4.3
Walk straight west and upwards to a sightseeing platform similar to a small square. There are small shops and tables and chairs for visitors to eat and rest.
The south side of the square has a wide view, and you can see a large number of villas at the foot of Sheshan Mountain.
A few steps further up is the top of the mountain. There are the famous Sheshan Observatory and the Cathedral of Our Lady of Sheshan. It looks like the two are one west and one east, one white and one red, one pointed and one round.
The team leader "Creeper" informed that this is the first rest point for today's hike, 20 minutes, free movement.
I just wanted to put down my backpack and rest for a while.
They were still far away, but they heard a melodious chorus coming from the direction of the church. "Don't leave" smiled at Wang Youjie and said, "I'll go to the church first." ”
Wang Youjie thought about it, anyway, he had nothing to do now, so he also followed.
As soon as he stepped on the open space in front of the cathedral, I don't know why, a sense of awe in Wang Youjie's heart suddenly appeared.
After a few general glances, Wang Youjie followed "Bu Li" into the church.
There may be some kind of ceremony going on in the church at this time.
In the hall, the dome hangs Ling Man, and the divine paintings on the outlining wall are fluttering. Burning candles, swaying firelight embellished fairy spirit. The picture is beautiful and sacred.
Wang Youjie had never seen so many brightly dressed priests. There were more than a dozen priests standing in their positions.
The beautiful chorus came from the choir facing west.
Beneath the elaborately painted east wall, nine men and women dressed in black are lined up, the man leading the singing is a head taller, and the high-pitched solo is recognizable from his throat from the pulsating Adam's apple of his bel canto mouth.
"Don't leave" and Wang Youjie both stopped.
After the song was finished, the two of them walked through the aisle on the side very reverently, quietly, and solemnly, trying not to attract the attention of the believers.
Keep close to the front.
"Don't leave" saw that he couldn't go any further, so he leaned in the middle and settled.
Wang Youjie found an empty spot nearby and sat down.
Begin the chorus again.
The man who leads the singing looks solemn and sings loudly, and with a long note at the end, different parts of the voice rhythmically permeate under the towering circular dome in the church, converging into an incomparably beautiful and wonderful sound.
During his previous study and work in Hangzhou, when he was climbing the mountain in his spare time on weekends, Wang Youjie often chose to go to the church near the mountain to sit and feel the quiet scene and calm down his inner impetuousness.
Later, after going a lot, Wang Youjie gradually felt that the chants of the choir in the church were really very good, very distinctive, and could always bring the listeners a unique sense of beauty, which made people deeply intoxicated. It's very different from what he usually hears singing.
Wang Youjie sat on the bench of the main hall and looked up at the vault.
In fact, he didn't know what was Greek, Romanesque, or Gothic, but he felt that the exterior of the church here looked quite majestic, and the interior was still very different from the churches he had seen before.
First of all, the windows, columns, and tops here are relatively simple, without any decoration and carving.
In addition, in ordinary churches, the internal light is very dim, which will give people a solemn feeling, but the light inside this church in Sheshan is still relatively bright, giving people a brighter impression.
Sit quietly in your chair and listen.
The church is majestic and spacious, and the hall does not have a loudspeaker to amplify the sound, and there is no echo interference.
Unexpectedly, when it came to the next song, "Bu Li" also joined the chorus and began to sing along with the choir on his own.
I can't tell which voice she is singing, and I don't know what she is singing? Because Wang Youjie didn't understand the lyrics very well.
Only a heavenly chorus lingers.
Suddenly, like mountains and flowing water, and into the small bridge people's house, as if to tell the heart, and like earnest, good and seductive, ups and downs, flat and straightforward. The beautiful unaccompanied chorus penetrates deeply into people's hearts, hooks the soul, makes people stand in the "Divine Comedy", washes away the dirty soul, and awakens a beautiful new life.
Wang Youjie was empowered, and then he sat up straight, and really began to look at the "non-leaving".
Sunlight shines through the stained-glass windows, projecting onto the side face of the "inseparable", and the colorful light is strange.
Looking at her big eyes under her black hair, Wang Youjie immediately recognized that they were the purest, clearest, gentlest and most feminine eyes he had ever seen.
It's quiet.
The solemn scene in front of him deeply shocked Wang Youjie.
He couldn't help but hold his breath as he watched his lips open and close as he listened to her beautiful chorus that touched his heart.
In the song, there is a vast sea, a vast mountain, a boundless grassland, accustomed to seeing the spring breeze and autumn moon, seeing through the honor and disgrace of the noble and lowly, and also seems to have seen through Wang Youjie's careful eyes.