? ? I spent one summer in the little town of Wucheng. I was born in Jishan Village, Wucheng Town.I went there because it is only ten miles away from the deserted small village of Jishan焕蹄，where I spent the happiest and most formative years of my life. There I learned farming and fishing，and having experienced the passing of parents one after another,and had my heart broken.
? ? Even in the heyday of its glow Jishan Village never had more than four hundred inhabitants,and its entire existence covered a span of about five hundred years. Shortly after I left the village赡磅， it was abandoned;bats and swallows nested in the decaying cabins,and for more than wenty years wild boars grazed over the spot.
? ? A few years ago,however,
? Yongxiu Wucheng Migratory Bird Town Investment and Development Co., Ltd secured the site, they are planning to develop this place as a tourist destination.
? ? The same jujube tree under which I studied and wrestled and play chess are still standing.Every morning I used to motor up there from Wucheng Town,and some poems were written under the tree.What a lovely spot in which to work! In front of me flowed the winding Meixi Lake in Poyang Lake，and all? about me the woods and the Hay-fields were musical with the call of the wild duck ；and through the trees flashed the color of the Oriole and Sparrow. I felt as if I had returned to my childhood.
