Warm ancient tableland: the memory of hometown

Warm ancient tableland: the memory of hometown

My hometown is located in Weibei Loess Plateau, and people call it Changpoyuan. There are landscapes and plants I am familiar with, and there are more familiar figures and friendly local accents. Every time I return to Guyuanye, I feel homesick and warm.

Back home, spring, summer, autumn and winter, accompanied by grandma buzzing old spinning wheel, day and night. Mother's busy voice is endless in spring. Self-dyed home textile fabrics, adults and children are all dressed in black, and everything is as simple and quiet as this dress. At that time, the sky was always blue, the mountains were always green, and the air was as fresh as ever.

1. To the north of Tuoshui Road Village is the end of Changpo Plateau, and a winding mountain road extends to the bottom of the ditch, which is the Crystal Stone Mother-Child Ditch in its stream. Grandparents collect water in ditches all the year round, and people carry donkeys and mules, so they have a famous hometown? Tuoshui road? .

In the early years of the Republic of China, two wealthy families in the village dug a well at the head of the village, which was dozens of feet deep. Because the well is too deep and the rope for drawing water is thick and long, it is difficult to fix it on the pulley, so they installed a big iron tongs at each end of the rope. When pumping water, it usually takes two people. One person holds the well rope in one hand, gently puts the empty bucket into the wellhead and turns the hoist until the bottom of the well is full of water. When the water is screwed up, the pulley rotates, and it takes one person to drag the other end of the well rope down hard to screw up the water. Of course, a mature man can turn the pulley with one hand and twist the water with the other, which is a bit difficult. The villagers are very simple. Usually, as long as someone draws water by the well, passers-by will always run to help pull the well rope. With this well, villagers no longer have to go to the mother-child ditch to carry water. Save time and trouble, and the donkey and mule at home are gradually sold. After all, these large animals are generally used less in the tableland area, and it is difficult to raise cattle!

In the late 1970s, a strong wind blew all over China, and my hometown was naturally bathed in its jersey. The government installed tap water equipment in the village, and used a pipeline with a length of more than 1000 meters to lead the clean water to the water plateau. The villagers have eaten tap water, so they don't have to go to the mother-child ditch to get water anymore. ? Tuoshui road? From then on, I was lonely and gradually faded out of people's lives, leaving a deep memory.

Second, the mother-child ditch mother-child ditch, the villagers are also called Shapogou. There are several mountain springs, and the clear water gurgles day and night, which are wetlands. The spring water flows downstream 100 meters, and there is a pure stone cliff, which is straight and steep. The cliff is 100 meters high and 200-300 meters wide, and it is called Huashiyan. Below the rock is a piece of sand, full of rocks. This is why Shapogou got its name. Spring water pours down from Huashiyan, and there is a small waterfall. Below the waterfall is a natural pool formed by perennial dripping water, which is three or four meters square. The children said that the bottom of the pool was covered with moss and green? Qinglong Lake? .

In spring and autumn, when the women in the village pinch alfalfa and drink cattle, they wash clothes here by the way. In summer, this pool naturally becomes a paradise for children to play in the dry garden.

During the summer vacation, children often go there to herd cattle and cut wood. When cows eat grass on the slope, they don't have to worry about it. There are no crops around, so there is nothing to worry about. We'll find them when we get home. It is said that chopping wood is also fun. Cut some branches and make a small bundle. Anyway, children don't have to chop wood at home, as long as they don't fight and go home safely. Therefore, going to Shapogou every day is mainly for fun. Older children gather on the big rocks next to Qinglong Lake to play poker, diamonds and turtles, while younger children play hide-and-seek and water-circling. When the weather is too hot, I jump into the pool naked and learn to swim. Here, it is much more fun than the Herb Garden written by Lu Xun.

In August, after several autumn rains, Bupleurum chinense blooms all over the hillside, and the finely divided flowers are golden. In order to find yellow flowers, we climbed the high slope and dug some medicinal firewood such as Bupleurum chinense and Radix Isatidis with a spatula in our hands. When school starts, it ranges from two or three kilograms to more than ten kilograms. When you get to the purchasing station in the town, you will be happy if you buy an allowance. This small income from local materials is almost voluntary, and adults only occasionally praise it and are too lazy to ask about the income. Even if it is a small benefit for children!

Time is like water, childhood flies, and some of those friends have gone out to study, and some have gone to work in nearby cities. Shapogou, Huashiyan and Qinglong Lake are increasingly alienated from us.

Nowadays, on holidays, or weddings and funerals in the village, friends in those days get together to catch up with the past, and there is always a trace of memory and nostalgia between talking and laughing.

3. To the west of beacon tower village, there is a Huangtu Mountain with a flat top and sloping sides. The villagers call it? Lighthouse? Some people call it Phoenix Terrace, saying that it looks like a phoenix from a distance. Grandma told me that the Queen Mother used to drive the Phoenix to rest here, so it was called Phoenix Terrace.

There is a small platform at the top of the beacon tower, which is 0/00 meters away from Fiona Fang/KLOC. To the south is a wide and flat farmland. My parents say this is where Wang Mang will be stationed. Whether Wang Mang is stationed here is unknown. However, the terrain, general outline and roads are like beacon towers, which is reminiscent of the ancient name of beacon towers. Perhaps this is really the place where follwed once ordered troops!

The beacon tower is the highest place in the north of Changpo tableland, but it is true. Idle on the stage, you can see the urban area in the east, the Weihe River, and the Qinling Mountains in the south. At the foot of the mountain in the west, there is a river called Liuchuan River. The clear river flows quietly. In the distance to the north is the famous Wu Shan, with the top of the mountain faintly visible. This beacon tower has become a natural viewing platform in my hometown!

In summer, when the villagers were cutting wheat on the stage, a thunderstorm came around the sky. The clouds are thick and thin, so they can be seen clearly on the stage very early. Thunderstorms observed in this way are often better than weather forecasts! I have experienced this several times personally.

In autumn, there are contiguous corn forests on the beacon tower. When the sky blooms, it is white and beautiful. When the corn is almost ripe, the children will always take the opportunity to find grass for the pigs, take advantage of the time to get into the corn forest, conveniently pull a few corn cobs, quietly take them to the acacia forest on the west side of the beacon tower, and secretly roast them to satisfy their own desires. Occasionally, adults will find out and often accuse them in good faith:? Haha, see you are greedy, be careful of the fire? , it's over.

This season, children often watch geese flying south on the beacon tower. The geese are arranged in a herringbone for a while and become a word for a while. Their Qi Xin always amazes us. At this time, we will also sing a few words at the top of our lungs. Goose in the sky, can you fly faster?

At that time, adults were always busy with farm work, and children's lives were monotonous. The beacon tower is a good place for us to never forget. Our partners often pick up wild goose dung (which can be fed to pigs), dig wild vegetables and watch the clouds in the sky. Bright red clouds and slow sunset on the hills bring us endless reverie.

Fourth, the northeast corner of Huanmachang Village used to be a sub-horse farm, and the production team raised more than a dozen horses and mules to pull carts to transport manure. The villagers took great pains for these dozens of big animals. At that time in the late 1970s, there were two venues the size of football fields. People liked Ma Si, which was very lively!

Several careful keepers waited on mules to curl and comb their manes. They let the horses go from time to time and let them run in the yard. At that time, I didn't understand why adults did that. I just think they love those animals and care about them very much.

These babies are taken into the breeding room at night or when it rains. Uncle breeder is always between horse and mule, separated by rafters. From their mouths, we know that horses and mules are different in temperament, and being tied to a slot often leads to? Fight? .

The children love the uncles of the breeders very much, just because they will catch a handful of feed fried for big animals such as black beans and soybeans from time to time to satisfy their desires; In the severe winter when the north wind is howling and the snow is falling, the kang in the feeding room is always very hot and it is warm to sit on it. Uncle breeder often tells stories to his friends. What he remembers most is the story of Han Xin's short life, which is still fresh in his mind.

When my neighbor Niu Niu and I didn't go to school, my mother and my two aunts always pulled mules to transport manure in the winter wheat fields on the beacon tower. My mother and they led the white horse with the dung basket, and Niu Niu and I followed the horse's ass. When going uphill, the two of us will pull the horse's tail, which is quite fun.

The happiest thing is that every once in a while, my mother will take the horse to the veterinary station on Weihe Beach to nail the horse or see a doctor. Every time I come back, I will definitely bring us a lot of cartons full of medicine. That's our favorite toy!

Later, we all went to school. I don't know how many years later, those horses and mules were sold out by the team, and the racecourse remained in my memory.

Fifth, small villages in the southeast are small, covering less than ten acres. Three rows of bungalows, brick-concrete civil structure, one row facing south, one row facing north and one row facing east and west. In the middle of the yard, a tall masson pine tree, like a lonely old gentleman, waited quietly. The blue door is in the west. On sunny days, children always leave school against the setting sun.

In the early years of the Republic of China, ancestors built a private school in the southeast corner of the village at the foot of the beacon tower. Children from all wealthy families in the village go to school to teach arithmetic, Chinese and calligraphy. My husband is my great grandfather, and this private school is the predecessor of the village.

The private school founded in 1957 moved to the southeast corner of the village and expanded into a small village. In the past few years, this small-scale village has been expanding and has become a seven-year compulsory school. It was not until the end of 1970s that a junior high school was built in the town and it became a five-year primary school.

At that time, the campus was a three-story ladder-shaped platform with a drop of more than one meter. There is a row of civil buildings with small doors and windows, and there is no podium in the classroom. Teachers and students use tables made of adobe, and the stools used by students are small Mazar stools brought from home. One day after class, the children were covered in mud. Typical? Black house, earth table, mud child? .

1989 popularized six-year education, and the villagers were very determined and responsive. The people educate the people for the people and do a good job in education for the people? I called and donated more than 10 thousand yuan to build two new school buildings with brick and wood structures. To commemorate the virtue of donating money for education, a stone tablet was erected on campus, which read? Donate money to benefit future generations? The inscription reads in eight big characters:? The head of the Western Qin Dynasty, with a long western slope and a long source, was founded in 1957. Things are wrong, people are not sages, people are happy to see the prosperous times, treat the poor and the foolish, advocate teaching and promote learning, and carefully cultivate talents, which has become a common practice. The cadres of Yin Fu's descendants worked hard to raise funds wholeheartedly, and the wanderers donated money enthusiastically, and the school building was decorated in an instant. This monument is enough to show the villagers' feelings of respecting teachers and valuing morality.

When I was young, I studied in the village for five years; As a young man, I have the honor of teaching in a rural primary school for fifteen years. After living in a small village for twenty years, the villagers and I have deep feelings for the village.

In the second year after Wenchuan earthquake, that rainy autumn day coincided with the adjustment of school network layout and post-disaster reconstruction. Due to the dangerous leakage of school buildings, the village's strength is weak and resources are integrated, so the village is in such a hurry to dismantle them. The villagers' hearts are as wet as the land in the rain. After decades of wind and rain, the village has disappeared, leaving only deep regret.

After more than ten years, the old look and new look of the village are still floating in front of us, and we are still dreaming.

Oh, my hometown in memory, where I have been haunted by dreams.