Recently, the popularity of the labor documentary variety show "Let's Farm the Land" has become more and more popular. This show was quietly launched at the beginning of last year, and ten big boys who debuted in the entertainment industry were found and took them to the countryside to farm for half a year. At first, the planning of the show puzzled many people - who wants to watch farming? Who wants to see ten big boys farming? One is half a year?
However, now, the show has become popular. The "Farming Team" held a concert, with millions + fans, and all kinds of news related to the show will become a hot search topic.
Wenyijun often wonders, what is the reason for such a circle-breaking response?
Perhaps the answer lies in the show's slogan - "Believe in the power of the land".
When the musical teenagers return to the pristine land and hard field labor, when they grow up in teamwork bit by bit,
As a result, the confusion and anxiety of young people were cured.
And this kind of rather "primitive" healing and growth also reflects the emotions of many urban young people today: fleeing from the city and returning to the countryside; At the same time, it also conveys a very simple truth: serious efforts will be rewarded.
This is the power and inspiration of the land.
"The power of the land" is also written in literary works, and Wenyijun will share with you those touching words related to the countryside and farming in this special topic!
Title Picture | "Let's Farm the Land" official Weibo
Curated | Literary and artistic
"Wild celery everywhere" Yin Xueyun
A village is richer than a city, with philosophy, humanity and history. Only a village can be called home.
I found that the smell would spill out of houses, trees, people, livestock, farm implements, granaries. The smell is a little old and a little broken, but it makes me obsessed. I was thinking about what I was obsessed with, and much later I gave myself an answer - I was obsessed with a place called a village.
The night in the countryside is brought to life by all kinds of sounds, there is no light pollution here, the sky is clear color, the stars appear small, the starlight and moonlight leak in through the cracks in the window, and the distance between people and the sky seems close. Squinting her eyes, she seems to be a fairy who can fly.
As soon as the dawn was embedded in the early morning sky, the morning glory opened its face gorgeously, pink, sky blue, and purple, a scene of flowers, even if it was windy and rainy, they were not afraid, their faces were facing the sky, unobstructed, and that kind of splendor had a childish naughty or weird. When his gaze touched her, his laugh lines expanded like a halo.
One day, I suddenly smelled the village on the embankment at sunset. That smell is caused by sound, it's cow mooing.
"It's Winter, It's Spring: Upgraded Color Illustration Version" Chi Zijian
And those authentic farmhouses, the farm tools are always polished to the brightest, and the ones that should be put in the barn shed are put in the barn shed, and the ones that should be hung on the gable are hung on the gable, unlike our farm tools, all of which are piled up in the corners of the wall, let the wind and rain erode, like a group of ragged beggars. Even so, I still love our family's farming tools, their dullness and the dirt that is covered with age.
I may forget the eyes of many of the people I have seen in this world, those that are hollow or greedy or jealous, but I will never forget the eyes of the farm implements, which will forever shine brightly in my memories, infusing a ray of gentleness and calm into my eyes that have grown tired and melancholy through the vicissitudes of time.
"Letter from the Grass and Trees" and "Citizen of the Earth" Zhang Yangyang
Green vegetables were the first letters I wrote from my hometown. It was read with a soft sorrow. Like the knife fish before the Ming Dynasty, although the fish bones can be swallowed, they also scratch their throats when they swallow, and they are itchy. There is a small ink in my room, and the person who paints this painting is quite clever, although it is not as elegant as the old man Baishi, but those few light strokes of ink can still make people feel the bone feeling of the small jasper (I have always thought that green vegetables have bones). Thinking of the days when the wind is light, the fields of my hometown are like a manuscript printed with fresh shading, and the flat bottom line of one ridge after another makes a child's handwriting so neat. I write about greens, greens, greens, and the occasional wildflower punctuation.
Don't dig out the sunflower when you touch the dew, and don't cut the leeks in the middle of the day. It took a long time for our ancestors to understand the growth habits of plants and give us a few soft family mottos. "The night rain cuts spring leeks, and the yellow sorghum in the new cooking room", Du Fu and Wei Ba reunited that year, and drank a lot of wine, which is estimated to be home-brewed Du wine. It's a common meal, even if it's lunch, you can only cut the leeks. Although there is no delicacies, life is full of emotion and friendship. In my hometown, after the leeks are cut, they are covered with ash from the stove and watered so that they can sprout quickly. I don't know if there was such a farming habit in Weiba's hometown at that time.
After a few more years, I left the countryside and lived in a place where only people remained. On an evening when I missed the sheep in particular, I met the ancient Greece poetess Sappho, who was looking at the warm pastoral song "The sheep return to the pen, and the children are thrown into the mother's heart", and I loved this soft verse as much as I saw the gentle eyes of the sheep I had fed.
"Selected Prose of Li Hanrong" Li Hanrong
By spending time with plants, one becomes honest, kind, gentle and understands that kindness will be rewarded. There is no hypocritical plant, no evil plant, no lazy plant. Plants don't bloom to show off, they open for themselves and inadvertently light up your eyes. The plant works all its life, and even when buried in the soil, it does not forget its responsibilities. You have no intention of spilling a drop of water, and the plant will return you a flower in the coming year. No one tells it the philosophy of life, the philosophical mentor of the plant is deep in the earth.
(The illustrations in this article are from "Wild Celery Everywhere", "Citizen of the Earth", "Selected Prose of Li Hanrong")
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"It's Winter, It's Spring: Upgraded Color Insert Edition" | Chi Zijian
"It's Winter, It's Spring: Upgraded Color Illustrations" is a collection of Chi Zijian's new prose works in recent years and his highly regarded classic prose masterpieces, accompanied by a number of photographic images taken by the author. From the white mountains and black waters to the blue sky, from the early morning and twilight to the cold moon and the sun, from the snowy winter to the vibrant spring, these photographs add a bit of poetry and philosophy to the book.
Chi Zijian explores the true feelings of the world from the life and death of all things, and moves from the cold winter of life to the warm spring of the years, and this kind of touching fragments constructs her unique prose world. Whether it is reminiscing about the past, lamenting life, or literary rambling or artistic contemplation, the desolation and warmth revealed between the lines of the book are like a sunset in the snowy fields of the north, which is true and beautiful.
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"Wild celery everywhere"| Yin Xueyun
This book focuses on the life trajectory of a girl who has left the countryside, and records the colorful rural life, as well as the traces left by other people who set out from the countryside. Under this theme, the chapter title is "Season", which has the flavor of farming, and the flow of the seasons refers to the progress and changes of the times, and depicts a warm and powerful picture of rural life and a vision for the future through the description of the people and events in the village.
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"Letter from Grass and Trees" | Zhang Yangyang
"Letters from Plants and Trees" is a collection of essays about plants, some of which have been published in magazines such as "Tianya" and "Zhongshan", and the author is Zhang Yangyang, a young writer from Jiangsu. The book selects 56 kinds of common plants in daily life, such as greens, leeks, swallow shoots, lettuce, Chinese vegetables, Xia Cai, Maran, radish, eggplant, mushroom, etc., and the author reproduces a plant world rich in life, poetic space and true heart for readers with delicate writing. In the author's writing of plants, the habits and characteristics of plants themselves, the symbolic meanings given to plants in literary works, and the author's sincere heart all form the unique literary temperament and aesthetic character of the text.
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"Citizens of the Earth" | Zhang Yangyang
"Citizens of the Earth" is a new collection of essays by Jiangsu writer Zhang Yangyang after "Letters from Plants and Trees", which is a collection of works written about insects and beasts. The writing is smooth and has a high aesthetic value. The book selects 52 kinds of common plants in daily life, such as sheep, foxes, turtles, frogs, snakes, camels, hares, pigeons, hoopoes, ants, snails, etc., and the author reproduces an animal world full of life, poetic space and true heart for readers with delicate writing.
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"Selected Essays of Li Hanrong" (Famous Prose Collection · Color Illustration Edition)
This book is an anthology of classic essays by the famous writer Li Hanrong, focusing on the selected Chinese textbooks, classic passages and some new works of the Chinese reading test questions of the high school entrance examination. The book revolves around the six themes of nature, life, nostalgia, warmth, soul and tradition, including fraternity for hometown, relatives and all things in the world, self-reflection on the soul and spirit, and sincere reverence for tradition and history, giving readers the inspiration of truth, goodness and beauty. Li Hanrong is good at using poetic and beautiful and aura language to express a strong and full sense of life and rich and delicate spiritual experience. His prose is not only highly readable, but also a classic model for secondary school students to read their assignments.
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