Day 7 8.2
Early in the morning, I went to Xi 'an Silk Group to carve and hold a special ceremony, left the city and issued customs clearance documents. Start here-Lanzhou.
High-speed rail travel, more and more western feeling along the way, the green hills in my hometown have become a huge "mound"
The high-speed train from Xi 'an to Lanzhou University is not too long, and the scenery on the road is not legendary. Before entering the west, although I was psychologically prepared, I knew that the conditions would be more difficult.
But I, originally from Yunnan, an economically underdeveloped area, don't have too many worries, and I'm afraid I'm similar to my hometown. ?
Lanzhou, this is really a chaotic city, and the air is very poor. This is my first impression of Lanzhou. Just left Xi 'an, the gap between them is too big.
After getting off the high-speed train, we waited for a taxi for almost an hour. On the way to the hotel by car, I really admire the driver's skill and run amok. Almost collapsed several times.
But after taking a taxi three times a night, I realized that this is the normal driving in Lanzhou.
Lanzhou, a western city where urban traffic is still developing, is really chaotic. The streets are full of construction sites, which is also an inevitable process.
Drivers drive savagely, and it seems that if they don't fight savagely, they can't move a step on this land. Another manifestation of chaos: the sidewalk has become a "street".
This phenomenon appears in the streets near the Yellow River Railway Bridge. Judging from the prosperity of the street, this section should be the main street in Lanzhou, but it is completely occupied by stalls.
Different from other cities, it seems normal in Lanzhou, where there is no urban management to drive people out of the street. Clothes, Korean makeup and even nails are bustling on this crowded sidewalk.
Lanzhou gives me the feeling that it is a little behind Kunming. Many guest houses, shopping malls, clothing wholesale markets, trade cities, so I feel that there are many chronological words, which can be said to be everywhere in Lanzhou. I visited a few roadside shops casually, and the goods also lacked cutting-edge elements.
The first time I saw the Yellow River, there was a yacht advertisement on the shore, "The boat is above the blue waves, and people are swimming in the picture world." This sentence amused me. It was clearly Yellow River water, where did it come from?
Zhengning Road Snack Street is a special snack street in Lanzhou, and most of it is also the food of Hui people. This street is short and narrow, and it is very grounded. I did taste some delicious and affordable foods, such as: eggs and milk puree, sweet preserved fruit.
Day 8.3
Five or six hours' drive early in the morning, I arrived at Dabanshan observation deck, but I couldn't stay for ten minutes. It's too cold! It's really cold at an altitude of 3760.
Before getting off the bus, the aborigines gathered around and asked us to buy their garlands, saying, "Sister, earn us some tuition!" " "I paused and refused. Although their skin was dark and chapped under the cold and high-intensity ultraviolet rays, which made people a little uncomfortable, I instinctively refused. On the way back, I seriously thought about whether I should buy something I don't need in order to "help them". This reminds me of a time when I went to the seaside with my brother and was kidnapped by morality to buy flowers. I suddenly hate this behavior of taking advantage of others' sympathy. ?
This is a social mentality: the strong should sympathize with the weak and try their best to help them.
In this case, I am a strong man in their eyes. In order to help them, I should buy things that I don't want and are of unequal value. Later, I went to other places and found that there are quite a few such commercial activities in some areas in the northwest. People like to use words like: it's not easy to help us, and so on. As a prologue to sales. However, they are simple. They just want to sell things, but they don't cheat or force them. This is much better than those vendors in Baicheng Beach who always buy and sell flowers as an introduction. Is my heart too cruel? Stand in a safe zone and think about your behavior with a thinking that has nothing to do with yourself. But I still think that buying a wreath will not change anyone's life, on the contrary, it will make them satisfied with making money from tourists, instead of paying attention to developing industries that can really support their families.
In the afternoon, I arrived at Menyuan, and the rape flowers in Menyuan had withered. Looking at the snow-capped mountains, green oil also has a special taste.
Spend the night in Qilian It was already half past seven when we arrived in Qilian. The sun hasn't set yet, but it's very cold. Qilian is a county seat, but it is also worse than Qiubei.
I had dinner in a Sichuan restaurant. Both husband and wife are from Chengdu. It has been 20 years since they came to Qilian. They can't speak Mandarin. We communicate in Sichuan dialect.
In the meantime, the owner took his daughter to clean, but I found that the shop had not been cleaned for a long time.
The original white wall was yellow and the water in the basin was dirty. Although it is said to be Sichuan food, there are actually few dishes. My mother only eats jiaozi.
Although I really want to know why they chose to leave their hometown and come to this place, they stayed for twenty years.
But after asking if he was a soldier, I didn't ask him in detail. The price of Qilian is not high, and the white cake is only one yuan.
Qilian, known as Wonderland, really makes me feel like a dream. Because it's too cold!
In the square of this small town, no aunts got together to dance in the square dance, and almost everyone wore cotton-padded jackets, which embarrassed me when I first arrived in shorts, and I also received many strange eyes along the way. Coupled with fewer people on the street, it is even more deserted.
There are many Tibetans in Qilian, and almost all shops, local taxation bureaus and state taxation bureaus have Tibetan besides Chinese.
This is my initial idea. Later, on my return trip, I met a gentleman who had lived in Gansu for many years, and we talked about our understanding of Gansu.
He told me that he stayed in Qilian for an autumn and winter, and it was cold. Needless to say, it was cold even in summer. Life is really not easy. Is there such a fairyland in this world?
In this place, it is not the largest number of Tibetans or the largest number of Hui people, but a nation between Tibetans and Hui people.
At 8: 04 a.m. on the ninth day
Sunrise in Zhuo'er Mountain.
This is my second time to go out to watch the sunrise. I got up early, but I couldn't see the sunrise because of the clouds. Qilian was cold the day before, and put on a down jacket for the first time in August today. When the sun shone on the snow-capped mountains, I remembered the Yulong Snow Mountain and Jinding written by Fu Zhen before. ?
Zhuo'er Mountain is beautiful, but not beautiful.
Along the way, I came to Arou Temple, a small temple of Tibetan Buddhism. Most tourists like to take photos in special places, such as prayer wheels and prayer flags. However, few people seriously understand its culture and wisdom. Arou Temple is not a place with serious tourism, but it maintains a relatively primitive style. This is an area that we don't know at all. This trip focuses on the Silk Road, but it is inseparable from the exploration of faith along the way. I saw Tibetan women around a building and Tibetan children chanting in circles. I also remembered what the conductor said when I was riding in Xi 'an: "We know very little, but the unknown is infinite. We may get lost in the ocean of knowledge, and many things guide us to discover and explore like an introductory book. " Along the way, I know very little, but it has opened one door after another for me to learn, consult and explore.
For the knowledge of Tibetan Buddhism, please refer to it in detail in the chapter of Ta 'er Temple in Xining.
Conclusion: Compared with the places we set foot in the past, the west will indeed bring people spiritual and visual collisions.
In the case of inconvenient transportation, it has brought inconvenience to our travel, but it has also brought things that are not available in the developed areas in the east.
In fact, people are warm and cold all over the world, and stories are everywhere.