Tianfu Impression Series 13: Rape Flower

Number of days: 1 day
Time: March
Average cost: 80 yuan
With whom: husband and wife
Tour kinds: self-driving, free travel
The author went to these places: Chengdu
Updated: 2021.03.07

western Sichuan Plain, which has a mild climate and green in all seasons, is the most beautiful season in spring. The peach blossoms are red and the plum is white, the grass is lush and the oriole is flying, and the fragrant orchids by the shore are lush and green. And the rape flowers that cover the earth make the sky full of spring.

A qualified Chengdu person, full of entertainment spirit is the minimum standard, of course, cannot and will not live up to such a good spring. People have gone out to the suburbs to enjoy the flowers, and recently the peach blossoms, plum blossoms, cherry blossoms, Xinyi flowers and other flowers have emerged in the circle of friends, and we naturally cannot lag behind.

On March 3, the weather improved near noon, which is rare in the western Sichuan Plain in spring. We seized the opportunity and drove to Lianghe Village, which belongs to Mouli Town, Qionglai City.

Lianghe Village, also known as Lianghekou, is located at the junction of Qionglai and Xinjin, about 50 kilometers away from Chengdu, because the Nanhe River and the Pujiang River meet here, hence the name. In spring, rapeseed flowers bloom all over the mountains, the golden sea of flowers and the clear river in early spring, the tender green sandbar in the water, the green peaks in the distance and the forest farmhouses scattered everywhere, constituting a wonderful picture and full of spring.

In spring, rapeseed flowers in western Sichuan can be seen everywhere, and there are many well-known flower viewing spots. However, like the mouth of the two rivers, there are both grand seas of flowers and river islands, and the terrain is slightly undulating, and it is really rare to form a three-dimensional picture. It is this unique beauty that is different from other rapeseed flowers in western Sichuan that makes Lianghekou naturally the most famous rapeseed flower Internet celebrity check-in place around Chengdu.

"Love to play" has been the style of Chengdu since ancient times, and has become a gene implanted in the bone marrow of Chengdu people. It is not a festival, nor is it a weekend, but the flowers and fields are full of people, and the parking lots are full of vehicles, and the popularity is staggering, and if it is a weekend, its popularity is even more unimaginable. The "flower viewing economy" has also brought many benefits to local villagers, the biggest of which is parking, catering, and the sale of vegetables and local products, with reasonable prices and simple folk customs. It's just the garbage and broken flower branches everywhere, bringing some discordant notes to the pleasant sound of spring.

Rapeseed is a bulk cash crop, which is planted all over the country, especially in the south, and its flowers can naturally be seen everywhere, and each has its own characteristics. For example, in Luoping, Yunnan, rapeseed flowers have a large area and deep colors, at a glance, the golden ocean stretches straight into the sky, and green solitary peaks stand among them, like a rich oil painting against the blue sky and sun of the plateau, a kind of shocking beauty.

The rapeseed flowers in Wuyuan, Huizhou, are very Jiangnan style, the flower field is divided into small pieces, the yellow flowers are interspersed with red peach blossoms and white plum blossoms, with small bridges and flowing water, Hui-style houses, fresh and elegant, delicate and agile, just like a graceful and elegant watercolor painting, quiet and far-reaching, timeless meaning.

The rapeseed flowers in western Sichuan are generally interplanted with wheat, such as looking down from a high place, the flat land is intertwined with large areas of yellow and large areas of green, which is the main color of rapeseed flowers in western Sichuan. During the flowering period, it is cloudy, the air is humid, and the petals often have dripping pearls. The feminine wind does not lose its atmosphere, but the local atmosphere is good. And this is the quality of rapeseed flowers in western Sichuan, the quality of their hometown.

Speaking of rape flowers, what I will most forget is the countryside in my youth, the production increase brigade of Jiepai Commune under Longquan Mountain. This place belongs to the transition zone from the Chengdu Plain to the Longquan Mountains, with hilly terrain and red soil, and Dongfeng Canal water passing through the domain. Every spring, the cauliflower yellow and wheat seedlings are green, coupled with the red land and undulating terrain, forming a colorful three-dimensional picture, which is beautiful. I took Zhai Yin there in the 90s of the last century, and she still thinks it is the most beautiful rapeseed flower in western Sichuan she has ever seen.

Song Yunli, the women's director of the brigade, is about twenty-seven or eight years old, and is very good to educated youths, often solving problems for everyone, so she is affectionately called "Sister Song" by these young people who are not more than twenty years old. Sister Song has a gentle personality and acts decisively, which is rare among rural women. However, he was really weak, suffering from severe heart disease and asthma, and often went into shock during attacks, and was at high risk. Fortunately, there is a husband Brother Chen who can be called a "wife slave" in the current language, and he can be regarded as taking good care of her and taking good care of her. In Sister Song's words, thanks to Brother Chen, she can "live to the present".

The reason why I mentioned Sister Song was because Sister Song was very good to me in that difficult era, which was a kind of sister to my brother. In the educated youth group, I belong to the type of simple old but very poor physical strength, which may be the reason why Sister Song takes special care of me in labor and life.

The most impressive time was that Sister Song came to the middle of the educated youth, everyone was giggling and joking with her, and all kinds of "loose eyes" were naturally talked about, of course, some "not seeking progress" words, and I also said a few words. Sister Song laughed and responded to everyone, but turned her back but reprimanded me, because she felt that I would "become bad" if this continued, and that tone was completely ignorant of a big sister teaching her younger brother, which made me still think of warmth.

In the spring of '78, when the flowers bloomed, I left the countryside to go to college, and I never saw Sister Song again.Ten years later, in another rapeseed flower season, I returned to the countryside for the first time, visiting Sister Song was the most important purpose of this trip, but I got the bad news that Sister Song had been dead for several years in the production team.

After I left the countryside, I soon entered the era of reform and opening up. As a rural female talent, Sister Song naturally took the lead and took the lead in starting the fruit transportation business with good results. However, it was difficult to start a business, long-distance escort was extremely hard, and the road conditions at that time were not good, especially Panxi Chongshan, and the conditions were extremely poor. Sister Song's extremely weak physique finally couldn't support it, and she died of an asthma attack on the way to transport goods "over there in Xichang". And limited by conditions, the body was buried on the spot. "There is no grave for her here," the villager told me.

The sky was exceptionally clear, and large areas of rapeseed flowers shone dazzling in the sun, and whimpered into the distance along the Dongfeng Canal. The terrain undulates, and various colorful colors such as yellow, green and red dance with it, forming a melodious melody of spring on the earth. The most beautiful spring in this hometown, Sister Song can't see it.

More than 30 years have passed, and now I have entered the ranks of retirement, and the laterite hills under Longquan Mountain have long been bulldozed and turned into industrial parks, and the scene of rape flowers blooming no longer exists, only in the depths of historical memory. Sometimes I think of Sister Song, for some reason, I always stubbornly think that the beautiful woman who died in a foreign land, in the last moments of her life, must be the spring in her hometown and the most beautiful rape flowers, definitely!