The high-level well in memory

This is a large village in the village, a brigade headquarters of the former people's commune is located on the ground, and it is also the settlement of a large surnamed "Gaogang Li" in Shuangdun - Gaogang. The village is now in the overall demolition layout, but in the past two decades, the abolition of agricultural taxes and the introduction of a large number of urban construction migrant workers have been basically abandoned. The author lived here as a child, and when I visited it more than forty years later, I didn't know it at all. The young and middle-aged people are mostly absent from home, and the remaining guards are a few elderly people; the new houses that have been built randomly after the renovation have been dilapidated; the weeds cover the roads, and the barren trees cover the doors.

Gaogang is also about to be demolished and rebuilt with the development of the North City Construction, and every household has nothing to keep or regret, but the only thing worth regretting is an ancient well, which cannot be moved, and it is a pity that it is abandoned.

The history of this well in Gaogang was dug up in the Ming and Qing dynasties or earlier dynasties. Because most of the residents of Gaogang are surnamed Li, their ancestors were forcibly moved from Jiangxi by Emperor Zhu in the early Ming Dynasty. It is also said that There were three wells in Gaogang, and the triangle stood tall. When I was a child, I heard Gao Gang's second cousin say that there was an old well on the ground in front of his house (south of the village), but it was filled in when the Japanese devils invaded. The well, which is now well preserved, is on the east side of the original village, an ancient altar mouth with a whole piece of bluestone polished into a circle, and the walls of the well are made of green bricks.

When the well was built, I don't know specifically, most of the old people in the village are no longer there, there are still one or two old people who are more than eighty years old, and I don't know who built the well.

However, as far as I know and all the middle-aged people in the village know, in the summer and autumn of 1966, the well water in the village within a radius of tens of miles dried up, and even the wells dug by the labor reform team near Zhahu Xiaoying were dried up. We remember that in addition to the overhaul team, there were also members of the village team who came to Gaogang well to collect water for several miles away, such as Hexi, mainland shops, and oxcart sheds. Finally, the bottom of the well was muddy, but after resting for half an hour, it was a clear and bright water.

Now Li Jiali, an old man left behind in Gaogang, said: This well water is good, the cooking porridge is delicious, and the cooking rice is fragrant. This is indeed, when I was in Gaogang, like adults, every day with small buckets to fetch water, large buckets to carry water - when I was a teenager, of course, I only picked a small half-carton of water, half a quintal of picked a full vat - boiling porridge to cook rice and boil tea, so fragrant and delicious, I can't eat tap water today.

However, there is not much evidence of the preciousness of this well alone, and no one in Gaogang, young or old, knows its history.

Most of China's ancient wells have their own characteristics and legends. The ancient well is a starting point for villages, towns, and cities: because of the emergence of a "golden eye" (groundwater inlet), it has increased from one or two households to many families to form villages, and some have expanded into towns and cities. This is where the term "Ichijing" comes from. In the past, the main places where various agricultural products were exchanged and traded were ancestral halls, temple entrances and altars. There are many people who fetch water and wash vegetables at the well, and they exchange some goods with a slight conversion, and gradually become a market, which is the so-called "city well"