Fragments of Memory: The Village of My Hometown

[When people reach middle age, they always want to write something, which is also a memory, a nostalgia in memory.] 】

The villageSoil I remember as a child is large, with a large population, long streets, and several ditch rivers. The village has sixteen production teams (now called villager groups), consisting of five natural villages, in addition to the central village, there are also East Xiaozhuang, South Xiaozhuang, West Xiaozhuang and North Xiaozhuang. In memory, Dong Xiaozhuang is a team, South Xiaozhuang is a fourteen team, West Xiaozhuang is a sixteen team, and North Xiaozhuang is a six team and seven teams. The distance between East Xiaozhuang and West Xiaozhuang and Central Village in childhood memories is still some distance away, while the distance between North Xiaozhuang and South Xiaozhuang and Central Village is not very obvious.

The whole village is a rectangle with a slightly narrow east-west shape, and the whole geographical composition is very interesting. There are three major roads and three ditches in the east and west, and three roads and three ditches in the north and south. Interestingly, there is a river ditch next to each road, and what is even more interesting is that the roads and channels at the east and west ends and the north and south sides form the natural dividing line between the central village and the four natural villages in the southeast, south, and northwest.

The main street running east-west of the village is in the center, and there is also an east-west street in the north and south of the village two or three hundred meters away from the main street. Childhood memory, the main street in the village has been planted with telephone poles, after growing up, once deliberately counted, there should be 23 22 empty, according to the normal rural high and low pressure line pole 50 meters a hole of the pole distance calculation, the west of the village to the east of the village is about 1100 meters, that is to say, there are more than two miles away. There are also two other east-west roads located on the north and south sides of the main street, both of which are crooked along the river and meander from west to east, which is also a straight slip. The main street running east-west and the three main roads running north-south have survived and hardened to this day, and have become the main access points for people to enter and leave the village.

The village also has three east-west and north-south channels. Only one of the six rivers is now intact. The main street, which was still a bit of an impression in the 1970s, no longer exists, with only traces of the river channel preserved at the west end of the village's east village, and the middle part of the village has been replaced by a cement cover drainage ditch. In childhood memories, there are still many wells dug along the river, that is, the kind of water that is installed with reels, when the water is at its shallowest, lying on the edge of the well with a rope hanging the bucket back and forth a few times can be pumped up, the clear and sweet well water is so moist and condensed for generations, so that the village has achieved today's scale - a village with nearly five thousand people. Today, the only well-preserved river channel is the winding river channel north of the village, which in the 1970s and 1980s was still gushing water, and now the flowing water has become a history, but for the locals, it is the main channel for flood control and drainage.

The four directions of the village are made up of four lush bamboo forests of different sizes. The smallest bamboo forest has one or two acres, and the largest should have dozens of acres. In the last century, which family needed to build a protective shed to decorate the new house, the emerald green bamboo poles inside were indispensable to come in handy, plus the reed poles cut in the river were tied with red silk threads into a grid mesh, and then laid with a new sorghum woven mat, and a beautiful new house was completed. Unfortunately, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the four bamboo forests and the reed forests of the river channel all disappeared.

With the change of the times, in addition to retaining more than a dozen families in Xixiaozhuang, the others have been merged into the main village: the main street is open and open, the traffic is in all directions, the houses are illuminated and uniform, and the three new residential villages developed ten years ago can be seen outside. There is no reason not to believe that with the advancement of rural revitalization, the lives of the masses will become more and more prosperous.

【Regarding the change of private houses, it will be followed up gradually】