Notes from the Yunnan Province, Yunnan, blooming where
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Yunnan, where flowers (2)
Travel Time: April 26, 2001
At eight o'clock, we rode the bus back to bus stop, sitting at the marble night bus, to take seven hours. There was a unpleasant smell car car driving at night, in the cold, heat, odor into my repeated was removed, and the sleep wake up sleep wake up. Unknowingly in the confused, was awakened that has come to Shimonoseki Dali. At this point, it was 6:00 minutes, I opened my hazy eyes, pick up a good thing down the car stops at a dilapidated, weather cold, the station has been off parked cars and the crowd, the station I asked the hawker to sell the business, as well as travel agencies to attract visitors. We ate breakfast at the station entrance, breakfast is a kind of noodle. Then, taking a bus from Shimonoseki to Dali's car, the sky gray dawn. Gradually light up, in this strange town, I was afraid and fear their disappointment, they dare not allow themselves to think, I said, "I like to wake up early in the day in a strange town." This feeling . I'm afraid all my imagination and sense of disillusionment have been broken. I have felt such a fear of invasion, as well as flowers of the imagination. Car driving on winding mountain roads, fields, on an orange, it is spring, but in such a field, but it is an image of the fall, I am desperate to let their own kinds of patience to find, do not want to go their own easily disappointed.
Auto-line is about half an hour, arrived in Dali, Dali morning, very quiet, quartzite, old buildings. Carved boats and cornices. All are in deep sleep, the little pedestrian street is already almost nine o'clock. We are carrying a backpack, walking in the ancient fortresses of the thousands of years later.
We luggage placed hotel, and then began to walk this ancient city to see these streets, these buildings, feel the simplicity and beauty of this city. Dali small size, we are not be long before he leaves, the city's Old and traveled.
At noon, in a clean and tidy little restaurant for dinner, point those we have never seen the name of the dish of food. Among them a dish of spicy, spicy breath I have to fill out a small bowl of rice.
Eaten with rice, we are riding a bicycle rented from the洋人街to the Erhai Lake. Out of Dali, to the Erhai Lake road, are gravel, bumps and hollows, it is not cheap, not the movement I, a short while they felt tired. About an hour later, we reached the road like Erhai Lake, then a light green light blue of the lake in the fields and small woods next to appear in our eyes. I have seen too many endless expanse of sea, have seen the crisp green lake, lake clear, blue. And this Erhai did not give me too many beautiful illusions, we sat on the dam blowing wind, watching distant clouds cast shadow on the other side of the mountain. The formation of plaques mottled lighter color of red clay and Hui Ying. We Jizhao Che, walk around the Erhai Lake, wanted to walk around with, and the final because no way out, was forced to stop the lap around the Erhai Lake, Erhai month, Erhai Lake of the Moon really look nice?
We walk through a village near Erhai Lake and saw a known as the "-er Water Temple" in Ci Yu. The villagers are enthusiastically invited us into the temple sightseeing. Is also explained with enthusiasm, but because the language barrier, I always did not catch, so I gave up such a difficult hearing and communication exchange. Just want to see. This shrines built in the Tang Dynasty, rebuilt in the Qing Dynasty.
16:00, we are in that village lost in the round and repeat several times among the three pagodas to find the way to go. Out of the village, far from the shadow of the three pagodas and image will go through our vision, our direction toward the tower. Is still gravel and I almost can not stand all-ying, in the garden a rest for a long time period of time, see the crop to be collected, the one golden. Field on the road, driving a lot of colors of the wildflowers, there is a fingernail-sized flowers, the kind of color is cobalt blue, incredibly beautiful. Because rarely seen to such a beautiful blue flowers, but also a yellow, like the kind of Chrysanthemum. I picked a lot of pink flowers, placed in the rear vehicle frame. Has put it back to the hotel's glass on the Pan raises.
In the way to the three pagodas. Overdraft physical feel jaded, Dali's strong winds, (there are romantic Dali called) We walk toward the wind and the very difficulty Jizhao Ju. I fell behind the Ying and constant. I can only desperately warned they have to adhere to, I kind of waiver is tantamount to a waiver of all, I am not strong. So my wayward will lead to its own laissez-faire, and to give up many things.
Night, ran to the ancient city gate pool, sitting on the fortress wall, railing, watching the entire ancient city. Imagine that the year of their appearance, the palace where the residents there, how they kind of live, at the moment of this time were, they would be doing. If there is to know the distance away from the future, how are we going, or so before? We have been sitting on the wall for a long time.
I love this ancient city, though I can not go deep feeling.
The second day in Dali, is constant is called to get up early in the morning. In fact, already awake, just not together. (Constant in Kunming to Dali's car knowledge. From Xian, graduate students a year, computer science.)
Morning, the sky actually raining, we had intended to go on the ride off, and look at the flower off. Romantic or in my favorite flower. Read an article in a section that the flower is a false illusion, it is only the illusion psychedelic colors, but I prefer to believe that such a beautiful psychedelic.
Hang up early in the morning has been transferred in the vicinity of the circle. Said, brushing When we finished, took us to the Hexi Fan. Because the sky was raining, we can leisurely eat breakfast.
At eight, the rain a lot, you can hit the road. Thus, we start riding. We are walking along the asphalt road and the relative path of yesterday, today more good to go. We are closed along the upward direction. No more long, in the street we see a non-action temple inscriptions. So, we have Guairu the next lane, we are invariably love this temple's name. Inaction Temple. Inaction is also doing everything.
To the monastery at the foot of the mountain, he saw a big wall of people. We ran curious to see. Know that this is one of Taiwan's private sector housing will be built. A very large area. Which are beginning to build a number of court Taiwan pavilions, rockeries water and so on. I Ying wonder if the houses have so much down, that is how good thing, join us for a long time to wait senselessly.
We are the temple along the mountain road. Sector in the houses abandoned the car door, did not take long, but under the big sky, the rain drops and I-ying had raincoats, Constant said that he does not, so we continued on our way. Mountain driving another white wildflowers, I picked one, tightly in his hands, along with listening to the rain beating in the raincoat's voice. Constant wearing a rain coat. I said, we defloration bar. So we in the rain, mountain grass which reprint readable stuff wildflowers. Left the road, in the bushes climbing. The more rain the next larger constant is about to wet coat. As we find the road and saw a tent, then ran rain. Local people was very hospitable and friendly, very warm and greeting us. Holding them constant topic, though I would like to share with them, but do not know how to speak, but silent words to roast on fire, listen to their words.
Under the rain outside the tent the more bigger, like the inverted diarrhea in general, accompanied by thunder. We had to storm sat beside the fire, roasting the wet clothes.
Hospitality of the locals, invites us to drink. We even made one of a small stone on vague and abstract patterns. They put in possession of faint patterns of stone the fire grilled, baked into the hot, you use candles in stone cleaning, wax in the heat, melt the surface of the stone. As a result, those patterns and patterns will be clearly Yingxian Chu came. I got the piece is a pattern like a sleeping bird rock.
11:00 o'clock. Mountain after rain, the sky clear atmosphere. Locals told us that up to the temple, you can use rice in the temple, just donate some merit money. He was pointing up the hill to our line. So, we walk up hill road. That about ten minutes later, the temple appears in front of us. We first see a pharmacist Hall. Foreigners inside the temple with the monks to study the Chinese martial arts. We stood in front of the hall looked at for a long time, they go to the main hall. Three, each see the Buddha would kowtow prayed.
At noon in the temple with Zhai Fan, those foreigners together. Mainly because some vegetarian food. Pickled beans, tomatoes, tofu, eggplant, and green vegetables, as well as with a big white rice.
There is a spring behind the temple, called the rescue epidemic spring. Next to the railing for the new. Read the inscription of the profile, before we know the temple is the result Dali emperors monk of the temple. I know about the history of the State of Dali, are from the martial arts novels, "Tian Long Ba Bu" inside to know. One does not know how much is fiction. How much is true. There are described in the novel that Dali both bit after the emperor monk. The original in this temple.
Temple landscape. Cangshan back. Surface Erhai Lake. Broad vision. Secluded forest. Qing Yi trees. Yamadori it mildly.
We have spent nearly an hour's ride from the big street to the foot of the mountain, and we from the foot out to the road, the only spent six minutes. Ying looked at the table said.
At this point, has almost noon 2:00. Heng said the direction was still closed up. We inquired into the customs there are more than 10 kilometers away from the road.
And went about half an hour, we see a monument on the roadside, called Ling Shansi. Thus, we turn to the trail, we spent a very long time before the arrival from the potholed gravel road Ling Shansi. And this temple is new, brushing with a rich ruby color contrast. A door, let us merit to donate money. I did not go hang. Ying also entered a team seeking to sign. Is not good. Yu-Yan Xia in the temple, there is the wind through when he heard four corner Yanxia exhort exhort the jingle of bells.
Ling Shansi out and move on. Highway fields and wheat fields on both sides. Roadside trees grown very strange, is a large trunk, a long with a small cluster of a small bundle of leaves, leaves small, unlike the south tree, long with a large canopy. Or because of geographical reasons, where strong winds. Sometimes because of the wind, and our traffic very difficult. And went for a long period of time, they saw a roadside monument card instructions: Duan Si Ping hometown. Si-ping said that segment was the founding emperor of Dali. We continue to search for this discovery. Tuo village, the village called Pong. Housing is the color of mud. Plain old. Into the village, the village is very quiet, few people walking, I am reminded of an expressionist painting, a very lonely and very empty, deserted streets.
We have been along the way to go, stop-go. Later, to the Hei Chau, Bai Autonomous Region. There were reservations well-Yan Bai houses ---- Courtyard. Is their long history, and preserved the most complete national construction. Zhaobi a three-bedroom, five All four patio. But walking in the cascading housing twists and turns, the total space that there is a depression. Interval smaller houses, and the result is the color of dark wood, light is very dim.
From the Xizhou out, because the sky dimming, did not go on the off.
Come back, the three tired to death, then Zuoche Hui Dali. I noticed that car is so comfortable, we are depending on and laughed.
Night dinner. Drank alcohol, because the constant drinking some, and I followed. Heng said that our poor sense of direction. And I-ying, said, people do not know what is constant. Will Shui us, and then off he would use what kind of ways to cheat Guaiqu. Constant was in the side playing with a new born kitten. Leisurely listening to us.
This is our last day of stay in Dali. After dinner, They go shopping, I was drank wine, then back to the hotel.
To the late 11 o'clock, another person ran out of their own streets, street dim. The ancient city of dark lonely. In addition to洋人街, the entire old town is quiet. I walk in this deserted.
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