Appreciation of Nanjia's Prose Night

The next morning, the first stop was to go to Leidatang, which is now Tangbian Village. It is located on the south bank of Yanggasha Lake, only seven or eight miles away from Nanjia, and there is a golden war highway crossing the border.

There are more than 80 families in Tangbian Village, which is located on the north bank of the radar pond. There are three ponds, namely Datang, Guoditang and Xiaotang. Three ponds, close when the water is big, and divide when the water is small. The surplus does not overflow the embankment, and the loss does not dry up. This is a surprise.

The stockade is built near the pond, surrounded by pear trees, plum trees and peach trees, and no other tall trees can be seen. If it's spring, peach, red and plum (pear) are white, which set each other off. In the midst of fiery red, it is white and elegant, and in the bright bloom, it is quiet and serene, and it is bound to be full of vitality. When the breeze blows, the branches sway, and red flowers and white flowers fly to the sparkling pond. At this time, it is like a boat, rippling on the pond to meet colorful flowers ... The spring scenery by the pond is absolutely the greatest beauty in the world.

However, it is late autumn, with winding dirt roads, short and sparse wooden houses and ponds that are almost dry to the bottom. The pond is lifeless, and you can't see the wonderful scenery depicted in the Spring Festival couplets in the village, "Pear flowers and Bai Shu depict the spring scenery of the pond, and pink flowers decorate the blue waves of the lake".

Therefore, at first glance, the pond is just an ordinary natural village; Leichi is just a natural freshwater lake. Why is it strange?

However, after a long journey and listening carefully all the way, I feel that this hut and this deep pond are quite extraordinary.

By the pond, it seems like a chitose old man with many mysterious and confusing stories hidden in his heart!

It is said that in the early years, it used to be a very hot village.

"Tangbianzhai" is named after "Thunder hits the pond". Looking forward to the significance of literature should be that at some time in the distant past, the sky was furious, the rain poured down, the lightning flashed and thundered, the river turned upside down, and the earth cracked ... So, the "pond" hit by "thunder" appeared. Isn't this Huainanzi? The goddess of mending heaven described "the past four poles were abolished, Kyushu was divided, the sky was not covered, and the land was unfamiliar." The scene?

Datang is also called "Sao Tang" or "Ba Caotang"; The bottom pond of the pot is also called "gutang" or "Girl Pond", and the small pond is also called "Dog Pond". Speaking of these very "folk" names, a middle-aged woman told us a wonderful legend of the village where they lived:

Hundreds of millions of years ago, there was a family in Qianjiazhai. Living under the same roof for a long time, but never greeting each other. There is only one embroidery sample at home, and no one wants to go to the other room to get it. Whoever wants to use it, let the dog at home pick it up. After a long time, this matter was known by God, so he sent a fairy to visit. One day, the fairy turned into an old woman covered in pustules and came to Qian's house for the night. Asked 999 families, they all thought the old woman was filthy and refused to take her in. Finally, I came to a family named Yang in Zhaitou. Instead of abandoning the old woman, the master sympathized with her. Not only gave her shelter and food, but also cooked herbs to wash her abscess and treat her like a family. The old woman was deeply moved. Before going to bed that night, the old woman said to her master, "There will be thunder and lightning, strong winds and heavy rain in the middle of the night. Your family will close their eyes and sleep, and don't go out. " The host family asked in surprise, "falling sky, the moon is big and not stuffy. Why is it raining so hard? " The old woman stopped answering and only urged everyone to go to bed early. In the middle of the night, it thundered, the wind blew and the rain poured down, which was earth-shattering. The wooden building where I live creaks, wobbles from side to side and is crumbling. Yang Jia remembered the old woman's orders and lay in bed with his eyes closed, afraid to get up. At dawn, the wind stopped raining, but the old woman was gone. When Yang Jia opened the door, he was surprised. Their wooden house was moved to the back hill by Lei Gong Dian Mu and escaped a bullet. What about Qianjiazhai? Looking at the foot of the mountain, it has already become three watery ponds. Sister-in-law, aunt and dog were all crushed at the bottom of the pond. This is the origin of Sao soup, ancient soup and dog soup.

This is a folk version of the origin of Lei Da Soup. Persuade people to be kind, don't judge people by their appearances, advocate honesty and harmony, and what goes around comes around. The story is warm and moving, and it is the source of China people's life, life, philosophy, tradition, ethics, morality and spiritual orientation for thousands of years.

I think the people of Datang, like all the people in China, have placed too much hope and hope on the rocks, cliffs, mountains and rivers, waters, and even every plant, animal and bird in nature.

There are many similar magical stories. Such as "burning incense to borrow bowls", "immortal footprints" and "water monsters should be evil" can be told by most people in Tang Dynasty. However, for them, for us, it may always be a difficult mystery. Don't say that.

The sinking of thousands of villages is a momentary misunderstanding of God, and the appearance of a village in Shui Mei shows God's infinite tolerance.

Put aside the folk version and return to the channel of science and historical records. According to the investigation and analysis of the geological department of Guizhou Province quoted in the newly revised Annals of Jianhe County by 1994, it is considered that "Leidatang" was blocked by a huge mountain ridge collapse, which changed the natural geography. It has a history of more than 4000 years since its formation.

From the field survey of landform, there is indeed a knife-like cliff on the hillside behind the house of Tangbianzhai, which is about the remains of large-scale landslide activities in that year. The main water source of Leidatang happens to be a stream from south to north, which forms a stream under the pond and flows into Qingshui River about one kilometer later.

As early as the Qing Dynasty Qianlong years compiled "Qingjiang Zhi" and the Republic of China years compiled "Jianhe County Zhi", there are records about the Tang Dynasty. Qingjiang is called "Leidatang" and Jianhe County is called "Leidatang". It is said that there are three ponds adjacent to each other, which are called "Sao Tang", "Ancient Tang" and "Dog Tang" respectively. During the flood season, the three ponds are integrated, with a water surface area of nearly 200 mu, a storage capacity of nearly 2 million cubic meters, an average water depth of 10 meters, and no overflow; There are three ponds in the dry season, and even if there is a once-in-a-century drought, there is no bottom.

Tao Shuqiang, another middle-aged man in the village, told an interesting story about "thundering and beating the pond". He told me some strange phenomena of "thunder pool", which actually has some scientific significance. Moreover, these strange phenomena, in my later reading, can also find evidence of history and reality.

One is a sign of turbid waves and snow. It is said that the thunder pool is clear and sparkling all year round. However, every time before the heavy snow freezes, the originally clear and quiet pond water becomes turbid. As soon as the pond water becomes turbid, local farmers have to prepare firewood for the winter. About a week or so, the heavy snow arrived as scheduled. After another week or so, the turbid water was clear and quiet again. The water in the pond has simply become a living forecast of weather changes and snow and ice falling. Therefore, Qianlong's Qingjiang Zhi said, "Cheng Han is spacious" and "turbid waves and snow omen".

Second, the water is neon red. It is said that on the water surface extending about 200 meters eastward from the western end of Sao Tang, the color of water gradually changed from green to red and brown under the irradiation of sunlight. The weather is clear and sunny, the breeze blows, the waves fall and are pushed by the wind, forming a colorful red neon landscape on the water. This phenomenon is recorded in Qingjiang annals of Qianlong and Jianhe County annals of the Republic of China: "The color of water changes three times a day, with blue, red and green, and the changes are endless ... magical and incredible."

The third is to spray jade in the lake. It is said that at the bottom of the sandbar adjacent to Tang San, there is a five-eye spring as big as a plate and as small as a bowl. Due to the high pressure on the water surface, the spring water failed to gush out of the water surface, but radial ripples can still be seen on the water surface. As the spring water gushes out from the depths, you can smell the gurgling water every night. Therefore, Qianlong's Qingjiang Zhi said, "Bells and drums smell at night".

Fourth, fish are like dragons and horses. It is said that there are many fish in the thunder pool. Every spring, fishermen often cast nets in the pond to fish, or three or five canoes leisurely enjoy the scenery on the water. It is said that according to the memory of an old man named Yang Tonglin, who is now over 70 years old, many people in the village have seen seven fish as big as door panels wandering in the pond at 1948; 1953 A fish skeleton more than ten feet long was found in the pond on Zhaishang. Qianlong's Qingjiang Zhi also recorded the big fish activity in Leidatang: the giant fish "looks like a dragon horse and a three-legged flower".

The fifth is the instantaneous rise and fall. It's about the water in the thunder pool, which reacts abnormally every time because of major natural disasters. For example, during the Indian Ocean tsunami in June, 5438+February, 2004, the water in Datang suddenly dried up and became low, and then it returned to its original water level. During the Wenchuan earthquake in May, 2008, the water in Datang was instantly splashed twenty or thirty feet high, and then it was calm.

The sixth is underwater ancient wood. Many people in Tangbian village have some burnt dry wood piled up in front of and behind their houses. These dry sticks are flammable and smoke less, so they are excellent fuels. According to their introduction, all these dry firewood were salvaged from Leidatang. It turned out that when the ridge collapsed to form a thunder pool, the trees on the mountain were buried in the water with the mountain, and a large amount of sediment covered the trees, forming an oxygen closed layer, which made these trees carbonized instead of rotting for more than 4,000 years. After the relevant departments sent people to dive into the water for observation, it was found that there were about 500 cubic meters of Chinese fir, pine and other tree species at the bottom of the radar pond, and the trunk DBH was about 54 cm. Now, Nanjia Town People's Government has set up a special leading group to protect these ancient underwater trees.

Leidatang, originally an ordinary freshwater lake, has become infinitely confusing and magical because of so many stories.

In this way, the ups and downs of these thousands of villages can be said to be a momentary misunderstanding of God, but the appearance of a village in Shui Mei reflects God's infinite tolerance.

So, the pond is really worth coming.