Unlike grandma's house, grandma's house is the lowest in the village. The Feng Shui master said that this house has excellent Feng Shui. The house is an ancestral home with a history of more than a hundred years. It was built by my great-grandfather. At this time, my great-grandfather lived with his third grandpa, grandpa (fifth row), and sixth grandpa. Grandpa left the city only during a special period. , returned to the countryside to work in farming.
The house faces south, with several rice fields in front of the door and several tall cedar trees beside the fields. The mountains in the distance are like dark green trees, lush and green, and it is extremely beautiful. To the east of the house is a mountain, which is covered with bamboo . The village is named after bamboo. There is a gravel road on the side of the mountain leading to the outside of the village.
Grandma’s ancestral house (photographed in 2013)
Every morning, the sun rises from the east, and the sunlight shines through the bamboo forest on the mountain. The morning mist in the forest curls up, like a layer of gauze, like a dream, This time is the most beautiful time of the day. As the sun gradually rises, the dense fog becomes lighter and lighter, until it completely dissipates, the outline of the mountain is revealed, and a new day begins.
At this time, villagers wearing bamboo hats drove their sheep across the gravel road and went out to graze. At this time, mountains and bamboo forests serve as the background, and villagers and sheep are dotted among them. It is like a picture of pastoral farming, as if you have traveled to ancient times.
I appreciate all of this. Every morning is my happiest time. I enjoy the peace and tranquility here.
The rice fields in front of the ancestral house
After entering the 1990s, my grandparents moved to the town, and the uncles and aunts started their own businesses, so the old house became vacant.
More than thirty years have passed, and we have entered middle age. It was not until 2013 that I returned to my hometown again. I specially asked my third uncle to drive my parents and me back to our old house in the countryside to see what we had not seen for a long time. She took those two photos.
Nowadays, my uncle and aunt have returned to the old house, farming and raising pigs. On special days, uncles and aunts from the city bring their wives back to the village, get together in the old house, and eat farm food. Feel the rural life in the past, much like the most popular farmhouse nowadays.
At this time, laughter and laughter passed through the fields and echoed in the bamboo forest...
Grandma’s ancestral house (photographed in 2022)
