I rode my bike to Puyuan
Author: Liu Zuci
On International Women's Day, my wife participated in the District 38 Women's Gateball Tournament, and I went to visit the "Pu Garden" that promotes maternal love.
"Pu Garden", in Yunxi District Jianjun Village Seven-Room Li House Field. It is an ancient village that respects parents, respects the elderly, and has been immersed in filial piety culture for nearly 400 years. In 2010, the Li brothers discussed and used the strength of the whole family to build a Cixiao Cultural Park in Qifang Li to thank their mother and promote filial piety, which was presided over by Mr. Li Yucun and his wife Ms. Yi Yanzhuang. Li Yucun and his wife have been cold and hot for ten years, bathing in wind and rain, from Changsha to Yunxi's hometown dozens of times a year, and finally built a small garden "Pu Garden". The inscription of Wen Xuande, former deputy secretary of the provincial party committee, is "Chinese Mother's Love Garden".
Step on the bicycle, out of Yueyang City, on 107, cross the Taoli Bridge, take the country road, and the spring breeze accompanies me all the way. In the field, a golden rape flower attracts bees and butterflies to collect honey; the purple cloud under the grass of a hill of paddy field blooms purple-red flowers in a low profile. At the edge of the small harbor, weeping willows, beginning to look yellow, happily put on new makeup; the grass on the slope has been lush, and the river has been dyed green. A good sight of early spring.
I greedily admired the countryside scenery, found that there were large and small twin towers in the distance, turned right and right, and arrived at Puyuan. The garden gate is not tall, but the couplet is very impressive. "The water is clean for the home, and the moon is the hometown of Ming." Wanderers who are out and return to their hometown after a long absence must have this feeling. Pushing the cart into the park, it is the side of "Ci En Lu", on the outer wall is the inscription of "Chinese Mother's Love Garden", on the right is the poetry culture wall, and the side door has a joint, which is a true portrayal of maternal love: "Every time you hear the sound of geese leaning on the door, you often suspect that the dog barks is the return of the child." ”
I parked my bike and put my backpack in the "Sando Pavilion", and I wanted to rest for a while. At this time, Wang Dan and several other teachers from District 1 came out of the "Ci'en Lu". I knew that the District Literary Association and the District No. 1 Middle School had participated in the installation of some contents of Puyuan, so I took the initiative to greet them. Because they were going to rush back to school, they left me a copy of "Puyuan Travelogue" and hurried away.
The book "Travelogue of Puyuan" is a book written by more than 80 travelogues written by students after the visit to Puyuan by Yunxi District No. 1 Middle School on October 31, 2021. Different angles, scenes and emotions, flesh and blood... When Mr. Li Yucun was reviewing the manuscript, he was excited by the students' literary talents and gladly wrote the preface.
Next to the "Sando Pavilion", there is a sculpture of "Mother's Love like Heaven", where a kind mother is nursing a young child. It symbolizes that "the melon is stretched and the celebration is boundless". Walk through the path between the green grass in the park, go up four steps, cross the stone threshold, and enter the "Ci En Lu". Facing it is a shrine with portraits on both sides, monuments and stone sculptures below, and a lifelike statue of the mother in the center, placed on a large wooden pier, but it feels a little short. Coincidentally, in less than half an hour, a small car came, two young men carried a piece of square marble from the car, several people helped, cushioned under the statue, and the image of the mother instantly became tall again.
There are four rooms in the room, namely "Ancestors' Relics", which displays the relics of ancestors and family calligraphy and paintings; "This Family", which introduces great-grandfathers, grandfathers, parents and brothers and sisters; "Filial Piety Wenhui", which exhibits books and twenty-four filial piety pictures of maternal love and filial piety; and "Cixiao Yunxi", which collects stories about filial piety in Yunxi District. There are some objects that I have seen; there are people that I know, some books that I have read, and some stories that I understand. During the visit, some of these contents made me admire, some made me move, some made me meditate, and all of them were educated.
The eight brothers and sisters of the Li family are all the materials of the pillars, just like the eight green pines in the garden. But I remembered that the names were only Mai village, Dao village and fishing village, and I only knew Mr. Li Daocun. Mr. Inamura has served as the leader of the Municipal Party Committee Office, the Policy Research Office and the United Front Work Department in the city, and has had contacts in his work. After I retired to live in the city, I studied at the University of the Elderly and had the honor of joining the Municipal Literary Association for the Elderly. The Elderly Literature Association was founded by Mr. Inamura and Mr. Zhang Buzhen, a famous first-class writer in the country, and others, and he served as the executive vice president. Every year, he has more contact with literary lectures, collections, editing the magazine "Dongting Autumn Leaves", and various conferences.
After his retirement, Mr. Inamura wrote and published a collection of poems and essays, and gave me a copy of "Red Rain and Green Mountains - A Collection of Essays on Prose". His versatility, dedication and spirit of excellence are my role models.
In a row of partial houses on the right side of "Ci'en Lu", the firewood in the earth stove is flourishing, and the cooking smoke is rising, blending with the white clouds in the blue sky. A neighboring family of four is busy cooking and preparing Chinese food for Linxiang guests. At less than ten o'clock, more than 30 female comrades from the Linxiang Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau (accompanied by several male compatriots) came to visit and study in Puyuan. They visited very carefully inside and out, and even the "Travels of Puyuan" in my district one was carefully circulated and photographed. All said, this festival is very meaningful.
Coming out of Puyuan, not far from Wen Jiachong, was the birthplace of Liu Huang, who had served as a soldier in Taiwan, and Li Shuchen, a great-grandfather of the Li clan, served as the chief writer of Liu Huang's account and assisted in the conquest of the north and south. On the way back, cycling through the "Pingtian Arch", which was The Lady Laishi, the mother of Liu Zhaomei, the head of the Qing Household Department, because of the strict management of the family, careful godson, filial piety to the in-laws, and many good deeds, the Guangxu Emperor decreed that the arch was sealed and built for it. More than ten kilometers to the north, the hometown of Yang Yipeng, the Shangshu of the Ming Household Department, also tells the story of Yang Yipeng's filial piety to his parents, and his descendants have inherited the good family style of filial piety from their ancestors and have become typical of the whole country. Mr. Li Yucun also created and published a long historical novel "Daming Shangshu Yang Yipeng".
Yunxi District's family rules and family training into the Ten Thousand Families activity, won the commendation of the Central Propaganda Department. Li's "Puyuan", as the "Filial Piety Cultural and Education Base of Yunxi District", will play a positive role in promoting the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation.
About the Author
Liu Zuci is a member of the Yueyang Poetry Association and the Yuelian Association, and the Yueyang Elderly Literature Association, and his works have appeared in newspapers, magazines and the Internet.
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