Qingzhou, the ancient capital of Xinluo

Gyeongju is the capital of Silla (57-935 BC), the longest ruling country in Korean history, representing the Silla Kingdom with a history of more than 900 years. Teachers who attend classes are also highly recommended. It takes only one hour by train from Daejeon. It is rare to travel alone, so write a kind of travel notes.

Starting from home at 7: 30 in the morning, I stopped a taxi on the side of the road and spent less than 20 yuan to get to the railway station. Think of several German students who went to Busan last weekend and insisted on walking to the railway station for 50 minutes at 5 am at MINUS 5 degrees. They also want to call names. I can't figure out why these people come all the way to Korea to have a party every night, let alone why people who spend thousands of dollars a night save a few dollars on taxi fares. Put it aside for the time being.

There are some mistakes in the way of traveling. I found this problem when I bought the ticket. From the train station in Daejeon to the new Qingzhou station, I feel that there are two cities away from the scenic spots I want to visit. I didn't know the difference between selling tickets in English and sign language at the railway station, so I bought tickets directly. Check if there is a shuttle bus to the Buddhist temple at the new Qingzhou station. It takes nearly 2 hours and I have a direct headache. Come back to see the strategy from Seoul to Gyeongju. It seems that there is also a direct coach, the fare is cheaper, and the overall time is similar.

I often told Cong Ge these two days that if you don't make careful arrangements in advance, you must leave some time and budget buffer for yourself. Well, that makes sense.

Wandering in a daze on the train, I will arrive soon. It is really cold in the morning. I really admire watching Korean children show their ankles.

Turn left at the railway station, and you can easily find the No.700 bus you want to take. The bus driver flew all the way and arrived at the Buddhist temple in less than an hour and a half. He was still drooling at the station to meet Duke Zhou, and he heard several foreign girls next to him say in English, Yes, this is the last stop, and everyone got off. . . I am a carp, haha.

Last week, I visited the Haidong Dragon Palace in Busan. The biggest feeling is that visiting historical sites in Korea won't make me feel like I'm abroad, and even the language barrier is basically gone, because the stone tablets are all in Chinese. The overall atmosphere of Buddhist temples is no stranger. The structure of cornices with upturned corners, the color matching of carved beams and painted columns, and the image of evil bodhisattva are basically consistent with what we are familiar with. Let's look at a set of photos.

There are always many people who pray devoutly. I stood in front of the Buddha for a while, not knowing what to wish for. My desire is so strong that I am embarrassed to talk to Buddha, lest he make fun of me, an ignorant human being, for being so greedy. On second thought, what I asked may not be what I wanted at all.

Maybe next time, when I know what I want.

In the back hall, I met Jin Qiaojue, a Tibetan Bodhisattva. It is written in Chinese about the Silla royal family. In the Tang Dynasty, they crossed the ocean and came to Jiuhua Mountain in Anhui Province to practice Buddhism and finally achieved great success. I gave a good greeting to the Earth Treasure King Bodhisattva, and it felt like meeting an old friend in another country.

The whole Buddhist temple is covered with prayer lanterns. Standing in the wishes of so many people, I suddenly felt a little touched. I wonder if the Buddha heard the wind blowing lanterns. When the prayer wrote down his wish, the sadness or joy in his heart seemed to pass through time and space and gently passed through my body.

I looked for it, mostly in Korean, and I also saw English and Japanese. I can't see Chinese characters. In my impression, China people always meet gods and worship temples, or do many people want as much as I do? Come to think of it, forget it. Try it yourself, and you won't disturb the busy gods and buddhas.

I was inexplicably moved and moved to see a family coming to the Buddhist temple with their children. I think the Buddhist temple is such a strange place. I have seen many joys and sorrows, heard many confidences and prayers for hundreds of years. I don't know if the Buddha should respond, but people still keep coming. There is the greatest desire and love for life, and there is also the strongest uncontrollable and helpless fate. I almost cried several times. But I have long suspected that there may be something wrong with my hormones. Ha ha.

Is this a Korean "religious" custom that I don't quite understand? A group of people scooped water with a small ladle. I guess this is a spring that brings peace and good luck? I saw something similar in the Dragon Palace Temple in the East China Sea. Psychological construction has been carried out several times, and thousands of people drink water with these spoons a day, which is a bit unbearable.

When I was hungry after visiting the Buddhist temple, I went to the stick country to buy sticks to eat.

After eating the stick, I'm going to continue hiking to Seokguram. I saw that the roads in the distance were basically 45 degrees slopes, and I didn't see any passers-by at all. After all, I have accumulated some life experience over the years and feel that there should be fraud here. I found a young Korean girl. Maybe she asked for directions and answered. It takes 1 hour to walk slowly. . . Fortunately, with her help, I found the bus up the hill. When I got on the bus, the old driver insisted that I fasten my seat belt. I have no time. Before I put away my wallet, the driver's master directly helped me fasten my seat belt. Gear, throttle, let's go. Then there was a fierce operation, and finally I understood why he insisted on wearing a seat belt. All the way to Panshan Highway, turn at a constant speed for 40 miles without braking, one-handed steering wheel, perfect turning angle! I can't help but give the master a video. Unfortunately, I can't share it here.

Seokguram itself is not good. The highlight should be that when the Buddhist grottoes came to Korea, they encountered a problem of regional differences, a problem of integration of globalization and localization. Originally, carving grottoes to build Buddha statues was a cost-reducing project, which was much simpler than building temples and towers. After coming to Korea, Koreans found that their stones were particularly hard and difficult to chisel, because they were all hard granite. No, we have to build a grotto with stones, which is equivalent to a neat grotto. It takes time and energy to reduce costs and directly turn yourself into the world's number one (or only)? ) artificial grottoes.

Photographing is not allowed at the scene, and the people in line take a glance 10 second. Look for a picture on the Internet. After all, I have been to Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang, so I won't comment.

There are cave temples and Buddhist temples on Tuhan Mountain, and the distant mountains fluctuate greatly. Come hiking in summer, the scenery should be good. It's winter, after all, it's a little cold.

It was a fine sunny day, but it was very cold, and I was completely frozen. Unfortunately, my photographer didn't come, and I didn't have my own long-legged photo.

I just caught the bus to the next stop when I went down the mountain. When I got on the bus to buy a ticket, I found that I only had a ticket of 1 1,000 won, and the ticket was 1 1,700 won. The driver told me in nonstandard Chinese, wait a minute. When everyone gets on the bus, signal me to lose money, and then smile and say to me, I'm sorry. I haven't reacted yet. He began to press the button to find money. You gave me 8300 of the 500 won coins. Ha ha.

East Palace and Moon Lake are the former sites of Silla Palace, where many cultural relics of Silla Kingdom have been unearthed. The photos on the internet are like this:

I really saw it with my own eyes. I didn't even take a picture. The water in the pond is almost dry. Sporadic pavilions were built on a large open space. . . This is an ancient capital in history. I see, but then what? . .

Comfort myself, go to the museum first, go to the museum first, I must have opened the wrong one. I heard that the night scene is beautiful. Come back when the light is on.

The museum is free to visit and basically displays the unearthed cultural relics of Silla Kingdom. Koreans are extremely meticulous about the preservation of the collection, which can be seen everywhere from the restoration and placement of exhibits. I can't help but think of the stone tablets and columns piled up at random in Egyptian museums, just like the material factory on the construction site. In ancient Egypt, the mummies of pharaohs and court dignitaries were randomly placed on wooden shelves on the walls without even a glass cover. I'm really afraid they'll be angry. Civilization thousands of years ago, I'll treat you to dessert.

The museum is not big, and it is dying after visiting it.

I came out to see the school village before dark. At this time, I ran out of the road again. I didn't find the school village, but I saw a famous scenic star station in Gyeongju. It is said that it was built by the Queen Silla Shande in the 7th century and is the oldest observatory in Asia at present. But are you serious, Queen Sander? You came all this way to show me this

The foreign language translation of various scenic spots is also very interesting. "Don't touch. Please look at it with your own eyes. " Ha ha.

Looking back at the Moon Lake in the East Palace, it is really crowded at this time. It was really cold, and I hardly followed the crowd around me. The most attractive photos are:

I really feel that I have taken great pains for this scenic spot. All kinds of lights, some ancient music played in the small speakers along the way, trying to create a kind of palace artistic conception with high walls and inner courtyard, royal desolation and loneliness. But to be honest, I really can't get into the play unless I travel in situ.

I was lucky enough to run around and catch the bus to New Qingzhou Station. It is really cold. The return train starts from Busan, just like the movie A Trip to Busan. Another brain hole.

So that's it. It is not easy to write a travel note. Encourage yourself to write more later. My goldfish memory, many beautiful things, what a pity to forget.