Papaya Toast Past, 400 million years ago, a typical rock formation, emperor Zhu Yunjiao was stripped of his throne and cut his hair as a monk

Papaya, a small market town hidden in the southwest edge of the motherland, surrounded by mountains, babbling streams, idyllic nature. According to the "Yuan Shi And Geographical Chronicle", "The papaya barbarian barbarian military and civilian chief division, Qiqiu and other places Zhongjia barbarians." "Papaya refers to the Muhua community of Daihua Town, Changshun County, the Yuan Dynasty set it as "Papaya Ganglao Barbarian Governor's Division", in 1938 AD, Xie Guanyi, then the county magistrate of Dingfan County (now Huishui) went to Papaya Street to successfully mediate the contradiction between the two surnames of Shilu, so he changed the papaya to Harmony, which means "harmonious resolution", and the original residents in the territory are mainly Buyi ethnic groups, known as "Barbarians", "Zhongjia Man" and "Yi family".

There must be some hidden historical stories here. Under the cover of lush trees, the houses are scattered, the time and space are silent, following the bluestone road that winds behind time, a broken brick and tile, overgrown with weeds. Looking for the southern foothills of Emperor Ping, the scenery is beautiful, the ancient trees are towering in the sky, and the meaning of the feng shui dragon vein is transmitted. After searching and exploring, the verifiable "Shi Yamen Ruins, Shi Clan Tombs, Gu Clan Tombs, Gu Family Yamen and Gu Clan Genealogy" can still be faintly seen and heard. Originally, the ancestors of the Shi clan of papaya, Shi Chaoxi and Gu De of the Gu clan, were awarded the papaya zheng and deputy chief officials respectively for their meritorious service in Zhengnan, and the two major families developed into a large surname Hao clan with comparable strength in the Ming and Qing dynasties, until the governor of Yungui, Ortai, carried out large-scale "land reform and return" in Guizhou, and the papaya toast was gradually going to extinction... In the rush of time, I inadvertently looked back at the papaya, born in the place where Si grew up in Si, and the little-known story flowed through the river of years to this day, which made me haunt my soul and yearn for it.

Gently caressing the dappled time and listening to the papaya past, I am immersed in it. "Muhua also has a world-famous place!" The proud description of Chunhua, deputy director of Muhua Village, surprised his colleague Wenyou. Go to a new place, a place with a story, in papaya, in this moment. Distant from the ruins of papaya toast, the village Gedongguan, the county road passes through the village, the village is full of dead vines and old trees, the posture is thousands, the houses and roads are just like musical notes distributed on the stave, and from a distance it looks like a dragon lying on the mountain, which is called "the village on the back of the dragon" by the locals. In the 1980s, the Carboniferous Stratigraphic Section of the Gedongguan Devonian Stratigraphic Strata Strata was found here and recommended as the international best candidate profile of the Devonian-Carboniferous Boundary Layer, which attracted the attention of the world geological community, and the famous scientist Li Siguang and the Chairman of the World Stratigraphic Geology Committee and the German paleontologist W. Ziegler successively made a special trip to the site to investigate... This is a typical rock formation between 400 million and 280 million years old! What a privilege to meet papaya through hundreds of millions of years. The mystery and wonder of "foreigners, foreigners" who rushed to tell each other at that time now seems so extravagant and proud.

From Papaya Street all the way to the east, there are sometimes dangerous peaks standing, like a continuous picture scroll, passing through Fengxiangpo, Madi Village, Bang Crooked Bay, and following the natural mountain paths paved with whetstone. "You see here the mountains and rivers, the Tibetan wind and water, the feng shui is good, there is the tomb of the Stone Tribe Toast Here..." The fellow villagers recited the words. Stepping out of a mountain depression, instantly full of greenery, majestic cliffs, kit kat majesty, pine waves, heaven and earth, walking to the top of the mountain, flat and picturesque, wildflowers, grass leisurely, called "Emperor Ping". According to legend, in the fourth year of the Ming Dynasty Jianwen, the yan king Zhu Di's court coup, emperor Zhu Yunjiao was seized of the throne and fled Nanjing, cut his hair and became a monk, exiled to a mountain village in the southwest, and traveled thousands of miles to Laobao Mountain to establish a temple as a monk. Is this also inextricably linked to papaya toast? I don't know. Standing on the lawn and letting the wild wind penetrate the whole body, overlooking the Huishui Wild Horse Sancao in the distance, the smoke waves are vast, the audio-visual is extreme, the Yijia mountain song is heard from afar, melodious and gentle, echoing the mountain wall, hissing, as if understanding non-understanding, in the clouds and fog, as if telling the old story of papaya, as if singing the new life of the times.

The terraces of Dapozhai on the west side of Emperor Ping are layered, one after another Buyi stilt houses, people wear lan pole hanging flat clothes, early sunrise and dawn, late return to cooking smoke, a natural pastoral freehand picture scroll is paved under the eyes. The Yi family is industrious and brave, simple and kind, hospitable, spring ploughing, summer weaving, autumn harvest and winter are not idle, every household has a wide field, before people picked horses, and now the xiaokang road is convenient to enter the household, all of which are mechanized operations. The visit of the guests caused a series of dog barks, and the old man of the Yi family standing on the stilted tower said with a smile in Buyi dialect, "Scolding Xi LiZhi" ("come to sit at home"). Eight pieces of chicken, folded rice, flower rice, eight bowls and other delicacies have been on the table, a sound of "choking" (drinking) floating above the village, Yi family's self-brewed rice wine always makes people drunk, the stove in the bronze brazier reflects the red face, talking and laughing, the Yi family seems to be even happier... Under the setting sun, several elongated figures swayed shallow and deep on the top of the mountain, and the moon quietly climbed up, accompanied by insects and birds, and unconsciously came to the emperor Pingshan Mountain- the Yijia toast papaya that gave birth to me and raised me.