Text | Rice grain mom
Since the first outbreak of the epidemic and the total shutdown, two years have passed since I realized it. Time flies so fast!
Sometimes, Migrain Mom really misses the time when our family traveled every year before the outbreak of the epidemic.
My rice grain father and I studied in the United States, and when we were poor students, we loved to travel all over the world. At that time, I bought the cheapest airline ticket (I ever bought $10), stayed in the cheapest hostel, and even slept on the couch of a local friend. Before we got married, we traveled to a lot of places.
With grains of rice, we didn't stop us from traveling, and we started traveling to the U.S. from the early 1st of our kids (we worked in the U.S. at the time), and when he was two or three years old, we went to a lot of places.
But in the past two years, except for a trip to Sanya half a year ago when the epidemic was stable, we almost didn't go out. The thought of travel tickling.
At this time, I found that CCTV had a documentary on the theme of "World Heritage Walk", which was really super intimate.
This film is suitable for snuggling quietly on the couch, traveling with your eyes during the epidemic, and the plot is super healing, I want to recommend it to you!
The concept of this film is very novel, and it is from the perspective of three groups of travelers to carry out the journey of Lijiang, Gulangyu Island and Hangzhou. The fusion of human emotions and cultural relics, the dual healing of the heart and the eyes, is wonderful.
Busy with life and forgot to love you
The first episode of the documentary is a middle-aged couple going to Lijiang together.
The wife in the narrator has been complaining that her husband neglected her too much after marriage, and was busy with work every day, and there was no communication. She even wondered, are we really husband and wife? If we continue like this, what will it look like?
Finally, she decided to try to repair the relationship, and proposed to travel to Lijiang with her husband, but she did not expect her husband to agree and took a leave of absence with the company.
The couple embarked on a journey to the ancient city of Lijiang, and at the beginning of the walk on the stone road, the wife was excited to see everything, and the husband would impatiently urge her to go fast.
But the wife was not angry, but told her husband, "Are you happy?" If you're happy, try to be happy? ”
The image of a middle-aged couple cannot be restored more realistically!
The two people who were once in love were consumed by trivial life and only "brotherly love", because they were afraid of quarrels and simply spoke less. The wife complained as if she were talking to the wood, and the husband came home every day and just wanted to be silent.
And the city of Lijiang is repairing their increasingly hardened hearts little by little.
The couple strolled through the ancient city, meeting the local Naxi residents on babbling water and cobblestone roads.
They warmly entertained them to their home, and then the couple was surprised to find that this slow-paced place was flowing with warm and sincere love.
They witnessed a Naxi wedding in which the bride and groom tied two puppets together with red ropes, indicating that the souls of the two men were forever connected.
They met again a craftsman who made wood carvings, and he and his wife worked in the fields and made wood carvings on a field, and the two of them were tanned but snuggled up tightly.
They were served tea by the hostess of the homestay, during which they met the young boyfriend of the hostess. It turned out that the hostess and boyfriend were not locals, because they liked it when they came to travel, so they decided not to leave.
They met an elderly couple who had never quarreled, and if one of them was upset, the other sang and then in a few moments they could get back to normal.
In order to take everyone to the scenery of Lijiang from multiple perspectives, the film also sets up fantastic colors. The couple can transform at will, when they become cats, they can look down at the stone road and stream at a low angle, and when they transform into birds, they can swim in the sky and overlook the roof of the square street of the entire ancient city of Lijiang.
At the end of the episode, the husband says he has a gift for his wife. They walked along the narrow alleyway and finally came to a pavilion by the water. The wife saw that there was a pair of puppetes on it at the wedding.
The husband said that he really wanted to thank his wife, and she let him see each other in the first place. He will pay more attention to his wife in the future.
Rice's mother just wanted to say that this is really too healing. It is estimated that this is the dream state of millions of middle-aged couples, which can be achieved on a single trip.
It is not convenient to travel during the epidemic, and after watching this episode with your big pig's trotters, the effect received will be good. This is really a film of accumulating virtue and doing good! For our teammates, it is too educational!
Dreams and faraway
The second episode is a pair of brothers and sisters who took us to Gulangyu Island in Xiamen.
There is something wrong with my brother's feelings, my girlfriend is missing, and I can't get in touch. In order to comfort her brother who has lost love, the younger sister also travels together.
My sister loves to play the piano, and she wants to leave her hometown and go to Beijing to realize her piano dream. The older brother is a conservative person, thinking that it is better for the younger sister to stay in her hometown and find a stable job.
The brothers and sisters lingered in the ancient buildings and lush vegetation on Gulangyu Island, and the dialogue between the two of them was very cute, and there was also a warm feeling of brothers and sisters loving and killing each other.
When they came to the famous piano museum on Gulangyu Island, my sister was more determined to go to the big city and realize her dream goal.
It wasn't until the second half of the trip that my brother was willing to say it, and it turned out that he had decided to come to Xiamen because he had received a postcard sent from Gulangyu Island from his girlfriend.
The disappearance of the girlfriend must also be because of the discord in values. She wanted to send a postcard to tell her brother about her heart and dreams.
And the brother is finally willing to follow his girlfriend's footsteps to trace her traces.
When the younger sister learned that her girlfriend had sent a postcard, she found a piano and played a song of Schumann's "Dream" for her brother.
The beauty of Gulangyu Island, accompanied by soothing piano music, is a fusion of people and scenery, and it is also a collision of dreams and reality. I can really feel the ultimate romance!
The contradiction between the values of couples, whether to break through to achieve their dreams or stay in their hometown to live in peace has always been a particularly common problem.
In this episode, Melee Mom sees the perfect projection of love and scenery. Rather than saying that this film is introducing us to the beautiful scenery and taking us to visit cultural relics, it is better to say that the real beauty is to be felt with heart and affection.
When people project subjective colors on objective landscapes, the buildings and rivers that have traveled through the centuries also have a unique vitality.
It's really like traveling, following the stories of travelers, using their eyes to take a trip, that feeling of completeness and fulfillment, but not simply introducing places of interest and monuments can get.
At the Piano Museum, my sister watched the students there working toward their dreams, and that kind of immersive perception was the most important meaning of the trip.
This may be why the tour must ask the tour guide to explain the past and present life of each attraction, because if there is no history and story, it may just be a building, a sculpture, giving it real charm is the feelings of people.
Super healing mother-child love
The third episode is based on the perspective of a Japanese mother and son, who travel to Hangzhou. Because his father died of illness, the son accompanied his mother to China to relax.
The whole dialogue between mother and son is intimate and warm, the last time my mother came to Hangzhou, it was 25 years ago with my father, and this time it is already a thing.
My son works at an Internet company and is a social animal who buries his head in work every day. The mother is an elegant tea ceremony teacher, and she hopes to let her son come to Hangzhou to feel the wisdom of "slow".
This episode of Rice Grain Mom likes it the most, because it has a special sense of substitution. Although I have also taken rice grains to many places and many countries, I still really yearn for my son to talk slowly and leisurely in the slow-paced scenery like in the film.
I hope that when the rice grain grows up, I can accompany me on such a mother-and-son trip.
Mother and son strolled along the West Lake and saw a fan shop owned by mother and daughter. The daughters quietly painted the fan surface, that is, their years were quiet.
The picture also passes by the Longjing tea room, when the clerk brewed two cups of Longjing for them, when the son wanted to drink, the clerk said to wait until the tea sinks to the bottom of the cup to drink!
At this time, the son understood that life would be better if it slowed down.
They went to a gold shop, where the couple quietly mended porcelain with their own history. Love flows quietly between them, but it is not noisy or impatient.
People here are so quiet, the days are slow and long, but everyone is trying to guard the dreams in their hearts and make life more meaningful.
At the end of the trip, my son decided to go back to start a business and let himself live meaningfully. And he also told his mother that he was going to marry his girlfriend.
The affection is so strong, but it is silent like tea. It feels so good!
After watching these three episodes, not only did the eyes follow these places, but the soul also came to a healing journey. This is a very humane documentary, it is a grounded emotional education class, suitable for watching with husbands, but also suitable for watching with children.
After watching this film, Migrain's mother first opened her mobile phone, searched for a homestay on Gulangyu Island, and then opened my net disk and looked through the photos of our family going to eat oyster fried before. If nothing else, it's to relieve the hunger of the eyes.
I think of the endless grasslands of Kenya where we racked our brains to find a toilet;
Remembering that when he took the rice grain to visit Stanford and Silicon Valley, the rice grain father desperately wanted to go to napa Valley to drink red wine;
Remembering a visit to Gaudí's building in Barcelona, Melee asked me, "How old is this Gaudí?" I felt like the house he built was like a child's. ”
I used to think that what I remember vividly was the beauty of the eyes that amazed me. But now I understand that when I think of those beautiful views, all that comes to mind is the people I love who accompanied me on the journey.
So what is the point of traveling? Migrain's mother feels that travel is to consolidate love, continue love, and regain love elsewhere.
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