Time :2002-06-13 Yin Route: Deqin - Zhongdian Accommodation: Zhongdian Travelers Club (12 yuan / night)
Early morning, was sharp burst of barking dogs awakened, Shen Chutou to a look, it's still a sky full of clouds, but also set the more concentrated the more sense of what their feelings are also increasingly in strong up lazy lazy to wash well, after idly mounted idly car, followed by the feeling that the road idly in the absence of King of the Hill, the endemic lack of mediocrity.
Unfortunately, after coming to the temple when the Meili Snow Mountain and the mountain warrior monument cast in its final moments, bitterly to the wound and go back to go back, behind a crowd with hope comes a new cult who is working with us as when excited with I hope they can bath to Kamiyama Les Yeux luster!
Zhongdian day approaching when it began to rain, be slightly moisten a bit lazy in our journey into the wind and rain in the Napa lake feeling pretty good, it makes a Youyuan to think about, saw a familiar horse , and recalled that in Xinjiang, a romantic date with the horse (see my book "Red Star Over China"), a kind of return to the excitement. Because the wind and rain can not be happy again peers, had grabbed a passing grass fed them, and find that the long-hoped-for intimacy.
The edge from time to time there are some small black animal sprang, we have the opportunity to be considered seriously elegant look, and could frequently be seen passing by on the road with such a lazy black small animals, companions, and some said to be the lamb, and some said to be pig , as well as that puppy, calf, and no one who Yuefubuliao by our close observation of the next draw as a "pig" conclusion, really a little surprised, and we have a point there Chaitai Duo, right? ! Suddenly remembered high school history book, the first paragraph of a chapter Yuan said the Mongols had the reeds in the river before sitting in the grazing herd of the legend, the reason why so deeply impressed, all because of exams out of the problem asks, And I repeat it so many years and had finally seen the history of reproduction.
Car to Zhongdian, the rain stopped, day was still lit, and companions on the ride out with the Xia Guang, to a Tibetan store selling native products bought many things that I feel is very familiar boss Jampa, not help to look at a much slower to catch, he saw me staring at him, immediately made a request ordination: "le," and then asked me if I was like, yeah! Huo Tuotuo of a Lausanne! either know early Lausanne went to heaven, Paul would not let me do other things to look for his signature!
Time :2002-06-13 Yin line: Zhongdian Horse Racing Festival Accommodation: Zhongdian Travelers Club (12 yuan / night)
Morning, ping ping pong pong sound of the wash a dream wake me from clear today, but here the most important holiday for one year --- Racing Festival! A Gulu starting from the bed turned red, probe a look companions also slept Masaka So I twist a bit so energetically his "stalwart" of the body, it really got the earth and shake the effect of bed (we slept in the same dormitory attached to the lower berth), his companions have opened Xingsong the sleepy eyes, to Sleepwalker in a loss to get up, dressing, washing, and then is awake.
Out of the club's door and found a lot of people have been dressed in festive costumes to march in one direction, it seems that we inquired last night, today's route is entirely superfluous, goals --- Dance Fengshan, we start from!
Racecourse is located in a semi-circular cove, the view excellent, we went to a lot of the time people have been surrounded, and the surrounding mountains where there are many just as the tide coming in general, this prelude to the scene on the people excited, so we, like the pious saints go to worship, like the side wall Cruncher is good, with the urgent waiting for the opening game.
When the sky began to gradually it began to rain when the ground began to have a dress after another Tibetan man holding the horses dressed Huazhizhaozhan approach, a time full of games and horse colorful people pretending to see who dazzled loaded, and they collection point on our position in the following, taking advantage of their formation, yet the whole is good, I casually pulled a rider to jump off photographed photos afterwards will prove that my rash is clever, because there is no similar opportunities, and just came back Chong finished a look at photos, it was found that riders leave Liangpie mustache, looks eccentric's, a sizeable, Chen Chu I'm not so bad, hee hee.
When the riders were exhausted on the collection of a number of grant rode around the track bolted together, we thought that program is about to start, and did not expect them to just one lap to go on the dismount out of the market, are wondering when the ground began to equestrian performances, Fortunately, I have the foresight to bring binoculars, so much more cool than our others: First, a wide variety of riding show, there are single one-horse, more than a single horses, single-Thomas, there are more than horses, There's even 10 individuals in four runs to immediately stacked the Lohans! End of show here just the other side has rushed a team of people come up, performance horse shooting, watching a rider from the front of a Yingzisashuang Wander around, can not help but wish to stay with a kind of follow them to the wild impulse ---- This is the horse racing festival, which is the Tibetan people their joy!
Riding After the performance market has also started the old-fashioned song and dance performances, it is probably all of China's opening ceremony of the common problem, no features, see annoyed and bored looking around the slopes of looked up, surprised to find that the surrounding hills have been covered a wide variety of tents! On both sides of a trade-off, we decided not to look at performances, to the tent to play autumn wind. Horse Racing Festival is a large Tibetan festivals, schools have a holiday, so venues around the peak and visitors crowd, a wide variety of food stalls, small traders dazzling, and then that is a layer out of the tent, people and their families, their friends in here party, each tent is a family (rather than families) positions. We chose a relatively large drilled into the tent, tents, owner nothing asked, pulling the edge of the table that we would go visit the press, and then up a bunch of snacks and butter tea, we also eat and drink together with a clear conscience --- that the simplicity of instinct is not what we aspire to and pursue the return do? !
In the afternoon, waiting for a long time the race finally started, because the very small groups, each group many people, feels like a return to campus to participate in the Games, with a loud sound the starting gun the sound of the next wave of court after another wave in turbulent market the happy cheers, looked at a harness horse was a rider to walk like flying, we are also generous applause filled the field litter. Finally, we began to cardiac together, everyone one together, hastily pack up a bit, it went straight to Napa lake ride to the release of what has just building up excitement.
Returned since the last Xinjiang has been no opportunity to feel the wild horse today, thousands of miles away, in this last plateau grasslands once again fly their own, that is to regain back dripping carefree could not be found in the city will never be ! Just not yet begun enjoyable, it was groom were pulled back in less than half an hour, received 30 yuan, think in Xinjiang Kanas only 80 yuan a day (8:00 am to pay horse, horses also 20:00) , here can be really dark!
Back yard we have chosen to take the road in the sea parallel lines, marching Montreal, yellow grass, the relaxed mood on the germination of the sun. Tired, and returned to the road waving a stopped truck on the vehicle to open both master and apprentice, from the Inagi over, kept highly recommended to us Inagi scenery, saying that there is the sun's hometown, I do not know this story of yes Where did they come, but still moved by their enthusiasm, and they caused the passion with sex but what I have accumulated along the way is really up to the best impression, and perhaps now the West has also been laid a mark on the commodity economy, but that the simplicity of origin and deeper kinds of tie in their hearts, so here can readily move under the ride, while the eastern part of our so-called economically developed areas are full of "hit and run", "human indifference" news and lament! So, like a set of Mr. Tao Lao's poem "Homeward Bound, Green will return to Wuhu Hu ?"--- heart does not belong to the Shangri-La Bar!
Back to the city and found the streets not already filled with costumes, Tibetan, Lisu, Naxi men and women, and some did not recognize the nation, in short, homogeneous Gaoyuanhong face, which also mixed with ours, some "soft white." With the advent of night gradually, people began to gather to Zhongdian square, and so we had finished our rush to consume beef hot pot, the square had been lit bonfire heap nearly 10 people dancing around and lead the dancers while playing music while dancing, audiences inside and outside the three-way around, do not look very crowded, but when you look at pat hand in front of the audience, held the hands of the camera for about a sign, they'll give you give up a channel, you can go to do Enjoy the dance world were photographed, and then you warm with the bonfire will be lit along to join their ranks wildly dancing, looking ahead, no shortage of dancers in the white-haired old man and the total angular urchin of age, but more the face mischievously, wearing fancy dress fine young men and women, everyone was so simple and full field of music, bonfire in the happy singing in antiphonal style, happy dance ---- This is a real carnival night!
Go back that night, we do anything is like to follow the rhythm of dance, and perhaps also in a dream, followed by dance twist, of course, I would not know, because I had danced too tired, too tired to sing !
Author: foxwh
