From Xuanwu Avenue to the east, along the 312 National Road, almost a straight line was drawn, directly to the north gate at the foot of Baohua Mountain.
Although it is early winter, it is still like early autumn, the temperature at noon exceeds 20 ° C, and the autumn is high and refreshing, suitable for climbing.
In the indoor exhibition hall at the entrance, there are two introductory walls, and the walls are pasted with specimens of wild plants from Baohuashan National Forest Park and introductions to wild animals. If you are a first-time visitor, you should take a good look. Because, after coming down from the mountain, if it is not deliberate, basically will not go here again. These common sense introductions are helpful for comparison when viewing the scenery.
Entering the mountain gate, located at the foot of the mountain, Qianhua Ancient Village, a village imitating Ming and Qing Dynasty buildings, walking on the ground paved with fine bluestone slabs, as if entering an ancient village, but it is clear that it is not. More than 20 years ago, because of work reasons, when traveling on business, I once lived under Baohua Mountain for one night, and there seemed to be no such village in my memory, I searched online, and sure enough, I opened the street in 2016, which is really a new street. Even the old can't talk about the old, let alone the ancient.
Depression is not enough to describe.
On the left row of stone pillars is the shape of the dragon's nine sons.
One of the most famous pictures on the Internet: the source of Qinhuai
Qianlong Period Music Fang
Gambling house
The bed was next to the negotiated price
However, people did not say that it was a real ancient village, but said that it was imitated. It can be seen that many places are careful. For example, the wooden doors and windows and wooden walls that have a sense of age. I have seen some places rebuild with the demolition of ancient houses in southern Anhui before, I don't know if this is true, those carved doors and windows can see the vicissitudes of the years, presumably moved from elsewhere.
I don't know if it is because of the post-epidemic era, many facades in the village are closed. Such good weather, and it is the weekend, should be the most suitable day for business, but there are many closed doors are not open, the business depression can be seen.
Walking through a café, I wanted to go in and drink something, relieve my fatigue by the way, and continue to go up, but listening to the high-pitched and agitated voice in the café, that sound, which seemed particularly abrupt in such a quiet environment, I couldn't help but speed up my pace and stay away from it.
If there are still some wandering crowds in the ancient village under the mountain, the more you go to the mountain, the more you can't see people, in the process of climbing up for more than an hour, except for the occasional car driving by, the total process will probably not exceed three bars, almost no one has met, only a wave of four middle-aged people from the mountain to meet the face, the mouth chanting the above Longchang Temple is not open. Good disappointment, the other day Xiaoyang also left a message under my public name that the vegetarian dishes of Longchang Temple are delicious, originally wanted to climb the mountain to the top to eat something to add some energy, rest for a while and then go down the mountain, it seems to be disappointed.
The mountains without people are particularly quiet, quiet and beautiful. Searched on the mobile phone, the height of Baohua Mountain and Purple Mountain is similar, one is 437 meters, one is 448 meters, that is to say, the highest peak of Baohua Mountain is more than ten meters lower than the highest peak of Purple Mountain. In those big provinces full of mountains, this is really not a mountain, but in the plains it feels different. Before I went to college, I had never seen a slope above ten meters high, and all I saw was flat ground. Probably because Purple Mountain is located in the middle of the city, the surrounding area is full of people, there are probably more than a hundred mountaineering trails around the mountain, but Baohua Mountain has not seen many mountaineering wild roads (maybe I don't know), such a quiet environment, it is more suitable.
In the distance, the mountain villas loomed
From the north of the wide road of walking cars up the mountain, all the way up, the layers of incomparably rich colors, so that the eyes are too busy, green will be yellow, yellow has been red, red like sauce, sauce color with brown...
Three or five steps forward, looking further ahead, it is a different style, and then turning around, it is another picture. At this time, you will feel that if you are studying oil painting, you can put down a stall on the spot and leave this beautiful scenery with a guy in the car. Monet has painted dozens of "hay stacks" at different times of the year and at different times of the day, and in the season of Mount Baohua, in different directions every few steps, you can paint a picture of Qiushan Mountain, let the oil painting students paint, you can draw countless pictures, and each real display will be extremely beautiful.
Stop and go all the way to the front of Longchang Temple around eleven o'clock. A young man in front of the parking lot stopped us and said that he would not let us in, there was activity inside, and tourists stopped. When we entered the door, no one told us, and the "security guard" said that he didn't know, that it had nothing to do with him, and that we were going down the hill to find someone to talk about it. Searched the internet, longchang temple inside the practice meeting, for a month. Even if we didn't come at the right time, vegetarian food could not be eaten. There is a huge parking lot in front of the temple at the top of the hill, and I wanted to stand on the parking lot to take a few photos, but I was also stopped. This jun claimed that he was a police officer at the police station, not a security guard, and he said that if he could not enter, he could not enter, and he reached out to stop me and stopped me from the fire. I just stood in the parking lot to take a picture, and I didn't enter the temple, and there was still a distance, can you scare me by the police? He held out his hand to stop me, but because of the gender relationship, he couldn't do too much, and his hand stopped and shrank back. I took two pictures with my hand, I couldn't choose the angle, and one of them didn't look good. I had to give up.
Fortunately, there is no fence between the two ancient ginkgo trees in front of the temple. Turning over a tall gatehouse, I stood up and looked at the two trees standing side by side, leaning against the one to the south, with a straight trunk and several branches broken from the top. Wood shows in the forest, and the wind will destroy it. Born in such a place, you are doomed to suffer wind and rain. After the fierce winds were tormented and the thunder and lightning slashed, they still stood tenaciously, and in a flash, it was hundreds of years. Both trees are said to be more than four hundred years old. How many people have visited them for more than four hundred years, and what about the people who planted two trees that year? Where have all those who visited them gone? Only these two trees have always been proud of the world.
They have witnessed the change of dynasties, the vicissitudes of the years, the change of things, the change of stars, the world is no longer, only they, but they have been watching, watching, allowing the years to change...
I didn't enter longchang temple, I didn't eat vegetarian fasting, and I don't regret it. Meet again next spring and go to Baohua Mountain to see the magnolia flowers. All the way up the mountain, the magnolia flowers next to each other are like swords, standing proudly. Looking back, I took a special look at the magnolia trees in our community, which were still leafy and leafy, and Baohua's magnolias had already fallen leaves, leaving countless dense flower cores, waiting for the frost and snow of wind and rain to pass, offering a brilliant spring.
Magnolia flowers are like swords