From Kunming to Dali, in spite of planes, trains and highways, the end we chose the traditional Night Train, the one you can save some travel time to wait, and secondly, the train can also review the sloshing. 10:10 that night, take the 246 tourist train departure. After all, diversification of modern transportation, and the train slowly fell out of the edge - Train obsolete facilities, the attitude of the conductor blunt - good news at night and avoid a lot of Xian Qi. The sleeper train trip (this trip are all sleeper train), the last in the wheels "咣when" the sound of confused sleep.
"Mountain High sunrise late." When I wake up in the rickety, the watch is more than 7 am the next day, but the window is still shrouded in a black. To 7:10, mountain outside the gray dawn was penetrating into the water vapor mist of the window. 7:40, and finally end this leisurely trip of 400 km (average speed of less than 40 kilometers! Really strange to be 18 in Yunnan Province in the "car faster than a train"). Reach Dali Shimonoseki station to meet us just endless drizzle.
"Romantic" words of Dali
Dali beautiful, beautiful, legendary Dali, the "romantic" four absolutely, namely: Shimonoseki, wind, and the closed flower, Cangshan snow, Lake Erhai months. Dali new town where the next pass, perennial hair, Dali Sambo "stone slabs from the wall does not fall, the wind swept over the threshold to, young man jump off the wall dog does not bite", describes the next boundary wind; on the off warm climate, flower-decked , especially in the name under heaven Yunnan Camellia, particularly for the most Dali: Colorful, vibrant, plena Min branches, many splendours, so off to spend on the well-known; stretch of Cangshan snow peaks due to known white peaks in the blue of the sky such as the modesty of young girls charming attractive; ranks first among the four landscape is the Erhai month, whenever the lunar calendar on the 15th, when the plateau clean sky hanging round a month, scenery Chi Mei. But the reflection in the water of Erhai Lake on larger, rounder, more bright, and the sky the moon exist side by side, Erhai Lake in Dali month became the most unique landscapes.
Bai people also use "romantic" to describe the girl's head Bai Baotou: Baotou whole shaped like a curved moon, nature is the "Erhai the month" a; header as the top of the circle of hair as white as snow Cangshan, Baotou on a beautiful embroidered flowers, floriation said that the number of friends, but also "off the flowers" means the girl floating in the ears flick forward to the shoulder of that plume of white silk symbolizing the Shimonoseki wind. Dali the most representative of the four beautiful, "wind, flower, snow, month" even in the girl's hat on the performance of fully exposed, is really amazing.
Bai style
Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture of China's Bai ethnic people in the main settlements. Bai has a long history, economic and cultural well-developed, the second century BC, the Han and the Central Plains have a more close economic and cultural ties, deeply affected, and now practices part of the same with the Han, but also has its own national characteristics: Bai writing Chinese characters are used, But in their own language, text art rich. Beautiful and moving folk legend "Wang Fu-yun", "Yi Gu Tower", "bird hanging Mountain," "charity lady," "Big Ben Song", "Bai notes," "rattle" and other music and dance, as well as from classical opera "Chuichui cavity" developed "white brush" at home and abroad enjoy a high reputation. Bai has a unique festivals, such as "around 3 Spirit", "SHI Bao-shan song would," "local deity's Day" of "playing the sea" and the grand scale, content-rich, "March Street", as well as Bai's own "torch Festival "and many other festivals. In Dali, the most famous must be the "March Street", and the size of a manner similar to Beijing's temple, but more will be packed in singing in antiphonal style. Bai has a unique dress, Bai both men and women advocating white, white as noble. Dali region, and "A Peng" (generic term for small group) were more than wearing white Duijin clothing, black collar jacket coat, leather coat men Haidong Region collar coat, or a few pieces of leather, satin collar coat, commonly known as the "three drops of small" tied at the waist belt or embroidery Doudu, the next a blue or black trousers. Women's clothing is varies, Dali districts and white shirt, red waistcoat, or light blue shirt, black jacket velvet collar coat, tied at the waist embroidered short corset, the next blue trousers wide enough to wear embroidered "White Day Shoes . " Unmarried women, single braids hair on the top of the head, and to bright a white scarf around the Red Hair Band, the red and white phase contrast, complement each other and a short apron, tied at the waist embroidery. Has become more colorful and bright, beautiful and generous, married women changed Wan Ji. Dali's tie-dye is also very famous, floating in the sun under which departments and regions of the tie-dye fabric blue white flower girl Bai describing the hard-working and smart. Bai has a unique title: A Peng Bai small group said, the girl called Golden and Silver Flower, Camellia, only the most beautiful girl called the Golden Flower. The fifties there was a popular audience favorite movie is called "Five Golden Flowers", the film exhibited Dali scenery, Yunnan, music, white house custom has Weiren relish, Erhai Lake, Cangshan, Butterfly Spring and therefore notorious. Bai has a unique residential areas, "Three Square Zhaobi, Tetraena five yards a galloping horse Corner House" is a traditional building arts Bai highest state of painting feng Diao, robust, with a deep cultural connotation, Hei Yan Chau the compound became famous scenic spots.
"Yan's Grand Courtyard" is a typical Bai residential housing format, similar to the Han Chinese Ming and Qing buildings, but it is towards the east, West Wing, (said to be back Cangshan), every family has a white screen wall in front of the sun can be Zhaobi reflection to the flat, an increase of the house lighting. Architectural pattern using 3-4 forward, first into the "three houses a screen wall" and the second entry is "the fourth floor of five yards," the fishing was a high floor, the third entry was the "six contracts Spring" a small courtyard. There is the back garden, more a Western format, the small Western-style house, where it can be considered stand out, do not establish a style of. In the "Three Square, a screen wall, Tetraena five courtyards" in the middle of an indoor performance stage, and now is a white home owner off the ceremony held in honor tourist places, tastes "of three tea" is the most important one program. On the "three-course tea" "Head Road, bitter, two sweet, three back Blanc" stories already familiar with, but today, the more goods master "three-course tea," given the interpretation of philosophy and thought: Tea is also a taste of life vicissitudes of life and the essence. Yes, after life, does not also "a bitter, two sweet, three aftertaste" manner? 3 tea, I think the best drink is the "two tea", sweet and strong, the United States can not be made, and perhaps this refers to is the best time of life. "Three Tea" is that people appreciate the effort the whole process of life, warning people to cherish the good times, or not, etc. to experience a taste of life on the only "aftertaste" of the copies of the. Conference, Bai young men and women danced a traditional dance welcome guests from afar, humor, funny, Cantabile poetic interpretation of a white camel, family folk customs, it seems clear spring, such as mannose, tempting fresh feeling of moisture. Courtyard songs in the strict tea, a square white house known for more subtle (the original small group visits Qiuqin have to pass three tea ceremony, if the woman is not, on this third-course tea, which the marriage would not be recognized ), song and dance "pinch bride" style displayed by the Bai people simmer with laughter the more.
Chong Sheng Temple and the Butterfly Spring
Butterfly Spring in Dali 20 km north of the city, located in Cangshan clouds get foot peaks, springs thirty feet wide and two, surrounded by marble railings enclosure. Old banyan tree lying next to a spring side by. Butterfly Spring's renowned the world over not only because of the film "Five Golden Flowers" Art of the Cangshan Erhai Lake, but also because "Nanzhao butterflies would" add a lot of mysterious legend of the color. Said April 15 each year, trees blossom, shaped like butterflies, thousands of butterflies gather in the old banyan tree on the fountain then Xianwei wings, not even enough to hook from the trees to Daochui water, like a bright colorful ribbons, while the fountain also has numerous trees fluttering butterflies, colorful, the stream of continuous form Kuanggu wonders. Butterfly Spring spring is not significant. Trees, are considered as old and big. Fountain gurgling into a small mountain lake, the tranquil lake reflected upside the blue sky and white clouds, green trees mountains, lakes planted with camellias and azaleas, quiet, fresh, the legendary Land of Peach Blossoms are merely mediocre, no wonder that boys and girls to talk about Bai Love Yueai good lie, a "Hudiequanbian" can only arise where there is such a charm and appeal.
After lunch, drive straight to the famous Three Pagodas of Dali Chong Holy Mosques. Temple at the foot of Cangshan built in the Tang Dynasty, the era that is Nanzhao after Binghuo destroyed, leaving only the Three Pagodas sky for people to pay tribute. Three Towers of Dali's four main tower was hollow type, is typical of the Tang Dynasty architecture, and the Central Plains architectural difference is that 16-story tower instead of 15 or 17 layers, which reflects the "immortal men and women Shuangxiu Bang" as the highest state of Nanzhao Buddhist characteristics. The maximum two-story tower had cracks in the earthquake, but also in the earthquake shock the next day together, just left one can pick out the cracks, can be considered one of the great unheard-of wonders. Behind the main tower are two small towers typical of the Song dynasty architecture, are octagonal solid 10-layer. Due to earthquakes, South Tower tilted eight degrees inward, inward tilted six degrees north tower, showing the trend to move closer to the main tower. And daily see the different pictures, and Kunming Haigeng ethnic village in the Three Pagodas are also different, Dali Three Pagodas towering piled on the multi-level temple of the base station, the three towers under nor can see the reflection of the fresh water mapping Bibo television in the Three Pagodas reflection of the reflection in the side of Erhai Lake Park shooting. Site visits, perceived, though a small one to distinguish between singular beauty, but many more solemn.
Author: sunmg
