Chapter 138: By the Butterfly Spring

"Kunming's top ten flavor snacks or Yunnan's eighteen monsters, you just need to name four of them, even if you win, how about it?"

Yunnan Eighteen Monsters, Dong Qilang has heard some of them, Kunming's top ten flavor snacks, he really hasn't heard of it.

In order to make Miao Miao happy, he just said a few things.

"The torch can be used as a hookah, and the doll can be used as a hookah to fall in love, and the torch can be used as a hookah......"

"Say, keep talking. There are still two left. ”

"I really don't know. Or yours. ”

"Then you can also name ten flavored snacks. ”

"I don't really know that. I throw in the towel. ”

"Listen, I'll talk about the Eighteen Monsters of Yunnan first.

The first monster, the eggs are sold on grass strings, the second monster, take off the hat as a pot lid, the third monster, three mosquitoes as a dish, the fourth monster, the fire pipe can be used as a hookah, and the fifth monster, the tsamba is called a bait.

The sixth monster, falling in love with a doll on his back, the seventh monster, the four seasons of clothing are worn together, the eighth monster, the grasshopper can make snacks, and the ninth monster, the girl is called the old lady.

The tenth monster, the monk can fall in love, the eleventh monster, the old lady climbs the mountain faster than the monkey, the twelfth monster, the new shoes behind the patch, the thirteenth monster, the car is faster than the train.

The fourteenth monster and toes are out all the year round, the fifteenth monster and the doll are all brought by men, the sixteenth monster, peanuts and broad beans are sold in piles, the seventeenth monster, it rains here and there is drying, the eighteenth monster, four bamboo rats and a sack. ”

"I'm very strange, the second strange, take off the hat as a pot lid, the hat is leaking, how can it be used as a pot lid?"

"There are many bamboo forests in Yunnan, so many utensils are made of bamboo, and the pot lid is similar to the hat in the mainland, but the top is slightly smaller, easy to grasp, and the pot lid is used to breathe and heat preservation, and the rice made is more fragrant. ”

"The tenth monster, monks can fall in love, monks can fall in love, this world is not too crazy, it's going to be chaotic. ”

"This is Yunnan's border with several Southeast Asian countries that practice Buddhism, and men from these Buddhist countries go to temples to become monks.

Just like going to school or serving in the military in the mainland, when the time comes, you can still get married and have children, and under its influence, the border people also wear monk clothes and fall in love.

The people on our side who wear monk clothes are not necessarily monks, they are just dressed for fun, and some still wear monk clothes with long hair. ”

After Ma Miaomiao's explanation, Dong Qilang realized that many of the monks here were fake monks.

"Tell me, what are the top ten flavor snacks in Kunming, as soon as I hear the word eating, my neck is hungry. ”

"The hungrier you are, the more I won't say. ”

Ma Miaomiao deliberately angered Dong Qilang.

"If you don't say it, I can find it, I'll go,"

Dong Qilang stood up as he spoke.

"Okay, I said, I didn't expect Brother Dong to cheat. Top 10 Famous Snacks in Kunming:

Cross-bridge rice noodles, Sixi rice balls, buckwheat buns, shepherd's cabbage dumplings, ham and bean stewed rice, small pot rice noodles, bait, assorted cold rice noodles. Whatever you want to eat, I'll take you. ”

"I've eaten some of them, such as cross-bridge rice noodles and small pot rice noodles. We'll eat two things tonight, and we'll save some for tomorrow. He ate the bread of the Taishi, and the governor of the roast and sold it. ”

Ma Miaomiao took Dong Qilang to two well-known snack bars in Kunming and tasted Taishi cakes and Dudu siu mai. Still eating, Ma Miaomiao planned the next day's itinerary, to Dali, to play in Dali for five days, and then to Lijiang, after arriving in Lijiang, according to the situation to set the day of play.

Dong Qilang's original purpose was to go out for a walk, and he didn't object to it, but what made him a little uncomfortable was that this man and woman were together, and it was really difficult to get along.

Under the guidance of Ma Miaomiao, Dong Qilang first visited the three pagodas of Nanzhao Chongsheng Temple in Dali, the Shibaoshan Grottoes in Jianchuan, the Jizu Mountain in Binchuan Buddhism, and the tall and majestic Cangshan Mountain and the bright and clear Erhai Lake.

Make your last stop at Butterfly Spring.

The two took the car from Xiaguan, and soon after getting on the bus, Ma Miaomiao introduced Butterfly Spring to Dong Qilang. Butterfly Spring, Butterfly Spring is located at the foot of Shenmo Mountain, the first peak of Cangshan Mountain, 27 kilometers away from the ancient city of Dali in the south.

It is like a transparent gem, set in the shade of greenery.

Traveling more than 30 kilometers north along the Yunnan-Tibet Highway, Dong Qilang, who was sitting on the left side of the car, suddenly saw three big red characters with an area of 30 square meters "Butterfly Spring" on the hillside, he poked Ma Miaomiao with his hand and said:

"It's here!"

Ma Miaomiao didn't know what she was thinking, she was stabbed by him and came back to her senses:

"When I arrived, I got off immediately. ”

Get off the car, walk less than 100 meters, that is, there is an antique stone archway into view. The memorial arch is written with three big characters of "Butterfly Spring".

From the archway to the butterfly spring, about 100 meters, the spring pond is two or three zhang square, and the surrounding is built with translucent marble to expand the column. The water is crystal clear, with strings of silvery bubbles gushing out of the sand and stones, bubbling out of the water and making splashes.

Dong Qilang and Ma Miaomiao stopped by the spring for a long time to admire, occasionally a butterfly flew in the air, among the trees, and among the flowers, but there was no scene in the book or advertisement, Dong Qilang couldn't help but ask:

"The famous Butterfly Spring, why don't there be a few butterflies?"

"Brother Dong, what time is it, big brother, it's still the tenth day of the first month of March, and your luck is already very good. ”

When she talked about the excitement, she couldn't help but pull Dong Qilang's sleeve naturally, and the two sat on a stone by the spring, Ma Miaomiao put her hands on her knees, and continued:

"Every year from April to May of the lunar calendar, all kinds of exotic flowers and plants bloom on Yunlongfeng Mountain, and the acacia trees by the spring exude an elegant fragrance, attracting thousands of butterflies to come to the party.

These butterflies are as big as palms and as small as bees, and they either flutter among the colorful camellias, rhododendrons and other flowers and plants, or play on the heads of visitors with flowers and branches.

There are also countless colorful butterflies, from the acacia tree, one by one, hanging upside down, even the whiskers hooked feet, knotted in long strings, hanging down to the surface of the water, under the sun, colorful and beautiful, spectacular and beautiful.

Especially on the day of the 15th day of April in the old calendar, if the weather is fine, it is unprecedented, not only the butterflies are amazing, but also the varieties are numerous, such as the phoenix butterfly, the big tile gray butterfly, etc., thousands of butterflies fly from all directions, flying all over the sky by the spring.

The butterfly is as big as a slap and as small as a copper coin. Countless butterflies also hang from the acacia tree to the surface of the water in clusters. Colorful and a spectacle.

It became a world of butterflies. On the day of the butterfly meeting, the people who will watch the butterflies, wearing red and green, come one after another, and the laughter and laughter make the butterflies more springy.

Since ancient times, many literati and scholars have visited here and written many important poems.

Xu Xiake, a famous geographer in the Ming Dynasty, once enthusiastically praised Butterfly Spring in his travelogue, he wrote:

'The big tree on the spring, at the beginning of April, will bloom like a butterfly, and its wings are lifelike, no different from a butterfly. There are tens of millions of real butterflies, even whiskers hooked feet, hanging upside down from the top of the tree, and on the surface of the spring, colorful and colorful.

Visitors are all watching it in this month, and it is already in May. Sha Chen, a poet of the Qing Dynasty, praised in the poem "Shangguan Butterfly Spring":

'Thousands of butterflies in the blurred butterfly tree, the tail of the nucarus is like a tassel of green water. If you don't reach Butterfly Spring, who is willing to believe it, the shadow banner covers the butterfly**. ’

Butterfly Spring has "three uniques": spring, butterfly, and tree.

The spring water is as clear as a mirror, there is a spring bottom to emerge, butterflies needless to say, the spring side is shaded like a cover, a tall ancient tree, lying on the spring, this is the 'butterfly tree'.

However, the trees here are not only this tree, but also the newly planted trees such as phoenix tail bamboo and Christmas trees, as well as pine forests, Berlin, palm forests, tea forests, rhododendron forests, and moso bamboo forests that are full of mountains behind the spring, as well as local aromatic tree species such as acacia trees, sour incense trees, and Coptis trees by the Butterfly Spring.

This acacia tree by the butterfly spring blooms in early April, the petals open like butterflies during the day, and the petals close at night to spit out a burst of fragrance.

The poet vividly praises the butterfly as a 'flying flower' and the flower of the acacia tree as a 'still butterfly'. During the butterfly festival, flowers and butterflies dance together, the truth is difficult to argue, it is a great spectacle of Butterfly Spring.