The Gengyu River here originates from Baiyangcha, shouyangshan, Qinling at an altitude of 2,824 meters, and flows into the Weihe River after passing through Gengyu, Jiu Feng, Macun, Shangcun and Liangjiabao.
According to legend, in the first year of Tang Guangming (AD 880), Tang Gaozu native Li Yuan (Li Shimin's father) came here to hunt, and the mountain was like a crouching tiger, hence the name of the nearby village Hufeng. To the north, there is a village about two kilometers away from Gengyukou. Due to the perennial impact of rivers in the south of the village, a barren beach is formed, overgrown with weeds, and groups of wild goats often haunt it, hence the name "Juyang Village".
From the first year of Ding Jing in the Southern Song Dynasty (A.D. 1260) until the 1960s, the Gengyu River was frequently flooded due to flash floods, and the downstream villages were in jeopardy. When the flood reached a kilometer south of the village, it suddenly changed its course from east to west. Two tributaries crossed the village, flowed to the north of the village and merged into the lower reaches of Gengyu River, so the village was renamed "River". Nowadays, people are used to calling the residence of the first group of villagers outside the east gate "Donghetan" and the residence of the fourth group of villagers outside the west gate of the village "Xihetan".
I remember when I was a child, there was a small river outside the west gate of the village. The water was crystal clear and kept flowing until the 1980s. People often dig vegetables and wash clothes here. On both sides of the river are the feeding room and storage room of the second and third production teams, respectively. The fence with iron gate is the location of the team headquarters, and all the tractors, winches, threshers and other belongings of the team are in it. In the 1980s, the household contract responsibility system was implemented in rural areas, and all the "possessions" of the production team were sold and dissolved. Now private houses have been built here.
According to the old people, at that time, the village was surrounded by Woods, which were dense and often haunted by wolves. In the 1970s, it often happened that pigs raised in the backyard of individual farmers were eaten by wolves at night. Later, people painted white circles on the outer walls to drive away wolves. This method is really effective.
Grain processing basically depends on grinding flour by itself. What I remember best is the Mohe Canal, which is a mile west of the village. Here, the mill is driven by the impulse of water flow. The process of grain processing depends on artificial feeding, repeated back and forth, and then artificial dough mixing. At that time, we were too young to do it, but what we saw in our eyes has become an indelible memory. At that time, my father was working in other places, and my mother often came here alone to push a wheelbarrow or pick grain with a pole to process and grind flour. Because it used water to move the big wheels outside and then drive the mill inside the house, it was called "water mill". I remember my mother carrying the burden and leading us to come here often. Looking back now, it was not easy and unforgettable for our mother to bring us up at that time, which was accompanied by the process of our growth.
The water in "Mohe Canal" is an irrigation canal discharged by Gengyuhe Dam in the upstream. I remember once, my neighbor's eldest brother carried me across the river and I slipped. As a result, I fell into the water I don't know how long it has been floating and how it got up. All I know is that when I am awake, I lie on someone else's hot kang and drink sugar water. To this end, the neighbor's eldest brother was scolded by his parents. Not far from the "water mill", we call it "inverted siphon" because the water in expressway passes under it. After the water flowed out of the underground pipeline, a pool more than three meters long was built. In summer, children from nearby villages come here to take a bath and play with water, which has been very lively for decades.
Don't look at this small canal, the Mohe Canal has contributed a lot. In those years, there were no wells in the fields, and dozens of surrounding fields were basically irrigated by them, including Ganwu, Shuizhai, Erlian and Shayun. "Mohe" is under the jurisdiction of zhouzhi county Black Ash Canal Management Office. I remember once queuing for irrigation, and it was our turn to water the land. It's a cornfield one person high. Everyone basically uses the methods of "blocking" and "leading" to water the land. Because this land is long and narrow from north to south, it extends backwards from north to south. When we finished watering our land, we looked back. People's land was watered a lot, because the skills of doing farm work were not mature enough, because they were still students at that time.
Three mountains and six waters are a field, which is a portrayal of Jin Zhouzhi. People often say: Eat well, but suffer. Gengyuhe has done great harm to the village. I remember how many times the river flooded and the village was in a hurry. People guarded the river bank day and night to rescue it. Later, in the 1980s, the zhouzhi county government mobilized the whole county to "radically cure the Gengyu River" and completely control it. Because of the huge project at that time, a temporary headquarters was set up on the riverbank site. I heard that it was basically a responsibility system at that time, and all towns and villages in the county worked hard. Since then, the Gengyu River has been thoroughly rectified, and the riverbed is made of stone. In recent decades, some people have built a commercial mixing station by the river, which basically used up the sand accumulated at the bottom of the river for many years.
Speaking of floodplain, because of the flooding of Gengyu River, there are large areas here. Because of the open space, all the militia in the village trained here. They threw grenades for live-fire drills. After the drill, we picked up the handle and wooden handle of the Grenade they left behind and took them to the village to show off to our friends, which attracted many friends to "treasure hunt".
Over the years, the village is full of streets, with a long household base, basically three steps and one house. Because the village is small, everyone knows what it is like. People in the village get water from well water. There are two wells in the village, east and west, both of which are covered with well houses. The derrick is equipped with pulleys and the shaft is wound with ropes. When pumping water, tie the bucket beam with the iron hook at the end of the rope and slowly put down the bucket. It is estimated that it has reached the bottom of the well. Then shake the pulley handle and wind the rope around the pulley shaft. Then carry it home with a pole and pour it into the water Weng jar that has been prepared at home for a few days. This well is sacred, clear and sweet all year round, nourishing the villagers.
In the 1960s, thyroid diseases were prevalent in a generation along the Qinling Mountains, and many people had a "singing melon" (thick neck). At that time, a certain unit of the People's Liberation Army drilled a deep well in the Qinling Mountains, including our village-we called it a "killing well" or a "foreign well", which facilitated the drinking water of the whole village. Well water is rich in trace elements, and after several years, endemic diseases will be combined with taking standard salt. Later, in 1982, the provincial hydrogeological team conducted a hydrological exploration survey not far from the south of the village. After the geological team completed the investigation, in view of the good water quality, the well with a depth of 300 meters was directly handed over to the village. At that time, we witnessed and participated in the scene of putting iron pipes and filling sand in the well. At first, the well water gushed out automatically, and the water was sprayed very high. People from the surrounding villages came here to wash clothes and vegetables. Later, in order to make full use of this resource, a water tower with a height of18m and a capacity of 30 tons was built in the village. In 2065, 438+05 used the national centralized water supply project to lay pipelines and tap water to households, which completely changed the current situation of shallow draft, heavy pollution of soil tank wells and water pressure wells in the village, and completely changed the environmental outlook of the village.
People often say: repay kindness with kindness, seek roots and ask ancestors. In the south of the village, not far from Gengxi Village, we call it "Huangtuliang", and there is a big mound here called "Total Knot". Around 1980, many educated youths in the village settled in line. Because the "lump" is in the middle of the ground, some ethnic crops are blocking the road, and they propose to level this big mound. In the process of leveling, an ancient tomb was found below it. I remember we all went to the scene to see it. At that time, the most exciting thing about digging graves was the educated youth in the team. Everyone called him Xiao Lao (he had no family, lived alone, and then died of a stomachache one night). At that time, many things were dug up, including pots and pans, bronze mirrors and swords in the tomb ... These things were put in the storage room of the second team of the production team and then thrown away. Some people judge that it may be the ancestral grave of the Li family in the village. Legend has it that he is a descendant of Li Keyong, the "King of Jin" in the late Tang Dynasty, or a general. Because I was going to fight in Luoyang, I settled down in this village. After his death, he was buried in the loess ridge not far from the south of the village. Because there is no record, it cannot be verified. At present, Hejiazhai Village is divided into six groups, and Anzhaizi Village is incorporated into this village committee, with more than 400 households and a population of 1.400.
Speaking of Jiu Feng Township Government (Jiu Feng Town, Jiu Feng Town after the merger of Jiu Feng and Gengyu Township in 2000), the original office was in Ganwu Village. Because of the convenient transportation, they moved to the village in the early 1990s, and people from the second production team donated more than 20 mu of land for it. Later, schools, police stations, credit cooperatives, mobile Unicom and so on. Also, there are large supermarkets, which make work and life more and more convenient.
Time flies, the baby in those days is now full of white hair and children in groups. The Gengyu River is still flowing with clear water, but there is no shadow of children frolicking in the river. Without the dense trees on the river bank in those years, the river bank is shallow, the thorough gravel is gone at the bottom of the river, and the stone bridge is not as magnificent as it was when I was a child.
One side of the soil and water support one side. Standing in the distance looking at the village, the endless kiwifruit garden, etc. , have planted cash crops. Farmers no longer work in the dark as before, and every family has an electric donkey, which is very convenient to travel. The village is getting bigger and bigger, from one street to four streets. The house is basically a brick structure. The higher it is, the street lights in the village are on, and the cement pavement and the streets are full of parked cars. ...
I can't go back to my hometown and I can't erase my memory. The clear Gengyu River flows all the year round, nourishing the people along the coast. At present, after Jixian and Jiu Feng Town 20 18 were entrusted by Xi High-tech Zone, with the continuous expansion of Jixian Industrial Park, most farmers' land is being expropriated. Write what happened in the village today and tell people the true story here, instead of worrying about where to put your heart in the future. It is to let people know a little about the living environment and life track of their predecessors and ancestors and leave some valuable memories.