Volume III: Essays, Anecdotes, (XV) Travels in the Countryside
Yangsan is composed of three naturally formed limestone peaks, the north peak is the highest, with an altitude of 1047.9 meters. If you look at the Qianling Tomb from different angles, the entire cemetery corridor presents different shapes. Viewed from the east, this cemetery resembles a sleeping beauty, lying leisurely and solemnly on her back between heaven and earth. The towering north peak is her slightly raised head, the straight Shinto is her jade neck, the verdant pines and cypresses are her beautiful long hair, and the south second peak is her chest, and the undulating peaks are her stretched legs, stretching out to the endless distance in the mist, so she is known as the "sleeping beauty of the earth".
Observing from the west side, the lonely peak of the main peak of Qianling is towering, majestic and mighty, like a lying lion; The straight and wide Shinto comes into view, making people feel mysterious. From the northwest, Qianling looks like a "pyramid" again, and the lone peak rises alone. Standing on the top of the main mausoleum and looking south, the grand momentum of the cemetery is in full view, which makes people think about it.
Therefore, people vividly say that Qianling is "looking at the beauty in the east, the lion in the west, the Shinto in the south, and the power (the power of the emperor's tomb) in the north". In the Tang Dynasty, the Kanyu family had a unique vision, and among the many mountains, they chose this unique place to build a mausoleum for Gaozong Li Ye.
The construction of the Qianling Tomb was in the early Tang Dynasty, the national strength was abundant, the scale of the cemetery was large, the building was rich and majestic, and it could be called "the crown of the emperors' tombs in the past dynasties". Its cemetery imitates the pattern of Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty, and is divided into a palace city, an imperial city and an outer corridor city. All the construction projects of the Qianling Cemetery were completed in the early days of Wu Zetian, Zhongzong and Ruizong, which lasted as long as 57 years.
There are 17 burial tombs in the southeast corner of the Qianling Cemetery. At present, the three burial tombs are officially open to the public, and more than 4,300 precious cultural relics such as Tang Sancai, Tang tomb murals, and stone pier line carvings have been unearthed, which is known as the "treasure house of Tang Dynasty culture and art". During the two-hour tour, we watched cultural relics and stone carvings such as Huabiao, Winged Horse, Stone Lion, Wordless Monument, and Shusheng Ji Monument, as well as inscription stone carvings of modern celebrities such as Guo Qiruo, and hiked to the top of Liangshan Mountain. Through the tour, we learned about the grand occasion of Qianling and the related history of the Tang Dynasty, and felt the charm of Chinese culture and art.
In this day trip, we enjoyed the beautiful scenery, experienced the local folk customs, tasted the special food, and learned some historical knowledge. At the same time, I took pictures of the fellow villagers throughout the whole process, so that I enriched my spare time life and harvested happiness in the tour and service for everyone, I think the most exciting thing in the long history of China is not the emperors' expansion of territory, but the great achievements of Dayu in controlling the water.
Wind and rain carve the peaks, and the years bear witness to history. At our feet, from Hexi to the north to the gate of Yu in Hancheng, Yu completed a remarkable water conservancy project here. Its scale is far less grand than that of the Great Wall, but it is destined to benefit the local people for more than 2,000 years. If the Great Wall occupies a vast space, it really occupies a long time. The social function of the Great Wall has long since been abandoned, and it still carries a trickle of clear water to countless people.
From south to north, we follow the footprints of Dayu to control the water, and it seems that we can feel the roar of the Yellow River for thousands of years, the initial dazed cry of Dayu and the cheers praised by the people later. It is precisely because of its drought-and-flood Guanzhong that it has been sheltered and nourished. Therefore, it is no exaggeration to say that it has permanently nourished the Chinese nation.
According to legend, Yu inherited his father's business and governed the water. His father was killed by Emperor Shun precisely because of the failure of water control. The cruel officialdom is even worse than the cruel flood, and Yu, who took over his father's business, knows that his head is also tied to the water control, and there is no negligence. He certainly didn't learn about water conservancy anywhere.
However, after several years of death, he summed up a more clever method of water control than his father. People often say that Pangu opened the world, Yu stood on Pangu Mountain, his heart suddenly opened up, "open" is not sparse? The key to water control is sparse rather than blocked, therefore, he changed his father's strategy of water control, from blocking to sparse, splitting the boulder steep peak Yu gate, leading the water of the Yellow River to the Guanzhong Plain. His experience is still the same as that of hydraulic engineering to this day.
What he did not expect was that the land he irrigated would become a battlefield for the emperors to compete for supremacy, and most of the wheat and grain produced in the rich Hexi were also used as military rations.
Qin Shi Huang's order to build the Great Wall was majestic, barbaric, and cruel, while his order to build water conservancy was wise, benevolent, and transparent.
He left nothing but the light before our eyes.
There will be any starting point will have any continuation, and the Great Wall as an ancient pomp of the military defense project is different, this water conservancy project is the unique spiritual world of Dayu, really for the benefit of the people should be upgraded to God, God has become reasonable, amiable, this section of the Yellow River, it has become a bridge connecting the two worlds.
In the blink of an eye, my mother was eighteen years old, she was like all the little girls of that era, wearing a floral shirt, a pair of blue pants, a pair of white socks, a pair of brand-new cloth shoes in jujube red that she had taken in her own hands, two big braids were black and thick and obedient behind her ears, her mother was well-proportioned, her face was fair, her eyes were clear, and her mouth was a little thick and sexy.
The adoptive father has a similar friend at the water station where he works, and that is his mother's future father-in-law. His father-in-law's house is very close to the water station where he works, he is an old man who loves children very much, and he is always reluctant to eat something good at the unit many times, and he takes it home for the children to eat together with the bowl of rice after work. In the early years, for the sake of his family's six children, his father-in-law worked in a bank in Hami, Xinjiang, where the owner was a foreigner and his employees' salaries were paid in silver. That year, the boss wanted to carry the gold packed in the vault to the car for urgent use, and when there was not enough manpower, he called the workers to help, saying that this was a lot of overtime, and he also fought for the young and vigorous children of the family, and he received the broken silver after moving with everyone, and went back to the room to sleep, and his lung disease was heard to be because of the carrying too tired. Approaching the Spring Festival, he took a year's income to pack a backpack and go home, originally to go back to work after the New Year, to Tongguan only to know that the Japanese were going to call, everyone was not allowed to go out of the customs, turned around and went home He looked for a job on the commune water station, this work is a lifetime.
In the new job, the father-in-law and the adoptive father talked about everything at first sight, and the marriage of the children was the engagement of the parents at the dinner table. That day, the adoptive father asked the mother to freshen up and dress up and said that he was going to see an old friend, the father and daughter talked and laughed along the way, and bought a few foods on the street halfway, when they came to the door of the father-in-law's house, the mother felt that something was wrong, the father-in-law had been waiting at the door for a long time, and saw them from a distance and greeted them, the mother stopped when she saw a stranger coming, she pulled the adoptive father's clothes and did not want to move, the adoptive father turned his head and tore his mother's hand and whispered to see if he said, the adoptive father took his mother's hand with one hand, and walked towards his friend with a snack in the other, and the father-in-law took the snack while leading the way in front, and the three entered the house one after another。
A small table with a little history was placed in the hall, and a few small stools with a little history were placed around the small table, and the mother-in-law came out of the kitchen with her little daughter in her arms, and turned her head to the eldest daughter in the kitchen with a few words of greeting and shouted to her to roll out the noodles, and then took the little daughter to the yard, and the father-in-law took on the responsibility of taking care of the adoptive father and mother. The adoptive father and father-in-law chatted while drinking tea, and the mother sat next to the adoptive father while drinking tea while secretly looking at the home, the old earthen wall, the wood on the roof was very black by the smoke of cooking, there was a big kang in the corner of the hall, the kang was separated from the kitchen by a wall, and there was a very old curtain hanging on the kitchen door. A pair of black pants, a pair of shoes with a few holes on his feet, he grabbed the hoe on his shoulders with both hands, leaned forward a little, and he was followed by a girl who was a few years younger than her, carrying a basket in one hand, and a boy a few years younger than her in the other, they came in front of each other and called the adoptive father, the guy put the hoe and went into the kitchen, and the younger sister pulled the younger brother to put down the basket and also got into the kitchen.
At this time, the youngest sister shouted that the eldest brother stumbled into the kitchen, and the mother-in-law followed closely and also got into the kitchen, and the mother looked at this magical kitchen and did not know how big it was. His mother didn't feel very good when she first saw him, not because of his looks, but because of his sloppy dress, the young man appeared in a hurry, obviously not carefully prepared, maybe he was ordered to go home to play the role, maybe people didn't want to see her at all, maybe it was ...... Cut, I haven't taken a fancy to him yet? You see his poor family, you see his younger brothers and sisters are young, what do you see he wearing?
The mother looked around the family and the family tirelessly, and then looked at the adoptive father, she knew how her father liked the family, but she thought about the adoptive father's sentence "look and talk again" and looked down at the brand-new red cloth shoes that she had taken in her own hands, and let the situation develop.
A bowl of noodles is a lifetime of love. When it was time to eat, the younger brothers and sisters came out to help, the rice was served, the dishes were served, and the noodle soup was served to the noodle soup, and the mother's bowl of noodles was brought to her by the eldest aunt herself, and the eldest sister handed the noodle bowl to her mother with a smile on her face, telling her that she would give it to you if it was not enough, and I would give it to you if she was missing. Maybe it's out of politeness, maybe it's really hungry, maybe it's ...... Anyway, my mother said that the bowl of noodles was so fragrant, and the relationship between my mother and my eldest sister after marriage was iron-clad, and it was this bowl of noodles that threw my mother's various "not very good" to my father thousands of miles away, and it was this bowl of noodles that added points to the love of my parents, and it was this bowl of noodles that made these two young people never abandon to the end, it was this bowl of noodles......