On the evening of June 11th, a group of fourteen of us, from Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, began this trip to Bama. The train passed through Jiangxi and Hunan. After twenty-two hours of running around, arrived in Nanning, the capital of Guangxi, has been the lights of the house. The next morning, change to take the Chinese bus. The car began to bump along the rugged mountain road. On both sides of the mountain slopes, there are mango trees as far as the eye can see. When the mango is ripe, what hangs on the tree is mango; what is piled up on the roadside is mango; what is loaded on a three-car truck is still mango. Even what floats in the air is the strong fragrance of mangoes. The car is like a small boat, traveling through the blue waves of mangoes. After more than four hours, we finally arrived at Bama County, which has a magical legend.
In this mysterious land, mainly inhabited by Yao and Zhuang. It is located at 105 degrees east longitude and 24. 23 degrees north latitude, with an altitude of 1216 meters. The annual rainfall is 1,578 millimeters and the average annual sunshine is 1,531 hours. The relative humidity is 55% to 57%. It is located in the subtropical oceanic monsoon climate, the windward side of the tail end of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. The average annual temperature is 20 degrees Celsius, warm in winter and cool in summer. The unique environmental conditions make it the first of the five longevity villages in the world. After a hasty lunch in the county town, we settled into our hotel accommodation, ignoring the fatigue of the journey, and couldn't wait to start the long-awaited Bama health trip.
Renshou Villa
About an hour's drive from the county town, we arrived at Renshou Villa, the former residence of Deng Chengcai, the longest-lived old man in Bama. Deng Chengcai, was the parent official of Bama area during the Qing Dynasty. During his tenure, he was a clean official. At that time, Bama was rich in sugarcane, but due to the closed transportation, a large amount of sugarcane could not be shipped out. He was anxious about the people's urgency, thinking day and night, and designed and manufactured his own wooden sugar press, which solved the problem. The local people were very grateful to him. During the Kangxi years, foreign enemies repeatedly violated the Zhennan Pass, Deng Chengcai, at the age of 100, despite his advanced age, personally went into battle and defeated the enemy in Zhennan Pass. Emperor Kangxi was informed of this, and in admiration, he gave a plaque with the inscription "Life of the Benevolent". This plaque is still hanging above the hall of his former residence. Deng Chengcai life indifferent to fame and fortune, charity. He wrote a couplet on both sides of the hall. The first couplet: Knowing things and not doing much is peaceful. The next couplet: tolerate people let people do not deceive people can be a person. A couplet, really is a reflection of his life. According to legend, he lived to be one hundred and forty-five years old. Emperor Kangxi's "but the benevolent life" this four big words on him, really appropriate, deserved ah!
The dinner "long table feast" is unique. A table is more than two meters long and about eighty centimeters wide. In the whole table, actually can not see a dish. A variety of colorful dishes are lined with a green banana leaf, orderly placed in a diameter of about forty centimeters in the bamboo plaque. This is not a dish, it is a bamboo plaque full of handicrafts. It was so appetizing. The wine was the Yao family's home-brewed rice wine, fragrant and sweet. What's more, there was a hospitable Yao girl beside the wine frequently persuade! In this kind of banquet full of joyful atmosphere, let me this never greedy people also drink.
After the meal, the sky was full of stars. A wonderful bonfire party started in the square next to the restaurant. With the Yao King's warm welcome speech, we lit the blazing bonfire with our own hands. Under the firelight, the rugged Ah Niu (young man) and the beautiful Ah Mei (girl) danced the quite characteristic Yao family dance. The whole square was turned into a sea of joy with one wonderful program after another. The bamboo pole dance at the end pushed the joyful atmosphere to the climax! At this time, regardless of men and women, old and young, guests and hosts, audience and performers, everyone sang and danced in the square! No one cares whether you can sing or not, no one cares whether you can dance or not! Everyone forgets age, forgets gender, forgets time, forgets to rotate in the crowd, intoxicated! Everyone has left behind the fame, fortune and worries of the world, giving vent to their passion and joy! Let their tired souls get never before wash and sublimation. When we left the Renshou Mountain Resort, we realized that the night was already late. On the way back, my mind kept flashing with the inscription of Emperor Kangxi, 'Only the benevolent live' four big words. I thought: in the end is the emperor, said the words are not bad at all, do people can be benevolent, how can not live long!
Tongshou Shanshui
In the morning, about forty kilometers from the county, to Tongshou Shanshui. It is the core scenic spot of Fengshan World Geopark and the second out of the five-in-five (alternating bright and dark rivers) of the Panyang River, which symbolizes longevity in Bama. The water cave is about one thousand meters long and forty to fifty meters wide, with a height of sixty to seventy meters from the water surface to the top of the cave. The boat slowly floats towards the water cave. To the right of the cave entrance, a small path winding up along the cave wall, stone bunkers on both sides of the path, the stove blackened by smoke is clearly visible. It is rumored that this place was once the command post of the Red Army under the leadership of Wei Baqun. It is said that when the Red Army retreated, they accidentally left a seal of the Soviet regime here. Entering the cave, there is a cool breeze in front of you and green water gurgling on both sides. The river stream is winding back and forth, and the waterway is deep. Boat through the river water, beat the echo of the bank wall lingers in the cave cavity, as if the Yaochi floating down the fairy music. Listen to the guide said, the cave is rich in a lot of negative oxygen ions. I took a deep breath and slowly exhaled. So repeated a few times, seems to really feel the internal organs were cleaned again. I know very well, this effect is the state of mind. The tour guide told us, rumor has it that this cave is the secret of longevity secret hidden treasure cave: eight hundred and eighty Peng Zu, marveled at the same life in the water corridor in the environment, in the farewell, his longevity of the 'secret to stay in the hidden treasure cave, intending to live here for a long time to come. However, the hidden treasure cave is so dark and far away that the secret has not been found yet. Being in this situation, in a trance, it seems that in the far reaches of the cave dome, there is really a volume of the secret of longevity. Boat leisurely forward, through the boatman's flashlight, can clearly see the cave dome on the lifelike nymph birthday, the image of realistic life star hand, and that stayed in the cave the beauty of the water turtle. The waterway slowly turned right, a ray of bright light suddenly appeared in the distance, gradually getting bigger and brighter. At first it looked like a broken moon, then it turned into a half moon and a full moon. Finally, it magically turned into a shiny silver peach. The peach of life and slowly lengthened, bigger, it turned out to have reached the mouth of the cave. Boat at the mouth of the cave, only to see the emerald-like water, green peaks reflecting, white clouds floating. Both sides of the phoenix-tailed bamboo, gently swaying in the breeze. Everywhere fresh and soothing, full of emerald green overlay. The natural beauty is mesmerizing. No wonder this place is known as the "Slim West Lake" in Guanxi. The green mountains in the distance and the green bamboos in the vicinity form a wonderful landscape painting. The mountains are like jewels, the water is like emerald, and the people are like immortals. Water, light and color of the mountains, reflecting each other. Exquisite landscape, and people with life. Stay with the life of the mountains and water, really want not to live a long life is also difficult ah! Imagine, such a beautiful scenery, Peng Zu and how to leave it?
Hundred Devils Cave
After lunch, the car came to the Hundred Devils Cave located in Bama County, Jiazhuan Township. The cave combines the beauty of the world's caverns, and the Panyang River flows under the Hundred Devils Cave. The turbulent underground river water gushes out from the bottom of Baimo Cave, and the sound of the water is deafening. The sound of water is deafening. Huge waves beat against the strange rocky cliffs and roll up thousands of snow waves! Really "rocks through the air, waves fluttering on the shore, rolled up a thousand piles of snow" ah! Along the cave corridor, walking about a hundred meters, suddenly opened up. More than a hundred meters high, hundreds of meters wide, more than a thousand meters deep huge cave in front of us. The biggest feature of this cave is that in the hundreds of thousands of square feet of the cave, in addition to the steps under the feet, you can not see a little bit of artificial transformation traces. Pure primitive style, showing its rough, wild. Make people feel a kind of shock of the soul! The tour guide introduced that due to the movement of the earth's crust, the rock layer deep under the Panyang River formed a unique fault. The geomagnetic field inside the cave is as high as 8.5 gauss. At the same time, the surrounding vegetation is rich, so that the negative oxygen ion concentration in the air inside the cave reaches three to fifty thousand per cubic centimeter. This makes it an ideal place to recuperate. I looked to the side, and hey! There are quite a few people sleeping on the ground with mats!
Through a sinkhole the size of a soccer field to the inner cave. Dozens of thirty to forty meters high, three to five meters in diameter stalactite columns, constituting a huge group of stone towers, they stand tall and majestic, silently showing people the history of the great evolution of nature over millions of years. Really amazing. Cave fog, changing, more so that this lofty landscape seems secretive and colorful. Coupled with the cave on the cave, cave within the cave, stretching thousands of meters. Nature's ingenious work, really breathtaking! When we returned the same way, we were also curious to experience the magnetic field area. I do not know whether it is tired or really have a magnetic effect, I lay down not a few minutes to fall asleep. When I woke up, I really felt relaxed and all the fatigue had disappeared.
When we returned to the cave, we met a woman. She was a small, thin woman, bent at the waist like a shrimp. She was carrying a big basket on her back, which was full of things. In one hand was a large basket. It was estimated that it should be forty or fifty pounds! When she saw us, she put down the basket, wiped her sweat with the blue towel around her neck, and smiled as she asked us if we wanted wild dried mushrooms. Our guide came over and told us that this old woman was a local mushroom farmer who specialized in picking shiitake mushrooms. Her shiitake mushrooms were absolutely wild and cheap. She unveiled the blue-printed earthen cloth covering the back basket, and a strong fragrance filled the entire cave entrance, attracting many tourists. Everyone scrambled to be the first to buy. The old man skillfully handled the situation, and in a short while, a large basket was almost sold out. I couldn't help but say, "I can't see that someone over sixty is still so skillful." She smiled and said, "Still over sixty? I'm eighty-nine this year. But you can't be considered old here. It can only be considered medium!" All the tourists were stunned. I looked at her spirited appearance and thought to myself, her living conditions aren't all that great! It seems that as long as one is 'contented and happy', it is not difficult to live a long life.
Shifu Lake
About eight kilometers east of Bama County, is Shifu Lake. It is a large lake formed by the storage of water in the Yantan Power Station. A Zhifu Bridge crosses it, dividing Zhifu Lake into the southeast and northwest lakes. In the scenic area, the green mountains are always green and the blue water is always blue. The lakes and mountains reflect and complement each other. East standing husband and wife rock, the south side of the cascade of fourfold spring, the western foot of the Lotus Peak, northwest of the drunken lying sleeping beauty. Mountains near the water is breathtaking: the mountains in the distance embracing Dian, lonely peaks stand proud; near the hundreds of flowers, hundreds of birds crowing. In front of us a watery country. But see the blue waves, waves flooded with gold. Dangerous mountains reflection, water around the peak back. Such a beautiful view, I thought that the lake is called "West Lake in Yaoshan" is not too much. Being in the middle of it, it is really a good scene of vitality, a good piece of leisurely feeling of contentment.
The most noteworthy is to give the blessing of the lake that the tall peaks, really natural a "sleeping beauty". She lies gracefully on the shore of the Chifu Lake, spreading her long hair full of hair into the midst of that clear lake. The straight nose is matched with a small mouth; the slender neck is reflected in the high breasts. Her body was slim and her legs were hidden. It's like a big beauty lying on her back. Legend has it that this beauty was originally a fairy in the Queen Mother's Yaochi, tired of the coldness of the sky. One day, suddenly saw the earth's mountains, there is a jade belt like a small river, in the mountains and mountains between the bright and dark winding through. This river is Bama's Panyang River. She was mesmerized by this beautiful river. She traveled along the Panyang River. When she saw the clear water in the Panyang River, she couldn't hold back any longer. She spread her hair and dipped it in the water of the Panyang River, letting the pure river water wash and wash. Too cool, too comfortable! Without realizing it, she fell asleep lying here. Good fellow! This sleep is tens of thousands of years, until now has not woken up!
The blessed lake is not only extraordinary scenery, but also due to the role of high geomagnetism and the production of small molecules of water infiltration into the soil, the original longevity of the 'five grains' thus growing. On the longevity island, centenarians with hair like children can be seen everywhere. As we traveled along the longest 'health corridor' in the world, we came across a man and a woman, two longevity celebrities. The woman was 105 years old and the man 101 years old. They told me that longevity does require a good environment, but what is more important is the 'state of mind'. The mind is something that needs to be nourished. Make sure you clear, delight and comfort your mind. Learn to put your mind down. That is the secret of longevity!
The six-day trip to Bama ended happily. We have not only seen the original natural beauty of Bama, and appreciated the amazing natural phenomena of Bama. More importantly, we realized the way of health of Bama's longevity town! It's a real trip!