Ping Hanhan took over and said, "This is the old market square in Cologne, Germany, let me tell you about it again." Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

This old market square is the central square of Cologne's old town.

The town hall is the main building on the square.

The Old Market Square is surrounded by traditional German buildings, with cafes or bars on the ground floor. On the fountain in the middle is a statue of Wilt, the legendary man who grew from a poor farmer to a cavalry general during the German war, and the relief below the statue depicts scenes from his legendary tales. ”

Laughing and talking, the mother and daughter went to the market and entered a small supermarket.

The first time I went to the cashier and bought dried red and mulberries.

Pingguo took a fancy to the apples in the distance, so she went over to pick up a few apples, and when she stood in front of the cashier again, the male boss of the black and white race asked her to show the contents of the first paper bag.

Ping Hanhan was very angry, but considering that he didn't know German, and the kid didn't know English, let alone Japanese, Chinese, French, Korean, and Dutch, he didn't understand a language at all.

He was about to open the paper bag and show it to him, but he probably suddenly remembered that he had received our mother and daughter, and indeed he had just paid for anything other than apples, right?

Originally, I thought it was a feeling of being discriminated against, but it's gone.

People, people, sometimes, you really can't always think about problems with the attitude of others on the ideological level, Pingguo thought.

Nationalism?

Perhaps, it is time to shrug your shoulders.

Ping Hanhan pulled Pingguo and continued to walk, saying, "Mom, look, the Rhine, the largest river in Germany."

The Rhine originates in the northern foothills of the Alps in Switzerland.

The skills of poets, painters and musicians have given the valley of the Rhine, dotted with ancient castles, even more magical.

The most beautiful section of the road is said to be in the middle of the Rhine Valley, where the river meanders and the water is crystal clear and soothing.

Imagine such a picture, you, sitting on a white yacht, looking far away, the green vineyards are scattered and orderly on both sides, between the lush woods and vineyards, the seats in turn are presented with unique and exquisite small towns, castles, and palace ruins, shining in the transparent and clean bright sun.

Isn't it a beautiful picture of world-class freedom and fluidity?

The German writer and poet Goethe, author of Faust, exclaimed in the poem "Nature and Art":

As long as we devote ourselves to art with limited time and devote ourselves wholeheartedly, our hearts will naturally be active.

-- To create greatness, we must concentrate on the spirit. Showing skill in limitations, only regularity can give us freedom. ’”

Pingguo smiled and thought of this: Cologne, famous for the local "Cologne beer", is the dialect of Cologne, and people joke that this is the only language in the world that can be "drunk".

Pingguo knows that Cologne also has a quality called "4711", the ultimate of men - the birthplace of Cologne perfume or cologne.

It is a light perfume with a content of 2-3% essential oils.

It was first introduced in 1709 in Cologne, Germany, by the Italian Giovani Maria Farina. The popular "4711 cologne" named after the store number is an outstanding representative of the classic cologne.

Before, Pingguo had always thought that it was used by men, but now it seems that in Western Europe, women are also useful.

Pingguo opened the backpack on Ping Hanhan's body, took out his wallet and sniffed it again, and said, "Baby, you ask, is there a faint smell of 4711 cologne?"

Ping Hanhan got closer and smelled, his big eyes flashing, revealing shock and surprise.

Pinggo fell into deep thought.

Trier, the oldest city in Germany, is located in the southwest of the Rhineland-Palatinate, on the banks of the Moselle River, just 15 km from the border of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. With more than two thousand years of history as a "city", this is indeed the oldest in Germany. Nestled in the Moselle valley to the southwest, flanked by gentle red sandstone hills and covered with vineyards, it belongs to the famous Moselle-Saar-Uvau wine region.

Trier was the first Christian diocese on the north side of the Alps. In the Middle Ages, Archbishop Trier was an important ecclesiastical prince, and his bishopric controlled a large area from the French border to the Rhine. Archbishop Trier was also one of the 7 electors of the Holy Roman Empire.

Trier is a well-known tourist city with a large number of monuments dating back to Roman times.

In 1986 it was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is collectively known as a World Heritage Site: the Roman architecture of Trier, the Episcopal Church and the Church of Our Lady.

Trier is also famous as the birthplace of Marx.

The former memorial is located at Brueckenstrasse 10 in today's Old Town and is currently owned by the German Social Democratic Party (SPD).

It is said that the number of visitors is Chinese, and more than 70% of the comments in the guest book are Chinese, and the University of Trier has set up a special project to study these messages.

Pingo had studied and understood that Simeonstrasse 8 near the Big Black Gate, where Marx grew up a few weeks after his birth, spent his childhood and adolescence until he went to university in Bonn and Berlin.

This is the holy place of every Communist Party member, and it is also the place that Pingguo once particularly longed for.

However, when I really arrived, there was no sense of passion.

Perhaps, because they arrived too late, they had already left work, leaving a house with an empty appearance, and then there was a kind of physical and mental exhaustion.

Pinggo almost has a kind of "transcendent is not infinitely distant, but close at hand." "I feel it.

This quote from the German theologian and author of "Letters from Prison" Bonhofer was killed at the age of 39 by Hitler's butcher's knife, Pingguo thought that he would definitely keep it in mind in the future.

Being able to travel freely is psychologically difficult in Pingguo.

But the German writer Strymatt said that no matter how thick the clouds covered the earth, pilots could always see the sun.

Pingguo is not a pilot. But she hoped that at least the mind would not crawl on the ground, but soar through the air. Everyone who left appealed to her: Take advantage of your life.

When she was young, Pingguo had expectations for life, but now she only expects from herself, and once she no longer expects anything from herself, even if she is alive, she will become a dead person.

Yes, Pingguo looked at the elders of her faith and said: Life is ending, enjoy happiness quickly.

The princess who looked at her said: Life has just begun, please cherish, please come on;

Looking into the depths of his soul, he no longer feels the beginning, let alone the end, but there is no despair and terror for the future.

Do yourself well, do what you want to do the most, and seize the day, which is everything to Pingguo.

Pinggo also remembered a poem by the German poet Goethe, "Let You Be Invisible in a Thousand Forms", which seems to best express her perception of Germany and what she wants to do the most:

"Let you be invisible in a thousand forms,

But, dearest, I know you at once;

Let you be covered with a scarf of magic,

The most in front of me, I know you immediately.

Look at the purest youth of the cypress,

The most slim, I know you immediately;

Look at the clear ripples of the canal,

The most charming, I can know you.

If the fountain is scattered high,

The best at playing, how happy I am to know you!

If the shape of the clouds is ever-changing,

The most varied, where I know you.

Look at the grassland carpet covered with flower veil,

The most starry of all, I know you beautifully;

A thousand twinked vines stretched out,

Ah, you who embrace everything, here I know you.

If the morning sun shines on the mountain,

Whatever delights all, I welcome you at once;

Then the clear sky covered the earth,

The most open-minded, I will breathe you.

What I know from my outer and inner sensibilities,

Whatever you have influenced, I know because of you;

If I call on the hundred holy names of Allah,

Each holy name responds to a name for you"

(Selected poems of World Literature, Poetry in Poetry, happy editor-in-chief.)

Translated by Feng Zhi)