The intoxicating beauty of Jiangnan and the ancient charm of Huizhou

For a long time, Jiangnan in my mind has always been the ancient towns in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, with pavilions, pavilions, small bridges and flowing water, and people holding oil-paper umbrellas and lilac-like women walking on the bluestone road in the rain lane, swaying along the water. Walking through the long corridor between gray tiles and white walls.

Having been to Huizhou, I know that I am narrow-minded. It turns out that the so-called Jiangnan, the south bank of the Yangtze River, is Jiangnan. It is a vast territory that extends westward along the estuary. Every fork in the road leads to a different place. The south of the Yangtze River is like a long ink painting, with green mountains, green water, red maples, apricot yellows, green grass, fallen leaves, pavilions and waterside pavilions, pink walls and black tiles, curling reflections, and misty rain. If an artist painted it, it would definitely not be inferior to Along the River During Qingming Festival.

Reminiscing about Jiangnan in Pinglan, my heart is at a loss. Looking at the south of the Yangtze River at dusk, I feel happy. Dreaming of the south of the Yangtze River in front of the wind, my heart is floating. Picking up incense and sending it to the south of the Yangtze River, my heart will follow suit.

"Everyone says that Jiangnan is good. Tourists only like Jiangnan. The spring water is blue in the sky, and people can paint boats and listen to the rain to sleep." Jiangnan has always been a beautiful place, a plot that cannot be solved, and a story that cannot be thrown away. The lost lovesickness is the unforgettable fate of past lives.

Since ancient times, many literati and poets have fallen in love with the south of the Yangtze River, splashed their ink boldly, and left behind many beautiful words and paintings. Although I have no idea, I still have a soft spot for Jiangnan.

I have seen Taihu Lake, which is vast and filled with water mist; I have seen West Lake with rippling blue waves and heavy makeup; I have been to Wuzhen, where awnings shuttle and make sound waves; I have also tasted tea and listened in the long rain alley. However, when I arrived in Huizhou, I realized that the south of the Yangtze River was beautiful, and Huizhou was the most beautiful.

The beauty of the West Lake cannot be described in detail. The clear water is beautiful only when the water is shining, and the mountains are also strange when they are empty and rainy. If you want to compare the West Lake to the West, it is always suitable to put on light makeup and heavy makeup. There are poems and articles as evidence. But I think that the West Lake is just beautiful, but it lacks a little bit of ancient charm. The modern high-rise houses by the lake have diluted the traces of time. The ancient charm here is to be found, and you can only feel it when you enter the ancient town. Huizhou is different. Those micro-style buildings that are integrated with the landscape, unique in style, elegant and clever, integrating natural beauty and humanistic beauty, add a rich and colorful touch to Huizhou. The rich ancient charm makes you feel If tourists all put on ancient costumes, they will feel as if they have traveled to the ancient farming era.

It has been some time since I came back from Huizhou, but I still have a complex about Huizhou. I want to write it out, but I am afraid that my words will live up to this fairy-like beauty, so I have never dared to write. But I always wanted to write something, so I used my ungraceful words to record the ancient charm of Huizhou in my heart.

Huizhou is my first trip. Photographer Xiao Ai took four of us to drive west to find those non-mainstream ancient villages.

The autumn rain falls leisurely, soothingly depicting the wet (poetry) feeling unique to Jiangnan. The car is driving gradually westward, and the mountain road is winding and undulating. Looking through the car window: the mountains and sky filled with clouds and mist. They are connected to each other, and it is difficult to tell which is the sky or the mountain. In the misty rain and smoke, shadows are appearing and disappearing. On the hillside, maples are red and apricots are yellow, pines and cypresses are green, and they are dyed with autumn colors. Under the mist-shrouded mountains, from time to time, horse head walls, green tile roofs and low courtyard walls of the cottages quietly appear, which are fresh and simple. This is a typical Huizhou architecture. I sighed that the black and white embedded in the mountain color turned out to be so beautiful. No wonder there is an ancient poem that says: I have never dreamed of going to Huizhou. Such pure beauty makes this trip worthwhile.

Huizhou is a heavy book that needs to be read quietly, tasted carefully, and interpreted with heart. Only after reading and tasting can one appreciate its taste. I only picked up one volume called "Ancient Rhythm of Huizhou" and read it, but I could only read part of it.

The villages and ponds we walked through were like opening the book "Ancient Rhythm of Huizhou", seeing wonderful chapters one after another, which makes people unable to put it down. After reading one chapter, I want to read the next chapter. , but I want to read this chapter carefully again. I just want to rub myself into it.

With a quiet heart, slowly appreciate the charm of ancient buildings that have traveled through thousands of years. Let the ancientness and profoundness here bring me a sense of tranquility and tranquility.

The exquisite and solemn Hui-style architecture is unique, the ancient villages are harmonious with the natural environment, and the pastoral landscape with mountains as its foundation and water as its soul is distinctive. The green tiles, white walls and cornices carry mottled historical traces and contain profound cultural heritage.

Huizhou (the so-called Huizhou here is beyond the administrative scope and is the coverage area of ??Huizhou culture), Huizhou merchants, Huizhou cuisine, Huizhou style... The word Huizhou has triggered so many historical feelings. The barren mountains and rivers that were once the refuge of declining nobles have evolved into a civilization that has influenced most of China. The Wang family, who migrated as refugees, brought the excitement of the outside world into the isolated mountains and integrated it into the culture of the Central Plains. They believed in reading and flourished the Huizhou literary style. To this day, the Huizhou culture is still an independent entity. The "three unique" ancient buildings in Huizhou - folk houses, ancestral halls and archways are the material carriers of Huizhou culture. They worked as officials and merchants, went down the Xin'an River, and trekked along the ancient plank road in Huizhou and Hangzhou, directly to Suzhou and Hangzhou. Now when I look at Wuzhen, Xitang, Suzhou, Tongli and Zhouzhuang, I feel that the buildings there are all white walls, blue tiles and horse-head walls, a reproduction of the Huizhou scenery. It turned out that it was all the result of Huizhou merchants struggling there.

Li Bai's poem "People walk in the mirror, birds fly in the screen" injects spirituality and profound and meaningful charm into Huizhou's landscape. The mountains and plains are full of colors, complementing the ancient Hui-style houses with white walls and black tiles. Looking down from a high place, you can see unknown villages everywhere, embedded in the sea of ??flowers, forming a gorgeous scenery unique to southern Anhui.

As we walked on the wet mountain trails, we felt like we were in a giant ink painting. In the misty rain, the mountains are covered with thin clouds and mist, and the waves are rolling. The colors flow from shallow to deep yellow, red, and green, and you fall into the fairy charm of Penglai, and you are intoxicated. Suddenly there was smoke from a house, and in an instant, a plume of green smoke rose up, adding a little more human fireworks.

I was watching the scenery on the bridge, and the people watching the scenery were looking at me. The dazzling red color in the mountain scenery made me become the scene in the scene, which really made me feel like a fairy.

Huizhou is dignified and poetic. The scattered ancient houses and ancient villages embedded in the mountain scenery look like a scene from a distance, a painting from a close look, and a thick thread-bound ancient book when you walk in. Between the dark tiles and white walls of the long corridor, you can walk gently on the bluestone slabs and take a deep breath quietly, as if you will smell the strong fragrance of books.

Opening "Ancient Village in Paintings - Beautiful Tachuan", a quiet small village jumps into view. The trees, fields, and villages in late autumn form a picturesque scenery with brilliant colors. Twenty or thirty ancient houses are built on the mountain, layer upon layer, in a well-proportioned manner. The unique autumn scenery makes little love keep clicking and moving. View income. Climb up the stairs, stroll in the ancient village, appreciate the simple and innocent life fun of the mountain villagers, admire the "stream around the front house", "Zhushan orioles singing", "Tachuan cave sky", you can easily immerse yourself in the "Tachuan autumn scenery" "In this beautiful picture. Pick up a fallen leaf casually and reap the autumn colors of Tachuan. I hope our arrival will not disturb the original tranquility.

Chengkan, as early as the Song Dynasty, was praised by the famous Neo-Confucian Zhu Xi as: "Chengkan Shuangxianli, the first village in Jiangnan. It is like a paradise, left behind and independent, emerging and ascending to immortality. The whole The site layout of the village is based on the Bagua concept of the unity of Yin (Kan) and Yang (Cheng) in the "Book of Changes" and the unity of nature and man. It is like a maze, integrating "the way of heaven, the way of earth, and the way of humanity". , there is often a famous local saying, "Nine times out of ten you get lost and stay in Chengkan Fu" to explain the people who walk into Chengkan. Legend has it that Chengkan is a geomantic treasure land and has produced many top scholars. I think it is because of reading. Chengkan has a rich aroma of books and has created a talent pool.

Walking through each village, the rich ancient charm seems to jump out of the pages of yellowed thread-bound books, and I am fascinated. , my heart is intoxicated. Hongcun is as grand as everyone, the autumn sun in Huangling is bright, the maple forest in Shicheng is beautiful, and the roundest village in the world has a very poetic name - Jujing. It is a pity that the time is too short. There are still many chapters and pages that I haven’t had time to read, but it doesn’t matter, just leave some regrets and read them carefully next time.

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