Text | Tang Ying
The light moonlight reflected on the microwave, silently soothing the dreams of the fish, and the sleeping birds among the dense branches were awakened by the footsteps of the morning run, chirping two or three times, and falling asleep again. Gradually, a pear blossom white floated in the east, shimmering brightly, and the black and dark strange buildings on the shore of the back lake were also carved out by this relief.
Autumn colors of the back lake. Photo by Li Jian, all-media reporter of Hunan Daily
On the shore, there is the Mangyan Art Museum with exquisite creativity, perfect combination of tradition and fashion, a silver cloud bridge connecting the island in the center of the lake, and a "visible" bright light icon for the city study.
On the other side of the shore, there are art museums of artists such as Zhu Xunde, Duan Jianghua, Chen Hexi, Lu Yu, Tong Kemin, Chen Feihu, etc., with elegant and streamlined lines and neat vertical straight lines silent shadows, and there are Qin songs from the North and South Art Schools.
After a while, the surface of the water began to be cast by the rapidly changing morning light, and the leaves and flowers and grass silk were also stained with various colors of emerald green and golden brown, but the color was still slightly chaotic, and it was a painting format stained by ink. In such a quiet picture, a white heron that has just woken up from a sweet dream is quietly watching how the fish disturb its shadow.
The cool breeze smells of aquatic plants, the blooming hibiscus flowers are swayed by the morning breeze, and the dog's tail grass is covered with crystal beads. In the shade of cherry trees, cypress trees, and ginkgo trees next to the trail, the number of people who practice in the morning is slowly increasing, there are gray-haired old couples, there are men with strong tendons, there are girls with long hair flying, and many parents bring their children out together - on the lane around the lake, on the trail, on the waterfront boardwalk, people walk, walk, jog, run, and the footsteps of "pedaling" flutter softly on the road, together encouraging the sound of the heartbeat of the earth.
The birds finally woke up, fluttered and flew into flocks, calling and flying towards the distant foothills. The trees in the mountains are accustomed to this style, and they have been open to the verdant embrace for thousands of years.
You see, the seventy-two peaks of Nanyue Qiu, Yue Lu drew this successful end, but the name of Yuelu Mountain is due to the "Records of Southern Yue" of Xu Lingji in the Liu and Song Dynasties of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and Yuelu District is named after the mountain, which is the only area in Changsha City with "Shanshuizhou City". When I was sixteen years old, I went to Changsha to participate in the provincial capital literary pen club, until I was admitted to Changsha University of Science and Technology, and then worked in Changsha for decades. Later, my work unit and family moved to Hexi, and I became a real Yuelu person, so I have seen the snowy and cold wind howling of Yuelu Mountain in winter, admired its autumn mountains and tourists like clouds, felt its lush green night breeze in summer, and also had the romantic appearance of mountain flowers in the spring breeze. I've seen it as a backdrop to the city from countless angles.
In particular, when the sun is good, there will always be a red sun falling from the mountain beam, and Yuelu Mountain will be particularly "eye-catching", at this time it is the background of flocks of birds throwing into the forest for the night, and at the beginning of the moon, the moon seems to hang a small lamp for the night reading.
For Changsha, Yuelu District, where universities are located, is also like a reading lamp, which makes me often feel that this mountain, water and continent are the three souls of this Changsha city. For example, the Xiangjiang River nourishes the livelihood of the people on both sides of the river, the Orange Island in the river is like a giant ship leading the scramble, and the Yuelu Mountain, which houses the Yuelu Academy, Yunlu Palace, Wulu Pagoda, and the tombs of many revolutionary martyrs, is the charm of Changsha City. In this long volume of history, the birds of the sky are many commas, periods, exclamation points, question marks, ellipses...
When the sky is bright, more symbols wake up in the university student dormitories around Houhu Lake, and the students like hardworking birds merge into the campuses of Central South University, Hunan University, and Hunan Normal University to start a day of thirsty learning, and then return with the sunset. After dinner, some students looked at the window or read, some walked along the lake in groups, and a little later, the night runners also came downstairs and ran around the back lake.
I think that all the students who started from Houhu Lake will be sprinkled hundreds of miles away in the future, and their time studying here will become the best memory in their lives. Every reed in the memory is kind, the green willow breeze, the light breeze, the back lake ripples layer by layer, all this is kind and beautiful.
In fact, everyone who approaches the back lake will think that the days of approaching the back lake are so beautiful!
The water on both sides of the rear lake surface isolation blocking net is "clearly distinguished". Photo by Tian Chao, all-media reporter of Hunan Daily
On weekends, people drag their families with them, or friends and colleagues come to the back lake, they set up small tents on the grass by the lake, spread clean mats and can have a picnic, and also drag campers to set up hot pot or barbecue grills in the camping area, some eat, some play, some walk around, adults or children, bicycles or scooters, three or three like fish freely shuttling on the waterfront trail, or kites in the spring, open folding tables and chairs in the autumn to play playing cards under the lakeside trees, and stay all afternoon. More people are famous, looking for their favorite art galleries along the back lake one by one to check in, admire and indulge.
Around the lake for a week, it doesn't take a lot of time, whoever comes to the back lake can look here, and then find interesting and favorite places, and even houses of various shapes can make people find the feeling of shooting "blockbusters", including the retro old European coffee and western restaurant, the steel and iron "scaffolding art museum", the black tile and red brick "door and window art space", and the mangyan art museum and other places.
I've been to Back Lake many times, dining on the lawn by the lake, painting in the art gallery, and walking around the boulevard with my friends, which are the most peaceful and beautiful days of my life. Not to mention the Xinglin Vanilla Oil Painting Exhibition "Xiangjiang North to Baili Gallery" launched at the Mangyan Art Museum during the Mid-Autumn Festival, many of my oil paintings were among them, which made my hobby shine with the happiness of "art" for many years.
When the Xiangshui water descends from the source of the towering Nanling in southern Shonan, it flows northward along the canyons, depressions, and faults and ravines running north, gushing into the cave garden, joining the Yangtze River and rushing to the sea. As a cultural person who came out of the depths of the mountains of Shonan and rushed to the wider world, starting from words and turning to oil painting, my works are often related to the background of mountains and waters—because my house is also located on the side of a stream more than ten meters wide, and its flowing water has clanged through my childhood and adolescence day and night. Such a stream gushes out of the deep mountains, runs through all the rushes, and finally flows into Xiangshui, passing through the city under Yuelu Mountain, and rushing to the sea of the Yangtze River...
As a literary and art worker, in fact, I have been paying attention to the construction and development of Houhu International Art Park, but it was only later that I heard my friends say that its predecessor was Yuelu Mountain Fishing Ground.
In the fall of 2015, the comprehensive improvement project of Houhu Area (Houhu Art Park) was launched, which was built into a collection of original art creation transactions, Huxiang cultural display, art leisure and entertainment, but also including cultural and creative industry parks, college student entrepreneurship parks, Houhu also planted a variety of aquatic plants on a large scale to promote the ecological internal circulation of water bodies and the maintenance of artificial water surface environment, so that the Houhu area has been transformed into an ecological lake, a lake of people's livelihood, a lake of art, and has also become a demonstration area of ecological governance suitable for living and working in the downtown area of Changsha.
In recent years, I have often invited my friends to visit various exhibitions in Houhu, and foreign literary friends come to Houhu first, where people can feel the collision of traditional culture and modern art, and I can often find a new feeling here, becoming a student somewhere, like a deceased person in a certain work, I don't know where I am at a certain time... Think of it, Back Lake is a place where you can let your soul fly - all kinds of different cultures, different ages or genders, different occupations or hobbies, people from the East or West can get a beautiful response in Back Lake.
At dusk, when I walked out of the Mangyan Art Museum, I saw many small tables and chairs on the front lawn of several pubs on several sets of steps in Area E, the background panels full of neon lights were lit up, the speakers were listed, the night was not thick, the night stage had been spread, just waiting for the opening of a musical feast, which would be a night of love of music and freedom, belonging to the collision of young hearts.
As I sighed softly and slowly left, I saw an egret slowly taking off behind the reeds, skimming low across the water, and then flapping its wings over the cypress treetops and heading straight south. This low-flying egret seems to appear often in the waters I pass, and I remember that I have seen it in the paddy fields of my hometown, at the mouth of the Jin River in Baijiazhou, and as if I have seen its clear shadow on the grassy bank of Yanjia Bridge.
Changsha's Houhu Lake is a beautiful natural landscape and a meeting place of international culture, and the Jin River not far from Houhu Lake is also a wild river.
The Xiangjiang River water passes through the Monkey Stone Bridge, and the first catchment in the south is the mouth of the Jin River, and the traffic on the Jin River Bridge is like weaving, which does not affect the popularity of fishing under the bridge. This section along the river high-rise buildings reflect each other into the water, curved water clouds floating grass, green willows weeping on the embankment, wild grass trees luxuriant, the construction of the riverside trail has greatly improved the happiness index of nearby residents, and there are really many anglers on the bank, almost ten steps a post, and children accompanied by parents carrying small buckets and nets in shallow water grass all kinds of fishing, for the occasional catch of small fish and shrimp and rice...
However, if you have leisure, I would recommend that you go up more than ten kilometers to Qingjiatan, Yanjiaqiao, Xujiazhou to see, not to mention the green mountains and green waters after the high-rise buildings subside, not to mention to see the rape blossoms in the spring light, not to mention the endless blossoms of the lotus pond in summer, not to mention the golden waves of rice waves surging with the wind in the autumn sun, just say that the water surface on both sides of the Yanjia Bridge in Dongshan Bay is open and shallow, the scenery is quiet, and there are more anglers camping on the river beach with their families on holidays, you know how good this is a place.
In the deep water, a huge fish jumps up on the surface of the river, and then falls into the water in a clumsy position, and the white of the fish's belly is like lightning, which spoils the people fishing on the shore.
In the shallow water, the egret stood in the inlet, and it did not change alarmed, like a mutton fat jade sculpture that was independent from the world.
Looking up, the birds chirping in the air flew by, they swam for a while, and then crowded hundreds of birds perched on the same tree, rested for a while, and flew like clouds.
This alone is enough to make people look intoxicated, like in Penglai Wonderland, right?
Moreover, along the Jin River all the way up, it is really surprising, and it is a beautiful scenery all the way.
The Jin River with good scenery is nearly 90 kilometers long, and it is said to originate from Zhuangyuan Village, Jinshi Town, Xiangxiang City, formerly known as "Waguan Water", which was recorded in the "Taiping Yuyan" (Northern Song Dynasty) and was called "Jin Gong", and the "Ningxiang County Record" of the Republic of China also recorded that "there is a large lake pond one mile east of the Jin River Bridge, and it is said that Chu Jin Shang House is on its side, commonly known as Shangguan House Field". Retrospectively, Jin Shang's original surname "芈", for the Warring States period Chu State doctor, eat Yi Jin land, his descendants are all with Feng Yi as the surname, a few years ago, there were descendants of the Jin surname went to Ningxiang County Huaminglou Town Zhu Shiqiao to find roots, but unfortunately Jin Shang's tomb has been destroyed in the 70s of the 20th century, only this Jin water is left deep flow, nine curves tactfully, slowly flowing into the Xiang River.
Walking to the eight-acre hill, the sky was dark, wanted to find the Jiujiang Temple, the villagers told that it was also destroyed, it was inevitable to feel a little regretful, so the villager smiled and pointed to the mountains on the other side of the Jin River, introducing that the mountain is called Happiness Mountain, the house in the mountain is an old people's home, more than 200 people live, many city people are here to retire.
How good, look at it wherever you go, this once extremely closed Jin River banks, is not with the tide of development of Yuelu District to create the current convenient transportation of modern happy new countryside, see those hidden in the mountain bend village have been updated from the old dilapidated into beautiful single-family small buildings, the car parked in front of the building, look at the sunny teenagers who returned from school on the road, is the new era to give all this happiness, but you walk by the Jin River, the landscape can still heal all the charm, still show the Qingren Zhang Han " The scenery depicted in the poem "Traveling Out of the Jin River to Changsha Stream":
The son of Hong Kong Hezhi, Qutan flows a few songs.
The two sides of the river are weeping, half spring light green.
The grass is fragrant with wild flowers, and the mandarin ducks are warm for bathing.
The fishing flickered and the fishing rods followed.
Spin live stream cooking and fill it with sour.
Drunken and awakened, dissipated by the stream.
Of course, in my heart, "Mandarin ducks" have been automatically converted into "egrets", and those ducks in the water, chickens in the bush, black goats on the grass beach, old bridges and new bridges on the river, and even the sunflowers that stretch for kilometers on the county road, they also have the opportunity to ingest my shots. These dwellings and rice waves, the distant mountains and secluded waters, everything that lives on the water will be treasured in my memory, or I will turn them into oil paintings and bring them back to the back lake.
From Houhu Lake to Jin River, from Jin River to Houhu, walk for a day, see for a day, and think of such lakes and mountains almost everywhere in Yuelu District, you can't help but praise it proudly in your heart - great, this is our Yuelu, this is the most beautiful and best place in Changsha.
Tang Ying, a member of the China Writers Association, a national first-class writer, a student of the fourth advanced seminar of young and middle-aged writers of Lu Xun Academy of Literature, is currently a member of the party group and vice chairman of the Changsha Literary Union, and has published 16 literary monographs. Among them, the children's novel "Boy Jumping" won the first Zhang Tianyi Children's Literature Award, the Arabic version of the novel "The Myth of the South" was published in Egypt, and many oil paintings were exhibited and collected. He has visited France, Egypt and other countries with a delegation of Chinese writers, and his literary achievements have been recorded in the History of the Development of Zhuang Literature.