One
To understand the story of Jiangxi Tai and Shukou Village, you must start with the moon in Shukou Village. It is the moon, a psychic treasure jade, that folds the secret of Shukou ——
First of all, the moon in Shukou has a surname. It shines on the ancient houses, ancestral halls, ancient camphor trees and tea forests everywhere in Shukou Village, which is actually illuminated on a three-dimensional genealogy in Shukou Village. The cover of the genealogy indicates its surname, which is the compound surname Ouyang.
The surname may be hiding a cultural code for a region. For example, the surname Li is mostly from Longxi, the ancestor of the Huang surname is Chunshen Jun Huang Xie, ji'an's Zhou surname is often related to Zhou Yu in the Three Kingdoms period, and the zeng surname is mostly a descendant of Zengzi... The moon of Shukou is surnamed Ouyang, which is a proof of the long history of Shukou. Ouyang Xiu, Ouyang Xun, Ouyang Shoudao... Each name adds weight to the word Ouyang.
Secondly, the moon in Shukou has a year. It is reported that during the Jianyan period of the Southern Song Dynasty, Ouyang Dezu, the Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, returned to his hometown and went down the Ganjiang River from wan'an Changxi, found that this place was naturally vigorous, and established a foundation here, which has a history of nearly a thousand years. Since the land is sandy and rice cannot be grown, the Shukou generation has grown sugarcane and tea for a living. At the same time, they have not forgotten that they are the descendants of readers, and they have done education and rejuvenated the science in addition to farming. The descendants of Shukou gained a lot on the road of the imperial examination, and in the Ming and Qing dynasties alone, there were 21 jinshi and 28 people, and more than 190 people, such as the official Shangshu, the Hanlin Academy University scholars, the attendants, and the zuo shilang. Built in the ninth year of Ming Yongle (1411), the Ouyang Clan Ancestral Hall "Chongde Hall" hangs plaques such as "Father and Son Jinshi", "Brother Shangshu", "Third Xiantai", "Chaotian Eight Dragons" and other plaques everywhere, recording the glory of the village's father and son, three brothers or eight high school scholars.
The most outstanding representative of the scholars was Ming Jiajing's second-year jinshi Ouyang De. Ouyang Deguan to the Rebbe Shangshu and Hanlin Bachelor, in the face of trouble, honest, did not shy away from the magnate, at that time had an excellent official reputation. He was also a very important philosopher of the Ming Dynasty, a disciple of Wang Yangming, and one of the outstanding representatives of the "Jiangyou Wangmen".
The rich cultural accumulation has made many cultural celebrities have close contacts with Shukou Village. When Wang Yangming was the county commander of Luling (now Ji'an, Jiangxi), he often visited Shukou Village, where he lectured for more than a month and left ink marks. The name of Fuheng Hall, the ancestral hall in the village that doubles as a college, is said to have been written by Wang Yangming.
In addition to Wang Yangming, Benyi Jishuiren Xie Jin also often came to the village to visit friends and drink and talk about poetry papers. Later, Xie Jin served as the first assistant to the cabinet and edited the Yongle Canon, and the students of Shukou Village, Ouyang Jun and Ouyang Xian, were invited to become the editors of the book.
Two
In many places, the moon is only in the sky, but the moon in Shukou is also in the water. Surrounded by water on all sides, bordered by the Ganjiang River in the southeast and Shushui from Jinggangshan in the northwest, Shukou is a very typical, emerald-like southern water town. Every moonlit night, the moon in the sky and the moon in the water shine together, and the silver light of Shukou Village shines, with fairy tales and fairyland-like beauty.
But to be honest, the moon in Shukou in the past, like a dusty old jade, was a bit old and gray. Because the terrain is not high, Shukou, which has water conservancy, is often hit by floods. The crops that were submerged in the water were broken, the roads soaked in the water were rotten, the village was muddy everywhere, the road was difficult to pass, and the People of Shukou entered and exited the village, and it was inevitable that they would be full of resentment.
The cash crops that the Shukouzhou people rely on for their livelihood are sugar cane and tea, but the traditional economic methods will continue to be tested. The Taihe Sugar Factory closed down for various reasons, and the sugar cane in Shukou could not be planted. Tea planting technology can not be updated, tea varieties are not excellent, tea gardens are aging, products have long been sold on the ground, such a production capacity and sales level, how can it feed more than 3,000 men, women and children in a village?
The splendid keju culture only represents the past, tea with a thousand-year history cannot be exchanged for money, roads in and out of the village cannot be built, and flood control embankments cannot be upgraded. Shukou Village guarded the "cornucopia" to live a hard life, and became a poor village that embarrassed everyone.
What to do? Old jade has to be plated all the time, and then there will be pulp. The dust on the moon should be wiped from time to time to get brighter and brighter. The hat of poverty must be taken off, and if a village wants to be revitalized, it must first change its thinking and renew its concepts.
Around the construction of Shukou, the Taihe people abandoned the old name of "zhou" and introduced the concept of "island".
Shukou used to be known as "Shukou Zhou". Zhou, which is the name of land in the water in the context of agricultural civilization, is always a bit wooden and rustic.
The "island" that also refers to the land in the water is wild, dreamy, and full of styles, think of PenglaiXian Island, Gulangyu Island, and Sicily.
The Taihe people changed "continent" to "island" and added the fashionable word "ecology" in front of the island. In this way, "ShukouZhou" has become a "Shukou Ecological Island" that makes modern people feel excited.
Around the concept of "ecological island", Taihe people have carried out a series of initiatives aimed at polishing the "moon" of Shukou: raising funds to complete the construction of flood control embankments and road hardening and beautification projects; While optimizing the traditional tea industry, vigorously cultivate citrus, chestnut, flower and wood, vegetable breeding industry; Develop ancient village cultural tourism and agricultural ecological tourism, and make every effort to build a supporting service system such as food, accommodation, travel, entertainment, shopping, and tourism...
After several years of construction, Shukou, a traditional village with a variety of cultural and tourism resources, has become a well-known national AAAA-level scenic spot inside and outside the province, and has become the "first island of the Ganjiang River" that people are competing to punch in.
Shukou is beautiful, and the moon in Shukou is brighter. Elements such as ancient village culture, ecological sightseeing, water entertainment, farmhouse experience, and leisure fishing were injected into Shukou, and the dirty Shukou at that time was transformed into a fashionable beauty on the catwalk.
Three
At the warm invitation of local friends, I went to Shukou. I went to the moon. I wanted to see what the moon looked like over this village. I was placed in a homestay called "One Side Yard". When I was in synodic, the sky was clear, and I saw the moon—
It rises from the ancient ancestral hall of Shukou, the roof of ancient houses and the treetops of many ancient camphor trees, and then hangs in mid-air. The stars in the sky sparkle like diamonds. In the village of Shukou on the ground, the tall one is the ancient camphor, which is a folk house that collects ancient stories, and a brand-new homestay with a granary and bird's nest shape; Low is carpet grass, blooming flower beds, winding riverside roads, the sound of insects... Because of the addition of moonlight, the entire Shukou Ecological Island is like a dream world.
It is quietly moored in the waters of shu and ganjiang. The whole water gushes silver and green, rich and rustic. The moonlight and the waves vibrate with each other, and the Shukou is extremely moving.
But what I saw was not the whole of the Shukou Moon. I even saw the moon on the road—
That's what I found the next morning when I got up for a run. It is white, flat, like a small boat, spray painted on a riverside promenade with a dark blue background and red, white, light blue lines. It only had one round, which caught me off guard as i was running, and my feet obviously felt burned.
There is no doubt that this is an artificial moon. Compared to the moon in the sky and in the water, it is certainly not beautiful, not bright. But such a handmade, stick figure-like moon also deeply touched me.
It may come from the ingenuity of the scenic designers, or it may be the handiwork of the spray painting workers. But there is no doubt that it represents people's blessings for the future of Shukou and their yearning for a better life.
The moon, this ancient matrix, has always been synonymous with beauty. It is love, it is poetry, it is ideal, it is heaven... I have no doubt that places where the moon shines frequently, where the moon is happy to bless, or where the moon is believed, are the most beautiful places on earth. (Jiangzi)
Source: People's Daily Overseas Edition