The Zuli River is poetic, picturesque, and like wine, slowly flowing through my dreams, nourishing life, intoxicating feelings, and inspiring pursuits. I want to write a heart song for the mother river of my hometown, the Zuli River, not singing about the flowing water, but only singing sentimentality.
Beauty, Zuri River
Curious Beauty is the companion of youth. I remember getting to know the famous but hard-to-find river in the early 1960s, I was more excited than my first love date. When I went to Jingyuan Normal School, I set off from Huining with my companions, passing through Gangou, Riverside, Guocheng in Huining, Dalu and Xiaolu in Jingyuan, these tree-lined villages, like a string of night pearls embedded in a silver belt. The east and west mountains are rugged and stretch north along the Zuli River. At that time, the Zuli River was turbulent and turbid, like a giant dragon running towards the Yellow River. This was the first time I knew the whole picture of the Zuli River, the shadow of the Zuli River and the magical mountains of the East and West, like a majestic oil painting frozen in my heart.
The land of Pingchuan, from Huining to Jingyuan, is like velvet, and the turbid and turbulent Zuli River is like a windward shaking Hada meandering away, setting a shining pearl necklace in the blue sky and blue field, making the heavens and the earth one, magnificent and enchanting. Of course, this small river seems insignificant compared to the Yellow River, but it is an indispensable stroke in this natural oil painting. Look at the girls of the villages along the river, listening to the flute in the clouds of the shepherd boy; You see the derrick standing on the edge of the river, beckoning to the belated modernization... Let people appreciate the beauty, the realm has been sublimated.
Oh, there is no lack of beauty in nature, but a lack of discovery, and a lack of body odor.
Strange, Zuli River
"A river of spring water flows eastward" is a famous sentence in the Southern Tang Dynasty Lord Li Yu's "Yu Meiren", which is not only affectionate, but also can be shaped. Most of the rivers in the world flow to the east, but the Zuli River flows northward, causing many surprises, many reverie, and many legends.
Beautiful legends make the river more charming, and the most influential legend is the myth of the goddess opening the river. In ancient times, when the goddess passed through Zuli County, after seeing the tragic scene of the drying up of the river ditch, the yellowing of the grass and trees, and the lack of water for people and livestock, she was very anxious in her heart, so she used her divine power to point out water springs under the mountains such as Mixia, Wangdian, and Hualing, and the spring water gushed out and became the birthplace of the Zuli River. Since then, the Zuli River has water, and downstream because the soil content is too much alkali, it has become bitter water, people call it "Bitter Water River".
I like mythology to interpret the scenery from the good, but I prefer the scenery to show the personality of the true, Zuli River beauty is in the muddy and salty water, always have a distinct personality of the self!
Magnificent, Zuli River
I admire the beauty of the Zuli River, I am surprised by the strangeness of the Zuli River, and I admire the character of the Zuli River. No matter how the myth is circulated, in fact, she is full of personality, advancing north with a thousand miles of courage, running to the Yellow River, running to the sea, running to the future of persistent hope...
Oh, this slender and confident Zuli River, embracing a tough crystal heart in the rolling waves! Never inferior and small, never lament loneliness, nor in the "water flows eastward" in the laws of nature and worldly views, always raise the sail of faith, silently walk their own road, no matter how many bumps and turns encountered, they are also brave to move forward, never wandering around! Unswervingly dedicate the rolling passion to the uncultivated virgin land, to the unpopular hillside wilderness, never showing off, never stopping, always living for faith.
Magnificent, Zuli River, the sail of faith has never been blown down by the worldly wind and waves! I would like to turn into an upside-down wave and rush into the Mother River of my hometown, rolling north like before!
About author:Zhang Weikui (pen name: Zhang Yu), male, Han ethnicity, born in August 1941, joined the work in 1961, associate researcher. He has successively served as a primary and secondary school teacher, a principal of a middle school, a deputy director of the Huining County Bureau of Culture and Broadcasting and the head of the county Qin Opera Troupe, a section chief and director of the office of the Baiyin City Culture, Radio and Television Bureau, and a director of the Baiyin City Library. He has published more than 200 essays, poems, papers, etc. in publications at or above the provincial level, and won eight national and provincial awards. After his retirement, he participated in various national literary and art competitions for many times, won a number of awards, and published monographs such as "Yesterday's Notes", "Heartland Flowing Rhyme", "Song for the People", "Starlight Prose Collection" and so on. "Zuli River Three Yin" won the second prize of the China Prose Competition.