Travel Notes of Liupanshui in Fan Jing

That summer, the six of us drove from Fenghuang Ancient City to Fan Jing in Tongren, Guizhou. About 30 kilometers to the west, we came to the boundary of Tongren. After meeting our counterparts in Guizhou at the border, we went directly to Fan Jing. According to the itinerary, we took the western route, that is, from Yinjiang County to the mountain, and then from Jiangkou County to the mountain. After lunch, we finally came to the foot of Fan Jingshan. Suddenly, we saw a magnificent mountain peak and a primitive oasis in front of us. The mountains are vigorous and tall, and the vegetation is tight and secluded. The back mountain winds up along the simple highway of the fire escape. The mountain road is steeper and steeper, and the trees on both sides are denser and lower. Although it is the peak of the scorching sun, the mountain wind still makes people feel clear and cool. We got off at Chehuguo Temple and had a short rest for ten minutes. Then we went up the mountain, drove past the doorplate building and wrote four bronzing characters on Brahma Buddha's land. I think this is the entrance to the back hill. The road is getting narrower and narrower, and the speed is slowing down. Among cicadas and some unknown insects and birds, we enjoyed the purest sound of nature. Almost all the people who went with us fell asleep in the cool breeze, as if I was the only one thinking slowly in the reverberation between the car and the outside world. The bus finally stopped and I saw a row of blue brick houses on the left side of the road. There are many white or yellow tourist hats pointing to distant mountains in twos and threes to take pictures or make gestures. With the brief introduction and guidance of the comrades who went to Tongren, a 10,000-meter-long reclining Buddha appeared in front of us, in the distant horizon. She was lying on her back in the north-south direction, and her head, neck and abdomen were so clearly displayed before our eyes. According to my colleagues in Guizhou, it is a blessing to see it today, because fog is hard to see at ordinary times. After sighing, everyone found that the place where they stood was not the peak of Fan Jing, but only a small mountainside at most. Seen from a distance, this community seems small, but its outline is clear. A branch in the distance was crushed. That's the mountain wind. Very cool.

It was already 5 pm when we started climbing the mountain beam. Several middle-aged men with dark skin and lean skin got together to drum up their skating business. Although standing here, the top of the mountain is still clear, but it takes more than two hours to walk from here to the top of the mountain. Moreover, people who need to take slides here, regardless of age or sex, are only priced according to their weight. We asked the guests for two pairs of sliding bars to accompany them. On this 2000-meter-high ridge trail, a mountain road in Gansu looms, and the steps paved with bluestones go straight to the top of the mountain. Real mountain climbing is lonely. You need to overlook the sunset here. There are steep mountain walls on both sides, and mushroom stones independently support the clouds. Taizi Stone looks at his mother on the mountain, and thousands of books in the shape of scrolls are faintly visible, sighing, admirable and desirable. Most stone roads are lined with unknown trees and shrubs. Although it is midsummer, it is still cool for people to walk inside. Because we can see the finish line, everyone loudly encourages us to move forward. After climbing for more than two hours, I finally arrived at the resident-Mushroom Stone Hotel. There are already five or six washbasins on the washstand outside the door. The comrades who arrived early are cleaning up the fatigue of climbing mountains, and some comrades are sitting on the guardrail and smoking leisurely. I don't know if they are enjoying the scenery on the road or remembering the hardships of sweating. In this hotel on the mountain, perhaps everyone can really realize the hard-won truth of thinking about physical difficulties and having a porridge and a meal. All the materials in the mushroom hotel are handled by hand, and the hardships are self-evident. That night, the hotel hosted us a sumptuous dinner. I don't know whether it's the fatigue of climbing mountains or the cool breeze, which makes everyone quite relaxed. The local dishes and bacon on the mountain make everyone happy and satisfied.

At four o'clock the next morning, we were woken up to watch the sunrise. We first came to Mushroom Stone along the path paved with slate. First of all, I stood at the top of the old Huang Jinfeng. Don't think that after walking for so long, the beautiful scenery is in front of you. One of my colleagues stood on the flat ground between the old and new golden roofs that morning and sighed, "It's so hard, I can't even get up on this broken landscape." I know everyone has his own interests, and I didn't want to convince him. I didn't even want him to see my own luggage, so I climbed up alone. This is a real climb. Sometimes I have to pull the chain up with my hands and feet. Those famous landscapes such as Golden Knife Gorge, Xianren Bridge, Sakyamuni Temple, Maitreya Temple, etc. And the scenery standing on the jinding. Only during and after climbing can you see and feel it. My colleague certainly doesn't have this blessing, even though he has worked so hard and gone so far, even though he is only a stone's throw from Jinding. When we got down to Jinding, a young man in front was scared and moved with another young man. They don't have backpacks. They don't need backpacks. They can help each other. They are still young. No, I am a lonely old man with a bag of luggage and a camera bag in my hand (joking, but definitely bigger than them). Better than the girl behind me, but she is quietly coming down. Go back to the hotel to see Jinding. On the mountain more than 2200 meters above sea level, a stone pillar with a height of about 100 meters suddenly rose from the ground. If giant bamboo shoots are unearthed, they look like jade Long Xiaotian, and the red clouds are straight and point to the sky. That kind of precipitousness is really chilling.

Back to Mushroom Stone Hotel for breakfast, we bid farewell to Comrade Yinjiang. When I came down from the former mountain, I only saw that the Woods in the former mountain were denser than those in the latter, and the stone steps down the mountain were steeper. Because the luggage was on the slide bar, I followed the slide bar for an hour and a half, and the slide bar drifted away gradually, and my legs began to get numb. At the 1088 step, I started to stop and grab the railing. Dragging your legs down the mountain slowly can be said to be extreme fatigue, and it can also be said that your legs and feet are out of control. I'm beginning to regret chasing the slider from the top of the mountain. Maybe I won't be so embarrassed if I walk slowly with the team-I can't lift my legs. I'm still thinking about the frivolity when I just went down the mountain, gritting my teeth and listening to the sound of spring water in the mountains.

Finally I saw the parking lot, and the sound of running water in the mountains was getting louder and louder. The comrades sitting on the slide bar behind me gradually caught up with me, and I felt exhausted. I want to sit down and rest, but I'm afraid I can't stand up anymore. It's hard to bite your teeth and support yourself to the car. Just like going home. I sat lazily in the car seat, just trying to dispel the pain and fatigue of running down the mountain. The tired body weighs a thousand pounds, and finally it is completely released and relaxed at this moment. But my legs and feet hurt so much that I couldn't move for four or five days before I recovered. (with a little red light wave)

Editor: Defoe