Laoliqi Village, Dashan Town, Xingren City, a typical karst mountain village deep in the mountains, has been hidden in a corner of the mountain people for generations, using skillful hands to transform stones into living utensils, in the agricultural life of taking the bud valley as the staple food, telling the spirit of craftsmen in the mountains, and inspiring future generations to inherit and carry forward the spirit of self-improvement mountain craftsmen with one stone and one meal.
The picture shows an aerial shot of Laoliqi Village
Laoliqi Village, Dashan Town, is located in the east of Dashan Town, under the jurisdiction of Anyili Tusi of Pu'an Prefecture (now Pu'an County) in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and was merged into Laoliqi Village by Laoliqi Village and Mawo Village in 2008, with more than 1,000 villagers. The mountains and trees are the homes of the valleys, not as imposing as the vast fields, but they are still ideal for thriving.
The picture shows Deng Lixiang being interviewed
Deng Lixiang, a villager of Laoliqi Village, Dashan Town, said: "The origin of Mawo is 'raise three ponds, pounce three pots, and raise three ponds' We analyze that there are three nests, and 'pounce three pots' are three hillsides." ”
The picture shows a stone mill
Walking into Laoliqi Village, it is like returning to the simple and vibrant farming era, with stone houses, stone mills, stone steps, and stone benches, telling the story of the hard work, wisdom and persistence of the mountain people. Over the past 100 years, in order to adapt to nature and transform the environment, people have taken local materials, chiseled mountains and stones, and used stones to build houses and furniture, showing the wisdom of survival.
The picture shows Wan Huagui being interviewed
Wan Huagui, a stonemason from Laoliqi Village, Dashan Town, said: "To repair a house and sit on a house, the general owner is only to make some flowers and plants and wild deer on the door stool, and the stone is mainly used to build mills, pig troughs, and stone troughs used to process food, and there are more people who do masonry in Dashan." ”
Stonemasons are the inheritors of the art of collecting stones with tools and transforming the shape of the stones into perfect building materials and stone carving crafts. In the mountains, the figures of the stonemasons are everywhere, each stone has become an important tool for people's production and life under the hammering and careful carving of the stonemasons, and the stonemasons have created the mountain masonry horn in the labor, becoming the moving music in the depths of the mountain, one person leads the singing, the rest echoes, and the pace is the same, sonorous and powerful, reflecting the meaning of unity and unity, interpreting the infinite charm of the spirit of the mountain.
Wan Huagui said: "There is a person to mention, everyone does it with the same force, which side pries the key, which side pries lightly, everyone picks up all the steel drills, and begins to shout...... This noodle master raises the point, use harder...... That's probably what it means. ”
Over the years, the farming for a living of the mountain people, with the tenacious spirit, industrious attitude to life, exquisite skills to win the favor of employers, to earn a living of the silver, that era is not only stonemasons, but also carpenters, lacquer craftsmen, bricklayers, masons to go to the village, the formation of the unique craftsman spirit of the mountain people. With the passage of time, Laoliqi Village has inspired future generations to work hard with the spirit of craftsmen in the mountains by virtue of traditional skills and the inheritance of the spirit of craftsmen.
The picture shows cornmeal
Nowadays, it is the autumn harvest season, and the corn in the mountains has turned yellow, and many people's yards and dams are full of golden corn. Villager Li Kaiqiong is busy steaming and cooking this year's newly ground cornmeal, which is also called bud grain noodles locally. When the meal is ordered, take out an appropriate amount of bud grain noodles that are crushed and sieved with a stone mill, put them into the wooden retort and steam, on the way to steam, you need to pour the bud grain noodles into the dustpan, soak them with a small amount of water and mix well, steam them again, when they are seven or eight minutes cooked, they can also add the cooked rice, if they are busy with farming, they will also put the vegetables and fruits into the pot together, with the hot steam, there is also the aroma of the food, looking at the golden and soft bud rice, the appetite increases greatly.
The picture shows Li Kaiqiong being interviewed
Li Kaiqiong, a villager from Laoliqi Village, Dashan Town, said: "You can't eat enough rice, but you can eat bud grain rice, and it is sweet to eat, and it is better to work after eating." This year, more than 20 acres were planted, and there were 10,000 catties. ”
The picture shows Liu Dechang being interviewed
Liu Dechang, director of the Supervisory Committee of Laoliqi Village, Dashan Town, said: "20 years ago, I began to use a machine to grind, the original was pushed with a mill, and now after the electricity is passed, it is too convenient, it is more troublesome to grind with a mill, and it used to take an hour to grind a liter of bud grain, and now basically most people still have a grinder, but it is useless." ”
The people in the mountains are the most hard-working. Therefore, it is all the more necessary to eat a full stomach in order to have the strength to work. Over the years, Dashan bud grain rice has become the staple food of mountain people, with vegetarian melon stir-fry in summer, steaming stall hot pot in winter, and it is common to eat three bowls of rice. Nowadays, people are more interested in eating cereals, and with its unique flavor, Bashi's Dashan bud rice is popular with more and more people in the city.
In recent years, as Laoliqi Village Mawozhai was rated as the first batch of provincial-level characteristic pastoral villages· rural revitalization integrated demonstration pilot, the village takes the spirit of stonemason culture and the inheritance of the spirit of the mountain as the core, adopts the planning method of coexistence of protection and utilization, and transforms the appearance of the village according to local conditions, forming a characteristic pastoral village with the integration of mountains, forests, fields and villages. According to statistics, since 2018, the Ministry of Public Security has coordinated a total of 4.9725 million yuan of funds and materials for the local government, helped sell a total of 1.45 million yuan of special agricultural products such as barley rice and Wujin chicken in Laoliqi Village, and accumulated a total of 790,000 yuan of collective economy for the village cooperatives.
Liu Dechang said: "They came to our village, processed barley rice, the main industry of our village, into a series of food of barley rice, and pushed these barley products to the public security system all over the country, accumulating hundreds of thousands of yuan of collective economy in our village, and the Ministry of Public Security gave great help to the construction of our village." ”
(Xingren Rong Media Center reporter Li Fenghua Zheng Shucai reports)
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