In the year of destiny, half a lifetime of running on the road of life, suddenly there is the impulse of "the world is so big, I want to see", all 50-year-old people, why are they still so not calm, why have they not seen through the red dust, why have they not "gone to stay unintentional, look at the sky clouds cirrus clouds Shu" open-mindedness? Is it because the pace of this society is too fast, or because there are too many things that cannot be put down, fast, it is difficult for people's hearts to calm down, and there are too many things that cannot be put down in the heart, and it is difficult to take an easy step.
Leave him alone, make up your mind.
So, I took seniority leave. Aim for the Great Northwest, come to a trip that can be walked...
Take the car of our friend Lao Liu's family, and Lao Liu's friend Lao Mu's family also followed us on this westward journey. I only know Lao Liu alone, Lao Liu is particularly polite, afraid of squeezing me, let me sit in the co-pilot's seat, but in his 50s, he is crowded in the back row with his lover Lao Gao and his son's girlfriend. Before I left, Lao Liu's behavior made my heart rise a little moved.
This is the traditional virtue and way of treating others of the Chinese nation. I remember when I was young, the family was particularly difficult, but a limited amount of white noodles and rice had to be left for the guests who came to the house. A nation that has been thoroughly influenced by civilization...
Taihang Mountain to Jingbian
At 4:30 in the morning, the sky was still dark, and we set out, aiming for Jingbian, Shaanxi, a thousand kilometers away.
Old Liu's son Dalong drove, a capable young man who had been a soldier, and the car drove fast and steady.
In the morning light, our car galloped on the North China Plain. The car passes through Shijiazhuang, gradually enters Shanxi, the plain reaches the end, and the oncoming is a big mountain, which is the world-famous Taihang Mountains, right?
"The red sun shines all over the East / The god of freedom is singing with indulgence / Look at it / A thousand mountains and valleys / Copper wall iron wall / The beacon of anti-Japanese resistance / Burning on the Taihang Mountain...".
Walking on the Taihang Mountains, I can't help but think of the scene when the Chinese nation was in danger, when many outstanding sons and daughters of the Chinese nation sang this anti-Japanese song "On the Taihang Mountain", rushed to the front line, and heroically killed the enemy.
My motherland, as your son and daughter, how can I not give my life for your strength?!
This is also the inspiration that Taihang Mountain gives me!
The road from Hebei to Shanxi, there are many caves, and they are more than ten miles long, through the caves and mountains, and at five o'clock in the afternoon we will arrive at Jingbian.
Jingbian County
The name Jingbian is still known when I was in middle school, the famous poet Li Ji wrote in the opening of the long narrative poem "Wang Gui and Li Xiangxiang", "There are no trees and stones on the three sides, and the life of the Zhuanghu people cannot be lived", the long poem did not memorize, only remembered these two sentences, but also knew in the notes of the textbook that the famous "three sides" in northern Shaanxi refers to "Yanbian, Dingbian, Jingbian", but when he was in middle school, he was a teenager, who would have thought that he would come here when he was 50 years old?
Life is really impermanent!
In 1936, the Red Army crushed the Majiajun, and the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region government controlled this salt-producing area, but don't underestimate the contribution of this salt-producing area to the revolution.
It was such a capable man who did not understand the complexity of the revolution and later committed suicide, and his death was a tragedy. What is a tragedy? The definition in books is "to destroy what is valuable in life for people to see."
Leaving Jingbian, we went all the way to the west, walking on the road of Yanbian and Dingbian, both sides of the road from time to time there are kowtow machines in the Yanchang oil field at work, few people know that northern Shaanxi produces oil, in fact, this is not news, at the end of the Qing Dynasty it produced oil, it is one of the earliest natural oil mines found in China and the world. In 1907, it became the "first oil well on the Chinese mainland", and the government of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region at that time relied on oil trade to exchange for many urgently needed materials in the border area.
Moving on, the vastness of the Loess Plateau can't help but remind people of the Yellow Emperor, the ancestor of Chinese civilization, this is where he flourished, from here he unified the Yellow River Valley, laid the foundation of the Emperor's Heaven and Thick Earth, Xianyang, Xi'an, Yan'an, these cities born on the Loess Plateau, Qin Shi Huang, Han Gaozu, Tang Gaozu, Mao Zedong from here to the world, to the sea. Li Zicheng also entered Beijing from this plateau, but he ultimately failed, for which Guo Moruo wrote the famous "Three Hundred Years of Jiachen Festival", and Mao Zedong waved his hand and said: We will never be Li Zicheng!
Walking in this vast land, for thousands of years, Haojie has risen together, and the knifeman gallops, which can't help but make people feel infinite emotions!
North-northwest
All the way to the west, the edge of the Loess Plateau, we have entered Gansu, the horizon is in the distance, the sand sea oasis, not far away is the beacon of the ancients, we are driving, a thousand miles a day, remembering the Han Dynasty Ban Zhao measured the ideal of westbound with his footsteps, and could not help but make people awe-inspired.
In the far side of the westbound road, there is no oasis, looking through the window, the huge body of the transmission tower and the wind power pole stands on the wasteland like a giant, standing between heaven and earth, and the old song of popularity is in the ear, as if crossing. People, really small.
All the way to the west, more and more desolate, the continuous sand dunes stretch to the edge of the sky, no one is seen, think of a thousand years ago, the Tang monks themselves went west alone in order to learn the scriptures, how amazing, if we walk alone on this ancient wasteland, a short time can persist, a long time has long been crazy, so the power of faith is too great.
All the way to the west, we cross the Hexi Corridor in Ningxia, a tragic and heroic land. In 1936, 21,800 soldiers of the Western Route Army of our Red Fourth Front Crossed the Yellow River in the west, and were frantically besieged by the Ma Family Army, except for a few who crossed the Qilian Mountains under the leadership of Li Xiannian and others to survive, all the rest were heroic sacrifices, let us remember these martyrs who sacrificed for their ideals!
The huge sand mountains in Gansu are just beside the highway, which is shocking to the eye, and the control of sand is related to the future of China's western region!!!
Above the plateau
All the way to the west, into the territory of Qinghai, we have entered the first step of China's topography - the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
Lao ya gorge tunnel
Pass through the Qinghai Laoya Gorge Tunnel, which is more than 5 miles long. The speed is so fast, today ran 1700 miles, two young men drove awesome, there are dozens of kilometers to today's destination Xining City.
Enter Xining, the capital of Qinghai Province
After passing the Qinghai toll station, Xining is not far away, checking into the hotel at 4 o'clock. Xining, a beautiful highland city, the street lights on both sides of the road welcome us from afar like neatly arranged guards.
At night, hand-grabbed meat, barley wine.
Qinghai famous food - Halal Yixin lamb hand grab restaurant
On the tip of the tongue of China's broadcast of Qinghai famous food - Halal Yixin Lamb Hand Grab Restaurant, the food spread in all directions, and tourists from the south to the north lined up in a long line... Eight people grabbed meat bare-handed and ate 5 pounds, because it was a Muslim restaurant, the store did not allow drinking, we drank Xining's special old yogurt.
The fragrant lamb is really delicious
Authentic old yogurt in a lamb house
To go to Xining, you must go to this restaurant
In order to consume food, the road back to the hotel is 5 miles back.
Walking on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is different, you close your eyes and think about the feeling of walking on the plateau.
The brother in the neighboring district who hung up his post in Yushu called, he was running errands in Xining, and wanted to come to see me at night, so he did not dare to move at night, only waiting silly in the hotel, this waiting is warm, quite an imaginary feeling of "talking about the night rain in Bashan".
After a night without words, waking up in the morning, hastily eating a highland breakfast, we embarked on the journey again.
Goodbye, my Xining, goodbye, my hand grabbing the flesh...
The outdoor temperature is 17 degrees, which is cool and crooked. Go to the Taal Temple, the River of Inverted Flows.
Thar Monastery
Warp cylinder
Temple Pagoda
Tsukwa Monastery is the birthplace of the founder of the Gelug school, Master Tsongkhapa, and one of the six major monasteries of the school, located 25 kilometers south of Xining, in the eight-petal lotus-shaped mountain pass in the town of Rushar in Huangzhong County, built in the 11th year of the Ming Wanli Calendar, with a special number of tourists, but most people come from thousands of miles, not to believe, but to feel the atmosphere of Tibetan Buddhism.
Pour the river
Say goodbye to the Taal Temple and run to the next goal - the backward river. A name given to people's imagination, the river flows backwards, the general river is "gushing river water flows to the east", while the inverted river flows westward, it originates from the boundary mountain between the Loess Plateau and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau - the Chahan Grassland in the western foothills of The Sun Moon Mountain, the river is clear to the bottom, meandering, soothing like a song spreading in the August sun, on the grass, without waves, as if a quiet girl is thinking about her heart. It is the smallest of the water systems flowing into Qinghai Lake, with a total length of more than 40 kilometers. Legend has it that when Princess Wencheng entered Tibet, walked to the boundary mountain of the ancient nomads and farming peoples, Sun Moon Mountain, looked back at Chang'an, looked west to a desolate place, missed her hometown, thought of her parents, grief agonized, waved tears to the west, the princess's tears converged into this backward river, which is a river of thoughts, but also a river of women, and now forms a plateau town by the river.
Scenery of the inverted river
Say goodbye to the highland town of the Backward River. All the way to the west to Qinghai Lake, along the way the scenery is unlimited, the Sun Moon Mountain, the plateau spirit - yak.
Highland yak
Sun Moon Mountain - the boundary mountain of nomadic and agrarian peoples
Large pieces of rape flowers are splendid under the blue sky and white clouds, nourishing the eyes, my Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
Pursue dreams, dreams are far away.
Qinghai Lake in the distance, a pearl on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, a tear of the Buddha.
Rape flowers on the shores of Qinghai Lake
Damei Qinghai Lake, fluttering sapphires, golden rape flowers, people enjoying flowers... Together, we composed the fairy tale of the Lake of Plateaus, and I became a part of this fairy tale.
Take a picture of Qinghai Lake
Such a beautiful scene, do not regret, stay in the inland habitually, all day in the cold cement space, people appear dull and withered, Tao Yuanming said "for a long time in the cage", you should experience the plateau style, different scenery, different touches.
Herds of cattle and sheep by the lake
Idyllic freedom
The shepherd girl sang, and the cows and sheep were like pearls sprinkled. The car along the shore of Qinghai Lake, looking at the beautiful lake and the herds of cattle and sheep on the lakeside, The River Sky is silhouette, the earth is vast, thinking of Su Wu, who shepherds sheep in the bitter cold land of the North Sea, the environment should be similar, Sima Qian feels that Su Wu is bitter, Su Wu can't return to the Han Dynasty and also feels bitter, and what about the Xiongnu? They have lived in the water and grass for generations, and their mood is that the shepherd girl sings, and the cattle and sheep are like pearls! The grassland is their home, and the cattle and sheep are their spiritual companions.
Overnight on the Black Horse River
Expedition to Qinghai Lake, overnight stay in the Black Horse River, Mulan conquest night stay in the head of the Black Mountain, it is very interesting, for different goals, are dry with the "black" color, we stayed overnight in the Black Horse River to see the sunrise of Qinghai Lake tomorrow morning.
Black Horse River Starry Sky Town
Mulan is to realize the dream of Khan, staying overnight at the head of the Black Mountain, not hearing the grandmother calling the female voice, but hearing the Yanshan Hu riding and chirping, I am much luckier than him, for my own plateau dream.
Eat yak beef hot pot, a pot of meat is not enough, and add meat, drink 48 degrees of barley wine.
Yak hot pot in the town of Black Horse River
After eating, we took a walk on the Black Horse River in this small town on the shore of Qinghai Lake, the sunset reflecting the beautiful plateau and the horses grazing on the plains, and the tranquility was the evening in the oil painting.
The sky feels so low! Li Bai said: I can pick up the stars with my hands, but I don't dare to speak loudly, for fear of frightening the people in the heavens, which may be my realm.
Night came unconsciously, the Black Horse River on the shore of Qinghai Lake, the outdoor temperature is 9 degrees, such a temperature in the inland is late autumn, the water is thin and cold season, I wanted to see the stars, because here is the closest place to the sky in addition to Tibet, in the Qinghai Lake on the Black Horse River to see the stars, in my opinion is a very pleasant and romantic thing, unfortunately the sky is not beautiful, cloudy, had to listen to the low moo of autumn insects, pillow the waves of Qinghai Lake into sleep.
When I woke up, I felt a lot of emotions: what can I do when I get to Qinghai Lake? It's like the Tang monks taking the scriptures, what is important is to enjoy the process, and the result is not important. People have a goal all their lives, and in order to achieve this goal, they have to work hard, to struggle, and when they achieve it, they may also exhaust their energy.
Life is an experience, not a result.
Who can predict life? When I was a teenager, I was still in the mountains of my hometown, and with the conditions at that time, I could not dream of Qinghai. Life is the most impermanent, and things are unpredictable.
Sunrise over Qinghai Lake
Watching the sunrise at Qinghai Lake is one of the purposes of everyone running thousands of miles to the plateau. People want to experience the feeling of watching the sunrise at an altitude of more than 3,000 meters, we got up early, afraid of missing the sunrise, it was still dark, put on the storm jacket, climbed to the top of the building, the plateau town of Black Horse River slowly woke up from the morning light, the sun jumped up from the lake like a golden dot, dyeing the clouds that wrapped it crimson. After a while, the lake surface and grass beach gradually became clear, and I quickly picked up the camera to freeze this beauty. The outdoor temperature is 11 degrees.
The Realm of the Sky is in Chaka
Goodbye, Qinghai Lake, we headed towards Chaka Salt Lake. In chaka, we saw that the traffic police on duty were wearing masks, which showed the strength of ultraviolet rays here.
Chaka Salt Lake, full of people
Chaka Salt Lake, a national 4A-level scenic spot, was rated by National Geographic as "55 places that people have to go in their lifetime", with an altitude of 3059 meters and an area of 105 square kilometers, famous for the production of daqing salt, and is The first green edible salt production base in China.
Chaka is the Tibetan word for salt lake, and tea card has the reputation of China's "sky realm" and "the most beautiful starry sky".
The salt lake is full of white flower salt, and the beautiful girls are draped in red scarves and pose in various poses in the lake under the blue sky, which forms a wonderful scenery with the white salt lake.
Tourists took pictures of me
I also can't help but tempt to go into the water, the water is not deep, to the calf belly, a rare trip, with the mobile phone to shoot themselves and others, know those who do not know, help each other. At the lake, I also met miyun hometown, where life really did not meet, and suddenly a sense of intimacy of meeting other people in other places sprang up.
After 3 hours of playing, it's time to say goodbye to the beautiful tea card! The next stop, Dachaidan, will be Mercedes-Benz 1400 miles today.
Exile da Chai Dan
Along the way to Dachaidan is the desolate Gobi, and occasionally there are large areas of goji berries under the blue sky and white clouds.
Alien ruins
As I walked forward, I suddenly saw the handwriting of the "Alien Site", which resembled a craters on the moon, all the way to the west, we chased the sun to go, and there were 160 kilometers to reach the destination. It's already 6 p.m., but it's as bright as two o'clock in the afternoon in the clouds.
The vast Gobi Desert, unable to see the edge at a glance, the car gallops on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and in the distance is the white clouds on the edge of the sky, for the sake of the distant scenery, we exile ourselves on the plateau.
All the way to the west, the road gleams in the sunlight. Moving forward, we chased the footsteps of the sun as it traveled west, and suddenly remembered the sun-chasing hero of the ancient mythology, Kua Father, and an inexplicable surge of excitement in our hearts.
There are still 60 kilometers away from Dachaidan, and victory is in sight.
We have been driving in the Qaidam Basin for 4 hours, there are no cars on the road, the beauty of the open, the Qaidam Basin is really big, it is the big cornucopia of the motherland!
Enter the road to Big Chaida
In front of you are rows of poplar trees with shiny green leaves, along the Renmin Road, Dachaidan, I'm coming! We've finally arrived! A small highland city, clean and tidy. The altitude is 3300 meters.
7:30 a.m. big Chai Dan, like 4 p.m. in Miyun, here it is dark at 9:30.
The big Chai Dan as the sun sets
Dachaidan local famous wine Barley wine, the local famous eat Kang pot meat, "Kang Mutton King" This shop is quite famous in the local area, equivalent to Tianjin's dog ignore, Beijing's Quanjude.
The famous barley wine in the local area
Outside the door of the Kang Lamb King
Silk Road new station, charm of the big Chai Dan.
In the slight drunkenness of barley wine, a good night's sleep.
Last night I ate in Shanghai, got up early with a little altitude sickness, slight, this is the morning of Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, after eating, I advanced to Yangguan, a famous pass in Gansu.
Yang Guandong went to Dunhuang
Dachaidan said goodbye, to the west and then to the east, we walked on the "Heavenly Road", the destination - Yangguan. Along the way, looking at the desolate Gobi outside the car window, I remembered that "persuade the jun to drink a glass of wine, and the people who go out of the west out of yangguan for no reason" surged in their hearts with a sense of desolation and tragedy mixed with a faint sadness.
Desolate Gobi
Gobi Desert and distant mountains
A towering transmission tower over the Gobi Desert
Walking on the sky road, there are very few cars, only the sand dunes on the side of the road and the tall transmission tower accompany us, and occasionally there are wild camels swimming in the Gobi Desert. Listening to Han Hong's "Heavenly Road", 3700 meters above sea level, in Zhang Yusheng's "Sea" song, the car began to climb, this mountain is called Dangjun Mountain, the road sign reminds us that this mountain is the boundary mountain between Qinghai and Gansu, down from the mountain, a very long valley - Changcaogou, there is a checkpoint in Gansu Province, after the checkpoint, down the mountain, officially entered the Gobi of Gansu Province, a horse Pingchuan, listening to Qi Long's "Waiting for You Waited So Long", Yangguan, are you waiting for me? Wait a thousand years...
Sand dunes that don't grow grass
The first county under the mountain is Aksai Kazakh Autonomous County. The desertification here is severe, and the high-speed rail viaduct and the highway are full of sand mountains without grass on both sides, which stunned people.
All the way forward, Yangguan, I finally came, to our millennium covenant.
There is no reason for the West Out of Yang Pass
At that time, Yuan Er sent an envoy to the Western Regions, the road was far away, the poet Wang Wei sent off his friend, a thousand words could not exhaust the parting feelings, only to persuade the jun to drink a glass of wine. And yangguan at that time, is an important pass on the Silk Road, the road outside the pass is crowded with peddlers and pawns and people who want to build a border area, Yangguan is the starting point of hope for some people, but for some people is the end, may never come back in their lifetime, so the west out of Yangguan is full of tragic colors.
Yangguan Ruins
Beautiful Dunhuang
Yang Guandong is Dunhuang, an ancient city on the Silk Road, and whenever I read his name, I will feel a breath coming from the Han and Tang Dynasties. Two thousand years later, I traveled thousands of miles with the fluttering dust, and finally met it. How can I describe it? The beauty of Dunhuang is beyond my expectations, we stayed in the city along the Dang River and built by the Moya Villa, the use of the word "Moya" to describe Dunhuang is really the most appropriate, Dunhuang is like jasmine, fragrant is not thick, elegant and vulgar, her beauty is full of connotation, elegant, from the inside to the outside of a temperament of beauty.
The beauty of Dunhuang subverted my impression
Put down the bag, the mobile phone has long been checked, run the famous Dunhuang Night Market snack street, drink Dunhuang wine, eat shelf meat, beautiful!
Famous Dunhuang Night Market
Lively Dunhuang snack street, hot don't want, in such a far place in the northwest, you can't think of it?! There are singers singing, and guests can also order songs, which is a kind of cultivation of tourism culture.
The first thing in the list of tourism is to eat, eat the most money, the formation of a food, after hundreds of thousands of years, food no matter how to cultivate can not be separated from the taste of breast milk, this is the root, from this root to open...
If you want to live a wide road, you can't do without salty and sweet.
Between salty and sweet, this is the true meaning of food!
The crowded Dunhuang Night Market
It is more than nine o'clock, Dunhuang's snacks on the street wave after wave of people, this is dunhuang nightlife, Dunhuang of the Han Dynasty has ceased to exist, only at night, and found the feeling of that year, you seem to have returned to the Han Empire, Dunhuang of that year is definitely like this, the south cavity to the north, the world's people gather here like clouds...
The son of friend Lao Liu took his girlfriend Jiajia and us on this trip together, tonight in the thousand-year-old town of Dunhuang to present a song for his girlfriend, let Yangguan testify, let relatives and friends testify, let all the tourists gathered here testify, express their romantic love, I believe that Jiajia will remember this romantic journey full of love! I wish them a good dream and an early realization, and may there be lovers in the world who will eventually become dependents.
The world bazaar
Snack street and market connected, the country's various characteristics of small commodities here, I think it should be called "the world market" appropriate, I really can't believe it, but do not believe it, are eleven o'clock at night, or the flow of people, let people feel that dunhuang people's nightlife has just begun.
Last night was crazy and tired, deep sleep, the dawn woke us up, Mingsha Mountain Crescent Spring rode a camel to go, with the long camel caravan walking on the sand mountain, the camel bell of the ancient Silk Road sounded again, put on my cowboy hat, look at me like an old cowboy in the west, old cool.
Mingsha Mountain
The camel caravan of Mingsha Mountain
Crescent Spring
Looking for the camel bell of the ancient Silk Road, we came to the Mogao Grottoes, a place where Zhang Daqian stayed for three years, and the wonderful Buddha statues and long-sleeved flying sky are unforgettable... This is the cultural heritage of all mankind, it belongs not only to China but also to the world, but as a Chinese, I am proud that our ancestors were able to create such a culture!
Mogao Caves
I'm going to say goodbye to Dunhuang, a border city that makes a good impression on me.
Goodbye, my classmate Chairman Zhao Hu of the Dunhuang Literary Association, a sincere and generous Northwest Hanzi, it is precisely because of him that I have a glimpse of the mogao grottoes, it is precisely because of him that I tasted the authentic sauce donkey meat yellow noodles, so that we did not leave regrets on this trip to Dunhuang, thank you again, I am waiting for you in Beijing...
Bid farewell to Dunhuang, enter the vast Gobi, 800 miles east, the next stop Jiayuguan.
From Jiayuguan to Blackwater City
We are looking for the wolf smoke in the side, the yellow sand Gobi in the northwest, the desert smoke, the sunset of the long river, which makes people's souls shake! There are still 360 miles to jiayuguan in the east, and the Yadan landform on the way seems to tell us about the vicissitudes of the west.
Yadan landform
Jiayuguan, here I come.
Enter Jiayu Pass
In the upper right corner is the first dun of the Great Wall, and below it is the Yellow River
The starting point of the Ming Great Wall
Jiayuguan to find the starting point of the Ming Great Wall, who would have thought that the Great Wall stretching to the hometown of Miyun is from this ordinary loess mound thousands of miles away, its left is the Grand Canyon cut by the river, the terrain is sinister, the right side is flat, the Great Wall has completed the transformation step by step from here, and it has achieved a heroic name, it seems that the heroes all originated from the grass. Why the hero does not ask the provenance, in fact, many times the "hero" is originally a "loess mound". It's like Liu Bei was originally an ordinary person who "sold woven mats".
Today's journey of 900 miles, from Jiayuguan to Inner Mongolia's Heishui City, also known as Heishui City, is located on the desert on the north bank of the dry Ejina River (Heishui), which is part of the ancient Juyan culture. Full of mystery, legend has it that there are huge treasures buried there, and the fantasy novel "Ghost Blowing Lights" and the live-action 3D blockbuster "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" all regard Blackwater City as the place where the core events occur. However, the people who really stole the "treasure" of Blackwater City were not the "father-in-law" and martial arts masters of the East Factory and the West Factory, but the Russian explorer Kozlov who came from afar.
Blackwater City
In March 1908, Kozlov led an expedition into the desert of inner Mongolia, led by the local Turks, into the Blackwater City. After several frantic digging expeditions, greedy explorers used 40 camels to transport more than 20,000 volumes of documents and more than 500 priceless thangka treasures from here.
The cultural relics of Heishui City have appeared in the world, becoming the third largest archaeological discovery in China after the oracle bones of Yin Ruins and the Dunhuang Testament...
On the way to Blackwater City, you have to pass through Dongfeng Space City, where the rocket is launched, he is the glory of our modern writing, both sides are barbed wire, stretching into the distance, the military forbidden area.
Blackwater City is lined with desolate sand dunes.
It is recommended that friends come to Blackwater City once, it is best to look at the sun in the afternoon when the sun is about to land on the horizon, looking at the desert lonely smoke, the sunset of the long river, the beauty of the limitless.
The beauty of Blackwater City will surely shock you, this city was built in Western Xia, that is, during the Yang Family General period in the novel, it is the yanjun division of the Western Xia Blackwater Town, and it was gradually abandoned after 1372 AD. Outside the city gate are a large number of poplar forest corpses, but they are immortal, interpreting the tenacity of life force. The sunset shines in the west, and the black water city is covered with golden sunset, which shines with the blue sky and white clouds, and everywhere is full of beauty, everywhere is full of temptation... This mysterious thousand-year-old city in the depths of the desert now has a well-known name - the World Geopark, but the sand has crossed the city wall to bury half of the entrance to the city gate, if you don't come in time, I don't know if there is a chance.
Night fell, and we reluctantly left Blackwater City. Goodbye, my Blackwater City, the beauty of loneliness in your desert has shocked me too much...
Donggui
Flying our hearts between the mountains and rivers, bidding farewell to Ejin, we marched towards Baotou, a grassland steel city 1800 miles away.
On the road from Ejina to Baotou, the wind and sand are particularly large, the sand has climbed up the road, if you do not grasp the way, the road is in danger of being engulfed by the desert, then the tragedy of the ancient city of Heihe will reappear on this road.
There is life in the most desolate place, and camels foraging for food walk in the desolate sand sea on the far side of the road.
Wandering on the plateau in the northwest, releasing the soul between heaven and earth, marching west to the east, galloping across the country, feeling old.
After the journey of the West to the East, my team and I composed the legend of the heroes of the East In the new era.
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the grassland steel city - Baotou, we are here!
Overnight stay in Baotou, the Internet to check the local cuisine, the original well-known national small fat sheep general store in Baotou, not far from the place of residence, we decided to walk to taste, walked to a small street, saw a small shop couplet has a good connotation, uplink: small noodles two or two better than pounds, downlink: life is short how can you do everything.
With the team, I was a "big sweat" and sweated.
Everywhere we went, we bought local liquor to try. Because wine is the crystallization of local water and grain, water is the soul of the local mountain, grain is the soul of the local land, and the wine produced by the combination of the two can best represent the local spirit. Therefore, what the ancients said about winemaking, a "brewing" word, brewing is the local culture and soul. Tasting wine from one place to another is the essence of wine culture.
Baotou's famous snack - back burnt beauty, I tasted on behalf of everyone, really delicious.
Wang Zengmin, a teacher of Beijing Daily, said that in Baotou, roasted wheat is called burning beauty, and "back head" is the most famous shop, which is indeed delicious. The small shop does, and throws the famous shop in Beijing out of half a street.
Teacher Wang, who does not like to eat mutton, is full of praise for the roasted wheat in Baotou.
Drink a bowl of milk tea, replace wine with tea, congratulate the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, congratulate the people of Inner Mongolia on their happiness and well-being, Tashi Delek! Goodbye to my Inner Mongolia, goodbye to my Daqingshan, goodbye to my Baotou, goodbye to my Baotou roasted wheat.
Mongolian steppe
In the drizzle, we bid farewell to Baotou and embarked on our journey home. Closer and closer to home, it also means that this trip is about to end, a sudden surge of unnamed sorrow in my heart, along the way to thank Lao Liu, Lao Mu and the two families warmly cared for me, thank you! If I have the chance in the future, I would like to walk with you! Before leaving, I received a warm WeChat from my old classmates, telling me if the Beijing-Zang line is stuck in traffic, how to go in Yanqing traffic jam, in the journey that is about to end this journey to the west, there are so many relatives, friends, classmates, colleagues, leaders who pay attention to and care about our westbound team, here, on behalf of the team, thank you, I wish good people a safe life!
The sky drifts through the clouds of my hometown, it is constantly calling to me, when the breeze around me gently blows, there is a voice calling to me, come back, the wanderer who wanders the world... Listening to Fei Xiang's song, I seemed to hear the sound of my hometown, east to east, and the road in front of me was a familiar way of return.