The cold dew has just passed, and those who are poetic and looking for the romantic autumn like to go to Zhanyuan Village, Tangwan Town, Guixi City. The autumn there is colorful and so beautiful that it makes people intoxicated and obsessed.
The leaves of tallow trees, sweet maples, and oxwax trees all over the mountains and ridges gradually deepen in color as the weather turns colder, and gradually turn red, from yellow and bright yellow to orange-red, deep red, and brilliant red. . Zhanyuan under the autumn sun is like falling into a gorgeous fairy tale world, colorful and dreamy. The intoxicating red leaves are so passionate, so extravagant, so charming, so full of vitality and appeal! It is as passionate as fire and as gorgeous as the rising sun.
If spring and summer occupancy is full of youth and vitality, then autumn and winter occupancy shows maturity and abundance. The wild fruits all over the mountain are ripe and attractive. Strings of gray wild kiwi fruit are hanging on the high branches beside the mountain road. The small red thorn fruits are dazzling, and the wild camellia oleifera fruits are also dotted on the branches. Looking forward to you picking it, the grapefruits in front of and behind the house are also ripe and bright yellow. In autumn and winter, Zhanyuan is not only full of fruits, but also has gorgeous flowers. Look at the foot of the mountain, on the river beach, in the fields, and on the high slopes. The cockscombs and ginger lotus flowers are blooming so brightly and red, and the camellias are so pure and pure. The most surprising thing is that the reeds on the slopes and river beaches are actually a strange purple-red color. When the breeze comes, they wave to you affectionately. The lake water in Zhanyuan Mountain is also different from that outside the mountain, like pieces of emerald jasper inlaid among the colorful woods.
Those red leaves that look like fire and blood, those fruits that are all over the mountains and plains, and those gorgeous and colorful mountain flowers have become the most beautiful scenery in autumn and winter!
Zhanyuan is a small village with a population of more than a thousand people under the jurisdiction of Wenfang, an ancient town in the mountains in southern Guixi. It is surrounded by mountains and has a fertile wilderness. Here there are high mountains, lakes, streams, ancient trees, reeds, birds chirping and flowers fragrant all year round, a true paradise.
When the maple leaves and tallow leaves in the mountains turn red, the hanging melons in Zhanyuan also ripen. We made an appointment to go to Zhanyuan for an interview the day before. Early the next morning, we took the private car of Peng Yanxiang, the first secretary of Zhanyuan Village, in the city and set off towards the mountains. The car entered Wenfang, circled the mountains with lush vegetation, and traveled along the road at the foot of the mountains through the autumn-rich mountains. The air in the mountains is refreshing and refreshing. The car turned nine twists and turns and stopped in an open area at the foot of a mountain surrounded by streams. A large area of ??still green and dancing melon vines spread along the foot of the mountain, which was spectacular. A middle-aged woman wearing camouflage uniform emerged from under the pergola. She walked toward us with a smile and greeted us warmly, carrying a basket of orange-yellow melons. Secretary Peng Yanxiang hurriedly introduced us to her as Zou Fangfang, secretary of the Zhanyuan Village Party Branch.
While still in the car, Secretary Peng Yanxiang introduced to us that the cultivation of hanging melons in Zhanyuan has become one of the important channels for the people in the village to get rich and increase their income. Zhanyuan is located in a remote area with inconvenient transportation and a weak village collective economy. How to develop and strengthen the village collective economy and help poor households get rid of poverty and become rich is a difficult problem facing the assistance cadres. The climate and soil in Zhanyuan Village are very suitable for growing hanging melons. In July 2019, the urban management cadres who assisted them organized village cadres to go to Qianshan City, Anhui Province to learn technology. After returning, they planted hanging melons according to local conditions to develop the village's collective economy. The village cadres took the lead Receive seeds. Now the village's melon base has expanded to more than 30 acres, which has attracted some poor households to participate in planting and provided them with entrepreneurial opportunities. As an industry, hanging melon cultivation has flourished in Zhanyuan.
When you walk into the base, you will see orange-yellow hanging melons everywhere. The pendants the size of goal balls are hanging under the green pergolas, which is really tempting. I got under the melon vine and smelled the melons. I felt drunk in my heart. I couldn't help but take a photo with an orange-yellow melon the size of a goal ball. Secretary Peng Yanxiang saw that I was so obsessed and said with a smile: "Diaoguo is full of treasures, and its fruits and roots can be used as medicine. It is recorded in "Compendium of Materia Medica" and major Chinese medicine dictionaries. Diaogua seeds are rich in unsaturated fatty acids, protein, Seventeen kinds of amino acids and a variety of trace elements have the effects of clearing the lungs, resolving phlegm, relieving cough, moistening the intestines, and laxative. It also has auxiliary effects on hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and high blood viscosity. ”
There are three or five villagers in the Diaogua base who are busy picking ripe Diaogua. They fill them with bamboo baskets and plastic buckets, then lift them to the road and load them into the truck compartment. Transported back to the village, peeled, washed and dried. Party Secretary Zou Fangfang said: "The melon seeds in our village are selling well, and the supply exceeds demand. The production of melons in the second half of this year was affected due to weather conditions, but this year's harvest is still good, and the profits will be distributed to poor households at the end of the year."
Today’s Zhanyuan people have lived up to the great natural resources of their hometown. They are planting melons in a decent way, and Chinese bee breeding has also started. Almost every household of the Zhanyuan people keeps Chinese bees, and these little elves fly to the farmhouses on their own. The people from Zhanyuan used wooden boxes and barrels to welcome them to settle down. The elves also know how to be grateful, so they repay their masters with fragrant honey.
When bees are cultivated in large quantities, it becomes an industry. But the aroma of wine is also afraid of the deep alley. If there is too much honey, sales will become a problem.
Peng Yanxiang, the quick-thinking first secretary in the village, designed exquisite honey packaging, applied for a registered trademark, and promoted the original Chinese honey cultivated by Zhanyuan farmers to both inside and outside the province through supermarkets and the Internet, increasing the income of the village collective and mountain residents. . Secretary Peng Yanxiang led us to a house at the foot of the mountain that has been keeping bees for decades. We saw that there were ten or twenty wooden beehives scattered in the open space on the side of the back room. Most of the bees that were about to enter winter were crowded in the hives. Don't want to come out.
Good flowers make good honey, and the honey from Zhanyuan is famous far and wide. "There are many colors of flowers in spring, summer, autumn and winter in our mountains, and the honey harvested is particularly sweet and mellow." Zou Zhishu, who was accompanying him, said proudly.
The host was very hospitable and took no time to invite us into the house to sit down. He scooped out crystal white honey crystals with a spoon and added them to our tea bowls, then mixed them evenly for us to drink. Take a small sip and it will refresh your mind and leave a fragrance on your lips and teeth.
The people in the mountains are honest and hard-working. Most of the young people go out of the mountains to make a living in the cities outside the mountains or in coastal cities further away. The older people left behind are not idle in the villages and do whatever work they can. , Let the little life be enjoyable. Teacher Xi is a restless person. He is over seventy years old and still strong. He has long retired from his job as a rural teacher and has a comfortable life. However, he is restless and insists on leading his old lady to Zhanyuan Village. The guard machine room of Guangyuan Hydropower Station at the foot of Houshan Mountain. According to Teacher Xi’s own words, “If we can still do it, we have to do something to make life interesting.”
The mountains are sparsely populated and deserted, so Mr. Xi and his wife keep a few dogs and chickens busy. That day we went to Zhanyuan, and somehow Teacher Xi knew about it, and he just invited us to have dinner at his home at the hydropower station. That day, Teacher Xi happened to catch some small fish and shrimps from Shenzhen and Hong Kong. Together with the vegetables and fruits grown by his husband and wife, the dinner was filled with more than ten dishes on the table, which was very sumptuous. Mr. Xi and his wife lived a leisurely life in a paradise, hearing the birdsong in the morning and listening to the birdsong in the evening. Teacher Xi is like a red leaf on Zhanyuan Mountain. Even in the frost and autumn season, it still blooms.
In autumn and winter, the water flow in the mountains dries up, and the hydropower station units are often unable to fully operate and can only maintain partial power generation. We were so lucky. That day we happened to encounter two sets of the three units at the power station that were to generate electricity at night, which could generate 10,000 to 20,000 kilowatt-hours a night. When talking about power generation, Mr. Xi's eyes are full of joy, and it is hard to hide his pride in reaping happiness after his hard work.
After dinner, I returned to the city from the hydropower station. Through the car window, I saw that the leaves of the maple and tallow trees on the back of Zhanyuan Mountain were starting to turn red, but not as deep red as those in Shanyang. Secretary Peng Yanxiang said that in late autumn, the mountains and ridges are ablaze, and the forests are dyed, making Zhanyuan even more beautiful. The people of Zhanyuan are planning to build farmhouses, use the beautiful scenery of the four seasons gifted to them by nature, and develop rural tourism.
When tourism in the mountains becomes more prosperous, the lives of the people in Zhanyuan will become more prosperous like the maple leaves on the mountains in late autumn.
Introduction to Peng Chenggang
Peng Chenggang, a native of Guixi City, graduated from Nanchang University with a bachelor's degree in Chinese language and literature, is a cadre of the Guixi Media Center, a member of the Jiangxi Provincial Writers Association, and a deputy director of the Yingtan Writers Association. Chairman, Chairman of Guixi Writers Association. Published novels "Butterflies in Autumn" and "Love in Ancient Towns", essay collections "Guixi Full of Literary Flavor", scripted and filmed the inspirational micro-film "Love in the Small Mountain Village", and participated in "Guixi City Chronicles", "Impression of Guixi" and "Guixi". Guixi" and the compilation of many local history books. He has won many national and provincial literary awards. Literary works such as prose, poetry, and novels are scattered in newspapers, periodicals, and websites at all levels across the country. Some essays have been selected into the People's Education Press eighth-grade Chinese language test paper jointly compiled by experts on high school entrance examination propositions, and more than 20 literary works have been included in various literary works collections.