"Take a ridge to turn over a mountain, in the ravine, the air in the ravine is so fresh... Chaoyanggou is a good place worthy of the name, here, here for a lifetime I will not bother ah..."
This is the classic singing section of the heroine Yinhuan in the modern Chinese Yu opera "Chaoyanggou".
Because of the unique taste and status of "Chaoyanggou" formed in the history of modern Chinese opera, "Chaoyanggou", a small mountain village hidden in Dengfeng County, Henan Province, moved the country for a while and became a typical representative of China's new countryside.
On the eve of the Spring Festival in 2021, I came to Chaoyanggou. In the village cultural compound, a huge propaganda poster first came into view, which read "2021 National Village Evening Chaoyanggou Village Demonstration Display Point in Daye Town, Dengfeng City, Henan Province". The red-hot propaganda poster occupies a wall, reflecting great pride and pride. Such an honor is indeed something to be proud of and proud of, because there are only 14 villages in the country that have been awarded the national "village evening" demonstration display point.
The 2021 National "Village Evening" demonstration display activity is jointly sponsored by the Public Service Department of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the National Public Cultural Development Center, and the Central Video of the Central Radio and Television Corporation, with the theme of "Happy New Year towards a New Journey" - Our Well-off Life.
On the square of the cultural compound, the gongs and drums are noisy, and the people of Chaoyanggou are rehearsing the wonderful program of "Village Evening" in the Spring Festival.
Chaoyanggou, whose real name is Cao Cun and CaoJiawan, was formed during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty by the ancestor of the villagers, Zhao Yunfu, who settled and cultivated here.
Don't look at the village is small, but the cultural genes contained in it are very rich. In addition to the Yu opera "Chaoyanggou", Caojiawan also produced a well-known national opera drama "RollIng Tube" a long time ago, in which Xiaocangwa sang: "My family lives in Dengfeng Small County, twenty-five miles away from the city Caojiawan ..."
"One village and two dramas spread to China, and there is no one in the world." This is the extraordinary place of Chaoyanggou, and it is also the true kung fu of a good place in Chaoyanggou.
It is precisely because Caojiawan has a well-deserved artistic heritage that in 1958 it attracted the famous dramatist Yang Lanchun to come here to experience life, and created the foundation work of Modern Yu Opera "Chaoyanggou" according to what he saw, heard and felt.
Cao Jiawan has achieved Yang Lanchun, and Yang Lanchun has achieved Chaoyanggou. Because of the stay in Caojiawan, Yang Lanchun wrote "Chaoyanggou", because of "Chaoyanggou", Caocun changed its name to Chaoyanggou Village.
When Yang Lanchun passed away, the Chaoyanggou people welcomed the old man's ashes back to the village and built the Yang Lanchun Cultural Park, so that the old man could sleep in the Chaoyanggou Forest Park on the back mountain, so that the old man could live with everyone forever and witness the new changes of Chaoyanggou people and Chaoyanggou Village that kept pace with the times.
Standing on the silver ring pavilion at the top of the forest park, looking out, the highway runs through the village, and the Chaoyanggou Reservoir and chaoyanggou bridge add new agility and thickness to the Chaoyanggou.
At the foot of the mountain, by the reservoir, a sign of "Yuju Town Project Demolition and Construction Headquarters" has been hung up, giving people reason to believe that the tomorrow of Chaoyanggou will be better!
"The people of Dengfeng have many ambitions, and they will be called the countryside to become a fairyland." Isn't the village night in Wonderland beautiful? Let's look forward to it together.