Chapter 202: Princess Wencheng's looking back

After coming out of Barkhor Street, the group got into the car and went straight to the Han Lixuan barbecue supermarket.

Because after the discussion just now, most people wanted to eat self-service barbecue, so Lao Liu waved his hand and sent Han Lixuan.

Han Lixuan is a chain barbecue restaurant, Lao Liu and they went to this store is the city department store, just a few hundred meters away from the east side of the Bugong Square, and you can go directly to the Bugong Palace when you are full.

A meal is naturally very comfortable. Tashi Dawa has a lot of taboos in terms of eating, they can't eat it in a mess, and they don't even eat seafood, so they choose barbecue.

You can eat this.

After eating and drinking, the group walked westward, and after walking a short distance, they came to the wide cloth palace square.

If the neighborhood of Barkhor Street in the morning is dizzying, then when you arrive at Bugu Square, you will feel as if you have arrived in the Great Plains, and the contrast is so strong that even first-time visitors to these two places will not believe that they are in the same city.

Probably there is no more spacious and flat place in the whole of Nikko City than the Bugu Square.

There are many tourists taking pictures on the huge Bugong Square, and on the Maburi Mountain to the north of the square, there is the towering and majestic Potala Palace.

Most of the palace walls are painted with white paint, but only the highest and most central part of the outer walls are red.

The white area is called the White House, and the red area is called the Red House.

The White Palace is where Rinpoche lived and worked every day, and the Red Palace, the highest of which is the main building, is the Spiritual Pagoda Hall of the five generations of Rinpoche.

This year's tourist off-season cloth palace even does not need tickets. Tickets can be obtained at the ticket office in the southwest corner of the Cloth Palace with your ID card.

The group received the tickets, and then entered the cloth palace from the south gate and began to visit.

Among these complexes beneath the Potala Palace are several museums, the most famous of which is the Treasure Hall.

It's a pity that they are not allowed to take pictures in the treasure museum, and Lao Liu and they can only see with their eyes and remember with their hearts.

In the Treasure Pavilion, what impressed Lao Liu the most was not the exquisite treasures of the town hall, such as the eight-petal lotus statue of the King Kong mandala, such as the very controversial white-glazed dark sea thread bowl, these are all national treasure-level treasures, but maybe Lao Liu does not have that kind of artistic bubble, he really has no interest in these national treasures.

The only thing that Lao Liu remembers most clearly is the thangka of the "Plateau Town Demon Map".

The Rakshasa woman lying on her back on the ground was suppressed by temples of different sizes with limbs and hearts, and in a pattern that was only one and a half meters long and more than seventy centimeters long, the most important temples on the plateau actually had all of them, and they all happened to be suppressed at the joints of the limbs and the heart of this Rakshasa woman, encompassing the entire territory of the plateau.

Not to mention anything else, the idea alone is incomparably powerful.

After about forty minutes at the Treasure Hall, the crowd began to climb the mountain.

The palace is built on Mount Maburi, and if you want to visit it, you have to climb the mountain.

The zigzag steps are staggered halfway up the mountain, and many panting tourists are climbing hard while being happy to take pictures.

Everyone knows that in the area where the cloth palace can be visited by tourists, there are two places where you can't take pictures, one is the treasure hall that Lao Liu and they visited just now, and the other is that you are not allowed to take pictures in the Red Palace on the top of the mountain.

If you want to enter the Red House, you must first climb to the White House. After climbing up, there is a small square with a small area, which is the last area in the palace where you can take pictures. Further on, you will enter the Red Palace, where it is forbidden to take pictures.

Tashi Dawa naturally doesn't care about them, but Lao Liu and the others are coming to the cloth palace for the first time, so they naturally want to take pictures.

After taking pictures, the group entered the Red Palace through the entrance.

To be honest, the passages in the Red Palace are relatively narrow and short, especially in some places where you need to climb ladders, the wooden escalators are very steep, and you even have to use both hands and feet to climb up......

There are many tourists inside, there are countless Tibetan believers who pay tribute and worship, and the air is filled with a strong smell of ghee. Tashi Dawa and they also had to offer ghee to the Buddha and the statue of Rinpoche.

After wandering around in it for a long time, when he finally came out of the back of the Red Palace, there was a kind of rush that would be overwhelming.

Because the height of the cloth palace itself is close to one hundred and twenty meters, and it is located on the red mountain, that is, Maburi Mountain, so standing on the platform behind the red palace of the cloth palace, the entire Sunshine City can be seen, even the Yaowang Mountain and Mopan Mountain in the west are shorter than the cloth palace.

Standing here, because of the obstruction of the Red Palace, you can't see the urban area of Nikko City to the south of the Cloth Palace, but you can see it from the north, west, and east.

At the foot of the cloth palace is the Zongjiao Lukang Park and the Longwang Pond in the park, and if you look to the northwest, you can see the huge Lalu Wetland when you look past the dense buildings. In the distance, you can see snow-capped mountains.

At this time, due to the snowfall, even the mountains around Nikko Castle became "whiteheaded".

Walking down the zigzag staircase road, you will come to the back of the cloth palace after more than 20 minutes.

"Do you want to go to the park for a spin?" Lao Liu asked Chu Qian.

Chu Qian shook her head, "Let's go to Bugong Square." The last time I came to the palace, I went to the park for a turn, but I didn't go to the square. ”

"Okay, then let's go to the square. As he spoke, Lao Liu asked the big dog if they wanted to go to the park, but they didn't want to go.

In fact, visiting the cloth palace is a very physically demanding thing, after all, it is also 3,700 meters above sea level, and it is climbing the mountain and visiting in the Red Palace, plus visiting the Jokhang Temple in the morning, the big dog and a few of them are already quite tired at this time.

Since everyone was reluctant to go, they walked east along the path behind the mountain for a distance, and came directly to the road on the east side of the palace.

Walking south along the road, there are many small shops on the east side of the road, as well as a small market selling a variety of Nikko Castle local products.

Lao Liu will not buy things here, if he wants the local products of the plateau, he can go directly to Wang Erhu's project department to get it, the price is cheap and true.

After leaving the gate of the scenic spot, the group came to the Bugong Square again, and took pictures with those tourists in the square.

In the middle of the square, there is a red area on the ground with the elevation of Nikko City - meters.

A group of people took pictures here.

"Actually, it's best to come to the Cloth Palace Square at night, if you come here at night and pour some water on the ground, you can take a picture of the reflection of the Cloth Palace through the water. Kelsang Lazhen said, "When I came to the palace last summer, I came at night. In addition, the lake in the small park to the east of the square can also take pictures of the reflection of the cloth palace, which is very beautiful. ”

"Are you talking about that small lake?" Chu Qian asked, pointing to the east.

"Well, it's the lake. At night, the palace is brightly lit up, and the reflection through the lake is really, really beautiful. ”

"Let's go, go over and have a look. "It's all here, and it's not hard to go over and see it.

The group came to the small park to the east and saw not only the lake, but also many trees that had been protected and grew strangely.

This kind of tree grows very strangely, the trunk is very thick, and at least two or three people have to hug each other, but the trunk is very short, at most one person high, and there are thick branches scattered and separated. And the trunks are all twisted, like twisted flowers.

The branches of a few of the trees on the edge of the lake were even lying on the surface of the lake, and if it weren't for some steel pipes, they might have sunk into the water.

"This is the levo-willow, which is said to have been planted by Princess Wencheng herself back then. Kelsang Lajan became a narrator and began to tell everyone about these strangely shaped trees.

Liu Moang smiled: "It turns out that this is the legendary left-handed willow." ”

Chu Qian said: "It seems that there are many such left-handed willows near Longwang Pond, and the number is even more than here. ”

Kelsang Lazhen nodded and said, "The left-handed willow is a famous scene in our Sunshine City. In the past, there were no willow trees on the plateau, and legend has it that when Princess Wencheng arrived in Sunshine City, she planted these willow branches given by Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, near the cloth palace and Jokhang Temple. At first, Princess Wencheng didn't expect these willow branches to survive, but she didn't think that many of these tenacious willow branches took root and sprouted, and since then there have willow trees on the plateau.

Later, Princess Wencheng often looked back in the direction of her hometown Chang'an because she missed her hometown, and over time, these willow trees planted by Princess Wencheng began to rotate slowly, as if to cater to Princess Wencheng's looking back and gaze. Later, these willows became what they are now. ”

"Wow, that's so touching......" Several ladies were a little moved.

Lao Liu nodded and said: "The legend of the left-handed willow is very touching, and have you found it, the direction of rotation of this willow tree is the same as the direction of the Tibetan people's meridians, and they all rotate clockwise, which is a very magical phenomenon." ”

When everyone took a closer look at these left-handed willows that looked like coiled dragons, they found that the direction in which these willows twisted was really clockwise.

All in all, it was an eye-opener to be able to see such a magical willow tree at such a high altitude.

You must know that near the inn more than a hundred kilometers away, not to mention the trees, not even a holly can be seen......

After walking around the cloth palace square, the sun has sunk in the west.

"Eat out or eat at home?" Lao Liu continued to ask for everyone's opinions.

A few Tibetan ladies are crazy today, and they have to eat in the city, but the big dog is gone.

"Let's go back and eat, eat in the city, it costs a lot of money, and the food is very ordinary, so it's better to cook it ourselves after we go back." Besides, if you're in the city for dinner, who's going to drive you back?"

The big dog guy must drink a bottle of liquor for dinner, which is a well-known thing, if you don't drink some, this guy can't sleep at night.

In the end, at the insistence of the big dog, the group drove back to the inn. When they arrived at the inn, their brother-in-law and Wang Feng, who had already received the notice, had already made two tables of good dishes waiting for them!

PS: Bow and thank the big guy for the reward of "scarred my heart"!