Chapter 1645 Nimu Mogu
After the car crossed Niba Mountain, the road began to become "vicissitudes of life". National Highway 108 passed through the pass of Daxiangling. The altitude has climbed to more than 2,500 meters, and it is still about 500 meters away from the highest point of the mountain top.
The road here has been winding in a zigzag pattern. At first it was going all the way up, and now it is going all the way down.
Standing on the pass, you can find that this is a famous climate watershed. Daxianling Mountain and Erlang Mountain together block the water vapor brought by the eastern monsoon, giving birth to the rainy city Ya'an in the east of the mountain and the windy city in the west. Clear Creek.
The pass faces the hillside of Ya'an. The climate is rainy, warm and humid, with lush vegetation. It is a standard subtropical monsoon climate.
The scenery along the way is very beautiful, with artificial forests and natural forests complementing each other. From an altitude of 1,500 meters to 3,000 meters, almost all is forest.
It is still very cold here at the Nibashan Pass. It is February now and it is still surrounded by snow. Apart from the road crews and conductors who are removing the ice and snow along the way, there are only large roads with anti-ice chains hanging on them, and they are passing carefully. car.
The pass is also an excellent viewing platform. From here, you can overlook the Gongga peaks and appreciate the insignificance of people.
After passing the pass, the lush forests and wild animals disappeared. Both sides of the road were covered with snow, jade trees, and glaciers.
When we left the snow top, the climate turned into a dry valley climate with little rain. On both sides are exposed rock soil, low shrubs, and endless meadows.
There are also pepper trees all over the mountain.
The pepper trees on both sides of the road exude a numbing aroma from time to time. The pepper here was once a famous tribute at home and abroad, known as "tribute pepper".
In addition to the smell of peppercorns, there is also a faint fragrance of grass, as well as the smell of fresh cow dung and sheep dung.
From time to time, Yi people wearing blue clothes and "hero knots" will appear on the roadside, driving herds of yaks, sheep and horses to graze on the pasture.
The Yi people in this area wrap their heads with green or blue cloth and tie a long tapered knot on their forehead. Occasionally, they are decorated with silver ornaments or tassels to express their bravery and might. spirit.
From time to time, there will be a path leading to the Daxiangling mountains with crisscrossed ravines and overlapping mountains. It is said that among those deep mountains, there are tens of thousands of acres of pasture, where in addition to cattle and sheep, there are also a large number of horses.
On the Ancient Tea Horse Road of the Southern Silk Road, horses, a specialty of this area, used to travel for a long time. Horses were small in size, with moderate load-bearing capacity and strong endurance. They used the rich copper materials and other products in central Yunnan. It was transported out and the rest of Sichuan's products were transported in. During the Qianlong Dynasty, it once accounted for a considerable proportion of the country's copper materials, supporting the economic circulation at that time.
All the way down the mountain, there are people with backpacks placed in front of them from time to time on the roadside, wrapping themselves in the unique felt cloak "Charwa" of the Yi people, holding a pipe made of bamboo poles in their mouths, smoking homemade "Orchid" "Smoke" mountain people.
In their backpacks, there were hares and pheasants. Strictly speaking, these are protected animals. They hunted them and sold them to drivers passing by, hoping to earn some household income for themselves.
In addition to prey, there are also precious medicinal materials, such as angelica root, Sichuan clam shell, gastrodia elata, cordyceps, etc., which are sold very cheaply, even less than one-tenth of the price in Shu capital.
Zhou Zhi knew that there was a large breeding ground for wild animals and wild medicinal materials. Finally, the country established the Dafengding Nature Reserve in this area to protect five first-level protected animals such as giant pandas; macaques, red pandas, golden pheasants and other nearby animals. Thirty kinds of second-level protected animals; more than 30 rare and relic plants such as Davidia involucrata, Ginkgo biloba, Lianxiang tree, and yew. Minerals here are also very rich, such as basalt, iron ore, coal, copper ore, limestone, gypsum, sulfur ore, bauxite, asbestos, crystal stone, etc. Along the way, countless large trucks headed towards the Nibashan Pass, towards the Yucheng area Ship it over.
Soon, the guards began to pass through some villages. Compared with the magnificent log houses in the villages on the other side of the mountain, the houses in the villages here were very small, and the high-end houses were made of yellow. Mud walls are made of mud bricks. Ordinary houses are made of rattan bamboo strips and plastered with mud.
Many houses don’t even have gates. The more sophisticated ones just hang up a black blanket, because there is basically nothing in the house except a fire pit. They are so poor that even gates are useless. furnishings.
Except for a few luxurious green tile roofs, many roofs are even made of bark. They are somewhat similar to the thatched houses that were common in Jiachuan in the 1960s and 1970s, but without thatched roofs.
There is no way. The cultivated land that can be seen here is basically planted with corn, potatoes, beans, and pumpkins. Only these can grow on the dry and barren land.
Without rice fields, of course there would be no straw; without straw, of course there would be no thatched roofs.
A few years later, many of these villages were demolished by the government and moved down the mountain. But what Zhou Zhi sees now is far more numerous and poorer than when he came here in his last life.
This is still on the roadside with relatively convenient transportation, and it is simply unimaginable to see them dotted among the vast mountains.
This was an arduous battle. It was from this time on that the Chinese people went through another forty years before they finally basically won this heroic battle against poverty.
As a person who had experienced it, Zhou Zhi couldn't help but feel proud every time he saw the fight against poverty on TV in his previous life. Thinking of this, his heart became even more anxious.
Fortunately, the road finally began to become smooth at this time. A river appeared on the side of the road, and the car drove forward along the gravel and dirt road beside the river valley.
The name of this river was Beishui in ancient times. During the Western Han Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago, it was named after the river, and Beishui County was established here.
There is no reliable evidence for when Beishui was renamed Meigu River. During the long historical changes, this area was mostly out of reach of the rulers of the Central Plains. Therefore, the name is more likely to come from the Yi language. Vocabulary "Nimmogu".
Mogu means "center", "heart". According to legend, when the ancestors of the Yi people, the Guhou and Qunie clans, separated from central Yunnan and moved to Liangshan, they met here. Later, when the Han people established the county after the Western Han Dynasty, the "Mogu" river was renamed "Meigu" river. , and then the county was named after water, and it became Meigu.
However, Zhou Zhi thought that the name might have a third origin, because the ethnic minority girls in this area are very beautiful, with high nose bridges, thin faces, deeper eye sockets than Han people, and slim waists. Now every year, "Duze" , that is, in the beauty pageant of the Torch Festival, girls from Meigu County have the highest proportion of the top three beauties over the years, and they really deserve the name "Meigu".
The two major clans, Guhou and Qunie, later became the "co-organization" place of the Yi people in the Greater and Lesser Liangshan areas, and this became the birthplace and heartland of the Yi people. Meigu became the traditional culture of the Yi people. It has the most complete preservation, the strongest customs, and later became the county with the most national-level intangible cultural heritage projects of the Yi ethnic group.
Zhou Zhi was once most interested in the Bimo culture here.
Bimo means sage and wise man, and is the inheritor of the core heritage of the Yi people. In the legends of the Yi people, they include astronomy, history, geography, philosophy, education, medical care, music, art, and rituals. The source of cultural knowledge is Huangmaogeng in Meigu.