Tianshui Taoist prose

Tianshui is a mystery in my heart, and I always want to know everything about it.

Tianshui and I have some historical origins. My grandfather fled from a small mountain village near Tianshui to the place where the Tang Priest basked in scriptures, and he took root and grew hair.

The food in my house tastes like Tianshui hot and sour. When I was a child, my mother made buckwheat jelly for my family. I remember it was very hot in summer summer. The night before, my mother dug two bowls of buckwheat treasure, mixed them with cold water, then took them to the chopping board and kneaded them into a ball repeatedly, put them in a basin, put them on the stones in the yard, covered them in a cage, and woke up overnight. The next morning, my mother put the reed on the pot, put the buckwheat ball in the pot, poured water and kept stirring, precipitated, heated and stirred into a stirring ball, and let it cool. Other people in the family like to hug long silk with their arms and eat it with salt, vinegar, sugar, soy sauce, onion, ginger, garlic, Chili oil, pepper powder, shredded cucumber and green leafy vegetables. This taste is really full. I like eating buckwheat quack best. I poured out a bowl of tuo, cut it into strips with a knife, put it in a white fine porcelain bowl, sat in front of the mirror, put my feet on the sofa and slowly swallowed one by one. At that time, the smell of home was still very strong. I know this is the taste gene of Tianshui, and my deep affection for Tianshui is unwarranted.

I passed Tianshui three times, and every time I met it, it seemed as if I had been here in my dream. I remember the first time I went to Lanzhou and passed by Tianshui. On April 20th, looking out of the window, I was still shy in early spring. The land without crops is wet and soft, with yellow cauliflower and green wheat seedlings. Grass sprouted by the pass, willow silk was soft and elegant, and peach blossom was red in the corner of the farmhouse, so I went to Jiangnan.

My home is on the Tongtian River. That year, I traveled to the source of Tianhe, climbed to the top of the source and looked down at a small town. Someone told me that this is McKee Town. Go there and this is Tianshui City. Unexpectedly, the land far away from me, which I have been thinking about for a long time, is so close, so close at hand.

Out of Tianshui, I realized that there are such mountains in the world. The mountains are vertical and horizontal, the mountains are vast, the solitary peaks stand upright and the chaotic mountains overlap, the lines are curved, the loess ridges are towering, and the gullies are vertical and horizontal. I just know that there are still such vicissitudes in the world and such a long historical imprint.

Strange to say, I have been talking about Tianshui, but I have no chance to walk into this city. I'm going to Tianshui on New Year's Day this year. It has always been dry, longing for the' flying' of snow. Out of Baoji, it was cloudy, with lake blue in the black. The car went west, and when it reached the wheat boundary, there was a snow line on the roadside. When I arrived in McKee, it was snowy and foggy, and the world was full of fairy dew. The rain was wet and worshiped, and the Buddhist landscape in Baosha was full of spirituality. Such innocence should be a constant stream of tourists, but they are really rare tourists, and they really failed to live up to the snowy days that have been brewing for several days.

Mackey is located in the southwest of Gansu Province, just across the water from Baoji, belonging to the Qinling Mountains. The person who nourishes it is still the Weihe River, a tributary of the Yellow River. This is the birthplace of Qin people. The ancestors of the Qin people used to raise horses here and then entered Shaanxi.

I don't know much about Buddha statues, so I can't watch wine tasting from an artistic point of view. We just looked at that charming face a thousand years ago with a curious heart. Mackey Grottoes are carved on the vertical cliff surface, with a height of 20-80 meters and a width of 200 meters. Most of them are mainly works from Wei and Jin Dynasties. They come out of the wall, full and full, and their colors are still magnificent despite thousands of years of wind erosion. Looking at the statues carefully, I can see that they are slender, with flat eyebrows, long round faces, thick lips, thick waists and tall figures. They have a great way of life. They are different from the sculptures in Longmen Grottoes. They don't have dancing clothes, and their sleeves are long. They wore sleeves with their coats off, their skirts wrinkled like running water, and their big hands and orchid fingers were upturned. These Buddha statues are handsome, gentle and honest. Although they are dressed in religious clothes, I feel more like a mortal. They meditate, as if every sculpture has its own inner story. There is no religious mystery here, but we forget the honor and disgrace of life, and transcend the chic and relaxed after the secular. After swimming Maijishan, the car turned into Tianshui city, and all the passers-by met were slender eyebrows, thick lips, high cheekbones, white and ruddy faces and wavy black hair. It turns out that this McKee sculpture is the same as Tianshui people.

The river flowing through the city has frozen, and the green ice is shining in the sun. The cold wind cannot hide its beauty. Borrowing River is the mother river of Tianshui, which flows into Weihe River on North Road. I heard about North Road a long time ago, but I don't know why. I see. ) The riverside is made up of many streams, and its whole territory is in Tianshui City. The trickle makes it a magnificent city. Crossing the river, it has flowed down from the Li Guang's cenotaph for thousands of years. Du Fu's short song Long song has been accompanied by the river, from the Tang Dynasty to today. Li Bai, Li Shimin, Shangguan Waner ... These historical celebrities have made this strange and familiar hometown warm. The people who thrive here, the civilization that takes root here, and the history that flows here make Tianshui more profound and infinite.

This short stop is not enough to understand Tianshui. Then let the heart miss it forever with endless reverence and yearning.