From the opening of jun porcelain to the flowering of sesame seeds

Text/Liu Yanqing

Two years ago, I followed the Henan Provincial EssayIst Collection Team to Yuzhou City in Xuchang to participate in a PEN meeting, where I was very happy to hear the sound of Jun porcelain opening pieces. This time, I came to Pingyu in Zhumadian and heard the sound of sesame blossoms here. This is not only the amazement of Henan's characteristic counties, but also the blessing of our miscellaneous literati.

In my opinion, the opening of jun porcelain is a sound of life blossoming. Mr. Ma Weidu, a famous collector, said that authentic jun porcelain can last for 60 years, and listening to it once is enough to make people unforgettable.

There are many people who like porcelain, but some things will be overlooked by us, such as not many people who specifically calm down to listen to the sound of porcelain opening. Many people can't think of it and can't achieve it, because the rise from the material level to the spiritual level is not achieved overnight. Jun porcelain opening is a kind of natural sound, but also a kind of artistic conception, is unattainable.

Equally stunning and breathtaking is the sound of sesame blossoms heard in Pingyu this time.

From Yuzhou to Pingyu, from jun porcelain to sesame blossoming, the same kind of natural sound, the same kind of artistic conception, the same unattainable, are a kind of pursuit and yearning for artistic life, quality life, are a kind of precious and beautiful life.

Pingyu County has been focusing on telling sesame stories and Pingyu stories well over the years, so that everyone in the wind collection group has a deep feeling. Everyone has a new understanding of the sesame seeds here, and re-acquaints themselves with Pingyu through the small sesame seeds. Whether it is in the endless 10,000 acres of sesame planting base in Chenji Village, or in the sesame processing workshop of Kangbo Huixin Co., Ltd., or the unforgettable blue sky sesame town, as well as the sesame culture museum, it is refreshing and shocking.

What is the sound of sesame blossoming? Not to feel the damp heat and sweat in the sesame place in the hot summer season, but to precipitate this sea of flowers into a hazy poem, interpreting a shy and romantic love story with flowers flying; it is a cluster of sesame flowers swaying in the summer wind, shaking out white pollen, filling the dimples of the girl's infatuation, so that the drops of dew that jump out of the flower buds, moisturizing the eyes of the flower appreciators, and then retaining this beautiful feeling; it is the perfect combination of beautiful nostalgia and romantic public opinion and warm public opinion, so that the White Sesame Museum comes out of the sesame old street. So that the warmth and fragrance of sesame flowers "fly into the homes of ordinary people".

There should be many sesame planting bases in the country, and there are many people who love to eat sesame food, and the difference of Pingyu is that coming here can make more people willing to walk into the origin of white sesame seeds, walk into the sesame museum, approach the big sesame growers, and calm down to listen to the sound of sesame blossoms.

More than 30 years ago, when I was teaching at Nanyang Grain School, a girl from the countryside of Pingyu told me that her favorite flower was the sesame flower, and she loved to listen to the sound of sesame blossoms. Although at that time, this classmate and I were relatively young, lacking the polishing of life and social experience, and the understanding of sesame blossoming was still on the surface, but I had vaguely felt the poetry and beauty.

After several days of field investigation, I seemed to have had an epiphany after several days of field investigation and exchanges and studies with people from all walks of life in Pingyu. I saw the spirit of sesame seeds on the land of pingyu that urged people to be motivated, not afraid of difficulties, and bravely pursuing happiness and a better life. Pingyu is constantly excavating and enriching this connotation and spirit of sesame seeds, and inheriting and innovating. A few years ago, Xinzheng's good thoughts of your jujube and Zhengzhou's miss dumplings, not also like Pingyu sesame, relying on a culture and spirit, to create a well-known brand that matches the long history?

Following the "ecological pingyu", "rich pingyu", "healthy pingyu" and "civilized pingyu", Pingyu sesame has come out of the thousand-year-old farming culture, blooming out of the brilliant colors of the new era, and in the season of sesame blossoms, the "warm pingyu" and "romantic pingyu" that took the lead in appearing were about to come out.

Because, as soon as you see sesame seeds in Pingyu, the spring tide will surge in your heart, and you will naturally see poetry and far away.