When it comes to spring, people from the surrounding counties and cities are rushing to Wulian for the race. Go to see the flowers, go to climb the mountain, while admiring the beautiful scenery with "ahh It seems that if you don't go to the five lotuses twice, it is equivalent to not having spring.
The five lotus is indeed worth running, the spring flowers bloom and the beauty turns the sky: spring, forsythia, apricot blossoms, early cherries, peach blossoms, mountain rhododendrons, one stubble after another, compact and spectacular, like a beauty contest, the last group of beauties have not yet stepped off the catwalk, the next group will not wait to come up, probably they also know that the spring neck is too short, and they can't show their faces if they don't grasp it. When the snow-white locust flowers on the mountains are finished, spring can be regarded as a perfect retreat.
In the spring of Wulian, anyone can make an invincible blockbuster. Huoshigou, Dawang, Hulin and Beishan, as well as many other sparse and small villages hidden in the mountains, simple stone houses, mottled stone walls, winding stone roads, old apricot trees in front of and behind the houses, chickens and ducks strolling, the folk customs are simple, quiet and peaceful, as if time has stood still there for a thousand years, making people slowly bloom a green lotus in their hearts.
Longtan Lake is quite like the Little Three Gorges, the mountain road is winding, the cherry blossoms are entwined, and the mountain is going upward. Three or two photos do not show grandeur, slow aerial photography to see its moving face. The mountains are silent, the flowers are silent, and they are so beautiful that people want to cry: "Oh my God, why is it so beautiful?" A classmate asked, "Three Gorges?" I flatly denied: "No! This is our big five lotus!"
At the end of April, Jiuxian Mountain will be dressed in red and hung with colors to celebrate - thousands of acres of wild rhododendrons, densely blooming all over the mountain. The top of the mountain is lined with huge rocks, and the mountains are clustered with clusters, and the verdant mountains and the red colors of the rhododendrons reflect each other, and they look particularly handsome.
Throughout the spring, the five lotuses were very busy, busy blooming and blooming! Before the last flower event was over, the little cherry was busy going to the market. Along the old road of cherry blossom viewing, people rush to the five lotuses again, and they are impatient to try it.
In our hometown, cherries are called cherry pearls, describing them as crystal round and like pearls. "The wind curls in front of the slanting sun, and thousands of pieces of blue oil leak red beads", "Pick it up and look at it on the plate, all of them are pearls". This bead can not only decorate, but also treat the stomach. You can buy them at a fruit store, but it's better to pick them from the trees. There are thousands of cherry beads on the tree, but your stomach is limited, so you pick and choose, and each one is carefully chosen. Squatting on a tree to eat, and being picky - hmph!
"I don't feel that the streamer is easy, and the branches are yellow with apricots." In recent years, agricultural science and technology have developed rapidly, shopping channels are simple and cheap, from early spring to late autumn, there are apricots on the market all over the country, with different shapes and tastes. can be eaten and eaten, I still love the mountain apricots of Wulian. In my mother's words, "It smells like an apricot!" The ripe mountain apricot, like a little girl on the plateau, has a slightly red face, embellished with freckles, and when it is broken, it is sweet and silky, and the face is so bad that people can't control it.
In the summer, we also love to go to Wulian. The vegetation in the mountains is dense and shady, and the temperature is several degrees lower than outside the mountains. Go for a spin, stay for a while, and the heat will fade immediately. After eating the delicacies of the mountains again, I came back full of energy.
In autumn, I want to go to Wulian. The five lotus in autumn is colorful, and the appearance is completely different from spring, the key is that the local products are abundant, so that you will not go in vain. Crispy and sweet little Jin Shuai, thick and mellow mountain mushrooms, sweet and floury mountain chestnuts, as well as pine tiger pupa, clams, grasshoppers, blind seeds, stupid sweet potatoes, stupid taro, small yellow rice, large yellow rice, there is always one for you.
The people of Wulian are also good. Although the nine sons of the dragon have their own tempers, the characteristics of one side of the water and soil to nurture the other side. The whole country recognizes that Shandong people are "upright", and Wulian people have to add "simplicity". When dealing with simple people, you don't need to be wary. One time I was climbing to someone's tree to eat cherries, and the owner just came. I wanted to run away like a thief, but the uncle smiled and comforted, "Don't run, eat! Aren't cherries just for eating!" Another time we stood outside the wall of our house and looked at the old trees in the courtyard, and the old lady smiled and beckoned us in, and asked us where our house was, and if we were thirsty? It doesn't feel like we're rushing in, but like visiting old relatives in the countryside.
I also love to buy things from Wulian. The price is good, and they are not short of catties. Money and goods, they still can't stop, forced to stuff things into your hands, stuffed you are embarrassed, but they laughed and quipped: "It's okay, uh, a handful of green onions, a handful of vegetables, it's not a good thing, it's all grown by yourself, it's worthless!"
Every year, I go to Wulian several times, in addition to watching flowers and climbing mountains to satisfy my cravings, the main destination is to go to Ding's house, sometimes I go by myself, most of them accompany my friends to go - Ding Gongshi Temple is an important project for me to promote Wulian culture. Since 2015, I have watched "Golden Vase Plum" eight times, and the more I watched it, the more interesting it became, the more in-depth I watched, and the more disdainful I was of those assertions that Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng was Zhang San and Li Si. I am soft-spoken, and I don't have the strength to determine that Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng is Ding Weining, but the local dialect sprinkled throughout has made Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng have nowhere to escape. Dialects are something that is engraved in the bones. It is not uncommon for outsiders and people from other provinces, especially southerners, to write one or two sentences of our dialect here, but a hundred times of the great work, from beginning to end, are the dialects and customs of Wulian and Zhucheng, and Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng can't hide it wherever he comes from.
Another concern I have about Ding's house is Su Shi. More than 1,000 years have passed, and Su Shi's White Crane Tower only has three words left: "White Crane Tower". However, he knew that Mizhou had visited this treasure land several times in the past two years, and turned his love into words that have been passed down through the ages. Si people have gone, Si things have passed away, I went to Ding's house to pay tribute to the great writer, to feel the atmosphere of the mountains.
My hometown is Zhucheng. Compared with Wulian, Zhucheng has a good industrial foundation and an early economic take-off. At that time, when it came to Wulian, the people of Zhucheng pursed their lips and disdainfully: "Poor son!" But these years have been reversed, and the people of Zhucheng raised their legs and ran towards Wulian. Almost every weekend, classmates and friends from Zhucheng went to Wulian. The five lotus, which borders the soil, has become the back garden of the people of Zhucheng. Not only do they see the good mountains, rivers and scenery, even if it is a bowl of mutton soup, the five lotus is also extraordinarily fragrant. Now speaking of Wulian, the old family has a smile on their faces: "Wulian is a good man!"
Really, for the people of Rizhao and the surrounding areas, Wulian has beautiful landscapes, rich products, and simple humanities, and it is indeed a "good place" for people in the city to relax. Compared with the long-distance travel of the boat, to the five lotus is easy and close; poetry is not necessarily in the distance, the beautiful Wulian rivers and mountains, everywhere is the fertile space of poetry; Alps you may not be satisfied with the water and soil, but the good of the five lotus is close to the skin and bones.
Wulian is really a good place.
Text / Wang Laosi
Source: Rizhao Daily
Photo provided by: Propaganda Department of Wulian County Party Committee