Looking at the changing scenery outside the window, I feel uneasy. I have only heard of Lijiang before. I heard that there are pure blue sky, carefree white clouds, gurgling streams and a life far away from the world. All this is what I yearn for. So the closer I get to her, the more uneasy I get. Lijiang, Lijiang, what difference can you give me?
But when I was really in Old Town of Lijiang, I knew that such a place would not come for nothing after all.
April wind, gentle as water, floats over the clean city until the distance, holding up white clouds at will, and the clouds overhead are within reach. The wind is like a naughty child, combing and blowing willows in the ancient city, all according to his own mood. The water in the ancient city has a beautiful name "Yuquan Water", which is the daughter of Xueshan married to the ancient city in the distance. It is the Yu He River that endows this ancient city with the spirit of gentleness and water. I stood quietly by the waterwheel, and Ren Yuquan's water turned back and forth, and then flowed to the deep lane, accompanied by tourists coming and going. Is the waterwheel the beating heart of the ancient city? Rotate at a constant speed. Is the waterwheel the calendar of the ancient city? Touch Yuquan water day and night. However, in the ancient city, all imaginations are happy and redundant at the same time. Because, this ancient city comes from your imagination.
Walking into the alleys of the ancient city, I was surprised to find that the houses in the ancient city are not gorgeous, unlike the ornate carvings in the ancient city of Jiangnan, but very simple, casual and even simple. Like the Naxi people's hearts, they just taste life with their heart, not deliberately exaggerate it. It is such a calm, but it makes me inexplicably moved. In Lijiang in April, the chill has gone, but tourists who love the sun get together and talk peacefully in the sun. Sunshine, in Old Town of Lijiang, has become unusual and so approachable.
The ancient city has no walls, just like my mood in the ancient city.
I thought remote towns and villages should be closed and backward, but I was wrong again. On the riverside of Sifang Street, bars, water bars and Internet cafes, people of different colors and languages get together and enjoy their own happiness. No wonder some people say that Lijiang is more famous abroad than at home. In this way, many foreigners are happy to sit in bars by the river, watch Lijiang and drink Lijiang. They are enjoying the scenery of Lijiang, and at the same time they have become the scenery of others.
Maybe you will ask how far the shallow water in Lijiang is, and maybe someone will be obsessed with where the end of Qingshiban Road is. Because, when you first step into the ancient city, you will be eager to find the answer with countless questions. Everything in the ancient city can always easily arouse your curiosity. Long footsteps, kind face and beautiful ancient city make people forget yesterday and even forget themselves, but they don't want to wake up, just want to be intoxicated for a long time. In the ancient city, I lost myself again and again, but found myself again and again. So fresh and romantic. An ancient city without walls, but no one believes that his soul will be lost.