Behind the Waterfall Cave in Wushan is the stunning Danxia
Those who have been to the Waterfall Cave in Wushan tend to overlook the stunning Danxia behind it. In addition to the knife and axe generally vertical and cracked Luban Mountain, but also can not be named like a brush upside down the pointed top of the mountain. The day we went, it was drizzling, and the air in the rain had a kind of Sanskrit incantation light breath.
From Wushan County, along the newly renovated tourism line, line about 25 kilometers, to the northeast of the county Zhonglou mountain canyon, and then a foot into the Waterfall Cave.
When I was a child, I heard many legends about it, and now it seems to be long gone, everything seems no longer mysterious. But the small temple in the unknown place of the guqin music, but reminds people of a poem about the Waterfall Cave: "The peaks and peaks of the search for no way, the rocks open paths have a different day. The valley stream gurgles, and the scenery is quiet and pleasant." The first two lines of the poem are a working pair, no problem, while the last two lines are a bit bland, but the meaning is not satisfactory, there is no need to go deeper into the original work is so.
The so-called magical Waterfall Cave, once in the legend of the summer flying ice, non-fasting bath may not enter, or flying ice hit the head, the life, is not a joke. And now this is about 50 meters high, more than 20 meters deep in the natural cavern, there has been no ice, only the eaves of the cave such as curtains of water dripping down, with the rhythm of the pull a little temple wood fish, fell in a small pool below, and issued the sound of the ancient unchanged, so that the age of this place is more obvious long.
Walking Longyuan, inadvertently, will walk in the ancient grottoes composed of human landscape line, open a section of the ancient exploration of the journey. To the east, there is the world-famous Maiji Mountain Grottoes; from Maiji Mountain to the west, it is Gangu County's Daxing Mountain Grottoes. I have always had a doubt, why the big like the mountain not to "elephant" and the name, but to "big like" to stay in the world? "Like" and "like", although the meaning is almost the same, but the elephant is invisible, to the invisible on the tangible, in Chinese culture is not more in line with the idea of Buddhism? Further west of the Waterfall Cave, is the unity of Buddhism and Taoism, water as a curtain, at least from the imagery, ethereal can be.
The history of the Waterfall Cave alone is very old, and can be compared to today's grottoes in Wuwei, called the ancestor of the Tianti Mountain. Waterfall Cave grottoes pavilions were built in the 16th period of the post-Qin Dynasty, and at that time, Liangzhou is standing proudly on the tide of history, looking out of the world, and today there are many people in Wuwei proudly said that Wuwei was China's third largest city, if you salvage the silence of the past, this is not unreasonable. However, the sky ladder mountain and the water curtain cave, which is the teacher, which is the student, from the two ruins of the construction of the age, it has been difficult to say clearly.
From the Maiji Mountain to the big like a mountain, and then to the water curtain cave, this ancient journey line in the end how to connect, how to open correctly, is still a topic worth exploring.
Of course, the Shuilian Cave grottoes group by the Northern Wei, Northern Zhou, Sui, Tang, Five Dynasties, Song, Yuan dynasty construction, the size of its cluster is the largest of these grottoes belonging to the one, there is the Shuilian Cave, Layou Temple, Thousand Buddha Cave, Xian Sheng Pond, etc., of which Layou Temple, the Thousand Buddha Cave of the cliffs inscription, sculpture, mural painting and so on is very precious. Only, a thousand years a sigh, many of the remains are hidden in the mountains and water, not known by outsiders.
Now enter the scenic area, can see the La slightly Temple Buddha is enjoying the most open-air cliff relief Buddha in Asia, which is quite rare in China's grotto art. Now **** retained more than a hundred statues of successive generations, murals more than 2,000 square meters, more than 10 buildings, relic towers 8, 10 inscriptions inscriptions, headless dry body of 1, of which the Lajiao Temple cliff inscriptions are particularly valuable for the study of the staging of the break, as well as the origins of the history of art and the development of the important physical information provided.
It is these relics, through more than 1,600 years of dark space and time, the past and contemporary conflicts that have not been identified, or renewed or succeeded to pass out, some clear and perceptible, some cloudy and chaotic. The so-called cultural relics are in fact the visible remnants of history, which are not only about the clichéd history, but also about those hidden and obscure memories.
History Back in the past, when the Wushan area, is a multi-ethnic mixed zone, the Han culture of the western gradient, the integration of nationalities, there are traces here. Since the Qin Dynasty, although there is Su Wu North Sea shepherds the story, in the Great Wall outside even just a little more north, the account in the Chinese text immediately became very brief, everything can only be based on the imagination. From the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the strategy of the western region made the map of China extend westward along the Hexi Corridor, resulting in the Silk Road that people enjoy today. The four counties in the west of the river, namely Jiuquan, Wuwei, Dunhuang and Zhangye, were much more famous than the present Lanzhou and Xining. But the four counties in the west of the river, and often the northern and northwestern nomadic herdsmen for years to carry out the tragic fight, there is the Tang generation rise of the Tubo even from behind the southwest plateau unexpectedly rushed down, so that the fragile link between the Central Plains and the grasslands more precarious.
I do not know whether this change in the Waterfall Cave left traces, but the power of civilization is always not the will of the people for the transfer of step by step forward, although sometimes the need to "will be scrubbed to recognize the previous dynasty", sometimes inarticulate, but at least, to give us a space for imagination, there are things need to be rediscovered.
More than 1,600 years ago, post-Qin and Northern Wei ground architecture, what is this concept? Many of the old mountains and rivers have long been deserted, some are in poor condition, and some are in museums. And like the Acropolis, a building built entirely of stone, but also has long since not the classical period of that look. The temples are majestic, but the colors and paintwork have been flaking and crumbling for a long time. Today's Waterfall Cave, such as the Acropolis, when the Buddha's name and mantra hidden, leaving behind, not ruins, but a vibrant, stunning Danxia landscape.
Compared to the human landscape, there is no doubt that the natural landscape in the long river of time, can survive a little longer.
And the Danxia landform behind the Wushan Waterfall Cave, not because of the smoke dispersed and lonely, it has gone through the infinite number of robberies, after the sea, after listening to hundreds of years of the Buddha's call, in the once pious incense between the bustling and dense tourists, and still exists in reality.
Although the years have also eroded its bones, after all, it has traveled through the heavy parcels, layers of paint, and ultimately, even after a thousand years of eyes saw.
Into the Waterfall Cave scenic area, the right hand is the cliff carvings, right in front of the Thousand Buddha Cave, the left hand is the Waterfall Cave, straight ahead, is a long mountain road. This once small road, has been in the tourism development, was transformed into a mountain highway. At the end of the highway, there is a square where a statue of Lu Ban has been sculpted. This is very symbolic, at least show that the people here will Danxia ghosts and master Lu Ban's skill is linked together, as if not so say enough to describe Danxia's majestic, but also at the same time clearly proved that this is a legend.
The rain that day, as we climbed, gradually turned into snow on the mountain. We stood in the snow, looking out at the distant Danxia, which seemed full of meaning as one of the few witnesses to the bounty that once existed. But between the here and now, which is also full of meaning, its existence is more or less left out by the tourists.
Wushan Danxia, on the color, it can not catch up with the Zhangye seven-color Danxia; on the name, it can not compare to the Yeliguan Red Cliffs Valley. But it is peculiar mountain shape, huge volume, smooth and rounded rock wall, completely beyond our imagination, appear outstanding, very ornamental. In amazement at the time of its magnificence, I am even more amazed at why it is locked in the boudoir, so that people come to play only know that there is the Waterfall Cave, do not know that there is Danxia?
Nalan Seide in the "Long Xiang Si" in the words of the vast sigh, "the mountains a trip, the water a trip, the body to the Elk Pass that line, the depth of the night, a thousand tent lights. The wind a more, the snow a more, rave broken countryside dream not, the old garden without this sound."
Perhaps, Wushan Danxia need to be re "discovered", and be filled with new meaning!
(This picture is provided by the Publicity Department of Wushan County)