Recently, there have been many topics about Ejin Naqi, inadvertently remembering the poplar trip in mid-October 2017, because I saw the desert poplar brush up the circle of friends, just happened to meet a group of friends and 5 people planned to go over, without hesitation, booked the next day's ticket, flew to The Saiwai Jiangnan --- Ningxia Yinchuan, came to a trip that said to go.
Ejin Banner Poplar Forest
The next day, soaking up the sun in the morning, along the majestic Helan Mountain, we set off in two cars. Along the way, the blue sky is the curtain, the white clouds are the silk, and the heroic and melodious grassland songs in the car music make people feel relaxed, driving like a horse galloping on the grassland, pursuing poetry and distance.
Mountains of Helan Mountain
When entering the no-man's land, the desert sea on both sides of the highway and the rolling sand dunes wrapped around this desert, and Wang Wei's scene immediately appeared in his mind: "The desert is lonely and straight, and the long river is full of sunsets". The remnants of a sunset engulfed the darkness of the sky.
Desert sunset
After a 10-hour drive we finally reached Ejin Banner!
Prairie morning starry sky
On the third day, we got up very early, when the sky of the grassland was still a shallow blue, and the seven stars of Orion and the Big Dipper were still hanging in this starry sky, everyone went to the visitor center very early with excitement!
Slogan of the Ejin Banner Visitor Center
There are already many independent guests like us, who have come here to shoot the sunrise! Standing in front of the square, the words on the billboard immediately attracted me to stop and stare for a long time: "Three thousand years of watch, just waiting for your arrival"! I have to say that this advertising copy is written so poetically, it can catch the hidden expectations in the hearts of tourists! Perhaps this is like the story of "The Buddha Said about past lives and this life", in order to meet you, she turned into a big stone on the official road, only for the passing of this life; and then became a big tree that experienced 1,000 years of wind and rain, just for this life to laugh at your acquaintance! So at this time, the three thousand years are so exciting and yearning!
Poplar forest of the Erdao Bridge
Entering the scenic spot, the poplars of the Erdao Bridge have bloomed very brilliantly and luxuriantly! The golden leaves are like dancing butterflies, shining under the refraction of the sun, a breeze blowing, flapping the flexible wings, dancing with the wind, fluttering in the arms of the earth, rendering the golden yellow of autumn to the fullest! Pieces of poplar forest, that magnificent yellow, the whole heavenly dome is splashed with brilliant color, let you vividly experience the shock: "the incense of the sky penetrates Chang'an, and the city is full of golden armor"!
Poplar forest by the weak water river
Populus of the Weak Water River
What surprised me even more was that in this vast desert sea, a weak river meandered around the poplar forest, sweeping the shadows of the golden autumn deeply and shallowly on both sides of the river, and the floating light between the shadows was like a colorful oil painting, which highlighted the fullness of autumn!
Strange woods
From the Erdao Bridge, we came to the strange forest, where the leaves have withered and slipped off, just like the late autumn scene of "boundless falling wood Xiao Xiao" and "turning into spring mud and protecting flowers"! What remains here is a shadow of a tree, more like a splash of ink, with a melody of falling leaves and a mysterious ghost! There is also the autumn death of the fallen leaves! There is also a yearning for the extension of life! I admire this effort to extend the life upwards to the late autumn more than the colorful golden autumn!
Poplar branches
In the strange forest we have been looking for such poplar branches, they look up to the sky, and fight with nature, and life and death, singing the rhythm of life: "Born like a poplar, a thousand years do not die!" Dead like poplar, a thousand years will not fall! Like a poplar, a thousand years of immortality! "Use your own three thousand years to praise the legend of life like a phoenix nirvana!"
In the two years of the current epidemic recurrence, there are many bankrupt, or unemployed, or depressed friends, I want to say that if you are confused, or lost yourself, come to the desert to worship the arrogant poplar, you will suddenly understand what is called the watch of no regrets, what is called singing with life!
Erdaoqiao poplar forest
Therefore, we should "be born as brilliant as a summer flower, and die as spectacular as a poplar"!
When your life is experiencing adversity and crisis, if you are pessimistic and disappointed, cringe, or even stagnant, then you will never see a beautiful end, and life will always be welded with failure and hardship!
However, if you face the difficulties, face the difficulties, and do not give up patience to wait for the turnaround, in the "eight thousand miles road, Xiaoxing overnight stay" waiting for you will be the glory of spring, the harvest of autumn! Act out the wonderful song of life like a poplar!
I believe that after the epidemic, we will finally see the clouds, and in 365 days, the Ejin Banner will finally usher in its highlight moment again.
And you will eventually go through hardships, Yuru Yucheng!