Guan Zhongyuan

Guanzhongyuan is not the name on the map. To the north of the Guanzhong Plain is the loess-covered Taiyuan. The wind blows from Longxi and the rain comes from Qinling Mountains. For generations, farmers have dug food from the soil and grown back from the soil. In the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu's reign, Zhang Guanghou buried the ancestral stone plaque of "Farming and Reading Heirloom" under the locust tree. He thought that if it was buried deep enough, no one would be able to move it. Can't bury it. In the next hundred years, warlords crossed the border, Japanese soldiers crossed the river, land reform was carried out to divide the land, large-scale steel smelting, fleeing from famine, fighting, entering the city, demolition - the times, like a plowshare, turned this land over and over again. Three generations of the Zhang family stood on the original site. Some lived on their knees, some died standing, some fled and never came back, and some could not find the location of their ancestral graves when they returned. This is a century-old history of Guanzhong and a nation's land memory. What is being passed down through farming and reading? These four words have weighed on three generations. One hundred years later, the fragments of the stone plaque were dug out of the ground. Someone asked: Is it still passed down? There was no answer. The wind continues to blow.