The first trip to Guiqian
At the end of another semester, I told my family that I was going to go to the mountains and wilderness for more than a month, and my family was quite supportive. My parents are very open-minded, they think that people should walk around the world more, while they are young and have no jobs, they should walk more in the good rivers and mountains to cultivate their own sentiments, in addition, for so many years, they have also been used to me, in the end, they still spoil me too much.
I took a cursory look at some travel guides and scenery introductions, and finally set the first stop of this trip in Guilin, Guangxi, which is "the best in the world", so as to feel the beautiful scenery and local culture of Yangshuo, and the plan is certain, so I booked a discount ticket in advance, so I flew to Guangxi on the second day after the end of the semester.
Perhaps due to the fame, there are many people who travel to Guangxi, especially in the summer, when there is a flow of people and hustle and bustle, and for me, there is a little less quiet and leisurely travel feeling. First go around Guilin, that is, Elephant Trunk Mountain, Seven Star Rock, etc., and then go along the Li River, and then go to Yangshuo.
In fact, the mountains and rivers are indeed extremely beautiful, especially the picturesque area around Yangshuo, which is not in vain for the praise of literati and artists in the past dynasties. Especially the mountains, each unique peak is strange and strange, with the rivers and streams, there is indeed the charm of "water as a green Luo belt, mountains like jasper hairpins". Helpless people are miscellaneous, often want to be alone quietly in the beautiful scenery to feel one or two, but there is always a shouting and laughing sound sounded, the surrounding tourists like a horse to see the flowers and flowers to get off the car to take pictures, get on the car to sleep, wave after wave from the side shuttle, indeed swept my interest.
Therefore, under the scorching heat and hustle and bustle of the day, even if the scenery is too beautiful, there is also a little less interest in watching the scenery and pleasing oneself, but at night from the courtyard of the Yangshuo farmhouse where they live, watching the villagers who take bamboo rafts and domesticate ospreys on the Li River and return to the rustic artistic conception at dusk.
This time I walked alone or took a bamboo raft along the Li River, and I can't remember too many scenic spots, but also by the way to visit a few karst caves and the so-called ancient tea horse road in the past, so after seven or eight days of leisurely travel, one day on the way, I suddenly heard a few tourists from Guizhou talking about the cultural scenery of Guizhou and the Miao family.
These Guizhou backpackers are obviously comparing the scenery of Guizhou with Guangxi, listening to that tone is quite conceited, they all said in their words, Guizhou is not inferior to other places, but it is a pity that these years have been excavated too little, the promotion is too late, and even many of the wonderlands in southwest Guizhou are hidden in the world because of traffic barriers.
Speaking of which, most of the scenic spots in the provinces of Shenzhou are now crowded with people and keep pace with the times, and only Guizhou still has a lot of primitive cave dwelling culture and even ancient folk customs.
On the same bamboo row, listening to these Guizhou backpackers, I can't help but think of a CCTV documentary I watched before, which seems to say that some strange folk culture in the mountain villages in southern Guizhou is isolated from traffic, about funerals, strange geography and other content, I wanted to explore it at the time, and then I slowly forgot about it.
By the way, this reminds me of an idle book I read in school not long ago, "Guizhou Secret Realm" at noon, which tells all kinds of magical secrets about Guizhou's humanities, Miao villages, and environment, and it also made me know that Guizhou is also the most concentrated area in the world of karst landforms (unique landforms and caves produced by the interaction of natural water and carbonate). In some of the big canyons and deep mountains in the depths of Guizhou, you may see all kinds of strangeness that will make you jaw-dropping. At the end of the book, it is said that the depths of Guizhou may be the last pure natural paradise in the land of China, where there are many secret places that no one has ever entered, full of unimaginable magic and magic.
In short, listening, listening, I suddenly had the interest of visiting Guizhou again, thinking that I had arrived in Yunnan and Guangxi, so it was better to travel to Guizhou together, so I embarked on a journey to Guizhou again in a short time.
As soon as I got out of the Guiyang Railway Station, I encountered a traffic accident outside the train station.
At that time, I was waiting for a taxi on the side of the road outside the train station, and on the zebra crossing, which had turned on the red light, a boy suddenly broke free from his mother's arms to chase the paper airplane thrown out of his hand, and at this time, a black car that had accelerated rushed out from the left, and saw that the boy was running one meter in front of the black car, and the boy was frightened to stand still because he saw the oncoming vehicle, and at that speed, the black car could not stop the car in time for a while.
Seeing that the danger was about to happen, I couldn't help but raise my palm slightly, and block the speeding car with all my mental power, and suddenly, a huge impact entered my consciousness through the conduction of mental power, which is an indescribable induction, which is equivalent to my consciousness in the struggle to push the huge momentum of the car, I tried to block and use all my strength, clenched my teeth, and in fact, all this happened in consciousness.
Fortunately, after a year of practice, the mental power still blocked the car that could not be braked, and stopped on the spot when the front of the car and the child were still more than ten centimeters, but such mental power has caused damage to the car body due to the destruction of momentum inertia. Since my mental power is applied to the entire body, the shell of the black sedan collapsed the moment it stopped, and the skeleton of the entire body was covered by the shell, and many collapsed parts had not yet been exposed.
Naturally, I pretended that everything had nothing to do with me, and when I saw a group of citizens watching with incredulous doubts, I hurriedly stopped a taxi and went to the hotel I had booked through a travel website, because according to the plan, I was going to stay in Guiyang for one night, and by the way, I knew and planned my future trip to Guizhou.
Qingyan Ancient Town, a military town built 600 years ago, is located in the southern suburbs of Guiyang City, about 30 kilometers away from Guiyang. As one of the four ancient towns in Guizhou, Qingyan Town is exquisitely designed, exquisite craftsmanship of the Ming and Qing Dynasty ancient buildings are staggered and dense, the inner pavilions, temples carved beams and painted buildings, flying corners and heavy eaves to the sky, the whole ancient town is full of ancient charm, the folk customs are elegant, and it is praised by the United Nations as one of the most charming towns in China.
This is also my first stop after arriving in Guizhou, the ancient town is surrounded by mountains, the city walls, houses are all made of bluestone, to say that these are full of charm, perhaps first because of these bluestones.
In addition to temples, there are also Catholic and Christian churches in the ancient town. Standing on the Dingguang Gate and looking at it from afar, the church with the spire is far away from the centennial square, the Eastern and Western religious cultures are born in the ancient town, and each has its own believers, but no matter which sect, it is probably to persuade evil to follow good, so the education of the people here is simple and simple.
From this point of view, perhaps the most emotional thing about Qingyan Ancient Town for modern urbanites is the simplicity of the people here. I was tired of walking around the town, and I had just tried to stand there and rest for a while, when one of the old men playing chess next to me offered me a wicker chair and asked me to sit down, so enthusiastic that I couldn't refuse it.
Next to is a small stall selling knitted products, do not wait for me to tea, I will send a bowl of sweet herbal tea, I take a closer look, herbal tea is still soaked in red dates and wolfberries, when I want to pay money to express gratitude, the silver-haired old woman does not want a penny, just will smile at people, rippling out a lot of pure warmth.
Here, everything is casual, narrow and long ancient alleys, people live comfortably and naturally, because there are not too many tourists, turn around freely and leisurely. On the way, you will see some small shops selling handmade goods, if you like, most of the shops will ask you to make a price, and they will always sell at a low price that you dare not imagine at all, and this is the case, the owner also thinks that you love their business, and often give some gadgets to giveaway.
There are hundreds of cultural relics attractions such as nine temples, eight temples, five pavilions, and two ancestral halls in the ancient town, because they are well preserved, you can clearly feel the cultural life of hundreds of years ago. I also liked the customs of this ancient town, so I chose to stay in a clean hotel in the town.
In the morning, I eat the cake porridge of the ancient town, the old mother uses lotus root flour as the base, puts a boiled rice cake ball on it, sprinkles some sesame seeds, grapes, peanut kernels, candied fruit before eating, mashes the rice cake with a spoon and eats it in the lotus root flour soup, the taste is sweet and glutinous, and the smoothness is incomparable. At noon, rice tofu, all kinds of wild vegetables in the mountains, spicy fish in sour soup, mountain hemp chicken, etc., are very enjoyable, because the food is pure natural wild food, it is indeed ten thousand times more wonderful than the usual food, the fish, are the people of the town from the river to beat, the meat is delicious, the aroma is overflowing.
Speaking of which, Guizhou's diet is also unique, the food here is also characterized by spicy, but it will not be spicy with Sichuan cuisine, Hunan cuisine can not accept the spicy people, the spicy here is mainly sour and spicy, because in ancient times Guizhou was less salt, Guizhou people to eat acid to add energy to themselves, and because Guizhou is a multi-ethnic symbiosis place, all kinds of dishes emerge one after another, quite local cultural characteristics, and it tastes unique, five-color and fragrant.
Living in a small inn full of flowers and raising several large green tank goldfish, reading all kinds of books on shelves and shelves, drinking soy milk, coffee and snacks sent by the old mother with a smile, listening to soft music in the sun, and watching the clouds on the green hills outside the town on the terrace, this mood is really a feeling of vacation and relaxation.
So live for three days, leisurely turn around during the day, Qingyan Ancient Town is in Huaxi Scenic Area, there are ten miles of river beach around, Gaopo area and other scenic spots, there is a great scenery suitable for photography lovers to stay, if you don't go out, or stay in the inn to read and bask in the sun, or walk around in the town casually, at night you will concentrate on Zen, sure enough, the air is pure, full of energy, the daily spirit is pleasant, quite useful.
On the fourth day, I was ready to rest for another day in the ancient town and then set off for southwest Guizhou, this morning, seeing that the weather was fine and the terrace on the roof was full of birds and flowers, I took Benlev Tolstoy and stepped up the ladder.
There are two small mahogany round tables on the small terrace, surrounded by creepers, camellias, birds playing on the terrace, and a small pond around the corner of the terrace, which has a small rockery and a pool of clear water, the moss on the rockery and the lotus flowers in the pool complement each other, and the red goldfish can be seen swimming in it from the gap in the lotus leaves.
In the past few mornings, there have been few people on the terrace except me to kill time, but this morning there are more guests who have been playing kung fu tea early in the morning.
When he saw me coming up, he didn't lift his eyelids, but still focused on washing the cups on a set of tea sets. Seeing that he was serious, I also consciously sat down at another table softly, took out the cup and instant bag of coffee, and brewed the coffee with the hot water bottle that my old mother had already placed on the terrace.
The man was very particular about making tea, and I couldn't help but pay attention to it. He did not use the boiling water from the terrace to brew directly, but used his own two large plastic buckets of water to boil the kettle and wash the tea in a small stove, and the whole process was fine with bamboo chopsticks and tea spoons.
When the water was about to boil before it bubbled, the man immediately lifted the kettle down and poured the hot spring into the purple clay pot above the sea of tea. The purple clay pot is also very exquisite, the lid is shaped like a double dragon grabbing pearls, and after the hot spring is poured into and the lid is closed, two strands of steam overflow from the mouth of the double dragon.
This person still kept pouring the pot with a small bundle of hot water to ensure that the heat inside and outside the purple clay pot intersected, forcing the tea essence in the pot to volatilize and not overflow. After such a meticulous brewing, the person raised the small pot and poured the soup into the two small porcelain cups that had been prepared before.
After raising his glass and smelling the tea, the man looked at me and said, "Please try this tea." This person has a smile in his eyes, his face is soft, he looks like he is about forty, his sword eyebrows are big-eyed, the heavens are wide, he looks quite pleasing to the eye and slightly vicissitudes, the corners of his mouth are slightly tilted when he speaks, and there is a little bit of cynicism.