? Twenty years ago, when I was teaching at Hedong Middle School, I visited Yang Village in Summit. At that time, the village had nothing to do with the Yang family I remembered. The whole village was basically engaged in farming and lived in low mud-brick houses without a single building. The pond in front of the village was small, made of lime sand and used to dry the harvested rice. The lanes in the village are paved with mud, except for some stones along the drainage channels. The path leading to the village is also a narrow dirt road. When it rained, the road was slippery and difficult to navigate, so I had to be especially careful on the road when I pedaled my bicycle to the village for home visits. Yang village, compared with the natural villages around the school at that time, feel a little remote, backward.
? The object of my home visit was Yang Huanxing, the captain of the production team of Yang Village, who later became the party branch secretary of the peak administrative village. He was a retired soldier who participated in the 1979 Self-Defense War against Vietnam. The tragic situation on the battlefield made him reluctant to look back. He treasures the brotherhood he formed during the battle. It just so happened that his comrade brothers Zhu and Luo were also my acquaintances, so we talked about the same topics and felt especially close. Secretary Yang boasts that he is a descendant of the Yang family and is the 39th grandson of Yang Ling Gong. The village was moved from Zhugui Lane in Nanxiong to Xinfeng, and then from Xinfeng to the foot of the hill behind the Jiyuishi of the Xiaohaihe River in Conghua. The village was first assigned to Shihai, commonly known as Shihai Haiwei (Shuiwei for short) Village, and then to Fengfeng Village. The village is about three hundred people.
? More than a thousand years ago, the Yang family generals, followed by Yang Linggong to protect the Song Dynasty and the country, many people for the country of the heroic sacrifice, leaving a lot of songs and tears of moving deeds. I have long been concerned about the story of the Yang family generals, on the one hand, admire the Yang family generals of the dramatic deeds, on the other hand, for the Yang family generals most of the people died in battle, the human population withered feel pity. Today, I know that the villagers of Yang Village are the descendants of Yang family generals, naturally, I feel happy from the bottom of my heart. Secretary Yang in his youth, was in the war of self-defense against Vietnam. In the artillery fire on the battlefield, he charged into battle, full of passion are sprinkled in the motherland's border, for the country's long-term peace and stability has contributed. He was proud to have the heroic blood of Yang family generals flowing in him. When his second son grew up, Secretary Yang sent him to the army as well, so that he could grow up in the roaring atmosphere of the army and take up the heavy responsibility of guarding the motherland's borders. I see that the loyal spirit of the Yang family generals back then is still carried forward in today's Yang village.
In the past, I used to listen to my mother tell stories, often said that the Zhu family world Yang family general. I never understood why there was such a saying. The emperor's name was Zhao, not Zhu, in the era of the Yang family generals! After the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty and the establishment of the Southern Song Dynasty, the descendants of the Yang family moved south and still bear the heavy responsibility of protecting the Jiangshan Mountain, and have been secretly protecting the royal family of the Southern Song Dynasty. We all know from history books, the last prime minister of the Southern Song Dynasty, Lu Xiu Fu jumped into the sea with the young emperor on his back, and the Southern Song Dynasty fell. Folklore has another legend that the clever Lu Xiu Fu, faced with a strong enemy, has arranged a back way. The little emperor has long changed his name, along with the powerful descendants of the Lu family and the descendants of loyal generals, came to live in seclusion in the village under the mountains of Conghua. The child he jumped into the sea on his back was the false emperor. In the area from Shihai to Taipingchang, there are many villages where descendants of Lu Xiufu and other generals are living in seclusion. They are interconnected and dependent on each other, forming formations in an attempt to preserve the Song Dynasty clan and prepare for a resurgence in the east. Yang Village in Gaofeng is one of these strongholds. When the Yang family was marching south and north, they brought a spiritual rooster with them to tell the time and order their troops. As the Yang family moved south, the rooster or its descendants also came to Yang Village. The rooster often jumped to the boulder near the village and crowed to tell the time and order the strongholds of the surrounding villages. It is said that the rooster crows in the four villages and moves at the sound, protecting the family and defending the country, each in its own way. Over time, the rooster disappeared from the stone, and some say it became immortal. People can not hear the rooster crowing, only to see the stone is still there, as if the rooster is still in the cited hyper-crowing, so the stone is called the cock crowing stone. In the past, there are villagers to the stone in front of the pilgrimage miles! In the cock crowing stone north, is the stone sea village, east is Yang village, west is big Peitian village and FengYuan village, just protect the south of the village under the mountain. The lower part of the mountain was under the emperor's domain. At this time, the Zhao family has been changed to the Zhu family. Zhu family world Yang family generals, it is to confirm this statement. Later on, a man came out from under the Zhu Mountain, and in the name of begging, he traveled all the way north and recruited troops all the way. Then later became a Zhu Emperor, defeated the Yuan Dynasty and established the Ming Dynasty of Zhu.
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That day, I received an invitation from Xiao Zhu to visit Yang Village again. The village has changed completely from what it was in the past. The village road has been widened, and the whole road is paved with cement concrete. Most of the mud houses have been turned into buildings, and some of them are beautifully decorated, just like a block of country houses. Xiao Zhu said that these villas are very suitable for the establishment of farmhouse. Around the pond in front of the village, a beautiful fence has been built. The village's Harvest Pond was enlarged and all of them were paved with cement concrete. According to the villagers, the amahs in the village like to dance on the pond in the evening, just like the amahs in the city. According to the secretary of Yang, the sound equipment for dancing is purchased by the village in order to improve the living environment of the village. In the past few years, under the care and support of the higher authorities and the sponsorship of some bosses, Yang Village has been developing at an unprecedented speed. Farmers' houses are all built, and the village roads are all hard-surfaced. The achievements in this area made Xiao Zhu marveled. He said that only a village leader with a holistic view and no selfish thoughts can think for the whole village, build a well-connected cement and concrete mechanized cultivation road, and do a good job in the overall planning of the whole village. On the plow road, we saw villagers driving motorcycles, car hanging a record player. In the field, there are also villagers who listen to Cantonese opera or folk songs while doing farm work. It is said that they are not tired of working this way.
What surprised me most was the chicken crowing stone by the Xiaohai River in front of the village. A few decades ago, there was farmland around the stone, and the river was three or four acres away from the stone. Now the river has made a sharp turn and flows around the edge of the stone. Children can jump from the stone to swim in the river. The stone has changed over the years. Nowadays, it is a little bit deserted and overgrown with cambium, so it is difficult to climb up to the top of the stone and appreciate it from all angles. When you look at Ji Cai Shi from a distance in Dapi Village, which is on the opposite side of Xiaohai River, it looks like a natural rockery. Stones of different shapes and heights are linked together to form a whole, standing abruptly on the riverbank. The water under the stone is fast flowing, the waves beat the stone, the momentum is extraordinary. Zhu said that every year during the rainy season, the peak of the flood crashed into the stone, the sound of the waves, easily reminiscent of Su Dongpo's "Red Cliff".
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This cock-crowing stone, although it is imaginative and beautiful, but the embankment of the Xiaohaihe River has not yet been repaired to this place, the surrounding transportation is inconvenient. From Dapitian village across the river to look at the chicken cried stone, less than a kilometer; if you want to go to the chicken cried stone to play, you have to take a detour of six or seven kilometers. I once said to small Zhu, in the chicken crow stone near, build a small sightseeing bridge, not very easy to chicken crow stone play! Zhu said, build cement stone bridge is too expensive, build a small wooden bridge is easy to wash away when floods come. It seems that the development of tourism at Jixi Shi is still difficult. Fortunately, the leadership of the village of peak insight, some time ago, in the construction of cement plow road, along the road to extend the repair to the edge of the chicken crow stone. Now, or can make the chicken cry stone become a tourist attraction.
? Along the mechanized road from Yangcun to the edge of Jitiao Shi, there are patches of rice fields and lychee longan trees along the way. Patches of guava bases are already fruitful. In the fields near the village, there are passion fruit orchards one after another. The entire administrative village of Gaofeng is a kingdom of fruits as far as the eye can see. The country villas in Yang Village and the nearby natural villages are beautiful and would be of great use if they were used to develop agro-tainment, promote the local economy and help the villagers get rich. I once told Secretary Yang that the air here is fresh, the fruits are fragrant, and the cock-crowing stone is in sight. In the mornings and evenings, it is just right to stroll along the village road or the plowed road. The tea made from the spring water from the deep wells under the mountains here is especially good, without the bleach flavor of tap water from the city. Eating delicious fresh fruits, listening to the sound of gurgling streams in the mountain pits, sipping fragrant tea, and telling stories about the Yang Family Generals is also one of the great pleasures in life. In the evening, after a short time of square dance music, the village is free from the sound of cars and other noises, much more silent than in the city. For me, who likes silence and the fragrance of orchids, I may not be able to resist coming here to raise orchids and plant flowers, and spend my twilight years in peace!