October 5, 2003
To Datong in the car, and fly hotel contact rent a car the next day to Yungang Grottoes - Xuan Kongsi - Ying County Wooden Pagoda - Wutai Mountain, full 500 yuan. Miss Cao people who received us well, give us a room arranged for grooming. Originally planned to go to Golden Beiyue Hengshan, but also because of the traffic problems can only give up the idea. The inquiries should be no direct train to Mount Wutai County, hunyuan County to the Wutai Mountain to be the car through the county, and the frequency of small, even the locals are confused, have no choice but give up the idea of the.
Car to just after 8:00 when the Yungang Grottoes, Yungang Grottoes was found not open the door, a closer look at signs, found that Chinese is the 8:30 am open, but English is indeed open the door 8:00. This time has been a lot of tourists, to the 8:30 staff would be leisurely to the ticket window opens. Yungang Buddhist Grottoes worthy of the three caves, it is spectacular. Because of the different rock and the Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang drilled differently, but roughly the same styles and the Longmen Grottoes. The biggest difference is that the Qing government made to the Yungang Grottoes large-scale renovation, adding a lot of painting, but that is a failure of the repair, because it undermines the original style grotto to artistic value greatly reduced. In contrast, the Longmen Grottoes Despite the lack of color, but it preserves a relatively complete. In fact, the artistic value of these caves is obvious, there are some in the Yungang Grottoes are carved in the Qing dynasty, when repair is indeed a great contrast between the Northern Wei dynasty of the craftsmen who carved all the details are up to the Qing Dynasty, many fine places just use paint to express, much less.
Wanted to see the usual broad Huayan Monastery Buddha, but the driver was very poor attitude, and tell us all the way of parking fees and tolls to be paid by us will immediately eliminate all spirits, did not go into. Went to the Nine Dragon Wall, disappointed, palm-sized place, 3 yuan tickets, parking fees are 5 yuan, less than 5 minutes to go out and do not know to appreciate.
The greatest experience in Shanxi Province, is the local people simply do not realize that they live in the value of local ownership. Many people went to our two big cities such as poor rural girls to travel to find incomprehensible. When I moved to go Huayan Monastery, the driver asked me one: you still on the Wutai Mountain Mody? He did not understand the value of these temples is not with religion, but in its historical and artistic value. Not everyone is to enter the temple of worship, there are a considerable number of people who go to worship in their minds the art of Collection and the history and culture.
Xuankong Si is very small, from the foot of the mountain to see come to feel that they should be there, is an integral part of the mountain, after climbing to the very boring. The entire temple mixture of Buddhism, two kinds of religion, with the person to feel confused. Observed a moment Beiyue mountain landscape, its geological structure is relatively unique, but the angle of view, it is not very pleasant, so how could not board the Beiyue not disappointed.
Ying County Wooden Pagoda quite spectacular, thousands of miles in vain Hirakawa wooden stands like a whole high-rise buildings, from the lightning, fire to ecological pest control are so strict, is so fortunate to be able to overlooking such a piece of land up to 9 100 years, tower has been tilted tower bow down the middle. Tower without electric lights, was dark. We climbed the dark third floor, we can no longer be on the.
Ying County, the road to Mount Wutai relatively long, spent nearly three hours, all the way are winding roads. We are from the Wutai Mountain in the north and crosses into the Taiwan Wye Town, where we see snow, and perhaps the northern friends will be laughing at us two girls in the South, but it really is that we've ever seen the first snowflakes fall from the sky. Jin Zha votes to require us to purchase tickets for drivers, both of us is to buy half-price ticket, and a full-fare is 90 yuan, it is so difficult for us to accept, we decided to get off, and gave the driver money to go away, he 500 . Quite fortunate, we immediately cut to the Huai-car crossing into the station, not yet received our money. Into the Taihuai a farmer soon found a hotel, each 30 yuan a night. In the evening I visited the town in Taiwan, visiting the Wye, Wu Ye looked at the temple, where there really is flourishing incense, decided the next morning, fasting wish incense. I have no religion, but I think that wish is a very good ceremony to express their wishes and aspirations to establish their own goals, so for this ceremony, I made some careful preparation. I really wish to go to bed before his wish to be permissible, as well as to be ready for the next day on the incense.
That common ground is a poor driver, I do not care that tens of dollars on parking fees and tolls. He did not know how to appreciate his own life in the land, but also that we seemed to look like a joke in Shanxi. If even the locals are not as proud of their own land, then the path of development of tourism there is also a long go again.
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