Zhongdian painting line --- an unforgettable experience, full of the harvest in late July last year, this writer as part of the Bao'an District, Shenzhen City art teacher to go to the most magic and beauty of northwest Yunnan plateau, the world admired the Shangri-La - Zhongdian Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture County painting, leaving behind an unforgettable memory.
Zhongdian, located in three provinces of Yunnan and Sichuan-Tibet border area, an area of 11,613 square kilometers, population 120,000. Snow-Song in Kawasaki, the vast grasslands, valleys, vertical and horizontal, lakes, clouds, national number, can be called "mountains Yun-bao, public water gold." There the world-famous Grand Canyon, the largest Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Yunnan ldan Songzanlinsi, Yunnan's largest forest and pastures as well as the distinctive Tibetan houses, high-pitched buzz of idyll.
Out of Zhongdian County, north direction to drive 5 kilometers, we can see is shaped like a castle Karma Dan Songzanlinsi. The way you can see the unique Tibetan residential areas, Sule Pagoda, and the fields rows of tall wooden drying barley wheat.
Karma Yunnan Dan Songzanlinsi the largest Tibetan Buddhist monasteries, built in 1679, completed in 1681. The whole temple covers an area of more than 500 acres, for Kang area "Tombs dasi" one. Terauchi ages and art collections by a number of volumes, its architecture, sculpture and painting style, and craft beautiful, fascinating fascinating.
In April 1934, the Red Army Corps march 26 ways to Zhongdian, He Long, Xiao Ke, General visited in person Songzanlinsi Living Buddha, a monk, and the title and a "barbarian tribe flourished," Jin hanging scroll. Songzanlinsi unlocked the cells of the Red Army to raise forage more than twenty thousand pounds, may make the Red Army successfully northward.
Lama temple hospitality, the author sketches a few days in the monastery where a monk has been a continuous two days warmly invited to its shag drink butter tea. Butter tea to Qu-han, refreshing, is an essential possession of the family food, is also a Tibetan buttered tea to the guests respect the daily family etiquette. Shag is a near-deserted Mulou, indoor shabby shabby dark, and only ray of sunlight shot came from the window inside the fireplace with the wood of Health braved the plume of smoke, in addition to the traditional aluminum teapot collectors , Cha Tong, and so make buttered tea utensils, there used to smash the cheese a novel small electric grinder. Here, the author's enthusiasm for the lamas, hospitality moved, just cooked drinking yak butter tea, taste the Ciba and white, Pickle's cheese, to understand the story of monks and monasteries. In addition to the lamas of the monastery to study Buddhist scriptures, the are not allowed to read newspapers, listen to the radio, watching television, are not allowed to smoke, drink and get married, but the difference is with the Han monks could eat meat. Cost of living in the main supply by their family members, monks can always flee and return to secular life can get married after. Many monks can speak more fluent in Mandarin, but can not write Chinese characters. Author to a number of monks invited to stay after the camera name and address, the lama would only say: "I am speaking, you write."
, Respectively, when the hospitable monks wooden box made from a heavy bag of Ciba (like asking Ciba, the shape of a crumpled peanut cake, there was a sour smell) said to me: "This is our Tibetan Area specialty, you go back! "" Thank you, and I went back with a lot of things, then let's use these things inconvenient to go back. "I politely refuse the (To tell the truth, I am not used to such foods, taste is difficult to hear, I The day before yesterday to eat a little bit on the nausea, but hold back, but he still embarrassed to say distasteful, or suffer from nausea and forcibly included in the import and swallowed inside the Ciba). Lama with a good intention to live up to Ciba to take home leave halfway throw away might as well enjoy Lama. This matter for nearly a year apart, and still fresh in my memory, but the hospitality of monks touch me, if the monks have the opportunity to come to Shenzhen, I will be warmly received him.
Magic charming Zhongdian, also attracted a number of special long-stay strangers. The author in a Tibetan monastery outside the store and saw a cowboy dress, wearing hat, wearing jeans, two arms full of silver ornaments worn for about 30-year-old Han Chinese man of strong build, sell things in to help the Tibetan female boss . The conversation, he was Shanghai, where he had to study in Japan, back in Shanghai a month later, because of longing for life away from the city hustle and bustle of the plateau, we came to Zhongdian, helping people to resign to work, room and board at the boss at home, for half a year more, earn 4,5 hundred dollars a month, over two months later, is also preparing to Tibet been wandering life, which life does not intend to get married. According to the rover, said his fellow no traces in the plateau no shortage of strangers.
In the 6 kilometers northwest of Zhongdian County, is the largest Diqing according to the most beautiful La Prairie. July 31, the author and several companions took his painting equipment arrived in accordance with La Prairie.
July's according to La Prairie, like a rippling blue waves of the ocean, floating over above the countless flowers, wild roses red peony, colorful Daisy and could not tell the name of the colored fragrant weed, and charming beauty of the Napa lake, beautiful By pulling the old village as a single entity to form one days, ground, water, human unity beautiful picture.
Where fresh air, smoke curl, horse Mercedes-Benz, cattle and sheep flocks, high-pitched melodious pastoral, cattle ring tones sound, birds Jojo, people relaxed and happy, Hunqianmengying, linger afternoon a memorable one.
In accordance with La Prairie, we braved the rain spurring ox hair and paint it in all human troubles have been shuffled around.
Zhongdian - "the hearts of sun and the moon," which an eternal, peaceful, quiet, insular Pure Land, deeply attracted us is that we visit the most invested in this painting is also where the most gains, especially in the Songzanlinsi, we feel that here is very picturesque, blue sky, monasteries, shag, Mulou, monks have become very good sketch material. Everyday morning to evening, braving the scorching heat of scorching plateau described in silence. Several days later, face and hands, although the black and tan rough, but compared with the harvest, we think are worthy. Early in August, we are rewarding, sandwiched thick sketch draft of farewell to Zhongdian.
Author: zzy988
