To the Dunhuang afternoon, listened to the recommendations of the driver big brother, the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes straight after lunch, only opened a dozen cave for tourists to view. Several of them are "special Cave", is said to only professional visual impact, but if you have money, you can become a so-called "professionals." Perhaps he had been too shallow, so I really do not understand, perhaps essence only for those who are willing to pay more money for him and show people, but ordinary people just missed the chance to meet. Hehe.
Has just entered a cave, a dark, a surge of sour smell from nostrils. Hear Comrade guide the interpretation of a cave wall paintings, actually say that this painting is the essence of Buddhism, an ancient spread propaganda posters, really really ridiculous.
Despite the dilapidated mural that was not bear to look into the head, we have successive artisans (Former Qin to the Qing Dynasty) and uncanny workmanship and marvel at the same time, whom also distressed. Cave, only a few clay statue on the name of the Qing Dynasty Designed a few lights, the essential parts of the rest are hidden in the darkness. The variable (ie, Buddhist stories comics) is a major component of the Mogao Grottoes murals, most of the famous Buddhist story. The cave has a display to support large portrait (that is, those who pay for repair Cave), they put themselves and their family's like painting murals in a substantial under or both sides of the corridor, Nanzuonvyou, according to the level of status, portrait by large a small array. The color of the original design should be colorful, but experienced a thousand years of suffering, has become gloomy dirty, and some have even become the collapsed buildings - a mud wall
Mingsha under the sun, rolling, alternating light and dark sand dunes of the excitement is really hard up, in front of sand hills, as a paper-cut sticker, the United States may not find any language to describe it. Get rid of the Mogao Grottoes of mourning, we Batui on the hill climb. Did not climb two steps, I just feel fat legs heavy, panting. To rest a while, and mix thoroughly breath, slowly climbing up to the top of the hill, the pace more and more heavy. Off pairs of shoes, sand shoes, saw a waterfall, Fei Liu Mashimo, which is quite spectacular. In addition, under socks, not the swelling of the lovers a month into the warm white sand in a loose, nervous tension suddenly relaxed. Probe deeper into the foot, a surge of cool vapor from the soles of the feet all the way, one can not tell, way unknown Relax the whole body in every cell. Wow, too cool啦!
Sitting Peak, bathed in the genial sunshine, lazy, and my mind a blank, listening ear, but intense bursts of excited screams of those sand-boarding, we face the immediate scene lingers on round-trip. Foot to go down to the sand, enjoy to feel the sand, such as silky glide feet, such as water infiltration as a subtle sense of the toe joints. Wavy desert at the foot of the pace as we move down the flow, like walking in the clear stream of ...
Crescent Moon Spring is at best a small pond, surrounded by railings to protect them, crescent-shaped, appearance, and nothing special. But always puzzling is that the Crescent Moon Spring is surrounded Mingsha among cotton calendar ancient and modern, sand not enter the spring, water is not muddy dry up, water clarification, such as a mirror, can be described as "Desert."
Camel in the desert is beautiful and gentle animals and tall, looking at slavery, they are human beings, I really feel sorry for their psyche. Dizhibuzhu but the temptation to think, and their close contact with some, in the companion's support and encouragement, to pay 20 yuan, jet-ride a camel, leisurely leisurely forward slowly in the desert, listening to the crisp, kept trained on the Tuoling Sheng, suddenly a Ranger ride in the desert beyond the Great Wall among the ... to fulfill my childhood dream.
The next morning, hastily run out of breakfast, we excitedly went straight to Jade Gate, the car has more than 100 kilometers north of the road and saw a red-brick castle, surrounded by the collapse of Wu Li Yu front of a huge but dilapidated. Jade Gate was the "Silk Road" North Road, a major passes, accumulation of forage storage powerhouse. Today is no longer ornamental value. Shule north is now dry, and only a small reservoirs, only not far from grazing cows and sheep herders in this.
Road a few kilometers west, when a huge foreign powers against the Han Great Wall, today is only a short remnant of that small, just off a small wall. The structure is actually very simple wall is also very unique, a layer of clay, deposited by alternating a layer of reed grass. Was curious, so one more than my waist height of the low wall, how can we resist the invasion of barbarians? The other side of the wall may give me the answer bar. Originally thought that the wall is the other side into an abyss, surprising is that - there would come to a flat is in such. Doubt, the driver brother's words made me ton open spear forced "to have been very high, have been buried in loess." Oh, that was it, how no With this in mind ...
The road continues west past a few dozen kilometers to the Yardang Landform communities, commonly known as "Mo Guicheng." Their case of the wind, the Guiku blowing nocturnal as I do not know way back into the maze and named. Dunhuang another natural wonders. This Jadin geological park from east to west about 25 km, 2-5 km from north to south, covering an area of about 100 square kilometers. That distance smooth sand, like that placid sea, that the mounds of various shapes, as 10000 wheel, warships are waiting for her order, the whole team set sail. Over the last look at those sandy mound, after thousands of years of wind erosion, has been as hard as fossils. Not only speculate on the past, there may be an ocean, it is that the sea reef mound, perhaps also in those ancient stones found fossils of aquatic plants and animals. Listen to local people said that no matter where you are inscribed in these mounds above what the next day will always be polished without a trace. Qiao God of nature wins workers, whom can not help but stare dumbfounded.
Retrace retrace their steps, a few dozen kilometers south to come to admire in the long-Yang Guan. Yang Guan and yumenguan across North and South, is host to a race for the garrison of the fortress. Where there is a valuable oasis and water, but also Yang Guan Dunhuang grape origin. Now yumenguan gone through years of vicissitudes, leaving only a broken Feng Sui.
The way travel fatigue, speeding in connection with the Dunhuang urban areas and 128 kilometers away from the station liuyuan the road runs through the Gobi Desert, marvel at rare plains desert sunset. "Oh, how beautiful ..."
From Dunhuang to Xining, Lanzhou to be turning. After a bumpy night, finally arrived was the mother river separating the north and south sides of Lanzhou City, nationally renowned for its authentic taste of "a clear, two white, three red and four green" Lanzhou Ramen; stroll in the city of the country's longest within the Riverside road; standing on Blue Mountains overlooking the Yellow River on the first bridge, a unique sheepskin raft, and the surging Yellow River water, could not help but a myriad of thoughts ...
The fourth day of the journey a feeling of the largest inland saltwater lake in China - Qinghai Lake longing, along the westbound Huangshui Valley. Dense mountain villages east of the mountain's west hills, stretching dozens of kilometers of alpine pastures, cattle and sheep leisure misjudge the situation, the vastness of the Qinghai Lake blue sky and water with a line, like a stunning sapphire crystal embedded in between heaven and earth. While the October chill in Qinghai has been some compelling, let alone more than 1000 meters of 3 pull in the Department, for those of us visitors from the South, already has a "mad" feeling, but we are reluctant to leave, big mouth breathing kept trained on fresh, and the slightly salty air, both for the immediate beauty of the intoxicated. Unfortunately, there is no lake of rape has been eyeful of golden, only flocks of sheep and cattle on the plains have been harvested so hard for the aftermath of post-harvest ending. At this time of the Qinghai Lake, blue sky and white clouds, Xing Luo infested sheep, the silhouetted against the snow-capped peaks in the distance, the Wanran a paradise. <p>
In Xining, the last day, we visited the famous Tar, Dongguan Mosque in Xining, and the mountain Nanzenji, Phoenix station.
Famous Tar, Tibetan called "The Yin Yan Bahrain" means "hundreds of thousands of狮子吼Maitreya Buddha Temple." Lamaism, one of six major monasteries in China, is northwest Buddhist activity. Is to commemorate the history of the famous Chinese Buddhist Reformation home, the Gelug Sect of Tibetan Buddhism (known as the Yellow Sect), founder Tsongkhapa built. Its well-known that the two disciples of the Dalai Lama and the Panchen. <p>
Why are big lamasery have Bangshan built? I think it might be feng shui reasons, but the most important may be to facilitate the use of the advantages of terrain defense. Lamasery is not only the Tibetan people's spiritual sustenance, but also where the largest accumulation of Tibetan property. Tibetans have for the lamin sum of the contributions, is extremely impressive striking. They are often hard and accumulated property and wealth in a decade or two are out of unreserved dedication. Many people tend to himself all alone in old age. Tar Village also has nursing homes, I heard that is to make disciples who do not support the old monk enjoying their later years, but I do not know will accommodate the elderly who have no followers. <p>
Tsongkhapa was born according to legend, after cutting the umbilical cord blood from the Commissioner out of a white Zhantan tree, its leaves every 100,000 pieces of natural emerged in a狮子吼Buddha therefore called "Yan of this" (meaning 100,000, as ). Also biography, Tsongkhapa, 22 years old, outside a Buddhist and not return, his mother send a lock of white hair, and said in the letter, "Wu Jin old and frail, get back to where a child must be met." Tsongkhapa for Buddhist and is determined not to return, and give a loving mother and sister sent nosebleed coming up with their own self-portrait of a (later enshrined in the Manjusri Bodhisattva hall),狮子吼Buddha one axis, and said in the letter: "If the I was born in the land to 100,000狮子吼buddhas and bodhi tree (the white Zhantan tree) to build a pagoda for the Back of Beyond, The Times is just as pro-child face. " The following year, the faithful under the auspices of the White Mother of Tsongkhapa Zhantan tree wrapped with silk, and printed in 100,000狮子吼as for Back of Beyond, surrounded by masonry reinforcement, and built a pagoda Lotus Poly (now Daikin watts big pagoda hall predecessor), to commemorate the birth of a master. After his followers will be wrapped in silver pagoda outside to express their admiration of Tsongkhapa. A result of the first building of this tower, after the construction of this temple, it is commonly known as "Tar." Daikin watts Hall is the heart of Tar temples, the whole Dianding allegedly took tons of gold, ranked in the main temple complex centers, magnificent, Qiyuxuanang. Known as the "Department of the South Island a solemn-looking." Today, the bodhi tree roots has been extended to Dianwai, you can see a lush young trees. <p>
Basilica, the White Tower, under the pious prayers who are wholeheartedly dedicated to their Buddha with all of them .... To see their "violent actions", I came to understand what is "cast in five bodies." And do not already worship, worship at least once, hundreds of thousands or even tens of thousands of times times the Baita Temple, not as the Central Plains of the pagoda is used to store monk's relics, these towers are solid, the towers face engraved scriptures, Tibetans are around it every week, but just thought had been chanting again. Streamer, and through the drum have the same effect, streamer is the scripture printed on silk pieces on the breeze, streamers floating endless, just as mantra-like; and by drums, is also used to store texts, and make turn by purposes, it like drums, I see it more as I carved the face of a hideous monster with defending God's being colorful paint a big clock hanging just is not vacant, which stood between the pillars, you can take this as hub, the bottom of alternate Accompanied by drums outstanding four handles to push forward, the mouth of the sixth and remembered a few lines, so that said turn the role of a lap time by more than read. Thus, while the need to rotate through the drum spend effort, it is no wonder that Christians were still persistent, as always. Can not help but think about a year ago, visited the Jiuzhaigou, there Yishanbangshui fast-flowing, intelligent drum mounted by Tibetans will be a small building to the riverside, the impact of the use of water to make it round the clock, rotation, This pious chanting at the same time able to devote diligent work of your hands. Those old and feeble, and wrinkles clouds the elderly, they have been unable to push through those huge drums, replaced by a sixth mantra inscribed upon small drums, that the "guru" "Gollum" in turning-stop. <p>
Temple also has significant, cases, esoteric, time round, Yi-Ming four by the House. Hin, close two high-ranking monks by the hospital specializes in Buddhist doctrine institutions. When wheel, Yi-Ming houses is to train Tibetan, Mongolian astronomy, almanacs and medical talent of the university, the four are equipped with the strict scholastic degree system.
Lifelike Butter Sculpture, colorful murals and colorful Duixiu known as "Tar art of Ruin", by the halls of the Buddhist scriptures the entire row of shelves is also collections of many Buddhist texts and history, literature, philosophy, medicine, , calendar and other aspects of academic work. <p>
According to legend, Tsongkhapa in 1409 to commemorate Sakyamuni, the group Buddhist Studies, brings together thousands of Tibetan monks in the eighth day the first month to the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa on the 15th organized a vow to pray Dafa will, in this period, Tsongkhapa dream of thorns into a light, weeds into flowers. In order to reproduce the dream, he organized the Art Monk with butter molded into a variety of flowers, trees and strange birds and animals, together with the butter lamps enshrined in the Buddha, have since been continued down, known as "A perception is Pakistan", meaning "the first month 10 worship on the 5th. " Production process is quite complex and "cruel", with the purity of yak milk chipped white butter, according to the proportion of mineral pigments mixed with colors, crushing dozens of kinds of color shades made of kneaded, ranging from embryo material, to Fumian, describe eyebrow, lip-point, to plastic flower-shaped leaves, points, Rui; for those in need of special treatment for the site was also painted decorative gold silver embellishment smudges or bleeding. In order to prevent plastic system, due to hand-melting-temperature Er Shi butter billet deformation, arts monks were at room temperature controlled at 0 ℃ the workshop where each side has put a basin filled with ice. Dip dip from time to time with cold water, and scratched the ice, to use their hands to go numb almost frozen plastic system for the long run, each Arts Monk suffered from varying degrees of joint disease. If there is no devotion to the Heart of the Buddha's dedication to the arts, which are difficult to achieve. A Butter Sculpture, characters animals hundreds, the number of 10 pavilions, as large as 12 meters of the Buddha King Kong, as small as 35 centimeters of flowers, birds insects and fish, without exception, both God-shaped life-like. The only flaw, which is not durable. Although there is butter in front of Bangbian care to powerful air-conditioning, but it has melted distorted. Now think of world-famous Madame wax, and nothing, it is just art only, which is comparable to the number of generations of our monks gather the hard work and beliefs butter. <p>
Murals, some painted directly on walls, some painted on the pillars of society, the more of a painting on the curtain, the hanging or the wall. Mural dyes using mineral dyes, brightly-colored, durable non-faded. Concept of a year in June after the meeting, stored in cabinets painted a few hundred feet of large statues long curtain will be hung high on a hill, that the Sunning of the Buddha, the onlookers were often tens of thousands of people paid their respects. <p>
Duixiu is colored silk cut a variety of shapes, plug in wool, cotton, like the enriched material, in the curtain embroidered into the obvious three-dimensional sense of Buddha, Buddhist stories, landscapes, flowers and so on, is a unique process artwork. <p>
At this time the monks, most go out and debate the scriptures, in the monastery on the path, through the hospital door to see just some energetic young monks and tired of the old people sitting under the sun. <p>
Temple entrance a tree's base, on which wrapped around the colored hada Rao, I do not know the blessings in it, or it is burdened with the faithful pray to the Buddha? Death is the starting point for students, Dan would like to see you next time, it had being vitality. <p>
With an unparalleled respect the feelings, leaving pure Buddhist land, to another religion resort - the Dongguan Mosque. Mosque is located in Xining City, heart of the city. The four well-known mosque in the northwest, is one of the largest Islamic temple in Qinghai Province. Have elapsed since the 600 years of history. <p>
Positive noon, which could accommodate a thousand people worship places of worship, this time has been empty. Only a few sparse white cap of the male head followers, entry doing prayer. <p>
Si Wai street, full of pedestrians wearing Muslim dress, men wearing little white round hat, woman is wrapped in black scarves. The roadside shops, also selling a variety of texture-based national dress, as if into the colony of Islam. Our party of four have become "minority", and received the attention of numerous ceremony. <p>
Xining is a small city, to catch a lease, soon work on is the Nanshan. Nanzenji dilapidated Shan now is the highest point - Phoenix TV, one of the auxiliary sites, monasteries around the weeds, has lost its past presence. The membrane structure of the new Phoenix platform viewing platform has become an eye-catching sign. The bottom of the viewing platform, is a showroom to display the Xining and Shanghai became sister cities, huge photos, Shanghai's rapid change, and Xining in Shanghai, Lao Dajie's guide and support under the brilliant prospects. The second floor is a modern bar, coffee shop, bright and clean. So that visitors can rest for a moment, and to distant mountains overlooking a panoramic view of city panorama. <p>
Although this line of rush tired, but wherever he went, all my life journey, leaving behind good memories, a worthwhile trip.
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