Memories of Hometown

Memories of Hometown

by Jin Yude

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There is this sentence in "Remembering the South of the Yangtze River" written by the poet Bai Juyi of the Tang Dynasty: "When I remember the south of the Yangtze River, I remember Hangzhou the most." He said that Hangzhou's "looking for osmanthus seeds in the moonlight in the mountain temples, and watching the tide on the pillow in the county pavilion" left the deepest memory for him; but what I remember most is the barren and slightly bitter but warm hometown of my childhood. At that time, my hometown was a small mountain village with only about 20 households. Behind the village were rolling mountains. There were patches of farmland in the deserted beach in front of the village. More than 20 households were scattered irregularly in the dustpan-shaped mountain bay. There are six or seven families lined up at the foot of the sunny hillside. Perhaps they were the first pioneers to come here to open up the land. They chose the best living location in the poor mountain village, and thus became the earliest "land households" in the village. People call them "Yangpo people";

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