Author: Zhou Yunge
One
The most obvious object presented to people by cow heart hedging is the reed.
Crabapples are green, and white dew is frost. The so-called Yi people, on the water side... what does the "crab leaf" have to do with the reeds? Yes, in ancient times people also called reeds "crab leaves". This poem from the "Book of Poetry, Guofeng, Qinfeng" originated from the Qin folk song more than 2500 years ago, and it is the earliest poem to sing the reeds.
Did the cow's heart hedge more than two thousand years ago have reeds? Wetland experts told me that this place has been a world of reeds since ancient times. In this way, the cow's heart hedging, although silent before it was touched by modern civilization, can be due to the vigorous reeds, and the poetry has long been here. With poetry, I think of "love"—love, love, devotion to love.
Niuxin Hedging, a corner of the southwest of Da'an City, bordering Taonan in the west and Tongyu in the south, is a flood of clear water left by the Huolin River when it entered Da'an from Xingshuchuan Village in Dagangzi Town. The water is not large, nor is it vast, it is not called a lake and a sea, and it is the most desirable to call it "berth" or "bubble". Because a long time ago, in the center of this water, there was a mound like a cow's heart, and people were nicknamed for things, so there is today's name of "cow heart hedging". Approaching it is due to the yearning of people today to convert to nature and pilgrimage to ecology, and when it enters the hearts of people, it should be a special name of it - Jilin Niuxin Hedging National Wetland Park.
As a result, people's footsteps are gathered here...
Two
Traced back to the "Crab Leaf". Consulting the dictionary, online Baidu, the interpretation of the word "Crab Leaf" is basically the same. "Thyropod" refers specifically to a reed that does not have a long spike. And what about this "leaf"? Also a nascent reed. Such an explanation reminds me of its spring vitality and summer vigor.
The spring of the cow's heart hedging seems to have come earlier than the wilderness around it. At the beginning of spring, the temperature is warm, the snow and ice melt, and although the spring cold is still expected to be steep, the sharp buds of the reeds emerge from its core, which are not obvious at first, and seem to be covered by the pale yellow. But a spring rain baptism, just two days of effort, a young shoot will burst out of the height of a handful. Before the sun rises, each tender green reed bud is topped with sparkling dewdrops, exquisite and clear, soaring to the sky. In the fifth month of the lunar calendar, the sky is getting hotter, and the reeds here grow like crazy slender figures. Last year, the golden roots were left behind, just like the golden yellow pants of the green woman, and the yellow and green made the spring color here exceptionally bright. In the autumn and winter of the previous year, if the reeds had been bathed in wildfires, the place where the reeds were the same color of oil green. And the most flying magic pen is those "rest of life" on the edge of winter harvesting, looking like it is about to be swallowed up by the new life, but it is still standing, swaying golden reeds in the breeze, from time to time for the birds flying around in the reed sea to make spring stepping feet, crisp and pleasant chirping, is the most gentle and beautiful singing here!
Three
Looking at this vigorous reed, it is always reminiscent of the verse "white dew is frost".
It left many wonders for posterity, does this poem express "xia" or "autumn"? There is often debate. However, the reeds of the cow's heart hedge interpret its time as summer, not autumn. One summer morning, before the sun came out, I got up early to stroll on the water boardwalk in the reeds, looking at the endless sea of reeds, and I couldn't help but feel a pang in my heart. Yesterday's oily green reeds, one night seemed to drift a light snow, a white and bright patch, the distant view seemed to merge with the lead gray sky. A layer of dense dew is attached to the turquoise reed leaves, just like the fine sweat on the neck of the girl, looking squarely, obliquely, and far away, like a silver-white autumn frost, flashing in front of the eyes for a long time. As a result, the annotations about "white dew as frost" in the books were completely subverted in my mind.
At that moment, my heart was filled with the words of a summer night...
Four
The heat of summer encourages the development of the reed figure. Inadvertently, they grew taller and thicker. After a few days of not seeing each other, they began to pack and then pull out the purple-gold spikes. If Yang Hua, it will take some time, everything will have to allow time to conceive...
A few days ago, the leaves of the reeds were still wielding like swords, and as soon as the spikes were pulled out, suddenly they each raised their own lilac tassels. Yesterday, the green reeds swayed, suddenly floating a layer of lilac yarn, the clouds were light and breezy, it was flattened, brushed together, and occasionally a breeze, it swelled up a little wave. If the breeze blows, they cling to each other, loverly inseparable, and the reeds rustle and whisper to each other. Although they have roots under their feet, their spikes and spikes intersect each other's necks, and the leaves and leaves seem to hold hands, instantly like dancers shoulder to shoulder and waist, when the boundless reed sea flutters with purple and golden love. As far as I can see, the reeds of the cow's heart at this time seem to signal their love to people, and burn with fiery lust.
Ooh! At this time, not only the reeds, but also the birds floating above the reeds? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- And what about the people who come here? There are also many men and women who are married, they never shy away, walking in pairs, lovingly and lovingly... Colorful parasols flutter in the reeds, or wander deep into the reeds, or wander the winding boardwalks, or drive boats on the reed lanes, or sit side by side with the Luzhou Satin. They poured out tenderly and sweetly, and they also wrapped themselves around me...
Five
The reeds of the cow's heart hedging not only contain poetry, but also dedicate its love — nurturing, accepting, and special responsibility.
Cow heart hedging, in ancient times belonged to the territory of Horqin, Inner Mongolia. The water and grass are beautiful, the scenery is beautiful, and the herders' natural pastures. In modern times, it is also because it is located at the junction of the three cities and counties of Da'an, Taonan and Tongyu, which seems to have a sense of marginalization. In the early days of liberation, there were only a few half-ground and half-underground shacks temporarily built by the surrounding fishermen, which were built when people came and demolished when people left. One day in 1961, after the study of the county government, more than 30 households and more than 100 people from more than 30 families were mobilized from shouguang in Shandong to establish a state-owned Da'an cattle heart hedging fishery. Here, they started from scratch, overcame many difficulties such as lack of materials and traffic congestion, and endured the desolation and loneliness of no one for hundreds of miles. He took off the billets and built the walls by himself, built the yard department and family houses, built his own boats and nets, and opened up the land for farming. After working hard for three or five years, he built his new home in this remote and desolate place. At this time, the reeds of the cow's heart are dedicated to boundless love - saving people's lives and crossing people in danger. You must know that at that time, it was the time of the country's economic difficulties, and no matter whether it was coarse grain or fine grain, whoever could eat enough was a happy life. Although it is remote and desolate here, the cattle heart protects the abundant fish, but it protects the Shandong compatriots who come from afar, and also protects the villagers around it. "One bite of small rice and two bites of fish", at that time, it was the day of the gods! This is also the reason why people do not abandon each other and stick to each other. In the eyes of other people, this place is nothing more than a paradise.
How many fish were there at that time? The first generation of people who lived had their own memories, and one word was "thick"! You can think as much as you want. "Thick", that is, the meaning of many, even today, makes people sound incredible. What I witnessed was the autumn of 1976, when my family's production team came to Jiangjiadian to hunt sheep grass, and the shack where they lived was not far from the cow's heart hedging, in the northeast direction of a man named Lanjing Potun. While we were resting, a few of us young people had another task, and that was to herd the horses. Two trailers of eight horses, several young men took turns to put them. One day, I was riding a horse, with 3 horses on my right side, walking leisurely, and suddenly came to the side of the bull's heart hedging bubble. Tripping the horse and letting it eat the little leafy grass sweetly on the edge of the ground, I stood curiously on the shore to watch the fishermen cast their nets to catch fish. Today it seems to be a story, only to see the fishermen forcefully throw a swirling net into the air, the net immediately opened in mid-air, like a big morning glory, a rotation will fall into the water, the fishing man will slowly close the net, a net, you can catch a water basket of fish, that scene is the earliest cow heart hedging impression that remains in my heart.
Back at the shack, I told everyone about seeing the fishing, and I introduced the "hungry worms" of the members. That year, the master who came to Dianzi to cook was surnamed Xian, and his face was sparsely decorated with some hemp pits, and people gave him the nickname "salty hemp seeds". The people in the village who were in trouble with him called him "salty mazi", because he could cook such a job as a big pot of rice and a big pot of vegetables, so the intellectual youth from the city jokingly called him "master ma". This "master of hemp" is not tall, with a square face, a large mouth, swollen eyes, and is particularly good. I love to tell jokes to people on weekdays, and I also love to gossip to young people. As soon as he heard me say this, he immediately came to his senses: "Hey, I said it earlier, we have relatives here!" Wang Honglin, the production captain of the team leader, said: "There are relatives, why don't you 'fart' early." Tomorrow give you a day off and visit your relatives' houses. However, I have to get some fish for everyone when I come back. Upon hearing this, Master Ma agreed, "Good to say!" "Master Ma" did have a distant relative here, and later he really got in touch. Therefore, in the name of visiting relatives, he took the initiative to go to the family to get close. His relatives were not only fishing here, but also taking care of things. The relatives of "Master Ma" saw that he recognized his relatives and were honest, so they told him: "If the members of the society have no vegetables to eat, every three or five minutes you will come here to get some fish and go back to eat them for the big guys." The relative's words were still in the middle, so he said unceremoniously: That feeling is good, the members of the company have not put a little oil and water in their stomachs for many days, and a few guys can't even pull out the. "Don't say, that day," Master Ma really brought back some fish from his relatives. At dinner, the members of the community are like the New Year, a pot of fish, a large pot of sorghum rice, that is, there is nothing left. The mouths of the members eating fish are open, it is difficult to close it again, that is, after eating the first meal and thinking about two meals, one comes and goes, and does not eat fish for several days, people are hungry. "Master Ma" is a smoker, usually like is the "foreign cigarette roll", who wants to hand over a "butterfly flower" "handshake" or something, that is to let him do what he does. Suddenly, people did not improve their diet for several days, and everyone was hungry like cats. At this time, the captain Wang Honglin encouraged the young man who smoked a cigarette: "Who gives 'Mazi' a cigarette!" Needless to say, he understood the captain's intentions. Just listen to him say "Good"! Without saying a word, he put the cigarette roll to his ear, picked up the water basket, put on the horse on the crotch, and went straight to the cow's heart hedge. In the past half a morning, he was full of pride. Look at the cigarette on his ear is missing, whether he smoked it himself or gave it away, it is not easy to say.
Later, I figured it out. At that time, in the cabin moored on the side of the reeds, there were always some fish that were picked up and leftovers, or could not be transported, the people in the yard, or the people in the surrounding tunzi who had no vegetables, as long as they said hello to the fishermen present, they got on the boat and came to the boat with an iron pick, and it turned out that the "master ma" had this trick. Since then, he has been hedging here in the heart of the cow, and he has taken himself as an outsider.
Six
Speaking of cow heart hedging, it is really a fateful fate. Since the early 1970s, a series of water conservancy projects have been built in the upper reaches of the Hollin River, which has led to the shrinking of water sources for cattle nesting, insufficient water supply and precarious fishery production. In 1975, the then Da'an County began to implement the famous "West Cow Water Diversion Project", which is the "West Cow Irrigation Canal" that still plays a role today. The head of the canal started from the Happy Canal section of the XixuetangDi of the Fork Gan People's Commune at that time, and the end of the canal was hedged with a cow's heart, with a total length of 42 kilometers. At the time of construction, the entire construction site did not have a single mechanical equipment, and all the earthwork was picked out by cattle heart hedgers and members of the communes such as Fork Gan, Longnuma, and Dagangzi, who took advantage of the summer and winter agricultural leisure season that year to dig with shovels, shoulders to carry, and flat shoulders. The bridges, culverts and gates of the water diversion project were also completed by the county water conservancy construction team of that year, and this series of projects were completed in the same year and delivered for use, achieving the goal of construction and water inlet in that year. Since then, the water of the cow's heart arbitrage has had the "blood vein" of the Tao'er River.
Later, in 1978, in accordance with the instructions of the province, the county turned the former state-owned cattle heart hedging fishery into a raw material base for the paper industry - Daan Niuxin Hedging Reed Farm. All because of the good quality of the reeds here, it not only has to meet the two paper mills in the county for production of reeds, but also every year in accordance with the instructions of the superior light industry department, transferred to a number of paper manufacturers inside and outside the province. Since then, the fishermen here have also changed from fishing to reed raising, cutting, collecting and guarding reeds. At this time, the cow's heart hedging and its reeds became an important part of the paper industry in that period. And on that white paper, who said that it was not soaked with the poetry of the reeds!
Time flies, entering the new century in November 2011, cow heart hedging is welcoming a new historic opportunity. The Wetland Center of the State Forestry Administration officially approved the Jilin Niuxin Hedging National Wetland Park (test). Especially since 2014, the provincial government has implemented the "River and Lake Connection Project in the West of Jilin Province", and since then, the rippling blue water has a follow-up guarantee for the water source. It not only saved itself, but also revived the big gang bubble downstream of it, which had dried up for more than 20 years, and also improved the regional climate. Nowadays, Niuxin Hedging dedicates ecological love to the society in the name of the National Wetland Park - ecological culture, ecological industry, eco-tourism...
Seven
One day last September, as if I were chasing something, I came to cowheart hedging this afternoon. Although the autumn breeze is already blowing, there is absolutely no sense of depression and sadness here. As soon as you step on here, occasionally one or two large reeds on the side of the reed pond break into view, followed by a large snow-white reed swing. They blow the autumn wind, sway the autumn sun, and spread out like a sea of clouds into the distance...
On that day, there were many people in the cow heart hedge, including white-haired grandfathers and grandmothers, young parents, and flower-like teenagers, as if they were all self-driving trips from home. People wander either on the side of the road, or wander on Luzhou, or wander on boardwalks. I went up to talk to the people who came, and I knew that it was chongyang festival. They came from afar, not to do Chongyang ascent, but to come here to feel the wetland ecology. The straight-talking man said, "Come here to see the reeds, and eat crabs!" "Yes, this day to enjoy the reed flowers and eat crabs, it is not bad to be Yaxing, more interesting." Although it does not ascend to the heights, it also has a long-term sustenance and a different kind of feeling, which is a kind of realm. While I was still amazed by the smell of these friends, I looked up and saw that under the shade of a cluster of Mongolian yellow elm trees, people by the small pond were busy harvesting crabs here. It's not that my sense of smell is insensitive, it's that the reeds are blinding. In fact, deep in this reed is not only crabs, but also fish. In the distance, there are more floating rice aromas and turning reeds, provincial intangible cultural heritage - exquisite reed paintings and edible mushrooms developed from reeds...
The reeds have knots, leaves, and flowers, although they are all ordinary things, but they are so persistent, and the years stir here not only ordinary poetry, but a solemn epic about the reed wetland. As it got late, four or five off-road vehicles with license plates from Changchun, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia and other regions stopped in front of the reed boardwalk, and about 10 donkey friends got out of the car and set up tents. After that, they picked up their respective "long guns and short cannons" and began a burst of divine shooting. At this point, I understood that people were running for hundreds of miles, and it turned out that they had come for the sunset reeds that were hedged by the cow's heart. That day, I did not stick to the end, so I hurried home, although I did not see the beautiful reeds under the sunset, but on that night, the friends here Xiaoyu pushed the sunset reeds and fire reeds into my spiritual world through WeChat. The modest and knotted torso, sharp reed leaves and torches in the backlit reeds make people feel not only the beauty of that moment, but also the poetry in the reeds at that moment, but also their past love and love.
...... Love and love, flowers as a medium, thousands of miles of dreams follow...
Suddenly, a beautiful passage with a crisp and sweet soprano came, a small screen, in a short time, let me see the reeds of the blue sky and clear water, but also saw the reeds of the morning sun and the sunset, as well as the boardwalk stretching out into the distance and the big windmill that rotated slowly, the present and the past of the cow's heart hedging, as if immediately melted into the story of this time and shade...
Image courtesy of Zhou Yunge and Zhu Fulong