"My Yuexiu Mountain Story" Essay Selection:
Endless Yuexiu Mountain
(Zhang Huixian)
One day, a friend sent me a connection to help Yuexiu Mountain Intangible Cultural Heritage "My Yuexiu Mountain Story" to start the media collection, suggesting that I write an article about Yuexiu Mountain. I realized that no matter how hard I tried to salvage all the fragments associated with Mount Yuexiu from my mind, I thought that with my barren imagination and exhausted knowledge, I could not describe this mountain that could flourish for more than 2,000 years.
I am a native of Heshan, Jiangmen, and Yuexiu Mountain is a distant legend for me, a memory of my childhood, and I have very little time to really touch it intimately. As a spectator thousands of years later, I cannot imagine how the emperors, celebrities and high-rollers of successive dynasties and dynasties over the past two thousand years have loved a mountain so much that they have used it to name a city; I cannot imagine that when the Guangzhou Uprising broke out, when Zhenhai Tower became the center of military operations and combat, thousands of unarmed workers embarked on China's revolutionary road from here.
Yuexiu Mountain is the symbol of Yangcheng and the symbol of guangzhou's identity as a famous historical city throughout the ages. I have not been to Yuexiu Mountain for thirty years, and in order to repay my wish to revisit Yuexiu Mountain, I kindly ask my friends to accompany me on a special trip from Heshan to Guangzhou Yuexiu Mountain Park. To this end, friends ridiculed me as "out of the city in the big township", a fully modern version of "Liu Grandma into the Grand View Garden", saying that few modern people will be as stupid as me, and actually run dozens of kilometers to Guangzhou to see a park. But I know that Yuexiu Mountain will not mind my ignorance, and it will still be like my childhood, with open arms, open heart, and warmly meet my partner who has come from afar.
We entered through the west gate of Yuexiu Mountain, walked up the small slope, passed a small square, and saw a large earth-yellow stone engraved with the words "Five Sheep Statue" in red. I couldn't resist the excitement in my heart, this statue has been in my mind for thirty years, and today I can finally reunite with it. We climbed up the stone steps, which were lined with flowers and green grass, and the green trees in the sky were like a large umbrella that held open, staggering to block the hot sunlight, and the dappled light and shadow fell sparsely on the steps.
Climb a few short stone steps, and the statue of the five sheep will suddenly appear in front of you. Five goats carved from orange granite stand tall on the circular flowerbeds of mountain azaleas, their tones are so soft, their expressions are so charitable, every action, every look, every smile fully demonstrates the ingenuity and wisdom of designers and artists from figuration to abstraction.
Standing under the statue, looking up at the five peaceful goats holding grain ears, I seem to see five immortals soaring into the clouds, transforming into sheep to save Cangsheng, silently guarding the affectionate land of Guangzhou for more than two thousand years, so that here are full of flowers, grains are abundant, the wind and rain are smooth, and people live a rich and happy life.
Although Yuexiu Mountain is a small mountain in the middle of the city, there are no strange rock peaks, nor deep valleys, but Zhong Yu Lingxiu has an extremely deep historical and cultural heritage. It is the mountain of the soul of the people of Guangzhou, and has changed its name several times, "Yuexiu Mountain", "Yuewang Mountain" and "Guanyin Mountain" are its aliases. Enjoying prosperity and being able to prosper for more than two thousand years, I think this is unique in China.
Wandering on this mountain peak of only more than seventy meters, I found that Yuexiu Mountain can be described as the word "the difference between heaven and earth" compared to thirty years ago. The beauty of Yuexiu Mountain today is the result of the painstaking efforts of countless government departments and park staff, so that cultural relics can be so perfectly protected, the integration of modern cultural elements and the natural environment will be more harmonious, and the management will be more perfect. The park is full of monuments, ancient pavilions, ancient monuments, ancient styles, ancient rhymes, and everywhere is injected with fresh vitality. Its pavilions, terraces, buildings, pavilions, galleries and pavilions are very rich in Lingnan characteristics, and it is also a colorful world with strange flowers and ancient trees. The clean, tranquil and comfortable environment makes people always want to stop and rest quietly. Here there are not only the immortal court that has been praised for thousands of years, the legend of the five immortals who greeted the sheep in Ruisui, as well as the ruins of the "Chao Han Tai" of Zhao Tuo, the king of Nanyue in the Western Han Dynasty, and there are more precious buildings left over from the Ming Dynasty, zhenhai tower, ancient city wall, ming Shaowu Junchen tomb, as well as the ancient Chu Pavilion, the four-square fort, the Sun Yat-sen monument, the monument of Sun Yat-sen's reading and administration office, the tomb of Wu Tingfang, the Foshan Arch, the Yuexiu Qifeng, the seaman's pavilion, the spherical water tower and other cultural relics left over from the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. Every time I get closer, a dusty history slowly opens up to me, making me sigh, admire or pity.
As one of the most representative comprehensive large-scale parks in Guangzhou, Yuexiu Mountain not only has a large number of historical relics and monuments, but also many modern elements of culture, sports and amusement projects.
The most representative are the Guangzhou Art Museum and Yuexiu Mountain Stadium, which have trained a large number of artistic and sports talents for the country and witnessed the development of Guangzhou's cultural arts and sports undertakings. The park's idiom fable garden, bamboo forest scenic spot, Korean sea Tokyo Kien Garden, Dongxiu Lake, Namxiu Lake, Beixiu Lake, playground, children's paradise, etc. are the favorite places for teenagers, children and the elderly. People play, cruise, chat, play chess, read, sketch, walk, exercise, and enjoy the leisurely holiday time. My friends and I wandered around the park all day, unable to cover every corner of the park, let alone read every scene in the park.
Buy tickets to enter the ZhenhaiLou Guangzhou Museum, visit layer by floor, relive the vicissitudes of this ancient city, and feel the glory years that generations of pioneers have walked through. Climb to the 5th floor of the 25-meter-high building, look up at the three majestic and vigorous characters of "Wanghai Lou"; read a couplet hanging on both sides: "Ten thousand disasters, the dangerous building still exists, ask who picks up the bucket Moxiao, the eyes are empty of the ancient times; five hundred years, so Hou An is here, let me lean on the fence to see the sword, tears shed heroes!" Touching the 3.86-meter-thick wall made of red walls and green tiles and colorful glazed fish ridges, I felt as if I were touching the body of a period of time. For thousands of years, many literati and scholars have been impressed by this mountain; how many merchants and politicians have been amazed by this building; how many nine-stream guests have fallen in love with this magical land and become the new owners dedicated to the city.
Yuexiu Mountain, at this moment, has been like a gorgeous and thick epic that continues to add pages and codes, and is bound into a book with this heroic and beautiful city, and stored in my heart forever. However, I deeply understand that my words are only the first impression that Yuexiu Mountain gives me, I am just a spectator who is "far away from the rivers and lakes", and my brushstrokes can never write about the vicissitudes and prosperity of Yuexiu Mountain for more than two thousand years.
Author: Zhang Huixian
About author:Vice Chairman of Heshan Writers Association, Executive Director of Jiangmen Writers Association
Source: Guangdong Cultural Society He Media Studio
Publisher: Ho Jin Tak Director Studio (Media Matrix)
Recommended expert: Sun Qijun
Editor-in-charge: He Jinde