When you travel, hear your own voice and it will tell you that the world is wider than you think. Travel is a kind of faith, walking as a practice, we spend our whole lives on the road of pilgrimage, leaving the confusion in front of us, looking for the poetry and the distance that our hearts seek.
Dreams follow the wind, and red dust goes several times
On July 5th, wake up at 6:30, have breakfast at 7:00, depart at 7:30 and march to Shangri-La.
When I woke up in the morning, it was slightly bright and a little cool. After getting on the bus, I found that I had changed tour guides again, a tour guide who claimed to be a Tibetan, let everyone call her Dolma, Mandarin is much better than Director Zhang, except for a slightly petite figure, a little dark face, I can't find that she is a Tibetan.
Of course, it is no exception, along the way, we are constantly introduced to the customs and customs of the Tibetan region, with special emphasis on marriage customs, which can be polygamous, polyandry, and even polygamous, but there is a limit, either a man marries several sisters, or a woman finds several brothers, it can be said that family to family. The criteria for choosing a mate here are usually the "four big": big face, big head, big body, and big butt. People should be tall and stout, and their faces should be darker. Compared with the cream raw in Hong Kong and Taiwan, it is very different.
Tibetans cannot live without yaks, and no matter what they talk about, they may eventually be implicated with yaks. For example, eating, eating roasted yak meat, drinking yak milk, Dolma getting married, there must be yaks in the things that dowried, and whether a person is strong or not should be compared with yaks.
Dolma began to introduce the Tibetan home visit to us in the car, and said that if you come to Shangri-La and don't go to the Tibetan house, it is equivalent to not coming to Shangri-La, I think, in other words, Shangri-La is the place where the gods live, the owner here is the Tibetans, the Tibetans are the gods, you come to Shangri-La but don't go to their house, do you still see the gods? In this way, everyone was a little moved, but she heard that Tibetans' home visits are self-funded projects, requiring 150 yuan per person, and everyone is not squeaking, and there are people below who do not want to go, she also said that if Tibetans do not eat roasted dairy yaks, it is a pity, so they need to add another 50 yuan, which means that Tibetans need 200 yuan for a home visit. In the end, everyone was forced to agree to the Tibetans' home visits, and the 200 yuan should be used to support the economic construction of the western region.
When the car arrived at the first bay of the Yangtze River, Dolma began to change into Tibetan national clothing, that is, a flower dress on the outside. We got out of the car and climbed the observation deck, passed through the winding shops selling medicinal herbs, and came to it, and saw that the water of the Yangtze River was very small, and the water surface was not as wide as imagined, and it is said that the Red Army snatched the Yangtze River from here. There are two black and white yaks on the observation deck, waiting for visitors to take photos with it.
Hurried up and down, returned to his seat, continued to move forward, advanced into the Tiger Leaping Gorge, and was about to temporarily separate from Lijiang.
At 10 o'clock in the morning, I came to the Tiger Leaping Gorge. There were many people, and we walked up and down the Yangtze River (only 3 meters from the water) from the spiraling road at an altitude of more than 1,800 meters, looking at the choppy river, the huge whirlpool rolling forward, hissing, jumping, it was really shocking.
The following is from Baidu Encyclopedia:
Tiger Leaping Gorge, one of the deepest canyons in China. It is northeast of Longpan Township, Yulong Naxi Autonomous County (formerly Lijiang Naxi Autonomous County), Yunnan Province. The canyon is 16 kilometers long, with the main peak of Yulong Snow Mountain on the south bank at an altitude of 5,596 meters, Zhongdian Snow Mountain on the north bank at an altitude of 5,396 meters, and the middle river is only 30∼60 meters wide. The upper mouth of the Tiger Leaping Gap is 1,800 meters above sea level, and the lower gorge is 1,630 meters above sea level, with a difference of 2,500-3,000 meters between the mountains and the river. The river descends 7 steep ridges in a row, with a drop of 170 meters, and the water is turbulent for several miles, making it one of the deepest Grand Canyons in the world. In the past, the river was cut off by landslides, and there are still landslides left.
Then return to the Tiger Leaping Gorge Town restaurant for lunch, during the meal, someone let everyone taste yak meat sauce for free, everyone felt good after eating, just ask the price, 16 yuan a bottle, 30 yuan two bottles, 260 yuan a box (20 bottles), a bottle of 230 grams, everyone in total, 5 people buy a box, four bottles per person. Later, when I returned to Lijiang Supermarket, I found that yak meat sauce like this specification also cost 12 yuan a bottle, and my heart was much more secure.
The car continued to move forward, stretched out its head and looked out, obviously feeling that the buildings outside were different from Dali and even from Lijiang. Dolma told us that we have entered the Tibetan residential area, and the house here has a characteristic, the walls on both sides are made of mud, the rest are made of solid wood, many small flags are hung at many doors, there are many Tibetan words on them, Dolma told everyone that it is a golden flag, it is a Tibetan Buddhist in order to save time and effort, embroidered Buddhist scriptures on a piece of cloth, hung in the wind, when the wind blows, the banner will make a sound, which is equivalent to Buddhists chanting. There are also families that hang a red flag much larger than the golden flag, if one side tells outsiders that this family believes in Buddhism, hang two sides, indicating that someone in the family has died, hang three sides, indicating that the family has been a living Buddha, the most respected.
Dolma also introduced the burial customs of the Tibetan people in the Diqing area. In the Diqing Tibetan area, five types of burial styles are prevalent: heavenly burial, water burial, cremation, burial and tower burial, and the method of burial used during the funeral is decided by asking the lama.
Heavenly burials: Most of the people buried in heaven are monks and adult laymen. There are heavenly burial platforms everywhere, and after death, the chanting is "super" and sent to the heavenly burial platform, where the full-time burial staff of the heavenly burial staff dissects the corpse and feeds the vultures. Outsiders are not allowed to watch during the day burial.
Water burial: There are four types of water burial methods in Diqing Tibetan areas. The body is first placed in a Tibetan-style coffin, and carried to the water burial ground to send the body and coffin into the water.
Cremation: Regarded as a holy burial in the Diqing Tibetan area, it is one of the burial methods after the death of the living Buddha, the body is coated with ghee, firewood is cremated, and the columbarium is erected for worship.
Burial: There are three burial methods in Diqing Tibetan areas. Using a Han-style coffin, people are put into a coffin after death, and parked for several days, then sent for burial, and after burial, they are built with thick turf to form a long earthen tomb; With a Tibetan-style coffin, the body is squatted and put in, the grave mark is not obvious, and the funeral is relatively simple and simple; After death, the body is bundled into a squat shape, then a white cloth bag or sack is enlarged, and a pit is dug and buried without a coffin.
Pagoda burial: It is a funeral ritual used after the death of the Great Living Buddha. After embalming, the body is placed in the tower, called the "Spirit Pagoda", for worship. In some cases, after cremating the body, the ashes are placed in the spirit tower.
The car gradually came to Shangri-La County, we first went to the Diqing Prefecture Museum to see, then turned the Falun, returned to the car, checked into the hotel, it was already 4:30 p.m., originally took a bath, but this hotel has just been renovated, there is no hot water, can not bathe.
I went out with Mr. G, who lived in the same room, and Shangri-La Street was deserted, known as Shangri-La as a place where the gods lived, which was not bad at all, and it was difficult to find a few people wandering on the street. When I came to a supermarket, there was not much to buy in it, and I wanted to buy some Shangri-La souvenirs, but I was sent that there was nothing. But I felt that I couldn't go back empty-handed, so I bought 125 grams of tianma, 7 Mao a gram, a total of 87.5 yuan, and later heard from colleagues that this tianma was fake, fooled, and depressed. After returning to the hotel, I took a brief shower and began a visit to the Tibetan home.
After more than half an hour of driving to a Tibetan household, a few Dolma and Tashi dressed in national costumes were waiting at the door, and when they saw us coming, Dolma offered "white" hata, Tashi toasted barley wine, and at the same time a photographer took pictures next to him and filmed the scene of this offering hada, so that you could buy it for 10 yuan.
We came to the second floor in turn, the living room looked very large, there were four large pillars in the middle, and later I learned that the middle four large pillars, the largest one represents Abba, followed by the big wife, the second wife, and the little wife. The walls around the house are carved in relief, the floor is covered with thick wooden floors, there are many low benches around it for visiting guests, and a stove is set up in the corner of the house with chicken soup simmering in it.
At 7:30 p.m., a young Tibetan man was the host, and we called him to Tashi, sing a song, and then let us learn to speak Tibetan, Ya Meng, Ya Meng, Ya Men, Ya Men! Then introduce us to their family, his father married 3 wives, gave birth to many children, is relatively happy in the local area, and let his unmarried sister sing on stage, and then our guests presented them with hada, and a small interactive program, the atmosphere was relatively warm, a room less than 150 people, each charge 200 yuan, a night of performance can earn 30,000 yuan, the performance lasts until 9:30 p.m. At that time, I wanted to take a photo with a beautiful little sister, and when I got closer, a pungent smell came to my face, so sour, and the group photo plan was ruined.
The chicken soup that came up tasted good, but the roasted yak beef, it was too fishy to eat, and it was too big, and few people could eat it, and the estimated degree of barley wine was too high, and it was spicy to drink, so I drank a cup.
We went downstairs to the courtyard to see Dolma and Tashi dancing around the campfire, and some of the guests twisted their butts, but the pace was much slower than theirs.
The weather outside was relatively cold, and everyone got on the bus after a while and went back to the hotel to rest.