Spring Tour Pingdu Taohuajian

Text/Jeong Min Lee

2022.4. 1 1

Looks like a date.

You are waiting for a sunny season, what condenses in the cold and precipitates in the dark will bloom at this moment.

I'm waiting for the day when the spring is warm in bloom, where I meet what I expect in loneliness and daydream in loneliness.

Really, it's settled.

There is no stylized greeting, no boring confession, only inner throb. Meet each other and hug each other, as if it were yesterday!

Yesterday has become a dream attachment. On snowy days and rainy nights, it is your pure face that occasionally flashes through your mind!

Taohuaxi, a fascinating place!

The peach blossom stream in spring is a kind of vigor and enthusiasm, a kind of youthful vitality and romance. The mountains are steep and the air goes straight into the sky; The green peaks are beautiful and seem to be together. As strong as an old cow plowing in this mountainous area, as strong as a young man riding a motorcycle on a mountain road.

Look! Peach blossoms and cherry blossoms in woody cherry blossoms bloom in the spring breeze, like snowflakes and layers of jade. The whole Peach Blossom Creek seems to be dazzling.

Peach blossoms in Taoyuan are beautiful, with low branches and crooked branches. Pink peach blossoms are like colorful brocade and clouds against the newly sprouted green leaves.

The pines and cypresses in the distance are dying, and the bamboos by the stream are tall and green, so their leaves will not wither in winter. In the damp of this spring, they are as shiny and full of vitality as they have just been washed.

Magnolia has just opened, and the underground leaves are like pieces of flying jade, spinning in the breeze. However, the magnolia is in full bloom, like a sunrise shining in front of the house. No matter how lonely your heart is, it is also ignited by this enthusiasm.

Whose lilac is that at the front door? It must have been decades. It is higher than people's heads, with branches and stamens hanging freely, like an open red umbrella building, and strings of purple nail-shaped cylindrical petals are opening into the air, emitting a strong fragrance. Every year when he drives, I will come and lean under the tree for a long time.

This is also an exquisite farm garden. Flowers bloom in front of the pear tree, such as white clouds dancing and falling snow, and red lanterns hanging under the tree add a festive atmosphere to romance.

There is also a tree called Li Du, which is grafted with begonia on the vigorous branches of Gu Zhuo, with white flowers and red flowers, like an old lady with white hair wearing red flowers in spring, charming and lovely.

Clusters of azaleas scattered on the hillside beside the ravine look like fluttering silks and satins from a distance and dancing butterflies from a near distance, which are particularly dazzling in the white sea of cherry blossoms.

When we arrived at the Peach Blossom Stream, we had to visit papaya tree, which was called Muli by the local people. It was planted in the imperial history of Pingdu Guimao during Guangxu period. It's been more than a hundred years now, and it takes two people to hug. It is located in a high place, lush, emerald-like fresh green leaves have just spread out, dotted with blooming pink flowers, five petals, red and green, swaying. Birds are flying and chirping from time to time, bringing comfort to the old Cang Sang tree deep in the mountains. When I arrived in Qiu Lai, it was lovely to be decorated with many fruits and branches.

Step by step, I boarded a place called Qingshui urn. I heard frogs that can only be heard in summer in other places. At this time, I heard the frog's drums in the distance, which was quiet and full of heart. The clear water urn is not big, and a cement dam has been built in the south, and railings have been installed on the dam so that people can pass through. The jar of clear water is deep in You Lan, swaying in the bright sunshine. Water spewed out from the cracks in the dam, fell into the current in the south of the dam and gurgled south. On the south side of the dam, there is a small pine tree hanging in the air, like a little dragon holding its head high to the south, ready to fly away, which is amazing for nature and tenacious vitality.

According to legend, when a juren traveled to the mountains, he found that the water in the urn was sweet and clear, waterlogged but not overflowing, dry but not dry, and cooked rice was rotten but not boiled, which made the tea mellow and fresh. Shang settled in Pingdu in his later years. Although the mountain road was rugged and the journey was more than 80 miles, people were sent here to transport tea and water.

In fact, Taohuajian was originally named "Shangjian". It was also in those days that the merchants were optimistic about this place and wanted to build a house in seclusion, so they built three "Pingshan Pavilion" thatched cottages and named this valley "Shangjian". Shang Han Qing (1870 1946) was born in Shangjiatuan village, pingdu city, whose real name was Hirayama.

The urn is still flowing, and the water is still flowing. Trees are richer and people are gone!

"And secular things take turns, ancient, modern, back and forth. The glory of rivers and mountains remains unchanged, and this trace can be proved. " Taohuaxi, with its natural beauty, presents a new look in the new era. Generations of people have been raised here, and simple and hardworking people here have inserted wings into the ancient Peach Blossom Creek with their wisdom and sweat.

Under the cherry blossom trees, there are stone tables and benches set up by farmers. Take a rest here, the wind is blowing slightly, and the flowers are all over your head. You can enjoy the green mountains and green waters, see the red leaves and red flowers, and listen to the rustling and birdsong in the forest. All the troubles are gone, and it's quiet.

On the way down the mountain, there was a faint silvery laughter, and the flowers trembled with joy. I saw a group of slim middle-aged women wearing cheongsam walking on the winding mountain road, all smiling and full of energy. It turns out that they came to see the cheongsam show! They linger under leaves and wander among mountains and rivers, more delicate than mountains and rivers and more delicate than flowers. They are the most spectacular scenery and the most beautiful scenery in today's peach blossom flow! Social progress and economic prosperity make them feel the richness and happiness of life and immerse themselves in the mood of love all the time!

Time can easily throw people away, turn cherries into red and plantains into green. Soon, the cherries will be ripe! When cherries are exquisitely decorated on the branches like agate, I will come again, peach blossom flow!