浦头袁滩是江都闻名的银杏之村。正如有“活化石”之称的古老植物银杏一样,袁滩是扬州东侧最偏远的一个古老村落。据说苏北陆地形成之初,这里曾是海滩,后来袁姓家族在此落户繁衍,故称之为袁滩。袁滩与我儿时居住的集镇相邻,印象中那里首先是偏僻乡下,再就是落后之地,唯一让我有点好感的是,那里出过一位能为人解除病痛的袁氏喉科名医。记得二十多年前我曾陪人去过袁滩,那是雨后不久,我们骑车前往,乡间小道经雨水浸泡,泥泞不堪,中途只能下车推车前行,走一段还得停下,用树枝清除车轮挡泥板内的淤泥,个别路段甚至寸步难行,只能肩扛自行车步行,一趟走下来浑身汗湿,鞋上、裤 Puntou Yuan Tan is famous for Gandu village in Jiangdu. Just as the ancient plant known as “living fossil”, Yuantan is the most remote ancient village east of Yangzhou. It is said that the beginning of the formation of land in northern Jiangsu, where once was the beach, and later settled in Yuan family clan, so called Yuan Tan. Yuan Tan and my childhood town live next to the impression where the first is a remote countryside, then there is backward land, the only thing I feel good is that there out of a person who can relieve the pain Yuan Yuan laryngology doctors. I remember twenty years ago I had been to accompany people to Yuan Tan, it was shortly after the rain, we ride to the country lane by the rain soaked, muddy, half-way can only get off the cart before going for a while still stopped Next, with the branches to clear the mud inside the mudguard fences, individual sections and even difficult to move, can only take a bike walk, a trip down sweat, shoes, pants