Tongfu impression

I know nothing about the history of Tongfu except that it was once called "Tongfu Township" and was later divided into "Feng Ming Street". Speaking of which, I'm not afraid of your jokes. I haven't even been to this small Tongxiang city completely, and I haven't been to Heshan, Tudian, Gao Qiao and Puyuan. Tongfu only passed by in recent years, and only last month did he really "go" to that place.

I am used to studying the history of various places. In my spare time, I will look up local chronicles or other materials, from ancient times to the present. I often wonder about the faces of the ancients who lived here: did they walk the roads and bridges I walked like me? I wonder if the wind by the canal also blows their hair and the water in the canal wets their sleeves. Spring ploughing and autumn harvest, summer rain and winter snow, the tracker shouting loud songs, and the strings pulling out bitter marks on the shoulders ... This picture like an old movie always makes me trance. However, happiness is an exception. Tongfu doesn't need me to imagine and trace back-it still keeps that very old look.

This painting makes you never imagine that it now has a decent name called "Feng Ming Street".

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Not to mention the old houses that seem to be hiding in the corner, nor to see the Leymus chinensis that has been covered with a whole paddy field and the mulberry branches that have been stripped into bundles under the eaves, just to listen to the "sheep room pliers! Sugar rope! Rice cake! " That kind of cry is enough to make you wonder whether you have returned to the 1980s and 1990s. These things are puzzling to urban people, but people born in Jiangsu and Zhejiang and raised in rural areas will certainly not feel strange. These cries are like a pair of magical hands, trying to drag your soul into the waves of memory.

Yes, how could I forget these things? "Sheep room pliers" are oil gluten. The sheepfold clip is a vivid nickname: the sheepfold is the sheepfold, and the sheepfold clip is the wire used to fix the sheepfold. Oil gluten is thin and long, intertwined with each other. At first glance, it looks like a wire tied to a sheepfold. "Sugar rope" is a kind of distortion. Do you think fried dough twists are like two hemp ropes? And it's hemp rope soaked in oil. Then why is there the word "sugar"? Because it does add sugar, it tastes fragrant, crisp and sweet, which is very wonderful. "Mihua cake" is a kind of cake made of popcorn and syrup, which tastes sweet, crisp and wonderful. This kind of hawking seems to have a magical power, which attracts all your hearing and forms a sense of smell and taste in your mind: which country child can withstand this temptation?

In my hometown, this kind of hawking has long been submerged by the torrent of time and buried in the deep soil of childhood memories. However, in the place of Tongfu, such crying will still appear and disappear from time to time. This surprises you, because the calendar clearly says "2022" ...

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In fact, Tongfu's old houses are not only in the corner-you don't have to look at how neat the rows of new houses are. Although people call it a "new village", most people don't want to live: they can't afford it, or they can't get used to it. In a word, they are beautiful, but not practical. Most of the young people in Tongfu went outside, some went to work in Tongxiang Puyuan, and some went to work in expressway service areas around the country. Those who haven't bought a house elsewhere may come back for one night. If they buy a house elsewhere, they won't come back for a few days all the year round. Once, an aunt told me that her son and daughter only came back for two and a half days last year.

As a result, most grandparents stayed passively or actively. Older country people don't like city life and daughter-in-law's face. What about the rows of new villages? Only the old couple live in such a big house, is it getting lonely and cold? Who wants to do something thankless? As a result, they are still guarding the old house that has been with them for most of their lives.

So, go and see, in addition to the new village under construction, those old houses are still singing the leading role in rows. Together with their master, they have taken root in this land. Their roots are deeply rooted in the soil of the years, deeper and deeper, and older. This land nourishes people and absorbs the essence of people. The land is fertile and valuable, and people are weak and old and worthless. But they kept it until their old house was knocked down by policies and machines, until they swallowed their breath.

Walking into an old house, there are two rooms in front, a dining room and a kitchen in the middle and a toilet in the back. Or there is a patio in the middle and a corridor around the patio. Maybe you can't find the stairs because the house is so crooked that a stranger can turn around. The stairs are concrete and bare. Some slopes are flat, others are steep, and there are no railings. If you are an out-and-out "modern man", you may hold the wall tightly with your hands and your legs tremble when you go downstairs.

Running into a room in the south, look, it's all divorced from the pattern and decoration of the times. Standing on a five-hole plate at the foot and carrying a five-hole plate on the head, all of them were pulled from the prefabrication yard decades ago. Look at the posters on the wall-if any-or some old newspapers, which may say "1985" or "199 1 year". If you are lucky, you can also see some stickers of Japanese cartoons in the 1980 s, some small "foreign films" and some old photos that can wake up your sleeping memories ... The wardrobe is an old wardrobe and the bed is an old wooden bed. On the old desk opposite the bed, there is a 25-inch "Changhong" color TV. The protruding thick glass is embedded in the square and heavy fuselage, and it takes two people to move it. In an inconspicuous corner, there is still a black and white TV set that has long since retired.

Press the old-fashioned switch, and a fluorescent lamp casts dim light, enveloping you in this dreamlike old world.

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The equally happy young people are driven by their own lives, and the equally happy older generation will not be idle.

Economically speaking, Tongfu industry is backward. Except for a few factories, the rest are just farming and trade. Tongfu's market town is in Cao 'antou, which is small in scale and is nothing more than three or four short streets. During the day, except for the traffic coming and going, few merchants come to the door, most shops are closed, and those who are open have to take a nap at a counter. Only noodle restaurants and restaurants are lively in the morning and noon. Although I have heard that Xu Xiaoxian's fan casserole shop has also been on the news, it is only such a small shop that is famous. To tell the truth, Tongfu's food is very affordable and delicious. Stir-fried two dishes only cost 30 to 20 yuan, which is very popular with "migrant workers". However, these are the only customers in those stores. In addition to Cao Antou market town, there are several shops around Majiaqiao and Fuyan Temple, but they are even more deserted than Cao Antou.

Therefore, business can only account for half.

As a result, most people chose farming.

Tongfu people are simple and hardworking: planting mulberry seedlings, sericulture, mustard tuber, chrysanthemum, chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep ... they raise silkworms as many times as possible in a year. The husband and wife picked mulberry leaves and fed them day and night. Although the price of silkworm cocoons fluctuates so much, although the harvest of silkworm cocoons is not good except for spring silkworms, they still take pains to feed them carefully; How low the price of mustard tuber in spring is, the queue for buying mustard tuber will be long-in depression, they need to queue up all night, but they are not discouraged; Chrysanthemum morifolium in autumn is picked and baked by itself; Chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep are very fat, even if they can't get much money.

When a person's efforts and returns are not proportional, many people will be indifferent, but their simple hearts are full of enthusiasm.

You see, even if you only do a little work, even if you don't know them, they still smile at you; You see, if you run around upstairs and downstairs, they will never ask gossip again. If there is anything to take, they will be generous to you. If there is nothing to take, they will be grateful to you. Or invite you to tea, or stay for dinner. In your smile and words, you really feel warm.

Oh, it turns out that there is not only inflammation and coolness in the world, but also warmth!

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I don't believe in those mysterious things-sometimes I don't even believe in myself, so how can I trust others? However, people who share the same happiness may believe in Buddhism.

Many places in Tongfu borrowed the name of the temple. On the other hand, although many temples have disappeared, their names have remained.

Tongfudao Temple.

As far as I know, the temples in Tongfu are Fuyan Temple, Changsheng Temple, Longdi Temple, Gaodao Temple and Yongchang Temple. One of the most famous natural temples is Fuyan Temple, and Fuyan Temple in Tongfu is a well-known temple. Probably because there is only one nearby, there is no other home, so the donor bosses who rushed to burn incense are almost crowded. Monks in Fuyan Temple shave their heads and often wander around in droves, holding a furry dog in their hands. That hairy dog is particularly conspicuous among a group of bald heads, and even makes people suspect that it is a lay disciple with hair training. Fortunately, the monks in Fuyan Temple are no longer vegetarian, otherwise the poor little brother would be hard to feed. Fuyan Temple is also surrounded by Buddha's light. Incense shops and factories are filled with smoke, and you can smell a strong incense smell from a distance. These places have made money and spent money in the secular world through the Buddha's light.

Fuyan Temple, which should be far away from the world, has too many secular ideas, which makes people who work hard flinch. Except Fuyan Temple, those small temples are closed all the year round. In such a year, it seems that even those ghosts and gods have closed their doors to live.

Where people are still living a hard life, where ghosts and gods are still caring for themselves.

Equally happy people don't necessarily believe in Buddhism, do they?

People who are equally happy believe in themselves more.

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Like my hometown, the ancient and deep Grand Canal also flows in the land of common prosperity.

How do you think a person can completely eliminate selfishness? At least I can't. Therefore, this similarity makes me more cordial to happiness. Like us, happy people * * * drink from the canal, and * * * benefit from the canal.

Not only that, Tongfu also showed me what my childhood hometown looked like. Hard-working and simple villagers living there, their beautiful characters are as long-lasting as the water flowing through the canal. Like an unspeakable agitation, it turned into a warm current in my heart.

I am sincerely glad that there is such a place in the world, and I am glad that I met it.

I don't know the origin and age of Tongfu, and I don't know what kind of love it has with people who live there.

I don't know, I don't know, I just expressed my impression of happiness. ...

Write it at the back: maybe it's coincidence, maybe it's providence. When I started writing about happiness, the company transferred me there. Although I have been together for less than a month, I am full of feelings for it. For Fuyan Temple and monks, I often inject a little banter into my writing, but I like Tongfu and the people there, so I inject a little truth into my writing. This article is difficult to write. In my own words, it means "no time, no energy, no confidence and no ability". These four "no's" are absolutely true. But I still have a little courage, recklessness, hope and stubbornness in my heart, so I am determined to express it in words.