Part 1: Yunnan
That night, we boarded the train from Kunming Railway Station, and when we woke up, the train had already arrived in Dali Prefecture.
The city of Dali is 12 miles in circumference, and its walls are 2 feet by 5 feet high and 2 feet thick. East and West, North and South each have a large city gate, the large city gate with the city building, respectively, Tonghai, Cangshan, Chengen, Anyuan. There are also corner towers at the four corners of the city, which also have their own names: Yingchuan, Xiping, Kongming, Changqing. The outer wall of the city is made of brick, with battlements on the top and ditches around the bottom.
Dali City, the layout of the city is like a chessboard, from south to north there are five streets, from east to west there are eight alleys. Inside each street and alley, there is an interlinked canal around the city, with clear streams flowing all year round, and flowers and fruits everywhere, giving people a sense of simplicity and tranquility.
Dali is a picturesque city all year round, and among the many scenic spots, the wind, flowers, snow and moon are the most famous and fascinating.
"The flowers of Shangguan, the wind of Xiaguan, the wind of Xiaguan blowing the flowers of Shangguan; the snow of Cangshan Mountain, the moon of Erhai, the moon of Erhai shining on the snow of Cangshan Mountain."
Shangguan, located at the foot of Yunlang Peak on Cangshan Mountain in Dali, is a Dali fortress formed since the Tang Dynasty.
In ancient times, Shangguan had a ten lixiang tree, the flower is as big as a lotus, 12 petals open every year, Run year open 13 petals, the fragrance is better than osmanthus, the flower color is yellow and white, beautiful and attractive. After flowering, the shell black hard, can do Chaozhu, and thus also called Chaozhu flowers.
This tree planted in when, no one knows. However, according to legend, in the Yuan Dynasty, the flowers of this tree also bloomed very well, year after year, month after month, the rich fragrance spread a hundred paces away.
Although this tree has been dead for hundreds of years, but the Bai people here are still exceptionally love flowers, families are planting flowers, breeding bonsai, especially like to plant the ten lilac flower tree. Shangguan flowers, now in the Dali region is still true to its name.
Xiaguan, there are high winds throughout the year, sometimes up to eight or more.
The nineteen peaks of Cangshan Mountain block the air convection between the east and west, and the Tianshengqiao Canyon of Xianguan is the exit point of the air convection in Xianguan, so the wind in Xianguan is unusually strong, especially in winter and spring, when people walk on the street opposite the Tianshengqiao Canyon, they will be blown by the gusty winds and can't stand on their own two feet.
About the wind of Xiaguan, there are many beautiful legends, one of which is the most popular, since now also let people enjoy.
Cangshan mountain slanting sun peak lived on a thousand years of snow fox, fell in love with a white scholar in Xiaguan, turned into a human form and the scholar frequent intercourse. Their love affair was discovered by Luo Tsuen, the master of the Luo Tsuen Temple in Erhai, and the good monk Luo Tsuen cast a spell to knock the scholar into the Erhai Sea. In order to save her beloved, Snow Fox traveled a long way to the South China Sea to ask for help from Guanyin, who was touched by her true love and made an exception and gave her a wind bottle, instructing her to use the wind in the bottle to dry up the water in the Erhai Sea and then save the scholar.
The snow fox with the wind bottle day and night to return to Dali, when she walked to the lower pass Tiansheng Bridge, was the Luo Tsuen master's backstabbing, fell to the ground, breaking the wind bottle, the moment the wind roared, the snow fox to the Jade Dragon Snowy Mountain top of the cliffs, snow fox can not come down, all day long, tilting his head towards the sky wailing, and has been howled to the seven blood and death. From then on, Tiansheng Bridge on the year-round wind blowing constantly, and then people called the lower pass as the wind city.
Cangshan snow, mainly refers to the Cangshan mountain top year-round snow scene does not melt.
Cangshan Mountain, also known as Dancang Mountain, is the main peak at the southern end of the Yunling Mountain Range, consisting of nineteen peaks from north to south, starting from Eryuan Dengchuan in the north to Xianguan Tiansheng Bridge in the south.
The Cangshan Mountain snow, which does not disappear in summer, is one of the four famous Dali "wind, flower, snow and moon" scenes, and is also a masterpiece of the Cangshan Mountain landscape.
In winter, hundreds of miles of point Cang, snow-covered, March, above the snow line is still piled silver base jade. The highest peak of the Malong Peak snow is not melted all year round, in the summer above the waist of the verdant, and the peak is still haunting clouds loaded with snow.
Cangshan snow on the thousand years, why not melt, in the Dali folklore circulated such a beautiful legend.
In ancient times, a group of plague gods broke into the Dali Dam, causing the people to get sick nine people died. A white girl to save the suffering people, under the guidance of Goddess of Mercy to learn the law return, these plague gods whisked to the top of the Cangshan Mountain, let the snow to freeze them to death. In order to make these plague gods never come back to life, this white girl then became the snow god and took the form of Snowman Peak, watching over these plague gods day and night, and so the top of Cangshan Mountain was covered with white snow that did not melt for thousands of years.
Erhai Moon, legend has it that a fairy in the sky envied the life on earth and came down to Erhai to marry a fisherman youth. Fairy saw her husband day and night fishing is quite difficult, they brought a mirror into the seabed, the fish shine clearly, so that her husband hit more fish.
Later, this mirror at the bottom of the sea into a golden moon, whenever the moon, people line near the shore of the Erhai, look up at the sky, jade mirror hanging high, looking down at the Erhai, the ground drowning silver waves, water light catching the sky, 10,000 hectares of Manganran, a bright moon in the sea with the waves swaying, it is amazing.
Erhai, is a windy and beautiful plateau freshwater lakes, the water surface elevation of 1972 meters above sea level, from Eryuan County Jiangwei Township in the north, south stops in the town of Xiaguan, Dali City, in the shape of a bend of the crescent moon, the north and south of 41. 5 kilometers long, east and west of 3-9 kilometers wide, 116 kilometers in circumference, with a surface area of 251 square kilometers, an average depth of 10.5 meters, the deepest up to 20.5 meters.
Erhai, mild and humid climate, beautiful scenery, pleasant scenery. Cruise Erhai, islands, caves, lakes, sandbars, forests, villages, each with its own style, pleasing to the eye. The ancients summarized it as three islands, four continents, five lakes and nine curves.
That afternoon, I seem to be drunk non-drunk sitting on the bow, listening to the five golden flowers take turns singing love songs, enjoying the white girl served three tea stroll Erhai. The sea breeze is not small, but the waves are not big, crystal clear lakes, a variety of fish leisurely roaming, fresh demeanor wonderful, excited me to dance and sing a mountain song.
The clouds of Cangshan Mountain, changing colors, sometimes as light as green smoke, sometimes as thick as ink. One of the most famous is the Wangfu cloud.
Wangfu cloud, every year in the winter and spring season will appear on the top of the Jade Bureau Peak. Whenever the Wangfu cloud appears, the Erhai Sea will be windy, set off a burst of waves, fishing boats can not go out to sea, so the Wangfu cloud is also known as no ferry cloud.
The flowers of Cangshan Mountain, there are many varieties, only azalea varieties have 41 kinds. From the foot of the mountain until the snow zone, layers and layers, into pieces into clusters, plant heights of more than fifteen meters, was a large tree; short only ten centimeters, was creeping against the ground, forming a carpet-like landscape. The shape of the flowers is even more varied, flower color red, white, yellow, purple, rose and other sixteen different colors.
Cangshan is also a paradise for wildlife. Here the climate is favorable, dense vegetation, and so far there are still living deer, muntjac, rock goats, bison, mountain donkeys, wild boars, foxes, pheasants, and a few rare animals such as the four unlike.
Cangshan Mountain is a mountain with four distinct seasons, forming a young forest meadow belt, pine forest oak forest belt, fir miscellaneous wood belt, alpine meadow belt, with a distinctive level of alpine landscape and changing seasonal landscape.
Cangshan Mountain on the summit, all year round is the season of three nine cold, there are a lot of alpine moraine lakes, lakes are surrounded by the original forests that cover the sky. More than a dozen streams lagging between the peaks, making the top of Cangshan Mountain seems extraordinarily crystalline and skillful.
I listened to an old monk in Dali said, in the vast snowy Cangshan Mountain top, there are beautiful and charming snow lotus, just the general public can not see. Whoever meets the snow lotus on the top of Cangshan Mountain and eats it will immediately become a compassionate living god. Legend has it that Taibai Jinxing was originally a white old man picking medicines, and he became immortal after eating the snow lotus on the top of the mountain that year.
The upper part of the hillside of Cangshan Mountain, all year round is refreshing autumn wind, in the summer and fall, often appear jade belt like white clouds across the beam in the verdant mountainside, long as a hundred miles, charming and touching. The branches of the trees are full of wild fruits, wild fruits emanate a peculiar fragrance breath, nose attack, refreshing.
The lower part of Cangshan Mountain, where the spring breeze is gentle all year round, is a world of flowers, where there are not only many kinds of rhododendrons, but also rare Common Gromwell and hydrangea-like horse chestnut flowers. Those tender buds attract a group of bees to collect honey, and those butterflies in pairs, big ones like palms, small ones like copper coins, head and tail together, dancing in the flowers, colorful, a spectacular sight. That kind of scene, the world is rare, fascinating mind, drunken soul.
Cangshan Mountain, under the corner of the mountain, the year-round group of flowers, beautiful flowers, the scenery is exciting, exciting, let a person's heart pounding, thinking about it. Especially those groups of Jinhua girl and A Peng brother, in the fields, flowers, brooks, you sing me together, I say you laugh, that kind of Bai people cheerful, peculiar flavor folklore, that simple, rich, warm life scene, make people spellbound.
In those days, a few of us wandered around Dali, climbed the Cangshan Mountain, swimming in the Erhai Sea, listening to the guide to explain some of the beautiful folk tales, each excited to the joy of it all.
Part II: Yunnan Trip
In Yunnan, known as the "South of Colorful Clouds", everywhere I longed for, in July 2013, I followed my father, and many of my friends, came to the "South of Colorful Clouds" - Yunnan.
In July of 2013, I followed my dad and many friends to Yunnan, the "South of Colorful Clouds".
On the second day after arriving in Yunnan, we took a Chinese bus to the Erhai neighborhood. Erhai is a different sea with other sea, she, there is no golden sandy beach, but there is azure sea water, clear, blue, fresh, like with only azure rendering, without the ink line outline of the Chinese paintings, there is an indescribable beauty; she, there is no beautiful shell, but there is a green island, trees everywhere, people in the small islands play happily with the water, set off a layer of waves. The Erhai Sea is one of the four scenic spots of Dali, and is said to be named "Erhai" because it is shaped like an ear. The Erhai Sea has excellent water quality, rich aquatic resources, and is also a scenic area with meandering landscapes. Boating on the Erhai Sea on a calm day, the clean and transparent sea surface is like a clear blue sky, giving people a tranquil and distant feeling, and letting people enjoy the poetic and pictorial mood of "boat floating in the blue waves, people swimming in the painting". The sea, the blue sky, the island, the green trees, combined into a natural wonderland belonging to the Erhai.
Leaving the Erhai Sea, we slowly came to Shuanglang, Shuanglang is a quaint town, Shuanglang town is located in the northeast end of Dali City, is the "Nanzhao style island" location. The town area is surrounded by mountains on three sides, one side of the sea. West jumping Cangshan nineteen peaks, the door to the Erhai ten thousand blue waves, east of the "Buddhist resort" Jizhu Mountain, south of the "Penglai Island" small Putuo. Shuanglang on the east coast of the Erhai Sea, "Lotus Curve" and "Luoshi Curve" above the beautiful scenery, the ancient name of the "bolted corridor". As far as the eye can see, the beautiful Yuji Island, small Jinshuo Island is like a pair of mandarin ducks, floating in the turquoise Erhai, the two islands are located in the two corridors between the Liling Peak, the Qing Xianfeng years, people believe that the "two islands", "two curves" are "double! "so the" tethered corridor "to" double corridor. Shuanglang scenery to back ...... Shuanglang town is located in the northeast end of Dali City, is the "Nanzhao style island" location. The town area is surrounded by mountains on three sides, one side of the sea. West jumping Cangshan nineteen peaks, the door to the Erhai ten thousand blue waves, east of the "Buddhist resort" Jizhu Mountain, south of the "Penglai immortal island" small Putuo. Shuanglang is located on the east coast of the Erhai Sea. "Lotus Qu" and "Laoshi Qu" above, the ancient name "bolt corridor". As far as the eye can see, the beautiful Yuji Island, small Jinshuo Island is like a pair of mandarin ducks, floating in the turquoise Erhai, the two islands are located in the two corridors between the Liling Peak, the Qing Xianfeng years, people believe that the "two islands", "two curves" are "double! During the reign of Emperor Xianfeng in Qing Dynasty, it was believed that "two islands" and "two curves" were both "double", so the name "Shuan Lang" was changed to "Shuang Lang". The scenery of Shuanglang is unique in that it has green mountains at its back, faces the Erhai Sea, is closely connected to Jifu, and overlooks the Cangshan Mountains in the distance. Both the advantages of fishing, oars, but also has a "wind, flowers, snow, moon" of the wonderful scenery, enjoy the "Cang'er scenery in the Shuanglang" reputation, climbed the Nanzhao style island, you can witness the seventeen-meter-high alabaster Goddess of Mercy worship Maitreya Buddha mountain spectacle. Shuanglang next to the store one after another, the inside of a wide range of goods, the Erhai Lotus compete in colorful white, yellow, pink ...... beautiful!
In the evening we also went to the ancient city of Dali, the second day of the trip to Yunnan let me see the beautiful Erhai, the ancient Shuanglang, let me linger, reminiscent of, reluctant to part!
Article 3: Colorful Yunnan
Yunnan mountains, water, people, scenery is more beautiful. Yunnan's most surprising, interesting to be counted in Yunnan eighteen strange, thirty-six strange, eighty-one strange, one hundred single eight strange, etc., these strange in the: elephants shopping street, tigers touring the countryside; the hall in the middle of the border; four seasons of the flowers bloom undefeated; the train does not have a car fast, do not pass the domestic through the outside; the only tree into the forest everyone loves; the girl called the old lady; eggs on a string to sell, and so on, more than a number of not clear. Next, I will introduce you to Yunnan where the most common "fairy mountain" it!
Yunnan's "fairy mountain" a lot, very famous, because it is the bottom of the mountain is hot in the summer, the bottom of the mountain grows curved bananas, sweet pineapple, yellow mango and some other kinds of tropical fruits, really all kinds of trees are densely packed, long branches and large leaves to the woods sealed tight, blocking the view of people, blocking the view of the forest. People's line of sight, blocking the blue sky, cover the red sun; halfway up the mountainside is spring, the trees on the mountain drew out new branches, long green leaves, the birds in the woods in the branches of the chirping and singing beautiful songs, small animals in the carpet-like grass happy, happy play; the hill is cool in the fall, all over the place is the golden leaves, as if the ground is sprinkled with gold, small animals are busy looking for food for the winter; the top of the mountain is cold winter, white snowflakes from the blue sky fluttering, there is a little lack of oxygen, small animals had to hide in their respective caves, the tiger caught an antelope as a picnic, the black bear had to lick his fat and thick paws, the squirrels rely on the collection of pine nuts in the fall to live, and sometimes go to the branches to take a walk, to see if the spring is about to come!
Yunnan is really a good place, Yunnan is very difficult to distinguish between the four seasons of the year, are like spring, a mountain has four seasons, ten miles not through the sky. Yunnan in my mind curtain is: on the heaven, under the Yunnan! The beautiful Yunnan is one of the most beautiful attractions I have ever been to!
I love this interesting and beautiful Yunnan! Every step I took was a strange, quirky attraction!