Looking at Lake Zurich from a distance, it looks like a mirror that stands still and reflects the sky. Only when the sails like gardenia petals are scattered on the lake, can we tell where the water is and where the sky is. The Alps in the distance are clearly visible, as if you can touch the snow on the top of the mountain by reaching out through the window, but there is no chill at your fingertips. The sun is warm, and the waves are hovering and flashing along the curved outline of the mountains, climbing the lofty backbone of the European continent, more leisurely and free than the eagle flying on the top of the mountain, as if the spirit jumping between heaven and earth reached the top of the mountain and jumped into the clouds as soon as it jumped. There, it is heaven.
The Limat River flowing from Lake Zurich runs through the city, and street buildings with medieval style are scattered on both sides of the river bank, making Zurich look like a lakeside urban garden. Walking on the Kaye Bridge, you can get a glimpse of the scenery of Lake Zurich, and you can also look up at the landmark building-Gross Cathedral in the soft light, and listen to the rhythm of thousands of years of agility echoing in your ears, depicting the ancient, simple and elegant old city of Zurich. If you leave the street along the hillside and go up, you can find the gate of the University of Zurich.
Zurich is like a paradise, with the highest living standard in Europe and one of the richest cities in the world. Zurich has concentrated the global and European headquarters of more than 1 banks and gathered financial investments from all over the world, also known as the "billionaire city". Banhoff Street in the center of the city is the most expensive place in Europe. There are extremely luxurious shops along the street, and high-end products such as clothing and shoes, fur, jewelry, jewelry and Swiss watches designed by the world's top designers are displayed in the windows. Therefore, it has become the most attractive commercial and trade area in Europe in the eyes of the rich all over the world.
Zurich was originally founded by the Romans and became a member of the old Swiss Federation in the Middle Ages. The war of the Thirty Years' War forced Zurich people to build fortifications around the city, but it requisitioned a large number of national territorial resources and triggered riots. In the 19th century, Zurich ushered in rapid development, and Zurich Central Station was established, which became the starting point of Swiss railway transportation construction, and Banhoff Street also became the most prosperous business district in this period because of its proximity to the station. Switzerland remained neutral in the world war, the Germans captured Paris through Belgium, countless French people fled south to Switzerland to take refuge, avoiding the Nazi iron wheel, and Switzerland became a refuge for many Jews.
during my few days in Zurich, I stayed in a youth hostel, saying it was a hostel, but actually there was only the second floor for people to live in. The landlord is a very interesting Spanish artist. He built a stage on the first floor of the hostel with a small bar next to it. The bartender is his best friend. In this magical hostel, I was lucky enough to meet an indoor concert. The landlord told me that it was a birthday party for a friend, and he would play music at the party.
The guys in the hostel spent two hours preparing dinner that day. It was getting dark and the yard was noisy. People began to drink beer and enjoy Spanish-style food. There are not many people who can speak English among the guests. Among the people I chat with are a Spaniard, an Italian and a couple from a small town near Zurich. Like most people present, they all make a living by music.
Bi Shumin said in "Blue Paradise": "Travel is a kind of learning, which gives you a pair of baby eyes to see the world and different societies." In fact, as long as you go out and see the world, it is very easy, but it is not desirable to see the society. Babies' eyes may not understand society, but they can read life.
After three rounds of drinking, the guests gathered at the stage. At night, the streets of Zurich were full of the noise of nightlife. At this moment, the hostel was like a crowded and silent theater. Just now, the man who talked freely at the dining table took the guitar to the stage, spoke a few words of German and began to play. The Spanish landlord seems to have just finished cleaning the yard, put down half a bottle of beer in his hand and started to sing along with the beat. A lady next to him was swaying in dancing shoes, and the beat on the wooden floor and the guitar sound merged into a quiet sound lingering in the dark hostel.
most of the guests know art, but I don't know much about it, and I can't hear the meaning of the lyrics, but the atmosphere at this time is as warm as home. If you feel at home in a strange place, you probably see life there.
at this moment, I feel that the so-called paradise is nothing more than a home with a yearning heart and people who can sit at home and listen to songs together. Talking about other things will become redundant. Some people will call Zurich a paradise because of its beautiful scenery, and from troubled times to now, some people may regard it as a paradise because they have found a home here. Audrey Hepburn died in Switzerland in 1993. She once heard that if even angels choose this place as their home, it may be the closest place on earth to heaven.
When reading "Three-body", I remember that Yun Tianming heard such a sentence: "Most people don't glance out of the world until they die." So I feel that Cheng Xin is very lucky. She has the only extreme romance of being given a star on the earth, and she also has a reason to look up at the starry sky every night-even though the star is hundreds of light years away.
We are all pursuing a paradise on an endless road, and travel can't give an end, because travel makes people see the whole world, but rarely makes people look up at the stars.
Time will engrave the answer on the gear of life. Or we may leave a drift bottle with a few crystal drops on the way to travel, which will hover and twinkle with the sunshine, jump on the top of the Alps, melt the snow on the summit and fall like petals on the calm lake in Zurich.