Sanqin Literature Micro-journal ID: sanqinwenxue
Don't forget the original heart Dream in Sanqin
Leisurely nostalgia Memories of the times
——"Trilateral Folk Culture Experience Park" is recorded
Author: Su Yazhong
In Jinggu Town, Jingbian Town, a trilateral region of northern Shaanxi, there is a folk experience garden that shows the agricultural life of the 1960s and 1970s. The experience park is located at the foot of the west mountain of the ancient town, the architectural style is mainly based on the Loess Plateau cave dwellings, although the scale is not very large, but the items displayed are complete and numerous. There are farming tools, daily necessities, cultural relics, folk relics, etc., which comprehensively show the production and living conditions of the three-sided area at that time, providing a good platform for people to understand and experience the life of that era.
Zhenjing Town is located in the northern foothills of Baiyu Mountain, upstream of the Wuding River, 8 kilometers south of Jingbian County, and is a typical Loess Plateau area. In the 1930s, Zhenjing was once the seat of Jingbian County, and now there are ruins such as the Ancient Great Wall, Zhongshan Terrace, and North City Gate. Zhenjingbao City was originally built by Li You, the envoy of Tang Xia Prefecture, Zhenjing City was also known as Wuyan City, and the passage from Tang Chang'an to Xia Prefecture passed through the city. In the east of the city, there are Lujing Lake eco-tourism area, water tourism, ecological agricultural plantations, mountain resorts, and in the west of the city, there are Jingbian County patriotic education bases - Bai Wenhuan Memorial Hall and Hui zhongquan former residence. Zhenjing Ancient City is an important place for Jingbian history, culture and ecological tourism.
Entering the garden, the first thing that comes into view is the group statue of the iconic "Animal Spirit" caravan, which reminds people of the popular northern Shaanxi folk song: the mule who walks at the head of the three lamps, the bell that carries the bell yo wow wow that sound...
The exhibition room is mainly based on physical display and graphic explanations, accompanied by audio and video scene reproduction display, giving people the feeling of traveling through time and space and being immersed.
It is a land full of attention and full of magic, but also a land full of hope. Xiao Gu HuJia of Tongwancheng, wolf smoke iron horse of the Trilateral Camp (Jingbian Camp, Anbian Camp, Dingbian Camp); a bowl of chopped soba noodles mixed with the flavors of Saiwai (grassland) and the Central Plains, a high-pitched Xintianyou from ancient times to the present, singing the joys and sorrows of the trilateral people, singing the expectations and pursuits of the trilateral people for a better life. From guarding the border to the shubian, from ruling the border to the xingbian, today's three sides, the mountains and rivers do not smell the smoke and drums, the people are no longer poor, it is a scene of wealth and prosperity.
Here, a party has retained the endless past; here, it records the change of a civilization that lasts for thousands of years; here, a real picture of the agricultural civilization outside Cyprus, and the life of the rural years of an era is reproduced. Here, the journey of the ancestors is recorded, the light of the wisdom of the predecessors is reflected, the inspiration for the creation of future generations is enlightened, and the blood of civilization inheritance is connected.
Farming tools – memories of a difficult survival
"Water after mountain, catch up with the mule on three sides." There are three treasures in the three sides, salt fur yo sweet licorice." The three sides (Jingbian, Dingbian, Anbian) belong to the transitional zone of the Loess Plateau and the Maowusu Desert in northern Shaanxi. Yulin (Yansui) has been a major military aircraft center in the nine sides and eleven towns since ancient times, and the three sides have become the key points of the border because of their unique geographical location, which can be described as the top priority. The cultures of different ethnic groups in history have intersected and integrated here, thus forming a unique and colorful trilateral regional cultural landscape. All year round, from spring ploughing and summer cultivation to autumn harvest and winter hiding, sunrise and rest, difficult survival life. In ancient times, the three sides were mainly based on farming and nomadism, creating many tools and methods of production and life, and blooming the spark of wisdom of the people on the three sides.
The physical display of farming tools is divided into four seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter. Spring ploughing includes step ploughs, scoops, dung buckets, hammer heads, shovels, shovels, gang ploughing, etc.; xia yun has scythes, hoes, earthen carts, and sheep shearing; in autumn harvests, there are sickles, grain hammers, chopping sickles, gourds, flails, wooden hammers, buckets, windmills, etc.; in winter, there are sacks, stone mills, stone mills, wooden cabinets, willow weaving holes, and paper cylinders. It comprehensively displays the basic tools for agricultural production and labor in the trilateral areas.
Everyday necessities - the pursuit of a better life
The changes and progress of food, clothing, shelter and transportation have decorated the history of human civilization with colorful colors. From the original grass-clad animal skins to the colorful neon feathers, from the ru mao drinking blood to the delicious cuisine with full color and fragrance, from the chiseled nest to the modern architecture of carved beams and paintings, from the shoulders to the ever-changing carriages, horses and boat bridges. Here, witness the history of the Loess Plateau Cangsang, telling the changes in the lives of the people on all sides.
Sunrise and sunset, spring planting and autumn harvest, in this land inhabited by ethnic groups, the people of Han, Mongolian and Hui nationalities continue to multiply, live, work, and create, leaving behind many precious memories of life, through understanding and understanding, prompting viewers to pursue a new and beautiful life.
The display of daily necessities is classified according to clothing, food, housing and transportation.
The three sides belong to the Loess Plateau region of northern Shaanxi. Before liberation, most of people's clothes were made of rough native cloth. Men wear cardigans in summer and cotton jackets or leather pants sewn from sheepskin in winter. Women wear plackets and buttons on the upper and lower armpits in winter and summer. Both men and women pay attention to wide and loose clothes, unfettered. Men wear white sheep belly hand towels or wear felt hats on their heads, women wear handkerchiefs or towels, and their feet wear hard cloth shoes, all year round, except for wearing woolen socks or cotton socks in winter, they basically do not wear socks. In the early 1960s, the clothing was mainly based on municipal cloth, ka-chi, hua dani, and velvet. After the 1970s, chemical fiber clothing such as polyester, polyester card, polyester and so on began to be popularized, and people's clothing has undergone great changes. From warmth to beauty and beauty, all kinds of fashionable clothing are widely popular.
There are old leather jackets, leather pants, felt shoes, walking shoes, wool socks, two-fur fur coats, and sheep belly hand towels.
Before the 1980s, the trilateral staple food was yellow rice (i.e., millet), millet, and soba noodles, supplemented by corn, white noodles, rice, and beans. Side dishes are mainly potatoes and cabbage (cabbage is stored in winter by pickling). Meat is mostly eaten with pork and mutton. Eating habits: three meals a day, breakfast is mostly millet porridge, boiled potatoes. Eat more yellow rice and boiled cabbage at noon. Dinner is mostly rice soup mixed with fried noodles or Japanese porridge. Cooking is not delicate, eat the whole bowl of meat. Local snacks include fried cakes, soba dumplings, soba minced noodles, soba pancakes, cold powder, yellow rice steamed buns, miscellaneous noodles, etc.
People on all sides have always liked to drink, and whenever relatives and friends get together or encounter red and white things, they must set up a table to drink, guess fists and sing songs, and get drunk as fast. Hence the saying "drinking to get drunk".
Food includes chopped soba noodles, soba noodle dumplings, soba noodle dumplings, miscellaneous noodles, cold powder, fried cakes, pickled sauerkraut, eight bowls, potato rubbing, churning and so on.
There are earthen cave dwellings, brick and wood structure houses, and earthen kang.
Before the 1970s, people lived in the three-sided areas of northern Shaanxi, with many flat-roofed houses with civil structures living in jiantan, mostly with 3 rooms as a unit. Indoor masonry kang, kang on the mat, felt, etc. Mountain people chisel caves along the mountain and live in cave dwellings. Generally, 3 holes are used as a courtyard, leaving a door, for one entry and three openings, and the wooden checkered windows are three sides and the loess plateau in northern Shaanxi.
The three sides have a unique geographical location, ancient border plugs, high mountains and dangerous roads, desert stretches, and traffic travel is very inconvenient. In ancient times, there were Qin Straight Road and Xiazhou Road in the north and south. The Qin Straight Road starts from Xianyang in the south, runs north along the Meridian Ridge, enters Jingbian from Ansai, crosses the whole territory of Hengshan Mountain, and reaches Baotou in Inner Mongolia. Xiazhou Dao was an important military passage from Chang'an to Xiazhou in the Tang Dynasty. From Chang'an in the south, entering through Yan'an and Ansai, passing through LuziGuan, wearing the four major clams to Zhenjing, and going out of the gate to Reach Tongwancheng. There is Suijing Road in the east and west, suide in the east, and enters the territory of Dingbian County through Qingyang Fork, Tiger Brain, Zhenjing, and Lemon Liang, and leads directly to Ningxia. The main means of transport are long-distance transport by animal power or horse-drawn carriages, and short-distance transportation by human backs or ox carts. People who travel far away are generally riding donkeys, horses, and mules.
Cultural relics - the yearning of spiritual civilization
Culture is a long river with a long history. Culture is the soul of a nation and will never be extinguished.
The culture of northern Shaanxi has the uniqueness of the Loess Plateau region and is an important part of the excellent history and culture of the Chinese nation. The trilateral culture is a typical representative of the border Culture in northern Shaanxi. In the long years, generations of people on all sides have multiplied and lived in this land, passing on the regional culture from generation to generation, and leaving the nostalgia that is difficult to give up in their hearts.
Cultural relics include northern Shaanxi folk songs Xintianyou, traditional minor tunes, revolutionary folk songs, rice songs, wine songs, northern Shaanxi storytelling, and three-sided nursery rhymes; traditional musical instruments in northern Shaanxi, three strings; folk arts such as paper-cutting, rice songs, paper crafts, and willow weaving.
Folk relics – the source of regional culture
In the vast treasure house of Chinese folk culture, which is like a sea of smoke and brilliant stars, the folk culture of northern Shaanxi is like a shandan dan flower rooted in the Loess Plateau, which is beautiful but not vulgar, charming but not demon, blooming alone. For thousands of years, the ancestors have formed various customs and habits in this land, formed the soul of the national culture of northern Shaanxi, and created a folk culture with the characteristics of the loess region in northern Shaanxi, which has been continuously inherited and carried forward.
Traditional folk customs include running donkeys, overlord whips, and ergui wrestling. Red folklore media, housekeeper, engagement, marriage, listening. The folk customs of baishi include sending the end, mourning, entering the funeral, wearing filial piety, offering sacrifices, funerals, repeating three, and offering seven. Folk craftsmen include craftsmen, stonemasons, carpenters, blacksmiths, mule smiths, divine smiths, oil smiths, painters, feltsmiths, and masons.
The whole exhibition room is like a trilateral folklore history book, recording a period of past of folk culture life in the trilateral region, telling people about the hard years of the Loess Plateau, not forgetting history, and cherishing today.
Nostalgia is a bowl of water, nostalgia is a glass of wine, nostalgia is a cloud, nostalgia is a lifetime. Nostalgia is the endless reproduction and labor of the yellow land, and nostalgia is a piece of family that the ancestors lost on the three sides of the earth and created with wisdom. Keep the nostalgia, keep that distant memory...
Reminisce about farming and treasures through the road of time, watch folk customs and see intangible cultural heritage to feel the local customs.
Walk through the years, walk through history, walk through this affectionate yellow land. From ancient ruins to modern civilization, the value of things does not lie in themselves, but in the national history and culture it carries.
May we reap the rewards from now on, revere life, and love life.
(Illustrations in the text are from the Internet)
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Author Profile
Su Yazhong
A native of Jingbian, Shaanxi, he has worked as a teacher and a soldier, and is now a journalist. Enjoys reading books and writing photography. He has published a large number of news articles and literary works in newspapers and periodicals such as "People's Liberation Army Daily", "Gansu Daily", "Shaanxi Rural Daily", "Yulin Daily", "Northern Shaanxi", "Wuding River", "China Prose Network", "China Poetry Network", "Western Prose Selection" and other newspapers and periodicals. He is a director of the Yulin Trilateral Photographers Association, a member of the Yulin Poetry Association, and a member of the Western China Prose Literature Society.