Chapter 2 Chapter two

①Three-surname village──The three-surname village is only composed of the surnames Lan, Du and Sima.The geographical location is at the junction of the three counties, but in the thousands of years of annals and history records of the three counties, there is no source of the village of the three surnames.According to their own ancestors, it was at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty. Due to wars and disasters, the surnames Lan fled from Shandong, the surnames Du fled from Shanxi, and the surname Sima fled from Shaanxi to the deep wrinkle of the Palou Mountains. Seeing that there are few people here and the water and soil are prosperous, so they live in a shed, live there, farm and work, intermarry and reproduce, and become a village.In the beginning, they were the same as other worlds. Both humans and animals prospered, and their life expectancy was sixty or even eighty years old. However, with the birth and death of generations, the life span gradually decreased. In the early days, most of the villagers had Black tooth disease, joint disease, some hunched over, osteoporosis, deformed limbs, and even paralyzed in bed.For more than a hundred years, most of the villagers with three surnames died of throat blockage, and the life expectancy was reduced from sixty to fifty, and then from fifty to forty. At the age of ten, it has reached the point where the whole world does not intermarry with the village of the three surnames.Sima Tianren, the great-grandfather of Sima Lan, was the first to discover laryngeal blockage. At that time, the population in the village was not large, and they could live to be over fifty years old. I couldn't find a place where the water and soil were both prosperous, and finally failed to move. When most people in the village could not live to be fifty years old, Sima Lan's grandfather made a big move to mobilize each household to move out sporadically and settle down by themselves. The blood relationship and the concept of "never leave the nest" in the countryside have been formed, and few single-family households can decide to move away.Although one or two of the three surnames moved out, when they went to the outer village, due to the throat disease that could not be cured quickly and heredity, no one from the outer village intermarried with the villagers of the three surnames, so they had to move back to the Palou Mountains. After the establishment of the new government in 1950, it seems that there were several motions to relocate. However, due to the infinite expansion of the external population and the shrinking of land, the great migration only stopped at the motion. No matter how extravagantly expecting to migrate collectively, they have survived year after month until today's situation where death is everywhere.

② Confucian melon ─ ─ not meant for children.In the Palou Mountains, dwarves are called Rugua, which refers to those children who have been clustered like melons all their lives and will not grow up. ③Lingyin Water—60 kilometers westward from Sanxing Village, it is the Yihe River system in western Henan. It originates in Luanchuan County, passes through Songxian County, Yichuan County, enters Longmen, enters Luohe River, and flows into the Yellow River.At the intersection of Luanchuan and Songxian County, there are beautiful mountains, lush forests and beautiful leaves. There is a Lingyin Temple. The temple was first built in the late Qing Dynasty.On both sides of the Lingyin River, Bai surnames, most of them are centenarians.Sima Lan led the villagers of the three surnames to start building canals more than ten years ago to divert Lingyin water to prolong life. The project is huge, and the whole process has been dug for more than 40 kilometers.

④ Jiaohuoyuan——Located in Chengguan Township, southwest of the county seat, it was built by British missionaries in 1892. It was a church hospital. After 1942, the Japanese army entered Henan and changed the church hospital into a battlefield burn hospital. Most of the patients who lived there were burned on the battlefield Burned soldiers; after the surrender of the Japanese army, the alien skin grafting techniques left behind made Jiaohuoyuan famous in this area.After liberation, the Jiaohuoyuan was changed into a county hospital with a burn hospital attached, so the people still call it Jiaohuoyuan.It is the collective name of Church Hospital and Burn Hospital.