Chapter 32: Yulan Hall

Taking advantage of the interval between the meeting, I took Lin Zi's hand and waited for the soldiers of the national flag class in the cold wind of the early morning like all the patriotic masses, silly and a little religious.

Then he walked around the Forbidden City with Don Juan and Qian Cheng for a day. It is said that a day can only be half a day, I got up at nine o'clock in the morning, and it was already ten o'clock in the morning when I arrived at the Forbidden City, and I had to rush back to the hotel for a meeting before half past five in the afternoon, so I had a hurry.

There are a lot of exquisiteness in the noon gate, it is a square square surrounded by three walls, three doors in the front, and a hole door on each side. Among them, the door in the middle can only be walked by the emperor on weekdays, and the queen can also walk once on the wedding day, and then there are the three people who are the champion, the top eye, and the flower in the palace examination can go once.

Today, the people are in charge, so our group of people must walk through the middle together and have a good time. Like all the "countrymen who go to the city", we took pictures everywhere, except for Lin Zi, who wore a windbreaker, and several of us men only wore a shirt and a uniform "SDX" brand overalls suit; The pronunciation of this brand is similar to our local dialect "save to wash", which means almost disposable, and it is difficult to wash it, anyway, you can see at a glance that it is not in harmony with the surrounding cotton hats, scarves, and gloves.

I and many friends who went to the south were very puzzled why the compatriots in the north wrapped themselves into zongzi too early, in fact, I think this kind of temperature and cold wind is acceptable, maybe because we are young, maybe because the air in the south is wet and cold, and this side is obviously drier and pleasant.

We took N photos in various corners of the Forbidden City. There is a place in the forest that I really want to see, that is, Shufangzhai, where Xiaoyanzi lived, but unfortunately it is not open.

The investment promotion meeting was grand and enthusiastic, but it did not seem to have many tangible results. Most of the guests ate and played, and they didn't forget to take gifts with them before leaving, but when it came to next year's contract, there was no follow-up. According to our local saying, it is called "a wipe of the mouth is equal to a mouth".

After the three-day meeting, there seemed to be no more time to climb the Badaling Great Wall and enjoy the great miracles.

On the day I arrived at the Summer Palace, the weather was exceptionally good, the sky was so blue, the clouds were so white, and it was the ancient capital in late autumn.

The first impression of entering the garden is the plaque of the Summer Palace hanging high on the gate of the East Palace, I heard that it is the handwriting of the Guangxu Emperor, I think I like it more.

Entering the East Palace Gate, there are two pairs of copper incense burners in the shape of dragons and phoenixes in front of the hall, which are used to light incense and render the atmosphere. According to the ancient ritual system, the dragon is in the center, symbolizing the emperor, and the phoenix is on both sides, symbolizing the queen. But here, it is the dragon on both sides, which is not unrelated to the Empress Dowager Cixi in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, which highlights the status of the phoenix.

Lin Zi and I, like all Chinese people who are immersed in traditional culture, took a photo of the dragon and the phoenix respectively, but unfortunately there are no two dragon and phoenix incense burners that are placed together affectionately, so that we can take more intimate group photos.

Many friends told me that I must go boating to the Summer Palace in Beijing, otherwise I will go in vain! Lin Zi and I rented a pedal boat, and went down the river in Kunming Lake, enjoying a kind of leisurely enjoyment of drifting with the current, only the pleasure boat hitting the water and making a noise. Thinking about it, this is the first time that the two of us have been alone in front of everyone, which is equivalent to telling the world about the different and ordinary intimacy between the two of us, and I am so unhappy.

Looking up, the Suzhou Bridge is full of people, and the small pavilion on the top of the mountain overlooking the lake at the beginning is looming, just because the sunlight has not penetrated the fog, and the distant scenery adds a hazy romantic beauty. With such a beautiful scenery and beautiful women around us, people have to think of Pianpiao, thinking of the scene in the movie, thinking that the two of us can "hide in a small boat and become a unity" here.

The boat rowed to a quiet place, far away from the shore and other boats, you can kiss her on the cheek, you can hug her, you can ...... It's no wonder that so many young couples love to go boating in the park. Some friends have been passionate in the car, but it is not as romantic and exciting as on this boat. However, the contemptible people think that the space of this kind of domestic pedal boat is too small, and it is not as big as the big yacht of other local tyrants, and there is a possibility of life danger such as capsizing and falling into the water at the point of intense action.

Just as we were hugging intimately and hesitating about how to further "show our strength" on this small boat, Wang Jian and Shi Nian appeared in our sight unconsciously, almost letting them watch the live broadcast.

Lin Zi quickly pushed me away and straightened my hair and clothes, and said, "Are you two following us?" "I was not interested, my hands felt uncomfortable, there was no place to put it, so I had to stretch into the lake, the turquoise water caresses my fingertips, infinite purity and gentleness, can relieve my irritability.

I said you have to choose a good place, this water area belongs to the master, don't come to spoil my good things, go cool and ...... In the distance, I saw Don Juan and his colleague Feng'er in a boat.

Standing on the east bank of Kunming Lake and looking west, it is like the Su Causeway of West Lake, and the shadows of the six bridges are haunted by the willow branches dancing in the wind.

The Seventeen-Hole Bridge is a jade belt connecting Koruting and Nanhu Island. The bridge is modeled after the Lugou Bridge, but it is different from it. People say that the lions on the Lugou Bridge are innumerable, but the lions on the Seventeen-hole Bridge can be counted.

I didn't count them, but the people who counted them told me that there were more than 500, and when I got home, I checked the book, and it was exactly 44 Wu Bai.

Walk along the shore. Along the way, the sound of the autumn wind roaring is thrilling, reminding me of the poem "August autumn high wind roaring, rolling up the triple thatch on my house". The wind swept the waves and slapped on the shore, cracking into countless small waves and splashing, with a bit of "rocks piercing the air, and the waves crashing on the shore".

When I went around the west embankment on the south bank of the lake, the wind was particularly strong, and I remembered reading it in the space diary of a college classmate who lived in Beijing, who remembered that when he was a child, the wind was always very strong near the lake, and there were always fishing birds entrenched on the lake.

I haven't seen a few birds, the wind is understood, I don't know if Cixi also felt the north wind here, where is the slightest calm of Hangzhou West Lake?

Everyone was blown by this bleak and sad wind all the way, and arrived at a place where you can shelter from the wind and watch the scenery "Yulan Hall". Speaking of "Yulan Hall", I thought it was the garden residence of the Empress Dowager Cixi at first, and in the movie "Burning the Old Summer Palace", Cixi's nickname was Yulan!

I didn't expect it to be the place where Emperor Guangxu, a ghost (Xingcheng dialect, unlucky) lived, after the failure of the Wuxu Reform, except for Yingtai in Zhongnanhai, it was here that Emperor Guangxu was placed under house arrest.