Diary of a trip to Jiuli Lake

This article is selected from Xu Xiake's travels. This paper describes the author's mental journey to the top of Hengshan Mountain, and shows his spirit of being brave in exploration and practice.

The first paragraph explains the departure time and weather conditions, and it is a good weather without wind and clouds. "Clear as water" is a description in the narrative. Going up the mountain to the east, it is easier to start climbing. "The ground is shallow and there is no climbing." This paper briefly describes the situation of climbing Mount Heng for the first time.

The second paragraph describes in detail the process of climbing to the top of the mountain. Take the trail as a clue, describe it in turn, step by step, and describe it vividly. Scenery, place names, and the distance between scenes are all written in detail, and everything you see and hear is recorded in detail.

Walking a mile up the mountain and heading north, I saw that there was no deep coal in the mountain. After walking another mile, I saw that the earth and stones were red. After that, it passes through Wangxianting, Hufengkou, the memorial arch of "Shuofang First Mountain", the bedroom, Feitian Grottoes, Beiyue Temple and Huixian Mountain. Every landscape has its own characteristics. For example, when writing about pine trees, the sun shines through the pine trees and casts a sieve-like shadow, which is lifelike; Written in the archway, carefully written in the kitchen and the well in the official residence; Write the Beiyue Temple, "Up to the precipice, down to the official tower, your highness's cloud level is inserted into the sky, the city gate is up and down, and the dome stands", and the sentence renders the momentum of the temple; Write Sendai, "Taichung is like a group of immortals, there is no gap in the circle", and the scenery image is as vivid as it is now.

The summit was written in the most detail. First show the determination to climb to the top: "I want to climb the dangerous cliff and climb to the top." Then write about the precipitousness of the cliff: "Where the two cliffs break, thousands of feet hangs in the middle", "When you go out of the dangerous cliff, you can climb high and look far, which is still outstanding." At the crack of the high cliff, thousands of feet grass hangs in the middle; Step out of the high cliff and look up at the top of the mountain, which is still hanging in the air. Write about the difficulty of climbing: "Dwarf trees are dense all over the mountain, bamboo is withered, you can hook your clothes and stab your collar, and climbing is unbreakable." Although you work hard, if you fall into Hong Tao, you can't come out. " The mountain is full of thorns, jagged branches and withered bamboo just hook your clothes and break them at once. If you keep trying, it's like falling into a torrent, but you can't get out without it. The cliff is steep and difficult to climb, so it is not easy to climb to the top. However, all this did not scare away the climbers. "I am very brave, very brave, and I will climb to the top of the mountain after a long time." The indomitable spirit of a geographer and traveler to witness the mountains and rivers of the motherland and explore the landforms illustrates this point.

The third paragraph is about the scenery around you after you reach the summit. Climbing to the top of the mountain, I felt very happy when I saw the light of day again. "Sunny", looking back at the road, "cliffs, dense trees", climbing sinister. Then I began to observe and wrote the characteristics of northern Shaanxi: "There are no trees in the mountains, but there are rocks. There are stones in the north, so the trees are all in the north. " There are no trees in the heaped-up mountains, but there are trees in the Rocky Mountains. This phenomenon is very strange. Later, it was explained that there was less rain in Shanxi and more evaporation in Shannan, although there were few trees on the earth mountain; The north of the mountain is a shady slope, which takes a long time to melt snow and has less evaporation, so it is humid. Although it is rocky, many trees have grown. This is a scientific analysis. Xu Xiake's on-the-spot investigation and careful observation provided a basis for later scientific analysis. There is a bush on the mountain to the north of Hunyuan City. Looking south, "there is only Longquan in the south"; Looking west, there are only five stops in the west. The two mountains are blue, and they are accompanied by Mount Heng. There is also Longshan, which traverses to the west and the branch peak is connected with Hengshan Mountain. These introductions to the surrounding peaks make the geographical location of Hengshan Mountain clear and the whole mountain system unobstructed.

The fourth paragraph describes the situation from Xifeng Mountain to Fei Grottoes. It is difficult to go up the mountain, and it is even harder to go down the mountain. I looked for the path up the mountain before, but I couldn't find it. Overlooking the vastness, I dare not get off. "Suddenly look back to the east, there was a man shaking on the ground, because of its place to ask, refers to the southeast pine and cypress. Looking ahead, it is the steep cliff top after the palace sleeps. " Only by asking for help can we find the original way up the mountain. Looking down the hill carefully, I found that looking at the pine and cypress from the top of the mountain, "it looks like a garlic leaf grass stem, and it has reached the sky so far", sighing that "the pine and cypress in the tiger's mouth are a hundred times better". It's really that the perspective and distance are different, and the scenery you see is also very different. According to the guide's instructions, the downhill went smoothly, coming straight down from the gap of the cliff, just to the right of the bedroom, and then to the Feitian Grottoes.