Sparkling Shizikou Village
The car left the spacious road and drove onto a country lane. The road is lined with pretty Gesang flowers. After the rain, the tall poplar trees look particularly beautiful, and although it is autumn, the leaves are still green. When the car turned a corner and entered Shizikou Village, Wenzu Street, Zhangqiu, I really did not expect that another new world with beautiful mountains and rivers would appear.
The mountains are green and the mountains are cloudy. Located at the foot of the Great Wall of Qi, a world tangible cultural heritage, Shizikou Village, with flowers, trees, neat and orderly, a warm, like a shy girl wearing a veil in the drizzle, magical, graceful, graceful, full of poetry.
Rows of dense trees plunge straight into the clouds; persimmon trees are hung with "red lanterns" that make the Orthodox people salivate; the ripe sunflowers at the entrance of the village house shyly bow their heads and are shoulder to shoulder with the gate; and on both sides of the street, there are brightly colored small flowers, blooming with cute "smiling faces". I made another mistake of "flower delusion" and immediately raised my mobile phone to take a picture. Flowers inward, in the ground surrounded by the low wall of the Great Wall of Qi, a large piece of green sweet potato leaves, dense and crisp spread on the ground, dense enough to completely cover the ground, boundless green, refreshing that eye-catching! I secretly thought, this is a treasure land, sweet potato leaves are so fat, that sweet potato must be big and sweet.
Entering the main street of the small mountain village, a small waterfall on the southwest side falls from the cone-shaped graystone wall, and the white and transparent water splashes around, and then merges into the clear pool water, and the sound of the rushing water is like the wonderful Zen sound of this mountain, pleasant to the ear, and suddenly refreshing and pleasant.
On the wide stone steps on the north side of the waterfall, a female tourist in a white shirt is happily picking up the steps with a large black and white fur dog. In the square where the steps lead, the tall and stout plane trees are tall and tall, straight higher than the mountain; on the neat wooden fence on the north side, there are pictures and texts of rural cultural propaganda. Looking at the left and right sides of the steps, the eye-catching "Beautiful - Countryside" four large red characters are impressive.
In front of the village committee, there are simple and neat stalls, several old ladies are guarding their own agricultural products, talking and smiling happily, seeing someone come forward, from time to time to pick up a few walnuts and enthusiastically let you taste. This situation makes me unable to associate this with the words "backward" and "poor". I feel like it's a hideaway, with an idyllic atmosphere.
Shizikou Village is located in the southernmost part of Zhangqiu District, surrounded by mountains on three sides. A few years ago, it was indeed a typical poor village, with poor households surrounded by walls and village collectives being poor. The village is littered with discarded garbage and lifeless. Later, with the help of the national policy of accurate poverty alleviation and the construction of beautiful villages, the Shandong Provincial Poverty Alleviation Working Group was stationed, and the first secretary of the poverty alleviation village was added, and the government invested tens of millions of yuan to help the countryside get rid of poverty and become rich and build. Finally, the small mountain village was transformed and reborn, breaking the cocoon into a butterfly.
Now Shizikou Village, full of flowers, green dyeing in all seasons, beautiful like a timeless idyllic poem, flowing with endless meaning. Not only is the environment beautiful and sparkling, making people linger, but the villagers' lives are more like sesame blossoms. The number of poor households in the village is gradually decreasing, and there are special people who are responsible for them. The first secretary regularly visits the door to send warmth and solve the difficulties they encounter in a timely manner; the elderly over 70 years old in the village also enjoy free meals provided by the village committee twice a week, so that the elderly can feel the happiness brought by the new countryside. Old people get together, eat happily, chat happily, and talk about a beautiful new life together.
The village has successively set up cultural stations, Confucian lecture halls, set up the Qi Great Wall Culture and Art Festival, characteristic cultural and folk hotels, etc. Now Shizikou Village is already a beautiful village with internet celebrities punching cards, and it is also a happy village in the hearts of villagers. The laughter of the villagers is like the spring water of the Happiness Spring (which is in Shizikou Village) flowing all the time.
On the roof of the village committee, several large red characters of the "Party and Mass Service Center" are particularly eye-catching, and five signs such as "Shizikou Village Committee, Shizikou Network Management Center" are hung at the gate. This is the place where the villagers unite their hearts and is the happy base camp of the small mountain village.
In recent years, the continuous improvement of the happiness index of small mountain villages has attracted many college students to start a business in the village, and some wanderers who have gone out to work in the past have also returned to participate in the construction and development of their hometowns. Xiao Bi, manager of the catering department of "Sheep with Mountain Immortals", is an aspiring young man who has been wandering outside for more than ten years and returning to his hometown to start a business.
Xiao Sun, manager of the catering department of "Kai Meat", is an outstanding master's student at the provincial level who graduated from Shandong University, and his hometown is Rizhao, but he voluntarily came here to start a business and is willing to dedicate his light and heat to the construction of mountain villages. Walking into the "open meat" restaurant, there is a feeling of dreaming back to childhood in an instant - the wall enclosure decorated with white flowers on a blue background and white flowers, safflowers and green leaves and flowers decorated with face cloth is quite affinity; corn, peppers, baskets, grass, old altars and other crops are decorated in the dining room, so that the strong nostalgia immediately fills the heart. On the table, the tender water tofu, the small mountain egg, the fragrant steamed sweet potato leaves, and the milky white steamed bun with the smell of wheat will remind you of your hometown and your mother. And the books displayed on the shelves in the room make you feel the extraordinary taste of the owner, and you can't help but be in awe of this post-80s entrepreneur.
It is said that the story of Meng Jiang's weeping of the Great Wall took place in the Shizikou Qi Great Wall section. More than 2,600 years of Qi Great Wall culture has immersed this small mountain village. During the Qi Great Wall Culture and Art Festival alone, more than 30,000 tourists came here, and many foreign tourists from Denmark, France, Russia and other countries also came here to feel the Qilu culture and feel the unique style of China's beautiful countryside.
The small mountain village that used to run outside is now a desirable cave.
What surprised us the most was that in this small mountain village, we actually saw the café - "Jinyang Guanshidong Qingchuang Coffee" hall. The café is in a semi-circular feldspar cave at the foot of the mountain near the roadside, much like a Yan'an cave dwelling. According to the first secretary, this was converted from an idle warehouse. Curious, we walked into the café. Inside, a long strip of logs spliced together, a drum-shaped coffee table, a coffee-colored canvas tablecloth, a mushroom-shaped log stool, and an ashtray made of tree trunks. Black and white flower ceiling lamp. The log shelves on the south wall are filled with a variety of books. On the table and in the corner, there are fresh flowers and plants, and the water is eye-catching. Although we did not taste coffee, these clumsy and elegant and stylish objects and decorations are enough to reflect the unique taste of the designer. The intellectual female shopkeeper said with a smile: "On holidays and weekends, here are full of customers and very busy, and this is also the favorite place of 'foreigners'." Small stone caves, highlighting the big charm, small mountain villages, hiding big dreams. If you come here to take a nap, take a slow drink of coffee, flip through your favorite book, or sit quietly with friends, how pleasant it is!
Shizikou Village is built on the mountain, and the residential buildings are staggered. The hawthorn trees, pear trees, and pomegranate trees outside the courtyard are heavy red and green fruits, just like the happy smiling faces of the villagers swaying in the wind, and it is sweet at a glance. The hillside full of pepper trees, sour date trees, persimmon trees, shaking their heads in the breeze, greeted us affectionately.
Strolling north along the village street, the stone paved streets are neat and fresh, and the winding curves connect the families, revealing the elegance of the winding paths. All the way uphill all the way. The green trees in the courtyard are outside the courtyard, and the thick greenery sprinkles the streets. From time to time, "big raindrops" on the trees snap on the umbrella, indicating intimacy. The dwarf morning glory climbing over the stone wall, purple, pink, red, competing with each other, two pairs, a cluster, blowing trumpets, opening happily. The bamboo that emerges from the crevices in the rocks under the walls is lush and grows tenaciously upwards, some of which are higher than the courtyard walls, and I know that this is a manifestation of the spirit of perseverance.
Suddenly, we heard a large rooster from a farmhouse wailing, and the breath of the simple countryside attracted us to enter the courtyard, and we saw the first secretary carrying oil and rice to the old man. This is a 95-year-old man living alone, he is in good spirits, clear thinking, words and deeds, seeing someone come to see him, can't help but praise the government is good, the village is good, the current life is really good! In the light rain, we walked outside the gate, the old man actually came out quickly with an umbrella to send us, and signaled us to hold the umbrella, so as not to get wet, and the fellow teacher Chang Fang was afraid that the old man would slip in, and quickly went over to help him enter the gate. The simple and kind old man made us feel good.
Walking to the north side of the village, I saw the sign of "Autumn Equinox" hanging on the left side of the gate of the house on the hillside, followed by the sign of "Gu Yu" next. Undoubtedly, this is the cultural and folk hotel, and it is also the highlight of the "time to raise the mountain residence". According to the management, there are more than 30 such houses, all named after the twenty-four solar terms, and one solar term corresponds to one courtyard. "One house, one theme, one courtyard and one view, one house and one taste, one room and one style". Although the size varies, but each has a spring light, the outside is simple and the inside is full of charm, which is carefully planned and designed by high-end architectural designers, and is rebuilt from a house that has been idle for many years.
The walls of the gray stone courtyard are permeated with simplicity and vicissitudes, just like the spring wind, summer rain, autumn frost and winter snow, which change with the change of the four seasons in the courtyard, and also witness the historical evolution of the small mountain village. The mottled large wooden doors, the transverse iron door nose, and the original large iron locks all seem to tell the story of what happened in the small courtyard. On both sides of the main entrance of the courtyard, there are two oblong red lanterns hanging high outside the wall, igniting the small mountain village with joy, as if every day is celebrating the New Year.
The small street stretches northwards and ascends all the way to the courtyard at the top of the village. In the cold autumn breeze and drizzle, the word "Lichun" on the left wall of the gate immediately warmed my heart when I was thinly dressed. A large red jujube tree hangs from a branch. I picked up one on the ground and put it in my mouth with a twist of my hand, which was crisp and sweet, just like the days of this small mountain village, refreshing and sweet. At this moment, a big magpie in the tree was startled and flew away.
There are two courtyards in the east and west of the gate of "Lichun". The west courtyard is two bungalows, the west house is the starry sky room, on a clear night, lying on the bed in the room, you can see the stars shining in the sky through the large glass window on the roof, so that the body and mind and nature are most intimately integrated. The north house is a multi-functional room for guest accommodation that is healthy according to the mountain, and the north wall of the room is the actual south slope of the mountain, and the carving is as charming as the stone carving craft wall. A fellow writer touched the sour jujube branches on the stone wall with his hand, and he was pricked, and it turned out to be a real sour jujube tree, which came out of the gap in the hillside wall.
Step on the stone-paved stone road in the courtyard, pass through a low stone gate, and walk towards the east courtyard. The north house in the east courtyard is a two-storey room, and the east house is a single-storey guest room, which has all the facilities for daily life and is quite modern.
On the stone platform on the south side of the east courtyard is a stone round table and several rattan chairs. Sitting here, you can start a casual slow life journey - overlooking the rolling green mountains during the day, or enjoying the spring flowers and winter snow, or watching the forest, bathing in the generous and clear sunshine, letting the dreams fly; at night, enjoying the bright moon in the mountains, looking at the vast starry sky, listening to the babbling of mountain springs, so that the body and mind can relax; if it is a summer night, choose a pot of old tea, invite a few friends to sip slowly here, let the tea fragrance accompany the breeze to soothe the tired mortal heart, what kind of heart.
In my eyes, Shizikou Village is a veritable paradise. Here, the body and mind can be freely inhabited, all the worries of the world can be swept away, and what remains in the heart is the warm blossom of spring, the breeze and the bright moon, and it is more poetic.
(Original.) This article was published in Lianhe Daily, and was selected into the 2020 "Contemporary Novel" Municipal Writers Association "Precision Poverty Alleviation Literature and Art into a Hundred Villages" Literary Style Creation Award-winning Works Special Issue. )
<b>About the Author:</b>
<b>Du Dongping,</b> pen name: Miao Yue, Mu Tong<b>,</b> Jinan City, female. He is a member of the Chinese Prose Literature Association, a member of the Shandong Provincial Prose Literature Association, and a member of the Jinan Writers Association. Qilu Evening News Qilu One Point "Qingwei" supplement signed writer. His works have been published in newspapers and magazines such as Shandong Workers Daily, Lianhe Daily, Rural Public Daily, Shandong Shangbao, Contemporary Novel, Workers' World, Contemporary Essays, and Poetic Life. His prose works have won awards in the "Huacheng Cup" First Wu Boxiu National Essay Contest, the "Rong Media Xiang Shun Shi FeiYang - I and ShunWang 20 Years" Essay Contest, the "My Story with Spring Water" Essay Contest, the "Chuanzhi College Cup Shandong Province First Original Literary Works Competition", "Taishan Cup" Shandong Province Third Staff Original Literary Works Competition, "SDIC Xinda Cup" Poetry Essay Contest, "Jinan 'Precision Poverty Alleviation' Literary Style Creation Essay Contest" and the first "Qingwei" Essay Contest. Many essays such as "River Worker And River Man", "Rizhao Tea Fragrance", "The Old House That Is About to Go Away", "There is a Bright Moon in The Tea" and many other essays have been included in different anthologies.
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