The charm of yangcun town

Yangcun Town, the central town in southern longnan county, has a unique folk culture, typical Hakka houses and little-known folk stories. With a population of nearly 50,000, it was once the largest township in Longnan.

Before liberation, it was once a place where bandits robbed. Because vicious cases often occur here, people expect a good life. Since the Ming Dynasty, it has been named Taiping, and the administrative setting is Taiping Fort. In Yangcun, every household in ancient times had an extremely sharp "bandao", one for self-defense and the other for hunting. When educating children, adults are usually used to saying: Are you afraid of ABBA's board knife? It means, don't do this. Are you afraid of Dad's board knife? The peninsula has become the mantra of Yangcun people.

Speaking of the remoteness and seclusion of Yangcun in those days, it can be proved by a joke circulated by Hakkas. After liberation, the county held a people's congress. The representative of Yangcun went down to Longnan County for the first time, walked out of the mountains and caves stretching for miles, and saw a sugarcane forest. His first impression was that a big place is a big place, and awns (thatchs) were planted in the pit. Thousands of people eat in the people's auditorium, and there is tofu brain for breakfast. The representative of Yangcun gave a second feeling: a big place is a big place, steaming spring (eggs) in a water tank. It's the first time to eat sugar packets. They are big and white. I took a bite and poured out the sugar water. I raised my hand and licked the sugar with my mouth. The more I lick it, the higher my hand is. As a result, the boiling sugar water burned my back.

"Say hello, hug (blow) the wind, my brother is traveling, there is nothing to entertain at my side (my home), and a bowl of rice wine is warm and harmonious ..." The crisp and loud "Crossing the Mountain" by Yangcun is the most Shan Ye style and the most unique of all Hakka folk songs. 1956 In March, at the second folk art observation conference held in Nanchang, two actors from Yangcun won the best performance award, and later became the reserved program of counties and cities and various rehearsal activities, winning many awards.

"Walking the Mountain" leads the guests into the Hakka enclosed house. There are dozens of enclosed houses in Yangcun, the most representative of which are Yi Yan enclosed house (also called Gaoshuiwei) and Fifty enclosed houses. Yi Yan Round House is located in the southeast of Yangcunwei 100 meters. It was completed in the first year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty (1662). Square, four towers at each corner. Each side of the fence is 50 meters long and 23 meters high. Made of hemp and stone, cracked with tung oil and glutinous rice, it is firm and reliable. There are four floors around the fence. Each floor has a circle of wooden "jumping off a building", commonly known as "Zoumalou", surrounded by wells. The enclosure door can be fireproof and waterproof. Wai House is a special house for ancient Hakkas to resist foreign invasion, which is defined as "world famous house" by the international housing academic community. There are more than 400 rooms in the enclosed house, which can accommodate 500 to 600 people.

Walking into Yangcun Hakka as a guest, there is a strong fragrance of Yangcun rice wine floating far away. After cooking, brewing and filtering, Yangcun rice wine has a special procedure. Every jar of wine should be baked with bran, which Hakka people call "tying wine" (baking the jar with fire). A table of eight people in Yangcun Hakkas is called the "Eight Immortals Table". According to the texture of wood, it is divided into "horizontal tables and vertical stools", and the elders sit on the "upper horizontal head" and arrange them in turn. People in Yangcun call eggs "spring", and guests must eat "spring". After the guests were seated, they first served a bowl of fermented "Spring" or a "Mao Yuchun" for each person, and then served eight dishes according to the procedure of "four meals and five meals", adding four large plates ceremoniously, reaching 24 plates. This custom has been used to this day and has become a fixed menu for Hakkas to celebrate. Now people in Yangcun are all gourmets. In longnan county, almost all famous restaurants are run by Yangcun people. They used the unique processing method of Yangcun Hakka to attract diners from all directions and became the representative of Hakka cuisine in Longnan.

When I arrived in Yangcun, I saw the Hakka enclosed houses, became a Hakka, and heard about "walking through the mountains". There was one place I had to go, and that was Taiping Bridge.

Yangcun Taiping Bridge looks like a corridor, a bridge, a pavilion, a sedan chair, a large arch ring on the deck and small arches on both sides. There are three pairs of cornices in the pavilion at the top of the arch ring, and the corner of the fort is high. The pavilions are all made of blue bricks. Cover with blue tiles. The whole stone bridge, like Changhong, is magnificent.

According to legend, in the spring of the 13th year of Zheng De in Ming Dynasty, Wang Shouren (Wang Yangming), the governor of Gannan and the assistant capital of Duchayuan, led troops into Taiping Fort in Longnan, and then suppressed the Li San peasant uprising in Guangdong. After Li returned to Ganzhou, he built Taiping Bridge in Shuikouling of Taipingbao to show that the world was at peace. After the completion of the bridge, a huge stone suddenly appeared more than ten meters downstream of the bridge, resembling a prostrate female buffalo. In the evening, the female buffalo will go to Li Anping, Guangdong Province to look for grain and wheat. During the light years of the Qing Dynasty, Mr. Shui said, "The god cow will climb to other places under the bridge. When the god cow is on the bridge, it will ensure peace and prosperity. " According to Mr. Feng Shui's instructions, the villagers rebuilt a Taiping Bridge at the downstream of the original bridge 100 meters, which is now the Taiping Bridge, and demolished the original bridge. Another carved bull was paired and placed at the gate of Chetian Village. After the completion of the bridge, Lai, the supervisor and captain of the construction team, wrote the three characters "Taiping Bridge" on his forehead in the north direction of Sitong Pavilion, which was vigorous and powerful and could be called a calligraphy treasure.

"When the sun rises, A-mei in Yangcun will wait for you. If Mei has a heart, all 24 bowls will be broken. When the sun rises, my brother's trip is wonderful. There are many Hakka stories in Yangcun, including food and a-mei ... "Listen to Yangcun's Over the Mountain, and you may wish to take a walk in Yangcun. Yangcun is a scenic spot. In the spring of the 13th year of Ming Dynasty, Wang Shouren, Governor of Zuoshu and Gannan in Douchayuan, led officers and men into Longnan Taiping Fort to suppress the peasant uprising in Li San, Guangdong. When Li entered Ganzhou, he built Taiping Bridge in Shuikouling of Taipingbao to show that the world was peaceful. What Taiping Bridge brings to Longnan people is not only a quiet life after a long period of chaos, but also the beginning of a spiritual education. With the efforts of Wang Yangming and his disciples, "citizens also know how to wear crowns, sing songs day and night, and get to the lane."