100余幅墻繪講述清江故事

Over 100 Wall Paintings Tell the Story of the Qingjiang River

大學生返鄉創業留住“鄉愁”

Returning home to start his business, A College Graduate Depicts the Beautiful“Homesickness”

極目新聞記者 劉俊華

Reporter: Liu Junhua

翻譯：徐彩云 衛拉 尚綺

Translator:Xu Caiyun, Lisa, Shang Qi

鄉愁可以看見嗎？宜昌宜都市高壩洲鎮白鴨垴村，一些村民的墻上就畫著鄉愁：清江的纖夫、鄉里的石匠、放排的水手……一幅幅都能勾起清江岸邊人的記憶。這些承載著時光厚重的作品，大都出自剛剛大學畢業的年輕人龔庭杰之手。

Is homesickness visible? In Baiyanao Village, Gaobazhou Town, Yidu of Yichang, homesickness is painted on the walls: boat trackers on the Qingjiang River, stonemasons in the village,raftingsailors... Each piece of painting evokes the memory of the people living along the Qingjiang River. Most of these works, telling a story of the past,are created by Gong Tingjie, a young man who has just graduated from university.

返鄉創業的龔庭杰在村里墻壁上留下了100余幅墻繪，吸引了許多游客來此打卡觀摩，他也被稱為“畫出鄉愁的人”。

Gong Tingjie, who returned to his hometown to start his own business, has createdmore than 100 wall paintings in the village, attracting many tourists. He is thuscalledthe“homesickness painter”.

大學生回鄉創業畫鄉愁

Returning home to start his business, the College graduate depicts “homesickness”.

白鴨垴村，是位于清江彎彎里的一個小山村。

Baiyanao is a small mountain village located inone of the bendsof the Qingjiang River.

很久以前，這里的村民都是以采石、捕魚為生，是一個靠山吃山、靠水吃水的地方。

Villagers there used to live on quarrying and fishing as the mountains and rivers were their only source of food.

1997年出生的龔庭杰，爺爺輩都是在江里討生活的人。到了他這一代，身為獨生子女，家里當然希望他能遠離風浪，過上更安穩的生活。

Gong Tingjie was born in 1997. His grandparents and their generation all lived near the riverand relied on it for a living. When it came to his generation, being the only child of the family, he was expected to stay away from the waves and live a more secure and stable life.

龔庭杰從小喜歡畫畫，高中時就是一名藝術生，后來上了武漢一所大學的視覺傳達專業。2019年，龔庭杰大學畢業，留在武漢從事室內設計的工作。第二年，他因為疫情滯留在老家。

Gong had found his interest in painting since childhood and was an art student in senior high school. Later,he was admitted to a university in Wuhan as a student of visual communication. After Gong graduated from the university in 2019, he chose to stay in Wuhan and worked as an interior designer. But in the following year when the epidemic broke out,he happened to be at home and was thus detained there.

這是他成年后第一次近距離凝視自己的家鄉，祖輩上沿襲了千年的生活方式正在被改變。因為長江大保護，清江和山林再也不是村民直接的衣食父母，鄉村振興的大潮，將時代的推到年輕人面前。村委會領導看到大學生龔庭杰有意留在村里，于是將他納入后備干部培養。真的決定留下來后，龔庭杰開始追問自己：“我在村里能做些什么呢？”

This was the first time he had ever taken a close look at his hometown as an adult. He found that the local way of life that had been followed for thousands of years was undergoing great changes.Because of the implementation of the Great Protection of the Yangtze River policy, villagers can no longer rely on the Qingjiang River(a tributary of the Yangtze River) and the mountain forests as their only source of living. This new tide of rural revitalization has brought a new proposition to the youth. When the village leadership learned about Gong Tingjie"s intention to stay in the village, they put him on the list of reserved cadres. When he finally decided to stay, he began to question himself, “what can I do for the village?”

白鴨垴村黨總支書記熊愛民說：“我們正在建設美麗鄉村，你是美術科班生，肯定可以發揮特長啊。”

“We are building our village into one that is beautiful,” Xiong Aimin, the party secretary of Baiyanao Village told him,“You are an art major, and you can certainly give your talents a full play.”

龔庭杰馬上想到，在武漢時曾經給一些企業繪過墻繪。白鴨垴村那么多故事，如果用墻繪表現出來，一定會是一道獨特的風景。

This reminded Gong Tingjie of his past experience in painting wall paintings for companies in Wuhan. With so many stories to tell in Baiyanao,he could create a unique scenery for the village if he put all these stories on the wall in the form of painting.

百幅墻繪講述清江故事

Over 100 wall paintings tell the story of the Qingjiang River

2021年夏天，龔庭杰拿起畫筆，他最想要畫的是祖輩的生活。

In the summer of 2021, Gong Tingjie took up his brush and began his wall paintings. He particularly wanted to depict the way of life of their ancestors.

他選中了村民曹遠金的房子，這是一棟橫向較長的平房，在蜿蜒的鄉村小路上視角也不錯。68歲的的曹遠金很爽快：“你是把我的房子畫好看，把我們村畫美，我支持你！”

He chose villager Cao Yuanjin"s house for his first attempt. It is a bungalow with a broad front and a nice view of the winding country road. Cao Yuanjin, the 68-year-old villager was very willing to accept the painting as he said, “I fully support you because you are beautifying my house and our village.”

把墻刷白后，龔庭杰用綠色顏料畫出山坡，坡上接著多了一座紅廟。鄉親們好奇，一個個過來圍觀。等山腳出現了一條河流，岸上赤身的纖夫們逆流而上拉纖時，圍觀的人恍然大悟：“江是咱們的清江，廟是咱們的三幫廟。” 龔庭杰畫了三天，村口多了這幅“清江拉纖”圖。

After painting the wall white, Gong Tingjie then painted green hills before adding a red temple on one of the hills. Curious villagers slowly gathered around him to watch. When a river was drawn at the foot of the hills with a number of boat trackers bare to their waists towing a boat along the river, the villagers suddenly realized that what Gong had painted was the Qingjiang River and the Sanbang Temple. It took Gong Tingjie three days to finish the painting“Boat Trackers on Qingjiang”which now stands at the entrance of the village greeting visitors from far and near.

清江纖夫 Boat Trackers onQingjiang

此后半年間，“圍爐夜話”“小榨工藝”“清江放排”……這些白鴨垴村的集體記憶被陸續搬到村里的墻上，化為五彩斑斕的墻繪，不僅給村容村貌添了色彩，又勾起鄉親們的回憶。有時忙不過來，龔庭杰就邀一起學過美術的朋友來幫忙。到現在，龔庭杰和伙伴們在家鄉創作的墻繪作品已有100多幅。

In the following six months, more paintings such as the “Evening Chat Around the Stove”, “Oil Extraction”, “Rafting on Qingjiang”and others gradually appeared on the walls around the village. These colorful paintings, bearing the common memories of the villagers, easily evoked their warm feeling of the past while beautifying the village. Sometimes Gong Tingjie would invite his friends,who had also studied art,to help him with the work when he was too busy. Till date, they have finished more than 100 wall paintings.

“圍爐夜話”就是當地人真實的生活圖景。寒冬臘月，江邊濕冷，夜里吃完飯，人們總圍在火爐邊，喝著水，聊聊天。爐火跳動著，把地瓜的香氣烤到空氣中，墻上掛著臘肉，小孩滿地跑。

“Evening Chat Around the Stove”is indeed a true portrait of the local life. In midwinter by the chilly river, a family would always gather around the stove after their supper, sipping some tea and chatting. The room would be filled with the aroma of the sweet potatoes baked in the stove and the cured meat hanging on the wall, all while the kids were running around.

“小時候，時間過得很慢，冬天很長。”龔庭杰喜歡這個他生活了二十多年的村子，春暖花開去摘梨，夏日炎炎去撈蝦，秋高氣爽收橘子，寒冬臘月圍爐夜話。山清水秀，生活舒緩，令人陶醉。

Gong Tingjie loves the village in which he has lived for over 20 years.“The time seemed to go by slowly when I was young and the winter was always long.”This village bears his memory of picking pears in the blooming spring, catching shrimps in the hot summer, collecting oranges in the cool autumn and chatting around the stove with his family in midwinter. Life is leisurely and peaceful and everything is so intoxicating for him in such a beautiful village.

摸索生態文旅發展之路

The Exploration of an Ecological Path for Cultural Tourism

一開始，村民們只是發現墻繪讓村子變得好看、有趣了。后來，大家發現，每逢節假日，城里的人會開著車來到這里，看墻繪、賞風景、吃農家菜。

At first, the villagers just thought that the wall paintings made the village more beautiful and interesting. They later found that people from the city would drive here to enjoy the wall paintings as well as the beautiful scenery and delicious food.

龔庭杰和村民們都切身體會到，看得見山、望得見水、舒緩的生活、有人情味兒的交流、極具特色的風土人情，都是白鴨垴的寶藏。搞墻繪，是為了在城鎮化的過程中，留住鄉村記憶，守護好鄉愁，這既是對當地人情感的尊重，又是鄉村賴以生存發展的特色資源。

Both Gong Tingjie and the villagers realize that the mountains, rivers, the relaxing lifestyle, the warm and intimate communication among the villagers and the unique local culture are the true treasures of Baiyanao Village. Wall-painting is just one way to preserve the memory of their village and their nostalgia in the process of urbanization. It shows respect to the affection that the locals have for the past life, and is a unique resource for the development of the village.

近幾年，白鴨垴的謀生方式有了變化。以往，人們在清江里搞網箱養殖，在山上養豬。如今，長江全面禁捕，清江500米范圍內禁止舶船，規模養豬場也有了環保要求，經過整治，清江水又清了，村里的經濟來源卻只剩下成片的柑橘園。

In recent years, the lifestyle of the villagers has undergone great changes. They used to engage in cage aquaculture in the Qingjiang River and pig-raising in the hills. Now, since a ban has been implemented on the fishing along the Yangtze River, ships are prohibited within 500 meters of Qingjiang River. Meanwhile, large-scale pig farms are required to meet relevant environmental protection requirements. With these measures in place, the water in the Qingjiang River is clear again, however, the villagers are now left to rely only on the citrus groves for their income.

如何在保護綠水青山的基礎上實現對生態資源的最大利用，讓鄉親們穩定增收，過上更好的日子，是當前龔庭杰和村委會一班人經常琢磨的事情。

So how to make full use of the ecological resources while protecting the mountains and rivers and increase the income of the villagers has become a question of great interest to Gong Tingjie and the village committee.

龔庭杰的父親，在村里經營著一間農家樂。受兒子的啟發，他正在醞釀將農家樂打造成清江“三幫”主題的餐廳，通過陳列“三幫”文化，宣講“三幫”故事，吸引更多的人來了解“三幫”，關注白鴨垴。

Gong Tingjie"s father runs a restaurant for agritainment in the village. Inspired by his son, he plans to build it into a theme restaurant of “Sanbang”.With the exhibition of “Sanbang”culture, through the telling of “Sanbang”stories, he hopes to attract more attention to Baiyanao and get more people to learn about “Sanbang”culture. (“Sanbang”refers to three organized groups in the past, namely, Shibang (stonemason group), Kebang(merchant group) and Chuanbang (ship transportation group).

白鴨垴有講民間故事的傳統，經積極整合，被宜昌民間文藝家協會授予“民間故事村”稱號。白鴨垴有山水資源，有農家樂。村委會決定以“藝術墻繪+民間故事村”為著力點，吸引外來游客。

Baiyanao has the tradition of folklore telling. It is granted the title of “Folklore Village”by the Yichang Folk Literature and Art Association after its stories were sorted out and compiled. Baiyanao Village enjoys both lush mountains and lucid water as well as agritainment, now the village committee has decided to focus on wall paintings and folk stories to attract visitors.

白鴨垴村黨總支書記熊愛民告訴極目新聞記者，好山、好水、好故事，有了這幾個亮點，白鴨垴村決定打造故事村品牌，摸索一條生態文旅發展之路。

“With green mountains, clean water and enchanting stories, Baiyanao Village has decided to explore an ecological way for cultural tourism and build its brand into a village of stories.”Xiong Aimin, the party secretary of Baiyanao Village, told the reporter.