Yan Yin: Peach Blossom Garden in Western Beijing - Zheng Jiazhuang

The Peach Blossom Garden of the Western Capital

Wen/Yan Yin

The left side of the CuiPing QingLongShan,

The right side of the Flying Fox Silver Beach.

South Phoenix lookout,

North living in the Wei Luo rice grain river.

This is a Zhengjiazhuang village old branch secretary Mr. Chen's hometown of Zhengjiazhuang village of Uixian praise poem. Zhengjiazhuang now how? Listen to the hometown people said in recent years engaged in ice and snow carnival, playing tree flowers, folklore activities, beautiful rural construction, and eighteen hall Tourism project cooperation ...... with doubts and many question marks, I was anxious to a spring March again visited the Zhengjiazhuang.

The Zhengjiazhuang let me have feelings can continue

I think I know Zhengjiazhuang. Because of the Zhengjiazhuang have taught my teacher, there are my classmates, and is the same town, not far from. So I'm no stranger to Zhengjiazhuang. We drove on the road running, thoughts back to the past: Zhengjiazhuang has a few broken temples, that travel the dirt and stone road is not very good, people only rely on planting a few acres of thin fields to live, eat is the river pond water, is from the Flying Fox Valley downstream, the water people and animals **** with the river in the summer green algae all over the ...... think of the people's life is not easy. However, there is land produced food, vegetables, fruits, from the hard times over the people feel much happier, because compared to the twentieth century, 60 years to eat bark and three two grain hungry belly years, life has been a change in the world. People cherish the existing life. Because they also know that the days will be better every day. The village's thousands of acres of apricot trees is the capital of the people talk about, not to mention the yard outside the yard and vegetables, fruit trees, crops harvest, fewer than the family to eat, more can be sent to the people or into the city to sell some.

People have a kind of small happiness in the heart, I also share the unknown number of times. Xing Yuan students home is one of them, I like his yard several tall apricot trees, tree height of about more than three floors, summer shade like cover, under the tree can be cool, apricot ripe, golden apricot full of trees are fruitful, the wind blew, apricot snapped straight off, the pig in the tree on the ground running around picking up and eating, busy and not happy. I remember one summer Xing and I went back to his home, it was the time of ripe apricots. His family had donkeys, pigs, sheep, chickens, etc. It was a typical farming family. In the yard there were delicious big sweet apricots, green vegetables such as tomatoes, eggplants, peppers and what not, tender corn, soybean curd boiled, and my mother also made golden scrambled eggs to eat. Young people do not know sadness, someone to accompany, fields, mountains in front of the eyes can play at will, the children's mood is not to mention how good. Once and Xing classmates on the eighteen hall tour, see the lotus sunrise cave caves, broken temple monuments, experience walking that wooden bridge, under the bridge is the abyss, dangerous and exciting. And this hanging mountain temple near a large pine forest, walking tired we lie on the grass under the shade of the forest, you can smell the aroma of wildflowers, you can listen to the pine waves, and eagles circling over the top of the mountain, from time to time to send out cries. Another summer, Xing Yuan and I rested on the bed of his house, the reed mat is very cool, this place in the summer without air conditioning, fans. I also saw the spectacular scenery when the thunderstorm came, mountain rain, clouds from the sky to the mountains and then down the mountain to the misty open, the wind pushed to run fast, lightning and thunder, the rain soon came, the rain hit the crops, windows, roofs, the yard is soon a watery world. The wind and rain came and went in a hurry in the mountains, and soon the rainbow hung in the sky and the sun shone brightly in the clear sky, so smelling the fragrance of the flowers and the soil, we were walking around in the ridge again, womanizing. Later we went to different cities for work, I still often miss my old classmates and Zheng Jiazhuang. We contact will often mention the village, where we left footprints, laughter and laughter, which will allow us to relive a good old days. To come to Zhengjiazhuang is to find the memory of the old dream, because I have been bound to Zhengjiazhuang.

Folklore: "King but Xiang, will be but Li." This "Li" and Zhengjiazhuang have what relationship.

"Brother, look! Here stands a man!" Sister interrupted my thoughts, the original is to Zhengjiazhuang village entrance. Newly built pagoda, written on the "Zhengjiazhuang" three big words, pagoda South is what my sister said stood a man, which is the remnants of the Tang Five Flying Tiger Li Cunxiao's statue. Li Cunxiao, real name An Jing Si, for Daizhou Flying Fox people, Flying Tiger General. He was the first fierce general of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms at the end of Tang Dynasty, the righteous son of Hedong Sectional Minister Li Keyun, one of the Thirteen Generals. When he was a teenager, he had killed a tiger with a few punches, and when he fought, he was mostly a vanguard, charging into battle, invincible, and invincible. Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the first gun "White Horse Silver Gun" Youzhou Gao Si Ji and Li fought ten rounds will be captured on horseback; angrily hostage Deng Tianwang, live to take Meng cut off the sea, killed and defeated Zhang Guiba, even the iron gun will be Wang Yanzhang is his defeat, but also eighteen riders to break the eighty-thousand troops of the Huang Nest, the attack on Chang'an. Just as the so-called "prima donna, every battle invincible victory," the real description of the same. There are folk history rumors that Li Cunxiao can be compared with Xiang Yu, the king of Chu, who is "strong and powerful", and there is the evaluation of "the king is not as strong as Xiang, and the general is not as strong as Li". Li Cunxiao's master is the Taoist Chen Tuan Laozu, he is the Chen family home, living in Zheng Jia Zhuang Fengshan Temple south of 100 meters at the head of the hill, that is the remnants of the Tang and the fifth generation of the original prototype of Zheng Jia Zhuang Chen family home. Zhengjiazhuang two miles east of Lotus Hill on the top of the sedan chair under the mountain, there are eighteen halls, that is, the Hanging Temple. This place for the legendary Chen Laozu retreat training place, but also Li Cunxiao practice martial arts place. It is rumored that the An family name of Zhengjiazhuang village is the descendant of Li. Since then Zhengjiazhuang has a sense of mystery. Zhengjiazhuang in the end is what kind of place?

Turning the history of Zhengjiazhuang, it will take us into the history of the smoke and rain to go.

Zhengjiazhuang, located two hundred kilometers west of Beijing, Hebei Weixian County, 12.5 kilometers southeast of the Cuiping Mountain, one of the eight defile Taihang Flying Fox defile in the east direction. East of the village is the entrance of Zhangshi Expressway, north of the village Zhangshi Expressway exit, the geographical position is superior. It is an ancient fortress of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhengjiazhuang Fortress Fort Gate called Ping'an Gate, the street called Ping'an Street. Then we can logically call the ancient fort as Ping'an Fort. The ancient fort is 108 meters wide east to west, 208 meters long north to south, is a standard rectangle. There is a fort four Zhuang (East Zhuang, West Zhuang, South Zhuang, North Zhuang). The structure of the ancient fortress for the zigzag distribution, the fortress gate in the south, opposite the Flying Fox Valley of the mouth of the valley. Flying Fox Valley is one of the eight defiles in Taihang, an ancient trade route and battlefield. The terrain of the village is high in the south and low in the north, during the Qianlong period, the rain gathered, the flood water of the mouth of the valley impacted down, the fort gate was blocked by the silt after the flood, the residents in and out of the action is not convenient, in the rainy season to clean up the silt has become a huge project. So the Fort Gate was changed to the west. Fort gate called Ping'anmen, outside the fort north and south streets called Ping'anjie. Inside the Zhengjiazhuang Fort, there are Old Master's Temple, Guanyin Temple, ancient theater; outside the Fort, there are Wudaomiao Temple, Longwang Temple, Fengshan Temple and so on. It is worth mentioning that Fengshan Temple is the most eye-catching.

About Fengshan Temple

"Fengshan Temple east of Cuiping Lotus Mountain, south of Flying Fox clear spring water always flowing, looking west of Cuigui Green Phoenix Mountain, north of the Yang family of the ancient generals platform." This is the temple over the temple east wall root of the three inscriptions relating to the record. The temple was built during the Hongwu period of Ming Dynasty, when people built it for their faith and served the spiritual level. Fengshan Temple, also known as Reclining Buddha Temple. In Zhengjiazhuang village southeast of a mile slope head, covers an area of more than three acres. From the Ming and Qing Dynasties to the present day, it has been rebuilt many times. The periphery of the temple is about 50 meters long from north to south and 35 meters wide from east to west. There are three temple door, the main door and both sides of the door. Side door for the monks usually in and out of the door, the main door for the worship of Buddha scattered incense used. Over the hall and the main hall in a central axis. The main door through the hall (front hall) has a statue of Buddha: Maitreya Buddha, smiling mouth always open. Backed by the Goddess of Mercy, who bestows blessings on people; east and west sides of the four heavenly kings: Magic Lai Hong, Magic Lai Qing, Magic Sea, Magic Shou. The main hall has statues of Buddha:Sakyamuni Great Reclining Buddha, Anan, Aye, Jizo Bodhisattva, Amitabha Buddha, Manjushri Bodhisattva in the east, Pratyekabuddha Bodhisattva in the west, and the guardian deities, Vedanta and Ludo. The front wall for the painting of the eighteen Ming Wang mural, they have the form, lifelike and exquisite. On both sides of the main hall, hold the hall room for the east has two rooms, west has three rooms. There are eight hundred years of ancient pines in the courtyard, by the wind and frost, rain and snow so far vibrant. Temple morning bells and drums in the morning and evening, reminding the world of the sunrise, sunset and rest. The bells and drums beat the years, and the ancient pines bear witness to the changes in the world. Those pious incense burners, in the temple between the heart also followed the quiet down, have a good idea, understand the reason for being a human being.

The most representative of Zhengjiazhuang Anjia compound

Anjia compound occupies half of the Fort, Anjia once in the county town of Uixian County, created the "Fu Xunyong" name, the Anjia family also produced a good at fighting with the army of the An general.

Zhengjiazhuang has a few strange?

First, the people of Zhengjiazhuang did not have the surname of Zheng, there are Chen, An, Xing, mainly a few major surnames. Zhengjiazhuang originally called Zhengjiazhuang, the street was also "positive" zigzag structure distribution, the positive take "straight, justice, the right way, the right way, the right eight by ......" of the solution, people are used to naming surnames, and over time, called into the name of a few strange. Over time, called Zhengjiazhuang. The second is the big willow tree of Zhengjiazhuang. Xing family from Shanxi Hongtong big willow tree moved, not forgetting ancestors, planted willow trees in the village. Willow shade often sit with many people resting in the shade, the century-old willow is branching out the green branches to, this ancient willow Xing clan planted, became the people's eyes of the god tree, people with pious reverence in the mood of the trunk wrapped in red cloth, praying for the god tree to bring good luck to the village to their own souls. Third, Zhengjiazhuang stories circulating in the community: "gone three, back half" said. The story is about Zhengjiazhuang when the village of 500 people. In the anti-American period, young people actively participate in the military, serve the motherland. There are three people went to the Korean battlefield, only one person came back alive, but the body is disabled, people say "half a person". This is the village people to defend the motherland martial spirit. Zhengjiazhuang people have a simple folk style, martial arts and literature, Mr. Xing Peiqing is an outstanding one. A retired teacher who was born and raised in Zhengjiazhuang. Cultivated in the rural labor perseverance, he was farming while studying, from private teachers to public teachers, to the special teacher, retired, but not rest, and in the county as a secretary of the academy, to do learning. His students are full of peaches and plums, distributed to work in various places. He also has a set of language teaching, published many articles, such as "the ancient literature of the virtual and real", "classroom composition speed", written over a period of about two years, "Wei Xiangshu poetry appreciation", witnessed his literary attainments, it is worthwhile to read. The soil and water of Zhengjiazhuang cultivated his easy-going, and diligent and practical style.

Zhengjiazhuang people's doorstep is the scenic

The ghost of Cuiping Mountain, the seven Miss Peak, eighteen halls of the Hanging Mountain Temple ...... Mr. Chen Guiju, the old branch of the writer and farmer writer, he loved the yellow earth under his feet, with real feelings to describe his hometown, in his pen image Wrote: "Cuiping Mountain, six daojiao. Sedan Chair Mountain, eighteen halls. Thunderbolt Valley, Leigongchuang. Butterfly Valley, the fragrance of hundreds of flowers. Leaky wind mountain, really cool. Chao Ting Chair, Zhang Ancestral Hall. Saddle Bridge, Big Carpet Beam. Three ditches, big house. Ladder ditch, sleeping on a stone bed. Swallow Gully, Birch Skin. Monk's ditch, thick stone. Big platform, Longmu speaking. Two stone gates, on the Yangtze River. North and South Platform, Ancient Battlefield. The South Terrace and the North Terrace are located in the south and the north of the village, and they are the places where the great generals of the Daikoku Kingdom take command of the troops from the heights. And Chenjiayuan out of a flying tiger general Li Cunxiao ...... these landscapes, move step by step, a different world. The beautiful natural scenery and the long story legend will attract our eyes and take us to the long ago years.

Zhengjiazhuang in the change

I saw round Guhao small river pond full of blue water, green willow around the pool, there are idle fishing people. They set up a fishing rod, sitting on the horse miscellany quietly waiting, eyes watching the movement of the fish floating, leisurely smoking cigarettes; North and South Ping'an Avenue and is a commercial street, the street stalls selling goods, from time to time there are gathered to see what can be bought did not, what shovels, shovels, mopping, small household appliances, small foodstuffs,......, and the roadside facade houses complement each other, The first thing you need to do is to get a good deal on your own. Taking the east wind of the construction of beautiful villages, the village in recent years added: fitness equipment, cultural plaza, the Great Wall Viewing Corridor, Cuifeng Villa, Begonia Mountain House, the construction of the Nanshan Yard ...... is to keep pace with the times, to adapt to the new era of the emergence of the product. Cuifeng Mountain Villa and Nanshan Xiaoyuan will receive you, and the root carvings and paintings and calligraphy of Haitang Mountain House will enrich your spiritual cells. Film and television crews have come to the countryside to shoot movies. Recently, I was glad to hear that the ski resort under the mountain was built and started to operate. In winter to see the wild open sky low, snow-capped, as if in a fairy tale world. To Zhengjiazhuang to ski, can become another beautiful landscape. On December 9, 2016, Zhengjiazhuang Village was selected as one of the fourth batch of traditional villages in China; in 2018, it was selected as one of the seventh batch of historical and cultural towns and villages in China; on March 18, 2021, Zhengjiazhuang Village was selected as one of the 2020 national ecological and cultural villages announced by China Ecological and Cultural Association; and in September 2021, it was awarded as one of "the second batch of national model villages for rural governance". In September 2021, the village was honored with the "Second Batch of National Rural Governance Demonstration Villages" ...... future development is unlimited.

It's not too much of a stretch to say that Zhengjiazhuang is a peach blossom garden

Zhengjiazhuang is a village covered in green trees. First of all, it is an apricot orchard. Zhengjiazhuang village and the village around the majority of apricot trees, there are thousands of acres of apricot orchards, every spring when the apricot blossoms, the wind transported the fragrance of apricot blossoms, bees and butterflies dancing in the bushes, flying around, busy and not happy. It also attracts spring trekkers to join in the picture of spring. The sea of pink and white flowers, people, butterflies and bees, merge into a symphony of spring. It can really be a stranger's blossom, not drunk! Zhengjiazhuang village is high in the south and low in the north, the big mountain is in the south, and the mountain water from the valley flows down, forming fertile land over time. Grains and cereals melons and fruits rich in selenium, is an excellent human nutrition element. The village is famous for its large white grain, sweet apricots, in recent years famous.

If you live in the city for a long time, some depressed and upset, want to find a place far away from the city without the noise of cars and horses out of the walk, looking for a collection of ecological leisure, rural tourism, cultural experience, industrial development functions as one of the folk tourism village. Then come to Zhengjiazhuang. You want the spring, summer shade, autumn and winter rhyme, here can have. There are paths of transportation, dogs and chickens; view the mountains and hills as far as the eye can see. At night, you can watch the sky full of stars, see the constellations, the vast Milky Way, and meteor showers. The night of the full moon you can see the golden full moon from the top of the dark mountain little by little out, slowly rising, solemn and glorious. The endless fields under the moonlight were full of turquoise crops. There was a haze of moonlight, quietly cascading over the leaves and flowers. At the top of the mountain you can call and sing to the mountains, see the mother river HuLiu river meandering like a belt, see the village in the mountains between the green field of a red roof, the fog rises, in the sunshine, rivers and mountains like a picture. You can also see the vicissitudes of the old castle, looking for the former years. Carved beams in front of the theater seems to hear the sound of gongs and drums, out of the generals into the phantom, the raw Dan clean end of the ugly you sing me on the stage; courtyard, a chain of courtyards, brick tiles tell that the old fortress in the past bustling prosperity. It turns out that this is the spiritual home of people. The body and mind also followed the relaxation down. The restlessness of the heart gradually calmed down. Zhengjiazhuang let you find the true meaning of life.

The park at the entrance of the village, the apricot garden in the field, around the front and back like a garden, you can pick chrysanthemums under the East Fence, you can leisurely see the South Mountain. This South Mountain, today there is a loud name, collectively known as the Uizhou Cuiping Mountain. The dragon plays with the pearl, and the feng shui is strong. The village's Nanhao and Beihao are dragons, and the small river pond is a pearl, which is the so-called two dragons playing with a pearl in feng shui. As for the revitalization of the ancient fortress as well as the revitalization of the countryside, the county party committee and county government leaders at all levels, various organs, organizations and social groups and even units and individuals have come into Zhengjiazhuang, for her innovative development and constantly contribute to the Zhengjiazhuang from this into a new era. This is not exactly the Jin Dynasty Tao Qian yearning for the Peach Blossom Garden? To this end, I wrote:

Zhengjiazhuang under the Cuiping Mountain,

livable and livable travel five grain incense.

A world of paradise under the South Mountain,

Mr. Wuliu seems to have visited.

About the Author:

Yan Yin, grew up in Weixian, ancestry Baoding. He is now settled in Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province. The experience of growing up in the countryside has taught me to love the yellow earth of life and to express my deep feelings in words.