Complex Lotus Mountain Prose

Zhou Dunyi of the Song Dynasty said in his "Shuo on Love of the Lotus" that among the flowers of water, land and vegetation, he only loved the lotus. I think this is not just because of the lotus leaves that touch the sky and the infinite green. The color of the lotus makes people relaxed and happy, and their reveries are endless. The lotus flower "comes out of the mud but is not stained, washes the ripples without being demonic, is straight from the middle to the outside, does not creep or branch, the fragrance is clear from a distance, and the pavilion is clean and planted. It can be viewed from a distance but not played with." "His noble character and humanistic sentiments deeply moved him. Every time I re-read "Ai Lian Shuo", there is always an indescribable feeling lingering in my heart, entangled repeatedly, and lingering.

In autumn, lotus flowers are collected in Nantang, and the lotus flowers exceed people’s heads. In my hometown, lotus is a very common, very common and very ordinary flower on the water. When I was young, there were many of them in the water in my hometown, in patches, especially those rolling on the lotus leaves like green umbrellas in summer. The dewdrops and the graceful lotus flowers with high water flow are so beautiful that people will never forget them. Sometimes, when I go swimming with my playmates, through the fields of lotus leaves, I can see a big mountain in the distance from time to time. The strange thing is that I heard adults say that the big mountain is called Lotus Mountain.

Lianhua Mountain is eighteen miles away from our village. Whether you are working in the fields or playing at home, you can see the distance in the distance like a screen nearly a hundred miles away. The mountains were like lotus flowers magnified countless times, and the numerous trees, rocks, and temples on the mountains, especially the shining radar on the top of the mountain, were all clearly visible.

What’s even more exciting is that at that time, there were always pairs of silver-white fighter jets taking off and landing from the airport at the foot of Lotus Mountain every day. So, watching the planes taking off and landing, watching The plane flying over our heads has become a required course for us every day, and the rumbling and shocking sound has become the most beautiful piece of music that is unforgettable. When we were gathering grass to feed the cattle in the production team, or cutting and drying sweet potatoes for a break, we would always lie on our backs on the grass or on the piles of sweet potato seedlings piled up after harvesting, and watch quietly above the ten-thousand-meter-high blue sky. The planes are fighting each other, and sometimes the planes dive into deep space, and the direction of the plane can only be judged from the white smoke pulled out from the tail of the plane. Sometimes, when the two fighter jets are really tired of fighting, they will lower their altitude and roar over our heads. The altitude is too low, as if they are passing over the top of the telephone pole, because we can see the heroic pilot in the cockpit of the aircraft. It's really enviable. This scene is very similar to what Mo Yan wrote in his Nobel Prize-winning novel "Frog", in which he watched a training exercise of fighter jets flying in the sky in Gaomi.

When I was in junior high school, because it followed the path of integrating workers and farmers according to the requirements of the time, the junior high school was changed to an agricultural middle school, and later it was changed to the May 7th Red School. The school selected three of our classmates. I am responsible for the cloud and sky observation tasks at the weather station of the Zhai Town Commune Agricultural Experimental Field adjacent to the school, which forces me to deal with Lianhua Mountain every day. Every day at six o'clock in the morning, twelve o'clock in the afternoon, and five o'clock in the afternoon, three of us, at least two of us, have to go to the weather station to observe and record relevant data. These data must be transmitted to the county's weather station in a timely manner for reference. One of the important tasks is to observe the visibility on that day. It is required to observe and record the Lianhua Mountain in the distance to the north as a reference. If the weather is the best, that is, if the scenery on Lianhua Mountain can be completely seen clearly, it will be recorded in the special record book Note that the visibility is 9,000 meters, and so on. As a result, the myriad of clouds and clouds flying on the Lotus Mountain were solidified into vivid and interesting numbers, recorded in the thin little book that was long gone but will exist forever.

The first time the school organized a trip to Lianhua Mountain, the students were very happy. However, the hard work of Shibali Di was a bit difficult for us children who were only thirteen or fourteen years old. Anyway, most of the classmates did not climb to the top of the mountain and returned halfway. When we returned, the twilight was already thick, the sun was setting, and our legs were as heavy as lead. Fortunately, there was a Chinese teacher in front of us who told vivid stories about the Three Kingdoms and Liaozhai, which made us forget our fatigue and go home safely.

When I was in high school, I went to Xintai County No. 4 Middle School at the foot of Lianhua Mountain. The original site of No. 4 Middle School was called Shangwang Temple. Therefore, when my family sent us to school, we called Shangshangwang No. 4 (Temple). ), and later I learned that the Shangwang Temple was originally called the White-robed Master Temple, and the White-robed Master is also the Guanyin Bodhisattva. It is said that this temple is the first temple in Lianhua Mountain, so Xinfu Mountain was renamed Lianhua Mountain, which may have something to do with it. This temple is related.

When I graduated from college, for unknown reasons, I gave up the opportunity to go to big cities such as Jinan and returned to my hometown to work as a middle school teacher. This middle school was later renamed Xintai No. 4 Middle School. The No. 4 Middle School at this time was no longer the No. 4 Middle School at the foot of Lotus Mountain, but the No. 4 Middle School in the suburbs outside the city. Later, when I went to work in the city, I went to Lianhua Mountain many times to inspect and visit. I also went to Lianhua Mountain many times to play in my free time. Every plant and tree in Lianhua Mountain, the ditches and bumps in Lianhua Mountain, and the peaks and mountains in Lianhua Mountain were so familiar. Once you are familiar with it, you can basically recite the history, monuments, legends and anecdotes of Lianhua Mountain.

Yuedong is ancient and new, and its shape is like a lotus. Some people say that when you look at Lotus Mountain from the Yangliu River, you can see that Lotus Mountain really looks like a blooming lotus. So, I actually went there to watch it, and it was true as people said, it was the most similar. Of course, in other places, as long as you stand opposite Lotus Mountain, no matter which angle you look at it, the unique momentum formed by the layers of nine peaks such as Lotus Peak and Tiantai Peak does look like holy lotuses blooming layer by layer.

Lianhua Mountain does have its magic.

The Geography Channel of CCTV once broadcast "Secret of the Green Room", which recorded the story of scientific expedition workers who visited Lianhua Mountain to investigate and reveal the unique oldest rock on earth, the Komati Rock, under the Lianhua Mountain. This kind of rock is only found in South Africa, Canada, Australia and the Xintai Yangliu River in China, so it is extremely precious. A few years ago, I went to Lianhua Mountain for inspection and found the legendary ancient rock on the mountain ridge north of Tianjingyu Village at the foot of the mountain. The local people did not know how valuable this thing was, but they knew that this stone was very beautiful and very valuable. It is easy to mine, so we used it to build walls and houses, and built a series of "green houses" that are warm in winter and cool in summer, and can prevent and cure diseases. Unexpectedly, these green houses have now become the most beautiful scenery in the world. Foreigners rush to visit here. And the small piece of Komati rock with sharp edges that I picked up from there, without any processing, has been made into a beautiful handicraft with steep peaks standing proudly. I put it on the desk in the office, which makes me feel the beauty all the time. The mysterious information from the depths of the earth that traveled through time and space 2.8 billion years ago allows you to experience the antiquity, vicissitudes and grandeur of Lotus Mountain.

Sometimes I close my eyes and think about the beauty of Lotus Mountain. It is indeed everywhere and all the time. Needless to say, the spring flowers are blooming and the butterflies are flying and the bees are dancing on Lotus Mountain; the summer rain is pouring and thousands of valleys are racing; the autumn leaves are covered with frost and the mountains are red; the winter snow is miserable and the cypresses are green and the pines are green, and it is not necessary to mention the evening drums and morning bells in the Guanyin Courtyard at the foot of Lotus Mountain. The auspicious clouds lingering in the pavilion, the mysterious smile of Tiancheng Guanyin, the hundred-step ladder behind Yungu Temple, and the sunset on the rooftop on Lotus Peak. Just rafting on the Lotus Lake at the foot of the mountain and carefully watching the white lotus flowers and numerous mountain shadows in the water are enough. It's enough to make people indulge in it.

When I was working at the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection, Secretary Wang told me one day that a standing committee member and director of the trial room of the Henan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection called to ask if there was a village called Yangcun at the foot of Lotus Mountain. village? His father participated in the revolution before liberation and later transferred to Henan. He never had contact with his hometown. When he was critically ill, he suddenly made a request, which was to eat pancakes and kao roe from his hometown. The family was puzzled, so they called to ask what squid roe was. Squid roe is actually small yellow croaker or small crucian carp that has been marinated in coarse salt and dried. It is grilled or fried and eaten with pancakes. It is very delicious. Lotus Mountain, pancakes, and squid roe have become a kind of nostalgia and memory that this old man who lives in a foreign country cannot let go.

Once, my younger brother went to Beijing and met a leader of the Ministry of Ordnance Industry at that time. He heard that he was going from Xintai, so he asked: There is a mountain there, is it called Lotus Mountain? ? After receiving an affirmative answer, he said, I had fought guerrillas and fought there back then.

One day in April 2015, I accompanied Professor Chen Youxi from the Law School of Renmin University of China, chairman of the board of directors of Jingheng Law Group, one of the top ten lawyers in China, to visit Lotus Mountain. He told a group of Something unexpected happened to us. He said that in his hometown of Ninghai County, Zhejiang, there is a mountain called Daliang Mountain. There is a temple on the mountain called Yanghu Temple. When he was a child, the people in his family could not read, so they called him Cheng. Yangfu Temple. I don’t know whether Father Sheep is a human, a god or a ghost. But every New Year and festival, people in my hometown go to the temple to burn incense and worship, praying for a good harvest and safety for the whole family. Later, after he was admitted to the Chinese Department of Hangzhou University and read "Book of Jin", he learned that the god that people in his hometown worshiped every year turned out to be Yang Hu, a famous politician and military strategist in the Western Jin Dynasty. Yang Hu was born at the foot of Lianhua Mountain in Shandong. Xintai Yangliu, Xintai's name was also changed from ancient Pingyang to the present name by taking the first characters of Xinfu Mountain and Taishan from Yanghu's table. When Yang Hu died, Jiangnan had not yet been unified, but his generals inherited his legacy. "Wang Jun's boat sailed down to Yizhou, and the king of Jinling lost his spirit sadly." The Kingdom of Wu was unified by the Western Jin Dynasty. It is said that as a "subjugated country", people should hate the occupiers. Why should they build a temple to worship an "enemy" who has long since died? This may be the reason why Yang Hu's soft and aggressive strategy towards Wu State came to fruition locally. This shows that Yang Hu has a high status among his generals and people in Jiangnan. This time, besides giving lectures at Shandong University, Professor Chen Youxi made a special trip to Xintai to find his roots.

In the hometown of Yang Hu, in front of the statue of Yang Hu, Professor Chen Youxi watched carefully, immersed in excitement and thinking. When we came to the Yangshi Ancestral Tomb Protection Area located in the southeast of Chengjiazhuang Village, Yangliu Town, facing the Yangshi Ancestral Forest that had long since become "green and green", and facing a fertile land with rolling wheat waves, we had the same feeling as us. The same disappointment shrouded everyone's face. But when the comrades from the Municipal Museum discovered that the large bricks discarded in the ditch on the side of the road were different from those of today, and were old items from the Western Jin Dynasty more than 1,700 years ago, Professor Chen was very excited and jumped into the ditch. He chose three square and heavy bricks and brought them up and said: This is great. I am currently investing 20 million to rebuild the Yanghu Temple and build a seven-level pagoda on Daliang Mountain in my hometown of Ninghai. I want to put this piece as a treasure in the underground palace of the pagoda, and put these two pieces at the feet of the Yanghu statue in the Yanghu Temple. . In this case, it would be like finding roots and a home for Yang Hu. Later, during his lectures, he also proposed that Lianhua Mountain and Daliang Mountain should be formed into friendly mountains, and Xintai City and Ninghai County should be formed into friendly counties and cities.

One flower, one world, one tree, one Bodhi. In the heart of every Xintai person, there is more or less a Lotus Mountain complex. The farther away from Xintai, the more solemn and precious this complex becomes. It is often lingering and unforgettable, like a cigarette. The knife cuts off the water, and the wine drowns the sorrow. As the city flower of Xintai City, the holy and beautiful lotus has been deeply engraved in the hearts of every Xintai person.

As a continuous spiritual link connecting ancient and modern times, and connecting China and foreign countries, Lotus Mountain has become an important fulcrum for people today and in the future to remember their homesickness. It will always be tied to the heart of every Xintai person and accompany her through time and space. Go far away...