Town story
In fact, Zhucheng is an ancient name with a very long history. Looking back at 1985' s newly rebuilt Xinzhou County Records, we can see that the title of Zhucheng first appeared in the Zhou Dynasty, and was later destroyed by Chu, whose land was merged into Chu and named Zhucheng. It can be seen that Zhucheng was called in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. According to the textual research of Mr. Yao Haidong and Mr. Tian, Huangzhou was an ancient country in the early Tang Dynasty, and now Xinzhou is an ancient city. The ancient books are as follows: Tang Tongdian, Huangzhou (now Xinzhou County) was an ancient country in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the history books record that the grandson of the Yellow Emperor had six sons, and the fifth son was Cao. Qi Anzhi quoted from Wang Xiang's Ji Sheng of the Southern Song Dynasty: "Chu people cut Zhu, captured its people, moved the monarch to the old site, built a city and lived there, and called Zhu Cheng. Today, Huanggang is 120 miles northwest (Huanggang County has moved to Huangzhou at this time). " Chen Dazhang, a famous poet in Qing Dynasty, once wrote: "Xinzhou was once an ancient city, but it was scattered in the air, so its address was flat. Mo Dao Changsha is the youngest, and he will do his best to make Han Peng. " If this is still great, Liu Bowen, the founding father of the Ming Dynasty, also went to Zhucheng, leaving a poem "Recalling the Past of Zhucheng": "The lonely city is sparsely populated, and Wan Li is depressed and close to the Chu government. Crows bring the sunset back to the old base, and geese bring autumn to Pinghu. The ruins are covered with grass and millet, and the old trees are gray and connected with them. The story is difficult to ask, and Hanshui is self-sufficient. " Starting from Liu Ji's poems, Zhucheng became more famous. Xinzhou used to be a well-known place for women and children in ancient Zhucheng. It's just that all the buildings in the old city have disappeared, and many names have been called later. The Han Dynasty was ruled by Yong County, called Nan 'an and Qi 'an (Du Mu, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote a quatrain in the back pond of Qi 'an County when he was making history in Huangzhou: "Ling wears duckweed green brocade pond and makes thousands of roses." No one watched the light rain all day, and the mandarin duck bathed in red. "), Gao Qi called Hengzhou, and later Tang called Huangzhou. In the first year of Tang Guangqi, the county government moved south and was renamed Kyushu. Later, it was commonly known as Xinzhou, and it was divided into command post and envoy post, and it was clearly the official post. Instead, I forgot the name Zhucheng, but it also shows that it has a long history.
Zhucheng not only has a long history, but also has many stories related to Chen Youliang in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. Zhucheng in Gu Yin is a battleground for Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youliang to compete for the world, and there are a lot of folklore and ancient records. Word of mouth from ordinary people is even more, and Huang Chunhua, the senior manager of our unit, is full of ancient stories. At a friend's party, she told a story about the Poyang Lake War. Zhu Yuanzhang defeated many with few, and Chen Youliang was defeated. He fled from Ezhou to Jiangbei and went straight to Zhucheng. When I passed by Wang Ji, I left the place name "Chendun" (the salted duck here is good now). At that time, Zhucheng was guarded by a general named Wu Guodong of the Yuan Army. He thinks that Chen Youliang's losing streak to Zhu Yuanzhang has no fighting capacity and is vulnerable. He opened the gate and led his son out of the city to meet them. It's really a father and son soldier. I didn't think that Chen Youliang was a skinny camel bigger than a horse, and there was nothing he could do, so he finally survived, but I didn't expect that Wu's father and son were killed by Chen Youliang. After entering the city, Chen Youliang took Dongyue Temple, located at the commanding heights in the northeast of Zhucheng City, as his main hall and temporarily set up the Chaohui. Zhucheng became the "capital" of the wartime "Chen Han" regime.
It should be said that Zhucheng people are Chen Youliang's blessed land. He got a short rest here and gained something from several skirmishes. But Zhucheng is his sad place. Everything is because he is extremely happy. Maybe it is a few days. One day, he went out of town to fight Zhu Yuanzhang. Before leaving, he said to his wife, if you see me holding high the flag and beating drums, it must be that I won. If you die quietly, it is definitely a defeat. The lady listened, holding hands, looked at herself tearfully, looked at her husband silently, but was speechless.
Who knows, that day, Chen Youliang won by a wide margin. Perhaps it was a struggle with Zhu Yuanzhang for many years, and it was not easy to win today. Maybe it's because I'm blinded by interests, maybe I'm talking about teenagers, maybe I just want to play a joke with my wife. Anyway, Chen Youliang was uncharacteristically that day. Instead of sending messengers to announce the good news, he let a small group of people stop for a while, was defeated, and returned to the cities at the gate. Mrs. Chen, who had been nervous all day on the rostrum, was heartbroken and hanged herself on the rostrum with a white silk. Chen Youliang arrived soon, and it was too late. It's too late for him to regret, too late to regret, even crying, not to redeem, not to redeem. Later, he buried his wife in Nanshan, Zhucheng, which is now the "Phoenix Wharf". The origin of this name is also ancient. Zhu Yuanzhang discussed Chen Youliang with others. He once said that he was afraid to forgive his wife (I can see that she is not an idle generation) and he was not afraid. Liu Ji, a military strategist, also said, "Forgive your friends, but that's a fake dragon and a real phoenix.". Is Chen Youliang's joke a big joke? I lost my wife, and I lost the regime of Chen Han.
Raise the water and set the sun.
From the moment you enter Zhucheng, you must have close contact with Lishui. Because the water is carried in the west of the city, you can only see the scenery in the west of the bridge without going through the water bridge, but you can't enter the city. Don't say that the sunset is really a good scenery in the rainy season when a rising tide lifts all boats. It was August when I came to Xinzhou. That year, floods flooded and floods raged. Only under the governance of the people in the whole region was the flood tamed. From here, water lifting also entered the wet season. The rubber dam used on weekdays has been submerged under the flood, and the exposed riverbed that was lamented by several poets and friends is also covered with oil and water, like a mirror.
I fell in love with this river full of aura as soon as I arrived, and I fell in love with this blue river. Why is it called carrying water? I have been looking for the answer, and I have asked many colleagues, but I don't know. Later, I got an important message in the county annals. It is said that during the Spring and Autumn Period, the war between Wu Chu was caused by Cai Guo, who led Wu Shi to land from Huaibei by boat through Yiyang three passes (Pingjin, Huang Wei and Wuyang). In the northeast of Han Dynasty, Chu and Jia Han fought and defeated Chu Shi's Yu Baiju. Baiju said it was near Macheng Guishan in the upper reaches of today's water lifting, and in the southeast of Xinzhou in the lower reaches of today's water lifting, which is what Li Daoyuan said. Carrying water was named after the Battle of the White Pony. (Xinzhou County Records, p. 778)
One weekend evening, I came to the Jushui River in the west of Zhucheng alone. There is a tree-lined boulevard. All kinds of evergreen deciduous trees and vegetation are green at this time, and some unknown flowers are enjoying the summer sunshine. Small town people call this road amorous feelings avenue. What a charming avenue! There are many young couples sitting under leafy trees, boys and girls playing on the riverbank, and more middle-aged and elderly people walking on the charming avenue. It suddenly occurred to me that Liu Lang, a poet in Xinzhou, once told me that women in Xinzhou are passionate and persistent in love. The lovestruck men and women on this sentimental avenue may be witnesses. It is said that before this amorous feelings avenue was built, it was just a dilapidated riverbank, full of silt, overgrown with weeds, infested with insects and snakes, dusty on sunny days and muddy on rainy days. Even if some couples come, they will inevitably be "killed" (robbed). After that, under the unified planning of the district government, it took only one year to harden and green, becoming a good place for people in small towns to relax and walk. Someone posted in Xinzhou Bar, saying that the construction of Fengqing Avenue is a milestone in Xinzhou.
Standing on the amorous feelings avenue, what a dazzling dusk it is. Looking from a distance, a golden sun is embedded in the middle of the red cloud, which is also commonly known as the flaming cloud. On the periphery of the clouds, from red to yellow, and sometimes Yun Lan, there are white clouds floating between the blue clouds, which is really romantic. They are reflected in the water, and the blue water is dyed into colorful colors, which is really half river and half river. And water seems to be printed in the sky, lifted to the distance and extended indefinitely. Blue pervades the setting sun, the water is innocent, and there is a shocking boundless romantic moon.
In the middle of the gathering river dyed red by the sunset, a boat caught my special attention. That's a fishing boat. The ship was moored on the water with the setting sun shining on it. The shadow of the ship seems to be inlaid with Phnom Penh, but there is no white sail. If you hang a white sail, it must be a poem of "the shadow of the sail hangs, and the fishing song goes into the smoke" I saw a fisherman, maybe a former professional fisherman. He stood firmly at the bow, throwing a silver net and taking it back. He is very familiar with this action. Just put away the fishing net, it seems that there are not many fish, but it is not without harvest. From a distance, there are some dark shadows hanging on the Internet from time to time. They must be fish. In addition, there are songs coming from the middle of the river from time to time. The wind is blowing, and the rough singing is intermittent, but I can hear that the fisherman is happy. Maybe he doesn't care about fish at all, only about the fun of fishing.
There are many fishing enthusiasts near the river bank. They sat in the shade in twos and threes, with long guns and short guns. I looked at their catch, and there were quite a few fish, including white fish, crucian carp and golden-tailed carp. While watching, a fisherman shouted: Yes. Looking for the sound, I saw a fisherman's fishing rod pulled into a crescent shape. It seems that this fish is not small. I quickly got up and went to find fishing friends. He stood up and tightened the fishing rod. Before the fish surfaced, the fishing line made a whirring sound. I told fishing friends that fish are afraid of weighing ten pounds. The fisherman was so absorbed that he didn't answer me much, but nodded excitedly. He swayed from side to side on the shore, fighting with the fish. Sometimes the fish takes the lead, the tip of the fisherman's fishing rod faces down, and the line is almost completely eaten into the water; Sometimes fishing friends get the chance first, and the fishing rod is raised in the air. Finally, the fish came out of the water. This is a herring, weighing 1 1 or 12 lbs. The onlookers cheered together. After choking for a few times, the fish's strength is getting weaker and weaker until it is completely exhausted. Although the fishing friends are exhausted, they are also exhausted when they see the fish emerging from the water. Pull the fish to the shore quickly, and with the net, the fish will get into the net properly. The fisherman took out the hook and held the fish in his hand. The fish was forty or fifty centimeters long, fat and strong, and everyone was amazed. Unexpectedly, there are such big fish in the water. Some say that the upstream water may have risen and ran out of someone else's fish pond. Anyway, the fishing friends are addicted, even I, the spectator, am addicted.
Looking around, the sun was completely submerged, and the night gradually fell, and the lights in the town turned into a sea of lights.
Regional cultural center
One day, President Li Jun and General Manager Huang Fang and I walked into Zhucheng to promote the two-dimensional code of ICBC, and suddenly caught a glimpse of a row of familiar fonts in front of a six-story house: Xinzhou County Cultural Center. I pointed to that line and said to Chairman Li and General Manager Huang: Hey, this must be an inscription. Before they came to their senses, they had already seen clearly that it was the Mo Bao of Mr. Guo Moruo, a great Chinese literary master. Because I don't understand, I didn't expect Xinzhou, a small district-level cultural center, to have the inscription of the name of Lao Guo Museum. Now many people slander Lao Guo, but Xinzhou still keeps his promise and takes the original "county" with him. Xinzhou's cultural heritage, loyalty and respect for history make me impressed. However, there are some doubts. Is this really the signboard inscribed by Lao Guo? Could it be a collection of characters?
With this question, I visited some local literary friends. A friend in the literary and art circles told me that when planning to build the Xinzhou County Cultural Center, I would like to ask someone to write a signboard. My first thought was Wei, a native of Shuangliu, then secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee. When he went to Shanghai to find Comrade Wei, he even claimed that he was a poor scholar and could not write well. After declining, I felt sorry for my fellow villagers and said, why not ask Comrade Guo Moruo to write an inscription? A word woke the dreamer, and no one in Xinzhou knew Guo Moruo. I wonder if Comrade Wei has told me? After returning from Shanghai, the comrades of Xinzhou County Cultural Center drafted an official document to the effect that Lao Guo should write an inscription to support the cultural construction of Xinzhou people. After Zhu's letter was sent, there was no reply for a long time, but the Xinzhou County Cultural Center was still stepping up its construction and never stopped. When the cultural center was about to be completed, I received a letter from Guo Moruo, written with a brush, to the effect that comrades in Xinzhou County Cultural Center: Hello! I received the letter ... It is said that I was too busy to take care of the inscription. I am deeply sorry ... after reading it, the preparatory staff of the county cultural center can't help feeling a little sorry. Isn't this sign missing However, a staff member's eyes lit up and said to the person in charge of the organizing committee: Didn't Lao Guo give us a signboard? The team leader quickly asked, where is it? The staff pointed to the letter and said, "Comrades of Xinzhou County Cultural Center", right? The team leader patted his head and said, really, look at the busy people. So, say to the employees, find someone to extend Lao Guo's words and make the brand well. The staff took Lao Guo's handwriting, found a lettering agency, and unfolded the words "Xinzhou County Cultural Center" in Lao Guo Xin to make a signboard. On the day when the Cultural Center was completed, the new building with Lao Guo handwritten signboard became the landmark building of the county, and Lao Guo's inscription also added a lot of color to this building. It's just that people at that time didn't have the habit of keeping celebrity handwriting, and Lao Guo's letters were nowhere to be found.
But there is also a different story told by another literary friend on the wine table. Although the meaning is similar, it is humorous. What I said before is the same. I asked Lao Guo for a long time, but then I suddenly received a letter from Beijing. The envelope reads "Xinzhou County Cultural Center" and is signed by Guo Moruo. When everyone opened the envelope, they shook it a few times and there was nothing in it. It's a pity that everyone is talking about it. Another staff member said, didn't Lao Guo give us an inscription? Everyone looked at each other and thought he was joking, and the leader also criticized him for spending money indiscriminately. He pointed to a few words on the envelope and said, right? Everyone looked at the envelope in the leader's hand, and the words "Xinzhou County Cultural Center" shone. Everyone cheered and swept away the lead clouds on their faces. They all said that Lao Guo really played a sense of humor for everyone. Later, the same staff member enlarged the lettering and made it into a signboard. It's just that he didn't give the original handwriting to the unit and collected it himself. Later, in the 1980s, the county cultural center was rebuilt to make a new signboard, and then when the staff asked for Lao Guo's handwriting, he said that the signboard was destroyed after the lettering society finished it. Who knows, is it really gone? Maybe he put it away.
After the establishment of Xinzhou County Cultural Center, it has cultivated new cultural figures from generation to generation, and also produced a number of writers, poets, artists and calligraphers, making their own contributions to the construction, reform and opening up of Xinzhou.
Morning in the market
The place where I work belongs to East Street, surrounded by a vegetable field. According to my colleague Yu Jiancheng, the vegetable farm was built in 1983 and opened on the 35th anniversary of the National Day of 1984. This vegetable farm covers an area of 4300 square meters. In 2008, the shed was crushed by a snowstorm, and the government invested 3 million yuan to rebuild it. In 20 13, the government invested 3 million yuan to transform it for the creation of civilized cities in the whole region. This has become the present scale. Dongjie Food Market has 1 10 stalls, operating nearly 300 varieties, with an annual transaction volume of about 200 million yuan. The biggest boss is Mr. Zhang, the cold storage operator, with an annual profit of more than 2 million yuan.