Night Rain 丨 East Wind: Ask Shan Wen

Ask Shanwen

East Wind

I heard that someone asked the mountain in Songbai, look at your silly look, Tang does not have your poetry, Song does not have your words, Yuan does not have your tune, Qing does not have your story, who will ask you? What can you ask? I said to my wife, "Ask the philosophy of the mountain, who will show off the profundity in this mountain?" What to ask? How to ask? I've got to find out. "Ahem! Forget it! As far as your official tone is concerned, the thatch will not give you a nod. The wife said contemptuously.

I am not an official, why do I have an official attitude? I listened to my wife the most and began to brush my tongue in the mirror. Today I finally straightened up and could go to ask the mountain.

"I seemed to be downplaying at the time, but I was actually an arrogance. After all, I come from the foot of Mount Tai of the Nine-Five-Year-Old, such a closed place, to see how I conquer you, Jian Wenbo's words, shattered my heart with arrogance. He said, to do projects in the mountains, what should be done? What shouldn't be done? Gotta ask the mountain. I was originally arrogant and even arrogant inside. His words made me ashamed and embarrassed, and a sense of awe came out of nowhere, so I decided to stay, and along the way, I found that this was a place worth fighting for a lifetime. Song Na recalled with some excitement.

"Pine cypress here, everything is pristine, such as the farmer's home agricultural tools, living utensils are the perfect inheritance of ancient farming civilization, these things have been recorded in the annals of history by Japanese scholars, but their scientificity has been ignored by the current increasing pursuit of modern mode of lifestyle, local farmers are also affected by modern furniture, intend to throw away, persuaded by me to stay; here, sandwich a piece of cabbage entrance, is sweet and sweet, chewy, to taste in the mouth for a long time before willing to enter the throat, never eaten in other places, And the earthy chili peppers, not to mention the blue, red, purple, yellow colors, the key is the local variety of cooking methods, I will cite only one of them - roasted spicy seeds. First the green pepper is burned with charcoal, and then with the fresh walnut, flower pepper, garlic a piece of scoop, pepper, pepper, walnut, garlic mixed together the fragrance will be fermented again, the human sense of smell and taste mobilized to the extreme, nerve cells focus on a point - eat, hungry insect swarms, salivating, licking lips and smacking mouth, the original state of the person is revealed! Roasted eggplant, red tofu, old bacon, native chicken... Not to mention other deep mountain wild vegetables. "Gollum, obviously someone can't help but swallow. Indeed, raw flavors are scarce now! Large-scale production is the root cause of the loss of original taste. Song Na's words were soft, passionate and not impetuous, of course not arrogant, the feeling was floating out from between her little moon and double stars, leisurely and frank, deep and far-reaching, as if listening to the teachings of the Taoist monks, listening to them, they were fascinated. ay! Why didn't I feel it before I was a native of Chengkou? The master who has always loved the energy-filled child has also been out of god.

Song Na lives in the Qingshan Study on weekdays. A log cabin on the mountainside, the original farmer moved down the mountain to demolish, after Song Na's some food, became a place of Qing repair. On the desk of the simple processing of large logs, several clay teacups with sandy heads, different sizes, different colors, I don't know where to piece together, with the Four Books and Five Classics, Guqin, I feel back to the Qin and Han Dynasties. Is this the standard of the ancient Sven?

Summer twilight is a wonderful drink outside the house. Brew a cup of chicken tea, quietly watch the mountains rise, the moon hangs on the top of the mountain, the sky is dyed, there are guqin, sheng zhen... Song Na has a poem: Think of the lonely mountains and forests, lonely shadows are not lonely, the wind and snow fall, ask the three lives on the mountain stones. Or light a bee candle made by a master and quietly read a book in the Qingshan Study. The bee candle is humane, the candle temperature is moist like a little girl, wafting out a faint honey smell, and it is easy to wander the mind if the tao is not deep.

Song Na said: "The most envious of lan here, I have seen a lot of famous mountains and rivers, are a little lan, but also try luck, pine cypress at any time, in front of the Wenshan study, slowly taste tea, watch the distant mountains Lan spread, feel people and Daba Mountain a piece of Tuna, let people feel through! Why can't our way of life be so simple? For example, in the road into the question of the mountain, I advocate not to harden, the outside road hardening is to meet the needs of the big traffic, forced to do so. Hardening is very damaging to the environment, like pine cypress place, every hardening of a road, just like people's blood vessels are hardened, hardening more is like people with silicosis, Lan is the free breathing state of Daba Mountain, if Daba Mountain can not breathe freely, we can not see such a wonderful mountain. ”

Oh, yes! When you enter Daba Mountain, you must learn the gait of Daba Mountain, walk in style, and feel the fun of meandering. Ask the mountain study at the highest point of the pine / wooden building green tile, the window contains the mountains / Hui Qingquan raise a group of stars / hug the mountains to raise a Wang Shanlan / Fu Guqin raise a piece of bird song / click a beeswax, turn an old book / see the ancient and modern / designer Song Na, in the Qingshan study / open a skylight. This is the poetic "Ask the Mountain".

Yun Duo was moved by the situation between Lu and Chongqing, and wrote a letter - Letter from Songbai Village / Brother Lin, nearly good / Several meetings, Songbai Village disobeyed / This winter, prepare a big game of chess / Thousand Miles of Ink, Ten Thousand Snowflakes / Big Wood Paint, Wood Workshop and Bacon Feast / Brother Ru Went to the Appointment, Hope to Abandon Chinese Clothes / Step on the Mud / Yu Zai Qing Shan Study Fuqin Waiting / In the next there is another accusation: Pine Cypress Village / To be self-respecting, not greedy, not flattering / Although the chai door is small, the deep girl / disdainful kitsch / One should / Hope brother comes quickly.

"Look, that's 'Ask the Mountain Paint', the man who crossed the strip is Vincent Paint, the child is Vinson Paint's son" We looked in the direction that Song Na pointed out, a small cabin in the small nest of the mountains, surrounded by bamboo fences, and a child of about two years old riding a small wooden horse under the eaves, enjoying the horse whip.

Vincent Lacquer is a Frenchman who searched for lacquer at the mouth of the city ten years ago and now lives in pine cypress. Vincent Lacquer, slightly thin medium figure, a gray and autumn clothes, feels that it has been worn for a long time, a typical mountain village man's characteristic sloppy style, but also highlights a pair of deep eyes, perhaps the artist is this style. I rarely go out of the mountains, and my knowledge of Europeans comes from movies and novels. Vincent Paint is a far cry from what I think of as a European. "Did you mean to have such a long beard?" I asked curiously. "What a! Too lazy to scrape! "Vincent ... Lacquer replied lazily. The 'Ask Mountain Paint' house is arranged in disorder with Vincent. Lacquer cutting, various utensils of creation, and his dress and matching. It is said that he hated interviews, especially officialdom, which was not conducive to creation, and planned to move away.

Vincent Paint was born in the Toulouse region of southern France. His work has been exhibited around the world, with numerous solo exhibitions in China and France, and his artistic creations are favored by private collectors in France, Italy, Switzerland, the United States and China. Seemingly unpolished, the works all need to be completed by mastering the exquisite ancient Chinese lacquer painting techniques, and in 2007, he moved to Chongqing and officially opened his own studio. Ten years ago, he went to Chengkou for the first time to look for lacquer, and then cooperated with Yang Laosi, a lacquer farmer in Beiping Township, to collect paint every year. In July 2020, by chance, he was found by Song Na and invited to Songbai Village with the support of the local government, and officially settled in "Qingshan Qi" in May 2021.

Vincent Lacquer chased the forest and was obsessed with Chinese lacquer art, so he came to China. He studies lacquer all over the world and loves pine lacquer – its own calmness, texture, brightness, plasticity... Previously, the romance of the French was only heard, but today it is seen and worthy of the name. Because he loved lacquer art, he painted himself over and over again, and even painted his name, changed his name to Vinson lacquer, and called him Vinson lacquer on weekdays. This is not to mention, but also painted his own young son - Xiao Qiqi, said that the best paint in July, named Lacquer Seven. His wife, Xiao Jinrong, couldn't see the spicy taste of Chuan's sister. The son followed his wife's surname, Shaw. I really can't understand the works of Vincent Lacquer, but I can feel the romance of the French, because I love lacquer and paint the whole family over and over again, according to Chinese, a family of three are lacquered tires.

Vincent Qi does not know Chinese characters, but he speaks fluent Chinese and has a Chongqing "hot pot flavor", and he communicates with him very well. He doesn't know Chinese characters, but he has studied Chinese history and culture deeply, especially lacquer culture, which really makes me a Chinese ashamed. When it came to cutting paint, he showed me a video of himself. In the video, a mountain song floated in - the first month is the New Year, Xiao Lang goes to the Paint Mountain, you are playing in the Paint Mountain... February is a trick, Miss Persuasion Petite...

"Cutting paint is very bitter and tired, this year with the big lacquer to learn to cut paint, only cut seven or eight pounds, the lacquer is my life, I like it everything, my dream is to one day can come to a place where you can see the lacquer trees everywhere, you can see the big lacquer, I never give my work a title, once the title, it is like trapping a work in prison, limited to this, I compare the work to a 'butterfly', you have to look for it." Chinese culture is so wonderful that I can't finish it in three lifetimes. "No wonder I can't understand Vincent Lacquer's works, no wonder Song Na has repeatedly emphasized that Songbai Village is a place to accept the 'right people', and suddenly, my waist plate is unconsciously straight, and I feel that Dabashan is polite, personable, and charming...

"In France, we don't have lacquer, we don't produce lacquer, in France, no one uses natural lacquer anymore, it's lost, when I first came to China, I thought it was really difficult to find natural lacquer, let alone cut lacquer, in fact, it's not, there are still many people collecting natural lacquer, it is still needed, it still has vitality, oops! What's even more spectacular is that the sumac tree also has a fine, the fine sumac tree as long as you move the knife to it, it will quickly fall leaves, pretend to be dead, when you no longer move it, and then grow new shoots back to its original state, the lacquer maker said that it is hiding against the tree, are the trees that have become fine. Chinese amazing! Cutting paint is so difficult, while cutting paint, while singing love songs, my heart is always thinking of my sister, more romantic than we French. "Vincent Lacquer talks." Lacquer, your word is very interesting, wood has three points of water, a knife to the left, another knife, the bottom of a water, when you see its glyph, you immediately understand its meaning. "From Vincent Lacquer's conversation, I don't believe he doesn't know Chinese characters.

Vincent Lacquer saw that the lacquer of the pine cypress was like a treasure, and regarded the lacquer as his own life, and we were full of mouths like "palm field, chicken nest land, one side of the water and soil can not feed one side!" "We are fixed on the price of things, and we can't see the value of Daba Mountain. Vincent Lacquer refers to lacquer farmers as "great lacquermakers" and "handsome! Only when you go to cut the paint with the great lacquer maker do you know the preciousness of the lacquer. "And the lacquer maker in our eyes is black and dirty. Looking at Vincent Lacquer's move of reverently learning to cut lacquer with the great lacquer maker, Fang knew what it was to ask the mountain. Every time I knock on The Words of The Moon Paint, my fingertips tremble, is this the cultural difference between China and Europe?

Song Na said that we must distinguish between value and price, and the concept of political achievements and the view of the citizens who blow chaff to see rice is not shallow, and some people want us to engage in ecological art villages, folk courtyards, master villages, and so on, and we have not escaped the logic of blowing chaff and seeing rice. Our concept in Songbai Village is to restore the ecology, the original ecological house is almost demolished, we restore it according to the original ecology, and it is restored by local craftsmen in accordance with local craftsmanship, such as the old bacon in Chengkou is to be processed in the original ecology, and the wooden building is smoked for a long time. The Jokuguchi Fire Pond is different, exactly like the Japanese Fire Pond, and I think the ancestors of the Japanese were the Chengkou (Dabashan) people. How to understand the original production and living conditions in the rural areas of Chengkou? Collection-based, there is a taste of the initial stage of agriculture, if we take the thinking of industrial civilization to understand that it is backward, more ecological, human scarcity what is the best, a pure absolute value with international level, that is, the restoration of nature can not use commercial logic, the pursuit of temporary price realization, and the idea fully reflects the ecological value of Dabashan Mountain. For example, the ecological mine - large wood paint, as long as the large wood lacquer tree is planted in place, the supply is endless, and the non-polluting value will attract enthusiasts from all over the world. Whether it is the way of raw lacquer or the way of honey, many people can't see its value. We began to develop Chinese bee breeding standards, primitive barrels, cut sugar according to the state of the environment, if a family raises dozens of barrels, it is unrealistic, if beekeeping if it is in a hurry, it will go astray, at present we have formulated seven standards, and strive to realize the value of Dabashan Chinese bees. A comprehensive ecological culture of Dabashan requires long-term planning and patient cultivation. You see Vincent Lacquer came with faith, faith in Big Wood Paint. Jian Wenbo stayed in Songbai because of his faith, and put forward the philosophical proposition of asking the mountain, no matter what you do in Daba Mountain, you must ask the "mountain", low investment, no modern engineering thinking, is a cultural accumulation project. Ecological price-oriented cannot be arbitrarily, but value-oriented. I am now key to enlightenment. Pine and cypress farmers are ready to throw away the woodworking tools, and now use them, so that the people know why they should pick them up, how to use the original worthless, through our company, to eat, boo! So good, the pine and cypress farmers are amazed. Through our infiltration, we find our local self-confidence, from familiarity to indifference to awakening, it is particularly important for Chengkou people to fear and cherish their hometown. Ordinary people say that the term of office of cadres in the field is short, politicians are passers-by, and local cadres are very important, not discrimination against foreign cadres, but a reminder of the view of the political performance of foreign cadres. Someone proposed to set up a team of local cultural people, and I supported it, which is conducive to the inheritance of Dabashan culture, but the leader of the group must be the county chief. Why is it important to say that the local area is very important, such as the dialect is also a cultural gene inheritance, is a very fun culture of the People of Chengkou, such as the story of Daba Mountain and so on. Daba Mountain is the Mother Mountain, and Qinling Mountain is the Father Mountain. Immortals can't stop people from thinking about people, true feelings do not like the new and hate the old, say, eat... Pine cypresses will be inadvertently revealed here. Pine cypress lifestyle, very large Daba Mountain original culture.

Song Na said that asking the mountain is a state of mind, a belief, a kind of worship, with a kind of humility, asking what? Everyone's answer is different, as long as you immerse yourself in Daba Mountain, you have an unexpected spiritual washing. Just as I came with arrogance, in Kanda, and crushed my arrogance, why is there a puddle of water in front of The Bunkan Study, that is the scripture scroll of Daba Mountain, I want to chant every day, so ask the mountain is also a practice. Many constructions are disrespectful to Daba Mountain, why not be afraid, the original ecological river has been replaced by a modern river embankment, the fish have no place to live, and people cannot go down the river to play in the water. Love Daba Mountain, close to Daba Mountain, must be Daba Mountain people themselves to recognize the preciousness of Daba Mountain, will cherish, but the reality is often that outsiders will cherish more, because they have never seen such a pristine place. Therefore, we must reflect very thoroughly, restrain our desires, and reconstruct the human order. Attract the right people, our children can not recognize several plants, let the younger generations to understand nature, let them fear nature from an early age. To establish an ecological micro-industrial cluster, we must have the concept that the greatest damage is construction. Deep ploughing of the local, linking the world, the more local the more fashionable, leisurely living in the mountains, but affecting the world. Why Chengkou can be so confident, it is because of the purity of the mountain and the affection of people. Take your local culture to the extreme, and you have the ability to attract the world, otherwise, you will lose yourself and the world. One of the ways we move forward is that most cities have a characteristic, from doing something to doing nothing. The so-called promising, that is, in the intervention in the early stage of the project, we must set the position and do a good job in various demonstrations, including people's emotions and psychological fluctuations, which we have to guide, and then we can let go and grow freely. Because a cell is healthy and can wait for fission. So we are not very panicked, as for what the crack becomes, it is closely related to the seeds we plant, so the most testing thing is the seed stage, whether the seed is good or not, right or wrong, directly determines the result. The reason why we are still relatively calm in each project is because of the confidence in the original intention. If the original intention is not pure enough, or even the blind pursuit of the original intention, it will get worse and worse.

Song Na's thoughts were like a spring, but the twilight snow urged people to leave. My heart was even more snowy, and my brain was cleansed again and again. Thinking about the history, the feudal emperors and rulers are good to ask the mountain when they encounter difficulties, especially to ask Taishan, but they are full of officials. Since ancient times, literati rioters have loved to ask about mountains and splash ink landscapes. And in Daba Mountain, ask the mountain, have to be immersed, ask the fish, insects, birds and beasts, ask the layers of forest and grass mustard, ask the wanxia creek, ask the Yunxia Mountain, ask the strange stone of the qifeng, ask the woodcutter lacquer farmer... When I returned from the mountain, I learned that there were so many spirits living in Daba Mountain- the lacquer maker, the hiding tree, the Chinese bee, the tung tree, the cliff cypress, the sacred tree Buddha cliff, unspeakable, unspeakable, I was ashamed to have laughed at the red prayer flag in Daba Mountain.

Asking the mountain to return, I learned that the Daba Mountain people were "so handsome!" My god,ho my god !”。 I have made a wish under the mountain stone, in the next life I will become a sister, build a log cabin in the pine and cypress lacquer forest, listen to the big lacquer sing the song of the sister, accompany the big lacquer to sprinkle the mountains and rivers, wash and cook for the big lacquer, make a fire for the big lacquer, make the world shout "Good handsome!" My god,ho my god !” The people in the mountains have never felt so decent. Oh, yes! Ask the mountain to ask about the sacredness of Daba Mountain, ask about the decency of the life of the Daba Mountain people, just as Song Na felt that the fire pit of Daba Mountain has an international style. This kind of decency must come from the original kind of humility and simplicity of the Dabashan people. When Chinese honey is infiltrated by the city servants, when the old bacon city servants smoke out, when the traditional forester life of Daba Mountain is mixed up by the city servants, it will be over!

(The author is a member of the Chengkou County Writers Association)