History of Cangling Ancient Road

Accurately speaking, this ancient road with a history of thousands of years is the salt road leading to the inland of Xianju. Since the late Tang Dynasty, Xianju has formed an inland river commercial center. Salt boiled in Haiyan County and other places goes upstream through Jiaojiang River, the second largest river in Zhejiang Province, and then reaches Qiantan Town of Xianju through Yong 'anxi. Slowly, the salt port gradually formed in the front beach was assembled and transported to other inland areas. Up to now, there are written records of Touguan Port, Yongkang Port, Jinyun Port, Jinhua Port, Lishui Port, Dongyang Port, Longquan Port, Anhui Port and Henan Salt Stack. Businessmen from all corners of the country have opened up such a prosperous market in remote mountainous areas. As for business village, if you want to radiate inland, you have to climb the high Cangling Mountains, which is the most difficult road. Located hundreds of miles west of Xianju City, bordering Jinyun County, it is the main traffic artery from Taizhou to Jinhua and Quzhou. Historically, it was called "Wu (Jinhua) Wai (Taizhou) Tunnel", and the grand occasion of salt mining in 1000 was like a salt man, which painted an endless history.

High mountains, knee-deep grass, winding stone paths, dark brown stones, and salt roads in Cangling, bodies are assembled into conveyor belts with all their strength to carry. The only difficult passage leading to the mainland was cut by corpses, so a salt trunk line also created the prosperity of merchants in Qiantan ancient town. Throughout the ages, the business radius has never exceeded the geographical barrier.

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Looking at the mountains and plains, walking on the winding ancient road, I have always regarded the living salt husbands as a tired group and spent their tired and ancient old age in silence somewhere. When they unload their heavy burdens, they will not let an outsider easily get in touch with the history on that mountain road. Before liberation, after zhejiang-jiangxi railway extended in all directions, the ranks of Yanfu began to decrease gradually. Until the Cultural Revolution, Yan Fu's demand no longer existed. They used to bear the most primitive, heaviest load and longest transportation link in the commodity economy. When they arrived at their destination, their sweaty old bodies had overdrawn too much energy and salt. The resulting impression is that they should be full of wrinkles, stiff limbs and tough and hot bodies.

So, on the empty mountain road, and in the subsequent search work, the summer heat is really hard and deeply disturbing. Moreover, during this period, I imagined the heavy journey with hot back and full of tragic feelings over and over again, and guessed how warm and powerful Yan Fu's description was, and outlined a strong backbone and a thick mountain ridge in my mind, so my article was so vivid and infectious.

As for Yan Fu's trip, I'm not sure whether a new legend will rise in the time and space hundreds of years before and after. I only look forward to this trip, and the final result will be reverence and love for them when I come back.

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There is a local folk song: wear a cool hat and wrap cold rice around your waist! Take a break in one mile, Cangling is fearless! When the salt people are reciprocating on the steep Cangling mountain road, pressing the deep mountains in our hearts, just like high mountains, history has not given a complete close-up of the salt people who are soaring in spirit-the salt people who provide a link for commercial circulation, and handling has never been the protagonist.

Perhaps, for historical visitors, the older they are, the more they can feel the distance from history. The salt miner I have explored is 8 1 year old. His name is Zheng Fuhuo. He and his children have settled in Hengxi Town, which lies between Qiantan and Cangling. I didn't walk on the road with a heavy load. As the most backpacker, I put respect in the most conspicuous position to approach an old man who has been walking with a load for most of his life. Respect for the elderly, to a certain extent, is equivalent to respect for the lives of the elderly, or to put it a little higher, respect for history.

At that time, in order to facilitate salt selection, the old man actually left his home in Cangling Village, a village where salt people must pass. The whole family of the elderly is convenient for Cangling Salt Road to be closely integrated.

The old man was sixteen when he first became a salt man. It is hard to imagine that at the age of adulthood, his blood gas has not surged, his bones and muscles have not been strong, and his tender shoulders have not been warmed up. From the beginning, he will try on his figure from 120 or 140 kg. This weight is a finalist. If you can't add more weight on this basis, the reward for doing this job will be meaningless, and the shortest handling distance is to walk for three days, over the mountain road where livestock can't carry, over the barren hills where cattle and carts can't walk, and over the Panshan Road where salt people must pass. Therefore, the fear of weight and endurance is a psychological barrier that young boys have to pass.

Engaged in this very hard and very popular work, is the best worker in the country's family. In the ancient countryside of China, several generations lived under one roof. This job is not to enlist in the army, leave their homes, fight floods and provide disaster relief, nor to enter the palace in vain. Although being a mother or a wife has a slight distress, you should know that family complaints, excessive nostalgia and heartache are a heavy pressure and denial, a drag on yourself, and what it means to super manual workers. Therefore, the poor people near Qiantan cannot participate in the market management of Qiantan and send their children to schools and private schools. In short, when the peers contribute to the family, their choices are actually limited from the beginning, so everything becomes clear-young people have an instinctive tolerance and follow a natural life trend. Referring to the young people or elders in distant villages, we have to discuss it, so we have to hire our soon-to-be-adult son to a salt merchant and choose a pole to join the salt people's team, just like waiting for his son to grow up early, like choosing a good name in advance, and the child will come out to correspond to men and women. It is not uncommon for father and son to go on the road together. There are no sad scenes, no endless persuasion in the family, and more care.

In the final analysis, this is also a legitimate occupation, and young people will not be discriminated against by girls when they talk about marriage. When you can be a salt miner and propose, there is a series of unified rhetoric. He is healthy, hardworking, not idle, and does not beg for food from that acre of land all day. The goal of the old cultivator is to ensure the labor force, a healthy man who sweats for his family.

So, before dawn, the young man rubbed his sleepy eyes that were closed before dawn, and his mother packed her bags, brought rice balls and spare sandals, whispered a few simple words, no contract, no guarantee, and took a weighty certificate and plunged into the morning white before dawn.

One person's career started in a hurry, and the care he got was generally in front of the caregivers. The wrong posture, improper pace, uneven breathing, excessive cutting and looking around all belong to the scope of correction. The salt man team, which combines old and new, tries to form every new member. Besides, it's time to eat. The elder stuffed a rice ball and asked him to eat more.

The words from the front are: "Don't worry, as long as you cross Cangling, you will be fine." Whether you can engage in salt mining, only Cangling certification.

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Before going to Cangling, you have to go through two villages, Canglingkeng and Kanxia Village. Foreign tourists will be surprised. It is hard to imagine that in a remote village, there will be a small commercial street with a step of 100, paved with stones. On both sides of the street, high-rise storefronts, detachable wooden windows and stone platforms for placing goods vaguely retain the basic structure of shops in the past, and the ancient roads shuttle the popularity of business.

This kind of hard-working and simple manual labor has created the most equal and tidy team in business. Individual differences have been completely eliminated, privileges have never been created, and the established composition order has never been chaotic. No leadership, no supervisor, no full-time call sign, no organization, no gang. All people are the same identity, and all the constraints are redundant. In the same direction, the shoulders are almost the same weight and the accent is the same.

Therefore, salt people generally don't stop during the day, and the weather is fine regardless of time, but it is unlikely to come when it rains, because the rain will wet the salt. Therefore, no one will lose the burden in this kind of work. If there is really no way, give it to others who have the ability to increase it. If they don't arrive on time, they will be punished or even compensated, and others will have to earn their wages. It is not a catastrophe or a serious illness, and it will not drag down the salt people in the same industry and automatically quit or stay in the next team.

However, roads are often broken on the way, especially Cangling Mountain Road, which is said to be broken in one mile and three times. As we all know, when climbing a mountain with heavy objects, we are most afraid of completely relaxing. Therefore, every salt man carries a pole and tries to stand and support the burden when resting. At the bottom of the support rod is a raw iron block, which is placed on another shoulder carrying salt when walking and shares the weight of goods at the back end of the burden; When resting, it naturally falls from the shoulder and makes a loud metallic sound. Hearing the sound so solid and stable, the salt man stood up at this time and put the burden directly on the top of the support rod. The burden is dragged by a rope, just hold it down. This is a proud invention. The tools used by Yan Fu-jie are very simple, and there is not much room for improvement. This noisy telephone pole may be a small step forward for thousands of years, and it has been quite remarkable.

In a stone house halfway up the mountain, several old people burned incense and waxed, bowed their heads and held a thin glass of wine. They were remembering the road their ancestors had traveled.

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When Qin Shihuang built the Great Wall of Wan Li, it was also in the mountains, relying on men's bodies to build a huge stone layer. With halberds and whips hanging from their heads, they engage in unpaid labor in the name of the country. Salt man is a voluntary business activity, not a difficult lifelong choice. They are transporting materials that don't belong to them, but regardless of equivalence or low price, they are thinking about the approved price.

The caravan's footprints crossed the dense ancient roads in the dense forest, without stopping or laying anything. Only in the glistening sunshine, the flowing sweat soaked the rocks and earthwork. Huge dark brown slate, like a grid of film recording films, is printed with ancient stories.

The road of commercial society has always been realistic. The price of strength is clearly marked, and the standard for obtaining strength money is that salt and people arrive at the same time.

Of course, when climbing a mountain, I occasionally shout it out during a break. The content is not a word, a sentence or a song. The mountain road is boring, and * * * enjoys the loneliness of the same road, staggering along. The mountain wind passes through dense forests, and birds fly over the sky and mountain streams, but it is not as delicious as the salt they choose. The only thing provided on the mountain road is the cool and sweet spring water, which will be connected to several mouths in a short time.

It is this group of salt workers who walk with their backs straight and their heads buried. In the hot and cold summer, between two o'clock in decades, they walked out of a blood transfusion-like commercial trunk line, out of the north and south where wealth flowed, and out of the new scene of increasingly prosperous beaches.

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Create a business history with your shoulders and feet, so this history is also breathless.

Looking at the lush mountains, you can't see the ancient road hidden under the grass. At the foot of Gaocangling, every salt man took a deep breath.

As the sun sets, no one appreciates his elongated back; No one holds their breath to listen to the streams and springs in the mountain stream; Yan Fu, who came across, omitted the simplest smile at one another. When he was immersed in the road, all other physical activities were wasted, including joking, singing a few folk songs and even doing whatever he wanted. All the leisure of Mingyue is a luxury, even though he has many feelings in his heart.

After decades of almost identical experiences, the same experiences, the same topics and encounters, the same costumes and configurations, the salt husbands walked on the same road, their thoughts gradually converged, and their external images tended to be highly unified. The salt husbands put their most youthful years on this ancient road.

However, on the sultry Cangling mountain road, poets and talented people who miss the past and sing poems against each other walked by with teams of salt people.

Liu Yuxi, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote, "The mountain is not high, but there is a fairy named after it; When he looked at the high Cangling, it was far from what he saw now. There is no road to pave, no road to repair, and the sparse salt man can't attract his attention. Living in a small shop, extremely lonely, wrote: "Day and a half square, overlooking the mountains. "White clouds follow the steps, as well as the dangerous path and the disk in the sky. The waterfall bridge is small and the river is cold. "

Du said in a poem in the Song Dynasty: "People have gone through hardships, and I feel that the clouds are light and the wind is light." There is no poet who carries a heavy load, and there is no talented person who really walks on the Shu Road. When he arrives at Cangling, he is suddenly in a fog. In their eyes, Yan Fu, who is busy making way for the other side, thinks that these people with wide sleeves don't have to pick salt when walking on the mountain road. They should be in a leisurely mood, and literature can give readers a sense of superiority. Looking back, Yan Fu is an unattainable mountain peak than Cangling.

Later, Zhao, the minister of the Ministry of War of the Yuan Dynasty, dressed in military uniform, led a group of military forces to return home in triumph. On the mountain road, there was a scene of shining armor and a mighty team. At that time, the Central Plains in the south of the Yangtze River had been conquered by Mongolian fighters, and the world was temporarily peaceful. Tian She's poet spirit has begun to encourage literati again. So, looking back at the ups and downs of Cangling, the cultural accomplishment of the scholar-officials came to life. He looked at the mountains and wrote a poem: "I fell into the deep fog and the four mountains sang wildly." People are full of doubts about coming to another world, and their bodies seem to be heavy. Dogs bark in the clouds and farmers burn fields at the bottom of the river. "Six consecutive verses, intertwined before and after, and the storage of swords and guns will be unobstructed.

Li Qingzhao, a famous poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, walked through Cangling alone, exhausted physically and mentally, and the country was ruined. It's a pity that she didn't leave any message, and the poet didn't make Cangling sad.

Wandering between the mountains and rivers in China and passing through Cangling Mountain Road, these literati have the lofty ambition of "taking Wan Li Road to read thousands of books", flying over Cangling Ancient Road like birds, catching the upper elements of cultural creation with a bird's eye view, filtering out all the disharmonious factors that are contrary to the beauty of literature, conveniently filtering out the misery and sadness of Yan Fu, and then creating romantic poems for them to enjoy. Talents who lead spiritual culture live in the world of poetry far from the circulation field. Of course, there is no trace of bitterness or sigh. In their eyes, lush salt roads and mountain roads have nothing to do with salt people.

In the eyes of later generations, after all, there are people other than Yan Fu on the mountain road, so the color of the mountain road shines with some bright colors, which is no longer just suffering. A hundred years after the end of the late Qing Dynasty, the maple trees planted in the mountains dyed Cangling and the sky red, and the ancient road was covered with gorgeous scenery, burning unprecedented prosperity, and Cangling Mountain Road reached the highest boiling point of commerce.

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Today, the ancient road is not completely barren, but it is no longer just a dedicated road for Yanfu. Before liberation, zhejiang-jiangxi railway was built one after another, leading to the eastern inland along Hangzhou and Jinhua. Salt industry and other goods are transported in a modern way, and the salt people who never robbed each other were finally taken away by modernization. The high investment, low income and delivery time of Cangling Salt Road cannot be changed with the times.

However, the old man Zheng Fuhuo and his companions were still struggling to pick salt until the Cultural Revolution, and the historical role of Cangling Mountain Road was always unwilling to end at once until they had no strength to pick it up. Just like a place in Wenzhou, they still retain the most primitive Song Dynasty craft to produce rough bamboo paper.

The temporary road in expressway was built on the hill opposite the ancient road, winding gently and repeatedly, and finally reached the same peak of the ancient road-Nantian Village, Jinyun. However, this road is not only used by road builders. People in Nantian Village have to walk up and down the ancient road to reach Hengxi Town at the foot of the mountain. Look at the young tourists in twos and threes on the ancient road. It seems that after being called the "ancient road", there is a new historical task. I was surprised for a long time when I struggled to climb to the top of the ancient road and saw Nantian Village. I thought the ancient road was the only way to get in and out of this hilltop village, and then I heard that in such a small mountain village, there are actually three buses to send people across the mountain every day to Huzhen and Jinyun County at the other end. I suddenly feel that I did the same thing as Yan Fu today, and finally sent myself here, and then handed myself over to another mode of transmission.

Next to the hill in Nantian Village, a magnificent "finger platform" was built to commemorate the deeds left here by Ruan Yuan, the governor of Zhejiang Province in the Ming Dynasty. As a border official of the Ming Dynasty, he was also a great scientist and calligrapher of the Ming Dynasty. He took the lead in putting forward a concise volume calculation method in academic circles and established a measurement system for measuring the volume of stones, barrels, liters and combinations. However, such an advanced system of16th century, whose supporting theory is in sync with the world and has positive practical significance, has been closed to the outside world and left idle. Four hundred years after he left, people are still carrying their shoulders on this salt canal, repeating the work that has remained unchanged for thousands of years.

Jintai expressway, which is waiting for the completion of the whole line, will soon completely pass through Cangling Tunnel, and the inter-field elevated road has been formed. In the future, the ancient road will be further ineffective, covered with blue sky, waiting for people who are nostalgic for the past to take a walk.

"Cangling Feng Dan" was originally a scenic spot in Xianju, but now the lanes under Cangling have been connected, and there is no ancient Cangling road with a maple tree, which makes several investors hesitate to develop a tourist attraction.