The decision to go to Myanmar in the first month of the year was a coincidence. It was the thirteenth day of the first lunar month. Although he has been walking around since the second day of the first lunar month, he also went to Wang Shunshan on the Lantian side. However, I always feel a little stuffy in my heart. "Stuffy" comes from the recent smog in Xi'an almost every day, rarely seeing the sun, and the foggy sky is really depressing. Moreover, in the circle of friends, I always see friends traveling around the world, which is really enviable. At this moment, I saw a friend who was a tour guide and posted travel news in Southeast Asia. After clicking on it, I was tempted to go out to bask in the sun and breathe, which was originally traveling not far away on public holidays.

I like to travel and see the scenery, but I don't travel for the sake of traveling, and I don't like to travel on a budget. Because I suffer from severe motion sickness, I make a lot of determination before every trip. However, if the scenery is good, then I can also eat any kind of suffering. Then, when choosing a tourist destination, most of them are famous mountains. It's also the reason for the motion sickness, I wouldn't choose a place to take a boat. If you get motion sickness halfway, you can get off, but if you get seasick halfway, you can only jump into the sea, and you can't die to see the scenery.

Therefore, I decided to travel, so I clicked on a few places posted by my tour guide friend, and finally chose a country I never wanted to go to: a seven-day tour of Mandalay, Myanmar.

Originally I wanted to go to Cambodia. When I saw that the schedule was written to set off from Xi'an at three o'clock in the night, I didn't want to suffer this and gave up. At this moment, the picture of the monks dressed in purple and red monks' robes, fluttering in the early morning breeze, and begging along the street suddenly appeared in my mind. This scene made my heart heat up, and I immediately decided to go to Myanmar. This picture was seen in the QQ space of one of my mountain friends. He has been traveling freely in Southeast Asia for four consecutive years. At that time, he went to experience the scene of offering to the monks almost every day. I was also deeply moved by this picture, but I swore to him: "I will not go to such a place to play, it is too backward." So when he saw the picture of me playing in Burma, he teased me and said, "You're coming to the third world too." "Haha, that's an afterword.

I decided to travel on a last-minute basis, and I left a day later. Therefore, it is not easy for partners to make appointments. So, I signed up single-handedly. That's it, with this trip.

At 11 p.m. on Sunday (one of the seven days), we boarded our flight to Mandalay, Myanmar. After a three-hour flight, we landed at half past one in Myanmar time.

I had severe motion sickness and I had to stay up in the front seat of the bus before departure. Despite the twists and turns, I finally sat in the second row (the first row was filled with four guides), which also gave me a little comfort. Here, I would like to thank Xiao Li, the tour guide in Xi'an, who has been helping me to guide the Myanmar side and try to let me sit in the first row.

The road from the airport to the city is dimly lit, and you can't see the exotic scenery at night. I felt that the road was very bumpy, and I was a little sick and uncomfortable. Half an hour's drive from the airport to the hotel was motion sickness, which made me worry about the trip. My motion sickness was very severe, and once it did, it would be uncomfortable for up to three or four hours. After checking into the hotel in Mandalay, it was almost 3 o'clock local time (an hour and a half behind China). It was very uncomfortable in the stomach, so I simply washed and fell asleep.

When I woke up, it was 8:40, and my body was completely gone. Pull back the curtains and see the sun shining, the sky is blue, and the city is golden in the morning light. There are many golden minaret-like buildings in the house, which are beautiful in the sun. I thought that the golden minaret was the house of a rich family, but later I learned that it was a monastery stupa and a grand palace.

When I came to the balcony, I saw the lush vegetation on the empty yellow land not far from the hotel, and the huge trees abounded as far as the eye could see. In front of a shabby-looking bungalow, the family looked like they were having breakfast. In the early morning sun, this scene looks very warm, and it is really rare in the city.

I was condescending and immediately took a picture of the cityscape of Mandalay and posted it on my friends. Heartily written: Hello, Mandalay.

I was very impressed by the four Myanmar foreign-related boutique hotels I stayed in this time, which can be said to be very luxurious, and very clean, all of them are decorated with solid wood. In addition to the usual amenities, the hotel also provides coffee and mineral water for the guests. There was a lot of fancy food in the small Xiaoice box in the room (this was at your own expense, but the price was low). The morning buffet was even more hearty and upscale (I'm really embarrassed to write this). I paid 1800 for the tour and 600 for the miscellaneous expenses. Shuangfei came to Myanmar and enjoyed such treatment. ）。 By the way, there is also a free massage in the hotel.

The surroundings of the hotel are beautiful, with plants concentrating the most beautiful views of the subtropics. The open-air pool is surrounded by banana trees and flowers, and it is a very warm garden-style hotel. Feel at home in the middle of it. It was really like the tour guide said, we were VIPs. Of course, I sincerely hope that we will also be like VIPs. It's just a little questioning, is Myanmar, which is not yet rich and underdeveloped, build such a high-end hotel with a high occupancy rate?

The reason I ask is that none of these hotels are newly built. On that night in Naypyidaw, after settling into the hotel, we met up with a family of four to visit the center of Naypyidaw. After not being able to make an appointment for a car, I decided to go out on foot. As a result, when you walk out of the gate and see the land surrounded by barren grass, it is like being in a remote village. On the wide road in front of the hotel, it takes more than 20 minutes to see a car passing, let alone pedestrians. It was so desolate that we had to turn around and go back to the hotel.

Later, the tour guide said that we Chinese were honored guests of Myanmar, and the Burmese side treated us as well as possible. In the past, Myanmar did not attach importance to the development of tourism. Because they joined the "Belt and Road", our country assisted them in developing tourism, and only opened a direct flight from Xi'an to Mandalay in October last year.

In July last year, 5,000 outstanding tour guides were dispatched from Yunnan and Guizhou to Myanmar to guide and train local tour guides. As a result, all buses now have four guides on board. A domestic tour guide who came with a group. Then there are three tour guides from the Burmese side, one of whom is the main tour guide from Yunnan, and the other two are assistant tour guides, who are English and Chinese tour guides from the Burmese side. These two assistant tour guides completely obey the tour guide from Yunnan. Therefore, they did not say a word in the car during the whole process. He said that this is a company regulation and must obey the expert tour guide sent by the Chinese side. The food, accommodation and transportation of the tour group will be arranged by the Burmese Chinese-speaking tour guides. In the subsequent latex product shopping spots, it was also led by personnel sent from China to receive and sell goods, and they also came to assist in the development of local tourism. From this point of view, the "Belt and Road" advocated by China is true. I just hope that it would be better not to teach the simple Burmese to be a good businessman.

If four guides are on board a car is rare outside. Then, on a bus that does not travel more than 200 kilometers in a whole day, it is even less common to have two drivers. The nature of the work of one of the drivers is even rarer. One of them is a driver, and the other is responsible for showing the road conditions to the driver, that is, the driver's assistant.

The driver who pointed the way also had a task, that is, whenever he got on and off the bus, he took out a clean small wooden stool to get off the bus first, put the stool under the last step when getting off the bus, and then stepped on it hard with his bare feet, so that when tourists get on and off the bus, one step becomes two steps, so as to avoid the discomfort of the last step because it is slightly higher from the ground. And that level is actually the uniform ground clearance on all buses and buses. We're in China and even in other countries, so aren't people holding on to the car door and striding up and down?

Then, stepping on a special and special stool to get on and off the car, this scene I have seen in costume film and television works, and it is the first time I have encountered it in my life. Therefore, I was very touched by such courtesy. For six days, the driver's assistant had bright eyes and a respectful smile at the tourists' feet on the small bench, and humbly supported the elderly. I remember his smiling and thin face, and I thank him very much.

Especially after learning that the income of the two drivers is the lowest in the tour guide team, and only the two of them cannot eat group meals and stay in hotels with the group. The restaurant that hosts the tour group only serves rice sprinkled with spices, and the two of them eat it on the bus. This kind of treatment is also only available this year, and I brought my own food for the previous two months. The tour guide also said that they couldn't afford our group meal, and they hadn't seen such a good meal.

And, during the five days and five nights of the whole trip, they also slept in the car. Knowing this, I decided to give both drivers an extra tip as a token of appreciation. Because, one of my advocates is: we should not look down on poverty and backwardness, and hard work should be respected.

After the first breakfast in Mandalay at the hotel, the tour of Myanmar officially began.

The first stop is to the Mahaganayan Monastery, which is more than a quarter of an hour away from the hotel. As mentioned in our itinerary, this monastery is the largest monastery in Myanmar and is home to about 2,000 monks.

We went to watch the process of begging for food and meals for thousands of monks taking place at eleven o'clock.

On the way to Mahaganayan Monastery, the car was filled with laughter, and they were all happily looking out the car window, not talking about the city of Mandalay. The reason why everyone is excited about this is that most of the tourists live in a city with severe smog.

I'm also glad that I did get the sun in Myanmar. As for the blue sky, it seems to me so-so. This may be that Mandalay is only 15 meters above sea level, and it is the dry season without rain, plus the whole of Myanmar is still in the "state of China's economy and infrastructure in the seventies", which is still in the guide's words, and there are dirt roads everywhere, and the dust is raised by cars, so that there is a light dust (not haze) in the surface air, and the sky is not the clean blue that you see in the Qinling Mountains. However, the whole car is that I have been climbing the mountain in the Qinling Mountains all year round, so there is no comparison. Besides, even I am happy about the bright sunshine in Mandalay, and it is normal for everyone to be ecstatic about the blue sky of Mandalay. However, the sun in Mandalay did take us along. The temperature difference here is very small, and it is really bathed in the hot sun from morning to night.

When the bus passed by the street, I saw that there was no sense of oppression in the dense high-rise buildings. There are few vehicles on the road, and there is no traffic jam. The roadside is full of dirt roads and naturally growing flowers and plants, and the whole city street is neat and wide, and it is full of atmosphere. The huge ancient tree path tells the history of Myanmar's second largest city and the establishment of many ancient dynasties here.

The car turns down from the main road and it is a dirt road. The houses on the side of the road are a little rudimentary and the environment is a bit dirty. Leaving the center of Mandalay city, I was surprised by the contrast of less than 10 kilometers. However, I still like the old trees inside and outside the village and on the roadside. The green canopy of the ancient trees here is full of huge "mushroom heads", all of which are graceful and delicate ancient trees.

After the bus was parked in the simple parking lot, we followed the guide forward. There are more ancient trees here, and the trunks are all old ancestral trees, which makes me believe in the long history of Mahaganayan Monastery.

Visitors from all over the world are seen here, all waiting for the ceremony of thousands of people begging for food. At eleven o'clock, the dervishes of a thousand people began. First, there were monks standing on both sides of the road. At the front are the children, whose robes are different from the purple-red of the adults in the back, with white robes and purple shawls. The same is that all the monks are barefoot.

I read an article many years ago in which the author wrote, "In Hanoi, Vietnam, more than 100 monks came barefoot to the square at dusk to chant sutras. As they arrived and left, they saw their clothes fluttering, and there was no other sound, as if the wind were blowing softly. "I was very impressed by this paragraph. Now, years later, I see something similar. I saw two rows of monks walking forward in an orderly manner, there was no sound under their feet, there was no sound in the procession, and there was silence when thousands of monks of all ages, children, and young people passed by.

However, I didn't feel the shock. Because, tourists are crowded on both sides of the road, almost all of them are filming, and they can't calm down at all, they are all in the state of mind like watching a play. I'm the same, too, and I'm busy taking pictures. This scene still makes me very excited, and the photos are full of joy and joy.

But I feel a little regretful in my heart. I thought that as my friend had seen before, every family brought prepared food in the early morning, sat on the side of the road and waited for the monks to come with an alder, but the scene that lasted for more than an hour did not appear. It's more of a ritual here. Almost all of the items that go into the bowl are the belongings of tourists, and there are also a few locals who put in the food. I also put two packs of biscuits that I bought at Xi'an Airport into the monk's bowl.

However, regrets also pass by in a flash. I was able to come to the famous Mahaganayan Monastery and be in this place was a wonderful encounter and an unforgettable experience.

Depart the Mahaganayan Monastery and head to Bagan, Mandalay Province, where it is today.

Mandalay City is 170 kilometers away from Bagan, and it actually took four hours to drive from noon to evening. The car has been driven for so long, but the road conditions are not very good. During this four-hour trip, taking a car to watch the scenery is also a glimpse of the idyllic scenery along the way. The side of the highway is a flat land that stretches as far as the road goes. But almost all of them are deserted, and there are occasional sugar cane forests.

The tour guide said that there is a rainy season here for half a year, and floods are flooded. In the half-year dry season, there is a lack of water and rain. Due to economic difficulties, the irrigation system could not be built, so it had to be idle. The tour guide repeatedly said that Myanmar now is just like before our country's reform and opening up. The scenes you saw along the way were indeed a bit behind the times.

I saw that the village on the side of the road was very scattered and the houses were rudimentary. It is also not uncommon to see a net pulled up in a clearing in the village, and lean young men and children playing volleyball and soccer happily barefoot, with dust floating under their feet. This scene brought tears to my eyes several times. The emotion comes from their happiness, which is obtained on such a simple venue.

There are very few cars on the roads, and the locals mostly use motorcycles for transportation. It is common to see several people sitting on a motorcycle. Such a scene is also true in the capital Naypyidaw.

Then there's the buses here, which are similar to pickup trucks. The rear box is doorless on three sides, crowded with passengers, and there are passengers standing on the gang, just like hanging. The cars were crowded with young men with thin bodies but bright faces and bright eyes. They were both men and women, and their faces were smeared with sunscreen wood powder, as if they were going to a show. Seeing the happiness on their faces, I was naturally happy. As for the lack of doors in the car, it may be for ventilation and coolness.

The face is coated with a delicately patterned woody powder, and it is available here for men, women and children. It looks jubilant and festive. So, in this regard, I like the Burmese very much, and I am deeply moved by their happy and innocent eyes.

Also, it must be said that the Burmese girls are beautiful. They always have a smile on their faces, all of them are graceful, slender, light brown complexion, delicate and bright, full of natural beauty. It looks fresh and natural, just like a beautiful scenery.

Of course, these scenes also have a kind of simplicity and simplicity that I have not seen for a long time. It makes me feel very real and relatable. That's what happiness is.

However, in the past, I never slept in the car. I interpret this habit as: come out to see the scenery, not to relax and sleep. Therefore, I always keep an eye out the window for fear of missing the view. This time, however, I was sleeping almost entirely in the car. Because outside the window is all barren land. Coupled with the drought, the sky is blue and cloudless, and the sky is the same blue from morning to night. There is also a phenomenon similar to that in Mandalay, that is, there is a very high layer of dust on the surface, which makes this layer of blue sky gray. Therefore, along the way, it is the same sky, the same land, and the same pastoral scenery. No matter how long you sleep, the scenery you see is no different when you wake up. It's always a pity that so much land is being wasted.

However, on the way from Mandalay to Bagan, kapok can be seen at any time. The tall kapok tree, with its dazzling flowers, added color to the desolate land. In the village, the red flower tree without a single green leaf makes the village joyful and eye-catching. On the side of the road, I saw the red flowers facing each other, like a huge bouquet of flowers welcoming guests, which made me smile happily when I saw it. In the open field, a piece of fiery red kapok, that is a beautiful scenery.

It can be said that I came during the most beautiful season of Kapok in Mandalay. Half a month later, it will be red. Tourists from the north just saw it, and they didn't know that it was a kapok tree. Besides, I didn't know that there were kapok trees in Mandalay before I came, and I didn't know that February was the season for kapok to bloom. This unexpected beauty became an unexpected gain for me.

At noon on the second day of arriving in Myanmar, after leaving the hotel after watching the sunrise in Bagan, I started the mode of visiting the famous pagoda monastery every day for the remaining three days of the trip.

Bagan, located in Mandalay province, is now one of the three largest Buddhist monuments in the world. On the second day of our trip, we visited Shwe Joy Palace, which is also the largest and only stone stupa in Bagan's Talim.

It was already past twelve o'clock in the afternoon when I arrived at Ruixi Palace. Under the scorching sun, I saw that the square at the gate of the scenic spot was crowded. The tour guide took us to the entrance and saw that the passage was full of shoes being put on and taking off their shoes. With these chairs as the dividing line, the inside is full of barefoot tourists, and the outside is full of shoes.

In Myanmar, shoes are considered to be the dirtiest and dirtiest items, whether it is to enter a Buddhist temple to see a Dharma teacher, or to enter a pagoda courtyard, there is a strict taboo, that is, you must take off your shoes, even socks can not be worn. In the minds of the Burmese people, stupas and temples are the most sacred places, and monks are the representatives of the Buddha, and they must not wear the dirtiest shoes to worship the Buddha, worship the pagoda and meet the monks. At the same time, it is also stipulated that women wearing backless sundresses and skirts that are shorter than the knee are not allowed to enter stupas and Buddhist temples. As a result, the people who come here are barefoot, just like the locals.

Walking barefoot into the compound of Shwe Xi Palace, you will see a dazzling array of gold, surrounded by exquisite-looking golden-roofed buildings in addition to the three-storey pagoda in the center. There are also four bronze pavilions on all sides, each of which houses a beautiful Buddha statue.

The Swee Palace Stupa is even more magnificent, with a golden top towering tower, and a variety of decorations and small stupas on the pagoda, dazzling in the sun. We were first taken by our guide to the south side of the Ruixi Palace Tower to see the reflection of the top of the palace in a water. When I got closer, I saw a lot of tourists huddled together, lying on the ground and taking pictures with their mobile phones. When I got to the front of the queue, I saw a puddle slightly larger than the mouth of the cup more than two meters away from the base of the tower. In the center of the bottom of the shallow water is a copper piece the size of a one-dollar coin, with a cloud pattern on it. When lying on the ground and looking at it, the spire is clearly and perfectly reflected in it, the spire is just facing the copper on the water surface, as if there is a purple cloud crown on the spire, and the edge of the water is all golden, this scene is beautiful. It is a small drop of water that has a lot of things inside.

This scene is obviously carefully calculated. It also verifies that when I watched the sunrise in Bagan in the morning, I was sure that the waterhole under the slope was artificially designed. So, I smiled heartily. It is precisely these that make me disagree that the attractions that can be visited in Myanmar by the tour guide are lackluster, but are innovating and keeping pace with the times. It caters to the different interests of tourists. For example, I think the little puddle in front of me attracts me the most.

Although I am not religious, I am also religious, walking barefoot around the tower for three weeks. It is also lucky to see such a magnificent Ruixi Palace. However, the Buddha and all the furnishings enshrined in the Shui Xi Palace Pagoda are outside the pagoda, which means that the Shui Xi Palace is solid and cannot be entered. This was also a surprise to me.

However, it is possible to enter the Shwedagon Pagoda to visit in Naypyidaw the next day. The appearance of Shwedagon Pagoda is still luxurious and magnificent, with brilliant golden light. The surrounding buildings are still resplendent in gold.

Walking into this majestic and tall hall is even more dazzling. There are also many birds flying around in the no-man's land, chirping and foraging for food on several cases of enshrined food, which is very lively and warm.

I only wanted to visit the Shwedagon Pagoda, but when I saw the Yunnan tour guide prostrate on the ground and worship the four Buddha statues, I suddenly felt that the same should be done. So, I did the same. The reason for this is that although I am not religious, I walked in with good karma and luck.

Then, the only jade pagoda in the world that I visited afterwards is really the heart of this visit. Also, visiting barefoot under the scorching sun every day, I don't feel new anymore. In addition, there are shopping items, which makes me even less interested. However, it should be noted that no matter how much you visit the pagoda, most of the walking paths are paved with stone slabs underfoot. Although the sun is scorching overhead, it is cool underfoot. However, looking at the tower barefoot every day, I still lost interest. Moreover, from the white elephant garden under the Shwedagon Pagoda (the elephants seen in Myanmar are white, the cattle are white, and the horses are white. Coming out, in a hurry, I ran barefoot up the two-story stairs and ran to the gate again. As a result, the soles of my feet hurt so much that I couldn't sleep that night.

In the past few days, my family has repeatedly comforted me and said that the Wuben Bridge is a famous scenic spot and the scenery is very beautiful. said he had seen it on TV and introduced it on the Belt and Road. At the time, I thought he was comforting me. However, it is really a more beautiful scenery waiting for me.

Subsequently, I did see the most beautiful sunset at the Uben Bridge. At that time, I was very excited, and I felt that the sunset over a Uben Bridge was all there, and this trip to Myanmar was too worthwhile!

In the last two days, we returned to Mandalay city for a visit.

I've never liked to see the mausoleum or go into a house that's too old, but I like to visit the palace. It's not that I envy luxury, it's really timid. Subconsciously think that the palace is a place to do things and participate in politics, lively and yang.

Therefore, at the ancient Golden Teak Temple, I wandered downstairs for a while, and after looking around, I decided to go up and visit.

Well, the Grand Palace, located in the heart of Mandalay, I am very longing. In addition, although the Grand Palace was the royal palace of the last dynasty of Myanmar, it was burned down during World War II. It was now rebuilt on the original site and was completed and opened to the public in September 1996. It can be seen that it is newly built, so I want to visit it even more.

In order to visit the Grand Palace, I also wore that orange Burmese tube skirt and my silk dress with golden flowers.

The all-solid wood building complex of the Grand Palace is a mortise and tenon structure, which is luxurious and luxurious, and the main hall is resplendent in gold. The pillars of the cloister and the floor are all purple-red. All the fuchsia roofs of the main building and the cornices and spires of the towers are inlaid with gold wood carvings. On the other side, there are all purple wooden buildings. Under the sun, the entire Grand Palace is golden, purple and dazzling, full of festivity. Its brand new level makes me feel like a modern palace that has just been completed, and I have come to cut the ribbon. It's a joy to be in the middle of it.

So, under the scorching sun, I looked around the Grand Palace with great interest. I happily visited the main building of the golden-roofed red corridor that I liked the most. When I climbed the tower to get a panoramic view of the palace, my face was burned, red, tingling, and bursting. But I was still very happy, and I still took pictures in the bright sun.

The Grand Palace should be my favorite sight of all the buildings I visited on this trip to Myanmar!

As for the sun that can't stand it but doesn't sweat, it should be the characteristic of Myanmar these days. The reason for this is that we come in the harsh winter, and suddenly we are placed in the sub-hot weather with a temperature of 30 degrees, and the skin cannot adapt to it at once.

The golden teak temple in Mandalay City is breathtakingly architectural. Teak Temple is the oldest royal palace monastery in Mandalay. Built 150 years ago, this ingenious three-story building is made of teak carved tenons, and 267 precious teak trees support the main hall space. Every nook and cranny and pillar inside and outside the whole building are layered with wood carvings, decorated with exquisite and intricate ornaments, and lifelike character sculptures, making the Golden Teak Temple a classic of wooden architecture. A teak Buddha statue enshrined in the main hall is integrated with the entire teak temple, and its appearance is to witness the antiquity of the years.

In the past few days, in the pagoda temples where I visited, the Buddha statues I saw were all very small in size, and there were many sitting half-bodies. Therefore, when you walk into the majestic and tall Buddhist temples such as Shusei Palace, Shwedagon Pagoda, Emerald Pagoda, and Teakki Temple, you will be a little unaccustomed to seeing Buddha statues in the main hall of Wakadai. In any monastery in the country, the Buddha statue is tall and looks up.

However, Mandalay's most famous temple, the Mahmouni Big Buddha, is a different story. Mahmouni Temple was also the last stop on our entire itinerary. I think that's a good arrangement. Before we left Myanmar, it was a kind of fulfillment to go barefoot into the monastery again and worship the Buddha.

Before entering the Maha Muni Temple, the tour guide introduced that it was a nun temple. I didn't want to go over. Because I left the temple and went straight to dinner and the airport, I got my feet dirty, and I couldn't accept it. But I was interested when I heard the tour guide say that the Buddha was consecrated by Shakyamuni Buddha himself, and he opened his eyes twice.

I decided to send flowers to the Buddha. When I visited the pagoda before, I saw that there were flower sellers around. So, it's rare for me to come to Myanmar, and it doesn't matter if I'm religious or not. The important thing is that I was lucky enough to walk into the monastery and see the whole people of Myanmar who believe in Buddhism, and the joy and pure eyes on their faces when they worship the Buddha deeply affected me. That's what I've been looking for.

It's a dream come true. When we got off the bus and walked towards the temple, we saw a lot of flower sellers on both sides of the road. I walked to a stall with brighter flowers and bought a handful of red roses for 500 kyats. I think this bouquet of flowers is what I want to offer to the Buddha the most. Then I used 500 yuan to buy a few strings of jasmine petals for myself, which were white and watery. This is the second time in three days that I have bought myself a skewer of jasmine flowers, and I love the white jasmine flowers.

I found the flowers sold near the temple very cheap. Maybe the people who bought it next to the temple were all locals, and they were all dedicated to the Buddha. Very few tourists buy it, and even if they do, they wear it on themselves like I did before. Today, I still do this, tying jasmine strings to my backpack, holding bright red roses in my hand, accompanied by the fragrance of flowers, and walking into the temple in a happy mood.

In front of the main hall, there are kneeling men and women, young and old Burmese locals.

I squeezed in and placed the roses on the trellis outside the entrance to the main hall. Then I found a gap in the middle, sat on the stone floor, and looked up and saw that in the golden and brilliant golden dazzling hall, the golden Buddha was smiling and looking at me.

Ouch, my heart melted with happiness in an instant. I rubbed my feet and folded my hands, smiling happily and kneeling in front of the Buddha. I looked at the Buddha with joy, and my heart was full of happiness. I saw that the Buddha's smile turned into a golden light, and the smile showed a mouth full of white teeth, and I seemed to hear the Buddha's laughter, and I laughed out loud. At this moment, I feel incomparably joyful, joyful, happy, happy, excited, happy. I looked at the Buddha and smiled so hard that I couldn't help but rub my hands up and down with excitement.

The classic drama "Big Buddha Washing Face" is being staged in the main hall, and the TV in front of the door is being broadcast live simultaneously, so that the tourists behind can watch carefully. But I only smiled excitedly and looked at the Buddha who was smiling at me, and I couldn't take my eyes off it.

When I see that the locals are kneeling in rows and getting up, and letting the people in the back row get close to the Buddha and worship, then it is not good for me to always occupy the center of the front row. So, I got up and untied the jasmine bunch from my backpack and placed it in the middle of the trellis along with the bouquet of roses. I dedicate my favorite flower to the Buddha. Then, I smiled joyfully and said to the Buddha, "Thank you for the blessing of the Buddha, I will always be a good person."

But I must be a layman.

As I write this, I don't think much about the joy I felt when I was in front of the Buddha. When I walked out of the monastery, the tour guide saw that I had bought myself a string of jasmine petals at that house (I took this bunch of flowers on the plane and brought them back to Xi'an) and said, "Didn't you just buy them?

Now that I think back to what he said, I suddenly realized, and I was stunned. Because before he went in, he explained: This Buddha is very peculiar, no matter from that angle, the Buddha is smiling with his eyes closed. But what do I see?

At that moment, I should have been blessed!

Thinking about it that night, when I changed my boarding pass, I deliberately queued up late to avoid sitting with two group members in the team. With less than ten people in the back, I was assigned to the first row.

At that time, I just said to the staff inside, "I'm a little airsick, if it's convenient, please try to give me a position at the front." "I didn't look at my boarding pass when I got it. I was lucky when I checked in my luggage and left the window to find out that it was the third (actually the first row). At the same time, I was very upset that I didn't thank the young lady.

However, it is really a matter of heaven. Subsequently, the security officer was met again at the ticket gate. I thanked her repeatedly. The beautiful security lady with a bright smile said, "No thanks." It is a pleasure to serve you. "She was the last person I crossed paths with before I left Myanmar. Because of her, my trip to Myanmar came to a beautiful end.

Here, once again, I would like to thank the Buddha for his blessings. I will definitely be a good person to thank you for your blessings.

At the same time, during this five-day and five-night trip to Mandalay, Myanmar, it is lucky not to miss the beautiful scenery, and all the good things are the favor of God!

Goodbye, Mandalay!

From the 13th to the 23rd of the first month(2019/2/18~22)