Life in the Rural Villages of the 80s: Beauty in Memory

The hometown of Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Enshi, is one of the most suitable places for human habitation, located in the southwest corner of Hubei Province, it is a quiet small mountain village, surrounded by continuous mountains, and the Tangyan River with more than 380 miles of backward flow, karst landform caves, tea sea qiaozhai folk houses, and authentic farmhouse delicacies, as well as the beautiful scenery of the unknown beauties hidden in the depths. It is what I want to show to you: 'Enshi is one of the most suitable places for humans to live.'The morning of Tea Sea QiaozhaiMemories are like black and white movies, playing back one by one in the mind:In those days, Tea Sea Qiaozhai did not have the roads of today, the only channel to enter and exit was the muddy small road in front of my house and the steel bridge across the riverbanks. The houses of each household were also those of ancient and antique hanging houses, hanging houses were built on the hillside, the first floor was pig and cattle pens and firewood places; the second floor was the main house, and there were also beautiful silk eaves, and silk eaves hung corn stalks and wind radishes. Entering Ma Liu Xi small road was along the riverbank, after crossing the steel bridge, the farther you went, the more secluded it was, without tea sea, there was only farmland, on the small mountain slope, three or five houses could see a wooden two-story or three-story hanging house, walking along the road you could see children herding their old oxen leisurely in the field, or you could hear the old oxen moo in the cattle pen, and there was also smoke rising from the tile roofs accompanied by the sound of chopping vegetables...The steel bridge five minutes' walk from my homeIn the spring ploughing season, the villagers took their family's old oxen and carried plows on the ridges, or they saw villagers holding plows and bamboo sticks to gently drive their oxen, and sometimes they could see a child with a gray basket leisurely herding his old ox, and sometimes they would take a lazy nap and catch a local dog for a while, and then lift their heads and continue to pick wild potatoes, and occasionally they would steal a potato from the field and happily eat it. They would occasionally take a nap and then catch a local dog for a while...In the rice planting season, there was also the rice planting wine. To finish planting rice seedlings in the rice field in a few days, they notified the courtyard a few days in advance, and the time to plant rice was notified before the day, and the female owner prepared the ingredients needed for the next day before the day, and bought a lot of bean curd from the street, and the male owner prepared the straw for tying rice seedlings and tools for transporting rice seedlings, on the day of planting rice, everyone arrived early at the owner's house, the men brought tools to the rice field to tie rice seedlings, and the women made breakfast at home, when the men brought the tied rice seedlings back home, breakfast was ready, after eating breakfast they rested for a while, and then everyone set out to plant rice, they unrolled rice seedlings, planted rice seedlings, generally one person planted four rows, and sometimes more, and they chatted while planting rice, and sometimes they could hear everyone's hearty laughter. Sometimes they encountered rain when planting rice, but the adults did not cancel the planting, but they still planted rice with a raincoat and umbrella...Father lowered his body to fish with a rakeSimple home-cooked mealsThe hometown is still beautiful, and it has developed better, even if there are no more scenes of herding cattle and planting rice, we can still see tea gardens everywhere, and I am most proud of the fact that we can eat all kinds of delicious and authentic local delicacies every year (fermented bean curd, dried tofu, sour rice,...) and friends like to come to my house because of my parents' simplicity and hospitality. My cousin and her son stayed for ten days, my aunt and her son-in-law also stayed with their children, my cousin said: Boshan is more fun, and the dam is wider, the children can ride bikes wherever they want, and they can also go to the river to play and play, they don't want to go back to Enshi.My wooden house and yard (yard)