Chapter 112 Love Vineyard

In the autumn of 2001, my friends drove me to the west of Gansu. Near Yumen and Yangguan, when the car drove for a day in places like the Gobi and Yadan Devil City, at dusk, on the horizon, there appeared one after another A vineyard.They were green and crystal clear under the setting sun, and at that moment, I almost forgot to breathe. In fact, for me who grew up in southern Xinjiang, vineyards are not uncommon.Especially for Hotan people who are proud to have "the most beautiful home garden in the world", vineyards are a part of life.In front of or behind the house, there must be a luxuriant canopy of grapes climbing to the roof along the trellis built by poplar branches. It provides shade, green leaves, small flowers with bitter fragrance in late spring and early summer, and ripening fruits.And this process slowly and deeply nourishes the eyes and soul of the occupants.Therefore, the grape trellis is also an important basis for evaluating the grade of a house, and it is also a stage to show the mental outlook and hard work of the occupants.Because vineyards need more care than other fruit trees, the daily work includes removing dead leaves and damaged fruits, repelling birds and wrapping each bunch of fruits, and in winter, vines are buried deep in the ground before frost, waiting Dig out again in warm spring.

Grapes are different from other fruit trees, or they are only ornamental, or they only provide fruit.The vineyard is also different from other gardens. It is a part of the home, an extension of the garden, and has dual functions of secular and spiritual.More importantly, the vineyard is more associated with "pleasure", the fruit it provides is luscious but not enough to satisfy the hunger, it is more used to brew fine wine, and the wine it brews does not have People's basic requirements for alcohol, such as "warm protection" and "disinfection".Its sweetness only stays on the tip of the tongue for a moment, and the intoxication it provides is also slightly intoxicating.Wine is a luxury wine, a wine for pleasure, and a wine under the sun in a peaceful and prosperous age. It must have enough "slow" mood to make it swirl on the tip of the tongue and in the mouth.

Moreover, places where a large number of grape vines can be planted must also have the characteristics of sufficient sunshine, fertile and loose soil, and short periods of severe cold weather. Residents with such characteristics are mostly bright and relaxed, and pursue happiness more than others. .So, where are those places that have enough conditions to advertise that they have "wine culture" and "vineyard culture"?France, UK, Italy, Spain, Brazil. All this makes the vineyard gradually have a religious meaning, which is used to symbolize the happy paradise that people are closest to in the secular world. The metaphors of vines and vineyards can be seen everywhere in the Bible. The vines symbolize God’s people, the grapes represent the fruit of life, and the wine symbolizes the blood of Jesus.The vineyard is a preparatory class for heaven. Those who want to enter heaven must first work in the vineyard. "Those who come to work in the vineyard will enter heaven no matter whether it is morning or evening."

So the vineyard has become an unspeakable dreamland, nourishing many artists.Mauriac was born in Bordeaux, which is rich in vineyards. His family's estate is full of dense pine forests and vineyards.One of the backgrounds of the common activities of all beings described by Balzac, whether they are misers or courtesans, is the vineyard.Claude Simon lived in his own vineyard in the Pyrenees for sixty years, and the only painting Van Gogh sold during his lifetime was "The Red Vineyard".The vineyard is also enough to symbolize the artist's desire for a stable life. In his first short story in 1911, Hemingway deliberately moved his birthplace to "a white house on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts"; The first thing David McCullow, America's favorite historian, bought a vineyard after publishing his first book, The Johnstown Flood, and earning Reader's Digest $15,000 in compression royalties , The harvest of the vineyard supported the family's income, so he was able to concentrate on writing.There is also Bob Dylan, who did a different business in his later years-making wine; and our writer Zhang Wei, who kept returning to the seaside vineyards in Longkou, Shandong to write and read, because "to the vineyards and seaside forests This is the life I have been used to since I was a child.”In his poem mourning Yeats, Auden praised him like this: "Cultivated poetry hard, turned the curse into a vineyard."

Even Yi Shu, the protagonist in her novel, has the greatest desire to "buy a vineyard and learn how to make wine, and lie in the drunkenness every day".Her new work is called When the Grapes Are Ripe.Even Karen Karen, her biggest dream is to "own a vineyard".The vineyard is indeed an indescribable place, filled with many subtle emotions. When the Vineyard is shown in a movie, it's usually a sign that it's going to be a story without the worries of the world."Walking in the Clouds" starring Keanu Reeves took place in the vineyard. When the green and transparent vineyard suddenly appeared under the hillside, we all knew that the story would be infinitely complete.When the hero and heroine walk in the vineyard wearing "wings" on a frosty night, we are already so distracted that we have no time to investigate how many possibilities this story has.Rohmer's "Story of Autumn" takes place in a vineyard, where several women chatter about men, love, and life, as if there are no other worries in life.The story of this book takes place in the wine-producing area of ​​California. Seven days, like a genesis, completed the process of wine as a metaphor for life: friendship, love, warmth, hope, whatever you want, you will have what you want.

This is why, when I grew up in the vineyard, I was so surprised and delighted when I saw the vineyard again after many years.For me, the vineyard used to be the Garden of Eden within reach. Once I was far away and hadn’t been close to it for many years, it gradually became a past that even I doubted a little.A dream that has been retouched and polished countless times.When it appeared again, it finally proved that my dream was true.Miss it so far. We all know that the road to the vineyard is very, very far away. The only thing we can do now is to find a picture of the vineyard as a desktop.