Poor village and Xinqi village
I am a curious person, especially when I heard that the dried-up ditch near the village is the ancient Yellow River road, so I feel itchy and want to find out. At first, because of my little knowledge, I thought the people were mistaken. Because the Huanghuai area is nearly a thousand kilometers away from the current Yellow River estuary, if this is the ancient road of that year, then this ancient road is too far away!
As a result, I sorted out this almost lost story among the short stories of many predecessors. The location of the poor village is legendary. It is said that when the Yellow River flooded, all the surrounding villages were flooded and destroyed, leaving only this village. When the flood meets this village, it walks around, just like Noah's Ark in the sea. Although it is alone in the water, only here has left life and hope. The local people are grateful to God for his extraordinary mercy and their ancestors for their good deeds. In particular, there is an underground river leading to the East China Sea in the legend of the local Yuanzi Lake, so the Longwang Temple was rebuilt in the local area to worship. The village was named Pity Village, not because it was too pitiful, but because God pitied the local villagers who suffered and could not bear to destroy it, leaving life and farmland formed by the fertile alluvial plains around them. Therefore, in order to remember God's care and pity, the local people got such a name.
Xinqi Village has a different scene. The village has a history of 1 years and belongs to a new village. It is said that in this village, there was a big landlord who oppressed the people in the north of the ancient Yellow River Road, and the people had no way out. At the time of a flood, a group of long-term workers rose up and launched a great escape, crossing the Yellow River to the south bank. Facing the challenge of the landlord's pursuit and survival, everyone gathered together to keep warm, and the hearts of Si Qi were unprecedentedly United. Together, they reclaimed wasteland, planted crops, and started a new life for a village and an ethnic group. In order to express our determination to work together with everyone in Qi Xin for several years, it was named Xinqi Village.
With this story, I tracked down the history of the Yellow River diversion. Since then, I have realized that our mother river has also experienced hardships and is full of holes. In the history of more than 6 years of diversion, there are as many as six particularly important diversions, and there are countless bursts of water in history. Those years when the Yellow River flooded changed a lot of human history and were also changed by many human history.
Poor Village and Xinqi Village are just two ordinary villages in countless villages. Those villages that were submerged by floods and natural disasters, those that were submerged or survived were later submerged by history, or those that will be submerged by history interpret the laws of nature and are the way of the world.
Now the Yellow River has quietly returned to its original track, but these ancient roads thousands of miles away are full of youthful vitality, giving fertile land and ripe soil to nurture generations of people on both sides of the strait. The beauty scene has long forgotten the sufferings of the past, and only the names of villages whose origins are unknown still leave traces of the past years.