"Since ancient times, autumn has been sad and lonely, and I have said that autumn is better than spring." The splendid autumn day is warm and unrestrained, and it does not lose the gorgeous spring.
Whenever this time comes, even if it is only the imaginary rich and brilliant autumn yellow, it has made people yearn for it.
With the season into autumn, the whole country has opened the inner volume of "beautiful autumn color", and the autumn light of the "hegemonic" circle of friends has made the heart of the outing want to move.
▲Ladder on the cloud
In fact, there is no need to envy the scenery thousands of miles away, Guangxi also has its own autumn colors.
The season has entered October, and the autumn light of the small city in northern Guizhou has brought a surprise.
The maple leaf red of Mao'er Mountain, the ginkgo yellow of Xing'an, the persimmon orange of Gongcheng, and the rice wave gold hidden in the mountains of northern Guizhou.
▲ Golden yellow rice field Photo / Little Red Book @ Mustache Travel Notes
This is the Longji Rice Terrace with the title of "The Crown of the World Terraces", located in Guilin Longsheng Autonomous County, which is located in Guilin Longsheng Autonomous County, where "Wanshan Ring Ridge and Five Water Flows".
In October, the cascading rice waves turn golden, rendering a rich, extreme Guangxi autumn color, like nature's palette.
▲ Rice paddies are layered and picturesque Photo/Little Red Book @ Mustache Travel Notes
At this time, taking advantage of the autumn light, walk into Longsheng together, feel the autumn colors of Longji, discover the beauty of Longsheng scenery, taste authentic cuisine, taste the rich national culture, and deeply understand the charm of this small city in addition to the scenery of Longji.
▲Photo/ Longji Rice Terrace Scenic Area
# Content · Looking for the Autumn Dragon Victory #
01 Autumn colors | 02 Scenery | 03 Gourmet | 04 Folklore
#01
Time has shaped "the most beautiful arc of the earth"
The autumn color on the dragon's back is very beautiful
Longji Rice Terraces is located in Longji Mountain, Ping'an Village, Longji Town, Longsheng Town, only 13 kilometers from Longsheng County, and can be reached in half an hour by car.
Longsheng Rice Terrace has a very long history, it was founded in the Yuan Dynasty, has a history of nearly 700 years, which is a myth created by time.
▲ Longji Rice Terraces - the most beautiful curve of the earth Figure / Figure Worm @ A Ray of Sunshine Yisun
From a high place, you can see the terraces, from the slopes of the mountains at different altitudes, the scenery is very spectacular, so the Longji rice terraces are also known as one of the most beautiful arcs on the earth.
Here, you can also see the quaint residential buildings, enjoy the beautiful folk dances and traditional costumes, hear the beautiful and moving mountain songs, experience the unique traditional ethnic customs, and enjoy the pure and delicious Longji tea, longji peppers and the refreshing "Oriental Magic Water" - Longji Water Wine.
But after coming to The Dragon's Back, the most unforgettable thing is the colorful autumn colors in the terraces.
The Longji Rice Terraces in autumn have a beauty that cannot be described in words, carrying all the beautiful expectations of Guangxi people for the beauty of autumn, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it redefines the impression of Autumn colors in Guangxi people.
The golden rice paddies cover the terraces with a layer of yellow and brilliant coats, layered on top of each other, moving with the wind, like "the earth flowing gold", beautiful.
The flowing lines of the terraces are even more poetic, like a charming oil painting, and like a dream fairy tale world.
The golden color of the mountains is the gift of the seasons, the feast of autumn, and the color of life in the Longji Rice Terraces.
Hiking above the terraces, you can smell the ripe rice without looking down, and if you look down, you can see that the rice is emitting a dazzling golden yellow light.
Longji Terraces are divided into three scenic spots: Jinkeng Dazhai, Ping'an Zhuangzhai and Longji Ancient Zhuangzhai, among which the Xishan Shaole, Golden Buddha Peak, and Dajie Thousand Layer Cloud Ladder in Jinkeng Dazhai, and the "Nine Dragons and Five Tigers" and "Seven Stars with the Moon" of the Ping'an Zhuangzhai Terraces are excellent viewing spots.
Standing on a high place, looking out, the terraces under your feet are stacked on top of each other, surging with the momentum of the mountains and the sea, which is very rugged and spectacular.
▲Golden Autumn Dragon's Back Photo/Longji Rice Terrace Scenic Area
Taking advantage of the high and refreshing season, follow the cultural tourism jun into Longsheng, walk into the dragon's back, and enjoy the splendid autumn of the dragon's back. In order to "pet powder", this most beautiful autumn color has also extended the time for you
#02
Moistened by the gentleness and enthusiasm of nature
Here you can see the scenery unparalleled
The beauty of Longsheng is difficult to describe in words, mountains, terraces, seas of flowers, meadows, blue skies, white clouds... It constitutes a beautiful scenery of natural harmony, and the warmth of nature soaks the landscape and water here.
In it, there is a kind of comfort and tranquility away from the hustle and bustle of the city and idyllic in a small and secluded town.
▲ Walking Dragon Wins
Buni Rice Terraces
Listen to the waterfall in the sea of alpine flowers
In the territory of Longsheng, in addition to the famous Longji Rice Terraces, in the rest of the place, there are also large and small terraces, which form a unique cultural landscape with local customs and customs, showing the style and characteristics of Longsheng.
▲Alpine flower sea
The Buni Rice Terrace in Longsheng Surabaya Township is only 26 kilometers away from the county seat of Longsheng.
It has a long history like the Longji Rice Terraces, but it presents a completely different beauty from the Longji Rice Terraces.
The Buni Rice Terraces are famous for their sea of flowers.
Here are full of drunken butterfly flowers, when the flowers bloom, from a high place down, you will see a sea of pink or purple flowers, bright colors, along the cascading terraces, spreading down the mountain, the breeze floats, the flowers fly like butterflies.
Not far away, the ancient Sang River flows slowly along the continuous mountain range, surrounded by clusters of green peaks, and being in it is like falling into a fairyland on earth.
In the depths of the terraces, where the mountains are continuous, The Gawu Waterfall rushes down from the high mountains, and during the period of abundant water, it is majestic, like the Milky Way sprinkling for nine days; in the dry period, such as silk falling, beautiful and flowing, different periods, the landscape is different.
▲Gawu Waterfall
The Buni Rice Terraces were cultivated by the Hongyao people who have lived here for generations.
In your spare time, you may wish to come to the Buni Rice Terraces, listen to a Yao song, listen to the waves in the bamboo forest, listen to the waterfall in the sea of flowers, watch the sunset and enjoy the light in the mountains, and enjoy its strange and beautiful scenery.
▲ Photo / Little Red Book @ Bully Cub
Longsheng Nanshan Ranch
Listen to a pastoral song in "Hulunbuir" in Guangxi
Located in the north of Longsheng, Nanshan, known as the "Roof of Longsheng", is a gentle and open natural grassland, which is closely connected to the Bunan Mountain Scenic Area in Hunan Province, and is known as "Hulunbuir in Southern China".
▲The scenery of Nanshan Ranch is beautiful Photo/Guilin Longsheng
Along the Nanshan Highway, which "jumped on the verdant four hundred swirls", the clouds soared up into the grassy slope area at a high place, and the sea of clouds steamed up the splendor of "will be the top".
▲Nanshan Pasture Clouds Fly Like a Waterfall Photo/Guilin Longsheng
The climate here belongs to the subtropical mountain monsoon humid climate, no summer heat, no severe cold in winter, therefore, the four seasons are not clear, almost all year round green grass, picturesque, is a leisure summer resort and natural oxygen bar.
Standing on the top of the Nanshan Grassland, looking out, the meadows, verdant, panoramic view, blue sky, white clouds, meadows, windmills, cattle and sheep... Accompanied by melodious pastoral songs in the distance, it constitutes a beautiful and unworldly picture, which reminds people of the poem "The sky is clear, the wild is vast, the wind blows and the grass is low to see cattle and sheep".
▲ Nanshan Ranch "Wind Blowing Grass Low See Cattle and Sheep" Photo / Guilin Longsheng
If you are interested in getting up early, you may wish to go to nanshan ranch to see a sunrise, and the shocking blockbuster scene will definitely touch the heartstrings of tourists.
Watching the sun slowly climb up, under the illumination of the sun, the light and color emitted by the Nanshan Ranch are soft and wonderful.
▲The beautiful scenery of the sunrise in Nanshan Is picturesque Photo/Guilin Longsheng
In the evening, the orange glow of the setting sun soaked the surrounding hillsides, and the thin clouds floated freely, standing here, as if people had also melted into the gentle picture of heaven and earth.
▲Sunset of Nanshan Mountain Photo/Guilin Longsheng
Watch the sunrise, enjoy the sunset, listen to a pastoral song in the vast grassland, the Hulunbuir you want, not thousands of miles away, is in the middle of this southern pasture.
▲ Picture / Little Red Book @ Pear Pear
Longsheng Hot Spring
Soak in the pond of the human Yao
Longsheng Hot Spring is located in Longsheng Jiangdi Township, in Longsheng County, along the Sang River to the north, less than half an hour's drive away.
As we all know, the Longji Rice Terraces are known as "the most beautiful arc of the earth", and Longsheng Hot Spring is also called "Yao Pond on Earth".
▲Photo/Singing_ Thunder
"Green mountains and green water embedded in the blue sky, spraying beads and spitting jade a god spring" "better than Yaochi is like a flower, Yuntai fog lock Saijia" "People say that Hangzhou's West Lake is beautiful, it is difficult to compare with Longsheng hot spring water" ...
Countless reputations, endless praises, even if you have never been to Longsheng Hot Spring, you must have heard its beautiful name.
At Longsheng Hot Spring, almost no one is impressed by the fusion of its springs and scenery.
The rising hot fog passes through the verdant forest tops overhead, turning into a touch of mountainland all day long, listening to the flowing springs and flowers and birds blending quietly, it is difficult not to marvel and chant for this paradise-like place, swim out of a comfortable body, wash out a poetic feeling.
The reason why Longsheng Hot Spring is famous is its beautiful environment and excellent water quality.
According to the old county chronicle: "Gai Hot Spring contains thiol, which can cure skin sores, and the water quality is white and odorless." Although the spring is between the deep forests and the elite, tourists from near and far are still on the road. ”
▲ Picture / Little Red Book @ Fat Wake.
In this hot spring embraced by the primeval forest, you can personally feel a pool of Qiong Pulp Jade Liquid, which can be close to the deep mountain fog and full of greenery; far away, you can taste the customs and customs of the foothills of the Valley and the Yao Village.
The so-called "heaven on earth" is roughly like this.
White-faced Yao village
A village in the Book of Peach Blossom Origins
From Longsheng Hot Spring, walk 6 kilometers along the road to reach Baimian Yao Village.
The red Yao people, the antique villages, the moss-mottled ancient trees...
"Strange traffic, chickens and dogs smell each other", this place seems to be a village in the Peach Blossom Garden.
There is also a group of ancient maple trees in Yaozhai, which are average 98 years old.
The word "incense" of maple incense is not white, its resin contains aroma, so there is a beautiful name called "white gum incense", which can be used in medicine or mixed with spices.
Standing on the hill in the village, you can also see the Xun River, the mother of Longsheng.
On the slope of the east bank of the Xun River stands a tongue shaped like a dragon sticking out, formerly known as Agave Rock. Later, because the Red Army arrived at this rock forum in 1934, it was renamed "Red Army Rock" and left a slogan of "The Red Army Absolutely Protects the Yao People".
In the depths of the village, there is also a museum, the White-Faced Yaozhai Museum, which records the history of the White-faced Yaozhai and the story of the Red Army's Long March through Longsheng, from the costumes with great national characteristics, from the dusty old objects, as if hearing the sound of the years slowly flowing through the village.
▲Photo/Gan Bar Chatter
#03
Human fireworks brewed by the years
Every meal is an authentic Longsheng flavor
In Longsheng, "eight mountains, one water and one field" nourishes the rich and simple ingredients, and the food culture of Yao, Dong, Miao, Zhuang, Han and other ethnic groups collides with a very distinctive local flavor.
The ingredients here pay attention to green, healthy, fresh and delicious, and are known for cooking mountain treasures and rivers, maintaining the original taste and shaping the evocative taste of Longsheng.
▲Longsheng original ecological ingredients Photo/Guilin Longsheng
Bamboo tube rice
The fragrance of bamboo rice is seductive
The cliffs in Longsheng are thousands of hills, streams and rivers are everywhere, and a cluster of bamboo from turquoise, accompanied by the sound of water and mountain wind, and the sound of bamboo cutting, which is often prepared by locals for a delicacy - Longsheng bamboo tube rice.
▲Charcoal-grilled bamboo tube rice Photo/Jiebang Village
For friends in the north, bamboo tube rice may sound a little strange, but it is an outstanding player who has long dominated the top of the snack list in the southwest region.
Fresh bamboo cut and washed, freshly beaten rice soaked in spring water, plus bacon, fungus, dried bamboo shoots and other ingredients, from the small holes of the bamboo tube a little bit into, with fresh leaves to plug the barrel mouth tightly, on the bamboo already have the moisture, placed on the fire steaming.
The fragrance of bamboo is forced into the rice, resulting in this natural delicacy.
▲ Photo/Cashew youth
It is worth mentioning that the bamboo used for making bamboo tube rice is more exquisite, and the annual green bamboo is generally selected. This kind of bamboo is not only full of moisture and resistant to burning, but also the rice cooked is particularly fragrant.
This cooking method not only allows the experience to be a unique mountain taste, but also awakens the food memory of Longsheng people.
▲Taste Longsheng authentic bamboo tube rice Photo / Little Red Book @ Daifuku Ma Ma Oh
When the bamboo tube rice is cooked, the bamboo tube is split, and the aroma of rice and the fragrance of bamboo, mixed with the aroma of meat, come to the face in an instant, making people fall for a second.
In one bite, the rice is loose and chewy, the side dishes are salty and moderate, and the taste of various ingredients is integrated, which is extremely rich.
▲Bamboo tube rice color and aroma are good Picture/Jiebang Village
This delicacy has the roughness of children's gluttony, and it also has the return to the truth of people in the depths of Taoyuan, a bamboo tube rice, it seems to have a small and informal, and it seems to be a special ritual of pursuing the true taste of life.
▲Photo/ Little Red Book @ Daifuku Ma Ma Oh
Raw fish
One bite is fresh enough to get into the soul
Autumn winds rise, the fish are fat, and there is no shortage of fish raw in this season.
In Guangxi, in addition to the famous Hengzhou fish, the natural environment is unique to Longsheng, the natural delicious river fish of The Sangjiang River, and its fish raw strength cannot be underestimated.
▲ Fish raw slices Photo/Little Red Book @Jinny
As early as the Ming Dynasty, the Beizhuang people living on both sides of the river in Longsheng Wanli Town had already begun to eat raw fish.
With hundreds of years of craftsmanship and gastronomic heritage, this unique taste is now on the table of Longsheng people, and gradually occupies the C position.
▲ Longsheng fish raw refresh taste buds Photo / Little Red Book @ Tomato Fruit Sauce
To make raw fish, Long Shengren has his own set of theories.
Fish should be made of local fresh river fish or river fish, fish sashimi should be cut as thin as cicada wings, revealing a tender jade color, and then with a uniformly cut thickness of dragon's back pepper, perilla, ginger shredded, fish vanilla, peanuts, coriander and a scoop of dong family special old acid water, such fish raw taste crisp and refreshing, the taste is unique.
Coming to Longsheng, this bite is not to be missed, the meat is crisp and delicious, and the food is unforgettable.
▲ Long Shengren's soul food Picture/ Little Red Book @Jinny
Beat oil tea
"Coffee in Tea" lives up to its name
Oil tea is a representative specialty food in longsheng national flavor, with fragrant, salty, bitter, spicy, sweet and other characteristics.
Walking in the villages of Longsheng, you will find that playing oil tea and eating oil tea has become a part of people's lives, all year round, three meals a day, people are inseparable from oil tea.
Camellia oleifera has a unique flavor and a long history.
A bowl of warm oil tea, mixed with rice, green onions, tea, ginger, garlic, drink in one bite, it is delicious.
In Longsheng, Dongfang Weixi, Yaozhai Zhuang Township, there was a "bang bang bang, bang bang bang bang" sound, one after another, which is the unique sound of pounding oil tea.
▲ Pick mountain pepper and blooming rice Flower Photo /Guilin Longsheng
Oil tea has the process of making rice flowers, making tea cakes, stir-frying ingredients, and sprinkling tea ingredients.
People use tea pots, mallets, tea partitions and other tea beating tools, while stir-frying tea leaves, while pounding out the tea aroma, making tea soup, and then adding ingredients such as fruits, green onions, rice flowers, ginger salt, etc., a bowl of hot oil tea is ready.
▲Photo/Guilin Longsheng
"One pot of bitter, two pots of sipping (astringent), three pots of four pots of good oil tea."
When the oil tea is boiled three or four times, the taste of oil tea is mellow, not bitter or astringent, just right, very suitable for people who drink oil tea for the first time.
▲Fragrant oil tea Photo/Guilin Longsheng
Walking In Longsheng, you can not only enjoy the picturesque scenery, but also eat a bowl of oil tea in Miaozhai ZhuangXiang and feel the enthusiasm of the locals.
#04
In the long folk culture of the small town
Feel the charm of the past
Longsheng is a multi-ethnic place with a complex ethnic composition, which is destined to have a rich and colorful folk culture.
These cultural inheritance memories contain the memories of the past and the interpretation of the beautiful life of the people of all ethnic groups in Longsheng, and now, these traditions are coming out of a long time and becoming a cultural landscape.
▲Deep Mountain Ancient Village Photo/Guilin Longsheng
Red Yao Drying Festival
A grand event in the "Peach Blossom Forest"
Longsheng Hongyao is a branch of the Yao people, famous for wearing red ethnic costumes, mainly distributed in Longji Town, Surabaya Township, known as the "ethnic group in the peach blossom forest".
▲ Hongyao women sunbathing red clothes Photo / Guilin Longsheng
Every year on the sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, it is the "Sunshine Festival" of Hongyao Zhai Township in Longsheng, and it is also the most grand traditional festival in Hongyao in addition to the Spring Festival.
On this day, the Hongyao women who are married out of the country will carry gifts such as wine and duck, return to their mother's home and their families to eat a reunion dinner, the village is very lively, and the local Hongyao women will also take out ethnic costumes to dry.
The whole village is hung with bright and dazzling flower clothes and flower skirts, the scene is spectacular, and the "Sunshine Festival" is also named.
▲Blue sky and white clouds, red Yao costumes complement each other Photo / Guilin Longsheng
Longsheng Yao costume (Hongyao costume) inherits the ancient production skills and is the bearer of the collective memory of the Hongyao ethnic group, and was selected into the list of representative items of national intangible cultural heritage in 2014.
On June 6th, walking in the Hongyao Village of Longsheng, all you can see are Hongyao costumes, and everywhere you look are Hongyao costumes.
▲The festival activities are colorful and the atmosphere is strong Photo/Guilin Longsheng
Every year, the Longsheng Hongyao Clothing Festival is the most lively with the Huangluo Yao Village in the Longji Rice Terraces.
In addition to Hongyao costumes, Huang Luoyaozhai also has an eye-catching place, that is, the long hair of Hongyao women.
Hongyao women have the custom of growing long hair since childhood, and whenever the Sunbathing Festival is a day, they will invariably come to the river to freshen their long hair, constituting a cultural landscape with a strong national charm and becoming another beautiful scenery in the Hongyao Sunshine Festival.
▲Hongyao women freshen their long hair by the river Photo / Guilin Longsheng
Dong year
A lively national event
For the villages where Longsheng Dong people gather, the most lively time of the year is not only the Spring Festival, but also the Dong Year on the first day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar every year.
▲ Photo/Sohu.com @Annie to travel
This is a traditional festival of the Dong people in Longsheng.
The Dong people believe that after the autumn when the grain is abundant, the six animals are prosperous, and all the agricultural affairs are completed, it is the time when the year of labor has passed and the new year has arrived. Therefore, the Dong people regard the first day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar as the beginning of the new year.
▲Photo/Sohu.com @Annie to travel
In Longsheng Lejiang Town, Pingping Town and other Dong people's gathering places, grand Dong New Year celebrations are held every year.
On this day, men, women and children dressed in ethnic costumes carried out folk parades in the Drum Tower, singing and dancing, which was extremely lively.
▲ Dong Nian of Guangnan Village, Pingping Town Photo/Sohu.com @Annie to travel
At this time, when you walk into the Dong village of Longsheng, you can hear the heavenly Dong folk songs, the touching Dong pipa songs, and you can also experience the fun of playing sticks, watch the shocking dancing grass dragon, and taste the hundred family banquets that have been passed down for hundreds of years.
Dong New Year celebrations are generally held in the Drum Tower.
The Drum Tower is a landmark building of the Dong village, built with a tenon structure, which is the crystallization of the wisdom of the Dong people. The Drum Tower is also one of the celebrations of the New Year.
▲ Dong people gather in the Drum Tower to celebrate the Year of Dong Photo / Guilin Longsheng
In 2011, Dong Nian was selected into the list of representative items of national intangible cultural heritage.
This traditional festival, every year, in such a grand way, allows the scattered Dong people to follow the song and lively laughter, gather together, continue and inherit the national culture and style.
The first day of the tenth lunar month is approaching, you may wish to include the longsheng Dongzhai tour into the travel plan, to a comfortable trip that abandons the hustle and bustle of the city, slow down, and feel the simplicity and charm of the Dong folk customs in the strong festive atmosphere of the Dong New Year.
▲ Figure / Figure worm creative @ Zheng Yun
Longsheng, a small city surrounded by mountains and rivers, time and geography have created its own beauty and memory.
Traditional ethnicity and the ultimate scenery intersect with a haunting style and worldliness.
Only in the land of Longsheng, in the landscape, and in the village can you deeply feel her dual temperament of being both independent and magnificent, and see the gentle grace of her small family jasper and the dashing atmosphere of majestic qihong.
Then be impressed by it, stay for it, and look forward to it infinitely.
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