Kunming transit, about two hours of stopover, through the waiting room scenery to experience the four seasons of the Spring City. The waiting seats, the small stores next to them, and the center aisle are crowded with people, but by no means uninterrupted. Extruding the hustle and bustle of the imperial capital, everything in front of me seems to move very slowly, even the talk and smile of the people next to me slowed down, I also walk slowly, slowly look at, slowly appreciate, leisurely stroll through the waiting hall of the shopping malls, which is leisurely perhaps also because there is enough time to wait for the reason. Here, see some of the colorful Yunnan, the long waiting hall, along the road of the stores are mainly focused on these types of items: very ethnic handicrafts store, checkerboard shop-style convenience stores, jade, jadeite and silver jewelry store, tea store, fruit, the rest is mainly catering and selling clothes.
Yunnan out of the jade place, the line does not understand, just I have always felt that jade than gold and silver have texture. In the display form is more attractive to me stopped in front of a store, decided to look at improve the aesthetics haha ~
PS: Photography is allowed, photographed to the ornaments are still after the permit.
One word can accurately summarize the feeling I got from this place after a short stay: comfortable. When I first arrived, the air was very comfortable, the temperature of the spring city in early August was very comfortable, the sky was floating in light clouds, the weather was very comfortable, and the other, the slow rhythm of the surrounding movement was especially comfortable. I want to thank my little brother for not wanting to walk around and stay to look at the boxes haha, of course, I'm my own shopping. When I look at the box, the younger brother and the teacher to the bathroom, the teacher went to turn first, so I left the younger brother hahaha ~ ~
Kunming to Lijiang time passes very quickly, just this trip from the plane to fly smoothly after the expected airplane meal, delayed, the world does not have so much free lunch nah (╯3╰), an hour and a half of flight, may be due to the reason for the short time it is. Arrived in Lijiang, the project partner arranged to pick us up, the person who picked up the project manager, called Liu Tao Liu manager, including our back of the food and accommodation do not need to worry about, which also makes our back of the field is very smooth. The first time I saw this, I was very happy to see you, and I'm very happy to see you!
The trip all went well! The sky above the sky blue, clouds, clouds, clouds, sea of clouds is so beautiful, some look sweeter than cotton candy (^_^), really want to catch one. The camera was not with me, I wish I had a shutter for my eyes. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to get a good look at it, but I'm sure I'll be able to get a good look at it.
Follow the teacher, fortunate to be a guest from afar, guests listen to the Lord, the first night arrangements for us to live in the ancient city inn. Come to the inn nearly four o'clock, settled our place, we will rest on their own, waiting for six o'clock in the evening and they dined together. The day's travel, coupled with more than two hours of sleep last night, all the way in the snooze, continuous listening to talk are beginning to lose focus T_T. Hurriedly clean up, the teacher shouted to go out together with the pad stomach, to Yunnan's first meal is the bridge rice noodle.
After dinner, there is about an hour or so of rest time before dinner, decided to go out of the inn with his brother to stroll around the old city. Out of the inn, or inn, inn by inn, far more is a store by store, the ancient city is almost a commercial area, just into the street during the day to maintenance fees, tourism development this point is quite black. Of course, we do not enter the inside is also enough to shop. To say that Lijiang is a literary place, to Lijiang ancient city y felt, whether it is the inn or store, or at night to go to the Naxi family, this culture in Lijiang can be said to be y rooted.
Then look at the people's dress culture, from Changsha, the innkeeper's wife, with casual robes, smoking cigarettes, and we talked about already forty to enjoy life, the boss's wife's husband to keep long hair, the image of the chivalrous in the novels of the Jin Yong, as well as tied in a bun, the streets of the long legs, sweatshirt, the place is really a dress how you do not flaunt nor hidden place, everything is so natural, should be the scene, the more from the comfort of the heart. Everything is so natural and appropriate, and even more comfortable from the bottom of the heart. People chat, sip tea, have a big beautiful dog, lying in the doorway or being slipped on the street are very eye-catching. Cats lazily rely on the window, and can not be more literary decoration is very compatible. Flowers and plants have become an integral part of the architecture here: on the floor, on the roof, on the side of the wall, as curtains, in the cracks of the walls, in the gutters. The atmosphere extends from the eaves of the dwellings to the corners of the walls, from the tips of people's hair to their toes, and the old city lanes are full of women who specialize in tying the hair of tourists and passers-by, for a fee, of course. The beautiful flower ropes weaving in and out of the hair are very distinctive, but the most beautiful is the flow of light on the head of the lively little girl.
Standing in front of my house to shoot the left side of the inn where we live:
Walking through the old city is very attentive to the post office, here literary to find the imagination of the normal-looking post office, to see the "China Post" letter box is also in a wall surrounded by a variety of artistic smells, and not very conspicuous, and then into the sale of postcards! The store selling postcards is even more literary to the word to describe. With the stamps do not seem to use the field, the shopkeeper girl told me can only buy their postcards with stamps to send, or buy another kind of stamps without stamps, but to load them to sell stamped envelopes, which can not be understood, due to the time, a few postcard store to stroll down, there is only one can be sent, but also this postcard styles and designs to my liking. Bought a postcard stroll through the end of the old city, but go back to almost have to leave again. 12 o'clock back to stay up late to write postcards, a day of labor, plus last night, only two hours of rest, the pro received more tolerance, but the heart is by no means sloppy. I'm not sure what time I'll be able to get to the mailbox after I've written it. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do this, but I'm going to be able to do it, and I'm going to be able to do it.
Naxi culture
Coincidentally, tonight the neighboring cultural village has a torch festival, so the host took us to see.
The Torch Festival is a celebration held exclusively for Naxi men aged 36 and 49 virtual years, and chatting with the Naxi family's elder brother, we learned that it is to celebrate and pray that they can go through the year successfully. In the Naxi culture, 36 and 49 is the age of misfortune, I understand that similar to the life of the year it, more like our hometown custom of nine. When this celebration is done, the coming year will go well for them. However, only for the men to do, and then through the back of the chat Naxi girls, think this ethnic species have a kind of underlying male superiority phenomenon, but they do not seem to have subconscious patriarchal concept. Naxi girls married, it turns out that the family is required to give money to the man, in the words of a three-year-old child's mother, "Our Naxi girls are not good-looking, but also black, as long as we can marry the person we like, the parents are willing to pay, the parents hope that we will have a good life later." In fact, on this mother to see, Naxi girls are not ugly, black is this and more than 2,000 meters on the plateau tanning it ~ ~ Naxi girls married and not a little bit of "married out of the girl splashed out of the water" meaning, "when we came to come, and did not marry a like. " We came to the village head of the family, but also received our Liu manager's friends, chatting with the Naxi girl is the daughter of the married, with a baby a while out to watch the program, a while in and chat with us, here are particularly pure and simple people. Naxi people's soccer culture is very strong, many small children have a professional team and participate. We went to the Naxi family wall posted on the elementary school five-year-old son's soccer team photo, which foot China's soccer reserves have great potential.
Torchlight Festival, started at 8:30, the front of the big stereo playing pop songs, here to hear the Korean song means different, to hear pop songs feel different, more quite to Sun Nan sang "Mufu Feng Yun" theme song "Pure Land" is also different, very feel. Villagers and people from other villages sat down on the stage early with stools, the scene was like a grand opera in front of grandma's door. After the end of the song, there has been and Naxi culture related to an activity, and fireworks, during this period we are in the house chatting is getting excited, they did not go out, chatting about them also chatting about us, chatting about people also chatting about birds. Hear the coming of the "Pure Land" will talk about the song, talking about Al Qiu, the original Naxi language is Al Qi, language differences, I did not notice is that qi, meaning that means Naxi girls, so the above written Naxi girl is from this song to talk about. Al Qiu is the wood house of the wood old man's people, Naxi people are called so, through the chat plus the "wood house of the wind and clouds", the wood old man is Mu Zeng, for Lijiang to bring peace and harmony of the Naxi family's ancestors. Al Qiu, naturally, is Mu Zeng's wife, is synonymous with Naxi shrewd and capable women. Mufu natural family name wood, is when the wood in the warrior, now here Naxi people surnamed wood is still one of the main body. We are in the culture of the village people are mainly surnamed and, their ancestors are wooden housekeeper, equivalent to the civil officials. Now the Naxi have three surnames, the other one is Zhao, is responsible for similar internal affairs in the wood such as poor, common understanding is the logistics department. The Naxi culture is deep, such as the snowy mountains at the foot of the Lijiang.
Naxi culture, have to say is the Dongba text, the earliest Naxi text, has been as the world's intangible culture to protect, they are still speaking their own Naxi language, but due to the development of Lijiang's tourism, and even well-known to the international community, most of them more or less will speak Mandarin, especially the children on the speakers on the standard, that has been the mother of the Naxi girl, her three-year-old son, well-behaved. Her three-year-old son, well-behaved, with slippery Mandarin and we speak, the little baby is very bold, but also rhetorical questions us, very pleasing, very polite, to my teacher next to enough bananas to eat, called my teacher "brother", haha, just brother is not appropriate, mom taught him to call uncle.
We have been to the village head and another Liu manager's friend's home, is also a Naxi family, including us to the inn, we went in they are the first to please drink tea, please eat their own home-grown pine nuts, sunflower seeds, walnuts and a variety of fruits, tea, fruit country, so you naturally associated with. Through their life and culture, we can see the optimism and open-mindedness in the cultivation of this beautiful place with beautiful mountains and waters, and we are also y touched and infected by their enthusiasm. Torch Festival is the last bonfire party, stools are put away, the site lit a pile of fire, young and old, men and women holding hands, around the bonfire dancing Naxi dance, rhythmic dance, passionate dance under the Naxi people are as if eighteen years old. When in Rome, singing what natural do not understand, but music without borders, music may sometimes really do not need to understand what is sung, my brother and I joined, together stepping on the drums bouncing, the narrator is very enthusiastic girls and boys to guide the correct jump, but there are a few lines of lyrics hurt my brain, "Gala is you ~ ~ Gala is you ~ ~" hahaha left aftereffects! After the end of the song, it still reverberates ╮(╯＿╰)╭. This is probably the Naxi people's square dance it ~ ~
This season's Lijiang morning and evening temperatures have to add a little thicker jacket to withstand, like a great deep fall in Inner Mongolia. The first day I came to wear less, the night is indeed a little cold. But with everyone lifting their legs, it warmed up a lot. The dance party went on with wave after wave of music, and we joined everyone who had been dancing for a long time. Bonfire over and back to the inn at 12pm.
The first day, no wild game, except for more than half of the day's travel, the latter half of the day in addition to feeling literary or literary. Too much to want to write down a little bit of the day.
Feeling so! Thank you for all of them!
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