Xieyang Town is the westernmost town in Shangzhou District, further west is Lantian County, northwest is Hongyan Temple in Zhashui County, southwest is Jinling Temple Town, and east is Yangyuhe Town. The transportation is convenient, and the Shanghai-Shaanxi Expressway passes through the territory. The Sewu high-speed railway under construction will also cross the border.
As a native of Shangzhou, it is a great pity that I have never been to many local places. Xie Yang is one of them. It is said that there is a Songyun Temple. The pine and cypress trees are very old, and the temple is also very old. It is famous in the local area and can't help but make people look forward to it. This time, I went to Xie Yang for invigilation. On the one hand, you can get rid of regrets, on the other hand, you can visit Songyun Temple, so you don't care about the long journey.
Xie Yang Junior High School is located in the middle of the street, and the entrance is the busiest place in the street. Surrounded by mountains, the mountains are towering and the trees are dense. Next to the street is a village road, which runs every 30 minutes and goes directly to Shangluo bus station. There is a small river next to the road, named Qinnan River, which is gurgling and crystal clear, and flows eastward into Danjiang River. Danjiang River is an important tributary of the Han River and the water source of the South-to-North Water Transfer Project. The clear water of this river may flow to Beijing, Tianjin or Zhongnanhai.
The school campus is small, but the layout is reasonable. There is a three-story building on each side, and the administrative building of the teaching building, dormitory building and laboratory building is surrounded by a rectangle, with a playground, basketball court, badminton court, table tennis table, plastic runway and fake grass in the middle, which is spotless. In front of the teaching building, two cedars are tall and straight, like handfuls of huge umbrellas. On a hot summer day, athletes sweating profusely on the playground are indispensable under the trees.
Proofreading is a hard job. Eight performances in two days, working eight hours a day. Although it doesn't take physical and mental effort, time is hard. My method is to prepare a few pieces of paper in advance and write my favorite poems on it as a recitation task during invigilation. While invigilating, walking and reciting. In this way, we have not only finished our work, but also completed the task of walking and exercising, and prepared a new lesson for the next semester, thus avoiding boredom. It really kills two birds with one stone. Unconsciously, the two-day invigilation ended.
Songyun Temple is a must. On the first day, it was dark after the preparatory meeting, and then we had dinner together. The first meal is always very particular, with the meaning of welcoming guests. This restaurant is the most exclusive in town. Food is the standard of eight cool and eight hot banquets. Liquor drinks and melon fruit bowls show the simplicity and kindness of the mountain people. The venue for drinking will not end too early, and the enthusiasm of drinkers is always getting higher and higher. After a full meal, people are tired, and rest is the first.
As soon as dinner was finished the next day, everyone shouted to go to Songyun Temple. Although it is snowing heavily and the cold wind is blowing gently, everyone still thinks that snow will shine. Braving the cold, with the help of car lights, I walked in the dark for more than half an hour and finally found Songyun Temple. But I saw pine Berlin, the door was closed and there was no one there. The door was closed from the inside, so everyone said that someone must have knocked at the door and shouted, but there was no response. Everyone gave up hope and guessed that there must be a back door in the yard. People close the front door and go out through the back door. On the way back, it snowed even harder, and it was against the wind, and the face was biting, but everyone's interest was not destroyed, talking and laughing, and they soon returned to school.
After lunch the next day, everyone invited them to Songyun Temple. Just arrived on the highway, a bus stopped at the side of the road. After discussion, everyone decided to take the bus. After one stop, I arrived at Songyun Temple. Unexpectedly, the gate was locked again. Disappointed, I saw two phone numbers written on the door Wang Chaoyang immediately took out the phone and explained the purpose of her dialing. The other party said she would come soon. We stood outside the door and waited. I found the words Songyun Temple written by Jia Pingwa on the plaque on the door. Everyone says that a celebrity as big as Mr. Jia can write an inscription, which shows that this temple is also famous. Just then, the man who opened the door came. Yvonne Wang said to trouble you. We came here last night and the door was closed. This is the second time today.
The four of us were really shocked when we came to the hospital. The first thing I saw was the main landscape of Songyun Temple. An ancient pine tree crawled, just like a centenarian bent down and looked up because of aging. The trunk is not only oblique, but also hovering, like an old dragon. Branches, like trunks, are inclined and hovering, more than two meters from the ground, and you can touch them with your hands. Several pillars stand under the tree, supporting the branches of Yun Song. The pillar is made of cement and looks like a trunk. Look carefully, the color is different, of course not. Oh, it's dead. I said, this is a sacred tree. Let's take a picture with it and let the gods bless us. The manager of the temple said, yes, this tree is two thousand years old, and this temple is three hundred years old. They sighed and moved to the back, only to find three cypress trees standing in front of the main temple, towering into the sky, with two hugs thick, cracked bark and colorless leaves, only covered with snow.
The temple is in the innermost part, built during the reign of Kangxi, and there is a statue of Guan Gong inside. We didn't go in, just looked at Guandi's face through the crack of the door.
? This time, Xie Yang's trip was only happy, with no regrets.