To the north of Huaihe River, the mountains have no edges, and heaven and earth blend together. On a business trip to Linquan, I crossed the Huaihe River and looked out of the window. The horizon is endless. In the distance, the sky is low and close to the ground, and the ground gently kisses the sky. You don't need to look up at the sky. There is no difference between blue and clouds in the sky, but a large piece of white light that spreads from a distance to your head.

Linquan is located in the northwest border of Anhui Province, with a population of 654.38+0.8 million, making it the largest county in China. The sky in Linquan is still very low and close to the ground. The background of the house is white, and so is the background of the treetops. Even the background of wheat seedlings in the vast fields is white. Look forward from your toes, go straight ahead, don't look up, and the sky will soon come into your sight. Here, except the ground, the sky is the ground. I feel that there is a lack of support between heaven and earth, a lack of reality, and a lack of loftiness and sublimity. Empty heart, no place for sight, no support for spirit, no exciting point for emotions.

I was born in Jiangnan, but I grew up in Jiangnan. Let's cut to the chase. After closing doors and windows at night, the mountain still stands in front of the house. The blue sky spans the top of the mountain, and the majestic mountains set off the sky higher and wider. White clouds are floating in the sky around the top of the mountain, and the sunrise and sunset are all decided by the peak. The background of houses, trees and other objects on the ground is mountains. If people want to see the sky, they need to look up at the top of the mountain. If they meet a high and steep mountain, they will look up at the sky and their hats will fall off the mountain. Living in the mountains for many years, I have long been used to the vastness and vastness of the mountains. The towering green hills have occupied an important position in my heart for a long time, filling people's hearts and giving people a kind of truth, a kind of sureness and a kind of dependence.

At this time, I tried to think back to Jiangnan. In spring and March, the grass in Shan Ye shows a faint new green ... Oh, there are no mountains in Linquan, no wonder my heart is empty. There are no mountains to set off and connect everything in Linquan, and the surface is directly connected with the sky. The sky is unstoppable, the land is endless, the roads are wide, villages are dotted, houses are dotted, rows of bare poplars stand neatly in the fields, and the empty green among the trees is spring wheat seedlings.

It is evening in Linquan, and the color of the sky is a bit dim. The sun in the west has become a disk, red, hanging at the junction of heaven and earth, as high as a person's calf, as if it had fallen to his feet. The sun has lost its warmth and brightness, only a faint golden color. The golden sunset is scattered on the roofs, treetops and wheat seedlings, and also on us. We are dressed in golden clothes, wandering in the afterglow of sunset in Linquan. After a while, the disc-shaped sun reluctantly fell below the horizon, and the sky became darker, and slowly night fell. I have never seen such a sunset. The sun in Jiangnan always sets on the other side of the mountain. Sunset means that the sky will be dark, and there will be a twilight between sunset and darkness. Jiangnan people took the mountain to cover their first love at dusk, recalling the beauty of "people dating after dusk" There are no mountains here, only the sun falls to the ground, let the night climb up and let the day and night alternate.

There are no mountains, no valleys, no tinkling streams and no gurgling rivers in Linquan. Linquan people use groundwater, which is filtered to meet the drinking water standard. Compared with the streams in the south of the Yangtze River, it still has a slight salty taste. We are used to drinking mountain springs and feel that the water in the spring is like sea water. In fact, seawater has infiltrated into the groundwater. It is said that such water nourishes people, and salty groundwater nourishes Linquan people in vain, tender and moist.

The mountains in the south of the Yangtze River bloom in spring and summer, and the slopes are colorful and colorful. In autumn and winter, the yellow, frosty red and brown green on the mountains have made the autumn color fu and autumn color map in literature and art. There is no mountain in Linquan, and there is no color in spring, summer, autumn and winter. Looking around, except for the greenery of wheat seedlings clinging to the ground, it is the misty smoke at the junction of heaven and earth, and the empty sky is very monotonous and lonely.

There are no mountains, no streams and no dusk in Linquan. People in Linquan are drinking groundwater, dating, first love and enjoying the beautiful scenery in the golden sunset. The days without mountains make Jiangnan people feel that there is no reality, no landing and no pillar. On the way home, when the car gradually entered the mountains, the towering, tall, brown-green mountain jumped into the field of vision and got into the heart, giving people a foothold in the line of sight-the towering mountain, the spiritual support-the vastness of the mountain and the excitement of the mood-the brown-green mountain and plain. Jiangnan people can't live without mountains, it's better to live with mountains!