A sunny spring morning, Shilin County Shizhi Ban, director Ang Ling-chi teacher asked me if there is not empty, if nothing urgent to deal with, and we went together to see what is being prepared to engage in "Yi Jia Le" leisure travel should the political dry sub-village of Tong, to see how to help them to make some publicity materials. I already know about this matter, but had no opportunity to the scene to look at, and now the opportunity to find door, I readily agreed.
We are a character who stay away, put on camera, calling on the driver, a casual get something to fill the belly, drove directly toward the dry pond on the child away.
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Ang Ling-chi teacher was the famous Shilin Yi language experts, participate in the preparation over a local language modeled Sani Yi Chinese language bilingual dictionary, and translated, "Nigerian fans Poems" and "Beautiful Rainbow" and other Sani literature, long-term Local Records in the work of provinces and cities have been rated as outstanding contributions to the outstanding professional and technical personnel. He was not only interested in Yi traditional culture studies, in recent years, Yi also attached great importance to traditional cultural resources to the transformation of tourism resources, hoping to help the development of tourism to benefit the Yi people. In his repeated lobbying by the former Stone Forest County, Kunming City Tourism Bureau is currently supported by Wang Guanghua, not far from his home village of the dry pond is classified as sub-Kunming Yi Jia Yue eco-tourism model village. In order to be able to achieve a cannon fired, and now ready to proceed from the names on, will now use the Chinese name of the village "dry pond child" change the name of the village Yi, "A forward to the end."
In the car, Ang Ling-chi teacher told me that the dry Yi Tong son named "Ah the bottom", from the literal understanding of "A" is my child's language, meaning "water" and "the" is "yes" meaning, "end" is "Pingba" means, the overall meaning of the phrase "there is water Pingba," paraphrase of course, can be translated as "a beautiful property rich, ecological, social, economic and coordinated development of the promised land." Here away from the famous Long Lake Scenic Area is only 7 kilometers from the village side of State Road 327 through, they have been classified as county environmental eco-agriculture and agricultural pilot demonstration village, Yunnan Province, "God within - Yunnan Eco-Village", ecological construction and remarkable achievements, has preliminarily realized the mountains, water, forests, fields, roads, village comprehensive management, agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, and fisheries sound momentum of comprehensive development, the traditional Sani culture, and increasing prosperity of the rural economy and good echo the ecological environment , forming a unique charm of a new socialist countryside, to the outside world has great appeal, with the development of good conditions for leisure travel vacation.
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Mercedes-Benz jeep on the road with asphalt, Ang teachers constantly explaining the situation there, but I was most moved or renamed "Ah the bottom" of the problem and let me into deep thought ... ...
Indeed, in the Yi literature and oral literature, "Ah the bottom" is a frequent vocabulary. A popular narrative poem, "Ashima", make the world a different skin, different languages people know that this one makes Hunqianmengying names. In particular, the film "Ashima" in which the first well-known song, "Long cold water clear again," in people's minds at the end of the plotted A glamorous picture: A forward to the end is a beautiful place rich, high - high green hills covered with pine trees, bamboo and fruit trees show Sani human red walls set off the village green glazed tile. Yi Sani industrious and courageous portrait of rock, like simple, as straightforward as the pine encountered ferocious wolf leopards are not afraid, Peng Zhao look like people are actually non-human savages do not panic, the mountains can be killing a tiger to catch leopard, Shimoda be able to plow Tian harrow planting, cultivation fields bear splendid fruits and food. Leisure day sit still, men and women both love to sing, young and old love shaking his swing, dancing reminders were flowers open, singing birds can be cited to.
What a beautiful place, this is what a harmonious realm! Over the years, people are struggling to find this beautiful place, to look human in Xianjing, hoping to enjoy the beauty of this piece of land. But over the years, people are difficult to find the last remnants of fragmented only from the information Xunzhangzhaiju, so with the A the end of Dali, in Qujing, in northwest Sichuan, and various disputes.
I am concerned with these debates, it was discovered a problem, people are avoiding the details of such a core - "Ah the end of" the semantics of that? I have read all the literature to find materials and use of Chinese history and traditional methods of textual criticism, the final conclusion is: A the end does not have a specific location, it exists only in the hearts of the Yi people in ancient Han the literature of the "promised land" in proportion, you can use the discourse of the main result of the differences in greater differences. Such as the famous Sani people, "Shepherd Xiao Huang", the "Ah the bottom" is outside the central Yunnan Stone Forest, or one of the Yi neighborhoods in western Yunnan. Sani people in the funeral in the use of certain "guiding through the" in "Ah the bottom" refers to the northeast Yunnan is an ancient eastern Yunnan, or the Yi neighborhoods. Some Yi literature, even some of the stone forest in a place called "Ah the bottom" phenomenon. In the past people's research and comparison, regarded all the "Ah the bottom" as a unique place names to research, they are often very different conclusions, which is why is there a real reason for multiple interpretations. Now according to Ang Ling-chi teacher's explanation, the "A" as "water" of the child language, everything will be clear. It turned out that thousands of people scratching their heads, "Ah the bottom", the basic meaning of Naishi "Pingba of water."
Such an explanation for an understanding of Shilin County, the situation is not much for people who might think it was some strange: how so beautiful and charming place names, only such a simple meaning? As for the Stone Forest has a rich life experience of mountain people, so the answer would not have been expressed any doubts. Because in the nine coil Shilin Karst mountains and east of the mountains around are covered with limestone, limestone is a funnel and crannies everywhere, atmospheric precipitation and surface water are scarce very quickly into otherwise remain hidden underground runoff, and even human and animal of drinking water are often in difficulty. The dry season to go to distant places for water, producing a very difficult life. In such difficult circumstances, used to live in the River Lake, but then was forced to move to the mountains of the Yi people, it is easy to think of the past, plenty of live water, and therefore are affectionately to the history of the Yi lived in a place called them as "A with fans at the end of Nepal."
But this does not mean a denial textual "Ah the end of" the significance of geographical location, but only have to specify the process to verify the concrete analysis of specific names. Such as the narrative poem, "Ashima" in talking about the end of the A, it should only be specific to this somewhere in Shilin County, mainly based on three aspects. First, "Ashima" is the Sani Yi people folk literary works, while the Stone Forest is the Sani at least the early years of the generations from the Tang Dynasty, where he lives, near the county's Sani small population, but mostly because of zoning changes and the various during the differentiation of population movement away from the Shilin County, other areas have not been found, "Ashima" in any version. The second is "Ashima" It was a literary work, but not out of the Yi people's life is vibrant and vivid background, in addition to A the poem at the end of the place names, there are also nearby Luliang City (Yi name "pull can" ), Maitreya City (Yi name "Mu Lu branch"), Edward North (Yi name "Nam Mi"), fortresses, and counties such as name, and A the end of looking at working with the geographic scope of this Shilin coincide. 3, Yi language "Ah the bottom" of the "bottom" sound HSI flat river valleys, plains, basins, or plateaus. Poem describes the physical environment according to analysis of A is not the end of the name of the village but to a long and narrow valley plains, where the village Ashima, "Grew" is located in the upper reaches of the river, A branch house of the village where the "day department" In the downstream, matchmaker ocean thermal energy at home where the "song at the end", it belongs to another geographical region - this Chuk Yuen Mile County area, and the Chinese Shi said, "Guo's Bazaar." Based on the above evidence, we can very definitely asserted, "Ashima" poem in "Ah the bottom" is neither in Dali, not Qujing, but not in Sichuan, in effect, should be in today's Shilin Yi Autonomous County, and the probably refers to a specific geographical river basin where the Pakistan Road South Bazi. Because, here, as the environmental conditions of human life better, not only the development of the earliest stone forest areas, but also our ancestors down the Yi Meng Department's major activity area.
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Pondered, the car had entered the village. Time has passed noon, more than 70 families throughout the village Sani people live quietly, without any kind of noisy city sounds. Redwall was the spring of green glazed tile mosaic set off a variety of fruit trees, set off a more fresh and comfortable, and the streets exudes the fragrance of flowers. We will be parked in a small village ZHANG Lian-ming house yard. His wife said he went to town, things do not go back and give us to do to eat lunch. We say that we have already eaten, thank her kindness to the village to the twisted my random, hoping to inquire about some new situations.
Ang Ling-chi teacher and peer teachers and pilots of small Bi Li Zhi, they are many times before, on the village very well, this time they simply come for me accompany them. We visited the village two or three people, looking to build an embroidery shop in the nation. The Yi Jia Yue Li said the first batch of projects set the conditions were better 10 people, provincial Tourism Administration put in place a total of Capital 20 million in grants per household infrastructure appropriations million and 10 million for the village to the asphalt highway road construction costs. These days of spring planting has not yet begun, many farmers are taking the time to build built houses, and some are doing interior decoration, all leisure vacation travelers to welcome the arrival of the high enthusiasm of the masses. We visited a farmer, not only a housing renovation and new construction of rooms and high standard of toilet, even the courtyard walls are painted off, the hospital's open space is also proposed according to the tourism sector, sub-divided into a decorative vegetable . As the years have supported at all levels, the villagers living environment has been a major change, farmers eat the clean water all year round, and many livestock farmers realized the stables, toilets, biogas, energy-saving stoves, solar bathroom 5 matching, sanitary conditions have been significantly improved, in order to live under the visitor a wonderful laid a good foundation.
This afternoon, we also went to the village side of the mountain view of the forest protection and coverage. Into the village from the moment, here is giving a green feel. In the village green is not only well, every family tree species of bamboo around their houses surrounded by mountains of vegetation to protect very well, no wonder the provincial capital, said journalists are here, "Ah the end of the green." According to relevant data and dry sub-village of Tong always attached importance to the work of closed forest, the present forest coverage rate up to 75%, which is the highest village in the county, one of the forest cover. Hill is not only tall trees, there are dense bushes, more variety of flowers Yi Cao, rare birds and animals. As the village are the Yi Sani people, where all of the names are Yi, and the hills on both artificial of the jian Lei Qi, Yi who revealed the unique religious beliefs and aesthetic taste. Only makes us feel some disappointment that the Village the lack of a natural lake, if it is a hilly terrain with water in another village, where the feeling will be more beautiful.
Hearing this, has been accompanied us to the village outside the village to visit four former Minister of the county rural work, are retired at home, Chong-Chi added that in the past, this large village, where the former are water, dig until early in the fifties Citation drain the water drained to become farmland in recent years, the agricultural sector is also engaged in a comprehensive agricultural development here, built a large apple orchards, aquaculture farms. Here is a big Apple's sweet and, in the county enjoys a high reputation both inside and outside sales volume is very great. He said if the money Laigao, then restore the natural lakes should not be problematic. Later, we guided him to the scene looked in the past dug drainage nullah. Where we clearly see that the past several decades, open channel through long and deep now, we can see where the water is indeed the year is relatively abundant. But we also found a few out of La Shuidong that these upwelling of underground river during the rainy season, dry season, the whereabouts of the karst cave, so that this piece has a large lake where suddenly, suddenly become a drip into a dry pond golden child. This should be "dry up the child," the Chinese name of the village the true source.
See End of open channel is already very evening, at sunset, under the mapping of the village rises in the smoke curl. Clearly, as the majority of farmers have switched to liquefied petroleum gas and biogas for cooking, where smoke has been no "hero over and over under the Xi Yan," a spectacular sight, but under the blue sky a rare one or two wiped smoke, in a city reside people's eyes, and perhaps more poetic.
We intend to go back to town, but we are not allowed to say whatever they Lilao go wife has already said he is ready meals, and ate to say we should be allowed to go. We fail to beat him, had with his mind. Li Lao dinner at home, we still can not leave the topic Yi Jia Le, mutual exchange of a lot of views and ideas. The village is also a man with Li Lao's son will join me in their house for dinner. He is a model eco-village households, in the absence into the first batch of 10 have been identified Yi Jia Yue, he repeatedly asks the teacher to find ways to put Aung also incorporated into his home and asked to carry out leisure travel services related issues, end, I also say that no matter can not be part of this, he would want to carry out this project, because the teachers and students of one university in Kunming have been booked in this year's summer must come to live a long time. Discourse, the always revealing, "vista" delight.
When we started back to town, the sky had been dark, and every household lights. In a village on the road, the car I always feel the spring buds bloom or a street full of flowers, branches, waves flock to the window, as if reluctant to part farewell go back customers, but also seems to enjoy story unfolds in the spring grace, let me have a few days after the Chunxindangyang, full of hope.
Yes ah, spring breeze of reform and opening up under the sway, both bustling cities or remote villages, no matter what kind of background and what kind of background, as long as finding our way, hopefully to open up, it will certainly be weave their own dreams to become a true reality, we will certainly make their homes into the Yi people have always been handed down from generation to generation can not be immersive paradise on earth - "Ah the end."
April 10, 2002
Author: lshsheng
