"Yicheng" offered her mother a cup of Yangtze River water

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Offer your mother a glass of Yangtze River water

Author/Liu Wenjie

Recitation/Song Weidong

The light blue water of the Yangtze River replaced the yellow Yellow River water, and the female writer who collected the wind in the big wave diandian looked at the blue water with eyes like blue satin, and the style was remarkable to come to the water's edge, shake off the fluffy hair, lean down, with the most beautiful posture, the most pious hands to squeeze a handful of cold Yangtze River water, the winter noonday sun projected into a bunch of blue water, reflecting the beautiful writer's good smile and sweet eyes, cool and cool water in the kiss on the warm lips, the golden ring between the fingers was melted by the sun, Drops of stars transform into sapphires as they drip and melt into the blue satin-like waters of the Yangtze River.

▲ Photography by Liu Wenjie

At this time, if the mother is still alive, she will definitely lean down without scruples, also hold up the cool Yangtze River water and drink it all, stretch her brows, smile and bend her eyes, "Sweet, really sweet!" ”

I should offer my mother a glass of Yangtze River water

Standing on the Qingming Bridge in his hometown and looking west, in front of you is the Taihang Mountain Range, the main peak of Wufeng Mountain located on the west side of Shijiazhuang City. The white "snow hats" of winter eventually melt into ice water and the abundant ganlin of the rainy season, and then overflow from the stone gaps together, rushing down the mountainside of the Taihang Mountains, forming a lingling clear stream, which flows through years of trickles into the fertile river of the hometown - the Huan River.

My family has lived on the north bank of the River for generations, and the village has a nickname "Little Hebei". The village is surrounded by clear water, the ponds in the east, west, south and north are flooded, and the clear stream of a bay meanders from south to north, and the small village is beautiful because of the moisture of the water.

My mother often said, "Our land is small, but the soil is fertile and sweet, and the grain grown is good." Whenever my mother was thirsty, whether it was hot or cold, she would scoop a scoop of raw water into the jar and pour it down, "Sweet, so sweet!" "Mother has been guarding her acres and three-quarters of land for many years, and whenever the gushing clear stream floods the green wheat fields, her clear eyes are full of happiness.

After graduating from college, his father was assigned to work in Cangzhou and persuaded his mother to reunite in Cangzhou, which was in the early sixties, and the edge of the bitter sea was a true portrayal of Cangzhou, full of saline and alkali land, and desolate fields everywhere. The bumps along the way, the roasting of the poisonous and spicy sun, the mother who had just entered the house hurriedly picked up the teapot on her father's desk and scooped it into the barrel, "What does the water taste like?" A mouthful of brackish water extinguished my mother's hope of settling in Cangzhou. After returning to the village, my mother said to everyone, "The water in Cangzhou is really bitter and salty." Or the water in our village is good, ten winter waxing moon, drinking a scoop of well water will not make a stomach."

Until the 1980s, as we grew older, the imminent work problems of our children had to make their mothers abandon their homeland, and the family came to Cangzhou, a lion city, and came to live in the south courtyard of the office on the west bank of the canal. When my mother saw the canal water for the first time in front of her new home, she was both kind and happy, "as soon as I go out, I can see such a big river"!

But the drinking water of cangzhou people for generations is inseparable from the bitterness of salinity: shallow water is bitter and salty, and deep water is highly fluoride is a constant memory for thousands of years. Whenever I unscrewed the tap and drank cold water, my mother always said, "It's hard to drink." There is no hometown water sweetness". At this time, I wanted to pick a jar of sweet water from my hometown for my mother, but storing a jar of sweet water was only a distant luxury. A few years later, when the water of the Yellow River filled the big waves, flowed to the canal, and flowed to her own black-glazed vat, her mother had long since passed away, and she had not been able to drink the sweet water she longed for.

The brackish water in Cangzhou did not affect the crazy growth of children and nephews, there was the feeding of chicken, duck and fish, the nourishment of milk, and everyone grew into a handsome boy of more than one meter and eight meters. The cheerful smile of the nephews, the feminine smile of the nieces, the fluorosis teeth that highlight the regional characteristics, just like the qin color of the surface of the white jade, the slight flaws of the white jade. To this end, the niece who loves beauty is more shy when she smiles, and she is always angry about fluorosis, so the nature of loving beauty is so that nieces and MM think of dental beauty, and even children and nephews follow close behind and join the ranks of dental beauty.

At the end of the 1996 old calendar, when people were busy preparing supplies for the New Year, the long-awaited Yellow River flowed into the meandering canal. The water of the Yellow River like sand and dust attracts vehicles and pedestrians on both sides of the canal to stop, people are curious and excited to call for relatives and friends, and the desire for the yellow river water in their hearts burns in everyone's eyes and writes on everyone's hot face. While moisturizing the thirsty lion city land, the life-saving water also took care of his father's heart, and when he lit an incense fire for his mother, his father specially placed a bowl of cool Yellow River sweet water in front of his mother's portrait.

In more than a decade, Cangzhou, like other cities in the north, has become one of the areas with extreme water shortage. The Yellow River mother has no longer the youth and vitality of the past, the phenomenon of interruption of the flow has long been common, the source of life of the Yellow River mother is difficult to benefit all sentient beings, and the surging milk that nourishes the descendants of Yan Huang is no longer abundant...

The south-to-north water diversion makes the thirsty eyes of the Lion City no longer look through, so that the cracked land in the north can also drink the clear Ganlin of the Yangtze River, and the billowing Water of the Yangtze River came to the Lion City overnight, and the clear and bright flow into the meandering canal and flowed into my home.

I should offer my mother a glass of Yangtze River water!

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Author of this issue

Liu Wenjie

He is a member of Hebei Photographers Association, Cangzhou Photographers Association, Cangzhou Writers Association, and Cangzhou Poetry Association. His photographic works are often adopted by newspapers and periodicals or selected for provincial and municipal film festivals, and have won many awards. In the lens, there are not only the splendid rivers and mountains of the motherland, but also the morning bell and twilight drum of Cangzhou and the rapid changes. Essays and essays are scattered in newspapers and periodicals, and there is a collection of poems "Folding Willows in the Qingming Bridge". He is currently working in the office of Cangzhou Transportation Bureau.

Anchor of this issue

Song Weidong

(Ode to God)

He is currently a professional member of the Language Arts Committee of the Chinese Culture Promotion Association; High Commissioner of China Recitation Alliance; Observer and Propaganda Director of Cangzhou National Reading Promotion Association; He is a member of Hebei Lang Association, a member of Shanghai Recitation Association, a member of Cangzhou Lang Association, and a national art director of CCTV Aihua China Good Voice. He won the first place in the second "King of Recitation" competition of the China Recitation Alliance.