In early spring and February, the spring water gradually blooms and everything is renewed.
Spring has arrived irresistibly. The poet Heine said that what winter took from here will be returned one by one in spring. However, in the nearly three years since the new crown epidemic, many difficulties have not been lifted, and now the Russian and Ukrainian smoke has re-emerged, the situation is uneasy, anxiety, confusion, panic, and many negative emotions are lingering around. We seem to have not waited for a real spring in a long time.
On the first day of March, I walked into Pingwu Impression Merlin for the third time. The first two times, the first time was in the previous year's Waxing Moon to pingwu rural commercial bank Pingtong branch to write the spring league, the second time is before the Spring Festival this year with the Pingtong branch to carry out branch joint construction activities, both in the waxing moon, plum blossoms have not yet opened.
This time, I came again to go to a green plum covenant. Mr. Ran Chongjun, a painter friend who accompanied his hometown, went to Merlin to sketch, just in time for the early spring season when Mei Hong was warm.
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Impression Meilin is located in Pingtong Town, Pingwu County, Mianyang, Sichuan. Today, Guomei has become the town's number one specialty industry. The history of the ancient Qiang people in Pingwu has formed a unique ethnic original ecological culture in the Fujiang River Basin, a migration culture, a Tibetan and Qiangzhai folk custom culture, and also produced the Pingwu Guomei culture. The development of Guomei began in the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and has been more than 1,000 years. Guomei occupies an important position in the life and spiritual level of the people of all ethnic groups in Pingwu. In their hearts, the tenacity of the plum tree, the frost of the plum blossom, and the endless life of the plum are the true portrayal of the ancestors who have survived tenaciously and retained their national characteristics after experiencing the "return of the land" of the feudal ruling class in previous generations, forced Sinicization, war, plague, earthquake and other disasters. Pingwu fruit plum has become an organic part of the farming culture of the Qiang people in the mountains and has been passed down for a long time.
According to reports, the total area of Meilin Scenic Area is more than 11,000 mu, of which there are thousands of mu of ancient plum gardens that are more than 100 years old. There are more than 1 million plum blossoms of various colors with strange shapes and postures, and the age and scale of their ancient plum trees are a wonder in the country. From the beginning of February to the middle of March every year, it is the season of plum blossoms, presenting a spectacular scenery of "10,000 acres of plum garden, ten miles of flowers", and tourists from all walks of life have come to visit.
The winding mountain road into Merlin, thousands of trees and plum blossoms, the mountains are full of wilderness, the beauty is transcendent, the flowers are deep, the vast expanse, the air is filled with the fragrance of grass and trees and sunshine. Being in it is like a drop in the ocean, and the heart is gradually filled with all this.
These plum blossoms are different from the plums we usually see in the park, that is, after the dark fragrance of the cold winter, the plum trees want to bear fruit, that is, green plums that can be boiled.
In early summer, plum rain is brewing, and green plums are hanging from the branches, which are for green plums. Throughout the ages, there have been many allusions related to Qingmei, but the most related to Qingmei is cao Cao in the Three Kingdoms period.
The "New Sayings of the World" records: "Wei Wu lost his way in battle, and the soldiers were thirsty, but the order said: 'Before there was the Great Merlin, Raozi, and the sweet acid could quench the thirst.' 'When the soldier hears it, the mouth comes out of the water, and the source is taken advantage of. Since then, the idiom of "looking for plums to quench thirst" has been left.
There is also a classic scene in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms": during the Three Kingdoms, Dong Cheng dated Liu Bei and other legislators to remove Cao. Liu was suspicious of Cao, and poured water every day to plant vegetables; after Cao heard about it, he set up a bottle: a plate of green plums, a bottle of boiled wine. The two sat facing each other and drank freely. Talk about the heroes of the world. When Cao said, "Heroes of the world, only the king and the ear", Liu Wenzhi was shocked. Fortunately, at that time, there was a thunderclap in the air, and Liu Beiqiao used the thunder to cover up the past, "the power of a shock, and even here", in fact, it covered up his ambition to "embrace the world". Green plum boiled wine, soaked in plum fragrance and wine aroma, but vividly interpreted a sword and light sword shadow.
Every time I go to Merlin, I inevitably have to get drunk, and the drink is naturally plum wine. The farmer's self-brewed plum wine, as clear as amber, blends into the clear fragrance of green plums, a cup into the throat, sweet and sour, fragrant teeth.
Drunk and dreaming, I woke up and suddenly remembered the plums of my hometown. In my hometown, almost every house in front of the yard, there are several fruit trees, loquat trees, pear trees, plum trees, peach trees, grapefruit trees, everything, whenever the fruit trees bloom and bear fruit, the children always secretly look east, west, eagerly waiting for the fruit to ripen.
I remember that there was a plum tree in my family's back mountain, the tree diameter was more than a foot, the pavilion was like a cover, whenever the plums were almost ripe, we would salivate and salivate, sneaking up on the tree to pick fruits to relieve hunger. Among the many fruit trees, plums bloom the earliest, ripen early, yellow skin, tender flesh, crisp and sweet and a little sour to eat, and have a different flavor.
There is also a thick plum tree behind the old house of Fan Dapa's family, under the tree was once a paradise for our bunch of children to scatter wild, when he was a teenager, it was the TV series "Huo Yuanjia" hit, whenever the moon was shining on the night, a group of wild boys were boiling with blood, hanging sandbags on the tree to practice boxing and sanda, green plum boiling wine on heroes, grand and exciting, crossing the mountains and rivers for years...
I don't know what year and month, the plum trees in my childhood memories have disappeared without a trace. In that land, the former childhood friends were scattered one by one.
Wandering among the merlin, the breeze is gentle, the plum blossoms are smiling, and the mountains are green. Boss Chen, who does a homestay in Qiangzhai, introduced that the ecology here is good, pollution-free, sunny enough, and the green plum grows particularly well. In recent years, with the financial support of Pingwu Rural Commercial Bank, the related industries of Qingmei have become bigger and bigger, and have become the famous hometown of fruit and plum. This piece of Merlin has become a spokesperson for the revitalization of Qiangzhai countryside.
Walking among the Merlins, fruit trees swaying with the wind, cooking smoke of Myo Man, clouds in the distant mountains, and occasional chirping birdsong... Waiting for the tranquility of Qiangzhai. In this land of plum blossoms, it is not only the appearance of the village, not only the living standards, but also the laughter and refreshment of the villagers from the bottom of their hearts.
In the Six Notes of Fusheng, it is said that "life is hard, short and long, but it is not a matter of glory and withering, and it is difficult to gain and lose." "Yes, for the time being, let go of all the distractions, meet with the green plum, borrow a breeze, sip a cup of green plum wine, watch the grass and trees flourish, watch the wind and clouds roll and fall into the galaxy, and not be happy in life?!"