Especially in western Sichuan, where there is not only the inheritance of Tibetan culture, but also a mixture of other ethnic cultures, mixed with the hustle and bustle of the towns and villages. The snow-capped mountains here have a soul-shattering purity, and this is a secret place left by God on earth, a place where the soul awakens.
Before going to Aba Prefecture Lianbao Yezhe, many times to explore the legend of King Gesar, this Spring Festival, said the parents, went to a trip to the pure land Aba. This is the most understated secret place in western Sichuan, the backyard of the God of Heaven, the ancient battlefield of Gesar's conquest and gallop.
D1 : Chengdu - Dujiangyan - Partridge Mountain - Aba County (445KM).
On the second day of the Lunar New Year, the trivialities are entangled, entangled to 12:00 noon to set off, with parents, about the photographer Xiao Zhao, from Chengdu, from the Minjiang River upstream. Today's plan is to go over the Partridge Mountain, Chazen Liangzi, chasing the sunset of the Manzatang wetland.
Now the Wenma high-speed direct access to Miyaro, two hours after the partridge mountain has been crossed, continue to travel across the Chazhen Liangzi, at this time the Hongyuan prairie, many days of snow, colorful grasslands, has long been dressed in white, a group of cattle and sheep embellished with the grasslands of the quiet. The distant mountains, rivers and valleys, has been a frozen, magnificent and solemn, more than a few points of tranquility, a few points of depression.
Since Long Riba right turn, that is, embarked on the G347 National Highway to Aba County, in the afternoon, in the last sky that a touch of red fell into the darkness, successfully climbed the snowy mountain pass. After the snow sunset dozen peaks, half of the mountain green and white half of the mountain red. Dwelling in the high look, the distant sky standing snow-capped ice peaks, in the setting sun reflection, showing a layer by layer of red, like a piece of pink cake.
After quietly enjoying the sunset, before the boundless darkness engulfed the earth, downhill straight to Aba County, looking for a good hotel, casually flipping through the Aba County Folk Tales Collection, in the exhaustion of a deep sleep, a night without words.
D2 : Aba County - Lianbao Yezhe - Langyi Temple - Aba County (80KM)
Lianbao Yezhe is located in the southeastern part of the Tibetan Plateau, is the southern branch of the Bayan Kailash Mountains, is located in Sichuan Province, Aba County and Qinghai Province, between the County of Jiuzhi County, Bama County, with a total area of about 800 square kilometers, the scenic area of the Aba County is approximately 500 square kilometers
The Tibetan language in the "Lianbao Yezhe" translated into Chinese is the dignity of the jade peak, which means stone mountain. The mountains here are full of masculine energy, cold walls with a metallic luster connected to a huge and majestic stone wall, is the first of the mountains of the gods in the Amdo region, the highest elevation within the territory of 5,141 meters above sea level, the peaks of the average altitude of 4,000 meters above sea level, is the Tibetan region's famous mountains of the gods, so that many people are discouraged!
This is the ancient battlefield of King Gesar's conquest, and many stories of King Gesar are still being told. Surrounded by stacked peaks, stalagmites and majestic deep, tragic lakes reflect each other, blending softness, rigidity and majestic, beautiful in one.
At eight o'clock in the morning, while Aba County has not yet awakened, we have driven off, an hour later, arrived at the entrance to the scenic area, began to climb.
Lianbao Yezhe scenic area is a long valley, about dozens of kilometers, along the mountain road circling up to the valley deep line, both sides are glittering glittering snow-capped peaks, over this layer after layer of peaks, reached the first sea. Just see the distant frozen lake inlaid with a huge sapphire, which is a plastic, transparent light blue polycrystalline ice, by the grain of snow by the role of ice and become. In the polishing of time, by the sun refraction, transmitting a refreshing beauty.
At that moment I heard the call from Northrend, Alsace was originally a prince of the human kingdom of Nordalen, when a plague of undead threatened his beloved homeland, Alsace threw himself into a doomed to be a tragedy of the mission - he wanted to find a runic holy sword can help him save his family's country. But the Sacred Sword exacts a heavy price from its new master, luring him into a terrible curse. It leads Alsace through the wilds of the far north, straight to the Frozen Throne. There, Alsace will face the end of his bitter journey - the darkest destiny in the world.
Later, Alsace defeated Illidan and ascended to the top of the Cold Crown Fortress. The Witch-King ordered Alsace to break his Ice Cage, and as it shattered, the breastplate and helmet containing the Witch-King's soul fell off. Alsace put on the breastplate and helmet. In an instant, the soul of Witch Demon King Naiozu combined with Alsace and became a whole ---- Alsace turned into a living vessel for Naiozu's soul. Witch King Alsace sat on the Frozen Throne, watching the natural disasters rebuild their fortress, while building up strength to prepare for the future re-sweep of the kingdoms of Azeroth.
One day, my life will reach its end. You, in turn, will be crowned king. Underneath this holy ice, is the soul of that ancient evil buried as well?
Continuing forward, has been driven to the deepest part of the canyon, this is the scenic parking lot, look up, only to see directly in front of the suddenly towering out of a tall, steep peaks, high cliffs, steep and stand, and the peak of the left and right sides of the mountain, appeared with his confrontation with a few other peaks, quite shocking, like the Lord of the Rings of Middle-earth. The peaks were abrupt, the peaks were steep, and the rocks were jagged and intertwined.
Along the wooden trestle to Zagar Tso, which is the stone mountain in the most famous of a lake, located in a cliff under the wall, which is like a huge stone wall, stretched out across the lake, a lone city of ten thousand edges of the mountain's momentum out of the lake is such as a knife and axe sharp blade as long as the wall of the "wall". The lake surface has long been frozen, the fish sank into the water, where the animals, plants are quietly asleep, two lines of footprints traveling to the far side, breaking his tranquility.
Looking at this calm ice, that like a tide of memories and flooded the eyes. The King of Comedy" in Stephen Chow shouted at the sea "hard, struggle" scene in the mind has been hovering, life is like a road, you have to be patient, walking, may be in the bleak out of the prosperous scenery to.
According to "Lianbao Yezhe Shenshan Zhi", Lianbao Yezhe area is the ancient battlefield of King Gesar's conquest, mountain peaks everywhere left the traces of the year Gesar King's conquest. Quietly, as if you can still hear the hissing and killing sound that year, can see that year, King Gesar, in order to the tribe's freedom and peace and the figure of the courage to fight. And in this brave and fearless battle and hide this trace of iron blood tenderness.
I remembered a folk tale I read in the hotel last night.
Legend has it that in the area of Lianbao Yezhe, you can still often see three birds with beautiful plumage, which are attached to each other and fly with proud wings. Their cries are so mournful, as if they are pouring out their inner pain. The local people said: "these three birds, a Gesar King blacksmith Aze incarnation, a local small mountain god's daughter Miss Meijie's incarnation, there is another one, is the incarnation of the two of them children." How poignant a story is this?
Legend has it that when King Gesar's eastward march came to the Lotus Bao Yezhe Shenshan, found that the mountains here, lush pasture, and a mountain god. The mountain god's home is full of gold and silver library, a group of slaves, only a daughter, named Meijie, beautiful, naive, the proposal of the mountain god stepped through the threshold, she did not look at one.
King Gesar's eastward march in the team there is a blacksmith A then, for the person is upright, skillful, we call him "magician like a small blacksmith A then", King Gesar found that the hot springs in this area is full of iron rich materials, arrangements for the blacksmith A then camped here, specializing in making weapons for him. In order to prevent Aze from stealing iron and being lazy, King Gesar arranged for Little Mountain God to be responsible for supervising the blacksmith, while Little Mountain God sent his daughter Meijie to come to the blacksmith store to monitor the situation.
Unexpectedly, this Ms. Meijie was already very fond of the little blacksmith Aze, like him strong, energetic, kind-hearted, honest and simple. Father sent her to monitor the small blacksmith, Miss begged, every day to run to the blacksmith shed, the hammer, she always love to take over the wheel round; A then the pincers, she also want to help him palm a palm; iron bellows, Miss from time to time to go over to pull a pull. The little mountain god sent his servant to bring lunch, for the blacksmith to send black tea with rough tsampa; for the young lady to send clean white milk cake and tea. The young lady did not want to enjoy these good things by herself, but must eat them with the blacksmith. Thus the days grew long, and the two fell in love, and in the month of October the child was conceived and delivered, and a lovely boy was born.
The small mountain god learned, lungs are angry, he dreamed that his daughter went against the rules of the ancestors, forget their own identity, and a black bones of the mortal blacksmith, and gave birth to a combination of man and God pariah seed, the mountain god aristocrat's face are all lost. He locked up his daughter Mei Jie at home and either beat or scolded her every day. Miss Mei Jie was a stubborn girl, she did not think she had done anything wrong, and refused to admit her fault to her father, the mountain god. In a moonlit night, she carried her son, with all the jewelry, quietly escaped, ran to the blacksmith's home, ready to go far away, fled to the mountains outside the rich agricultural area of the Aqu River to go to the people and God **** degree of good times.
But, never thought, on the way to escape, they were sent by the little mountain god of the housekeeper and the beaters caught, they beat A then half dead, thrown to the Zagar Tso, wait until Ms. Meijie grief rushed, the body has sunk to the bottom of the lake.
The grieving Miss Meijie stood at the edge of the lake and let out a cry, "Aze ah, Aze! Why did you leave in such a hurry? So busy? Wait for me! Wait for me and my child!" After saying this, she threw her jewelry into the hot spring lake, threw her otter skin robe, fox skin hat, and silk clothes all into the hot spring lake, and then, holding her son, jumped into the hot spring lake together. Soon, the blacksmith's body floated up, the couple and their children, embracing each other, the lake resounded with music, the surface of the water shot a golden light, three birds with beautiful feathers, flew out of the golden light, circled and sang in the depths of the sacred mountain of Lianbao Yezhe. This is what people see today is called the "yellow duck" bird, also known as the plateau mandarin ducks or plateau lovebirds.
Nowadays, people say, Mei Jie and blacksmith A then turned into a god in the sacred mountain of Lianbao Yezhe, turned into a love bird in the gullies and lakes of the sacred mountain of Lianbao Yezhe - yellow duck. So, living and reproducing in Northwest Sichuan plateau Tibetans, until today, also never kill the yellow duck.
With feelings of emotion, packing down the mountain, plan to visit the Aba County around the county seat of the various Mo Temple. Aba County around the gathering of large and small more than twenty temples, these primitive and simple Tibetan settlements and magnificent and solemn Tibetan Buddhist temples are the most devout beliefs of Tibetans. Temple tower, numerous monks, Gelden Temple, Langyi Temple, Seger Temple, Dege Temple, each Mo Temple, etc., the temple buildings lined up, in the blue sky under the reflection looks particularly sacred. And the visit to the Gemo Monastery, also known as Huiyuan Temple, for the Aba Prefecture, Sichuan Province, Tibetan Buddhism, one of the three major Gelugpa monasteries, is one of the six Yellow Monasteries of the Labrang Monastery of the sub-temple.
The temple is not open due to the impact of the epidemic and can only be seen from afar. Subsequently, we climbed up the county side of the hill, a distant view of this quiet plateau town, the winter sunshine warmly shines on this side of the vast land, the field is still harvested barley stubble, yellow; a glance, the mountains are also that withered grass, yellow, herds of yaks in the hillside leisurely nibbling on the grass roots. And a reddish-red monasteries and holy white tower and like a stove Tibetan incense burning in this grassland, to the grassland a religious gravity. With the wind fluttering streamers and colorful Mana flag will soul dance in this vast world.
At this time, the sun is gradually sinking, a faint red to the peaks of the clouds set on the golden edge, to the Aba County, coated with a charming color. I drove the car chasing the sunset wildly, but can not catch up with the speed of the sunset, watching the sunset gradually fall into the boundless twilight, with a little regret back to the hotel.
D3 : Aba County - Hongyuan County - Taoping Qiangzhai - Chengdu (445KM)
Yesterday, too much fun, did not notice that the car out of the problem, a driving chassis on the sound similar to the distant firecrackers bang bang. As the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, all the major temples are in the practice, looking all over the city did not find a place to repair the car. Toss half a day, a bite, simply risk driving to the red plains to repair the car, I did not expect a road, out of the county bumpy streets, but the car is normal, no danger.
With the beautiful legend of Aze and Meijie, we embarked on the road back.
The return trip through the Taoping Qiangzhai, the Spring Festival does not charge admission, on the spur of the moment, strolling.
Peach Ping Qiangzhai in Li County, mixed Valley Brain River Peach Ping Township, the cottage was built in 111 BC, the Western Han Dynasty that is set up here Guangru County, Peach Ping as the county jurisdiction of the pass and the defense of the heavy area has existed, hidden in the mountains, stone wall towers, houses connected to the labyrinth of the maze of secret paths. Known as the most mysterious "Oriental Fort".
This ancient fortress is a thousand years ago, the Qiang people to resist the enemy used, now, the smoke of war has long been dispersed, the only wind and standing towers and residential in the vicissitudes of history in the silent watch, like the Qiang people, heroic introverted, simple and calm. This labyrinth of alleys, spider web-like underground waterways, as well as the square stands a huge totem, all let a person feel a kind of heroic bravado, in the sky and the earth galloping ......
At 6 p.m., arrived in Chengdu.
Don't let the years miss the blooming scenery, don't let the time wasted years, life is also a deserted trip, cold and warm, bittersweet with the heart.