Yan Xiaoming's "Three Tour Crescent Springs"

The National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival, which have only been celebrated four times in a hundred years, are called "super long" holidays by "donkey friends". Because the epidemic has been "closed-door" for a long time, some acquaintances of the author have packed their bags and rushed around. Looking at their full sense of acquisition, happiness and security, thinking of their own experiences, we have to sigh the rapid development of tourism culture. ...

From 65438 to 0975, as a staff member of Jiuquan Agricultural Reclamation Bureau, I accompanied the performance group of Tianjin Conservatory of Music from my hometown to various farms and mines to perform for the youth in Tianjin. When I passed Dunhuang, I climbed Mingsha Mountain. This is my first time to go to Crescent Spring. At that time, people in China probably didn't have a sense of tourism, there were no signs of tourism in Shashan, there were no tourists by the spring, and the buildings around Crescent Spring had not been rebuilt. Perhaps, it is precisely because there is no artificial carving and noise that I really appreciate the wonders of nature. On that day, standing on the top of the mountain overlooking Biquan, the hook-shaped spring was really like a crescent moon, wonderfully embedded in the golden sand dunes. On the same day, I wrote such a doggerel in my diary: "A crescent moon is embedded in the sand mountain, and a clear spring is rippling." The crescent moon and clear water overlap each other, both between heaven and earth. Sand mark keeps singing divine comedy, a beautiful string of ancient desert. Spring waves reflect the Millennium, and the Silk Road is beautiful. "Although she knew that she was not good at writing, she really imagined the Crescent Moon Spring as the" eye of the Silk Road "in her mind. She always feels that what she sees is not only the innate iron-backed fish and the seven-star fairy grass, but also the ancient pool and the unconstrained style with a long history, as well as the years and anecdotes that happened on the ancient Silk Road. Of course, I also want to know, in our time, what new stories can this strange "Eye of Silk Road" see?

Quite touched, the second time I went to Crescent Spring to see the ancient times, the eye of Silk Road probably saw a scene that made her sad. In the early 1980s, tourism became more and more popular in China. I remember going back to Tianjin to visit my brother, who is a biology teacher in the experimental middle school. Before I could sit down, his college classmate came: "Where should I go this summer vacation?" I forgot the tourist destination suggested by my brother. I only remember that the classmate said in a hurry, "Well, I'll string up a few more people. Let's go together! " A few days later, when I changed trains in Beijing, I went to see my uncle and aunt. Who knows that as soon as my two sisters saw me, they began to talk about traveling to the northwest: "Brother, is your place worth going?" "Is it worth it? You will regret not going! Snow mountain, Gobi, desert, grassland! Of course, there are Mogao Grottoes and Maijishan! " At that time, the train to Lanzhou was 12 1 time. It was not tiring to have a hard seat for more than 30 hours, but a pair of young men and women without seats were "standing happily". I gave the young man a corner seat, and I recognized his Jiuquan accent during the conversation. It turns out that they are farmers in Qingshui Township, Jiuquan County. "Go to a relative's house?" I asked. "no, travel." "Travel?" It's a little strange. "Come out and have a look! Now that we have money, we plan to travel once a year! " I suddenly realized that with the progress of reform and opening up, the lifestyle of China people has indeed undergone gratifying and profound changes. After returning to Lanzhou, he was ordered to shoot the curtain film "Wonders of the West" in Hexi Corridor, and won the second trip to Crescent Moon Spring. At that time, there was a big gap between the east and the west. There are still few tourists on Mingsha Mountain, and there are no buildings beside Crescent Spring. Shortly after the photographer and I climbed to the top of the mountain, two people with simple luggage rarely climbed up. Listening to the accent and dialogue, they should be farmers from central Gansu who come to work in Hexi Corridor. At that time, there were not many Gansu farmers who dared to go out to work, and even fewer Gansu farmers were willing to use the opportunity of working to travel and broaden their horizons. Therefore, the appearance of these two farmers made me particularly excited and even extremely moved. Who knows, there was a big reversal in the next plot-they finally climbed to the top of the mountain, annoyed and disappointed with the crescent spring: "What is this?" "Is it a puddle?" "Just like our Dianchi Lake!" Waterlogging pond is a small pond for storing rainwater in arid and water-deficient areas of Gansu Province. In fact, the cultural phenomenon of "no crescent moon, no spring" in life is not uncommon. For example, some sentimental people may regard the piggy bank as an artistic ornament, while pragmatic people only value the money inside. However, I think, although Crescent Moon Spring will be bitter because some tourists can't appreciate their own aesthetic value, she should feel a little warm and gratified to attract these farmers who come from the middle of Gansu and suffer all over the world. They haven't attended school for several years and are still struggling for food and clothing or even water.

199 1, I was transferred back to my hometown to work after leaving for 25 years. It wasn't long before it was discovered that both rural areas and farmers themselves began to become important attractions and new forces for developing tourism. Once I went to Yushizhuang, Jixian County (now Jizhou District) to shoot the sculptor Yu Qingcheng's documentary "Mud Life". The secretary of the village party branch entrusted me to write commentaries for a series of tourism projects in the village. Only after his introduction did I know that rural tourism is really promising. In those years, China's tourism industry seemed to heat up rapidly.

1999, in order to shoot a TV series, as the producer of "New Vision Studio" in the TV production center of Tianjin TV Station, I accompanied the crew to Dunhuang, and I got the third chance to go to Crescent Moon Spring. Completely different from the previous two times, the overall environment of Mingsha Mountain and Crescent Spring has undergone earth-shaking changes. The scenic spot has built a wall and implemented the ticket system. Entering the gate of the scenic spot, I saw a long camel team carrying an endless stream of tourists, just like a Great Wall moving slowly in the sand mountain, leisurely marching from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain. Tourists are not afraid of the hardships of climbing the sand mountain, and all want to get a novel experience of "boat in the desert". The ancient buildings near the spring seem to be rebuilt overnight, and all the buildings of the past dynasties gather here. Our "Eye of the Silk Road" can feast its eyes for thousands of years.

Surprisingly, I met a farmer I used to know in Jiuquan County. His surname is Ba, and he is a local leader who made a fortune in the early days. I praised him happily: "It's great that you can travel to Dunhuang through Jiayuguan, Yumen and Anxi! I should have opened the three-dimensional book of nature for myself, opened my eyes and opened my heart! " He still smiled shyly and responded to me: "I have already participated in the tour! I am not a tourist, but I set up the first private tourism company in Jiuquan County, specializing in the Jiuquan-Jiayuguan-Dunhuang route! "

I was stunned by his simple and low-key words and didn't know how to answer them. Looking at the crisp people in autumn, one of Chairman Mao's poems blurted out inadvertently: "The bleak autumn wind has come again and changed the world."

"hey!" Minibus, no, it should be the old bus. I was slapped. "What do you think?"

I told him about my previous two trips to Crescent Moon Spring, about the two farmers from the arid area in central Gansu, and about what I once compared Crescent Moon Spring to "the eye of the Silk Road": "If she can really read for thousands of years, then what she sees now should be the most prosperous scene?"

The old bus said, "That's right! The two brothers you mentioned who have suffered (in the local dialect, they have suffered) will not also run travel companies or' farmhouses', will they? "