In the world of heaven and earth, around every village, there is land that sustains people's survival. Over the years, most of these plots of land cultivated by successive generations of people have their own names.
In our village, almost every plot around the village has its own name. Unlike people's names, which are based on references to scriptures, seniority and seniority, the names of places are very casual and even vulgar. Some are named after the landforms of the land. Those with a triangular shape are called triangle land or sharp angle land, and those with long ridges are called changshun land or shoulder pole land. Some plots of land are called Liujiafeng, Wangjiafeng, Zhang Maiwang Cemetery, and Chenliushui Cemetery, depending on which family or person was buried there. In some plots, there are large and old trees growing in the fields. Although some of them no longer exist, they are still called the Niuxin Persimmon Tree Dingtou Land, or the Yellow Neem Tree Shangyan Land and Xiayan Land. Some plots of land are called Wang Zhongxiang Slope or Yang Tiehe Watermelon Garden because a certain person has been farming for many years or has made innovations in this land. Some plots are named after pictographic objects, such as Cane Hollow or Lampstand Edge. Some land parcels are named after similar objects, such as Nose Bridge Land, or Ma Ergou Land...
The names of the land are all kinds of, each with a distinctive image. Continuing the long history of the village.
The name of a piece of land is the label of the land. Year after year, people cultivate the land, thinking about the name of the land in their hearts. The name of the land is filled with people's hard work and sweat, contains people's expectations and longings, and is also filled with the laughter and laughter of people farming and harvesting. As a kind of regional culture, the names of places have taken root in their respective categories.
Being in a foreign country, the threads of nostalgia are intertwined with the people and things in my hometown. The names of those simple and natural places in the villages and fields make me feel infinite nostalgia.