Waking up at midnight, the dark scent hits me, pushing open the window fan, the spring breeze is blowing through the city. In the night, the halo of the street lamps in the neighborhood tumbled with falling flotsam and jetsam ......
Twenty years ago, also spring April, because of the need for work, I was transferred to this strange city known as "Luoyang", to meet me this accompanied by the Yellow River wind and sand grew up with the person, is the The city's flowers are "endless blue".
I saw peonies for the first time in the compound of the municipal party committee for the first time, which was regarded as "the best of all flowers". To put it mildly, this kind of flower known as "national color" gave me the impression that it was so beautiful that it looked more fake than the peonies printed on a piece of quilt at home when I was a child. Countless times in the sea of flowers and red wandering, I know the cherry blossoms and Tong Di, know the zinnia and peach, know the lilac and hibiscus, know the elm leaf plum and begonia, but also see both the color and flowers are more bright and beautiful than elsewhere in the moon season, larkspur, dahlia. I was surprised to see so many beautiful flowers in this city! It's true that "four colors change into a hundred colors, and a hundred colors have a hundred fragrances."
Once in a blossom, the city, these flowers, for me seems to have a special flavor: I praise "blossom and fall for twenty days, a city of people are like crazy," the prosperity, as if you can taste "broken hearted east wind fall peony, for auspicious for the Swiss long stay difficult to" elegance. "The peonies have been in full bloom for twenty days and the people of the city have been crazy about them.
Luoyang is a place where flowers are born because of the earth's veins, and where the fragrance of flowers is sentimental. Luoyang people's love of flowers can be said to be y rooted, which is a kind of ethos. If a city is tainted with a kind of culture, the people living here will be irresistible, so that every year during the flower season, I call the long-distance most often said "come and see the flowers!" The tone of my voice is so casual that it's anticlimactic.
As an immigrant to this city, I was new to everything. Twenty years ago, a spring night, I first took a rickshaw from the east flowerbed along the city's most famous Zhongzhou Road has been walking to the valley of water when the scene is clear as yesterday, when I was in a trance feel that I was following the city's main artery in the flow, forward ...... never-ending, but a closed eye seems to eyelashes can touch the end of time and space. At that time, the city was far less noisy than it is now, and you could feel its heartbeat and rhythm if you set your mind to it.
Whether it's the Muslim buildings in the eastern part of the city, the antique buildings in the old city, the modern buildings in Xigong, or the Russian buildings in Jianxi, there is no doubt that there is an architectural museum on both sides of Zhongzhou Road, and they are all in different forms, all of them are talking about the same topic: the changes of the years and the changing of the times.
Just a few years in Luoyang, I like to walk alone in the Jianxi Construction Road, Zhongzhou Road, Xiyuan Road between the large and small streets, especially snowy winter nights and drizzly spring evenings. A line of dense street trees, rows of neat Russian-style buildings clustered around the heart of this new industrial city. Between the factory and the living area there is a green belt connected to the divine vein through, open and stretching, staggered, this layout stretches for several kilometers, the momentum is spectacular. Gazing at these three- and four-story red brick buildings from the hands of Russian designers, you seem to be able to see a hint of exoticism from an occasional street corner, and seem to be able to hear from the depths of the building, "three sets of cars" and "Katyusha" that reverie and sentimental melody.
The streets and alleys here are strung up with a "neighborhood" that is obviously parked products, most of the immigrants who work and live here are the immigrants who came to the city to build in that hot era, there are people from Shanghai, Guangzhou, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and there are also Northeasterners from Harbin, Shenyang, Changchun and other cities, these immigrants used to occupy a considerable proportion of the population of the city, and they have been the most popular immigrants. Once occupied a not inconsiderable proportion, there was a time when all kinds of dialects filled the market and the streets ....... Although they have been dying to live here, but when there are some things in the bones can not be assimilated, when everything is not enough to unlock the "homesickness" this "knot", Jianxi will have a Guangzhou market and Shanghai market named department store, Jiangxi Road, Wuhan Road, Nanchang Road, and so on. Road, Wuhan Road, Nanchang Road, these obviously with regional characteristics of the road name.
I have always been touched and grateful for the atmosphere and tolerance of the city of Luoyang. No matter where you are, no matter what you are here for what purpose, no matter you are working, doing business, settled or occasionally passing by, the city will give you courtesy and hospitality, unlike some cities treat outsiders with a natural distance of politeness or simply be rejected. These, from a piece of residential and commercial buildings, from the rows of stores, from a highway entrance and exit, from Mangshan Airport, from the more spacious, more beautiful station, square can be proved.
"A city without water is a city without a soul." For the people of Luoyang, the Luo River has always occupied a very important place in their hearts. I have more than once gazed longingly at the sometimes turbid, sometimes clear water of the Luo River passing through the city, and truly felt the soul of the city leaping. When the Luopu Park on both sides of it extends kilometer by kilometer, it not only provides Luoyang people with a unique leisure place in the country, but also gives us wanderers and loners who live in other countries a spiritual home.
I like to go to Luopu, often sitting there alone in a loose manner, sometimes from morning to night, without eating or drinking, ignoring the people who are practicing in the morning, strolling or singing, just sitting there alone in a dull silence, watching a brand-new bridge being built over the Luo River.......
Twenty years ago, my means of transportation was as usual The plain and simple: the center of the street flower paths and walk, boulevard comfortable riding, more often than not with the ordinary residents of this city to take the bus to and from work, through the city everywhere ...... It is these mundane life experience, so that I have the opportunity to touch every inch of the city, but also to make me have a more and more I have a better and more intuitive understanding of the city.
I had naively guessed that every family in the city and every foreign tourist should have gone to the old city to eat water, because those stores, whether luxurious or simple, are always bustling all day and night. Not only to entertain guests, not only to taste the soupy rice, just to sit in the "real different", you can feel the Luoyang food culture everywhere.
I have been proud to say to our guests in the field: "Xigong Restaurant is the kitchen of the people of Luoyang". This simple and clean civilian restaurant, for decades, no matter holidays, no matter rain or wind, no matter night or day, 365 days a year, 24 hours a day, never closed. I more than once in the midnight interview back or early in the morning after getting off the bus, come here to eat a bowl of hot battered noodles and two steaming buns, the kind of casual, casual and simple luxury by the people, just like in their own homes.
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Twenty years have passed swiftly in these details. Looking at the increasingly prosperous city in front of us, turning over a piece of trivial text that I have written, I feel fortunate for myself as a witness of the city's twenty years of change, but also feel a responsibility.
Twenty years ago, when I first came to this city, I was a young man in his twenties, and now I am a middle-aged man in my mid-hundredth year. In order to make a living, I am still busy in this city, and will continue to be busy. In my spare time, I still go to Luopu to listen to the wind, go to Wangcheng Square to listen to the opera, go to Jianxi to reminisce about the prosperity of the past, go to Luonan to taste the comfort of modern civilization, go to the market place and the old city to look at the street and two rows of the style of folklore.......
I boast that I'm a rootless tree, and I don't need to return to the roots of my roots.
Luoyang, you are my hometown!
I love you, Luoyang!
The Beauty of Peony: The Beauty of Luoyang Badge
The beauty of a city is just like the beauty of a person, if the beauty is rich and grand, it is his whole picture; if the beauty is eye-catching and small, it is his badge.
The beauty of peony is that it can be worn, it can be held, it can be pinned on our chest with a flick of the finger - look! I come from Luoyang! Peony is my badge! Therefore, since 1983, when the city began to hold the Peony Fair, you go out and sit on the train, once those unfamiliar travelers know that you are from Luoyang, he or she does not care about anything, the first signal in the brain to "deal with you" is to put you and the peony together!
Originally, when people living in this city are recognized by outsiders, the first background material that the other party refers to us is a peony flower! So romantic, so original, so proud!
The aesthetics of the badge begin by naming the wearer's provenance. The provenance of Luoyang is the ancient capital, the city of flowers. And this city of flowers is the city of peonies, the city of national colors. Ancient people once said, "People in Luoyang are accustomed to seeing strange flowers, and peach and plum blossoms are not yet flowers. When peonies blossom, the city will be full of joy". The meaning of this is already very clear: People in Luoyang, who are used to seeing strange flowers, don't consider other kinds of flowers as flowers at all, and people in Luoyang only recognize peony flowers, which is such an overbearing and noble standard of flower appreciation. Therefore, I think, a few years ago, the personality and temperament of Luoyang was standardized in the eight words of "thousand-year imperial capital, peony city", which is very accurate, because from the flower-appreciation standard alone, the people of Luoyang in Kyoto are totally different from those who assemble the small states in the flower-appreciation standard, and the people of Luoyang do have the nobility temperament in appreciating the flowers. A clump of dark-colored flowers, ten households in the people of Fu", Bai Juyi's two lines of poetry, said more than clear.
So the badge is a kind of bragging rights, is a kind of grade determination, is a kind of honor that can not be removed.
I'm afraid that every college freshman who walks out of Luoyang and moves into a higher learning institution will be looked at differently by his roommate, "Going to your Luoyang in the future to see the flowers?!" It won't take three days, and I'm afraid that all the university freshmen from Luoyang have heard this sentence.
By this time, these Luoyang post-graduates, who are going to the whole country, really start to be proud of the city. Because a considerable part of them did not think about the peonies around them and felt that they were far away from them, thinking that those peonies, however, were just in Wangcheng Park, in Peony Park, in the National Peony Garden ...... But they never thought that peonies were on themselves. By this time, they realized that the peony is actually a badge on their chest, no matter whether you are willing or not, those students from the south and north of the world, they regard you as a peony hometown, and they agreed to come to Luoyang to see the peony.
Thinking about it, what a wonderful thing it is, and what a natural thing it is. The peony can be associated with Luoyang, which is really a heavenly creation and a generous gift to Luoyang. And Luoyang can emphasize this kind of bond through one flower meeting after another, with more than 20 years of time, which is also amazing perseverance and touched the heaven. The shape of the peony flower, large and colorful, fragrant and eye-catching, is just the material for making badges, but as the saying goes, "Peony paintings are good, but not on the wall of outsiders"; the peony is also stubborn, remembering that "the flowers of Luoyang's geography are the most suitable, and peonies are especially strange in the world"; the peony is also competitive, always being "the best". The peony is also stubborn, remembering that "Luoyang has the most suitable flowers in the earth, and peony is especially strange in the world"; the peony is also competitive, always "Luoyang peony is the most beautiful in the world"; therefore, this badge, only Luoyang is the most qualified to wear, and it is the most beautiful one.
Look, what a coincidence! The aesthetic imagery of the peony flower is rich, prosperous and auspicious, which is precisely the beautiful wish that our Chinese nation has been striving for, and is also consistent with the overall direction of this era. Wealthy and auspicious peony flowers, happy days for ten thousand years, ask who does not want to wear such a splendid badge? In the auspicious culture since ancient times, peony has never been the protagonist without makeup: gold carvings, silver patterns, wood carvings in the palace, and paper cuttings of the people, all of them take peony as an auspicious symbol. However, this kind of love for peony is basically manifested in the form of a "general love", scattered in the starry sky of culture, and the only city that takes peony as a carrier and welds peony to its coordinates is Luoyang.
Because of this, Luoyang is also obliged to wear this peony badge, and to take good care of the peony badge. It is not the end of wearing it, but also the spirit of wearing it! It is necessary to have the qualifications and credentials to wear it. Because the honor of the badge and the bottom of the air, all come from the person who wears the badge, from the growing economic output and cultural content of Luoyang, from the noble and down-to-earth charm of the city.
The beauty of peony, the beauty of the badge, and the beauty of cherishing ah.
Modern Prose Poem Luoyang line
Luoyi former county, the residence of the emperor of the food letter.
The capital of eight passes, the thoroughfare of ten provinces.
Half of the city's flowers and rain open the Silk Road, and nine canals lead to Beijing and Hangzhou.
A bird's eye view of the six rivers, the sun and the moon.
Hetu Luoshu is a sign of heaven, and the eight trigrams and nine domains are a sign of the heart;
The Purple Violet shines brightly around the imperial capital, and the Big Dipper points to the blessing of Luo Yang.
Rouge snow, Qin Han moon,
Sujin mandarin ducks eclipsed the palace.
Luopu autumn wind blowing wrinkled up, copper camel twilight rain point mourning music;
Paeony do dark incense moving, nine micro pieces of flying flowers trivial.
Beautiful and beautiful, dancing in the sunset, the flowing wind back to the snow soft petals fall;
Fangze no plus moving Beijing and Luo, lead Hua Fu Royal world absolute.
The clouds soar, the color is more demonic, the grass is pale and yellow lined with Chinese thick;
Not more than the glory of the low chrysanthemums, it is difficult to say that Huamao Yan green pines.
The yellow flowers, the lips,
West window candle cut eyes away from the confusion.
Since ancient times, the flower is heavy with flakes, and the Hanwei article is half Luoyang.
Ink fragrance fragrance wet layer of paper, ink grinding gradually thin warm spring Hua.
Zuo Si's wonderful pen has produced a pearl flower, and the three tripods are absolutely paper and pen.
Shubao's death was not a pleasant experience, who sang the song "Jade Tree ** Flower"?
Jun's sadness is like spring water, a river flowing east;
Jun's appearance is like the goddess of the sea and earth, it is difficult to find.
Shadows are horizontal, spring rain,
Jinsei Shaoguang Dai Mei convergence.
The corridors are in a state of disarray, and the dew drops on the bananas;
The moon is heavy with frost, so I'm going to drink wine and make shadows on the vermilion fence.
The water in the center of the lake is moving, and the peonies outside the curtain are in different shades of color.
The ripples of the ink-dyed years, and the broken strings of the autumn rains are pouncing on the curtains.
How can I remember the twelve floors of the heavy city, and for whom are my tears wet?
The eight tones of the song are broken, and the fish's belly is a long swim in the water.
Frosty morning dew, iris bunch,
Wave heart swing shake flute urgently.
Silk strings make the sound of jiaowei play, the capital song fly Guangling scattered;
Full of jade trees is also green, full of ear tunes sound slow.
Tears are spilled on the way home, and the poem is written in seven steps;
The golden bottle is empty and the moon is empty, and the willow and the smoke are good.
Flower fall no period of time water has no intention, the empty remaining obsessive heart, wadding all the words of the heart;
The years have no reason to love the beginning of the chaos, who is sighing, a few inches of lovesickness hair.
Dust is like water, the shadow of the sunset,
Moonflower brush sleeve cold Hua full.
Rain in Luoyang, the snow falls in Chang'an, the cold is silent;
Looking at the broken autumn water to solve the love sadness, one day how to break the hard to think of each other.
Yellow springs and blue fall two lofty,
home country is difficult to look back, suddenly look back, a flamboyant if the spring breeze.
The red dust and purple strata of many love robberies,
Fluttering like a shocking, graceful like a swimming dragon, a love death reincarnation dream.