How beautiful can a village be? This net red village in Gansu has told the world the answer.
This is Lintao County Shuanglian Village, for a long time, it is no different from the ordinary village, the road is simple, the house is primitive, but after a local transformation, it has become a famous local net red village, the appearance of a new look, known as the most representative of Lintao rural customs of the village.
In the afternoon sun, I came to the front of the village gate and looked up to see a gatehouse made of stones greeting visitors. Walking into the village, it is like coming to the scene in the oil painting, the yellow and elegant walls, the clean and tidy stone alleys, and the small flowers under the corners of the walls, all of which are fresh and elegant, making people feel like a spring breeze.
Shuanglian Village is a thousand-year-old village that served as an important military fortress during the Song Dynasty and was historically the node of the Tea Horse Ancient Road. If you want to find a village that can represent the rural culture of Lintao, there is no better place.
Walking into Shuanglian Village, it is like walking into the "Farming Culture Museum", every household has a new look, and those discarded objects are carefully collected, from low houses to various ornaments, all showing the scenes of Lintao people's farming and life.
The walls of the village are a major attraction, and under the creation of the artists, the humble walls in ordinary days have been transformed into museum booths. Or hanging various agricultural tools, or painting folklore pictures, or showing field life, each wall is different, together forming an open museum.
Each of these walls has a theme, such as a wooden plough wall, which hangs a wooden plough collected from various farmers' homes. These wooden ploughs have been eliminated by society and have lost their meaning of existence, but under the appearance of vicissitudes, they record the changes in rural life and have the significance of the times.
I grew up in the countryside, and I have a natural affinity for these farmers, and when I look at them, I think of the scenes of my childhood, when the countryside was crowded, every household was busy with farm work, and life was peaceful and happy.
In addition to agricultural tools, there are various old objects and various pottery on the walls, and the reason for choosing pottery is because Lintao is the birthplace of Majiayao culture, and all kinds of pottery represent the thick historical origin of Lintao.
There is a wall called "The Source of Wealth Rolling", and there is a rocking tree with copper coins on the branches. These are real copper coins, collected from the people, and the interesting thing is that the copper coins at the bottom of the wall have all been removed, and only the top can not reach them to survive.
The village also collected a number of horse stakes, topped with statues of Buddha or lions. Horse stakes are the symbol of the ancient rural people's homes, the owner rides back to tie the horse to the stone pillar, some people place two or three in front of the door, which means that there are more horses, representing the strength of the master's family.
I was impressed by a corner of a "water roller", dozens of different colored water compressors, distributed over stones. The perennial wind and rain have rusted and dilapidated the fuselage, and the rocker arms that rise or fall remind people of the era of living by pressing water.
In order to turn the village into a museum of farming culture, Shuanglian Village spent more than 20 million yuan before and after, which can be described as a huge investment. Among them, 231 wall decorations and 17 wall paintings have been completed, and 100 villagers' courtyards have been transformed, becoming a rural model in the new era.
Not only that, in the future, the village will also build a small zoo and build dozens of green landscapes to make it a good place to take photos and punch cards. Lintao County also has a nice name "Di Dao Xiang Yun", and Di Dao is the old name of Lintao County during the Qin Dynasty, because this place was inhabited by the Di people in ancient times.
There is a "Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition Garden" in the village, which exhibits more than 10 traditional skills such as clay sculptures, paper cutting, shadow puppetry, incense sticking, and murals. There are also many cultural creations in the museum, such as tie-dye, water cups, dandelion tea, chutney powder, etc., all of which are the works of the people of Lintao County, which are of high quality and low price, and I can't bear to leave.
If you have the opportunity to visit Lintao, you can visit Shuanglian Village, which preserves the complete life memories of childhood, and every elderly person can find resonance here, it is both a village and a museum that records the times.
Address: Dingxi City, Gansu Province, Lintao County, Taoyang Town, Shuanglian Village, no admission fee
Author: Lin Qinglu, a well-known traveler! Practice life in the mountains and rivers