The activated memory seems to have returned to the village experience two years ago. Shiziba Village, Fiona Fang, with 88 households and 4 villagers' groups, is located in a narrow area of 17 square kilometers on both sides of a river and two ditches. It is said that his little finger population is small. There are only more than 200 people in the village, but the area is very large, which is in sharp contrast with the narrow and densely populated countryside in Pingchuan. Especially in the era of carrying horses on one's shoulders, it is no exaggeration to spend more than two hours on the journey with neighbors in the same village. Rather than hiding in a corner of the county seat, he is in a corner of the county seat. If you turn on your mobile phone and use satellite to locate the county seat, the straight-line distance is less than 10 kilometers, that is, just 10 kilometers, which has made the dream of many generations of Shiba people come true. Every night, the light show set up in Dongshan Park always flashes over Lion Dam, which even inspires them to walk out of the end blocked by mountains and yearn for the integration of simplicity, innocence and modern civilization. At the other end of the mountain, it is not easy to go to Foping County in Yuanjiazhuang five years ago. It is about 60km from Shiziba to Lvguan River, 4km from Jinshui River to Yang Yue Road, and about10km from Tian Yang Dam. It passes through the ridge in the direction of Xi, and then enters Fopingjing to reach the county seat. If you want to do something in the county, such as taking a bus, it takes two hours one way. In the words of ordinary people, "it takes one day to get into the county seat", but it takes less than half an hour to get to Yangtianba in Yangxian County, so some people complain that "it is easier to get out of the county seat than to get to it". Opportunities always give people hope and desire, and poverty alleviation will be further expanded. Will take a shortcut. Take 108 national highway southbound 10 km from the county seat to Xicha River Cliff, enter Pengjiagou, cross Jinjiaping, cross the long ditch and beam to Longtan, and then descend 4 km along Lvguan River (Xima Road). Although I dare not mark the linear distance of 10 km, it saves half the distance and time compared with bypassing Yangxian County, which is very convenient. Since then, there have been no villagers in Lion Dam.
Generally speaking, the origin of Lion Dam is related to local human geography or a historical event. There are only a handful of local administrative villages directly named after an animal. It has nothing to do with the lion entity, landform and human history, just because the area is called the lion dam because of a folklore. It is said that in winter and spring, villagers' crops are always inexplicably eaten or trampled by unknown creatures. Take a closer look. There are hoof prints of large animals that people have never seen in the wild. Later, some villagers spontaneously organized young and strong laborers to take turns to observe. Sure enough, the two stone lions standing at the head of the village turned into real bodies at night, and now they are going to the fields to eat wheat seedlings. It turned out that Shishi was fine, and the news spread in the village. So I asked the Yin and Yang division to send masons to chisel the original big stone lion into a small stone lion that was only half the size of the original one. Since then, the weather has been fine and crops have been harvested year after year. In the end, it was named Lion Dam, which has been used ever since. Just a legend, the truth of the matter undoubtedly does not exist, and there is no historical research. I think this is just a spiritual sustenance for the villagers to yearn for a better life and pray for God's blessing. In order to fulfill the wishes of the villagers, Fopingyuan, a helping unit, later funded the construction of a pair of stone lions standing at the entrance of the village, which became the landmark building of the village.
Shiziba Village, as a buffer zone of Giant Panda National Park, is rich in vegetation, warm in climate and diverse in species. In the era of carrying horses on one's shoulders, this is definitely a paradise that thrives and thrives, so that many years ago, people who fled from the surrounding counties and the wars outside the province stopped here to take root and gradually formed an administrative village with today's surnames such as Dai, Zhu and Wang as the main body. Especially here, there are the most word-of-mouth stories about Dai. According to the old man, Dai trudged here from Wan Li, not far from his hometown in Anhui Province, in order to avoid the famine in the late Qing Dynasty. Seeing the laid-back environment, excellent geomantic omen and fertile soil along the river, he settled here. Dai is sincere and humble, diligent in housekeeping and flexible in mind. He accepted the employment and treated the people who fled from other places as guests one by one. After a long time, he became a famous local rich boy. In its heyday, it only collected rent 1000 stone a year, and built three courtyards, one of which has been preserved to this day. Dai is not only good at running and managing the family, but also very strict in educating his children. Most of them were sent to Xi 'an, the provincial capital, to study, and they set an example by sending people to write them on the square hall as family instructions for future generations (still clearly visible today). He has integrity and a sense of justice. It is said that bandits were rampant in those years, and the surrounding rural houses often suffered.
Lion Dam is a beautiful place. When the Red Army marched westward and eastward, it passed by or camped here many times. The slogan "The Red Army is the vanguard of anti-imperialism" was written on the wall of Daijia Courtyard (there are still traces left). Faced with the little Red Army soldiers who were short of clothes and food, the villagers gave the soldiers the only surplus food at home to satisfy their hunger. It is said that when the Red Army left, it left a shoulder pole for Zhang as a souvenir. The beauty of the lion dam lies in the villagers' minds and lofty ideological consciousness, which makes the Red Army pass by or stay here many times without being discovered by the enemy. Their ancestors moved their families and chose this land to stand here. Its beauty lies in its generosity and selflessness, which makes their next generation become today's neighbors or their relatives because of the intermarriage between men and women, and cultivates their simplicity, kindness, diligence and wisdom.
Author: Ma Liang (Foping Court)
Editor: Zheng Libo
Editor: Yao