I haven't seen heavy snow for a long time. It seems that there were several snows in Beijing last winter and this spring, but they all seemed to be shadowy. They didn't fall first, they just melted, and those without thickness fell. They didn't leave any impression in my mind, especially in my heart, so they can only be taken for granted. Because snow is an elf, if it can't arouse your poetry, can it be called real snow in your heart?
On April 6th, such a season is very rare in North China, especially in Beijing. Let alone snow, even if it rains and snows, let alone expect a heavy snow. However, on April 6 this year, I really experienced a baptism of good snow, which made me feel the most beautiful rain and snow in my life.
It was Thursday, a cold morning, and the unit organized us to go to Juyongguan Great Wall for a spring outing. I am not afraid of jokes. I have been to Badaling Great Wall, Mutianyu Great Wall and Simatai Great Wall for many years in Beijing, but I have seen Juyongguan Great Wall for the first time in my life (which was learned by middle school textbook Zhan Tianyou). This morning, when we set out from the hotel, the weather was a bit strange. The originally cloudy weather suddenly blew a strong wind, followed by a chilly cloudy day. When our car came to the foot of the Great Wall, the temperature had become very cold.
The cold wind roared and the temperature plummeted. Before the car door was opened, there were tiny ice particles beating on the drum outside the window: "It's hail." Someone shouted.
Actually, it's not hail, but tiny snow particles. In late spring, it is normal for the temperature to plummet and the rain to condense into tiny ice particles. I remember this climatic phenomenon called graupel, which is a common meteorological phenomenon in early winter and late spring.
When we got off the bus, the wind hit people's faces with graupel, and suddenly we felt chilly and cold. But despite this, after all, it is April weather, and the cold can't suppress the warm current. The graupel fell to the ground and immediately turned into water, and the image was gone.
One who fails to reach the Great Wall is not a hero. We decided to climb the Great Wall.
When you board a book, there is the Juyongguan Tower, which is the best in the world. At this time, the wind is stronger and the graupel is tighter. A burst of fierce like a burst, more than one grain, overturned people's clothes and slapped people's cheeks. The water falling on the mountain wetted the climbing steps. Someone's starting to back down. I am determined to climb up. I have climbed many famous mountains, including the most difficult mountain, Mount Huashan in Xiyue, but I have hardly ever taken a cable car. I think mountain climbing is like a process of life, which we have to experience every day. Just as we can't skip any "unlucky days", we can only live in "auspicious days". And the beauty and richness of life may be in those "bad days". The same is true of mountain climbing, which must be climbed step by step. The extreme is beautiful, but the infinite scenery is often on the way.
The mountain road is steep and the steps are very high. Although the artificial ladder is well repaired, it is always different from the stairs, flat and regular. Some mountain roads here are as high as a foot, while others are as low as a foot. Some are stone foundations and some are brick steps; Some places are about twenty or thirty degrees steep, and some places are as steep as sixty or seventy degrees; Some are like ramps, others are like hanging ladders, which are very difficult to walk. The wind is a little less, but the graupel has turned into a snowflake, and it began to swirl underground, falling on the road, on the tree, on the mountain stream and on the Great Wall. Someone flinched again: "I won't go up, how can I come down if it snows?" "It's too cold and the road is too slippery." All kinds of retreats immediately drowned out the discussion in the world. I insist: "Climbing the Great Wall in the snow, what kind of scenery it is, we can never give up."
Finally, only four people insisted on climbing up (nearly 40 people came). Among them, I am the oldest in the whole unit, and one is 55 years old. Young people under the age of 30 have only one companion.
Juyongguan Great Wall is a "minor celebrity" among the Great Wall in Wan Li. It is not longer than Badaling Great Wall and Mutianyu Great Wall, but it is famous. I first learned about Juyongguan Great Wall from Zhan Tianyou, a middle school textbook. Juyongguan witnessed the history of the first railway designed by its own engineers in China and the Panshan railway built by China people themselves, so Juyongguan is famous at home and abroad. I stood in front of Juyongguan battlements overlooking it. Because of the hazy weather, nothing can be seen on the railway designed and built by Zhan Tianyou, but the newly-built Badaling expressway can still be seen. What a historical contrast this is! The difficulties that Zhan Tianyou experienced in order to build a railway in those years, and the level that we have achieved in building Badaling expressway today, is really far from it. This is how history develops.
At this time, the light snow has completely turned into heavy snow. Clouds of snowflakes in the sky were torn off like swan feathers and scattered away. Soon, all over the mountains and plains were covered. The snow on the steps is getting thicker, soft and brittle. The entourage said it was like a carpet; I said I had never seen such a soft and comfortable carpet. This is the spirit that God gave us, and it is the spirit that arouses people's imagination.
The snow is getting heavier and heavier, making the mountains white, the trees white and the Great Wall white. We started sighing and sweating. Although we were not tired of shouting, our steps began to slow down. Every step we take will pay several times more physical strength than usual. The snow is getting heavier and heavier, and soon, both inside and outside the Great Wall are covered with snow, and it is white. Before being covered with snow, you can see trees with brown branches; The continuous zigzag city presses cyan city bricks under the snow cover to form patterns, like rows of armored soldiers standing between heaven and earth; The sky is covered with snow, the vision is getting smaller and smaller, and the Great Wall is getting shorter and shorter. Our eyes seem to be blinded by something and we can't see far. Only the dull creaking sound of the four of us stepping on the snow and our asymmetrical gasps in the four fields.
Snow falls on the head and body, and soon turns into water and condenses into ice. The clothes are wet, the hair is cold, and there is no biting smell. Instead, it has the pleasure of being frozen, which is very comfortable; Stepping on the thick snow, like stepping on an extremely soft carpet or lawn, is extremely comfortable and feels particularly beautiful; Because we are the first climbers, the snow is not slippery, the footprints are deep and clear; We crawled all the way to have a snowball fight, grabbing a handful of snow and licking it from time to time, as if we were back to our youth.
This is really a baptism of the soul!
Fishing in the misty and rainy water town in the south of the Yangtze River and climbing to the top in succession in the snowy northern mountains used to be my dream scene. What a wonderful artistic conception it is! It's raining in Mao Mao, the river is misty, hemp shawls, fishhooks droop and fish bite. By the way, it's so cozy. Heavy snow, dense clouds, vast mountains, lying on the ice, suddenly rolling on the snow blanket and rolling out of the whirlpool of snow, how indulgent. Today, I finally realized the old grudge of climbing the northern mountains in the snow, and it was in the famous Juyongguan Great Wall, or in April when it seldom snowed! We can't help but feel excited about poetry and think of the famous poem "Qinyuanchun" by President Mao Zedong. Snow: "The scenery in the north is frozen for thousands of miles, and the snow in Wan Li is floating. Forget the inside and outside of the Great Wall, but I am boundless ... "
Finally climbed to the end of Juyongguan Great Wall. About 500 meters above sea level, it is the highest point of this mountain. There is a tower on the top of the mountain, covering an area of about 100 meters. The tower is two stories high, the bottom of which is a coupon hole structure and the second floor is a rest peak structure. It can be seen that the tower is entirely for observation, and there are military facilities such as platforms, observation ports and entrances on the second floor. Standing on the platform on the second floor, stepping on the front and back feet, everything is clearly visible, which is really the best position for stationing troops to harass.
At this time, the snow stopped and the wind stopped. I looked at my watch. We walked for about an hour. Maybe it's April weather. After the heavy snow stopped for an hour, the sky soon began to show the twilight of spring, the red clouds began to thin, the mountains gradually showed their original colors, and the trees became clearer and clearer. Standing on the top of the mountain, I watched the majestic Great Wall winding among the mountains like a silver snake, and the scattered battlements stood upright like scales of a silver snake under the cover of snow, like soldiers lined up in a row, like soldiers in an endless array. Ah, it's magnificent, it's wonderful! Standing here, looking at the snow all over the mountain and the inside and outside of the Great Wall, I can't help but think of Mao Zedong's poetic feeling when he stood on the Great Wall: "The mountain dances with silver snakes, like wax, and wants to compete with God." When the weather is fine, look at the sunny market. What a charming sight! There are so many beauties in Jiangshan, attracting countless heroes to compete for beauty ... "Mao Zedong is really a generation of heroes. His spirit of swallowing mountains and rivers is beyond anyone's reach. I recited Mao Zedong's poems, looked around the fields, looked far away, and my whole body was excited and my blood was boiling! At this time, this scene, this day, this situation has never happened in my life. I am very happy to be in the city today, very happy to be in the weather today and very happy to be in the snow today. If I don't come up today, I will regret it all my life. " One who fails to reach the Great Wall is not a hero. "It is not a hero not to climb the Great Wall in the snow.
The snow stopped and the weather began to clear up. Look at the layers of climbing stone steps under our feet, leaving footprints of the four of us. Irregular footprints are messy, but clear. It confirms our success and our efforts. I'm really proud! You know, a spring outing team in our university, plus other teams, only four of us climbed to the top of the mountain in the snow, and I was the oldest. Can I not be proud?
At this moment, I suddenly saw an apricot blossom blooming in the snow. Clusters of white and red petals have condensed with ice and snow. The goose-yellow stamens are covered with cold water drops, turning into an ice and snow beauty, extremely delicate and charming, standing proudly in the snow, and beautiful. I really want to take one back and keep it for a long time. But I still retracted my hand, because I know that beauty is a feeling of the soul, not a pinch of things; Beauty is touched by the situation, not intercepted by the environment. If you leave a certain situation and environment, leave a specific time and place, all the beauty of the natural state will cease to exist.
Ah! Chun Xue. Ah! The Great Wall in the Snow-You will stay in my collection forever.