Find the countryside and get to know everyone

Suzhou Feng Menglong Village scenery. Photo courtesy of Suzhou Xiangcheng District Photographers Association

Writers and hometowns, works and life, they are inextricably linked. In the territory of classical Chinese literature, the "three words", that is, the collective names of Feng Menglong's "Famous Sayings of the World", "Warning of the World", and "Awakening the World", are an important part. "Man cannot be disguised, and the sea is incomparable." After reading "Awakening to the Everlasting Word", I had the idea of visiting the hometown of its author, Feng Menglong.

Searching for the roots of life and literature, I came to this typical water village village in Jiangnan - Feng Menglong Village, Xiangcheng District, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province. This is the hometown of Feng Menglong, an outstanding writer and opera singer of the Ming Dynasty. Although it has been hundreds of years, the legend of Feng Menglong is still enjoyed by local villagers.

Following the sound of Lang Lang reading, I came to Feng Menglong Academy and saw the children shaking their heads and chanting literary classics. One side of the water and soil, one side of the people, one side of the landscape and one side of the customs. Feng Menglong, a talented man in Jiangnan, splashed ink and wrote about the customs and customs of Gusu City, and also wrote through his own principles and life pursuits. Feng Menglong's "Three Sayings" is the first large-scale collection of vernacular short stories in the history of Chinese literature. Wen Ruqi, he condemned the ugliness of the feudal bureaucracy, but also praised the beauty of friendship and love. And he is not only a literary opera composer, but also a Zhixian who thinks about the people.

Enter the Taoyuan on the mound, and the breeze under the hedge. Walk into Feng Menglong's former residence, cross the long river of time, and face the dream dragon flying flowers of childhood, and feel the atmosphere of Feng's poetry and book heirloom. "Politics is simple and clean, the first is literature, when the people are gracious, treat the soldiers with courtesy." I saw the story of Menglong as an official, for the people, and for the text in the memorial hall, and admired his self-pursuit of morality, speech, and meritorious service. Sit on a boat on the water and listen to the legend of the honest government of Menglong's "Four Knowledge and Resistance to Corruption" in the shadow of the paddle trees, a well-known Shouning Zhi County.

Stepping out of Guangxiao Mansion, as soon as you look up, there is a large sea of Kelsang flowers, and the fresh air is filled with a faint sweetness. Strolling between the countryside, the cottages are powdered with tiles, the smoke is cooked, and the mood of the pastoral countryside is described in ancient poems, and at this moment, I finally found it in Feng Menglong Village. "Buy a cow to learn to farm, and the hut to the forest spring", Feng Menglong's beautiful expectations in "Cautionary Tales" have now become a reality in this small village in Jiangnan. May cherries, June strawberries, July grapes, August pears... The old people in the village hummed Wu Nong's soft language, told the pastoral moon order of Jiangnan Water Town, and praised the great changes in the countryside in recent years. Thousands of acres of orchards, monthly fruit, ten miles of fertilization, season flowers. You smell carefully, the breeze of this Feng Menglong Village, playing with the whirl always carries some flowers and fruits.

Smelling and smelling, my stomach unconsciously screamed, I came to a restaurant, called "Mountain Song Restaurant", ordered a bowl of Su-style noodle soup, accompanied by two or three plates of Su-style side dishes, and the taste buds were awakened in an instant. Noodles are the famous "Huangdai Noodles", and although you can see it in many supermarkets in Suzhou, many people are still like me and are willing to come here to taste this delicious taste.

Literature is a story nourished by one side of the earth. It records the footprints of the line to this day, and also hides the future direction of development. It expresses the temperament exclusive to here, and is people's inexhaustible cognition and belonging to this water and soil. And behind the culture is the wind bone, the hometown of the dream dragon, the floating life for half a day, looking for a pastoral, knowing a bigone, mountain songs and singing, fortunately even Ya.