A familiar and unfamiliar place - Chishui

Chishui is located in the Yungui Plateau to the Sichuan Basin transition of the large slope area, the altitude from 1730 meters precipitation to 221 meters, the valley is deep and steep slope, ditches across. After billions of years of weathering and erosion, the formation of 1300 square kilometers of the country's largest area, the development of the most beautiful and spectacular, the most typical and representative, the youngest Danxia landform. The special geography and climate have become the natural refuge of national protected plants and Jurassic remnant species-"spinulose tree fern", and nearly 80,000 spinulose tree ferns remain in various places in Chishui, which is the most centralized area in the world, and it is known as the largest palaeontological museum in China.

The water system of Chishui is extremely developed, with 352 rivers and streams all over the place, together with a large number of highland lakes, as well as 1.2 million acres of vast bamboo sea (the second of the national top ten bamboo hometowns), 430,000 acres of the best-preserved mid-subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forests in the same latitude of the earth and other rich vegetation to support the water, and even more to form countless waterfalls, and, according to the statistics, more than 4000 waterfalls above 3 meters wide, which is the largest waterfall group in Asia. It is the largest waterfall group in Asia. Red Danxia wonders and Soa fern bamboo sea waterfalls and other scenery, making Chishui has a red, green, beauty all together proud of the conditions.

Chishui is really no mountain is not green, and there is a green place and inevitably have bamboo. Here, the bamboo forest dare to call "bamboo sea", to give you the absolute is a kind of "vast and majestic" of everyone's temperament, such a feeling if not in person, you will never feel that kind of heroic momentum. The car is traveling in the sycamore and bamboo staggered interconnected road, the tall sycamore trees with red flowers like a very beautiful dancer, understanding of their bending limbs arms interlaced, for guests from afar to build into a welcoming arch, behind them is a glance at the edge of the boundless verdant bamboo forest, the ancient Chishui River is like a jade belt will surround them.

Chishui City is not big, and the nine branches of the town of Sichuan is only a river away, a very modern atmosphere of the bridge will be the two different provinces closely linked to the bridge, the bridge on the traffic people come and go, the locals teased: lifting their feet on the cross-provincial! Chishui City is a red Tourism city, where the streets are clean, tree-lined, comfortable and elegant environment, especially after the city center square of the balsam fir forest, trees tall and lush, attracting every visitor to view, along the river covered with different sizes of open-air cafe, people in the after-dinner or dancing in the square, or is a pot of tea two or three friends to sit on the riverside to talk, lovers while strolling while! Quietly whispering, more is a family of old and young walking along the riverside, the children mischievous mood infected everything around them, the kindly old man peacefully enjoying this wonderful family life, the smile of the wrinkles rolled out a groove, can see that the people here are in the full enjoyment of their own happiness and joy!

Chishui Danxia landforms, with its bright red Danxia red walls, rising up the lonely peaks and narrow ridges, the appearance of thousands of strange mountains and rocks, huge rock corridors caves and beautiful Danxia canyon and green forests, waterfalls and springs, forming a very high tourism ornamental value, so that the tourists fall in love. In Chishui, the most unique and most famous Danxia landscapes are Jinsha Gully Red Cliffs, Xiangxi Lake Ten Thousand Years of Ganoderma, Four Cave Gully Duxian Bridge, Bian Tiansheng Bridge, Tiantai Mountain Red Rock Walls, Shidingshan Wonders, Fuxing Turning Stones Wonders, Long Nesting Gully Danxia Canyon, Shizhangdong Danxia Caves, Jinsha Gully Gamgou Canyon and Nitrate Caves, and more than ten other places. After the rain cleared, the golden sunlight on the Dan rock, the red rock reflected extraordinarily colorful, the formation of red rock, green trees, silver waterfalls, springs reflecting the beautiful wind, people walk between, feel refreshed, relaxed and happy.

Walking around Cian Ancient Town

Cian is located in Chishui City not far away, this ancient town built on the cliffs of the Chishui River, backed by the green mountains surrounded by water on three sides, away from the chaos of the world, so until today is still maintained since the Ming and Qing dynasties of the basic appearance. In fact, the fame of Propan is not only because it retains the original appearance of the ancient castle, but also because there is the crossing of the Red Army's Chishui River. Into the town first through the ferry on the suspension bridge, the first time I walked on the trembling suspension bridge, the feeling of shaking so that I can not help but be a little wary of the footsteps are getting slower and slower, the legs are also soft up, and even the bridge under the Chishui River also do not dare to look down to see on the look, but was originally walking behind me an old woman with a steady gait over me slowly forward to see the others really some sweat! In order to overcome this fear of their own psychology, hard to bite the bullet and walked again, until no longer feel weak legs panic until.

Propaganda Ancient Township in most of the buildings are wooden, because in the place of abundant bamboo, houses in the furniture chairs, beds, stools are made of bamboo, and even the walls have bamboo involved. "We are rich in nanzhu here, nanzhu can grow very big, the biggest can be as thick as a small bucket, the local specialty here, dried bamboo shoots, umbrellas, fans, chopsticks, and shoes are all made of bamboo." The salesman in the store pointed to the wide array of goods and introduced them with a smile. Next to the store is the exhibition hall of the First Red Army Corps of Bing'an, which displays the boats that crossed the river, swords, spears, guns, and some of the documents and instructions of the year, etc. A tour down to the history of the Red Army's crossing of the Chishui River deepened the impression. The ancient town area is not large, more than half an hour can be completed, but the unique architecture of the castle and its beautiful but every tourist y attracted reluctant to leave.

Chishui Falls

Chishui Falls ten zhang hole waterfalls are located in the city directly south of 30 kilometers in the upper reaches of the Wind River, the river originated in Sichuan in the Chishui Wind River mouth into the Chishui River, the river upstream of the submerged deep canyons to Shatiandu water gradually concentrated to form a larger runoff, to ten zhang hole river widening water steady, the riverbed appeared a huge cliff like a knife chopping axe. Huge cliffs such as knife and axe, the river flows straight down into the deep pool to form a 80-meter wide 76-meter high waterfall, 8 meters higher than the Huangguoshu Falls narrower than 1 meter, almost rewrite the title of China's largest waterfalls, horse galloping water makes hundreds of meters within the water mist filled. Ten zhang hole scenic area gate made into the appearance of the old man inside the maiden's double-sided artificial red rock giant statue, from the deepest waterfalls back to the 2 kilometers of the roadside to go down you can also see 75.6 meters wide and 18.5 meters high in the hole waterfalls, the water flow is fine as if the pearl curtains hanging, because of its crystalline very beautiful by the locals known as the "beauty comb", is a typical curtain waterfall in China. Typical of curtain waterfalls in the country, and the big waterfalls, as if the male and female with the scenery.

When the sightseeing car started the moment, all the heat is swept away, only wet cool wind to soothe our sauna-like sweaty body. After the sightseeing car, along the canyon in the stone road or up or down, the scenery is quiet, occasionally there will be colorful butterflies dancing, swiftly fly over. From afar, you can hear the roaring sound of water. The moment you reach the waterfall, look up and marvel, so spectacular, really worthy of the Yangtze River Basin, the first big waterfall. Ancient people called ten zhang hole waterfall, and in fact, the height of this waterfall is far more than ten zhang. Thick water from the 76-meter-high cliffs surging down, hard on the bottom of the pool surface, and high splash, the formation of flowers, growing into a jade tree, unfolding agarwood branches. A kind of love catharsis of the beauty of the life force, let a person shocked. Closer, tilt your head and close your eyes, feel the water droplets and mist, face, eyebrows, hair, can feel the cool and comfortable water. Even the thundering sound of the water also miraculously disappeared, the body and mind to touch the waterfall is the warmth of the side of her gentle dew to moisturize every hot heart, so that everyone's heart is welling up in the sigh of this trip.

Four holes in the ditch to explore

To four holes in the ditch on the day of the rain, fortunately, is not too big, in the rain a tour is also a lot of fun. At first, I always thought that the four caves ditch is because there are four distinctive cave composition and name, but I do not know is by the Waterfall Cave Waterfalls, Flying Frog Cliffs Waterfalls, Moon Pool Waterfalls, White Dragon Pool Waterfalls, the four waterfalls and name, the reason why it became the "four holes" because Chishui waterfalls called "hole", so that called the waterfalls, the waterfalls, the waterfalls, the waterfalls and the waterfalls, the waterfalls. "This is the first time I've heard of such a name. The excitement was lifted at once. So braved the rain with an umbrella into the four holes ditch, in the moist and fresh air along the bamboo forest promenade all the way to view the scenery along the way, even the rain has become idle, four holes ditch only 4 kilometers on a single side, so the walk is a good choice, so that you can take the bamboo along the way, trees, streams, springs, lakes, waterfalls, bridges and so on all over the tour without having to worry about not enough time or overly tiring.

After a while came to the last hole - White Dragon Lake Waterfall, White Dragon Lake Waterfall is the last of the four holes is also the largest waterfall, the drop of more than 60 meters, has not yet arrived at the front of the waterfalls, the heavy moisture plus rain has made the hand of the umbrella looks pale and weak up, in this strange natural scenery, people seem to be the most important. In front of this strange natural scenery, people seem to be so small, silver-white waterfalls seem to fall from the sky like a giant dragon straight into the bottom of the pool, the roar of the waterfalls contain a kind of anger from the mighty king, which is the first three waterfalls can not be compared.

Compared with the Chishui Falls, the waterfalls in the four donggou appear more beautiful and gentle, such as Li Qingzhao's elegant words.

Touring the Red Rock Valley

Yangjiayan (also known as the Red Rock Valley) scenic area is about a 10-minute drive from Sidonggou. In the scenic area at the entrance to the guide plate on the introduction of a number of amusement programs, but my good friend said that in addition to the Danxia stone, most of the other scenery is similar to the four donggou. To the red stone wild valley Danxia landform. The attraction is not grand, but very distinctive. This iron oxide saturated red rock, strewn with the sunset and sunset like splendor. This landform was developed from the Jurassic to the Tertiary Periods, and was formed through a long period of erosion, weathering, flaking, and collapsing. This is nature's work of art.

I climbed up the mountain along a path cut into the Danxia rocks. Along the way, most of the Danxia stone in the wind and rain erosion has oxidized into a gray-green, the other scenery is also very general, there is not much desirable scenery, the heart is slightly disappointed. But I still hold the idea of not to yellow river heart never die, decided to walk to the end of the attraction. Now think about if not so, maybe I would have to rewrite the impression and description of Danxia stone. At the end of the attractions, is a peculiar boulder, in fact, it should be said that it is the peak of the mountain, the whole piece of stone top and bottom are forward extension, convex fox-shaped, the center of the concave inward semi-circular fox, the top of the boulder has a huge vine winding down, the outer edge of the water droplets dripping down. From the side, it feels like a giant monster open mouth, the upper kiss is long, the lower lip is short, there is an introduction that the boulder fox 400 meters long, 200 meters high, 15 meters deep. Probably for safety reasons, the boulder with barbed wire to stop up, and prompted the tourists do not want to go over. But curiosity let me lose my mind, and forget the hard soles of the feet and the height of the heel, climbed ah around ah, finally climbed into the center of the monster's mouth. But when I walked under the boulder myself, no, inside, I truly felt its soul-crushing splendor. Bright red stone walls, some like water waves, some like a beehive, above like a red cloud on top, below like a monster spit tongue, walking in which, like being surrounded by the setting sun, but also like to be swallowed up by the beast in general, so that people are a little overwhelmed, I in addition to taking pictures or taking pictures,. SLR shot once, and then shot again with a cell phone; horizontal shot, vertical shot again, obviously already down, but then walk back to see again and again shot. Until the arrival of a larger number of elderly tour group, I was reluctant to leave.

"Water ballet" - the one-bamboo floating

The one-bamboo drifting is a unique Qianbei folk stunts originated in the Chishui River Basin. The best of the best are the ones who step on a bamboo, and float on the water as if they were walking on a flat surface. The one-bamboo rafting, also known as the one-bamboo boat, commonly known as paddling bamboo poles, performers stand barefoot in a diameter of about 15 centimeters or so, more than 8 meters long straight bamboo as a carrier on the water. Hand holding a diameter of about 5 centimeters, about 4 meters long straight small bamboo poles as paddles, alternating left and right, paddling on the water, or driving a boat riding the wind and waves to fight the rapids and shoals, or lightly flick the bamboo poles stand steadily on the boat leisurely swinging boat on the surface of the water. The shape of its appearance is beautiful and generous, coordinated and coherent action.

Dokurodokoro, it is living in the Chishui River people from years of productive labor refined, after thousands of years of inheritance and development of the evolution of the original ecological sports activities. It was first invented by people living on both sides of the Chishui River to solve the transportation problem. Since Chishui has an abundance of bamboo, a piece of bamboo was often used as a convenient means of transportation on the water. This skill has been passed down from generation to generation. The bamboo along the Chishui River is the best tool for drifting, not only is it uniform in thickness, but also has a large weight capacity. A bamboo can carry a weight of about 120 pounds, and the most can carry a weight of 150 pounds. This may also be an important reason why the one-bamboo rafting movement arose in the Chishui Basin and has been passed down and flourished to this day. Some people say it is "water ballet", some people say it is "a reed across the river", and now this is known as "China's best, the world's unique" water show project! Now this is known as "China's best, the world's unique" water show -- "one bamboo drift", generally won the praise of Chinese and foreign tourists. Can you imagine a person standing in a diameter of about 20 centimeters, about 5 meters long bamboo poles floating on the water surface rowing, and in the bamboo poles to perform difficult actions? This kind of stunts in the Jin Yong novels will only appear "floating" kung fu ah!

That day, I had the honor to come to the Chishui River, to see men and women in national costume to the shore. Floating on the water a number of large bamboo, only to see a dozen performers each holding a 4-meter-long bamboo pole, the dragonfly gently jumped to the large bamboo like water. Bamboo swayed a few times, it is firmly anchored in the water, people stand on the bamboo as stained with glue, not moving. They use the bamboo pole in their hands to point the water, the big moso bamboo is like an arrow that leaves the string, splitting the wave forward. With the acceleration of the big moso bamboo, the performers sometimes drift in a piece, like a distant geese; sometimes spread out on one side, as the heavenly maiden scattered flowers; sometimes do backward, turn around, around the corner, change the pole and other difficult actions; sometimes change the "split-legged drift," "lunge drift" "Bucking pole drift", "upside down golden hook", "golden chicken stand alone", "turn around and balance". "Turning Hula Hoop" and other postures. See this stunt, the shore of the tourists clapped their hands, even I also looked dumbfounded.

Shen Guangchu / text and photography

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