In the northeast of autumn, there is a bold girl wearing a flower shirt.
Up close, bright and warm.
In the distance, the hazy sea of clouds and mountains,
It also exudes an unpredictable subtlety and softness.
▲Huanren Maple Valley, mountain view.
After all, there is a unique Changbai Mountain here,
It is the earliest place in China to enter autumn, and it is also the largest stage for the autumn in Northeast China.
At this moment, in a secret realm of the remnants of the Changbai Mountain,
A grand maple leaf viewing event is being staged vigorously.
People from all over the country are coming here.
Roundabout in the mountains and forests, see the maple leaves all over the mountains.
Shuttling along the long winding road,
Golden larchs, yellow quercus trees, fiery torch trees, deep purple maple trees, dark green pine trees... Mountains are laid out, sending each other all the way.
Like God's new handwriting,
Like watercolor oil paintings, it is layered, dark or light, light or dark.
All the pictures and scenes above are from this northeastern city we just visited
- Benxi, Liaoning.
Two days ago, spanning more than 2,000 kilometers from the south to the north, we walked into Benxi and came to a northeast "eyewash" trip.
As the maple leaf capital of China, Benxi has taken the autumn days of the northeast to the extreme, and it is also brilliant to the extreme.
At least those who have been there must not forget the Maple Valley like the golden autumn fairy tale world.
"The maple forest here is the most complete and full, stretching one mountain after another."
Along the way, the exclamations of the Northeast Old Iron are endless.
"Kyoto is famous for its autumn leaves, but Motokei can be replaced and surpassed, and it is more beautiful than expected, and it is very interesting."
When I sent the picture to a friend in Heilongjiang, he said that this is the most beautiful autumn I have seen this year.
Benxi landscape and scenery really deserve its name.
Yes, or how to say that in Maple Leaf Valley, the content of northeasterners is as high as 80%.
Different from autumn in Heilongjiang,
It is also not as colorful as the Xiaoxing'an Ridge, and the autumn in Benxi has a thicker sense of layering.
You see, the autumn leaves at the water's edge are as dazzling as in the painting or in the background of the game.
And if you can walk around the city, you will find that the "artistic conception" two is very in line with Benxi.
Go to enjoy autumn, listen to the flowing water in the valley,
Look at the pure red and orange intermingling, and a little green is sandwiched between to become an embellishment.
Through the mountain road,
In a small mountain village under the Changbai Mountain, wild ginseng has been dug for more than 20 years;
At the county's largest farmers market,
Feel the legendary "healing system" Northeast Market;
In Liaoning and even the entire Northeast City Circle,
Benxi's personality, as its name suggests, is low-key and gentle.
At the same time, it is indeed a city that has carved the beauty of mountains and rivers into its genes,
But far from it, it's more than just the landscape.
01
Hello, Benxi
Located in the remnants of the Changbai Mountains, the "Liaodong Rush" Benxi,
Once with the heavy metal punk posture of the "steel capital", it ignited the light of the earliest civilization in Northeast China.
Today, the maple leaf amazes the whole country.
But for the first time we know Benxi, we still have to start with "Gang".
Most of the cities in the northeast are born with rigidity in their bones,
It is the "steel" of steel, and it is also the "rigidity" of Northeast China.
▲Benxi after snowfall
Benxi, naturally, is also the same.
It is located in the southeast of Liaoning, bordered by Tonghua, Jilin to the east, Dandong to the south, Fushun to the north, and Shenyang to the northwest.
Geographically, it is not only an important hub of Shenyang-Dan Railway and Shen-Dan Expressway, but also known as the "Shengjing Back Garden" because it is on the edge of the provincial capital Shenyang.
It's just that in the context of the economic development of the Chinese era, Benxi seems to be gradually forgotten by the times.
Maybe it was the northeast of that year, the Benxi of that year, it was too dazzling.
▲Benxi Taiping Mountain overlooks the night view of the city
At the beginning of the founding of New China, Benxi was one of the 12 municipalities directly under the central government, and it was ranked alongside Tianjin and Shanghai.
One of the big reasons is the coal resources here.
Since the Han Dynasty, Benxi has been excavated with super rich mineral deposits, and for the next two thousand years, successive dynasties have regarded this place as a treasure place, mining coal and mining.
Until the beginning of the last century, in the turmoil of the times, Benxi embarked on the road of industrial powerhouse.
Although it has had a bad fate along the way, it has also been tempered by the times and has a great reputation.
Sun Yat-sen also specifically mentioned it in the "Strategy for the Founding of the People's Republic", writing: "There is Hanyeping in the south, and Benxi Lake in the north." ”
What really established Benxi's status as the "steel capital" must be seen in the entire northeast environment under New China.
When a steady stream of steel and coal was transported from Benxi to all parts of the country, it formed the bones and flesh and blood of the motherland's economic construction.
At that time, when the people of Benxi walked on the road, they had to raise their heads and be proud.
The first tanks, the first artificial earth satellites, the first submarines, the first launch vehicles of New China ... Both have used ginseng iron and special steel in Benxi.
This cradle of the steel industry of the Republic can be described as supporting the iron pillars and steel beams of the motherland's construction period.
▲Benxi after snowfall
Although Benxi was later transformed from a municipality directly under the central government to a provincial-administered municipality, it is undeniable that it remained one of the most important industrial cities in China in the following decades.
In 2019, this green steel capital was also born, ultra-high strength and toughness hot stamped steel and other world's best.
But fate will eventually usher in some nodes.
▲ Huanren does not prohibit fireworks.
Those at the foot of the mountains, among the billowing clouds and smoke, the once vigorous steel years have become farther and farther away from today's Benxi.
People began to find new vitality and light in this land again.
During the National Day, the CCTV screen scrolled with the maple leaf scene of Benxi.
People from all over the country, especially in the surrounding northeastern cities, have to drive for several hours.
The originally quiet Benhuan Highway began to be crowded.
Benxi's armor, which had been armed with steel for decades and hundreds of years, began to become soft and affectionate.
The most beautiful autumn colors here are shining with the autumn breeze and the maple leaves.
And the place where it is gathered must be the Benhuan Highway, known as the "Chinese Maple Leaf Road".
Pick up a fallen leaf everywhere, along the highway,
With Benxi Grand Canyon as the first stop, you will get a dream maple forest journey that is more than 30 kilometers long.
There is Guanmen Mountain, which is famous as the "Little Yellow Mountain of Northeast China", Laobiangou with vast forests and waterfalls, as well as the magical Wunu Mountain, the beautiful Fenglin Valley and so on.
Don't blink along the way.
If you arrive in Benxi City, it is better to cross the "Prince River" and climb Pingding Mountain.
At the top of the mountain, overlooking the city and the mountains, the smoke wrapped Benxi.
You see, on one side there is still the majestic light of the Steel Age.
And here, the mountains and rivers that continue from Changbai Mountain,
It seems to have flourished and been reborn.
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The most beautiful is Huan Ren
When the first frost falls, the autumn breeze sweeps over more than 100 mountains and more than 200 rivers and lakes, which belongs to the highest tribute of Benxi in autumn.
Focus a little more, Huanren County, which belongs to Benxi, is the absolute C position hidden this autumn.
After the National Day holiday, at the invitation of my friend Jimmy, we flew straight to Shenyang, and then went straight to his hometown, Huanren, more than 200 kilometers away.
Huanren Manchu Autonomous County, located in eastern Liaoning, is a typical mountainous ethnic minority autonomous county,
Mainly Manchu, it also includes Han, Korean, Hui and Mongolian ethnic groups and Xibo, Zhuang, Miao, Buyi, Bai and Tujia.
Speaking of Huanren, the taxi driver you meet will always proudly say "Chinese Huanren".
In the past, Huanren returned to Dandong, and later to Benxi.
"We have a lot of land here, there are decades of old ginseng buried in the ground, river fresh water that doubles in size, and snow clams bouncing on the mountains... All kinds of creatures, that is... There are not many people. ”
The Manchus are proud in their hearts that it is not just tourists who come for the maple leaves, but all faith and love for this landscape and river.
A hundred years ago, the Jurchens came here to multiply.
The Manchu Qing Dynasty also banned Huanren and other places for more than 200 years, making it a treasure land outside the border for a while.
If the time span is stretched back 2,000 years, the early capital city founded by Goguryeo is the site of today's Gonu Mountain.
In other words, the ancestral land of Koreans is in Huanin.
Today, Huanren is still an excellent student in the natural environment and urban environment.
It has the natural landform of "eight mountains, one water and one field", and is famous for being the hometown of ice wine, fish and rice, ginseng medicine, and forest frog.
Therefore, there is the saying "Northeast Small Jiangnan".
The Hunjiang River is the mother river of Huanren, with as many as 84 large and small rivers and more than 100 reservoir bays.
And it has the best water quality in Liaoning, and the surface water and groundwater have reached the second class water quality standard.
In addition, its forest coverage rate is also the highest in Liaoning.
Specialties are even rarer.
For example, the area of ginseng under the forest is as high as 650,000 mu, and the output is the highest in the country.
▲Huanren, the hometown of Chinese ginseng and the largest wild ginseng storage base in China, is also here.
When it rains, you can catch snow clams with your bare hands, as well as fish in the river, one fatter than the other.
Of course, the largest "specialty" has to be Maplelin.
Originally, during the National Day, Huanren maple leaves, which should have been red, were later than before.
And we were very lucky to have caught the best of times.
Starting from the county seat, all the way to Fenglin Valley, the sun is bright and gentle and sprinkled on the near and far mountains.
There are not many cars on the road, so this view is as far as the eye can see.
With turning, accelerating, decelerating, the view framed by the window,
Fast or slow with light and shadow and constantly changing, as long as you don't blink, it's like watching a colorful stage play.
Roll down the window and the birds chirp on the autumn leaves of the cliff wall.
Jimmy remembered when he was a child, often in the forest, chasing birds and catching birds to play,
"Caught it, let it fly".
We were standing on the edge of the Tiger Valley Gorge, and a passenger ship came west, made a bend, and hit the east.
"Is this 'Little Guilin'?" "No, it's more beautiful than Little Guilin."
The vehicle continues to speed on the highway, and after the wide field of vision, the strides are a warm northeast farm scenery.
After harvesting, the corn fields are smooth, the dry corn stalks are stacked into small hills, and a little farther, the brick houses in blue and yellow colors are scattered... It's much more layered than the oil paintings you see in the gallery.
Marveled all the way, the words ran out all the way. Jimmy always said that the good show is ahead.
Maple Valley, can be called the most maple leaves in China, complete varieties, wide distribution, early red, bright color,
And the "flowering period" is only half a month.
On arrival, the parking lot was filled with private cars, buses and motorcycle passengers from all over Tohoku.
If you don't want to walk, you can take a sightseeing bus.
▲ The experienced master is on the Fenglin Highway, and he is about to fly.
Then, climb the stairs and make a detour through the maple forest.
The autumn leaves fall with the wind, and the crystal clear stream water ripples in the deep stone pool, bright and quiet.
As far as the eye can see, the red maple is like fire, the yellow leaves are eye-catching, the green leaves are delicate, and there are withered residual leaves, like the last afterimages of fireworks.
Sure enough, nature is the greatest aesthete.
Climbing the mountain, you can see the mountains in the distance, which is different from the colorful scenery in the Maple Valley.
Near the mountains like emerald, far away mountains like dai, isn't this ink danqing.
No wonder, some people say that as long as you have been there, it is not an exaggeration to call the most beautiful maple forest here.
We also captured these images:
▲Dressed up,
Aunts who are shooting magazine covers,
As well as busy big brother.
▲Also because of taking pictures,
sulking aunt,
And the straw hat uncle who did not dare to speak.
▲ In the maple forest,
Playing the harmonica,
A little shy little boy.
▲Maple forest,
An old couple resting.
It's just that the redder than the maple leaf here, and immortal, should be them.
At that time, Yang Jingyu led the First Army of the Anti-Coalition and fought a bloody battle here.
So if you encounter an anti-alliance path in the forest, you might as well take a look.
Go to the site of the Bamian Wei Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Base to take a look, and gently walk through the stone barracks, the ruins of the secret camp of Crouching Tiger Peak, the Tibetan Cave, the Yukou Pass, and the training ground.
How many reincarnations of spring, summer, autumn and winter, how many heroic blood endures.
Huanren is a red hero city.
It is not only the original material of the national anthem, but also the old revolutionary area of the country.
Liaoning's earliest, most institutional, most densely laid out and most influential anti-Japanese base area was established - Benhuan Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Base Area.
Standing in front of the ruins street sign, looking at this brilliant mountain, in addition to being amazed, there is a little more awe.
Leaving the maple forest is like lighting a fire in your heart and setting off an autumn fireworks.
Kaede, after spring and summer gestation, wait until autumn blooms briefly, and then return to their roots when winter comes.
At that time, the mountains were bare, and they frankly welcomed the baptism of ice and snow.
Here, nature's four-season giving is always so generous.
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"Autumn" at the Tohoku Market
The Northeast Morning Market, which we cherished in our hearts, eventually made us prohibitive (unable to get up) because of the 5 o'clock stall and 7 o'clock closing the stall.
But the Northeast Market is a must-visit.
Especially, the autumn bazaar.
If the most beautiful visual healing in autumn, it is the maple forest, in the valley.
Then, the fullest and most vivid colors of autumn should all be concentrated in the crowded, steaming farmers market.
It was not yet freezing, and the sun at 8:30 a.m. had softened everything in the market.
Illuminated warmly, this is the charm of the open-air market.
We went to the largest farmers market in Huanren County, located on Wenhua Road.
I don't know if it was intentional, Wenhua Road was surrounded by fiery red maple leaves, and at the corner of the intersection, there were a few more ginkgo, full of golden trees.
People returning from the vegetable market walk through one by one, such an ordinary daily life is also a small romance limited to Huanren's autumn.
Keeping the same tone as the maple leaves on the street are the colorful fruit stalls in the market.
Apples, pears and peaches are very common, but when you look at it carefully, there are some differences between pears and apples, which are local to Huanren.
Pears alone, there are local wild pears, southern fruit pears and so on that we are relatively unfamiliar with.
The pointed rake pear of the season turns earthy yellow.
People in Huanren County will use it to make frozen pears, and this northeast winter ritual sense has a sense of ceremony.
The aforementioned Nanguo pear will be used to make dried pears.
Don't look at the wrinkled, but the taste is very peculiar, retaining the rich fruity aroma, which is sweet and sour.
Sweeping the bazaar is to bring a foodie's heart to discover the food belonging to the northeast with Manchu customs.
The Manchus love pasta, so you can find a variety of noodles or dough made from fermented corn.
They are also very good at making some snacks and dry food with Su Ye, which looks like bean bags.
The round little one, lying neatly in the steaming drawer, was wrapped in green leaves, firmly locking the fragrance of Su Ye.
Koreans are very good at making pickled vegetables, salty and fragrant.
Because the raw materials used are too rich, if the boss introduces them one by one, it is like a "hundred herb collection".
This radish strip, that cucumber shredded, and some mountainous wild vegetables, full of pots, are eaten on the freshly baked steamed buns and cakes from the stall next door, which are fragrant.
In the bazaar, the most authentic desires of human beings cannot be restrained.
If you buy a big steamed bun, you have to buy pickles. If you fancy a snack, you have to pair it with fresh fruit.
The tofu stall is booming, and I always want to come forward.
Not to mention, river fresh, mountain goods, and live seafood are very fat.
Only one trip to the bazaar,
In order to feel at the table, the people of Huanren have never lived up to the gift of this beautiful landscape.
The streets of the small town are wide and bright, and you can walk the streets after eating and drinking.
Autumn is casually captured.
The ginkgo trees on Changjiang Street have been paved with "gold" on the sidewalk.
The maple leaves on Pearl River Street are as red as a fire.
Autumn in the northeast is short.
In a few days, the maple leaves of Benxi and Huanren should also quickly wither.
The mountains will be bald, the leaves will wither, and the rivers will soon enter a year's freezing mode.
In the evening, we stood on the bridge in Zhangyue Park,
Imagine that after winter comes, the town should not be bleak, dull and lonely.
People will come and go on this ice, lively and laughing.
In the tavern at night, middle-aged people sang "Friends" one song after another.
The night before leaving Huanren, we had the most memorable meal at a local restaurant.
There are flower rolls the size of a basin, quite a lot of fried vermicelli, stewed beans...
Not to mention, the enthusiasm of Northeasterners is all in this basin after basin.
Especially, when we dug 26-year-old wild ginseng during the day, stewed a pot full of chicken soup and served it thickly,
This affection from the land of ginseng reached its climax.
Local stupid chickens, meet wild ginseng,
The fragrant and mellow ginseng chicken soup blends perfectly and exudes the aura of this land.
With the fragrance of earth, the natural essence of the mountains and forests is not all here?
Here is Huan Ren.
A fresh, hot, spiritual northeast "landscape" city.
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Write at the end
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This trip to Northeast Ginseng & Autumn Hunt is too unforgettable
Benxi is well worth it
The autumn and even the summer in Huanren are even more worthwhile
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