Jingxiang Travel Notes 027丨Qixi Mountain Streams

Time:2016year8month9day

Location: Taitong Township, Daba Town, Yangdong District, Yangjiang City, Guangdong Province

Jingxiang Travel Notes Chapter 27丨Qixi Mountain Streams

For people in Yangjiang, place names such as " Zhuhuan " , " Taidong " have always been associated with rugged, narrow roads and inconvenient transportation. Synonymous with poverty-stricken mountainous areas.

However, " Poor Mountain " and " Bad Water " are not necessarily connected. Mountain streams of different sizes flow with clear springs filtered by the natural filter of the mountains. A few fallen leaves and the occasional fallen bird droppings are its only sources of pollution. There are no secondary sources of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, urban domestic sewage and heavy metals from chemical plants. pollution. The water storage function of dense mountain forests continuously transports trickling streams. Wherever modern civilization cannot pollute, there are beautiful mountains and clear waters.

Leading to the depths of the mountain is a narrow winding road. Such a road itself indicates that there are not many passing vehicles. However, the silent mountainous area suddenly became lively on this day.

This day is the Chinese Valentine's Day. When " Chinese Valentine's Day " is connected with " Festival " , " Xi" The word is not only used to describe the time period after the sun goes down, but the whole day on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month.

When the city people are so empty that they need to find a tragic story about the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl in the next life to create a "Valentine's Day" that represents joy, the mountain people here still believe that the "Qixi Water" is the greatest gift of nature to mankind on this day. Although they cannot explain the miraculous longevity of Qixi Water, thousands of years of practice have proven the incredible efficacy of Qixi Water in preventing and treating skin diseases. Therefore, they will not send flowers on the Chinese Valentine's Day, because when they go out, they will see wild flowers all over the mountains and plains. They will come to the stream in groups, soak in the clear mountain stream, and enjoy nature's annual cheap skin beauty medicine.

However, this nature's compensation for poverty and backwardness no longer belongs only to the mountain people here. The wells in the city were replaced by tap water, the river water was polluted, and citizens began to flock to this pure land. Zhuhuan, a town without even a gas station, was crowded with cars today.

Not to mention the narrow winding mountain road, which requires a lot of trouble every time you meet a car. When meeting another car, you must move behind to the widest section of the road and give way close to the ditch.

Most of these cars come to the "Tiger Sprinkling Waterfall" in Zhuhuan, but they are not to see the waterfall, but to soak in the Qixi Festival water in the stream under the waterfall.

In fact, in this almost primitive world, every stream is pure, and every drop of stream water is cold in this hot early autumn. Therefore, instead of going to crowded places, we look for secluded streams.

Crossing the Pearl Ring and walking four kilometers deeper into the mountains is Taitong Township. In addition to the trees in the mountains, there are seedlings that have just been planted in the fields on both sides of the road.

Occasionally when you encounter a mountain stream, you can see people soaking in the stream. You don’t know whether they are locals or outsiders, but they must be here for the Qixi Festival Water.

We came to a farmhouse. There was a large fish pond in front of the owner's house.

There are many ducks raised in the open space, and of course there is a garden for growing vegetables.

The mountainous area is vast and sparsely populated, and the owner's house is not adjacent to other people's houses. There is usable land within a radius of 100 meters, which brings convenience to the villagers' self-sufficiency. If you want to eat fish, you can raise them in the pond, and you can eat the freshest pond fish at any time; if you want to eat meat, you can kill chickens and ducks as you like; if you want to eat vegetables, you can just go to the yard to harvest them.

The hospitable host prepared green tea brewed with mountain spring water for us. Hearing that we also came here for the Chinese Valentine's Day water, he said, "Well, isn't this easy? In addition to the impure water in this fish pond, when we go out and see that the ditch is filled with mountain stream water, it is pure and cool." Let us change into our swimsuits and take a bath with him.

This is a natural swimming pool that the owner has played in since childhood. The deepest part is no bigger than a person's head. What is most unimaginable to me is the power of the water flow: I can stand still in a shallow place, but I can't help myself when I squat down.

The sun had already set in the west, and the old man herding cattle began to return.

The out-of-towners who had had enough of soaking in the fast-flowing stream hid in the car, changed their clothes, and embarked on the return journey with satisfaction. Of course, we don’t need to be so embarrassed and walk leisurely towards the farmyard at sunset.

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