Sorting out the article "Drunken Yellow Mountain", I remembered several experiences of mountaineering in recent years, and traced back to the earliest is to go to Mount Tai to see the sunrise, which was at the end of October 1997.
That year, he went to Beijing with his husband to do the National Agricultural Comprehensive Development Exhibition. During the exhibition, we had a few free days, so we went to Tai'an, the purpose of this trip is to go to Mount Tai, and the second is to go to Confucius.
He said that it is a wish to go to Mount Tai to see the sunrise for many years, and when he was in school in Beijing, he and his classmates came to climb Mount Tai, but during the day up and down the mountain, he always felt a little regretful, and this time he must go to Mount Tai to see the sunrise.
After staying in Tai'an, we contacted the car in the scenic spot at the hotel. To see the sunrise need to leave in the middle of the night, more than 12 o'clock in the morning on the departure, to the scenic spot heard that the mountain is very cold, see that everyone is renting cotton coats, we each also rented a military coat to wear, and began to go up the mountain along the stone steps.
That was the first time I had climbed a high mountain, and it was Mount Tai, the first of the three mountains. I didn't go far and began to be panting and sweating, so I had to take off my coat and carry it, and I struggled to move forward step by step.
Because it was a night climb, it was pitch black on all sides, and I couldn't see anything, so I could only climb up with my head down. I can't remember more details, but I remember that there was a moment when I couldn't hold on, and he kept saying that it was almost and that it was coming soon. In fact, in the large group of mountain climbers in the dark night, there is also a sound of "I really can't walk" from time to time. But as we all know, there is no turning back when you open the bow, you must go up and forward!
The clearest feeling is the moment I climbed on the heavenly street, the feeling of falling apart and being exhausted disappeared at once, and I suddenly felt as relaxed as a goose. I don't know what kind of reaction this is, is it the pride of overcoming myself and overcoming Tarzan? The feeling of being tired and suddenly flying away is really incredible.
We were so lucky that we saw the sunrise over Tarzan. When the sun rises on the top of the mountain, many people shout loudly. I didn't know how to shoot at the time, I just knew that I was busy taking pictures. It's a pity that I didn't seem to appreciate the rising sun too seriously, and I wasn't very impressed.
More than ten years later, when I picked up my camera to shoot the sunrise again and again, I remembered the scene of the sunshine behind me on the top of Mount Tai, and I realized how precious the moment of sunrise on Mount Tai was. After falling in love with photography, when I tried to capture the most beautiful sunrise with my camera, I began to cherish the rising sun every time I faced it.
It was possible to take the cable car down the mountain after dawn, but I didn't see any scenery when I climbed the mountain in the middle of the night, and I couldn't see much of the ruins and scenery on the way down the mountain by the cable car, so I proposed to walk down the mountain. He said can you do it? I remember saying firmly: Yes!
They all say that "it's easy to go up the mountain, but it's hard to go down", but I still feel that it's easier to go down. The deepest memory is to see many calligraphy stone carvings left by celebrities along the way. Standing under the stone carvings of "the world's first mountain" and "Wakaden Natural", I feel very proud.
The most memorable thing is that the four stone carving words of "Haitian in the eye" on the stone wall behind me, coincidentally, there is one word in each of our names in these four words, and they are all words in the middle, which seems to be written for us in the twilight, which is too precious.
After coming back and accidentally chatting with his calligraphy friend Qiao about the four words he saw on Mount Tai, he wrote down a calligraphy of "the sea and the sky are in sight" and sent it to us. Later, Qiao was admitted to the Chinese People's University for a doctorate in calligraphy, but unfortunately he died of illness the year before, and the calligraphy he gave us became the most precious collection.
At that time, I didn't know how to take photographs, so I used a point-and-shoot camera to capture random scenes, and I was very fond of scenes that blended together, leaving precious time in the photos. When the years pass quietly, those figures of the past remind us of the good years of the past.
There is also a story related to stone carvings in Taishan. There are a lot of carved stone on the top of Mount Tai, there is a piece of lubricated stone stamp material he likes very much, bought it and said to me: "Don't you always want to carve a book chapter, how meaningful the stone on the top of this mountain is, go back and carve a famous seal." ”
I happily played with the stone along the way, and discussed with him what words were engraved in the book seal, and he said that it was written "Wuhua Tianbao". And I said, "Don't you know your name and the meaning of this idiom? An extremely rare and precious thing, "Tianhua, a treasure." "Oh my God, my name still has such a meaning. I don't know if my parents thought of this idiom when they named me, but after living for more than 30 years, he helped me crack the meaning of the name, which really touched me and made me very happy.
When I came back, I asked an old leader who loved carving to engrave this book stamp for me, and the first thing I did after buying a book was to stamp it. Later, two calligraphy friends who gave me calligraphy turned out to be the four big characters of "Wuhua Tianbao", which became a rare treasure.
After climbing Mount Tai, we also went to Qufu to pay homage to Confucius. Shandong people are very kind, the appointment of the car that day only two of us tourists, but they did not complain to take the two of us to Qufu, we toured for more than half a day, they have been waiting, so that we are embarrassed.
After returning to Beijing from Mount Tai, my leg began to hurt, as soon as I walked, I was stiff, I couldn't walk very well, and it took several days to recover, but I felt that it was very worthwhile to choose to walk down from the mountain.
Twenty-seven years have passed since I went to Mount Tai, but fortunately, I left some commemorative photos along the way and still treasure them in my album, and I am really a little anxious to look back at those photos to see how we faced the rising sun on the top of Mount Tai and smiled forward.
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