A person's Guizhou, in the ultimate beauty and thousands of lights, play a game of soul with memories

Revisiting Mark Levy's "The Shadow Stealer" is just in line with my recent travel mood, and I recommend it to everyone~

——Written before the main text, the reason for the trip

People often leave some little things behind, and some moments of life are imprinted in the dust of time. We can try to ignore them, but these insignificant things form a chain bit by bit, connecting you firmly with the past. ——"The Shadow Stealer"

2018 has been a very, very busy and fulfilling year for us. From April to now, we have been familiar with each other's personality and rhythm of life. Arguing during the collision, embracing after the quarreling, packing up after embracing and embarking on unknown journeys one after another. From Guangzhou to Qinghai, from Chongqing to Northeast China, from Yunnan to Guizhou, from Los Angeles to Kuala Lumpur. I also went from a plateau of 4,000 meters to a seabed tens of meters deep. I don’t know how many times I watched the sunrise and sunset on the plane. Our dreams have changed from being stubborn to each other's fate to looking at the future side by side, and all kinds of questions in my heart always need to face the world alone and get answers when we go on a journey. I can't look forward forever, because we are all made of the past. Memories are the nourishment for me to create emotions, and making memories is my life's mission. Heavy Rain doesn't like to hear stories about the past, we are different.

"I think I need to go out and see for myself before I can give you the answer"
"What's the difference between traveling alone and traveling with two?"
"I want to know if the journey is still that journey in the world without you"
"Then you go, take care of yourself, locate me at any time, call me every day"
"...I'm not a child, you know"

For my journey alone, I chose Guizhou and Lugu Lake, two provinces that I have never "touched", one-to-one, very well matched. Well, it's actually because the plane tickets are cheap. I looked at Baidu Encyclopedia and packed my luggage and set off. There was no strategy or hotel reservation. Heavy Rain is very worried about me, so it's a wayward act. Deliberately uncertain, just to prove that it is not his well-prepared trip that is "politically correct".

In this way, angrily, we started our respective journeys with emotions, one in Guizhou and the other in the United States. There is a time difference of 15 hours across the globe. Not all journeys are beautiful, but I still believe that we will gain something every time we set off. This is my pessimistic and optimistic travel philosophy.

A place of pilgrimage for Guiyang students

"The rules are for you to learn experience. And the experience points are for you to break the rules." - "The Shadow Stealer"

An hour and a half by plane, Chengdu deserves to be located in the hinterland of China. It is very convenient and economical to fly anywhere. I arrived in Guiyang after 10:00 in the morning. I took a taxi and checked into the hotel for a short rest. Then I immediately went to the ancient town of Qingyan, which is the nearest to the provincial capital. I had to complain Taking a look at the traffic in Guiyang, it is really a city jam. I walked for 30 minutes and took an hour. It is recommended that the friends who come here give more time to the traffic in the city, that's right~

Qingyan Ancient Town, one of the four ancient towns in Guizhou, is located in the southern suburbs of Guiyang City. It has a history of more than 600 years, and many revolutionary martyrs lived here, such as the parents of Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao. But what impresses me the most is the tradition of champions here. Qingyan people are most proud of Zhao Yijiong, the number one scholar in Guizhou in history. "Zhao Zhuangyuan's mansion" has become a tourist attraction. I learned from the tour guides in other places that when the students in Guiyang have important exams, their parents will take their children here for a walk and eat the champion hooves. A mouthful of pig's trotters, walking around the green bricks and green tiles, I don't know that Guiyang people have placed their hundreds of years of hope for "examinations can change fate".
I feel very helpless. The ancient imperial examinations and the modern college entrance examinations, I myself am a victim of the college entrance examination system. The failure to apply for the exams made me silently suffer in my heart for a long time, and regrets often do not settle with time. But this is also the beginning of all my fate in coming to Chengdu later, doing tourism and so on. How can we know that it is not a blessing if it is a blessing in disguise. Unacceptable memories are also wealth, and the lessons learned after paying the tuition are experience. No matter what opportunity you face, doing your best is the most important thing. For me, after this, I never missed a chance and that was enough.

Qingyan Ancient Town

Gaodang Village

Qingyan Ancient Town

Gaodang Village

Guizhou cuisine

Gaodang Village

dragon palace

Gaodang Village

Qingyan Ancient Town

dragon palace

Qingyan Ancient Town

dragon palace

Gaodang Village

Wumeng Alpine Grassland

Qingyan Ancient Town

Guizhou cuisine

Qingyan Ancient Town

Watching SHOW for the first time - colorful Guizhou style

"Parents will always grow old when they reach a certain age, but their faces will be deeply imprinted in your mind. Just close your eyes and think about them, and your old faces will emerge, as if our love for them, It can stop time." - "The Shadow Stealer"

I seldom watch shows when traveling, but after this trip, I resolutely put watching shows on the agenda of every trip in the future. The colorful Guizhou style performances are divided into several sections, and each section will explain a section of national culture Or a custom. The performances are all the essence polished by the artists. The one-and-a-half-hour performance is not only an audio-visual feast, but also deepens the understanding of Guizhou's customs and customs~worth watching~

I was fascinated by the dancing dancers on the stage, and my memories seemed to go back to my youth. I had learned dance for a long time. Before I could read, I knew how to memorize dance steps, practice exercises, and do kicks and lower backs. At that time, my mother trained me alone, took me to study, took me to seek teachers, took me around to compete, perform, and be my makeup artist, manager, chef, costumer, and assistant.
Whenever I shine and perform on the dance floor, I always feel at ease, because backstage, I know that there is a beautiful woman with a big bag and a tired but happy face waiting for me, supporting me, supporting me applaud. Of course, I didn’t understand these when I was a child. I may just feel that dancing is very hard. My mother forced me to practice basic skills in competitions every day. It’s disgusting. I can’t understand a mother’s expectations and support for her children.
I stopped dancing in high school for my studies. But looking at these girls on the dance floor, I thought, is there anyone supporting them backstage like my mother supports me? If not, will they be very lonely in front of the stage?
What is real growth and independence? It’s not that you don’t talk about suffering, or that I don’t spend a penny from you, but that you watch each other and applaud each other~

"People must learn to overcome fear and face reality before they can grow." - "The Shadow Stealer"

Qingyan Ancient Town

Simple as it is - Gaodang Village of the Buyi Nationality

"Everyone has his own world. One person has one world. A beautiful appearance or a strong body cannot express the happiness of others. Everyone has his own sadness. With a strong appearance, who would have thought of his The dinner is not accompanied by the family, only to carry out the mission. This may be the shadow of a person's halo. So no one is the saddest. It's just that you don't understand." - "The Shadow Stealer"

Millennium Buyi Ancient Village - Gaodang Village is located 7 kilometers southwest of the county town of Zhenning Buyi and Miao Autonomous County, Anshun City, Guizhou Province, and can be reached by car from the county seat. She is an ancient village of the Buyi nationality with a history of nearly a thousand years. Because the village is located in the mountains, it is like a pot on the peaks. The Buyi language is named "Wengzuo" because of its shape, which means "high swing" in Chinese. Hence the name.
This is a village that has prospered since the Ming Dynasty. According to legend, the village was established because a well was found on this land. I tasted the well water that has moistened the village for thousands of years. I can’t say how sweet it is, but it is refreshing and refreshing. of. A well built a village, which reminds me of the city history of Jerusalem, the Promised Land. It's just that one escapes from the world and is safe, while the other is raging with war, and the people are devastated.
What really makes me feel incredible is that although the per capita annual income here is only more than 1,600 yuan, there are many long-lived elderly people here. It seems that income is not equated with life and health here. Not articulate, quick thinking.
After entering the gate of the village, the old man beat the drums and danced for us. After welcoming us, he turned around to do farm work, and it was time to dry the grain. Interesting and cute~ Such a cute old man toasted, how could I not drink it, I drank it all in one breath, which caused my steps to be superficial~hahaha~
Under the guise of commercial development, as long as you walk through two alleys, the village's backward and dilapidated side still leaves traces and has not been completely covered up. No children in sight, no young people.
This is the current situation in most mountain villages in China. Young people go out to work, while old mothers chop firewood, cook at home, herd cattle and farm. Completely primitive life, tourists like me are full of sympathy, but every old man is satisfied. An aunt said that she was very happy to build a step down the mountain in the village, because in this rainy day, the shoes would not be full of mud and they would not fall down.
Going out of the house, you will see many people with better lives than yourself, and you will also see "poor" villages such as Gaodang Village and Laogang in Malaysia. It is easy for you to suffer from the "Madonna" disease. The threshold of each person's desire is different, and the feeling with respect is different, which is also the meaning of the journey, please put away the cheap sympathy.

Gaodang Village

Jesus Light Resort - Wumeng Alpine Grassland (Travel Climax)

"The big city sucks your soul out and spits it out like chewing gum." - The Shadow Thief

I have seen the endless prairie in Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Xinjiang and the Northeast, and I was shocked that such a land seems to be able to raise grass for cattle and sheep, not a single tree will grow, and a single vine will not climb , soft and vast, pure, and I still remember that Kuqa, Xinjiang, where you have to drive 7 to 8 hours to buy toothpaste, my father silently guarded our mother for more than ten years in this desert-filled frontier. It's another story.
Wumeng Grassland is a rare plateau grassland in Guizhou. It lacks the mildness of our common plain grasslands. The blue sky and green land here have more rough and primitive beauty. However, the customs of the local ethnic minority compatriots eating meat and dancing are very similar to those in Sichuan and Tibet. There are many beautiful scenery that will move me during the journey. The most fascinating thing is the light of Jesus, which is beautiful and mysterious. shock! The weather is beautiful today, so I can see enough~ I checked into the container hotel at night, and I can see the grasslands and windmills in the distance when I open the curtains~ My mood has also opened up~ I hope to see a beautiful sunrise tomorrow.
After waking up the next day, I arrived late yesterday, so the real viewing began this morning, with white clouds, rhododendron trees all over the mountains, cattle and cheerful sisters of the Yi nationality ~ and me who worked hard to take pictures. My sister said that every year around the Ching Ming Festival, the rhododendrons bloom, which is another beautiful scene that I can't imagine at all~

Wumeng Alpine Grassland

Small Bridges and Flowing Water - Tuole Ancient Ginkgo Village

"Some precious fragments in life actually come from some insignificant little things." - "The Shadow Stealer"

When I arrived, it was about half a month later than the best time to see ginkgo. The leaves of the largest ginkgo tree in the village had already fallen, which was actually a bit regrettable. But you can still feel that the people in the whole village live and work in peace and harmony. I don’t know if it’s because of the relationship with this ginkgo for generations. Everyone seems to be very happy and down-to-earth~ There used to be thousands of wild ginkgo trees in this village, and the average lifespan is more than 600.
Quantule Village has more than 1,200 ancient ginkgo trees, with a diameter at breast height of 50 to 150 cm and a maximum of 220 cm. Generally, the age of the tree is more than 300 years, the longest is 1500 years, and the trunk is tens of meters high. It is the place with the highest growth density and best preservation of ancient ginkgo in the world. 500 years ago, it was the period when Ming general Fu Youde's army stationed in Pan County, turned the army into the people, and began to reproduce from generation to generation. Most of the villagers are from Nanjing, claiming to be descendants of Fu Youde's soldiers (that is, the soldiers Zhu Yuanzhang transferred from the north to the south in the early Ming Dynasty). The ancient ginkgo tree was planted by the ancestors of Tuole villagers.
Why do these ancestors who were soldiers have a soft spot for ginkgo? The trunk of the ginkgo tree is tall and straight, majestic and majestic, and it has a military demeanor; the fruit of the ginkgo is called ginkgo, and it is also called "Buddha's finger" because of its resemblance. Shiqiao Town, where Tuole is located, used to belong to Lemin District, which was one of the areas with the most Buddhist incense and the most temples in Pan County during the Ming and Qing Dynasties; the soldiers came from Jiangsu, where Nanjing is the capital, and the traditional planting of ginkgo has a long history , The ginkgo tree planted by soldiers from Nanjing at the beginning symbolizes homesickness and nostalgia.
Looking at these ancient ginkgo trees, I suddenly envied the villagers here, they respect each other with a kind of tree, and watch each other for thousands of years. How many people in the world can understand such a special relationship?
I didn't intend to take any leaves as memories, but I did leave a shadow. I hope that Tuole Village can feel that I have been here.

Tuole Ancient Ginkgo Village

Tuole Ancient Ginkgo Village Tuole Ancient Ginkgo Village

Tuole Ancient Ginkgo Village

Qingyan Ancient Town

Seeing the cave for the first time—Dragon Palace

"At the end of the pier, the lighthouse's lighthouse emerged in the morning mist, a small, abandoned lighthouse, as faithful as I remembered it." - "The Shadow Stealer"
There are many different terrains and landforms in the world, alpine grasslands, rivers and lakes, and one of the reasons why I can’t forget Guizhou is this karst cave~ Maybe I have read too many strange novels, and I have always yearned for karst caves I was a little scared again, but this time I came to the Dragon Cave, and finally I was able to see her true colors. Sometimes narrow and sometimes wide, sometimes high and sometimes short, the five-color lights shine on the stone wall, and there will be a feeling that this scene should only be in the sky~
Dragon Palace is located in Xixiu District, Anshun City, Guizhou Province, 35 kilometers away from Huangguoshu Scenic Area, 27 kilometers away from the urban area of Anshun City, and 116 kilometers away from Guiyang. Longgong Scenic Area integrates karst caves, canyons, waterfalls, peak forests, cliffs, streams, stone forests, funnels, underground rivers and other karst geological and landform landscapes. Karst, all in the Dragon Palace."
Every time I see a different landscape, I will be very happy, just like when I was a child, my parents said that I would buy new clothes and gifts for me if I did well in the exam. I might also be happy, but such happiness is very short-lived. But if you tell me to take me to Xinjiang to see the desert, then I must be very excited, and this kind of happiness will last for several months. This may be the reason why I like to travel. Learning to see different things always makes people happy.
And the whole meaning of my life is to feel the colorfulness of this world.

Guizhou cuisine

dragon palace

Guizhou cuisine

dragon palace

Guizhou cuisine

dragon palace

Qingyan Ancient Town

Gaodang Village

Guizhou cuisine

dragon palace

Guizhou cuisine