Woke up in the middle of the night, fragrant, pushed open the window sash, and the spring breeze blew from the city. In the night, flocs and flying flowers roll under the halo of street lamps in residential areas. ...
Twenty years ago in April, I was transferred to this strange city called "Luoyang" because of my work needs. I was greeted by a city full of flowers, a city that grew up with the sand of the Yellow River.
At that time, in the courtyard of the municipal party Committee, I first saw the peony known as the "first of all flowers". To put it bluntly, this so-called "national beauty and fragrance" flower only gives me the impression that it is too beautiful, so it looks even more fake than the peony flower printed on the quilt cover at home when I was a child. Countless times in the sea of flowers, I got to know cherry blossoms and Tang Di, bauhinia and peach blossom, clove and hibiscus, elm leaf plum and begonia, and I saw roses, zinnia and dahlias, which are much more colorful and beautiful than other places. I wonder, how can there be so many beautiful flowers in this city? ! It's really "four colors become Baise, and all colors are fragrant."
The city and these flowers seem to have a special charm to me in the blossoming and falling of flowers again and again: I praise the prosperity of "flowers bloom and fall for 20 days, and a city is crazy", and I can also feel the sadness of "heartbroken peony falls to the east wind, and it is difficult to stay lucky for a long time".
Luoyang, because of the geographical vein and flowers, because of the fragrance of flowers and affectionate. Luoyang people love flowers deeply, which is an ethos. If a city is polluted by an atmosphere, people living here will be irresistible, so that the most common sentence I make long-distance calls every year is "come and see the flowers!" " "There is a casual attitude in the tone.
As an immigrant in this city, I feel strange to everything here. Twenty years ago, on a spring night, I sat on the human tricycles for the first time and walked along the most famous Zhongzhou Road in the city to Shui Gu. The scene is as clear as yesterday. At that time, I felt that I was flowing and moving along the artery of the city ... endlessly, but when I closed my eyes, my eyelashes seemed to touch the end of time and space. At that time, the city was far from the hustle and bustle now. When you calm down, you can feel its heartbeat and rhythm.
There is no doubt that there is an architectural museum on both sides of Zhongzhou Road, whether it is Muslim architecture in the east of the city, antique architecture in the old city, modern architecture in western engineering or Russian architecture in the west. They are all telling the same topic in different forms: the change of time and the change of the times.
When I first arrived in Luoyang for a few years, I liked to walk alone on the street across Jianshe Road, Zhongzhou Road and Xiyuan Road in Jianxi, especially on snowy winter nights and drizzling Spring Festival Evening. Rows of dense street trees and rows of neat Russian buildings surround the center of this new industrial city. There is a green belt between the factory and the living area, which is connected, interlinked, cheerful and patchwork. This layout stretches for several kilometers and is spectacular. Looking at these three or four-story red brick buildings built by Russian designers, it seems that you can see the exotic atmosphere from an accidental street corner, and it seems that you can hear the fantastic and sad melody of Three Cars and Katyusha coming from the depths of the building.
The streets and alleys here are obviously the "neighborhoods" of Bo Laipin. Most of the people who work and live here are immigrants who came to the city for construction in hot years, including Shanghainese, Guangzhou, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, as well as northeastern people from Harbin, Shenyang and Changchun. These immigrants once occupied a large proportion in this city. Once upon a time, various dialects filled the markets and streets. Although they have always lived here wholeheartedly, when things in their bones can't be assimilated, and when everything is not enough to untie the knot of "homesickness", there are department stores named after Guangzhou Market and Shanghai Market in Jiangxi, and there are road names with obvious regional characteristics such as Jiangxi Road, Wuhan Road and Nanchang Road.
I have always been very touched, and I am very grateful for the atmosphere and tolerance in Luoyang. No matter where you come from, no matter what purpose you are here for, no matter whether you are working, doing business, settling down or passing by occasionally, this city will give you courtesy and hospitality, unlike some cities that treat foreigners at a distance or simply exclude them. These, from the commercial and residential buildings rising from the ground up, from the rows of shops, from the entrances and exits of expressways, from the Mangshan airport, from the increasingly spacious and beautiful stations and squares, can all be verified.
"A city without water is a city without soul." For Luoyang people, Luohe has always occupied a very important position in their minds. More than once, I looked at the muddy and clear Luohe River that passed through the city for a long time and really felt the soul of the city moving. When the Luopu Park on both sides of it extends one kilometer at a time, it not only provides Luoyang people with a unique leisure place in the country, but also gives us vagrants and lonely people living in different places a spiritual home.
I like to go to Lop. I often sit there alone. Sometimes people who don't eat or drink from morning till night, ignore morning exercises, walk or sing, just sit alone and look at the brand-new bridge on the Luohe River. ...
In the past 20 years, my transportation has been as simple as ever: walking on the street, galloping freely on the boulevard, commuting by bus like ordinary residents of this city ... It is these ordinary life experiences that give me the opportunity to touch every inch of the city's skin and have a more intuitive understanding of the city.
I once naively guessed that every family in this city and every foreign tourist should have a water mat in the old city, because those shops, whether luxurious or humble, are always bustling all day. Not only for entertaining guests, but also for tasting food with soup and water. As long as you sit in "Really Different", you can feel the food culture in Luoyang everywhere.
I once proudly said to foreign guests, "Xigong Hotel is the kitchen of Luoyang people". For decades, this simple and clean civilian hotel has never closed its doors, regardless of holidays, wind and rain, night and day, 365 days a year, 24 hours a day. More than once, come back from an interview in the middle of the night or get off in the early morning. I'm here to eat a bowl of hot spaghetti and two hot steamed buns. Just feel at home.
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In these details, twenty years have passed. Looking at the increasingly prosperous city in front of me, I read the trivial words I wrote. As a witness to the changes in this city in the past 20 years, I feel lucky and responsible.
Twenty years ago, when I first came to this city, I was still a young man in my twenties, and now I am a middle-aged man in my twenties. In order to make a living, I am still busy in this city, and I will continue to be busy. In my spare time, I will still go to Luopu to listen to the wind, to Wangcheng Square to listen to the opera, to Jianxi to recall the prosperity of the past, to Luonan to appreciate the comfort of modern civilization, to Chanhe and the old city to see the local customs of that street. ...
I claim to be a rootless tree, so I don't have to return to my roots.
Luoyang, you are my hometown!
I love you, Luoyang!
Beauty of Peony: Beauty of Luoyang Badge
The beauty of a city is just like the beauty of a person. If something beautiful is rich and magnificent, it is his panorama. If something beautiful is eye-catching and small, it is his badge.
The beauty of peony is that it can be worn, grasped and touched with fingers, so don't put it on our chest-look! I come from Luoyang! Peony is my badge! Therefore, since 1983 Peony Flower Show was held in our city, once you went out and sat on the train, those strange passengers knew that you were from Luoyang, they could ignore it regardless of the willy-nilly, and the first signal in their minds was to put you and peony together!
It turns out that people living in this city were recognized by outsiders, and the other party referred to our first background material, which turned out to be a peony flower! So romantic, so novel and so proud!
The aesthetic principle of badges is to name the source of the wearer first. The origin of Luoyang is an ancient capital and a flower city. Moreover, this flower city is a peony flower city and a beautiful country. The ancients once said: "Luoyang people are used to exotic flowers, and peaches and plums don't spend." It must be peony flowers. The city is full of joy. "The meaning is very clear: Luoyang people are used to seeing exotic flowers and plants, and they don't treat exotic flowers and plants as flowers at all, while Luoyang people only recognize peony flowers. How overbearing and noble the standard of flower viewing is. Therefore, I think that a few years ago, it was very accurate to regulate Luoyang's personality temperament with the words "Millennium Imperial Capital, Peony City", because from the perspective of flower viewing standards, Luoyang people in Kyoto are completely different from people in other small countries, and Luoyang people really have aristocratic temperament in flower viewing. " Bai Juyi's two poems are clear.
Therefore, the badge is a show-off, a level recognition and an indelible honor.
Even every freshman who goes out from Luoyang will be especially respected by his roommates if he stays in colleges and universities. "Will you go to Luoyang to see flowers in the future?" ! "Within three days, even all freshmen from Luoyang heard this sentence.
At this time, these descendants of Luoyang who went to the whole country really began to be proud of the city. Because quite a few of them don't care about the peony flowers around them, and feel that peony is far away from them. They thought those peonies were only found in Wangcheng Park, Peony Garden and National Peony Garden ... But they never thought that the peonies were on themselves. Only then did they realize that peony was actually a badge on their chest. Whether you like it or not, students all over the world regard you as the hometown of peony and agree to visit Luoyang anyway.
Think about it, what a beautiful thing, what a natural thing. Peony can become attached to Luoyang, which is really natural and generous to Luoyang. Luoyang, on the other hand, can emphasize the fate of more than 20 years through the annual flower show, which is also amazing in perseverance and touched the sky. And the shape of this peony flower, huge and gorgeous, is the material for making badges, but as the saying goes, "Peony flowers are well painted, not on the outer wall", and this peony is also stubborn. Remember that "Luoyang is the most suitable flower, and peony is very strange in the world"; This peony has lived up to expectations, and it will always be "the best peony in Luoyang", so only Luoyang is the most qualified to wear this badge, which is unique and beautiful.
Look, what a coincidence! The aesthetic image of peony flowers is rich and auspicious, which is exactly what our Chinese nation is striving for and conforms to the general trend of this era. Rich and auspicious peony flowers have been happy for thousands of years. Who wouldn't want to wear such a splendid badge? In the auspicious culture since ancient times, peony has always been the protagonist who does not remove makeup: gold carvings, silver ornaments, court wood carvings and folk paper-cuts all regard peony as a symbol of good luck. But this love for peony is basically expressed in the form of "universal love". The stars are scattered in the splendid cultural starry sky, with a city as the carrier, and peony is welded on its coordinates, only Luoyang.
In that case, Luoyang will definitely wear this peony badge and take good care of it. It is not enough to wear, but also to have the spirit of wearing! You have to be qualified to wear it. Because the glory and confidence of the badge comes from the person who wears it, from the growing economic aggregate and cultural content of Luoyang, and from the noble and simple charm of the city.
The beauty of peony and badge is also the beauty of treasure.
Luoyang modern prose poems
The old county of Luoyi, the food letter emperor mansion.
Eight customs are cities, and ten provinces are thoroughfares.
Half the city starts from the Silk Road, and the Jiuqu Canal goes to Beijing and Hangzhou.
Bird's-eye view of the six rivers returning to the Sect, pitching the sun, the moon and the yellow.
He tu Luo Shu reaches the sky, and the eight diagrams and nine domains show the heart;
Lagerstroemia gloriously surrounds the Imperial City, and the highest heaven refers to protecting Luoyang.
Rouge snow, Qin and Han Dynasties,
Su Jin, Yuanyang, in the dark palace.
Luopu autumn wind wrinkled, bronze camel sad dusk;
Peony is fragrant, and nine tiny flying flowers are trivial.
Graceful figure dancing in the setting sun, wind falling to snow, soft petals falling;
Fang Ze did not add Luo Jing, and led Washington to rule the world.
Clouds are increasingly evil, and the grass is yellow and thick;
Qiuju is not lower than Rongyao, and the flowers are hardly pine trees.
Yellow decals, red lips,
The candle in the west window cuts the eyes and keeps the fans fascinated.
Since ancient times, flowers have spread all over the city, and articles in Han and Wei dynasties are half Luoyang.
Ink is thicker than wet paper, and the spring inkstone is getting thinner and warmer.
If you think wisely, you can get flowers, and the three capitals stand out.
Uncle Bao's death is hard to get what he wants. Who sang "Yushu Flowers"?
Your sorrow is like a spring, and a river of spring water flows eastward;
Jun seems to be a goddess, which is hard to find once and for all.
Thin shadows, spring rain,
Golden Shaoguang Daimeilian.
The cloister turns, and the banana dew is red;
The moon is full of frost, and the shadow of wine leans against the bamboo column.
The water in the middle of the lake has a double shadow, and the peony outside the curtain is dark and light;
Ink stains the ripples of the years, and the strings break the autumn rain.
How can I remember the twelfth floor of the heavy city? Who will stay for the wet blue?
Eight tones are broken after seven strings, and the fish belly swims long.
Keywords frost morning dew, iris bundle,
The heart swings and the flute sounds.
The silk string plays the focal tail, and Du Yi's song flies to Guangling;
Yushu is lush everywhere and has a slow melody.
On the way home, tears are sad and cold, and seven steps are like a cliff;
Jin Zun's song is empty to the moon, leaving it in its prime.
Flowers fall unintentionally, idle and infatuated, and pour out their hearts;
The years have been chaotic for no reason, who is sighing, and a few inches of acacia hair.
Dust is like water, the shadow of the sunset,
Yue Hua's kiss xiu is cold and full of flowers.
The rain in Luoyang is rustling, and the snow in Chang' an is silent and cold;
Acacia is hard to break once it is over.
The yellow sky is blue, the sky is blue,
The old country is hard to look at, and suddenly looking back is a flashy spring breeze.
There are many emotional robberies in the world of mortals,
If you are amazing, if you are graceful and restrained, if you are Youlong, it is a dream of reincarnation.