June 20: Lijiang - Dongba God Garden - Jade Dragon Snow Mountain - Maoniuping - baishuihe - Lijiang 8:00 departure, we first go to places Dongba God Garden.
Dongba God Garden is in line with the tourism industry since the name, in fact, the altar is the Naxi, Naxi Ren held in this ritual to pray for god bless. Kamizono back holy Yulong Snow Mountain, overlooking the distant "Lijiang Bazi" is indeed an excellent feng shui. The ancient Dongba who is a visionary, a good place to select the piece of earth and heaven as the connection point, must have a Naxi ancestors to kneel here, it will definitely be impressed by the great Holy Spirit in the snow-capped mountains, see through the human earthly insignificance, while the thoroughly devout convert to Dongba bar.
Dongba God Garden construction is actually quite simple: around two wooden corridor, about 150 meters, leading to a distant wood Dongba founder of God; corridor is the middle of a long description of the picture heaven, earth, hell life, corridor on both sides were scattered with many carvings on the left is the demon, the right to be a god.
Corridor at the entrance to lengthwise Jigen wood piles, wood piles have carved patterns, and through the top of the sculpture show reproductive worship, we can see that there are male and female of the points, the corridor is the upper left lower right, while walking next to the picture to appreciate. Scroll is divided into heaven, earth, hell three parts, first of all go through hell, heaven can walk has completed the final corridor to see the main deity. Whenever the junction of the Department, the corridor will appear on a shelf at a very low beam, you must bow their heads before being crossed, it may be said that both reincarnations or eclosion Shengxian bar is not so easy.
Religious picture, in my opinion is always very much the same: to hell part of the rendering karma, both the role of moral enlightenment, while inevitably do not make the mistake to frighten the people to rebel and undermining the inherent order, or even a lifetime succeed, and have had zero good results after the death of gods and the feudal lords, monks, this is a humanitarian ground; human part of the stress that everyone perform their own functions, hierarchical, and never exceeded; paradise while others highlight the majesty of God how powerful, god (of course, which is leaning against a small group of human security Morimoto points, and do more charity was only "promoted" up to) How to live a happy life.
Because the ancient standard of living is very low, "happy" life is really not a lot of tricks, while the rulers of the state violence and repression ruled Daoshi routine, figure 100, so the performance of volume in the religious figure, often some of the most monotonous heaven , almost glowing, smiling a lot of people to make a neat row of well-being of quiet pleasure or heart-shaped; earth some of the most tedious, each doing something different people, with no interaction; and hell some of the best view, painting were very creative way to arrange a variety of bad behavior after the death of a variety of punishment, an eye-opener, lamented unique ingenuity of the ancients, such as the spring ingenuity.
Dongba God Garden picture is also a part of this type, in this respect will not go into details. If we are going to see, then, please remember my advice: stare at hell part of the view, or with a guide to give you a penalty corresponding to explain what each of wrongdoing, must be very interesting.
Garden ago, sitting in a God Qiyuxuanang, Yibiaorencai middle-aged Han dynasty, before the chips in a Yaiba, indicating that Naxi is a warrior nation. It is said a Dongba, there may be interested in a photo with him.
Dongba God out of park, we started to plan how to stowaway on the Yulong Snow Mountain.
Out of Lijiang city, about 20 minutes by car will come to a fork in the road, one-pass Lijiang, one on the Yulong Snow Mountain, one to the Dongba God Garden. Yulong Snow Mountain is located in the charges at this fork in the road, the person 40. This terrain is actually very easy to bypass the toll station, we are: We are back from the Dongba God Garden, in the approaching fork in the road at off, walked across a large meadow on the mountain road Natiao, Liu chef is open After a toll station with empty and then plug our cars can be. 12 people saved nearly 500 money then!
And be honest: This trail through the meadow to go up quite comfortable with one of the beautiful countryside in rural China: rural winding paths and trees, set off in small villages, farmers backyard beauties in full bloom of the flowers, face from time to time leisurely Duo Step from the cattle, with the casual bolt in the ground busy flirting in Yunnan horses, of course, the Yunnan-Guizhou area of the common black pig from time to time appear on the roadside eating grass where something hard way. . . . . . The only shortcoming is that did not see any farmland, but I'd quite happy: some parts of the farming in some places on the long grass.
In order to prevent the discovery, we are scattered in twos and threes trip. Xiaoxiao Sasa to walk for half an hour, feel that the charges can not stand how people see us, and That the car onto the road again, straight kill Maoniuping.
Yulong Snow Mountain of the main mountain large glaciers, Yunshan Ping and Maoniuping. Meili Snow Mountain in the future because we are going to see Mingyong, this does not look at the Yulong Snow Mountain glacier; Yunshan Ping said to be rather general, commercial breath being the stronger, and we do not bother to go. So go straight to the most remote, the final development of Maoniuping.
Drive to the foot has been Maoniuping 11:00, and was beginning to drizzle, people feel quite cold. Many local people persuaded that we rent them down jacket warm, a rent is 20 dollars. We feel that finally saved by 40 yuan tickets, could not bear to spend 20 at once, it fastens clothes into the mountains.
Up the mountain in two ways: to sit cable car, or riding, the price, as are the back and forth 60. Of course, if the weather is clear, physically well, it would be able to walk up the mountain again, so do not spend a penny to play a trip Maoniuping, but also will not be tired, because Maoniuping not any better than Mingyong higher Mingyong we are go with me, did not feel very tired.
But today because of the rain, road dirt, as we dare not go, once again, not riding, so to sit on the ropeway. This is our run-length in the second and final time to sit ropeway.
Up on the hilltop, before your eyes are a large alpine meadow, the Tibetans here grazing. Tourism along the paved Maoniuping wooden plank road, visitors can enjoy a week around the floor verdant meadows, vast pastures, blue lakes, dense forests and charming Tibetan villages, but also overlooking the majestic Jade Dragon Snow Mountain main peak - These are the introduction of cableway station on the wall inside said, we in the ongoing continuous drizzle to see only drifted Mongolia and Mongolia's grasslands can be done only to find that the Tibetan people sheltering, and then one side to dry clothes, while we praise those who have been referred to as "stupid, such as oxen and horses," the livestock were in such a ghost weather actually stride, they dress to eating their grass, this conservation effort really makes Gaoshanyangzhi, endless admiration.
See that we have to shelter from the rain, selling grilled chicken Tibetan yak housewife quickly as we let into the main house, around the fireplace Kaohuo heating. I looked a bit around, it is clearly less well-off households in the Tibetan people, the house is built of wood, the roof tiles do not use wood covered - This is one Tibetan characteristics, perhaps because there was no firing process tile bar -- - In order to prevent the wood has been blown away, wooden planks on the dense Crimping many stones, which in turn brought new troubles: once an occasional roll a rock down, the Tibetans have to invite monks, according to the position of a stone falling This indicates that what the fortune-telling sign; house was divided into the main house and bedroom 2, main house is very spacious and utterly destitute, or in other words, no furniture, the most striking is the fireplace, the top hobble around mouth pot, boil the soup must have. Tibetans are said to never be broken fireplace, fireplace display of fire from the prosperity of the family level; the bedroom is a piece of debris while warehouses piled everywhere bristle bags, in the middle hobble around in a wooden bed, above the thick mats the mattress has been here for nearly 4000 meters above sea level, must be very cold at night. Electrical connection, I can see only one radio.
Housewives to our client on the yak butter tea and roasted meat, roasted yak Thelephora, we are cold and hungry, and quickly gobble up. Tibetan GAO Jun cold weather, physical exertion, and therefore the characteristics of Tibetan nutritious food can be better and more economical way to add strength.
Milk of yak butter tea is extracted from the solid animal fats - "butter" with walnuts, sesame and so break with the Tibetan made of brick tea with brewed tea is the daily drink Tibetans. Tibetans taking a trip, often bring a bag butter and tea, make their own butter tea to drink when eating, very convenient. Butter tea is high heat for additional physical, but also anti-reaction to high altitudes, finished one point, after wiping the lips can also prevent dry cracked skin, it is a good thing to walk the plateau. Taste salty butter tea, Chinese drink, then you can put some sugar, it would be more to adapt to these.
Yak grown in highlands, succulent and firm, high nutritional value. Yak meat, baked good, Hennen delicious. Thelephora yak yak meat is preserved after the product, a bit like ham, but not limited to drawn legs of venison, yak Thelephora suitable for long-term preservation, is often used for dry food, you can empty stuttering, no condiments.
Food Xia Du, with the spirit of the Tibetans with this couple conversation. They are a family of four, the couple with a man and a woman, two children. Prior to livestock for a living, usually eat their own species of yak meat and potatoes, an occasional destination after the caravan down for some daily necessities to come back, one year down and scrape together a living, there is no surplus; if blizzard hit, livestock froze to death of life without forward, the Government would grant a relief to help weather the storm. The past two years, huh travel, they have to sell to tourists in some roasted yak meat, yak butter tea, income increased a lot. Although the new currency equivalent to a bowl of buttered tea is only a dime, a bunch of yak meat and selling only two cents, but for them is an extra high-income. To know that they could have been without any income and relies entirely on the barter.
As a Tibetan, in accordance with national policy, do not need to pay any taxes - but I have been thinking: No, have no income tax in 1949 before the liberation, they will have to pay part of the harvest to the feudal lords, when the day is how ever?
Their two children, girls, only four or five years old, very cute; boy was not at home, go down the mountain side of Tiger Leaping Gorge went to school to study.
Tibetans had no school, children educated way into the temple when the monks, the parents must give him in the temple next to build a house to live, and the supply of all expenses, obviously this is not generally the poor can afford. After liberation, the Government had been established around the Qinghai-Tibet in the modern sense of the primary and secondary schools and universities and a number of institutions of higher learning in Tibet, according to national policy, primary and secondary education is completely free of charge, the Government is responsible for school construction, teacher salaries and student books, food supply (in the mainland provinces, the vast majority of schools are built by local fund-raising; for all the Han students, books and food are not free), so that a majority of Tibetan children to have a chance regardless of wealth, class, sitting in learn together. The mainland Chinese government has also established a number of specialized secondary schools enroll Tibetans, the use of relatively abundant resources to build the mainland Tibetan people, and the ground, including the University of the future return to work in Tibet. Against this background of the Tibetan students are mostly pro-central government, China hopes, through this series of measures to consolidate the central government control over the Qinghai-Tibet region, while effective checks and balances with India-based Tibetan separatist activities.
On my first family visit to the Tibetan people saw, the Chinese government apparently did not like CBS or CNN said, as the brutal exploitation and exploitation of the Tibetans - China does not tax to the Tibetans, without the Qinghai-Tibet receive any revenue, on the contrary, put a lot of construction funds, which is at least in education can be reflected. Tibetans living under the Communist regime under the rule of at least much better than the slave of life, of course, whether the identity of Tibetans are willing to slaves ruled by the same tribe, or are willing to free people joined barbarian ruling the country and bring Democratic Self-Government, I do not know. Although for me, the answer is almost obvious, but I am not, after all, the Tibetans, I do not know how they think. I have to continue approached them and talk to them. . .
Rain stopped, and we paid the food, money, cable car ride down the mountain, ending a Maoniuping trip.
We ate lunch at the foot of Yunshan Ping, Shun looked baishuihe. Baishuihe Yulong Snow Mountain is the source of melting snow, as the tourism resources of its biggest selling point is the river there is a similar Jiuxiang Kanda carbonate Taiwan and China Strip, where visitors can put on the Yi ethnic clothing, riding Yak wading baishuihe and take pictures. Many of our girls are trying to line a bit, it seems no matter what ethnic costumes, and beautiful women are wearing on the body are good match for.
Run-length at the end of today, before Liu master with me to discuss, can not go to their travel transport companies are engaged in a souvenir shop to look, do not buy anything, mainly to let him have a good account of the company, knowing he brought the guests to take care of over the business of the. I would like people to facilitate their own convenience, also readily agreed.
The store is mainly selling jade, crystal products and gold and silver jewelry, the price fairly moderate. Sale of the Jinsha River here, where many of Amoy out alluvial gold products, rather cheap. Crystal Products style than Singapore, but the price advantage is obvious.
Of course, say their own counter selling jade is authentic Rujiabaohuan Myanmar jade. The so-called Burma jade, is a Sino-Burmese border produced a valuable jade. Sino-Burmese border demarcation drawn at the time of a hill to the Myanmar side, I never thought the mountain is a large number of jade, which is Myanmar jade. As Myanmar's processing capacity is very low, so in fact, Burmese jade rough stage at the sold to China, in China's processing production. Burmese jade is said to very high hardness, test one of the ways is to relentlessly against the wall smashing, Zade broken must be false. Of course, even more important feature of Burmese jade is said to be "may raise", Burmese jade belt for a long time after the house give birth to a green pattern, and the longer the greater and more dense, so often false Burmese jade green substance in the general Yuli into posing. Anyway, I thought that I would not identify, was not in any shops to buy Burmese jade. I was in Kunming to the Stone Forest on the road saw a jade shop in Burma jade security knowledge, a whole counter stood a hundred pieces of jade that looks similar, salesman told me that there's only one real Burma Jade!
Back to the car with the master Liu chatted with the guests know that a small shopped, which is still very much some of their places of. Usually the driver to rest, refuel, go to the toilet in the name of the tourists stopped at the tourist shops, regardless of whether tourists shopping, shop owners will be paid by the number of drivers, reward, and Yunnan in the vicinity of five-price for each visitor. In this case assume that the master Liu Twelve of us every day to pull the two stores, there are 10 days off 1200 in additional income. Of course, Liu master know that we are all students, like the rush more you play these places, no money and had no interest going to the store, so rarely took us to this store, this way he can earn a lot less money, oh!
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