Prose丨Sunshine the Autumn in Huangling Mountain

People know Huangling in Wuyuan from the colorful photos full of harvest scenes, and people enjoying the autumn sun have become a business card of Huangling.

Huangling in autumn is a must-go place for those who like photography.

Sunbathing is an indispensable job for farmers in Huangling throughout autumn. As we enter August, we enter the autumn season in Huangling. The villagers use bamboo plaques to dry the harvested grains, fruits and vegetables in the sun, so that they can be stored better. There is no deliberate manipulation or careful design, it just comes from the farmers’ most sincere feelings for food.

Huangling Ancient Village is located in the deep mountains. It takes at least an hour to reach it on foot. Although there is a road in the back mountain to reach the village, the mountain road is winding and steep and cannot be used by large vehicles, so you usually have to take a bus. Cable car up the mountain.

The hometown of Cao Wenqi and Cao Zhengong, the father and son prime ministers of the Qing Dynasty who founded the village for more than 500 years, is located in the Shi'er Mountains at the junction of Anhui, Zhejiang and Jiangxi provinces. Get on the cable car, and in the mid-air to Huangling, fairy tales and myths slowly slide towards the aerial realm.

Huangling Ancient Village is built on the mountain, surrounded by ancient trees. After getting off the cable car, you will enter the Shuikou Forest into the village. Most of the trees are fragrant maple and ancient camphor, and most of them are more than hundreds of years old.

Looking around, you can see the ancient village of Huangling, surrounded by mountains and hanging on the cliff, like a lively and playful boy hiding in the valley. Hundreds of houses are built on the steep slopes of the mountains, layer upon layer. , growing upward, almost to the top of the mountain, hidden in the thick shade.

Surrounded by thousands of ancient trees, the terraced fields at the bottom of the ridge are winding and winding, and the red tallow trees grow on the field ridges. It is completely another poetic beauty of Wuyuan in the autumn.

The moment I entered Huangling Village, the ancient village was filled with dazzling colors. There were many flowers and plants on the roadside, such as osmanthus, camellia, and wild chrysanthemums. However, my eyes were immediately attracted by the autumn scenery. I was so busy that I even forgot to look at the colors of the flower beds at the entrance of the village and the carvings on the wooden workshop.

The autumn sun in Huangling is a large and colorful harvest picture, which is joy, wealth, coquettishness and heat. If Wuyuan Ancient Village is the Grand View Garden of Chinese ancient architecture, Huangling Qiuqiu is undoubtedly an elegant and moving flower.

Among the Huangling villagers living in the Wuyuan Mountains, the first-floor gates of farmhouses here usually face the road, and behind the gates is the hall. The back door of each household on the second floor can lead to another higher road. Walls are built up and down the front door of the second floor, which is integrated with the horizontal wooden frame built outside the house to dry agricultural and sideline products, which better solves the problem of complex terrain and flat land in the village. The contradiction of having few and no flat places to dry crops has over time evolved into a traditional agricultural custom. It has also inadvertently created the unique style painting of "people drying their crops in autumn" in Chinese mountain villages.

In fact, the agricultural custom of drying is not "exclusive" to autumn. It is displayed all year round, but it is more abundant and "charming" during the autumn harvest season. The famous singer Song Zuying once sang a song "Sunshine the Autumn" to commemorate the custom of "Sunshine the Autumn" in her hometown, and Wuyuan's "Sunshine the Autumn Love Song" has also been sung in certain areas for many years.

In the early golden season, the laziness of summer is eliminated. With the footsteps of autumn, everything in the world begins to cheer up and rush to the gestation of another life. The crops on the field can’t wait to get into the drying field to meet autumn, preparing to show a harvest feast.

Although it is the beginning of autumn, most of the time it is still dog days and the temperature remains high. Farmers like this kind of weather in autumn. The brighter the sun, the happier they are. They just want to race against time to dry the collected things as quickly as possible.

The autumn sunshine is like gold powder, splashing down brightly, clean and clear. Compared with Xia Tian, ??she is more gentle, but still retains some passionate temperament. The sunbathing fence in front of the pavilion protrudes from the wall in front of the pavilion, facing the sky, and stretches flat. A bamboo woven drying tray is placed on it to become an unobstructed sunbathing area.

The combination of adobe exterior walls, colorful harvest fruits on the drying racks and round drying plaques depicts the most poetic autumn.

Walking through the uneven alley, standing on the roof and looking around, you can see the green mountains and green waters in the distance, and the people painting in the autumn sun in the distance. The whole village is a world of sunbathing. Red peppers, golden corns and chrysanthemums, in red and yellow, with bright colors, are the colors of the national flag and the symbol of autumn. They add a festive color to the mountain village and form a mature landscape of the golden autumn harvest season. The charming autumn colors of Huangling came out.

Walking through the village, I saw bunches of golden persimmons, peppers, and corns on the windowsills of every house, as well as sweet potatoes and pumpkins cut into strips and dried in oblate bamboo plaques, wrapped in the autumn wind. It has a strong floral fragrance, and the fragrance is so strong that it penetrates into the bones.

I remember that there was a similar autumn in the countryside of southern Jiangsu when I was young. With the end of the last heavy rain in autumn, autumn opens up warmly, giving birth to spring and summer, bringing corn, beans, millet, sesame and fruits and other colorful fruits from the fields into the village. . So in the yard, in front of and behind the house, in the yard, at the gate, and on the roofs of every house, there were piles of heavy harvests.

In an instant, the entire village was surrounded by an indescribably strong smell. The sweet, fresh, and warm smell floated over the village.

Perhaps, for tourists who come here because of its reputation, the autumn sun is a touch of sunshine in the soul, and their eloquent words of praise reveal full of envy. However, for the Huangling people who are accustomed to working at sunrise and living at sunset, this is just the most normal way of life.

Faced with the cameras and mobile phones used to take pictures of the autumn sun, the old people in the village are not timid at all. They lay out the chili and grains for sun-drying in a graceful manner, allowing tourists to enjoy and take photos, and even make various pictures according to the photographer's request. Plant an autumn scene.

Sunshine in the autumn sun is the food, and it also makes the days prosperous. At this time, I only feel that the most beautiful autumn is not among the mountains and rivers, nor in the melodious Tang poetry and Song lyrics, but is hidden in the dazzling harvest colors and everyone's smiling faces.

Autumn sun, such a warm and substantial word. Facing the people's Shailou in Huangling, my eyes naturally gained a sense of simplicity and beauty, and the taste of happiness surged through my body involuntarily.