Flying in Yunnan, I am the sky
--- "My Shangri-La Tour" continued
October 4, 2002 Friday, Yingjiang, Tengchong --- dam were Kyosen (a water tunnel), Lotus Township
Muslims in the morning as usual to the restaurant to eat eggs Er Si, Xiao Li-time driver to pick us, today we plan to first go to "dam faction Kyosen." Happened to Xiao Li is the lotus countryman, while the dam were Kyosen in lotus Township, he was very familiar. Alan looked very shy, but slowly cooked, and found that he was also very talkative of. He was not tall, dark and thin, big eyes, high cheekbones, a typical person's appearance in Yunnan. Li Yin and I sat in the back chatting twitter, Shibu Chang asked him a number of Tengchong local conditions, he answered their questions.
I have been to Tengchong is the only place where there is no foreigner, even outside of Yunnan Province, tourists do not have much. It is said that people travel each year to Tengchong in Yunnan were 90%, which is predominantly Among them, Kunming (11 Tengchong car a lot these days, a look at the license, cloud A, the vast majority). So when we say that the time from Beijing, Li was also strange asking us: "how do you know the Tengchong of this place?" In fact, this is us in the preparatory work done prior to careful, I have a lot of on-line inquiry information relating to Tengchong, Tengchong, so not only I am no stranger to this place names, and even tourist attractions I can tell them altogether camel backs of their hands, so that Li was surprised not to, in some places and information and even he is not familiar. (In a time when we are about to leave the Tengchong, Mike made a special copy of my information on several trips, and I promised him that when I finished this will give him the time travels sent.) Chat in the rise, Mike suddenly asked us: "You do at home so to speak? Do you speak sounds like a TV inside the same standards." amused us laugh. (Beijingers this a money loser, people have dialects in various regions, both men together, speak in dialect, someone else hears do not know, and what can we say other people can understand, a little secret at all.) Chatting chat with, "Ah! us through!" that they do Guzhe chat, forgot to look at road by now. "Then we go to what direction this is?" We asked Amy. "Yingjiang, all right, I stress that head, and then open the lotus village to go back to." "Come, since it has been wrong, and we just went to Yingjiang it, anyway, is not too far!" We are rectifying the mistake.
Yingjiang at about 100 km southwest of Tengchong, Yunnan Province, Dehong region belongs to ( "Devon" in Dai language, meaning the Nu River downstream of the place). Although not very far away from Tengchong, but there are very different climate, humidity, the heat, sub-tropical rainforest climate. Dehong region has many large banyan tree, Dehong were called "The Great Aoki." Banyan's aerial roots buried the roots can grow into a new, new intertwined with the veteran cadres, whole tree, branch with branch, branch to root to form a whole, heads of state, a large. In the Dehong region, there are "Dumu forest" spectacle. We see a lot of big banyan Yingjiang, although not tree, "Banyan King", but its massive enough to let us breathtaking.
I always travel with carry-backs of several travel books and printed from the Internet such as "Mix," the article, the book describes Yingjiang County, 15 km southeast of the city there is a pagoda, the name "Yun Yan Pagoda" from the photo looked like them, and would require the drivers to drive to go directly to Alan. Yun-Yan pagoda because of its name is located in the Yanshan-yun, the main tower 20 meters high, surrounded by 40 small towers, exquisite pagoda shape, is the traditional pagoda architecture technology in Southeast Asia. Alighted from the vehicle, the exterior of the heat wave so that we were wrong in no hurry defense, I will introduce to the Yin Li: "Xishuangbanna is one such weather."
Yun-Yan pagoda next to a relatively open square, the square edge of the large trees, many of the Dai people are playing a game with strong local characteristics of the gambling game, Mike said, is called the "pull the old knife (pronounced two acoustic ). " Starting with the bed board in a support bracket, there are three large dice, dice are painted on each side of an animal's pattern, participants an animal in a random betting patterns, to be rolled boson from Chuangban Shang, charge in the Boson up the animal's side shall win. Only to hear the first "rumbling thunder" big Boson rolled from the bed board sound, and then sigh, or is the sound of cheers. We play this game are 5, 10 yuan, so winning or losing will not cause a big stir.
Place the other side opposite the pagoda is the Yun-Yun Yan Yan Temple, temple dedicated to the Yunnan Province, the largest white marble Buddha. According to Xiao Li said that there is a highly respected monk, the local Dai people are extremely respected him, and Yin Li a prayer in the temple worship. We can see that there is an open space not far away, in the middle lengthwise two tall paintings have clear-cut geometric patterns of the column, I am in Beijing, "National Park" has been seen, this is Jingpo a "head brain longitudinal song "square. ( "Head brain" in the Jingpo language is everyone gather to sing and dance meaning.) Jingpo people are very uninhibited, during festivals or weddings and funerals to be held in "head brain vertical song" ceremony, with everyone singing, dancing , drinking, enthusiastic. Xiao Li frankly that he had had a Jingpo-hearted girlfriend, with the Han Chinese is very different girls, large pieces of meat and drinking bowl, Ganaiganhen, but later he found that two had personality differences in a large area, so it is still separated. (Li was present wife is a petite girl of Han nationality, was very gentle.)
After a noon, Yin Li, and I finally came to the lotus village's "dam faction Kyosen." Scene in Tengchong in geological features, in addition to volcanic geothermal, there are a lot of ground and underground river. In those dormant volcano at the foot of the distribution of the many underground water. Cis overseas Chinese in the vicinity of the "Ma On Shan" mountain body had two mysterious underground river, an underground river under the lava in the volcano has dried up; while the other is located in an underground river at the bottom of the mountain, water, but never more than a dozen kilometers from lotus Township Daying River near the gush, lotus village called this spring as "a tunnel", but now it has also been a more decent name is "dam were Kyosen." This spring is a rare low-temperature hot springs, because a large amount of water, so called "giant spring."
Our trip along the winding country roads, farmers are harvesting rice, bundles of neatly piled at the edge of rice. I slowed down to his hand stroking the leaves of rice, and that leaves touch the edge of a small barb. In the last pre-primary, I have lived in rural areas, also playing in the fields to play, and even rice leaves scratches on the barb of the fingers. Now it will no longer, and would not happen again leaves the fingers scratch things, experience is the passage of time slowly and continuously accumulated.
Lotus Township does not like hot Sea and the volcano, around that allows you to appreciate the earth's atmosphere, where beautiful scenery, quiet, lush forest of banana grown from a giant springs, Banana Leaf hypertrophy, extremely lush. Springs from the chimney, the sand in the squeezing out of the water flow around the banana, banana with aquatic. If frequent bathing in hot springs were able to ward off sickness and live longer, it seems the benefits of plants every day, bathing in hot springs is also a lot that can grow lush tall and graceful. Alan said he was often little time here bathing, swimming, and we did not bring bathing suit, but also unwilling to sully the clear spring water, so he went to Kyosen outlet Juyi Peng Ganlie spring entrance journey Lawton immediately disappear.
We hang around in this rosy picture being, Mike hand pointing to the hillside opposite: "That side is my home, you want to not want my house to a guest?" He said, referring to the direction of looked down, layer upon layer of terraces and large dense The bamboo is set off of his home office, and take a look at the time too early, and we accepted his invitation. Xiao Li had a sister, and my age in general large, and he and my brother the same age is purely coincidence, he called on his sister with some home. Although Li was living in the Tengchong county, from the lotus village close to a year but failed to return home to see our parents had. Modern is the case, has been a lot of, with the exception alienated affection. Small Li Xing Tong village in the lotus foot cliffs, vehicle can only be opened to the village hall, and the remaining have to walk a kilometer to reach, this not beat us, but yesterday's climb cloud Mineyama, legs are very sore today, and take a would be much better. Few guests visit the village, we have the arrival of two outsiders attracted the attention of many villagers, especially It's our authentic Beijing accent, so that people have been extremely interesting apricot Tong, they always find some topics so that we speak , and then as evident as a general mutual nodded and said: "They address really nicely, the same as the announcer!" and we had really a little bit embarrassed. Now, I can understand some of the door has now Tengchong, then, that is, one does not say, can only say that the standard Mandarin, a is the inflow of population.
Mike's sister, tall, big eyes, very pretty, very affectionate towards his younger brother, conversation discourse is always showing concern for his brother; she also brought his daughter, this beautiful 5-year-old girl 1:00 not see things, no one will and our overripe, and always "the empress, empress (soon as)" and cried; Mike's parents are sub-farmers, more than 60 years old also Shimoji farm work every day, looking good hale and hearty, and looked very young; Alan sister and brother duo settled down in Tengchong county, only one brother remained in the lotus Township, 24 years old and not an object is, indeed, parents, a heart disease. Brother would like to discuss a beautiful tall, good wife, but parents and older siblings can not eat all that pretty, it should be able to find work in the fields of a daughter, the two sides locked in a debate. (I hope Alan's younger brother, as early as possible to find both a beautiful and talented wife, if you know the candidates must not forget such a recommendation!)
Mike's parents and sister in the kitchen and began to make dinner Manghuo Zhao, Li and his brother with Li Yin and I, along with the 5-year-old "little tail" went to the garden to Zhaicai. We use a knife from the ground cut chives, Mike got to go next spring cleaning; I climbed on the rock Quzhai vine "chayote," to throw off the ground, Yin Li then I throw melons stuffed under the basket; Mike's younger brother to the ground and cut sugar cane to us, so we staff a cut-off skin of fresh sugar cane ... ... dinner is very rich, we just pick apart the fresh fruits, there are Li Yin and I love to eat The Tengchong sauerkraut. In the Tengchong, the locals have to eat almost every meal with this self-dry pickles, I do not have to tell you how to pickle, as long as you remember to Tengchong must taste is enough.
After dinner, there are a few people in the village as usual to a small Li stopping by to see my digital camera that is very magical, a few guys together to see me squeeze his head according to photograph these days, but also praised the tut has been seen the battery is fully depleted even the lens can not be recovered so far.
Travel tips and related information:
1. Yingjiang In fact, nothing too much fun, is not worth a special trip to trip. Listen to the driver, said Xiao Li Mangshi pretty good, you can proceed directly by car from the Tengchong via Lianghe to Mangshi, about 130 kilometers. I have not been, difficult to evaluate. Lianghe is also a county seat, about 50 kilometers from Tengchong, the "South Austin toast Yamen," is not worth staying, we pass did not go in, but stopped according to Chang phase.
2. Lotus Township, Pa sent Kyosen 3 kilometers from Tengchong, southwest of the city, Tickets 5 yuan / person.
To be continued Xiaopeng
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