I love this lively world
Wen 丨 Chen Faithful
The car drove out of the east gate of the ancient city of Xi'an, and soon entered the hinterland of the Guanzhong Plain, which was as deep as the sea. The season has just turned in May, and the wheat with flowers in the ear is endless, and in front of you are the tender drops of densely knotted wheat leaves and ears of wheat, which appear blue a little farther away. Looking at the distance, it is a magnificent and deep atmosphere that makes people's hearts tremble. Crossing the Weihe River in the east, the Weibei Plateau with cascading fields and mountains faintly presents a unique style in the gray clouds and thick fog, no matter the steep slope, no matter the soothing slope, it is covered with green wheat, so broad and deep, and so stretched and soft, it is impossible to imagine the destruction and desolation of only two months ago, and suddenly the magic of the Loess Plateau is deeply revealed.
My mood has long stretched out and rejoiced, but not entirely because of the green dyeing and stirring of Manchuan Manhara, but also because of a very tempting expectation hidden in my heart, I am about to visit the "River Continent" where the "lady" lived and fell in love more than 2,000 years ago. To be precise, when my friends met a few days ago, my heart was eagerly looking forward to seeing the mysterious "In the River Continent".
When I was a teenager, I first read the song that was called China's first love poem in the middle school Chinese textbook. Without the supervision of the Chinese teacher, I will remember it as soon as I recite it, and I will never forget it. "Guan Guan Ju Dove, in the River Continent; Lady, Gentleman is good." Xu is a unique sensitivity of his youth, not very interested in that good gentleman, and even has inexplicable rebellious jealousy, what kind of gentleman can win the love of that lady? In the River Continent, on which piece of yerba buena by which river, there was once a lady who had been recited for eternity and beautiful love poems? The mysterious and holy "In the River Continent" has survived in my heart.
Later, I heard that this love song was produced in the Weibei Plateau, but I did not dare to believe it completely, thinking that it was just a legend, and there were too many historical legends in the Weihe Plain. Until my friend asked me out, he told me conclusively and concretely that in The River Continent, that is, qiachuan in Heyang County, Weibei Plateau, this was the university inquirer Mr. Zhu Xi's old man who demonstrated and surveyed. Zhu Xi's "Guan Ju" in the "Biography of the Collected Poems" and the commentary of "Daya Daming" have evidence of "in Qia Zhiyang, in Wei Zhi Eh", and even more "Qia, the name of the water, originally in present-day Tongzhou Yangxiayang County", indicating the specific direction that cannot be doubted. Yang is today's Heyang County, in the 1950s also used ancient characters as the name of the county, and later for the sake of simplicity, the right ear was cut and omitted, and Yang County became the common Heyang County today. Qiashui is thrown into the Yellow River in Heyang County, and the beach in this Yellow River road is called Qiachuan in ancient times, which is the "continent in the river" that has made first love men and women dream for thousands of years. I am now running to the mysterious and holy meadow.
In the distance, I saw the Yellow River. The Yellow River clings to the roots of the cliffs of rolling hills, gushing quietly and silently. The Yellow River rushed out of Yumen, and then rushed out of the Jinshan Grand Canyon, and only here was it relaxed, gentle, and also needed lyrical whispering, shaking down heavy sediment, giving birth to the rich and beautiful river island of the Weibei Plateau. It is an oasis that makes one feel the tremor of the heart at a glance, and suddenly feels ashamed of the narrowness and limitations of the imagination. Here the frank and open spread green reeds, the left look does not see the edge, the right side does not see the edge, along the Yellow River is also decorated with the Yellow River there are more than 30,000 acres, the green of the reeds contains the weather, in the first sight of people feel a huge shaking and tremor. I stood on the slope and could not say a word for a long time, the "in the river continent" that Fang had been lurking in his heart since he was a teenager was completely inferior to the magnificence of the actual Qiachuan.
The reeds were growing to the height of mine, brushed together, green and shiny, and the wide leaves were embroidered with a layer of furry white hair, pure enough to be dusty. As I wandered down the grass-paved path in the reeds, I could feel the breath of the reeds in adolescence. I naturally thought of the lady with the posture of a lady, perhaps hoeing grass in the wheat field, picking mulberry leaves in the mulberry trees, listening to the birdsong in the reeds, the veins of the plateau and the charm of the Qiachuan reeds, giving birth to a strong and strong posture and a free and refreshing texture, which would make the beloved King Wen of Zhou fall in love at first sight and fall in love.
I secretly laughed at my own ignorance and frivolity when I was a teenager, but the gentleman who was good was king Wen of The Western Zhou, and there were gentlemen there who could be called gentlemen more than him! A king courted a folk woman who was hoeing wheat and picking mulberries to raise silkworms, and in this reckless and lush reed, he left the love poem at the beginning of the Book of Poetry, which lingered in the lake of emotions of every descendant of this nation, nourished for more than 2,000 years, and still chanted and tasted, becoming an eternity.
It was raining. The reeds are white and the rain mist is overwhelming, and the whistle of the rain hitting the reed leaves like a sea of mountains and waves hits people's chests. When I walked to an open field in the reeds, I saw a spectacle, in a very large pond, there were dozens of people playing in the water, men and women, mostly young people, and there were also elderly people with loose hair. In the Weibei Plateau during this month, it was raining heavily, the temperature was not more than ten degrees, and those people were playing in the pond only in swimsuits, which seemed incredible. This is a hot spring, the famous virgin spring, which has flowed from about the time King Wen courted the folk ladies to this day.
The hot spring steamed with white water vapor, like a boiling cauldron, and a ball of warm and moist water vapor filled the surrounding reeds, like a fairy mirror. The people of Qiachuan have obtained this pond of good water, winter and summer can enjoy bathing, since ancient times formed a custom, the eve of a woman's marriage, must be a virgin spring purification, it is really picturesque. This hot spring in Qiachuan has a strange special Chinese character in ancient books- 瀵. Gushing out from the ground, rushing up the sand and rubbing the bather's skin, it is far more wonderful than the ultra-luxurious facilities of the modern bathroom. In Qiachuan, there are many such springs, as thin as ant nests and as large as wheels. There are vivid and specific depictions in various texts such as the Notes on the Water Classics. Now it is a good place for tourists from all over the world to taste or enjoy the sand wave bath.
This must be the most wonderful hot spring I have ever seen, and it must be the most spectacular and magnificent reed swing I have ever seen, and the creation of the Weibei Plateau, which is rainy and arid, has given such a charming green space and a pond of good water, which is precious. I have experienced the poetic beauty of lotus ponds and reeds in Sun Li's novel prose, and I recently saw the crisis of drying up in the media, and I could not help but strangle my wrists; from the Peking opera "Sha Jiabang", I know that Jiangnan has a breath to hide the reeds of the New Fourth Army. The reeded wetland beach is known as the lungs of the earth. Needless to say, everyone knows its indispensable function for human survival.
I was glad that in the Qiachuan River on the Yellow River beach, the reeds were thriving, the hot springs were gushing, and modern ladies and modern gentlemen were acting on this square grass.
Chen Zhongzhong was the vice chairman of the China Writers Association and the honorary chairman of the Shaanxi Writers Association. He is the author of "Mr. Blue Robe", "Early Summer", "Trust", "Farewell to the White Dove" and many other works. He has won important national awards such as "National Excellent Short Story Award" and "National Excellent Reportage Award", and "White Deer Plain" won the fourth "Mao Dun Literature Award".