My hometown is located in a remote area of Liangwai in central Ordos, about seven kilometers long from the watershed between Poshtaichuan and Heilaichuan in the west, bordering Yangjiaqu in the north and the waterline between Sanheyangou and Nangou in the south. The land is poor ridge and geology is an arsenic sandstone ecological fragile area, and the surrounding mountains, peaks, rolling and ravines are crisscrossed, which can really be described as a poor and remote area, which is full of vicissitudes.
From the mountain beam of Heitagou to the west pole, you can see Tiandinggou: living like the "right arm" of a windswept old man: its thumb is a sheepfarm ditch, the index finger is a Bula ditch, the middle finger resembles an intergenerational ditch, the ring finger is a western ditch, and the little finger is like an elongated south ditch, these irregular fingers form an irregular "right hand", the palm of the hand is the big tower that has not been provided for and nurtured for many generations, and its cultivated land area is about 200 acres, which is the largest cultivated land area in the team. At the intersection of the five fingers is the former Tiandinggou Supply and Marketing Cooperative, where a private school was built in the sixties and seventies of the last century, which was the economic and cultural center of the surrounding tens of miles at that time. Each finger tip is fanned out from east to west by some small furrow and small beams, resulting in the Tianding ditch being like an inverted triangle in the terrain, wide in the west and narrow in the east. Between the fingers are the winding and straight mountain beams leading to Poshtai, Jiamagou, and Tea Kiln Ditch, each of which is composed of countless small ditches and canals; The intersection of beams and ditches forms a piece of "alluvial plain" (Tata Land), but the area of each "plain" is pitiful, and the largest is only three or five acres. But she is the foundation of the survival of the people of Tiandinggou. The arm is the "big ditch" formed by the confluence of the five ditches, which flows from west to east into Helai Kongdue, and on the right side of the arm is now the economic and cultural center of Tiandinggou, where a school was once built, its size to junior high school, more than a dozen classes. In 1998, the township government also moved here, but it was only a snap of the fingers in the long river of history, and it was merged with Suhaitu and withdrawn in only two years, and the school was closed in 2006 due to the serious shortage of withdrawal and student resources, leaving a large area of buildings that have been in disrepair for many years and are now basically in ruins. Over the south of the school, there is also the Guanyindian Canal (which also belongs to the Tiandinggou team), the mouth of the canal is close to the Heilai River, and there are dozens of acres of watered land on the riverside, and people regard her as the "eye beads" of the Tiandinggou people, because there is enough water here, and there can be a little harvest in the year of drought, and people can rely on her to survive.
In the seventies and eighties of the last century, the permanent population here was 256 people, but due to the small area of densely populated land, people struggled in extreme poverty and hunger, coupled with large collectives eating large pots of rice, people's sense of labor was weakened, and they could not manage the land well, let alone achieve deep cultivation, as the saying goes: people coax the land for one year, and the land coaxes the belly for ten years; As a result, the mu yield was decreasing year by year, the grain harvest was not harvested every year, not to mention the economic income, which was beyond means, and people suffered in this kind of hardship until the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee implemented land contracting, and the people gradually lived a good life. But people's perceptions have changed again; Most of the young people went to the city to work to "make money" and had no intention of farming, and the current permanent population is only 60 or 70.
The terrain of Tiandinggou is high in the west and low in the east, the terrain is complex, and the soil erosion is extremely serious. This statement is indeed a true reflection of this geographical location. Although it is ten years and nine droughts, but once it encounters heavy rain, it must be a flash flood, the flood with the help of factors with a large gap between east and west, like wild horses that are out of control, straight down to Hei Lai Kongdu, plus each small channel far and near different depths, the flood of each small ditch when it flows into the big ditch forms a huge wave, the back wave pushes the front wave is really terrifying waves, thrilling, the farmland and crops on both sides of the river trough are instantly swallowed, and the sheep that do not have time to return home may be swept away by the flood beast. I remember that many years ago, I composed a song "Linjiang Immortal": The rolling flood peaks are flowing east, and the waves are washing up the fertile soil. The five grains were empty in an instant, and the mountain frame was still there, and ravines were everywhere. The white-haired farmer replanted, hoping for a little harvest, and his face was full of marks. Famine in disaster years, the index is not clear. Sure enough, I haven't seen such a scene for many years, which may be related to the restoration of vegetation and the flood land of every household. In the year of the great drought, there was no harvest, even the seeds of the next year became a problem, sometimes even drinking water for people and animals was not available, people could only hope for the country's relief grain to relieve the urgent need, people were circulating such a folk song at that time: "Husliang, burn the beam; Slow wind and sand, dry land; Eyes longing, relief food...".
Although the hometown is poor, there are many kinds of creatures here, coupled with the people's hard work and simplicity, and endure humiliation and burden, I am afraid that this is the foundation for the people here to multiply for generations and endure!
There are countless varieties of plants here, and the first to germinate every spring are Artemisia heads, catching waves, white cloth roots... People often take out this plant to feed those "three types of animals" or lambs to supplement vitamins. In March and April, blue flowers occasionally appear on the mountain, that is, the "lock cow" flower, at this time various plants on the mountain have emerged, especially the fastest and most prosperous growth of lock beard, it is one of the most popular foods of cattle, horses and sheep; There is a saying among the people that the "lock cow cow" flowering sheep are full, which means that the sheep have got out of the predicament and eaten enough. At this time, various plants rushed to appear, and willows drew branches; Poplars bloom; The old elm tree was hung with "elm money", "elm money" is very sticky, at that time due to lack of food, people often held it to fill their hunger. In May and June, the "wolf venom" flowers all over the mountains bloom, although the stars are dotted, but from a distance, the whole mountain is covered with "silver", some of which are white and flawless, some slightly colorful, and some pink. It is said that "wolf venom" has high medicinal value, and the local people take its roots and boil it into ointment to apply to tumors and other stubborn diseases, and it really works. Whenever the beard has been towed during this season, the cattle and horses have also "turned green", just as people say wolf poison flowering cattle are full. If the wind and rain are smooth, in mid-to-late June, the various flowers on the mountain will bloom; All kinds of wild chrysanthemums are colorful, not only the colors are charming, but also the different shapes are intoxicating, it is really "not the flower preference chrysanthemum, this flower blooms more flowerless" ah! The ground pepper flower is even more beautiful, although the flower is small but bright in color, fragrant and refreshing, in the pile, clusters of red, purple or red and yellow ground pepper flowers occasionally see a cluster of white pepper with white flowers fascinating, that is a precious medicinal herb It is the nemesis of gynecological diseases, but unfortunately the number is too small. After a few light rains in July in the ancient calendar, the mountains of Zamon bloom with broken white and slightly pink flowers, which are fragrant and refreshing, and people rush to pick them (locally called fishing Zamon), and then mash them with stone mortars and knead them into round slices to cool and dry, and when making soups or stirring vegetables, they are fried in oil or mixed into vegetables (also called "boiling" by locals), which is really amazing. Zamon is a perennial herb that is a small grass that only sheep can eat. And where the safflower grass grows, when the time of flowering, the whole land seems to be covered with a red carpet, which will surely attract swarms of bees vying for honey, and sheep vying for its flowers and young leaves.
In fact, there are many plants and medicinal materials in the hometown, such as honeysuckle, yuanzhi, sweet root root (licorice), dandelion, rabbit silk, etc., these are pure natural plants, and their medicinal value is by no means lower than that of artificially planted medicinal herbs. Rich plant resources and unique geographical location have achieved the hometown people's idea of raising animals, people say that Husliang lamb is famous all over the world, in fact, it is not false at all, because sheep can forage for various weeds (especially Zamon, ground pepper...). ), so that the mutton of Husliang from fresh and tender meat to pure taste, oily but not greasy, is an excellent product for health and health care. It's no wonder that the price of lamb here has soared in recent years. Compared with those captive lambs, it is really a small witch, and the food is a thousand miles.
In fact, the beauty of the hometown is far more than wild flowers, and the small piece of farmland is not a unique landscape? When the white flowers of buckwheat planted on the slope bloom in Futian, over time, it gradually turns from white to powder, and finally simply turns into red and prismatic particles, which turn from red to black, which is the fruit buckwheat. It is also easy to see a crop with blue flowers in the field, and after the blue flowers wither, a string of "silver bells" is placed on the "head" This crop is flax, and there is a mountain song that sings "flax blossoms and the ground is blue, and the farmer's livelihood is incomplete...", and every flowering season will also attract swarms of bees to collect flowers and feed. The natural wildflowers and the crops, flowers and fruits in the countryside outline a beautiful scene, all full of poetry and fascination, with "rivers and birds over white, mountains and flowers." "If the mountain flowers are full of heads, do not ask the slave where to return."
The hometown is not only rich in plants but also a lot of animals, in my print is the red-billed eagle, flocks of red-billed eagles are always busy foraging, flying up to cover the sky, falling black pressure pressed a piece, the red-billed eagle is dark all over, the oil shine can be seen exactly like black satin, only the mouth and hooves are red, nesting on the cliff wall (their own holes to build nests, there is a channel in their hometown, called the hole in the cliff wall of the red-billed eagle canal is still faintly visible), omnivores eat both some insects and grass or some plant seeds, But now the animal has disappeared silently. The stone chicken is also a very striking animal, whenever you hear the cry of "croak, croak...", it must be the stone bird, this animal has no fixed habitat, but it has its own range of activities, in April and May people always try to find stone eggs, which are slightly larger than quail eggs, I remember skipping school many times as a child and classmates in the village looking for stone eggs. There are also nocturnal animals, such as porcelain monsters (owls), ruthless tigers (eagle owls), foxes, etc. The strange sound of the porcelain monster is terrifying, and I often heard that the porcelain monster will die when he is called, so it is creepy to watch its shape (the head resembles a cat, the eyes are like a porcelain slippery). In fact, it is not as magical as people say, but this animal has a particularly good sense of smell, where there is a peculiar smell will appear there, mainly preying on voles at night, etc., the call is changeable, as if the call is winter "woo", summer "chirp" (twitter), autumn "croak". This animal can only reproduce one generation, and once it has the next generation, it will eventually be eaten by the chicks (when it is exhausted and exhausted to feed the chicks after working hard to feed the offspring, the chicks will eat their parents), people say "porcelain monsters turn to their mothers", no wonder it is called porcelain monsters. When I was a child, there were also many foxes, because I often heard adults talk about fox fairies and monsters, so whenever I saw foxes, their hair stood on end, and their looks were abnormal. People say cunning fox, fox is indeed uncertain, stealing chickens at night is its specialty, in the seventies of the last century may be because of the broken food chain, originally nocturnal animals have developed to the point of preying on sheep in the daylight, but unfortunately this animal has not been seen for many years, resulting in a flood of hares and trampling on farmland. There are also many migratory birds in the hometown, such as the horse finches in colorful costumes, the beard swallows dressed in black satin settle here whenever the spring blossoms bloom, and begin to nest and reproduce the next generation, as well as the bustard (cuckoo) that destroys hard work and early planting, and the thrush with a melodious and gentle song and crying, and when the autumn air is crisp and the weather turns cooler, it moves to another country with its next generation. There are actually many birds and beasts on the mountain, like cow birds and birds (some people call it dry Liu Xiu), which often inhabit the slopes of the mountains, and this bird eats plant seeds more than sparrows, and never steals crops. There are also weasels (hibernating animals), herbivorous and plant seeds, similar to rats but different from mice, not entering the village, it is said that weasels can be eaten, folk have: "swan, ground web, golden leaf weasel" said, saying that weasels are a delicacy among wild animals. Unfortunately, these two animals are also gone, but fortunately, with the restoration of vegetation, pheasants have reappeared.
; In the spring, the land thaws, everything awakens, sand monks, snakes, rats (lizards), snakes and other hibernation animals after a winter of suffering, awakened from slumber one after another, and began a new round of breeding and life, at this time the sale of cattle, dung cattle, grasshoppers, and calves also began to lively...
The winter scenery in my hometown is also unique, after a few heavy snowfalls, the mountains are covered in silver and snow, pheasants and birds are plucking snow on the ground to feed, hares are infested in mountain canals, and foxes and badgers are roaring. Winter is also the most leisure season for people, idlers go out of the west house to enter, or beat pukes, or boil a pot of good wine, pour a few cups of fruits to enjoy a good harvest, and also chat about interesting things around, and even more good deeds may also play right and wrong, provoking old ladies and daughters-in-law to earn jealousy and stir up revenge. The livestock have already prepared enough forage, and they rest in the pen, waiting for the ice and snow to melt and eat the weeds on the mountain.
The most difficult thing is the turn of spring and summer, the long-lasting cold and helpless sandstorms, making people haggard; The hillside is just a little tender green after a few winds and sand and then turned into nothing, the field just showed some new seedlings after a sandstorm was all buried, farmers replanting has become the norm, there is a local proverb "yellow sand worships the canal, chyme crushes the cow", in fact, it may be a mentality of people who desire a good harvest and despise the wind and sand, or maybe it really indicates a good harvest? It hasn't been verified, and it hasn't been honored.
Although every family was extremely poor in the last century, the hometown people were always so hospitable, the people were simple, the neighborhood was harmonious, and whenever relatives and friends were greeted by family members from afar, there were indeed "fathers and old people who were surprised to look at each other, relatives and friends gradually came out to greet each other." Like a crane, cherish the hometown feelings. ", the villagers unite with each other and help each other, and the whole team will lend a helping hand when they encounter difficulties, even passers-by, as long as you don't eat, the villagers will do everything they can to entertain, even if it is boiling water vegetable soup, it will never make you hungry. People in the village never lock their homes when they go out, because there is never theft here.
There are many delicacies in my hometown, and the most difficult thing to let go of in my memory is; Stewed lamb, oil cakes, buckwheat dumplings, and pork stewed vermicelli... Husliang lamb is indeed a boutique in cuisine, especially cauldron mutton; A group of diners stewed a whole sheep in a large pot, the smell was really fragrant and refreshing, and some people said that the smell of meat could be smelled from two miles away, which was indeed true. Stewed according to the number of participants "opened", known as its "friends", that fragrant ah is really amazing, that kind of enjoyment is better than the emperor, race over the gods. Oil cake buckwheat noodles is a necessary food for the red and white banquet of hometown people, and in the era of extreme food scarcity, what "table" is there, a meal of cake buck noodles, a meal of miscellaneous vegetable steamed buns can be regarded as a banquet. At the same time, hungry people can also release and enjoy it happily in the banquet, remembering the record of someone enjoying twelve bowls of buckwheat noodles and eight slices of cake in a banquet, which shows that the belly of people at that time was indeed "empty". Pork bone stewed sauerkraut is also a mouthwatering delicacy of the people, but only people who live a rich life can taste its taste, and those who live poorly may not even be able to feed pigs, and pork stew vermicelli can only be eaten during the New Year. Whenever the full moon or small festivals are celebrated, people can only eat some yam soup soup dipping vegetarian cake (at that time oil is also extremely scarce, people generally cannot afford to eat oil cake), or hemp paste dipping cake. After the reform and opening up of land contracting, people's lives have undergone earth-shaking changes, and the fathers and old folks in their hometowns have not only broken free themselves from poverty but also greatly improved their lives; the remaining households have more than 100 sheep, and grain crops are the icing on the cake. Unfortunately, there are fewer and fewer people here, due to the country's promotion of ecological construction, coupled with the complex geological structure here, the migrant workers in the city have no intention of returning here, resulting in the aging of the population, on the other hand, because of the 2001 Saxiang and town Tiandinggou as a township-level establishment has since become history, in the next generation of Tiandinggou is just a place name.
Hometown; It has gradually drifted away, but "where is not my land, the hometown has not been forgotten." Raise your eyebrows at your brother and drink and drink. ”
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