我的湖北朋友當中,能幹智慧性格果敢的居多。在中國時,對湖北的地理探訪以及文化景物的粗略了解也早讓我對湖北人有了敬佩之意。
荊楚大地,自古地靈人傑,湖北就是中國文化的一個牛省。
湖北的地域稱謂就讓人感覺腦子不夠用。古代春秋時期是楚國,那時的楚人就好文,"唯楚有才"的說法大概就是從那時開始的吧。翻閱成語詞典,常看到許多成語典故來自戰國策的楚策篇,透著湖北佬的聰明。還有那楚辭,離騷九歌天問......,一個屈原老頭就讓荊楚曆代詩人輩出。在那風流騷客唐伯虎祝枝山的家鄉地姑蘇城,那首《楓橋夜泊》卻是湖北人張繼的手筆。
湖北的人文曆史伴長江而輝煌。沿長江流域的湖北也叫荊山楚水,因此湖北又有了荊楚的名號。長江中下遊地段,雖江麵開闊地勢平緩無險,卻也有"亂石穿空驚濤拍岸卷起千堆雪"的赤壁懷古地。
湖北宜昌的南津關往上是長江上遊,鬼斧神工不僅鑿出了三峽地段,也給現代人留下了葛洲壩和三峽大壩這樣的大型水利樞紐地。宜昌古稱鄂州,曾是湖北的中心,所以湖北又稱鄂。這一地帶最是湖北的精華,神女雲雨繚繞,姊歸屈原家鄉,香溪昭君故裏,當陽三國古戰場,真是說不完的故事看不完的景,好像中國那點山俊水秀曆史古跡都濃縮在荊山楚水當中了。
還有那襄陽樊城隆中山,"大夢誰先覺平生我自知",一覺春睡醒來,對天下事便能先知先覺 -- 諸葛孔明也是湖北佬啊。臥龍鳳雛共濟皇叔,漢壽亭侯水淹七軍敗走麥城,故事就發生在這鄂西北一角。
湖北佬古時能文善武,現代更是不差! 辛亥革命是武昌城頭響的第一槍; 中國人民當家作主,林家軍從白山黑水一路殺到天涯海角功不可沒。湖北軍事將才濟濟,紅安一縣就出將軍223位。"天上九頭鳥地上湖北佬"的果敢彪悍讓人歎服。
像湖北這樣對華夏曆史文化貢獻良多的省份很難找出第二個。不僅對中國傳統,就是在中外交往中,湖北也是舉足輕重。清朝張之洞以"中學為體西學為用"創辦中國近代工業就在武漢,從此武漢始終是中國經濟的重鎮。今天,美國"主流媒體"刊登的一則來自湖北的消息更是讓荊楚大地在全世界麵前有了聲威:
Burned alive for "not washing feet" (看標題好像是說某人因沒洗腳被活烤了)
A Chinese bride burned her new husband to death after he got into bed after a drunken argument without washing his feet, state media reported on Wednesday.
新郎新娘酒後爭吵,新郎沒洗腳上床被新娘燒死。
"Wang and his wife, Luo, were married on February 2. The couple, however, frequently fought over trivial things while still on their honeymoon," the official Xinhua news agency quoted a local newspaper as saying.
王新郎與羅新娘二月二號才新婚,但小兩口蜜月期就為雞毛蒜皮打嘴仗。
The couple, from the central province of Hubei, had another fight on the night of March 4, "and in frustration they together drank a bottle of liquor to ease their anger."
夫婦都是湖北人,三月四號夜裏又吵架,兩人犯脾氣後兩人共同開了瓶烈酒,想以酒消氣。
"At about 10 p.m., Luo watched her husband get into bed without cleaning or washing his feet. In a fit of anger and intoxication, she set fire to the sheet he was sleeping in," the report said.
十點,羅新娘見老公不洗腳就上床,一時酒勁脾氣並發,就將老公蓋的被子點著了。
"When he awoke, the two began fighting before a very drunk Wang collapsed. As fire engulfed the bedroom. Luo escaped to the living room, leaving her other half to burn," it added. The woman has been arrested, Xinhua said.
新郎被燒醒,二位接著打,直到新郎不勝酒力倒下。但這時大火吞嚼了整個房間,羅自己跑了出來,把她老公一人留在房裏燒烤。當然,新娘事後被拘了。
這楚女牛啊,性情剛烈,喝烈酒鬥老公; 生活瑣事都馬虎不得,為洗腳這類小事就敢把老公點著活烤了,這樣的楚人楚事應該記上一筆。各位看官,如果你那家庭領導也是荊楚人士,恐怕最好每天要自覺洗腳。
不過江太也武漢姑娘,非常溫柔,賢慧,脾氣巨好: )
頂好文!
等著讀你的醉酒篇。
你那老太勇鬥劫匪,搞得我的猛老太不知如何處理。
我也準備了個醉酒的,你個快槍手又捷足先登了。
那個鄂女有脾氣,好樣的!