Bishan Village · Pig Pen Bar

Bishan Village in Yixian County is a less famous scenic spot in Yixian County. It does not charge admission. Similar ancient villages are located in Lucun, Nanping, Pingshan, Guanlu and other places within a radius of more than ten kilometers centered on Yixian County.

If you just look at the scale of ancient buildings, they cannot be compared with Hongcun and Xidi. But they have their own advantages: they are as quiet as virgins, with a much less commercial atmosphere and more of a real experience of rural life.

I rarely go to tourist attractions. This time I went to Bishan Village mainly to see the nearby Pig Pen Bar. I learned from the Internet that it is a unique B&B.

After all, it is winter, and we can only feel a little warmth for two or three hours at noon. A few tomatoes hanging sparsely on the trees are still swaying tenaciously on the branches, as if they are helpless and unwilling.

If you don’t understand it this way, why are you still so delicate and charming even though everything is withered and withered? you say.

Walking through this old house in the alley, he remembered the beautiful shadows floating through the darkness of the upstairs windows a long time ago. It was only for a moment, but it left him with an immortal memory. .

Spring came and autumn passed, and he didn’t know how many years had passed. That beautiful figure no longer appeared. He stubbornly felt that she behind the flower window did not seem to have gone far.

From a heroic figure to a fashionable old man, he became faltering, his aging face covered with helpless wrinkles, until the weeds on the wall covered the grid, and the flowered windows were crumbling in the wind and rain, and his once beautiful heart The hot heart gradually cooled down, like falling into the dark night behind the flower window.

After all, he did not wait for the beautiful figure to flash by again.

Compared with several other counties in Huizhou, one thing is obvious. Except for northern towns such as Kecun and Hongtan, its terrain is relatively flat, and you can see large areas of flat land. Farmland, during the farming era, would be more fertile than the surrounding areas, and transportation here is also very convenient. Ten kilometers south of Yixian County is Yuting Town, an important commercial port in ancient Huizhou on the Xin'an River, and it follows the Hengjiang River directly to Tunxi.

Of course, the convenience I am talking about was compared to Huizhou eight lifetimes ago. Now, you can travel hundreds of thousands of miles away by taking the high-speed rail. The efficiency is high, but the sampan I can no longer hear the romantic rocking sound on the board, not to mention that I can still see the beautiful scenery of "the lonely sail in the distance and the shadow in the blue sky".

The Pig Pen Bar is located in the north of Bishan Village, about one kilometer further along the road beside the village. On the road, the yellow rice stubble is really intoxicating. There are several scarecrows planted along the road, as if to guide the direction of progress.

Have you seen the iron gate under the big tree in the picture below? That is the main entrance of the Pig Pen Bar. There is no signboard or advertisement. If a stranger walks by without paying close attention, he will just think it is an old workshop and has not damaged the original ecology of the countryside at all.

The location of the Pig Pen Bar is very unique. Logically speaking, Bishan Village is relatively clean, but it chose to be in the fields at a certain distance from the village, forming an isolated island, giving it a sense of The erratic, distant sense of seclusion and remoteness is not a problem. If you like it, there will be people who will try their best to find it even if it is farther away, just like me.

The Pig Pen Bar was rebuilt on the basis of the former Bishan Oil Factory. The iron door was locked. I wandered outside the door for a while, not sure whether I should knock on the door and enter. , because I don’t plan to stay, I just want to go in and have a look. If there is no business, what will I see? I can't even convince myself.

When I was struggling, there was a small van carrying several guests who wanted to enter. Just in time, I followed them and pretended to be with them. A waiter came out to greet them. Others greeted me, and I nodded. Echoing, at that time, I felt very vulgar, but in fact, I was a casual person by Taiping Lake.

After entering the iron gate, there is a large yard with several large camphor trees. The leaves are scattered all over the ground. No one is sweeping it, and there is no need to sweep it, making it feel a bit decadent. Life is short, why waste your good time washing and washing yourself, making it spotless and suffocating.

For a moment, you may ask: How do you know about the Pig Pen Bar? I followed a few Sina Weibo friends in Huangshan City who were interested in me. Through their mutual forwarding on Sina Weibo, I discovered this information. The photo of the Pig Pen Bar attracted me very much.

In fact, in Bishan Village, it’s not just the Pig Pen Bar, but also Bishan Bookstore, Industrial and Marketing Cooperative, etc. They don’t seem to regard making money as their main purpose. There are some things that I, an outsider, can’t stand. It seems that they really can't make much money. They may just have idealism and literary sentiments, stick to their persistence, and tinker with some cultural and creative things, forming a somewhat literary and artistic atmosphere, which is a somewhat interesting place.

The picture below is a night view taken outside the Pig Pen Bar facing the sky. It was not taken by me, but by the group of WeChat friends. The location of this photo is similar to the photo above. The brilliant and deep starry sky, the mottled tree shadows on the wall, and the silhouette of the horse head wall in the night sky. Needless to say, you can feel the distant scenery floating in the picture. The cool breeze and the rustling insects in the grass, just these, will make me have an inseparable reverie and nostalgia for Huizhou countryside.

The picture below was taken from the business hall of the "Gongsales Cooperative" in Bishan Village. It is simply furnished and sells some books, handicrafts and the Four Treasures of the Study. It is deserted and deserted. I am the only customer. The girl guarding the store ignored my arrival. She looked directly at an item thoughtfully, as if she had some idea.

Of course, maybe, they are not short of money, they just think it is interesting, and whether they can get money in exchange is secondary. To rephrase that popular saying: life is not only about delicious food, fancy clothes, beautiful cars and beautiful women, but also poetry and distant places.

There is also this small inn in Bishan Village. It has such an ordinary door, no decorations, and a plain face. I think the owner named "Fangfang" is probably similar to the Xiaofang in Li Chunbo's lyrics. Innocent and cute, this kind of person is indispensable. He or she can make the world diverse and interesting - this is a digression.

Going back to the Pig Pen Bar, you will find a hall inside, which looks like an antique shop, making you feel like you have returned to another long-ago era.

On one side is a bar counter with an old radio and a row of enamel jars on the shelves. This stool is too modern and it would be better to replace it with a square wooden stool.

Old-fashioned barber chairs and broken wicker chairs, you don’t have to worry about props when filming old-themed movies here.

Old pianos, sewing machines, and similar old objects fill the hall, or use earthen jars to insert some reeds or branches. It looks a bit "messy", but I like this kind of chaos. It combines its own style with the traditional hotel It is completely different from the rigid and rigid structure of the mainstream society. After a long time, it seems that people are trapped in a grid, and the whole person is not good.

A small scene in the Pig Pen Bar. The stove is not like the structure of the local firewood stove in southern Anhui. It is rough and simple, but I like it very much. Think about it, choose a winter night and sit around the stove. It's good to add a handful of firewood to the furnace, it has nothing to do with romance, and it's just about useless topics.

This laundry pool is so poetic. It feels like traveling through time and space through the window. What if it rains outside again? Really, the sound of wind, rain, and sticks are so sweet that you feel eager to find it. The urge to wash a few pieces of clothing.

The homespun cloth with a rough texture is probably not for sale, it is purely for decoration. Of course, it may also be used by the shopkeeper as a fabric for decoration. In the past, there was no way to buy ready-made clothes. You had to rip fabrics from tailors or make them yourself.

The next room has an attic, and those slogans are very interesting.

This is awesome. "Sino-Soviet Friendship Association" and "Revolutionary Leading Group", what era are these words from? I don’t know where I found it, it’s precious.

Since it is an oil factory, an old-fashioned oil press is indispensable.

It is very large, with two-board bookstalls, mostly in social sciences, literature and art.

From the pile of books, I caught a glimpse of the ill-fated Xiao Hong. It has been more than seventy years. How is she living there? Of course, you may also ask: Is this seemingly lively secular world still as refreshing as the water of the Hulan River? And are men still as heartless as Duanmu?

I have forgotten the plot of the story, but I remember you said to Mr. Lu Xun: "Mr. Zhou, are my clothes beautiful?" Mr. Zhou, why do you disagree? She needs your affirmation so much.

In your last days, you sighed: "I have been ignored for half my life... I died first, unwilling to accept it." It was more like the few hanging stars seen in Bishan Village. I feel sorry for you about the red persimmon!

When you go outside, there is a courtyard behind the "factory area" with a border of beautiful vegetable fields. You can smell the fragrance of the surrounding soil and plants while walking there. Viewed from the back, the old houses in this factory area basically maintain their original appearance. Only some changes have been made to the interior and some old objects have been inserted, turning decay into magic.

That straw shed is probably a real pig pen.

In the "pig pen", looking from the crooked fence, you can see a pure wilderness, with a small river lying in the middle. This unique layout and decoration are in the pig pen. There are many more bars, but for reasons of space, I won’t go into details.

The small buildings at the back should be the accommodation part. The walls are covered with a layer of yellow mud, and the guest rooms are not accessible. It is said to be the kind of "low-key" luxury, and the price should not be high. Cheap. It has a small number of guest rooms, and most of the space is used for nostalgic displays.

Postscript? It is necessary to write a postscript to introduce the owner of the Pig Pen Bar. I have never met the bar owner. The information I learned from the Internet is that the owner is a Shanghai poet couple, and the husband is from Huangshan. They are local people. After their careers became successful, they sold their house in Shanghai and opened a B&B with the same name in Xidi. It was very successful. The Pig Pen Bar in Bishan should be the third one. Many international celebrities have been to the Pig Pen Bar in Xidi. A reporter from the French "Le Figaro Times" introduced Xidi and the Pig Pen Bar in a local French newspaper, praising that Xidi can be compared with the most beautiful restaurant in their minds. Comparable to Provence. Of course, this is all information obtained online.