Because of his good luck, the old Confucius in the northwest has long promised to accompany him to see the Baimai Spring. On the weekend, I made an appointment with Jingru's sister in Zhangqiu and went to Baimai Spring.
Jinan is famous for its spring city. It doesn't seem reasonable to come to Spring City without seeing spring. I went to Baimai Spring a few years ago. Springs are tinkling, green willows are fluttering and the environment is quiet. Ink fountain is like jade, Baimaiquan is like a string of pearls, plum blossom spring is like plum blossom in water, and Shu Yuquan is like a mirror, as if it can really make beautiful women dress up in front of the mirror. One scene in spring, each with its own charm. Qingzhaoju is located on one side of the park. This graceful poetess is fresh and refined, but she complements the tranquility of Baimaiquan.
In the afternoon, I suggested going to Zhu Jiayu. Zhu Jiayu, an ancient Ming and Qing village with a history of more than 600 years, is famous for "going east". I moved a long time ago and didn't have a chance to go. Zhu Kaishan, who created a legendary life in "Journey to the East", is based on Zhu Jiayu, and some scenes in the play were also shot in Zhu Jiayu. After listening to my introduction, Lao Kong agreed. I know that visiting an ancient mountain village is much more interesting than letting him face the fake scenery of those people.
Zhu Jiayu is located in Guanzhuang Town, southeast of Zhangqiu City. Sister Jingru will drive us, and we will arrive in twenty minutes. Today's Zhu Jiayu people have moved into the new village at the foot of the mountain. What separates the new village from the ancient village is an ancient doorway. Walking through the doorway is like walking through a time tunnel, so we have entered Zhu Jiayu's past from modern times. Looking around, I saw that the doorway was made of large square bluestone, and it was still tall and straight after vicissitudes. There is an attic above the door, which reads "Wenchang Pavilion". The attic is built above, the pavilion and cave are built below, and the building and cave are integrated. This shape is very unique, very unique. Go up the stairs along the left side of the door, and you can reach the pavilion, which is dedicated to Wenquxing. Lao Kong is a scholar and naturally worships every literary star. We went up with him, put incense on the ground devoutly, and then came down the steep steps on the right.
It's a standard quadrilateral. The house is well preserved, the courtyard is clean and tidy, with blue bricks and gray tiles, simple and solemn. It turns out that this is Zhu Jiayu's school-Yin Shan Primary School. On the screen wall in the courtyard is written "Yin Shan Primary School Song": "The beautiful water is the sun, the tiger mountain is the shadow, but my school is located in Li Men, Lu Yi. Establishing schools, cooperating with workers and transporting together are conducive to helping people's enthusiasm. Teachers and students work together to stimulate new ideas and cultivate the pillars of China ... "The signing was in September of the thirty-fifth year of the Republic of China. Judging from the scale and integrity of the school, it shows that Zhu Jiayu people attach importance to education.
The school is now a folk culture exhibition hall. On display are the daily life and production equipment of the mountain people, wooden windmills, trolleys, plows, wicker baskets, scoops, stone tables, stone benches and stone jars, which are simple and practical. The first person to settle here was Zhu, who lived in Hongwu period. For more than 600 years, Zhu Jiayu people have been living a self-sufficient life in this small village surrounded by mountains on three sides. Only in recent years have villagers moved out of ancient villages one after another. In an exhibition hall called Women's Weaving, there is also a loom for tourists to weave on the spot. Unfortunately, most people can't even take a shuttle, so they can only pose for photos. There is an old lady spinning cotton thread next to her, looking carefree.
Zhujiayu village faces Xiushui in front and Hushan in the back, and is built on the mountain. Houses vary in height and are patchwork. The narrow stone roads overlap each other, just like being in a maze. If it is in the anti-Japanese era, it is a good terrain for guerrilla warfare. Fortunately, the road is connected with the road, so don't worry about getting lost. What's more, many women and old people in the village put some wild vegetables, hawthorn, medicinal materials, eggs and other mountain products for sale, and some people set up stalls to sell pancakes to provide tourists with freshly made pancakes. Yell when people come, and forget when people go. The price is very cheap, with the simplicity and simplicity of the mountain people.
Walking in the narrow and deep bluestone alley seems to go back in time and suddenly return to the distant past. There are more than 200 ancient buildings in the village, including ancient bridges, temples, temples, schools, Gu Quan, Gu Xiang and ancient wells. Most of these buildings were built in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, with distinctive northern mountain style. Blue brick and gray tile, white wall and wooden lattice window, towering gable roof and solemn bluestone base. So many ancient buildings are so well preserved that the original people in Zhu Jiayu must have spent a lot of time building them. The relatively closed environment is also the reason why it can protect itself from the disaster of war. Some houses have collapsed, leaving only ruins, telling the ruthlessness of the years with wordless vicissitudes.
The best preserved, except the school, should be regarded as the Zhu ancestral hall. The ancestral temple is a place where people worship their ancestors, think deeply and discuss major events. It is the center of the influence of the Zhu family and the spiritual pillar of the Zhu people. The ancestral temple covers a small area and enters the courtyard in front and back, but the courtyard is deep and heavily guarded. I have never liked this place, just as I don't like all kinds of repression in a patriarchal society. I turned around when I entered the hospital and left.
Most people's old houses are free to go in and out. Some nostalgic owners are sitting in front of their old houses, and tourists want to go in and have a look. They are as warm as relatives. Only in front of the door with the sign of "one door, three scholars" is a notice of "one person, one yuan". In today's society, a dollar is not money at all, and the owner may just want to be different from others and attract attention. Because people are often curious, the more they want money, the more they want to see it. It turns out that this is the only compact quadrangle with a private school in Zhu Jiayu, with a kitchen on the right and a study on the left. Facing the master's room is a two-story library. Its owner is Zhu Shi. Because he taught two famous juren, Emperor Guangxu personally wrote the plaque of "Ming Jing Jin Shi". During the Guangxu period, Zhu was appointed as a scholar of the Ming Dynasty by the emperor and served as a candidate tutor. Open a private school at home after middle age, and peaches and plums are all over the world.
When we arrive in Zhu Jiayu, we must visit Zhu Kaishan's former residence. After all, Zhu Jiayu is now only famous for Zhu Kaishan. Along the way, we were dragged by criss-crossing stone roads, and historic sites could be seen everywhere. We followed our eyes with one foot. Suddenly, a stone bridge was erected with five seal characters engraved on it: "Kangxi Tianqiao". There is a stone tablet on the lower left. This bridge was built during the reign of Kangxi. It is arched with bluestones of different sizes and serrated teeth. It is indestructible so far. People can walk and drive under the bridge. In rainy season, bridge opening can flood and people and vehicles can pass on the bridge. Overpass is a landscape of modern cities and an important transportation hub. Who would have thought that Zhu Jiayu people had their own overpass as early as 300 years ago?
Walking past the stone bridge, there is a black lacquered wooden door next to it, and the lintel reads impressively: Former Residence of Zhu Kaishan. Into the wooden door, the yard is not big, only two west wing rooms, three south wing rooms, brick and wood structure, adobe walls, low and simple. There is a heatable adobe sleeping platform in the west wing and a big stove in front. I once recognized this heatable adobe sleeping platform in "Braving the East". There is a well, a pulley for drawing water and a stone mill in the yard. We can't judge whether the yard was repaired later or the original appearance. Compared with the "Sanshi" hospital visited before, the integrity and boldness of vision are indeed a bit shabby. But it's realistic to think about it. Jinshi is a prestigious person and can naturally afford a "mansion" and a private school; The Zhu Kaishan family was so poor that their son couldn't marry a daughter-in-law, so they had a narrow escape.
When we walked into another farmer's house, a middle-aged couple was cleaning up the messy cups and plates. It turns out that someone opened a farmhouse in their own home, which is convenient for tourists to eat in the mountains. Tired from walking, Lao Kong sat down and called for tea. We sat at the stone table in the yard, and the hostess quickly wiped the stone table and brought the brewed tea. Tea is very ordinary and doesn't taste good. But in such an ancient village, in front of a stone table in a small farmhouse, our friends who are thousands of miles away sit together for tea and chat, and suddenly there is a feeling of time stagnation.
When Lao Kong's eyes lit up, he saw the recipe written on the opposite wall and read aloud: Fried grasshoppers, fried scorpions, why, can scorpions be fried and eaten? Does it taste good？ Lao Kong's expression was surprised. Scorpions crawling all over the ravine have also become people's food in recent years, but they must be immature and the toxin has not yet grown. This temperature is difficult to master and dangerous. Now people have a bad appetite in the prosperous times, and adventure is enough to stimulate them, so these reptiles that everyone hates have become rare treasures of the public. When Lao Kong was interested, he ordered a plate of fried scorpions, a plate of wild vegetables and a bottle of wine. Lao Kong, from the northwest, can drink well. Seeing scorpions now makes you addicted to alcohol. Those freshly fried scorpions are lying on the snow-white fans. I saw Lao Kong pick up chopsticks, pick up one, read it over and over again, and then put it in his mouth carefully. It's really interesting to look scared and curious. When a pot of tea is finished and a bottle of wine has bottomed out, that plate of scorpions becomes our stomach.
Out of the village, a path leads to Wenfeng Mountain behind the village, and Kuixing Building is built on the mountain. The path up the mountain is very narrow, yellow-green winter jasmine flowers are arranged on both sides of the path, and peach blossoms and apricot flowers on the hillside are blooming brightly. In the distance are terraced fields, which are like beautiful water ripples in the painter's pen. The mountain was not very high, and soon I saw the towering Kuixing Building. Kuixing in the Big Dipper is in charge of moire, echoing Wenquxing in Wenchang Pavilion. After climbing thirty-six steps, you have to pass a "Longmen", which means "Carp yue longmen", and then you can go to Kuixing Building. Wenquxing bowed down, and Kuixing certainly bowed down. What's more, Lao Kong is a scholar, and we also know him. We can be friends through writing.
After worshipping Kuixing, we had to be promised by the owner inside, and we climbed onto the roof. Looking around, the old Confucius, who had a lot of experience in geomantic omen, praised this place again and again, calling it a land of geomantic omen. According to the inscription, this Kuixing Building and its former Wenchang Pavilion were built in the 18th year of Qing Daoguang, and were designed and built by Zhu Xia, a southerner who knew Feng Jian well and was good at educating people. There is Wenchang Pavilion in front, Kuixing Building in the back, Wenfeng Mountain in the back, and a penholder in the west of the village. Zhu Jiayu, an almost isolated mountain village, is full of Confucianism.
It was already evening when I went back. On the way, I saw a bus carrying tourists into the village. This small mountain village, which has been sleeping in the arms of mountains for hundreds of years, will probably be awakened by the footsteps coming in droves.
About the author: Li Shuying, a native of Shanghe, Jinan. After work and life, reading and writing are fun. More than ten articles, such as summer village, Jujube, Autumn Rhyme, Vines, Flowers, Give Your Seat to Others, have been published in newspapers and periodicals such as Popular Daily, Writers Daily, Shandong Land and Resources News, Southern Hunan Literature and Canal.