"The surrounding scenery is unusual. The water of the lake overflowed to the feet, but it retreated gently, like a loving mother caressing a baby who would not sleep, and gently caressed the stone shore. The fragmented magnetic chips in the water are clearly visible. ”
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Experience his revisit of Stone Lake
Stone Lake
Author: Zheng Zhenduo
When I returned to Suzhou from Dongting Dongshan in Taihu Lake the year before, I used to pass through Shihu Lake. It was a small steamer, and in the blink of an eye, the boat entered another lake from a narrow inlet. The lake is much smaller than Taihu Lake, and there are crabs and fields all over the lake. They told me, "This is Stone Lake." I stood up abruptly and looked east and west at the bow of the boat, trying to absorb the beauty of Stone Lake as much as possible. I saw that there was a small island in the middle of the lake, and there were still many Taihu stones on the island. I thought, "Isn't this the remnant of an ancient garden?" ”
Yes, the whole stone lake turned out to be a large garden. More than 800 years ago, it was the garden of a poet fan Chengda (1126-1193) in the early Southern Song Dynasty. Together with Lu You and Yang Wanli, he is known as the three major poets of the Southern Song Dynasty. Because Fan Chengda lived here, he called himself a resident of Shihu Lake, and "Shihu" became famous in the world. Yang Wanli said: "The villa of the public is known as Shihu Lake, the victory of the mountains and rivers, and the desperate situation in the southeast." "We are very yearning for Shihu, just to read Fan Chengda's poems about Shihu." Shihu and Fan Chengda formed such an inseparable relationship, just like Tao Yuanming's "Lili" and Wang Wei's "Yuanchuan", people take place names, and at the same time, the land is also manifested by people. Chengda's "Collected Poems of Shihu Residents", the book carved by Gu Shi of Wu County (engraved in 1688), fan thirty-four volumes, of which there are many poems singing about the customs and customs of Shihu. He is an important pastoral poet in the history of Chinese literature, inheriting the fine traditions of Tao Yuanming and Wang Wei, and describing the hard life of peasants more than 800 years ago. His "Sixty Songs of the Four Hours of Pastoral Miscellaneous Prosperity" was written by Chun Xi Bingwu (1186) in Shihu, where it was full of the pastoral taste of Jiangnan, like reading the landscapes made by Mi Fu and his son Mi Youren, full of clouds and water, the wetness of Jiangnan, the approachable and familiar farming of Lake Fields and the work of raising silkworms and weaving silk, he wrote:
Day out of the field and night, the sons and daughters of the village are in charge.
Tong Sun did not solve the cultivation and weaving, and also learned to plant melons in The Sang Yin.
There will not be a single "idle person" in the countryside, including children.
It is difficult to hang into the water, and it is even more cowardly to avoid rain and wind.
He sued Tiangong for taking over the leftovers, half rewarding private debts and half losing officials.
He was sympathetic to the exploitative suffering of the peasants. Even more people who have not even been able to plant fields will be particularly difficult.
Cai Ling painstakingly scrapped the plough and hoe, and the blood finger flowed to the ghost of the dan.
Unable to buy land and talk about planting water, the lake has recently collected rent.
He lived on the stone lake, and he fell in love with the terroir there, and he fell in love with the farmers there, and he sympathized with their suffering. Later, in the Ming Dynasty Hongzhijian (1488-1505), he wrote a "Shihu Zhi", but it only boasted about the luxurious life of the landlords of the Mo family, which was meaningless. So far, there is no longer any remnant of Mo's on the stone lake, and no one knows that it is "decaying with name". But Fan Chengda's name was known to everyone.
Last spring, I went to Dongting Dongshan again. This time by land, in a year's time, local farmers have repaired the road to Suzhou. A man from an agricultural cooperative in Dongshan once told me the year before:
"We're going to build a car road to Suzhou, and we're going to meet tractors."
Sure enough, this road to build a car road, now to Dongshan, there is no need to take the waterway, not to mention the need to spend a day or two days, as long as less than two hours, you can go from Suzhou to Dongting Dongshan. We took this road and came to Stone Lake. We saw the looming lake in the distance, lying there quietly, as if the waves were not happy, and everything was silent. Gradually approaching, the victory of the lake and mountain gradually opened up. There is a dilapidated old house, always three deep, first of all to arouse our attention. The vestibule is still quite intact, but the back is very shabby, the roof is already visible in the blue sky, and the broken tiles and bricks are thrown all over the ground. The walls were also half collapsed. This is Fan Chengda's ancestral hall. There are still stone carvings on the walls of his "Four Hours of Pastoral Miscellaneous", but not all of them. We walked by the lake, on the hills that were not high.
The surrounding scenery is unusual. The water of the lake overflowed to the feet, but it retreated gently, like a loving mother caressing a baby who would not sleep, and gently caressed the stone shore. The fragmented magnetic chips in the water are clearly visible. Small fish, as well as stubborn little shrimp, are swimming around in front of their eyes. Climb to the top of the mountain and see Taihu Lake further afield. There are a few sails in Taihu Lake, and the history can be counted. The sun shone on the waters of the lake, shining with golden light, like countless fish turning over in an instant. In the green fields, mixed with yellow cauliflower fields and purple alfalfa fields, they spread out splendidly under their feet.
The lake here nourishes the mulberry and rice in the nearby area, and also has great benefits for fish and shrimp. The working people love it and value it.
"We are preparing to green the area, and we have planted a lot of saplings." A person in charge of the Suzhou Municipal Garden Department who accompanied us said.
Sure enough, there are many kinds of low trees, up and down, high and low. In less than ten years, it will be a very deep and clean mountain forest. He said: "There is a plan in the garden department to renovate the entire Shihu district and become a park. "Of course, this is very meaningful, and the Dongshan area will also become a workers' recuperation area in the Shanghai area, and this Shihu Park is necessary to build."
He added: "We must protect the scenic spots and monuments in this area well, and the ancestral hall of Fanshi Lake should also be repaired." With the remains of the famous poet, isn't The Stone Lake even more beautiful? ”
More than a year later, I wonder if the construction of Shihu Park has begun? I believe that, just like the highway between Suzhou and Dongting Dongshan, the industrious and brave people of Suzhou will certainly build Shihu Park in an exceptionally beautiful and fascinating way to welcome the model workers and peasants to visit and recuperate.
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