Huangshan Tea Forest Farm and Ruoling Ancient Road

The picture below is the Huangshan Tea Forest Farm, located in Tanjiaqiao Town, Huangshan District. If you are wandering in the mountains of southern Anhui and suddenly come to such a place, you will have a different feeling. Its style is similar to the surrounding villages in southern Anhui. The residential buildings are different, and it feels a bit like an old Shanghai alley.

Huangshan Tea Forest Farm was officially established in the mid-1960s and is affiliated to the Shanghai Agricultural Reclamation Bureau. In other words, not only do the household registrations of many people here belong to Shanghai, but the land under their feet also belongs to Shanghai. Approaching this place is like entering Shanghai. Therefore, I will come here every now and then to hang out, pretending that I am also a Shanghainese.

Most of the elderly people here are Shanghai’s educated youth. Wandering in the tea forest farm, you will often find three or two elderly people in their sixties sitting together, chatting, playing cards, and speaking Wu Nong's soft language, which is very interesting.

There is propaganda about educated youth everywhere here, and it has become a tourist selling point of the tea forest farm. I walked to a publicity board and looked at the old photos posted on it. Their youthful years were left here. Those old educated youths who had returned to Shanghai often gathered at the tea forest farm to relive those passionate years in southern Anhui.

Decades have passed, from the prime of life to the age of sixty, in the blink of an eye, the years have not passed by. It is easy to sigh with emotion for such vicissitudes of life.

In the photo below, I see Mr. Cao Jingxing, the host of Phoenix Channel, whom I used to like (the one wearing a brown jacket squatting in the front row). His father is Mr. Cao Juren, a famous scholar in the Republic of China.

It is really interesting to say that both the Cao family and his son have an indissoluble bond with the land of southern Anhui. At that time, Cao Juren joined the army with a pen and as a war correspondent, he was the first to report the truth of the "Wannan Incident" overseas. As a son, Cao Jingxing dedicated ten years of his youth to the land of southern Anhui.

I remember that when he recalled his life in southern Anhui in a program, he said passionately: "Those years were the most critical in my life. The stamens do not scare the autumn, but they determined my character, love and love." Hate and values. "

When talking about the Huangshan Tea Forest Farm, we cannot fail to mention the nearby Ruoling Ancient Trail. This is the starting point of the ancient trail in Lingjiao Village, Tanjiaqiao Town. "Ruo" is pronounced ruo, a kind of bamboo plant with wide leaves, used to make rice dumplings. It can be found everywhere in southern Anhui.

It can be seen that the local government has begun to pay attention to the value of this ancient road and has stepped up its publicity efforts. This sign in the village should not have been erected for long.

This is the gate that starts to enter the ancient road. It has the word "Ruo Ling" written on it. This gate should be newly built.

Look, it was called "Ruoling Ancient Road" before, and here it is called "Sui and Tang Ancient Road". This name is a bit far-fetched, right? During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, bluestone slabs had already been laid? Is there any conclusive evidence? If someone just walked by it at that time, it would be considered an ancient road. This is unscientific.

In addition to the two names of Ruoling Ancient Road and Sui-Tang Ancient Road, this ancient road is also called Huiqing Ancient Road and Jingshe Ancient Road. In comparison, I still like the name Ruoling Ancient Road because it It has nothing to do with administrative divisions.

Judging from the screenshot of the Ruoling Ancient Road area, Ruoling is the boundary mountain between Taiping and Shexian County. The remaining ancient road crosses Taiping, Shexian and Jingde counties. This time I took the section from Lingjiao Village of Tanjiaqiao Huangshan Tea Forest Farm to Ruolingtou (red). The blue one goes eastward and ends at Gaojia Village in Baidi Town, Jingde County. The purple one goes to Xucun Town in She County.

I planned to walk west from Gaojia Village in Jingdebaidi Town on the east side of the ancient road, and then turn north to Lingjiao Village of Huangshan Tea Forest Farm after reaching Ruolingtou to complete a turn, but I had no luck and had to rush there early in the morning. When we arrived at the tea forest farm, we watched the bus from Taiping to Jingtak passing by, so we had to give up and choose to travel from Lingjiao Village.

The visibility was not very good that day. Looking back in the distance, Lingjiao Village was getting further and further away, and Donghuang Mountain seemed even more steep.

I like to look at the rolling mountains around me, like the winding of ancient roads, like the physical pain caused by abuse, and like to meditate quietly when walking alone.

It is about ten kilometers from the foot of the ridge to the head of Ruoling. This is the only road pavilion I have seen. The roof has just been repaired.

You can feel the heat of time and space in the seemingly cold stone slabs, as if you are walking with the ancients and listening to them tell me what happened on the ancient road.

The posture of the tree is very graceful.

? There are ancient roads and flowers all the way.

It was Sunday when I went there. I met three groups of people on the road, two of which contained more than a dozen people. They met me and asked: Why are you walking alone? I really want to ask them: Why do you want so many people to walk together?

? Reached the top of the mountain.

When I was approaching Ruolingtou, I saw something in the distance.

As we got closer, we saw a stone gate tower standing between the two mountains. The stone slab on the lintel was engraved with the four characters "The natural danger is reopened". "open" trend. The time shown is the fourth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, that is, 1647, 368 years ago.

The door openings are stacked in the form of arches, and no adhesive is needed between the gaps. The gatehouse is about eight meters thick and is well preserved.

There is a hole in the cave, and you can go up to the top of the gate tower from this hole!

Climb Silou and look to the north, but you can see the undulating mountains. The altitude here is 998 meters.

There is a boundary monument between Taiping and She County on the top.

Standing on the gatehouse and looking to the south, there are many ancillary buildings on the side. This is a traffic thoroughfare, somewhat similar to the Tongchun Pavilion on Zheling on the border of Wuxiu. It was probably added by our ancestors during their journeys. An important stop for supplies and rest.

The following people are from Hefei. Listening to their words, they should be organized by some administrative institution. They came from the direction of Jingde.

The other side of Shimen Tower has the same layout.

This stone road heading east leads to Jingde.

This stone road heading south to Xucun Town in She County looks more regular and beautiful, and should be the main road.

There are ruins and dilapidated buildings everywhere. Exactly, in the midst of talking and laughing, the boats and oars disappeared into ashes.

This stone tablet was erected in the 15th year of Daoguang's reign. It is engraved with lace and reads: "When I heard that the dragon was crouching and the tiger was perched, I was called the hero of the rock ravine..." It was also engraved with the name of the person and the amount of silver donated.

Stone tablets and stone piers were scattered all over the ground. Some of the stone carvings were very fine, and they were covered with weeds. I thought, if the sun sets in the west, the remaining sun is like blood, the wormwood rustles, and the red color is dyed, the scene will be like this. How poignant and tragic!

This temple is the Wang Gong Temple. Baidu says this: Wang Gong, named Wang Hua, (587 AD - 649 AD), founded the Wu Kingdom in the late Sui Dynasty, and was later awarded the Shangzhu Kingdom by Li Yuan. , the Duke of Yue, and the governor of Shezhou. He was later granted the power to take charge of the Chang'an Forbidden Army by Li Shimin. After his death, he was given the posthumous title "Zhonglie" by Li Shimin.

In fact, Wanggong temples are located all over Huizhou, and there are many related sacrificial activities.

I planned to walk south to Chatan Village from here to have a look, and this section of the road is very regular. Maybe I stood on the gatehouse and was blown by the strong wind for a long time. I had a headache, so I had to Heading back home, this trip is less than half of the journey, which is a bit regretful.