A person's essay on Bajiaozhai

Look at the flowers blooming and falling, and look at the clouds rolling and relaxing.

Unlike most people who follow the trend and stand out from the crowd, I prefer being alone to getting together. In my spare time, I have a cane chair and two books. I can sit on the three-foot balcony for half a day and put four or five pots of flowers and plants. On weekends or longer holidays, I often travel around famous mountains and rivers, visit historical sites and hunt legends alone. After that, all kinds of local customs and historical materials were marked, and the dross was washed away.

15 years ago, I began to climb the lattice and tap the keyboard, dabble in supplements, and traveled all over the counties and cities around Guilin to collect folk customs and places of interest, such as the century-old Mazu in Huashan Village, Pingle County, the sparsely populated Dafa Yaoshan Mountain, and Gui Jiang, one of the three rivers. Baishouyan, Yongfu County, and the ancient rock crossing road of Yongning Ancient City; Longji and Zhuangzhai in Longsheng County; Lingchuan county Dawei, Jiangzhoutou. On March 8, a year ago, in Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County, Liuzhou City, the hometown of Hundred Festivals, Chengyang Yufeng Bridge and Danzhou Ancient City; Before Tanabata this year, in Bajiaozhai, Ziyuan County.

Ten miles in the next day, the car leaves Lingui, wears Guilin and enters Ziyuan County. I don't know how many miles I have walked. The crowds that followed in the city before, and the queues that followed, have long since faded out of people's sight; On both sides of the window, under the blue sky, the majestic Xiong Feng is covered with lush bamboo and wood, and the Zijiang River at the foot of Xiong Feng flows slowly from time to time, and sometimes it is full of passion.

Bajiaozhai, located in Meixi Township, was once rated as the most beautiful Danxia in China by chinese national geography magazine, and was called "the soul of Danxia". Danxia landform area has often become a battleground for military strategists in past dynasties. Bajiaozhai as a mountain village, hundreds of years ago. So far, only Zhaimen and a pile of city walls in the southwest are left, which are 50 meters long, 5 meters high and 8 meters thick. It can be said that "one person keeps it, and ten thousand people can't force it." During the light years of the Qing Dynasty, Lei Zaihuo, the leader of the peasant uprising, camped in Bajiaozhai, rose up and launched a massive peasant uprising.

The Bajiaozhai in the tourist guide generally refers to Meixi Township in Ziyuan County, Guangxi, Langshan Town in Xinning County, Hunan Province and the magical mountain range of more than 60 kilometers in Fiona Fang. There are many natural landscapes in the mountains, such as stone villages, stone pillars, caves, stone alleys and patterns, which were formed by crustal movement hundreds of millions of years ago. They were formed by flowing water, collapse, weathering and dissolution. It is named after Yuntai Mountain, the main peak, which has eight oblique angles.

Tang Jie, a local tour guide and driver, told me: Meixi means a stream where plum blossoms are scattered. Meixi River is a famous tributary of Zijiang River, which flows through high mountains and valleys. When there are many guests, Tang Jie uses the shuttle bus; Single tourists use motorcycles. We rode a motorcycle from Meixi to Bajiaozhai, an unknown river, and the abrupt tall mountain "river stone" came into view. The stone blocking the river in the blue sky and white clouds is about 100 meters high, which makes the river divert and translocate.

Mountains are landscapes, and landscapes are mountains. Bajiaozhai is a national geological park, protected by local intangible cultural heritage. Although Labyrinth, Descending Longyan, Eye Stone and Watching the Sky with Snails are all behemoths, they are all lifelike. Walking in Stone Hutong (at first sight), Liang Shi, Barrier Valley, Dragon Ridge, Ladder, etc. Everyone felt magical and shocked, and the beating heart seemed to jump out of the body from the chest. Hanging coffins are still left in caves high in the mountains, but the hanging coffins in Bajiaozhai are beyond the reach of ordinary tourists, and non-archaeologists and folk experts have no chance to visit them in person.

Yuntai Mountain, the highest place in Bajiaozhai, is named after "the sea of clouds arches the sun and looks like a lotus platform". It is one of the 72 blessed places of Taoism, ranking 4 1. The famous mountain is an ancient temple, and there are Daxiong Hall and Tiangong Temple on Yuntai Mountain. Daxiong Hall was built at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty and expanded during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. It has been more than a thousand years, and it is magnificent and brilliant. Tiangong Temple was built in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, and it was named Yuntai Temple and Tianxin Palace. Legend has it that Guanyin Bodhisattva returned to the South China Sea, passed Tianxin Temple and stopped to give a lecture. The Buddha's light and rosy clouds often appear in the back hall, so it was renamed. For thousands of years, the temple has been a Buddhist holy place in northern Guangxi and southern Hunan. There are many monks, and incense is flourishing. Every year on February 19th, June 19th and September 19th of the lunar calendar, there are a sea of people, and pilgrims are unprecedented.

The most interesting thing is that Yuntai Mountain burns "dragon head incense". The faucet in Yuntai Mountain is about 99 meters long and less than 10 cm wide. It is like a dragon flying with its head held high, up to the sky and down to the abyss. The mountain is majestic and steep. Since ancient times, pilgrims like to burn incense here, hence the name "leading incense". The difference is that the "dragon head incense" is not offered by pilgrims themselves. The pilgrims who stayed at the foot of the mountain the night before slept until four or five o'clock, got up dressed, dressed in Dai Yue, climbed the stone steps and walked through the trees, and arrived at the top of Yuntai Mountain early. Please ask the monk to move the dragon neck to the dragon head and bow down to learn the scriptures, no matter the rain or the wind.

Climb Bajiaozhai, climb Yuntai Mountain and overlook the clouds and peaks. There are three ways to watch the sunrise and sunset: climbing stairs, riding horses and go on road trip. From Langshan Town, Xinning County, Hunan Province, the stone steps are slightly gentle and there are not many steps. It's different from Meixi. The steps are hidden in the depths of bamboo and wood, and they are all built on the edge of steep rocks. Climb up and turn down, then turn up and climb up. There are several shady halls along the way for the elderly, children and other people who are physically exhausted to rest. There are also tourists who are curious and seek excitement in Langshan Town. The lean horse is calm and powerful, and all the way "Benedict" falls. At the cliff or corner, the owner of the horse made a fence out of bamboo and wood, which frightened the tourists. Sightseeing along the cableway by car is not included in this article.

Chen Aiping, female, 45 years old, slightly fat. She lives in Wangbei Village, Langshan Town, ten miles from Yuntai Mountain. She provides cakes, snacks, mosquito-repellent incense and other things to tourists on the ridge of Yuntai Mountain. Because of her early death, her mother was unable to support her five brothers and sisters, so she had to entrust Chen Aiping to her aunt. Time flies and life is hard, which makes Chen Aiping develop a peaceful mentality of enduring humiliation, hard work, tolerance and gratitude. For twelve years, she insisted on going to bed at nine o'clock every night, getting up at two o'clock in the middle of the night to get ready, going on the road at three o'clock, reaching the top of Yuntai Mountain at five o'clock, and so on. In the dead of night, Chen Aiping carried dozens of pounds of cakes and snacks, fruit scented paper or drinking water, and crossed more than 1,000 steps. Its difficulty is self-evident. But in the face of those picky guests who ask to wash their hands before meals or bargain, she never tires of asking questions and comes to everyone. In her words: "We came early, didn't we just want our guests to leave their money here?" As long as his request is not too much. "

"Everything is clear and knowledgeable, and the cultivation of human feelings is an article." This is the couplet in Cao Xueqin's Dream of Red Mansions. Bajiaozhai and Yuntai Mountain, I don't know how many vicissitudes and customs you have experienced. I only know that you are a monk and a layman. Every grass and tree, every mountain and water is a scenic spot for every tourist.