Monday, November 24, 2008 at noon sunny
2008 Yunnan Tourism (Travel Notes, XVII)
Travel to Dali, Yunnan: Butterfly Spring - the place where the Bai people "wind, flowers, snow and moon"
After passing the first few scenic spots, everyone was a little tired, and the car was much quieter. The master played the beautiful song "Dali is beautiful in March, the Butterfly Spring is easy to dress up, and the butterflies come to pick nectar. Why is A-mei combing her hair? The VCD song.
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"Look for the golden flower at the foot of Cangshan Mountain, and the golden flower is my younger sister." This is a well-known and classic episode in the movie "Five Golden Flowers", which was famous at home and abroad in the 1950s - "Butterfly by the Spring". It is a touching story about a pair of young Bai people who fell in love at first sight when they met on the annual March Street in Dali. In the song, the place where the beautiful golden flower and A Peng dated and made love. With the spread of the movie "Five Golden Flowers", the strange landscape of Butterfly Spring is even more famous and famous both at home and abroad. This is a rhythm that will last forever in my heart. . After the song, everyone was a little excited again, because they yearned for Butterfly Spring, and Butterfly Spring Park was the fourth stop to visit soon.
Butterfly Spring Park is located at the foot of Shenmo at the foot of Yunnong Peak in Cangshan Mountain, on the shore of Erhai Lake. The park has beautiful scenery, gurgling spring water, clear as a mirror, towering ancient trees, fragrant flowers and butterflies, fresh and pleasant air, like a transparent gem, inlaid in the green shade, attracting tourists from far and near with its unique spectacle. Being here, away from the hustle and bustle of the world, people can fully feel the purity, loftiness and tranquility of nature. This is a place where people and nature live in harmony.
In Butterfly Spring Park, there are spring pools, memorial archways, and the hale and hearty old man with a fluttering beard. These are the statue of Xu Xiake, a geographer in the Ming Dynasty, the Wanghai Pavilion, the Octagonal Pavilion, the Big Crescent Pool, and the Butterfly Monument. . A few years ago, a new Butterfly Pavilion (Butterfly World) was built, and thousands of colorful butterflies are released every day, adding a new scenery to the park. Take a car from Dali Xiaguan (urban area) and go north along G214 (Yunnan-Tibet Highway) for more than 30 kilometers. It is a unique and rare spectacle in the world-the place where butterflies gather, and it is a famous tourist attraction.
Since ancient times, many literati and scholars have visited here and left many important poems and essays. When Xu Xiake visited the great rivers and mountains of the motherland, he personally felt the unique charm of Butterfly Spring. He once enthusiastically praised Butterfly Spring in his travel notes. : "The big tree on the spring will bloom like a nymph in early April, with lifelike whiskers and wings, no different from living butterflies. There are also thousands of real butterflies, with whiskers and hooked feet, hanging upside down from the top of the tree and reaching the surface of the spring. It is colorful and full of colors. Visitors can see it with this group of moons, and it will be after May." Qing Dynasty poet Sha Chen praised in his poem "Shangguan Butterfly Spring": "Misty butterfly tree, thousands of butterflies, tails It’s like tassels brushing the emerald green. If you don’t come to the butterfly spring, who will believe it, the shadows and flags cover the butterfly solemnly.” According to the poems left by the ancients who visited the butterfly spring, the butterfly spring is mainly composed of springs, butterflies and trees.
The "spring" is Butterfly Spring. The water in Butterfly Spring is soaked from the sand layer of rock cracks. The rushing spring water from Butterfly Spring has been treasured by the park managers in recent years and stored in three larger pools for people to watch. The largest pool is about 10 mu. Butterfly Spring has changed from one pool in the past to four pools now, which is the most conspicuous landscape in Butterfly Spring Park.
"Butterfly", butterfly, may be the most common creature on this earth we live on. However, different from other insects, this kind of elf, who is dressed in colorful floral clothes and gathers flowers in the flowers all the year round, is called flying flowers. In the Butterfly Spring, there are many kinds of butterflies. From March to May of the lunar calendar every year, these butterflies are as big as a palm and as small as bees and copper coins, hanging in clusters on the silk tree beside the spring, colorful. The grand occasion is unprecedented, and this day is designated as the Butterfly Festival by the Bai people. When the famous poet Guo Moruo visited the Butterfly Spring in Dali in the autumn of 1961, he once wrote a poem, "At the head of the Butterfly Spring, there are thousands of butterflies flying to the Butterfly Spring. About butterflies, there are many love-related stories, all of which use butterflies as a metaphor for loyal love. Countless moving love stories deduce the legends of butterflies. Therefore, butterflies are often regarded as a symbol of loyal love, and have always been the object of chanting by literati.
"Trees", acacia trees, etc. In the Butterfly Spring Garden, there is a street sign saying "The beauty of the Butterfly Spring lies in its greenness, please take care of the grass and trees". We have seen newly planted forests such as Pteris bamboo, Christmas tree, etc., as well as the pine forests, Berlin, palm forests, tea forests, rhododendron forests, moso bamboo forests all over the mountains behind the spring, and also benefited from the acacia trees beside the butterfly spring , Sour fragrant tree, Pistacia chinensis and other local unique aromatic tree species. The nocturnal acacia tree by the Butterfly Spring, when it blooms in early April, its petals open like butterflies during the day, and close together at night, exhaling a burst of fragrance. The poet vividly praises butterflies as "flying flowers", and the flowers of the silk tree are "stationary butterflies". During the Butterfly Fair, flowers and butterflies dance together, and it is difficult to distinguish between true and false, which is a great spectacle of Butterfly Spring.
Butterflies are colorful and beautiful, and are the most popular insects in nature. Therefore, my country has formed a long-standing butterfly culture. From "Zhuang Zhou's Dream of Butterfly" to "Liang Zhu's Transformation of Butterfly", allusions and legends about butterflies abound. Xie Yi, a poet in the Song Dynasty, wrote more than 300 poems about butterflies in his life, and he was called "Xie Die" by later generations. It is a pity that he has never been to Butterfly Spring, otherwise his poems will be more colorful.
There is a beautiful legend about Butterfly Spring: In the very ancient times, there was a vicious python entrenched on Shenmo Mountain, which often came out to harass the villagers and fornicate women. One day, Du Chaoxuan, a young hunter who was determined to kill the people, saw a python wriggling in the mountains when passing by, so he set up a strong crossbow and shot at it. The next day, Du Chaoxuan looked for the python again and went to the mouth of Xiayi Creek, where he met two women washing a bloody dress. After questioning, I found out that they were peasant girls who were kidnapped by pythons. The two girls cried to the hunter about the tragic experience of being raped and abused by the python, and told the hunter that the vicious python has the habit of "sleeping for seven days and taking a nap for three days". . Following the guidance of the two girls, the hunter went deep into the python cave, fought with the python, and finally killed the python. After the two girls were rescued, they expressed their gratitude and love to the hunter Du Chaoxuan. Unexpectedly, Du Chaoxuan politely declined the girl: "I cut the python and killed the harm, it is the duty of Cang'er, how can I repay it!" After saying that, he said goodbye to the girl. The two girls were so infatuated that they were so heartbroken that they jumped into the bottomless pool at the foot of Shenmo Mountain on their way home. When Du Chaoxuan learned of this, he was so remorseful that he jumped into the deep pool and died for his love. Later, all three of them turned into colorful butterflies. Every April, colorful butterflies from all over the world came to pay their respects, and the bottomless pool became a butterfly spring. In order to commemorate this resolute and affectionate hero, the people of Zhoucheng regard him as the "principal master". There is a big stone in Xiayi Creek, which has always been called "Niangniang Laundry Stone".
Every year during the third and fourth months of the lunar calendar, all kinds of exotic flowers and plants bloom on Cangshan Mountain, and the Albizia julibrissin trees beside the spring emit an elegant fragrance, which attracts thousands of butterflies to gather from all directions and fly all over the sky by the spring. , They may dance among the colorful camellias, rhododendrons and other flowers and plants, and some play on the heads of tourists who are full of flowers. There are also countless colorful butterflies hanging upside down from the Albizia julibrissin tree, with beards and feet hooked together, head to tail, forming long strings, hanging down to the surface of the water. Under the sun, they are colorful and magnificent. It was a spectacle. Especially on April 15th in the old calendar, if the weather is fine, it will be an unprecedented event. Not only are there an astonishing number of butterflies, but also a variety of varieties, such as phoenix-tailed butterflies, big tile gray butterflies, etc. There are countless butterflies, gorgeous in color, like clouds and brocades, forming a world of butterflies.
On the day of the Butterfly Fair, people who catch up to watch the butterflies, dressed in red and green, come in droves, and the laughter makes the Butterfly Fair more spring-like. There is another moving legend about the origin of the Butterfly Society:
In ancient times, there was a place called Yangjiao Village at the foot of Yunnong Peak, and there lived a girl named Wen Gu who was as beautiful as a flower and jade as jade, and was ingenious. Her industriousness and beauty make boys dream of her pure love. On Yunnong Peak, there is a handsome young Bai hunter named Xia Lang, who is not only highly skilled in martial arts, but also kind-hearted. One year, Wengu and Xialang met at the Chaoshan Meeting on March 3rd, fell in love at first sight, and committed to each other for life. At the foot of Cangshan Mountain lived a vicious and brutal King Yu. He learned that Aunt Wen was extremely beautiful, so he made up his mind to make Aunt Wen his eighth concubine. So he sent someone to snatch Wengu into the palace. After Xialang found out, he risked his life and sneaked into the palace to rescue Wen Gu. When King Yu found out, he immediately led his troops in pursuit. When they reached the edge of the bottomless pool, they were exhausted, and the pursuers with swords, guns and torches were already in front of them, and they both jumped into the bottomless pool in a critical situation. The next day, the villagers who salvaged Xialang and Wengu failed to find their bodies, but saw a pair of colorful, bright and beautiful butterflies flying out of a huge bubble turned up from the deep pool. The colorful butterflies are inseparable on the water surface, dancing around, attracting countless butterflies from all directions, playing and circling over the water pool. Since then, people have called the bottomless pool Butterfly Spring. Although this is a legend, every April in the lunar calendar, when the mountain flowers are in full bloom, there are indeed thousands of butterflies of various shapes gathered by the spring. This is another love story centered on the Butterfly Spring. It is more appropriate to say that the Butterfly Spring is the holy spring of love and the happiness of a better life.
Regarding the legend of Butterfly Spring, Guo Moruo also wrote a long poem about the love story of Wengu and Xialang. On the Shenmo Mountain behind Butterfly Spring, there is the Wanghai Pavilion, with pictures of Wengu and Xialang painted around the top of the pavilion. The story is for visitors to savor carefully.
In fact, the cause of Butterfly Spring is related to the environmental conditions in this area. The spring is adjacent to Cangshan Mountain in the west and Erhai Lake in the east. Cangshan is tall and straight, towering like a screen, with snow on the top of the mountain, which is crystal clear in summer. Clouds gather to produce rain, abundant precipitation, and every plant. The total area of Erhai Lake is about 240 square kilometers, with beautiful scenery, continuous flowers and branches, and it is like spring all the year round. Cangshan Mountain and Erhai Lake not only provide humans with the beautiful scenery of "Yin Cang Yu Er", but also constitute a natural environment for the reproduction and growth of insects such as butterflies. Butterfly Spring is located in the northeastern plate of the Erhai Great Fault. Under the action of groundwater dissolution, many sinkholes and karst caves have been formed in this plate, which is replenished by atmospheric precipitation and surface water, forming a karst aquifer. The groundwater in this aquifer flows along the corrosion pipeline, and is intercepted by fine-grained loose matter at the contact part with the alluvial and diluvial deposits, and forms the Butterfly Spring after overflowing the surface. The water volume of this spring is about 18.77 liters per second. The salinity of the spring water is less than 0.5 g/L, which belongs to heavy calcium carbonate and magnesium type water, odorless and tasteless, and the water quality is light and beautiful. The beauty of the spring and the acacia tree beside the spring, the butterflies are naturally happy to visit. It can be seen from this that the butterfly meeting was not caused by the death of the lovers, but was determined by the special environmental conditions there.
It is a pity that in the past ten years, it has been difficult for people to see the beautiful butterfly event. Sometimes, although butterflies gather, the number is already small. According to the legend of the local elders: Beside the Butterfly Spring, there used to be a shrub with dense branches and leaves, white flowers and fragrant fragrance. Now, the Ci Peng has been removed, the trunks and leaves of the trees on the surface of the spring are withered, and the spectacle of beards and hooked feet hanging on the surface of the spring has not been seen for a long time. After investigation, relevant parties believe that the main reasons are that the surrounding natural environment has been damaged and the climate has turned dry, which has caused the butterflies to migrate. It seems that only by earnestly studying the law of butterfly growth, strengthening the protection of the natural environment, and striving to maintain ecological balance, can the charming butterfly event be restored and flourished. However, in recent years, with the gradual recovery of the ecological balance and people's conscious protection measures for butterflies, the number of butterflies that come to the Butterfly Spring every year is slowly increasing.
When you get off the bus, you will see an ancient stone archway built by the Bai nationality. On the archway, there are three big characters "Butterfly Spring" written in ink by Mr. Guo Moruo.
There is still a distance from the Butterfly Spring at the ticket office. The tour guide said it was about three kilometers away, and told everyone to pay her ten yuan before taking a battery car. In order to take more pictures of the road, I chose to walk there. There are mostly tall bamboos and some old trees along the road, all of which are one to twenty meters high, lush and airtight. After I walked on the spot, it was only four to five hundred meters away, and it took a few minutes to arrive.
There are no butterflies in the Butterfly Spring, which may be due to the season, but the spring water is still gurgling. The spring pool is two or three feet square, surrounded by guardrails made of translucent marble. The spring water is crystal clear, and a string of silver bubbles gushes out from the sand and stones, bubbling out of the water surface, and splashes of water appear. This spring has the merit of melting snow in Cangshan Mountain. Not only the water quantity is stable, but the water quality is also very good. Visitors are scrambling to wash their hands from the water flowing from a dragon's mouth, maybe borrowing a little inspiration. On a boulder under a tall old tree, there is also engraved the three characters "Butterfly Spring" inscribed by Guo Moruo, and everyone is scrambling to take pictures first.
"The water in the Butterfly Spring is clear and clear. Throw a stone to test the depth of the water. If you want to pluck flowers for fear of thorns, you can't make up your mind, Yiyo..."
In the hearts of the Bai people, the Butterfly Spring is a spring that symbolizes love and loyalty. Every year at the Butterfly Festival, young men and women of the Bai people from all over the world come here to "throw a stone to test the depth of the water" and find their ideal person with singing. Tourists who come here should try to find the person they like, so don't miss it.
There are not butterflies flying around the Butterfly Spring at any time. Except for a few days in April of the lunar calendar, this kind of spectacle is not seen at other times. The best time to go to Butterfly Spring to see butterflies is on April 15th of the lunar calendar every year, which is the "Butterfly Fair" passed down by the Bai people since ancient times. At that time, tens of thousands of butterflies will fly here from all directions, flying all over the sky by the Butterfly Spring. If you miss the "Butterfly Fair", you can only go to the "Butterfly Pavilion" to see it. The "Butterfly Pavilion" truly reproduces the ecology and species of butterflies by the Butterfly Spring, as well as the butterfly culture related to butterflies.
Butterfly Spring is not only where butterflies meet in specific seasons every year, but also many Bai people (mostly elderly) also come to Butterfly Spring to meet every year. A couple of couples enjoy their legitimate three days of happiness here, without guilt, heart palpitations, or guilt, enjoying that love to the fullest outside of marriage. In the past few days, the Han people call it the Carnival, while the Bai people call it "Ruosanling﹡", which is also called Valentine's Day of the Bai people.
I have already talked about the natural beauty of Dali in "Dali Has a "Romantic" Natural Beauty". Here I will only talk about the love story of Dali's "Romantic" love story.
In Dali's "Fenghuaxueyue", in addition to the famous natural beauty at home and abroad, there is another meaning that "Fenghuaxueyue" is the so-called romantic affair between a man and a woman. On the way to Butterfly Spring, the tour guide Jinhua has already told us the local customs and the romantic affairs of the "Romantic" here.
She said: "In the movie "Five Golden Flowers", the author uses rich ink and color to render the love story of A Peng and Jin Hua meeting and falling in love by the Butterfly Spring after Sanyue Street. The writing is very touching. But what he described is different from the customs hidden behind the traditional "Dali March Butterfly Festival" of our Bai people." So, she narrated, let us hear a real little-known Bai people Another version of the love story of the sons and daughters "Meet by the Butterfly Spring".
She said: "Dali's fame, in addition to its profound cultural history and natural customs, should be said to be inseparable from the milestone love movie "Five Golden Flowers". The main purpose is to see its ancient city, streets, and clothing, not to buy its silver wares, jade wares, and Pu'er tea. Most of them come for Cangshan, Erhai, Sanyue Street, and Butterfly Spring. I only watch movies. The love life of the Bai people in front of the TV, but everyone may not know the love and emotion behind the "Three Spirits" and so on. What is behind the "Three Spirits" is what everyone cares about, is most interested in and wants most. The core things in the emotional world of the Bai people obtained."
The tour guide continued: "In our Dali, Sanyue Street is just a place for farmers' markets once a year. It is usually not busy. This season's 'Sanyue Street' is not 'rushing the street', so 'Sanyue Street' is cold. It is deserted, pedestrians are lonely, and there are not many stories. There is no such grand event as in the movie "Once a year on March Street, people come from all directions" and the song "Dali's Beautiful Scenery in March" does not describe singing about March Street, but describes Those who sing the praises of Butterfly Spring, walking on Sanyue Street now, you will feel lost. We locals usually seldom go to Sanyue Street and Butterfly Spring. The appearance of Sanyue Street and Butterfly Spring Basically, it remains the same, and the government seldom renovates and expands these two places. Because it only vigorously promotes the geographical scenery of the former "Fantasy, Snow and Moon", but not the latter "Flower, Snow and Moon".
"At the beginning of the unmarried love between young men and women of the Bai nationality, as described in "Five Golden Flowers", after they met and fell in love on Sanyue Street and Butterfly Spring, the man gave the woman a waist knife, and the woman gave the man a purse, which is considered a love relationship. However, most of these "private life-long" couples will be broken up by arranged marriages manipulated by their parents. In the marriage and love turmoil between the Han nationality and other ethnic minorities, it must be an unfortunate ending of life-long tragedy. But in According to the marriage customs of the Bai nationality, the separated couple need not be sad or resentful, because after they get married and start a family, they can be free from restraints, and they can freely be with the other party during the "Valentine's Day" time. A lover who is in love with himself but cannot become a husband and wife spends the precious three days together. He (she) can release their year-long depression in these three days of Valentine's Day, and life will be There is hope. It is not like the Han people and other ethnic minorities who have to sneak around to find a lover, so there are so many divorces." The tour guide continued.
She went on to say: "Emotionally, the Bai people are very unfortunate. The young men and women of the Bai people get married relatively early. Their marriage and love are separated. Their marriages are arranged by their parents. Naturally, it is difficult to be happy in an arranged marriage. There are many, many couples who are separated alive and unable to marry the person they love."
"From another perspective, we Bai people are also the happiest. In order to make up for this shortcoming, the ancestors made this rule, so that those married men and women can meet their lovers openly without shy away from any morality , to allow couples to spend their Valentine's Day by the Butterfly Spring. It is stipulated that the Butterfly Festival from April 23rd to 25th in the lunar calendar is the national festival of our Bai people - "Tao San Ling", also known as Bai People go shopping for Carnival or Valentine's Day. The country stipulates that we have three days off for this festival. During these three days, the Butterfly Spring will also be closed for three days. Men and women can leave their families, wives, and husbands and go out of the house Go on a date with the person you love, and some of your children or grandchildren send the old A Peng and Lao Jinhua to the Butterfly Spring, so that they can have a tryst with their beloved old A Peng or Lao Jinhua, and have a tryst with their lover. Live the happiest days for three days and end the pain of lovesickness for a year."
On the first day, all the "Apeng" and "Golden Flowers" came to the Butterfly Spring as promised, sang to each other, and talked about the pain of lovesickness after parting. Embracing and disappearing under the flowers. In the shade...
The next day, they will hold hands and go to March Street together, buy gifts together, catch butterflies together, and fly kites together...
On the third day, the Butterfly Spring was full of lovers who loved each other; all the faces of the lovers did not have the sadness of parting, but only the satisfaction of happiness and the expectation of next year. They sang beautiful songs again by the Butterfly Spring, and let the butterflies they caught fly together...
"During those three days, not only by the Butterfly Spring, but also on other hills, on Erhai Lake, and on Lover's Island, couples of lovers could be seen whispering and embracing each other everywhere. The meeting scene It was quite touching, some hugged each other and cried, some held hands for days and nights, some danced and sang. After three days, they returned to their homes peacefully, and then the days continued to flow, and ordinary life continued. This is the Valentine's Day of our Bai nationality, which is unique in the whole country!" The tour guide also pointed out: "Although we love freely and are arranged by our parents, so lovers can't get dependents. However, families formed by such marriages are rarely broken. The divorce rate of Bai families is the lowest in the country, which has a very important relationship with this unique and unique marriage custom passed down."
"Of course, there are many ways to meet. On that day, men and women who want to date their lovers will say that they will go to the city to see a movie or buy something, etc., get in a car or tractor, and on the way in the car, there are people who want to say Going to the toilet. Of course, I will not go back after this trip. Before the car reaches the city, the people on the car have already left. Along the way, you can see the cornfields on the roadside, flying various Of course, this is the signal of the dating place, so don’t go to the wrong place. Of course, with the development of society and the invasion of Han culture, this way of dating Valentine’s Day is rare, but there are still some The old people continue these ancient customs. Married people can only betray their families during these three days, and if it happens at other times, they will be severely punished."
The most touching thing is a pair of elderly lovers in their 70s. The man is already seriously ill, but when Valentine's Day comes, they still help each other to surround the three spirits, which moved the entire Bai people. up!
A tourist asked: "What about those who don't have a lover? How can they spend these three days?" The tour guide replied: "There is no doubt that Valentine's Day without a lover is the most painful person in our Bai people, and they are living in vain! "
After listening to the introduction of the tour guide Jinhua, I couldn't help being a little surprised. I didn't expect that behind the famous "Dali's beautiful scenery in March", there are such contradictory interpretations and interpretations. I used to think that the reason why Dali people are so frivolous and indifferent to "Dali's beautiful scenery in March" is because Dali people "don't know the true face of Lushan Mountain, they only live in this mountain", but now I understand that my paranoia and misunderstanding are precisely It's because I "don't know the true face of Lushan Mountain, just because I'm not in this mountain". But in any case, even though there are many unspeakable reasons behind Sanyue Street and Butterfly Spring, it has a less beautiful and splendid side in the eyes of local people, but in my mind, it will always be like that The holy and wonderful, always so fascinating! I sigh for the brothers and sisters of the Bai nationality to have such a free and relaxed love Eden. This is the "Butterfly Club" of the Bai people, and this is the alternative "Valentine's Day" of the Bai people! A truly unique, romantic and flamboyant Valentine's Day! Now I have fallen into contemplation, what is related to humanity, human nature, sex, emotion, freedom, morality, the real world, the illusory world, marriage, love and so on. It's all due to the hateful Han culture and the hateful Confucianism, which wiped out all the customs, habits, etc. that were different from him in the world! ...
So many ethnic minorities, including the Bai people, have almost been completely assimilated except for some differences with the Han people in traditional clothing! It can be said that these precious national heritages are really on the verge of extinction!
Hey..., what a custom, what a happy nation! Suddenly, I feel that this is the real Chinese Valentine's Day! Now some people in the country say that the so-called "Qixi Festival" is China's Valentine's Day, which is just a myth and legend, and it happened in the sky, which does not conform to the aesthetic customs of ordinary people at all. There are also those so-called "February 14th", which came from the West and have nothing to do with China. The three days by the Butterfly Spring actually took place on the ground. Although it is a bit of a Platonic love taste that pursues spiritual communication and rejects sensuality, it is still marked with traces of true love. People in the game really enjoy love. the sweetness. This creation of the Bai people is an important cultural brand of the Chinese nation, and I hope the government will recognize it as the Chinese Valentine's Day.
Walking on the tree-lined road of Butterfly Spring, I imagined that this is the holy land of love! In the festival of "surrounding the three spirits", there should be a couple of lovers sitting here. The marriage of the Bai people has no walls. For those married without love, these three days are the only time they wait in a year. During these three days, they really lived for themselves. The length of a love life in a year. Then, calculated, the length of their lifetime love life is one year. Now that love is scarce, this is already a luxury. Although, the love that is divorced from real life is often so perfect, although the more unobtainable the love is, the more desirable it is, and because love will become fragile once it encounters real life, then, it might as well let people in reality 1. People in marriage go to the illusory world to enjoy love justifiably and escape the tiring and harsh real life-even if it is only for three days.
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Butterfly Spring Scenic Area is small in size, but extremely clean and elegant! Like an emerald pearl inlaid in Cangshan Mountain, it has the charm of flawless jade and wavelike fairy flowers. If Cangshan Mountain is a poem, then Butterfly Spring is a poetic eye full of spirituality. Although the shape of this Butterfly Spring is not like a butterfly, it is more beautiful than a butterfly. The spring pool is not big, but it is clear to the bottom. The reflections of ancient trees and branches are dancing, and the fish are flying in the blue waves. This Butterfly Spring is as simple and elegant as Xiaojiabiyu.
This is a place where butterflies are the protagonists of love stories. Butterfly Spring is the holy spring of love and the fountain of happiness for a better life. As soon as you arrive here, you will be in harmony with each other, and you will never forget to return. The pleasure is not only the relaxation and joy of appreciating here, but also the fragrance of the graceful body breath of the golden flower, which reminds me of Bai Juyi's "face like a lotus and chest like jade" Come. Therefore, whether it is a lover or a lover from all over the world, a visit to Butterfly Spring is destined to become an unforgettable memory in life, because those who have personally experienced the spiritual baptism of butterflies and love and the sanctity of Butterfly Spring water, their Love will last forever, and their love will also be sweet.
Butterfly Spring, the place I dream of, I feel that you are so strange, distant and mysterious when I walk into you.
"Three Spirits Around":
"Rounding the Three Spirits" originated in Nanzhao. It was originally a ritual of the ancient Bai people's religious sacrifices. Now it is a self-entertaining feast for the Bai people in the slack season, Bai Valentine's Day, and Bai people's carnival. With its long history of thousands of years, unique national cultural connotation, and social living fossil-like value, this festival was listed in China's first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list in 2006.
The Bai people call "Taosanling" as "Guan Shanglan", which means "visiting the three capitals". It is spread in Bai villages in the surrounding areas of Cangshan and Erhai in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province.
The main feature of the "Three Spirits" activity is that apart from praying for good weather to the main gods, the main feature is that the love between men and women expressed in the singing and dancing activities is unscrupulous and unconstrained. The leaders of each singing and dancing queue are male and female witches. They hold a tree branch as tall as a person in one hand, and wave a yak tail and a flower handkerchief in the other hand. They dance and sing, leading the team forward slowly.
Gourds tied with red silk are hung on the branches. It is said that the gourds symbolize the mother's womb, and the red silk symbolizes Yin and blood. The tune they sang is called "Huo Enku", which is literally translated as "Hua Liu Qu". They sing one harmony, which is similar to cross talk. Both of them are humorous and humorous. The following song and dance queue also sang erotic tunes, danced with Bawang whip and octagonal encouragement, and danced in the form of men and women back to back, heart to heart, feet hooked, etc., expressing fiery emotions without restraint.
There are many historical materials about the form of the activity of "surrounding the three spirits". Some unofficial histories in the Ming Dynasty said that "this custom has been passed down for thousands of years", "respect ancestors and think about the source, continue to descendants, men and women love each other, sing songs day and night, there is no taboo between old and young, and they sing together between Cang and Er". The Bai folk song praising the three spirits said: "Sing all the joyful songs in the world, men and women, old and young, share the joy. The grand meeting of the three capitals was established by the ancients, and the love is also in harmony." Yang Qiong's "Dianzhong Suoji" in the Qing Dynasty also contained: "Dali has There are gatherings around the mountains and forests, every year in the spring, there are men and women gathering, there are almost tens of millions of people, each of which is a group of hundreds,... the men still hold scarves and hold fans, step on their feet, sing songs, or beat the king's whip.
The "Three Spirits" refer to Chongsheng Temple, the "Buddha Capital", Shengyuan Temple, the "Shendu Capital", and Jinkui Temple, the "Immortal Capital".
Every year from April 23rd to 25th in the lunar calendar, just before the busy rice planting season, and just when the weather is warm and the mountains and rivers are beautiful, the Bai people living in the villages and villages around the Erhai Lake in Cangshan Mountain, no matter men, women or children, They are all decorated with flowers and flowers, people wear heavy makeup and wear festive costumes. They take the village as the unit, ranging from dozens to hundreds of people, and they come in groups from all directions, carrying sacrificial utensils, simple luggage, food, cooking utensils, etc. People are full of enthusiasm and carnival at the foot of Cangshan Mountain and the shore of Erhai Lake. I hope that through my pious worship, the weather will be smooth in the coming year, and the grain will be plentiful after autumn, and I also pray for the safety of the family.
The "Three Spirits Around the Three Spirits" team takes the village as the unit, and is divided into three parts: each team is led by two old men (sometimes two men or two women) holding willow branches, ox tails and white towels. The willow old man) dances and sings the "Hua Liu Song" of the Bai nationality. In the middle, except for one person playing the flute, some of the behind team sing the tune, and some hold the "Overlord Whip" and "Money Drum". Some beat the Bawang whip, beat the octagonal drum, double flying swallows, etc., and there are dozens of male and female dancers. The tail of the team is composed of a person blowing leaves and dozens of women singing and dancing, holding fans or straw hats, forming a "snake formation" led by the old man Hualiushu, forming a mighty formation. Tens of thousands of people participated in the spring outing.
On the morning of the 23rd day of the fourth month in the lunar calendar, gather at the Dali Ancient Town God's Temple, light incense candles, and prepare to pack. Starting from the Town God's Temple, one by one, one by one, singing and laughing, singing and dancing all the way; along the foothills of Diancang Mountain to the north, first to the Chongsheng Temple, the Buddhist capital of the Tang Dynasty, where the three pagodas of the Tang Dynasty stand. Then it goes northward for about 16 kilometers, and arrives at the Benzhu Temple of Chaoyang Village under the Wutai Peak of Cangshan Mountain to worship the "Emperor Fumin" Benzhu, which is called "Nanchao (worship)", and then goes north to Qingdong Village to worship The "Benzhu" temple in Qingdong, the "capital of gods", is called "Northern Dynasty (worship)". It is believed that the "Shendu" enshrines Duan Zongbang, the largest "Five Hundred God Kings" in the Dali area. Pray for good weather and a prosperous life; then, in the venues inside and outside the temple, play "Bawang whip" and "money drum", dance fan dance, sing Bai tunes, bury pots and cook food around the gods in the evening, and stay overnight in Qingdong temple and Surrounded by wild woods. People sing and dance to their heart's content, all night long, and it is very lively, making this place the central place for the "circling the three spirits" activities.
On the second day, we went around to Jinkui Temple in Heyi Village, the "immortal capital", to offer sacrifices to Duan Zongbang, the king of Dali in Song Dynasty;
On April 25th, people who "circled the Three Spirits" had to walk more than 40 kilometers, playing, singing and dancing, and answering the songs. Go to Majiuyi Village on the Erhai Lake in the north of Dali City to pay homage to the "principal" Baoan Jingdi here. We have to go back to Chongsheng Temple, the "Buddha Capital", to pray for God's blessing, Yongzhen Mountains and Rivers, and peace of the world, and then we will end the meeting in Mayi Village next to the temple.
In the evening, in twos and threes, bonfires are lit in the fields and woods to cook tea and rice. After dinner, the old man drank tea, played the sanxian and sang "Da Ben Qu", and everyone talked to each other. When I was sleepy, I sat around the bonfire, mixed with men and women, and sat on the ground, wrapped in felt to keep out the cold. The whole night was full of romantic and mysterious atmosphere. Old and new lovers will go to the depths of the woods to talk all night until all night long. Because the Bai people are free to fall in love, but their marriage is decided by their parents, so people who love each other often cannot become husband and wife. Every year, during these three days, unmarried men and women may find the person they like to meet. Married men and women can find her or him who has been in love but not together in the end to meet freely.
No one is allowed to interfere in the discussion, and husband and wife will not interfere with each other. Usually, married men and women live their own lives without disturbing each other. During the festival, both husband and wife can sing and dance together with their clansmen, and then go to their lovers separately to enjoy the romantic time for three days. Therefore, this is also a festival for secular men and women after marriage. A true Valentine's Day.
Rao Sanling has a long history of inheritance, a solid foundation of the masses, a large scale of activities, and a vast space for parades, reflecting the cultural tolerance and innovative spirit of the Bai people. It has a strong practical effect on strengthening the sense of cultural identity and enhancing the cohesion of the Bai nationality, and has become one of the most symbolic symbols of Bai nationality culture.