Excited, because you can change the environment to see the scenery for a change of mood; worried, is found in the scenic area homogenization is too serious, everywhere full of money taste of commercial operation, there is a kind of did not go to regret, go more regret feeling.
The trip to Huizhou is my first trip to an ancient village. When visiting a well-preserved Huizhou architecture, enjoying the beautiful scenery like a painting, feeling the strong and simple folk style, savoring the local specialties, and indulging in a quiet and leisurely slow life, my entanglement in tourism slowly diminished.
The trip to Huizhou brought me a lot of unexpected beauty.
Huizhou is the name of an ancient region in Anhui province, which is now divided into six counties, and my destination this time is Yixian County, which has many ancient villages, including Hongcun, Xidi, Nanping, and Tachuan, all of which are relatively unique. All these villages have their own beauty, but they all have the same simplicity, slow pace and quietness.
Simplicity
The simplicity of the people is the first impression of Huizhou.
When I arrived at Xidi's B&B, I just put down my luggage, and the hostess sent me some hot meat dumplings. My husband and I do not like to eat meat dumplings, but hard to resist hungry so try to eat a mouth. But found that this meat dumplings and we ate before the texture is completely different, grain clear crystal clear glutinous rice, tight field wrapped with a large piece of fat and thin bacon, a bite down, soft and sticky tendons, with bacon salty aroma and the unique aroma of glutinous rice, so that people can not swallow in the mouth want to eat another bite.
Really is the first time to eat such delicious meat dumplings, my husband and I do not hide the hostess wildly praised her package of delicious dumplings, she smiled at the time very surprised at our comments.
On our last day ready to leave, the hostess sent over a small package of rice dumplings, said we like to eat, took a few left us on the road to eat. I didn't realize that she actually remembered what we casually said at the time.
Of course, there is more than one simple person, when we drove from Xidi to Hongcun, Hongcun B&B owner's wife waited at the entrance of the village as early as possible, so that the store's little guy first used a small battery car to help us transport the luggage back to the first, but also apologize for saying that the big battery car is charging, or else it will be sent directly to the store even with the luggage together.
When we arrived at the hotel, I realized that the room was quite small, so I talked to the owner's wife and told her that it would be more difficult to live there. She looked at other room types still available, immediately gave us a free upgrade to a room, the environment, the size is much better than the original, the price is also at least two times the original. This is the first time in my life that I have been upgraded for free.
When I left, the boss's wife also gave me two gifts, a big bag of special Huangshan bakery and golden chrysanthemum.
My first thought at the time was that the free gift must not be delicious, so I planned to taste the Huangshan bakery first, and threw it away if it was not delicious. The result was a slap in the face, and I realized that the one I bought was so bad.
Hubby said, when I first arrived, I saw these people so enthusiastic about us, and I always thought they were up to no good, trying to cheat us out of something. But when we got together, we realized that we had been in the city for a long time, and we were always on the lookout for other people, thinking that strangers who were too enthusiastic were just crooks.
When I met these people, I realized that I was overthinking it. They also need to earn money, but they prefer to make tourists more comfortable and happy.
Slow rhythm
In the tourism development of the ancient villages in Huizhou, many villagers use their own homes to make a bed and breakfast, and do some small store business, and some villagers are still retaining the original farming livelihood.
Here there is no rush of footsteps, there is no phone call, do not worry about traffic jams on the road, do not have to be anxious to play the card, the villagers walk on the stone road, are behind the back of the hands, slowly pacing, see people recognize stop to say hello, greetings a few words.
The owners of coffee shops and grocery stores are in no hurry to let you buy anything. Guests come, they find their own seat, or look along. They leisurely flip through the book, or sunshine to laze around. You have the need to call him one, immediately ran over with a smile.
I remember in Xidi to find a good reputation of the restaurant, went in and found that it has been full, sitting in the waiting area waiting for a place, I found a dish to more than ten minutes to be on a time to think of all of them are on the full, at least need more than half an hour.
The capacity of this restaurant is not large, ten tables or so, so the efficiency of the food, if in the city is likely to have been shouted at to urge the food.
And here, the tourists seem to follow the slow down, no one urging the boss to hurry up, everyone is relaxed sitting on the seat, pleasantly whispered conversation, come up on a first eat, eat the end of the chopsticks down to continue to chat and wait for the next dish.
In this way, slowly chatting, slowly savoring the dishes, slowly to feel the moment.
Quiet life
Some of the ancient villages in Huizhou, hidden in a large piece of crop land, behind the rolling green hills and white clouds, when I look at a glance, I marveled at the original ancients did not lie, really is the "white clouds in the depths of the family". The village is a stone path, so there is no car in and out, less sirens and whistling, more quiet.
Walking on the green stone road, you can hear your own footsteps; from the courtyard patio to the sky, see the white clouds in the slow stretch; bubble a cup of locally produced Monkey Kui, you can hear the sound of tea leaves stretching in the water; even walking in the tourists a lot of Hongcun South Lake, looking at a group of students sitting in the Academy of Fine Arts sketching the lakeside, will not bear to speak loudly to disturb them, just quietly watching, listening to the wind blowing from the ear, the willow, the wind, the wind, the wind, the wind, the wind, the wind, the wind, the wind, the wind, the wind, the wind, the wind. The wind is blowing from the ear, willow, see the sunshine on the lake, sparkling.
In Xidi, the stores are closed early, at eight o'clock in the evening, there are very few stores are still open, and the tourists and villagers on the road have become sparse.
The red lanterns in every house, lined on the ancient white walls and black tiles, are quiet and simple. There was no entertainment program, so we returned to the B&B early, washed up, opened a book in the sea of books.
At eleven o'clock, you can clearly hear the sound of the night watch from far and near, which is a tradition that Xidi has been preserved, every night at eleven o'clock, some people knock on the gong to remind the villagers to close the doors and windows to rest. There is no sound of cars whizzing by, no chaotic and noisy square dance, no restless disco, there is just and night embracing the quiet.
The short four-day vacation soon passed, when the car started, will be an ancient white walls and black tiles to say goodbye to the back, I was a little reluctant to give up, suddenly thought of a word - Anhui if the first time I saw.
Anhui if the first time I saw, is the picturesque scenery let me addicted; is the simple folk style let me touch; is the slow rhythm let me relax; is the quiet village life let me stay.
I think, these Huizhou left me the beauty, perhaps is my heart has been yearning for life, ignore the world bother, just watch the clouds roll.
I think this is the life I have been longing for.