When you come to the old village nearby, the charm of this place lies in the overall pastoral feeling, and cannot be seen as a few old houses, cobblestone lanes, or a sea of peach and plum blossoms around the New Year. It allows people to relax and stop overnight because it is simple, real, and just right to present the appearance and temperament of the idyllic countryside in people's emotions.

The beauty of all kinds of beautiful villages and natural environments, the beauty of slowly cultivating and taking livelihood seriously, the beauty of clan people, ritual history, and cherishing the memory of ancestors and the beauty of order. Old houses can be repaired or even rebuilt, but these beautiful things that are integrated by the mountains are far from being achieved by engineering construction.

There are weather-beaten old houses everywhere, but most of the villagers do not deliberately live in the old houses to satisfy the curious mentality of tourists, but build simple, generous and practical new houses layer by layer on the periphery of the village.

This vein mountain is just in front of the line of sight, the texture of the smoke-blue mountain range is vague, stretching into a line, twisting and turning, lined with blue sky and white clouds, making people feel an ambiguous and distant village.

The mountain is not high, more than 900 meters, but it is uprooted from the ground, making the small plain of the sea as if it was blocked by a wall, and the vision is like a plot, walking waves. A large area of transition to the mountains, interlaced with fields and dirt roads, full of farmhouses, picking gardens, various signboards, and a slightly messy loose place at the end of the city.

Several large slope hairpin bends, a fold and a fold to go up, the most dangerous road surface is inclined to the side of the mountain, turning, decelerating, refueling, rushing the slope, very fun to drive. The road condition is quite beautiful, the new asphalt road, the signs are bright and eye-catching, the mountains and forests are thick and green, and you can clearly see the serpentine shape of the mountains at the heights, and you are refreshed and open-minded.

At the top of the hill now, next to the real estate of the Ten Mile Blue Mountain, there is still the ancient temple of Antai Palace, and one side of the ancient temple is the boundary monument of the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty. Generally, when you arrive here, you will stop by car. To the east side of Antai Palace, there is a viewing platform, where you can have a bird's-eye view of the high-rise buildings, to the west side of Antai Palace.

Looking out from the gap of the pine forest, it is the mountain basin, the countryside and the distant mountains. Mountains on all sides are completely locked. The big ridge and small ridge that this mountain road passes through are similar to small mountain passes, and Mattel Road chooses to break through here, as does the old Daling Road Ancient Post Road. Not far from today's road, this ancient post road is a stone-paved stepped mountain path that winds through dense mountain vegetation.

Since the Ming Dynasty, the villagers in the mountains have relied on this road to exchange communication with the Guankou Haijia outside the mountain, bringing charcoal, rice and even pigs out in exchange for fresh seafood and daily necessities by the sea, which is quite a symmetrical balance.

Falling into the mountain basin, the sense of scale simply distorts time and space, teleporting people back to the old paradise. SC Johnson was also well-informed, but was surprised to find that this basin was perfectly closed, and there was no other place like it.

A circle of mountains connects the arches, and in either direction of the mountain, there is a deformed ridgeline and lush vegetation on the slopes. Surrounded but with plenty of space, not cramped, there are mountains and mountains are neither high nor thick, there is no despair of isolation, more like a kind of fiefdom female wall that declares protection.

This kind of terrain must bring a sense of psychological security and relaxation to the local villagers for generations, and it is an ideal terrain that is especially suitable for the life of small farmers.

There will never be any disasters, there will be no floods or droughts, the land is fertile, and it has never been difficult to live with food and clothing. The so-called drought and half harvest, chaos and half worry, and drought and half harvest are because the surrounding mountains are densely wooded and have good water storage capacity, even if the weather is dry, the streams on the mountains will not be completely exhausted; It's a mess.

If there is a plague or banditry, it is only necessary to pass a few passes leading to the outside of the village, and you can escape the disaster. Behind the edge of the eye, there is a reason, the war and the people left, and when they came here, it was difficult not to regard it as a blessed land.

This sense of security and relaxation can be applied to the generals who chose a place to settle for the clansmen thousands of years ago, and it can also be applied to the tourists who come from the city today: among the arches around the mountains, the fields and ridges are beautiful, the settlements are gathered or scattered, the ancient trees are shady, the melons and fruits are free, and the villagers are peaceful and pleasant, and they are indeed born with a pleasing appearance.

Worship ancestors on the winter solstice, spring ploughing, stunning peach blossoms, white dew longan, small corn filling, mango planting rice in June and harvesting rice on the summer solstice...... Spring, summer, autumn, harvest and winter storage, the four seasons are orderly, and the life of small farmers unfolds slowly according to the chronological order.

In the early morning, the old people on the road are driving the cattle, the rice fields that have just been filled with water are full of seedlings, the mountains are rising, the rice waves are slightly turned, and there are scenery everywhere. The beauty of these landscapes is not only because of the beauty, but also because of the exquisiteness and order underneath, a village is still alive, it is living in these old orders that are still running, organizing people's daily lives.

This kind of order respects nature, but also gives people in the period of mental and physical balance, spiritual spaciousness and indifference, these are the greatest attraction.

It's not the wishful thinking of the city's people, it's never hard to get enough food and clothing here. Among the more than 2,000 permanent residents in the village, there is also a shortage of young and middle-aged laborers, and most of those who can go to other places have gone to other places, and agriculture is no longer the main source of income for a family's livelihood.

In a family, there are those who work in business abroad, and those who stay behind to do some housework. The old man farms more out of a kind of inertia to the land, and has a lot of leisure time, in the area of Shuiyunjian Scenic Area, under the shade of the old longan tree by the river, set up a small stall, and sell a little self-produced sweet potato, longan, banana, sand kernel, sweet bamboo shoots, pickles, maltose to tourists, and sporadically make a little income, which is more of a leisure.

This kind of casual division of labor within the big family is actually a shadow of the old days: brothers according to their temperament and qualifications, flexible and intelligent going out to buy and sell, simple and honest stay in the field, growing teeth, wealth accumulation to a certain extent, can be used by children and grandchildren to study and enter the office.

A village has visible parts and invisible parts. The good air of the buildings and the idyllic mountains and forests, together with a coarse tea and a light meal, together catalyze the vague impression of the village and countryside in the hearts of people in the city.

The invisible part of the city belongs to the collective identity memory of the villagers of Yamazhong Village, which includes not only stories about ancestors, legends of gods, but also the imprints of some important events in the development of the village, as well as the clan operations hidden under the shell of the village.

On the one hand, they are very interesting, and on the other hand, it is these invisible parts that provide rich nutrition for the visible parts of the village, so that the villagers recognize their homes, and only with recognition can they build.

The most wonderful is the clan festival, the big pig is carried out in the ancestral hall, each villager group provides a day boar, supervised by the notary elected by the council, weighed and selected, the heaviest one wins the championship, and the pig king has a lot of net weight over 700 pounds over the years.

It is an honor to raise a big pig, which is related to the face of a family in the village and the blessing of this year's life. And the big pig is also a carnival festival on this day, the ancestral hall is brightly lit, the gongs and drums are noisy, the show is on stage, men, women and children, three layers inside and three layers outside the onlookers are lively.

The pig's mouth is orange, the ears are filled with gold flowers, the feet are tied with red ropes, the body is covered with red satin, and the champion pig is also draped with a whole sheep. Pig racing is used to pay homage to the Heavenly Father, a somewhat spectacle ritual left over from the agricultural society of southern Fujian, which often leaves northerners who have lost this tradition both jaw-dropping and admiring.