I want to fall into autumn with you

                                   

   Doing meaningful things while traveling will make your trip more fulfilling.                         

  In August, the ancient city of Pingyao has entered the rainy season. The autumn rain has washed away the bluestone slabs, washed away the old wall bricks, washed away the sweltering heat, and washed away the irritability in people's hearts.

Autumn in the ancient city of Pingyao has arrived, and travel is a good way to cleanse your heart. Traveling is also a practice. In this practice, let me fall into the autumn of Pingyao with you.

Travel ten things

                                   

      

                                   

1. Looking at the ancient city wall in the twilight

                                   

Check-in location→Yingxunmen Square

                                   

Yingxunmen Square is the main gate of the ancient city of Pingyao—South Gate Square, where the legendary two eyes of Turtle City are located on both sides of the South Gate. The two pavilions are there, and there is an ancient well in the middle of each pavilion. If you are interested, you can go and have a look.

The South Gate Square is very wide, and it is also the main entrance for walking. When you walk in, you can see the city wall in the distance.

                        

2. Standing on the city wall, watching the smoke curling up in the city

                                   

The ancient city wall of Pingyao is also one of the highlights of the ancient city. It is not only majestic, but also very well preserved. Climb up the city wall and you can overlook the whole picture of the ancient city. Among them, the tower at the South Gate (Yingxun Gate) is the most exquisite, and it is close to the dwellings, and you can see the lives of people in the ancient city. If you have plenty of time, you can walk around the ancient city along the city wall and experience the style and features of the ancient city in all directions. It will take more than an hour. Watching the sunset on the city wall in the evening, the scenery is beautiful.

                                   

Check-in location → Tingfeng Building of the county government office, where the scenery is beautiful and the view is relatively wide. You can go up to this building from the county government office. You can also go to the South Gate Tower, which has a wider view. There is a newly built park outside the city, which is very beautiful.

                                       

                                                                                                                           

                                   

3. Eat an authentic Pingyao meal

                                   

Jin Cuisine Restaurant Hongwuji Restaurant, not only has Pingyao’s special beef, 栲栳栳, but also the restaurant’s signature dishes, sour soup noodle fish and fish, Qinzhou yellow rice cold cake, etc. The open kitchen is very good! More than 80 yuan for two people can't eat two people at all, you can order a two-person set meal for three people.

What impresses me the most is Hongwuji’s stewed beef with aged vinegar. When the casserole is served, the soup inside is still sizzling, and the chunks of beef are still juicy. And eating beef is not afraid of getting fat.

                                             

      Dry Stir-fried Castanopsis Castanopsis

                        

      These dishes are based on Pingyao’s specialties and are improved on the basis of delicacies. If you like the sauce to be soft and soft, you can order the sauce. It is a good choice as a staple food or a side dish.

                                                                   

      There are also special dishes other than Pingyao 108 kinds of snacks       

      Qinzhou yellow rice cold cake

                 

Sweet and Sour Crispy Ingots

Guess what it is made of, hint: Vegetarian

4. Take a nap on the kang in the home of a fellow villager

                                   

Check-in location → Deshenglou Inn The inn is located behind Hongwuji. This is an inn with its own cat. There is also a stage in the yard. You can ask the waiter to bring the food to the big table in the yard. The atmosphere is very good. 100 points of goodwill towards the boss!

This kind of big kang room is very suitable for families or multiple people. It is absolutely no problem to squeeze seven or eight people on the big kang, haha, you can roll around if you want.

                                       

             

5. Chat with the old man in the ancient city

                                   

Check-in location → An old man on South Street [shy], the uncle was sitting at the door of the store to buy things, a native of Pingyao, he should still be there now, Hong Wuji went out about 10 meters to the south, the uncle is very cute haha. You can ask him anything you don't understand.

   

Uncle's Pingyao-flavored Mandarin is very interesting. By the way, I completed Article 7 with him.

                                       

         

6. Haggle with merchants on Ming and Qing Streets

                                   

There is an antique shop next to the city building, but I don’t know much about it, and I’m too embarrassed to haggle over the price and refuse to buy it, so I just went in and looked at it [shy], you must keep your eyes open when buying antiques here, the quality of the goods inside is uneven, look carefully Do it again. Antiques are the most reason to bargain, and other small commodities have a fixed price, but it also depends on your ability.

             

7. Learn to speak two sentences of Pingyao dialect

                                   

These are some of what I remember, just look for the uncle on the street to learn

Fujiko→It means a fool, so cute, there are woods, this word is unique to Pingyao, it can be cute, cheap or coquettish, but don’t use it indiscriminately.       

yell → yell      

Xieren→Pretty You can praise girls

Flesh sac → fat Don't use this to call a girl, just do it and cherish it.

Baipidongdong→white This can be used as a girl

     If you use the above to praise the restaurant waitress, you may get a discount

                                   

Dimi→Tomorrow                 

Ye Lai→Yesterday                 

make do → make do                  

...                      

There are many more I don't remember, welcome to add.

                                   

8. Buy a Vintage Clothing

                                   

Check-in location—Ancient Clothing Store on North Street

                                   

There are very few espadrilles now, and only special handicraft stores have them.

If you are tired from walking, you can come in and find a pair of cloth shoes to wear, which are comfortable, beautiful and cheap.               

Girls are full of heart.

        You can buy simple antique clothes here, and they are not expensive.

                                       

                                                                                                                                               

                                   

9. Buy some Pingyao specialties

                                   

Check-in location→Duquanyong Specialty Store on North Street, where specialties from all over Shanxi are gathered, with a variety of varieties, and Taigu cake beef jerky is delicious.

There is also loose Pingyao beef, freshly cut and packaged, whichever piece you want.

10. Watch folk performances and be a county grandpa

                                   

Check-in location→county office           

Pingyao ancient city county government performance time is

        Monday to Friday 10:00am, 11:30am, 3:30pm

        On Saturdays, Sundays and holidays there will be an additional session at 4:30 pm.             

Set a good time in advance.

The county government performance simulates the real scene of being promoted to the hall, taking you back to ancient times to see how the ancient county magistrates settled cases.

            

Who did not move the heart is far

                                   

Some people say: "There must be at least two impulses in life: a desperate love and a trip that goes away."

I think that in everyone's youth, there was a period of longing for travel, a trip that just went away. But in reality, due to various reasons, this beautiful hope has become a beautiful dream every midnight dream.

If you have not embarked on that dream journey, I would like to use the above words to tell you the meaning of travel. Please listen carefully.