Due to inconvenient transportation, we go home once a week, while they go home once a month or even half a semester. These classmates in the mountains are called "mountain caterpillars" by adults, and

Due to inconvenient transportation, we go home once a week, while they go home once a month or even half a semester. These classmates in the mountains are called "mountain caterpillars" by adults, and their accents are different from ours. But no one has any ill intentions. I often bring my classmates home from the mountains. My mother is always warm and hospitable to my classmates. But people in the mountains have an inferiority complex in their hearts, just like we have an inferiority complex in front of the Jinhua people. Maybe everyone occupies a position in the "inferiority chain". People from Jinhua will feel that they are low in the dust when they meet people from Shanghai. These little thoughts were particularly sensitive in an era when urban and rural areas were vastly different from each other, and it may be difficult for people today to understand them. In order to avoid feeling inferior, people will cover up many things, but words cannot. People in the mountains try hard to learn Tangxi dialect, which is not as strong in the mountains, while people in Tangxi try hard to get rid of the hard nature of Tangxi dialect and become softer by learning Jinhua dialect. But no matter how hard you learn, there will still be clues. When I went to Jinhua No. 1 Middle School in high school, my classmates came from all over Jinhua. There were many classmates who spoke Jinhua dialect. Those of us from Tangxi began to speak Mandarin. Mandarin is not standard. After all, the difference between Tangxi dialect from ancient times and modern Mandarin is not just the Chinese Pinyin. However, we must say that the second reason is that people in Jinhua cannot understand. The worst thing is that they will be laughed at as soon as they speak. Tangxi people ask why it is called "Ha Mo", express their displeasure by saying "Ha Mo Wow", and when they don't understand something, they say to themselves "Ha Mo", so in the ears of Jinhua people, it seems like Tangxi People can only say two words "Ha Mo" all day long. "Ha Mo" evolved into "Toad". Tangxi people have a pronoun called "Tangxi Toad". Tangxi people are vulgar, uncivilized and ugly. , The ridiculousness is all in this title. This inferiority complex went deep into the bones of every Tangxi person back then. In fact, most of the classmates who spoke Jinhua dialect were friendly and never looked down upon us, and some even became very good friends. However, this deep-seated inferiority never diminished, and some even accumulated into excessive self-esteem.

Now think about this title, which is characterized as a nickname for Tangxi people. The so-called "ha" should be the ancient proverb "he". People in Tangxi don't say "no", but say "mi song". The ancient saying should be "wei never". Eggplant is not called eggplant, but "Luosu". Loofah is not called loofah, it is called "Tianluo". There are many similar words. If you look it up in an ancient Chinese dictionary, you will know that the people in Tangxi are very well-educated. If I understood this back then, why would I have such inferiority? This shows how important culture is.

Nowadays, Tangxi has become the back garden of Jinhua people. Those local dishes that they once looked down upon, such as rotten cabbage and tofu, were eaten by the toothless grandmothers at that time, and now they have become famous. vegetable. The places where the "mountain caterpillars" once lived are now popular tourist destinations. There is no shortage of good mountains and good water in Tangxi. Parents can know the weather by looking at the distant mountains when they go out in the morning. But in the past, the mountains were where my father worked hard for days eating dry food just to carry back a few bundles of moso bamboo and a few big trees. Nowadays, it is where city people go to soak in hot springs, eat farm food, visit ancient villages, and see the terraced fields and sea of ??clouds. place. The "caterpillars" no longer have low self-esteem, and those of us in Tangxi who are neither "caterpillars" nor "city dwellers" have finally found the place where our souls are stored, and we have begun to become calm and calm.

In the past, the distance of five miles from the village to Tangxi felt so far. From home to Jinhua, I feel like I have spanned the entire world. Before going to college, Jinhua was the furthest place I had ever been. Later, I went to Luoyang for college. Later, Kunming, Dalian, and now I have lived in Nanjing for nearly twenty years... I know that in all these cities, I am just a passerby. Only Tangxi, that place called "Xinxu", is my hometown, where I belong, the home of my soul, and the origin of everything about me in the past, present and future.