The picturesque Dongshan town of Huangmei

It is a string of beads left by Guan Gong of Zen Buddhism. It is exquisite and smooth, and it exudes the fragrance of sandalwood leaves. It is a secluded courtyard in a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, with fresh ink color and reverberating book fragrance, or a long-lost village in the dream of an ink painter, the soul of a poet. ...

Dongshan town, I have left my deep and shallow footprints here.

Stone roads, quiet courtyards, withered red leaves and hurried tourists make the picture in the middle of winter brighter and warmer.

Hello.

Ah, hello. A woman with a good face smiles, like the warm sunshine in winter.

The children are jumping happily, running in the corridor, in the corner of the yard, beside the desk in the study and in the dense tea room.

Through the window of the yard, I saw Catalpa trees covered with white fruits, strings and strings, shining in the gaps of red leaves. Farther away, the cockscomb is gorgeous. ...

Eight years ago, my friends from the County Writers Association, Shi Xuefeng, Zheng Weixin and Zhan Zhilong, came here to write Ink and Wash Dongshan. In autumn, the Dongshan ancient road, the sunshine urges the tender buds of wild chrysanthemum to be warm and fragrant. We stop and go, just want to leave the most beautiful scenery in memory.

Residents are eating breakfast with bowls. Seeing us, leaning against the door wall and looking around, as if to say, are you going to worship Buddha? A black dog was very unhappy when he saw a stranger. He jumped up with a bark, was pulled back by the rope, jumped up again, and so on. After that, the town was silent, only our footsteps rustled and we talked to ourselves.

The town at that time was actually a scattered family. Brick walls are plastered with tiles, and bright ears are hung on the eaves, red and heavy.

The road up the mountain starts from the one-day gate in the town. One day, the gate was a four-legged floor-standing bluestone gatehouse, spanning the ancient post road at the south foot of the east and west. After entering this gate, walk a short distance to the north, and you will see the Sakyamuni Buddha Pagoda on the mountain, which was built by raising funds in the third year of Xuanhe in the Northern Song Dynasty (1 12 1). The tower is octagonal, with five steps and a height of more than 6 meters. It is beautifully carved and elegant.

This is also the starting point of Dongshan Ancient Road.

There are various versions about the construction age of the ancient bluestone road. Some people say it was built in the Tang Dynasty, others say it was built in the Song Dynasty.

It is difficult to determine the date of construction because there is no written record.

Later, careful archaeologists found evidence at the top of a boulder, convincingly confirming that the ancient Qingshi Road was built in the Song Dynasty. According to cliff stone carvings, the name of the great monk who presided over the construction of ancient Qingshi Road was Puzi. The fund for the construction of the ancient bluestone road comes from the donation of lay people. The inscription also records who donated a few feet of stone road. Of course, it is not that the layman personally built a few feet of stone roads, but that the layman donated money to build a few feet of stone roads.

In addition to smooth stone strips, there are carvings on the broken wall, telling the glory of that year. At that moment, we can only imagine the grandeur and grandeur of more than 900 temples and 1000 monks recorded in the old county annals.

Time dilutes the memory. Those dark roofs, those magnificent cornices, and those silent monks have all become the past. Eight years ago, standing at the starting point of the ancient Qingshi Road, looking back at Yuan Ye, there were only silent fields, official roads and golden rice fields.

This is a blank left by Dongshan for future generations?

It's really hard to predict. 20 15 the idea of building a cultural tourism brand with Hubei characteristics has awakened this quiet land at the foot of Dongshan overnight. Hubei Travel has a clever finger here, and the spirit is great. The blank they left in Dongshan was cut and cut, and a different picture page was outlined.

This is dongshan town. This is dongshan town.

In autumn, Jinsuyuan is gorgeous. At that time, it was the architecture of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, with ancient style, upturned cornices, heavy and dignified, as if walking in the gentle drizzle of the Tang Dynasty, only to find that it was full of poetry and immersed in the depths of the years; At that time, it was a small bridge with flowing water, and the garden was connected with the garden, and the waterside pavilion led to the waterside pavilion. This open-air courtyard has a unique flavor. Never thought, the tide that came against my face wet the golden warm sun and showed the fresh Jiangnan. This is south of Huangmei in eastern Hubei and south of dongshan town. Antique, melodious and melodious, and it is a song that makes people intoxicated and confused. ...

I really don't know how many such buildings there are. The small yard of the house is hand in hand, end to end. When you walk into them, you only feel that there is a Huatang teahouse, an elegant bookstore, a beautiful bedroom and a balcony courtyard. The warm sunshine is shining, and the tiredness is relieved. You leave Vanity Fair, put down your hurry, close the door and cover the window. Tonight, dongshan town's Chu Feng Zen rhyme will welcome you. ...

Walking out of Jinsuyuan and into Gen Ohtori, we can only sigh that the town is small and unique.

The roads in dongshan town are filled with the tranquility of small towns in the south of the Yangtze River, and the house numbers are also full of Zen. Bit by bit permeated with cultural charm. Standing under the gatehouse and looking up is "no". Yes, today, why did I come? Solve the doubts in life or take a nap on the road? Dongshan tourism? The Zen official asked Zen? In the course of life, there are always too many things to think about and weigh. Think, walk, no longer confused. Just as the back of the "Why did you come" plaque "just in time"-the winding path is secluded and the enlightenment is complete. Ah, everything is "just right" ...

About the author: Zhou Huoxiong, a member of Chinese Writers Association and vice chairman of Huangmei Writers Association, has published eleven collections of essays, including Gleditsia sinensis, Gleditsia sinensis and Melody in a Dream, and was selected as Youth Literature, Flying, Hunan Literature and China Loose-leaf Literature. The second and third editions of senior high schools and other magazines have published prose works and won more than 30 awards.

Photographs: Harmony.