Text/Liu Chunhua
During the Liuhe Food Festival, I found a strange thing.
Sometimes, walking on a street in a small town, I suddenly come out and see an open field, or a large paddy field, or a pond. I am in high spirits. How could I suddenly disappear? So I went back, without feeling sorry, and went back, with better scenery waiting!
Sometimes walking in the street, the street suddenly divides into three roads, one west, one east and one south. Looking at these roads, if you don't have a concept of where you are going, you will hesitate involuntarily and don't know which road to choose. Although this street will come to an end, the scenery will be different.
There are many roads in the town. New towns are always like this: pave roads first, and then build houses and shops on both sides of the road. But Liuhe at least wasn't like this before. Small towns have houses first, then roads. A house here and a house there are very irregular and unruly, so there are many roads. This shows from another aspect. The town is really old, and people in the town are very casual.
There is another reason: there are many rivers and ports. Old Liuhe, the main road, winds through the town, like an upper Xuan Yue that divides the town in two. Xiaogang walked around like a net, netting the whole town. Network and road are inseparable, like a pair of twin sisters, turning around, as if naughty fascinated by you.
Take the ancient streets of Ming and Qing Dynasties as an example. Although the street winds along the river, it twists and turns, some places are open and some places are narrow. There are houses in the narrow place, and although there are no houses in the wide place, there are no trees or monuments there, so they are used as roads.
Generally speaking, there are many roads in Liuhe, which are very complicated, irregular, naturally formed and unadorned. Like some Liuhe people I know.
These roads are now called streets or alleys. The alley is not very long, but it is quiet. The streets are not idle, and people along the street have opened shops: some sell cloth, some are in selling groceries, some open snack bars, and some even open nightclubs ... The shops are old-fashioned and the wooden structure is difficult to decorate. At most, it was painted with old paint. But I can't hide the vicissitudes of life that have been stained by the wind and frost of the years.
I looked at the houses on the bank of the old Liuhe River on the old pontoon bridge. The ancient buildings look antique, light and elegant. The old houses are above the water and the windows are small. Pushing open the window and looking down, it looks like a cliff, which makes people dizzy and worried that the row of houses will fall down and fall into the water. However, this is all alarmist. The house I remember is rather shabby and dark, covered with moss and green bristlegrass, swaying in the Xia Feng, as if proud. But now the wall has been painted and reflected in the water, and it is bright and white.
The famous Zheng He Memorial Hall and Tianfei Palace are on this street. At this time, Zheng He Memorial Hall and Tianfei Palace are bathed in the sunset glow, giving people a magnificent sense of sadness.
I didn't know I felt this way. There was Tianfei Palace before Zheng He Memorial Hall. Tian Fei of Tianfei Palace was the object of Zheng He's seven voyages to the West. But it takes a long time. At this time, Tian Fei is no longer the image of Tian Fei that Zheng He used to see. The statue of Tian Fei enshrined in the main hall of Tianfei Palace seems a bit old. Tian Fei was originally named Maureen and nicknamed Mo Niang. Born in Putian City, Fujian Province in 1960, he was killed in maritime rescue. He was in his twenties when he was killed!
Zheng He Memorial Hall, I have been here several times before. What I like is the sculpture of "anchoring Yingya" and the begonia planted by Zheng He himself. The sculpture "Anchoring Yingya" is still full of domineering. Begonia is affectionate, and every stretched leaf is attached to the wisdom and humility of its owner; Every petal attracts the distant wind and the ancient rain in the west. Zheng He's painted sculptures, huge lacquer murals created on three walls, and large sculptures of "Anchoring Yingying" are not as good as this Haitang, because only Haitang really continued Zheng He's life. The body of Haitang soaked Zheng He's body temperature, and the soul of Haitang attached to Zheng He's thoughts and warmth.
Zheng He Memorial Hall is far more valuable than Tianfei Palace before her. Zheng He's seven voyages to the West started in Liuhe and made brilliant and far-reaching contributions to the history of Liuhe. Why did Zheng He go to the West? Is it for Jianwen Emperor? Zheng He first discovered the Antarctic continent? Zheng He was 72 years earlier than Columbus. Discovery of America? Zheng He was the first person to travel around the world? Chinatown was formed by Zheng He's seven voyages to the West? Zheng He also visited the East China Sea before his seven voyages to the West?
This series of mysterious fog has cast layers of mystery on this town. Zheng He should know these secrets, as well as the hose bridge and the old pontoon bridge standing on the old Liuhe River and the Haitang Factory.
When the sun goes down, the sky presents a long blue sky. I sat on the old pontoon bridge for a long time. I found another strange phenomenon here. So the hose bridge and the old pontoon bridge exist in the same place? The nose of the hose bridge hit the nose of the old pontoon bridge, and the arm of the old pontoon bridge was draped over the arm of the hose bridge. Both of them had a sigh of "parasitic pleasure, how bright".
This bridge existed in 778 AD, when Japanese woman Xi Niang came to Suzhou to study Suzhou embroidery. At that time, she didn't know whether she dropped a silk scarf under the hose bridge intentionally or unintentionally. A passer-by, or a person who has been on the shore for a long time, jumped into the water and picked up a silk scarf. Xi Niang was very moved and gave him a ribbon. It is said that the name of the hose bridge came from this. So what was the previous name of the hose bridge? The North Caokou where Shuilongqiao crossed was the Caokou in Sui and Tang Dynasties. At that time, Caokou was "the world needs Tianjin, and the boats gather together." Cao Cao's name is Cao Yun. The water bridge should be the only evidence of this history.
The old pontoon bridge was built in 167 1 and collapsed. In 23 years of the Republic of China, the then mayor Huang Songsheng came forward to raise funds, and the designer was Shanghai Lugenyuan Construction Factory. After the completion of the bridge, it became a modern steel-concrete bridge at that time. It has a history of more than 300 years. It seems that both the hose bridge and the old pontoon bridge are indispensable parts in Liuhe history.
Thinking about these problems on the old pontoon bridge, I was shocked and realized that there was a sea of lights around me. The light slowly opened the night. Red lights, blue lights, purple lights, pink lights, static lights, flowing lights and dazzling lights stretch on both sides of the road, winding and circulating, reflecting in the water and dyeing the sky red. Look at the bright moon again, it quietly passed through the ship forest at sea, along a road, and calmly boarded the town. Silver moonlight, full of softness and warmth, shines on the holiday town. People leisurely look at the night scene and enjoy this quiet and comfortable romantic life. At the wedding, in a restaurant on the street, there were couples of young men and women, good colleagues and diners from other places. While enjoying the delicacies of Sanjiang and Haihe River, they are enjoying freedom and comfort.
The prosperity of the town is in the central street, in the people's square and in the food street. The liveliness and modernity there are in sharp contrast with the tranquility and classicality here. From the other side of the river to the other side of the river, it takes a long time for ideas to change from "ancient" to "modern". The ancient Liuhe separated the two worlds with her silk thread, but it was so fit. At this time, a boat rolled under the old pontoon bridge, entered the bridge mouth and floated to the water in the distance.
Vaguely, there seems to be the sound of music in my ear. I listened carefully, and it was the sound of silk and bamboo, as if it were a "Moonlit Night on a Spring River". Looking up, I saw the words "hometown of silk and bamboo" engraved on the wall of the opposite silk and bamboo pavilion. Zhang Xiaofeng, a famous composer, and Zhang Xiaofeng, a master of silk and bamboo in Jiangnan, are out-and-out Liuhe people.
A song "Moonlit Night on a Spring River" shocked my soul and brought me back to modern times. The classicality and modernity of the town are interpreted and infiltrated by the sound of silk and bamboo. In the moonlight, the expression of that gentle township is even more incisive. Euphemistic pipa, exciting guzheng, melodious new flute, deep flute sound and soft huqin ... bring people into a wonderful artistic conception and make people daydream. The charm of the town has also been enriched and enriched at this time.
The road under the moonlight is also more memorable.
Along the road, you can come to Meihua Caotang, which was painted by Zhu Qizhan, a 100-year-old painter, when he was young. Zhu Qizhan, a 100-year-old painter, is a native of Liuhe. The old man loves the land where he was born and raised. The old man's centenary life, like a small town, has experienced ups and downs, but in the end he deserves it. The people in the town love the elderly, and the elderly have a deep attachment to this hot land. Another Liuhe person, like Zhu Qizhan, a hundred-year-old painter, had a great influence on Liuhe. She was a physicist named Madame Curie, Ms. Wu Jianxiong. Ms Wu Jianxiong belongs to Liuhe and the world. Go along another road and you will come to the campus of Liuhe Mingde Middle School, where the great physicist will rest in peace.
There are many roads in the town. At night, these roads become lighted roads, taking care of those who come back late, those who are lost, those who care about their homes, those who start businesses and those who have made unremitting contributions to this town. These roads have been taken by Fan Zhongyan, Qi Jiguang and Lin Ze ... If you follow these roads, you will go out to the world. ...