Seek seclusion
Different winds in ten miles, different customs in a hundred miles, just Guangdong, because the folk customs here vary from place to place.
In this land of northern Guangdong, although it belongs to Guangfu language family, it is very different from the hinterland of the Pearl River Delta. There are many ancient relics preserved here, and even the diet is unique. Small towns dotted with different forms of scenic spots form a string of pearls along the Xijiang River.
[Siyu Guanshe]
▲ Before leaving, I thought of China's famous song Westbound. Our trip is also to the west, but we are a happy "escape". The best way to "take the west exit" is to start from the entrance of Guangyuan West Road of Guangfo Expressway, or start westbound from Fangcun via "No.9 Zhongshan Road" in Huang Qi, Nanhai. All the places I went on this trip belong to underdeveloped areas, but the road traffic is still ideal.
▲ After crossing Bichong, there is a fork pointing to Zhaoqing on the expressway, turn right, then get off at Sanshui, cross Mafang Bridge to the north (right) 10 km, which is Sihui Avenue, and you can go all the way to Sihui downtown. The road conditions are excellent. This section of the road is 68 kilometers long, and it only takes 50 minutes to get to 43 yuan.
Guangdong people have a special love, that is jade. This history has a long history and is difficult to explore. Generally speaking, it is related to the ethos of being good at doing business and stressing "Italy" in Guangdong history. The older generation of Guangdong men and women must wear jade, which is generally believed to have the function of avoiding evil spirits, and must be made of jade produced in Xuandian. Female elders love jade bracelets or Yu Pei; Men respect the brave three-legged golden toad, and most of them are tied to their trousers. It is said that the brave three-legged golden toad means "sucking gold". Therefore, during the New Year, the above-mentioned modeling ornaments will be sold out.
Emerald Street in Sihui City is always crowded on holidays. As a folk scenic spot or a hot spot for holiday shopping, the author thinks it can be compared with Flower Street. Guangdong people basically only recognize jade, of course, there are other materials such as Hetian jade and agate, but they are all used for decoration. You must wear jade, thinking that it can keep warm, keep fit and keep safe.
In addition to what jade can see, Sihui is still related to the word "ancient". Dengcun is a Hakka village, located in the southwest of the city, in the depths of a mountain road. Ask the old man there. Dengcun has preserved the oldest paper-making process, and made bamboo paper by hand with soaked bamboo. In the whole process, many tools used by ancient ancestors were used, such as stone tablets and stone mills, which were full of ancient customs and made people get carried away.
When we meet for the fourth time, we must try the tea-oil chicken and eat it in Zhenshan. Zhenshan Six Ancestors Temple is a thousand-year-old temple dedicated to the true body of Six Ancestors Huineng. There are many country restaurants nearby. Tea oil chicken is the top grade of chicken, which is fried with tea seed oil but not greasy.
Zhaochun Beiling
▲▲▲▲▲ Come out from Sihui Lushan Mountain and drive west along the expressway for 30 minutes to reach the foot of Beiling Mountain.
▲▲▲▲▲ Beiling Bear is named after being located in the north of Zhaoqing City. This used to be a very desolate virgin forest. There is a broken rock mine that has been mined for thousands of years in the deep forest, and it is still in operation.
Zhaoqing is a tourist city. Due to its unique geographical environment, Dinghushan and Qixingyan are distributed in it. People are familiar with this scene, but Beiling is not. Climbing from the foot of Beiling Mountain, crows from Gu Teng are everywhere, and there is an ancient Wang Pan Temple on the mountain. The front of the temple is empty, overlooking Zhaoqing scenery. If you can climb to the top of the mountain, you can see the inkstone mine. If you are lucky, it will be a pleasure to decorate the living room with a few unworthy stones coming down the mountain.
Zhaoqing City has an ancient wall of Song Dynasty, which is often overlooked by tourists. In fact, the ancient wall and Mei 'an Guanmei are places where old literati vent their feelings. Zhaoqing has many famous specialties. Steamed dumplings are made of winter leaves, which are very big and can be eaten by the whole family. Authentic Zhaoqing steamed dumplings stuffed with pork belly and shelled mung beans are fragrant, waxy and soft.
The bigger the inkstone, the better. Tea tasters often choose a big inkstone as a tray in tea art, which is both easy to use and ornamental. In the era of computer writing, it is inevitable that an inkstone is different from calligraphy.
[Wen Xiang Huaiji]
▲ From Lubu Town on the edge of Beiling in Zhaoqing to the north100km, it is the shooting place of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Guangning Bamboo Sea. Bamboo in Guangdong is flourishing all year round, and there are inexhaustible bamboo shoots under the green waves all year round. Further north are Guangxi's tourist hotlines Hezhou and Guilin.
▲ However, we stopped at the edge of Guangdong and Guangxi, 66 kilometers north of Guangning. It is a Huaiji famous for swallows, and the road is easy. This Spring Festival, there is a large area of romantic lavender.
Yanyan is located in Qiaotou Town, about 40 kilometers away from Huaiji County. Although the Swallow Festival is only held in summer, it is rich in landscape resources and simple in folk customs, so you might as well go for a walk at any time. Although there is no bird's nest in the Spring Festival, there is no season to eat bird's nest.
Lavender, native to the coastal areas of China, came to subtropical Guangdong this Spring Festival. The "Xanadu" on the bank of Yanyan is just like Tao Yuanming's description: Entering by bamboo raft, crossing a long underground river, it suddenly becomes clear, grange farmhouses and bamboo groves stand proudly, traffic is crowded, chickens and dogs hear each other, and full of green is everywhere. The "Xanadu" where lavender is planted is even more colorful. If lavender has only a few scattered flowers, it is not necessarily charming. But when you face a large area, the boundless and deep purple will quietly wrap people up and stay in it, as if intoxicated in a gentle country and unwilling to return.
[Hooks and seals]
▲ It is only 50 kilometers southwest from Qiaotou Town via Shuikou and Heerkou.
▲ This is a magical land bordering Wuzhou: closed.
Fengkai area was hotly speculated as "the birthplace of Lingnan culture" in recent 2003, which is right or wrong, and it needs historical test to be conclusive. Shijiayun, today's Fengkai County and its neighboring parts of Wuzhou, used to be called "Guangxin", with Guangdong in the east and Guangxi in the west, and the geographical division came from this.
There are many ancient villages in Fengkai, most of which are undeveloped, and there are many places for tourists to visit. Fengkai ancient city is located in the south of Beishan, Jiangkou Town, and its construction date is unknown. The present site was built in the 14th year of the Ming Dynasty (1450) when Huang Xiaoyang was in chaos, and the Temple Chen Shishun was built on the former site. Now there are only the south gate and the east-west wall, which is about 400 meters. The south gate is arched and made of reddish-brown sandstone. The wall is made of blue bricks, four or five meters thick, and the words "Fengchuan City Brick" are printed on the side, which is worth seeing.
In addition to climbing the "best stone in the world", the scenery of the closed meditation is also quite yangshuo, so it is not suitable to enjoy the scenery and taste the river wind.
[Taste Deqing]
▲ From Fengkai to the east, that is, in the direction of Zhaoqing, more than 30 kilometers.
▲ Deqing County is accessible.
Speaking of Deqing, anyone with a little knowledge of Chinese medicine will think of nourishing the famous Polygonum multiflorum Thunb, a legendary plant comparable to ginseng. It is impossible for tourists to eat Polygonum multiflorum immediately, but Deqing apricot chicken is the first choice in the Year of the Rooster. This kind of chicken is said to be fed with Polygonum multiflorum Thunb. I wonder if gluttonous people will taste it?
The Dragon Mother Temple in Yuecheng, Deqing is also the best choice for Cantonese people to "visit here". Long Mu Temple was built in Qin and Han Dynasties. In the thirty-first year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty, it was rebuilt in seven years. Together with Guangzhou Chenjiaci and Foshan Ancestral Temple, it is called the "Three Treasures" of Lingnan ancient buildings. If you are a lover of Guangdong architecture and have visited Chenjia Temple, you must look at Longmu Temple and carefully observe the similarities and differences between them. This is called a cultural root-seeking journey.
The return trip to Deqing West is about170km from Guangzhou, and it will take about two and a half hours to get on the Zhao Guang Expressway.
▲ Wheel steering
Xijiang guide
□ Because Zhaoqing is a relatively mature tourist destination, with good road conditions and convenient accommodation, it is suggested to eat and live there, and you can enjoy the relaxing pleasure of driving by yourself without sticking to a specific program.
□ The whole journey takes about 3 days, the road and bridge fee is more than 400 yuan, and the journey is about 500 kilometers.
□ After opening, those who want to run Mercedes-Benz can also take a short trip to Wuzhou, Guangxi, with little time, but they can taste many delicious foods in Wuzhou.
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Route: Guangzhou → Sihui → Beiling → Huaiji → Fengkai → Deqing.
Seek seclusion
Different winds in ten miles, different customs in a hundred miles, just Guangdong, because the folk customs here vary from place to place.
In this land of northern Guangdong, although it belongs to Guangfu language family, it is very different from the hinterland of the Pearl River Delta. There are many ancient relics preserved here, and even the diet is unique. Small towns dotted with different forms of scenic spots form a string of pearls along the Xijiang River.
[Siyu Guanshe]
▲ Before leaving, I thought of China's famous song Westbound. Our trip is also to the west, but we are a happy "escape". The best way to "take the west exit" is to start from the entrance of Guangyuan West Road of Guangfo Expressway, or start westbound from Fangcun via "No.9 Zhongshan Road" in Huang Qi, Nanhai. All the places I went on this trip belong to underdeveloped areas, but the road traffic is still ideal.
▲ After crossing Bichong, there is a fork pointing to Zhaoqing on the expressway, turn right, then get off at Sanshui, cross Mafang Bridge to the north (right) 10 km, which is Sihui Avenue, and you can go all the way to Sihui downtown. The road conditions are excellent. This section of the road is 68 kilometers long, and it only takes 50 minutes to get to 43 yuan.
Guangdong people have a special love, that is jade. This history has a long history and is difficult to explore. Generally speaking, it is related to the ethos of being good at doing business and stressing "Italy" in Guangdong history. Guangdong men and women of the older generation must wear jade, which is generally believed to exist.