Miao Peixing 丨 Mother's hometown (prose)

Mother's hometown

Text/Miao Peixing

Mother is old, 91 years old. The old mother often reads her hometown, her father and mother, loved ones, and the past when she was a child when she was a child. Once these past things are mentioned, the mother's face will be more sad, and some years have passed. Therefore, in order to comfort and the wishes of my mother, in September this year, my elder sister and daughter borrowed to Zhoucun's 88 -year -old Six -year -old Baishou opportunity to go to the mother's hometown and visited her mother once. hometown.

The mother's hometown is the ancient city village of Linchi Town, Zouping County, Shandong, about five miles from Zhoucun. His mother was born here in 1925. She married her father at the age of 17 and married the mountain village in Tongzhen. In the mid -1950s, her mother came to Jinan to reunite with her father, and she never returned to her hometown since then. This comes for more than 60 years. The reason why I never went back was because my grandfather and mother -in -law had drove to the west.

Mother's hometown is very old. As early as ancient times, about seven or eight thousand years ago, it was the place where historians called Dongyi people reproduced. These people use the crow as a totem to establish their own country, called "(W U) Mausoleum", and the country is located here. During the Warring States Period, it belonged to Qi State, called "Yu Lingyi". Today, there is a period of five meters long in the ancient city wall of Yulingyi, which is called "Ancient City Village". It can be called "ancient city" in the mother's habit. The geographical location of this ancient city is very superior. It is surrounded by Sanshan (Ma'anshan on the east side, Phoenix Mountain on the south, Changbai Mountain on the west side), and the two water (east side of Luohe River, Lugou River on the west side). Feng Shui treasure. In the long history of thousands of years, countless outstanding historical figures have been born here. For example, the famous thinkers during the Warring States Period, Chen Zhongzi, who praised Lian and hermit, was one of them.

I wrote here, I have to make a brief introduction to the celebrity in my mother's hometown. This is a special person with thoughtful, extremely paranoid and controversial. He was originally descendant of the Qi national aristocracy during the Warring States Period. At that time, King Qi Wei and King Chu Huai all hired him as an official, but he refused to be unhappy. He was willing to work in the countryside. In the end, he simply hid in the mountain with his family members and died of hunger. The reason is that he is not used to the various evils of the people in the nobility society, and the creed of "not entering the dirty monarch, not eating the food of the troubled times", and consciously practiced a set of completely break with the noble society. The way of standing in the world of life. There is a book "Yu Lingzi". There are many controversy about such a character. Mencius had a discussion about him, praising: "The people of Qi Kingdom must use Zhongzi as a giant." At the same time, he also questioned the extreme and paranoid behavior of his many "foods of not eating troubled times". It is like he can do it like him. However, the later poet Tao Yuanming and his magical powers with him blindly said: "To the dumplings, nourish the qi.

Perhaps it is inherited the charm of the ancestors. The folk customs here are simple and Shangwen, diligent in agriculture, and cultivating more and piety. The mother's family is such a family -the ancient city of the Li family. According to "Changshan County Chronicle" and "Li's Family Spectrum", the family moved from Zhili Zaoqiang in the four years of Ming Yongle. The first generation of ancestors was a tribute from the third generation. (The main book of Danyang County, Zhenjiang, Jiangnan), began the transformation from farmers to officials. According to incomplete statistics, there are 16 people in the two generations of high Chinese martial arts in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, 39 people who raise people, and as many as 100 people who enter the DPRK. Among them Waiting for senior officials. Its representative is Li Huaxi, the seventh -generation ancestor. Mother is the sixteenth generation of this family.

At this point, I have to say a few more ancestors of my mother's family. Li Huaxi, seven years of Ming Chongzhen (1634) Jinshi. In the early seventeenth year of Chongzhen (1644), when the army who broke the king Li Zicheng conquered Tongguan and marched towards the capital, Emperor Chongzhen was promoted to the governor of Yulin, who was promoted to the governor of Shaanxi. Military affairs fighting with Wang Jun. When Li Zicheng's insurgent army captured Beijing and Chongzhen Emperor since he was in the mountains, Xi did not know what to do, and then led the army to return to his hometown of Zhoucun to stop at the time. Later, when the Qing court settled in the Central Plains, the general trend of the Ming Dynasty had gone. In order to avoid the burning fire of war, the creature was coated with charcoal, and then responded to the Qing Shizu's recruitment in June (the ancestors sent several times to recruit). Since then, he has served as the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of War, left, and right waiter. In the ninth year of Shunzhi (1652), he was promoted to the Ministry of Criminals Shangshu, Doctor Jin Guanglu, and prince Taibao, and he was a great minister. In the ten years of Shunzhi (1653), he requested it to be recuperated on the grounds of his mother (Mrs. Yipin). After retiring, Li Huaxi, serving Sangzi, Xingyi, except for bully, rectification of public security, building bridges, running a school temple, reducing the tax burden on the villagers. The city, thus recruited the world's businessmen to gather Zhoucun, so that the business of Zhoucun showed unprecedented prosperity.

Li Huaxi took over all the tax burdens of Zhoucun's businessmen, and all year -round taxes were paid, so that the merchants of Zhoucun did not need to pay taxes. According to historical records, since the beginning of the Li Huaxi, the Li family has been seven consecutive generations, and the commercial tax length of Zhoucun has paid more than 200 years. The reputation is well -known. Li Huaxi died in the eighth year of Kangxi (1669) in the Qing Dynasty, at the age of 76, and the tomb of the ancient city village. In order to recognize their merits, the "Si Kou Li Gong Temple" was built spontaneously in Zhoucun City, and a grand sacrifice event was held in the each year's Lunar New September 9th (Chongyang Festival).

On that day, we went to the old house of the mother's house at the first stop of our cousin's cousin (senior creator of Zibo City Literature and Art). According to the mother, the mother's grandfather is a Chinese medicine (imperial doctor), and she earns this family business by treating people. In the past, the yard at home was very large, four or four, sitting north to south. There is also a boss's field in front of the courtyard. There is a jujube tree on both sides of the stadium. The trees on the west are red jujube trees; the thin trees on the east are soft jujube trees. The red dates are delicious, and the soft date meat is less seed. The south of the field is a toon bud wood, so big. This forest was a place where she and "a lotus seed (little partner)" often played and hidden.

But what we see is a village residence. According to the 60 -year -old Li family's nephew (he called my mother -in -law), who lived here (he called my mother and old aunt), this borders were originally the mother's courtyard and field. It has become several small courtyards and lived in more than a dozen households including Li's descendants. That toon buds have been tied for a long time, and now it is a stick. The cousin explained that he took us a small courtyard and a small courtyard, and finally came to the house where his mother lived. The cousin said, "This is the house where the old aunt lived in that year. However, it has been flipped now, not what it looks like that year, but the position is right and the size is almost the same."

I stood in front of my mother's house when my daughter lived, looking at the slender house, sitting east and west, some low and dim, with twenty or thirty square meters, my heart trembled, and there was a trend of heart. For a while, there was some moist in the eyes. It seemed to see the mother when she was a child: the mother was standing in the middle of the door, her eyes widened, and they looked at us. My nose and tears were instantly filled with my eyes. I look at the elder sister, the elder sister is walking down and walking into the room ...

In the second stop, we proposed to worship the graveyard of the grandfather and mother, but the cousin said that the graveyard has been flat for a long time, and even the past Li Shi Ancestral Hall was flat. Now it is a stick. Subsequently, the cousin took us to the edge of the sticky ground, pointing to the northeast, and said, it is probably this direction. I ca n’t pass it. Just worship it here. So we bowed in the direction of his fingers three, and the power worshiped our parents for our mother.

On the third station, we went to the cemetery of Li Huaxi, the seventh generation of the Li family. In the past, my mother said that the tomb was called Shang Shu's grave, which was so big that they often played there when they were young. There are stone horses in the tomb field, and those stone horses were climbed up and down by our uncles. There are many cypress trees there, tall and thick, and two or three people can't hold it, and they can't see the sky. But when we turned a few bending there, it was a stick to us in front of us. There are also factories and stores of township enterprises in the north and south. The cousin stood on the side of the ground and introduced it with his hands. This large area was the past of Shangshu, and it was flattened when the Cultural Revolution. I asked, in the past, listening to my mother said, there are stone horses here, what about the stone horses? My cousin said, I have long been going to do where I went. Li Huaxi's tomb was buried by the emperor's imperial decree at the time, with a large scale, and the light occupied more than 30 acres. The seal of the tomb is also very high, and there is also an emperor's imperial monument in front of the tomb. There is also a hall. It's a pity that these are gone now. Subsequently, we followed the cousin along the edge of the rod land into the depths of the ground. Going to a relatively flat place, the cousin stopped and told us that this place is probably the location of the main hall in the past. The main hall is the boss. There are two old tall trees on both sides. The rear (north) is the grave, and the front (south) is Shinto. This Shinto continued to the Phoenix Mountain in front, and those stone men, Shima, ran south. well! My cousin sighed, but unfortunately, if it is not destroyed, it is so good to stay now, how precious we should be for our hometown!

Native

The setting sun has fallen west, and a brown blush stains over the ancient city. I stood there and stared across the large corn field in front of the wind to the south: a mountain range, like a screen like a barrier, stunned in the distance; a dull curve ushered in the empty sky. Suddenly I was thinking: Isn't this curve the footprint of the historical giant? In this footprint, we used to be ignorant, once savage, mania, and how many civilizations were created in our hands and destroyed in our hands. However, we are still moving all the way because our spirit is still there, and our spirit of exploring the truth and the pursuit of development is still there. As long as we still have this spirit, we will keep going, and it will inevitably repeat this process: creation and destroy. Create again and destroy it again. I just hope that every time it is destroyed, it is a new life, a consciousness, and the beginning of a creation, not ignorance, barbaric and mania. At eight o'clock in the evening, we returned home, and the old mother was sitting there and looked back at us. The elder sister reported the situation, and then explained the photos of her hometown while showing her one by one. I noticed that looking at it, the expression on my mother's face began to gradually become doubtful from the previous relief, and she looked at and said, "Why isn't that? ..."

Yeah, it's not that way. In the change of society once and again, everything is changing, and I hope that the mother's hometown will become better and better.

[About the author] Miao Peixing (male), Jinan. Pen name: Qingquan. Member of the Chinese Prose Society, a member of the Shandong Writers Association. Create novels, prose, poetry genre. Seeing the works of "Shandong Literature", "Contemporary Novels", "Selection of Prose", "Overseas Digest", "Qilu Literature" and "Qilu Evening News" and other pure literature newspapers and magazines. His works have been published in the domestic literature essay contest many times and published a variety of literary books. Among them, the prose "Disagram Qiu Si", "Xianfeng Dao Bone Pearl Spring", "The" Autumn Willow Smoke "from the poems" won the "Qu Shui Ting Cup" (2015), "The Story of My Spring Water", respectively. (2020) and the fourth session of "Talking about the story of Shandong cultural relics, guarding Qilu cultural root" (2021) the first prize of the domestic prose contest competition; Selected simulation test volume of modern literature reading and analysis questions; short stories "He Shengzhai" was selected as "Qilu Literature Works Annual Exhibition (2018)". He has authored a novel "Eight Years Lawsuit" "Under Silver Moonlight"; short stories "He Shengzhai", "Fishing", "Homelessness", etc.;

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