September 22, 2003 fly Fuzhou, Fujian, and friends from Wu, Tai Xiao, Tai Pan Tai Liu drivers have started with the trip to Fujian Province. Called them "big" because of their age than I did great (although the big Xiao only a few months older than me). It is difficult to go to everyone in an age group than I have can do, "Chen" It's not easy to do.

Will Le Yuhua Cave

23, 7 am to leave Fuzhou, to the north-west direction. The Minhou, Minqing, Nanping, Shunchang. . . At noon arrived Jiangle County.
Chinese food restaurant in Malaysia roadside dining. Russula mountain chicken stew, steamed wild salmon. . . , Tastes great, this was originally Russula know a good thing. Russula Zhejiang seems not. In Fujian is fill the eyes of something, high-quality red mushroom to several hundred dollars a pound. Due to long in the mountains, absolutely wild (no training), wash clean, will feel there is sand, and texture, and we usually eat mushrooms are completely different, more rough. . Fujianese once gave me two packets of red mushrooms, due to both look and taste bad feeling, but also thought it was mushrooms to discard expired, and now want to come is a great pity.
Yuhua Cave tour after dinner. Yuhua Cave in the county will be happy days of order 5 km south-east foot of the mountain, because the rock inside the cave, and smooth as jade, named Huaguang great success for the limestone cave, at the provincial level scenic spots. Full-hole total length of 6 km, there are two channels, from the possession of Ho-dong, Thunder Cave, etc. 6 branch holes and Shiquan, Jing-Quan, Lingquan other three wide and 1 to 3 meters, not knee-deep river formed a small yin. Winding paths inside the cave, the "Qionglouyuyu", "Penglai Emerald" and so on more than 180 King, particularly among the "fairy fields", "Boy worship Goddess of Mercy" and the most lifelike images. Imports as "a wind", the wind more than the export of "just before dawn day", you can make people experience the scenery from the dark into light
Yuhua Cave continued on our way to swim, around 5 pm to the Datai Ning county. Taining ate dinner in the cauliflower of large snakes (nearly 4 kg weight). In fact, I is an animal protectionism, eating people had no choice, but the taste is good. Shaw is also a big swallow the whole of the gall bladder, and I said he had two lamps, and later, when something happens that he can protect us.

Taining Tour

24 am Tour Golden Lake area, it is the national four A-level scenic spots. Taining County is located in the West, with a total area of 136.8 square kilometers, of which the waters of an area of 76 square kilometers. Golden Lake is the largest artificial lake in Fujian Province, its name origins Jinxi, Jinxi is a tributary of Minjiang River upper reaches futun xi, detour on a pair of mountains northwest of Fujian 10000. In 1980, construction of pond dam Taining County West Lake Power Station, will be blocked off Jinxi formed Golden Lake, to Jinxi both sides of the landscape and the natural landscape into a cultural landscape with the lake vast magnanimous, blue water and prettily Yan; Lake Green Island list, Lake Yanfeng competing shows, Donghe deep, Nagareizumi waterfalls, mountain ring of water around. Jinhu melt lakes and mountains in one, lined the typical formation of a unique Bishuidanshan Danxia landform scenery beautiful. But this year is not in a serious drought for decades, Golden Lake water level dropped more than 10 meters, and even in some places to see the library at the end, so that the lake by boat a lot of very exciting attractions to be seen, which the visitors came from afar say that it is a great pity, but from another perspective, to see the library at the end of a golden opportunity, however, generally simply can not see that it is difficult to get, so we are still enthusiastic, and an appointment the next water full time to re-visit familiar places again.
Afternoon drifting on the Cheonggyecheon. Cheonggyecheon is also the country's four A-level scenic spots. On the Cheonggyecheon entire 50 km. Occasion to worship them as Changxing 16.5 kilometers deep in the mountains canyons, where the river drops large, fast-flowing at more than ten meters wide, narrow at less than two meters, day to remain first-line, large enough only a raft (and only a single narrow row of people raft) through, or even a shore cliff cliffs stretch across the top of the cliff top, so that the light of day suddenly dark, as one advances through the lonely valley of the audio. , The geology of the ancient continental sedimentary rocks. Akaishi group formed Danxia landform strange things, Qifeng different holes, cliff cliffs everywhere. On both sides of the original sub-forest is very dense, coniferous broad-leaved competing long, bushy trees, vines climbing ashore attached to trees, flowers and prosperous season. In addition to the Woodman here before the small craft fishermen and the occasional hurried off, it has not been involved in the meantime. So here, have always maintained the most primitive of the most wild and natural landscape. Drifting on the stream, they chose the 16.5 kilometers of the river perfect, but here often to see others do not have a floating small white pieces and shining in the sun the beach. Drift day very few people, as little as any other visitors to see the full Jing Mei. The original song gorge deep pools so that we sometimes suffered near misses the stimulation, sometimes perhaps we should immersive silently into the wild. Ah, that's what kind of intoxication. Although one-third of a six-day trip yet, which I had extremely mixed feelings on the red here is definitely a worthwhile trip. I swim across the landscape in Guilin, Yangtze River Three Gorges, Wuyishan water and dozens of other large and small, drifting, but it can and here I think it is a Bimei few.
Xiao drift back on the road all the way large mining the wild flowers, wildflowers do not adopt the way we say, he say no to adopt white non-adopt, so we hurried back to the time of 18:00 Taining county clock, but still in the "Book of the first" gate closure squeezed into the last minute.
Taining the chancery is located in urban areas first, is best preserved in southern China's Ming Dynasty residential buildings, has been listed as national key cultural relics protection units. Book of the first for the out Taizaitaishi Bingbushangshu (equivalent to today's Secretary of Defense) Li Ye's mansion. Mansion was five, sitting West, east word order, with the buildings and the buildings built in the corridor between the carvings on the gate apart, each with separate gate hung a "IV, a product," "Zhuguo little guarantee" equal plaque. Said the local people during the Cultural Revolution for the protection of the building, many of the main gate, the walls are coated with a thick layer of mud only escaped disaster, so that mansion of the main building is still more complete.
Taining Soviet revolutionary base for one of 21 counties. That year, Zhu De, Zhou Enlai lived and Peng Chen Courtyard emplacement LUOHANCI still lingering.
The day's dinner and features a mountain in western Fujian, soil great, are extremely rich. Chicken, Turkey duck, pig, sheep, soil, red mushrooms, pear mushrooms, wild vegetables, and burn a special tasty, the taste is absolutely great. My favorite is the animal's feet, or claws, can claw each of the small joints of meat on the record spotless. That day I was eating chicken feet to eat duck feet, duck feet bite to eat and then Izume large mutton, large pieces of chicken and duck meat, as well as their fried mushrooms red mushrooms and pears are so delicious, really no way out. Each of us that day after dinner at least 4 pounds weight.
The trip most of the mountains of western Fujian northern Fujian, where of course, chicken is the main soil duck dish, I am the way I ate a stomach claws, Shaw joked that there are two big lamps, and I am 100 claws scratching heart.
Oh, Taining landscapes, Taining local dishes, it is unforgettable. Taining, travel enthusiasts can not can not place. Just because traffic is not convenient, to some extent hindered the development of tourism taining, but now a highway to Beijing, Fuzhou, Fujian section is stepping up its construction, but also in Taining there is a import and export, tourism will reach a point after the completion stimulate economic the take-off, so Taining quickly out of poverty and toward prosperity now, I believe that this day will come very soon.
Episode:
Lunch that day at the farmers at home to do our own clean wok. We were a few people climbed the Golden Lake scenic area because of several hills come down and have a variety of 13:00, hungry faces were issued green can actually foot of the mountain there is no place to eat, so knock on the door of a mountain must be dining in their home. We see them stocking the chicken is three feet ? saliva, so, and with the mountain to catch the chicken, but those chickens are used to running in the mountains year round, and it melody of our appetite too easy, and arrested half a day with a feather nor caught were dropped. Later, farmers planted with sweet potatoes and rice cooked together with a great pot, each Hula Hula to eat a few large bowl, until the pot of Dangdang scraping sound, the feeling is that the world There is nothing more fragrant Rice has.

Ning of the Swan-dong

25 morning, with a congregation of "big" home to eat the day before a morning stroll along the way people went out to eat snacks sa (sa very famous snack, especially Bian Shi - northerners known as chaos, it is used with meat, wood hammer smashed out, eating together are particularly grateful to nature, have the opportunity to a friend be sure not to miss the ASCII). Then go to the next stop Ninghua trip.
Fujian mountain road vehicles in the Northwest. Fujian is 80% hilly, sparsely populated mountainous area in northern Fujian in western Fujian, economic underdevelopment, Taining and Nanjing-based poverty-stricken counties are now, it seems would rather be, or state-level poverty-stricken counties. Mountain car circled the car less, little villages, and the roads are basically did not see a pedestrian, as is the hilly area, so not very dangerous mountain, where afforestation is doing OK, so the green is also a feast for the eyes all the way Cang eyeful. Is also driving the car on his way through the Jianning Jianning County town in turn full circle, from the city can be seen Jianning is really poor. But Jianning of the lotus, but very famous along the way can see the cultivation of large tracts of lotus root. More than 10 minutes to the Daning of occupancy Hakka hotel. I would rather Liancheng area is the ancestral home of the Hakka. Hakka ancestors because of the war from the Central Plains to move to sparsely populated western Fujian live down, so it is known as the Hakka. Subsequently, a large number of Hakka people from Fujian pass across the sea to overseas development, the Hakka people and their offspring at home and abroad with several millions of people would rather be 90 years started to ancestral roots Yezu at home and abroad to the descendants of the Hakka Luo Station endless . Begin-ning of the names I always remember, not remember it every time, I began to recite Mao's guerilla base areas during the year in western Fujian to write poetry "I would rather clear stream naturalization, Lin Shen moss slippery road in distress.. . Yamashita Yamashita, wind Exhibition picturesque red flag ", that through this the first poems I remember this place names, and experienced the Cultural Revolution generation, this point should be very easy to understand. Noon was the taste of a rather distinctive dishes, of course, chicken soup soil, as well as each person a bowl of chicken soup red soil pseudo-ginseng powder, not a little bit of pseudo-ginseng, but a tablespoon. Pseudo-ginseng is famous traditional Chinese medicine is indeed a good thing, but people used to the taste did not really drink a little hard to swallow. The locals also like to use animal organs, blood coupled with some sort of Chinese yam, Chinese medicine soup, they think it is very complementary. Taining to the ning of just over 100 kilometers away, eating habits are far too small, water and soil to support a party who is really one party, but I first arrived is not yet adapted to their food culture.
PM visit Swan hole. Swan Cave Scenic Area is located 28 kilometers east Ninghua because the shape of the Swan Hill and stalactites inside the cave, so named as the swan-like white. Swan Swan-hole group with holes, God the wind tunnel and so on six different style of the cave, is the largest karst cave group in Fujian Province. Because in the past have visited many caves, the swan-hole impressed me the most is not the 1000 of its 100 odd of stalagmites and stalactites, but the cave water Shilin. Hole surface area is considerable, the exact depth I am not sure, but I swim over the deepest and most expanded surface water cave, more then amazing interlocking water stone forest that I've never seen before. Shilin bypass vessels in the middle of the before, the water from time to time to tens of meters wide, sometimes narrow to two meters, to be very careful to pass, topography is rather complex. Not only will you have to be very careful avoidance Shi Feng in front of you, more risk is that in your head will suddenly appeared like an inverted canines of Stone Forest, you do not even have to lie on board in order to escape its attack. While we are all in a thrilling excitement exciting, we have encountered an emergency. The depths of the hole, and only when we have a boat all of a sudden cave lights out (we were the last visitors, staff members thought that the cave may be no one off the lights). Imagine in the mountains beneath deadly dark, deadly silence, the kind of terror can well be imagined, the cell phone signal not pass, can not seek help, such a complex landscape in the dark is not simply die out. We started various assumptions, and is ready to go to work the next day in the cold and hunger would have been middle-rescue us, the cave was cold, Tai Wu in particular stand the cold, has begun to have cold symptoms of sneezing, to protect our national treasures ( He is our national treasures, Shaw is a big clown), I gave him his coat off sending a valuable warm, this environment should be such a move is quite high (and their boast a handful of their own). Everyone rushes forward to what is being planned in a hole when the night lights, light suddenly came upset our plans, we do not even feel a bit sorry that enjoyable feeling that it should be called to spend the night in the cave the thrills, in particular, with two major bile Shaw (large Xiao saw certainly feel wronged).
After dinner, Big Wu, Tai Xiao, Tai Pan and Chen would like a four-person singing (actually mainly in the big Pan and Chen thought about the song addiction), to find a home Kara OK hall, box 100 yuan a night to sing for free , Song Cha and refreshments even made eight bottles of beer, enough poverty-stricken mountain areas is really cheap, but want to talk about buying the more expensive cheap, you say you do not Douzhao fun fruit beer, wine replaced the more insatiable and use the beer money go out and buy a cantaloupe, melon Do not Qieyao whole, so that we can do after the two-day journey in the fruits (and thoughtful enough to consider the exact). Large Pan's high-pitched singing voice to great and big Xiao Wu was stunned to hear, let them go, but also to consider the next morning continued on our way the last great Pan concert sorry to see him at 0:30 and end at the leftover tea hit a large package also hold two cantaloupe go home.
26 students early in the morning to accompany big Wu Hakka hotel opposite our meal I would rather eat the most hearty morning tea varieties are many lung boil yams, cow's blood boil red dates, peanuts, pig heart burn. . . . . . And finally brings a kind of each car brought a bag of chestnuts, chestnut exhorted asked to put the car inside the bag to open to open-air ventilation, otherwise the Chinese chestnut is very easy to mildew. They kindly gave us a few days after the trip has brought a lot of the workload.
Goodbye Ninghua.

Liancheng Guanzhai Mt

I would rather leave, less than a hundred miles south to reach the national key scenic spots, Citylink Guanzhai Mt. "Tai" is the word may be a lot of people do not recognize, Pinyin pronunciation for "ZHAI".
Guanzhai Mt plains Wuli East. The entire scenic area is large, that is, to swim and also dabble mountains, geological structure and unique attractions. "Ying-kuh clean water, yin and yang together Shuangjue" is Guanzhai Mt concise and appropriately broad description of a very, very worth a visit, the only person to swim across in order to deeply understand the profound meaning of the above two sentences.
Here is rich in resources and bountiful resources, the famous "Eight dry western Fujian," the Citylink dried sweet potato, "the only medicinal duck" Citylink white duck duck rice paper Liancheng famous the world over, Lin Shing earned the "Hometown of Chinese Red dried sweet potato "," Chinese township Citylink Bai Ya "in the title. "Eight dry" one of the thousand - mice do you have listened to can not be afraid yo, it is voles, not everyone hate the Mus musculus. Great dinner in Nanjing of Wu's students say let's not eat rats, when dry, or else it will definitely give us a taste of them would rather dry taste in mice. I would like to do mouse I have resisted in the end.
Guanzhai Mt at noon on the taste of local specialties white duck duck, minced dried Fried, ducks are lean, the meat is very fragrant; powder dry is to use sweet potatoes and lotus seed powder to do, color transparent, very soft, very toughness, excellent taste, flour is a dry area of specialty, Citylink Ning.
Swim Guanzhai Mt continued on our way, on at 17 o'clock on the 27th over to reach western Fujian city of Longyan City.
Small knowledge: Eight dry western Fujian well-known specialty for Changting tofu, sweet potatoes dry Citylink, Yongding dry vegetables, Shanghang dried radishes, Wuping pig dry, Zhangping, bamboo shoots, rice noodles Silla dry, Ning-based mouse stem.

Longyan Yongding Earth Building - the magic mountain Vernacular Architecture

Work in Longyan graduates of National Taiwan Normal University Department of Mathematics hospitality of us, then fond Kara OK. But it could hardly sing the move, and one word - tired.
28, finished breakfast, I had already charmed toward the Yongding Earthen departure.
Yongding is a fantastic tourist destination. 1 blocks of the world's unique ancient Xiongqi the Tulou, like gods Xianhu cave (Lung Kong holes this time we did not go), picturesque beauty of mountains and rivers, rich Hakka invariably fascinating ...... .
Yongding Earth Building is a pearl of oriental architecture of civilization is the world's mythical village residential buildings.
Yongding Earthen two kinds of sub-circular and square. Ring ring radius dependent combination of Tulou, tall, thick, rugged, majestic. The county has large and small, circular floor 360, a square floor, more than 4,000 blocks. Architectural features from the point of view, especially in strange circular Earth Building Hakka traditions of the richest and most stress. The ancient Great Circle House floor, there are floor, a ring set a ring, the whole floor, there are hundreds of rooms, inhabited by hundreds of people. Buildings halls, warehouses, wells, bedroom peculiar structure, more rigorous defense system that is easily defensible constitutes a solid barrier. Hakka then migrate from the Central Plains to the west of Fujian, the attacks against foreigners should be the construction of one of the causes of the most important Earth Building.
Earthen wall construction for the raw soil. The construction of earth hug, drawing convenience. The main load-bearing wall with immature soil compaction, the wall place branches, wood, bamboo, etc. as "bones" so that soil hug more robust, more than one meter thick wall, showing its robustness.
Our main tour is round floor vibration into the floor of the Pearl, for the provincial heritage conservation units. It is built inside and outside the two rings by gossip. Outer four, five floors kitchen, second floor of the barn, three or four layers for the bedroom; set up a firewall between the trigram and hexagram, so that fire would spare the other Wanyi Yi Gua. Inner layers, the middle ring of procedure of the hall, and is still looking also very luxurious hall, a large stone over 10 meters high, the gate is a beautiful sculpture everywhere. Floor in a hall, two wells, three, four ladders, layout reasonable and symmetrical. Floor on both sides there are schools, gardens and so on. A superb structure, art, construction experts at home and abroad sighed it as "myth buildings." 80 years, the United States via satellite found that China's Fujian Province has a lot of things large and small ring, I do not know what it was, thought it was a missile launch base to attack Taiwan. What became known as the Hakka houses are all amazing. In 1985, the vibration into the floor model in Los Angeles architectural models on display, attracted great interest from visitors. Now Tulou are applying for World Heritage Site.
In the vibration into the floor, we have been honored to listen to the vibration into the Louzhu heirs, 60-year-old master of the obligation to explain Ageng. Ageng master of the vibration into the floor, out of deep feelings, in the vibration into the floor, made two or three decades a guide and received a lot of domestic and foreign celebrities and ordinary people like us. Yongding Earthen heard about today, finally saw it, it was so amazing, so amazing. Tulou do not travel, life-long regret that!
Episode: it was not clear to the Yongding Earthen road, one way to keep up with the car Longyan Court, thinking you have more than half is to earth storied building, even if you are going Which we have now set the jail. Really did not expect that with the right, and Earthen guard What kind of leadership that we are in Fujian (our license plates are government organs in Fujian), while the car in front of the court is to give us clear the way, and then followed the car entered the glamorous soil complex in the door, and then I even saved our tickets for 400 yuan, really sorry, but definitely not intentional.
14:00 left the Tulou, half-way meeting at the site of Gutian photographed embarked upon to Fujian. All the way through the Zhangzhou, Xiamen, Quanzhou, and northern Fujian Mountains The difference is that here are endless road on both sides of the banana plantation, Ganzhe Lin. 19:00 arrived in Hoi An town over. Economically developed and poorer northern Fujian Minnan Minxi very large difference between staying in the hotel's name I forget, there are still five-star style, decorated with magnificent hall, the corridors thick wool carpets, as well as I and the Great Pan's nothing like a presidential suite room, so I am very surprised it turned out to be the county seat of the hotel, and such hotels in Hoi An there are several.

Chongwu city

29 Big Wu's students to accompany us to the ancient city Chongwu. Is only 30 kilometers away from the Hoi An Chongwu less than the distance to the road repair wide Chongwu another style, dozens of kilometers on both sides are decorated with carved stone carving of a wide variety of Hoi An.
Chongwu is located in the southeast coast of Fujian Province salient, three facing the sea, the west land, and Taiwan is only one across the water (distance of 97 sea miles by sea), near the waters around the islands and reefs, complex terrain, easily defensible, is a strategic location very significant defense fortress, has historically been a battleground. Chongwu as a historical witness of the ancient city, has witnessed armies swept east to Zheng Chenggong, recovery of the motherland Taiwan and Taiwan have witnessed with the People's Liberation Army soldiers and civilians Chongwu sail often had mishaps, the liberation of the southern gate of Xiamen Island, witnessed the personal command in 1956, Premier Zhou Chong Wu sea battle, sinking or damaging of the Chiang Kai-invasion of the "Wing Tai", "Yongchang" warship.
Strolling in the Chongwu city, you can see the world-famous Hoi Female: Yellow bamboo hat, flower scarf, silver belt, jacket, wide Kutong, called: the feudal head (head was scarves and hats package Yanyanshishi) democracy belly (T-shirt is too short, navel exposed), saving, clothing, a waste of pants (trousers are very generous). Hoi An woman strange customs, but also to the ancient city of scenery added some charm. I also wear clothes woman in Hoi An ancient seaside Chongwu a show of a trickster, or wearing sunglasses, sneakers foot board of the foreign Huian women do.
Episode: Hoi Ying Hoi An eagle is the top grade of stone. It is the board with a needle in Blackstone carved out of the same as embroidery, very delicate, exquisite. Is a collection and donated a friend of high-grade high quality goods.
Chongwu left here this afternoon, on a high-speed, after Putian, Fuqing back to Fuzhou. The end of a full six-day trip to Fujian Province.
Fujian, was not born where I take care of me, but I walked outside the In addition to Zhejiang province, another the most complete it has left me so deep and good impression.
Oh, Fujian, one full of wonderful and magical place.

Author: ilovetrip