Chapter 6 Chapter Five: The Feelings of Xiajiang's "Jade Girl Stone"

For some reason, since I saw her for the first time, I always thought she was the "Xiangxue" that Tie Ning wrote back then.Most people of my age have read Tie Ning's famous novel "Oh, Xiangxue" published in "Youth Literature" more than 20 years ago.I remember the scene of Xiangxue in the small mountain village in Tie Ning's works, carrying a small basket by the train track, competing with her fellow villagers to sell boiled eggs for the passengers on the buses that passed by her village once a day, It is a kind of completely innocent beauty, that is a kind of Chinese-style mountain village girl's completely innocent beauty, that is the kind of Chinese-style mountain village girl's completely innocent beauty that is difficult to find today Beauty, that is the beauty flowing in the soul of nature that cannot be erased from our memory.

The name of "Xiangxue" by the Xiajiang River is Fu Shaoni, a pure peasant girl, a pure "Three Gorges girl". She has a beautiful name.And the family surnamed Fu is a big family in her hometown.Nine out of ten people here will become immigrants now, leaving forever the fertile soil by the river that has nourished the lives of their ancestors for generations.What kind of emotional tear is this? Everyone knows the strange and dangerous beauty of the Three Gorges, but not all of them have personally experienced and witnessed the earth-shattering landscape in the Three Gorges section when the river swelled most fiercely.That is the full display of the masculinity of water: when the waves rise, the monkeys cry on both sides; when the waves roll, the sky shakes.Regarding the danger of the Three Gorges, Li Bai, Du Fu and the talented scholars of the world have already exhausted all the most beautiful words that can be imagined. beauty of.

This is the Three Gorges, the most magnificent landscape classic in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in China, and of course the most magnificent landscape classic in the world.The Three Gorges is a truly sacred canyon that God has given us that can be felt and imagined endlessly.However, those who have been to the Three Gorges, if they stop for a while under the Wushan Goddess Peak, and then change boats and go upstream to another river beside the Xia River, they will have another feeling completely different from the Great Three Gorges. I also exclaimed deeply from the bottom of my heart: This is the real beauty!

This river is called the Daning River, and it was the first major tributary of the Yangtze River when it was in the Wu Gorge.It originates from Zhongnan Mountain in Shaanxi Province, flows through 150 kilometers of high mountains and canyons of various sizes, and then flows into the Yangtze River at the west mouth of Wu Gorge comfortably.After walking through the Three Gorges and marveling at the natural dangers, many people can't help but sigh to the sky when faced with the turbid and huge waves of the Yellow River: If only the water of the Yangtze River was clear and green!However, this is almost impossible for us to see.Who among us would have thought that the Yangtze River in the past must not be what it is now, and who would have thought that there are still countless clear waters and clear streams embracing it along the Yangtze River today.Although this waterscape is difficult to perceive due to the powerful and overwhelming yellow turbidity of the Yangtze River, it is still clearly visible at the foot of Wushan City, where the Yangtze River meets the Daning River.This is the unique charm of Daning River.

From Wushan to the Daning River, the river course is more dangerous, narrower, and more curved. When the boat is moving in the water, you are often overwhelmed by the steep mountains on both sides of the bank, and you are always in shock. Worrying about being stranded on the clear and visible bottom of the river, in fact, you don’t have to worry about anything. The experienced boat boss can let you travel through the dangerous river with peace of mind.This is the Daning River, which exits the gorge and enters the gorge, and the big gorge encloses the small gorge. Along the way, there are seven gorges, such as Longmen, Iron Coffin, Dicui, Scissors, and Wild Boar.People say that since ancient times, Guilin has been the best in the world, but now the "Little Three Gorges" that should be the Little Three Gorges is located on the Daning River section.The ancients left tens of thousands of immortal poems about the Great Three Gorges, but nothing about the Little Three Gorges.

People's development and understanding of the Little Three Gorges can only be realized today.I didn't want to describe the Three Gorges in this article, but when I wrote about the Daning River, I couldn't help but have a passion for nature worship. This is why I realized that the immigrants living by this beautiful river had to say goodbye How lingering and complicated is the reason for the nostalgia for my hometown. Let me express my admiration for the Little Three Gorges by borrowing the poems of the poet Gong Liu's "Impressions of the Little Three Gorges": Mr. Gong Liu's obsessive love for the Little Three Gorges is to look forward to turning himself into a goat and inlaid on the cliffs on the Daning River.But I am more inclined to turn into a fish in the water, because I appreciate the beauty of the original water quality of the Daning River.Some people say that the Daning River is like a hermit, flowing and existing for many years, but people don't know its leisurely life before it enters the Yangtze River.And I think the Daning River is an incomparable beauty, her clarity can make all turbid streams inferior; her purity can make all filth retreat to hell; her beauty can amaze anyone, waist The slender part of the chest is soft and light; the fullness of the breast, its endless milk is always supplying the life and reproduction of countless good men and women who have eaten all the fireworks in the world.

The water of the Daning River is always green all the year round. The fish in the water, the pebbles by the river, and the fertile soil on the bank constitute the peaceful and rich living scene here. Fu Shaoni is a young peasant woman who grew up here.In the short time left when she was interviewed by me, she was about to leave this beautiful hometown and become a real immigrant. The Fu family has 7 brothers and sisters, all of whom have moved to other places as early immigrants, and now only Shao Ni is left by the Daning River. In mid-August 2002, I visited her home for an interview. On the wall of her neighbor’s house, there was a particularly eye-catching big character written with a red paintbrush: "The water level of the second phase - 135 meters".Such characters can be seen everywhere in the Three Gorges Reservoir area. Even when the torrent is flowing straight down in the torrential river, you can see the same characters standing on the mountains on both sides of the river from time to time when you are sitting on a cruise ship.It always reminds every cadre and immigrant in the Three Gorges Reservoir area that the Three Gorges Reservoir area of ​​the Yangtze River will be impounded to 135 meters before June 2003, and the residents on both sides of the river must relocate to other places. .This is a steel lifeline and an iron discipline line.The water of the great river that no one can resist will overflow to this line at that time. Although it is water at that time, it is also a legal boundary. Violators will not only be punished morally, but will also be tortured by nature.

Fu Shaoni told me that she should be regarded as the younger generation of Murakami. She went to work in Guangdong and other places in the late 1980s and saw the outside world.However, since the day when the technicians of the Yangtze River Water Conservancy Project Committee marked the red line 10 years ago, she was identified as an immigrant, her heart was like a kite with a broken string, and she has never been at peace since then.In order to find and retain her last feelings for Daninghe, she resolutely returned to her hometown of Daninghe from Guangdong on the day when the Seventh National People's Congress passed the decision to start the Three Gorges Project, stirring up her childhood that she refused to part with. The "stone love".

"I know that once the dam is built, the clear and green water of the Little Three Gorges here will no longer exist, and the strange and dangerous peaks will never return. Our roots will all float away with the rising water, life and life Everything will change. This is helpless, and it’s useless to resist. So I thought of the experiences and dreams I had in my childhood: At that time, the girls in our village liked to go up and down the mountain to pick flowers and dress themselves up beautifully. Gorgeous. Only I don’t like to pick flowers and wear them, so I go down to the Daning River beach to pick up stones for fun. At first, I was just curious, and found that the river beach changed every time after the flood. When I looked closely, it turned out to be a river beach The pebbles on the side turned over, and the whole riverbed was a different scene when turned over. This discovery made me very excited.

"When I lowered my head and picked up pebbles of different sizes and shapes, I was even more surprised to find that the stones are simply an intoxicating and wonderful world, with 'mountains' and 'water', 'moon' and 'sun', There are 'people' and 'sacrifices', there are 'clouds' and there are 'rain'... In short, there are things in the world, and the same pebbles can be found on the river beach. That stone may be a variant of all things in the world, and it may be the world of all things The miniature of the river, as long as you can name it, there can be any kind of stone on the river beach, but you need to observe carefully and look for it sincerely. This discovery makes me very happy! I also want to turn myself into a stone on the river beach in my dream "Stone Girl", if you want to make the world into what you want, you can become what you like. No one in the world is more capable than me, because I can own everything in the whole world..." Fu Shaoni narrated poetically Looking at her once shattered childhood dream.

Broken dreams should have faded with the passage of time, but the Three Gorges Project made Fu Shaoni, a farm girl, not only did not forget her childhood dreams, but brought back memories, especially the engineering technology of the Yangtze River Water Conservancy Project Committee 10 years ago. The personnel went to the reservoir area to count the number of immigrants and the flooded objects. After the submerged water level marked with red paint stood out in front of the house, Fu Shaoni said in her own words, "There is no peace anymore, She is more anxious than a girl leaving her parents and marrying in another country, and her heart is always in a state of turmoil..." When she was identified as an immigrant, Fu Shaoni was not like some girls, either trying to find a better place to settle down quickly, or trying to marry a man who can stay in the local family.She chose a completely different path from others. That path was a dream she had in her childhood, and this dream was her dream of sleeping with the Daning River. That road is on the curved river beach, and that road ebbs and flows in the clear green river... From then on, Fu Shaoni with her braids ran to the river beach alone whenever she had free time from morning till night.Sometimes she raised her eyes to the divine peaks of the green mountains on both sides of the gorge, and sometimes she reached out to hold a cup of water from the river.Whenever at this time, the eyes of this sentimental peasant girl will get wet... She said that she has merged her body into the big river many times, feeling so stretched and refreshing, so she simply dived into the water naked, at this time There will be countless small fish flocking to you, playing in the water beside you, and you seem to be like a fish yourself, "In fact, many times I really want to become a fish, a small fish in the gorge water, they How happy they are, they have no worries, they don’t have to move because the reservoir water rises, the beautiful gorge water will always be their home, and they can always sing and dance in the water and waves.” How many times has she come to the river alone in the evening after the sunset, took off her clothes, dived into the water, lay on her back on the water, raised the moon and looked at the starry sky, "At this time, I really want to change myself Cheng Yaoji, she died because Dayu hit the rocks, and finally took root on the bank of Wuwu Gorge, becoming a towering goddess peak and staying in the Xiajiang River forever. Yaoji sacrificed her life in exchange for the same spirit that accompanied the Xiajiang River. Fascinate me." Ah, the story of Goddess Peak is told by this female immigrant who is about to leave home, and I feel that there is a bit more tragic color behind the beautiful legend. "I know that immigration to the Three Gorges is a policy set by the state, and it is linked to the law. We have to leave. At that time, no matter what the situation is, you have to leave. But who can understand my love for the Daning River and my home by the Xia River? That affection? That nostalgia for the natural beauty and the tangible and intangible heritage left by our ancestors? The nostalgia of a mountain peak. I feel that my life has melted into one with the mountains, water, plants and trees here. When I dive into the river, I feel like a fish in the river. That kind of comfort, that kind of freedom, that kind of This kind of joy cannot be expressed in words; when I went ashore, I felt that I was breathing fresh air and let myself stretch and moisturize myself. My first choice is that the man must be by the Daning River, by the Shennvfengxia River. Really, I have always thought this way, which made me have a "stone love" for more than ten years..." The well-known "Strange Stone Museum" opened by Fu Shaoni is the crystallization of her "love for stones".When the timetable for the Three Gorges immigration was set, Fu Shaoni ignored the objections of her family and the cynicism of the villagers, and started a "dream career" of picking stones. She explained: For the Three Gorges immigrants, broken dreams and broken dreams It is not advisable to dream, but it is possible to keep the dream.Dreams contain nostalgia for the past as well as expectations for the future. There is a poem like this: The stone on the river beach is the best test gold, those who are indifferent step on it, those who are affectionate and righteous will pick it up, and those who pick it up love and collect it are real poets. Fu Shaoni should be a poet who does not write poems, because she is a real stone picker.Not only that, her understanding of life and nature and the strands of love when expressing her inner feelings are actually poetry. Stones have always made poets.The stones beside the gorge can make great poets. While the villagers kept carrying out all the disassembled things in the house, Fu Shaoni carried baskets of stones back home, sorted them one by one, numbered them, and even took the best ones out of the cabinet. Take your best new cloth and wrap it tightly. Some people laughed at her and said: "Nini, you protect the stone so well, will you use it as a dowry in the future?" Shawnee replied, "Maybe!" Someone said: "You, Shauni, do not embroider or do work. You just pick up some rocks and go home. Do you want to live by gnawing on rocks?" Shawny replied: "It's more delicious for me to eat rocks than steamed buns." Someone sighed and said, "Now that the immigrants are about to relocate, everything that can be sold in the family has been sold. A few more money is the most practical way to 'make up for the loss'. You, Nini, can get a golden egg out of rocks all day long?" Shawnee replied: "All of my stones are golden eggs." People in and out of the village sighed: "Oh, look, the relocation has turned a good girl like Nini into a lunatic..." "Who says I'm crazy? I'm fine!" Shawnee stood up, with her chest up, and said to everyone with a bright face. "No, she doesn't look crazy!" People were curiously waiting for the next strange move of the child who was fascinated by stones. One day, a visitor from other places who came to the "Little Three Gorges" passed by Fu Shaoni's house. Seeing that she was making stones, he came over to watch curiously. The stones are hooked out. "It's amazing! Where did you find it?" "It's on the beach of our Daning River." "Can you sell me a few bucks?" "Sell?" "Ok." "But...but I didn't pick it up just to sell it!" "Don't sell it? Don't lie to me. If you don't sell it, why are you collecting so many stones? Is it a collection? You farmers also collect it? Hahaha, you are kidding me, you even rely on the money you earn from working in Guangdong for food. To maintain it, why do you collect it? This time Fu Shaoni got a little angry, "I tell you, I won't sell this stone! With it, I will feel heavy in my pocket, and I won't feel hungry." The outsider was frightened, and for a long time did not understand that there were such unsophisticated peasant girls beside the gorge, so he left resentfully. Fu Shaoni cried for a long time because of this, she was in pain and sorrow for her incomprehensible love for her hometown.But after crying, she thought calmly: There is nothing wrong with people being interested in our stones and wanting to buy them. If I can really share my "love for stones" for my hometown with others, so that people in the world can learn more about Dajiang The Three Gorges is also a good thing! The girl figured it out, and suddenly felt that her lonely relationship had gained more space. The "Little Three Gorges" on the Daning River attracts thousands of tourists every day, and they often visit Fu Shaoni's farmhouse and fields.So one day Fu Shaoni carefully selected a few better stones and put them in front of her house to see if anyone would buy them. "Oh, come and see, these stones are so beautiful and strange!" Fu Shaoni, who had been waiting in the room for a long time, finally heard the voice she wanted to hear but was afraid to hear. "Hey, where is the seller of this stone? We want to buy some stones!" The tourists shouted loudly. As soon as the girl heard the yelling, she hurried out of the house. She was not worried that the business she got would run away, but she was afraid that the neighbors would see that she was "doing stone business"! Fu Shaoni looked at a group of tourists gathered around her door, her face turned red - after all, she had never done business before. "Hey, this little girl is quite shy." A female tourist took Fu Shaoni's hand and asked, "Did you pick up this stone or wholesale it from other places?" "I picked them all myself. If you don't believe me, come into the house with me to see, there are many more!" Fu Shaoni tensed her face, and said solemnly: "This stone is only available in our Daning River, and it is the same as other places. no the same." "Okay, I believe the girl is telling the truth. Can we buy a few yuan? How much is it?" The tourists became friendly. "This..." The girl's face turned red again, and she murmured after a while, "You can give as much as you want." "Haha, this girl is quite real." The tourist laughed and said, "That piece? Fifty cents... how about it?" Fu Shaoni still blushed and nodded. So the tourists happily picked a lot of stones and paid the girl fifty cents each. "Beep—" a whistle sounded, and the ship carried the tourists away, far away.But Fu Shaoni, who was holding more than a dozen bills in her hand, was still standing at the door of the house in a daze. She didn't know whether it was joy or sadness. Rustic emotion. She still went to the river beach to pick up rocks whenever she was free, and put up a paper-pasted hard board at the door of her house, which read: "Welcome to visit the strange rocks of the Three Gorges."Later, the word "purchase" was added after "visit".So Fu Shaoni's "love of stones" began to be partly "commercialized"-and she insisted that this did not weaken her deep affection for the Yangtze River and Daning River as an immigrant who was about to leave her homeland. The necessities of life are beyond reproach.Besides, since there is demand for things, the owner of the things not only created a new kind of item transaction, but also exported a spirit and culture. The collection of stones is more rich in spiritual factors.Fu Shaoni didn't know at first that she was also playing the role of a communicator of the Three Gorges culture while trading stones with tourists. Her "stone business" has become increasingly prosperous. One day, she found that the little sisters, sisters-in-law, mothers-in-law and old men in the neighborhood had all set up stone stalls in front of her door just like her.In the past, tourists who only stopped there for lunch have gradually regarded viewing and purchasing the "Three Gorges Strange Stones" as a must. This is something Fu Shaoni did not expect, those neighbors who used to look down on her and called her "crazy" behind her back are now saying "Nini Kiss" and "Nini Qiao" from time to time and come over to ask her She teaches art. The girl suddenly felt that her stone had become a spiritual thing.That day, she walked to the river alone, stretched her limbs, and cried for hours on the pebbles. "I'm not excited about the prosperity of the business at all. On the contrary, I feel more and more sad, because when I find out that once the beach stones of the Three Gorges appear, they will have rich commodity value in addition to spiritual value. The reluctance of the immigrants who left the Three Gorges. I cried so much because of this, I even imagined that Yao Ji would die and become the Goddess Peak that would accompany the Xiajiang River forever. Ning He. But the reality does not allow me to be like Yao Ji, so I feel so sad..." "Stone Girl", a passionate daughter.Her tenderness is touching. After years of painstaking efforts, Fu Shaoni's "stone stall" has become a "strange stone museum", and her reputation has spread all over the world, including the "Little Three Gorges" area, and even foreign newspapers have reported it.But there is one thing Fu Shaoni has never changed, and that is her "Three Gorges immigrant" status. Immigrants must leave the Daning River and the submerged line of the Dajiang River.Especially after all her brothers and sisters left, Fu Shaoni felt the ruthlessness of the years, and felt that the water storage deadline of the Three Gorges was approaching her every day... She knew that once the reservoir was built and the highest water level of 175 meters rose, the Daning River in front of her house would no longer have the beautiful pebble beach it is today, and it was impossible for her to go back to the Daning River to pick up some more "Three Gorges Strange Stone". Fu Shaoni, more than the millions of other immigrants from the Three Gorges, has a constant sorrow of parting. "What I want to do most now is to pick up more strange stones when I leave the Daning River and the Three Gorges, and then bring all the stones left in my home to my new home, where I will open a 'Three Gorges Museum of Strange Stones', so that more People know how beautiful the hometown we used to live in is!" Fu Shaoni told me the secret in her heart. Just after a heavy rain, the trickle of thousands of mountains and peaks merged into a river, and then poured into the big river, forming a torrent, which shocked the embankments in Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi and other places to be crumbling, and the danger continued.However, the Daning River is still clear, but the water has risen several meters, so the small Three Gorges has become loud, misty and hazy. "Stone Girl" took up the bamboo basket and went straight to the river beach before the sky cleared.The river beach seemed to be a beautiful woman who had just put on makeup, extremely gorgeous, completely different from the scene before the rain. "Stone Girl" told me from experience that she likes to come to the river beach at this time the most, because the stones on the river beach that had been "sleeping to death" suddenly "woke up" after being rushed by the flood—all of them turned over. body.It is much easier to pick up odd-shaped stones at this time. "You still go to the river beach to pick up rocks every day?" "Yes. I usually do housework and stand guard at home from morning to noon. At two or three o'clock in the afternoon, after the tourists who come to the Three Gorges leave, I go to the river beach to pick up rocks." "Can you see wonderful good stones every day?" "Not necessarily, sometimes you can pick up several pieces in a day, and sometimes you can't pick up a piece in a few days." "Just pick it up on the river beach near home?" "No. Now there are many people collecting and selling stones in the village. They often follow me, so I can only go to the upper reaches of the Daning River to collect stones. It usually takes four or five hours to go." "What kind of strange stone did you pick up when you were most proud?" In Fu Shaoni's small "strange stone hall", I saw some exquisite products in specially installed wooden cabinets, and asked her curiously. "Do you see that the shadow on this stone looks like Qu Yuan singing "Li Sao"? Does it look like two soaring cranes? Also, can you tell if this looks like the 'Qinghai-Tibet Plateau'?..." I found out at this moment Fu Shaoni is very energetic, even her eyes are extraordinarily bright. It's a natural wonder.I casually picked up a pebble half the size of a palm, on which two white cats were clearly visible, and what was particularly miraculous was that the eyes of one of the cats came alive, making the entire "double cat picture" lifelike. "A strange stone like this will definitely sell for a very good price." I couldn't put it down. "Stone Girl" stretched out her hand and said with a smile, "I don't sell such treasures." "Haha, I can't afford it either!" I joked. Fu Shaoni told me that every time it is the turn of tourists to ask for such treasures from her, she suffers the most.Because on the one hand, she especially hopes that someone can recognize the treasure with eyesight, and on the other hand, she is extremely reluctant to sell such a treasure.In order to send the first batch of her brother's family who moved out of the country to leave their hometown, she wanted to buy a gift for each of her nieces, but she didn't have much savings except stones.In desperation, she sold a representative "Goddess Peak" stone to a tourist for 1,000 yuan.Fu Shaoni said that losing this "Goddess Peak" stone is as painful as being married off by mistake.For this reason, she cried at least three times, because such rare stone treasures are generally difficult to find again. The former "stone girl" now has a family, and she chose the young man by the Daning River.The husband who was a carpenter couldn't understand his wife's "stone" complex at first. The catastrophic flood in 1998 also caused the Daning River, a tributary of the Yangtze River, to roar, and Fu Shaoni's two-story newlywed nest was flooded as high as a person.On the night of the flood, the whole village panicked.The young Fu Shaoni and his wife also participated in the tense rescue battle.When the husband desperately moved the grain on the ground floor to the upper floor, his wife picked up the stone and rushed to climb the stairs with him.The husband became angry: "Do you want this home or your stone?" The wife glanced at her husband in fear, wiped the rain and sweat off her face, and replied firmly, crying, "I want the stone first!" Only then did the husband truly understand his wife's "heart of stone". "Okay, let's move your rock first." The couple hugged together in the rain. Beijing called me back for a meeting, and when I was leaving Daninghe, I came to the "Stone Girl"'s house again. I knew that it would not be long before she, the "Three Gorges Girl", would leave her beautiful hometown forever. On this day, Fu Shaoni specially showed me, a foreigner, two top-quality strange stones for the first time. Those are two sets of strange stones.One group is "2008", which is composed of four stones, and the words "2", "0", "0" and "8" are clearly visible on it.She told me that it was specially collected to celebrate Beijing's successful bid to host the Olympic Games. After picking up the strange stone with the word "Beijing", it will be dedicated to the conference when Beijing hosts the Olympic Games in 2008.Another group of "Chinese stones" is composed of three stones, on which the words "China", "country" and "stone" are also clearly visible. "This group of 'Chinese Stones' once had an overseas Chinese living in Canada who wanted to buy it for 50,000 yuan, but I was not willing. I will keep it until 2009, when the Three Gorges Dam has been completed. I want to donate it to the future 'Three Gorges' Reservoir Museum', I want to use it to tell future generations, as immigrants from the Three Gorges, our reluctance to our homeland..." After listening to her words, I couldn't help but have a closer look at the group of "Chinese stones". The stones are very hard and shiny, and the three characters "wonderful workmanship" are so clear and lifelike.I touched it over and over again, and gradually felt that the strange stone began to heat up slightly until it became hot... My heart trembled suddenly: Isn't this the love of a "Three Gorges girl" for her hometown, Xiajiang River, and Daning River? Heart! Gradually, I felt that the three characters "Chinese stone" became "China-country-heart". Are my eyes blurred by tears?Or is the strange stone really appearing? Ah, I finally understand that it is nothing, it is our millions of Three Gorges immigrants who love the motherland and selflessly dedicate their children to move me...