Linzhou near Taihang Mountain —— Crawling in the crevice of the cliff of Taihang Mountain

There are too many war films and documentaries related to Taihang, and too many heroes and historical stories related to Taihang are touching.

The majestic Taihang stretches for more than 800 miles, divided into North Taihang, South Taihang and West Taihang. The magnificent West Taihang (the junction of Linzhou City in Anyang, Henan Province and Huguan County in Changzhi, Shanxi Province) is an outdoor destination. From 6 am to 5: 30 pm, the bus traveled more than 900 kilometers and finally arrived in Linzhou, Anyang City, Henan Province.

Every time I travel far, I feel strange and cramped in a foreign land, but in this small town in the north, I feel the kindness of a stranger.

At night, Linzhou lights are flashing, and one booth after another is familiar with the square dance not far away. On Longtoushan, Longhu Longtoushan City Park, Wenfeng Tower is brightly lit, as striking as a lighthouse guiding the direction.

In the night sky, the moon passes through the clouds, wiping her face with clouds from time to time, revealing Zhang Mingliang's face and reflecting the earth. On the seventeenth day of the eighth lunar month, the moon in Linzhou is still bright and round, as if it poured from the fifteenth in the south of the Yangtze River to the seventeenth in North China. ?

At the moment, standing in the night of Linzhou, the moon and the tower shadow are poetically rippling in the water, which is quite a bit of a water town in the south of the Yangtze River. I just don't know if this water was introduced through the famous Hongqi Canal.

When the industrious and brave Linzhou people struggled for nearly ten years, they only used a hammer, a shovel and two hands to build the "artificial Tianhe" Red Flag Canal with a total length of 1500 km on the cliffs of Taihang Mountain. The bitter history of ten years and nine years of drought and expensive water ended, which gave birth to the spirit of "self-reliance, hard struggle, unity and cooperation and selfless dedication" that Linzhou people are extremely proud of.

The second day's eyebrow climbing is located in the Taihang Grand Canyon in Linzhou. "Eyebrow climbing" is a common name of local villagers. The so-called "mountain eyebrows" are the stone crevices on the cliffs of Taihang Mountain, which are like eyebrows on the cliffs. Only one person can climb in the gap, and it is surrounded by abyss, which exercises people's courage and physical strength.

From a distance in the car, the continuous peaks are not high, but as they approach, the mountains become tall and majestic. Being in a canyon, completely surrounded by mountains. As seen in movies and TV series, nothing grows on the precipice of Taihang Mountain, which divides the peak into layers in an orderly way, just like the annual rings of the mountain. The first layer is hundreds of millions of years, solid and heavy.

The guide who picked us up couldn't tell her age, but the wrinkles on her face were like the Taihang Mountain around her, layer after layer. The speech seems incomprehensible, "You just missed it!" "It's too big to pass!" It took me several times to understand that we were worried that our bags were too big to pass the narrow "mountain eyebrows", so everyone quickly "slimmed down".

Every time you climb a mountain, you have to explore the unknown. The mountain road between the Taihang Mountain Canyon winds endlessly among the towering peaks. When the mountain blocks the line of sight like a wall and thinks there is no way out, you don't want to look back, and your body turns to the next peak like a wall.

Hawthorn trees and wild dates along the way (of course, they are all known because of the fruits on the trees), and unknown wild fruits are flashing in the bushes around them, which is very novel.

The red hawthorn on the tree makes people greedy, but it is swallowed by the population at once. However, the hawthorn that naturally falls under the tree should be mature, and smart donkey friends will pick it up and share it with me. It was a bittersweet experience.

Although eyebrow climbing is crawling in the gap between high cliffs, it gives people a sense of security to snuggle into the mountains, so when climbing eyebrows, they will not feel timid and panic. After that, all the donkey friends who climbed over their eyebrows had a triumphant sense of success.

If eyebrow climbing is a form of rock climbing that requires both physical strength and courage, then rock climbing is a way that requires more physical strength, courage and skills.

When a rock wall of more than ten meters appeared in front of me at a vertical angle of nearly 90 degrees like a wall, it seemed like a "duel" for me who had never tried rock climbing. The steep gap I just climbed up is not as scary as this cliff, not to mention the wind blowing from time to time in my ear. At this time, how important is a strong psychological quality.

Seeing the rope hanging from a height and constantly drifting from side to side, I was flustered. I don't know how the earth guide who just followed me appeared on the top of the high cliff again. Several brave donkey friends had already climbed the cliff.

From time to time, the ground guide told the climbing donkey friend in far-fetched Mandarin: "Hold on to the rope and push your feet up hard!" " Although panic, but no way back, no one can help you, can only rely on their own courage and strength to continue upward.

A donkey friend slipped while climbing, which was shocking to see, but she finally climbed up bravely. However, I didn't succeed the first time. Finally, by observing others carefully and tying a reassuring rope around my waist, under the guidance of my teammates, I finally succeeded in climbing for the first time in my life and comforted my first failure.

The ups and downs of life should be done step by step, and the wisdom of "self-reliance and hard struggle" has been deeply embodied here and now, which makes people feel the same.