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Every village has an endless story to tell, but because many of them are commonplace, there is no specific description of these villages in the county annals. For example, when did my hometown, Little Cow Village, become a village? No one in the village knows.
According to historical records, Xiangcheng County was founded in the 26th year of the reign of King Qin (221 B.C.), and there are villages in each county, so it is said that the villages on both sides of the Yunliang River have existed more than 2,200 years ago. According to the Neolithic Longshan village ruins, it is hundreds of years away. According to the ancient town of Linying County, King Su and Daji lived in the city at the end of the Shang Dynasty, so it can be deduced that there were villages and tribes around the city 3,000 years ago. In which dynasty and which dynasty was the small cow village built? Since there is no written record, no one can verify it, so it can only be written as "a long time ago". (If you want to appreciate other beautiful texts written by Mr. Yue Ganye, please click on the following link: Do you know? Behind this delicious food, there are many sad stories)
A long time ago, there were two families in Xiaoniuzhuang, one surnamed Niu, and the legend of the old generation was that it was moved from the Niuzhuang on the north bank of the Yinghe River in Yulin Township, Xuchang County (we call it Niuwan here). At that time, the big eunuchs were rich and powerful, and occupied a large amount of land, and the Qing Dynasty had the theory of horse racing.
The family of Niuzhuang may have seen that the land here is fertile, so they ran more than ten miles to reclaim here, the land was opened, and the harvest was troublesome. Later, there were more people, and it was named Xiaoniuzhuang (there was a big cow village in Linying in the southeast six miles at that time), and since then there has been Xiaoniuzhuang on the territory of Xiangcheng County.
Later, I don't know where I moved from, a family surnamed Huang also settled here, living in the west of the surname Niu. There is a long pit in the middle, and this pit also has a story. At that time, there was a lot of rain, it is said that ten years and nine waterlogs, a thunder and lightning flashes in the summer, the downpour rain does not stop, the water of the three villages of Brick Bridge Shop in the west, Chen Qiyuan, and Youfangsun all flow to Xiaoniuzhuang, and now the street in the village is the official road from Xiangcheng County to Linying in ancient times, the water overflows through the south of the official road and enters the reed pit, and flows into the big pit from the reed pit to the east, and then flows to the south along the ditch to the distance. Over time, the ground in the street was much lower, and it really became a flowing ditch, and the water overflowed people's waists when it was deepest.
The rain stopped the big pit full of water, it is not dry all year round, according to the I Ching feng shui, it is beneficial to the surname of the cow, people eat well water, the cow drinks the pit water, people and animals are prosperous, so the cow's house is built near the pit.
The terrain in the west of the pit is much higher than that in the east of the pit, and it is still the highest place, and the old house of the Huang family has long disappeared.
The population of the two families was larger than that of the Huang family at that time. At that time, the population was small and the land was abundant, and only a small amount of land could be planted with traditional farming methods, so the family cultivated 30 to 50 acres, and the food was enough to eat. Much of the land was deserted and overgrown with weeds, and it was slowly cultivated when there were more people.
The two families have their own fields, each doing their own things, and do not interfere with each other. A few years later, there are more people in the Huang family than the Niu family, and they are stronger than the Niu family in all aspects. At that time, people were seriously superstitious, and the shopkeeper of the Niu family wondered how could this be, was there something wrong, and was suspicious in his heart, as if he was riddled with a serious illness, and he wanted to find a Mr. Yin and Yang to see.
One day, the cattle shopkeeper had nothing to do, stepped behind his back, and slowly came to the crop field in the southwest of the village, bending down to pull weeds. At this moment, Mr. Yin and Yang, who were leading a camel, and his apprentice came from the west path, and the master and apprentice walked and talked, and saw the tomb of the Niu family and said to the apprentice: "You see that the tomb of this family does not occupy a good feng shui, and the wealth of the people is not prosperous, and the life is not going well." ”
This happened to be heard by the shopkeeper of the cow, and he thought: "This person can see the family situation when he opens his eyes and looks at the tomb. So he shouted, "Sir, stay here, I have something important to do, can I go and sit at home?" As soon as Mr. heard someone call him, he knew that he was right, so he said, "Yes, I'll go to your house and sit down." ”
The shopkeeper led Mr. to his home, poured tea and handed cigarettes, and warmly entertained him. Then let the family kill the chicken and cook. Full of wine and food, smoking and drinking tea, the conversation is to the point.
The gentleman asked, "What is this village called?" and how many surnames does it have?"
The shopkeeper replied: "It's called Little Niuzhuang, and there are two surnames, my surname is Niu, and the other family is surnamed Huang." ”
Mr. said: "Your family's wealth is not prosperous, just because of the surname Huang, Niu Shenghuang will die." ”
The shopkeeper asked, "How do you say this?"
The gentleman continued: "The cow is yellow, called the cow yellow, the yellow must kill the cow, and the cow can be taken to take the yellow, and the yellow ox will also die, causing the yellow land to be famine." ”
When the gentleman said this, he was so frightened that the shopkeeper broke out in a cold sweat, trembling and said, "This ...... What's going on?"
Mr. laughed: "Don't worry, I have my own way." To avoid beef yellow, it must be treated with medicine. ”
The shopkeeper asked: "What kind of medicine do you use, you prescribe it, and I will send someone to catch it." ”
"It's not to catch, it's to please. The gentleman said.
The cattle shopkeeper was even more confused, thinking: How can I ask for medicine?
The gentleman was worried when he saw the shopkeeper of the cow, and then said: "I mean to let you go and invite a family surnamed Yue (Yue and medicine are homophones in the Xuchang dialect) to come, not let you take medicine." ”
The cow shopkeeper suddenly realized: "Oh...... This is easy to do, my hometown of Hebei (Yinghe) Niuzhuang and Yuezhuang are close neighbors, like a village, and calling brothers and sisters like a family. ”
Sending away Mr. Yin and Yang, the cattle shopkeeper arranged for someone to buy gifts to go to Yuezhuang to invite Yue's family into the village, and since then Xiaoniuzhuang has the surname Yue. Since the Yue family moved into Xiaoniuzhuang, the Huang family slowly declined, and soon moved to another country, while the Niu family prospered, and the people and land grew rapidly, and the tomb moved to the south of Guanxiao Road (today's 344 National Highway). Our post-50s and 60s generation saw the Niujia Tomb and the Huangjia Tomb in the southwest of the village, and after a long time, no one added soil, and slowly disappeared and crops were planted.
Through this incident, people later fixed the camel as a common saying, who has a hurdle that can't be passed, will say "find a camel to see what the reason is", but the bezoar does not live in history and has been broken very early.
Yue Ganye, 70 years old, from Niuzhuang Village, Fanhu Township, Xiangcheng County, Henan Province, graduated from junior high school in the third class, is a farmer and lives in Beijing.
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