Composition of autumn scenery in Shihezi

In my memory, the stone river in Shanhaiguan has been haunting me, bearing the joy of my soul. My hometown is in a small mountain village next to the Stone River in Shanhaiguan. The Stone River, which maintained the primitive ecology in the 1960s, flows around my hometown.

Spring is the time when apricot blossoms and peach blossoms are in full bloom. After a winter of frozen stone river, the peach blossom water with infinite vitality in March began to flow brightly, nourishing the waves in the river. The fish opened their eyes, and I stood by the river with the children in the village, holding a fishing rod to catch the waves against the warm spring breeze. After returning home, my parents put the caught surf fish and the big sauce just soaked in spring together and fried it into surf fish sauce. When the sauce was cooked, they put it on the leek bed in the garden. The first red-headed leek, just growing to more than two inches high, was eaten with a stick cake. It tastes very delicious.

Around the summer, flash floods broke out and the river soared. After the flood into the sea, a kind of marine fetal fish was born in the sea. It was one inch long, with a black back and a white belly, and swam into the Stone River against the mountain torrents. This kind of fish grows in the stone river all summer, and feeds on the newly grown moss at the bottom of the bright green river every year. In autumn, when the fish grow to more than half a foot long, they have to go downstream and enter the sea again. Catch waterlogged marine fish around August 15 in lunar calendar. In this season, marine fish flock to the sea. We use the method of hanging seeds, that is, building a herringbone stone wall in the river, and cutting something similar to a mat woven with knots at the intersection of herringbone is called hanging seeds. After the river passes through the hanging seeds, the water leaks downwards, and the fish is caught hanging on the mat. In this way, in the fishing season, dozens or even hundreds of kilograms can be caught in one day.

This season is also the time when ivory white sorghum matures. Hometown people often use new sorghum to make glutinous rice and water and eat it with marine fish. Steaming is the best way to cook marine fetal fish. Steamed with simple onion and ginger seasoning, just like steamed bread. Steamed marine fetal fish has a fragrant cucumber flavor, which is fresh but not greasy. This season is autumn. When the summer heat has just passed and the autumn sun is still very toxic, the human body needs both tonic and excessive greasy. Draught rice and steamed fish just meet the needs of the body and taste in this season, so they are very popular with hometown people. It is said that the Qing emperor went back to his hometown in Northeast China every autumn to worship his ancestors, lived in a palace near Mengjiadian village in Shanhaiguan, and ate glutinous rice and steamed sea fish grown in the stone river every time. Just pay attention to glutinous rice and marine fish, and the size of the fish should be more than half a foot. Glutinous rice must be ivory white rice produced in Mianzhuang, north of Shanhaiguan, and its practice and taste are similar to those of the people.

After the heavy snow in the lunar calendar, the stone river began to freeze. A few nights, the blue river turned into a mirror-like ice surface, and an inch-thick iceman came up, as if walking on a mirror and seeing the river clearly under his feet. Sometimes there will be a very long crack, which is very scary. During the ice season, hometown people go out. Adults fish with harpoons, and children follow behind in ice carts. The whole rink is full of joy.

People in my hometown have been engaged in harpoons for a long time, so every family has a harpoon. The fork head is an iron fork with three teeth, three teeth or five teeth, and the root is inverted. The fork pole is made of a room-high pine pole and a long hoe pole on the shady slope of the mountain. Hometown people run on the ice with this harpoon and chase fish at the bottom of the ice. Sometimes when a fast fish is crazy, everyone will hold their forks high and concentrate on the crazy fish. The ice was full of people and it was very lively. At this time, the harpooners concentrated and exceeded the carrying capacity of the ice surface, and the ice surface began to sink. In an instant, the harpooner creaks and the harpooner will run away with a bang. Harpoors are very skillful and know that competition with fish requires a combination of motion and static. There are several excellent harpoon experts in our village, each with his own unique skills. Some people are quick-sighted and quick-footed, and their ability to find fish is particularly strong. It turned out that the same person bent down to search on the ice, and no one else saw the fish. This kind of person quickly squatted on the ice, staring at the bottom of the river, and slowly put the harpoon into the ice eye. After a violent effort, he firmly grasped the harpoon with both hands, and then slowly lifted the harpoon, and a lively catfish struggled on the head of his harpoon. After lifting the ice, kick the fish off the fork with your feet. After jumping on the ice several times, the fish froze on the ice. Some people are good at fork turtles. Such people can squat on the ice for a long time and concentrate on the bottom of the river. After searching on the ice, others squatted there and looked down slowly. When they met a particularly promising target, they all squatted on the ice and covered their faces with their hands. When he cracked the ice eye with a elm hammer, he slipped into the harpoon, and the head of the harpoon he raised for a while was a turtle. The turtle that just got on the fork is resistant to life. It is attractive to wear wire together and pick it on the fork bar. When the river closes, people in the village eat fish. Even people who don't have harpoons will be given by relatives and friends.

When I was a child, I knew that the Chinese New Year was good, and I could go skating in Shihe without holding firewood. After the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the villagers thought that they had entered the New Year, and the usual pressure was relaxed. Friends seem to be "collective corruption". They can skate directly on the glacier without carrying a basket of flowers. On the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month, the happy mood of the New Year reached its climax. On the glacier in my hometown, the beautiful sunset and the mood of the New Year complement each other. We can skate on the glacier, run like a race, and shuttle back and forth on the smooth ice like a meteor in the sky. We can totally get carried away and enjoy the happiest time of the year.

However, this natural life centered on the river has now disappeared with the change of the river. In the early 1970s, a dam was built on the Stone River, which was cut off and sent to the city. In the past, the beautiful scenery along the riverside was replaced by dazzling garbage. Facing the reality, some people put forward the idea of building three short trapezoidal dams from the downstream of Shihe Dam to the estuary, in order to block the remaining river water under the dam, form three artificial stepped lakes and change the harsh ecological environment downstream of Shihe Dam. If this scheme is feasible, Shihe River may create a poetic landscape with a brand-new attitude, together with the spring breeze and the green stone shore. I hope this is not a dream.