The story of Zichu
The boat arrived at the town of Zichu, it was already twilight. It's only the beginning of winter, but the people in the town have been roasting charcoal fires around the fire pits for a long time. No wonder, this place is about 1800 meters above sea level, on the fishing gorges, the duck mouth, north of the fire Ping, south of the yellow cypress mountain, the high place is not cold.
After dinner, nothing, and companions on the street. From the pier into the town, the road is zigzag, two small streets, cold and quiet people. The first time I saw this was when I was in the middle of the night, and it was the first time I saw it in the middle of the night. The first thing I'd like to say is that I don't know what to do, but I'd like to know what to do, and I'd like to know what to do.
It is said that the most lively time in Zichu is during the Anti-Japanese War, which is similar to my hometown Enshi. At that time, Zichu is an ancient town in the middle of the Qingjiang River, the Yangtze River boat, can only be opened to the Wang Beach, which has become the only dock. Ships come and go, people come and go, soldiers, bandits, merchants, chaos and prosperity. Even far away in the western border of Hubei Badong, Hefeng mountain people, also trekking all the way to the back of the salt here.
Of course, after the damming of the river rock, the ancient town of Zichu has been submerged in the Qingjiang River reservoir area. So, every time the boat across the Zichu Bridge, there are always people in a somber mood, face dumbfounded; there are always people who will never forget to say: our boat is walking on the back of the old Zichu.
The new capital mound built in Taoshan. "The sister-in-law of the capital mound, Taoshan sister", has a reputation. Once, two writers in a car passing by Zichu, suddenly saw a window poking out a beautiful head. It was a real flowery face, clear and fresh peach red and white, the two writers looked at the eyeballs are almost out of the storm. They decided that the woman was the most beautiful woman in the world and that "handsome birds come out of the mountains". Unfortunately, the car passed by, and there was no time to enter the town to see her face. Later, they went to Zichu on several occasions on the Peach Hill, visited the streets and alleys and do not know where the good people are, can only leave deep regret.
I stayed a few days in Taoshan this time, paying attention to the town's women are not as mysterious as the legend. The old people sighed and explained: good-looking girls are to Guangdong Hainan to go.
My heart is full of despair, the search for the two writers has become a kind of spiritual longing, a kind of emotional support.
The people of Ikkyu are very humorous, as if they are all masters of telling jokes and stories. That night, we invited two old men to tell stories in the town hall guest house. They drank wine, roasted the fire, meat and vegetarian, haha even day. One said, "Peeling citrus, not much to talk about. Another said: Peach blossoms fall to the ground, thank you, thank you, thank you. One said: I'll tell a story about a perm. There is a girl in the town behind the back of her family into the city perm hair, after returning home to her mom shocked, then asked her: how to get into this state? The girl said, "I got a perm. Her mom turned shocked into joy, and said, "I'm glad, I'm glad I didn't burn my face. Another said: I'll tell the story of the hemp. These humorous, funny, witty stories, teased us with laughter. I think, Zichu is really folklore, folk culture, a rich mine, from which they conveyed the Zichu people's life information, character traits, spiritual wisdom, as well as the change of the times, the world brought to the Zichu people's sense of life, so that the people's own stories will have an unusual emotion and meaning.
The night before leaving Zichu, the town of a hundred-year-old man died, the hearth is built in the supply and marketing agency dam, the mayor of the town will take us to see the funeral dance. Local people say, Zichu culture three treasures, mountain songs, South Song jump funeral dance, since ancient times has endured. Pearl River Motion Picture Studios to this movie, gathered as many as 300 people jumping funeral. There are also people with karaoke instead of funeral jumping, but still not as interesting as singing songs, playing flower drums, accompanied by ten sisters, funeral jumping. The locals look at the mourning look at a night, all night long, and singing and dancing, feelings are very involved. Zichu belongs to a root area of Tujia culture.
I stood in the spirit of the hall to listen to the drummer long yell, seemed to hear the sound of the passing of the years; look at those who are dancing in the mourning man as if intoxicated, seemed to realize the life of the rising and falling tide. The mourning dance of Zigiu is perhaps the torch of life and the outpouring of emotion. Because of the trip to Zichu, I, and my poetic friends and those literary friends of the pen, and how many rich associations should rise, how many unique sentiments, how many moving stories flow ah! Can we say, Zigu, is a legendary story of the Ba Ren? Or, Zigu, is a long readable Tang Dynasty stanzas? So small, so far, and so exquisite, and so long rhythm.
Ishiguchi Nanqu
The cliffs on both sides of the river are like locks, and a bay of blue water is like a phoenix, which is why it's called Lock Phoenix Bay. There is a Ba Wang Cave on the mountain, under the mountain there is a clear river water, Ba Wang Hotel resides in it, in this listening to Ziqiu South Song, can be said to be poetic enough.
Zigu Nanqu is now called Changyang Nanqu, in fact, it was first found in the county west of Zigu called "small Hankou". Later, it was inherited by Tujia children from generation to generation, and the beautiful melody was spread to both sides of the Qing River.
The cultural station of Zichu Town invited seven folk artists to sing the southern song for us. They sat in a corner of the Ba Wang Hotel by the door, around the fireplace, expression calm and deep, like a hole through the world, transcendent philosophers.
Among them, there are two artists worth mentioning. An old man called Tian Changxi, who played the role of an old artist singing southern songs in the TV series "Home in the Three Gorges". He was wearing a camel-colored bandana, holding a cloud board in his hand and stilting his legs, with a relaxed look of having seen the world. Another artist called Qin Yuanxin, ear some back, folks call him Qin deaf. Qin deaf this person is a multi-talented role, not only the mountain song and the South song sung well, dancing funeral dance well, and chess well, good calligraphy, but also know the simple and five-line score. The Tujia cottage, hidden dragon and dragon dragon, can be seen from this.
Tian old man wrist swing, the cloud board sounded. Qin deaf fingers a pluck, three strings resound. The seven men sang along with the music, traveling like the ancient wind of Yishui, slow and subdued. The tune of the southern song is like the rolling hills of the capital hill, twists and turns, revealing a comfortable and pleasant and slightly bleak and sad flavor.
Spring and summer are coming,
It's autumn again.
A boat under the Liulin River,
The fisherman is standing on the bow of the boat with his nets spread out.......
This is a traditional section of Ziqiu's Nanqu song, "Spring and Summer", which vividly depicts the scenario of fishermen in the Qingjiang River who are enjoying themselves. What surprised me was not that it was so beautifully sung, but that it was so elegantly written. How can this kind of Yangchunbaixue take root and blossom in the Tujia cottage? Zigu Nanqu's source, the flow, in the end where?
Qin Deaf said: "Zichu Nanqu was originally a court song, about the end of the Ming and early Qing dynasties into Changyang. The earliest is a court musician, for molesting the princess was forced to escape from the old city of Jingzhou, down and out on the streets of Zichu selling art for a living, he is anonymous with a three-stringed playing and singing the southern song, this kind of idle clouds and wild cranes to manipulate self-entertainment of the music, to the mountains surrounded by the screen of the Zichu people to bring the joy of life and support. So, you sing and I and, from generation to generation, the southern song has been passed down. In the blink of an eye, it has been more than two hundred springs and autumns."
Whether the words of Qin Deaf are credible is to be examined. But the Tujia people are satisfied with meat to eat and wine to drink is a good day of the idyllic life, is an indisputable fact, but also is their call for change, thirst out of the mountains of a note. The Zichu Nanqu panders to their self-sufficient and self-indulgent state of mind of a small peasant economy, which is really a historical and artistic misnomer. Old man Tian interrupted the conversation between Qin Deaf and me, shook the cloud board and said: "Sing you another "Sad Autumn", the northern tune, now only collected a song, belongs to the treasures of the southern song." Thus, the curling elegant rhyme again in the lock phoenix bay floats open.
Sycamore leaves falling golden wind send,
Dan Gui fragrance begonia red.
Whose house is quiet at night and deep in the Yaoqin,
I heard the iron horse in front of the eaves ringing Dingdong ......
The seven artists sang extremely calm, but in the calm overflowed a true love of life, a simple understanding of life and a simple realm, like the bay of the clear but precipitation of the years. The first thing I'd like to say is that I don't know what to do.
Remembering the King of Ba
The cave named after the King of Ba may be the only one in the country. The cave is located on the banks of the Qing River in the town of Changyang Zichu, which adds a heavy sense of history and a long sense of vicissitude to the birthplace of the Ba people. I went there once a few years ago, and I still remember it vividly.
Not to say that the screen-like stalactites is how beautiful, not to say that the sword-like stalactites is how powerful, and not to say that the stage in the cave is how clever; I just want to say that I saw the king of the Ba here, I stood in the cave of the Ba Wang miss the king of the Ba.
The white tiger is the totem of the Ba people. The north end of the White Tiger Hall in Ba Wang Cave, there is a rock that looks like a human figure. That is a strong muscles and bones of the Tujia man, head wrapped in a long silk handkerchief, wearing a bordered lapel dress, oblique to the Qingjiang River blew a bullhorn horn, Piao Piao solid ground, such as the tiger tsunami Qingjiang River!
I think this is the King of Ba. This is born in Wulu Zhongli mountain red cave in the Ba people leader Ba Moushang. This is my Tujia ancestors GGG. "A horn to the king and the son of heaven, blowing out a clear river", such a vivid image, who else could it be if not him? "After the death of the Grange King, his spirit was transformed into a white tiger", who is he if not him? Perhaps the meaning of "Ba Wang Cave" lies here.
On this rainy day in early summer, when I took a boat from the river rock through the Zhongli Mountain and then came to the town of Zichu, I have been thinking about and reciting the poetry of Ba Wang. It was the first time for three women who write prose to come to Zigiu. They went to see Ba Wang Cave with the editor of a newspaper and magazine, and I strolled through the streets of the town alone. I wondered if they recognized the king of Ba and worshipped him as I did.
The young Ba Moushang, when he was in alliance with the four surnames of the Black Cave, threw his sword to hit the cave and floated the river in an earthen boat, and was pushed to be the granary king for his bravery and wisdom. He led his people up the Qing River in an attempt to move westward in search of a peaceful land and water. Later on, he set up the city of Yi and defended the pass, which made the small state of Ba Fang as stable as Mount Taishan for hundreds of years. In the midst of the western and eastern wars, the need for strong martial arts, excellent command and wise decision-making, all of which created a generation of heroes of our nation.
Not far from the town of Ziqiu, the mouth of the fishing gorges, it is said that it is likely to be the year when the king of the Ba King King of Yi City. You just have to take a look at the scenery of the mountains and waters in this area, the terrain that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the rich resources of agriculture and animal husbandry, you will admire from the bottom of your heart the foresight of King Ba. What I don't understand is that after King Ba met with the goddess of salt water at the Salt Pond River, the goddess loved him so much that in order to keep him, the goddess transformed into flying locusts to stop him from traveling west. And how can King Ba bear to bend his bow and shoot the flying locusts, and negative the infatuation of the salt water goddess?
I was strolling through the town in the rain and visited two bookstores, where a local pamphlet recounting a conversation between King Ba and the goddess seemed to annotate my question. The goddess said, "This is a vast place, where fish and salt come from, and I would like to stay *** to live here." The King of Ba said, "I seek a granary and cannot stop." King Ba for the nation's children and grandchildren to open up the frontier and categorically rejected the love of the goddess, this is not a song resounding in the world of life and death love and love of the last song? Ba Wang ah, I saw you bend the bow and arrow hand trembling, heart bleeding ......
Companions from the Ba Wang cave back, look like they are all very cozy. Speaking of what they saw, there were those who were surprised, those who sighed, those who waxed lyrical, and those who reverie. I did not ask them about the feelings of Ba Wang, I thought, nostalgia for Ba Wang and that far away love is not everyone needs the story, landscape and rocks and wind and rain and clouds can also be pleasant temperament. I believe that Ba Wang, like us, is after all a man of nature.
About the Author
Gan Maohua, a native of Tujia, is a well-known essayist and lyricist. Born in 1947, his ancestral home is Gao'an, Jiangxi, and his native place is Enshi, Hubei. Chinese *** party members, graduated from the Shanxi Provincial Party School in 1985, political cadres college class, political engineer. 1968 went to Jiangxi Gao'an after the transfer of Shanxi Changzhi insertion. 1974 after the successive Shanxi Province, Taihang Sawing saw blade factory workshop deputy secretary of the party branch, deputy minister of the Party Committee Propaganda Department, deputy director of the party school, etc. 1988, working in Hubei Enshi Autonomous Prefecture Literature Federation editor, writers and entrepreneurs association secretary-general. 1990, has been in the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Enshi. Since 1990, he has served as office director, head of the propaganda section, and head of the ideological and political work office of the Enshi Autonomous Prefecture Branch, Yichang City Branch, and Sanxia Branch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, etc. He began to publish his works in provincial publications in 1979, joined the Provincial Writers' Association in 1980, and joined the Chinese Writers' Association in 1998. He was a director of Hubei Writers' Association, a director of Hubei Popular Music Art Committee, the executive vice-chairman of Yichang City Writers' Association, the honorary president of Yichang City Prose Society, and a representative of Yichang City People's Congress. He is the author of 16 literary works, including 2 novels, "The Most Beautiful" and "Wind Wave", 10 essays, "West Hubei Style Record" and "This Land and Water", 3 lyrics, "The People of Lower China" and "Three Hundred Songs", and 1 commentary. His works have won the first Hubei Literature Award, the first and second Hubei Minority Literature Award, the eighth and ninth Hubei Quyuan Literature and Art Award, the sixth Bingxin Prose Award, the seventeenth Qunxing Award of the Ministry of Culture, and the tenth National "Five One Project" Award of the Ministry of Propaganda, among other important awards. In October 2019, he was honored with the title of "Advanced Individual of Retired Personnel" in the national ICBC system. Songs composed by Gan Maohua, such as "Women in the Mountains Shouting for the Sun", "Drumming and Catching", "Sisters of Qingtan's Sisters of Yetan", "Tujia Sisters of Qingjiang Gallery", etc., have been widely praised by the literary and art circles, and have participated in the CCTV Youth Song Contest for a number of times and won the Silver Prize for Ethnic Singing, and have been included in the China Conservatory of Music edited by Jin Tielin as demonstration teaching materials. These songs are not only widely sung throughout the country, especially in the Three Gorges area, but are also broadcast on CCTV, provincial and municipal stations and other art channels almost every year. Gan Maohua has been praised by critics as a master of writing style, and has been honored with the title of "Three Gorges Talent, Tujia Singer".