Snow lotus only blooms on snow-capped mountains, and fish can only swim in the water.

- Tatar proverb

In Kunming, Yunnan Province, known as the "Spring City", Gong Biyu, a descendant of Gong Huaizhou and the youngest daughter of Gong Lianchao, inherited the Gong family's tradition of being a scholar and a role model and served as a history teacher at a university.

After graduating from a normal university in Sichuan, Gong Biyu came to the Yunnan frontier, where ethnic minorities gathered, to specialize in studying and teaching the history of the Ming Dynasty.

One day in early spring, she unintentionally discovered in the vast historical materials that her ancestors had followed the fleet of the great navigator Zheng He to the Western Ocean many times, and formed a deep love relationship with Zheng He's descendants.

She was so excited by the discovery that she decided to visit Zheng He's hometown in Yunnan.

Gong Biyu put on a backpack and came to Zheng He's birthplace - Kunyang Town in Jinning County, Kunming City.

She found Zheng He Park, which was established in Zheng He's former residence, and slowly walked into the main gate of the park. She looked around for a moment, then walked up the stairs and saw the tall statue of Zheng He hidden in front of her among the green pines and ancient cypresses.

The 5.55-meter-tall Zheng He stands on a 3-meter-tall pedestal shaped like the bow of a treasure ship, holding the handle of a long sword in his left hand and a nautical map in his right hand. His right foot strides forward, symbolizing the Ming Dynasty's breakthrough from 2,000 years of confinement and taking the first step towards opening up to the outside world.

After Gong Biyu looked at the statue of Zheng He head-on, she came to the back side of the statue and saw a group of 8 cyan granite reliefs carved on the back side of the statue "Open Pioneer - Zheng He". The relief reproduces Zheng He's life and growth process from a teenager to a navigator.

Gong Biyu said goodbye to the statue of Zheng He and came to Yueshan.

At the top of Moon Mountain sits a Three Treasure Tower, named after Zheng He's nickname, Three Treasures. The Three Treasure Towers have three floors, and the main body imitates the shape of Zheng He's treasure ship in the West. Above the door, there are four large golden characters of "Sea Giant" inscribed by modern scholar Liang Qichao. The glazed tile roof of Sanbaolou, carved dragon and phoenix, gorgeous and colorful. The white marble fence dotted around makes the Sanbao Building both dazzling and fresh and elegant.

Gong Biyu slowly climbed the Three Treasure Tower, and overlooked the vast Dianchi Lake into the distance, which suddenly gave people the real feeling of personally driving the treasure ship and galloping the sea. She stayed there for a long time, trying to restore the scene of her ancestors and Zheng He cutting through the wind and waves and moving forward bravely.

Walking down the Sanbao Building, she came to the Zheng He Memorial Hall.

The memorial hall is divided into 4 exhibition rooms. The whole exhibition takes Zheng He's voyage to the West as the main line, and fully demonstrates the glorious achievements of the great navigator Zheng He in his life through a large number of historical pictures, documents, physical objects, inscription rubbings and replica models.

Bidding farewell to the memorial hall, Gong Biyu followed the path to the northeast and came to the bottom of an archway.

This torii is a bit old. The years have left a lot of historical traces on it. The faded wooden plaque reads "Zheng He's Former Residence".

With infinite reverence for Zheng He, Gong Biyu quietly visited the courtyard, which was less than 500 square meters, and gently left her footprints.

There is only one wing room on the left, with an area of no more than 40 square meters. Inside, there are some nautical models and utensils on display.

The two-story wing on the right contains books on navigation and pictures of Zheng He's fleet.

The cracks of the bluestone brick road in the small courtyard are covered with moss and green grass, just like the owner of the yard struggling to survive in the cracks, and fighting tenaciously in the face of adversity.

Gong Biyu descended a few stone steps from the front of the wing room on the right to a small pond. The small arched bridge of the pond is dotted with flowers and green grass, which looks fresh and chic.

The biggest gain of Gong Biyu's trip was to learn in Zhenghe Park that Zheng He Park, Zheng He Memorial Hall and Zheng He Sanbao Shipyard were also built in Nanjing, Taicang in Jiangsu Province and Fuzhou in Fujian Province.

A week later, Gong Biyu embarked on a trip to Nanjing and Fuzhou.

In Nanjing, the thousand-year-old capital, she lingered in front of the Tianfei Palace, looking up at the palace built by Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, to thank Mazu, the god of the sea, for protecting Zheng He's safe voyage, and feeling the virtual emotions between man and God; She wandered in the Jinghai Temple, admiring the building built by Ming Chengzu to commend Zheng He's great exploits in overseas missions and promoting national prestige, and reminiscing about Zheng He's life here in his later years.

Gong Biyu took a taxi to Niushou Mountain in the southern suburbs of Nanjing, and found Zheng Wenhua Park at the western foot of the green grass.

Local residents told Gong Biyu: "We people here call this mountain 'Huihui Mountain', and Zheng He's tomb 'Ma Huihui Tomb'." There were originally Zheng He's tombstones, stone carvings and other buildings here, which were destroyed in the 50s. In 1981, the Nanjing Municipal Cultural Management Commission and the Jiangning County Bureau of Culture and Education came to the overgrown 'Huihui Mountain' to conduct a field survey and found that the cemetery here was magnificent and the tomb was rectangular. In 1985, on the occasion of commemorating the 580th anniversary of Zheng He's voyage to the West, Zheng He's cemetery was rediscovered after the Jiangning District Bureau of Culture and Education underwent repairs. ”

The tomb road to Zheng He's tomb is 140.5 meters long, implying that Zheng He's maiden voyage was in 1405. The stone tomb archway is 5.6 meters high and 3.2 meters wide, and there are 7 circles carved on it, implying that Zheng He successfully went to the West seven times.

The new cemetery that Gong Biyu saw was a horseshoe made of bluestone.

The cemetery is 300 meters long from north to south, 60 meters wide from east to west, and the top of the tomb is about 8 meters high, which is hidden in the green dragon and emerald green, and the overall presentation of the Arab-Islamic architectural style, from the front it looks like a hologram shape, implying that Zheng He is a Hui nation. There are 4 groups of steps in front of the tomb, each group has 7 layers, and there are 28 steps in total, implying that Zheng He went to the West 7 times, lasted 28 years before and after, and visited more than 40 countries and regions.

The tomb cover stone is carved with patterns such as cloud brocade and lotus flowers, and is engraved with Arabic characters. The wall behind the tomb is inlaid with a stone stele, and the four characters of "Zheng He's Tomb" are engraved in the official book.

There are cultural relics exhibition hall, historical museum, cultural relics exhibition hall, reception room, etc., connected by the corridor, the overall style is the form of imitating the Ming and Qing Dynasty courtyards, a stone tablet set up by the Nanjing Municipal Government, and a stele pavilion with antique cornices and corners. These buildings are even more solemn against the backdrop of Niushou Mountain.

To the northeast of Zheng He's tomb is Zheng He's Cultural Garden, and to the west is Zheng He Lake, a small lake with rippling blue waves.

Gong Biyu reverently offered a bouquet of white lilies to Zheng He's tomb, bowed deeply, and then walked towards Zheng Village, which was not far from the mountain and was facing Zheng He's tomb. It is said that it was a concentrated residence of Zheng He's descendants.

Gong Biyu took a plane from Nanjing to Changle Airport in Fuzhou. As soon as she got off the plane, she rented a taxi and went straight to Changle City.

There is a hill in the center of Changle City, which was called Nanshan because it was located in the south of the county in ancient times. There is a park on Nanshan, formerly known as Nanshan Park, which was built in 1088 A.D. in the third year of Yuanyou in the Northern Song Dynasty. The park has been built by the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties, especially during the period when Zheng He went to the West to wait for the wind in the Ming Dynasty, Zheng He and others carried out a comprehensive reconstruction, and many pavilions, platforms, buildings, pavilions, towers, temples and other buildings were built according to the mountain situation, blended with each other, and became a whole. The park is verdant, verdant with vegetation and beautiful environment, and has become a holy place for Buddhist and Taoist believers.

The three-peak pagoda in the garden is one of the famous towers in China, the original name is the Shengshou Pagoda, which was built in 1096 in the third year of Song Shaosheng and completed in 1117.

The tower body has 8 corners, 7 floors high, is a stone imitation pavilion building, 27.4 meters high. The walls of the tower are carved with exquisite reliefs based on Buddhist stories, which are precious objects for studying the architecture and stone carving art of the Song Dynasty.

The Sanfeng Tower is a watchtower for Zheng He to climb the tower overlooking the huge fleet moored in Taiping Port, and it is also a navigation tower for Zheng He's Western fleet to enter and exit Taiping Port.

In 1412, when Zheng He waited for the wind in Taiping Port before his fourth envoy to the West, in order to thank the sea god for the blessing of the concubine, he asked Ming Chengzu Enzhun to build a majestic Tianfei Palace next to the Sanfeng Pagoda Temple in the east of the Nanshan Pagoda in Changle, and prayed and thanked the gods for the officials of the fleet.

In 1413, when Zheng He climbed the tower to inspect the port, he learned that the tower was built for Song Huizong's birthday, and said with a rather unhappy face: "Zhao Ji is a faint king, who was captured by the Jin people and died in the northern country, how can he be greased and powdered?" ”

Zheng He immediately named the Shengshou Pagoda as the Sanfeng Pagoda, and personally inscribed the name of the pagoda to change.

When Zheng He passed through Fuzhou many times in the future, he gave alms to Xishe and funded the maintenance of the Sanfeng Pagoda and the Sanfeng Pagoda Temple next to the tower.

In the twenty-sixth year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, that is, in 1761, the Tianfei moved to the newly built Tianhou Temple near Wu Hangtou, and changed the original Nanshan Tianfei Palace to Wuhang Academy. The academy was destroyed in the Sino-Japanese War.

In 1985, in order to commemorate the 580th anniversary of Zheng He's voyage to the West, the relevant parties allocated funds to build the Zheng He Historical Site Exhibition Hall on the site of Tianfei Palace and Sanfeng Pagoda Temple. Nanshan Park was also renamed Zhenghe Park.

The collection of precious cultural relics "Tianfei Lingying Record" tablet, commonly known as Zheng He tablet, is in the winter of 1431, is making the eunuch Zheng He, Wang Jinghong and deputy envoy eunuch Li Xing, Zhu Liang and others on the eve of the seventh mission to the West, sent to Changle, Fujian Province to wait for the monsoon to open the ocean, in the rebuilding of the Tianfei Palace in Changle Nanshan, Sanfeng Pagoda Temple and the new Sanqing Treasure Palace, Zheng He personally wrote the engraved stone tablet. Engraved with the stele of "The Record of the Heavenly Concubine's Spiritual Response" in the Nanshan Palace. The inscription is 1177 characters in regular script, detailing that during the period from the third year of Yongle to the eighth year of Xuande (1405-1433), Zheng He's first six voyages to the West and the seventh mission to the West were recorded, which is a precious material historical material for studying the history of overseas transportation and Sino-foreign exchanges in the Ming Dynasty.

The stele is made of black shale and is 1.62 meters high, 0.78 meters wide and 0.16 meters thick. The stele book has six characters of small seal "Heavenly Concubine Lingying", two of which are damaged. The upper end of the word frame and the two sides of the Yin engraved line are engraved with Ruyi cloud air pattern. A full moon gushes out of the middle of the top. The text of the stele is engraved with a lotus pattern around the branches.

After returning to Kunming, Gong Biyu began to seriously conceive and prepare to write a book about Zheng He's life and deeds.

Gong Biyu is a responsible person of a democratic party in Yunnan Province and a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) in Kunming City.

Once, she met a member of the CPPCC at a meeting surnamed Zheng. While the two were chatting, Gong Biyu inadvertently mentioned Zheng He.

Commissioner Zheng sighed: "My ancestors are too great! ”

Gong Biyu asked in surprise, "Could it be that you are a descendant of Zheng He?" ”

Member Zheng proudly replied:

"My name is Zheng Yunliang, and I am the eighteenth grandson of Zheng He.

Our family still has the genealogy of the Zheng family.

Zheng He's descendants in our Yunnan branch are the descendants of Zheng Enlai's eldest son. In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, some of them were forced to flee because they could not bear the oppression of the government, and the fifteenth grandson Zheng Chonglin left his hometown in Yuxi, Yunnan, and fled to Chiang Mai Province in northern Thailand with the Ma Gang, where he married the daughter of the Tusi of Chiang Mai Province, and since then he has taken root in a foreign land. Cheng Chonglin presided over the construction of the first worship temple in Chiang Mai. The plaque on the lintel forged in pure gold was carried from Yunnan by horses. At present, there are more than 30 descendants in Thailand.

The descendants of Nanjing are the descendants of Zheng Enlai's second son.

Because Zheng He settled in Nanjing all his life, some officers and soldiers of the fleet followed Zheng He to live in Nanjing, and later changed their surnames to Zheng one after another, so Zheng Village was formed in Shannan Village, Niushou Mountain, Nanjing. ”

Gong Biyu held Zheng Yunliang's hands tightly and said happily, "Great." Our Zheng and Gong families have continued their relationship in their previous lives. ”

Gong Biyu used the summer vacation to Yuxi, Shadian in Yunnan Province and Chiang Mai in Thailand to find and interview the descendants of Zheng He, and after three years of work, she finally completed the masterpiece "The Great Navigator - Zheng He", showing a real and great Zheng He to the world.

July 11, 2005 is the 600th anniversary of Zheng He's voyage to the West. The People's Republic of China has decided to designate July 11 as China's Navigation Day, which is fixed as an important national holiday.

After Gong Biyu saw this report in the newspaper, she immediately picked up her mobile phone, dialed Zheng Yunliang's mobile phone, and told the old man about this exciting news.

The two of them were talking excitedly on the phone about everything about Zheng He.

In Ledu District, Haidong City, Qinghai Province, Wang Keqiang, a descendant of Wang Chen, is also creating a better life of his own.

After graduating from Kunlun Vocational and Technical College, Wang Keqiang did not covet the big city like his classmates and casually found a unit in Xining City to stay, but returned to Ledu County, which is located in Haidong Region.

The good-faced royal father thought that his son had studied in the provincial capital for 3 years, and he might not be able to mix with any leaders, at least he was a cadre in an office, and he could get a city hukou anyway. Now that he saw Wang Keqiang returning to the ravine alone, he was so angry that his face turned green.

The royal father scolded: "Something that doesn't become a talent." The royal family still expects you to glorify your ancestors. It's better for you to run into a poor ravine to hide and relax. ”

Wang Keqiang laughed twice and said, "Don't be angry, I will definitely win glory for our old Wang family." Can you give me a start-up capital first? ”

The royal father twisted his neck to the side, spat a mouthful, and said angrily, "What do you want money for?" ”

Wang Keqiang replied: "I plan to develop organic agriculture, and I will definitely make a lot of money." ”

The royal father said, "What a liar! Farmers have guarded the land for generations, which one do you think has made a fortune from farming? ”

Wang Keqiang laughed twice again, and said unhurriedly: "Dad, even if you lend the money to Nao." This time next year, I guarantee that I will return it to you with interest. ”

The royal father hesitated and asked, "How much is the capital?" How much is the interest? ”

Wang Keqiang replied: "The capital is 20,000 yuan, and the interest is calculated according to 5‰, which is higher than the bank's interest." ”

The royal father said suspiciously: "Manly man, what you say counts." ”

Wang Keqiang hugged his father's shoulders and swayed, and promised: "It must count." You just wait to get the money. ”

The royal father shouted, "Don't sway. Shake Nau's skeleton to pieces! ”

Haidong is located between the upper reaches of the Yellow River and its important tributary, Huangshui, the cradle of the Chinese nation, and is a place with an early development and a long cultural history in Qinghai Province. Historically, it has been referred to as the Hehuang or Hehuang area.

On October 19, 1978, with the approval of the State Council, the Haidong region was composed of Ledu County, Minhe County, Huangzhong County, Huangyuan County, Ping'an County, Mutual Aid Tu Autonomous County, Hualong Hui Autonomous County and Xunhua Salar Autonomous County, with a total area of 13,200 square kilometers and a population of more than 1 million.

Haidong has a semi-arid continental climate, rich in mineral resources and water energy resources, relatively concentrated population, and relatively developed economy, and is one of the important agricultural and animal husbandry economic zones and township enterprises in Qinghai.

Wang Keqiang aimed at the city's huge potential of vegetables, fruit market, seized this business opportunity, contracted hundreds of acres of orchards and land in his hometown Nanshan, hired more than a dozen young people in the village, operated the best-selling vegetables of the season in spring and summer, and also took care of the orchard in summer and autumn. In autumn and winter, hundreds of agricultural greenhouses were built, out-of-season vegetables and various flowers were planted, and they were sold to Xining and major cities in the northwest, making a lot of money.

When other farmers began to learn from his practice, Wang Keqiang changed the industry in time and began to plant rhubarb, fritillary, wolfberry, licorice and other medicinal plants, seizing the market for Chinese medicinal materials, and making a lot of money.

Wang Keqiang accumulated the original capital, returned to Xining City, and established a joint venture with friends Gesang Flower Catering Co., Ltd., and opened a large-scale Gesang Flower Hotel in the most prosperous area of Xining. He personally served as chairman of the company.

Wang Keqiang bought several houses in the high-end community of Xiaoqiao on the bank of the Huangshui River, and brought his parents and siblings to live and work in Xining.

Sometimes, Wang Keqiang deliberately joked with his elderly father: "Dad, have you given your old Wang family glory to your ancestors?" ”

The royal father said happily: "Guangzong is here." also glorified his ancestors. ”

Wang Keqiang asked: "Did you give me a loan shark back then?" ”

The royal father hurriedly shook his head and said resolutely: "Nau did not lend usury. You deliberately gave more money to Nau. Nau knows that you are playing tricks to honor Nau and your mother. ”

When everyone heard what the royal father said, they all burst out laughing. The sound of happy laughter floated on the surface of the Huangshui River and floated high on the top of the North Mountain.

In his spare time, Wang Keqiang, who wears gold-rimmed glasses, meticulously combed hair, and is dressed in a suit and leather shoes, will stand quietly in front of the large floor-to-ceiling windows of his office, looking at the snow-capped Qilian Mountains in the distance, and thinking about the grand plan to establish a Gesang Flower chain hotel around the world.