Lijiang, in the end is hard to say clearly what it was like to. The ancient city of the Yunnan trip I stayed four nights while inside, it was hastily and before. For its night than during the day for it I am more familiar with; for its lively than for its static overflow me more familiar with; for its dazzling array of shops than for its hidden alleys of the ancient dwellings me more familiar.
Lijiang is an ancient, if you stand on a height overlooking the town of dense gray roof. That moment may suddenly make you moved, you sigh, and even tears. Lijiang small bridges it seems too much artificial chisel ornaments. Contrast pictures of Lijiang, the previous two years, and now the river on both sides of the house the color of the wood is too bright and artificial, bridges, too. Stone pavement is still making people feel happy, and there are some simple planes in the river as a wooden bridge.
Many people, you find difficult to bridge them into the water what you want - I think most people who come to Lijiang, in this desire to find a definite yes to the quiet and relaxed. Only occasionally in the morning is, when the stay of tourists have been traveling the city, while those from Kunming, Dali tours into the city yet, you can enjoy Lijiang. Do I bother to do out of renovated scenery. One is to listen to endless sound of the water, but also allows you to have been intoxicated.
Underwater Lijiang ancient town is it different from other places. I have been to Zhouzhuang, visited Xitang, there are small bridges, but does not let you feel the water in the stream. The Lijiang water, so you see that it does not nonstop pace, clear water it bottomed out particularly the crisp voice of the cold. It is almost not leave your ears. It makes the whole town alive. It is here where the nimbus. Do not have to look for the river next to the bar differential Stanford, just by carrying a sheep in a small alley to buy a packet of Naxi woman fragrant melon seeds, bubble tea, pick up a ride in the river on a wooden or stone sit beside the river, you do not feel the flowing of time. At this time the best thing to do is read and trance, and even chat has become a kind of oppression.
At such times, even on an hour so you never miss.
However, to people here, most, like me, will always have tight travel schedule waiting to complete. While trying to leave the tense city, to here, still unable to enjoy such leisure. Even in the city there is a full day, it was quickly attracted by the vast array of goods, was quickly developed their own shopping list of the press.
Small faint Yutian, large faint in the city.
Here is still a relaxing place where you can. Here at night, red lanterns and shadow reflected on the water here has become so blurred, surface from time to time people bought by the promise of Lotus lamp drift off, combined with exceptional on both sides of noisy bars and people laughing loudly, Lijiang the night side Amid the blur on the one hand is to let people vent emotion. Loud laughter of the crowd who may not have such a long time had nothing to fear.
At this time the water is still sound stops, accompanied by laughter, wine indulgence song, and accompanied by the crowd after the indulgence of 3322 dispersed to a small town with a dark sinking, sinking them into sleep.
Very much liked the inn, or rather here Naxi houses. I do not have too much on these homes of three bedrooms for a screen wall in theory, but from the vision and feel that here is the most suitable housing should be the kind of people live. The square-shaped layout gives the feeling of spiritual security, which left a very wide courtyard people think they are not closed. Courtyard planted flowers and trees, without exception, wanders the dark and some holes have a very slippery by rain raw stones on the ground so that you can not help there, excluding worldly troubles, only the loss to the satisfaction of happiness. And some room in front of the screen wall when the door is really like for you may be blocking secular feelings.
But in fact the genuine living in these house to people who have come after is another secular. Naxi Ren said the family is not always harmonious, as long as one lived in the same under the eaves, almost all of the fraternal strife, so a lot of room in the city as a reason why the rental out of the inn, partly from this. Irregularities are divided, while the ancestral home as a public property, also the best in this simple way to dispose of hand, everyone is happy.
Understanding of this point, I suddenly wake up, no matter what kind of Shangri-La are only passing through a temporary escape from the place, but this world does not really give you a place to relax and escape. It is like a few months ago saw a documentary on the Lhasa Barkhor recorded in an old people are as incompatible with the daughter and the struggle and even the same displacement. What is the Pure Land, what is paradise if only in your own hearts desire, whether the experience.
For the rush, but after I was not too disappointed in Lijiang. Despite the Yourenruzhi, despite the scenery is already artificial Lijiang Lijiang remains.
By: GiGi
