The 67th day of the Southern Expedition (VII): From Mengzi to Bamei-the Peach Blossom Garden in my heart

We started early this morning, hoping to get to Bamei early. Go out and have breakfast at the "burning house chrysanthemum rice noodles" nearby. This is the most authentic rice noodle crossing the bridge on this trip to Yunnan, and then take a taxi to the station. When I bought the ticket at the window, I didn't see the train in Wenshan direction. Only after asking did I know that the bus to Wenshan was at another station, the old station. Go out and take a taxi to the old station to buy tickets and get on the bus.

The road out of the city is not easy, bumpy and blocked. Three-wheeled pickup trucks, large and small, are driving irregularly on the road ... I began to play drums in my heart: when will it arrive?

Fortunately, I slowly survived the driving days, gradually became unobstructed, and I felt a little safe in my heart.

The car began to climb the mountain, and there were such big chrysanthemum fields on the roadside at any time, and some of them had already started picking. I think of the chrysanthemum rice noodles I ate in the morning, which should be a great use of this kind of Mengzi chrysanthemum (some Mengzi readers told me that this kind of chrysanthemum is medicinal and the edible chrysanthemum is pale yellow, which has increased my knowledge).

I don't know if the minority women who got on the bus halfway put on national costumes because they were going to town.

This is a bar on the side of the mountain road, which is still a certain distance from Wenshan.

After getting off at Wenshan, you have to take a taxi to another station to get to Guangnan. We bought the last row of seats in that bus. I didn't take a picture because it wasn't by the window.

It was a bumpy gravel road when I left the city, and I jumped off my seat several times! Ask a young man next to you, knowing that you bypassed this section because of road construction, and you will be on your way immediately.

We all fell asleep soon after we took the right path. When I woke up, I had already turned to G 123 Expressway. At this time, the sky was blue and white clouds for a while, and it was raining cats and dogs for a while, so it was staged five times and three times until Guangnan.

As soon as the bus entered the station, we were told to get off, but when we left the door, we didn't see "there are many cars going to Bamei by the roadside", so we reacted and should go out from the exit. We turned into the station and walked along the exit direction to the waiting hall. We didn't see many cars when we went out. We bought a car and went to Xilin, Guangxi, and went to Bamei in the inquiry window.

It's afternoon, the sky is clear, and the sky is in a big mode.

Along the way, the mountains gradually showed the characteristics of karst landform, and the top of the mountain was still blue sky and white clouds. After a while, the afternoon sun began to turn on its light and shadow magician.

Finally, the driver let us off. This place is called Falili Village. It's raining here and now, but I see a rough street sign "Xanadu Scenic Area" on the roadside, and there is an inconspicuous ticket booth opposite the street sign, where you can buy tickets. I'm looking forward to taking a carriage and then taking a boat, passing through a dark hole like just visiting and entering the legendary Peach Blossom Garden.

There are not many tourists entering at this time. It's a rough road paved with stones of all sizes. I didn't find the carriage mentioned in the raiders, but I finally found one, but there was a car and no horse. It is obvious that it has been abandoned. We were all a little disappointed and began to drag our suitcases along the uneven road. The suitcase rattled all the way, and I was afraid it would fall apart. So I dragged for a while, lifted for a while, lifted horizontally, lifted vertically, and lifted all kinds of things, because my hands were sore. I saw someone welding and making a carriage at home along the road, but I don't know why there is no carriage now.

Our daughter was uncomfortable and tired all the way. She said something that almost made us laugh: "Did we come all the way here to see the fairy board?"

Finally, "when the water is exhausted, there will be mountains." Next to a boy who looks like a middle school student, he began to "have a small mouth in the mountain ..."

I started taking pictures, and when I came out, my wife urged me to take pictures quickly. Fortunately, I didn't listen to her this time, and I didn't come out here.

Just after that village, it is called Shuidong Village.

The process of entering the hole is novel, slightly nervous and dark. Only the lights on the boatman's head fan out light in the air and on the water. Sometimes a boat comes and two beams of light cross. There is a skylight at the top of the cave in the middle, from which the light shines like a searchlight. But I didn't film it and send it online.

The mouth of the cave is the first sight of Bamei.

It has just rained, and the river is very muddy. In fact, I saw in the online raiders that most of the water here is like this. I don't know why.

Opposite the hole, there are crops and fields, and then there are cliffs.

On the left is the village.

I saw the address on the Internet, made a phone call and contacted first. Generally speaking, I don't need to pay attention. Put down your luggage and don't wait to visit the village.

This is Little Square and Banyan in the village. What! There is a van next to it. Doesn't that mean the village can only communicate with the outside world through two caves? Finding your favorite costume drama is disappointment and embarrassment, not excitement.

Will there be a performance or a bonfire party in the evening? I am looking forward to it.

Look south in the square and you will see a cliff.

There are more tourists in the square, some people start to light bonfires, and the surrounding inns are brightly lit. The dam at this time is fantastic.

My wife thought I was taking pictures too slowly, so she took her daughter shopping alone. Call me as soon as I take the photo. Find them and come to the banyan tree. You must take pictures here. But, can you be professional? Only 1 1 sec. Look, it took a long time, didn't it?

Under their guidance, I came to Bamei Primary School, and I said I would come here to teach in the future.

There is an inn in front of the primary school. The boss is killing chickens, and his mind flashed "setting wine to kill chickens for food". Stop, we agreed not to quote like others. He greeted us warmly and asked if we had eaten, which made people feel very warm.

Finally, there was no bonfire party, and the stage in the square was lonely again. Let's go back to the store and wash and sleep.

The next morning, I got up to watch the sunrise, but it was raining outside the window. Or go out alone with a camera.

Come to the river, there is a wind and rain bridge here, why, there is a car again!

There is nothing to see. There is fog everywhere. I went back to the hotel and took another picture upstairs.

The weather was bad and time was tight, so I didn't find the legendary paradise with simple folk customs. My wife said that if there were caves in Wenjiagou, your hometown, it would be almost the same as here. I am speechless, but I must admit that I am a little disappointed. We left Bamei after breakfast and went to Guangnan to take a bus to Puzhehei.

We booked a train back to Chengdu the next afternoon 18: 00. So I hope to get to Puzhehei early. I think it is ok to visit Puzhehei for half a day and Puzhehei for half a day the next day.

The way out of the shop is not the road, but continue to go upstream, first by boat, finally by carriage, and then by boat out of the hole. My daughter finally felt a little fun all the way.

I chose a white horse-drawn car.

The white horse trotted all the way, and the carriage was a little bumpy, but it was very happy. Amid laughter and tinkling bells all the way, we arrived at the second dock.

I chose to split the boat this time, thinking that I could take some photos for the girls. But the boatman took the first two photos too early.

The cave outside the village is called Donna Cave. There are lights in the cave, which is beautiful, but the photos taken by boat are not effective either. The following one is still a little dreamy.

Get out of the hole, disembark and go ashore. After some bargaining, we rented a mini-car to go to Guangnan County.

Say goodbye to the long-awaited Peach Blossom Garden!

The owner is a villager from Donna Village. In the conversation, I finally got the answers to some questions that have been bothering me.

I said, I'm not saying I can go to Taoyuan Cave by carriage. Why not now? I had to drag my luggage so far.

When it comes to the status quo of Bamei materials, the master is also disappointed. He said that shuidong village used to be able to take a carriage, but because of the different distribution of interests and irreconcilable, he stopped driving the carriage.

I said it didn't mean anything to expressway. Why do I see several cars in it?

He said this expressway was opened in 2006. In the past, when people came out, they generally didn't go by boat. It was so dark in the cave that they didn't clear the passage. Most of them go over mountains and mountains. They have relatives at home. It's Spring Festival now, and they will go in on March 3rd. That road is really dangerous. It is the cliff we saw on the boat. At that time, there were many fish in Donna's cave, and he directly caught 10 kg with his hands.

I talked about the housing construction in the village. He told me that in the past, villagers' houses were all wooden houses and diaojiao buildings, but now they have built buildings like other places for tourism development. He said, "Well, at least we should keep some points."

This sentence surprised me a little, and it went to my heart! With such knowledge, I am deeply impressed by this master.

In fact, on the way here, I have been looking for, looking for the Zhuang architecture here, and I didn't find it until I entered Bamei. This place has become the same as any rural building in Sichuan, and we can build it at will: some exterior walls are gray, some are paved on the front of the road, and more are exposed red bricks. Actually, it's better this way. It looks natural. But the wires are pulled horizontally and vertically, and there are some "illegal buildings" on the roof-this is out of place with the surrounding area.

The geographical environment here is very similar to Taoyuanming's Peach Blossom Garden. Peach Blossom Garden can be regarded as the earliest and most famous travel strategy here, and almost everyone aims at it. But now it's all destroyed. I don't know whether there are too many famous scenic spots in Yunnan, which are not worthy of consideration by the relevant departments or other reasons. Can this model independently developed by villagers not be destroyed?

I don't want Eight Sisters to remain backward and refuse modern civilization in order to satisfy our arty generation's "selfish desire" to seek the Peach Blossom Garden. I just think that with such unique resources, they can get better returns and live a better and more lasting life. And now I feel that this resource is being destroyed.

I thought of Miao village in Guizhou. Although it is not satisfactory, it must exist and even be well preserved. Let us witness the magnificence of thousands of tile houses with our own eyes. I also thought of Kuanzhai Lane downstairs. Although it has made it more noisy, this residential area has been preserved, and the characteristics and stories behind it have been presented to the world, and the residents who used to live in it don't have to worry about the dilapidated houses or the lack of natural gas and independent toilets.

It seems that everyone is looking for opportunities and places to escape from this world. Westerners call it Shangri-La, and we call it Xanadu. Some people say that every China scholar wants to retire to the countryside one day and have a dream of heaven. But it's too hard to achieve.

Recently, I read a report about Zhong Nanshan's reclusive couple on the Internet. At first, I thought it was fake. Dressed like that in seclusion, dressed in white, is more like making a movie. It's not really seclusion, it's really a show. I am a teacher. What I want to ask is: If it is true, what do you think? Is it irresponsible and selfish for them to let their daughters under 10 go to school alone in the city? According to psychological theory, it is not good for children before 12 to leave their parents! Envy and praise in the report are beyond words.

It is too difficult to escape from this world, and it needs courage and material foundation. So we look for heaven in our travel. It is based on this that BLACKPINK, a scenic spot calling itself the Peach Blossom Garden, appeared, but we are often disappointed.

Actually, I shouldn't be disappointed I should have known that Xanadu was only in my heart.