Text/Liu Qingde
In Quanzhuang Town, Yishui County, Huangcaogu is also known as "Huangcaoding", if you surround the winding cement road built in the middle of the gu, turn around, the top of the gu is different from other qungu, "blue stone hat" is the end, only to see the 2 strange stones standing on the south side of the top, there is a state of south tilt, it seems to have the tendency to fall. Odd? How does the folk call Huangcaogu? Recently, Mr. Li Cunxiu, a famous traveler at home and abroad, who has traveled to nearly 100 major states around the world and traveled throughout China's 31 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, plans to compile a book "Yimeng Baigu" and invite the author to climb several gu and write several articles on gu.
On a day when the acacia flowers are fragrant, start climbing the Yellow Grass Valley.
Huangcaogu is located 5 kilometers west of Quanzhuang Town Government, 588 meters above sea level, Gunan slope, residents of Xiqipan Village, Gubei slope, residents of Kangjiaquan Village, I climbed Kangjiaquan Road, from the north slope up, Kangjiaquan is my dream haunted village, is my grandmother's village, the road is my familiar road, the road is my familiar road, the road next to the small courtyard, red tile stone wall, the courtyard outside, the plant toon trees are thick and tall, toon is Yimeng Mountain, the unique edible leaf tree species, the young buds are fragrant, can be fried, flooded, fried eggs, every toon bud season From the south to the north, hawkers enter the village to buy, and the trafficking in foreign lands is very profitable.
Huang Caogu, when I was a teenager, from my grandmother's house, climbed once, when I was young and active, energetic, climbing hundreds of meters high, not to mention, I remember climbing at that time, the gusgrass was bare, occasionally there were a few wild yellow flowers blooming in the wild grass, I imitated the protagonist Pan Dongzi in the movie "Shining Red Star", picking the mirror piece of the red flower in the mountain, the person climbed to the top of the mountain, and in his hand he picked a large handful of wild yellow flowers, and even jumped to the top of the mountain, and ran to the top of the valley, and came to the top of the mountain, and the fire was swept away, except for the weeds, there was no other scenery, Only a few lumps of bluestone stood alone, and there were finger-thick locust saplings, tied with a few small branches, hanging from the leaves of the locust tree.
I turned to the north, looked down the hill, and vaguely saw the village of My Grandmother's family, behind the east house was a large walnut tree, like a huge green umbrella, shaded from the sun, My Grandmother and my mother and my second aunt and concubines were doing needlework at the bottom of the shoe, and the grandfather who was responsible for guarding the mountain forest climbed up to the weir in front of his home, and put his hand on the blindfold to look at me, without telling Grandpa, I climbed the top, he must have cared about the saplings he cared for, afraid that someone would steal home and feed the cattle and sheep.
More than 40 years later, climbing again, the mood is very different, the teenager is improvised and greedy, this time with questions and tasks. Turning from a fork in the winding road, this place was once inhabited by a household surnamed Ma, you may wish to call it Ma Jialiang! The young climber climbed from the mountain beam in the west, which was inhabited by the grandmother's family, as well as the surnames Zhu, Song and Ma. Grandma and Grandpa have passed away, and all that's left of Her Grandmother's house is a mess of rocks and a few thick toon trees.
Today is a mountain full of locust trees, a sea of locust flowers, and the ears are full of the "buzzing" sound of bees, but because the trees are swaying, the eyes are invisible, and the little bees hiding in the hearts of the flowers are collecting honey. Smelling the fragrance of locust flowers, stepping on the green grass, climbing one way is the locust forest, and the other way is still the locust forest, with white flowers.
Climbing up the top of the gull along the gentle slope, the "gu hat" is composed of redstone rock, a lump of red stone blocks naturally generated, but the weathering is serious, with a hand, it falls down a piece, no wonder some scholars say: "Huangcaogu is a remnant of the valley." The top area of the gu is 2000 square meters, high in the east and low in the west, a lump of bluestone in the southwest corner is standing, and a lump lying flat in the middle of the gu is a stone bed exposed between heaven and earth. Hundreds of millions of years ago, nature also gave the top of the "bluestone hat", probably because the wind and the sun caused the mountain to weather, and the lump of bluestone rolled down the valley, becoming the raw material for generations of residents to quarry and build houses. If you don't believe it, there are still blue boulders standing on the southern slope of Gu, rolling and falling, and outside the courtyard where a family has built a house for many years on the side of the road, there are several bluestones lying in the red sandstone mud, which is obviously the top of the rock rolling down.
Climbing can be far away, the group of gu forms are different, in Quanzhuang Town, large and small famous and nameless gu dozens, today I climbed the "yellow grass valley" that does not seem to be a gu, but the top is flat, the surrounding mountain hat is steep, there are the characteristics of the gu, and it is also one of the few red stone rock gu in the realm, although the weathering is serious, it is enough to show that in ten thousand years, or even millions of years ago, it is also as majestic as the Eastern Han Gu, the Pig Lan Gu, and the Ji Wang Gu. As for why the folk call it "Yellow Grass Valley", because many years ago, there was a kind of "yellow grass" growing all over the mountains here, with deep roots and stiff stems, hard straw, farmers in addition to feeding livestock, in the fifteenth Lantern Festival of the first month, people cut radish lamps, wrapped cotton with yellow grass poles, cut into sections, and tied in radish lamps to make wicks. Yellow grass is also used in the folk to drive away evil spirits, who have some people who have evil hair ghost worship, in the middle of the night when the chickens are calling, light yellow grass to edify the sick, can be reluctant to go to the disaster.
At the top of the valley, I deliberately checked, under the shade of the locust tree, there are still yellow grass mounds, just exposed green buds, yellow grass roots are deeply rooted, water and soil conservation It is the best plant species, and it can also be regarded as the origin of the name "Yellow Grass Valley".
HuangCaogu, a remnant of the acacia flowers visited during the fragrant season, can be regarded as a different kind of gu in "Yimeng Baigu".
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