Yesterday afternoon in Baiyangping Suizidu Peach Blossom Valley rafting came to the Sun River Sobuya Stone Forest, which was the annual Tujia Daughter's Association (July 12 on the lunar calendar) grand opening of the place.
Yesterday happened to be the time of the daughter will, daughter will be our Tujia "Valentine's Day". Unfortunately, due to the epidemic spread throughout the country, this place is temporarily closed, the entire scenic area in addition to the residents and staff do not see tourists. We were able to come in because we came to visit our friends who live here, and we were the only three people walking freely in the large area.
This daughter will be from the Tujia daughters half of the month, "catching" the custom, shy Tujia girls are holding the pipa half cover, under the guise of shopping to choose a groom, singing songs about love, encountered the favorite on their own hand-woven Zealand Kapu to send the groom. Tujia man rough and bold, harvest night swinging arms beat a big drum, in the bonfire side jumped up and down the happy hand dance. And the simple and kind-hearted Tujia people steamed the straw raincoat rice, filled with bud wine, welcome guests from afar to come here, to participate in the Tujia children's Daughter's Meeting. Although yesterday did not hold the daughter will as scheduled, but I stood in this stone forest in front of the big square can feel the grand situation of the daughter will some years ago.
This Sobuya stone forest also has the memory of my youth, when I graduated from the University of more than a year, only more than twenty years old, just joined the work not long ago, there is a friend Shunzi, his hometown in the stone forest nearby, he invited me and a group of friends to his home to play, and his family lives in the Sobuya stone forest next to.
At that time, Sobuya stone forest has not been developed, Shunzi took our group of friends together in the stone forest inside the adventure, each of the most primitive path is our own with a sickle cut weeds and thorns, to open up a path to the piece of primitive stone forest in the then we seem to be simply ingenious work of art, are the masterpieces of heaven, so that we are marveled at.
Especially the "one line of heaven", the sun in the narrow gap between the two boulders projected out of the beautiful lines, the kind of first time to see after the heartbeat and surprise that I still can not forget. Later, I came here, the road was more and more beautiful, and it was easy to walk, but I always felt that the shock of seeing the stone forest for the first time was missing. And then also to the Yunnan stone forest has been, are not too deep impression, only Sobuya stone forest let me haunting, can not forget.
Yesterday, we came to visit our friends live next to the Tiejiazhai Square, which is to enter the Lotus Walled City Scenic Area must pass through, because the entrance rock shaped like a formidable soldiers, holding weapons, guarding the cottage, and named Tiejiazhai. I remember some years ago when I came here, there are many farmers carrying sedan chair at this entrance, some people who are not willing to climb the mountain can take the sedan chair to enjoy the beautiful scenery.
Here is called the world's first Ordovician stone forest, is a geological park, but also a scenic spot written with stories. More than 400 million years ago, the Enshi region was still an ocean, when many ancient marine creatures lived, including trilobites, lacewings, Chinese Aurora hornworts and so on. When these creatures died mixed with the sediment sunk to the bottom of the sea, Ordovician strata gradually formed.
During the Carboniferous period 280 million years ago, the limestone in the sea was constantly washed by seawater, leaving behind countless dissolving grooves and dissolving columns. With the constant movement of crustal change, the sea water receded, the deep sea exposed into the land, and after hundreds of millions of years of evolution, the Ordovician rock layer was covered by the Permian Triassic rock layer.
Until in a violent crustal movement, the stratum occurred strong fault, buried deep underground Ordovician rock layer again exposed to the surface. Later, this exposure of the surface of the rock layer in the light, rain under the action of a variety of external forces, weathering, erosion, through hundreds of millions of years of nature's sculpture, the formation of the stone forest in front of the wonders of the hundreds of millions of years of change so that people have to marvel at the wonders of nature.
The old farmer who has been living here told me that a few decades ago, when this place was not yet developed, they could often find all kinds of fossils of butterflies, cockroaches, snakes, and other animals in the weathered stones, and the most precious ones are the fossils of prehistoric plants and animals: trilobite, lacewing, etc. After the development, there are more tourists here, and the fossils of the animals are not yet developed. After the development of the site, it will be difficult to find these fossils as there are more tourists here.
Although it is a stone forest, but the vegetation here in the country's first stone forest, known as the "Daikuan Stone Forest", long in the stone cracks in the grass, standing on the top of the stone tree, a glance full of greenery, so that the ancient stone forests suddenly show vitality. Canghai into the stone forest, into the stone forest was once the seabed, as if into the labyrinth. The texture of the smooth stretching of the "sol grain", the ghost of God's work of art in front of you ......
Summer travel, this is ready to be baked psychological preparation, came to the Sobuya scenic area only to know that this is a good place to avoid the summer heat, vegetation, gusts of breeze Brush your face, is a rare natural oxygen bar. Especially standing in the cave blowing a cool wind is really like in the refrigerator next to, is too cool, but also some chill.
Sobuya stone forest to my first feeling is shock, walking in the stone forest, everywhere you can see the strange rocks, some shaped like an eagle looking at the moon, there is like a fairy looking back, there is like a dragon fighting ...... each rock has a unique flavor, breathtaking. Cao Xueqin favorite stone, Baoyu and Daiyu are Cao Gong lived under the Xiangshan Mountain Cherry groove in the embodiment of the strange stone. I think Cao Gong if he lives in Sobuya stone forest will write a more spectacular, majestic, strange and beautiful stone, that his "Book of Stone" will have more and more beautiful landscape.
Yesterday, when we climbed the mountain, it was just our family, Yingzi's family, Yuanchang's family, and we all walked in the stone forest especially happy, outside is a bright, lively place, while inside is an isolated, secluded world. Here we can travel through billions of years.
In the past two years, I have often walked and strolled around the West Lake in Hangzhou, the Royal Garden in Beijing, and visited various attractions, and often I can travel hundreds or thousands of years back to the Qing, Yuan, and Song dynasties, to feel the local customs and culture of the time.
And now back home, in this place where the sea has turned into a mulberry field, moving through hundreds of millions of years, see hundreds of millions of years ago, the depths of the sea geological landscape evolved into today's karst landscapes. This mountain and water, strange rocks and caves are really like nature's fluid painting, colorful and dynamic.
The epidemic has prevented us from going anywhere for a while, only traveling in our hometown. Fortunately, my hometown is a tourist city, where everywhere is beautiful, everywhere there are wonders, not out of the door of his hometown can be baptized and inculcated in hundreds of millions of years of nature. The daughter will soon go to the university to study, she in this long summer vacation, because her father and I have to work, only in the legal holidays to accompany her to the mountains inside to feel the peculiar beauty of their hometown.
In the past, she was too small, only like to stay at home to play games, watch anime, etc., do not know the wonderful and amazing beauty of nature, for the ghost of nature is not such a deep understanding, now, after three years of refining in the capital, her eyesight has qualitatively leaped, for the beauty of a higher taste. For the beauty of nature has a deeper sense of realization.
Most of the beauty of the capital is the history, the beauty of humanity, even a stone is transported from Taihu Lake, most of the rocks are man-made. And our hometown is all natural, pure natural scenery, without any artificial polishing traces. Here there is more wild and more powerful vitality, giving people a constant source of vitality and power.