Xingwen County is a Miao neighborhood, located in the mountainous southern Sichuan Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan provinces Interchange, to the stone forest karst landscape and scenery of the famous caves, known as "Shi-dong town."
New Year 2, we learned from the starting gate by the Hercynian bamboo along the two roads leading through the county has been able to reach Xingwen Shi-hole scenic village. Originally thought that publicity for so many years old scenic area, today it is two days of travel peak, visitors will definitely be a person tide, are filled with the influx. Unexpectedly, along the road to the top of the hill can not see what the visitors and vehicles, only to see a fork Road construction vehicles at the end of a shuttle, is full of cement, stone, prefabricated panels and other building materials, but also thought it was wrong, and what projects to other people's sites. So to continue to move forward along the road, in a three-way intersection stop and ask for directions and was told to go too far, that is, just that the site! Although the Stone Forest scenic area has long had a reputation abroad, but due to the lack of development funds, over the years has been in a primitive state until the eve of National Day in 2002 and then the green group in Chengdu investment in the construction of tour scenic mountain roads, the establishment of a visitor center and parking plaza, improve the caves lighting and the use of natural terrain alpine lakes, enclosures and other basic construction work is expected to 2003 51 Golden Week before it is completed. Now even the cars can only stop on the highway edge of solitary kiosks looks more like a WC, In addition to almost no ready-made building. Comes just raining, but also makes people feel desolate heart, can not help but favor of the scenic compromised.
Road access to travel, we are close to two 8,9-year-old, snot Xiliu surprise with the little boy is still the standard Putonghua (the mountains in Sichuan, almost invariably, even many adults can not understand Mandarin, but not talk say) self-introduction for us as guides, "people company to 50, we only have 20 dollars. We can, free of charge to you to explain a few spots, you have satisfied after asking us to", after listening to Zhefanzijian introduction, looking at these two Little point, we really a bit like listening to comedy in general Renjunbuzhu. I had to tell them that we prefer to look at the scenery, do not like to listen to what other people introduced the legends and get money to buy candy that you two, make haste to look for other tourist bar. Originally thought they would continue the struggle, he did not expect the small things that took the money neatly on to say thank you and turned away.
Xing Wen Shilin Stone Forest in Yunnan, although the ratio can not be strange and spectacular, but there are many similarities between the two, surface Qifeng Lin, strange things, underground caverns staggered, Shi Feng Stone Lane, etc. Koho stalagmite pillars separate lava landscapes everywhere. There is a Tianquan hole, the hole body of large-scale, multi-storey gallery and office-like underground karst caves, Cave Road, total length of 4.2 kilometers Unfortunately, when we went to the internal decoration is not open, only looked far stood hole . Tianquan the exit hole has a wonderful "pit" - large funnel, the locals call it "gigantic funnel," which pits the highest in the world than the known diameter of 330 meters, 70 meters deep in the United States Alixibo funnel is also much larger. Tiankeng is a natural landscape, generally located in the Peak, surrounded by cliffs, in the middle suddenly sag down to form a fathomless pit. This tiankeng wonders in the music industry, and Chongqing, Guangxi and Sichuan Yaan Fengjie are, but with different features, styles vary. Xingwen tiankeng momentum ambitious, the lower part was the funnel-shaped cone, central cliffs protruding upward, upward, and long and almost invisible at the Bottom of the Peak, across the diameter of the large Looking to the long and almost invisible to visitors, the magic of nature really amazing good fortune, it is indeed real In the "Seven Wonders" of the masterpiece.
(D), Cliff third-year journey to visit the morning Miaoling Xingwen county from proceeding through the Stone Forest of sight after the end of the stack into the mountains to the gong xian Luo Table Township scenic Cliff advance. Xingwen sparsely populated south of Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou provinces at the junction of the Miao village mountains, barren hills and remote places hundred miles long and almost invisible on the pedestrian trail. Li Qiong songs sung山路十八弯, but this road is far more than 180 Miaoling bend! Interlocking curved mountain mountain range connected to the narrow gravel road is a cliff alongside the ravine, together with the day of the mountain fog filled the air, across from 10 meters but no one, I have been not out of the atmosphere in front of eyes, slow-Zhi Deng slow driving. Fortunately, although the very poor road conditions, but less and less cars, dozens of kilometers of winding mountain road I almost do not remember what the car will be combined with the first day of "quasi-crash" lesson can be described as a blessing in disguise, so Hill went so far as the poor to walk safely over.
In fact, if not sinister Hill, cloud cover fog cover, this southern Sichuan Miaoling scenery really is excellent. In the Stone Forest, after about ten kilometers of a snow called the Miao village, there are a large number of karst karst landscapes, steep mountains, Shi Feng Lin, and scenery of Guilin and Zhangjiajie have similarities. Sadly, the fog is too great, neither photo nor video. The sky is also off the light rain, muddy roads deterred parking to go sightseeing, with eager hurry, had with the strange and beautiful scenery of mountains, water, missed.
Down after the first large town Miaoling is Xingwen County 9 silk town, out of town, I saw a hotel was placed alongside the "Bo Tao Fan Zhuang," the word signs, it is estimated the long-admired person Cliff is no longer Bo would be very far away. Sure enough, just out of town, not far in front of the mouth Yishanbangshui a mountain road, we found a high cliff on the square covered with artificial holes and holes drilled, it is Cliff site. Obtained in advance from the Internet search data show that the Bo people Cliff Gongxian County are mainly distributed in Sichuan and Yunnan and other places of prestige, of which the most concentrated Gongxian County, but do not want to have Xingwen County. In the kung County Cao Ying, Luo Hai, Luo table, crossing Romania and other places, there are coffin remains. The destination of our trip is gong xian Luo Table Township, Ma embankments, there is a base to protect the nation's largest coffin. In 1988, Ma Bo embankments were coffin was listed as key national heritage conservation units.
Ma embankments is a north-south length of about 1000 meters east-west width of 3,5 meters of Pingba, a stream which flows from the Dam to wear off, streams east and west coasts are vacant towering cliffs. In the dozens of first 100 meters high cliff cliffs Department distributed more than 200 with coffin, and numerous storage coffin of the hole-hole sites. Placed on the coffin of the cliff there are many rich red rock paint murals, clean lines but more realistic, where the bronze drum, the shaman and the person riding a hope that the knowledge, and I have seen to the left Jiang in Guangxi-based freehand Huashan fresco are very different.
Cliff Ma embankments in the museum, we have invited Gongxian county national vocational secondary schools, teacher Cliff researcher Huang-liang for us to explain. He is currently writing, "a cliff on the nation," a book about the history and Cliff Bo burial customs were more proficient in research. Bo, following a spike characters who show Bo person is a long-term and thorns clusters of mountain forest company of ethnic minorities. According to "A New History of the Chinese nation," Introduction: Bo from Diqiang ethnic groups, the former residence of the Northwest region, the latter gradually moved southward. Bo person Biaohan, good ride, chivalrous known to help Wuwangfazhou active due to the Zhou dynasty, has been canonized as "Bo Hou," established in the southwest, "Bo Hou," Zhaotong in Yunnan and Sichuan Yibin, this area was once a man Bo ghettos. Gongxian County, Xing-wen, Yunnan border, the hinterland of the ancient Xinan Yi, Han Wudi open Yelang, when the county is home qianwei Bo Road, County jurisdiction. This "Qianwei County," the name of the source term of the present Leshan Jianwei Xian.
Cliff is a kind of wind funeral, first appeared in the Spring and Autumn period, and is not limited to the Bo people, it is the ancient customs of ethnic minorities over the South. Cliff almost all concentrated in the face of meandering rivers flowing streams, backed by Qiao Qiao Ya on the mountains such as the ax. There are more famous in China, Jiangxi Lung Fu Shan (Spring and Autumn Period), Wuyi Mountain, Fujian, Chongqing, Small Three Gorges (the late Warring States period), etc. Cliff site. The strange thing is every place of the coffin are simply retained in the history of a time (Shang and Zhou dynasties) period to Wuyi Cliff appeared earliest, about the Zhou Dynasty. The kung County Bo who Cliff appeared relatively late, and is the end of the entire Chinese coffin burial, in the wake Ming Wan calendar year (1573) Ming-jun between 140,000 pairs of Bo a large-scale extermination of people, this mysterious national and coffin burial custom disappear into the long river of history. Since the demise of the entire nation, coupled with Bo did not text, so that, on the Bo's many historical are simply exist in the few words in the literature. Only hard to convince the rest of the legend of a story. Teacher Huang nearly two-hour guided tours, it seems that apart from legend outside, I almost did not note any other content. In fact, according to experts says, what is gong xian Cliff Bo Liao people are still among the people is still being debated and the lack of results. I am certainly not seem to figure out these issues reach of knowledge generation.
