When I arrived in Lijiang, I finally saw Dayan Ancient City.
The old house with brick and wood structure is next to it, and it has been slightly tilted, and then the tilt is carefully passed down. Streets paved with stone slabs can't bear much of the past, and some of them are sunken. The greasy five-flowered stone has long lost its edges and corners, and the stone road runs through the street with a trickle, thus stringing up the streets and families.
Living in the courtyard of a Naxi family, whenever night falls, sitting in the courtyard, watching the dazzling stars on the horizon, letting the summer wind blow, quietly listening to the Naxi old man gently telling distant and moving legends, that feeling gives people accustomed to urban life a long-lost comfort. Dwelling in the city, the night sky seems to be no longer the color of night, like the iron curtain, as indifferent as the human feelings of the city, but in Lijiang, you can clearly see the extremely bright and twinkling stars!
In such a quiet town, I don't need to wear a mask game at night with stars and the moon, and I don't need to indulge myself in the luxury of life and get lost in the noise of the day. Of course, it is difficult to survive if you choose to resist when you are violated, because the heart is not a stone and it is easy to get hurt and bleed. Fortunately, there is still a starry night, and I can face the wound alone.
When the green vines revive and the sound of nature comes, they may recover as before. I remember Tagore said, "You missed the stars at night and even the sun in the morning." In Lijiang, you will not only miss the stars, but also miss the sunrise! In the morning, the diligent rooster will surely wake you up from the virtual dream!
Carrying a simple bag, a person walked through the mountains and rivers of Lijiang, but it is difficult for me to describe it in detail. The reason why I love and walk through it is not for the scenery that can be described, the strange peaks and rocks, the good mountains and the good water. Just, just looking for something close to my soul. They are picturesque and exist between mountains and rivers.
In the long journey, everything is like a song of the past, wandering in the mountains and rivers. At that moment, I could feel the artistic conception of being far away from the humble and noisy landscape. It was actually a melancholy touch, an epiphany after helplessness. Closer to the essence of life.
Whether it is snow-capped mountains, endless virgin forests, flowery grasslands or ancient cities surrounded by clear canals, when I prove them with my feet, they are all abstracted into a simple and vast calligraphy in front of my eyes. That calligraphy shows an open mind. That is the source of cosmic wisdom and the only way for our little life to reach spiritual paradise. A stupid person like me, we must always be in it to get constant understanding.
Mountains and rivers can calm the secular state of mind. The so-called opening your heart must be in the cool breeze and bright moon, or when birds are singing in mountains and rivers. The real temple is built in the deep mountains. There are clouds floating in the sky. And mountains and rivers can wash dust. Even the Jing Ke-style farewell is on the windy and water-cooled banks, playing sword and singing. Therefore, the sage said that mountains and rivers are far away from humbleness and noise.
I used to like mountains and rivers, but I love the mountains and rivers here even more when I arrived in Lijiang! As a modern person, I always feel that I am in an embarrassing spiritual survival oppression. In order to save, or perhaps to escape temporarily, I chose to indulge in the open-mindedness given to me by mountains and rivers. For the time being, I regarded myself as an innocent child, regarded mountains and rivers as a paradise on earth, put aside all the troubles in the world, sang ethereal folk songs like mountain wind, searched for romantic songs of weeds among mountains and rivers, felt passionate Naxi folk customs among Naxi girls wearing stars in Dai Yue, and experienced mysterious and long-standing Dongba culture in Xanadu.