May 5, 2023 was cloudy
Today's first stop is Menghuan Shwedagon Pagoda (admission 38 yuan) and Mangshi Big Silver Pagoda (admission 35 yuan). Menghuan Shwedagon Pagoda is located on the top of Thunderboltang Mountain on the shores of Peacock Lake. Shwedagon Pagoda belongs to the architectural style of the Dai royal palace in South Asia. The "Menghuan Shwedagon Pagoda" between the green mountains and green waters is shining with gold and dazzling. I just walked around the perimeter and didn't go into the tower for a tour. Menghuan Silver Pagoda, also known as the Thousand Buddha Silver Pagoda, echoes the Shwedagon Pagoda and is also the most representative pagoda symbol building in Mangshi. One is rich and gorgeous, the other is pure and elegant.
Today's second stop is the Shubao Pagoda in Mangshi, which according to Dai historical records, during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the 17th Tusi of Mangshi built this tower to commemorate a victorious war, more than 200 years ago. Around the tree, look carefully, some places are wrapped by the roots of the banyan tree can not see the tower, some places in the roots of the banyan tree, you can see part of the tower, the tower is made of brick and stone, it is no longer possible to see how high, like an octagonal, there is a Buddha statue in the shrine. It may be that the brick tower has been cracked for a long time, and the cracks are gradually filled with dust, and a banyan tree seed is brought into the crack of the tower by the wind or birds, and under the moisture of the rain, the seed takes root and germinates, so the ancient tower is gradually wrapped by the banyan tree, forming a tree pack tower wonder. The tree wraps the tower, the tower tops the tree, just like a whole, the tower is the tree, and the tree is the tower.
The third stop is the Wanmachi Port in Ruili City, Dehong Dai Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture. During World War II, because the Japanese army blocked all of China's sea lanes, Wanmachi became the base camp and material distribution center of the Sino-American and British allied forces, and hundreds of thousands of Chinese anti-Japanese expeditionary forces also entered and exited the country from here. Listening to the excited remarks of several big brothers in the car, I also searched the Internet curiously. The China-India Highway is an international military strategic highway built by China and the United States during World War II from Lido, India through Myanmar to Kunming, China. It was named "Stilwell Highway". The town is the starting point of the Stilwell Highway in China. After the completion of the Sino-Indian Highway, Allied military aid materials could reach Kunming overland from Lido, India through Burma, smashing the Japanese blockade plan. Before Japan's surrender, the Sino-Indian highway carried more than 50,000 tons of materials to aid China's War of Resistance against Japan, which played a positive role in China's victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan. There are also buildings such as post offices and banks from the Republic of China period, bearing the imprint of that era. The Yunnan Red Memory Museum, located among the red mountains and waters of the Wanmachi Economic Development Zone, is also worth seeing.
Stay in Ruili for the night. After dinner, visit Ruili Delong Jewelry Night Market with fellow travelers, Ruili is known as the "Emerald City". It is said that it is the largest jadeite wool trading market in China, and the night market is full of people, especially the stalls of gambling stones, which are more mysterious, and the flashlight emits a beam of light in the night, and the lights are dotted, like a starry sky...
