After 40 minutes of grinding in the small restaurant, I finally ate all the remaining yellow cakes with the spirit of my foolish man moving mountains. The moment I walked out of the restaurant, my legs were weak and I almost fell to my knees.

It's so prohibitive!

Finally got into the car, I leaned back on the chair for a long time and didn't start the car, but rubbed my stomach and said helplessly: "I feel that I have put all the yellow cakes in my life and eaten them today." ”

Xiao Yayun glanced at me, opened her mouth and wanted to speak, but before she could say anything, she burped first, "Hiccup~~~"

I laughed and started the car and drove in the direction of the hotel, "Hahahaha, you're too late." ”

After checking in at the hotel and putting things down, Xiao Yayun and I rushed to Nuanquan Ancient Town non-stop. Nuanquan Ancient Town is located in the west of Wei County, about ten kilometers away from the county seat of Wei County. It's about a twenty-minute drive.

When I was about to enter the town, I saw an archway, and on the archway was the gilded warm spring ancient town. The cement piers below the archway are written on small advertisements such as applying for permits and selling bus tickets.

I found a place near the archway to park the car and Xiao Yayun walked into the town, I want to see the tree flowers at night, I think there will be no fewer people, if you drive in, when the time comes, you can't drive out after watching the show, it's very embarrassing, it's better to park outside, it's a big deal to walk a few more steps.

There are two kinds of tickets for Nuanquan Ancient Town, one is the ticket of 80, which includes Nuanquan Academy, West Castle, Farming Culture Exhibition Hall, and Historical and Cultural Exhibition Hall, but does not include the ticket for the tree and flower performance. Another one hundred and six, and then the first one on the basis of the inclusion of a ticket to hit the tree flower.

A glance at the ticket office showed that tickets and tree flower performances are only available from April to early October every year, and there are no tickets from early October to the end of March of the following year, but some ancient buildings and tree flower shows will be closed.

I bought two tickets for one hundred and six and walked into the ancient town, the ancient town looks a lot of dust, but this is not to say that the ancient town is not clean, but there is a thick dust on the roof, fence and other buildings, or loess. It looks like you've just been through a sandstorm.

I reached out and touched a house on the side of the road, some of the loess could be stroked off, and some of it seemed to be glued to the wall, the latter of which had obviously been cultivated for many years.

Xiao Yayun and I first went to the West Castle, which is an ancient castle in the ancient town of Nuanquan.

Nuanquan Ancient Town was built in the Yuan Dynasty, developed into "Three Forts, Six Alleys, Eighteen Villages" in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the West Ancient Fort is one of the "Three Forts", commonly known as "Walled Fort", located in the southwest of Nuanquan Town. The ancient castle was built in the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, and was expanded and continued to be built in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. The ancient castle integrates the four cultural wonders of ancient houses, ancient temples, ancient castles and ancient theaters, and is the most unique and well-preserved one of the 800 forts in ancient Ulzhou.

When I walked to the door of the West Castle, I saw a stone plaque of a key cultural relics protection unit set up at the door. The city gate, which can only be used for two people to walk side by side, has a pair of Spring Festival couplets pasted on both sides of the city gate.

Shanglian is a thousand families to spend the spring of Ulzhou

The next link is the dream of ten thousand families to realize the Chinese dream

Horizontal batch is pioneering and innovative.

A couplet that looks and reads awkwardly, but it is the only modern element on the gates of the West Castle.

Walking into the West Castle, I couldn't wait to pull Xiao Yayun to the city wall.

Standing on a condescending and looking down, you can see almost the entire ancient town of Nuanquan. I found an angle and took a few pictures.

The north seems to be very atmospheric in everything, but the mountains are almost certainly the towering and majestic backbone of the earth, and the plains are almost certainly the vast expanse of the earth. The same is true of the Nuanquan Ancient Town in the photo, a photo not only covers the entire ancient town, but also includes the land outside the town at the other end of the ancient town.

Walking down the city wall and walking on the street of the West Castle, there are not too many people on the street, not too many and not too little, and some shops on both sides even hang red lanterns during the Spring Festival. Occasionally, there must be a street vendor standing at the door of the alley, or riding a car with a sugar gourd tied to the back of the car, or selling some elaborate handicrafts.

I smiled and said, "When it comes to the Spring Festival, this place must be very lively." ”

Xiao Yayun nodded, and pointed to a sugar gourd seller not far ahead, "I want to eat that!" ”

I didn't feel good and said, "Didn't you just eat enough?" Who just said that he couldn't eat it even if he was killed? So soon the stomach has made room again? ”

Xiao Yayun ignored my words, stared at me and said directly: "In a word, whether to buy it or not." ”

I said helplessly: "You can pick which string you want." But first of all, if you can't eat it, you can't stuff it for me, and you can't throw it away. ”

Xiao Yayun's head nodded the same as a chicken pecking rice, "No problem!" ”

I walked over and bought a bunch of sugar gourds, and found that there was a vendor next to the sugar gourd seller, who was a paper-cutting seller. In front of him, he pressed some paper-cut works with small stones, and sat on a matza and was holding the paper-cuts.

Xiao Yayun was immediately attracted by these exquisite paper-cuts, "How can this paper-cut be sold?" ”

I was fascinated by the tools in the hands of the boss who was cutting paper, and the tool he used was not a paper cut, but a small and sharp carving knife!

"Thirty-five of the small twenty-five, pick by yourself."

The boss who was cutting paper didn't raise his head, took out a thick huge photo album from his bag on the side and handed it to us, and continued to bury his head in paper cutting.

Flipping through the album, there was a paper cut in every photo frame that should have been a photo, with landscapes, animals, people, and words.

Taking advantage of Xiao Yayun's picking, I stood behind Xiao Yayun and took a few photos.

Xiao Yayun picked two large, one small and three paper-cuts, the big one is a swallow and a father and son in the middle, and the small one is a girl's upper body sideways papercut.

After carefully putting away the paper cuts, I feel that this Nizi walks a lot more carefully....

After leaving, I was still immersed in the almost unthinkable thing of the boss cutting paper with a carving knife, so I used my mobile phone to check the paper-cutting in Wei County.

After a check, I found out that there are many names in Wei County, and several of them are the hometown of folk art, the hometown of paper-cutting art, and the research center of paper-cutting art. Originated in the Ming Dynasty, Weixian paper-cutting is a unique style and well-known Han folk art at home and abroad. The process of making Zuò paper-cutting in Wei County is unique among many paper-cuts in the country, this kind of paper-cutting is not "cutting", but "carving", which is made of thin rice paper as raw material, carved with a small and sharp carving knife, and then dyed with bright and gorgeous colors.

I glanced at the pictures of those Weixian paper-cuts, and found that some of them were not as good-looking as the boss just now, and I couldn't help but sigh: "Good guy, what a master in the world." ”

"Richard~~"

At this time, Xiao Yayun suddenly called me, looked at me with watery eyes, and handed the sugar gourd that she had just eaten three in her hand in my direction.

Me: "#! Eat it yourself! ”