He is called Uncle Cha, a liquor seller on the "Heavenly Street" of the Huangling Scenic Area in Wuyuan, Jiangxi.
After the National Day in 2020, I came to Huangling and wanted to stay here for two days to see the most famous scenery of Huangling: sunshine in autumn.
Just put away the luggage, there is a crisp flute sound, can't help but wonder, who blew this? It's so good.
The piper changed the song, one after another, I couldn't sit still, grabbed the camera and walked to the street, and saw an old man playing seriously, he was Uncle Cha.
Uncle Cha's name is Zha Shuhong, a native of Fengshan, Wuyuan. People who are familiar with Mr. Jin Yong may know that he and Zha Liangyong (Jin Yong) are from the same family and the same village, but Uncle Cha is much younger, and he is 69 years old this year.
Uncle Cha said that his father was a naval lieutenant in the Kuomintang army, so "the history is unclear", and the nightmare accompanied his father and their family for decades, although he later characterized his father as a "surrender insurrectionist", but it has caused so much harm to their family that he dropped out of school after completing the fifth grade of primary school and returned to the production team to participate in labor.
Uncle Cha's youth and youth lived in a depressed and helpless environment, only hard work, but could not see any hope and future, life always hit and disappointed him again and again. A girl he liked, they had been together for more than two months, although they had never pulled their hands, but they loved each other very much and wrote dozens of letters to each other. The girl later heard about his family's historical problems, so she stopped associating with him, and Uncle Cha was sad about it for a long time.
At this time, the only thing that can comfort Uncle Cha is the flute, which makes his heart talk, and also makes the boring time become some expectation and a little warmth.
Uncle Cha played the flute began in the third grade of primary school, he inadvertently picked up a broken flute lost by others, repaired it himself, and began to play with it himself, and as a result, he picked up the flute and did not put it down, this blowing is more than fifty years, he blew from a wind-chasing teenager to two white old people, the flute sound became more and more mellow and mature, and his original intention has not changed, and it has become more and more firm.
But Uncle Cha is very modest, and has always said that he has not studied professionally, does not understand skills, and is completely dependent on his strength to blow, and he cannot climb the hall of elegance. But Uncle Cha's flute has another taste: the precipitation of years, the helplessness of life, and the indomitability and desire for a repressed life.
He said that his life was very bumpy, he did not study much, he worked as a farmer, he worked as a worker, he worked in the underground of the coal mine for ten years, he also sold tofu, he worked as an accountant, and Uncle Cha's life was a laborer and non-stop work.
Asked how Uncle Zha came to Huangling to sell wine? Uncle Cha said that the "Cha Ji Wine Factory" is their family's property, which was founded in the early Qing Dynasty, after more than 200 years, and now passed to eleven generations (his nephews) and is a non-hereditary heir.
Cha Ji Winery has been on CCTV and various media, national leaders have visited, and Hong Kong chief executive and famous actor Chow Yun Fat have come, and also participated in the Shanghai World Expo, which is very popular.
In 2014, Huangling recruited famous products into the scenic spot, Uncle Cha took his heirloom brand "Cha Ji Wine Shop" stationed, Cha Ji Wine Shop to inherit more than 200 years of ancient wine making technology, mainly brewing rice wine, the main products are blood glutinous wine and green plum wine, the taste is mellow, meaningful.
Speaking of playing the flute in the store, Uncle Cha said that at the beginning of his leisure time, he tried to play a few songs, did not expect that the response was particularly good, not only people would squeeze into the store to listen, but also some tourists would stop in front of his shop and dance with his flute, which gave him a great encouragement, he also boldly walked to the door, the more he blew the more confident.
Uncle Cha's flute not only attracted the attention and stop of tourists, but also received encouragement and support from the Huangling Scenic Area, and the scenic spot Wu zong specially bought two flutes for him. Uncle Cha's "flute selling wine" has also become a scene in Huangling Tianjie, leaving a good memory for many tourists.
But Uncle Cha is still very disciplined, he has three do not blow: morning do not blow, late do not blow, noon does not blow, he said that can not disturb the rest of tourists, he will only blow when tourists are most relaxed and leisurely, he said that the old songs basically can be blown, you can skillfully play more than a hundred songs.
Of course, Uncle Cha's flute also attracted more tourists to enter the store and buy his wine, especially in the evening, some tourists staying on the mountain would come to the store to buy wine and drink, and the next day when they passed by the store before going down the mountain, they had to buy some to take away, because Uncle Cha's wine was really delicious.
Here I saw a small episode, two wine buyers from Anhui, the woman said that she was also surnamed Cha, Uncle Cha immediately erased 8 yuan, "the world's Cha surname is a family", Uncle Cha said "Cha" is an ancient surname, although in the hundred family names to rank more than three hundred, but they are the descendants of King Wen of Zhou.
I stayed in Huangling for two nights, tasting his blood glutinous wine and ordinary rice wine, light and mellow, the taste is very good, I looked around the restaurant and found several people drinking wine bought from Uncle Cha, Uncle Cha's wine is good, and his marketing method is more successful.
Discovering Uncle Cha was a gain from my visit to Huangling this time, and listening to his flute and life story was even more touching. Uncle Cha repeatedly said that he was not professional in blowing, some skills were not well mastered, he was blowing with his strength, in fact, I want to say that Uncle Cha was playing with his heart!
Fifty years of companionship and inseparability, who knows better than Uncle Cha the joy and comfort of the flute, and understands that this is a humanistic feeling that should not be lacking in the years?