Saying of stone - Middle Kingdom

In the village of Tan Tian sent by the northern cities, Conghua and Zengcheng City and the junction of the city, is a mountain village, over 10 km from the market towns, and high Beach Spa Beach at high water at each other. According to the "Record of Zengcheng" records, the village Jianxuqing generation of the early years of Emperor Kangxi (1666), has about 340 years of history, local stone, dense forests, so called village of stone.

Of stone is a Hakka village, the villagers my family and Xu Xing-family neighbors, and some residents Wuliubai today, which accounted for about four-fifths of my family. Habitat founder Wong Kai Huang Chao-hai, Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, the residents of the Hakka migration trend, led by the son of Guangdong, nine in the starting Xinfeng Huang Wu Lu, first of all, reach Zengcheng paitan Hung Tin Village, then to the resettlement Shek lead, the final settlement of stone. However, the Hakkas are accustomed to drift, and never behaved for centuries with a large number of business or study Shirengou through such channels out of the home, the families were moved to Tan Hui, Zengcheng Street survival conditions better place.

Taishi terrain of high mountains surrounded with rich natural resources. Geological structure is complicated, an accumulation of landscape erosion, Carboniferous stratigraphy, massive distribution of limestone (also known as limestone), Gufeng awkward pyroxenite everywhere is the lion Danling. Before the liberation and the founding of New China, people of Taishi Kaoshanchishan, had burned itself mainly by burning charcoal grey. Soil is a three-seven mud Chi-Hong soil, rich in organic matter suitable for tropical and subtropical crops, abounds in big red persimmon, lychee, Jib grass, and other native products, which is more famous for big red persimmon, a fruit Zengcheng brand. Of the Dongjiang River, groundwater is rich in resources, many spring, the hillside creek runs through the village. The entrance to a cold-water springs, water clarity, importers sweet, the year Gugu, Four Seasons He did not.

Springs of the very cold water and plain, a Joining the rocks, a crack in the outflow of water Gugu, and most people will not pay attention. Quan local call this "a look urine" or "female-chuen, fine," a word of mouth凄美story. Legend long time ago, where there was a beautiful young girl, forced to marry against their parents wealthy family belongings concubine, Congjuan jumped into the river entrance hole. Jianshui fast the body of the girl-water potential gently to the beach, the woman turned into a stone overnight, but the bottom unprovoked cracking stones, springs out of the cold. Springs for hundreds of years has never been dry during the rainy season and dry season regardless of the same water, it is anti-people legend married girls in tears. Taishi of rocks, visible everywhere rugged, rough and bitter, only cold water flows during the night-chuen, the vicissitudes of a hard-出了点soft.

Pure spring water color, texture in turn, enables people to drink perennial longevity. As early as in the West: Linsi and incense for the cliff when the two houses of the JI Chujiaren mountain spring water to drink, and is said to have Changshou to 120 years old. According to "Zengcheng county names-" records, after 1949, the provincial medical team to the village survey of elderly people over 80 years old than 5% higher than the villages. In 2003, the Guangzhou Medical College expert on cold-chuen, a water quality appraisal, that this Quan achieve the targets of mineral water, the value of the development. However, to this date, cold-chuen still lonely, still blindfolded veil girls, waiting for the carving Yupu.
Villages of stone, quietly Woxu Qunfeng embrace the whole village seemingly a pot to cook the head, is farmland cottages bottom of the pot, the pot is the mountain wall, the lid is blue sky and white clouds. The walls of the pot is the highest mountain lion Shiling, 502 meters high, because of the shape of mountains Shizitou, called Lion's Head Mountain. Hill posed mainly by limestone mountains Although numerous trees, but still exposed to many Huihese the mountain. Many small cave in the mountains, there are three relatively well-known. In the left side of a mountain, a Beijing-Zhutang, the upper and lower two holes, each hole high Shuzhang, several deep Shizhang, artificial quarrying burning ash formation of the cave. In the right side of a mountain, called Shi Yan-dong,

A huge rock shelter, entrance accommodate three or four people, broad at its widest point about 4 meters, 34 meters deep, Wong Nai, sand texture, there are many stone cave swallows fly.
Of stone-rich limestone, also abounds in big red persimmon All the hills are persimmon trees, and more particularly on the lion Danling. According to local memories, the history of stone persimmon cultivation at least 200 years. This sturdy persimmon tree trunks, branches Wang Yi ramps out branches Weng Weng Yu Yu, in the autumn, such as Persimmon 10,000 lanterns hanging branches. Hakka dialects there is a riddle: "red lanterns, and iron Baogai, 10 people love to see nine people.", Which is red persimmon. Paitan the persimmon many, but for the top grade of stone. Shek of the red persimmon, and the bright red color, or less nuclear non-nuclear, pulp density, skinning without meat, sweet Ruangu Ruhan is in Need persimmon, sold to Guangzhou and Hong Kong and Macao regions, known far and wide.

Speaking of stone, the people have a sense of Lianxi and heartache. Poetry in the sentence: "Lonely Shengui, Rouchang section 1000 palygorskite sorrows." Do not know of a Shirengou Zhijiu, but a Waixiangren know if there are such a wonderful place and sealed for several hundred years.