In Shanghai's most beautiful water village, a group of high -education youths hold a group life

Cenbu Village in the western suburbs of Shanghai is a national ecological culture village,

Also belongs to the water source reserve in Shanghai,

It was built along the river, surrounded by woods and lakes, and fireflies flying in summer nights,

Because of a good ecological environment,

For more than 10 years, many new villagers have been attracted.

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Photographer Chain took pictures of Cenbu Village this summer

Among them are Shanghai girls with organic agriculture,

Doctor of biology moved by home,

Water sports enthusiasts,

Retired environment planner,

Artist, musician, modern dancer, etc.

There are also office workers in the city,

Willing to work hard to and from the city, choose to live here.

Because of a similar attitude of life and a frequent atmosphere of village,

A warm community feels between the new villagers,

Like a Urban Urban, which is close to nature.

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Liang Jie, a new villager who moved in 2018

I experienced 4 or 5 days before and after a film crew,

I also talk to new villagers about their lives and choices.

At present, Cenbu Village may face planning and transformation.

Many new villagers lamented, "If you plant the flowers and plants in the city, repair the wall in the city,

Fireflies are gone, and it is difficult for egret to come back again ...

Now such a original village,

It is the beauty given by nature. "

Written: Ni Yan

Responsible editor: Chen Ziwen

Zhang Yang was from the Northeast. After reading the PhD in biology, he went to Shanghai and became an office worker. In 2011, because he helped friends to move, Zhang Yang first came to Cenbu Village in the western suburbs of Shanghai for the first time. A brand of village entrance reads: National Ecological Culture Village.

Cenbu Village was built along the river. The three sides were woods, facing the lake, so it was very complete, and it belonged to the water source protection area of ​​Shanghai. The surrounding polluting factories had all moved away. The fish below the water grass is clearly visible.

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Picture provision: Siyi

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Komatsu

At that time, there were only elderly people left in the village. There were no young people, and they were at sunset. They were particularly dark at night. Under the bridge, there were often large reeds. Summer nights, hundreds of fireflies fluttered on the reeds, reflected in the water, and the fireflies that could not be divided into water surfaces could not be divided into water surface. fire.

That night, Zhang Yang met the first new villagers who lived in Cenbu Village, and the frog father (Xue Yan) and his wife returned from Taiwan.

The frog mother brought a heart of vegetables just picked in the ground. There were fifty or sixty roots, all of which were tender and tip of the top of the vegetables, sweet and glutinous. "I have never tasted that taste." Now Zhang Yang's memory is still fresh.

Zhang Yang also went to their house. The frog dad rented out the abandoned house in a wall in the village and transformed it into a vibrant idyllic courtyard. Zhang Yang asked him to help find a house in the village.

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Zhang Yang's family

At that time, the rent was very cheap. Zhang Yang found two old houses on the west side of a small bridge and lived so far. He felt very fate, because his wife's hometown was called Qiaoxi Village. In 2012, there were only three or five new villagers in the village. The next day, they moved to the new villagers of the frog dad to joy. "I feel that there is no gap between each other and completely relaxing, basically this is the state of the earliest group in the village."

Originally, Zhang Yang and his wife came together on weekends. They usually worked in Shanghai from Monday to Friday. In 2013, because they resigned completely and wanted to start a business, they began to live in the village every day.

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Zhang Yang's father -in -law village walk in the village

Zhang Yang's father -in -law has Alzheimer's disease. He lives in the city and dare not go upstairs, because when the cognitive ability is reduced, the stimulus such as the traffic outside and other stimulus will bring huge fear. He moved to the village, and he could still take care of the garden in the beginning. In recent years, he has not known anyone, but he is still willing to go out to bend, because the village is serene and quiet, so the recession of the whole body is not so fast.

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Doudou growing up

Daughter Doudou was born here and grew up. At the age of 3, she read the local Dianshan Lake Kindergarten and had a childhood experience of "Baicao Garden". From the beginning of the summer vacation, I ran to the backyard to play with my barefoot. Gecko capture insects and sprinkle the seeds of yellow onions with his dad. After a week, a small seedlings appeared ...

"Maybe if you grow up, you will choose to go back to the city to go to school, but her childhood is rich and three -dimensional."

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The weeds of publicity are overgrown, but it also maintains the soil wet, and the leeks under weeds grow well.

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Choose leek under the tree

Zhang Yang is now driving the company in Hangzhou, home in Cenbu Village, and traveling to and from two places. The biggest hobby when staying in the village is the land. The rented 0.2 acres of fields does not apply pesticides and does not eliminate herbs. The fun lies in labor and harvest.

Cut a basket of leeks in the ground, and shouted the neighbors of the new villagers and came to wrap leek dumplings together.

The backyard of the Zhang Yang family has a two -story tuned tree, the crown is like a cover, the 40 -degree afternoon in Shanghai, sitting under the tree, does not even need a fan. People passing by often are amazing. When they got off the house, these trees were all on both sides of the river, but they were just cut off. Zhang Yang insisted on leaving it and grown into a big tree left.

People, painters, music teachers, modern dancers, retired scientists, kayak athletes, etc. have also found that Cenbu Village has been moved in, which naturally forms a new villager community. The most exaggerated time under the tree, 40 people ate together. In the New Year, Zhang Yang's husband and wife will also call a single new villager in the village to have a New Year's Eve dinner. "There is a new villager in the village who will be lonely. By 2014, we had 20 or 30 new villagers, and it felt particularly good."

The frog father is 80 years old. Recently, he was busy observing the butterfly on the codoners in the yard.

When making this small courtyard, he wanted to create an ecological corner, dug a 3 -meter -deep well, and filled the pool after the water was hit. The animals and plants can spread automatically. Water lilies, reeds, and money are paved with green greens. When it rains, the frogs in the yard are very lively -frogs are the instructions of the environment.

Then the butterfly food and honey source plant was planted, so that the butterflies of spring, summer, and autumn will continue to appear. When many times, you can see everywhere, and you can take the camera to shoot. The frog dad records 20 kinds of butterflies in the yard. Essence

There were a few clusters of rosemary at the door of the yard. When I walked, my body stabbed it, and the smell had the effect of mosquito repellent.

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The butterfly recorded in the small courtyard

Such a small courtyard not only attracted Zhang Yang, but also played almost the role of templates. In the subsequent new villagers, several new villagers saw the frog's father's life. They decided to rent a house here, and they all rented the old house. Old black tile and white wall style.

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A peach tree grows for no reason, which may be the bird egg that falls from the bird title (left), maybe it can break the shell (right)

The frog father was born in Chongqing. He was originally an environmental planner in Taipei and Kaohsiung. When he retired, he came to the Shanghai Zoo to establish a studio at the Shanghai Garden Bureau. In an accidental inspection in 2010, Cenbu Village was discovered. "Let's live here."

Because he was the first new villager who was officially stayed in, the old villagers were still "conservative" at the time, but the frog mother "good! Grandpa! Gere!" After greeting for a while, the old villagers began to respond.

The frog mother was born in Shanghai, and Anju Cenbu Village was a sense of nostalgia for her. "Respecting is important. Old villagers are the masters of here. I often think that we are here and have this mentality: we are here to disturb them. "".

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The corner of the living room and the small tea room

When they moved in, they gave out the original new furniture and used simple old furniture. The old villagers were very curious about them, and they did not have the sense of boundaries between cities. Essence So the frog mother decided not to install curtains in the living room, so that the villagers looked at each other lightly, and they were not embarrassing to each other. The relationship is gradually integrated.

In the evening, the two elderly white -haired elderly people were used to wandering in the village. "After familiarity, the old villagers have any dishes in the fields, and the fruit on the tree will be stuffed a little. When you are empty. "

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The egrets in the fields are ups and downs

Because of professional habits, the frog dad has a strong vision for Cenbu Village, hoping that its excellent ecological environment will be maintained. For example, in 2015, the village transformed the field gutter canal, and he fought with the new villagers of organic agriculture, Kang Hongli, and did not make completely hardening cement grooves, so that frogs, snakes and other animals could never come out. The village also absorbed suggestions and made a semi -transparent water ditch canal.

"Many new villagers joked that they saw us and wanted to move into Cenbu Village, but what really attracted people must be the environment and gas field of the village itself."

Kang Hongli and frog father are old friends of ten years. They graduated from the Department of Ecology of Wuhan University. They grew up in the Huangpu River in Shanghai from an early age. They were attracted by no pollution water and environment in Cenbu Village to do organic agriculture practice.

"Just now the brown back, Bo Ru, flew into the field and grabbed a puppet", "Haha, this jade belt the bird with a pawn in order to suck the honey," ... staying with Kang Hongli in the field, she can see it. To countless things that others can't pay attention to.

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In order to suck the honey stuck in the ling Xiaohua in the long tube, Kang Hongli released it out

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There is a hedge on both sides of the field

Many people will question the output of organic agriculture, which is only an ideal state, but after more than ten years of practice, Kang Hongli confirms that organic agriculture can also have a benign output, and 5 local villagers have been hired. Balanced, "just can't pay his salary," Kang Hongli said with a smile.

The fields she rented were 10.5 acres, planting dense hibiscus trees around, forming a hedge, becoming a biological corridor. Many predators can pass through the corridor. For example, black -breasted bees can prey in green worms. Different colored ladybugs can eliminate a large number of aphids. The fields do not need to take medicine.

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The hedge ladybugs and black chest bees in the hedge can eat pests in the fields

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茭 茭 茭 茭

In the drought vegetable field, she designed a ditch to make the aquatic plant grow white and become a corridor for aquatic creatures. Frogs, dragonflies, loach, etc. grow here. On the one hand, inhibit insect pests. The fertilizer will be rushed into the ditch and is used by white white without polluting natural water. It can be produced, and the price of selling is three times that of ordinary vegetables. The elderly in the village can also see her way.

In the early years, Kang Hongli did copywriting in Shanghai. She often stayed up late. She had a lot of problems. She also had the idea of ​​healing in the village. The lush and lush rural areas are different from the neat greening of the city, which can make people relax.

In the summer night of 2011, she was walking in Cenbu Village. Suddenly, she saw a large fireflies beside the river. The number was a lot, and the flight speed was fast.

At that time, Shanghai was considered to have only one kind of land -raising fireflies, which was very small, called yellow veins, and Kang Hongli went to ask the experts of fireflies and found that this is a species that Shanghai has never recorded.

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There are not many reed land in the village, and there are still some left around Xiaoyang Yang.

The aunt in this village is very hardworking and does not let go of any wasteland, and has reclaimed all the wetlands by the river, because the herbs and pesticides will be removed when planting crops, and the fireflies are easily killed. Auntie, dozens of yuan a year, aunt can go to the village to pack a piece of land, and wetlands will not be planted, and they are also happy.

After the wetland is retained, the native vegetation is planted, and the aquatic fireflies have recovered a lot, but it is a pity that when the river project is done a few years later, the river channel becomes a landscape trail. Plants, the idea of ​​the fireflies conservation area endless.

"The villages next to the metropolis like Shanghai are not only providing agricultural products for cities, but also high ecological service functions: this is both a water source reserve, alleviating the heat island effect, and a very important function -it heals for urban people healing The soul provides space. I think the original ecological characteristics of the countryside are irreplaceable. "

Another new villagers attracted by Cenbu Village are water sports such as paddle boards and kayaks. Among them, there are national first -level athletes. In fact, like people who are organic agriculture, they are attracted by the environment here. Essence

The characteristics of the water township in this area are very obvious. "There are bridges in the river, and a bridge with a temple." The Yongning 庵 of Cenbu Village existed during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, so there should be a history of more than 200 years.

The water roads are all connected. You can draw all the way to the ancient town of Cenbu Village. Buy a dish in the town's vegetable market. You can draw in Suzhou.

This way of travel is integrated into the lives of the villagers. In the summer evening, the river has no summer heat. The young people are scratching paddle boards, and there are small speakers on the top. The old villagers shake the wooden boat and pass by each other on the rivers. The local boy in his early place, the paddle was gently on the water, and the paddle board shuttled down under the bridge, and the direction was very sophisticated.

The 36 -year -old Li Hongtao was the new villagers who moved from this. Originally lived in Pudong, Shanghai, doing business of car parts, playing a kayak from a month, turned into one week. Later, I wanted to move over. It has been lived for 12 years, turning hobbies into a job, and has operated paddle sports clubs with his wife.

"Because it is not an office worker from nine to five. How can we come and how to come? The Plum Temple is very beautiful every year when the plum blossoms are open. Where the restaurant tastes good, you usually explore these different routes. "

The eldest daughter was 12 years old and studied in a primary school in Suzhou. 10 kilometers from Cenbu Village, "The school is private and relatively loose. This is a state we want. Discuss together to do this. "

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Picture provision: Siyi

The water quality of Cenbu Village actually has a deterioration process. In the two or three years when Li Hongtao just moved, the water was very clear. Slowly, the annual turbidity was getting more and more. When you go out to see the wind direction, the wind direction does not stop the river in the water gourd, and you can't get out of the river. It will take time to come back. If the river is blocked, it will be embarrassing.

Later, the water quality was more nutritious. Li Hongtao described the summer algae flood of the summer as "the impact of the soul". As soon as the sun was sunken, it exuded a stinky smell. Water sports enthusiasts like him are already interested in moving away.

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Li Hongtao picks up the garbage on the water

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The rainbow photographed by Li Hongtao

However, this year's epidemic has been closed for more than two months, and the entire water quality suddenly returned to a particularly good state. "It seems that it can be cured by feeling a real environment 10 years ago."

After this change, Li Hongtao felt that his environmental awareness was mobilized at once. He organized 4 new villagers' father to pick up water garbage together and designed the route to watch the fireflies at night. Perceive. The house where Li Hongtao lived in the house was expired, and he signed another lease for another 10 years.

"It turns out that it only takes a few months, and naturally it can be repaired to such a good state. If we do not destroy it, it can form a good balance by ourselves."

In 2016, the frog father and Li Hongtao planned a water wedding in the village. The groom and the bride are new villagers who met in Cenbu Village. The groom is a graduate of Heilongjiang Agricultural University. He is working in farm management. The bride works at the NGO at the time.

The frog father knew that they had returned to their hometown to have a wedding, but they felt that the villagers watched them come together and proposed that the village was also held in the village, and the biggest feature of Cenbu Village was the water village.

All new villagers came to participate. The groom stood at the bow and followed a welcoming paddle board, slid towards the dock, and picked up the bride. The new villagers each played the director, and the flower artist was responsible for setting up the scene. The couple who made music played music to sing. Li Hongtao organized a welcoming fleet. The old villagers also scratched a boat out to play ... The atmosphere was very warm.

This couple continues to live in the village now, and his wife has admitted a coach certificate to become a kayak coach.

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The new villager Liang Jie's home; during the epidemic sealing, she said that she missed the toon, and she received a lot of them from the neighbor the next day.

There are currently about 90 new villagers in Cenbu Village. There are about 400 houses in the village. Someone came to Cenbu Village before and found that the house was difficult to rent. The warm feeling between them later moved back to the city again.

Why is it that Cenbu Village can form a sense of community? Zhang Yang feels that there are some inevitable reasons outside of coincidence. For example, relative to the surrounding villages, Cenbu Village is very complete and has not been passed through the road; Division with flowers and plants, walking between each other is more casual;

And the earliest people who came to Cenbu Village, everyone's wishes are relatively similar, care about the environment, yearn for a beautiful life that is close to nature, and can interact with each other harmoniously.

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New villagers Liang Jie, planted many vanilla courtyards

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Liang Jie's son is born here, and there are many playmates in the village

Liang Jie moved from Shanghai in 2018. She and Zhang Yang's family often crossed the door across the house. She runs her aromatherapy and tea shop in the village. Her husband does IT work. get off work.

"At first my husband was unwilling to come. He chose to accompany me here. His heart was closed at the beginning, but when he lived, he found that there was actually a group of like -minded friends, so he liked it here now. Even I said that we were going to the city, he said that we still live here. "

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Liang Jie roasted the vanilla cake and brought it to Zhang Yang's family to dinner

Liang Jie plant a lot of vanilla in the yard. She likes to integrate "fragrance" into baking. The new villagers are separated by three different meals, often they prepare some foods, from their respective home to dinner, and taste each other. craft.

In recent years, such stories are often heard. The youth in the north, Shanghai, and Guangzhou have given up their work and ran to remote areas. In order to create an ideal habitat to return to nature, build ecological villages, and develop a kind of communityism. Of course, there is nothing wrong with nothing. it is good.

But if similar "hometown" can be unfold nearby, it will be better.

Cenbu Village is about 1.5 hours of self -driving journey from Shanghai center. It carries city people's imagination of the ecological village, but it is also likely to face the current situation of being involved in the city.

"Recently, half of our village is said to be planned and transformed, planting flowers and plants in the city, repairing the wall of the city, and becoming a modern community. In this way, the habitat of fireflies is gone, and it is difficult for egret to come back, but it is difficult for egrets to come back, but I really want to issue a question. How many are the villages that can retain the original ecology around Shanghai? "Zhang Yang said.

In the past ten years, the new villagers have come to each other to create a life that connects and get close to nature. It is a process of establishing a private relationship with a strange individual and a private relationship. In the process of convergence, although the rain drops that enter the stream, it is so minimal than the lightning thunder of the times, but it is also a beautiful sample that exists.

Special thanks to the rural responsibility planner Yang Lin for helping the interview shooting

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