Someone once said that both soul and body must be on the road. It means that life should continue meaningfully, not only to pursue material satisfaction, but also to pay attention to rich spiritual life. You should not only study thousands of books, but also take Wan Li Road. Only reading can't work, it's easy to be divorced from reality, and it's likely to be "an armchair strategist"; Traveling without reading will become an out-and-out "postman", and you will only be fascinated by appearances without feeling. Only by constantly reading books with words and books without words, can you make your mind more mature, your vision wider, your thoughts deeper and your spirit richer.
On February 20 16, my two brothers and I went to play in Yongji Shuiyukou, hoping to indulge in nature and let our hearts fly.
When I experienced the retro style and simple customs of Shuiyukou, the feelings of the ancient village came to my mind, and many feelings emerged in my heart ...
What is the feeling of ancient village? It is homesickness, returning to nature, and spiritual destination. No, in the eyes of many people who have been to the ancient village, this is their ideal peach blossom garden. There is such a quiet place far away from the city, surrounded by mountains and holding water, where people can rest their tired bodies and comfort their impetuous hearts.
The concept that good wine is not afraid of deep alleys seems to be out of date today. Nowadays, people always attach great importance to the benefits of advertising and are convinced of the hype effect. Have you noticed that when many scenic spots are unknown, no one cares even if they are in the downtown area. Once newspapers are famous, TV shows and broadcasts sound, they can be known far away in the mountains. Of course, the construction of hardware facilities and the quality of software services in scenic spots should also keep up, otherwise, it will be a "one-shot sale". Before Shuiyukou was developed, it was also a "bred in an inner chamber, with no one knowing her". Few people knew that there was such an attractive place with history and taste hidden in the depths of this deep mountain forest.
Shuiyukou Ancient Village is located in the New yongji city of Gupuzhou, which is known as "in the world", about one kilometer away from the urban area. It is adjacent to the Yellow River in the east, Huashan Mountain in the west, Zhongtiao Mountain in the north and Shentan Grand Canyon in the south. It is really a beautiful land of feng shui in Zhong Ling.
The ancient village, formerly known as Shui Gu, has a long history and stretches for thousands of years. Since the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, it has been the main road of trade exchanges, with endless merchants and endless streams. The ancestors of the ancient village seized the business opportunities, built monasteries and houses here, set up markets to trade, and accumulated sand into towers, eventually becoming a climate. The ancient villages are built on the mountain and strewn at random, and the ancient salt road passes through the village. There are many shops and inns on both sides of the road, and there are many kinds of snacks and delicious food. Therefore, for hundreds of years, this is a well-known business center in the Golden Triangle of the Yellow River.
Walking into the newly-built antique archway of Shuiyukou Ancient Village, what you see is a creaking and slow waterwheel. Although it is antique, the traces of the new building are still obvious.
Maybe this so-called ancient village is all highly imitated? When I was disappointed and sighed, I saw a wisp of kitchen smoke curling up and smelling a fragrance. At this time, the weather is sunny and the sky is clear. Looking back around, the quaint and shiny bluestone road at the foot, the "old houses" on both sides, the waterwheels are not far away, and the smoke and fragrance in the deep lanes are dreamlike, like a fairyland. Peasant food with diverse flavors, handicraft shops with different styles and lively tourists all reflect the prosperity and liveliness of Shuiyukou, just like a unique "Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival".
Jinnan snacks are famous all over the world, and they are praised by affordable and delicious people. Along the rows of buildings in southern Shanxi in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and along the long Qingshiban Road westbound, hundreds of local snacks and specialties are presented: Jishan cakes, rolled sausages, twists and stewed vegetables; Yongji vermicelli chicken, homemade rice vinegar, old tofu; Fried chess pieces, mushrooms and earth honey in Yuanqu; Wanrong water bumps, bean jelly, mixed noodles; Xinjiang noodles with minced meat and lotus vegetables; Ruicheng hemp slices and braised pork; Hejin sesame sugar, strawberry juice; Wenxi boiled cakes, chopped green onion cakes ... countless, too numerous to enumerate, it is dizzying and appetizing; Just like a peerless beauty, it makes people memorable and unforgettable. These delicious snacks represent the five thousand-year-old civilization in Hedong. They come from the ancient flood, from the clouds of history, and from the endless folk. They are the crystallization of the inheritance of local traditional culture and national wisdom.
Of course, this alley is not only the world of "foodies", but also many traditional skills such as old coarse cloth, calligraphy and painting, monkey playing, dough kneading, ancient vinegar brewing, popcorn and so on, which can satisfy the interests of tourists of different levels and hobbies. We can also learn a little about a person's education and connotation.
I was attracted by a "noodle maker" in front of a booth. I saw that the old master was skillful and skillful, three times five divided by two, and within a moment, a lifelike monkey king was accomplished, exquisite and exquisite, lifelike and amazing. Because this year is the Year of the Monkey in the Lunar New Year, there are quite a few tourists who buy beautiful monkeys with kneaded noodles, and we also snapped up one each.
During the master's smoking break, I went up to chat with him and befriended him. The teacher, Fu surnamed Dong, has been an expert in kneading dough for generations. If you want to go deep, you must work hard. Master Dong has been an artist for thirty-six years, and only then did he have such skill. According to him, each noodle maker sells for ten yuan, and when the business is good, he can sell more than forty pieces every day. Of course, there are times when business is cold, and sometimes only a few shots are made every day. He said that it is true that noodle sellers here hope to earn some money, but they mainly want to carry forward traditional skills and prevent the kneading of noodles from disappearing. It's a pity that young people don't care about this craft now, and they think that they are hard and tired and can't make a lot of money, so they don't want to engage in this industry.
Master Dong's worries and anxieties about inheriting traditional skills are not "alarmist". He shows his unique skills here, hoping to meet a "good prospect" who is interested, talented and promising.
Nowadays, with the rapid development of economy and society, the rapid development of science and technology, the rapid development of three-P printing and high imitation technology, coupled with the invasion of foreign culture, some traditional skills have gradually been lost, retaining the roots of national culture to attract the attention of countless people with lofty ideals. National, is the world. I hope more people will pay attention to the inheritance of national culture. Let the profound national traditional culture be carried forward. From this point of view, we should give a compliment to Master Dong and a compliment to Shuiyukou.
In the ancient village of Shuiyukou, being in a dazzling array of shops, listening to the owner's warm greeting, smelling the fragrance of farmhouse meals and enjoying the "monkey with a beautiful face", I seem to have returned to my childhood, with a touch of homesickness coming to my mind, and a strong sense of belonging came to me quietly.
There is a modest stage in front. The actors on the stage are so devoted to singing, and the audience under the stage is so fascinated. The opera that reverberated around my ears was so familiar that I suddenly remembered the childhood songs: pulling a big saw, pulling a big saw, singing a big drama in front of my grandmother's house … The bell ringing on the donkey's body accompanied me to my dreamy hometown. Although I haven't lived in my hometown for a long time, I know a thing or two about the life scene of donkey grinding from film and television dramas and from the mouths of elders. This is probably what homesickness looks like. The open-air tea stall made me want to learn how to make Pu Songling, sitting on a wooden stool, shaking a big cattail fan and greeting passing guests with a big bowl of tea, so as to record the anecdotes and strange records in their mouths ...
In fact, such streets are common all over the country.
I have been to Huimin Street in Xi 'an. Although this street is not as large as the Huimin Street in Xi 'an, it has a long history and far-reaching influence, but it also has the beauty of a small jasper. Xi 'an Huimin Street, the imperial city of the Tang Dynasty and now a metropolis, has experienced a thousand years of prosperity, the north and the south are increasingly blending, and things are gradually assimilated. There are many kinds of food, and most of them are expensive. Although the taste on the tip of the tongue is beautiful, it is natural to feel homesick. It is no exaggeration to say that Shuiyukou has a sense of substitution.
After crossing the snack street and stepping into Shentan Grand Canyon, I immediately fell in love with the ingenuity of nature and made Shentan Grand Canyon magical and beautiful. The canyon is quiet and majestic, and many mountains are like splashing ink and black; Some rocks are like knives and axes, with different shapes. In the mountain stream, snowflake stones are everywhere, as white as jade, all over the river beach ...
I didn't rest all the way, and I was sweating all over. Being tired and enjoying is the real thing. This kind of exercise is really a pleasure for us who have lived in downtown for a long time. The stream is jubilant, the pool is clear, the steps are like ladders, and the stones are smooth. Maybe we were tired. We all sat on the rocks by the water, scooped up a pool of water, rinsed our mouths and washed our faces, feeling exhausted and refreshed, so we actually played a game of water fights. We laughed without scruple, which attracted the attention of tourists and made the birds in the mountain stream flutter into the Woods. Looking up at the blue sky and white clouds, looking down at the bottom of the clear water, looking around Cangshan like a beautiful mountain, picturesque, isn't it beautiful?
Crazy enough, we will sit back to back, calm down, close our eyes, listen to the gurgling sound of the pool, and feel the natural charm of the hollow valley.
As long as you pay attention, you will find that although it is ugly and unknown, it is full of historical sites and always reflects Hedong culture. During the Three Kingdoms period, Guan Gong, the martial artist, lived in seclusion here after killing the bully Lu Xiong, laying the foundation for the future battlefield. During the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhao Zhan, who was deeply appreciated by Song Yingzong and Song Shenzong for refuting Wang Anshi's young seedling method, once traveled here with Cai Yanqing and Lei Zhoufu, the bachelor of Longtuge, and left behind a beautiful cliff stone carving in Mo Bao, which was simple and magnificent, elegant and chic, smart and beautiful and elegant, and different styles, adding a bit of weight to the canyon. Ouyang Xiu, one of the eight masters in the Tang and Song Dynasties, was full of thoughts when he visited this place. The beautiful sentence "The high river empties into the sky and falls outside Kyushu" blurted out and is still widely praised today. There is also the main peak of "Kyushu Bupa" at an altitude of 1778.3 meters, which is abrupt among the mountains, with steep slopes, gentle peaks and smoky, which is also true and illusory. It has been called "Kyushu Taiping" since ancient times.
In the face of such beautiful scenery, I also improvised four sentences, not hoping to spread through the ages, just to express my feelings:
The mountains are majestic and beautiful, and the flying springs meander into streams. Shentan Canyon is like a fairyland, and Taoyuan strolls to realize the true meaning.
The canyon listens to the water and plays the nature, and the ancient village seeks dreams and misses homesickness. The ancient village is close to the mountain by the water, with old trees and new branches, warm streams and ancient houses. At the entrance of the village, the callous water wheel is still turning slowly, scooping up the clear spring water one by one, pouring it into the sink and flowing away, which is so calm and carefree. In this fast-paced era, we should really learn from the waterwheel, learn from its calm and leisurely mentality, and learn from its tenacity of never stopping and fighting continuously. In the future work and study, we should "not be afraid of clouds to cover our eyes" and "let the east, west, north and south wind", stick to our dreams, stick to the bottom line, strengthen our confidence, and work hard and never stop towards our own goals.
It is reported that since the ancient village began to operate, there have been many spectacular scenes of "bursting". Indeed, the development of the ancient village has promoted the local economy and benefited the people. It also allows visitors to appreciate the beauty and taste the food, at the same time, they have realized the homesickness, enjoyed the happiness and realized the true meaning of many lives.
As the saying goes: tourists travel to ancient villages to find their dreams, and villagers get rich and run towards a well-off life in the development of ancient villages.