Noodle out, went straight to the station, take up the bullet train in Xining, Xining to go.

This is a trip the whole soft-seat double-deck air-conditioned train. Car is very clean, many people, many people can not find the seat. Some people stood, some people roll a newspaper sitting on the floor, I am a little surprised: This is Northwest, and how there are so many people crowded the bullet train?

Xining out of the station, I look shocked, and the immediate scenery is all the stations I have ever seen the most magnificent scenery.

Dark cloud curtain falls, the beautiful distant mountains, near the mosque-style high-rise tower-type buildings, bustling cities and panoramic view of vehicles coming and going of the crowd, standing at the exit of the platform, in the review stage in the review seems to Xining.

Quickly disappointed, and out of the station, see Montreal, throw the shredded paper peel everywhere, garbage everywhere, really dirty, chaotic, poor, totally unlike Lanzhou. I do not understand, two not far from the capital city, a healthy environment is not one could even suggest a grade on. Urban construction also significantly worn everywhere Qiliushinian on behalf of a house built, dark gray, layout is also chaotic, if it is emitted several modern buildings and a few pieces of stylish texture colorful ads, I even suspect that he is not another back By the seventies.

Xining city construction are lagging behind, but here is very simple and morals. Walk the street, take a turn, flew into this, people feel warm and kind-hearted, simple, kind-hearted, people exchanges, full of trust, caring very strong, without any kind of apathy in the Mainland city, fraud and philistine. For this reason alone, I love the Xining.

Here is a very quiet night. To open a window at night to allow cool air into the room, out the window Blues Wong, Mandala silent, were lying in bed and listen to the silent world, and feel the penetrating cold fresh air, and I do not know how happy.

That night, sleep are particularly tasty.

Tar (2002/8/22)

Early in the morning, then rushed to the West Gate Stadium, branded car, rush to the Tar.

Tar is located in the southwest town of Huangzhong County Sarul Lotus mountains.

Teramae's an open space filled with vendors, squeeze squeeze Rangrang, selling a variety of souvenirs and native products. The entrance ticket full of color dressed in Tibetan clothing girls, they are more guides, Miss enthusiasm to sell their own visitors.

Not yet entered the Temple, Xian Zhuo this commercial posture, there are somewhat gall war.

Smooth out the door of a temple with eight columns wishful Baita, they are arranged in neat rows, spectacular, eye-catching. This is the Tar 8 wishful Baita be a private symbol.

Tar is a heavy Monastery of Tibetan Buddhism, but also the Yellow Sect (Gelugpa) founder and master of the birthplace of Tsongkhapa. According to legend, Tsongkhapa was born, where he cut off the umbilical cord of a white Zhantan grown trees, 100,000 trees grow leaves, each leaf on the Buddha once again showed a狮子吼. This is incredible. So his mother in this building a small tower, Hu Zhu these hundreds of thousands of statues of white Zhantan tree, later it turned into one big tower, outside wrapped in silver, called the big silver tower. Still later, the formation of monasteries, the big silver tower on the name of the monastery called Tar.

Pagoda Temple is just one origin children.

Monastery is located in a fine spring, the grass is growing, dense forests on both sides of the valley. On both sides of the hillside, built over a wide variety of Tibetan monastic architecture, it seems, all sorts, walking up and dazzled. However, I know, the most famous is the Temple Daikin watts, large pull through the hall and big waves.

Daikin watts Temple children Temple, the center of the tower, which for the well-known large silver tower. Daikin Temple Temple roof tiles with gold gilt into the whole top of a glittering temple, in the shaded by trees, under extremely eye-catching. According to legend, when Emperor Kangxi, Daikin watts spent gold on the top of the Temple 1320, the Government has recently added an additional 160 kilograms of gold in repairs (Oh, more than than the Kangxi period). Today, Daikin watts Temple, the glittering, golden walls brilliant. Daikin watts is known, as is already the name to go.

The Hall is a great lamas chanting place. Halls to 108 columns, arrhizus wrapped in thick blankets Tibetan, Tibetan carpets emit a warm quilt and a strong smell of wool, and the butter flavor butter lamps, in the dark hall, the giving of a singular and warm feeling. Hall filled with all kinds of walls painted with colorful murals on the walls and pillars covered with exquisite Thangka and China and the United States Mi expensive Duixiu. The front lobby of the wall by a large金身1000 shrines are composed of up and down over 1000 gold plated Buddha all. The middle of shrines dedicated to the 1000 Masters and the Panchen Lama Tsongkhapa's金身like, gold like the front of the IX and the Panchen Lama photograph. Panchen Lama Gyaltsen was the amount of Macartney's photograph, Muguangjiongjiong, lifelike, it was hard to forget.

Large pull-wave is the residence of the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama, the highest office in the monasteries, purple-red wall, a very unique shape. Said the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama are the disciples of Master Tsongkhapa, their reincarnation of the historical world of the transmission tower of a natural child to go to temple to pay homage to their Shizu.

Here are through college, so a monk of the monks are many of them dressed in red cassock, seemed very spiritual, it does not like Chinese Buddhist monk, as pale. Lamas were accustomed to tourists, their slapstick, and laugh, and eat something, and everywhere, the whole thing wrong (as well as playing basketball, listening to pop music). Have a nice little lamas do not know what is going on in front of me walked hurriedly from the constantly falling cassock lifted Shuaixiang the left shoulder, posture is very beautiful, a pair of big feet wearing loose woman walked scarred. I looked interesting, he was received into the camera.

Monks who had wanted to see how the debates on and the result can only see a few monks chanting in the playing, and debate the scriptures do not see.

Tibetans worship this past few days, to people, some turn prayer wheels, and some knock long head. This long head can be bad knock, first put his hands together in prayer, over his head, and then closed chest a prayer, and then his hands forward in a Chu Liu, whole person lied on the ground, his head also knock on the ground, Han pipe is called "five-body cast to." We frequently speak Chinese, "admiration five bodies to bid for land" That came about. "Five bodies to bid for land," it was not easy, and many Tibetans in Qinghai is the "Five bodies to bid for land," step in a kowtow, knock a few hundred years, thousands of miles, has been knock to the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, or knock the Tar here. Some Tibetans died on the way, and their teeth were taken to the monastery by the peer and gilded wooden pillars in the Temple and the.

Whenever we see the long head of the Tibetan people knock trek thousands of miles walked towards the holy places in their minds when the burst is always touched my heart, in my eyes, they are even better than the Olympic champion is also great.

People always want to live in faith.

Today, Tibetan Buddhism, in the overseas Chinese Buddhist influence than the much larger, where the living Buddha, and some will be several foreign countries.

Pagoda Temple children are not allowed inside the temple building photographic and video (the temple on the road does fit in), once the violation, would be subject to abide by Temple Lama denounced the meal.

I am extremely pious visit to the shrine master and the Panchen Lama Tsongkhapa End金身like, then go back.

Great Mosque (2002/8/23)

Sleep big Lanjue, Rishangsangan it up.

Back of the room, mouth munching fried dough sticks, rush to the station bought a ticket back to Lanzhou, hosting the luggage.

Today is Friday, the Islamic day of worship. Dongguan mosque just yo-yo (I am always very interested in religion).

The full name of the Dongguan Mosque is "Dongguan Mosque in Xining City," famous in the Northwest. Its gate is very tall, magnificent, blue and white. Floor 2 of the two declared by the towering towers, the main gate is a large arch, black with yellow writing the word "Dongguan Mosque in Xining City."

After the arch is a large square. On both sides of the square is the wing, rooms are large rooms filled the aisles of the Zhandian for kneeling. Zhandian colorful pattern is very good-looking. Many of the Christians in the Zhan Dian wearing a white hat sitting on, rely on, while others lay.

The front is a Muslim hall, main hall is very grand, thick taste of Chinese architecture, the shape of Han Chinese temples, out of the corners of the eaves cornices resemble Buddhist hall. Basilica that was covered with carpet, neat placed with. Several Muslims dressed in white robes, sat, and a look pious, very focused, they sit quiet. There are a number of Muslims in Dianwai sitting under the eaves.

The entire temple is very quiet, very spacious, and speak with an echo. How many pieces the edge of the tree in the hall stood quietly.

Sky with light rain, the name of Muslims who have umbrellas, walking in twos and threes to go to temple, to people who wore white hats, with long beard, no long beard, goatee, and beard, the elderly, young In short, all men. Islam has provided for women are not allowed to enter temples, they have a special place. It seems that some discrimination against women in Islam is the taste of this, Christianity and Buddhism is much more forgiving.

Shortly after 12 o'clock, treble horn sounded the Koran chanting solemn prayer began. I was standing Si Wai, to bow their heads listening with loudspeakers resonant chanting, prayers are with the pubic region of the gas in the collar chant, sound long slow, loud and clear euphemism, high-spirited frustrated, Tingzhaotingzhuo, actually moved up, it seems that Xinmaitong interlinked with the Koran, and those Muslims who have a similar feeling the same. (Formerly Hui Muslims have always felt a kind of "alien" feeling, and now that feeling no more, and hand, had a similar point of feeling really incredible. Think about a Koran, dozens of the Middle East West Asia kill one another expedition into one of national unity in the Muslim world is in itself a miracle.)

Monastery outside the opposite, is a Muslim craft stores. Muslims inside the craft dazzling, hung the walls. I bought two CDs of the Koran recitation of VCD discs and two Muslims in Kazakhstan Chi hat. Sellers Hui girl is very beautiful, and his head wrapped in white scarves, exposing the full moon-like face and a pair of beautiful big eyes.

Liuxiang patch (2002/8/23)

Out of the mosque, wondering what to eat at noon. Ma Niangpi and yogurt have learned, and still taste Xining face piece bar.

I do not know that delicious home patch, they just-do-the way will be asked in the past. (Away from home, intelligence sources, only been under the nose, mouth.)

Get on buses, three stops to the Garden Road, the turn into an alley. Sure enough, here, together with several of the best patch in Xining museum. Pick a home with one "Chinese name snacks" signs "sea surface films, such as House," go. A good job of votes, asked for a two vegetable dishes and a glass of beer in a patch.

Noodle House furnishings flattered by the dishes came, but it is very authentic taste, color, the smell and taste, nothing better than less south side dishes. A few mouthfuls of food continues, it is aromatic. The bowl came, the surface film is also interesting flavor, a full square patches, not thick not thin soup little children, but it is fragrant child has passed, without a break in the mouth.

Finished impeccably cleaned and mouth, out go all the way back to the chest actually incense constantly. The ancients said the master piano and residual sound reverberate three days without a break, this patch, but also be lingering fragrance around the chest is not no way out. I do not know, this patch children, why not take the name "Liuxiang patch"?

Children's fragrance with a patch children in the afternoon on the K174 by vehicle, ending a pleasant trip to Xining.

Xining, I like this honest quieter city.

Lepidium Western Regions (Part IV)

Fooled (2002/8/23)

Back to Lanzhou, misfortune.

The evening, slipped back into the public alley, would like to eat a bowl of beef noodles Ma Lu. Unexpectedly, the side hall door closed, a tranquility. One asked, I discovered that Ma-lu do anything to the evening business, the afternoon will have to play a molten, an early break went.

I thought to wonder: such a good business, stood a lot of money does not make a profit, do not fool? Turning back to one thought: Jesus? Also yes, the money that things will never make endless, exhausting Leihuo figure what? Is not a comfortable figure do? Say anything more, the money we earn, why bother have T? into their own purses.

Remembered a story, saying that Hong Kong has been like family lived in remote areas, their dumplings do particularly well, every year there are always a number of dignitaries and the wealthy to specify the dumplings, in short supply. It was later the name of their brands selling dumplings in the city. The son heard an urgent, they have to go to court. Do you think the parents how to say this. He said that people are to eat, and we litigate, do not put other people's rice bowls smashed, and we take a step back, not to feed several people do, say the package anyway and we could not finish those dumplings, so why bother? We left a way out to the bar. It seems an ordinary person, who frighteningly generous parents.

However, I thought that the parents are very wise. Now this world, how to compete a lot of smart people, but people must understand the interdependence of people do not much understand the wisdom of group life and even fewer people.

Nag home, may also be considered a bar.

Other hand, possession of his wisdom is not wisdom,咱stomach can Buxing Le, Xining's Liuxiang patch has all gone belly strong protest. Can not hastily, looking for a restaurant to go drilling. A la carte, tea, smoking, food ... ... be a on-to-know well, a taste, Taihushangdang, hitting every one of our ancestors!

According to my experience, and this theory is rotten restaurant owner will not have any results, and had to bite the bullet and eat it. Bah, mouthful of strange odor, and quickly pay leave. When we go out, the boss kept highly piled smile, straining, said: "Welcome to the next visit ... ... welcome to the next ... ..."

Bah! Next? The next free ride did not come.

Bought a yogurt pot shabu mouth, with great difficulty only pressure of cross-breath.

Lesson: where the dinner, be sure to go to the name or names snack restaurant, or at least the locals agree that the restaurant, and never to what nameless shop, or buy the same yuan is completely different services.

Late Night by K657 times Gansu, tomorrow morning to Jiayuguan.

Author: ncmg