At 1 pm, after lunch by the son driving, we set off from the city, along the West Central Plains Road to the West Fourth Ring Expressway to the south, straight to the "Zheng Shao Expressway" toll station. To the toll station, just in time for the Chinese New Year 7 days of the following car holiday free release, so the usual blocking the car crossbar this time to raise the pole standing empty, unimpeded. Outside the window, the sky, gloomy, like a child's crying face; wind, chilly, like a knife cut; road, flat and spreading, from the horizon to the distant southwest sky; car, light and fluttering, just like an arrow off the string speeding forward. Only to see both sides of the road, fields, ditches, trees, villages, houses, buildings, bridges, tunnels, distant mountains, one by one, from far and near, swept away. Inside the car, I recounted the famous attractions and stories of Songshan Shaolin, the purpose of the first into the main, for the next step of the tour to pave the way; my partner also talked about the Spring Festival greetings from friends and relatives and anecdotes, in order to enliven the atmosphere, to the son of the drive to raise the spirit.
As of two o'clock, in the atmosphere of laughing and relaxing, we have rushed to the "Dengfeng West" high-speed exit, according to the scenic area signage shows that there are 19 kilometers from the Shaolin scenic area. We got off the highway, around the Dengfeng Ring Road, to the northwest along the wide Shaolin Avenue straight to the scenic area. Along the way, both sides of the buildings of varying heights lined up, both the world-famous "China Shaolin Temple Tagou Wushu Academy" stands alone, but also the name "Henan, Zhengzhou, Dengfeng" martial arts schools one after another; both the "China Shaolin Zen Zen Academy", "China Shaolin Temple Tagou Wushu Academy", "China Shaolin Temple Tagou Wushu Academy", "China Shaolin Temple Tagou Wushu Academy". "China Shaolin Zen Music Ceremony" viewing address, but also "Songshan Academy", "Zhongyue Temple" scenic spot signage; both "Nongjiale "restaurants, hotels, and also have a clear near view of the black mountains should be overwhelmed. Especially the closer the Shaolin Scenic Area, the more I feel the traffic, tourists like weaving, bustling, not lively! At this time, the sky, looking forward to a winter and long-lost white snowflakes, is like a goose feather-like fluttering, fluttering, leisurely sprinkled in a variety of buildings, on the ground, as well as the body of the tourists, in a moment that is melted, but the freezing people huddled together, began to look for blocking the snow to avoid the cold clothes, hold up the rain gear.
To the scenic parking lot, the car is overcrowded, we had to learn from others, carefully choose to park on the side of the road. Under the car, the cold wind piercing, cold air attacking people, we braved the wind and snow, with the flow of tourists, quickly came to the Shaolin scenic area in front of the square visitor service center. Here, do not care to browse the tall and imposing scenic gates, majestic stone carvings and colorful souvenirs, but first to the right side of the promenade kiosk to avoid the wind and snow, and then my son and his girlfriend gave us four people to buy an ear warmer, and so dressed, and then to the left side of the promenade ticketing office queue, and each person to spend 100 yuan to buy a ticket to be counted as a visit to the admission ticket.
After entering the scenic area, while my son they took pictures in the door of the effort, I roughly browsed the Songshan Shaolin Scenic Spot Tourist Attractions Route Map, read the introduction: Songshan Shaolin Scenic Spot is a world-famous tourist attraction, the National Tourism Administration of the first batch of 5A-level scenic spots. Scenic area rich in humanistic landscape, natural landscape, has inherited thousands of years of shaolin "zen, martial arts, medical" culture, natural national painting like beautiful scenery and "five generations together" rare geological landscape, humanistic landscape is mainly concentrated in the core area of 2.18 square kilometers Within the core area of 2.18 square kilometers, there are shaolin temple courtyard, pagoda forest, dharma hole, the first ancestor nunnery and other attractions; natural landscape concentrated in the shaolu mountain three emperor cottage, where clearly show the precambrian period of the famous "songyang, zhongyue, shaolin" three major mountain building, land making movement site, silent witness to the god of osan ancient, is the songshan world geopark the best place to watch the scenery. Honestly, although I used to visit here twice, but are the last century, the eighties and nineties, walk around, time has changed. In my memory only "Shaolin Temple, Tallinn" vague impression, not at all like the sights seen in front of the construction of such a beautiful, thought: this time we must be attentive to see, seriously remember, focus on the tour, go home to write a traveler's note to make up for my lack of many years.
It is reported with such a good desire, my family and I merged into the crowd, in accordance with the sightseeing spots line charts, stepping on the wide beautiful and bright green stone board, the first to run to the first attraction - "Wushu Museum". This hall is about 400 meters from the gate, is a modern architectural style, pick up the stairs, the middle of the face is a tall round martial arts hall, both sides of the room has dozens of rooms. The first right is the first Shaolin blessing bell, about 4 meters high, the lower caliber of about 3 meters, was suspended in the air, next to a stake suspended, the body of the red silk scarf, corresponding to the bottom of the dozen or so to come to pray for the blessing of the tourists, running like a queue in order to go up, climbed up to the bell 3 times, with the "when - when - when! --When - when - "the flood bells ringing, the sound of its inside and outside the Museum of martial arts, echoing in the valley of the ancient temple in the air, heralding the ringing of the bells to come to the year of the lucky star, peace and happiness! Waiting for the opening of the martial arts hall performance in the interval, in order to figure out the New Year luck, I also joined the ranks of the bell ringer, tasted the joy after the blessing.
At 2:55, the second afternoon martial arts show in the Wushu Hall officially opened, with tickets. A tidal wave of waiting visitors poured into the martial arts hall, entering the circular seating from 3 sides. Our family arrived later, there were no seats available, so we could only stand in the front row at the entrance of the passageway. When I stood firmly fixed eyes, the center is the stage, about 80 square meters, behind a wall, the middle of the round door for the actors to enter and exit. Its top is arched, about ten meters high, the remaining three sides for the grandstand, divided into the upper and lower levels, can accommodate about 800 spectators. Pavilion bright lights, the sound of people, warmth. 3 o'clock, under the spotlight, the youthful and beautiful hostess walked to the center of the stage, holding a wireless microphone, with its crisp and beautiful and magnetic voice, announced that the 30-minute wonderful martial arts show now begins.
The first program is the Shaolin boxing, this time the whole room was quiet, everyone concentrated on watching the show. In the host one by one in the explanation, dressed in apricot-yellow robe of the six Shaolin disciples in turn on the stage, respectively, performed the monkey fist, cockroach fist, frog fist, tiger fist, leopard fist and eagle fist, their smallest is only 7, 8 years old, the largest is only 15, 6 years old, each of them, move, flip, roll, a move like a thunderclap; everyone squatting, jumping, bending, stretching, a fist and a foot imitation of the real. In order to enliven the viewing atmosphere and encourage audience participation, the host also selected from the stage three self-nominated boys on stage, respectively, just performed to the tiger, leopard, cockroach boxing three actors followers to imitate their own boxing moves, who imitated like, who received more applause from the audience, who can win awards, prizes can be played more than 70 minutes of Shaolin martial arts production of the CD-ROM on a disk. When the stage to the winner of the award at the same time, the host also took the opportunity to promote CD-ROM, 10 yuan per disk. Immediately out of the 4 send CD-ROM girl, a moment on more than 10 on-site audience scrambled to buy, too late to the backstage and then buy, visible millennium temple is also with the times, with a strong sense of cultural management.
Then, the performance of the second program is Shaolin JieGong, the same, Shaolin disciples while performing host side commentary. Watch! There is the top of the head power with 1 meter steel plate violently hit the top and was broken but unharmed, there are finger power through the glass to poke the colorful balloon, there is soft power will be bent more than 360 degrees and the shape of the body, more leg work like a lotus flower tumbled and rolled squatting and jumping flexion and extension freely, convergence in the collective wu kung team performance. These wonderful programs to see me dazzled, amazing! The last program is the Shaolin 18 martial arts collective performance: Shaolin disciples took turns on the field, or dancing sword and gun, or sword and halberd, or whip shake rope, or swinging stick to play stick, kind of thrilling; or arrows by the sun, or monkeys fishing for the moon, or punches and kicks, or grappling, each exciting. This scene, really dazzling, dazzled, this passionate show in the audience thunderous applause came to an end!