What you don’t know about Laiwu Xueye

文/村草

Most people know that there is a tourist area in Laiwu called Xueye, and many people also know that there is a scenic spot on the mountain west of Xueye Reservoir called Little Three Gorges, but it is extremely Few people know that there is a village called Daluoquan further up the mountain road in the Little Three Gorges Scenic Area. It is the most primitive village in the depths of Dazhoushan. It is also the village with the most inconvenient transportation nearby. It is also a poor village actively supported by the government. .

This village is my mother’s hometown, where my grandma has lived all her life, and where I often walked three hours on mountain roads to visit relatives when I was a child.

This place is filled with too many childhood memories.

Everyone knows Xueye Reservoir. There are two villages next to Xueye Reservoir, one is called Upstream and the other is called Downstream. The lower reaches are divided into the east lower reaches and the west lower reaches. There is a market every five days around these villages. People in the surrounding villages need to buy some firewood, rice, oil and salt, or sell their crops for money, so they need to go to the market to trade.

I was 5 or 6 years old at the time. I followed my mother down the mountain from Daluoquan Village at the top of the ravine to go to the market. I came down from the mountain to the edge of Xueye Reservoir. The straight-line distance was very close, but it required After descending through the winding eighteen-bend mountain road, the distance is very long. I deliberately navigated and drove from Little Three Gorges to Daluoquan Village. The straight-line distance is 4.8 kilometers, which is 10 miles in native language.

Now that I have grown up and have longer legs, hiking 5 kilometers may not be a big deal, but to me at the time, it was really far away. I saw that I walked through one mountain after another. , but still can’t see where the market is at the foot of the mountain, but the people on the mountain, the villagers of my grandma’s village, have lived here for generations. They go down the mountain to go to the market every five days, or sell some agricultural products in exchange for some pocket money, or buy some Things help supplement the household income, and I never get tired of it.

The memories of my childhood have long been forgotten, but the one that impressed me most was in 2008, the year I was in high school. I heard from my family that Daluoquan was going to be developed. The old houses and thatched houses that had been used for generations were When the house is to be demolished, the villagers will move into two-story foreign-style buildings built by the government.

This incident was a big deal at the time.

On the one hand, after 2000, the young labor force in Daluoquan Village is no longer satisfied with the life of relying on the sky and the land to support themselves in the mountains. Especially the boys in the village, who even have wives in the mountains. No, they can only go out to work, so young laborers have started families in other places. For example, several of my uncles are in Zibo and Yantai. Girls are also marrying away from home, and the elderly are getting old. Even more and more people will die one after another. Who will live in the allocated house?

On the other hand, the most fundamental question is whether the next land will be planted? Where will the next source of income be for ordinary people?

It wasn’t until I returned to this strange yet familiar place more than ten years later that I slowly came up with the answer. Many old houses were demolished and two-story buildings were built directly on the original foundations. Building after building stands in the mountains, it’s really beautiful! But it still couldn't change the reality of inconvenient transportation, so the young people left anyway.

The fate of the old people who stayed behind has undergone earth-shaking changes, and they have moved into shiny buildings newly built by developers.

In addition, with the advancement of Xueye’s local tourism policy, a handful of villagers have begun to start businesses, selling pure honey, free-range pheasants and pheasant eggs, and there are several restaurants on the roadside. Farmhouse.

This incident should be the starting point for the development of Xueye tourism. Subsequently, the tourism industry around Xueye Reservoir began to flourish.

The infrastructure construction around the reservoir has been vigorously promoted, and farmhouses and fish head shops have opened in the vicinity of the provincial highway. In addition, Xueye has become the permanent base of the International Aviation Festival. Aviation athletes from all over the world will gather here. Of course, the development of a place is inseparable from real estate. Major developers have acquired land and built houses here. Evergrande, Greentown, and Greenland have built bungalows and villas next to Xueye Lake... …

It wasn’t until I came to Jinan, and through the exchanges and observations with the locals, that I began to understand the importance of Xueye to Jinan people. When Jinan people travel in the suburbs, in addition to the southern mountainous area, Xueye is the place. Xueye has almost become the back garden of Jinan, and its importance is comparable to that of Kunshan to Shanghai. With the advancement of the Jinan-Lai Cooperation Zone, there will be a station called Xueye between Jinan and Lai high-speed rail around 2020.

During the National Day, I was once again overwhelmed by the traffic jams in my circle of friends. I went to Xueye and found that the original small town started to have traffic jams due to the arrival of tourists. This is actually true for my hometown. It's a very good thing.

When I saw the Hangzhou Tourism section, the news said that the road near Longxiang Bridge near the West Lake was paralyzed and overcrowded due to the large influx of tourists in a short period of time!

The news media had to issue an article to inform local citizens in Hangzhou not to visit the West Lake.

It suddenly occurred to me that, as a provincial capital city, when such a grand event occurs around Daming Lake, it may be the day when the city of Jinan truly rises!

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