Chapter 403: People on the Water
You can hang it on the wall, make a decorative cloth on the sofa, or hang it on the wall in a picture frame. The price of an embroidery work of about 1 meter is only about 1,500 yuan, and you can also bargain, after all, it is a pure handicraft work, and it may still be a unique work.
The next day came to the Uben Bridge, across the East Taman Lake, up to 1,200 meters, the world's longest teak bridge, the bridge body is all made of Myanmar's abundant precious teak as raw materials, the whole bridge junction does not use an iron nail, all rely on the tenon, after 150 years of baptism, so far immortal.
Many travel magazines or major travel portals see descriptions of Myanmar, and most of them prefer to use the sunset of Ubon Bridge as a cover image for promotion, which seems to have become a national business card, and most of the trips to Myanmar seem to be for the sunset of Ubon Bridge.
However, after experiencing the Wuben Bridge in person, Johnson would like to say that the sunrise and sunset of the Wuben Bridge are equally magnificent, and the smell of life on and off the bridge is full of life.
The long wooden bridge casts a long series of reflections in the river, and the rising sun heralds the start of a busy day, with a golden glow shining on the people on the bridge, fishing boats sailing into the lake, and fishermen starting their day's fishing.
A dead tree dotted on the surface of the lake, and the wilted branches that stretch out wantonly point to the sky, which is quite stylish and has become an indispensable part of the composition. Between 7 and 9 a.m. in the morning, perhaps the best time to fish, the fishermen park their boats in the lake and are busy.
After that, the boatmen returned to the shore of the lake to escape the heat.
The wooden bridge is still an important part of the local people's lives, and there are people coming and going to school every day, there are students who go to school across the bridge, businessmen who come and go, monks who attend the nearby Buddhist college, and fishermen who have nothing to do...... All this gives the Wuben Bridge a vivid atmosphere.
The grandmother who was given the alms would also give to the birds, and every once in a while she would put some food on the bridge, which seemed to be a long time coming, and the birds flew to eat, and they did not seem to be afraid of the people who came and went.
The boat is launched, and the boatman will take you to see the traditional crafts such as weaving, iron, silverware, cigars, wood carving, and shipbuilding, and almost all of them are family-run workshops. At first, I thought it was commercial, but then I thought about it, in fact, this is just a way for the locals to make a living, and the development of tourism is naturally inevitably commercialized. Fortunately, there is no forced buying and selling in the local area, so you can see and take pictures as much as you like, buy what you like, and learn more about new things if you don't like it.
Locals believe that rowing with their feet is fast, and that one can free up his hands to cast his net to catch fish when working on a boat, and it is amazing that there are no road signs on the water, but the boatmen can always tell the way.
Houses are built in shallow water on the shore of lakes or islands with the support of stilted wooden piles, forming floating villages. When we told the boatman that we wanted to see the local market and see the real life of the locals, the boatman told the boatman to take us to a floating village called Thaleoo. There is a long wooden bridge leading to the entrance of the village, and after getting off the boat, follow the direction indicated by the boatman, and soon you will see the sign for RKET.
As the boat approached, the people on the bridge would greet us with a smile. Every family living by the lake has a flat boat, and as soon as they leave the house, they use the boat to travel. Fishermen, vegetable farmers, and school-going children all sail to and from the lake, and even monks go out to make friends. People are willing to give, but the monks are not picky about the food they get, they eat whatever they give, and they adhere to the teaching of not eating until noon.
Sit down like a local and order a fried pancake that looks like a sweet soybean paste. The fritters are cut into small pieces before being served, and the taste is okay.
The bazaar has everything, clothing, handicrafts, medicines, traditional pastries, grains, fruits, flowers, vegetables and meats, etc.
The vendors still use traditional scales, with a plate hanging on the left and right sides, and weights are placed on one side and the other side of the goods, and the weights are of different shapes that make people curious.
Betel nut stalls are widely available, and vendors usually smear white lime on the leaves and put them on top of the beca nuts cut into small pieces, along with a variety of other spices. 4-6 pieces are packed into small plastic bags and sold in packets.
Visiting the process of silver jewelry production, there are four or five people sitting in the small workshop, and each person is responsible for creating different process steps, decoration varieties and styles. For example, some are responsible for making bracelets, some are responsible for making hanging ornaments, or some are responsible for polishing, and some are responsible for splicing.
If it weren't for the narrator in the workshop, no one would have imagined that the purpose of this little fruit plucked from the tree was actually to wash silver. As we spoke, the narrator demonstrated to us. She picked up the water-soaked brush and rubbed it on the fruit, and it magically bubbled.
Coming to the textile workshop of the long-necked tribe, the women of the long-necked tribe put copper rings around their necks since they were young, and the number of copper rings increased as they grew older. The unique lotus silk weaving here. Female workers extract silk fibers from lotus stems and spin them into cloth and clothing. Although there are many types of lotus flowers in Inle Lake, it is said that only this red lotus can be used for spinning. The female worker broke the lotus stem, pulled out the silk and put it on the wooden table in front of her, and then kneaded the silk into thread with the palm of her hand.
I suddenly found that the cigars here are very common, no chemicals are added, the taste is very mellow, and the price is not expensive. The outer layer of the cigar is a characteristic leaf, and the texture and green color of the leaf are preserved. Cigar making is a manual task here, with women skillfully rolling cigarettes, gluing joints, and making filters.
Standing at the bow of the boat, the lake was very large, as big as the sea. When the lake is not calm, flocks of white gulls always rest quietly, and occasionally when a boat comes in, they hover freely over the passing boats.
I don't know when the color of the lake changed, from clear turquoise to turbid like yellow soup. The long-tailed boat keeps moving forward, and there is no specific dividing line wherever it goes, and the color of the lake naturally changes.
Passing through a small village in the southwest, one of the largest ruins here is the Shweinghting Buddhist Temple. There is a long corridor of more than 1,000 meters in the temple, and on both sides of the corridor are rows of handicraft stalls. After a short walk up the hill along the promenade, you can see the ruins of a whole stupa.
There is a small bridge on the pier, and there is a small studio next to the bridge, and SC Johnson is attracted by the hand-painted postcards hanging from the railing outside the house. When I got closer, a father and son were concentrating on their paintbrushes, and the sun was just right, and even the air was pleasant.
Lu You's not as good as the bottom of the thatched hut, father and son are farming, probably describing this scene!
As soon as the boat docked, everyone was greeted by this little cat sleeping soundly in the sun. The Cat Jumping Temple is located on the west side of the lake and is famous for the cats that jump here. There are a lot of cats in the temple, and these cats are trained to perform in circles, but unfortunately they went at the wrong time and didn't see them.
The open wooden meditation room is arranged in a staggered and orderly manner with wooden pillars. Loved it, it was like separating the outside world, quiet enough to sit with the cat for an afternoon. No matter where it goes, this cat is sitting in this position, completely unmoved by anything, and can be called a cold cat.