从本质意义上说,故乡那条名叫板桥河的河流实在算不上是一条真正的河流。因为它太缺乏所谓河流的那种磅礴和深远,缺少那种荡气回肠的流淌与喧哗。它其实只能算是一条小溪,一条过于普通、过于平实、充满着柔弱与随意的、小小的溪流。它所流经的地方,也多是一些浅显的山谷和许多平淡无奇的田畴与村庄。然而,在我的故乡,在滇西大高原深处那个名叫初一铺的小山村里,在所 In essence, the river of the hometown called Banqiao River is really not a real river. Because it is too lacking in the kind of majestic and far-reaching so-called rivers, the lack of the kind of soul-stirring and noisy. In fact, it can only be regarded as a stream, a too common, too plain, full of weak and random, small streams. Where it flows, it is also mostly shallow valley and many bland fields and villages. However, in my hometown, in the small mountain village called Chuyipu deep in the western Yunnan Plateau,