One is Jin Yong's "Eight Parts of the Dragon", which transformed this languid ancient city with bright mountains and beautiful water into a remote and mysterious romantic rivers and lakes.
The second is the familiar theme song from the 1950s movie "Five Golden Flowers": "Dali is beautiful in March, and it's good to dress up by the Butterfly Spring". Let the charming scenery of Dali, babbling softened every listening ear.
And then there is the movie "The heart of the road", so that the city of the wind into people's eyes.
And when you actually stand on the streets of Dali's ancient city, you will realize that the romance constructed by those words, images or music does have a provenance.
About the wind in Xiaguan:
There is a beautiful legend. According to legend, there lived a white fox on the slanting sun peak of Cangshan Mountain. She fell in love with a white scholar in Xiaguan, so she took human form and went out with the scholar, and their love for each other was discovered by Luo Tsuen, a priest of the Luo Tsuen Temple in Erhai, who did not allow them to be together, and cast a spell to knock the scholar into the Erhai Sea.
The fox woman went to the South China Sea to ask for help from the Goddess of Mercy, who gave her six bottles of wind and told her to use the wind in the bottles to dry up the water in the Erhai Sea to save the scholar. When the fox girl with six bottles of wind back to Xiaguan Tiansheng Bridge, was Luo Tsuen master's backstabbing, fell to the ground, broke five bottles of wind, so the wind all gathered in the Tiansheng Bridge, so Xiaguan wind is particularly big.
In fact, according to the scientific explanation, because the Cangshan Mountain nineteen peaks are too high, blocking the east and west of the air convection, and the Cangshan Mountain slanting sun peaks and mournful labor mountain range the Mo mountain between the Xiaguan Tianshengqiao canyon is only for Xiaguan air convection of the exit, so Xiaguan wind is particularly big, especially in winter and spring seasons, walking in the Tianshengqiao canyon against the street, the gusts of wind blowing the people can not stand.
About the flowers of Shangguan:
In the village of Guanwai Flower Tree, there is a flower tree named "Shili Xiang", which is said to have been planted by the immortal Lv Dongbin, and the flowers are as big as a lotus flower, which opens 12 petals every year, and opens 13 petals in the year of Run, and the color of the flowers is yellowish-white, which is beautiful and attractive.
Actually, I realized later that this seems to be the wooden lotus flower, which can be seen everywhere in Dali.
But I prefer to understand the Shangguan flower as those various kinds of flowers that can be seen everywhere in Dali.
There is a beautiful legend in Dali folklore about why the snow on Cangshan Mountain does not melt for thousands of years.
Legend has it that in ancient times, a group of plague gods in the Dali dam rampage, so that the people "ten people get sick nine people died. There are two white siblings to save the suffering people, under the guidance of Goddess of Mercy to learn the law return, the plague of gods are whisked to the top of the Cangshan Mountain, let the snow freeze to death.
In order to make the plague gods never come back to life, the sister also turned into a snow god, forever suppressing the plague gods on Cangshan Mountain, so Cangshan Snowman Peak has thousands of years of immutable white snow.
And it is actually because Cangshan Mountain is too high in altitude and the temperature at the top of the mountain is low.?
Regarding the Erhai Moon, the most widely circulated story is the story of the princess of the Heavenly Palace coming down to earth. Legend has it that there was a princess in the Heavenly Palace who envied the beautiful and happy life on earth and descended to a fishing village by the Erhai Sea to marry a fisherman.
The princess in order to help the fishermen to live a life of abundance, they sank their own precious mirror to the bottom of the sea, the fish shine clearly, so that the fishermen can hit more fish. Since then, the mirror has become a golden moon in Haiti, put the light, shining generations of fishermen, so it became the "Erhai moon", for people to enjoy.
The Erhai Moon is a boat that takes Dali people through their dreams, where every lost child can find a home.
However, I prefer another beautiful legend about the Erhai:
It is said that there will be a lookout cloud over the Erhai. It is the incarnation of a princess who fell in love with a hunter.
Because of her father's opposition, the hunter was beaten to the bottom of the sea and turned into a stone snail. The princess died of anger and depression, and was transformed into a cloud in the sky, which was angry with the wind and wanted to blow away the sea and meet her lover. Thus, as long as this cloud, the Erhai will no longer calm. The two hearts together, and a bitter love, stirred up the waves of the sky.
It turns out that the sea, too, is lonely. She has condensed the gaze of how many lovers, how many people have collected the secret affairs of the heart, but in the bottom of their hearts, sinking a forever stone snail.
If you feel lonely, then come to Erhai. Even if you can't see the lookout clouds, you can choose a cloud in that blue sky and make your wish. Let it, for you to see the person you want to see. Whether he is in his hometown, or a foreign country.
If you don't want to let love drift endlessly, let her become a stone snail on the bottom of the sea. When she meets a cloud that belongs to her, the sea of destiny, too, will open up and make way.
I look forward to it, my morning starts from the ancient city.
Wake up from that fine life and let the day bloom gently like a flower.
I will go to see the flowers that bloom everywhere, and the snow that does not disappear through the summer.
Each morning is awakened by joyful birdsong. The sunlight moves from the east coast of the Erhai Sea, and the streets of the ancient city are covered in gilded clothes.
The city slowly woke up in the flow of the fragrance of flowers. First the old man's cough, and then the sound of removing the latch. The sound of a toothbrush stirring water in a glass, the sound of pots and pans in the kitchen associated with breakfast.
I'd also like to go for a walk around the neighborhood, to Hsi Chau, to see the old town.
The old houses give off a strong nostalgic flavor.
Walking inside, you will feel as if life is an old movie, the same stage, just a different actor
The old streets of Xizhou, none of which is straight, as long as you go forward, you will continue to see new scenery, like a constantly changing painting.
The old tie-dye is like a workshop of time, deep, deep, like a memory drenched in the past, is being painted with the color of the years.
The black is the past, the red is the future, and the blue, is the Xizhou. From generation to generation, this deep blue has been passed on from generation to generation, as if the history of Xizhou can be wrapped in this tie-dyed cloth.
Then return to the old city at night, accompanied by the warmth of the lights, find a tavern to sit down, if you do not like the wine, then order a cup of drink, listen to the song, and a person strangers to tell their own stories.
Time is always silent, but has the power to heal all wounds. In this sense, food is similar to time. So go to a late-night diner, throw those little hidden emotions in the food late at night, and then digest them.
Or go to Lan Congee Bistro, I'm sure you'll be touched by the phrase "If the girl wants to eat, I'll make it for her".
Whether it is in the East Gate or working in the South Gate, I always like to walk alone in the streets and alleys of the ancient city of Dali, to see the eaves of the old days in the sunshine flashes of ancient memories, to listen to the wind whisked through the moss and green tiles, playing the march of life rendition of the legend of the ageless.
The heart is so, in the warmth and warmth of the sun, in the blue clear sky, slowly precipitation.
Friends always say: I think Dali is not so good, why do you like.
Perhaps the significance of each city for each person is different, starting from the city itself, and finally the flavor of the people there.
I remember a friend once said, walking in the streets of Dali, blowing the cool wind, basking in the warm sun, always feel that there will be a Jin Yong's warrior from the front of the swept past and then arched his hand to you: "Excuse me, how do you go to the Duanwangfu?"
This is a soft city where time seems to be the least valuable thing. Order a drink at a tavern in the old city, listen to songs and other people's stories. In the Erhai Sea, blowing the wind, daze, as if all the bad things in life have become a passing cloud.
It's a good thing that Dali is so popular, because it's a great place to be
Even if you've seen it all, you still don't want to leave.
I look forward to, we can follow the white girls to the market.
We can go to the market with the Bai girls.
We can go to the Moon Street together on the March Festival
We can watch the sun go down little by little on a sunny day by the Erhai Sea.
Going to the thrift market to find something old and full of stories to decorate your own nest.
Together we can climb Cangshan Mountain in the spring and watch the snow while enjoying the flowers.
Together, we will go to Xizhou to walk around and have a poi and a bowl of cold noodles.
Together in the night into the bar to listen to those full of other people's stories songs, run to the late-night restaurant to eat a meal-. Waiting for the city to fall silent and us to sleep peacefully, then waiting for the sun to rise the next day.
I'm waiting, will you come?