Cover news reporter He Xiyu
Lesson 13 of the human-taught version of the seventh grade book of junior high school Chinese is a peculiar novel called "The Shepherd Who Planted Trees". The novel tells the story of a lonely old man who silently plants trees on the wasteland for decades until a barren land becomes a paradise full of business.
The novel was written by the French writer Jean Gionor in the early 1950s. After the novel was published, the response was extremely strong, and many readers believed that the protagonist of the novel was real. But in response to the reader's letter, Jean Gionor regretfully mentioned that although he described the tree planter and his tree planting action as vividly as possible, the novel was fictional.
But Jean Jono probably wouldn't have imagined that on the other side of the globe, there really was an old man, as described in his novel, who planted nearly 6,000 trees with the rest of his life and personally turned a barren mountain into a forest park.
This is Fujii, a 73-year-old man who lives in the mountains deep in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. And the Japanese TV Asahi TV "There is a room is surprised" column group, the process of finding him is also a strange encounter.
"Surprising with a Room" is a new Sunday prime-time variety show launched by TV Asahi in recent years.
In recent years, under the pressure of the era of online video, TV stations have struggled. No production fees? Can't afford a screenwriter? The Japanese variety production team, which has always been known for its bold innovation, has set its sights on passers-by who "star for free", and art comes from life anyway. In 2014, TV Tokyo's low-budget variety show "Can I Go Home with You?" ", following passers-by on the street, paying the fare in exchange for the opportunity to follow the passers-by to visit, accidentally exposing the dramatic life of ordinary people, making the show a hit to this day.
Four years later, TV Asahi followed this seemingly crude "real production" model and launched a brain-opening variety show in October 2018. The show's film crew had only one desk lesson: using a satellite map to lock down a lonely house in the mountains, according to Tu Suoji.
Then the "expedition", composed of a driver and a photographer, with several satellite maps downloaded from the Internet, two mouths and a spirit of ignorance and fearlessness, went deep into the remote mountain like a headless fly, recklessly going to the door of a solitary family in the deep mountains. This is "Surprising to Have a Room".
Most people think that with satellite maps, how can they find the destination. It is not difficult to know, only after personal experience will you understand that there is no navigation in the mountains at all. The exploration team reaches the village adjacent to the hut at most, and then relies on various directions, or even intuitively chooses the way.
Fortunately, the mountain people are simple, often do not say a word, directly drive their own car, guide the exploration team to the destination. But even for journalists who are lucky enough to find a guide, the inaccessible mountain roads are very difficult for journalists who are accustomed to urban roads, and whether they can be successfully reached is unknown.
Sometimes after much painstaking search for a hut in the mountains, it turns out to be an empty house that is uninhabited; or it is not a home at all, but a summer hut, or a lumberjack shed, or even a hidden research institute.
But "peak loop turn" is the first major feature of this show. When the film crew is about to give up, there are often well-meaning people who provide them with new clues.
The reward will eventually be paid, which is another great satisfaction that this show brings to the audience. Whenever you find a truly live-in private cabin, the discovery team is like a treasure. Because as soon as you find the owner of the cottage, you will find the key to unlock the mystery. These homeowners, just because of their posthumous and independent posture, are full of curiosity, not to mention that they have their own extraordinary pasts and reasons to stay in the mountains.
Some, because they are obsessed with agriculture, they run to the mountains in their seventies to reclaim wasteland and are determined to grow local famous products; some go to the empty mountains to recuperate in order to heal the wounded soul; some are unwilling to live with their children and return to the countryside to be self-sufficient; some couples are in harmony with each other in the world of beautiful mountains and rivers in order to live freely.
Sometimes expeditions encounter a mountain adventure. When expeditions visit solitary farmers in Shimane Prefecture, one of the birthplaces of ancient Japanese culture, they unexpectedly join a festival spanning thousands of years. However, the visit before that can be described as a twist and turn.
At first, everything seemed to be going well. When the expedition team arrived at the village near the single house to ask for directions, the first villager they met happened to be the old postman in the village. An old postman who was familiar with the situation in the village quickly pointed the way for the expedition: the owner of the single-family house was Ms. Fumiko Umeda, 82. Enthusiastic veteran postmen also act as guides, driving the film crew to their destinations.
After driving more than ten kilometers in the rugged mountains, when the expedition team thought that it was about to unveil the true face of the single house, the owner of the single house was not at home.
What was even more depressing was that the old postman had found the wrong place.
Fortunately, at this time, a hunting car passed by, and through the guidance of the hunters, it found the real location of the single-family house. As a result, the hunters gave the film crew a slap in the face, and the single-family house was no longer inhabited.
In desperation, the expedition team had to return to look for Ms. Umeda, because the house she lived in also met the conditions for filming: there were no people within a few kilometers. At this time, Ms. Umeda happened to participate in a festival at the village shrine. Fortunately, the expedition successfully found her in the shrine.
As if blessed by the gods, the expedition also met the owner of the empty house they were looking for, Mr. Umezu.
What is it about festivals that are so important that people who have been away from the village for a long time come back to participate? Originally, this festival was called the "New Taste Festival", which is one of the biggest annual events in the village. The expedition team found out in constant questioning that this festival was an ancient ritual that had lasted for more than a thousand years.
In the past, this used to be a large festival attended by hundreds of people. However, due to the serious population loss in the village in recent years, when the expedition team arrived, only 8 villagers participated in the festival, with an average age of more than 70 years old. In the final moments, the film crew recorded the precious ritual of this remote village that has been preserved for thousands of years.
Despite the limited manpower, the villagers were not sloppy in their preparations: dusting the room, setting up a banner, preparing tribute, changing their robes, playing gagaku... Meticulous at every step.
It was only in the link of raising the gods that the villagers were too old to be competent that they thought of a compromise: the small truck "Pull god" slowly circled around the largest field in the village, and the young Miyaji who had been "borrowed" from other shrines walked behind to serve.
The touching life is not only the villagers of Shimane Prefecture. In Yamaguchi Prefecture, the westernmost tip of Japan, a retired couple carved out their own paradise in the mountains.
This time, the expedition also encountered well-meaning villagers to guide them. After finding the wrong house, returning, finding that it was an empty house, and looking for a new single-family house again, the expedition team finally found the hut of the Zhongshan couple after more than 3 hours of detouring in the deep mountains.
However, the real home of the Nakayama couple is at the bottom of the mountain, and this deep mountain hut is their secret base, or rather, the dream home of Renzi for too long
Hisako has loved plants since childhood. At the age of 50, Hisahito saw the natural life of the American picture book painter Tasha Duduo on TV and longed for it. Hisahito decided to retire and build her own garden in the countryside like Tasha.
But Hisahitoko is not simply an imitation. The Tasha she admires is a strong, independent woman who wants the Tasha spirit rather than the idyllic romance. Hisahitoko's husband, Mr. Nakayama, owns a piece of land in his hometown of Yamaguchi Prefecture. But Hisahito did not take dependence on her husband for granted, as other Japanese women do. She insisted on using her savings to buy a small piece of land next to her husband's land and build a community on her own land with the chalet and garden of her dreams.
After visiting the garden of the Zhongshan couple, an unexpected twist appeared. Mr. and Mrs. Nakayama told the film crew that the kind guide named Toshiyuki Fujii, who took them into the mountain, also had a hut in the mountain that was far from the inhabited people.
Moreover, the Nakayama couple only opened a small garden on the top of their mountain, but this Mr. Fujii single-handedly transformed the mountain into a park.
Fujii, 77, has been planting various trees in the mountains since he was 54 years old. In 23 years, he has planted a total of 5,700 rhododendron and cherry blossom trees.
Passing mountaineers happened to see this beautiful mountain, and they passed it on for ten hundred times, and the people who came to see the scenery were endless.
Fujii said he never thought he'd build a park, and everyone came to take care of themselves. In order to facilitate the visitors who come to see the scenery, Fujii simply built another road, and even built a parking lot to facilitate everyone.
He said that it was good for everyone to be happy.
He was like the nice guy Jean Gionor wrote: generous and selfless, not expecting anything in return, and leaving much for the world.
Mr. Fujii said that he was old enough to take care of the affairs of the mountain. He said that if someone really liked the mountain and was willing to continue to maintain the park, he was willing to give the mountain to this person.
"Just let me play once in a while."
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