The elderly live with respect
Text/Liang Ruichen
He was the first to awaken Nanyue Houshan.
Many people think that the morning bell will scare away the birds, the bells of Nanyue ring year after year, the birds have become accustomed to this kind of Buddhist bells, unconsciously and peacefully perched on the branches, it is not like some lyrics sing: "The morning bell frightens the birds." All foreign objects that are integrated into nature, just repeat themselves, they will become peaceful and peaceful. If you listen attentively, you will feel that the bell has shaken the hills from near and far, floating, diffuse and peaceful.
Together with this bell, when the moon was hanging on the east mountain, he appeared in this chic but interesting courtyard of the mountains, and people were still in this dream world, and he seemed to be the bell ringer of the nanyue houshan, making the sleeping world come alive.
Under the shadow of the moon, the old man was active and busy, and he searched every corner of the courtyard with eagle falcon-like eyes, a cigarette butt, a piece of paper scrap, a melon peel, a handful of miscellaneous things, he would use rough hands to pick up and return to the garbage can, such details, in my stay for the rest of the month, almost every day to see his mechanical repetition.
Immediately, it is time to feed the mountain spring to the new branches of each old tree that sways in the morning wind. The trees and green lawns are radiant and vibrant under the nourishment of the mountain springs. The biggest luxury of Jinghengju is its huge mountain spring, which pours down continuously, making everything here fresh and lively. The symphony of water and life plays the most beautiful melody.
Sometimes I stared sheepishly at the spring water, and there was always a special sound in my heart, but this mountain spring that never dried up, so that the old man's life was hardened like steel.
He can be called a walk like a fly, you have to be amazed that he surpassed the wrist strength and waist strength of ordinary people, he can effortlessly grasp 100 pounds of iron ingots. He can grab the trunk pull-ups, he can... All the actions that cannot be completed at his age, he gives you a surprising answer.
The old man's behavior made everything in Jinghengju firm and confident.
The moon faded, the sky was bright, the rolling mountains behind Nanyue were dyed a touch of oil green by the morning dawn, the old man walked easily, holding a bamboo basket, and went straight to the vegetable garden, which was the homework he had to do every day. Peppers, eggplants, loofahs, bitter melons, winter melons, pumpkins, beans, cucumbers, hollow cabbage, sprinkle a seed in the spring, harvest 10,000 kinds of vegetables in the summer. These former fruits and vegetables turn the guests' belly into such a rural area, and also decorate the Jingheng residence into a real idyllic scenery.
The clock does not stop, the clockwork is always tight, and the old man is like a clock with a tight clockwork, always ticking and ticking. He dragged heavy garbage cans along the bending mountain paths, and occasionally led the army of women and children to march between the mountain paths. And his smile will also bring others into the ranks of happiness.
It was an old man's early morning schedule, his laughter was cheerful, his voice was sonorous, his movements were agile, and he didn't say much. He is the "action leader" in the countryside, quietly and silently infecting others with actions.
Occasionally, when the sun was too strong, he would sit down with me and discuss life.
He is clumsy on the surface, but in fact he is good at calculating life.
"I lived twice as many lives." Seeing that I was full of doubts, he said with a loud smile, "I always keep doing things, never idle, do you say that my life is twice as much as others?" "I said yes, in my heart, the calculation of the length of life, each person has his own algorithm, when today we are a little farther away from dialectics, the old man a simple understanding of the length of life, does not include the most simple dialectics.
How good is society today! The Communist Party is wise. What is this bitter point of doing something today compared with the past era of lack of food and clothing? You see how tough I am, I have never taken medicine and lived in a hospital.
The elderly always use the method of contrast to see the changes of the times, society, family, and relatives. He finds in contrast the source of his own satisfaction and pleasure.
In conversations with the old man, he always said that I was only 85 years old! At this time, I can't help but think of Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea", Hemingway's Cuban fisherman Santiago is a "hero of failure", but his indomitable and persevering spirit has some similarities with the old man in front of him. This spirit of never giving up and never sinking is the most precious treasure of mankind. I once heard a voice on the Internet that I didn't agree with. Suffering is suffering, and suffering must never become wealth. If we agree with this view, the saint said, "Therefore the heavens will send down a great task, and the man will first suffer his mind, strain his bones, starve his body, empty his body, and act in a disorderly manner. "Isn't it a nonsense? And the historical examples listed by Sima Qian in the "Book of Baoren An" are not false words? King Gavin acted in "Zhou Yi"; Jonny's Spring and Autumn; Qu Yuan's exile, Naifu "Leaving the Troubles", Zuo Qiu's blindness, and the "Chinese"; Sun Tzu's foot, the revision of the Art of War; Bu Wei Qian Shu, hereditary "Lü Lan"; Han Fei imprisoned Qin, "Speaking Difficulty" and "Lonely Anger"; The three hundred poems are all the work of the sages who are angry. "History has repeatedly proved that the dialectic of the philosophy of life is to light the torch of progress and set a silent benchmark for those who have achieved great things.
Although I am not a big person, I have gained a useful enlightenment from the old man and understood a truth.
Happiness is earned through struggle.
The old man exchanged his silent behavior and good attitude for his own health and happiness! He insisted on his homeland and used his actions to attract his son Liu Chunlin, who once had a good fortune, to devote himself to the construction of the new countryside.
In the days of respecting Hengju, I like to sit quietly under the ancient camphor shaded by greenery, often in solitude, meditation, will get an unprecedented inspiration, the old and strong, vigorous and vigorous, let me think of the old man, he does not have any health, nor does he enjoy comfort, he makes "suffering" become so happy and happy. This spirit infected the son, infected the staff, and infected every guest who came to respect the house. Like the ancient camphor that stands tall, he resists the scorching sun of the four seasons, wind, frost, snow and rain.
Santiago, the indomitable warrior, the hero of defeat.
This old man in the back mountain of Nanyue, he succeeded! He insisted on his homeland, with a spirit to lead his son, injected a culture into the homeland, he brought many new ways of life from the outside world into this mountain village, created a kind of "village sage culture", and truly made the construction of the new countryside not only build a few new buildings and build a few roads, but to attract more young people, love the homeland, build a homeland, and make the nostalgia of the past become the eternal memory of this generation under the wind of the times.
Liang Ruichen, a member of the Chinese Writers Association, is a first-class expert in literary creation and enjoys special government allowances from the State Council. He is currently the president of Hunan Provincial Prose Literature Association and the honorary chairman of Hunan Writers Association. He once served as the full-time vice chairman and secretary general of the Hunan Writers Association, the director of the management office of Mao Zedong Academy of Letters, and the editor-in-chief of literary style magazine. He is the author of the reportage collection "Ten Thousand Days and Nights", "The Imprint of Mao Zedong's Birthday" (cooperation), the essay collection "Foggy Bottom", "Qin Shishui", "Huaxia Yingjie", "Ou Xing Sanji" and so on. The essay "The Song of the Distant Past" won the second Wujin Award of the Chinese Writers Association and the Ministry of Coal, and "Foggy Bottom" won the National Supplement Excellent Work Award.