He is here, he is here again! Holding hands in the red October, singing the sound of the waves of the Hongru River flowing eastward, he is walking in this golden autumn season, dancing in this harvest in the fields.

My friend Feng'er told me that the rice in Pinglou is ripe.

Township chief Li Jianli also said, come back, the second Daoxiang Festival welcomes you home.

It’s time to go back, to Xincai, my hometown that I miss day and night, and to Dungang, my hometown that haunts me in my dreams, because there are my roots, my soul, and my order. I recall the fragrance of rice from thousands of miles away, and the Shen Gang oil buns that tantalize my taste buds.

When I return to my hometown to participate in the Daoxiang Festival held at my doorstep, I can’t return empty-handed. I should write something for the Daoxiang Festival, right?! So I came up with this article "Talk about Dunggang in the Daoxiang Festival" ", recalling the past events between me and Dungang, and writing about my indissoluble bond with Daoxiang Festival.

The Ru River, a river that turns thousands of times, flows thousands of miles, nourishing the fertile land of Dunggang and the more than 40,000 hardworking and kind people in this land with her rich milk. After these two mother rivers converge at the three forks of Bantai, they turn back three times like a wanderer with every step, full of tenderness and difficulty in leaving, and finally flow into the Huaihe River and into the sea.

It is said that Dunggang is a magical place, and this is not made up. Today, we will not write about Ye Gong, a statesman, military strategist, and water conservancy expert who was born in Shengang, Xincai, Chu State, Shen Zhuliang more than 2,000 years ago. We will not write about Li Baocun, a 12-year-old child prodigy who passed the imperial examination in Xia Pigang in the middle of the Qing Dynasty. We will not write about golden, crispy, layered The Shenggang oil buns that still stir the taste buds of Xincai people, and Yang Daoxian, the two generations of imperial masters and ministers of the Ministry of Rites in Nanhuangzhuang of the Ming Dynasty, are not mentioned. Since the Daoxiang Festival is written, let’s talk about the rice-related Iron Stone Rolling Mazhuang Iron Stone Rolling Stone. legendary story.

It is said that a long time ago, the ancestors of Mazhuang, located next to Magiao Lake in Dunggangdian, downstream of the confluence of Hongru River, introduced rice from the south of the Yangtze River. However, the rice farmers in the village were worried about the autumn harvest season. Why? In the era of slash-and-burn farming, there were no suitable threshing tools, and harvesting by hand was very slow. One year there was an autumn flood, and large areas of mature rice had no time to thresh and were about to be submerged by the flood. Suddenly, an iron-black stone roller floated over from the top of the rolling waves. The ancestors thought that such a large stone roller could not be lifted by several people, so how could it float here? God must be helping us. So, several people quickly installed a roller frame on it to grind rice, which invisibly accelerated the progress of harvesting and reduced the losses of rice farmers. As the news spread, the surrounding people began to imitate such stone rollers. Tieshiluomazhuang became famous in Dungang Store and Xincai City.

Later, with the development of society, farmers used threshing machines, and the iron stone roller gradually withdrew from active service. However, it is a living fossil that witnesses the long history of rice cultivation in Dunggang. Sit quietly and watch the millennium of Dunggang. The softness has changed dramatically, and it looks like a stone Bodhisattva with kind eyebrows and kind eyes, guarding the prosperous and safe Xindungang!

The topic is a bit far-fetched, so let’s get back to the point.

Although Dunggang has fertile land and abundant water resources, in the decades, hundreds and even thousands of years before the reform and opening up, Dunggang was located in the center of the "Flood Guest House" and the people's livelihood was difficult. is the first priority. Although there is a pool of good water, planting rice can only be a luxury in the heart. Most crops in autumn are still sweet potatoes.

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