The other side of the mountain is actually still a mountain. Turn around a few beams, turn over a few mountains, and look forward from a distance. At the foot of the mountains, there are old and powerful ancient pear trees scattered in the terraced fields on the half slope, and there are a few simple and dilapidated old houses and ancient courtyards. It is Big Beach.
After the Grain Rain in 2022, the spring flowers in the capital city and outside the city are gone. When people are about to bid farewell to spring and go to summer, two hundred miles southwest of the city, deep in the Taihang Mountains, the pear blossoms in the terraced fields of Fangshan Beach are proudly blooming, with the most beautiful The attitude of her is ushering in the spring that belongs to her.
Regrettably, the sudden and severe COVID-19 epidemic has once again strained the nerves of the entire Beijing area. People in the city hoarded vegetables and supplies and emptied shopping malls and supermarkets. Stand by the road at the entrance of the village to persuade tourists to return. Friends who came from afar for their fame could only look at Datan Lihua and sigh, and left reluctantly.
By mistake, because we misjudged the opening time of Datan pear blossoms, we went a week earlier and visited Datan in advance, only to see pear blossoms that were just about to bloom, and the pear blossoms at the foot of the mountain were already in full bloom. Although it was not possible to visit the big beach again when the pear blossoms were in full bloom, this year is not an infinite regret. After all, the various uncertainties we have encountered this year have made people understand that we should cherish today instead of habitually pinning our hopes on the future. Today may not be good, but tomorrow may not be as good as today, do you think so?
Driving from downtown Beijing to Datan, there is only one easy road, and that is G108 Jingkun Road. This national road starts from the Tianning Temple Bridge on the West Second Ring Road of Beijing and goes directly to Kunming, Yunnan. It passes through 6 provinces and cities, with a total length of more than 3,000 kilometers. It is a truly humanistic and natural landscape avenue. There are many scenic spots with profound culture or magnificent scenery, such as Tai Temple, Tanzhe Temple, Xiayun Ridge, and Baicao Bank.
The majestic Taihang is the backbone of China. The more than 100 kilometers of the Beijing section of Jingkun Road is extremely difficult to travel, and the road construction was also very difficult and difficult. As soon as you enter Fangshan Mountain, go upstream along the Dashi River Valley. The road winds along with the river. There are many dangerous roads along the mountain, and there are huge yellow, blue, black, and black rocks that stand up. Unreliable gravel will fall at any time. Barbed wire is not installed to prevent falling rocks from damaging the road, threatening the safety of pedestrians and vehicles, and workers often risk climbing rocks and hanging in the air to check and clean up. If it is a day of heavy wind and heavy rain, landslides, floods and rockslides may block the road, destroying and repairing, repairing and destroying, human will and natural laws are constantly colliding.
The infinite scenery is on the dangerous peak. For self-driving tourists, even if they do not enter the scenic spot, the changing scenery along the way is also dizzying. And every section of the road, every direction and angle looks so different, changing scenery step by step, hundreds of millions of years of geological movement and wind and rain erosion, creating a variety of strange peaks and rocks, which is breathtaking. If you are still not satisfied, you can go to Jingeryu, Xiayunling Township, and take a walk on Hongjing Road, which is quite famous in Beijing's self-driving and cycling circles.
How fascinating is Hongjing Road? You can feel one or two by looking at what people call it: the road with the most curves in Beijing, the most beautiful mountainous road in Beijing, the most dangerous road in Beijing, the best cycling and self-driving route in Beijing, and one of the top ten devil roads in Beijing... Niangniangmiao Mountain goes all the way down from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the valley with a vertical drop of five or six hundred meters along a series of hairpin bends, or from the bottom of the valley to the top of the mountain. If you don’t have enough experience and firm perseverance, you will be able to climb the steep mountain road. I'm afraid it will be difficult to complete. On the day I went, a small car hit the roadside guardrail directly when turning a corner. The front of the car was seriously damaged and the guardrail was also bent.
Perhaps it is too difficult to build. This road was not paved until more than ten years ago. Once opened to traffic, it became a popular route for people seeking excitement. However, even if you can successfully challenge the "seventy-two turns" of Hongjing Road, it does not mean that you will be able to drive through the last three kilometers of mountain roads leading to Datan easily and intact. The mountain road leading to Datan will dissuade many drivers who are afraid of difficulties. The last section of the mountain road that enters and exits Datan is narrow, winding, steep and narrow, and only small cars can pass through. On this dangerous road with cliffs on one side and cliffs on the other, even if you are driving normally, you must be careful and careful. When facing the oncoming car, you can only wait for one side in a slightly wide area, let the other side pass by, and then drive out slowly. You can experience the difficulty by yourself. During the tourist season, as long as there are a few more cars, the road will be blocked. Some drivers finally arrived halfway up the mountain, or their patience was worn out by the difficulties in the first half, or they were frightened by the unknown dangers in the latter part, and they were angry. Turn around and turn back at a slightly wider place, directly giving up the beautiful scenery that is close at hand. There are also many people who parked their cars at the bottom of the mountain for fear of causing injury, and walked up the three-kilometer mountain road to Datan.
Due to the difficult and dangerous roads and mountains, Datan has been an untouched pear garden for quite a long time. Until one day, someone made its beauty public, which attracted many donkey friends and photographers. Here, it became more and more lively. It is unclear when the terraced fields in Datan were developed and when the red pear trees were planted. One day, I don’t know how many years ago, the ancestors of the Datan people were forced to come here to cultivate wasteland, or to escape disaster, and hid in this barren and barren mountain isolated from the world. Overcoming thorns and thorns on the hillside, cultivated terraced fields that can be cultivated, planted crops, and planted fruit trees, so that children and grandchildren can live without hunger and thrive. Now, with the passage of time, young people can't help being attracted by the outside world, abandoning their poor homeland, and creating a better life outside the mountains. Only some old people who can't get out are left behind. Fortunately, the arrival of tourists has made this place glow vitality. During the tourist season, or when the crops and fruit trees are ripe, young people will also come in to do business with tourists or taste the harvested fruits with their families.
Hongxiao pear is not a rare fruit in Beijing. It is planted in many places in the suburbs of Beijing. It is widely distributed and has a huge output. However, I have not noticed it in Beijing for so many years. It is said that this pear has thick flesh and rough and sour taste. But it has the effect of eliminating phlegm, relieving cough, anti-inflammatory and detoxification.
Since red pears can be seen everywhere, pear blossoms are not uncommon. They can also be seen sporadically in the front and back of villages on both sides of the Beijing-Kunming Highway, and on the hillsides in the distance. What about watching pear blossoms on the beach? The secret lies in the unique topography of the beach. From one to the end of April, when the lush and white pear blossoms bloom on the terraced fields of Datan in a patchwork pattern, climb up to the half-mountain on the opposite side, stop and look back, pear blossoms, ancient houses, terraced fields, peaks, far and near, overlapping, The patchwork, both the beauty of nature and harmony, and the merits of human creation, the simple wisdom of human beings using the environment, makes people admire and like it from the bottom of their hearts. This scene is only here, and it is hard to find elsewhere.
If it wasn't for the overnight popularity, perhaps, in the process of urbanization, like thousands of ancient villages, Datan would die out with the departure of the left-behind elderly and become a deserted village without people. Together with the adjacent Xinghuang and Sanliushui villages, now, every spring and autumn, this place becomes a popular travel destination with a lot of people. When it becomes lively, people open farmhouses and host guesthouses to entertain guests from all over the world. A small homestay in Datan The courtyard, the entire courtyard is priced as high as 1,800 yuan per night, which is really not cheap. However, the renewed tension of the epidemic brought the excitement here to an abrupt end.
Unlike ordinary tourists, travel friends are not satisfied with just looking at pear blossoms on the hillside. They will connect Xinghuang Village and Sanliushui Village, which are adjacent to Datan, to form a hiking route. Sanliushui Village, separated from Datan by a mountain, is a village surrounded by mountains on all sides. The scale is also larger, and the pear blossoms are more lush. In order to facilitate access, a one-kilometer-long tunnel was opened in the village to connect to the outside world. After passing through the dark tunnel and walking on a four-kilometer winding mountain road, you can get down to the national road.
In the mountains of Sanliushui village, many terraced fields have been reclaimed by people, and red pears and other crops are planted. Although it is not as unique as Datan, the scenery is not bad. As the outside world keeps changing, these mountain villages that used to be far away from the world have gradually found their place and made full use of their environmental advantages to develop. Although they are not comparable to the bustling cities, their lives have gradually changed.
Although the terraced fields and Lihua mountain scenery in Datan is beautiful, most of the bustling tourists don’t come here to take a few beautiful photos for posting in Moments. Who would really want to make life here their own? Living in People here, as long as they have a way, they still want to go outside the mountains to make a living.
In the past many years, in order to survive, the Chinese have fought against the sky, the earth, and the people, and have reclaimed many mountainous areas into terraced fields. These terraced fields have become well-known beautiful scenery, such as Longji terraced fields, Yuanyang terraced fields, Jiangling Terraced fields, Jiabang terraced fields, etc. are all amazing. However, although the rural scenery looks beautiful, compared with urban life, the background here is bitter and primitive.
Chinese farmers, our grandparents and fathers, have worked hard and tenaciously from generation to generation, and have tried their best to work hard all their lives, but they can barely survive for their families. In the event of natural disasters and man-made disasters, they will inevitably starve. Only by constantly opening up the horizons, liberating the body and soul from the land, and mobilizing the rigid mind, can it be possible to open up a new world. If you still keep the idea of farming, you will inevitably go back and continue to suffer.
Today, we are very interested in this deserted village, perhaps because we feel from the bottom of our hearts that if one day, when the city cannot protect our safety and let us live a better life, there is still a place outside the world. Let us live our lives.
