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This is a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, Li Bai, who was exclaimed as a fairy, lamenting the vast land of Nanyang. Li Bai walked in famous mountains and rivers all his life, and he was arrogant and romantic, but only bowed to Nanyang so much. He has traveled here several times, and after drinking with friends Cenfuzi and Shan Qiusheng, he wrote the immortal masterpiece "Into the Wine", "How does the water of the Yellow River go out of heaven and into the ocean, never to return …"

Boating on the white river, walking alone in the mountains, while praising the rich culture of this ancient city, it is full of disappointment.

How many people left in the history books, and so did Li Bai. Only this sigh stayed in the historical sky and was deeply branded in the hearts of Nanyang people.

1? Lingdi

Growing up in Nanyang, I only know that Xiguan Street in front of my house is very long, winding through the town, and then extending infinitely from east to west. There is also a stockade in front of the house called Meixi River. The ancient and decaying earthen wall village is a place where children prance and show their courage.

When I grow up, I ride my bike to the outskirts of Shiligang alone, watching the winding road winding to the west and extending to the invisible distance, with infinite reverie in my heart. What kind of world is there beyond the mountain?

When I was a child, I studied tirelessly and didn't want to know more. Only praise Li Bai for "serving the country with one sword, leaving relatives to travel far away", which is very charming. Finally, one day, after reading Qian Fan for thousands of times, I want to go back and follow the historical traces left by the rich land of Nanyang to untie the sigh of the great poet's chest.

When the majestic Qinling Mountains reached Funiu Mountain in the southeast, the terrain collapsed, and then re-emerged as Tongbai Mountain from the collapsed southeast corner, surging eastward into a continuous and vast Dabie Mountain. This collapsed place in the middle is Nanyang.

A trickle flows eastward from the northern foot of Tongbai Mountain where Dayu is in charge of water control, becoming the "Huaiyuan" of the Huaihe River.

Another river oozes from the gravel pit of Funiu Mountain, and then winds south to become a white river. After hugging and kissing Nanyang, raise your hand to the south, join the Hanshui River in Xiangfan and join the Yangtze River.

Legend has it that Zhang rode a donkey through this place, and Xiao Lv happily pulled a line of donkey excrement eggs, forming a basin "bowl" of Yangshan, Moshan and Wuduoshan, which are surrounded by mountains on three sides in the northeast and west and open to the south, so it was called "Wan" in ancient times. The steep geographical location naturally became the throat and natural barrier for ancient military strategists to leave the Central Plains in the north, Jingxiang in the south and Guanzhong in the west.

As it happens, Nanyang is located in the north-south watershed of China, with mild climate and four distinct seasons, with autumn rice and winter snow.

This is really the best habitat for life, and it is such a unique natural geographical environment. During the Cretaceous period, it was once the leisure home of dinosaurs.

At that time, the plants on the ground were lush, large dinosaurs were leisurely on the ground, and pterosaurs in the sky flew freely endlessly, leaving a large number of dinosaur eggs, which were warm and cared for by this basin. Up to now, the fossils deposited in these years are collected in the magnificent Xixia Museum in Nanyang, which has become a retrospect of ancient times.

Of course, these are just a favor in natural geographical location and space. More often, I want to explore the activity traces of Nanyang ancestors from the dimension of time. After all, human activities are destined to precipitate something in this bowl, and what significance and enlightenment will those things that have happened, are happening and will happen in the future bring.

2? Han ancestors

Anyone who has been to Nanyang will be deeply impressed by the ancient charm of the city. As soon as you step into the Baihe Bridge, you will see the majestic Hanque, where the green dragon and white tiger and the suzaku Xuanwu flourish. When you walk in this city, you can feel the strong romantic atmosphere of Chu culture here. People are introverted and sunny, modest and firm. So, why can the Han style last for thousands of years?

There were two sea and sky in Nanyang, and China was in its heyday, which was closely related to human migration and integration.

Nanyang, the ancient south of China, is also named after the south of Funiu and the north of Hanshui River, and it is still a remote and wild place. When I was a child, I went to menstruation's home in Shaanxi. As soon as I saw her, she exclaimed that I was a "little savage". It can be seen that the memory of the people has not dissipated because it has spanned thousands of years.

In 22 1 year BC, groups of people with thick hair, dark clothes and trousers, haggard wives and children, traveled along the ancient dirt road leading to Nanyang. They are rich, businessmen and craftsmen in the former six countries, belonging to orthodox farming. These resourceful but speculative guys will be forced to move to a remote corner, thus leaving a purely unified agricultural society and maintaining long-term stability.

This is "moving unscrupulous people to Nanyang".

It never occurred to Qin Shihuang that these unruly people with different garbage in his majestic eyes were social elites who brought wealth, culture and technology to this small town. Although they left their homes and lived in exile in remote places, they were helpless, but when they settled down, they wittily showed the unruly and indomitable nature of talents.

When these unscrupulous people beat the rich basin with shackles, this collision not only changed the living habits of local people, but also profoundly affected their character. Nanyang people became open-minded, stupid, intelligent, ignorant and educated, and the town began to be lively.

As a result, the most advanced iron smelting in Han dynasty appeared in ancient times, with adjacent streets, busy people and developed handicrafts, and became one of the five most active cities in economy at that time, along with Luoyang and Chengdu. Of course, Qin Shihuang, who was lying on the dragon bed in the north, was also happy to see it.

The place where Wafangzhuang outside Beiguan in Nanyang is now called Hanye Village is the site of Hanye Iron Site-what an era it is! "The fire shines on heaven and earth, and the red star is in purple smoke." Through the clouds of history, I seem to see the shadow of the ancients in the fire, and I also see the sky of the ignorant era reflected by the fire.

If foreign culture has brought good opportunities to this basin, the origin of Liu Xiu, Guangwu Emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, is the geographical reason why Nanyang reached its brilliant peak.

Born in Nanyang, Liu Xiu took Luoyang as his capital with his 28-night stay, and formed his own prosperous Gyeonggi culture with the elegant concubines and the royal family, which is the northern capital. Of course, when Wang Mang kicked him out, he didn't forget his hometown, so a large number of officers with outstanding military exploits were placed in Nanyang, which is the capital of Du Nan.

Nanyang basin, a fertile land thousands of miles away. The ancient irrigation areas in Nanyang are as famous as Zheng Guoqu in Guanzhong and Dujiangyan in Shujun, and are called the three major irrigation areas. Clear water, oily land, farmland farms, lush trees, what a beautiful scenery!

Countless colorful clothes and angry war horses have made Nanyang beautiful and become the most populous Daxiong county in China. This is the strong Han-style expansion of territory.

Nanyang, the political center with lush region and developed culture, is indisputably on the side. The development of economy will inevitably lead to the active culture, and a large number of Han Dynasty stone reliefs are the witness of that great era. Nanyang is like a magnet emitting huge magnetic field energy, attracting countless heroes and literati all over the world.

In the Han Painting Museum, people from all over the country and even all over the world showed expressions of shock and admiration. A pair of huge round stone statues, endowed with unique advantages, can ward off evil spirits, stand at the door with dignity and heroism, and hold your head high in this changing world with vicissitudes of eyes.

Looking through the stone statues of Han paintings of different sizes in the exhibition hall, it seems that you can hear the sound of ancient craftsmen cutting the stone statues with their cracked hands. It is not a sound, but a ding-dong symphony of one school and one era, which brings together the rugged, simple, exaggerated, bold and romantic cultural charm of Han and Chu ... carved gods, characters and images in secular myths.

Then, the ancestors who completed the wonderful work and made people sad moved away, leaving no names, leaving only the imprint of an era for future generations to touch, cherish and cherish.

After thousands of years, these Han stone reliefs have been polished roundly, and some of them are even blurred, but the vivid bluestone expression is still stubborn, which has weathered for thousands of years and taken away people's souls. This kind of shock does not come from the general visual size, but from the majestic gas field after the rigorous northern culture and the romantic style of Chu people are coupled.

Yes, it permeated the creative spirit of the ancestors of the Han Dynasty.

No wonder the famous painter Mr. Wu Guanzhong exclaimed after visiting Nanyang Han Painting Museum, "I'm going to kneel in front of the ancestors of the Han Dynasty."

So that when Lu Xun went to Nanyang, he often asked his friends to bring back one or two rubbings of Chinese paintings.

They are also listening, staring, and interpreting the sound of the Millennium Baihe music feast in the heavy feedback from their ancestors.

3? destiny

It is said that one side of the soil and water will support one side.

There is a lone mountain in the north of Nanyang, with lush trees. This lonely mountain, which contains one of the four famous jade in China, is like a modest gentleman with a well-proportioned jade tree, holding hands, and a beautiful white river is wrapped around him like a fairy, and it is also like an endless fascinating and affectionate story, which makes countless young people obsessed with finding fragrance and traces.

Yes, Zhuge Liang of Tessa, Fan Li of Shang Dynasty, Zhang Heng of Science, Zhang Zhongjing of Medicine, and countless sages and philosophers, such as Bai Xixi and Wen Zhong who landed on Baihe River, mostly concentrated in the sages of the Spring and Autumn Period, Warring States Period and Han Dynasty. They bathed in the Baihe River, put on their own Yu Pei, and then went to a place with deeper history in Yu Xiu, Zhong Ling …

But I also doubt that Nanyang, which is also a native land, why can't raise a bright star in the Qin and Han Dynasties in the future? Is the white river no longer supporting people, or have people failed the infatuation of the white river flowing day and night?

Looking up at the stars, I am also looking for answers.

At the same time, when a group of scholars from the western Mediterranean discussed the relationship between man and nature at the stormy seaside, a group of sages from the East were also contending with the hundreds of minefields separated in the Spring and Autumn Period.

This is the first great debate in different regions in the history of human thought.

The thinking genes of Chinese and western ancestors are very different, which brings great differences to future generations. The introverted culture in the East cultivates refined gentlemen, while the open culture in the West is full of disturbing factors, such as the unruly people in Qin Shihuang's eyes who always want to ride wild horses.

Westerners' ultimate questioning of natural logic has had a far-reaching impact on the development of a series of scientific systems in the future, which is rooted in practice. On the other hand, the way of thinking of Chinese scholars is quite different, focusing on the accumulation of experience and emotional detachment, which is more reflected in the relationship between people and the macro-contention of "healing skills", flying in the air and carving insects in the micro-world.

As a result, China's governance is well organized, but its science is congenitally deficient. The emperor of China needs talents who are proficient in military strategy, not exhausted practical craftsmen. The imperial examination system, which lasted for thousands of years, is an obvious example. Only liberal arts, no science. Those low-level artisans who promote economic development are officially called humble "artisans", which is the final defeat of China's single farming economy in the competition with future industrialization.

In the 1990s, I often went to Nanzhao, where Kesheng Zhang Heng's Tomb, which was exposed in the wheat fields next to Qiaobei Road in Nanyang City, was desolate and lonely, in stark contrast to the resplendent ancestral halls of Zhuge Liang in Tessa, Nanyang and Zhang Zhongjing, the medical sage. The different treatment behind the same great man shows that it was really unpopular to engage in industry in ancient times.

It is not difficult to sort out that in the Spring and Autumn Period, China appeared the bud of restraining commerce and attaching importance to agriculture, and the Warring States basically established an economic form based on agriculture. It was not until the Western Han Dynasty "ousted hundreds of schools and respected Confucianism alone" that the overall design of China's economic system was formally completed and this macro-governance track was established.

What an exquisite and perfect design. Land is a horse stake, blood relatives are trapped stables, and castrated Confucian ethics is a sleeping trough for calming the nerves. Whether it is binding the body or the spirit, this beautiful design has been applauded by the royal families of past dynasties and inherited.

This use is two thousand years. People who are bound to the land are increasingly focused on digging in the soil, indulging in self-sufficiency and resigned to fate in natural and man-made disasters.

The ideology of leisure and seclusion perfectly fits the geographical form of Nanyang, making Nanyang people enjoy themselves like warm water frogs and become numb in their fate.

Nanyang basin, covering an area of nearly 30 thousand square kilometers, experienced its heyday in Han Dynasty. Finally, in the melee of the Three Kingdoms, Guangwudi Long Mai was killed by Coss. Since then, the bright and beautiful roots that have just grown from Nanyang have been uprooted.

This is similar to being beaten up by western powers after more than 1000 years of closed doors. He was a literate scholar and met a savage.

There is a huge spell floating over the river basin, without the transfusion of foreign culture, the support of Gyeonggi culture and the export opportunity of Qianhai. The rural customs in the inland are only a mirage, which will only appear in peacetime.

Nanyang has been abandoned. Like other small inland cities, it has no resources to rely on and no motivation to turn around and begin to occupy Wolong. What is not silent is its geographical location.

The wind roared south from the gap of Fangcheng in the northeast of the basin, like an army that opened the floodgates and released water, surging and fierce. Then if the water of the Yangtze River flows backwards, it will flow from Jingxiang to the Central Plains. Wave after wave, the tide rises and falls. Those nomads who came down from the plateau are unstoppable. Nanyang is like a tree standing at the tuyere, with long hair, messy in the wind, carried, ravaged, and calm again after exhaustion.

Located in the main hall of Wuhou Temple in Wolonggang, west of Nanyang, enjoying the fireworks of later generations, Zhuge Liang is still kneeling and chanting, and a couplet hangs impressively on the column of the hall. "The heart is in the imperial court, no matter whether it is the first master or the second master, why should it be different from the world-famous Xiangyang Nanyang?" Interestingly, Gu Jiaping, the magistrate of Nanyang who wrote this couplet, is from Xiangyang, which shows that Gu Jiaping was suddenly enlightened after an embarrassing lawsuit in the dispute of Zhuge Liang in Xiangfan, Nanyang.

What are you arguing about? Of course, it inherited the heritage of the ancients and benefited from the literary journey. It is said that in order to snatch the fictional and notorious hometown of Ximen Qing in Water Margin, some places are also vying for it. It is not hard to imagine that people are worried and don't care so much. No wonder there was no better legacy than land in the period of agricultural civilization.

While Nanyang and Xiangyang were arguing over this ancestral property, an industrial civilization with more advanced productivity and richer wealth came ashore from the east coast of China.

4? Today's long tassel is in hand.

The establishment of New China completely abandoned the tradition of attaching importance to agriculture and restraining commerce that lasted for thousands of years, and began a vigorous historical evolution from an agricultural country to an industrial country.

Indus blossoms, phoenix nirvana, industrialization in the first 30 years, and reform and opening up in the last 40 years have made China, which is riddled with holes, turn around tragically and start to triumph all the way. This magnificent spectacle of it runs in the family is a miracle in the history of human development.

Reform and opening up, the biggest migration activity in human history, every day, trains, planes and ships flying from south to north carry hundreds of millions of people to various places. This time, Nanyang's identity is no longer the input place of Qin and Han dynasties, but the output place, yes, the blood transfusion place for exporting labor.

Nanyang has been the largest population gathering place since ancient times, so it has been eloquently proved to be the most suitable place for human habitation. Then, if we think reversely and economic development depends on talents, shouldn't Nanyang also be a city with a lot of talents?

Yes, the sober Nanyang builders put forward a very sentimental slogan, "Building a highland of talents in Nanyang and forming a vivid situation in which thousands of talents in Qian Qian are young." We began to focus on developing education and cultivating practical talents in the future.

There is no doubt that this is a strategic layout. However, it is exciting and intriguing. Why does it feel wrong?

Although the future can be expected, after all, talent does not mean talent. For those practical talents who can't display their ambitions for various reasons, but have splendid breasts and stunts, the door doesn't seem to be opened. This is a historical problem that has been stagnant for thousands of years.

A thick door separates the two worlds of the government and the people. Until today, they can only carry snakeskin bags, like "unscrupulous people" in those days, with a sigh of Li Bai for thousands of years, and go away with the tide of migrant workers.

Talent, talent! Why have you been so entangled for thousands of years? Have we ever lamented "an eclectic talent" and "a good cat that can catch mice" for a hundred years?

Is it because this basin has been silent for too long and people have been hollowed out, or is the wisdom of the people degraded and useless? Even so, not three heads are better than one Zhuge Liang. As a populous city in Henan, isn't Nanyang more advantageous in this respect?

In fact, people's wisdom and intelligence have always existed in great quantities.

Zhenping county people in the west of Nanyang are famous for their "energy". Their minds are active and their eyes are flashing. It seems that they can always adjust and change their living conditions by accident, which is in great contrast with other people who live together in this basin and abide by simple folk customs, so that Nanyang people have a subtle psychology of both admiration and prevention when they mention Zhenping people.

An obvious fact is that as early as the Qing Dynasty, Zhenping had crossed the basin wrapped in silk and traveled to Southeast Asia and Europe, which made people in other counties stunned.

Bayi Road in front of the house passes through Qilingang and Shiligang of Bailixi to the west and extends to the ancient road post road, which is today's 3 12 national road. On both sides of the national road leading to the west of Zhenping, there are two small towns, Song Jia in the south and Shifo Temple in the north.

To my surprise, Song Jia Town, once a backwater with traffic jams and hidden in endless wheat fields, is actually the largest small commodity distribution center in southwest Henan and a well-known small commodity wholesale base in the neighboring areas of Henan, Hubei, Sichuan, Shaanxi and Anhui. When I was a child, my aunt used to go to my home in Wancheng to get tips every time she went to Song Jia to buy things from Dongcha Temple.

Another famous stone Buddha temple in the world of jade was once a barren land with few ghosts and many eggs. Where can I find beautiful jade? But it is this place without resources, how can it become the distribution center of jade all over the world out of thin air? So that Hetian jade, a household name in Xinjiang, is also "jade goes out of Xinjiang, and the city goes out of town". So many Muslim jade from afar have agreed to live here?

In fact, behind these, it is the result of several generations of Zhenping people sleeping in the wind. Without any resources, they no longer rely on the sky or the ground, but on their own diligence and wisdom. While people in the government are still sleeping on the hot kang and waiting for the fine weather in the coming year with a smile, people in the crops have already taken dry food, put on bamboo hats, shouldered backpacks and sneaked into the world. Up to now, many jade merchants in Guangzhou and Shenzhen are Zhenping people, while those who stay at home carefully carve and cultivate their own jade nests.

They are the adherents of the ancestors of the Han nationality and created a culture in a poor and white land.

5? Wolonganzhai

May the souls of the dead return to us.

This is not a call to the past, but a call to the spirit of the distance! This is the spirit of a strong man who is fearless and dares to subvert. Since there is no past career and no future prospect, he would rather go through fire and water without hesitation.

In the information age, everything has to be tested. Every time I turn on the search engine to find every local chronicle, what I see is basically a sincere reputation for local customs. One day I opened the town of Rangdong at the junction of Nanyang and Dengzhou, and I was shocked.

What sets Rangdong apart is pragmatism. The service promises of respect, love, protection and wealthy businessmen are clearly listed, and the high-ranking government functions are reduced to the dust of humble service and accepted by the world.

I am amazed by this mentality, this attitude, and the choice between storing water and releasing water to raise fish. Although this sentence has been said for thousands of years, it is not unusual, but Rangdong did it more decisively, thoroughly and happily this time.

In fact, Rangdong is no longer a small town selling cloth in southwest Henan. She used the elegant wings of the clothing production cluster to float on the international gorgeous runway.

With sincere arms, they are embracing a virtual reality world on the Internet, or the master of an era.

I am very touched, how can this gesture not let the world return to the heart.

Yes, the ever-changing implosion of the Internet has surpassed the material industry we are familiar with, changed people's way of life and way of thinking, completely broke the gap between officials and people since ancient times, and extended a kind of hope and desire to infinity.

Can you break the Millennium curse that hangs over the basin like a pot cover?

I'm sure. The preparation of the national "14 th Five-Year Plan" was widely publicized through the Internet for the first time. Yes, for the first time, I used the Internet as a medium to consult the people, learn wisdom from them, and carry out self-hematopoiesis.

However, after all, this basin has been deposited for too long, and the Internet just put its hand into the basin and stirred it. After all, it is not a master, but a tool.

However, don't ignore its powerful trial and error function. Any contempt and disrespect will lead to its more intense self-attack. We have learned too many lessons and learned from them. It's time for us to get to know and welcome this young upstart again. He has been waiting at the door with a pious heart for a long time.

Nanyang used to be a first-tier city in history, but now it has become a third-tier city. In a few years, this basin will become a water town and a village with no way out. Natural selection will change everything. Those Han paintings and iron smelting sites will also be buried in the water, leaving a sigh in the autumn when the lotus root is fragrant and jade is broken. We finally live to be the black sheep of the Han ancestors!

It seems that Nanyang is not to blame, so who is to blame?

In the era of intelligence, when we knock on the Internet with the back of a pale boy and shout "open sesame" with awe, it is as if we have walked out of the depressed basin for a long time, the bright sunshine, the fresh air, the endless Yuan Ye-oh, the vast world, and there is a kind of heroism that beats like an elf and restores hematopoietic function.

The historical opportunity is fair to everyone, and the entrenched Wolong once again poked its head out of the basin to answer:

If the two glories in Nanyang's history benefited from the harmony between the right place and the right time, what can Nanyang rely on to rise in peacetime? Before Luoyang, the judges in Xiangfan and Xiangyang were always there, but after Dengzhou, Ge Dong rose suddenly. What should Nanyang do?

What kind of warmth should be used to protect those folk talents wandering under sparkling fresh clothes in Baihe wetland; How to accept distant guests in the neon-lit basin so that they will not wander far away?

The sages who created culture in this land have all gone away and become bright stars in the sky. What kind of mind, courage and self-confidence should we use to break down the barriers in the river basin and create a brand-new majestic culture corresponding to the sky in response to Kong Ming's long songs and Li Bai's Millennium sigh?

We made a painful choice between going back to the basin and going to the boundless, so we have to answer and can't avoid it. Do we want to borrow from heaven for another 500 years?

I seem to hear the majestic voice again: how the water of the Yellow River rushed out of heaven and entered the ocean, never to return ~

2020, 12, 07 Heather Hospital