7, the fossil remains - Pingyao Ancient City

1, Pingyao's ups and downs (2002-9-18)

Pingyao, we visit the most important stop. Therefore, Kuan-Yu was placed in the final years of the schedule.

Standing in the entrance of Pingyao, looking at a full kept trained on the tall towers but a solid wall, the hearts of a kind of sudden emotion.

Outside the city are two different worlds! The high walls of history as a barrier to a clear distinction between the past and the modern open to!
Therefore, we must live in the city of Pingyao, will have a better sense of history.

"China's ancient capital, is concentrated to the historical palaces, while the ancient city of Pingyao, is to dissolve in the houses of history."
This is the United Nations, UNESCO's comments on the Pingyao.

This text, written in which we live on the mountain-hui Inn courtyard on the doors.
This is the custom of the ancient city where a typical residential inn, is also the name of a house attractions.

Out so long, for the first time admitted to the homes, warm and familiar feel ah! Only in-depth residential areas, be considered as a real experience of life!
A typical courtyard structure, set the ancient cave dwellings, rooms, Ting Tong and traditional heatable adobe sleeping platform as a whole.

All the girls are placed in the door of the principal room being right, which is cave-style roof, which at about two small rooms, each room has a pass kang.
"Wow! For the first time to sleep kang ah!" Those girls in the South to see heatable adobe sleeping platform, fresh and extremely!
I was not excited about it right kang, in Beijing, when experienced in! Dropped packets, the first thing that went on the main building side of Kiln Road, pass the top of the stairs live in, the door when I noticed there had!
Multi-ah good position! Overview of the whole city can be the city walls of the roof then! Kiln top of the square there are two tall chimneys, chimney on the west pavilion carved double Xieshan Ding, relying on the east mouth of the chimney on the stairs carved legends of odd beast "overturned shouted," I do not know that they smoke What kind of cigarettes do at midnight?

Although the old house, the insider would be delighted clean and tidy. In addition to planting flowers basin, the hospital there is a central node of a tree full of apples, the fruit of heavy good looks attractive ah!

Compared with the Qixian, Pingyao it obviously has a strong historical atmosphere.
Complete walls, or streets, shops, houses form a large group of ancient buildings. A variety of Ming and Qing Dynasties architecture, streets and alleys are still preserved, it can be seen, Pingyao people's business sense have been much stronger than Qixian! Because of this sense, the history of Pingyao was able to make such a completely preserved, right?
(This does not surprise ah! As early as after the Ming Dynasty, Pingyao to good business person who is known for the! Pingyao's former fame can be said that with its commercial history has a great link!)

Pingyao tickets are unified ticket, including the ancient city walls, Rishengchang ticket number, the Ming and Qing Street, City God Temple, county Ya Shu, Qing Xu view, the ancient residence Museum 16 spots. In which firms and Biaoju more than important.
Pass is valid for two days. But I think two days was too short! I like to slowly stroll attractions! Two days time, I am afraid that, as cursory bar!

Pingyao ancient city wall in Xi'an city wall akin to the morning of the thin layer of mist hanging over the ancient city walls, flags and banners along the border wall, a kind of phone-in is not dispersed, drums would be the feeling of interest, ears seemed to hear the armored cavalry sound.

Square was surrounded by walls throughout the old town and walk around the walls of an entire circle is estimated that most of the day time.
Outside the wall at intervals of 40-69 meters or so, a prominent horse-faced to the wall piers, each surface of both horses have a watch tower built in the ancient watch tower is used to detect enemy movements, Pingyao wall A total of more than 3000 Embrasure, 72 watch tower.

I like the feeling of visiting the wall, touch the ancient walls, mood is very easy to fly along with the swirling thoughts.
Looking to see the city standing on the walls, you can see the layout of the city's residential areas are the rules, almost always a straight line horizontally, but most of the roof repair on the battlements of a similar barrier.

To Pingyao Two days ago the news to know from the upcoming second session of the Pingyao International Photography Exhibition! This gives photographers the students have been excited!

Photography exhibition's opening ceremony was held at a temple inside. On this day, under the early morning drizzle, but the temple was crowded. From around the world and professional photographers across the country gathered in 1:00.
Works throughout the temple, from the temple walls have been deep into the corner of each one.
Exhibition of works by many different sub-exhibition of the major attractions in the county within the display. While visiting the monuments, while also enjoy photography, serve two purposes, really benefit from!
Ancient architecture with modern photographic art, a kind of a strong contrast between the effects of the culture. Many were very clever use of the topographical features of the ancient buildings will be works of art and the environment itself, together with a special atmosphere, everywhere have shown the exhibit by the unique creative!
In addition to attractions, are also some photographs arranged in a number of folk Inn, the Inn can make use of small size, in addition to outside walls, and some work has also hung around into the bedroom wing, but also some works, the direct pull of the rope hanging in the courtyard of the mid-air in.

Pingyao, ups and downs in the history of this ancient city, with the intersection of modern art at the same time, also injected a breath of fresh impetus. Which transcend time and space and cultural boundaries of the artistic atmosphere of open-ended so deeply infected with me, and give me inexplicable excitement!

With regard to the ups and downs of Pingyao, the most noteworthy number of votes must have come in Pingyao.
In Shanxi, Shanxi number of votes have been all over the country, Pingyao, Qixian, and not far from the area once known as the Qing period Taigu "Chinese Wall."
The most number of votes is the voice of Wang Rishengchang tickets from Pingyao No.'s steward Ray Lu-tai first of its kind, this number with some legendary figure by virtue of his extraordinary intelligence and business acumen, in the dynasty, had been developed between the to 33, the semicolon has as many as 400, the business side around the world in different countries. And substitute with "best in the world number", "Land of Wealth" and famous.

Writer Yu had "disgraced Shanxi" wrote: "the most prosperous era in Shanxi Province, the center of wealth, but not in the provincial capital Taiyuan, Pingyao, Qixian and Taigu, particularly among the most Pingyao."
Today, this bustling financial center, a moment of national prosperity and long gone past.
Traveled all the ticket numbers of Pingyao, chambers of commerce and Biaoju, facing the past glory of the ruins, and I'm living in poverty today, Shanxi, and business did not drop but sad!
Pingyao's cultural, economic and religious prosperity, has been written into China's history. And it left us, in addition to those precious historical heritage, but also what does? Silent embarrassment? Inspiration is the heaviest?

2, Shuang Lin Temple's painted sculptures (2002-9-21)

Today is the Lunar New Year Mid-Autumn Festival.

Our goal is about seven kilometers from the county seat Shuanglin Temple, Shanxi.
Did not find a car, we walked on foot all the way from the city just to explore the Yuan and Ming dynasties are preserved painted sculpture art.
The first braved the sun, walk facing the dirt road so far, and so reach the Shuang Lin Temple when the person has been frustrating to grueling, as early as the visitors lost their passion.

However, one entered the temple, people may forget the feet on the excitement of pain!
This trip, though difficult, is still a worthwhile trip, but finally! This unprecedented design style and form! Enough for people to get the eyes to record, and painting is absolutely no way to delve into the depths of the!

Aside from the central hall of each block large-scale painted sculptures statues, single Look at halls of the environment, there is enough to Mumiwuse a! Interior walls were stacked innumerable combinations of the sculpture the size of the image surrounded by all kinds of people, rocks, clouds, monasteries, towers endless silhouetted against each other; magical scenes of the Buddha throughout the various layers pass down, put the infinitely broad heaven paradise concentrated in in a small hall!
It is also different from any one process temple hall, from the bas-relief to high relief, from the carving and sculpture in the round to the hanging wall carving, style romance, nuance, constitute a phantom three-dimensional vision of beauty!

Shuang Lin Temple area is not large, not many halls, but it preserves the painted sculpture of about 1560 people. The greatest characters of three meters, the smallest is only a dozen centimeters. The painted sculpture with Sheng Mudian compared to different styles, but each with charm!

Away when we finally stopped halfway to the CMB, or Mid-Autumn Festival in memory of our only line of road that was long!

3, Mid-Autumn Festival Chronicle

Think of Mid-Autumn Festival, from memory, not the first time already spent in the trip!
A few years ago at the Qu Wang Xi'an train, near Daya Bay in Shenzhen last year, the seafood Station Lane.
This year, and it is a group of students in the ancient Pingyao.

Although not with the family reunion, holiday, or must be done before.
Of course, ultimately, buy some moon cakes consolation myself. Pingyao supermarkets what kind of moon cakes are, I am only on the local people make their own handmade cakes impressed!

Street level in the city, we often can or large open courtyard in front of the steps to see such a scenario: a man sitting together doing the moon, there is kneading dough, and pack Xian Xin, and there are is responsible for the mold, and the division of responsibilities for, the kind of careful and serious manner as in the common completion of an important work. What a warm and harmonious scenes ah! I could not help but go a total Coushang enjoy their cakes.
Here is cake, large and thin, the color is a red bean yellow, should not be skinned, but the color looks very attractive. And the diverse shapes, round, gourd-shaped, half-moon, and looked extremely cute! Jing Xi pattern above, some of them have done a red embellishment, I have carefully read what they used to mold, wooden, carved inside a variety of different patterns. 好想also bought a return to their home to try呀! Ha ha!
Pingyao Most of these people is very enthusiastic, always curious to see our stay we sit down to enjoy their cake, unfortunately did not catch up with a total time of baked cakes. Finally bought in the city streets, the taste down nothing special, the type of filling is also single.

In Shanxi so long to eat the most is pasta, from Taiyuan to Datong Qixian then, almost any kind of pasta are an insight into the pattern! Who have been clamoring for widest range of ethnic students in Shanxi pasta monotonous already could not stand the taste, changed to eat rice a day, yelling!

Mid-Autumn Festival, holiday dinner is naturally indispensable, Zhang specially arranged for students in a restaurant table Pingyao Cuisines of the two dishes. These sounds are very strange name of the dish, what rub fish, bowl bare, baked Lao Lao, as well as the most famous Pingyao beef, came, saw, and vegetables are also very special style, but tastes know that's are some pasta snacks, always escape pasta!

Eating dinner, we happily arranged in the kiln from the top of the site to the full moon. Did not buy moon cakes, Zhang tailor-made for students in the cake shops in three birthday cakes, moon cakes with cake instead.
Although the moon in the sky, the kiln top of the crystal of clarity, we propose to go buy some Red Candle to create some romantic atmosphere, the results of buying when it knew that Pingyao also have the custom of Mid-point Candle, surprise, surprise stumbled quite accidentally into on the !
We sat around in the spacious top of the kiln, head full moon, the face of a gently flickering candle, plays a game of "Drumming Biography flowers" of the childhood game, and finally wipe the whole cake, who trick jokingly sang until late at night downtown dispersed!

Pingyao night, so quiet, red lanterns light up the courtyard, and surrounded by the vision of immersion in the moonlight, in addition to the outline of the roof nearby is also looming on the horizon, the distant sight of markets, together with all their noisy retreat black corner.

Night collection of all the pride of the ancient city, yet it is the most lonely and the lonely side of a full show in front of me.

Silence, my thoughts kept pouring. I stood in the moonlight, meditating on the Pingyao repeated the history and legend, but also to think of it today and the future ... ...

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Travel Small with disabilities:
Pingyao Ancient City ticket: 85 yuan. (Student tickets half-price, but not half the face value, only the two bought a ticket, single people can only buy a block with a student card is useless!)
Shuang Lin Temple Admission: 18 yuan (Student tickets half-price)
Pingyao Specialties: Push light lacquer.
Pingyao snacks: rub fish, bowl bald, baked Lao Lao, Pingyao beef (well-known is the Guanyun beef), Mala Tang and so on.

8, turn the clock back (2002-9-23)

Half-month journey coming to an end in Shanxi!
For the cognitive Shanxi did not draw a satisfactory, because in Shanxi, there are a lot of dreams not realized, such as Wutai Mountain, Hukou Waterfall, Yongle Palace, Mianshan ... ...
I think that one day I will re-visit Shanxi, Shanxi, just do not know at that time what will be the face of it?

In the history of Shanxi, land spirits outstanding personality, and today's Shanxi and hear is that too many "have" seen to be too perfect, but feel it is more short-comings!
Kind of a perfect and fragmentary deeply engraved printing this piece of land, has given me endless shock and endless thoughts. Among these, with a modicum of desolation, also have greater expectations of ... ...

Sitting in Taiyuan Railway Station, the memories back with time on my mind constantly overlap and staggered.

All Manasarovar!
Just as I am free of the orbit, in a long-buried history of space spent a period of time, forget the reality of struggle and busy, but also forget the prosperity of modern and secular.
The life of an extremely ordinary, simple state to grow slowly, as if walking --- life.

Now, however, is a return to reality has been.

All the deepest experience and feelings are left behind in the space-time that one has. I always can only be considered a visitor, a limited freedom to chase the dream of unlimited line of passers-by.

But I finally had to stay, and so truly lived the shortest time with my experienced a life of travel the longest --

Period of experience through time and space!

(Fragmented record so much, do not know the count Travels! Can only be counted as Walden bar! Fortunately, the habit of recording at any time, or so many days of memory fragments, how to pack so clear ah!
In any case, this will be my life for some of them very unusual mind journey. And my heart have accumulated the most fulfilling experience than any language and written forms of expression are too pale.
Beyond time and space, called the experience, in fact, but not deep enough to experience just some bar! Inevitably superficial, sketches of Shanxi Province as the bar, giving has never been a rough impression of my friends!

In October 2002 finalized the night of 3 23:00)

Author: fishsy428