The villa is located in a cave of "left green dragon, right white tiger", and several newly-built quadrangles are named Ren, Yi, Li and Zhi respectively. The receptionist asked us to rest in two rooms of Yan Chai Hospital for the time being.
However, I put my satchel in room 80 1 and went out for sightseeing. There are Chinese characters such as "Bi Sheng" and "movable type" on the hillside. There are many pictures and explanatory texts in front of the wall outside the "yiguang" room, including the photos of Bi Sheng statue and the text introducing movable type printing. Movable type printing, compass, papermaking and gunpowder are four great inventions in ancient China. Why is the hometown of Bi Sheng, the inventor of movable type printing, in yingshan county, Hubei? I'll be skeptical. I never knew that Bi Sheng's hometown was Yingshan!
The "live food" restaurant, conference room and yiguang in the villa are all newly-built houses, facing a pond with a wide water surface in the east.
There are farmers' houses, hillsides and mountains in the north of the pond.
At noon on the 4th, with curiosity, I walked up the hillside in the north from the embankment road in the east of the reservoir to see the graves and tombstones on the slope. The inscription on the tombstone includes the mountain direction (such as noon direction in Zi Shan), the surname of the deceased, the date of birth and death, the name of the person who erected the monument, and the time when it was erected. As for the names of the deceased, the male is an adult who took the exam first or the ancestral exam is taboo, and the female is the late Mrs. Li Jinniang or the grandmother Xia Laojiao who took the exam on her ancestors. The style of these inscriptions is basically consistent with the tombstones in the eastern mountainous area of Macheng. Several graves on the hillside were built by descendants named Jin. I estimate that there are many people named Jin in Kongjiafang Township where the villa is located.
On the afternoon of 4th, Zhang Baoliang, vice chairman of yingshan county Writers Association, led us to the mountain forest behind the villa to see the scenery. The mountain road is tortuous, but not too steep. There is a big and round hornet's nest hanging from a big tree on the hillside (our hometown is usually fenugreek). There are bees flying around the nest. There are catalpa bungeana trees on the roadside, and some white granular fruits are gathered on the branches. My hometown also has this kind of tree, which was originally one of the traditional economic plants. Fruits can be collected and sold to make money. However, in recent years, the fruit of Zimu (called Zimu and Zimu) has not been harvested, so farmers have to let Zimu die in the field. Sub-wood can extract white leather oil and purple-black stillingia oil. Leather oil was originally one of the main commodities operated by Wuhan Silk Oil Company, and it was an industrial raw material in the old society. In recent years, it has been replaced by petroleum products and chemical industry products. Stillingia oil can be used for lighting and cooking, and it is one of the daily necessities of farmers in the old days. In Zhang Baoliang's short story "Gu Xiang", there is a plot in which a man lights a match and a catalpa oil lamp to illuminate his wife, Bagu. There are two kinds of products after the seed wood is pressed: ① Catalpa cake, which can be used as the base fertilizer for planting rape, wheat and so on. ② Catalpa charcoal is a good fuel to keep out the cold.
Pinus massoniana is the most abundant pine tree in the mountains and a common tree species in my hometown.
When going downhill, there is a cotton field at the foot of the mountain. There are peaches on the stems of cotton, about half of them have been cracked, most of them have been picked, and a few white cotton are hanging on the branches. Zhang Baoliang introduced that there are few ethnic cotton in Yingshan now. This situation is similar to my hometown.
On the morning of the 5th, the opening ceremony of the Pen Club organized by Hubei Writers Association and Changjiang Series Magazine was held in Shenfeng Mountain Villa as scheduled. After the first meeting, the hosts Yingshan Federation of Literary and Art Circles and Shenfeng Villa led us to visit the vegetable shed and pig farm in front of the villa.
Vegetable greenhouses and pig farms are managed by Hubei Qianxi Ecological Agriculture Development Co., Ltd. and yingshan county Deqing Ecological Agriculture Cooperative. There are also biogas fertilizer, biogas slurry and biogas bases, and the raw materials are pig manure from pig farms. The staff said: the vegetables grown with biogas fertilizer are fresh and tender, and there are no pests and diseases. Therefore, it is a real green food without using pesticides. Black soil pig, biogas manure and pheasant with glasses are the fist products of Millennium Company, which have entered the domestic market. Out of curiosity, I asked a middle-aged cadre (male) who accompanied us on a tour: "How much does the front-line workers in your company bear?" The middle-aged cadre replied: "1500 yuan." I asked again, "How long does it take you to raise a pig from cub to slaughter?" Middle-aged cadres replied: "Generally, it takes 10 months." I immediately asked, "How much can you earn by raising a pig?" Middle-aged cadres said: "Not much. The net profit is around 200 yuan. " I said, "This kind of profit is not high!" The middle-aged cadre said, "Yes. The key is that it takes a long time to raise pigs and it takes 10 months. " I comforted him and said, "Of course, we can't simply pursue high profits. The key is to create a fist product like black soil pork. " Middle-aged cadres nodded yes. "
The pigsty is very clean, and there is no smell of pig manure with prickly nostrils or fattening. A female writer of our colleague saw the sunshine in the pigsty, but some parts didn't, and excitedly said to the middle-aged cadres, "Your pigsty is well designed. Pigs can not only bask in the sun, but also lie in the shade to rest. Such a pigsty conforms to the principle of scientific pig raising. " Middle-aged cadres nodded and said, "yes! Yes! ……"
I am a native of the countryside, and I am used to raising pigs, cows, sheep, dogs, cats, bees, pigeons and so on in the countryside. Black earth pig, pheasant and bamboo chopsticks oil noodles (that is, dried noodles in my hometown) made by Millennium Company are also common things in my hometown. Only biogas manure vegetables (greenhouse vegetables) are not engaged in large-scale production projects in my hometown at present. Yingshan has a celebrity like Bi Sheng. My hometown (Muxi River in Mu Zi, Macheng) is two famous people: Yu Cheng (who worked with Sun Yat-sen, Huang Xing, Zhang Taiyan and Song in Japan) and Xia Douyin (who was then the chairman of Hubei provincial government). Yingshan takes advantage of Bi Sheng's fame to engage in the joint development of culture, economic entities and tourism. Then, can't my hometown learn from Yingshan? I came to the Pen Club this time not only to learn the experience of literary creation, but also to learn the experience of enterprise development from Yingshan, just like Tang Sanzang went to India to "learn from the scriptures".
On the morning of the 5th, when I went to the "Live Cuisine" restaurant for breakfast, I saw two tables of guests, both old men and old women dressed in "Eighth Route Army" costumes. They also live in Shenfeng Mountain Villa and come to Yingshan for recuperation. I have always admired the soldiers of the old Red Army, the old Eighth Route Army and the old New Fourth Army.
On the evening of 5th, I chatted with an old Eighth Route Army soldier in the same restaurant. His name is Lin Yici and he is 84 years old. Originally from He Qiong Village, Gulou District, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province; 1955 joined the Ministry of Railways, 1960 transferred to Wuhan, and now lives in Wuhan. His friends are all from Wuhan.
Shenfeng Mountain Villa is a place where the old Eighth Route Army soldiers and our writers miss each other.