"Wu Guoying: Motorcycle Walking on Phuket" this article is included in the collection of "Wu Guoying - Thinkers Without Domain".
Creation time: January 22, 2020, Wu Guoying [Global Artist Code 087-079].
On January 17, 2020, Wu Guoying was in Phuket, Thailand
Phuket satisfies all the imaginations and descriptions of paradise on earth and idyllic scenery: flowers everywhere, green plants, blue sky and white clouds, blue water, and fragrant air. People fish out the living things in the sea and cook them casually, which is a delicacy on earth; washing and cutting everything in the field on the trees is a luscious and delicious delicacy, which makes people's teeth fragrant and unforgettable.
The locals are also more like characters in heaven, presumably they feel that they are living in paradise on earth, that sense of satisfaction, that kind of leisurely, that kind of enjoyment of life, the joy of life, make people awe-inspired.
Here is a world of sea and sky Buddha, far from the hustle and bustle of the big city, but it is a secular world, so close and uncontroversial combination, it is really wonderful, can only admire the thai people's strong vitality and the attitude of life with the encounter.
Phuket is also a worldly place away from the hustle and bustle, and the whole thing is like a huge night market, or a huge centralized market. From eating, wearing, drinking, to living, playing, everything.
The most convenient and down-to-earth way to get around Phuket is to rent a motorcycle for a ride.
I had basically never touched a motorcycle before, and an electric car had almost never touched it, but I belonged to the innate people who had a feeling for mechanical things, and after riding a little, I felt so easy, and I could immediately get started and fly on the road.
With a motorcycle, it's much easier to get around Phuket.
Phuket is a famous tourist destination in Southeast Asia, and in my opinion, in addition to Hawaii, the second one to pull the wind belongs to Phuket.
I remember that there was an article about Phuket in the textbooks I had learned English for more than 20 years, saying how people like to travel to Phuket. I also knew about this place from that time, and I didn't expect to come and see it today, and sure enough, my eyes were wide open.
From the rise of the 60s and 70s, mainly when the Vietnam War was in full swing, the beautiful islands of Southeast Asia are a good place for American soldiers to vacation, not far from the battlefield, there is food, there is play, one of which Phuket is the most famous, but also brings the fame of the surrounding islands.
It is also an indisputable fact that Phuket hides dirt and grime. Originally, Southeast Asia was a paradise for European and American people, especially the United States, to travel to the military, and its scenery and climate were also sacred places for people to free themselves from bondage and return to their original state.
If on a cool night when the sea breeze blows, you look at the local women sitting alone on the beach scratching their heads, don't be surprised, most of them are women who can communicate and trade with European and American people in fluent English.
This is basically an open secret in Phuket and throughout Thailand and Southeast Asia, and it is unlikely to be taken care of. Instead, it is considered by locals to be a way to generate income.
Mention of the food, the most famous here is seafood and a variety of tropical fruits, cheap and delicious, the locals even peeled the fruit peel to sell, like durian, grapefruit, mango, etc., are peeled, covered with plastic film, the inside is fresh and clean.
The air here is fresh, and there are no shoes to wipe off for a few days, and there are no messy things in the nose that are inhaled.
Speaking of motorcycles, it is indeed more convenient and fast to get around the island, because the roads in Phuket are not wide, and they are all winding mountain roads, and the uphill and downhill slopes are sometimes very steep. And the main way of travel of locals, the most important means of transportation is the motorcycle, regardless of men and women, driving tigers, cars also need to let the motorcycle.
But the quality of the good locals is really good! Basically, there is very little rush, only take care of themselves, regardless of other people's rotten people, so the travel order is still good, even if the traffic jam, it will soon ease, will not be like the ugly scene of the domestic jam into a pot of porridge.
Although I have never ridden a motorcycle, but I am very slippery on a bicycle, so it is not strange to change to a motorcycle, the motorcycle engine here is very good, powerful, light, even if it is a very steep slope is not difficult.
But from another point of view, it is actually a bit dangerous, because the Traffic Habit in Thailand is to go up on the left, to put it bluntly, like Hong Kong, Japan, and the United Kingdom, contrary to our traffic habits, I, who have more than twenty years of age, are still trying to walk on such a road for the first time.
Especially when it comes to turning corners and making U-turns, it's a sadistic feeling.
In addition, because the road is not wide, the motorcycle has to pass between the traffic flows, and the taste and sense of achievement can only be experienced by those who have experienced it themselves.
Riding a motorcycle in Phuket, occasionally encounter the police in guiding traffic, but it seems that they are not very serious about the evacuation, but everyone is in order, there is no police more and more obstructed situations, basically will not check the driver's license or anything, it seems to be inaction, the efficiency is excellent, I think the main thing is that the quality of people is good, there is no kind of jealousy and selfishness, only want their own people, a mouse spoiled a pot of soup. This alone is already a lament!
It is very pleasant to take a motorbike to the beach in Phuket. I went to Patong Beach, Karon Beach and several of the most famous beaches. There is also Chalong Temple, which is a famous temple in Phuket, and the temples in Thailand are really so good and beautiful! To describe it as beautiful, it is really worthy of the name.
Thailand's religious beliefs are mainly based on Buddhism, and Buddhism does have a huge role in purifying the mind and calming and kind mentality.
Phuket brings together a variety of people, Middle Easterners, Indians, Europeans, Americans, Russians, blacks, and of course, more and more Chinese, everyone has only one purpose, leisure, enjoy life. Enjoy all that nature has to offer!
The locals are also very comfortable with Erlang's legs, looking at the mobile phone, sleeping, or looking at the flowers, without elegant plum blossoms to see the begonia flowers, hibiscus flowers. It's not to look at people, there are many people, and most of them are beautiful. Wearing skirts in the summer is more beautiful, and many are going back from the beach, or are going to the beach and wearing a swimsuit.
Phuket is also a secular place away from the hustle and bustle, the most famous and attractive of which is the local night market, which has everything from eating, wearing, drinking, to living and playing.
Phuket itself is like a huge bazaar, everyone goes to the beach during the day to swim, sunbathe, go out to the night market at night, because here the sun is exposed during the day, the heat of 34, 35 degrees makes people sleepy, only at night, most of the people have gone out of the house and started the real nightlife.
Seafood has lobster, various kinds of shrimp, fish, squid, there are various methods, and the aroma of cooking seafood wafts from the street.
There are night market greenhouses everywhere, the scale is extremely huge, and there are many, everywhere, even the city pieces. I don't know why there are so many stalls, but in the evening, each stall is crowded with people, and everyone is full of mouths and oil, and they are happy! It's like heaven.
I've seen many temple fairs, celebrations, fairs in the U.S. and Canada, but the size of Phuket's night markets is still too big, too much, big outrageous, or is poverty limiting my imagination?
Of course, there are still many interesting places and interesting things here. There's even, so to speak: elephant shows, night shows, shemales shows.
I don't know exactly how to show it, please use your own imagination and make up for it yourself!
Phuket's beaches are the most beautiful in the world, with fine sand, uniformity and, more impressively, its ecosystem exceptionally perfect.
I sat on the beach and took a closer look, there are countless small holes in the sand, small holes will drill out at any time there are small crabs with a penny big, they run and play in the beach pants, eat, someone comes over, a blink of an eye is gone, people pass, a blink of an eye they come out again, full of pits and valleys, really enviable!
The existence of thai people provides evidence from another perspective, that is, there is no rush to develop, slow-paced and gradual progress, peace of mind, high happiness index, peace of mind, kindness, elegance and optimism, and at the same time, there is no need to pay the price of environmental disaster.
2020-1-22
The author is the contemporary surreal painter Wu Guoying [Global Artist Code 087-079], which is reported in detail in Wu Guoying and Chinese Surrealism.
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