rivers, muddy roads, etc. The stones are usually natural, but they are not used for the purpose of transportation. Selected stones are generally natural square-shaped or flat-topped, all the stones are placed at a distance of two feet. Not very smooth, walk fast to maintain balance. Also for a landscape.

"Hitchhiker's Stone" is a famous vernacular poet Liu Zhang wrote the article, the article mainly depicts the villagers set hitchhiker's stone, walking hitchhiker's stone and other life of a few ordinary scenes, showing respect for the elderly and love of the traditional virtues. The article focuses on the old man who adjusts the hitching stone, vividly portraying the old man's serious and meticulous movements, showing the old man's excellent quality of thinking about others. Praise for the silent dedication of the hitching stone, but also praised the traditional virtues of mutual love and mutual assistance, respect for the elderly and love for the elderly.