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Looking back at Beichuan, Dabanshan stands tall in the north of Hehuang Valley.
Bai Juyi said in a poem: "In April, the beauty of the world is exhausted, and the peach blossoms in the mountain temple." The description of this image coincides with the phenological characteristics of Hehuang Valley and Dabanshan. With the gradual increase of altitude and the gradual decrease of temperature, the wonderful landscape of vertical distribution of vegetation in Shan Ye appears in Beichuan area. When we walked from the valley to the top of the mountain, the plateau scenery in different seasons appeared in front of us in turn like the masterpieces painted by Master Dan Qing.
I want to enjoy the straightness and beauty of Daban Mountain, the birthplace of Beichuan, in the Chahan River at the foot of Daban Mountain and among the blooming azaleas.
A cheerful mountain stream rushes out, just like a quiet and beautiful tour guide, standing in front of us, ready to lead us forward with a clear and bright voice.
The mountains are getting steeper and steeper, and the scenery on both sides is also magnificent. The summer scenery in Hehuang Valley is completely blocked by this mountain. Everything in front of us makes us feel that it is still early spring and the ice and snow have just melted. On the cliff of this mountain, the posture of cypress is still tall and straight, and the faint green color has distinguished her posture from other plant communities. Is this the first touch of spring scenery in the early spring of Chahan River?
The deeper into the canyon, the steeper the mountain looks. The gradually cooling climate tells us that the altitude here is about 3000 meters. The vegetation distribution in the canyon began to become hierarchical. Looking up, a large green rhododendron bush suddenly appeared in front of us on the south slope!
Ah, alpine evergreen azaleas, this magical spirit, are distributed piece by piece in the Grand Canyon and show her noble and outstanding charm in the chilly valley in spring!
Until now, I have discovered that what makes me feel refreshed most is this azalea forest all over the mountains, which is the azalea blooming by Feng Gang!
The branches of clusters of azaleas are extremely rough and hard, and look like the weather-beaten hands of the old farmers in Hehuang, but the leaves of azaleas are held high in their hands, and Beichuan people call them "Holly". This name seems to be more appropriate. The leaves are green in winter, which is the unique character of Rhododendron alpine. In fact, the branches of this rhododendron are hard and rough, but the texture is very delicate. When I was a child, I saw that the sculptors in the village used it as a seal cutting material. The appearance is rough and the texture is delicate, just like the character of Beichuan people, which really makes people feel kind.
The buds of alpine evergreen rhododendrons are pink, which are bigger and more gorgeous than peony flowers in the valley. Pink buds are held up by the green leaves of azaleas, which is more delicate and charming.
However, the flowers from this delicate bud are not pink, but as white as snow. Smelling the fragrance of azaleas, I counted them carefully. There are as few as 15, as many as 16 and as many as 18 or 19 flowers in a bud. What a beautiful bunch of flowers! In my eyes, no flower image symbolizes unity and harmony so intuitively.
On the hillside, the low pink azaleas with purple leaves dominate here, and the tall and vigorous alpine azaleas are dotted in the pink azaleas sea, with ups and downs, patchwork and strong color contrast, which gives people a strong shock.
Rhododendron is really a strange girl in the mountains and valleys. She can be tall and straight or low and delicate. You can be charming in the cold wind and sing warmly in the sun. Yes, as long as someone knows the character of azalea, no one doesn't like her.
Mr. Chen, an expert in landscape research, said with emotion that plum, orchid and peony are famous flowers in China, and they are all loved by celebrities in the Central Plains. However, the azaleas in the mountains are different. Her civilian character and exuberant vitality are loved by many nationalities. At the southern foot of Daban Mountain, the azaleas in full bloom are the symbols of the people living on the plateau: unity, enthusiasm, brilliance and diversity ... How can we not revel in the endless azaleas?
Nowadays, azaleas, golden plums, silver plums and Rosa davurica in the depths of the mountains echo from afar, but trees in parks, roadsides and houses, such as Sophora japonica, azaleas, Eucommia ulmoides, begonia americana, Acer truncatum and Acer truncatum, come from different regions and take root and thrive in Beichuan. Chrysanthemum, autumn English, Dahlia, hollyhock and other flowers are blooming, and the ecological corridor is decorated with colorful colors.
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Winter in Beichuan is long and monotonous. There seems to be no more nostalgia, except for a little static impression and dynamic thoughts left by snow and curling kitchen smoke.
In fact, these monotonous landscapes do not represent Beichuan's fiery feelings at this time. Farmers' painters in Beichuan have long included the beautiful rural ecological map, farmers' Harvest figure, well-off happiness map, the map of going to the countryside through science and technology, the map of enriching the people through culture, the map of rural revitalization and the rich "flavor of the year" in the well-known farmers' paintings in Beichuan. Colorful, radiant and poetic.
Isn't this the persistent illumination and inheritance of ancient Hehuang painted pottery art by ancestors and modern people since four or five thousand years ago?
In the deafening sound of firecrackers, let's walk into Xintianbao Village, the hometown of peasant paintings in Beichuan, and walk into the thick pastoral scenery created by peasant paintings.
Not long ago, in a harvest season, Beichuan peasant painters He and Shi Jiaxing were infected by the scene of new rural construction in their hometown, and each of them drew a picture of Flower Sea Getting Rich, which is 2 meters long and 0.8 meters wide, vividly reflecting the great changes that have taken place in Bianmagou Village, a Tibetan township in northern Shuozhou.
He's paintings depict the flowers in the autumn border valley. Cars are running on the road, tourists in the sea are like clouds, fruits and vegetables are watery in greenhouses, butterflies are flying on the ridges, bees are dancing, and folk songs are melodious in the blue sky ... Every detail is vivid and remarkable. He said with a little excitement that I spent more than a month creating this peasant painting with the theme of rural revitalization, just to record the happy life of our Beichuan farmers.
In the works of the same name by Shi Jiaxing, the representative inheritor of Beichuan peasant painting, he takes the giant flower bed fountain as the center, and villagers wearing national costumes walk in twos and threes around the flower bed, or enjoy the scenery with parasols. The background is fields and houses, lush trees, rolling mountains and steaming clouds. Layers of brilliant mountain flowers are surrounded in sequence, and the simple words "happiness is like a flower" in the middle of the picture are particularly eye-catching.
Beichuan people call the theme of the peasant painting "Flower Sea Becoming Rich" "Flower Sea Economy", which is a vibrant sunrise industry. Rural unique resources such as rural landscape, characteristic industries, farming culture and rural customs have become brand-new resources for Beichuan's economic upgrading.
Walking in the scenic corridor depicted in Beichuan peasant paintings, the scenes of ancestors dancing happily on ancient painted pottery and the scenes of modern peasants singing in the sea of flowers appear alternately: in Beichuan peasant paintings, the past from ignorance to the formation of agricultural civilization in Beichuan area in the farming era is treasured; What reappears is the fiery process of Beichuan's economic and social development in the new era; What has the most sense of the times is the beautiful picture of Beichuan farmers getting rid of poverty and heading for a well-off society in recent years, and Qi Xin working together to realize rural revitalization.
Liu Chengshe, a villager who is over 60 years old, is one of the inheritors of Datong peasant paintings. Asked about the development of peasant paintings in Xintianbao village, he began to chat.
Beichuan peasant painting rose in the 1970s. Over the past decades, a number of farmers' painting creators have emerged, forming a "creative base" of farmers' painting centered on Xintianbao Village. Beichuan peasant paintings widely absorb New Year pictures, shadow play, paper-cutting, embroidery, sculpture, comics and other artistic expressions. Exaggerated and vivid modeling, strong color contrast and rich content directly express the author's simple feelings of longing for a better life, full of happy and beautiful atmosphere and optimistic spirit, with strong characteristics of the times, strong regional characteristics and national style.
"The most unforgettable thing is that in the winter of 199 1, we held the first' home study class' of peasant painting in Xintianbao village", taken by Liu Cheng. That year, Zhao Jiguang, Qin, Chen Rongman and other famous painters were invited to teach more than 30 male and female farmer painting lovers in the village. The training was held at Zhu Jinzhong's home. When the weather turned cold, everyone sat around Zhu Jinzhong's "studio" and listened to the lecturer's explanation and demonstration. The weather improved and the sun came out. Everyone sat around the yard and listened to the teacher teach them skills.
Under the influence of peasant painters in Beichuan, there are also talents who love elegant art in this deep soil of local art. Pei Fabang is the "golden phoenix" who went out from the home of a peasant painter in Sujiabao Village, Jingyang Town. Perhaps it is because he was born in a multi-ethnic family living in Beichuan. He was influenced by multi-ethnic culture and art since he was a child. He is warm and simple, his body is full of artistic temperament, and his eyes are full of deep humanistic feelings.
After studying Chinese painting in the Fine Arts Department of Qinghai Normal University, Pei Fabang embarked on the road of artistic creation, making innovations in lacquer painting and watercolor painting, and gained a lot. And his creative purpose is so simple-"bringing painting art into thousands of households".
Pei Fabang's works are mainly based on the theme of northwest ethnic minorities, with distinctive themes and distinctive painting styles, full of deep homesickness and national affinity. 20 10 September, at the invitation of Yoshida-CHO Gallery in Yokohama, Japan, Pei Fabang flew to Japan with more than 30 paintings of ethnic customs to participate in the "Pei Fabang Works Exhibition" held in Tokyo and Yokohama. The organizer also specially invited Pei Fabang to bring his Ma Touqin to play at the opening ceremony of the exhibition.
Beichuan people live in picturesque villages and towns, and the authors of Beichuan peasant paintings show "happiness as flowers" in their works, and the beauty of natural ecology and the beauty of humanities and art have been perfectly integrated; Traditional peasant painting, modern lacquer painting and gouache painting are perfectly integrated. Generations of Beichuan painters have been listening to all directions. In their works, the bright future of Beichuan has appeared before our eyes:
Based on the local and regional characteristics of Hehuang River Basin, we should thoroughly implement the rural revitalization strategy, scientifically promote rural planning and layout, protect and strengthen rural construction with local customs, develop rural leisure tourism, build a contiguous and ecologically livable beautiful countryside, and actively integrate into the natural landscape of the Yellow River Basin.
"My son is in Sichuan, and the deceased is like a husband!" But I smiled and said, "My home is in Beichuan, and the years are picturesque."
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Flowers and teenagers dance, the wind blows wheat waves, and the fragrance is Beichuan.
At the autumnal equinox, amid the bursts of wheat fragrance, I walked into a new residential building with white walls and tiles in Dongxia Town. The host family specially set up a spacious and bright living room and study for us.
Rich in books and elegant environment. Just as my mother began to prepare winter clothes for her children, I began to select a large number of distinctive and grounded materials and vocabulary about Beichuan. I want to make a warm eulogy for Beichuan with the most simple and elegant words, and add some color and temperature to Beichuan in autumn with those colorful costumes.
In this atmosphere, I solemnly opened the Book of Songs, recited those poems that are still shining after years of polishing, and felt the vicissitudes of farming civilization nourishing the land of China.
Hehe, in this poem "The Harvest Year of Zhou Song", I found the description that is most consistent with the picture on the painted pottery basin with dance patterns unearthed in Beichuan, because the artistic conception in this poem is exactly the same as that of the ancestors of Beichuan-
"Good years, many crops, high crops, trillions of crops, many crops. For wine, for ancestors. In order to negotiate a hundred gifts, you will be blessed. "
The translation should be like this: "A lot of crops, we have a tall granary again, have you had a good harvest?" Tens of billions, too much, too much! We can make wine, and if there is any extra food, we will give it to our ancestors. Ancestor, look at our various etiquette and gifts, everything is complete! So the bailiff spoke instead of the ancestors: bless everyone. "
This is the charm of Fu. Simple poems let us feel the scene of ancient people offering sacrifices to their ancestors, and even more feel the awe of their ancestors. The ancient Beichuan should be the most qualified to accept such praise and singing.
Times have changed, and people are outstanding. Nowadays, the fiery years are showing us different surprises: the sky in Beichuan has become clearer and brighter; The runoff of Beichuan River is increasing year by year; Beichuan's products are getting richer and richer, and the years are getting richer and richer-this is the blessing of Beichuan people!
Autumn is crisp, and the wind blows the wheat waves. Nestled in the embrace of Beichuan, we can feel the ups and downs of the times, listen to the sincere calls of the villagers at close range, and understand some heavy words more truly: beauty and harmony, remembrance and nostalgia, gratitude and awe. This should be the most vivid expression of the future of this area in the upper reaches of the Yellow River. ...
Let's use a wet Beichuan flower to express our attachment to Beichuan at this moment:
Azaleas in Daban,
The branches are hard,
The bones are big,
Don't tie your hands like a thorny rose;
Sun-dried homesickness hangs on the tip of my heart,
On the kang,
The carriage pulled,
Accompany me into the world ...