Luo: A Brief Discussion on Drunk Dragon Tour in the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger

Luo: A Brief Discussion on Drunk Dragon Tour in the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger

The word "Liuzhou" is deeply attached to my memory screen, perhaps because of the advertisement of "two-sided toothpaste"-from the mid-1980s to the early 20th century, the advertisement of "a good tooth has two sides" on TV got into my ears again and again. In the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger, at the invitation of friends, our family of four arrived in Liuzhou from road trip on the first day of the first month.

Liuzhou is an important industrial town and the second largest city in Guangxi, and ranks as the three largest cities in Guangxi together with Nanning, the capital, and Guilin, an international tourist city. Liuzhou, like Nanning and Guilin, is an ancient cultural city with a long history. Liuzhou is surrounded by mountains on three sides. Because of the natural flow of Liujiang River, Liuzhou forms a pot shape, so Liuzhou is also called pot city. From the topographic map of mountains and rivers, Liuzhou city is surrounded by Liujiang like a jade belt, making the central city of Liuzhou like a pot-shaped peninsula. According to the Records of Reading History and Geography, a history book in the Qing Dynasty, Liuzhou is a "famous pot city surrounded by three rivers and four waters, like a pot". Liuzhou is also called "Dragon City". According to the records of Liuzhou Prefecture and Ma Ping County in Qing Dynasty, "According to legend, eight dragons were found in the middle of the river, hence the name". During the Southern Liang Dynasty and Datong Dynasty, there was a legend in Ma Ping County (now Liuzhou) that "eight dragons were found in the river", that is, eight dragons swam in the Liujiang River. So "Liujiang" is called "Longjiang", and Ma Ping County built on the bank of Liujiang is also called Longcheng and Longcheng County. It can be seen that Liuzhou is prosperous because of water and solid because of water. Liuzhou has diverse topography, complex structure, long mountains, extensive karst and rugged rocks, so Liuzhou is also known as the "Stone City".

Liuzhou is not only a famous historical and cultural city with a history of more than 2,000 years, bearing the endless southern civilization from ancient times to the present, but also a beautiful and graceful landscape sacred place with "beautiful mountains, clear waters and beautiful caves". Needless to say, Liuzhou's tourist attractions and "reward points", but it is a pity that our stay in Liuzhou is limited and we can only "see" and "admire" its appearance. The biggest regret is that I can't visit and worship Luochi Temple (now Liu Hou Temple) in the west corner of Liuhou Park. Although I missed this "cultural journey" with special significance, the knowledge stored in my mind tells me that ancient Liuzhou was shrouded in primitive wild forests, humid and stuffy, sparsely populated and rampant, leaving many bodies of literati. After Liu Zongyuan was demoted to Yongzhou 10 years, he arrived in the summer of 8 15. Time has increased the charm of this "Liu Liuzhou" who has done many good things for the people of Liuzhou. After his death, generations of literati, large and small, came to mourn the great writer of the Tang Dynasty who died in the south.

Liuzhou deserves to be called "the second city" in Guangxi. Of course, Nanning's GDP is far ahead, but Liuzhou, which ranks second (comparable to Zhuzhou, Hunan Province), is also far from Guilin, which ranks third. From the height of the city, Liuzhou's urban skyline shocked me, a tourist who grew up in Zhuzhou, the second largest city in Hunan, and now lives in Changsha: there are 3 10 high-rise buildings that have been built or capped, and there are 12 buildings under construction or planning, while there are only 7 buildings above 50 floors in Zhuzhou-although Zhuzhou's urban development and infrastructure, At present, the landmark building of Liuzhou is Wang Di Tower, which is 303 meters high and has 77 floors, equivalent to Suning Square in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, and is known as the "eye of the city". Wang Di Tower covers the diversified combined functions of the city, and is a "city value chain" integrating office, business, hotel, residence, shopping, culture, entertainment, socialization, leisure and entertainment. The hanging glass plank road around the 75th floor of the building is a "heartbeat" project to stimulate experience tourism. Its height makes many tourists regard it as a road of fear in sight, and they can only watch others challenge that small "house with liver" step by step. 1.5m wide glass plank road has guardrails at the initial section, and then there is no shelter, and the "scare" index will also be upgraded. Although the experiencer has a strong rope connected with the safety buckle and tied in a safe place to ensure that the experiencer will not be in any danger, it really takes courage to walk on the transparent glass plank road hundreds of meters above the ground. Although this blogger is nearly 70 years old, he is in good health under the care of God. He has no "three highs" and dizziness, and there is no "inflammation" in his cervical vertebrae, lumbar vertebrae, shoulders and knees, so I am confident that my son and daughter-in-law will have a "heartbeat". Sure enough, after I fastened my seat belt, I walked on the glass plank road at the top of the Dragon City. "The color is not chaotic, and Yang Yang is as usual", challenging one of the difficult shapes of "Dapeng spreading its wings" and winning unanimous praise from many tourists. After the challenge, I got a "Genting Sightseeing Warrior Certificate", which said, "This is to certify that Luo became the extreme warrior of Genting Sightseeing Aerial Glass Plank 63 124, and successfully conquered the world's super-high, super-thrilling and super-exciting aerial glass plank road of Liuzhou 303 Building in Guangxi". This certificate is issued specially! "

I have been to hundreds of large and medium-sized cities in China, and Liuzhou has two "most" in my mind: the most beautiful scenery along the river and the most beautiful night scene.

The scenic belt along the river in Liuzhou surrounds the waterfront avenue along the river, forming a leisure greenway and landscape belt along the river for more than 30 kilometers. Along the way, there are blue sky, lush green hills, green jungles, towering old trees, charming beaches, quiet trails, continuous bamboo seas and cultural attractions that precipitate history and culture. There are unique and poetic scenery of ethnic minorities; It highlights the history and culture of Longcheng and takes you through the ancient town of Yaobu just for sightseeing. There is a waterfall sloping down the mountainside, splashing and flying down; Liujiang Bridge has 24 "bridge views" with unique charm and different shapes, with one bridge and one view. ...

At the beginning of the night, we boarded the cruise ship "Water Star" 1 and enjoyed the night view with the theme of lights on both sides of Liujiang River. However, we can see the dense lights on the buildings along the banks of the river, which, like the stars in the sky, radiate exquisite, colorful and dazzling light. The lights are reflected in the clear river, which makes Liujiang colorful and the reflections overlap, giving people a dreamlike or fairyland floating feeling. The lights on the buildings on both sides of the strait, the neon-lit bridges, the graceful musical fountains, and the moon and stars in the sky constitute a shocking and breathtaking picture. In this case, people can't help reciting Tang poems, such as "the stars slant down from the clearing, the moon runs up from the river" and "the moon runs up from the river" ... the night now gives way to the ocean of the sun, and the old year melts in freshness. Perhaps it can be said that the night view of Liujiang is a beautiful intersection of Liuzhou history and modernity under colored lights.

Snail powder is a special snack in Liuzhou, which is famous all over the country. It has one thing in common with stinky tofu in Hunan: it smells stinky and tastes delicious. Snail powder is a staple food made of snail soup and rice flour, which has a unique flavor of spicy, refreshing, fresh, sour and spicy. I think Liuzhou people are good at propaganda. Have you noticed that the advertisement of snail powder "Happy snail-the beauty behind all misunderstandings" is not only on CCTV, but also on the screen of Focus Media in the elevator of the community where the blogger lives day and night. The narrow elevator room makes you have to watch or listen-snail powder has entered your eyes and ears, but you are still afraid of not entering? No wonder the little snail powder was turned into a "three hundred million" big industry by Liuzhou people!

Liuzhou is the "base camp" of domestic car Wuling Hong Guang. When electricity was not as good as oil in most parts of the country, Liuzhou took the lead in setting foot on the wave of new energy. As we all know, Baojun E series is flourishing in Liuzhou, and even has a new regional term called "Liuzhou Model". As the "artifact" of urban short-distance traffic, the compact and smart two-seat mini-car can be said to have no pressure of parking and traffic jam. Once upon a time, mini-cars became "urban spirits" shuttling through the traffic, and also became a landscape that amazed foreigners such as me in the streets and lanes of Liuzhou.

On the afternoon of the fourth day of the first month, with lingering feelings, we had to say "goodbye" to the beautiful Liuzhou-with the heart sound of "We will come again after leaving a aftertaste" and the sound of rolling wheels, Liuzhou gradually disappeared from our sight, but the good impression left by Liuzhou will never disappear. ...

Hunan blogger: Luo

Written on February 5, 2022, in my brother's mansion-Di Mei, Zhuzhou City.