Ancient Village, Ancient Trees, Love

Halfway up the mountainside in the deep mountains of the Qinling Mountains, there is a Huangyusi village surrounded by mountains, where there are many ancient apricot trees that are more than three to five hundred years old. The locals say that it is "more than three to five hundred years", but it is actually a speculation, and it is the old man of the present day, who listened to the legend of the old man at that time.

In short, they are so old that no one knows exactly when they were planted. It is as ancient as this Huangyu Temple mountain village. However, Huangyusi Village has a history, it is the location of Li Shimin's summer palace in the Tang Dynasty, and the summer palace is called CW Palace. In other words, Huangyusi Village was there before the construction of CW Palace.

Although the village is called Huangyu Temple, there is no temple from ancient times to the present. It is said that it was not called Huangyu Temple at that time, because after the death of Tang King Li Shimin in the CW Palace, people burned incense here to worship, and over time it was called Huangyu Temple, and this name has been used to this day.

Therefore, sometimes I wonder if these ancient apricot trees in the village, which are not surrounded by two adults, have seen the Tang King, and the Tang King has also eaten apricots? These apricot trees grow slowly in the relatively cold deep mountains. So, how can it be so thick that it can be grown up in a hundred years?

Before 2010, it was a real "paradise" in reality. "With Tao Yuanming's village, the artistic conception is only excessive, but not equal.

On National Day in 2009, when I came here alone for the first time, I walked to the top of the mountain (also called the land beam) and cried when I saw the village opposite.

I could clearly see a village scattered around the mountains. Many of the old trees inside and outside the village are picturesque (I mistook them for peach trees at the time). Outside the village is thousands of acres of fertile land, and the villagers are driving oxen to plow and sow wheat. The tall chestnut forest is under the mountain beam where I am standing, and the village children are picking chestnuts under the trees. The traffic in the village, which is full of mud houses and tiled houses, the barking of dogs and chickens, the bleating of cows and sheep, and the laughter and singing from the village, make me immediately think that the village in "Xanadu" really exists! The place I longed for after reading it for the first time in the textbook really made me come across it.

It's just that it was all so sudden, so sudden that I was a little overwhelmed. I couldn't figure out a village hidden deep in the mountains. And away from the road, it takes nearly three hours to hike over mountains and mountains from all four directions. One of them is a relatively complete winding road, which is also dirt, and can be passed by three-wheeled motorcycle when there is no mudslide.

So, if I hadn't liked mountain climbing, I wouldn't have known that there was a village that has existed for thousands of years in this life, and I would have missed the real "Xanadu".

For this reason, I was so excited that I burst into tears, and sat on the beam and watched for a long time, but finally did not enter the village.

Another reason why I'm so excited is that I had many dreams about this village a year ago, and I was worried that walking in and fulfilling another dream would come true. At this moment, I was in a bit of a trance in the dream. I don't want to enter the village so easily, I just want to be so far away, but I can see it clearly. But I know that it should come in the spring when the peach blossoms are in full bloom.

Meeting in spring is not just my personal expectation. When I looked at Huangyu Temple excitedly, a few mountain climbers passing by saw me burst into tears and said, "Everyone who came here and saw the isolated Huangyu Temple Village for the first time was stunned by beauty." Spring is the most beautiful, and the ancient trees and flowers bloom outside the village ......"

So, all I wanted was to wait for the spring flowers to bloom and go to the village in the peach blossoms.

The next year came as promised, standing on the top of the mountain, looking from afar, the peach blossoms of the trees were pale white, and I only sighed that it was too late. I didn't want to get closer. I want to wait for the most beautiful moment when the flowers are blooming, and I will come back grandly.

Later, it was always impossible to catch up with the full flowering period. Especially in the second year, I came late again, only to see the spring breeze blowing, the petals were colorful, and the artistic conception was very beautiful, but I was as sad as Daiyu burying flowers. It was only after entering the village this year that I learned that those were all ancient apricot trees, and the apricot blossoms were originally pink and white, so they were beautiful when they looked closely. When the fellow told me the news, I thought it was funny and I felt fooled by myself.

Alas, those well-informed ancient apricot trees will think I am stupid.

Later, in 2012, Huangyu Temple was "favored" by more people, and some developers took a fancy to it and wanted to build villas to become the back garden of the rich. I knew that I hurriedly went there to climb the mountain, and walked into the Huangyu Temple with a nervous heart, and saw that a tribe was about to migrate, and the villagers who were originally simple and simple people had no intention of working, and the men were chatting about the topic of compensation, and the women were listening with their hands on the sidelines. The old people are cleaning up their belongings.

Soon the villagers were resettled at the foot of the mountain, and the village was demolished and ruined. Huangyusi Village in the ruins, I don't like to walk into it again. Only on the ridge of the mountain overlooking the silent and dilapidated village, I regret and depress for a while and go down the mountain.

However, it is also fortunate that the "developer" has some taste and retains all the ancient apricot trees. At that time, in the village where only two houses had not been demolished, the ancient apricot tree standing in the ruins became the tallest existence like an old grandfather waiting for the manor. Moreover, every year is like an oath and a call, a flower blooms, and the fruit is abundant. Whenever the apricots are ripe, many people come to pick the apricots that no one manages. I was also in the apricot orchard outside the village, and I ate ripe apricots. The big ginkgo biloba without any pollution was so sweet that it fell all over the garden when ripe. I looked distressed, and told the apricot sellers in the school to let them pick it and sell it. However, when people heard it, they said that they couldn't draw it, although the apricots didn't need money, but the road was so difficult to walk, and they couldn't carry back a few catties of apricots for a day.

At that time, many climbers wrote to report the situation and wanted to stop the demolition. As a result, in the heartache of the climbers, the villagers went to the house to collapse. The large machinery for construction has entered the village. Many of my hiking friends say that they will never walk into the "rich man's paradise" again.

In this way, originally in the middle of the mountains, a village surrounded by dirt roads and tiled houses, fertile fields, people have lived and worked here in peace and contentment for thousands of years, living a farming life of spring sowing and autumn harvest, which is a real paradise in reality. No matter what time of day you come, it's here waiting for you.

Now it has become a beautiful memory, and it has also become Tao Yuanming's "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring", and it is no longer there. The only difference is that those ancient trees are still telling the history of Huangyusi Village.

Since I often come here to climb the mountain. I don't enter the village, but I can see a ruin in the distance on the land beam. Well, the impact on my heart was very big, and it was completely a kind of damage, as if my home had been forcibly occupied.

However, the facts are unpredictable, and creation makes people. Not long after the large machinery drove in, as soon as the shed was set up, I saw that all the machinery had stopped. Curious, I went to the construction site at the head of the village to inquire about it, saying that the development was blocked, and I was negotiating with the relevant government departments.

The moment I heard it, not to mention how happy I was, it was completely "schadenfreude" kind. Then I prayed that it would never be approved. During this period, my heart was apprehensive, and I was always worried that I would continue to work. However, it was the news of the shutdown that made the climbers run to tell each other, saying that they would continue to reflect upward.

Finally, half a year after the shutdown, the Qinling Mountains began to remove illegal buildings on a large scale to protect the natural ecology of the Qinling Mountains. A year later, all the construction machinery in Huangyusi Village was gone. Seeing this, I was overjoyed. It's as if his home has been saved.

Tourists and climbers are here again. Every time I visit, I go into the village, walking in the empty and overgrown village, which gives me the feeling of patrolling and pride. I am really grateful to the relevant authorities that made the right decision, and I am even more glad that the policy was issued in a timely manner. Reinforced concrete didn't come in the end.

Two

At that time, there were two houses in the entire Huangyu Temple, which were used as the developer's office and were completely preserved. One at the head of the village. After the project stopped, next door to the house in the village, a mother-in-law returned. Perhaps because of the good mountain air, she is in her seventies, with a straight body, a long ponytail, and a soft and soothing conversation. I think she must have been a beautiful woman when she was young.

She was the only one in the village who had come back to live in the old house. The roof of her house had collapsed, one wall had fallen in half, and the house had not collapsed completely, but it was slanted, and it looked like it was going to fall down at any moment. She lives in it alone, planting vegetables and trees. I was worried about her safety. Always advised her to go down the mountain and not to live here.

But she said, "Since the village has stopped, I feel distressed when I see the land, so I will come back and plant it." If you start work again, you will destroy it again. Besides, I'm not used to living in a concrete building. Young people all go out to work, and I can't find a job when I'm old, so I'm in a hurry. When I came back here, I felt at ease. In this way, she persevered alone for three years, leveled the two large courtyards in front of her house and behind the house, set up shade nets, and transplanted all kinds of fruit trees on the slope in front of the courtyard. In the year of the fruit, his son's family came back and repaired the fallen wall. Opened a farmhouse.

This is a romantic and visionary old man. While the whole village is still watching, the fruit trees she has replanted have already been harvested. At that time, I always saw her working alone on the wasteland. Later, I saw that the land where she planted vegetables was organized into furrows in the part of the reclamation. After planting, the vegetables are green, red, purple and green, full of artistic atmosphere.

I asked her curiously why she didn't sow all the seeds after cultivating so much wasteland. She said: I don't make do with it, I must plant it well, and I don't waste it, I can't eat it all if it's too much. I love flowers, so I planted so many fruit trees. But the wasteland where vegetables are planted below is the original owner.

This led to rows of newly planted cherry groves under her large yard, and all kinds of fruit trees around the house, I counted eleven in all. Some old people carried them up from the bottom of the mountain, some dug them up from other people's abandoned yards, and some of her family's original ones.

I admired the old man's diligence and romance, as well as her heavy affection. The first time I noticed that she was "emotional" was when she came out of the leaning house and greeted me. I wondered why her house hadn't been completely demolished, but it couldn't be inhabited. "The developer asked to tear down the house himself," she said. I couldn't bear to push my house with my own hands, so I let my son symbolically slam a few big hammers, and after the roof collapsed, the developer approved it. I didn't tear off a single brick from the house to sell. The rest of the houses were left with only fallen soil, and weeds grew after a few rains. It's not that I'm not short of money, but I love this family, and I can't do it. My family has been from this village for generations. ”

I like her a lot. Every time I go to the village, I must go to her house to sit. She will also buy some vegetables that she grows.

Later, those houses were intact and farmhouses were opened, chickens and dogs were raised, and the village was alive again. There are more tourists and climbers coming by car.

I came even more diligently, especially when I came with the puppies in the Taoist temple, several puppies in the village greeted me and barked without biting, feeling like a welcome dog. Whenever this happens, I smile happily.

Three

When I came to climb the mountain last week, I saw that the ancient apricot trees in the village were waiting to be released, and the red buds dotted the trees were really beautiful. The familiar fellow said that it will bloom next week, and told me that the flowering period is very short, so don't miss it again.

You won't miss it this year, and you'll definitely be coming next week.

Seven days later, I came to my appointment.

However, the recent temperatures have been a roller coaster. There were days last week when temperatures reached 30 degrees. The white cuckoos and plums on the mountain were sporadically pushed away. The flowers that do not open normally are very small, like a premature baby. However, these early blooming flowers make me worry that the season is out of order. In previous years, the white cuckoo plum bloomed in the "second week after Qingming", can it still follow its rules?

Fortunately, the temperature has been low again this week. Today, the white cuckoo plum seen on the land beam on the top of the mountain is still budding, full of large beads and small beads, and occasionally a few open ones are still wrinkled. In this way, we can concentrate on going to Huangyu Temple to enjoy the apricot blossoms.

After three hours of climbing over the mountains and mountains, come to the top of the mountain on the land beam, stand on the highest mountain, overlook the Huangyu Temple on the mountainside, only to see the apricot blossoms inside and outside the village, extraordinarily enchanting, the photos taken have the effect of low-flying aerial photography, beautiful, heart-pounding, leading us to move forward quickly.

On the way to the apricot orchard outside the village, I saw many tourists coming and going, and there were private cars driving into the village from time to time, making the "small village" rare and lively. What's more lively is that the trees are full of apricot blossoms into a sea of flowers, and the fragrance of flowers is coming, attracting bees to fly and dance, and visitors laugh.

Looking closely, I saw that the petals and buds on those ancient apricot trees competed, and the pink and white flowers bloomed beautifully. The apricot blossoms in the high-altitude mountains are different from those under the mountains, and the cold living environment makes the petals thick and jade-like. And because there is no air pollution beam, the petals are clean and bright, and the appearance is fresh and beautiful, which has won the praise of tourists.

The house on the side of the road at the head of the village was preserved as a development office at that time. Now, the apricot blossoms bloom all over the front and back of the house, and there are two ancient apricot trees with a lush crown in the courtyard, which are connected together, like a large flower umbrella on one side. There are several tables of tourists sitting under the apricot blossom tree, people in the brick house, and the sound of chickens and dogs barking in the courtyard. Opposite the courtyard, the roadside is the fertile field of wheat seedlings, a farmer is fertilizing in the field, and the tourists are looking for digging wild vegetables. This scene is exactly the "paradise" that is still there today, not by mistake.

This should also be the first time I caught the ancient apricot blossoms blooming at the right time. It's a joy to be reunited after a catastrophe.

After admiring the ancient apricot trees at the head of the village, I hurried to the village. I want to see as many ancient trees as I can that have no owner, but bloom every year. Today, I came here with a smile as promised, and I lived up to its blooming. Walking through the village happily all the way, as if hearing the apricot blossoms are also laughing, the old grandfather ancient tree is shaking the flower branches and happily greeting us and saying: Come on, I have been waiting for you here!

At this moment, sitting in the courtyard of the old woman's house, I saw that the ruins of the house overgrown with weeds in the distance were full of ancient apricot trees. Those 500-year-old trees are magnificent in shape, all old trees with new branches and flowers, as beautiful as bonsai, which makes us feast our eyes.

Now, although all the villagers are still waiting, a few others have returned to the village and simply repaired their habitable houses on the original site. This time, I saw another family that had started to build a house. However, it is a flat-roofed brick house, unlike the towering tiled houses of the past. It is said that it is not allowed to build buildings with cement. That's good. The style of the new house is also up to date.

However, when we were sitting in the mother-in-law's courtyard, we saw a middle-aged man who did not look like a tourist or a villager, and greeted the villagers warmly as he walked by. The old man's son said, "That's the person from the demolition and relocation office." I was stunned. Could it be that development has resumed?

The old man's son said, "The project will not continue." It's just that the developer is still negotiating with the government to pay compensation. "Oh, that's embarrassing!

I asked him why the villagers hadn't come back, and he said, "We're also negotiating with the developers." Originally, we have lived here since ancient times, and it is good. The developer came and moved us down the mountain. It's been six years, and the house is deserted. Moreover, our village is where the emperor lived. The scenery is good, there is rich arable land, and it is suitable for human survival. At that time, the government was planning a cement road through the village. As a result, the developer wants to build a villa area, and no one cares about the road. Otherwise, our village would have been connected to the cement road and the road into the mountain. It's a toss for us. ”

Alas, it's a lose-lose situation. The developer built a house for the villagers at the foot of the mountain, but they also lost all their money.

Fortunately, there was no greater waste and loss. Because, in the process of renovating the Qinling Mountains, many private villas and resorts were demolished.

Now, the thousand-year-old village has been saved. The trees are coming back, continuing to plough in the spring and harvest, and also run a farmhouse. It can be expected that in the near future, the paradise of Huangyusi Village will reappear again. It will become a home for us who admire nature for a rest, and an inn for more literati and artists.

2018/3/24