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Li Na, director of the column group, remembers homesickness.

Representative works: Jiujiang-Jiushuihui One City, Shanhaiguan-Shanhaiguan Xiongcheng, etc.

"The process of filming" Remember Homesickness "is a process of constantly discovering beauty and moving. For me, walking on this road is a kind of training, but also a kind of enjoyment.

-Li Na "

Lingnan renjia Chenpi Piaoxiang

202 1 12 At the end of February, with some expectation and curiosity, we walked into Chakeng Village, Xinhui District, Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province. As early as online research, I learned that this place is not only the main producing area of Xinhui Chenpi, but also the hometown of Mr. Liang Qichao. I want to find out what kind of beautiful scenery Lingshan is in order to breed such a strong cultural atmosphere.

Walking into Chakeng Village, we were greeted by a refreshing fragrance. Following this fragrance, we found that there were laundry baskets filled with dried tangerine peel in front of every household in the village, on the roof and even on the ceiling of private cars. And when you walk into any shop on the street, you can enjoy a cup of Chenpi tea and talk about Chenpi.

Dried tangerine peel, for people here, seems to have become a part of life, and it is a feeling that can't be abandoned in life.

Looking at the two rows of dried tangerine peel shops in the village and the lush tea orange garden around the village, the dried tangerine peel industry is undoubtedly the industrial code for tea to deceive the people to realize rural revitalization. What kind of cultural and spiritual code is that, so that this ancient village near Yinzhou Lake can go through more than 600 years, seize the opportunity in the development of the times and follow the trend. With this question, we started a further investigation.

At the home of uncle Liang Putian, a villager, I first saw Liang's genealogy in the Republic of China. Liang is the first surname of Chakeng Village, and Liang Jia is also the first family to settle in this land. Mottled ancient books are a little broken, but hundreds of years have passed at your fingertips. Speaking of family history, Uncle Liang is a little excited. He told us the story between our ancestors and Chenpi, which made us understand why people in this land have such deep feelings for Chenpi.

We often say that one side of the soil and water support one side of the people, and the wild citrus trees in the mountains cured a plague in the village, and also let the first-time visitors find a way to adapt to the local climate. Dried tangerine peel gradually became an indispensable taste on the dining table of Lingnan people, and finally became a spiritual temperament of local people with the passage of time. This temperament is like a peel, in the flow of time, in the years.

Perhaps it is under the infiltration of this cultural atmosphere that Liang Qichao, with the fragrance of his hometown Chen Pixiang, began a long journey to seek the road to saving the country. Adhering to the concept that "change is the righteousness of the world", this young man from Chakeng Village became an important promoter of the bus writing and the Reform Movement of 1898, and also issued a cry of "Teenagers are wise for the country and teenagers are strong for the country". His achievements have inspired generations of young people and become the spiritual imprint that hometown people are proud of.

Today's Chakeng Village is particularly popular. According to villagers, with the help of the government and science and technology departments, the local dried tangerine peel industry has developed better and better in recent years, which has also attracted many young people to return to their hometowns to start businesses. They not only inherited the traditional skills handed down from generation to generation, but also insisted on the spirit of continuous innovation and change, which made the dried tangerine peel industry in their hometown have a new height and new dimension. Today's rural areas are prosperous in industry, ecologically livable, civilized in rural customs and effective in governance. The old people are happy, the children are raised, and everyone's happiness is written on their faces, which also shows us the most beautiful appearance of rural revitalization.

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