The Ancient Tea Horse Road has rarely been seen in my impression, but I have long had his status in my soul, and I have more expectations and fantasies in my heart, but I have never had the opportunity to see it.
In the autumn of last year, I went to Lianyuan Lantian to visit the ancient buildings of Shiyetang, and for the first time I saw the true face of Lushan. We walked slowly along the stream, walked on the stone road, crossed the stone bridge, listened to the murmuring of the stream, felt the wind and the sun, and our thoughts also traveled through historical time and space, and in the Song and Han dynasties, we led the pack horse forward. It's a pity that this is in the B&B area, and the road is not long enough, and the historical traces of the ancient tea horse road are rarely captured, and I don't feel the artistic conception of "the ancient road is thin and thin in the west, and people are at the end of the world".
After returning home, I checked some information and learned that there is also an ancient tea horse road near the city where I live, which can be reached by driving thirty or forty miles, and it is not far from the Hongjiashan National Forest Park that I am familiar with, so I had the idea of taking a walk.
The Ancient Tea Horse Road in Louxing District, Loudi City, is located in Xinzhuang Village, near Hongjiashan National Forest Park, Shuangjiang Township.
We arrived at the starting point of this section of the Ancient Tea Horse Road, that is, we heard the sound of the stream flowing, perhaps because of the previous rain, the stream was full of ditches, the torrent was brave, violently hitting the stones in the stream, the jade beads splashed, the water splashed around, there was a feeling of vitality, which made people feel refreshed and happy, and felt a thousand emotions.
"The great river goes east, the waves are exhausted, and the eternal romantic characters. To the west of the base, humanity is, Zhou Lang Chibi of the Three Kingdoms. ”
I thought to myself, imagining what the grand occasion of the ancient road should have looked like, whether it was the melodious bells, the long sound of horses' hooves, or something else? I also imagined the difficulties and joy of the horses carrying Anhua Black Tea to the north and south, the loneliness and loneliness of the tea horse people, and the narrow path through the mountains and mountains, ups and downs, twists and turns, how the tea horse people remember it.
Retract your thoughts, and then look at everything in front of you, leaving traces of wild traces are gradually fading, gradually submerged in the long river of history, and finally can not disappear, this can leave such a section, perhaps at the entrance of the mountain, nearby residents activities, if it is a sparsely populated place, it has long been covered by vegetation. Just like the place where you used to cross the grassland and climb the snowy mountains, it has long since disappeared, but that spirit is eternal. The disappearance of the Ancient Tea Horse Road, its cultural and historical value will not disappear, and will exist in the memory of the people's war.
When I was a child, I saw horses walking across the embankment of the creek next to my home, carrying large bags of goods, which has some similarities with the Ancient Tea Horse Road, that is, it must pass through a place with a stream, because horses need water and tea horse people can't do without water.
Thinking about it, I traced the stream, walked dozens of meters away, crossed a bridge, went from one side of the mountain to the other, admired the pavilions and horses that had been built recently, and the flowers planted, and soon came to a path paved with stones, a ramp about thirty or forty meters long, and there was a butterfly spring, the spring water was clear and sweet.
Walking further in, I saw the three big characters written with a red pen on the stone wall in the mountain - Butterfly Valley, the name is very beautiful, and it also makes people think about it, and I feel that the valley should be a place where flowers bloom and butterflies dance. We walked into the valley and were amazed by the scenery in front of us. The Valley of Butterflies is a well-deserved name, with thousands of butterflies of many different colors flying around and having fun among the flowers, and when people see this, all their fatigue is swept away and all their worries disappear cleanly.
A short distance further on, is the Liuquan Pavilion, I did not go up, at this time the sky began to fall raindrops, so we hurried home, so as not to get drenched and embarrassed, and could not visit the poet, so calculated, also walked about six or seven hundred meters away.
This section of the Ancient Tea Horse Road has beautiful scenery. But I know that the Ancient Tea Horse Road is definitely not a beautiful scenery, most of the places are over the mountains, inaccessible, and full of hardships and dangers. Just like the road of life, how can there be a rainbow without wind and rain.
Mr. Lu Xun said that there is no road in the world, and when there are more people walking, there is a road. The Ancient Tea Horse Road is a road that the tea horse people have walked out step by step and repeatedly, and it is a road watered by sweat.
With the Ancient Tea Horse Road, there is the circulation of commodities, economic development, and cultural integration, which promotes the development of society.
I walked on this section of the ancient road, saw our ancestors, and sighed that happiness is hard-won and needs to be cherished.
Text/Illustration Ningbo