Yellow River Beach, my distant hometown

The Yellow River Beach, my distant hometown.

The blood of the Yellow River flows in my blood, and the waves of the Yellow River surge in my emotional waves. Am I from Huanghetan? Is Yellow River Beach my hometown? Yes, there is no doubt that although I was born in an ancient county on the Weibei Plateau, my parents, my grandparents, and my maternal grandparents all actually grew up and lived on the Yellow River beach. Their home was originally on the Yellow River Beach, and there is no doubt that they are from the Yellow River Beach. The living customs and lifestyles of the Yellow River Tan people have been engraved in their thoughts and behaviors like carvings on mud tires. No matter how life changes, this established living customs and lifestyles are generally difficult to change. Naturally, I was deeply influenced by them.

When I was a child, my friends all jokingly said, "You are from the Yellow River Beach." It seems that in the minds of children, they are also deeply influenced by the words and deeds of their parents. Otherwise, how would they know that "we are from the Yellow River". Not to mention what the children said aroused our thinking, even our parents and grandparents often talked about the concept of "Yellow River Beach". The Yellow River Beach, my distant hometown, has been deeply rooted in my heart since I was a child. Imprinted in our minds.

I have been curious about what the Yellow River beach is like since I was a child. Later, when we were in the fourth grade of elementary school, a meeting was held in the village. When our parents came back in the evening, they discussed whether we should go down to the beach. Because I had a strong curiosity about the Yellow River beach, and because I longed for the Yellow River from the bottom of my heart, I still had some desire to go to the beach in my young heart. The topics discussed by the adults during the day were still continued by our friends, and everyone seemed to be preparing separately. There are many households in the Yellow River Beach in the village, and they are all concentrated at the east end of the village. There are eight or nine households. Due to the geographical relationship, our impression since we were young is that these households are very close to each other, but we also Very friendly with the folks here. The previous owner of the cave house we bought was also from the Yellow River Beach, and he had already gone to the beach before us. At that time, I thought my parents might decide to go to the beach, but later, they still didn’t go to the beach. The reason is that none of the immigrants in our village have decided to go to the beach. Everyone canceled the decision. However, not long after, I heard about my aunt’s family going to the beach.

"The income in the Yellow River beach is high and the land is easy to work with. It is all sandy land and requires only two crops a year, but the people are hard-working and there is a lot of work." Old people often say this. It was already five or six years after the household responsibility system was implemented. In the past few years, the weather has been good. Even in the Weibei drought plateau, after the implementation of the household responsibility system, every household's life has become better, unlike in those few years. I often can’t eat wheat flour buns during the year. For this reason, everyone is not very enthusiastic about going to the beach. Isn't there an old saying: "You'll be poor after moving for three years!" The villagers who were used to a stable life finally decided not to go to the beach. After this incident, my desire to return to my hometown - Yellow River Beach was buried forever. The beautiful Yellow River beach has become my distant hometown, and I can never go back. However, due to my love for literature, the Yellow River in the literary sense wells up in my heart from time to time. Sometimes, I laugh at myself silently: I am a child of the Yellow River, and the waves of the Yellow River surge in my heart. Yes, the Yellow River, this great river of literature, has always made me admire and respect it. Every time I recite Li Bai's poem "If you don't see it, the water of the Yellow River comes up from the sky and rushes to the sea never to return." I feel proud to have been a people by the Yellow River. The reason is probably that he is looking for a literary totem deep in his heart and prays to the Yellow River to give him some inspiration. Yes, every time when my thoughts are exhausted and inspiration is slow to come, I think of the rushing water of the Yellow River, and a sense of heroism arises in my heart. The exhausted thoughts seemed to have regained inspiration, and the writing suddenly surged forward.

When I was a child, I had the desire to visit the Yellow River beach. I imagined that the Yellow River beach must be a great place with thousands of miles of vastness and flat plains. There, a beautiful river flows around it. Looking north, you can see the vastness with no end in sight; looking south, you can see flat sand and vast expanse. Later, when I had a chance to go to the beach, I felt very excited.

When the car went around and around on the undulating mountain road, and suddenly turned a corner and arrived at the endless plain of thousands of miles, the driver told me: This is the Yellow River Beach. This is simply another world. The flat fields have no end in sight, and the roadside is lined with rows of neat farmland. I was stunned. I had never seen such flat land, such vast land. I thought it was comparable to grassland. When we came to the village, the road was paved with cement and it was very clean. Neat little farmyards, one house next to another. The two-story gatehouse with red walls and blue tiles shows that people live a prosperous life. I visited Jianping, the "little kid" I hadn't seen for many years. His yard was filled with corn and corn cobs everywhere. Jianping lived a good life, and his family owned all modern agricultural machinery such as agricultural vehicles and threshers, which were typical examples of agricultural modernization. It can be seen that the Yellow River Beach is a "land of plenty" and a prosperous place. Jianping said: "Every year when farming is busy, migrant workers come here to pick cotton, dig peanuts, etc. Their families have few hands and plenty of land, so they hire migrant workers every year." I said I wanted to see the Yellow River, and Jianping Ping took me out of the house, walked to the end of the village, pointed to the east and said: "This is still more than ten miles away from the Yellow River. If you want to go, you have to ride a motorcycle. It depends on whether I have time." Guessing that there was not enough time, I put This plan was also cancelled. Although the Yellow River was not seen, the Yellow River beach was finally seen. This more or less fulfilled some of my wishes.

On the way back from Luoyang, the car passed through Shaanxi County. Through the car window, I suddenly saw a beautiful scenery: at a bay of the Yellow River, egrets were flying, the trees were dense, and the Yellow River was flowing. Sparkling in the sunlight. Some people say: This is the Yellow River Natural Scenic Area. What a beautiful situation! The Yellow River has become more and more beautiful under people's careful protection. I yearn for the Yellow River, I yearn for the Yellow River beach. Yellow River Beach, my distant hometown!

Author: Guo Junping