Selenium is an essential trace element for human body, which has a good therapeutic effect on cancer, cardiovascular diseases and other diseases. However, people in selenium-rich mountain villages live longer and are not obese. Not a single cancer patient has been found since the founding of the People's Republic of China more than 50 years ago. It is said that a cancer patient came to the big mountain village alone and lived here for five years. Maybe it was the magic of selenium, but he died anyway. What is even more amazing is that the villagers' group of Wangcun in Dashan Village is said to be the descendants of Wang Mang. There are more than 240 people in this village, all surnamed Wang. The famous tea "green in the fog" produced in Dashan Village was once found on the ancient merchant ship "Gothenburg".
The natural scenery of the big mountain village is very beautiful, with rolling mountains, green ancient trees, canyons, waterfalls, green tea gardens and terraces on the mountainside, as well as ancient villages in Ming and Qing Dynasties, selenium-enriched tea gardens, Shenlong Canyon, Jiangjun Rock, Tiger Rock, Frog Stone, Guanyin Cave and Tian Fang Lake. Beautiful landscapes and magical selenium-enriched villages have become a paradise on earth full of charm and charm.
This mountain is in the west of Huangshan Mountain, also known as "West Huangshan Mountain". The mountains are steep, the ravines are criss-crossing, the thousand peaks are beautiful and the scenery is beautiful. There is a folk saying, "Sixteen forks and three, seventy-two small forks, a string of forks, big forks with small forks", and the magic of its natural scenery can be imagined.
Driving to the mountain pass, the scattered Huizhou folk houses came into view. On the back is Lailong Mountain, which is lush and watertight. That is Long Mai of Dashan, like a black dragon, entrenched on the ridge of Dashan, overlooking the simple villagers of Dashan. It is also a fengshui mountain in the mountains. Since ancient times, people in Dashan have abided by village rules and regulations, and villagers are not allowed to break ground on Lailong Mountain, let alone move a tree on Lailong Mountain. For thousands of years, villagers have adhered to this old saying, making Lailong Mountain more beautiful and charming.
1.2m-long bluestone slabs decorate the villages in the mountains with simplicity and elegance. The slow pace of simple and honest villagers seems to be incompatible with the hurried pace of modern people, but it has his firmness and calmness, which is the unparalleled temperament and charm endowed by Dashan.
On the left, an ancient pavilion stands by the Cangxi River. The ancient pavilion is called Cangxi Pavilion, which is named after Cangxi River nearby. "Look at the mountain by the railing, listen to the sound of spring near the stream", take a nap in the pavilion, the cool wind blows gently, and the moist breath of Cangxi River is fresh and fresh in the breeze. Close your eyes, take a deep breath and feel relaxed and happy.
Along Cangxi, there is a one-meter-long plank road paved with ancient wood. On both sides of the plank road, the mountains are stacked, the clouds are towering, and the Shenlong Canyon is in the middle. The winding stream in the valley is colorful and charming. Trees block the river, and through the cracks in the leaves overhead, you can vaguely see the sun. People walk on the plank road, accompanied by birds singing. Even if a person comes here, he won't be lonely and bored. Maybe you will never whistle like me, but you will whistle and say hello to birds at this time.
A little silence will be broken by a sound of water as the footsteps move. It turned out to be a natural "water curtain cave". Mountains and rivers flew down from the rocks, forming a water column nearly two meters high. Perhaps this is the cause of the long-term impact. A square groove was formed on the rock, like a bath. This is the "fairy bath" in Dashan Shenlong Canyon. It is said that fairies used to bathe here. The white water splashed by the water column fell into the stream and disappeared in a flash. What is striking is a pool of blue waves. When you are lucky, you can also see the black giant salamander swimming against the current, looking for a partner!
It's thousands of meters away from the depths. Climb the stairs and come to the magical Lelong Peak. Every visitor to Lailongshan will make a silent wish to Long Mai, and I may have made a wish. Silently bless the distant lover, everything is well and come back safely! Go down the mountain to the faucet and walk into the village. On the green hills, leaves are swaying to show us hello.
Shenshan Mountain is not only unique in scenery, but also because the soil here is rich in selenium, a trace element necessary for human body, ranking second in the country, second only to Enshi, Hubei. The water here is very strange, which is the weather forecast of Dashan people. Tap water will become turbid before the weather changes. We wanted to experience its authenticity for ourselves, so we took water from the cup. Sure enough, tap water is as turbid as rice juice, but in two seconds, the water becomes pure without a trace of precipitation. Strange geographical phenomena indicate that it will rain, and sure enough, when we go down the mountain, there is thin rain in the sky, which covers this magical mountain with a hazy gauze.
I got off at the mountainside of Xianyu Mountain and walked to Dashan Village. It was only about 6 am. It was very cold, and I didn't go far, but suddenly I felt a warm current coming. Walking through the circular General Rock and going deep into the Shenlong Canyon, the ancient trees are towering, and the dense breath seems to sweep people in. The ancient trees recorded at hand are: heather, 320 years old; Lagerstroemia indica, 480; Phoebe bournei,188; Fengyang, 285; Sweet Castanopsis eyrei, 3 10 year; Jiangnan Mu Kai, 480; Coral Pu Shu, 320 years ... Among the ancient trees, there is a winding valley with gentle water potential and butterflies flying on both sides. The delicate birds are jumping happily, and the fragrance is even more fragrant, such as entering the flowers. There is a waterfall like a curtain in the place named "Curtain of Dreams". Like water curtain cave in The Journey to the West, a round boulder naturally rushes out. The town is located in front of water curtain cave, which seems to be a meditation place for immortals.
The ridge called "Long Mai" has beautiful scenery and many ancient trees, but the mountain wind is fierce and stormy, trying to roll up thousands of accumulated snow. The village at the foot of the mountain is calm. This kind of scenery makes people who come here enjoy themselves.
There are three groups of villagers in Dashan Village: Wangcun, Licun and Hongcun. Among them, the place where Wangcun is located is particularly strange. They live in the mountains and grow tea for generations. There is a Castanopsis eyrei at the entrance of the village, which is 680 years old and covered with lush vegetation. The village is surrounded by mountains, like a baby lying on a rocking bed. There is a cluster of ancient trees in the southeast, with natural air inlet and light transmission. There are mountains and clouds in the distance all the year round, and there is a natural air outlet in the northwest, from which the warm air we felt before is likely to spread out.
It is said that the descendants of Wang Mang who usurped the throne and seized power lived here in seclusion. The genealogy of Wang Mang, recorded as the descendants of Wang Mang, is still preserved today and has now been passed on to a nation in its fifties. Unfortunately, he went out to work. There is a Wang ancestral temple in the village, but it has become a ruin. When wandering around the mountain village, I saw a 10 1 year-old uncle Wang, who was still in good health and sitting on the threshold for breakfast. He said that the oldest person in the village is an old woman, 1 10 years old. As soon as it gets dark, the mountain village will get dark. Several centuries-old ginkgo trees at the entrance of the village are flourishing, getting higher and deeper in the dark, as if there were gods inhabiting them. It was late at night, and the dog barked badly. The strange smell makes these animals fidget.
Happiness Village in Xianyu Town is the only place to go to Xianyu Mountain. Most of the houses in this village are two-story structures, and the second floor is made of wood. Slogans and slogans from the 1950s and 1960s are still hung on the walls of some houses. A family named "Xianyushan" has stones and flowers in the courtyard, and the words "charm" and "wild interest" are written on the wall of the courtyard. The boss of another company used to be a barefoot doctor, and his son inherited the mantle to open a clinic. There are many houses in his house, and there is a row of preserved fish and bacon hanging on the main wall. Only an 80-year-old grandmother lives in a family near the south. It seems that with the growth of age, her body is condensed and she is very short. On the ground of the old man, broken porcelain pieces are embedded with the shapes and happy characters of bottles and jars. Grandma smiled happily when she saw a foreigner. She tiptoed out of an iron suitcase in the back room and grabbed a lot of sunflower seeds that smelled musty.
The next day, I drove up the mountain along Panshan Road and reached an altitude of more than 800 meters. There is a Shuangkeng village here, which is returned to Xianyu Town after being removed from the township and merged into the town. Although Shuangkeng Village has a population of more than 200 people and comes from more than 50 families, it comes from more than 40 counties in Shandong, Hubei, Henan, Hebei, Jiangsu, Guizhou, Sichuan and other provinces 10, with more than 70 surnames and even rare surnames such as "Xue" and "Yong", which can be described as a veritable "China Village". It turned out that in addition to the aborigines, Shuangkeng Village became the activity base of the advance team as early as when the Red Army went north to resist Japan, and some injured Red Army left behind also became local residents. Secondly, during the three-year natural disaster, some foreigners fled to this place. And in the 1980s, a group of loggers came to the mountains, and some of them stayed here. Because of the dispersion, even the single family, the villagers' groups are far apart, and each retains its own dialect and living habits, so that there is a situation that "the owner eats bread and the western family cooks hot pot". It is said that the realistic prototype of Yong Dong in Huangmei Opera "The Fairy Couple" is also here. He belongs to Dong Jialing of Xianyu Mountain.
Yong Zeng's family in Shuangkeng Village lived under the same roof for five generations, and his ancestors migrated from Maanshan. Yongzeng and his wife worked in Changzhou, and because of the development of tourism in their hometown, they came back to start a "farmhouse". His home is on the shoulder of the mountain, with the door facing the castle peak, and a mountain road just bends to his door. There is also a mountain behind the house, with three or two peach trees and loquat. Water seeped from the mountain and dripped into the pond in the backyard. His 90-year-old grandmother said the water was as good as lard. Tits chirped, the mountain breeze was slight, and a pine nut rolled down from the mountain. Doubt is a fairyland. There are about 1000 taxus at an altitude of more than 800 meters in Xianyu Mountain, which is rare in China. Taxus chinensis is a national first-class protected plant and an endangered natural rare plant in the world. It has the reputation of "plant gold" and has high archaeological and medicinal research value. Taxol extracted from yew bark is dozens of times the price of gold in the international market.
88-year-old Deng Changgen lives in Xianyu Mountain. There are twenty or thirty acres of yew behind his house, of which 145 is 800 years old. Because he has guarded this yew for many years, he is called "the patron saint of red bean shirts" by local people. Anhui Wildlife Conservation Association and shitai county Forestry Bureau also issued relevant certificates for the elderly.
Deng Changgen's grandfather Deng Zhilin and his father Deng Qihe were revolutionary martyrs who were killed by the enemy in 1934. His mother also died in the war when he was only 9 years old. Deng Changgen said that he joined the New Fourth Army and later returned to his hometown. After the land reform, he was responsible for guarding yew. For decades, red bean shirts have been preserved because they have avoided natural and man-made disasters. During this period, many foreigners came here to buy yew, but they were all driven away by him.
Deng Changgen only has 48 yuan's pension every month, and his youngest son Deng Xuemao mainly lives by growing tea. Deng Changgen still has an old shotgun. Although it was broken, he was reluctant to throw it away. It accompanied him for many years. Deng Changgen has a disability in his right leg. Usually, he leans against a stick and sweeps the leaves by the yew at the back of the house. Every time young people come here to visit yew, the old people who come from the war will always say, I am satisfied to see that you young people are all well, and the world is yours after all.
Gorgeous grand canyon
In the dense forest, the gurgling sound of running water has been floating in the valley. And all this is like a prelude, in order to set off the extraordinary colorful jade valley of Xianyu Mountain. If it is rainy, Caiyu Valley is like a long wave with thorns, which is much weaker. Even so, it is amazing. I'm afraid there is no other deeper and more tortuous canyon in the world.
Colorful Jade Valley, formerly known as Xianyu Grand Canyon, was formed about 340 million years ago. Because the stones here are colored granite formed after volcanic eruption, they are called Caiyu Valley. After millions of years of water erosion and dissolution, the rock mass of the colored stone layer watchcase was pushed away, revealing colored stones, mainly brown, red and pure white, with blue, blue, gray, black and other colors in the middle, gorgeous and gorgeous, and the whole riverbed was like a jade belt. With the changes of morning and evening, sunny and rainy, light and projection angle, colorful jade valley also produces different color viewing effects, just like the illusion of modern stage background. In this 4000-meter-long colorful canyon, especially the brown-red stones are smooth as jade, which are dazzling against the water. There are also two huge natural murals in Caiyu Valley, one of which is nearly 100 meters long and magnificent, and its shape is quite similar to figures and rare birds and animals. Because it is inaccessible, there are many exquisite rocks in the colorful jade valley, reflecting beautiful light. Xianyu Mountain has an ancient Huizhou road, which is the main road connecting Huizhou with Anqing, the capital of Anhui Province at that time. An ancient road paved with bluestone slabs passes through the mountains and leads to the depths of the tree-lined, with no end in sight. It is an important ancient road in history. Anqing, the capital of Anhui Province from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, is the main road to Huizhou, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian and other provinces. The Qing Dynasty was called "the main thoroughfare of Rao Hui".
This well-preserved ancient emblem road is 7.5 kilometers long. It starts from Xindian Village, Xianyu Town, shitai county in the north, and reaches Yuantong Temple in Xianyu Mountain in the south, bordering Qimen County. It is a place with the best preservation, the best ecological environment, the most beautiful scenery, the farthest distance and full of poetry and painting. One end passes through Chizhou and Yin Hui, and the other end leads to Tunxi, Jingdezhen and Shangrao. This well-preserved ancient emblem is paved with even long bluestone slabs, with a width of 1.5 meters and a total length of 7.5 kilometers ... On this ancient Huizhou road, a stone pavilion is built every few miles for pedestrians to rest or board. Due to the steep mountain, the ancient Huizhou Road in Xianyu is also extremely steep, with a slope of nearly 90 degrees. People who walked on this ancient emblem road in those days went through hardships with bamboo poles on their shoulders and shoes in their hands!
Paganini Ridge, a fortress on the ancient Huizhou Road in Xianyu, is very famous in history. During the Xianfeng period of Qing Dynasty, Zeng Guofan, the governor of Liangjiang River, built a 14 km popular science spot in Stone Great Wall Scienc Spot, in which a section of Stone Great Wall Scienc Spot popular science spot was located in paganin Ridge of Xianyu Mountain, across the ancient emblem road, so it was called paganin Pass. This pass is 900 meters above sea level, and the terrain is dangerous, so it is easy to defend but difficult to attack. This is a battleground for military strategists. Xiang army led by Zeng Guofan and Taiping army fought many times in this area. There are many records about the Battle of Mangenling in the Draft of Qing History, and Zeng Guofan also wrote several times in his family letters. The most tragic World War I: 1860, the Taiping Army captured Huizhou, Zeng Guofan led the Xiang army to retreat to Qimen, seized the favorable terrain of each fortress, and sent troops to defend Pagan Pass. The Taiping Army attacked Qimen from Wuyuan, Yuting in Yixian and Pagan Ridge in Shitai respectively. The Taiping army that attacked Mangan Pass was ten times as strong as Xiang, but it fought very hard. After three days and nights of bloody fighting, they broke through the pass and reached the gate of the Qimen Governor's Office. Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang almost drew their swords and committed suicide.
Today, there is a Yuquan Pavilion and a Yuquan well on Guhui Road in Mangenling section. According to legend, Yuquan Well was carved by the immortal Tie Guai Li with crutches to quench the thirst of local people. On cloudy days, the water in the well is milky white, like white jade, so it is called Yuquan well. Unfortunately, Yuquan well has been filled with rocks, and the inscription set in those years no longer exists.
From Manggenling down the mountain along Guhui Road, you can see many ancient trees, most of which are hundreds of years old. There is a kind of Phoebe with a black shell, which is still full of vitality after 580 years. Further down, there is a stone pavilion, which is said to be an old man in his seventies in Qing Dynasty. It is convenient for passers-by to celebrate the case with his wife in Qi Mei, where children and grandchildren are full. A "mountain monument" was found in this place, which recorded the environmental protection deeds of the local Li family more than 200 years ago.
The ancient Huizhou Road in Xianyu also witnessed several periods of revolutionary history. 1934, Fang Zhimin led the anti-Japanese advance team to the north to fight against Japan, and fought a bloody battle with the Kuomintang die-hards through this ancient Huizhou road. There are still red army trenches here. 1949, when the People's Liberation Army crossed the river and advanced southwest, it passed through the ancient Huizhou Road and fought against the enemy and bandits, and achieved brilliant results.