My friend Shen Haibo is a financial expert and banker from Wenzhou.
Dream Water Town//Shen Haibo
If we want to meet each other, I will be at the intersection of joy and sorrow everywhere - Mu Xin
Hi, Shen Zixuan, hello!
Last night I told you a few words on WeChat about your graduation and travel, and I still have a lot to say about it. Next, I will talk to you about my trip to Wuzhen.
This is really a pleasant trip.
The first thing is to be in a good mood.
Since "Daiyu Burns the Manuscript", I have completely completed the first stage of self-salvation. When I stood at the ticket gate of the train station, I no longer felt the panic I had last time. I even deliberately wanted to feel sad, but it failed: my heart was filled with the happiness of traveling, and there was no place for negative emotions. .
The second is a sense of accomplishment.
Skillfully book train tickets and B&Bs through Ctrip - not only smooth, but most importantly, practical. Especially when I successfully changed my train ticket the next day, I really enjoyed the confidence I felt: I am the master, and all fancy apps are tools to serve me.
I finally overcame my phobia of new technologies, and I have the feeling of a gentleman climbing high: without others, good and fake are just like things.
This can be regarded as self-salvation in another sense.
Then there is the new experience.
When I go to Wuzhen this time, I plan to change my previous habit of only staying in five-star hotels when traveling. Instead, I will stay in an authentic small B&B in the ancient lanes of the old city, as long as it is clean. .
Of course, when faced with a real choice, it is not easy. I took the cool-down approach and placed the order the next morning. I gave up a super luxury hotel called "Zhaoming Academy" in the core scenic area of ??Wuzhen, and decided on a B&B called "Once Upon a Time Slow" outside the scenic area. This name attracted me, and it only cost 144 yuan a night. Of course, there are no low prices on Ctrip. Yu Bai's B&B.
It is really easy to go from frugality to luxury, but difficult to go from luxury to frugality.
Like Qianlong when he went to Jiangnan, I really just wanted to change my taste and have a bite of pickle pancakes.
Depart from Wenzhou Home, walk 10 minutes to S1 Sanyang Wetland Station, wait for 10 minutes, the S1 train will arrive at Wenzhou South in 20 minutes, transfer to the train ticket gate in 15 minutes, and there will be 40 minutes left after leaving the gate, and the train will arrive. After Tongxiang Station, wait in line for 30 minutes and then get on the bus to Wuzhen. It takes an hour to reach Wuzhen Bus Station and take a rickshaw to the B&B in 20 minutes.
The spring scenery comes into view all the way, and infinite joy is in my heart.
Mu Xin said that in the past, cars, horses, and mail were all slow.
Today’s chariots and horses are both fast, but I still enjoy myself, trying to find Mu Xin’s slowness in the gaps between chariots and horses.
The B&B is quiet. When the door is closed, you can still hear the owner downstairs talking and the tenant next door coughing.
The B&B is small. You can smell the owner serving guests in the kitchen while lying on the bed. Prepare for the fragrant smell of oily smoke from breakfast.
The owners of the B&B are a local couple in their sixties who live in their own property. They have a grandson who is about one year old and has just started to walk, and an unmarried daughter who helps take care of the store business.
What’s interesting is that I also saw a 2020 desk calendar on the counter, which was made with photos of their family. It should have been taken by the family in a photo studio when the grandson was one year old. The man was wearing a suit and the woman was wearing a cheongsam.
Also on the desk calendar, I saw the parents of the grandson who had been introduced by the hostess, both of whom worked at Hangzhou Xiaoshan Airport with a combined annual income of more than 300,000 yuan. They were handsome men and beautiful women.
My little grandson has a tiger-like head and a tiger-like head, with delicate features and beautiful eyes. He is not afraid of strangers and wants to kiss me.
When I am playing with him and listening to his quacking laughter, I feel like I am in a place where chickens and dogs are hearing each other, their yellow hair is hanging down, and they are enjoying themselves.
Muxin Art Museum is located in the Xizha Scenic Area of ??Wuzhen.
I bought a ticket to enter Muxin Art Museum at 10am the next day and didn’t come out until 3pm.
Although the original intention of this trip to Wuzhen was to visit the Muxin Art Museum, I had no plans to visit. But everyone was already at the scenic spot. I was still hesitant as to whether to go shopping or not.
As you know, I have quite a severe mysophobia. I feel uncomfortable if I don’t do things according to plan.
It would be too pedantic to just turn around and leave. Besides, after enjoying nearly five hours of visual feast and spiritual feast at Mu Xin Art Museum, I felt a little exhausted and had to take a walk to eat. .
In the end, I convinced myself: I’ll settle in and take a look around when I’m here.
People, it is difficult to know yourself, but it is so easy to convince yourself.
Poetry:
On the sunny day, the shore of Surabaya is full of beauty, and the infinite scenery is new.
Yesterday on the phone, you said that you still remember our family driving from Ningbo to Wuzhen more than 20 years ago. Wuzhen is famous for being the filming location for the TV series "April in the World" starring Huang Lei and Liu Ruoying. Now the spokesperson for Wuzhen Tickets is Rene Liu. We are also considered the first generation of drama fans.
It’s just strange. I walked along the old streets along the river side, alternating left and right, and walked all the way to the end, but I couldn’t find the impression I had back then.
I am like a sleepwalker wandering in the old days. The small bridges, corridors, and whitewashed walls and green tiles around me are completely different from those in my memory. I even wonder if I am suffering from Hemel. Symptoms, the claws of memory are slipping on the brain wall.
It is said that Wuzhen was later renovated and developed as a whole by a listed company. When the World Internet Conference was sited, all residents in the scenic area were relocated.
There have been many changes, but it won’t be such a big change.
Later, when we were riding on a hand-cranked boat, the boss of the boat woke up the dreamer with a few words:
This is Wuzhen I am visiting now. It is not the town of Biwu where we visited back then.
We went to Dongzha, commonly known as Wuzhen Phase I, which is two kilometers away and opened to the outside world in 2001.
The place where I live now is Xizha, also known as Wuzhen Phase II, which was only opened to the outside world in 2007.
This is really:
The warm breeze makes tourists drunk, and they mistake Hangzhou for Bianzhou.
When the tricycle driver told me that Dongzha had arrived on the morning of the third day, looking at the stone bridge in front and the ticket office under the big tree on the left, I knew that this time I was really back in my hometown. Wuzhen in my dream.
There is no doubt that the place where I got off the tricycle is the same place where my white Accord parked. There was no navigation back then, so we drove directly to this bridge by asking around blindly. You were only five or six years old at that time.
Walking through these long, long and lonely alleys written by Dai Wangshu, none of us thought at the time that I would still say that I would step back when I am old, nor did we expect that you would grow up. I will travel so far to study in the United States.
Yesterday I told Sister Hong that it has been almost ten years since you left us and lived independently: three years in high school, four years in college, and three years in study abroad.
People all over the world in China will say that daughters are guests and should be treated politely when they are in their parents’ home. They will be other people’s daughters-in-law in the future.
Now it seems that men are the honored guests in their parents’ homes. When they grow up, they want to go out into the outside world and aspire to be the new masters of the world.
Of course, we never imagined that behind the mottled brown doors we passed, there was a courtyard that turned out to be Mu Xin’s former residence.
The Mu Xin Former Residence Memorial Hall has the following introduction:
Mu Xin’s original name was Sun Pu. When he became an adult, he took the pen name "Mu Xin".
In 1927, Mu Xin was born in Dongzha, Wuzhen.
In 1943, 16-year-old Mu Xin left Wuzhen for Hangzhou. Two years later, she transferred to Shanghai Art College to study.
In 1950, Mu Xin’s ancestral property was confiscated.
In 1982, at the age of 55, Mu Xin left Shanghai for the United States.
In early 1995, Mu Xin, who had been away from his hometown for 52 years, returned to Shanghai from New York and walked alone in the snow to visit his hometown. This was his first visit to Wuzhen since he left home as a teenager.
In 2000, the Wuzhen Tourism Company purchased the Sunjia Garden land and property, and it took five years to complete the renovation starting in 2001. Mu Xin personally renovated the ancestral house and renamed it "Wanqing Xiaozhu".
In September 2006, at the age of 79, Mu Xin returned to his hometown to live in peace until his death in the winter of 2011 at the age of 84.
It is also a coincidence that due to maintenance, only the front hall of the Former Residence Memorial Hall is open. After looking at the schematic diagram of the exhibition hall on the wall, it is estimated that it accounts for less than one-fifth of the area that should be open.
I am not upset about not meeting him at the door.
When I looked up and saw the horizontal plaque hanging high in the front hall, I suddenly had an idea:
If the curatorial idea of ??the Former Residence Memorial Hall was an article, then this horizontal plaque It's telling me: this article is written in flashback, and the four words in Mu Xin's handwriting on the horizontal plaque - Wo Dong Huai Xi, are the style and conclusion of this article. When I spent nearly five hours in the Mu Xin Art Museum, watching and listening to Mu Xin’s achievements in literature, poetry, calligraphy, and painting in each exhibition hall, when I passed the corner of the corridor of the last manuscript exhibition hall, a door suddenly opened. When I opened the door, I saw a room full of books. At first I thought the staff had forgotten to close the warehouse door.
After looking around, I realized that it was a stepped library open to visitors.
The floor-to-ceiling warehouse-style bookshelf is staggered with books and dozens of black-and-white portraits. The portraits are the size of Chairman Mao’s standard portrait, which is extremely visually shocking.
I curiously went up and down the stairs and looked through the books carefully. They were all Chinese translations of literary masterpieces and philosophical classics from the Western world.
Yes, there is no Chinese book, except the collected works of Mu Xin.
I looked up and clicked the photos carefully again. There were more than fifty photos, all of which were famous writers and philosophers in Western history, from Homer in ancient Greece to Beauvoir in modern France.
Yes, there is no Chinese face, even Mu Xin has retreated. Standing under the horizontal plaque on the east gate, I suddenly understood the meaning of the wall of books on the west gate:
This is the spiritual and cultural map of Mu Xin's aesthetic exile.
Mu Xin set out from Wuzhen to the world, exiled to thousands of mountains and rivers, to the ends of the earth, to the motherland and hometown.
Okay, that’s it for today, the article is a bit long.
I’ll talk to you about Mu Xin another day.
Chen Danqing said that he was a "difficult old man".
But when this old man was young, he was so handsome!
Goodbye! Good night!
April 11, 2021