The red pear garden

In Yunnan, the flowering season seems to come early, just after the Chinese New Year, people have the urge to enjoy the flowers.

A friend from Beijing asked me to go flower-viewing. This friend is a filmmaker, and his "appreciation" was very purposeful: the scenery had to be pleasing to the eye, but it also had to be easily accessible, easy to film, humanistic, and visually striking. His flower appreciation is actually pre-selecting the location for the movie shooting.

I recommended to him the pear garden in Huize Water City. This is a pear garden located in the folds of the Wumeng mountains, due to the special geographical environment, the pear flowers here thick petals, dense flowers, long fragrance, coupled with the water city and the national highway is connected, the people are simple, should make friends like.

Pear tree in our country has more than 2000 years of planting history. "Suddenly like a night spring breeze, thousands of trees pear blossom." "Han bed and Tang mausoleum without wheat rice, mountain streams and wild paths have pear flowers." "The rain hit the pear blossom deep closed door." The ancient people chanting pear blossom poetry, let people memorable. Tasting pear blossoms, there are also instructions. The flowers should be large and dense, the petals should be round and orderly, the color should be white and transparent. Full of pear trees in full bloom, a pile of pear blossoms hanging on the branches, such as snow like dazzling, such as clouds like floating, such as waves like sprinkling, such as plum like fragrance.

In fact, I invited friends to enjoy this pear garden, there is another consideration.

Most of the pear trees planted in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, the park more than 3500 ancient pear trees, the oldest trees have been in the 300 years. The garden of ancient trees, planted by the mountain, the terrain is high and low, overlapping, stretching for miles, like a green veil of heaven shaking down in the mountain beam, constitute a beautiful picture.

Although the beauty of pear flowers, ultimately to the pear. Water city pear garden pear tree, bearing a kind of pear. Perhaps the love of the highland sun, pear thin skin and tender, honey sweet with a light fragrance, the taste is unique and long. That year outside the province to engage in commodity trade fair, a villager packaged two big bags of pear to go to the exhibition, due to no experience, did not handle the entry procedures, but can not enter the venue. Seeing the sun to the west, the exhibition and trade has been hopeless, the villager had to solve the pear, began to peel the pear themselves to eat. He took a cloth bag to catch the peeled pear, a pear did not eat, pear skin has been full of bees. There are knowledgeable merchants see, bees chasing the taste, good pear ah! Tasted, sweet taste and calm, crispy with fragrance, immediately the rest of the pear all buy away. From then on, this pear garden of the pear only began to be known far and wide.

While walking introduction, I thought the friend will be shocked, will be curious, will stop to ask me. But he did not, is still the look of thoughtful. I followed his line of sight and saw the group of sculptures standing on a high platform.

This is a group of large sculptures called "Wumeng Pound".

Under the sun, the huge historical figures group sculpture shines with the unique luster of stone. The group sculpture presents the long march of the Ninth Red Army Corps to reach Huize in the scene of the pear garden assembly, reproducing the moment of history that had a significant impact on the Chinese revolution. Not far from the sculpture, is a solemn memorial complex, furnished with revolutionary historical relics.

We went up the steps, and my friend suddenly asked me: how many steps are there?

I froze. I have come to the water city pear garden many times, really have not counted the steps. Friends said with a smile, a total of 188 steps, he carefully counted.

Friends of the observation of things, always have a unique perspective. He came to a high platform of the pear garden, from here to look out, the sculpture is hidden in the white pear. Endless pear blossoms lined with red group sculpture, the outreach of the sculpture was infinitely expanded, as if thousands of horses are coming out of the pear garden. I think, when the pear garden, is such a scene, countless poor young people followed the Red Army out of the pear garden, embarked on a new journey.

We both watched quietly, who did not speak. Our visual, auditory, and associative organic integration, the pear garden was given a special mood. Here quietly reading, taste the pear garden, will be heartily feel uplifted and proud, as if you can hear the red army war horse neighing and pear garden oath of declaration.

In May 1935, the Central Red Army Ninth Corps long march to reach Huize, the tired Red Army is in urgent need of a rest and replenishment. The Red Army issued an ultimatum to the reactionary militia group guarding the city, ordering a deadline to open the gates. The leader of the militia group pretended to surrender, but sent someone to the Yunnan provincial capital to ask for help, attempting to maneuver with the Red Army and hold the city for help. The Red Army recognized the plot of the militia and with the help of the underground party in Huize, quickly took control of two high points, Jinzhongshan and Pingtoushan, forming an absolute suppression of the enemy. The enemy still had illusions and relied on the tall and strong city walls and numerous forts to resist. In order to avoid the spread of fighting to the innocent masses, the Red Army adopted the tactic of attacking the heart, shouting several times at the front line to the enemy, and the masses outside the city also went to do work spontaneously, shouting along the walls: the Red Army is our poor people's team, the poor people want to turn over, come and become the Red Army, and take the opportunity to stuff the Red Army leaflets through the gaps in the city gates. The army of the militia group defending the city was shaken, but the reactionaries were not happy with their defeat and forced the militia soldiers with guns to continue their stubborn resistance. After several ineffective warnings, the Red Army launched an attack on the enemy defending the city, and the masses outside the city carried door panels and timber to help the Red Army set up ladders, and after a short, fierce battle, the Red Army took the city of Huize in one fell swoop. The people in the city heard the news, spontaneously came out of their homes, holding red eggs, dry tobacco, hot tea, along the streets to meet the Red Army, and all the eaves lights in the city, a time, all the streets in the city of Huize a brilliant, dark as day, the people celebrated the victory, laughter continued until dawn.

I have heard this dusty history many times. The narrator's face shone with divine pride when he talked about this history. As descendants of the people of Huize, they have reason to be proud. After the Red Army occupied the city of Huize, the troops were disciplined and did not commit any crime against the masses, opening grain silos in a timely manner, relieving the needy and promoting anti-Japanese ideas. The Red Army received the enthusiastic support of the local people, and in just three days, more than 1,500 people signed up to join the Red Army. The most legendary is the story of a 14 or 15-year-old boy who joined the army. The teenager who came to sign up with a basket on his back, because of his young age and short stature, came several times without enrolling. A female soldier borrowed his basket under his feet to preach at high altitude, when the female soldier returned his basket and wanted to pay, the teenager resolutely refused to accept, only wanting to become a Red Army. The head of the army was impressed by his sincerity and persistence, exceptionally recruited him into the Red Army team.

The Red Army was finally assembled and integrated in this pear orchard. more than 1,500 Huize warriors enlisted, raising 100,000 silver yuan, more than 400 cotton cloth, more than 1,800 guns were collected, becoming the largest expansion of the Red Army in the journey of the head of the Red Nine. That a cluster, a cluster of pear flowers, the father sent his son to join the army, the woman sent her husband into the army; in this pear garden, there are laughter, laughter, there are also tears. From then on, the endless longing, endless hope, endless pride, also with this pear garden is tightly linked together.

Historical data show that more than 1,500 Red Army expanded in Huize, after years of conquest, and finally left the name of only 100 people. Those martyrs who have been sleeping in the fire and smoke, may have become a pine tree, a pear flower, a colorful cloud. Their lives into this group of sculpture, has become eternal.

I wandered with my friends in the pear garden. It is the season of pear trees blooming. Looking around, the whole pear garden is snow white. The breeze swaying pear branches, like a dream world. This time, we enjoy the flowers in a completely different state of mind. We walked very lightly, very slowly, as if afraid of disturbing the solemn mood accumulated over the years.

Take advantage of the wind stop gap, I was surprised to find that each flower of the pear tree is five petals, in the middle of the white petals, stubbornly sticking out the black stamen, or long or short, staggered. Nature is so magical, so strong color contrast, but unknowingly harmoniously unified, the essence of the perfect integration of the flowers, resulting in the beauty of the artist will also be amazed.

Looking up along the flowers, I kept making new discoveries. These pear flowers are always along the branches of the pair, a branch clustered together, forming a flower cluster of different sizes, flower clusters gathered together, and a larger flower cluster, bursting out of the extremely strong visual impact. Pear flowers also have a very strong complementarity, when a pear flower is missing, the lateral pear flowers will be a tenacious vitality, increase the petals, move the flower position, fill the gap, so that the flower cluster to maintain the perfect posture and flower shape.

My friend suddenly called me. His face put light, said his pear garden trip, the mind was greatly shocked. He decided, in the future to come to the red pear garden to make a film.

"Red Pear Garden", I slowly recalled the phrase, the heart is clear.