Yang Yongsheng passed through the desolate ruins of the town.

I remember that when I read Mr. Yu's essay Ruins in the early 1990s, I was deeply impressed by a sentence: "The preservation of ruins is a symbol of modern civilization. The ruins reflect the confidence of modern people. " The reason why I reviewed Mr. Yu's words about ruins is because I passed the ruins of towns and cities again and again on my way to the grassland glacier, which made my thoughts linger on the ruins for a long time. I felt a feeling of loneliness, loneliness and regret, which is indescribable.

When our motorcade passed the ruins of the old county town of Zhuanjing Town in Boluo County again, my heart still trembled slightly. The old county town of Aksai is located in the middle of the northern slope of the eastern section of Altun Mountain, with an altitude of 2,600 meters. When she grew up as a modern civilized city, I visited her many times. I am familiar with her streets, blood and smell, as well as her nation's fiery pride and tenacious spirit. I once saw sheep walking leisurely in the yard in front of the reinforced concrete building in the old county town of Aksai. On the grass on the hillside, I heard Kazakh folk songs played and sung by Dombrat, and saw the elegant scenery of sheep grazing intoxicated by music; Still in this small county, I ate delicious mutton, drank glass after glass of wine in the beautiful songs of Kazakh friends, wore their national costumes and staggered dancing. With 1998 abandoning the city because of high altitude, these scenes of human and animals living in harmony came one after another, overwhelming and overwhelming. Sometimes even we humans are surprised. When we build a city, it is so difficult and long. From generation to generation, from generation to generation. However, it is so fast and easy to destroy a world and abandon a city. I witnessed the rapid evolution of the old county town of Aksai into ruins, so that when I stood on her ruins, I was in a trance and unbelievable. Looking down, you can't see the original outline of the city, the original life, and the original life breath. I was amazed at the city's categorical farewell to yesterday, its merciless farewell to mankind, its solidarity with the earth and its connection with the blood, and how it fell asleep in the embrace of the earth in an instant.

It can be seen that the construction of a civilized building needs to go through many difficulties and obstacles, but the overturning of the masterpiece of human civilization is a piece of cake. This may be the ultimate fate and law of human civilization.

On the way back from Halten grassland, I saw clusters of architectural communities in the distance. On closer inspection, it turned out to be the ruins of an abandoned town. Ruined ruins, lonely dead trees, damaged and mottled lintels and slogans tell people in the past about her existence and emotional connection with people. If there were not a few camels grazing alone beside her, I really wouldn't feel the shadow of life swimming. This township * * * station, regardless of its function in the past, now exists as a ruin in the grassland. From a distance, it looks like mildew spots on the grassland. At close range, it is a sore that tears and oozes on the grassland, which is unbearable to witness. Such ruins are incompatible with the surrounding scenery. They should sink into the ocean of the earth early and melt into the fragrant soil of the grassland, which is her proper life destination.

The next day, our motorcade passed through the dense "windmill forest" in Yumen City and came to the old town of Yumen, the birthplace of China's petroleum industry. 1August, 939, the first oil well in Yumen Oilfield-laojunmiao oil well produced oil. From then on, the production of China petroleum industry began, and Yumen set up a market here. After 70 years of oil exploitation and refining, crude oil exploitation in Yumen Oilfield began to dry up. In addition, the oil mine lives in a high-altitude area with an altitude of more than 2,200 meters, and the living base of Yumen City and Yumen Oilfield have been relocated in different places, so the old city of Yumen has gradually become an abandoned city. Our motorcade passed through the streets and buildings in the old town of Yumen. Although the dilapidated condition of this city is better than I expected, the doors and windows of many buildings have been removed, the courtyards or gates have been blocked, public facilities in some cities have been closed, and there are few pedestrians on the streets. Just after work at noon, the employees of several units, such as the remaining oil refinery, all walked to have lunch, and the most lively street park in the past was deserted. Only the sculpture of China petroleum geologist Sun Jianchu is isolated from the world, quietly guarding the declining city and sparse residents. Oil is the lifeblood of a city. It is only a matter of time before the oil is exhausted and the cities and people who depend on it eventually decline. Her ending is not difficult to predict. The nearest thing to her is the ruins of the old county town of Aksai. Far away are the ruins of Suoyang City and Qiaowan City in our territory and the ruins of Heishui City in Ejina Banner around us.

The ruins of Suoyang City, Qiaowan and Heishui City in Ejina Banner are well-known at home and abroad in archaeology, history and cultural relics. I have been to these ruins many times. Just before I went to the grassland glacier, I just went there again.

The site of Suoyangcheng is the most complete, largest and longest-lasting ancient city site in China. She was founded in the Western Han Dynasty, lasting more than 1.500 years, with an area of 1.2 square kilometers and a total length of 6.4 kilometers. Due to the diversion of Shule River and the complicated changes of expedition, Suoyang City was finally abandoned by history. Standing on her towering wall, you can see the most distinctive natural landscape and cultural attractions in the west. Xu Jianqun, a Gansu poet I know, wrote a poem after seeing the ruins of Suoyangcheng, and sighed: "The steaming clouds in the hot sun are in Jinchang, and the vast Gobi is the most boundless. Climb high and don't look at Qilian snow. Where there are flowers, there is a lock day. "

The ruins of Qiaowan City, which is famous for the historical story of "Dream Bridge Bay City on Kangxi Night", are faintly visible in the broken battlements. Only Kangxi, who was once majestic, and the arrogant city walls could not resist the long erosion of time and the layers of torture in history. Her walls have been eroded by rolling yellow sand and continuous wind and rain. Fortunately, she has been endowed with the theme of anti-corruption by modern people. The "skin drum" displayed in the exhibition hall eloquently tells people the absolute momentum of Emperor Kangxi in punishing corruption. The site of Qiaowan City can only be kept alive in the history books by virtue of the historical story of "Dream Bridge Bay City at Kangxi Night".

Historians believe that the site of Heishui Town in Ejina Banner is an important part of Juyan area in the Western Han Dynasty. Among them, the unearthed cultural relics account for 90% of the known Xixia documents, and their cultural relics are invaluable. The abandonment of this city originated from 1226, when Genghis Khan led the army to break the city, and broke the city again in the early Ming Dynasty. "Looking sadly at a thousand autumn, a drop of tears, melancholy in different times, not at the same time." After repeated wars of burning and man-made looting, the only remaining site of the Black Water City has been largely annihilated by quicksand and has been abandoned for nearly 700 years. Everything is also reasonable. However, the prosperity and glory of this black city in the past can only be appreciated and perceived from the travel notes of Italian traveler Kyle Poirot and the description in the rebuilding of Suzhou in the Qing Dynasty.

I am often in a dilemma and contradictory state of mind about the ruins and ruins of the city. Let her let it be abandoned naturally. Because of the intimate life entanglement and intimate relationship with human beings, it is psychologically difficult to separate. Nostalgia and nostalgia for the past are the support and comfort of human emotions. What's more, after all, she has invested the sweat and thoughts of several generations. Every brick, tile, grass and tree, every inch of land leaves traces of human friction, body temperature and smell, and sometimes flashes the shadow of human life. Because of this, Yu said: "the power of time should leave traces on the earth;" The great ship of years should crush the bumps between lanes. Without ruins, there would be no yesterday, and without yesterday, there would be no today and tomorrow. "

All the city ruins will be carefully preserved. Humans have invested too much money and spent too much energy, and the feelings of betting will become stronger and stronger, involving too many economic, cultural, historical, military and emotional factors. Let the ruins of the city bear too many heavy burdens, and correspondingly, the people who have lived in this city and her descendants will not bear heavy burdens mentally. If the descendants of the city are allowed to bear a heavy historical journey from generation to generation, how fast and how far can they walk and see the vast beauty? And if the earth is full of urban ruins built by human beings, no matter where we go, we can see a sea of urban ruins and a forest of urban ruins. How can our vision penetrate the ruins of the city and throw it into the blue sea, green forest and distant sky? When the global village is carved into a world of riddled and devastated city ruins by human beings, I don't know where the human spirit should be converted and where the human soul should be placed.

Because of this, Yu issued a helpless voice of "I curse the ruins, and I feel sorry for the ruins".

After talking for a long time, I still can't give up these ruins and ruins. Then let's embrace the spiritual context of the clean ruins and move towards modernity indifferently.