"The star is still the star, the moon is still the moon, the mountain is still the mountain, the beam is still the beam... oh...... Oh..., only the fence wall, the shadow is so long, and the wall is crawling with bean sprouts, oh-"
This is the theme song of the rural theme TV series "Fences, Women and Dogs", whenever I hum this old song of thirty years ago, my eyes will always appear in front of the bamboo fences crawling with green nostalgia in the countryside, thinking of the sparse bamboo hedges surrounded by farm yards, those chickens and ducks and small flower dogs, and riding green bamboo horses, singing nursery rhymes and sprinkling joy...
Fences can be seen everywhere in the countryside, and there are shadows of fence walls dragging long or short around the courtyard and around the vegetable garden. Our hometown is also called "barrier", that is, to tie up a green barrier, mostly with branches or wood segments, bamboo pieces with wire tightly coiled. There are also planting green plant barriers, such as pepper trees, citrus fruits, hibiscus, ginkgo seedlings, and then order melon beans, block chickens and dogs to block thieves, but also block the wind and rain to block the cold current, can not stop the strong rural style, the fence is crawled with bean sprouts, dog tits, morning glory, but also crawled with green thoughts.
The fence is full of poetry and painting, which makes the poetry of the ancient literati inker flourish.
Zhou Bangyan of the Northern Song Dynasty saw the fence in the winding path, "The hedge is small, and the cloud tree is clear." ”
Liu Kezhuang of the Southern Song Dynasty pushed open the fence with the yin yin moss visiting friends, "the barren moss is on the fence, and the guest is suspicious and not at home." ”
Miao Jian, who lived in seclusion in the Yuan Dynasty, regarded the bamboo hedge hut surrounded by green mountains and springs as a home for painstaking search, "Qingshan repairs bamboo fences, like the home of a hermit in Linquan." Love the green window wind and beauty, crane comb lightly chaotic poplar flowers. ("Wing He") Through the small wooden lattice window sprinkled with sunlight and greenery, he couldn't see enough of the crane with its wings lightly combed in the willows...
The spring fence is dyed red by peach blossoms and apricot blossoms, yellowed by large patches of rape flowers, awakened by butterflies that flutter down, buzzing bees, and dancing red dragonflies. You see, the Southern Song Dynasty poet Fan Cheng's small dragonflies and flower butterflies fly so beautifully, they stop and fall on the bushes of bamboo hedges, drunk the poet's eyes——
Plum golden apricot fat, wheat blossom snow white cauliflower thin.
The sun-long hedge fell without anyone, but the dragonflies and butterflies flew.
- "Four Hours of Pastoral Miscellaneous"
Yang Wanli, who was also a poet of the Southern Song Dynasty, saw the fence wall in mid-spring and remembered the scene of hunting yellow butterflies in the rape flower field as a child——
The hedge is sparse and deep, and the flowers at the head of the tree have not yet become shaded.
Children rush to chase yellow butterflies, flying into cauliflower nowhere to be found.
—— "Xugongdian in Suxin City"
The fence in summer and autumn is dyed green by entangled bean sprouts, swaying tender cucumbers, pink and purple morning glory, hibiscus flowers that bloom towards twilight, and is drunk by the fragrant lotus flowers at the water's edge. In the Southern Song Dynasty, the land tour wandered through the countryside, there were flowers and melons and fruits among the sparse hedges, and the farmers were busy picking, picking a basket of nostalgia to entertain the poet?
The gardener picks cucumbers on the shelf, and the village girl picks the green flowers along the hedge.
The city is still three volts hot, and Autumn Light first goes to the wild man's house.
- "Autumn Nostalgia"
The Taoist poet Dong Sigao at the end of the Song Dynasty loved the morning glory flowers that bloomed on the hedges, and he chanted in the poem "Morning Glory": "The fence rains over the evening sun, and the blue lining autumn sky point dyes." "A refreshing light rain has made the morning glory coiled on the fence extraordinarily beautiful, and it climbs so high that it is to paint the blue sky red and purple? The crown of the Yuan Dynasty, who loved to paint ink plums, also loved the quiet hedges of the farmhouse and the simple hibiscus flowers, and he wrote in "Village Residence":
Hibiscus is used as a fence, and the thatched eaves are hung with coix.
The carriage was not muddy, and the woods were pasting each other.
Lie down and watch the Guitian record, and listen to the song of the peril.
Youyou is only like this, what about the knife saw Nai wu?
Hibiscus surrounds the fence, the coix and the female rose hang down from the eaves, such a quiet place of noisy cars and horses do not arrive, even the mountain people who cut firewood and graze their cattle rarely set foot, enjoy the mountain scenery, listen to ancient songs, such a leisurely day who cares about me?
Chrysanthemums are common next to fences in late autumn, and "hedges" and "chrysanthemums" are the most beautiful images in ancient poetry. "Under the eastern fence of picking chrysanthemums, leisurely see the South Mountain." These two poems of Tao Yuanming of the Eastern Jin Dynasty blurted out, and since then"Dong hedge" has almost become a synonym for old Tao, and "East Hedge" and "Chrysanthemum" have also become the poets' diligent pursuit of leisurely pastoral life. as:
Du Fu's "And Drink the Eastern Hedge Chrysanthemum, Talk About the Sorrows of the Southern Kingdom" ("Nine Days of Dengzizhou City")
Bai Juyi's "No Chrysanthemum Under the Fence, But Smoke in the Ruins" ("Visiting the Old House of Tao Gong")
Yuan Shu's "Autumn bushes around the house like a pottery, all over the fence increasingly oblique" ("Chrysanthemum")
Northern Song Dynasty Huang Tingjian's "Huang Ju man dong hedge, with guests carrying pots on the cuiwei" ("Nanxiangzi")
Li Qingzhao's "After the East Fence puts the wine at dusk, there are dark fragrant sleeves" ("Drunken Flower Yin") ...
Planting chrysanthemums and repairing fences seems to be the most important thing for ancient poets, and in the darkness, it is to escape the disturbances and shackles of fame and fortune, and to yearn for a fresh, quiet, tranquil, and comfortable rural life.
What else is in the fence wall? Golden rice paddies filled the yard, ripe melons and fruits climbed all over the shelves, a harvest scene. Yang Wanli said in "Tian Jiale":
The rice ear yard is full of cars, and the chickens and dogs are even more mulberry.
The hibiscus has been planted into a hedge, and it has been cleared and flowers have been obtained.
Inside the outer wall of the fence wall, a beautiful picture of the countryside is formed, how can it not be intoxicating? Fan Chengda in "Huanxi Sha Jiangcun Daozhong" Yun:
Ten Mile West Domain Ripe Rice Aroma,
Hibiscus hedges fall bamboo wire long,
Weeping mountain fruit hanging green yellow.
In "YanQiao Road":
The village fence is always newly repaired, and the fields everywhere are full of autumn.
A good view of the farmhouse, the rice pile is high above the roof hill.
Not only are there newly built fences, rice grains rising above the roof, but also ripe mountain fruits hanging leisurely, swaying in the golden wind, shaking the poet's heart.
What else is in the fence wall? Rhubarb and small flowers and two black children shook their heads and tails, and came out of the sparse fence, shouting at your affectionate wang.
The chickens and dogs jump in the sparse hedges of Lu You, which is very lively, "Oh oh chickens singing trees, fox dogs barking hedges." ("Yuqi Ii")
The Southern Song Dynasty poet Hua Yue wrote in "Tian Jia Qi VI":
The village mastiff quickly came out of the fence, wanting to bark and call for it.
It's not that I forgot to be too tame, that time I stayed in that person's house.
Out of the fence came a big dog, just about to bark at the guest, the guest whispered twice, the dog affectionately wagged its tail, let the visitor touch, it turned out that this big dog had lived in the guest' place. Tang Bohu, a great talent of the Ming Dynasty, also wrote an inscription poem "Mountain Residents to The Map":
Mangrove yellow grass wild hometown, day alpine dog barking fence.
There is nothing else to do at the village meeting, it must be when people come to borrow flowers.
Deep in the maple forest, in the yellow grass, looming a lonely bluestone courtyard, a dog barking wildly next to the fence, this remote place will not have any major events, must be an old friend to see the flowers as promised.
What else is in the fence wall? "I like the death of a child the most, and the head of the creek lies on the lotus." Inside and outside the fence wall, there are also the stubborn figures of small people. The Middle Tang Dynasty poet Yu Hu wrote a white poem depicting a small scene of life, "Ballad of Ba Nu":
Ba nu riding cow sings bamboo branches, lotus silk ling leaves when the river.
Don't worry about the sunset and return the family mistake, remember the plantain out of the hibiscus fence.
The little cow herding girl sang the words of bamboo branches on her back, went home along the banks of the lingye field and the lotus-scented river, and said to her teasers: "You, don't be afraid that I can't find a home late, next to the tall banana tree, the hibiscus fence courtyard is my home!" The late Tang Dynasty poet Cui Daorong wrote "The Creek Is the Thing", which reads:
Outside the fence whose house does not tie the boat, the spring breeze blows into the fishing bay.
The child suspected that there was a villager, and rushed to the chai gate but closed it.
It was a vivid picture outside the fence yard, where a small boat was blown by the spring breeze and drifted into the Fishing Bay. The child who was playing with his head down next to the fence heard the sound of the squirrel, thought that a guest was coming, and quickly ran to open the chai gate - such a fishing village scene, how fresh and bright, full of fun!
-Author-
Liu Qirui, male, a native of Tancheng, Shandong, a veteran literature lover, published the essay collection "The Song of that year", "Nostalgia is a Curved Blue Moon" and the short story collection "Hedong Hexi".