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"Taste of Huzhou" Guest Author: Li Shijie
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On the border of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui, between Yi (Xing) Chang (Xing) and Guang (De) stretches the remnants of Tianmu Mountain, and the peaks at an altitude of 400 to 600 meters are one after another, endless and mountainous. There are mountain passes in the midst of the lofty mountains, and the trickle of the mountains and rivers converges into streams that flow endlessly, and the mountain people live in these mountain passes behind the mountain and the water. Yichang and Chang have a special name for these mountain passes as "岕" (pronounced kǎ or kuò sound, with "ka"), which was written "嶰" in ancient times, which was derived into "岕" around the Time of the Qing Dynasty, which means that "two mountains are sandwiched" between the mountains, but it is also very graphic. Historically, the common people rely on the gifts of the mountains, the sunrise and the sunset, through hard work to live a subsistence life, they in the closed mountains, foreign exchanges or trade goods, they must cross the mountains, and then formed a mountain road, really can be described as "the ancients to make a living, step by step tears."
Luo Yue is a large valley, 5 km long, and there are some small valleys on the left and right sides, from the entrance to the inside are Tea Leaf Jiao (安頭岕), Changzi Yue, LiTou Yue, Xi Yue, and Dong Yue. From Xijiao to the "Sanzhou Ancient Road" can be taken to Taihua Mountain (town) in Yixing, Jiangsu Province, from Dongyue can be climbed to Yixing Dazhu Seaview Area, and the Yuemingling of Yuanmen Zongcun Village, which passes through the bottom of the yue in the middle, is the main channel for luoyue and Yixing in the old days, and it is also an integral part of the ancient post road from Nanjing to Hangzhou since the Song Dynasty, that is, the "Ninghang Ancient Road". Nowadays, the traffic is developed, life is rich, although these ancient roads located in the mountains have lost their original function, they have become a place for fitness or visiting the ancients, which can not only be idle and pleasant, but also find fun and beauty.
One late autumn day came to Luo Yue Village in Coal Mountain Town, enjoying the beautiful autumn colors along the way, and Luo Jing, a little girl from the village office, received us. I offered to go to the home of the famous old Chinese medicine doctor Yu Jiasheng and the academician Luo Minxing of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and she accompanied me to the village, along the way she constantly shouted to my grandfather, grandmother and villagers to say hello. Casually ask her about the situation of the elderly in the village, she replied like a few families, there are 13 elderly people over 90 years old, one of whom is already a 103-year-old old birthday star, Luoyue Village is indeed a good place with beautiful mountains and rivers and pleasant health.
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Yu Jiasheng is a well-known old Chinese medicine doctor in Changxing, the treatment of stone diseases is one of his great skills, and because of his deep research on Yue tea and famous for "Luo Jiao Tea Sou", unfortunately he died in 2009 at the age of 90, and it is a pity that he could not visit him before his death. This time I came to the Yu family, mainly to see the Yu family tree compiled by the old man in his later years, I know that the Yu family is the second largest surname in the village after the Luo family, and moved to Luo Yue in the Ming Dynasty. His daughter-in-law, who was eating lunch, put down her chopsticks and took us to see the old man's desk, and the hut where he sat in the auditorium before he died remained the same, although he could not see it because of the family tree loan, but he read a collection of poems by the old man, which was worth the trip. One of the early poems reads:
The broken rivers and mountains sighed with pity, and He Couldre was tormented by the enemy.
The young sword shadow slashed across the place, killing Dongyi and restoring the old heavens.
A previously excerpted poem by Yu Jiasheng's teacher, Mr. Jin Zichang (i.e., Jin Tao), "Gengchen New Year's Day", was composed in the Luoyue Mountains during the Spring Festival of 1940:
The Central Plains are full of dust, and there is another spring in the mountains.
The country is unforgettable, and the years are still remembering Gu Gengchen.
If you want to hold the sword, it is difficult to drink Tu Su drunk for a few rounds.
Strike the knot of the strong heart song Lao Ji, Wang Shi undecided weeping lonely minister.
The background of these two poems is that after the Lugou Bridge Incident on July 7, 1937, the Japanese army invaded China in an all-round way, and Huzhou and Changxing Counties fell in late November. The remote village of Luo Yue suddenly flooded with a large number of fleeing people, including Mr. Jin Zichang, a famous scholar in western Zhejiang. Mr. Jin Zichang originally lived in Changxing County, Pheasant City, knowledgeable, is one of the "three soldiers in western Zhejiang", loves to collect books all his life, and the "Hua Jin Lou" library at home is famous in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but when the Japanese army invaded, the "Hua Jin Lou" and the collection of books and manuscripts were destroyed in the war. Witnessing the atrocities of the devils, Jin Tao and Yu Jiasheng, who lived in a secluded mountain village, expressed their indignation and determination to resist to the end in the poem, and Mr. Jin Zichang also sent his two sons Jin Baichuan and Jin Qianren to the military camp to kill the enemy on the front line, and the second son, Jin Baichuan, finally bathed in blood on the Xianggui battlefield and heroically sacrificed his life.
Leaving the Yu family, I walked to a place called "Shopshang" and came to the home of the famous theoretical physicist Academician Luo Minxing. It was a place of great people, and a golden phoenix flew out of the ravine. Luo Minxing's parents are both elderly people in their nineties, but they are in good spirits and refreshed. The name of Luo Yue is said to be related to the famous Poet Luo Yin of the Tang Dynasty, who is said to have taken refuge from this for more than ten years at the time of war and chaos at the end of the Tang Dynasty, and later became Qian Yue's adviser, and once saw a genealogy of Luo Yin's surname, that is, Luo Yin as the ancestor. But Mr. Luo Shimei took another view, he also held out a set of treasured family trees, saying that Luo Shi has now multiplied to the 71st generation, the ancestors are Luo Yilong, Luo Yihu brothers, as early as the Han Dynasty from Jiangxi Longhu Mountain came here, has lasted 1800 years, the name "Luo Jiao" is because the Luo surname lives here and got its name. I can't judge the authenticity of this, and I feel that the old man Luo Shimei's statement may be more reliable, but no matter what it is said, there is no doubt about the long history of Luo Yue, and it can even be called one of the oldest villages in the Changxing Mountains.
In the middle of the small talk, I asked about the chief of gold in passing, and I really asked the right person. I followed the old man's finger to the outside of the courtyard and saw a traditional house rarely seen in Luoyao Village, which is lined with villas. He then took me to the former residence of Jin Zichang, who was only a few dozen steps away, and said that Jin Zichang was very obsessed with reading books, and even if he squatted in the pit, he held books, and when he was a child, he studied in a private school on the second floor of the Jin family, and more than a dozen children hired a teacher to attend classes. The golden house sits on the north and faces the south, the west side is only the box house, the middle has built a new building, the east side still has a main house and a box room, and there is also a cousin of the golden chief. It turned out that his grandmother was the aunt of the chief of gold, and her family was in this small valley on the Luo Yao shop, and it seemed that it was still a big family. When the War of Resistance Came, all the large and small families of the Jin family defected here. Mr. Kaneko Chang, who came from a large family, was a scholar who did not produce and once had a hard life, but fortunately at the end of 1943, the New Fourth Army came.
Although the memorial buildings of the New Fourth Army's Jiangsu-Zhejiang Military Region in Luoyue Village have not been preserved, Luoyue, as a large village within a radius of ten miles, has dense buildings and a good mass base, and was an important activity site of the New Fourth Army in that year. Yu Jiasheng's notes have a paragraph that records: "On New Year's Day 1944, when Tan Guang (a pseudonym of Comrade Yang Hongcai), commander of the Independent Second Regiment of the Sixteenth Brigade of the New Fourth Army, led the troops stationed in Luo Yuzhang to celebrate New Year's Day, Mr. And I were invited to attend. During the banquet, the people's general was very heavy, and immediately gave 300 yuan to the anti-japanese currency, and showed the Changxing anti-Japanese democratic government to give Mr. 30 yuan per month to help Mr. Ji's life. Mr. Yu Jiasheng was also happy about the arrival of the New Fourth Army, and after the New Fourth Army won the great victory in Hangcun, he gladly wrote a poem "The New Fourth Army Fought a Great Victory":
The living tiger is born of the dragon disciple soldier, and the name of the Hangcun Battle Tree.
The captives were captured and the cannons were surrendered, and all the people shouted in unison.
From Dianshang Village to the north to the deepest part of Luo Yue, is the Yuanmen Sect Village at the foot of Mingling Mountain, the village in the Qing Dynasty County Chronicle recorded the name of the place is called "Lingdi Foot", and then because this is the ancestral residence of the Luo surname, and people are prosperous, the clusters live, the houses are connected, and the rainy day does not need to hold an umbrella, before changing the name to "Yuanmen Sect". The county chronicle records that zhu Sheng, a hermit in the late Ming Dynasty, once built the Ming Li Lou at the foot of Mingling Mountain, which seems to be here, and he left a poem praising the clouds:
I don't know what year Mingling started, but today Fang opened the Mingling Building.
The root of the tongue is really smelly, and the peanut nose is smelling differently.
Delicate does not take the flag gun defeat, algae painting disciples increase dragon and phoenix sorrow.
The name is infinitely non-one, and the blank ancient head is written.
The tea that Zhu Sheng praised is the world-famous Ming Dynasty "Yue Tea", named after the unique title of Yichang and Changxing, that is, it is produced exclusively in the valley where Yixing and Changxing meet, especially the quality of the Yin tea produced by Luo Yue. Mingling has a long history of tea production, according to the Ming Dynasty Zhou Gaoqi's "Dongshan Yao Tea System" recorded: "According to legend, there were Han kings in ancient times, who lived in Mingling, and taught children's art tea", there has long been a Han king who hid in Mingling, and usually took pleasure in children's art tea. As for the name of Mingling, although Zhu Sheng believes that "I don't know what year it began", the biggest possibility should be that from the beginning of the "tea immortal" Yuchuanzi Lu Tong hidden in Luoyuedong Mountain, he composed the "Seven Bowls of Tea Song" as Mingling. Extending to the Ming Dynasty, the reputation of Yue Tea actually overshadowed Guzhu Purple Shoot Tea, which was respected by the literati yashi, Xu Cishu, Xiong Mingyu, Feng Kebin, Zhou Gaoqi, and Mao Peijiang successively wrote "Tea Shu", "Luo Yue Tea Record", "Yue Tea Notes", "Dongshan Yue Tea System", "Yin Tea Collection" 5 monographs, and the praise of celebrity poetry is even more innumerable.
Luo Yue tea has many peculiarities, such as pure wild rather than tea garden production, and the harvest is not before the valley rain festival but three days before the summer, and so on. At first, I didn't know that there was the Mingling Ancient Road here, but because I loved tea all my life, I was full of longing for the reverie "Yin Tea", and the "Tea" of Mingling was another name for "Tea", so I would come here with my friend "Si XiRen" to pick summer tea, and I accidentally found that there was a long and dangerous ancient road leading to Yixing. Changxing Juyang and Yixing Juyin, this is probably the origin of Luo Yuecha's victory. I regarded the thick tea leaves I had picked as treasures, and when I returned home, I quickly tried according to the ancient method of "washing first and cooking later", and the result was that they all became unbearable "moldy dried vegetables". Fortunately, later in the tea room of the tea person Zhang Wenhua tasted the taste of The tea, it looks like a cup of boiled water, the aroma is fragrant when it is held, and the tea taste is strong and the aftertaste is different.
Mingling, also known as Grape Ridge, is an east-west mountain range. The ancient road is northwest-southeast and crosses the mountain range, about 15 miles long, the local "upper seven miles, lower eight miles" said, the top is a place called "Minglingtou", 528 meters above sea level, eight miles to the south is Luo Yue, seven miles to the north is The Lingxia Village in Yixing. Standing on the head of Mingling, the sky is high and cloudy, and the blue sky is like a wash, but there is still no feeling of climbing high and looking far, because the ridge stretches out to the east and west, and the top of the yellow pagoda on the east side is the highest peak, although it is not as shady as the bamboo sea along the way, but it is also rich in vegetation, and it is difficult to look at the distance. Although the cobblestone ancient road in front of it is tempting, the car is parked on the side of Luo Yue, and if you go to Lingxia Village and then return, you are really physically weak, so you have to turn back on the spot.
Not walking the Mingling Ancient Trail in its entirety, especially failing to challenge the top of the Yellow Pagoda at the highest peak, was ultimately unhappy. The next week, a group of friends was taken by bus to Yixing and started climbing from Lingxia Village in the northern foothills of Mingling. Lingxia Village formerly belonged to Mingling Township (later renamed Mingling Township), and is now merged into Zhangzhu Township. The ancient town in Yixing has the saying of "Jinzhangzhu and Yinhu Fu", because these two towns have been the wharves for the distribution of mountain goods since ancient times, and the bamboo shoots, washed brooms and other local specialties produced in the northwest mountains of Changxing are mostly exported to these two places by horseback mules, including luojiao villagers who process raw materials for the famous Changzhou combing grate, and also take the mountain road. Lingxia Village is located in the northern foothills of Mingling, the villagers live with babbling water, the ecological environment is excellent, is a well-known "longevity village" in Jiangsu Province; although the village is isolated in the mountains, but the historical heritage is deep, the villagers are mostly surnamed Lu, is the hometown of Lu Xiangsheng, a famous anti-Qing general and national hero in the late Ming Dynasty, and was also the base of the New Fourth Army during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.
From the beginning of stepping on the Shizi Ancient Road, from time to time to meet donkey friends from all over southern Jiangsu, it seems that the Mingling Ancient Road has become a perfect experience for outdoor sports enthusiasts to practice their feet. From the foot of the mountain to the mountainside, the bamboo sea is continuous, and the blue waves are pleasing to the eye. At an altitude of 400 meters above sea level, the well-preserved ancient road is still vertically upward, but the donkeys mostly walk from the wild path on the side slope. Hesitating to follow them, the soft ground covered with weeds and leaves feels fresh, and the scenery is very different, sometimes cliffs, sometimes strange rocks, and climb to the top of the mountain in a pleasant experience. The peak of the mountain is a bare flat land of quartz sandstone, about 30 square meters square, and a huge sign of lake blue is erected on the west side, which reads: "The first peak of southern Jiangsu, the top of the Yellow Pagoda, the main peak of Mingling Mountain, 611.5 meters above sea level". Legend has it that there was a Liusu Temple at the top of Mingling, which was built in the Tang Dynasty, and the name of "Yellow Pagoda Top" is related to this.
Here to interject gossip, come to the top of the Yellow Tower, must not be misled by the signs set up by the Jiangsu side. According to the "Changxing Gazetteer": "The top of the Yellow Pagoda, the mountain. Alias Grape Ridge. ...... It is the junction of Changxing and Yixing, Jiangsu, with an altitude of 611.5 meters. Therefore, this is also the highest peak of the mountains in Changxing County. In the past, Wutong Mountain was always thought to be the highest peak of Changxing, but it seems that it has been misunderstood for many years. Looking down from the top, the mountains are low in the near distance, the peaks are stacked with greenery, the vast expanse in the distance, full of vitality, and the villages and towns adjacent to the three provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui can be seen. Under the feet, the Yichang Expressway is like a white practice, passing through the tunnel from the foot of Grape Ridge Mountain, and the Ninghang Passage of the new era is just around the corner, and the former ancient road will no longer be the scene of "making a living and spilling tears" in the past.
The top of the Yellow Pagoda leads east to the Yixing Great Bamboo Sea, but due to the relationship between physical strength and time, no attempt was made. We turned back the original way, returned to the ancient road in the northern foothills, and then climbed the "Mingling Head" from the ancient road, the stone level of the mountain road is basically intact, and there is a huge stone that is said to have passed by the founding emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty and left footprints along the way - "Liu Xiu Stomping Foot Stone", and soon came to the Mingling Head at the watershed of the ancient road. The ancient road to Luo Yue is winding and winding, it is not easy to go down the mountain, and the ancient road that few people take has been paved with smooth moso bamboo leaves, so that I, a person who often walks on the mountain, has also fallen three times. This walk, I was pleased to find that the ancient road had been repaired as old, like walking on the ground, but a fat big brother who was traveling with him was extremely sad, still broke his pants with a heavy fall, and when he was worried, he saw him pat his ass and stand up, making everyone laugh.
Then come to the bottom of the ridge at the bottom of Luo Yue, the middle stream of the big stream, the sound of the rushing of the stream playing happily, the bamboo forest next to the stream is mixed with wild tea trees, and the sparse pale white camellia flowers attract people's attention, making people look forward to the beauty of bamboo shoots breaking through the soil in the coming spring, and the tea buds contain fragrant fragrance. The old house in the jungle, although the owner has left, still has a mottled mud and stone wall, immersed in the depths of the green mountains, silently greeting the time of spring to autumn, cold and summer, as well as the old farmers who dig bamboo shoots in early spring and cut bamboo in late autumn, a scenery in the depths of Taoyuan.
Leaning down the cement road beside the mountain stream, he followed a friend to his uncle's house. This old man, named Luo Hannian, was born in 1926, lean and clean, quick thinking, but it was a little difficult to understand with a thick Yixing accent. He spoke slowly and logically, and the scenes of seventy or eighty years ago became clear in his account. He was the first student of the first middle school in Changxing County, the "Changxing Wartime Junior High School Tuition School", founded in Coal Mountain Town in 1940, and one year when he returned home from vacation, he happened to encounter a Japanese devil sweeping, and the "Oriental soldiers" who did not know the height of the sky and the thickness of the earth led the military horses to climb the Ming Ridge, and the tall-headed horses actually rolled down from the mountain and fell to their deaths.
He also took the initiative to tell the follow-up story of "Hangzhou Village Cannon", although he was not at home when he migrated with the long-term middle school to study, he was still impressed by the details of the villagers. The devils were defeated by the attack of the New Fourth Army in Guangdehang Village, especially when they lost a 92nd infantry gun, they were even more embarrassed and angry, and searched everywhere in the mountains of coal mountains, looking for nothing. As a result, after the generals of the New Fourth Army dismantled the infantry guns, Lu Daoming, the director of the garment factory, was responsible for transporting them to the Dongyue Valley in Luoyue with the villagers, and buried the equipment in a coffin. The story of "Hanging Village Cannon" is still talked about by villagers to this day, but listening to the living old man himself is a different memory.
When leaving LuoYue Village, there was a slight pause at the Land Temple at the mouth of the village, the so-called Land Temple of the townspeople, which used to be one of the twenty-eight stars in the sky dedicated to the grass and trees under the heavens, and the tea tree, as the southern Jiamu, was once "Wu Zhonggui", and it was natural to worship Liusu. The legendary "Liu Xiu" did not go to Yixing and Changxing, but it was actually a dialect that harmonized with "Liu Su", so it deduced many legends of the han Dynasty "prince" Liu Xiu's escape, adding a legendary color. This temple was famous in the Ming Dynasty, according to Xiong Mingyu of Changxingzhi County during the Wanli Dynasty in the "Luo Jiao Tea Shu": "(Luo Yue Jiao Tea) is the most difficult to obtain the chessboard top, the yarn top, the male goose head, and the MingLing." After the old temple, there is no two stems, and the incense is not scattered, which is called the upper product. "The wild tea behind the Land Temple is the best of the Tea. Looking back at the mountains in the middle of the mountain, silently reciting the names of chic peaks such as "Yarn Rising Peak", "Male Goose Head", "Chessboard Peak", etc., reluctantly leaving, and waiting for the spring to be bright and bright, let's visit one by one!
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