Sit with the flowers for a while
Text | Zhou Huacheng
Wind: How long is ten miles
The spring breeze was gentle, and I remembered a place called Basho Tail. Banana tail, how nice the name is, poetic, cool. The banana tail is a long valley, more than twenty miles long, a clear stream, and the stream is more than this bush of plantains.
Plantains are classical plants that grow in Tang and Song poems. Li Qingzhao wrote: "Whoever planted a banana tree in front of the window, the yin filled the atrium." The yin is full of atrium, and the leaves are relieved and have residual feelings. Wu Wenying's "Tang Duoling": "Where to synthesize sorrow?" Autumn from the heart. Even if it is plantained, it will not rain. Reading such a sentence, one can't help but think of planting a few plantains behind the house.
Plantains also grow in silk bamboo music, and Guangdong has "Rain Hits Bashos", and the sound of rain on the strings is lively and lively. There is a man in Japan whose haiku is well written and is known as "Hai Sheng", which is Matsuo Basho, and his name has basho and Zen (before 2007, I had been trying to buy his books, but I couldn't find it.) Later, I bought a copy of "Oshu Trail". In recent years, Matsuo Basho's books have been many).)
In the valley called Bashotail, there are twenty or thirty small place names such as "Bashotail" and "Sungai Kou", one by one, which are a word. There are not many families in Basho tail, only a hundred or so, scattered and scattered, hidden in the valley. Deep in the valley, there is a stone wall standing, such as the "Valley of Absolute Love" written in the martial arts novel, and the wild lilies on the cliff are overgrown. The last time I went, Lao He, who had been an accountant in the village for thirty-seven years, accompanied me and said that there were immortal medicines in this cliff, such as "dripping water droplets", which were good herbs for curing snake wounds; "golden gourd", children were feverish and uncomfortable, and they were cured when they were taken. It is rumored that Hua Tuo once came here to collect medicine, so the place where this stone wall is located is called "Hua Tuo Wu".
The benefits of basho, in addition to the beauty of posture and artistic conception, are also practical. The root system of plantains flourishes and develops, and a cluster of plantains is rooted in the stream, like a cement pier. The torrent rushed down, pushing hundreds of pounds of boulders to rumble through, but the green plantains were still there; after the rain, the green mountains were washed, and the banana leaves were very green.
In basho-tailed place, the mountains are high and deep, and there is a microclimate, and the temperature in the mountains is four or five degrees lower than outside the mountains. In the summer, the people in the city go into the mountains, eat wild vegetables, sleep on bamboo beds, and dream of the sound of rain hitting bananas.
The last time I went to bashotail, it should have been twenty years ago - time is really an abyss, red cherries, green plantains, people fall, suddenly old. I never went to Bashotail since. Once, I wrote a short article, "Basho Tail", which was published in the supplement of Hangzhou Daily on September 3, 2007. Who would have thought that in three or four years, I would go to work at that newspaper office and do the job of editor of the supplement. After another five or six years, I left the newspaper office. The plantain tail should still be so green.
Erhe Jun, in addition, I want to tell you that outside the Basho tail valley, there is a river, vast and gentle, called Changshan River. Regarding the story of this river, I will always think of shen Congwen's border city and the Tuo River that flows through the ancient city of Phoenix.
——What a beautiful Phoenix Ancient City, I sighed when I walked along the banks of the Tuojiang River. Changshan River is also such a river, but there is no Shen Congwen and no Xiu xiu.
On such a river, there used to be people coming and going, discharging rows, transporting salt, selling bamboo charcoal and doing small business, of course, officials, poets, in short, a busy river. From Anhui Huizhou, Jiangxi Wuyuan, to Hangzhou, Shanghai, Suzhou, this is a traffic artery, all kinds, three religions and nine streams, all on this waterway to and fro, morning and evening, the river flows endlessly. As a result, Tang poems and Song poems also flowed endlessly on this road. On the river, of course, there are also fishing people. Fishermen loomed on the river between the mist, struggling to manage their lives. So now, when I go to that section of the riverbank, I will think of the fish house and the river fresh food there, which is really delicious.
There was wind there—after talking about it for so long, finally speaking of the wind—the ancient book reads "Shimen Jiaqi." "Chronicle of Changshan County" recorded: "There is a trick on the top of Shimen Mountain, every time the clouds come out, the east is rainy, the west is sunny, and the lush greenery is lush, and there are great advantages in between." "Shimen is also one of the ten ancient scenes of Changshan. So, what kind of gas is this good qi, I often wonder there, is it a kind of smoke, staying in the sky above a certain village for a long time. The good atmosphere seems to be nothing, and it is advisable to look at it from a distance, and its fluttering rises, connecting the beauty of the mountains with the magnificence of the sky, making people look forward to it and flutter. Locals also say that wangshimen can also predict the weather, so the gas is high and far, it is sunny, if the fog is heavy, it can not rise for a long time, and it is likely that the next day will rain - it is said to be very magical.
What we are talking about here is "qi", but in fact, it is also related to "water". Whether it is wind or feng shui, there must be wind and water. Sometimes the wind is still, and the breath is there, hovering for a long time, like a bird perched on the top of a mountain. Or sometimes, the wind is flowing, flowing from this mountain to another mountain, and the breath is also flowing, silky, or pulling the good qi into a long line, all the way through half of the sky.
When we say that when we see the wind, what we see is not the wind, but the flag in the wind that is hula. When we see the flag in the wind hula, what we see is not the flag, but our own heart, hula in the wind. Wind is such a wonderful thing.
For example, on the Changshan River not far from the tail of the banana, there is a place, or a kind of scenery, called "Ten Mile Long Wind". The name is too good – what does the wind look like? is long. How long is it? Ten miles long.
Ah, a good place, every time I went to the wind for ten miles, I had a pleasant feeling, thinking of what the book said, "Twilight spring, spring clothes are complete, five or six crowns, six or seven boys, bathing in Yi, the wind is dancing, and the song returns." "In the late spring, we go back to the countryside to plant seedlings and plant ourselves in the soil like seedlings. After planting the seedlings, we ate and drank in the ten miles of long wind, and at night we lit candles in a room, and everyone read poems, the length of the poems, and the candlelight swayed, as if there was a wind coming from a distant place, at least ten miles long, or a hundred miles long wind. How long is ten miles, and how long is a hundred miles?
I remembered that in such a lingering spring night, such a mighty spring breeze, I would drink and sing.
Flower: Sit with the flower for a while
When the grapefruit blossoms bloom, Erhejun, if you have time, you can come to me. In my hometown, there are two kinds of flowers that are very beautiful, one of which is the grapefruit flower. Grapefruit is a good fruit, the world knows very little; the fragrance of grapefruit is a good smell, the world knows even less. Japanese people like cherry blossoms, cherry blossoms are easy to pass away, people sit under the cherry blossom trees, the wind blows, the petals of cherry blossoms drift away with the wind, making people feel that all beautiful things are not easy to grasp, and their hearts are full of sorrow. Sometimes there is a lot of sadness, but it is really not a bad thing. Treat everything as a precious last time, and you will feel solemn. It is such an elegant thing as cherry blossom viewing, only once a year, only six or seven days at a time, people in the city, this week missed, blowing a gust of wind, falling a rain, next weekend will not have the opportunity to see the beautiful flowers, wait for another year, make people sad, in vain.
I thought of cherry blossoms from grapefruit flowers, and there is no reason, but I think that when the grapefruit blossoms bloom, people should also sit under the grapefruit tree and admire it. In late spring, if I come home from a business trip, come out of the highway intersection, open the car window, and there will be a burst of fragrance wafting into the nasal cavity, which is really very good. Every spring, it is also a happy thing to be able to smell the fragrance of grapefruit flowers like this, and it should be cherished.
Pomelo is a piece of zhaoxian bluestone for the most. Although we all have a grapefruit forest here, I think that the most recruited bluestone is also a kind of stubbornness. One of the important reasons for this is that the "ancestral tree" of Hu Yu is in Chengtan Village in Qingshi, and now if you go there, you can see the two banks of the Changshan River, and the Hu Yu Forest is lush. And when the grapefruit blossoms bloom in the spring, it is the Ten Mile Fragrant Snow Sea.
When the grapefruit flowers fall, the thick petals are spread out on the ground, which also makes people feel a little sad in their hearts. The fragrance of grapefruit flowers has a distant power, and although the petals have fallen, there is still the fragrance of flowers in the air. This makes people happy, and the flowers are still in spring - even if the flowers fall, the grapefruit will not bear fruit for long. Everything is worth looking forward to.
"The flowers are still falling in spring", originally Yu Fan's sentence.
Thirty years after the Qing Daoguang, Yu Yu won the Jinshi, and ten days after the list was issued, he had to take the temple examination, and after the temple examination, it was the imperial examination. The title of this year's imperial examination is to ask candidates to write a poem under the title of "Light Smoke and Rain Falling Flowers", and perfunctory writing. Although the artistic conception of this topic is beautiful, it has a decadent atmosphere of sad spring and sad autumn. Yu Fan saw this topic and wrote a sentence, "The flowers are still falling in spring, and the weather is sunny." "The flowers have fallen, the spring is still there, and there is a bright side here, full of bright breath. A few days later, the news came out, and Yu Fan won the first place in the imperial examination.
Later, Yu Fan learned that this first name was recommended by Zeng Guofan.
When the grapefruit flowers fall, seeing the white petals spread on the ground, it is inevitable that there will be a little regret, which will eventually make people think that soon after, there will be grapefruit fruits on this branch; and soon after, you can taste the delicious taste of grapefruit. Optimists are like this, there is nothing bad or good in the world, but they are just a process, as long as you cherish this process, do not call it a day in vain, do not call the flowers and flow water to go away, it is good.
Another flower in my hometown is camellia oleifera. When camellia oleifera blossoms, there are still unripe camellia oleifera fruits on the branches. Flowers and fruits with branches, hugging children and cherishing spring, everyone thinks it is a spectacle. In fact, the ripening period of camellia oleifera fruit is very long, flowering in October, flowering in November, and flowers blooming on the branches in December. Camellia oleifera fruit cannot be picked until around the cold dew and frost of the following year. Such camellia trees, in the mountains, in the jungle, give birth to full tea seeds, which contain rich and pure tea oil. The drops of oil flowed into strings and fell into the old years, nourishing the cracked life of the people in the mountains.
Once I went to Xinchang Township, it was in the winter, everything withered, we followed the village secretary to climb the mountain in the warm winter sun, and walked through the oil tea trees. On the mountainside, a female writer with a childlike heart broke a fern stick from the slope, sucked the core inside, and used this natural straw to suck up the nectar of the blooming flowers.
This kind of thing is the unique pleasure of country boys. The ability to suck nectar is like riding a bicycle, and the small country boy is very skilled, crossing the calf obliquely through the triangle frame of the bicycle and driving a 28-inch bicycle fast. Even after many years of not riding a bicycle, that skill is still ingrained in muscle memory— picking up a bicycle in a dream, flying on the car and riding it as fast as it can.
The camellia blossoms on the mountain road are really blooming. This camellia is not the camellia flower—the camellia is beautiful and beautiful, and it bears no fruit; this camellia blooms silently, silently falls, and the plain white petals are crushed into mud, except that in autumn and winter, the branches are fruitful. The fall of camellia oleifera, probably some people feel pity, so they pick it up and dry it, store it in small bottles one by one, and can soak water to drink. This is something I've seen elsewhere, in my hometown, and no one has done it yet.
One year I wrote a letter to a friend from afar, and when I finished my business, I mentioned that the grapefruit blossoms had bloomed.
Another year, I wrote a letter to a friend from afar, it was late, the twilight was dark, they were all gone, I stayed alone, and sat with the flowers for a while.
Snow: Something that disappeared
Why talk about snow? Children in the south are always full of magical yearning for snow - saying that it is the south, it is not so southern, if it is Guangdong or Hainan, it is generally not available to see, in the winter in my hometown, I can occasionally see the face of snow. I remember when I was a child, the snow in winter was very thick, and the ice under the eaves was hung a foot long. Of course, this was thirty years ago, and Ice Ling was almost invisible now.
Some time ago, I wrote an article "Things on a Snowy Day", mentioning that Feng Mengzhen recorded a lot of snowy weather in his "Diary of Kuaixuetang". For example, in the diary of the twenty-fifth year of the Wanli Calendar, Feng Mengzhen recorded: On November 23, Xue Ji, very cold, dripping water into frost. The next day, it was snowy, sunny, and cold. On the twenty-seventh day, the snow had not yet subsided. On the fourth day of December, it was heavy snow again, and it ended at night. On the thirteenth day, it was snow and wind again. On the fourteenth day, the snow ended in the afternoon, and I looked around at the Jade Trees of Juyao Peak. Sixteen days, snow, sunshine, cold. Seventeen days, snow, sunshine. On the twenty-first day, it was overcast and snowy, and in the afternoon there were slight snowflakes.
It was snowing so often at that time! And it's ten days and a half months. Feng Mengzhen called his church "Fast Snow Hall", and some people say that he collected Wang Xizhi's "Fast Snow Time QingTi". Not really. When his lonely mountain house was on the beam, it was the first sunny snow, so he took the meaning of "clear when the snow is fast" and named the church "Fast Snow Hall".
In such a cold weather, how will Feng Mengzhen play? This literati who retired from the position of southern sub-supervisor of wine sacrifice in the West Lake first bought land and built a house in the Lonely Mountain at a price of ninety gold as a foothold in his own life. Plant a few plum blossoms, a few bamboo trees, a few mulberry trees. Plant a pond of lotus flowers and enjoy the lakes and mountains on three sides. In addition, he bought a ship and spent thirty gold. The boat became Feng Mengzhen's home floating on the lake. He bought four singers, plus the original singers, to form a family class. The level of this family class is not ordinary, and the skills are outstanding, so that Feng Mengzhen often shows pride. Next, Feng Mengzhen's life was like this, he stored books on the boat, carried Ge Ji, spring flowers and autumn moon, and leisurely toured the West Lake. Boats rowed out and floated on the lake, sometimes not returning for a month.
When he wasn't going out, he would read and write at home, drink and listen to plays. In the thirty-first year of the Wanli Calendar, on the fifth day of the first lunar month, it snowed heavily overnight, and the snow on the tiles in the early morning was bright, and the snow was heavy in the afternoon. On the seventh day of the first year, it was still snowing. Until the thirteenth, it is sunny, and the moon is very good at night. The boat passed by the Yue Ancestral Hall, and every three friends got on the boat, drank tea together, and said goodbye to the broken bridge. On the fourteenth day, the weather was sunny, the moon was very good, there was a slight smoke, and he took Ge Ji on the lake, and received many guests in the boat. He himself was in the boat. At this moment, on the lake outside the boat, the snow is still not stopping.
At that time, the Ming Dynasty was in the Xiaoice river period, and the winter for decades was extremely cold and cold, and even Guangdong also fell heavily. Now, it's the rhythm of global warming, and snow is naturally unusual. After a few shots of snow, everyone shouted in shock.
When there is snow, people also become vivid and interesting. Zhang Dai would go to the Huxin Pavilion to watch the snow, and Gao Lian would guard the West Lake at four o'clock, thinking of ways to play with the snow in the winter. It's all interesting souls, and the snow in the south, there's also an interesting soul. Winters when there is no snow always feel a lot less, especially in the mountains, how can we not fall snow? As soon as the snow falls, Beijing becomes Beiping and Xi'an becomes Chang'an. As soon as the snow fell, Hangzhou became Lin'an, and Changshan became Dingyang. As soon as the snow falls, the adult becomes a child, and you become a poet.
There is also a snow scenery in our place, which is one of the "Ten Ancient Scenic Spots", called "Ball River Snow". The literati of the Qing Dynasty said, "The number of miles is the city, and the broken bamboo is full of silk." Like the moon like frost or snow, a river is as white as a pitiful life. This kind of "snow scene" is not really snowing, and the river beach is full of raw materials for papermaking, a snow white, as if it is snowing. It can also be seen that this place, called the Ball River, was particularly developed in ancient times when the papermaking process was particularly developed.
The papermaking industry in my hometown of Changshan has an important position in the history of Chinese papermaking. Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing, Changshan, Yushan and Kaihua are all papermaking centers in China. There are also records in the Yongzheng Changshan County Chronicle and the Guangxu Changshan County Chronicle, for example, when it comes to this kind of paper, it is full of praise, "the size is thick and thin, the name is very large", and "only the people of Qiuchuan are good at it, and the gongjing is seventy-two to".
Erhe Jun, but if you go to the ancient town of Qiuchuan now, I am very sorry, and I can't see the grand scene of snow on the river beach at all. The ancient papermaking process has disappeared from the tunnel of time. Two years ago, I went to the neighboring county of Kaihua to interview, and found that someone there had restored the ancient papermaking process and reproduced the old "civilized paper". So someone told me that in fact, this "civilized paper" is the name of a paper, not only civilized, but also the papermaking of Changshan people in ancient times. Unfortunately, how come no Changshan people think of this problem, but also to restore the ancient papermaking process, if so, "Qiuchuan Drying Snow" can reproduce the grand situation, it is also very spectacular.
This kind of thing, think simple, do it is extremely difficult. If someone thinks it's funny, they shoot it with both hands, and they don't care about it, they do it. For example, after a heavy snowfall, Zhang Dai will hire someone to punch a boat and bring a teapot to the lake to enjoy the snow, and Feng Mengzhen will take the singers to the boat and float on the snowy lake all day, singing and drinking. Interesting people, or crazy people, can do things at no cost. There are not many such people; such pleasure is the exclusive property of a very small number of people--where it is forced. For example, everyone thinks that snow is a fun thing, but in such a southern winter, it has not snowed, what can you do?
——You can't imagine a heavy snow that is blowing up.
Moon: Who can say clearly about the moonlight
The moon thing, the monks of Wanshou Temple are more clear. The mountain is so deep, the temple is so high, and it is always closer to the moon, and it is also quiet, which has a natural advantage for understanding the moon.
Erhe Jun, I want to say Wanshou Temple, it is not as famous as the Lingyin Temple and the Shaolin Temple, but it is silently located in a corner of western Zhejiang, just a few ordinary mud wall and earthen tile buildings. There are no tall mountain gates or majestic treasure halls. Now, if you go to the mountain gate of The Wanshou Temple, you can feel the silence on all sides, only the birdsong in the mountain forest, and the occasional few human voices, adding a little ethereal to the mountain temple.
But you must have a wonderful feeling that such a place is a place where monks come from. Statistically speaking, Wanshou Temple is the highest temple in Zhejiang Province, and ordinary people like us, standing in this place, suddenly become a tall person. Thinking like this, my heart can't help but be much broader, and I have a little bit of grandeur. I think that if you practice here, you will have more gains.
Hangzhou Lingyin Temple is famous all over the world, and the first abbot is the Yongming Longevity Master. The master of the Master of the Yongming Longevity Master, the Master's Master, is the Master of Gui Chen. Gui Chen's master was the abbot of Changshan Wanshou Temple, Wuxiang Zen Master, known as the "Purple Clothed Monk". In this way, in the last years of the Tang Dynasty, Wanshou Temple was really a famous temple in Jiangnan, because it was the "ancestral temple" of Lingyin Temple. In the Jiangnan Buddhist circles at that time, Wuxiang Zen Master was a leading figure, and he was the master of Gui Chen Zen Master and the master of Guan Xiu Zen Master.
Guan Xiu Zen master, Lanxi people, I have seen Guan Xiu's Luohan figure in the museum of Jinhua, it is really ancient and wild, absolutely extraordinary, when I see it, I can't help but feel reverence. Guan Xiu has a poem "Writing on the Moon", which has a few sentences: "The present people look at this month, and the ancients look at this month." How ancient people's hearts are, it is difficult to tell the present people. "I think that what Guan Xiu was thinking about is also what people are thinking about now, but the present people at that time have now become ancients. We stood on Huanggang Mountain, in front of the Wanshou Temple, and the things we thought about and wanted to go were just the things that the ancients of the ancients had long thought about and experienced.
The mountain temple has its own magic of the mountain temple. Sanskrit sounds are long and zen. It is also a good thing to fast in the temple, or to make a pot of tea, and to listen to the monks talk about the ancients. Time is long. It's been so long that the mind calms down, and there is nothing to worry about. I didn't have the opportunity to stay at Wanshou Temple. If you live in a temple, you can feel the inspiration of nature. Pine winds, mountain springs, night birds chirping, animals singing, are all good sounds in the world.
And at such a moment, the moonlight is like water flooding the mountain forest temple, between heaven and earth, a cool.
This is reminiscent of Su Dongpo's night at Chengtian Temple——
On the night of October 12, the sixth year of Yuanfeng, he undressed and fell asleep, entered the house at the moonlight, and happily set off. Those who have nothing to do with it, so they go to the Chengtian Temple to look for Zhang Huaimin. Huai Min also did not sleep, and walked in the atrium. Under the garden, such as the water is empty, the algae and the water are crossed, and the shadow of the bamboo cypress is also covered. What night without the moon? Where is there no bamboo cedar? But few idle people are like my two ears.
The moonlight of Wanshou Temple is bathed in ancient mountains and rocks, bathed in all living things, and of course, illuminated by ancient and modern people. The path in front of the gate of The Manjuji Mountain came and went, passing by many famous people, but now, the footsteps have long disappeared. In winter, the snow closes the mountain, the snow covers all the footprints, the monks in the mountain house take spring water from the stream to boil tea, and the red charcoal fire can also simmer taro, such a daily life, when there is a chance, when you can feel it with Erhejun.
On that cold night, you can also walk outside the mountain gate, hold warm potatoes in your hands, and look up at the moon.
Zhou Huacheng is a rice field worker, writer and independent publisher. Founder of "Father's Rice Field". He is a student of the 33rd Advanced Research Class of Lu Xun Literature College. His published works include "Spring Mountain Slow", "Flower Hunting", "Twenty-four Sounds", "Taste of Grass and Trees", "Shimoda: Rice Book for the City" and more than 20 kinds, and some works have won the Sanmao Prose Award and the Grassland Literature Award. Planning and editing of the "Yahuo Book Series" and so on.
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