Chapter 19 Laojun Angou

According to the county annals, there are many lofty mountains in Zhaojin, with 34 peaks over 1,000 meters in length and 27 ditches over 2 kilometers in length.Laojun'an Ditch is the most representative of these many ditches.From the entrance of Siping Village to the northeast, you will walk along the clear and translucent stream, Laojun'angou, with the blooming Zhaojin Mountain in the west, and the majestic Zhangguolao Cliff in the east.As soon as you step into this beautiful deep ditch, you will naturally be intoxicated by the beautiful and delicious scenery... Early spring.The branches have not yet sprouted, and there is still a heavy chill in the blowing mountain wind. Only the pines and cypresses on the cliff on the right side of the ditch are still green, and this place is still a bleak and chilling scene.slowly.Ice Creek thawed.The leaves are getting greener, and on the bare protruding rocks of Zhaojin Mountain on the left side of Laojun'angou, mountain flowers of various colors bloom in the air.At the beginning, there are gorgeous and eye-catching winter jasmine flowers, followed by forsythia flowers, mountain plow flowers, rhododendron flowers and various unknown wild flowers.Then it is dominated by the brilliant peach blossoms all over the mountains and plains, forming a sea of ​​bright flowers that seem to be carefully decorated.The prosperous Zhaojin Mountain echoes the lush greenery at the root of the cliff on the right side, and the flowers and greens intersect, leading all the way to Laojun'angou, which is more than ten miles deep.

Gradually, the spring is coming to an end, and the falling flowers are colorful, and the ditches and streams are full of poetic falling reds.The falling red beautifies the Qingxi River, and the gurgling water with hundreds of twists and turns, with the red petals fluttering in the wind, flows out of the ditch mouth lively and into the Tianyu River.At the same time, it also spoiled the Tianyu River... Leisurely, I thought of Bai Letian's poem: "I always hate spring and have nowhere to look, so it's better to turn here." It's hard to suppress the heat of midsummer, so we turned into the depth of this ditch with interest.This ditch is covered by dense deciduous trees and entangled green branches and dead vines. Being in it, it seems to be in another world.Here, the breeze is blowing, and it is very cool.The ditch is also very quiet, except for the chirping of various mountain birds and the gurgling of the stream, there is no noise of the world, everything is silent, you seem to be listening to a harmonious musical movement.Walking along the ditch, the stream is gurgling all the way.There are many large and small colorful river pebbles scattered in and around the stream. The sunshine penetrating through the tree gaps and the reflection of the vermilion hue of the river pebbles naturally refract the chaotic colorful light on the water surface. In the quiet ditch, an indescribable brilliance and splendor were added.The cliffs on the two banks are mostly composed of Cretaceous purple-red quartz sandstone and conglomerate. Due to the well-developed vertical joints, they are easy to collapse. Therefore, after wind stripping and rain erosion, some strange falling rocks have been formed in the channel.These falling rocks.Some are scattered in the buffer zone of the ditch cliffs, and some are in the crystal clear stream.The falling rocks in the ditch constantly change the flow direction of the stream, ups and downs, ups and downs, sometimes rushing, sometimes choking, forming a strange sound in the valley.Go about six or seven miles.The width of the ditch suddenly narrowed, and the way was blocked by a huge boulder in front of them.The two steep and abrupt giant cliffs face each other across the sky.There is only a gap less than three feet wide where the boulder can be penetrated, which reminds us of the sentence in Qin Tao Yuanming: "It is very narrow at the beginning, but it can pass through people."The boulder stands in a pool of rocky pools, and the water in the pool is green.The unpredictable depth has become a dangerous obstacle to enter the depth of the trench.At this time, I saw a single-plank bridge carved with thick-shaped gardens, standing at the foot of the boulder on the right, crossing the green water of unknown depth all the way to the left, and leaning against the boulder halfway on the right The flat area on the waist.When you climb the Dushi Bridge, you can see that the huge rock on the left has formed a steep sidewalk in the middle of the waist.Only through this extremely narrow narrow path can we pass through the passage of "a line of sky" formed by these two huge stones standing on the wall.There is really a feeling of "paradise" of "dozens of steps back and forth, and suddenly open up".Going forward, the ditch surface is wider, forming a semicircular ditch bottom here.The lower part of the ditch is a green pool full of water brocade, algae and dead branches. On the upper part of the ditch is a dilapidated temple.The temple is built according to the stone cave on the cliff, and the gurgling water in the cave passes through the mouth of the cave and drips into the pool with a large drop.What a place where gods live!This is the famous Laojun Temple.It is impossible to know when the disciples of the Taishang Laojun set up a workshop here to preach.But when we think of the Shende Temple, a Buddhist temple located in Pingcun, Goukousi, Laojun'an, where the cigarettes are curling up, we can roughly judge that the Taoist temple was built a long time ago.According to the ancestors, before the Cultural Revolution, the Taoist Temple of Laojun’an had been full of incense and pilgrims, but in the special era of the Cultural Revolution, it was hard to escape.Several cliff statues of the Taishang Laojun in the Taoist temple were damaged, and the only statue of the Taishang Laojun, which was more than one meter high, was also doomed. After being damaged by ignorant and angry Red Guards, it was pushed down on the Taoist temple. In the deep pool below.In the early 1980s, I accompanied a few students from Yaoxian Middle School who had just graduated to play here, and I could still vaguely see the fragments of half-upside-down statues lying in the water.On the walls of the temple, there are still some indistinct murals left.The murals are painted on the walls plastered with mud. The paintings are fresh and the characters are lifelike.It is conceivable that the Taoists who waited and watched in those days sat and discussed the Tao in such a natural and quiet paradise-like place, under the backdrop of curling cigarettes, what kind of unrestrained and detached realm it was like a fairy.I imagined that people who love Tang poetry would feel the phantom of Li Bai, the poet fairy, floating leisurely in front of them when they were in it and felt the scene.We seem to see Li Baijiu Xingxing slightly drunk, Eguan streamer, forehand stroking his elegant and elegant white beard, chanting the poem "Answers in the Mountains": "Ask me why I live on Bishan, laugh without answering my heart. Make trouble on your own. Peach blossoms and flowing water go blindly, there is another world in the world."After carefully chewing and pondering, I really doubt that Li Bai seems to have written this fascinating, swaying, twists and turns, and indifferent quatrains through the ages under such a situation.

In Laojun'angou in autumn, the autumn wind is rustling, the branches are decorated with fruits, the yellow leaves are fluttering, and the forest is dyed.Sour and fragrant grapes, overripe pears, hickory nuts, jujubes and other rich fruits hang on the branches and adorn the banks of the Qingxi River.The prosperous city seeds and cypress seeds quietly fell into the thick layers of fallen leaves with the gentle autumn wind.After a kind of inadvertent brewing, it began to conceive the next group of more gorgeous green life. Laojun Angou in winter, with silver snakes dancing on the mountain, covered with silver makeup, looks like a pure and pure world.Every year on the first day of the new year, people come to the bottom of the ditch together.At this time, on the cliff at the temple at the bottom of the ditch, an exquisite and crystal-clear ice tower like a knife carving has been naturally piled up. Under the direct sunlight, the ice tower is radiant and magnificent. The folks in the mountains are famous with an indescribable spirit.

The last outing in Laojun Angou.It was also ten years ago.I recently asked relatives and neighbors who came to my house.It is said that the Dushi Bridge and "Yianxiantian" leading to Laojunangou have already been demolished and bombed.In this ditch, it is said that the so-called "Jun'an" coal mine was opened.The former beauty of Laojun Angou has disappeared.The clear stream also dried up or stopped flowing from time to time.Several mountains on the back mountain of Zhang Guolao Cliff have also collapsed... "Jun'an"?Looking at the beautiful mountains and rivers in good shape, I was tossed into a different face, and I was heartbroken.My mind is full of questions such as "development or protection".