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Mar. 14 , 2008
　　
　　 The first camp after Spring Festival
　　
　　 4. The Village and Villagers
　　
　　 We got to where we would camp around 16:30. It’s still early, but I had the habit of setting up my tent as soon as I arrived at camp. Some folks had gathered up around our camp before I settled my tent. They wondered what we were and what the tents were. Some of them even tooks us for a circus. I heard a certain one said that they wouldn’t charge us any money of camp, so it’s supposed for them to stay there and watch without ticket. We all laughed a lot.
　　
　　 This village was called TianCiYuan(天赐垸). What did it mean by the word of Yuan? Here it meant a big pool that could store water. The words of TianCi meant God-Given. TianCiYuan was exactly a naturally formed small reservior. It was so priceless for the residents that people who had not been there could not imagine it. The farmers drink water from it as well as all livestocks, and they water the vegetables, wash clothes, everything! It means that it’s impossible to go on without the water from the TianCiYuan.
　　
　　 As for the water of color, precisely yellow, I wasn’t even willing to wash my dirty face. But I had to get some buckets of water. We washed vegetables with the water, and we boiled the water and drank it. However, for the inhabitants, the water was their lives. The geological situation of the mountain couldn’t hold the rain-water, which was why we didn’t see any well there, instead we saw a lot of dried man-made small pool. Luckily, It’s said that TianCiYuan had been never dried whatever the weather was.
　　
　　 An old woman ever asked the girls to sleep in her house. She said the wind blew boastly at night and it’s cold. She adviced again that it’s better for the girls to put their tents in the center of camp after the girls told her that they had been used to it.
　　
　　 After carrying several buckets of water, I got to talk with a old man who was 82 years old. He had three sons and one daughter, and all of his children were now working at some cities in GuangDong. He himself grew vegetables and raised some livestocks, even cut firewoods for cooking. He was full of joy when I asked about the TianCiYuan, the pool. He told me its history and some miracles about it. We chatted for a quite while, he then told me that he had to plant vegetables and water those planted last day.
　　
　　 The setting sun was still shining its last warm gold light that saw so much of what had been going on in TianCiYuan. But I hardly saw a place like TianCiYuan where the water was so sparse. I wondered why the farmers didn’t move to another place with abundant water. I supposed that it’s not very easy to leave a place where people had lived so long.
　　
　　 I was going to walk around the village when MaoMao called us for supper. At this I felt I could eat a whole bull.
　　
　　 To be continued …