According to his personal experience, a travel photographer questioned the current popular travel and put forward his own unique views.
We all claim that we love traveling, and sometimes we have the idea of giving up our studies and work to travel, but we have never asked ourselves why we want to travel.
"People should travel in order to gain comfort and strength, and be cured by a strange world." However, when you see the Great Wall and the Forbidden City, when you queue up for hours to climb Yandang Mountain in Huangshan, and when you are in a hurry to find a toilet in the palace of Bangkok Grand Palace, such a trip will not change you.
"We need to find a suitable travel route and find a travel companion who can communicate with us deeply. Then, we should put aside ourselves, feel with our heart, and enjoy the novelty and magic brought by strangeness and remoteness. "
"Too many people take the train or plane for more than ten hours, queue up for selfies in front of local landmarks for three hours, and share them with friends to show off. Too many people are excited before they leave, and their mood plummets when they arrive at their destination. They eat instant noodles in hotels and stay at home in other places. And how can these change a person and bring strength to others? "
"You said you wanted to go to the Pyramid Museum in the Louvre and see paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, Van Gogh and Picasso, but how much do you know about European art? You said you wanted to dial the prayer wheel in Potala Palace, but you didn't have any faith. Do you think you will really be baptized by your heart when you go to Tibet? "
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Reading this, I can't help nodding and smiling.
We have to admit that in the face of the same scenery, the same scenery, our feelings and sentiments are completely different. If you don't know much about the cultural connotation of a landscape, it is difficult for you to gain something from your trip.
For example, facing the beautiful scenery of the summer resort, I heard two diametrically opposite voices.
That day, I visited the Palace and grew up in Chengde. The summer resort is as familiar as my own home. I am attached to her and deeply in love with her. Every time I get close to her, I feel a real touch. However, when I was wandering around in YUNDI, a tour group passed by, a group of more than a dozen people. I only heard a man with a strong "Tianjin Wei" accent say, "What's there to see? Is it not just a pool? "
Hearing this, I smiled. I didn't mean to criticize him too much. I just think that if you spend so much time and money traveling, but after you arrive at your destination, your mind can't appreciate the beauty and shock brought by the scenery, then you really came in vain! To paraphrase Baoyu's words in A Dream of Red Mansions, not only is the heart of beautiful scenery wasted, but even your own desire to travel and change has been disappointed. ...
"A rare moment qing ning, I accompany my son to the heights. But my mood can't be as quiet and rich in connotation as it has been for more than 300 years. Perhaps, she is used to the vicissitudes of the world and her human feelings are warm and cold. Her broad mind and solid cultural heritage have made me admire all my life! " This is what a citizen of Chengde said.
I know that if you feel nostalgic and moved by a certain scenic spot or scenery, then your heart is alive and you are influenced and admonished by the natural and humanistic background. You are spiritual and savvy. While enjoying the scenery, I improved my spiritual realm and healed my mental trauma.
We always say that people must be on the road. Or the body, or the mind.
However, have you ever found that even if your body is on the road and your mind doesn't follow, in fact, you still live in the same place without any progress! As someone said, "If you don't find beautiful eyes and travel around the world, it's only your feet that are tired, but your heart is not happy at all."
You are eager to meet everything you have never met on your journey. You are looking forward to some kind of "affair", eager for fresh people and things to stimulate you, make your gradually numb heart full of vitality, make you re-examine your life, think about what you are pursuing, and how to go in the future, so that your tired and troubled heart can be reborn during the journey. I think this is what everyone is looking forward to and longing for, and it may also be the reason and reason for our trip.
However, more and more, we will find that the journey without soul is pale. In fact, it is our minds that finally hit the road.
I remember when I was in junior high school, my mother took me to visit the Beijing History Museum. This is an unforgettable trip for me. When we walked in the long exhibition hall of the museum, from primitive society, slave society, feudal society, modern times to the present, I was so excited that I took my mother's hand and excitedly explained every detail to her. At that time, the school had just started a history class. My heart was deeply moved when what I learned from books turned into real things and was displayed in front of my eyes.
My eyes were attracted by a pair of tattered straw sandals. I took a closer look, and the label under the sandals read "Loulan sandals". A sense of vicissitudes that has never existed before arises spontaneously. Mom also saw those four words and said with a smile, "If these sandals were in our house, they would have been thrown away. How do you know it's Loulan sandals? " ? Isn't that city glorious for a while, and then it was swallowed up by the desert? "I also smiled." Yes, the glory of the past was buried underground, leaving only these tattered sandals, recording the vicissitudes of life ... "I suddenly thought of the first sentence of" Notes on Good Songs "in A Dream of Red Mansions," The humble room is empty and the bed is full; Dry grass and withered poplar used to be a ballroom. " After a while, the young mind realized what vicissitudes meant and what was fleeting, and could not help sighing and feeling. ...
We learned knowledge during the trip, increased our knowledge, and learned about history through the observation of scenic spots. These are excellent. However, is shopping with a group a pure waste of time and nothing? I'm afraid this problem is a realistic problem that most people will encounter. The answer to the question should vary from person to person. Ask yourself what kind of mentality, what kind of heart. Personally, there may not be no gains during this period, or even greater gains.
I remember traveling in Yunnan two years ago, which was my first time traveling with a group. It is the most expensive pure play group, but it can't be pure play. Spend three days a week passively on shopping. I don't have much resistance in my heart because I don't want to be disappointed. I naturally followed the tour guide and walked into a jewelry store in Xishuangbanna with the group.
The guide led us to a counter, asked the salesgirl to take out a piece of jade, and then explained it to us seriously and politely:
"This is jett. Look, it's all black. Jet is the' king of jade', a kind of excellent jade and the most expensive of all jade. Its magic is that when you look at it, its color is black, but if you look at it in the light again, it becomes emerald green. Surrounded by black, emerald hidden inside, sparkling, very beautiful! This is the nobility of jet, and its beauty is implicit and restrained. "
After listening to the tour guide, I curiously picked up the jade, studied it carefully and looked at the light. Sure enough, jet immediately turned into emerald green, just like a noble and elegant queen sitting in it, which made people feel excited.
The tour guide thought I was interested in buying it, so he talked to me about the price, saying that tens of thousands of dollars were expensive, but it was absolutely worth it. This plane is worth every noble woman's life. I didn't pay attention to the guide's words. I suddenly thought of a problem and realized a problem, which made me feel extremely happy!
I suddenly understood why Cao Xueqin named Lin Daiyu "Daiyu" in A Dream of Red Mansions.
First, there are "four jade" in A Dream of Red Mansions: Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu, Miao Yu and Xiaohong (formerly known as Lin Hongyu. Because of Lin Daiyu's surname and the word "jade" of Baoyu and Daiyu, it was renamed "Xiaohong". Among the "four jade", Lin Daiyu is the noblest. This nobility has nothing to do with status, but with the soul. "Dai" means black. The so-called "Daiyu" means "Mo jade", "Mei jade among beautiful jade" and "King of jade"!
Secondly, Cao Gong wrote the details and connotation of Daiyu with the implicit and restrained beauty of Moyu. The beauty of Daiyu is never external. Her beauty lies in her spirituality and poetry! You may have read all the stories of the Red Chamber, but you can't remember what clothes she wears or what jewelry she wears. What she gives you is more about her inner temperament and the feeling of her soul. Others, however, you can tell them in detail what they are wearing, or you can't say it but remember it deeply, such as the golden dress that Wang Xifeng wore when she appeared, Jia Baoyu's orangutan cloak, the chic of Gong Yizi, and the dignified of Xue Baochai's Wu Hengjun. What color is Daiyu? I think it should be the same color as the Xiaoxiang Pavilion where she lives, cyan and emerald. However, this pleasing emerald is hidden in the "sharp" and "black" of her appearance, which is invisible to ordinary people. Only when someone is destined to pick her up and shine in the sun can she find her amazing beauty! And that destiny takes a hand's person is Jia Baoyu. Only he can read the heart of Daiyu, only he can understand the value of Daiyu, only he can appreciate her unique beauty, and only he can "afford it but can't let it go"!
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I was almost ecstatic at the thought of this. I thanked the tour guide for taking me here for shopping, and thanked the tour guide for inadvertently saying something in the explanation, which made me have a deeper understanding of the "Red Chamber". Although I didn't buy jet in the end (because I didn't have that much money), its beauty and connotation will always be imprinted in my heart. ...
If your heart is on the road, your life will live forever and the world will be in your vast pattern. ...