? I have always liked ancient villages, ancient towns and ancient villages. I always feel that in these places, life is the original appearance, and people can chew the original taste of life without chasing and being busy. In addition, most of these ancient villages have some years, and the accumulated customs have many origins. In the exploration, it can also help me to better judge people and return to simplicity. In recent years, many ancient towns and villages have been visited without delay. Some famous ancient towns have basically developed in the same way and become seriously commercialized. Tourists have become the main body of life in ancient towns. Although they claim to go to ancient towns to experience slow life, in fact, many times they are slow-moving versions of colorful urban life. I prefer to go to some undeveloped ancient villages. If I can really feel the original life of the local aborigines, this will be my yearning trip.

I'm ashamed to say that I've been married to Jiang Yong's daughter-in-law for fourteen years, and it was twelve years since I last went to Jiang Yong. In my impression, Jiangyong's landscape is beautiful, which is somewhat beautiful in Guilin; The food is acceptable, and it is basically a bold folk custom of eating meat and drinking in a big bowl. I have long heard about Jiangyong's long female calligraphy culture. But it may be because it is not rare and there is no need to make a special trip. In my travel planning, I have never included Jiang Yong in my vision. This summer vacation, my daughter and classmates made an appointment to travel together. Considering all factors, we chose his hometown as our destination under the recommendation of my husband. A group of seventeen people, old and young, went south in a mighty way. Along the way, I was full of confidence in the pleasant experience of this trip, thinking that it would be fun for so many people to go out and go anywhere, but I didn't expect too many surprises in my heart. However, after a few days, the harvest was full. While we strolled in this small county town in southern Hunan, we also went out of the province and arrived in Fuchuan, Guangxi, where we harvested a thousand-year-old village, an ancient Yao village and a deep champion village. Now that I think about it, I still feel endless aftertaste. ? Villages, villages and towns are the names of the units where people gather and live. One side of the water and soil supports one side of the people, and the other side of the people creates the water and soil. When the ancients chose a place to live, most of them paid attention to geomantic omen. The layout of villages and houses can be said to be somewhat. These ancient villages preserved through years and vicissitudes all reflect their intentions, and the accumulated celebrity legends and cultural customs can better witness their wisdom and foresight.

It may be due to my personal specialty and interest. Whenever I go to a place or a building, I am particularly interested in the origin and origin of place names. I feel that a good name entrusts the ancestors' blessings and hopes for this place and this branch. Jiang Yong's Gan Tang Millennium Village, Goulan Yaozhai and Fuchuan Xiushui champion village are very beautiful just from the name. The name "Gan Tang" comes from the sentence "Cover Gan Tang, don't cut it, don't cut it, call Bo Suo" in the Book of Songs, taking its meaning of incorruptibility. On the other hand, Gan Tang meant to refer to a sweet fruit, which can be a pear or an apple. According to legend, Zhou's ancestral home was in Shandong, and he chose to live here to avoid the war. In order to express his yearning for his hometown, he named this place "Gan Tang", which is geographically corresponding to "Lower Gan Tang". The "Goulan" of Goulan Yaozhai is due to the beautiful scenery of the village. There are historical records that "the mountains are connected, the streams are flowing, and the color is blue in indigo". When we walked in the village, we really felt this. There is another saying, because there is a custom in Goulan Yaozhai to recruit a son-in-law by his wife, "a good girl can't leave the stone wall door", and "Goulan" is similar to "Goulang". In order to avoid this too straightforward name, it is a relatively literary "Goulan" that has been passed down. Champion village, the "Xiushui", was originally named "Xiufeng", and Mao Zhong, the ancestor of Mao Shi clan, was a scholar during the reign of Tang Kaiyuan. When he chose to build a village here, he felt that Zhong Ling was beautiful, with the peak as the backing and water as the nourishment, and the name "Xiushui" sounded a little more aura. The three places tour, the same is the simple folk customs, long architecture and slow pace, the difference is the layout of Feng Shui and cultural emphasis. ?

? It was about four or five o'clock in the afternoon when we arrived at the ancient village of Upper Gan Tang. Standing at the head of the village, a group of people carefully looked at this somewhat shabby and slightly mysterious village, a dilapidated bridge and an eye-catching pavilion. While wondering about her history, they were also attracted by this beautiful landscape. Ancient buildings, surrounded by distant green hills, and rivers running nearby, children picked up cameras to take pictures, and old people began to scramble to take pictures.

under the explanation of the village guide, the charm of this ancient village gradually became clear. The stone bridge that has collapsed in front of us is called Buying Bridge. The green vines grow from the stone crib and hang on the stone wall or space, which makes the stone bridge look strange old and beautiful. This ancient bridge built by Zhou clan in the first year of Jingkang in the Northern Song Dynasty has a history of more than 87 years. When a small part of the bridge collapsed, the villagers don't know. In their eyes, this bridge is like this. Maybe the legend is true: the Eight Immortals laughed at the completion ceremony of the bridge. Tie Guai Li's overweight foot created the "incomplete beauty" of the ancient bridge.

The river that flows under the bridge is called Xiemu River, which flows in front of the village. A long stone wall separates the river from the village, which forms a barrier for the village. Looking up at the two mountains, one is called Guishan, and the other is called Angshan, which stands not far from the village. It is not high, but it has its own charm. In the distance, there are layers of green hills, thick as ink, light as a cloud. The nearby pavilion, called Wenchang Pavilion, was built in the Southern Song Dynasty and has been renovated.

When you cross the Buying Bridge, you enter the village. What you see is a polished ancient road, which exudes a faint luster. This ancient road, which has a history of thousands of years, has been leading to the village. Stepping on it to get close to the ancient houses in Gan Tang really makes people imagine: the horseshoes in the Tang Dynasty slammed against the bluestone in haste, the beautiful images of the village girls in the Song Dynasty were reflected on the bright and clean bluestone, and the laughter of playing with children in the Qing Dynasty remained in the fine stone lines forever ... We didn't rush into the village, but turned right to the Yuepi Pavilion on the left side of the Xie Mu River, saying it was a pavilion, but actually a natural stone gallery. These stone tablets have very precious cultural relics and archaeological values, which can be described as the "archives" in Gan Tang. For example, the Monument to the Construction of Buying Bridge truly preserves the historical materials of the ancient bridge at the entrance to the village. Years have gnawed at the ancient tablet inscription, and many words on the tablet have been vaguely blurred. What impressed me the most were two stone tablets, one with the words "Loyalty, Filial Piety and Honesty", which was nearly two meters high and more than one meter wide. The brushwork was vigorous and magnificent. At first glance, I feel a bit familiar, deja vu. According to the tour guide, these four characters were written by Wen Tianxiang in the Southern Song Dynasty. At that time, Wen proposed restraint in Hunan and went to Jiangyong area to quell the uprising of Yao people. Zhou Deyuan, a member of the Zhou clan in Gan Tang, was the prefect of Hangzhou (Lin 'an Prefecture in the Southern Song Dynasty) and had a deep friendship with Wen Tianxiang. Mo Bao returned to his hometown and left it to future generations, which was engraved on the wall in the twenty-eighth year of Qianlong. The enlightenment of "Loyalty, Filial Piety and Honesty Festival" bathed the Zhou family, which made many outstanding figures emerge in the dynasties. I suddenly realized that my sense of familiarity originally came from these four words in Yuelu Academy, originally written by the same person. There is also a tablet, which is a tablet without words. Zhou's ancestors were smart, leaving a blank for future generations to fill in. There are talents from all generations, but there is no fixed standard for who can go down in history, and it is a good intention of predecessors to inspire the younger generation to work hard with this goal.

After visiting Yuepi Pavilion, we turned around and walked to the village. It was just as the sun was setting, the houses on both sides of the ancient road were arranged irregularly, and some businesses still had some legacy. The Upper Gan Tang Museum along the road recorded the development origin of this stockade very clearly, and it was not easy for a village-level museum to reach such a scale. Before reading the literature carefully, the children had already run deeper into the village. At the gate of the museum, a farmer who came home late slowly passed by with an old ox. At that moment, I felt that time was stagnant. After thousands of years of reincarnation, this most primitive farming map still exists. What is the true meaning of life today?

In a trance, a sudden heavy rain broke our trip to Gan Tang, so we took shelter under a door. There are ten clans in the Zhou family in Upper Gan Tang, and each clan's independent trunk road branches into the house one by one. A gatehouse is built at the junction of the secondary trunk road and the main road, and it is the gathering and continuation of this individual that goes deep into each gatehouse. Chatting with old people, playing with children, watching local old people and children walk through the rain without fear of rain, which is completely different from the formality of city people who are afraid of catching a cold in the rain. This is a way to get along with nature. Only when nature is "wild" and "elegant" and the atmosphere and beauty stop can we feel it well. In this heavy rain, I ended my trip to the ancient village of Gan Tang. It is precisely because of these regrets that I can be the reason to come to the ancient village again next time!