Walking in the thousands of miles of Longyuan, the beautiful villages of "seeing the mountains, seeing the water, and keeping the nostalgia" are dotted with green mountains and green waters. When we embark on a journey of "nostalgia, hometown, and nostalgia", we can feel the idyllic scenery of "poetry, picturesqueness, and dreams" with our footsteps, and perceive the simple rural rhyme of "local, authentic, and authentic taste" with our hearts......
The longing for life of "poetry and distance" is all around us.
Silver Flower Village, Gu Jiashan
A flower village full of four seasons: Gu Jiashan
"In the Jin Taiyuan Dynasty, the Wuling people fished for their business. Walk around the river, forget the distance of the road. Suddenly, the peach blossom forest, hundreds of steps between the shore, there are no miscellaneous trees in it, the fragrant grass is delicious, and the fallen flowers are colorful. The fisherman is very different, moving forward again, wanting to exhaust its forest ......" more than 1,600 years ago, with the advent of the Eastern Jin Dynasty poet Tao Yuanming's "Peach Blossom Spring", a paradise that is both real and illusory is presented in the hearts of the world. Since then, the Chinese have a wonderful complex - "Taoyuan complex".
For thousands of years, the world's search for the peach blossom source has never stopped. From the poet Taibai to the rural Confucian, from the famous painters to the ordinary people, all of them regard the depiction and pursuit of the peach blossom source as the joy of life. People always come from thousands of miles with good hopes, hoping to discover this hidden world like this fisherman. To find the paradise hidden in the city, to feel the peach blossom paradise in the depths of the soul.
The Yellow River flows slowly, and on the north bank of the Yellow River, which is 26 kilometers away from Baiyin City, there is a small village like the "Peach Blossom Spring" - here there are white walls and green tiles, ancient trees are luxuriant, the fragrance of flowers is overflowing, the winding paths are quiet, and the flowing water is murmuring, which is the flower village Gu Jiashan located in the central and western part of Shuichuan Town, Baiyin District.
This ancient village surrounded by the Yellow River has a history of more than 600 years, and there are many people with the surname Gu. In the bones of the good people of the Gu family, there is an innate fate of plants and trees. In this quaint village of less than 1,000 people, there are more than 1,000 kinds of flowers planted, which can be described as a veritable "flower village".
"People walk in flowers, such as walking in paintings", take a walk in Gu Jiashan, and you will be intoxicated by the flowers that can be seen everywhere. Bamboo Garden, Garden, Stone Garden, Pear Garden, Farming Culture Garden...... Each theme park is unique and complements each other. Planting flowers and raising flowers is always a major event in the four seasons of the good people of the Gu family. In the courtyard of every house, all kinds of colorful flowers are planted. Triangle plums, moon seasons, roses, peonies, chrysanthemums, hibiscus, and many other flowers that cannot be named.
The good people of the Gu family love flowers and understand flowers. Walking through the ancient alleys of the village, each alley brings people different surprises and stories. Standing in an alley full of flower umbrellas, it is as if you have traveled through time and space to the long rainy alley written by Dai Wangshu. The difference is that the girl with the oil-paper umbrella is not as sad as a lilac, but as sunny as a blooming flower.
Between the corners, and into the porcelain alley, the scenery in front of you is amazing, the blue and white porcelain bowls on both sides decorate the white courtyard wall, telling the beautiful stories in this quaint village, and people can't help but think of the melodious song in the picture: "Azure is waiting for the smoke and rain, and I am waiting for you; The smoke of the cooking stove rises, thousands of miles across the river......"
"Righteous people first correct themselves", "treat others with dignity and sincerity", "filial piety should be exhausted"...... On the wall, a sentence of family style and family motto, and the eyes full of flowers, full of wisdom, but also convey warmth. The century-old towering trees, the cobblestone-paved quiet paths, the winding bridges and flowing water, and the courtyard walls with family style and family motto cards...... This scenery gives Gujiashan Village a unique charm of antiquity, and also infiltrates the history and culture of Gujiashan Village.
Thinking back to more than 600 years ago, the ancestors of the Gu family who migrated all the way from the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River to the land of Longshang took root on the banks of the Yellow River, multiplied, planted flowers and trees, built their ideal homes in their hearts, and left behind the family motto of "everything is better than good and happy, and a hundred flowers compete for the fragrance of reading".
For hundreds of years, the descendants of the Gu family living in this land have inherited the simple and benevolent folk customs, the tradition of filial piety and respect for the elderly, and the family motto of being kind to others, making Gu Jiashan a well-known model village and longevity village.
In 2018, Huacun Gu Jiashan was honored as the annual "Charming Rural Tourism Destination" of "Charming China Town". From an ordinary riverside village to today's "China's Beautiful Leisure Village", "National Rural Governance Demonstration Village", "National Forest Village" and "National Civilization for the Elderly", Gu Jiashan, a flower village with four seasons, has become a new business card of Longyuan rural tourism, and also makes this treasure land on the shore of the Yellow River more beautiful and full of hope.
Diebe Zagana Village
The legendary "Shangri-La": the village of Zagana
Some people say that poetry and distance are actually a kind of life that returns to nature.
In early summer, walking in Gannan, looking up at the clear blue sky with rolling clouds, under your feet is the vast grassland full of color, and in your ears is the melodious singing sound like nature. Here is the magic and beauty of Jiuzhaigou, but also inherited the majesty and majesty of the south of the Yangtze River. Carefully savor, the majesty of the mountain, the spirituality of the water, the lightness of the wind, the fragrance of the flowers, and the tenacity of people constitute a beautiful picture of natural harmony and the unity of nature and man.
In this area of 45,000 square kilometers of land, there are two national nature reserves of Gahai and Zecha, two national forest parks of Lianhua Mountain and Yeliguan, as well as dozens of natural scenic spots such as Sangke grassland and Shouqu of the Yellow River, and 121 Tibetan Buddhist monasteries such as Xiahe Labrang Monastery and Luqu Langmu Monastery, which are national cultural relics protection units, as well as more than ten revolutionary historical relics such as Lazikou and the ruins of the Russian Boundary Conference experienced by the Red Army's Long March, which were rated as one of the "50 places to go in a person's life" by China National GeographicIt has the reputation of "China's Little Tibet, Gansu's Back Garden".
Located in Diebe County in the south of Gannan Prefecture, between the West Yanmin and Dieshan Mountains of the South Qinling Mountains in the upper reaches of the Bailong River, it has been rated as "National Ecological Civilization Construction Demonstration County", "China's Top 100 Counties and Cities with the Most Ethnic Customs" and "China's Top 100 Greenest Counties and Cities".
In Yiwa Township, more than 30 kilometers northwest of Diebe County, there is a village, in the eyes of explorers, it is a secret place created by the gods, and it is a botanical museum; In the eyes of the writer, it is the legendary "Shangri-La"; In the eyes of anthropologists, it is the most typical rural settlement on the eastern edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau; In the eyes of photographers, this is a fascinating wonderland on earth...... This place that people yearn for is the village of Zagana.
In Tibetan, Zhagana means "stone box". Legend has it that this is the place where the god Negadawa pressed his thumb in the mountains, and the locals called it the "Stone City". When we passed through the Naga Stone Gate, the Zhagana Stone Gate and the Guanggai Mountain Stone Gate, the scenery in front of us suddenly opened up. In the distance, the mountains overlap, the forests are lush, the cooking smoke is curling, and the Tibetan villages built along the mountains are scattered, quiet and serene. Nearby, the river is murmuring, the grass is green, the mountains are full of flowers, and there are figures working in the fields. Farmland, rivers, dwellings, temples and surrounding mountains and forests and grasslands complement each other, and the agricultural landscape and natural landscape complement each other, forming a beautiful picture of harmony between man and nature.
The beautiful landscapes of Zhong Lingyu have nurtured the simple people living here, and also gave birth to a special agricultural culture that complements and integrates nomadic culture, farming culture and forest culture. The Gannan people, who love life and are grateful to the sky, have a reasonable combination of various production methods such as nomadism, farming, hunting and wood mining, and coexist in harmony with nature. In 2017, the "Zagana Agroforestry and Pastoral System" was selected into the list of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Sites (GIAHS) after being reviewed by experts from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Nowadays, thanks to the policy support of the beautiful countryside and the fiery development of eco-tourism, this "fairyland on earth" in the depths of the mountains and rivers, like the smart white clouds in the mountains, is getting higher and better.
Huida River Village
The most beautiful ginkgo village: Tianhe Village, Hui County
Pastoral is the spiritual home of inheriting agricultural civilization and folk culture, and it is also the spiritual "hometown" of Chinese people looking for nostalgic memories. Driving all the way south from Lanzhou, we came to the splendid Longnan, which is known as "the key to Qinlong, the throat of Bashu".
Geologist Li Siguang once said that "Longnan is a complex treasure area". Nature has generously bestowed Longnan with abundant gifts, where mountains, river valleys, hills and basins are intertwined, and it is the only region in Gansu Province that is located in the Yangtze River basin and has a subtropical climate. There are 2 national nature reserves, 3 national forest parks and 2 national wetland parks. There are also high-quality peppercorns, delicious walnuts, the best suitable area for olive, high-quality medicinal source production base, as well as tea, shiitake mushrooms, fungus, wolf tooth honey, ginkgo biloba...... It is a veritable "thousand-year-old medicine town", "natural medicine storehouse" and "hometown of Chinese olive".
In early summer, Longnan is full of green waters and green mountains, and the rural tourism has rejuvenated more and more ancient villages, and our trip to Longyuan has also had a richer and deeper experience in this land.
Driving along the winding and winding highway all the way, passing through the mountains and mountains, the eyes suddenly opened up, and a mysterious and quiet small village by the mountains and rivers appeared in front of you, which is the "National Forest Village" and "China's Most Beautiful Ginkgo Village" - Tianhe Village, Jialing Town, Huixian County.
Wandering in Tianhe Village, the tall and upright ginkgo trees are full of vitality. There are 229 ginkgo trees growing here, which are more than 800 years old, including 153 ginkgo trees that are more than 1,000 years old, forming a rare community of ancient ginkgo trees. In the early morning, the warm sunlight shines through the gaps in the leaves of the ginkgo trees, and the whole village is sprinkled. As far as the eye can see, the eyes are full of freshness, and clusters of turquoise ginkgo biloba leaves shimmer with a little light. A gust of wind blows through the leaves and makes a rustling sound, listen carefully, every weather-beaten ginkgo tree seems to tell a deep and distant memory.
Pick up a ginkgo leaf and look at it carefully, the beautiful leaf is like an open fan, and it is like the shape of a heart. In the entire plant kingdom, there seems to be no plant with gentle curves like ginkgo. What's even more amazing is that compared with the fossilized ginkgo biloba leaves hundreds of millions of years ago, the shape of the leaves has hardly changed, and time seems to have traveled through tens of millions of years in a ginkgo leaf.
In the depths of this mountain, because of the ginkgo tree, we have found the "poetry and distance" we yearn for. "Enjoying the ginkgo scenery, eating ginkgo fruit, tasting ginkgo tea, tasting farmhouse meals, and living in ginkgo homes", in Tianhe Village, the tranquil rural life records the bits and pieces of ordinary happiness in the days with ginkgo.
Bidding farewell to the "Ginkgo family", we came to Huaqiao Village, Changba Town, Kang County. This is the "hometown of Chinese tea horse road culture and art" and "Chinese rural tourism model village", with houses with blue tiles and white walls, and antique inns and B&Bs with unique charm. Walking on the village path, the cultural square, the traditional Chinese medicine health hall, the village history museum, the e-commerce room, etc. are dizzying, and bursts of fragrance waft from the oil mill, wine mill, mill, and tofu mill from time to time. Flat roads, quaint rope bridges, neat courtyards, vicissitudes of Bodhi trees, simple folk customs...... Today's Huaqiao Village, with smoke curling, green trees, birds and fish, beautiful and peaceful.
In the afternoon in Huaqiao Village, naughty and cute children frolicked in the newly built rural cultural compound, and groups of old people in groups of three or five were boiling pots of tea in the small courtyard in front of the house, chatting about homely things. A glass of water, a pinch of tea, a tea can, a stove, a chopsticks, a tea cup, and a few roasted dates and rock sugar, slowly boiled, sipping, the way of life of Longnan people is contained in this cup of boiling tea soup, the entrance is bitter, but there is always sweetness. Nowadays, sitting on the beautiful mountains and rivers, carrying extensive resources, and embracing abundant products, the people living in this "Longshang Jiangnan" have ushered in a better and happier life.
Xiliugou Village, Sunan (all pictures are data maps)
A different style under the Qilian Mountain: Xiliugou Village
In the warm and romantic grassland of Qilian Mountain, there lives the Yugur people, a unique ethnic minority in Gansu.
Since ancient times, the Qilian Mountains, which stretch for thousands of miles and traverse the Hexi Corridor, have watered the oasis of life on the Silk Road with rich and clear milk, and fed generations of Hexi sons and daughters. If you face the map, you will clearly see that nearly 70% of the Qilian Mountains are located in Sunan Yugur Autonomous County. In addition to the vast grassland, there are beautiful and generous houses in various villages, which are located in an orderly manner; Smooth and clean concrete roads pass through the village; A bright street lamp illuminates the lives of the people; The clean and tidy farmhouse courtyards are unique, showing a vibrant scene everywhere, which makes people forget to leave.
Walking into Xiliugou Village, Dahe Township, Sunan County, I saw houses with white walls and blue tiles lined up one after another; On the riverside corridor, the river is murmuring, flowers are blooming, and trees are shady; In the village, there is laughter and laughter in the pastoral house; In the cultural square, the villagers danced, exercised, or chatted, which was very comfortable.
The village has become more beautiful, and the number of tourists has increased. Walking into the village road of Xiliugou Village, the spruce trees on both sides are dense and the juniper trees are luxuriant, and it is a lush and green scene. Entering the courtyard, the small courtyard of the characteristic homestay shows its "true face", which makes people shine.
Today's Xiliugou Village has not only landscapes and pastorals, simple houses, Danxia landforms, but also adjacent to the county's location advantages, and has great potential for tourism market development.
"Sana Make", "Ashas", "Song on the Road", ...... The Yugur people living in the vast grassland sang their attachment to their hometown, and sang their inner simplicity and love for a better life.
"Hey, the Yugur girl is me, hey, girl, I have a lot of songs in my heart...... Yugu people's minds are like grasslands, Yugur people are like snow-capped mountains, Yugu songs are like clear springs, and the stories of Yugur people are circulating...... "Under Qilian Mountain, the distant and pure sound of nature echoes again in the quiet and peaceful grassland, which carries their life and culture, and also carries the national strength of self-improvement. This is not only a "golden grassland", but also the spiritual home of a nation.
At this point, "Poetry and Distance" have long accompanied us in our walking and exploration. Surrounded by white walls and tiles and green plants, walking into the beautiful countryside of Longyuan, a new picture of beautiful countryside is slowly unfolding in this poetic habitat...... (Text/Wang Lin)
(Source: Gansu Daily)