On the afternoon of September 18, 2020, when the reporter and his party drove into Tengchong, they were very excited to see the clean and tidy cityscape filled with thriving scenes everywhere. Especially when I went to Linjiazhai, I passed by the statue in the Feihu Park in the city center that recorded an unforgettable history of the War of Resistance.
This group of sculptures in Feihu Park is composed of a flying fighter jet and eight figures including American military officers, Air Force pilots, soldiers of the Chinese National Revolutionary Army and ordinary people. The overall structure is compact, and the figures are robust, showing a spirit of unity, bravery and fearlessness.
Eighty-nine years ago, China and the Allied forces opened up an air channel "Hump Route" for the delivery of anti-war materials. The "Flying Tigers" have been flying over the famous "Hump" route for a long time to support China's anti-fascist war. "Hump" is a famous difficult route in the world. It started in 1942 and ended in World War II. Among them, the Flying Tigers of the U.S. Air Force participated in the battle, and dozens of U.S. officers and soldiers died here. To commemorate the achievements of the friendly army, this monumental park was established here. It carries the history of Sino-US cooperation and expresses people's desire for peace.
On the morning of September 19, 2020, the reporter left Zhongsheng Zhongzhou Yihe Hotel where he stayed to start the second day of Tengchong tour. On the same day, I visited four famous natural and cultural landscapes in Tengchong, including Beihai Wetland, Dalongjing Ancient Town, Yuanxiang Qihualing and Jiangju Ancient Town. Although the schedule seemed tense, I felt very happy physically and mentally.
As a full-time photographer, Huang Wentao is the driver and tour guide for the reporter's trip. Although Xiao Huang is not a professional tour guide, but because he is from Tengchong and has been engaged in filming for many years, he is very familiar with the local tourism resources. The itinerary was also well organized.
Our first stop was to drive to the Beihai Wetland, which is about 12 kilometers north of Tengchong City. The altitude here is 1731 meters, the scenery is beautiful, surrounded by mountains, and the geographical location is special. It belongs to the plateau volcanic barrier lake ecosystem, and a large piece of land floating on the water surface; it is like a colorful giant tapestry, with complex biodiversity and high productivity. Characteristics.
Walking into the wetland, you can see that there is a sightseeing plank road on the side of the lake along the huge water area. Tourists can either take a stroll or take a sightseeing bus in the scenic spot. Xiao Huang said that this place was first announced in 1994 as one of the 33 key protected wetlands in China, and it is also the only national wetland protected area in Yunnan Province. Now the area of the wetland reserve has reached 24,439 mu, and the area of the wetland core area is 804 mu.
The entire meadow in the Beihai Wetland is floating on the lake, and people call it grass row or sea row. It is made up of the whiskers of various aquatic plants after tens of millions of years of continuous growth. The average thickness is about one meter, and the thickest part is two meters. Grass rows with this thickness are very rare in the whole country. rare.
The reporter traveled along the lake and saw several tourists standing on a rectangular "grass" and swimming slowly in the lake with bamboo poles in their hands. For some reason, the reporter felt a little overwhelmed looking at the tourists wearing life jackets paddling on the grass raft. If a few people can't grasp the balance well, they might fall into the water, right? Xiao Huang said with a smile, my worries are unnecessary. This kind of grass rowing is actually safe and full of fun, and is very popular among tourists.
The Beihai Wetland was formed because the magma flowed out from the surrounding volcanoes hundreds of millions of years ago blocked the outlet of the groundwater and accumulated into a lake. The volcanic ash fell on the lake. After years of deposition, it was brought by different ways. Grass seeds were planted, and with the continuous growth of these weeds, this large meadow floating on the lake was gradually formed.
These aquatic plants and grass rafts can not only absorb and decompose impurities in water and air, but also eliminate toxins and purify water quality for some toxic substances, and can regulate climate and maintain ecological balance. Therefore, wetlands are also called "kidneys of the earth" by scientists. Together with forests and oceans, it is called "the three major respiratory systems of the earth".
It is said that the scenery here will change with the seasons of the year. In late spring and early summer, the wetlands are full of enchanting purple-blue iris orchids; in summer, milky white wild water lilies bloom with green calyxes, bringing a faint fragrance to people.
The wetlands in autumn are colorful, with green wild rice stems and reeds, pink buttercups, purple water hyacinth flowers, and large areas of goose feather flowers; in winter, the wetlands are a paradise for waterfowl, which is the source of northern birds migrating to Southeast Asia. An important transit station and supply station. The scenery of the four seasons will leave an aftertaste, making the tourists here linger and forget to return.
Leaving the Beihai Wetland, after lunch, we went to the Pusu Biancheng Inn where we stayed in Dalongjing Ancient Town that day. Dalongjing Ancient Town is a favorite place for people to linger. The unique Huizhou-style buildings here will make people have endless reverie about the traditional cultural life of the ancients hundreds of thousands of years ago.
Dalongjing Ancient Town is located in Qushi Town, Tengchong. This is a modern antique town created by Agile, with an area of 36,000 square meters. Strolling around the ancient town, there are many streets and alleys here, and there are restaurants, academies and other places with various shapes. Every time you go to a place, its personalized facade will make you stop and use your mobile phone or camera to leave a momentary freeze frame, let you slow down Savor slowly.
Dalongjing Ancient Town is a small town that imitates ancient times in terms of architecture, culture, art, etc. One of its biggest characteristics is that it is almost impossible to find two identical families just like in rural areas, and the scenery changes with each step. The ancient town is based on the architecture of Ming and Qing Dynasties. At the same time, there are inns, theaters, bars, shopping streets, and special restaurants. Take a stroll here and indulge in a comfortable life.
Although the Pusu Biancheng Hotel where the reporter stayed is a B&B, the facilities in it are definitely comparable to star-rated hotels. There are three floors here, and it is said that there are a total of more than a dozen double rooms and standard rooms. The reporter lived in a standard room in the courtyard on the first floor, with a spacious and bright interior space, separate rooms with high-grade bathing and toilets, and felt very comfortable and comfortable living here. When night falls, the atrium with big red lanterns, although not big, is decorated with green plants, which is very emotional.
The owner of this inn is a post-80s beauty named Shao Tianzi. The reporter chatted with her and learned that she is from Huanggang, Hubei, and came here with her parents to start a business. Shao Tianzi and her younger sister Shao Mozi jointly run the inn. When she first came here, Shao Tianzi still had some ideas, thinking that it was meaningless to do this at a young age, but after a period of operation, she has fallen in love with this ancient town and her inn deeply.
Indeed, in the eyes of the reporter, this is also a vast world worth fighting for. In the ancient town, there are clusters of rural fields gathered or scattered everywhere, and beautiful wetlands covered with red shrubs and aquatic plants. These natural and cultural beauties complement each other in Dalongjing. It is really a place like a paradise.
Especially walking on the streets of the ancient town at night is a rare and wonderful enjoyment... The weather here is neither cold nor hot, and a gust of breeze makes people feel refreshed. Looking up at the stars twinkling in the blue night sky, looking down at the dimly lit streets on both sides of the ancient town.
The reporter came to the town, walked into the Gaoligongshan Academy, and there was a scent of books in it. The atmosphere here is so in tune with the atmosphere of the ancient town, revealing a culture and harmony that cannot be expressed clearly in words...Night Tour Dalongjing The ancient town is an unforgettable beautiful night.
In the early morning of the next day, I walked out of the Pusu Biancheng Inn where I stayed in Dalongjing Ancient Town for morning exercises and walked, and suddenly found that there was no one on the big stage not far from the door, so the reporter practiced "Baduanjin" on the stage and felt very refreshed. A corner of Dalongjing Ancient Town, which is quiet in the early morning, was photographed on the Internet.
The ancient town has support. The ancient town came into being relying on rich natural resources and profound cultural heritage. Give you an "antique" home. This is the spiritual fit of modern people’s hearts, and the desire for the pursuit of a slow life. Poetry and time drift here and find a place. Everything is peaceful and quiet, and we have returned to the original beautiful appearance here. One side is one pure land, one thought is one heaven. Dalongjing Ancient Town, where the soul returns.
Qihualing, the original hometown of Tengchong, is the third stop of the reporter's tour of Tengchong. After taking a lunch break at the Pusu Biancheng Inn where we stayed that day, Huang Wentao drove us to the scenic spot at the foot of Gaoligong Mountain. This is a scenic spot integrating flower sea sightseeing, entertainment experience, sports and fitness, parent-child entertainment, and pastoral vacation. Comprehensive tourist resort.
Drive into the scenic spot by sightseeing car and drive along the sightseeing plank road. The scenery in front of you is dizzying. It is composed of five major themed areas: Colorful Flower World, Joyful Water Park, Sports Development Park, Parent-child Happy World and Pastoral Park , among which 30 unique scenic spots are scattered scattered, 7 large lakes are scattered like pearls, and people pass by 8 interesting sightseeing stations by car. Between the witty picture scrolls.
Tengchong has a profound cultural history, superior natural conditions, and rich tourism resources, so the original hometown of Qihualing Scenic Spot was born. Walking into Yuanxiang Qihualing, you will be greeted by roses and roses. You can see ginkgo biloba when you look up. Walking inside, you can also see verbena dancing in the sky. Yuanxiang Qihualing exudes a unique charm everywhere.
It is said that in the hot summer season, it is the most suitable choice to go to Qihualing, Yuanxiang, where there are blue skies and bright sunshine for more than 300 days a year. Walking on the Qihualing Landscape Avenue in Yuanxiang, you will be shocked by the beautiful scenery of Yuanxiang all the time, and the buildings that are faintly visible in the shade of green trees along the way make you feel the charm of harmonious coexistence between architecture and nature.
On the last stop of Tengchong tour, Huang Wentao drove us to Jiangju Ancient Town at the foot of Gaoligong Mountain. This is one of the locations where the TV series "My Leader, My Team" was filmed. The Tengchong Anti-Japanese County Government site was located in the ancient village. This is also the only way to pass through the Ancient Tea Horse Road.
Jiangju Ancient Town is located in the north of Tengchong County, about 40 kilometers away from the urban area. Historically, this is an important section of the Ancient Silk Road, an important post station after the Southern Silk Road crossed the Gaoligong Mountains. In history, caravans and caravans who "traveled from barbarians, went to India, sold foreign sand, and transported jewelry" often rested here. .
Cross Gaoligong Mountain from Baoshan, pass through Nanzhai Gongfang, and come down here. Due to the special geographical location here, a very lively ancient road station is formed. It is the first stop for merchants who come from west to east to go up the mountain, and here is the caravan going down the mountain. It was the last stop. At that time, it was an important supply station for fodder and food.
During the Han Dynasty, the "Han Pi Wuchi Road" in southwestern Yunnan began to be established. The ancient road that crossed the Lancang River and Nujiang River and crossed the Gaoligong Mountain passed through Jiangju, making it the busiest "official road" in western Yunnan. During the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Yongchang Silk Road crossed Gaoligong Mountain and passed Jiangju. The streets paved with slate roads, and the buildings that have gone through the wind and dust without losing their majesty, seem to be still telling the grand scene of the past.
Walking into the ancient town, one can deeply feel a sense of the vicissitudes of the times. There are still a large number of ancient buildings here. According to relevant information, after the fall of Tengchong on May 10, 1942, the Tengchong Provisional County Affairs Committee was established in Jiangju, and Mr. Zhang Wende was elected as the county magistrate of the Anti-Japanese Provisional County Government, and began to work in Jiangju Wenchang Palace, and opened anti-Japanese Training classes, organizing the public to rush to transport strategic materials, and taking in the wounded and sick of the expeditionary force, gathered more than a thousand anti-Japanese fighters in a short period of time and raised the banner of anti-Japanese. The filming location of the asylum station in "My Regiment Leader, My Regiment" is Jiangju Wenchang Palace.
In May 1942, Japanese fascists occupied Tengchong. In May 1944, the 20th Group Army of the Chinese Expeditionary Army launched a counterattack against Tengchong. On this line, the Chinese Expeditionary Army fought the Japanese army for more than ten days. This ancient road was dyed red.
The bullet holes seen on the walls of residential houses on both sides of the streets of Jiangju Ancient Town today tell people today the tragic and tragic war. The older villagers still have fresh memories of the war.
Walking on the street, I feel the fusion of thoughts in the time and space of history and reality. I can’t tell which stone plate still has the body temperature of the horse pot head, which stone has left the boiling blood of the anti-Japanese soldiers, which section The road is covered with Jiangju people's desire for happiness and fear of war. Which stone has witnessed the prosperity and tragedy of Jiangju Street.
After the end of the Anti-Japanese War, with the southward movement of the connecting channel between Tengchong and the outside world, Jiangju was gradually forgotten by history and gradually faded out of people's memory. The small river in the ancient town of Jiangju flows around the village, where chickens and dogs are heard, and the villagers are still washing vegetables and clothes at the head of the village. The water flow is slow, life is not slow, and smoke is rising. Dream.
The ancient town of Jiangju is very small and simple, without the graceful and luxurious temperament of other ancient towns. The vicissitudes and sorrows of the ancient town of Jiangju are full of vicissitudes and sorrows, but she has important historical significance in Tengchong. Today's Jiangju ancient town has no Pretentious, with her face up to the sky, she showed people her past with her true face...
Some people say that when a person disappears from this world, no one remembers him. And Jiangju is just such a place that bears the glory and scars of the past. The life of a soldier dies with the country.
Those who used this as a basis to look south at the Nantianmen, and this piece of hot land, should not be forgotten. Just like the sentence of Li Longwen, the head of the TV series "My Head, My Group": "It's said that you have no clothes, and you are in the same robe with your son" they deserve to be remembered forever.
It carries too much historical sentimentality of Tengchong and Tengchong's longing for the outside world. The hustle and bustle of the past has gone away, and today's Jiangju Ancient Town is licking the wounds of the war, washing away all the lead, reserved, indifferent, quiet, simple and straightforward.
The clear river beside the village meanders, and the majestic Gaoligong Mountain nourishes the ancient town. No wonder many people who have been to Jiangju Ancient Town say they have seen the most beautiful rural ancient town in China! (Photo: Feng Ganyong)