Back to 80: My Literary Life

This can be done.

Two days ago, when Xu Yue approached Fang Minghua and formally invited him and Lu Yao to go to Tianhan, Fang Minghua smiled and said that he could not write reportage.

Xu Yue laughed loudly and said that you don’t need to write it. You and Lu Yao went to Tianhan. This itself is a good documentary report material. I will find someone to write it!

So there was this trip to Tianhan.

Now hearing what Xu Yue said, Fang Minghua smiled and nodded. He had to write something when he came here, right?

I also visited the place where Baiyin jumped in line last year. The scenery of the northwest is also worth writing about.

Fang Minghua and the others waited at the small station for a full hour before they saw a train from Kunming to Yanjing rumbling past the platform. After a few minutes, their train slowly set off.

After crossing the Qinling Mountains, the view broadened and entered the basin. On both sides of the railway were green wheat seedlings and golden rapeseed flowers. The yellow and green alternated between them and they were exceptionally beautiful. Lu Yao was even more amazed when he saw it.

Having grown up in a loess cave dwelling, this was naturally extremely new to him.

"Oh my God. As the saying goes, it is better to listen to the scenery than to see it, but I think what I see is more beautiful than what I hear?

It was after ten o'clock in the morning that we arrived at our destination - Tianhan Station.

The three people got off the bus and were picked up by someone on the platform, holding a sign that said "Welcome to Tianhan, Vice Chairman of the Qin Provincial Writers Association Fang Minghua and Comrade Lu Yao."

Not a staff member of Tianhan Writers Association.

This time, Fang Minghua and the others discussed in private that it was just a private outing, and they made several rules: first, not to disturb literary friends; second, not to alarm the officials; third, return to Xijing after finishing the interview.

The person who picked him up was a deputy director named Li from Tianhan Pharmaceutical Factory and a staff member.

Tianhan Pharmaceutical Factory is one of them, and they are also one of the sponsors of this trip to Tianhan.

By the late 1980s, with the development of the commodity economy, many companies began to pay attention to publicity, and it became fashionable to find writers to write documentary reports for companies and even company leaders.

Historically, Lu Yao once wrote reportage for a certain company, but at that time it was because he was short of money to earn some writing fees.

But this time, it was purely to help my friend.

After introducing each other, Director Li and the staff attentively helped the three of them carry their travel bags out of the station and get into a red Santana.

"Chairman Lu, Chairman Fang, and Editor-in-Chief Xu will stay in our factory first and have a light meal at noon. In the afternoon, our factory director Tang will host a symposium and then visit the workshop. Tomorrow's plan is to visit the ancient Hantai and Bao River Plank Road.”

In the car, Director Li told the three people about the two-day arrangements, and naturally everyone had no objections.

Tianhan Pharmaceutical Factory is located in the northern suburbs of the city. In the car, Director Li said that their factory was built with the help of Xijing Pharmaceutical Factory during the third-line construction period in 1970. The first batch of entrepreneurs that year came from Xi'an and other places. Tianhan started a arduous business venture while building a factory and producing at the same time. Now the company has developed into a considerable medium-sized pharmaceutical company with good profits and is well-known in the industry.

Fang Minghua and others drove to the factory area and found that there were all kinds of schools, technical schools, and hospitals here, just like a small society.

We stayed in the expert building in the factory. Although it was a light meal at noon, it was still very rich. Fang Minghua especially liked to eat the local rice noodles, but they are called "noodles" in Tianhan. I heard that they should be steamed and heated in the morning, and then served with rice noodles. A bowl of local vegetable tofu is considered authentic, and Fang Minghua's mouth watered when he heard it.

Fortunately, Lu Yao couldn't drink, and there was a discussion in the afternoon, so Fang Minghua avoided drinking.

In the afternoon, Director Tang of Tianhan Pharmaceutical held a symposium to welcome Fang Minghua and his party. At the meeting, Lu Yao made a speech.

Of course, he was praising all the employees of Tianhan Pharmaceutical Factory for their hard work and benefiting the people. He also had another task, which was to advertise the "Chinese and Foreign Documentary Literature" run by his friend.

Fang Minghua felt that Lu Yao was very eloquent and had leadership potential.

There was a sumptuous banquet in the evening, and early the next morning Director Li accompanied them to visit the ancient Han Terrace and Bao River.

This is what Fang Minghua yearns for.

Sightseeing is one aspect. When writing travel notes, the focus is on these cultural monuments.

The first thing we went to was the Baohe Plank Road.

Baohe River is located to the north of the city, less than 20 minutes' drive from Tianhan Pharmaceutical Factory. Fang Minghua and the others arrived quickly in Santana. It is now a huge reservoir called Shimen Reservoir.

The three of them followed Director Liu up the ladder to the dam. In front of them was the reservoir, which stretched deep into the mountains. Next to it was National Highway 316, and behind them they could vaguely see the urban area of ​​Tianhan.

"This is actually the Baogu Pass of the Baoxie Road. The Baoxie Road was a mountain road that passed through the Qinling Mountains in ancient times. The Baoxie Road starts from the Baogu Pass in the south, right here, and ends at the Xieyu Pass in Mei County in the north."

Director Liu pointed to the mountainside to the west of the reservoir: "In 266 BC, after Fan Ju became the prime minister of the Qin State, he decided to build the Baoxie Plank Road and vigorously develop the transportation between Qin and Bashu, which ultimately "made the whole world fear Qin."

"At the end of the Qin Dynasty, the world was in chaos. Liu Bang, the king of Han Dynasty, worshiped his generals here. Based on the Han Dynasty, he "built plank roads openly and visited Chencang secretly" and went straight to Guanzhong, defeated the overlord of Chu and unified the world."

"This is where the allusion about building plank roads openly and destroying Chen Cang secretly comes from." Director Liu finally said.

"I heard that Zhuge Liang also took this route in his Northern Expedition, right?" Xu Yue interjected.

"Yes, this is the road. Zhuge Liang left Qishan six times, and the last northern expedition "came out from Xiegu", that is, he went north from Baoxie Road to attack Wei. Unfortunately, it failed in the end. Zhuge Liang rests at the foot of Dingjun Mountain, and there is also his ancestral hall there. , you can go and take a look," Director Liu continued.

"Unfortunately, due to the construction of the Baohe Reservoir, the water level has risen. The Shimen of the plank road, Jiangjun Pu, Baosi Pu, the cliff of "Plank Road Pingge" and other historic sites and plank road relics have all been submerged in the reservoir. As you can see, this plank road is actually It was only repaired in the past few years.”

"It's a pity, it's a pity." Lu Yao sighed repeatedly.

"It's a pity, but the Shimen Reservoir can irrigate 270,000 acres of fertile farmland, of which 160,000 acres are in Tianhan. It can be said to benefit the whole country. Gains and losses depend on how you think about it."

Director Liu sighed, and everyone fell into deep thought.

"Director Liu, I remember that Cao Cao of the Three Kingdoms seemed to have inscribed an inscription here, called "Gun Xue?" "Fang Minghua asked, thinking of something.

"Editor Fang is indeed knowledgeable and talented." Director Liu said: "The two characters written by Cao Cao were written on huge rocks in the river. Our city museum specially sent masons to remove the two characters "Gun Xue" on the huge rocks in the river. Cut it out completely and transport it to the museum for preservation. The platform for worshiping the generals when we return is part of the museum, and you can see it.”

Everyone walked along the dam, watching and listening to Factory Director Liu's introduction, and taking in the beautiful scenery around them. Unknowingly, it was noon, and they tasted the very famous local "Baohe Fish" in a small restaurant below the dam, and then drove to the city. District Municipal Museum.

It is composed of three historical relics: the Ancient Han Terrace, the Altar of Worshiping Generals, and the Yinma Pool. The Ancient Han Terrace is the site of Liu Bang's palace here, and the Altar of Worshiping Generals is the ancient altar where Liu Bang worshiped Han Xin as his general. According to legend, the Horse Drinking Pool was the place where Liu Bang’s troops drank horses when they were stationed in Hanzhong in the Western Han Dynasty. These are important historical relics in the museum.

In the museum's showroom, Fang Minghua saw the "Gun Xue" stone tablet.

The large Chinese characters look vigorous and powerful.

"The word "Gun Xue" is based on the calligraphy masterpiece "Thirteen Products of Han and Wei Dynasties", which is the only authentic handwriting of Cao Cao that can be seen." Director Liu explained.

"It is said that Cao Cao was stationed at Baogukou to plan state affairs. When he saw the Bao River rushing down, hitting rocks and flying flowers, he wrote the word "Gun Xue" with his pen. His entourage reminded: "The word "Gun" lacks water at three points." Cao Cao touched his palms and laughed: " There is water in a river, but there is no shortage of water! "Then it became a beautiful story through the ages. It was later engraved on a huge stone in the river and passed down."

Fang Minghua stood in front of this stone tablet and looked at it for a long time.

Lu Yao thought he was admiring calligraphy - besides writing, this guy also liked calligraphy and painting, and now he practiced calligraphy like crazy at home.

Let’s not disturb him, shall we?

Lu Yao and Xu Yue followed Director Liu to see other cultural relics, leaving Fang Minghua standing there alone in a daze.

In fact, Fang Minghua did not appreciate Cao Cao's calligraphy, but was thinking about his travel notes - isn't the word "Gun Xue" a very good subject?

Gun Xue, "Three Cao", "Seven Sons of Jian'an", "Jian'an Character". Some people call him the "Awakening Age" of Chinese literature, because from this time onwards people began to realize that literature has its own value and independent status.

Monuments, literature, history, and ideological values ​​are all linked together through this stone carving.

Hey, isn’t this just cultural prose?