Cool lamp, hometown village, opposite cottage

The yearning for the hometown village originated from the painter Huang Yugang. There are many accounts about his hometown village in China on this side of Liangdeng Mountain. He walked from his hometown village to Liangdeng alone and began to live and create there for more than ten years.

from his hometown village to the bottom of the valley, "there are blue sky squeezed out by two big mountains on his head, and there are abundant trees on both sides, and there are all kinds of birds in the forest ..."

Three months ago, he pointed to the opposite mountain at the cool light and said that his hometown village is on the opposite mountain, and it takes more than an hour to walk from here.

A month ago, when the ears of rice were drooping and the rice was fragrant, I came to this ancient village, which was built in the Ming and Qing Dynasties and was dominated by the surname Wu.

the car traveled on the mountain road for a while, and when it reached the mid-level position, it was stopped to collect the ticket money, told the other party to go to the old village, and then raised its hand to let it go. It is Laojiazhai Scenic Area that pays the entrance fee.

along the winding mountain road, I reached the top of the mountain, opposite the vast mountains, and there was a residential tile under my feet. Here we are.

The main roads in Laojiazhai village are herringbone.

to the left, a cement road goes down the trend, and the end is not far away. Most of the roadside are cement brick houses.

to the right, a walking stone road that goes through the old houses.

The courtyards of Xiangxi folk houses are different from those in the north. There is a flat in front of the house, but there is no fence, so you can walk through different courtyards without obstacles.

during the harvest season, the lawn is golden and red. Gold is grain and red is pepper. These two kinds of fruits and colors are important daily necessities for the people in the hometown village in the coming year.

the red and yellow pictures appear alternately, and the spicy and refreshing fragrance of the valley goes straight into the heart and spleen. Birds are singing and cicadas are singing, and the black stone road connects the earth houses with half stone and half earth brick in series.

It is more than 2 kilometers away from the ancient city of Fenghuang, and it belongs to Shanjiang Town, Fenghuang County, together with Liangdeng. The local Miao people were officially designated as "the land where seedlings were born", that is, the so-called "barbarians". This village formed by "living together in the Ming and Qing Dynasties" can infer the tragic fate of the people in their hometown.

in the mountains, there are 6 mu of land and more than 6 people, and the living environment can be imagined.

there is a harsh voice in the calm.

The car went into the "dead end road" by mistake, backed up and crushed the grain which occupied two-thirds of the road, and was chased and scolded by a shrew. When he was depressed, a middle-aged man came out of the courtyard and said with a generous smile that it was okay to press some millet ... < P > Standing in his hometown village, he was faced with a cool lamp across a valley.

The winding highway is vaguely connected with several densely populated houses, and the mountain trend is from low to high, or hanging under the cliff or scattered at the waist of the mountain, with one group, two groups and three groups of cool lights?

some villagers said that the two villages are opposite each other across the valley, and they shouted loudly that they could invite people from the opposite village to come over for dinner.

Being on the platform of La 'er Mountain, there are similarities and differences between this mountain and the other, Liangdeng and Laojiazhai.

Huang Yugang said that a man's brother in his hometown village was killed in a car accident, and his single brother in his thirties married his sister-in-law. "He made a divination for himself and could have a son with his sister-in-law, who has already given birth to six daughters, so that he could fulfill the wishes of his brother and family. Sure enough, a son was born. "

The reality behind this true story is that there are a group of "old bachelors" who can't afford to marry, just like Liangdeng.

the so-called difference is mainly geographical location.

On the side of Laojiazhai, at the top of Bagong Mountain, there is a huge statue of Chiyou, the ancestor of Miao nationality. Tianxingshan, an important battlefield of the Ganjia Miao uprising, was said by the official army that "the village is the highest risk, and the nursery nest is also".

There's a monument to Wu Tianban in La 'ershan Town, and the word "Wu Tianban" has offended the imperial court, not to mention that he became one of the leaders of Ganjia Miao uprising. After being captured, Ganlong issued a "decree", saying that Wu Tianban was "full of evil and the man of God was angry", and asked the wizard to curse Wu Tianban in the hope of cursing him to death. And changed Wu Tianban to "Wu Banban", meaning that he can only live half his life.

In 1796, Wu Tianban was executed in Beijing with two other uprising leaders, at the age of 24.

A female singer sang "Love Never Lost" in a courtyard:

Where are you hiding in a daze, dear?

What's on your mind that you can't let go

...

Follow the song and walk to a wooden house with an open door. The house is unfinished, and the pillars and beams are all log-colored. A black object in the house is quite eye-catching. It turned out to be a coffin being painted. This song used to be.

Burial burial is still popular in rural areas of western Hunan. Later generations prepare coffins for their elders early and paint them every one or two years.

"Older people began to put yellow paper money in the coffin, with several blue-black tiles (a kind of local tiles) on the top, covered with white towels, padded with bedding, and waited for the remains to enter. The children and grandchildren of the closest relatives put in the dead slowly, holding the new Miao clothes, shoes and hats around them, and they took one last look ... "

Huang Yugang described the funeral ceremony of the Miao people in his" China on this side of Liangdeng Mountain ".