Ancient Town Dream Prose

It is rainy in the south of the Yangtze River in June, which is also a dream season.

Looking from the streets full of "longevity spots", the ancient town seems to stand in the swaying water. The pavement of green slate and hemp slate is covered with long or short, continuous or broken deep ruts, and the water on the smooth slate section seems to be covered with oil and shiny. The water in the rut flows slowly, precipitating history and showing dignity. Next to an old shop, the multi-tone and closed wooden door panel has lost its original color, as if it had been ransacked by termites. Lintels of different shapes and colors are also dilapidated, and some have collapsed; The stone window of Shimen, with the imprint of local customs, has broken ribs and limbs, vaguely revealing the carving skills of craftsmen in those days. These rare ancient flavors make painters who are unwilling to be lonely and love to go deep into life sit for hours, painting carefully and boldly mixing colors.

Walking into the ancient town, you can't help looking for its true colors. Facing a house, a shop, a pavilion, a small bridge and an eyebrow, I will stop, watch, appreciate, meditate for a long time and then extrapolate, trying to associate or play the story of that year from the remaining appearances.

The first impression of the ancient town is silence, which is rare and concentrated. On a calm rainy day, the thin rain seems to slow down the decline. The sunny sun is also squinting here, and the light that gathers into a crack shines down. The old man sat in front of the door, slowly picked up the vegetable roots, put on the soles or closed his eyes, and sat quietly in the sun by leaning on the board. Time in the ancient town is like running water on the dam, slow and lazy. Old people, old houses and old streets constitute the three elements of the ancient town. At night, the moon hangs on the high tile tip, falling to the world like a silver plate. Occasionally, a few frogs croak, which is so far away, so long ago, like the sound of nature setting off the silence of the night.

I sat at my desk, opened the thread-bound book that condensed the efforts of historians, read it carefully and ordered some goods. Details record the prosperity of the ancient town, like a steady soybean oil lamp, which makes people unable to sleep for a long time.

The people in the ancient town give people the impression that they are real and talkative. The sun came out in early summer. Grandma Ba in Bauer Street basks in the sun in front of the old house and chats with some old people. Grandma Ba is over ninety years old. No, he may be nearly a hundred years old. I remember that she ate "some sweets" when she married her daughter when she was a child, and now her daughter is also a grandmother. Grandma Ba should be almost 100 years old. But her body is still strong, her eyes are not deaf, her memory is good, and her speech is still so smooth and loud. She said that the ancient town has good feng shui, and there are many old men and women in their eighties and nineties. Nowadays, young people are developing outside, building houses and buying product houses, while unaccustomed old people and their children live in old streets. Praise for the old house and old street is beyond words. She also told me that people outside came to visit the old street and she wanted to tell them the story of the old street. Said it was also to promote hometown. In the meantime, words mixed with modern vocabulary make people sit up and take notice of the old people now.

"He Jinli" is located in Bauer Street, which crosses Fuxing Road. It is a two-storey pharmacy with a history of over a hundred years, and it is still engaged in Chinese medicine. The facade wall of the store is carved with green stone pillars, which are composed of flowers, birds, animals and figures. The round doors and windows are matched with three-dimensional hollow stone carvings, which is wonderful, simple and elegant. Walking into the store, the faint scent of traditional Chinese medicine is still so refreshing. A chubby salesgirl told me that she has been standing in front of the counter here for almost thirty years. Now western medicine is developing rapidly, and Chinese medicine is not what it used to be. Business is getting worse every year. However, the business of "He Jinli" is still good. Many rural elderly people believe that the old medicine number is for "checking medicine", but more foreign tourists come to visit this unique ancient building and ask questions, which makes me a volunteer commentator again. There is no sadness in the salesperson's words.

At that time, the prosperity of the ancient town was "washed out" by a big river backed by it, living and developing along the river. This is the old man's summary of the origin of the ancient town. For a long period of history, waterway transportation has always been the main mode of transportation of the ancients. More than 20 shipping terminals arranged along the river have brought prosperity to the ancient town. According to historical records, from the Ming and Qing Dynasties to the Republic of China for hundreds of years, the docks were full of ships waiting for loading and unloading every day. Among them, there are more than ten docks with large scale and busy traffic. All the things brought in are daily necessities. The bulk products are tea, paper, copper, coal and other mineral products, and the products are transported to the mainland along the coast of Fujian.

The pier by the river is also a place where children often bathe with adults. At that time, the river was crystal clear and fish and shrimp swam. In summer, several children of similar age are invited to take a bath in the river. They often go home from school at 4 o'clock and play at 6 o'clock, and even let adults call. When I grow up, I often go fishing at the dock or help my parents wash dishes and carry water. When every household took the dishes and chopsticks after dinner to the river for cleaning, groups of small herring were attracted to compete for food around the oil beads and rice grains for washing dishes. We call this kind of fish Langdangbi. A large silver wave immediately appeared on the water. At this time, if you hook and fish, you will often get twice the result with half the effort.

Today, I walked on the flood control levee with the ancient pier as the main part. The high and wide levee pressed the ancient pier underwater and disappeared. Only one roadway connecting the ancient street became a dead end. The slate is covered with thick moss, and unknown weeds and wild trees grow out of the cracks day by day, pointing to the sky. Looking at the river still flowing peacefully day and night, there is not a sailboat on the wide river, and occasionally a small fish boat passes by, and only a shallow water mark is drawn on the water, which is so lonely. Sad mood arises spontaneously.

Walking, I was attracted by the signboard hanging on the old house. It is so small and simple, and the words on the signboard are so short and pithy. However, it has a rich historical perspective of the old house. It is said that the local area has issued more than 1000 "hukou" cards for ancient buildings. This ancient town is Hekou ancient town in Qianshan County, located in the middle reaches of Xinjiang, one of the five major water systems in Jiangxi Province. Now it is a famous historical and cultural town in Jiangxi Province. Historically, Jiangnan was "one of the four famous towns". At that time, the praise of "Jingdezhen porcelain camphor tree medicine, Hekou tea paper becomes a wood" has spread to this day.

Old people, old houses and old streets constitute this heavy ancient town. Some people say that history is written by people. I said, history is created by people, not made by people! Past or future. Old streets, old houses and old people will all die. The bustling ancient pier has taken the lead. "I don't know how many people are tired, but the old flowers are still blooming in spring." From the dream of the ancient town to the reality, don't be sad, don't be nostalgic, and don't be dull in the past history. Turning sadness into passion and nostalgia as the driving force, a new page of glorious history will be described by you, me and everyone, adding color to the ever-changing and vigorous development of the ancient town new district.