2024 is about to pass, and if the most touching city is selected, then Shanxi Xi County will definitely be at the top. Today, Xiaoxi Tianjing Area in Xi County, Shanxi Province sent a letter to the "Mandate of Heaven", which makes us once again trace our thoughts back to the National Day holiday on October 1, 2024.
In 2024, because of the explosion of the domestic 3A game "Black Myth Wukong", as one of the filming locations, Xiaoxitian Scenic Area in Xi County, Shanxi Province is full of tourists, and everyone is rushing to see the "swan song" of Chinese hanging sculpture art, a small county of less than 100,000 people, nearly 20,000 people pour in every day, you can imagine how much pressure this is on a county, how much pressure on a scenic spot of only more than 1,000 square meters, not to mention that Xiaoxitian is not strictly a scenic spot, but a national security unit, a temple, and a holy place of Buddhism. Once there are too many people, it is easy to have accidents, and on October 2, some tourists shouted "bad reviews" to the Buddha because they queued for too long, and they were suddenly on the hot search. In the face of this situation and pressure, the people of Xi County not only did not refute them, but expressed their guilt because they did not do a good job of service, but we all know that in fact, the people of Xi County have done a good job, very low ticket prices have not increased, free parking, which is a rare existence in which tourist attractions.
As a result, we saw a touching scene, all the people of Xi County served the tourists as volunteers. There are performances when queuing, there are benches, the county magistrate is the commentator, cadres at all levels give performances and singing and other talents, the best Xixian Yulu fragrant pears are issued free of charge at the highway intersection, and the coal trucks all detour the county roads, and you can visit for free once after coming back on October 1····· All kinds of actions have won the hearts of the majority of tourists, and also make us feel that the sincerity of the people of Xi County is somewhat sentimental.
As a Buddhist believer, we have never seen such an amazing Buddhist hanging sculpture art, in the small West Heaven Daxiong Treasure Hall, look up, the wall stands thousands of thousands, the Buddha country is three thousand, in it, as if in a fairyland, the splendid Buddha statues, carved beams and pillars of the building, full of wisdom and piety of the ancients, the Western Elysium said in the Buddhist scriptures has been concreted here. As a distant tourist, we have never seen such a warm and sincere people, in Xi County everywhere there is a sense of home, people are full of smiles, not at all like some places to see you are a tourist is a person who wants to go up and slaughter you, here everyone is tolerant, harmonious, polite, mutual assistance, the best things to come out, righteous knowledge and righteous thoughts, all evil is not done, all good is pursued, Buddha, Bodhisattva advocated is also in this concrete.
In fact, it is not necessary to be so humble to own the people of Xi County, and it is their kindness to all people in the world to be able to own and preserve a Buddhist holy place like Xiaoxitian. But the people of Xi County are not proud, but like a child, innocent and unreserved to show their treasures to others, even if these people do not necessarily know how to be grateful, but the people of Xi County do not have any complaints, which may be why Xiao Xitian is in Xi County, and Xi County has Xiao Xitian.
Xiaoxi Tianjing Area said that every footprint, every gaze, every stay, each of us has given the land of Xizhou a unique meaning. We also want to say that it is Xi County, it is Xiaoxitian, which allows us to see the true face of the magnificent scenery of Xitian, and it is the people of Xi County who give us the meaning of pilgrimage to Xiaoxitian. This Spring Festival, we will definitely go to Xi County again, go to Xiaoxitian again, and listen to the teachings of the gods and Buddhas again, and pray for all the best in 2025.