The towering Taihang stretches for more than 800 miles and is divided into North Taihang, South Taihang and West Taihang. The majestic and dangerous West Taihang (the junction of Linzhou City in Anyang, Henan Province and Huguan County in Changzhi, Shanxi Province) is the destination of this outdoor trip. From 6 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the evening, the bus traveled more than 900 kilometers and finally arrived at Linzhou City, Anyang City, Henan Province.
Every time I travel far, I feel the strangeness of being in a foreign country, but in this small city in the north, I feel the kindness of not being a foreigner.
The night lights of Linzhou are flickering, and there is a déjà vu of one stall after another and a square dance not far away. Longhu - Longtoushan City Park, Longtoushan Hill, Wenfeng Pagoda is brightly decorated with lights, like a lighthouse to guide the direction of the eye-catching.
The night sky, the moon in the clouds through, from time to time with the clouds to wipe the face, revealing bright bright face, reflecting the earth. Lunar August 17, Linzhou moon is still bright and round, white light thousands of miles, like the fifteenth from the south of the Yangtze River and pouring to the seventeenth of North China.
At the moment, standing in the night of Linzhou, the moon and the tower shadow poetic in the water ripples ah ripples, ripples out of a few points of the style of the Jiangnan water town, that is, I don't know if the water is introduced through the famous Red Flag Canal.
When the hard-working and brave Linzhou people fought nearly ten spring and autumn, just rely on a hammer, a shovel, two hands, in the Taihang Mountain cliffs to build a 1500-kilometer-long "man-made heavenly river" Red Flag Canal, ten years of nine drought, water is as expensive as oil from the end of the history of the misery, but also so that the people of Linzhou is proud of! "self-reliance, hard work, unity and cooperation, selfless dedication" of the spirit of the Red Flag Canal, in the Central Plains and even China's far-reaching influence.
The second day of the climbing eyebrow is located in Linzhou Taihang Grand Canyon, "climbing eyebrow" is a local mountain people's slang. The so-called "mountain eyebrow" is in the Taihang Mountain cliffs on the stone cracks, a stone cracks as if the cliffs on a strip of eyebrows. Inside the crevice, there is only room for one person to crawl and crawl, surrounded by an abyss, exercising one's courage and physical strength.
Far from the car, the rolling peaks are not high, but as we slowly approach, the mountains become tall and majestic. The canyon is also completely embraced by the mountains. As seen in the movie and television, the Taihang Mountains on the wall of grass, the peaks of the orderly broken into a layer stacked on top of a layer, as if the mountain wheel, a layer of billions of years, solid and heavy.
The guide who picked us up could not see his age, but the wrinkles on his face were like the Taihang Mountains around him, layer after layer. And speak plausibly, "You're not in that way!" "Too big to pass!" Said a few times to understand, the original is worried about our backpacks are too big, can not pass the narrow "mountain eyebrows", so we hurry to "thin".
Every hike in the mountains has the excitement of exploring the unknown. The path between the canyons of the Taihang Mountains winds through the walled peaks without end, and when the mountain is like a wall blocking the line of sight, thinking that there is no way forward, but I do not want to turn around, the body like a wall through the same as the turn to the next mountain peaks.
The hawthorns and jujubes along the way (of course, all recognized because of the fruits on the trees), as well as unknown wild fruits flashing in the bushes around us, were a novelty.
The red hawthorns on the trees are mouth-watering, but all at once they are so sour that you gulp water out of your mouth. However, the hawthorn falling naturally under the tree should be ripe, and a smart donkey picked it up and shared it with me, which was really sweet and sour.
Climbing the eyebrow although it is in the high cliffs in the cracks, but let a person have snuggled into the mountain body of the sense of security, so climbing eyebrow, and do not feel timid panic. Afterwards, the donkeys who have climbed the eyebrow have a successful penetration of the floating self-congratulation.
If climbing eyebrows is a form of climbing that requires both physical strength and courage, then rock climbing is a form of climbing that requires more physical strength, courage and skill.
When ten meters of the rock wall like a wall of vertical nearly 90 degrees in front of me, for never tried rock climbing for me is just a "downward spiral", just climbed the steep crevices did not have this cliff look panic, not to mention that from time to time there is a burst of whistling in the ear of the mountain winds, and at this time, a strong psychological quality is how important. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty.
Seeing the rope hanging down from the heights and constantly fluttering around, I panicked, but I do not know how just behind the ground guide is again appeared on the top of the cliffs, and there are a few brave donkeys also climbed the cliffs.
The guide was urging the donkeys who were climbing from time to time in far-fetched Mandarin: "Hold on to the rope, don't let go, and pedal your feet upward!" Though panicked, there is no way back and no one to help you, so you have to rely on your own courage and strength to keep going up.
One of the donkeys slipped when she climbed, and it was scary to watch, but she eventually climbed up bravely. However, I didn't make it the first time. In the end, it was only by standing aside and carefully observing others, with a reassuring rope tied around my waist, and under the guidance of my teammates, that I finally managed to complete the first climb of my life, consoling myself for the frustration of the first one before me.
The ups and downs of life have to be taken one step at a time, and the maxim of "self-reliance and hard work" is y reflected here and now, so that people can empathize with it.