Yuanling people feel 200 words after reading it.

Author: Shen Congwen

From Changde to Yuanling, a traveler's feeling in the car can be imagined. First, there are no Miao people on the highway. Second, bandits are rarely heard of on the highway.

Although there are many twists and turns in the ravine, the road surface is well repaired. Go to the garage in Dont Ask For Help, rain or shine.

The design of driving safety in expressway can best reflect the efforts of the person in charge.

It is easy for travelers to forget the dangers of car shops and enjoy the beauty of natural scenery.

In the natural scenery, we can see that the paintings of the Song Academy are full of energy, which is a scene of crossing the river in peacetime.

The stream is gurgling, the water is clear and shallow, and it flows between big stones and fine sand.

The mountain peak is beautiful, and the green is blue. In the drizzle or sunshine, the color is really indescribable.

At the foot of the mountain are Woods, some small houses with just the right layout, a bay stream around Hezhou Woods, a long bridge, and a piece of kitchen smoke.

Vanilla mountain flowers can be picked at will.

Shan Gui in The Songs of the South seems to be just around the corner.

On the long mountain in Shangguanzhuang, one mountain after another often turns, and neurotic women and cowardly men will inevitably get dizzy.

A normal man will admire the majesty of nature and express his admiration and gratitude to the able-bodied men who came to this mountain to build roads a few years ago.

This is a group of silent and ignorant real soldiers! Every inch of the road is built by their sweat.

Some of them came from small villages hundreds of miles away and silently moved earth and stones at designated places. Thirty or fifty people hunched over, rolled along with big stones, got wet and hungry, endured all kinds of abuse, and finished the work assigned to them.

Many strange objects whizzed past while repairing the road. These lovely country people, knowing that things have been done, returned to the unimaginable small village life with a smile.

It is this unsung hero who has built a foundation in China bit by bit in the past few years.

They know nothing, but the work they have done is very great.

We can know from the project of securing danger of this highway that the people of Xiangxi can accomplish any great ideal of the country.

As long as someone leads and gives it a more arduous task, it is expected to be done well.

Look at so many tung tea trees and tung tea hills on the hillside along the road, and we will understand that people in this place can conquer the ground and increase production even if they don't have a leader and make continuous efforts in survival skills with experience.

As long as the people of the world don't demand them excessively and don't catch them, hardworking people won't take risks and have problems.

But if we go to any parking place and try to talk to the villagers nearby, we will know what the "past" looks like.

The people of the country have a share of any tax. Garbo's efforts have ruined the people of the country, and the "achievement" is really impressive! However, the motivation for their efforts is to pay half of their income and keep half.

However, when the person in charge noticed this problem, he said, "This is Garbo's sin" and never thought it was "the shame of being in power"

If the person in charge doesn't know how to be responsible, then partial progress will always be an empty ideal.

However, all this has become the past.

When the bus arrived in Guanzhuang, a train of vehicles waiting to cross the mountain quietly stopped in the open space on the side of the road, which shows that the traffic order in expressway is meticulous.

Although under military conditions, military vehicles are still controlled by expressway regulations, so they can't pass first, and they come and go in an orderly way. An engineer named Zhou is in charge of the maintenance and management of this highway.

When the bus arrived in Yuanling, it caught our attention. The ones picked, carried, installed and pushed at the station are all women.

All the work that men can do in other places is done by women in this place.

Citizen labor service is still such a woman, and many women participated in the construction of expressway Station.

Work is agile and capable.

Feminists have been moving in China for twenty years, but when they appear in today's society, they still have to appeal in the name of "madam" and are not ashamed.

And everyone is concentrated in the big city, living a corrupt life.

Compared with the situation that female workers mix sweating with eating, we can't help but be full of respect and sympathy for such people.

This kind of person works all day and never forgets that he is a woman. Women's love for beauty is still well preserved.

The floral decoration on the chest and the floral decoration on the trouser legs are all processed under the illumination of tea oil.

Outsiders praise apron buttons for their exquisite workmanship and ingenious design.

Although this kind of woman's daily work is not easy, her clothes are neat and clean.

Some people are in their forties and are still competing for business with their peers.

Twenty cents will carry the luggage to the river ferry for the guests, follow the transition, reach the other shore, and then carry it to the rest place.

Foreigners were very surprised when they came to the ferry at the riverside pier. What a nice piece of water! What a small mountain city! In particular, at first glance, almost all the sailors on that row of ferries are women. When they cross the river, enter the city gate and walk to the strip, they will meet women who sell vegetables, rice, shops and silversmiths.

Nowhere else are women so ordinary and natural when they participate in various careers and lives.

Seeing this situation, we can't help wondering: almost everything is done by women, such as the girl country phenomenon in the book "Mirror Flower Edge".

Do local men go out to fight or take care of their children at home?

However, when a traveler realizes that he has come to Chenzhou, he is not interested in these common problems.

Chenzhou is famous as a symbol of Chenzhou, and its legends and miracles are also famous for driving away corpses.

The road is on the south bank of Yuanshui, passing through the north bank of the city, and naturally I look forward to the opportunity to understand this old thing.

But this curiosity of travelers will be hit.

Most local people are confused about Chen. They are not interested and don't believe it.

You may accidentally meet a "big" figure, which is very big, loud and stylish.

His surname is either Zhang or Li (he should be Li! A typical layman, working in a chamber of commerce, is good at blowing pat into the administrative office. He will tell you that Chen's miracle is to cut off a chicken's neck with a knife, reattach it, throw it on the ground with a mouthful of water, and the chicken will run away immediately, sprinkle a handful of rice on the ground and even come back to eat rice! You ask him, "Have you seen this with your own eyes?" He must have said, "Let's take it as a real sight.

"Maybe if you think about it slowly, you will feel that you have seen it with your own eyes.

It was said in a book fifty years ago.

This big shot is a famous local braggart.

Everything in the world seems very clear, but I don't know whether what I said is true or not, whether it is from a book or I made it myself.

As usual, most local people don't quite understand what "Zhou Chenfu" is.

As for the legend of the corpse driver, it is really touching.

Any new foreign gentleman with a little new education and primitive superstition in his bones wants to satisfy his absurd fantasy. When he comes to this place, he always has a chance to relive the legend.

Gentlemen, students and hotel people, as if born in the local area, have an inevitable obligation, and as if inspired by a natural sense of humor and sympathy, always want to repeat its magic.

Or relatives and friends have seen this kind of thing with their own eyes, or who has been driven back.

In fact, like the guests, he still doesn't understand or believe it. He never paid attention to this problem until the guest mentioned it.

The guest wants to "study" it (it is conceivable that many people are most willing to study it). It is better to read Taoist magic, which may help him a little, but the locals will not help him much.

Although the locals are willing to answer such silly questions, they can't explain the truth of this matter.

One of them, a "man with a way", was named Que, and the locals collectively called him Que Wu Lao. He is almost sixty years old and talks like a child.

It is said that he left Yungui at the age of fifteen and learned this spell from a famous teacher.

It's not surprising when I do it, but I'm reading Wen Tianxiang's Song of Benevolence and Righteousness.

When the dead can walk, it is influenced by this lyric.

Chen's main tool is a bowl of water; It is said that this man has a bowl of water in his home that has been displayed before God for 35 years. When the water in the bowl decreases, it will be replenished.

All diseases are solved by this bowl of water.

Every movement of a dead body should be sprinkled with water.

This kind of water can be expressed by turbidity and boiling, and someone needs help or indicates the good or bad luck of the family. If the visitor is a scholar and a fake foreign professor, he will describe the wonderful use of this bowl of water more thrilling.

He is inarticulate because he is lonely or has a natural sympathy for his guests, so he often talks about things that are not in books.

Guests should honestly ask, "Five Old Men, have you ever seen such a thing?" He would pretend to be serious and say, "Of course.

I have been there myself! That's a relative of mine. He was an official in Yunnan, died in office and returned to Hunan. He changed a pair of sandals for the dead every day. When I arrived in Hunan, the toes of the dead fell off.

I just can't do it without practicing kung fu. You left a long time ago.

"As for why you left it, don't explain.

The guest's purpose is to "perform" and the host's intention is to "tell the truth", which will naturally disappoint the guest.

However, when I know that this thing is the formula for reading Song Zhengqi, it has a lot to do with Confucianism, and it is not without gain.

As for the legend of the corpse driver, this man of insight has made outstanding contributions and deserves a visit at your convenience.

His residence is in Shangxiguan, just ask.

However, a reader may see another kind of silent ridicule from the smile and words of a man of insight who is suitable for the style of Radio 2. "You foreign nerd, you know a lot of things in the world, not in books, and there are many things you don't know.

You used the song of justice to drive away the dead body. You are full of curious concern. You are a living person. What evil song drove me here? At that time, he was probably sitting in his grocery store (he was hiding from medicine and business) and suddenly pointed to a man with long hair in the street and said, "Look, it's crazy!" " That's really a madman, the only madman in Yuanling, but his tone may refer to your uninvited guest.

Think for yourself. For a ridiculous legend that has been circulating for many years, you are full of curiosity to visit a person who knows his life well and ask him how the dead man managed to catch up with the road. Your original intention may be to learn from teachers and go abroad to make money and become famous. At least, you can send a doctor of philosophy back to China and use it to deceive China students. How different your behavior is from that of a madman in his sophisticated eyes!

This man's speech is really a masterpiece. The local history of nearly 30 years is completely preserved in his memory, which is really worth listening to.

Especially the criticism of local personnel, sharp penetration, people can not help but think of Voltaire in France.

As for the origin of cinnabar, it is produced in Houziping, Miao Township, Fenghuang County, far from Chenzhou.

Anyone who has been to Yuanling can still get compensation from the beauty of natural scenery after being disappointed in curiosity.

Looking at the mountain city on the north bank from the south bank of Yuanling, the houses are connected by tiles and rafters, with bare heights, surrounded by mountains and shrubs. The scenery is eye-catching, so tacky.

Looking from the north bank to the south, there are bamboo gardens, tree people, temples, towers and houses in the small hills by the river, which seem to be located in the most suitable places.

Behind the mountain, the peaks are listed in the distance, such as screens and smoke clouds, and the colors are blue and blue.

In the morning and at night, people imagine that there must be a god named Adiz, riding a clam, riding a clam.

Around the long river of the city, after the spring water comes out in March and April every year, Hongjiang oil tanker is brightly colored and sails in the music.

Rectangular raft, dozens of lean men, each according to the upper corner of the raft, lift the radial water, downstream.

What moved me most was that the boat was halfway through, and my eyes were full. It seems that there are mountains all around, and the mountains are heavy outside, and everything is picturesque.

The boat girl, with a strong waist and legs, is bold and calm, standing in danger at the bow, as if nothing had happened.

The same ferry, mostly women, rowing women, transition women more.

Some people who sell firewood and charcoal run 50 or 60 miles back and forth, sell a load of firewood in the city for two Jin of salt, or bring back some simple boats and small incense sticks made of red and green paper and bamboo sticks. When they ask her, they will answer with a smile: "Take them home for a land meeting.

"You may not understand the significance of the land fair, but in fact it is to reward Shan Gui, a cloud gentleman mentioned in The Songs of the South.

These women are so kind and simple at first glance. They are all under 40 years old, and they all embroider a flower on an apron made of earth blue or green cloth. Almost everyone took great pains to treat it beautifully. Those flowers, whether realistic or abstract, are always so appropriate and elegant.

In the light smoke and drizzle, a foreigner will inevitably sigh gently in admiration when he sees this situation.

The weather often covers mountains, water and people in an emotional atmosphere that makes people feel a little desolate like rain and fog, but everywhere you can see that "life" has a glorious side in this place.

Outsiders will naturally have a question: all the undertakings in this place are attended by women, such as women with only "two clothes". Where are the men?

On the long street, of course, you can often see a young couple with fine eyes and perfect nose, dressed in light blue cloth, wearing an apron with thick silver fingers and carrying a small bamboo cage.

The man is long and thin, brave and smart, and he sells all kinds of skins on his shoulders to businessmen. At first glance, it is surprising.

But this kind of man is special.

It was Yao who paid the money and got the exemption.

Most men have joined the army.

Due to the defects of the military service law, the middle-level Baojia system is not perfect in implementing the military service law, and many people evade military service. These able-bodied men abandon their cows and become bandits. The main reason is that foreign officials are very demanding.

As usual, the villagers are willing to live well, and the old methods of officials are mostly to prevent them from living so well.

As usual, country people become good soldiers as soon as they enter the military camp, but people who serve in the military feel that if everyone is willing to serve in the military, there will be no profit.

When there are many bandits, the authorities send most other teams to "maintain public order" and stay in several urban areas, so there is nothing to ask about others.

After obtaining considerable weapons, the bandits in rural areas were particularly rude to civil servants in retaliation. When too many plundered foreigners fall into their hands, they must get everything first, and then take their lives.

Many people have left a particularly fierce and ferocious impression on the people or bandits in western Hunan, which is from this lesson.

Many people say that there are bandits in Xiangxi. Although many people have met bandits in Xiangxi, they have never been robbed once. That's the reason.

If a traveler thinks that expressway is such an unruly mountaineer or bandit, who works hard in the scorching sun and snow and passes by this expressway in a new bus, he will feel the greatness and solidity of the expressway project. When he arrived in Yuanling, he could see how women are conscientious, competent and hard to make a living. The impression given by nature is so beautiful that it can't help but make people feel emotional.

The mystery of this place is here, not there.

The people here are easy to get along with and the scenery is beautiful. Over the past 30 years, herders have come and gone, and I don't know how much they have metabolized. They found nothing except that they were "tough".

Foreign officials, after returning home, can only talk to strangers about all kinds of absurd legends that have been erased for a long time in the local area.

Isn't it another mystery of Xiangxi that the real benefits of the place can't be appreciated and the disadvantages can't be understood?

Yuanling is a place where Xiangxi has been influenced by the outside world for a long time. The influence of the church in the urban area has caused a group of people to lose their fierce temperament. It may be the habit of a small YMCA manager.

Yuanling is also a transit point for goods in several tributaries of Yuanshui River, where businessmen have a great influence. The habit of putting profit first naturally affects some people's intentional behavior.

Yuanling is located in the middle of Yuanshui River Basin. As far as topography is concerned, it is the battlefield of the civil war era.

Therefore, some sailors in Mayang County became local powerful traders after landing.

Officers and assistants of soldiers who settled in Fenghuang county, they left their homes and became local industrial residents.

Generosity, kindness and resentment, the classical enthusiasm of Ren Xia people and Chu people, can be found in men in these two places if not found in local people.

A foreigner, in a long street paved with stone slabs in that mountain city, will be curious about an ordinary person who is short, thin, unclear, hard of hearing, walks in a hurry and stutters.

Maybe he was solving the problem in the street at that time! Maybe his behavior needs someone else to solve the problem! He's just weird, and weird.

Everything is like a countryman, like a person whose senses are destroyed by hobbies and poisons and whose heart is very ordinary.

But look for opportunities to get to know him better and have a chat.

You should try to get to know him better and walk home with him.

That house is the best resident in Yuanling, with the most flowers and trees.

In this way, the result is that you will come into contact with something very novel, a kind of mind cultivated by mixing classical enthusiasm and modern rationality in special environment and life.

You will naturally "sympathize" with him, but it is best to "trust" him.

What he needs is not sympathy, because he sympathizes with others all day, tries to help others and does his duty, and he has no time to accept sympathy from others.

He needs someone to trust him, because his classical attitude is trustworthy.

At the same time, his temperament is full of a childish hobby, and he needs trust so that he can be trusted.

His eyesight and hearing have been damaged, and his heart and brain are very sound.

Among the children of Phoenix settlement soldiers, there are strong men, whose physical strength and courage are not weaker than others.

Although this short and thin figure comes from the family of a generation of soldiers, he has lost his qualification as a soldier because he has no power to conquer others.

But the hereditary military spirit conquered, controlled and reformed itself, and became a lovely person in Yuanling County.

His name is "Mr. Big", or "Da Da", which is an odd name.

Businessmen, butchers, priests and doctors in the church all call him that.

People who go to Yuanling should know this gentleman.

In Yuanling County, there is a four-mile road in the lower reaches of the river, and an island in the middle of the river, surrounded by mountains, is called "Hezhouzhou", and its name is commensurate with the scenery.

There is a temple on the mainland called "Monk Island", which is also acceptable.

But the local legend thinks it is a "rising continent", because the rising river is too wide to be submerged, so that the mainland rises and falls with the river! Hezhe people have a white tower, which has been struck by lightning from the top to the root, which surprised the local people.

Not surprisingly, the village on the south bank of the river is called Huangcaowei, and most people are in the orange pomelo forest. Orange trees are full of white flowers and Zhu Shi, so they should have thin waists and white teeth at the same time.

A Zhou family who planted a vegetable garden gave birth to four daughters. The youngest one, four sisters, is called Yaomei. She is seventeen years old and has been an apprentice in a clothing store, but she is not married yet.

The apprentices in the ready-to-wear shop saved a year's salary and gave Yao Mei a pair of gold earrings. The girls wear this pair of gold earrings and go to Dongmen City to pick vegetables and sell them every day.

Because of her rich personality and handsome appearance, everyone in Dongmen Street knows Zhou Jia Yaomei, a vegetable seller.

As a result, the clerks in the prefectural organs, the small military assistants of the security headquarters, and small and medium-sized shops all played in the yellow grass.

But it's no use. I have a master.

However, "people are afraid of being famous and pigs are afraid of being strong", Yaoyao's reputation spread like wildfire, and the boatmen on the water all knew the death of Zhou Jia.

One night in winter last year (1937), 400 armed men suddenly attacked Yuanling county, and guns were fired at the edge of the city all night. They couldn't get into the city before dawn, but the group retreated.

The original purpose of these people may just be to shoot all night outside the city.

One of them was the head of the regiment, who took his brothers to Yaomei's house and knocked at the door.

When I entered the house, I thought nothing but taking the girl away.

Although the girl was surprised and scared, she said calmly, "You rob me and take my box so that I can change my clothes!" " "

When I took it to the mountains, the colonel asked! "Yaoyao, do you want to die or live?"

The girl thought for a moment and said softly, "Die.

You won't let me die.

"The colonel smiled," that you mean to live! If you want to live, marry me and come with me.

I'll take you as the official wife and kill pigs and sheep for you, and I won't let you down. "

The girl looked at the head of the team. She was really handsome and beautiful, much better than the apprentice in the clothing store. She said, "People are eating everywhere. I'll go with you."

So he killed two pigs, twelve sheep and a hundred pairs of chickens and ducks that day, eating and drinking, and the head of the team married Yao Mei.

The girl asked where her suitcase was, and when she opened it, it was all prepared for him! A heroic beauty can be described as a happy marriage.

Three days later, the head of the delegation sent a letter to Zhou Lao and his wife who were growing vegetables in Huangcaowei, saying that they were their parents-in-law, and reported that Yaomei was fine, so don't worry.

The letter was still written in red, flashy and classic, written by the master.

At the same time, I also sent a batch of gifts! The old couple had nothing to say, but the apprentice of the ready-to-wear shop sat in a shop on Dongmen Street, cutting a piece of cloth to make buttons, sobbing.

This can also be said to be one of the figures in Yuanling County.

As for the old gentlemen living in the city, just like the serious gentlemen in many counties in western Hunan, they are very famous in the local area. As usual, there are screens written by such celebrities in temples and poems written by them in places of interest.

Children are well educated and work outside.

There are flowers, trees, goldfish and birds at home, and the rules at home are also very good.

However, the relationship with local authorities is very similar to the aristocrats mentioned by Xianke Wei Zhi in his book Charcoal Painting, and they always adopt "non-interventionism".

Because of the fame, many irrelevant donations, irrelevant business and irrelevant troubles will not come to you. I am happy to accept happiness at home and don't ask Wen Da, so I don't need to show anything.

I work hard and take life seriously. I'm not as active as the woman carrying a load at the station or the Zhou family selling vegetables. However, my life is still very good, which is enough.

From Xiabaili, Shui Yuan to Yuanling, Liulincha, the border place name, is Liulincha, which produces gold in western Hunan and has extremely beautiful scenery.

There used to be a man in that place, which was very interesting.

It is said that this man's mother is beautiful, a widow and lives in Liulincha town. There is a temple on the high mountain across the river, where a young monk lives and practices hard.

Widows, who love monks, have visited monks every day in the name of burning incense for twenty years.

Monks practice hard and ignore it sincerely, and the same is true for twenty years.

When my son grew up, he gradually learned about it.

After the son knew it, he didn't dare to persuade his mother, nor could he blame the monk, for fear that his mother would accidentally fall into deep water and drown.

Seeing the temple on a round mountain peak is not easy to climb.

So he hired a hundred masons to open a road on the hanging rock by the river, which was only enough. More importantly, we found a hundred ironworkers to make a thick and long chain and fixed it as an auxiliary tool.

Building an arched stone bridge between two mountains will save you a lot of time when you go to the temple at the top of the mountain.

I will continue to participate in these tasks until they are completed.

When it was all over, the man left and never came back.

This temple, this bridge, this strange road carved by hand on the black cliff by the river, and the thick chain beside the road are all well preserved there, and passers-by can see it.

Anyone who sails must also pull the boat to the beach from this road.

Everyone on board knows the story.

Although there is another story, people think that everything was built by a widow, for this widow ... In short, this is a great project completed by an ordinary person, which satisfies some of his wishes.

This man is dead, but he lives in the memory of everyone on the water.

Legend and local scenery are extremely harmonious, beautiful and slightly melancholy.

The Yuanshui River is connected with the beach water in the lower 30 miles of Yuanling, with nine streams of white water and crossing the Shi Bibo ... Among them, Ranbo Beach is the longest, with the most stones and the fiercest current.

Downstream, it takes only 20 minutes to walk 40 miles of waterway, and sometimes it takes a whole day to sail.

At the foot of the sunny beach, there is a big temple called Fu Bo Palace, which is dedicated to Ma Yuan, an elder of the Han Dynasty.

Sailors here will burn paper and sacrifice in the temple.

It is not surprising that temples have no characteristics.

Thousands of crows with red mouths and feet live on the treetops in the corner of the temple. When they get off the boat, they will fly to pick up the boat and send it to the boat. People on the boat throw the rice cake into the air, and then these little blackbirds will eat it in the air.

As usual, boats are not allowed to visit.

Although there are many boats getting on and off, this little thing knows what boats can make a profit and what boats can't.

The boatman said it was Ma Yuan's magic weapon. To meet the magic weapon of a ship, according to the old rules, whoever hurts will lose a silver crow of the same size, so that no one dares to hurt it.

A few things are somebody else's business.

It is inseparable from human life, but it is mixed with divinity and magic.

Legends and myths in western Hunan are quaint and moving.

There are many similar ones.

The mystery of Xiangxi has a lot to do with the particularity of the nation.

The fantasy emotions of Chu people in history must be nurtured in this environment in order to grow into moving poems.

If you want to save it, you also need this environment.