25.10 Tibetan Horse Holiday Tour
Looking inconspicuous, it was already 5 or 6 o'clock in the afternoon. If you don't go home, you will definitely receive a call from Du Mu's management!
On the way home, Du Pingping met a very small, but Du Pingping's memory is very deep. The store is very small, with a translucent booth for making milk tea on one side and a small table with only 6 seats for 2 people on the other. The small tables are still many, many years old.
"I really didn't expect that it still exists, and it's still the same as it was." β
Susan, "What's wrong?"
"This is my favorite bubble tea shop when I was a child, although it is not the traditional food of Dongliuqiu, but I always feel that their milk shop seems to be the best." That's why I often come to drink. Sometimes when I don't want to eat, I will come here to buy a cup of milk tea, even if it is lunch. β
Susan, "Shall we have two drinks?"
Du fair, "Okay. β
The two walked into the store, and the shopkeeper was resting inside, and when he saw the two of them coming in, he hurriedly got up and greeted them cordially.
Owner, "What are you doing with the two guests?"
Du Pingping, "Do you still provide original milk tea?"
The owner was proud and proud, "Of course, this is the most popular variety in our shop, and even some elderly people come here to drink it." β
Du Ping, "Some of the elderly?"
The owner, "Yes, my shop is small, but it has been around for more than 50 years. β
If the owner didn't say it, Du Ping really didn't know that this store had such a history of interests. Looking back, I found that maybe what the shopkeeper said was true.
"Yes, I remember being a loving old man when I first came here!"
The shopkeeper bowed and thanked, "That's my father." He is retired due to physical reasons. Now that I'm in charge of the business, it seems that the customer is a regular customer. β
"Yes, my whole childhood seems to have memories of this place! β
The shopkeeper looked at Susan, who was beside Du Ping, as if he understood something.
The owner, "Did the guest just return from a foreign country?"
Du Fair, "Yes. I didn't expect this small shop to still exist, so I came in. β
The owner, "Thank you so much for your patronage, I'm going to prepare the milk tea you ordered." β
While Du was talking to the owner, Susan was attracted to a very special wall in the small shop. The whole wall is pasted with small paper stickers of different sizes, different fonts, different colors, dense, and constantly overlapping. Some still have their names and dates. Susan pointed to one of them.
Susan, "What's written on this?"
"I love you, Kongzi, forever." β
Susan pointed to the wall and asked, "Are these all posts showing love?"
Du Ping pointed to a nearby post, "Not really." This one reads: Work hard, work hard, finish the treatment, and you will definitely succeed!"
Susan, "And what's written on the walls?"
Du fair, "There's everything." Ready to say, it should be the guests who come here to drink milk tea, a sudden emotional record! They came here at a certain time in their lives to write it here, but the shopkeeper here will never get rid of it, but will seriously protect it. Over time, it became this very characteristic wall. β
Susan, "How long has it been?"
Du Fair, "Very long!"
Susan's question also aroused a trace of curiosity of Du Pingping, so Du Pingping actually found a small paper sticker 45 years ago on this wall, "You see, the date of this paper paste is left 45 years ago." β
Susan, "What's written on it?"
Du Ping, "Next to the idle ancient pool, the frog entered the middle of the water, and quietly said nothing." β
Susan, "What is this?"
Du Ping, "is the ancient Dongliuqiu poetry." Different people have different understandings. β
Susan, "Different understandings?"
"My understanding as a child is that a frog jumps into the middle of the water. But the teacher who taught me Chinese said that life is like a quiet ancient pool, and there is no sound when you enter and no sound when you go out. β
Susan, "Seems to be very philosophical." β
"When we were young, we just felt that he was a sour person. β
Susan, "Sour man?"
Du Pingping, "It's a person who likes to pretend to be a young man." Look what this is!"
Du Ping was talking about other people's things, when suddenly he seemed to find something magical on the wall, and pointed to Susan.
Susan wondered, "What is this?"
"This is a note I left when I was in the fifth grade of elementary school. β
Susan, "5th grade?"
Du Pingping, "I felt that others had their own words, and as I had grown up, I had to be like them, so I secretly wrote a note and quietly pasted it while no one was around." β
Susan, "What to secret?"
Du Pingping, "The mind of a child wants to prove that he is already an adult, but he also does not want others to know. β
Susan covered her mouth, "Haha...... What must be written on it?"
"I'll take a look! I'm going to be a sailor." β
Susan, "To be a sailor?"
"That's because, at that time, there was a very famous movie about a brave sailor who traveled around the world, so for a while I wanted to be a sailor very, very much." β
While the two were talking, the shopkeeper had already carried a tray and delivered the milk tea ordered by the two to the table of the two.
The owner, "Guests, please drink!"
The two looked at each other and began to take a sip at the same time.
"The taste is still the same as when I was a child." β
Susan, "It's a very good feeling!"
The shopkeeper stood beside them with a smile, and Du Ping translated Susan's words of praise in passing. The shopkeeper immediately smiled and stretched out 2 palms with 10 fingers.
The owner, "I've implemented it, and our little shop has been around for 55 years. β
"55 years!
The shopkeeper sighed, "Thanks to the care of the nearby residents, my father and mother, who first came to Zangma 55 years ago, supported our family through a shop, and we all grew up healthy. Now I'm the second owner. β
Du Ping turned his head to translate the shopkeeper's words into Tang Yu and said it to Susan, who happily raised her finger to the shopkeeper. This made the middle-aged shopkeeper happily bend down to return the gift. and soon delivered two small cups of the most traditional milk tea ordered by the two.
Susan, "It's really delicious, especially the wall covered with notes, which seems to be a time tunnel in history." Can I take a picture?"
"Of course you can!"
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When Du Ping and Susan came home, they must have been late! and the dinner was also very disappointing to Du's mother's hard work because of the milk tea. So Du Pingping had no choice but to tell his parents the story of the small bubble tea shop. Who knew that this matter immediately attracted their attention.
Parents, "They still exist?"
Du Fair, "Yes. β
Father Du, "I remember when we were young, we often went there to drink milk tea, right?"
Du Mu, "I very much remember the taste of milk tea at that time. β
Father Du, "When, shall we go to drink again?"
Du Mu, "I'm looking forward to it!"
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In this way, Du and Susan lived in Tibetan Horse for a week, half recreation, half reunion, and even neighbors came over to welcome Du and his fiancΓ©e with Du Ping's family. The daily schedule is basically to get up in the morning, Du Ping, and Susan go out to play, but before 6 p.m., they will come back and spend a happy and dull beautiful time with their father after work and their sister after school.
The content of the game is not based on the travel brochures on some websites, but on the happy memories of Du Ping. For example, the White Horse Dongdu Temple in the eastern suburbs of the city is a traditional temple that Du Ping's family has always worshipped. It's not a very big temple, but it's quite secluded. Since it was not a special show, there were only 3 or 4 people when Du Ping and Susan came by bus, all of them older people, carrying a hand-sewn khaki side bag.
The place where the car stopped was just a small commercial street, with some traditional small shops, which did not belong to the very prosperous street, but seemed deserted. Du Ping's explanation to Susan is that it will be very lively on the days of the show or some memorial ceremonies, and there will be many program activities here.
There is actually a kilometer of road from the temple, and it is a normal road with only 2 lanes, and next to the road is a small curved river. The people who got off the bus actually chose to walk. Du Ping and Susan also chose to walk, and next to the road were low hills and trees, and soon a wooden archway appeared. The name "Hakuba Todo Temple" is written on it. Du Ping told him that Susan had actually entered the temple area from here, but the real temple gate still needed to walk for 10 minutes. The temple is actually similar to the temple gate of Dongfeng Weifeng Temple that Du Pingping went to before, and it is not very conspicuous and grand, but it looks simple and simple.
It is a multi-religious country, with three major religions: Shintoism, Buddhism, and Christianity, as well as many smaller religions. According to some statistics, the total number of followers of various religions is nearly twice that of the total population, which means that the people of Dongliuqiu can believe in two or even more religions at the same time.
When Du Fair and Susan talked about this, Susan was a little strange. But Du told her that this is a normal thing in Dongliuqiu, and that people are very peaceful about religious beliefs, and that there are no believers in some countries who hate or even hostile to another religion in order to defend one religion. In fact, the shrine and the temple are very close to the temple, but the gods of the shrine are very close to the reality, such as the god of thunder, the god of the five grains, the god of water, etc. In the past two years, in some places, some groups of people have also appeared modern gods such as car gods, which explains that the gods are closer to people's lives. At this point, the temple is very formal, and the gods and Buddhas worshiped in each temple are basically the same. The second is that the architectural structure of the shrine is also different from the temple, and the temple basically consists of three main parts: the hall, the tower and the gate, which are collectively called Garan. Shrines are a bit casual, and some shrines have neither idols nor tablets in their worship halls, so you can't see the object of worship. But the shrine must have two more common markers, one is a pair of stone dogs outside the gate, also known as the stone dog to see the treasure, one opens the mouth and one closes, they each have their own names, the open mouth is called "Ah", and the closed mouth is called "Moo". Another symbol of the shrine is the torii. "Torii" is actually a kind of wooden gate-shaped torii, and the shape is very simple, a bit like a tic-tac-toe. In Shinto, it is the gate that divides the divine realm and the human realm, and when you walk through the torii gate, you enter the divine realm.
Compared with the magnificent temples such as Huaguo and Liguo, in fact, the traditional Dongliuqiu temple is more simple and simple. It's like it's just a larger folk courtyard. In addition, many temples will do guest accommodation business, providing guests with a quiet accommodation environment and good meals. Hakuba Todoji Temple is like a mountain temple with beautiful cherry blossom trees in the precincts. It's just that Du Ping and Susan came a little late, and there are no beautiful cherry blossoms here. Du Ping's explanation aroused Susan's great interest, and the two decided to wait at the temple next time they had the chance.
The shrine visited by 2 people, Du Pingping chose an Inari Shrine, Inari Shrine is a common type of shrine in the East Stream Ball, Inari Shrine is dedicated to the fox fairy, because the Japanese believe that the fox fairy is the messenger of the god of grains. For example, the "Inari Sushi" sold in common convenience stores is actually fried tofu sushi, and the reason why it was named is because the fox fairy loves to eat fried tofu the most.
There is no incense at the shrine, but people first use a long-handled wooden spoon to wash their hands by the pool in front of the shrine, and the procedure is to first take a wooden spoon in the left hand to scoop water and wash the right hand, then change to the right hand to scoop water with a wooden spoon to wash the left hand, and then take the wooden spoon in the right hand to scoop water to the left hand, and rinse the mouth with the left hand. Then go to the shrine on both sides of the ridge, throw some change into the donation box with wooden sticks, bow twice, clap your hands twice, pray, and bow again.
After praying and bowing according to the process here, Susan and Du Fair shook the thick hemp rope hanging in front of the worship hall, and there were wind chimes hanging on the hemp rope, and the wind chimes on the hemp rope made a crisp sound when the two of them shook the hemp rope. It wasn't until she walked out of the torii gate that Susan asked very hesitantly.
Susan, "I'm a devout Christian, will I be fine?"
"What's the matter?"
Susan, "I'm a believer in other religions. β
Du Ping smiled, "The gods of Dongliuqiu are very friendly and do not reject believers of other religions. β
Susan, "Why is this happening, it seems very illogical. β
At this time, a red-robed witch suddenly appeared beside the two of them, and unexpectedly used the soup language that the two were communicating, skillfully explaining the doubts in Susan's heart.
"Because in the eyes of the gods, all things are equal, and every person and every living being is its child, and she likes her children to live happily and happily." Just like the parents of their children. β
Susan smiled, "In Christianity, we also think that God is the Father of all people and all people are children of God. β
Wu smiled, "I know what you're suspicious. Then we will use a scientific perspective to explain that human cognition was originally 4 dimensions, and now human beings have cognition of the universe in 10 dimensions. It may be that your gods are four-dimensional, but you can't deny that there may be other gods in other dimensions. β
Susan, "The Bible says that God created everything. β
"I've read the Bible, and I think the story it tells is only 5 dimensions at most. β
Susan, "You are denying the power of God. β
Mikoto," I'm just telling the truth. β
Du Pingping stopped Susan's speech, and this kind of religious quarrel could never have a real result in Du Pingping's opinion. Susan glared at Du Cheng and the witch in disbelief.
Du Pingping, "The East Flowing Ball is a land of many gods, where all kinds of gods and spirits are widely present. It's like a city of gods, there are all kinds of gods, and they get along very well. Since the gods are all in good shape, let's stop arguing, okay?"
Susan thought for a moment, "I'm sorry, I might be a little extreme. β
The shrine maiden smiled, "I bless you on behalf of the gods! β
Susan smiled wryly, "Yes?"
Mikoto, "The gods have received your wishes, really. β
Just as Du Ping was about to stop the two of them from arguing again, the witch suddenly came into Susan's ear and whispered a few words. Then, he smiled back and looked at Susan. Susan looked at her in surprise.
Susan, "How do you know?"
Miko, "The gods will bless you." β
The shrine maiden turned and disappeared, and Du asked Susan what the two of them had said, but Susan refused to answer. Du Pingping thought about it and stopped asking. Then, Susan began to express her excitement about the magical abilities of the gods of the East Ball. Du told her that some of these shrines worship ancestors or clan gods, some worship regional gods, and some worship gods who specifically protect people's interests in a certain aspect, such as the god Inari for agricultural harvests, the god who blesses good health, and the god who gives birth to children and reproduces. Susan expressed great incomprehension of these, but Du Pingping felt that it was very normal. Finally, Du Pingping's explanation for Susan is that there are different types of government agencies, such as the police and schools. Susan immediately laughed, apparently accepting Du's statement.
Although Du Ping and Susan had a good time in Tibetan Horse this week, due to the continuous planning, Du Ping and Susan had to leave Tibetan Ma and return to Jingluo after the week. Of course, the week-long trip to Tibetan horses also left a very deep impression on Susan. Susan says that while Tibetan Horse doesn't look as modern as New City, it still has its own unique beauty and culture.
When Du Fairness and Susan left, Du Fair's family kept sending them to the car, and everyone had a feeling of getting together and hating each other. This also shows that this week's Tibetan horse family tour has achieved the basic purpose of Du Ping and Susan to deepen the relationship between Susan and the Du family.