1 Sunrise
In order to watch the sunrise, I often get up early.
This is a sentence from Mr. Ba Jin’s essay "Sunrise on the Sea". Although it is regarded as a model for landscape prose, I have already studied this text as early as elementary school, but now I can barely remember this lonely sentence.
As soon as I returned to school, there happened to be a power outage in the dormitory, so I had to temporarily move into the empty dormitory of a graduated junior. At night, although I lie down as soon as the sun sets, I can't fall into a sweet dream as soon as I touch the mat. The mosquitoes in summer hummed a beautiful song to remind me to stay awake and enjoy this guest night, leaving some itchy scars on my body as a mark of aftertaste. The steel-heavy sound of the collision between the nearby railway tracks and the locomotive made people forget their existence, and became even more indignant with the floating heat of the summer night. Just when my dream was about to occupy the faint and fuzzy scenery in front of me, the alarm on my phone rang, pulling me into the real world and welcoming a new dawn.
Although it is only after five o'clock, it is impossible to get people to sleep anymore. Only lazy people are willing to stay in sleep forever.
Brush your teeth, wash your face, and open the window.
Yes, it was at that moment that I suddenly thought of Mr. Ba Jin’s words.
A ray of glow suddenly appeared on the dim horizon. At first it was just a faint shadow, like the red thread protruding from a sewing needle. Then the red line became thicker and thicker, becoming a bright ribbon, slowly extending around, quietly tracing the boundary between the earth and the sky. When the darkness of the sky gradually separated from the turbidity of the tall buildings in the city, I knew that the sun was about to rise in a new day.
After a while, the sun’s cute head popped out from the center of the soft red ribbon, which looked like a baby’s innocent smile. The surrounding dim sky gradually became clearer. Even the hazy sky in the industrial city couldn't stand the simplicity of the sun, and it actually dyed the dark clouds that used to be full of them into a gorgeous morning glow. The morning glow turns from golden to bright red, and then from bright red to deep red, superimposed layer by layer, continuing to the other side of the sky. Pushkin, the greatest Russian poet, left a famous saying in "The Bronze Horseman": The first clouds are gone, and the last clouds have arrived. I think he was able to come up with this otherworldly poem when he saw this magical morning glow.
Seeing the head of the sun in the east growing more and more, it casts a brilliant golden light towards the earth, which stings people's eyes and makes the sleeping city break its sleep with the arrival of the light. Even so, I still can't give up this beautiful scenery. Who would be willing to give up the gift of nature? The red sun slowly climbed out of the sea level, dragging a solemn and determined step, revealing the clouds step by step, and finally Jump up into the vast sky.
The scattered sunlight dispelled the darkness in the sky, and the hazy sky suddenly became blue and translucent, as clear as a tranquil lake. The red clouds on the horizon have disappeared, leaving only a few lazy white clouds floating in the sky. The sunrise ushered in a new beginning and also drew a perfect ending to the night.
Ah! That sun shining with hope and light.
I want to follow your footsteps and become Deng Lin.
2. Entering Xianning Patterned Stone
Xianning means peace and tranquility in the world. "The Book of Changes" says: The main roads change, each one has his own destiny, the harmony is maintained, and common things are first produced, and all countries are in peace. "Shang Shu Dayu Mo" said: There are no virtuous people in the wild, and there are thousands of people in Xianning. The meaning of naming a place after Xianning was not even scratched the surface in the past. Until December 4th of this year, the Citizens' Association organized more than 20 members of the Citizens' Association from Tongcheng, Chongyang, Tongshan and other places to discuss Shiqiao. After a one-day visit to Tingsi Town in Xianning City, including Shishan, Shixiang, Shidong and Shiquan, I understood the reason for such a good reputation: I and you can both connect the city and the mountains to Xianning, and all things worship the sun and Xianning, and the mountains and wilderness Puzhu and Xianning, the people get Jiayu and Xianning.
1. Walking across the Stone Bridge in Tingsi Town
Luo Weimin, Shu Zhongfu, and Liu Caiyun and I took the Tongcheng Democracy and People’s Association special bus from Qianjiadong in Longjiao Mountain, the hometown of the Yao people. , passing by Tingsi Town, looking at the Tingsi Bridge that I came here to see a year ago, I have a new feeling. Tingsi Bridge is a stone bridge with four piers and three holes open to water. It is ten feet long and one foot and five feet wide. The bridge was built in the early Northern Song Dynasty. The piers are made of granite and the footings are stone bottom. The granite bridge arch spans the semicircular pattern space to facilitate the smooth flow of floods. Due to the combination of emptiness and reality, it has been able to be stable for thousands of years. The builders of the bridge understood the principle of solidity on the outside and emptiness on the inside: allowing the water of life to flow unobstructed every second, it will naturally not destroy the physical bridge body, and it will live forever. The bridge deck is paved with bluestone slabs, with three-foot-high retaining walls on both sides, and a wooden roof, forming an empty corridor for people to pass through rain or shine. It is a typical wind and rain bridge. Fengyu Bridge is a building of the Miao Yao She people, also known as a covered bridge. It should be built by these people or their descendants. This bridge is named Tingsi Bridge, named in memory of Ding Si. It is stable and allows people to pass safely on the river. Next to the water is Tingsi Bridge. The builders of the bridge felt the tragic incident of the donor Ding Si whose family was destroyed by the flood and became an empty home. He cherished the safety of his fellow villagers with a hollow heart and wore straw sandals all his life to raise funds to build the bridge. He commemorated it with physical objects: the bridge It is Ding Si’s mind and personality that make people survive and keep people alive.
Ding Si is as loyal as a stone, and he can make straw sandals with beautiful patterns, which are fast, strong and easy to wear. He has a character as hard as stone. He wears straw sandals in strings from morning to night every day. On sunny days, he hangs bamboo poles on the side of the post road, and on rainy days, he hangs them under the eaves of the thatched house to attract customers. Money from selling straw sandals was accumulated in a jar and buried under the bed. There is no charge for bringing in apprentices. The apprentices weave straw sandals strictly according to the requirements: only ten pairs of scraps, ten pairs of broken shoes, and ten pairs can be sold. Straw sandals are popular in Xianning Puqi and Jiayu.
The middle-aged people selected capable apprentices to join the company to expand the scale, and used local materials to develop bamboo shell straw sandals and ramie straw sandals, which are stronger, better to wear and more wear-resistant. It has developed into cloth straw sandals, embroidered straw sandals, women's straw sandals and other patterns. The straw sandals are woven with a T-mark, and the patterned straw sandals are sold well in both lakes. In his later years, he planned to invite fellow villagers to build a stone arch bridge. Once he went out to ask craftsmen to design a bridge prototype. He rushed back in the dark and rain all night. His home was flooded, so he went to a straw sandal shop in the flood to look for the coins he had saved to build the bridge. Young men and women carried up eight altars of coins (five altars of silver ingots and three altars of copper coins) with hands and feet.
The old man was old and frail, and suddenly suffered a cold. When he was dying, he took his nephew and apprentice and said: Build a stone bridge in your lifetime. The villagers heard that the old man spent his whole life wearing straw sandals to build a bridge, and they spontaneously flocked to both sides of the river. Those with money and ability contributed their efforts. A stone that protected people's lives and families was built across the river. From then on, the people in the four towns and eight banks lived in peace. Got in touch. Dante's Fourth Bridge was washed away several times by water. During the Zhenguan period, Xuanzang told Taizong before traveling to the west that he needed to do thousands of good deeds in the country in order to complete his merits and retrieve the true scriptures. Taizong, who was dedicated to the Buddha, sent ten thousand monks to do one good deed across the country.
A monk used the official silver he carried with him and the alms he got from alms to build a strong three-eye stone arch bridge at the site where Ding Si old man built the bridge. The ancient stone bridge now erected over the river was rebuilt in 1247 and is the oldest stone arch bridge in Hubei Province. The town is named after the bridge, and the bridge is named after the person. To commemorate Ding Si’s meritorious deeds, the villagers built a five-story tower on the mountainside on the north side of the river, fifty meters away from the bridge, to permanently display the significance of bringing everyone to Xianning. Ding Si has since become a bridge god without selfish desires, and a god without self-interest. The human god has become the selfless and selfless ancestral god of me. Plants and trees with thousands of patterns and annual rings grow happily according to the law of solid outside and empty inside, paying homage to the Tingsi Bridge Tower.
2. Entering Fengyi Village Shishan
After the car merged with the Xianning Citizens’ Association convoy, it drove into Fengyi Village deep in Tingsi Town. It borders Puzhu and Chongyang. From the outside, you can see round-shaped bamboos all over the mountains and slopes. It is the famous star bamboo sea. Growing up in Zhuxiang, I always love bamboo. Today, I walked in the sea of ??bamboos with many literati to look at bamboos, and I felt a little different. The bamboos seemed to be waiting for my arrival. I walked among them and kept company with them. I felt like a round bamboo or a short round bamboo. Looking up at the tall and unusually long round bamboos around me, I feel as if they are growing upwards, just like bamboos. Pay special attention to the bamboo joints at this time. Each bamboo joint is a round vacuum, and each bamboo joint is round and upward. It is a round longing that grows toward the sky on the long empty joints, that is, it is filled with water. The gas moves upward in circles for photosynthesis. This hollow longing is a kind of life's pursuit of the sky, and it is a manifestation of the life on the ground cultivating the immortal heart and immortal body. The roundness of the bamboo joints is due to the round and solid structure of the bamboo walls. Between the white fibers in the green outer skin of the bamboo joints, there are regular gaps that transport water vapor to grow the bamboo stems. Chinese literati and poets like bamboo because it does not seek wealth and honor, it is empty and spiritual, and has an elegant figure without desires. It sets a high standard for immortality to the world, swaying the bright knots of the soul to the heaven and earth, and showing the true essence of life to all living things. Bamboo is the incarnation of the enlightened person who becomes an immortal, the enlightened person who becomes a Buddha, and the enlightened person who becomes a god. The bamboo sea stands upright in the shape of a round sky, the feeling of the round sky, the meaning of the round sky, and the desire of the round sky, trying to show the principle of hollowness. Walking in the sea of ??bamboo means walking in the sea of ??immortals, the sea of ??Buddha, and the sea of ??gods, bathing in the fairy colors, Buddhist charms, and divine light, washing your mind and body, and leaving your body empty.
The poles of diabolo sit in this dust-free and silent empty mountain, and the principle of selfless desire grows from generation to generation. There are many kinds of bamboos here, including Phoebe, Pale Bamboo, Water Bamboo, Purple Bamboo, Bitter Bamboo, Ruo Bamboo, Dianthus, Ma Bamboo, Phyllostachys Bamboo, Patchouli Bamboo, Plum Blossom Bamboo, Tortoiseshell Bamboo, Luohan Bamboo, and Phoebe Bamboo. Bamboo forgets the body and has no self, and is happy to provide bamboo umbrellas, bamboo hats to wear, bamboo buildings to live in, bamboo chairs to sit on, bamboo beds to sleep on, bamboo shoots to eat, bamboo paper to use, and bamboo utensils for daily use for the people of Zhuxiang. , formed Zhuchang Street in its heyday, and the street name still exists today. Literati and poets walked along the mountain road and walked into the bamboo farmers' homes. They ate rice in bamboo tubes, drank bamboo leaf wine, listened to bamboo songs, watched bamboo dances, and tasted the true joy of the bamboo sky. Bamboo is like a meritorious virtue, which lies in its broad-mindedness to embrace other things, showing the shape and meaning of life that is solid on the outside and empty on the inside.
Looking towards Siyi, Fengyi Village is a round and empty mountain village. It is surrounded by round mountains and houses, and a basin in the middle is a vacuum space environment. It is hollow like a palace cellar, pregnant with figures. The mountain is the solid body and is the tire wall, the vacuum in the basin is the tire chamber, and the sky holds the rainwater. Empty mountains are basin-shaped valleys formed by rainwater erosion from solid mountains. Reality and space constitute an environment in which life is nurtured. Up close, the mountain is made up of layers of limestone. Layers like patterns twist and extend into a circular environment, which is a pattern mountain. The mountains and mountains are covered with this pattern, the mountains are patterned mountains, and the village houses are in the magical painting of natural patterns. The mountain shape stretches out the shape of a phoenix, and the feathers of the phoenix stretch out into patterns. The patterned mountain and the phoenix bird form an exquisite combination of natural objects and birds.
Fengyi Village means Phoenix Coming, and its reputation also lies in the wonders derived from human skill.
In front of Fengyi Village, there are limestone mountains on the left and right, with only a little thin soil between the gaps in the stone mountains. The rocks are exposed and there are few herbs. According to Feng Shui, it is a dead mountain and a mountain full of evil spirits, making it inconvenient for human habitation. In the past, there were houses at the foot of the four mountains. However, due to the exposed rocks and the sparse population, they moved away. The ancestors who stayed here knew this very well and understood this truth. In order to survive, they were broad-minded and implemented a plan to transform the stone mountain environment. They used slash-and-burn farming to create layers of terraced fields in the gaps between the stone mountains.
The stone ridges are shaped like patterns, forming patterned mountains that surround the village. Patterned stones are used in the fields at the foot of the mountain, and stone field ridges and stone ridges are piled according to the mountain topography. The village houses have been nurtured for thousands of years in the patterned mountains carved by nature and human work. Grain crops grow in layers of green patterns, bloom in layers of flowers, and bear layers of golden fruits. Flowers, plants, trees and crops are all made up of a solid outer shell and a hollow space between the main trunk and the annual rings of the main trunk and an empty inner space. The water vapor of life is conveyed through the hollow space to nourish life. The patterns and colors on Phoenix Mountain change with the seasons, beautifying the village and people's hearts year after year. The stone mountain without vegetation is an empty mountain. The ancestors and descendants of the Yao people let the empty mountain grow food and herbs, which gave birth to human beings and created the beautiful scenery of human beings. This is a great and magical solid painting. The noble painter is the Miao Yao She people. On the terrace at the top of the mountain, there are ruins of a stone house built into a square shape. There is a large stone enclosure next to the stone house. There are several stone piles in the yard, which are intact. The stone piles are piled on the stone slabs. Their appearance is similar to the stone tombs of the Yao people. They may be Yao people's sacrificial places. Whether they are tombs or sacrificial sites, they all illustrate the Miao and Yao She people's natural worship of the sun and moon.
There are many patterned boulders in the patterned mountain. Some resemble sea lions, some resemble elephants, lying or running, with different shapes. It is called the Patterned Stone Museum. The entire village sits in the middle of terraces with stone patterns created by humans themselves, a painting of limestone created by humans themselves. It's so strange and amazing. The project is so huge that it cannot be accomplished by the strength of one person, nor by the strength of a family, nor by the strength of one spring, one autumn, or a hundred years. Only the strength of a family for thousands of years can create such a miracle in the world. , only a clansman with a hollow mind and a plan for family survival can create such a miraculous feat. Thousands of flowers with patterns and shapes bloom in full bloom according to the rules of being solid on the outside and empty on the inside, paying homage to the spirit of the ancestors;
3. Stepping into the patterned rock pit
A group of literati, in twos and threes, freely marrying The team walked up the highest mountain in Fengyi Village. This mountain is called Pattern Mountain. Walking along the patterned hard stone wall to the edge, a huge sinkhole appears in front of you. The tiankeng turned the mountain into an empty mountain, that is, an empty mountain with patterns, because the layers of rock resemble patterns. The formation of the tiankeng is due to millions of years of water erosion, forming a funnel shape, which is dug out and carved layer by layer, forming a solid cellar palace with a large top and a small bottom, and a round Tai Chi diagram. Because it is a layered rock mountain, the patterned sinkholes are natural patios, or caves. Both the inside and outside of the pit are decorated with patterns of divine craftsmanship and ghost carvings. Due to the distortion of the earth's crust, there are also vertical patterns on the pit walls. The bottom of the pit is as flat as a Tai Chi shape. No matter how much it rains, it all seeps into the ground from the bottom to form an underground river. Therefore, the tiankeng is an empty mountain and a water storage mountain. It can also be called Tianjing Mountain or Tiantan Mountain. There are rivers underground and even more empty mountains. The golden basin created by heaven and earth was placed in the Mufu Mountain area in the south of the Yangtze River. The ancient vines in the pit are as thick as the mouth of a bowl, circling like a dragon. This thousand-year-old vine has taken root in the cracks of the thousand-year-old stone and shows no trace of damage. The stone barriers are piled up against the stone walls of the tiankeng. The three circular stone barriers with a height of more than one meter are artificial Tai Chi circle diagrams. The enclosed area is the Tai Chi ladder, which is a palace cellar integrating artificial and natural. No one in the tiankeng felt that there was even a slight breeze blowing away the inner air exhaled by the earth, rocks, vegetation and cloth in the tiankeng. Without water to drain away a little vitality, the seeds in the palace cellar can be moistened with water and safely germinate, grow, bloom, and bear fruit. There are trees and herbs growing thickly inside the pit, and round bamboo poles outside the pit stand up against the wind, because the solid limestone walls are densely covered with gaps and store rainwater for the growth of vegetation. It is true that the air of the earth is stored in the sky of the mountains, and the true energy of the bamboos is stored in the sky. The true energy of living things is densely packed with living creatures. Insects, fish, birds and beasts conceive and give birth to children leisurely and happily in the tiankeng, and grow freely. It is really a happy garden of plants and animals. Comfort zone. The stone terraces in Mufu Mountain are the ingenuity of the Yao people. This is the reproductive palace cellar for the maternal cultural relics of the Yao people that I have discussed. The tiankeng is a cellar and a mother palace, which has the function of pregnant seeds and children. Bamboo joints, fetal cellars, stretch out to the sky to absorb the brilliance of the sun and moon, dredge the deep essence of the patterned mountains, fill the knots with full energy, and educate people with their essence, spirit and wisdom.
This is a rainy subtropical area. The limestone mountain has been carved into many patterned caves and many underground patterned stone rivers flow. There are many caves in the mountain, and there are patterned sinkholes all over Kongti Mountain, making it a patterned hollow mountain. The stone body of the empty mountain is a solid wall with patterns, and the space in the empty mountain is a palace womb with patterns. There are hundreds of patterned sinkholes here, forming a patterned sinkhole group, the top of the iron-pointed stone peak, the unfathomable crater sinkhole, and the stone walls are inlaid with many paleontological coral fossils. Thousands of tiankeng empty spaces hide the seeds of plant patterns, and the empty spaces hide the roots of animal patterns. This is a place of vacuum, where Chang'e draped her hollow body in patterns and flew into the sky to become an immortal. Billions of patterned fruits follow the principle of being solid on the outside and empty on the inside. They are full and mature, offering sacrifices to the soul of nature.
4. Walking through the Jinsha Mountain Stone Cave
The sky above the stone mountain is a tiankeng, the bottom of the mountain is an underground river, and the mountainside is a cave.
They are all solid and hard, but there is emptiness in the reality. The emptiness and reality are combined. The pattern carvings and paintings inside and outside the cave are connected into a whole. They are the stone hollow sculptures of the magical power of nature. The stone carvings of this kind of limestone caves are all over the pattern mountain. The water erodes silently, bit by bit.
Following the introduction of the village secretary, we approached the Feixian Stone Cave at the foot of Huaping Mountain, which is more than 600 meters above sea level in Tingsi Ancient Town. Outside the cave, tens of thousands of acres of green bamboo swayed in the wind in a fairy-like manner. Above the cave entrance is Fairy pattern stone looks like a fairy flying into the sky. Underneath the Fairy Stone is the Feixian Pattern Stone Cave. According to records: At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the eminent monk Zhi Zong of Huguang practiced cultivation in the cave for eighty-one years. Today, there is a wordless stone tablet given by the emperor in the fifty-seventh year of Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty (1792). The stone cave was formed three and a half million years ago. The main cave is 1,500 meters long, with a maximum drop of more than 40 meters. It is in the form of a spiral staircase and resembles a three-dimensional stone maze. The upper level is the Stone Hall Immortal Palace, with stalactites and strange stones forming various rare birds and animals, including golden monkeys and male lions, which are lifelike. The most peculiar thing is the musical stone waterfall, which can produce fourteen-level stone scales and play simple music, which is a unique thing in China. The middle layer is the Stone Dragon Palace: the wonders of Tianchi, the flowing Tianhe River, the Dinghai Divine Needle, and the treasures of the Dragon Palace. The dragon in the Dragon Palace enters the sea, and it is lifelike. There are still traces of the dinosaur fossils left on the stone wall, and the dragon's head and tail are clearly visible. The third layer is the stone seabed, with undulating veins of stone mountains on the seabed. There are patterned stone caves in the patterned stone mountains, and the stone mountains are hidden in the stone caves. There are patterned stone caves such as Feixian Cave, Hongmao Cave, and Liubi Cave in Huawen Mountain.
Near Huawen Mountain, it is said that it was dug by Taiyi Zhenren to control floods for the people. The cave has stalactites hanging upside down and stalagmites standing in groups. There are patterned stone scenes such as the Taiyi statue, the God-given drum, the divine dragon lying on the waves, and the natural stone waterfall. At the highest point is the patterned stone smart spring. It is said that washing hands with this spring water can make people smart. There is a patterned stone pearl tower in the cave. The rippled layer of rare fish scales in China has been nurtured for millions of years. There is a patterned stone hall that can accommodate ten thousand people. There is a patterned cave in the patterned cave and a patterned landscape hidden in the patterned scene. It is known as the first patterned cave in Chutian.
The Mingshuiquan Huawen Cave near Huawen Mountain consists of three caves: Mingquan Cave, Baima Cave and Tianxin Cave. It is the source of Ganhe River in the west. The cave has three floors, six patterned stone branch caves and nine patterned stone entrances. There is a patterned hall with a height of 80 meters and a width of 200 meters, which can accommodate ten thousand people. There are two places of water flowing in the cave, and the cave has wonderful scenery, with numerous stalactites: Chang'e Linchen, Wu Gang holding wine, Panyou stone pillars, Jade Rabbit pounding medicine, ascending stone, psychic turtle, Yuzhu Peak, Wandi Rock and other patterned stone scenes. It is the first patterned stone cave in Chutian, the first underground patterned stone reservoir in Asia, the first patterned stone cave sinking base in the country, and the first natural patterned stone Buddha in the world.
The rocks allow water to seep into the ground and form underground rivers. The gentle force of the water has silently eroded and carved out the patterned stone caves for millions of years, and they are still moving silently deep into the depths of time. Let the water rinse and rub. The patterned stone peaks are more like the steepness of Huashan Mountain and the majesty of Mount Tai, making people marvel at the infinite wonders of the natural stone palace. The patterned stone cave is a refuge for local people to avoid the disasters of war and war. For centuries, people with patterns and patterns have continued their descendants according to the rules of solid outside and empty inside, and worshiped the kindness of the earth.
5. Bathing in the Grotto Hot Spring
After observing the night, although my body is tired and my feet are sore, I can receive the insight of studying things and gain knowledge. My heart is empty and comfortable, and my body is smooth and comfortable. The motorcade drove out of Fengyi Village and passed through Tingsi Town to the nationally famous hot spring town. Everyone wanted to have dinner and take a bath in the hot springs to relieve fatigue and treat some diseases caused by life and work. This is a limestone landform. Due to the erosion of groundwater, the hard rock has cracks to form grottoes. The grottoes go deep into the stratum and are exposed to geothermal heat. Hot water is formed and spews out 600 meters above the ground to form hot springs. It was developed and utilized more than 1,400 years ago. During the Song Dynasty, the hot spring boiling waves were listed as one of the eight scenic spots in Xianning. The spring water spurts out of the patterned cave, the water stirs up the rock, boils, and the mist evaporates. It is called the rainbow shadow of the hot spring, and it can also be called the patterned boiling pool. The spring water is light yellow, steaming like sitting in a hothouse, flowing through the gaps in the rocks. The sand is boiling and bubbling, it is as hot as a cauldron, and the water is like soup. Bathing in it can cure diseases. Hot springs dissolve more than ten minerals such as sulfate, carbonate, calcium, magnesium, potassium, and sodium from deep rocks into medicinal baths. The medicinal water lasts all year round and its medicinal properties never weaken. It is a gift from nature. The medicine for human health is actually water: it has obvious curative effects in treating chronic neck, shoulder, waist and leg pain, arthritis, neuritis, rheumatism and various skin diseases. It is the most unique original hot spring in Central China. There are Tiangong Twelve Eyes Hot Spring in the urban area and many hot spring clusters built outside the city, such as Jiayushan Lake Hot Spring, Chibi Longyou Hot Spring and Chongyang Langkou Hot Spring. Wanhao Hot Spring Valley is located in Qianshan National Forest Park, Xianning Hot Spring Town. The spring water is blended with Chinese medicinal materials such as ginseng and angelica, as well as jasmine, roses, lilies, etc. It is suitable for all types of people to take baths for health, beauty, and fitness. The medicated bath is fragrant; you can take a dip in the fitness center, and the bath is for conditioning; the spiritual spring is smooth, warm and moist; it can strengthen muscles, bones, and activate blood; it can protect skin, replenish energy, and regulate secretion; it can promote circulation, soften cuticles, and slim down muscles. Take a bath wherever you want and become enchanted. The Yaochi Hot Spring Resort on the banks of the Ganshui River in Xianning City is an original ecological, garden-style open-air hot spring that perfectly combines the profound Buddhist bathing philosophy, hollow culture and rich hot spring health and fitness culture to achieve the unity of nature and man. Realm, that is, the Xianning realm. Relying on medical treatment to reach the Xianning realm. Two years ago, I wrote a long poem about Xianning, a medical classic. It sung about the myth and legend of Hou Yi, who went to the hot springs to cure his injuries and diseases, and went to the war in good health to help the people live in Xianning. The hot springs are actually the Quandu Medical Palace, and the Xiangcheng City is actually the Medicine Palace. Only through medical treatment can we reach Xianning.
One hot spring is a medical palace, and more than 20 hot springs are scattered all over. Naturally, it is a hot spring group and a medical palace group. Xianning City is known as the capital of hot springs and the capital of natural medicine in China. With so many medical palaces treating diseases and keeping the body and mind healthy, people naturally live here in Xianning. Living here, generations of people with tattooed bodies have healed their bodies according to the principle of solid outside and empty inside, and worshiped the gift of hot springs.
There are no stone gullies here that scare ghosts in the East African Rift Valley, nor are there the Shigou River in the Enshi Grand Canyon that shocks the gods, nor are there the magical stone pillars in Zhangjiajie, but the experts and scholars who participated in the inspection are all Surprised by the patterned stone landscape that perfectly combines nature and man-made work, we all agree that the patterned stone bridge group, the limestone patterned mountain strange stone group, the patterned mountain tiankeng (wells, nests) group, the patterned karst cave group and the patterned stone hot spring group, the Yao ethnic pattern The stone base group is a unique landscape of Xianning stone culture. The development of tourism lies in tracing the roots of national culture; the significance of publicity lies in educating people on patriotic moral character. The south gate of Xianning Hubei is the land of Jiuli Alliance, the hometown of Sanmiao, and the birthplace of Miao, Yao and She people. It controls Wu Yue and Jing Chu. Tingsiqiao Town flourished in the Tang Dynasty, flourished in the Song Dynasty, and prospered in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Along the ancient tea and hemp road in Tingsi, there were twelve Jinshis in the Ming and Qing Dynasties alone, two number one scholars, and the four surnames Zhou, Hu, Huang, and Zhu all had the honor of being two brothers in the same subject. There are also many talents outside Tingsi Town. Whether it is being appointed as a prefect, being appointed as a county magistrate, being an official to the supervisory censor or deputy prime minister, whether it is a quaint old stone street, whether it is a jasper tea garden with fragrant fragrance all over the world, whether it is The thousand-year-old ginkgo and century-old osmanthus, which are named the best in the country, constitute a unique patterned stone landscape in the south of the Yangtze River. As far as I know, Longjiao Mountain is a landscape of colorful patterned stones, Huangpao Mountain is a landscape of blue and black patterned stones, and Jinsha is White patterned stone landscape. These patterned environments have a solid outer body and an empty interior, with water vapor inside to breed life and culture: Confucian gods have empty desires and have the world in mind; Taoism and immortals have empty hearts and help the common people; Buddhas and Bodhisattvas have empty hearts and are compassionate to all things. The rocks are hollow, filled with the water of life; the plants are hollow, filled with vitality; the human body is hollow, with the spirit of veins flowing through. All things are empty, Ming Dynasty must have realized it.
3 The maple leaves are quiet and beautiful
The golden wind has sent away the brilliant summer flowers and ushered in the golden autumn. The apple trees bent their waists with smiles, and each apple tree was rich in wealth. People rush to show off their wealth and compete to see who is the richest person here. At this time, red lanterns are also hung high on the persimmons, illuminating the way for pedestrians walking at night. At this time, Maple Leaf put on her red makeup, looked at the sky in the distance, and remained silent.
I remember the first time I came into contact with Maple Leaf was when I saw it in an article. There is also an interesting story in the article: It is said that a rich man once hired a young man to take care of his livestock. One day, when the young man was feeding the pigs, he found that there was not enough pig food in the pig trough to eat. The young man was curious, so he put the coin Put it in the pig trough and find that there are not enough coins in it. On the day of checkout, the young man offered to use the pig trough in exchange for his monthly salary. The rich man agreed to him without saying a word. The man couldn't carry the pig trough down the mountain by himself, so he buried the pig trough in the soil and planted a small branch on it as a mark. When he brought people from the bottom of the mountain, he found that the mountains and fields were covered with trees and the pig trough was nowhere to be found. From then on, there was Xiangshan in Beijing and the famous red leaves of Xiangshan. From then on, I gradually came into contact with maple leaves and developed a special emotion for them.
The fiery red maple leaves stand on the branches, staring into the distance, as if waiting for something. The dense place is like a burning flame, with leaves surrounding each other and supporting each other. The maple leaves stretch freely and are full of wildness. The late autumn wind and frost came unexpectedly, hitting the red palms mercilessly. My heart trembled unconsciously. When I was calm, I heard the slight sobs of the maple leaves. They stood on the branch dripping with blood, without saying a word. They looked at each other's cheeks, smiled slightly, and looked into the distance. The blood left their bodies drop by drop, dripping on the branches, hitting the trunk, and falling into the soil. Hanxin Qiuyu also came to join in the fun, trying his best to use his housekeeping skills, and fell into Maple Leaf's heart drop by drop. The heat soaked in the maple leaves extinguished the fire that should not have been ignited.
Late autumn has passed and winter has come. The north wind was blowing hard, and many flowers had already withered. Occasionally, there were still one or two leaves struggling on the branches. The maple leaves gradually turned yellow. They knew that their time was up and they knew what they should do. They followed the wind resolutely. The north wind was like a sharp knife, piercing the maple leaves fiercely. . Maple Leaf's heart was pierced, and red blood surged out of it, but their hearts were still beating and their blood was still steaming. The five main parts have been cut into pieces, and the hands and feet have long been separated, leaving only the fine remaining leaves. Slowly they fell to the ground, quietly guarding the roots of the maple tree. No matter how far they walked, they would never forget their roots, which were the roots that gave birth to them and raised them. . Although they were mercilessly tortured, they did not complain, because this was the process of their lives. They turned into spring mud to protect their true hearts, and they would still smile and look at the trees full of blood-red maple leaves next year.
The sweet apples have long been picked by people, protected from the wind, frost and rain, and the little red lanterns have already laid down in the gentle land and entered a sweet dreamland. They may be listening to a lullaby. Maple leaves have seen the last autumn, they have witnessed the replacement of autumn and winter, and spent their extraordinary lives.
Several maple leaves in the distance are waving to me, as if they are saying goodbye to me. Go, you will be more beautiful in heaven. The shadow of the leaf gradually fades away, leaving only a drop of bright red blood, as quiet and beautiful as a dead maple leaf.