亚尔玛是宁夏南部山区一个村庄的名字。村民口语叫亚尔玛尼,官方书面称亚尔玛村。村子很普通,是西北山区常见的那种小山村。几十户人家,散居在一个山湾里。有古老的窑洞,有新盖的房子,有自然生长的树木,有人工栽的电杆,还有牛羊鸡狗这些亘古不变的乡村零件。村子前面有块山间平地,种麦子玉米、糜子谷子、豌豆土豆,虽收成不好,但能帮村民活命。四面都是山,山腰里、山坡上、沟叉里,蜿蜒出几条宽宽窄窄的白线,那是路,看着闭塞,却也有出路。 Alma is the name of a village in the mountains of southern Ningxia. Villager’s dialect is called Almani, the official written Alma village. The village is very common, is a kind of common mountain village in the northwest. Dozens of families, scattered in a mountain bay. There are ancient cave dwellings, newly renovated houses, naturally-growing trees, artisanal poles, and ancient rural parts like sheep, mutton and chickens. In front of the village there is a piece of flat land, wheat, corn millet millet, peas and potatoes, although the harvest is not good, but can help villagers live forever. Surrounded by mountains, hillsides, hillsides, ditch fork, meandering a few narrow width of the white line, that is the way, looked at the occlusion, but also a way out.