(Essay) What I saw when I went to Taihe Meihua Valley with Teacher Mei Jie.

What I saw and heard in Taihe Meihua Valley.

Text/Xu Zhihai

This afternoon, I visited and met my long-admired teacher, Mei Jie. She is amiable, healthy and talkative, quiet and elegant, just like my distant relative. After several conversations, I feel that she has strong feelings for Yunyang's hometown and a deep understanding of Hanjiang culture.

At first, my understanding of Mei Jie was limited to the articles in her circle of friends. I know very little about her, but now the activity of collecting wind has brought me close communication with her, and I know that Teacher Mei Jie has a pure heart. She deeply understands every piece of land in Yunyang, her hometown, and the purity and simplicity brought by this hot land, and conveys sincere greetings and eager memories to the people in her hometown with concise words. I can't describe all her enthusiasm in words, but I can feel her real feelings when she goes back to her hometown to visit relatives.

I know the mind of a wanderer, and I understand the comfort of a wanderer coming home. Therefore, I understand the purpose of Mei Jie's visit. She wants to visit Taihe Valley in Zhushan and write a close-up of the capital to pay tribute to Taihe, hometown, Wudang and Yunyang.

This time, it was in Zhushan Taihe Meihua Valley. Although Zhushan County is far from Yunyang District, it is adjacent to Yunyang District at the junction of Shiyan and Qinba. This place condenses the love of fish and water in two areas. Teacher Mei Jie likes a down-to-earth rural atmosphere. The beauty of nature appears in the hearts of cultural people. This is the case with Mei Jie. He integrated the feeling of nature into his own opinions and painted his own style, regardless of the defects of the painter's pen-and-ink painting.

In the process of collecting folk songs, Mr. Mei Jie has a deep understanding of Huangmei, Hongmei, Bai Mei and Lvmei. She asked Manager Huang about the reception in a critical tone. For example, the difference between natural growth and wild growth of red plum, how vigorous and powerful is the red plum painted by the painter? Is it the same as the plum blossom of wild Chimonanthus praecox between steep mountains and rock walls? There are also poems such as Chairman Mao's Yongmei, and Lu You's Wochun.

Mr. Mei, in particular, admires the plum blossoms painted on paper by the painter and sees the plum blossoms in the painting vigorous and magnificent. However, Mr. Huang's receptionist said that all the pen-and-ink bonsai paintings were fixed and bound by the painter, which failed to really highlight the true colors of plum blossoms.

The beauty of natural ecology is not only a gift from nature, but also a nature that painters can't express. The so-called plums in the hands of painters are mostly red plums. Most of the branches of the red plum in the painting are vigorous and majestic. In fact, plum trees that grow in nature are naturally not so stubborn and towering. The branches they grow are not staggered as shown in the picture. The patchwork is generally trimmed for the sake of beauty. On the contrary, people's pruning makes plum blossoms look ugly. Lose your nature.

Following teacher Mei's tour, I mainly realized the plum species and character of Meihua Valley.

People say that the three friends in the cold are plum blossom, bamboo and Jinsong. Because they have the same personality and the same backbone, they are all plants that live on cliffs. Therefore, it has always been praised by literati. From Bai Juyi to Lu You, and then from Lu You to Chairman Mao, the changes of the times cannot change people's love for plum blossoms.

Everyone who loves beauty has a heart for beauty. How infatuated is the "walking snow" and how pure is the "plum wife crane". Mei Jie, a teacher, traveled thousands of miles from Beijing to Taihe Meigu, Zhushan, and was known as "a journey through the snow". As soon as Miss Mei Jie arrived at this place, she just got off the bus and lamented that Taihe Meihua Valley was surrounded by mountains and the scenery was elegant, as if an old friend were welcoming her to visit her and go home. It is really "Meiyu has a local accent, and I am willing to work hard in Meiyuan" Wow! Mountains can best express their feelings, which is the charm of nature. Teacher Mei Jie was attracted by its charm.

The seven-member group of our tour group came by car from downtown in the afternoon. After chatting here for a while, it became hazy and dusk. I didn't have time to see the sunset scene in Taihe Plum Valley, but I only glanced at some plum gardens in a hurry.

For the Meiyuan beside the legendary Meixian building, we also entered and watched the Chimonanthus praecox in the Meiyuan. It is said that wintersweet and red plum are different. They belong to different families of plums. Chimonanthus praecox blooms in the twelfth lunar month, so people in China call it "Chimonanthus praecox". It has a greater substantive feature, that is, there is an element similar to wax juice in its branches. So it is also called "wintersweet". Its color is yellow, and it is also called "Huangmei" or "Huang Meihua". As for red plum, it is a kind of plum blossom that blooms in the snow season and is bright red and ruddy on the cliff. His character shows the indomitable spirit of the Chinese nation in the face of difficulties. So painters like cranberries. Red plum is also the most ornamental shrub in the garden.

General manager Huang told us that the plum blossom valley in Taihe is dominated by wild plum orchards, with more than 800 plum blossoms/kloc-0. Among them, wintersweet, red plum, Bai Mei and green plum are the most popular. Plum is a kind of plum with green calyx and white flowers.

He said that Taihe Meihua Valley is a national 3A-level tourist area and a national water conservancy scenic spot. Located in Wenfeng Township, Zhushan County, on the bank of the blocking river, connecting Shizhu Highway, 26 kilometers away from Ma 'an Expressway exit. Taihe Meihua Valley has a thousand-year-old view of Taihe and an immortal legend of Meixian County. Taihe Meihua Valley is the largest wild wintersweet garden in Central China. The planned area of the scenic spot is 43. 19 square kilometers. Mainly plum blossoms, but some famous flowers are rare. Such as hibiscus, February flower, azalea, kapok tree, Phoebe bournei, Cotinus coggygria, Melia azedarach and so on.

There is a legend of "Meixian Chivalrous Man". When we passed Meixian Bridge and Shenyutan the next day, the bridges and waterfalls made us feel that this was a fairyland between individuals and a paradise.

Mei Jie was talking and laughing all the way, and she was amiable. She wears glasses, and I look into her eyes from time to time. I can feel that she loves nature more than May. She became attached to Mei because of her surname. Because her surname is Mei, she is delighted with "Mei" or anything related to Mei. While eating, we passed the "Meiyuntang", and she exclaimed these three words with surprise, saying that seeing the word "Mei" was particularly kind and warm. Standing in the glass window of Meiyuntang, she looked into the hall and saw natural spring water and smooth stones baptized by spring water. She immediately fell in love with the nature here. So I called everyone into the hall to see what kind of luck it was.

A bay of spring water flowed out along the smooth stone cave, then injected a pool of water, bent around the smooth stone for half a circle and splashed out of the hall door. Suddenly, people have the illusion that this is the water curtain cave of Huaguoshan. There are several dining tables and chairs in the hall, and the windows are surrounded by carved squares, with the sound of Koizumi tinkling inside. The party is really beautiful! People are really in the story and the story is in the picture. Teacher Mei Jie was intoxicated, and Meiyuntang was full of poetry and stories. She said excitedly that she wanted to leave her thoughts here, so she took photos as a souvenir.

At dinner, we changed to another restaurant. The walls of this restaurant are hung with straw sandals and some folk things. Teacher Mei Jie likes straw sandals best. She said it was made of kudzuvine grass with her father's mark on it, and joked that it was straw sandals worn by her father. The staff of our seven-member tour group took photos with Mei Jie under the sandals. Teacher Mei Jie wrote an article "The Way Home", which reminds me of the scene she described on her way back to Yunyang. It's raining, the mountain road is slippery, there is no village in front and no shop behind. I am anxious and timid, and I can't find the shadow of my hometown. I feel that it is her hard road as a wanderer and her mental journey all her life. As she said, these sandals have the imprint of father and the taste of mother. This is a nostalgia for my hometown, so I kept this hemp fiber and sandal, which makes people feel nostalgic. This is also the good intention of the operators of Meihua Valley.

This is to guide tourists to cherish folk customs. In fact, folk things can't be lost. Discarding them means giving up. For young people, folk customs are words they don't understand, and for the older generation, they are the glorious traditions and cultural thoughts of their fathers. Just like Teacher Mei Jie said: There is a father's mark and a mother's taste.

During the dinner, we ate Zhushan country food. Stir-fried pig blood with sour pepper, braised fat with black beans, fried minced meat with sour beans, stir-fried Chinese cabbage, etc. I drank my own pure brewed authentic corn wine, which was full of fragrance. There are also flour steamed buns, which Mei Jie said she likes best. She said with relish, "How did I do it so well? I have to learn to cook for my family at home. " Perhaps, at this time, she remembered the smell of her mother again.

After dinner, Mr. Mei Jie asked Mr. Huang about its formation and history around the theme of "Impression Taihe Plum Valley".

Generally speaking, this valley is located in Taihe Village, Zhushan County, which is half an hour's drive from the county seat. There is a river in front of Taihe village called Taihe. It belongs to the Qinba water vein and is a tributary of the blocking river. Taihe Village and Wudang Mountain were formed at the same time. 20 16 like-minded people like Mr. Huang took a fancy to it. They think it is very good to develop rural folk tourism culture, because it has rich background, atmosphere and culture. Later, they did so. There is no turning back arrow before opening the bow, and everything is difficult at the beginning. They cut off the Beijing Railway, overcame all difficulties, and finally got through the road leading directly to Meihua Valley outside the village. The road is 8 meters wide and the subgrade is 6 meters. It carries the dream and development direction of the whole village.

In the past, there was no road to Meihua Valley in the village. This convenient road has been built since the tourist project was excavated and the scenic spots were determined. In the past, people in the village had to walk 30 miles over the mountains to get a bus. It's hard. This reminds Mr. Mei Jie of the road he went home to find his hometown when he was a child. The mountain is deserted, the eighteen bends of the mountain road are difficult to walk and slippery, and the taste of thirst and hunger is unbearable. This may be the most painful and fearful memory of her walking on the mountain road.

Children in the mountains will always remember: if you want to be happy, build roads first! Therefore, the partners in Taihe Meihua Valley Scenic Area are determined to stick to their own style and build a "paradise, hometown of dreams" that belongs to everyone.

Taihe Meihua Valley is built in Taihe Village, where there are Millennium salt roads and post offices. Taihe view is a Millennium post station, and Tian Pingguan echoes it from a distance. It is a place for people to rest on the ancient salt merchant road.

There are thousands of red plum, Bai Mei green plum and Chimonanthus praecox in the valley, with a wide variety of plants and complex vegetation. Even more amazing is the legend of "Weng Mei Mei Niang". Mrs Weng Mei May was originally a rural couple tired of secularization. In order to break through the secular pressure, she lived in seclusion in Meihua Valley. Later, she did a lot of good things for Taihe Meihua Valley and gave birth to a beautiful daughter named Meixian. However, my daughter has a plum blossom mole between her eyebrows. She worshipped Ziyun Zhenjun as a teacher and learned a set of seven-star plum blossom swordsmanship. Friends who have made friends with Huangshan pine trees and Emei bamboo trees are called "Old Cold Friends". Later, Mei Niang died in Weng Mei, and Meixian lived a beautiful life without competition.

Taihe Meihua Valley has many scenic spots and buildings originated from Meixian legend. Such as Jian Lian Tai, Wangyou Bridge, Meixian Cave, Gentleman Valley and Shenyutan in Meixian County. There are also the Flower Exploration Tomb and Beishan Academy. Although this is not the story of Meixian County, it is located in Meihua Valley, a century-old mobike with cultural connotations.

At 9 o'clock in the evening, General Manager Huang introduced us to the history and elegance of Meihua Valley, and then our tour group was taken to a residence called Meiyuan Inn. As soon as I entered the inn, the first thing I saw was the back wall of the screen with piles stacked on it. Take a closer look, it is tight and dense, and the neat wooden stakes exude a faint fragrance. Manager Huang said that this is plum blossom and this is woody. Radix Aucklandiae has hypnotic and sedative effects. The head of the collection team went to rest. I hardly slept all night. I tossed and turned all night and couldn't sleep. My mind is full of the first sight of Meihuagu and Teacher Mei Jie. There is nothing to say all night. I coded words on the screen of my mobile phone until the next morning.

Last night, I shared a room with Mr. Bu, who was traveling with me. Wake up in the morning and push open the balcony door of the bedroom. Tidal dew comes from the mountains, with the fragrance of mountain soil. The layout in the bedroom is simple and simple, and the brick wall is made of wooden stakes. I smoked the smell of wood inside the house, mixed with the fragrance of mountain soil outside, and felt a little cold in the late autumn morning. I looked at the towering peaks in the distance and saw thick white fog floating between the peaks and the cotinus coggygria trees. I don't know what this phenomenon is. It's so novel and strange. I took a casual look and found that the peaks were red, green and purple, wandering slightly in the confused white fog. It's really beautiful. I am a child who grew up in the plain. Like this scene, when I was a child, I could only see the appearance of Shushan in The Legend of the Sword and the Chivalrous Man, and I have never seen such a real scene. Sigh: What a fairyland!

Later, Mr. Xiao, who was traveling with him, knocked at the door and went in. I was awakened by my own reverie, so I asked Mr. Xiao, where did the fog in the mountains come from? He said that the fog in the mountain came from the surface of the mountain. At this time, Mr. Bu also came to watch, so I asked him: Is this fog the same as the fog Zhuge Liang encountered in Lushui in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms? He said it should be different. The fog crossing Lugu River is miasma and poisonous, and it is the fog emitted by forest trees, which is not toxic to health. I nodded in praise.

People living in this plum blossom valley are very comfortable, enjoying the aura of the mountain stream in the morning and sucking fresh and delicate. Really relaxed. It's beautiful. In Shang Ruo, a bowl of millet gruel or cornflakes, a steamed bread and a half dish of shredded hot and sour potatoes are enough in the morning. I got everything I wanted. The food was so simple and comfortable.

After breakfast, we walked along the road we walked in the twilight last night. This road goes up to the Meihe River, with the Xiangmei Hotel in front and the newly-built Meiyuan Corridor in the future. I saw that the Plum Garden promenade was carved with cornices and exquisite plum blossom patterns. The first step was to extend into the road of "wealth and longevity" in Meiyuan.

The plum blossoms in the plum garden are in bud at this time, but the branches and leaves are yellow. Because it rains at dawn, the yellow leaves on the ground are poorly metabolized. Maybe we came at a bad time and failed to see the true beauty of plum blossoms. Although it is not the right time, the wintersweet in Meiyuan is still full of vitality. I can feel the flowers and bones of wintersweet calling us. We're here to take pictures as a souvenir. I am very excited at this moment, and I am very pleased to be able to stand with Teacher Mei for a photo. Maybe I'm lucky to take a photo with the writer. How happy and glorious it is!

Further on, we saw a wooden suspension bridge. There is a door frame at the entrance of the suspension bridge, which reads "Gentleman's Valley". The stream under the bridge is rushing, which is the feeling of "small bridge flowing water". It is said that Gentleman Valley is the place where Meixian's poems and songs are written. Sure enough, a beautiful villa named "Beishan Academy" stands in front of us. There is a waterwheel rumbling in front of the academy, and the sound of water gurgles with the rotation of the waterwheel. In my mind, this is very similar to Zhuge Liang's waterwheel in front of the thatched cottage in Longzhong. This car and this college represent the voices of people who live in seclusion far away from the city. In the academy, Miss Mei drinks tea, listens to songs and reminisces about the past. Teacher Xing Debu splashed ink and wrote the inscription "Poetic Taihe Xiang Mei Tian Xia", which opened our eyes.

We stopped here for a while and then left. Walking out of the side door of the academy, a winding path leads to a secluded place. Artificially carved stone bridges meander between cliffs where wild wintersweet grows. Along the way, accompanied by three beautiful women, Miss Mei was hobbled along, and wild wintersweet stood in rows. Some grow in crevices of stones, some grow vertically on cliffs, some grow by streams, some are entangled in the middle of paths, and some branches grow at will. Their branches are smooth and straight, and each Chimonanthus praecox grows a few more roots from its roots and stands one by one. At first glance, there are many things. The wintersweet around us is watched and stroked by us. However, I want to explore why they have such strong vitality, grow branches and leaves, and flourish as if they were torn apart. It's amazing, the mystery of wintersweet's survival law. What if human beings can live in harsh environment for a long time? I have to reflect on human beings, and then I have to admire wintersweet in front of me.

Further on, there is a waterfall and a fish pond like a "scenic spot". To enter this pool, you must cross the Shidun River. Shidun River consists of two rows of stone piers. I call it Shidun River. This river is a waterfall formed by springs that suddenly gush out between cliffs. The waterfall poured down in front of us, and a "bang" brought a chill. The pool is not wide, but it is quiet. Next to Cliff Mountain, there is an artificial stone ladder, which has been winding up to the mountains. Mr. Bu and I rushed up and shouted to get rid of the dust in the downtown area, and suddenly the cliff spring shook. Looking back for a moment, we can find that the statue of Wu Zetian Grottoes in Luoyang Grottoes is on the protruding cliff in front of us, just like a bodhi founder. These two aspects of me are admirable. This is really the wonder of nature. Here, Zhong Ling is beautiful, and it makes people feel good. The beauty of heaven and earth and the ethereal mountain springs make us feel small and heroic.

Teacher Mei took a deep breath here, picked a handful of moss in her hand, and exclaimed that the beautiful fresh air they released was so beautiful that she felt that she should cherish time and eyes. Teacher Mei praised us all the way and taught us what cotinus coggygria, neem and hibiscus were. General manager Huang took us as a tour guide to explain history and stories all the way. I listen to stories and increase my knowledge. I learned that the distant mountains are red, the long mountains are cotinus coggygria trees, and the hibiscus flowers bloom in September and wither in October. These are all my knowledge now. I am a child of Pingyuan. I haven't seen it since I was a child. When I first came to Taihe Plum Valley, I was attracted by these plant environments. Ah, I'm here. I'm glad you came.

At the end of the morning, we took a sightseeing bus through Xiangmei River and saw tourists on bamboo rafts in the wide part of the river. Laughter and laughter show our love for Taihe Meihua Valley. This time, we stopped in front of the entertainment place where the wire rope flew and experienced the wire rope flying. Mr. Xiao and Mr. Bu and I can't wait to experience a great air flight adventure. Whether crossing a single tree or an empty bridge, experiencing this kind of air movement is an exercise of one's physical strength and courage. In short, it's a little bit, that is, let you relax yourself boldly, let go of your own play and enjoy yourself! I'm not afraid when climbing nylon net, but my legs are weak because of fear when swinging on the swing bridge. I used to be fearless, but I was intimidated by the suspension bridge in the air. I am reflecting: I am afraid, because I am afraid of losing my life and imminent danger. In life, if a person does not have the concept of "fear" and does not exist, then there is danger. That's what I mean when I say "born in sorrow, died in happiness". It's good to experience this "big adventure", which makes the timid people reflect and makes the bold people fear. People who are busy at work and desperately in the front line can realize it at once. Shang Ruo When you lose confidence in life or your lover, you can come here to experience flying adventure. Let you reflect on the meaning of life from your experience.

I have experienced it with Mr. Bu and Mr. Xiao. Miss Mei cheered for our bravery. Teacher Liu Yuge, who accompanied us on a tour, took a photo of us flying in the air as a souvenir to keep our moment.

Soon the noon time passed. After lunch, we drove back to Shiyan. Along the way, I was worried about the late autumn scenery in Taihe Meigu, the laughter when we collected the wind, and the plot of Teacher Mei's hometown. I am also a stranger in a foreign land. Look at the scenery and feel it in the scenery. It would be great if this hot land under my feet could become my hometown!

This time, I had a good time and realized it. I found myself one year younger, and I found a place to purify my mind and meditate on my Buddha, that is, Zhushan Taihe Meihua Valley.

The first draft of 2065438+September 28th, 2009 was completed on1October 8th.