Foreigners who come to Yunnan for tourism generally do not miss the stone forest. It can be said that stone forest is the brightest business card of Yunnan tourism.
Stone Forest is only about 100 kilometers away from Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province. My wife and I took the Hangrui Expressway from Kunming's Xishan Park, 102 kilometers from The AutoDok Show, and on the way to the Yangzong service area, it was a little bit of a drive.
Yunnan Stone Forest is a global geopark, located in the territory of Shilin County, is the world's only karst landform scenic spot located in the subtropical plateau area, is also the first batch of China's national key scenic spots 5a scenic spots, China National Geopark, World Geopark, and Beijing Forbidden City, Xi'an Terracotta Warriors and Horses, Guilin Landscape and Water, one of the four major tourist attractions in China.
In fact, I don't know how to say that the stone forest is one of the four major resorts. But the name of the stone forest is really loud, and the ticket of the stone forest is not cheap, the ticket is 130 yuan, and the shuttle bus is 25 yuan. Today, I bought a ticket to enter the park with my wife at 10:00 a.m., walked slowly, looked at it carefully, and at more than 1 p.m., I still wandered to the exit.
30 years ago, in 1991, I went on a business trip to Kunming with two colleagues, the first time I came to Stone Forest, I remember hired a tour guide, it was a teenage girl, the little girl asked us to call her "Ashima", she also jokingly called us Ahei brother.
Bucket to star shift. The deep memory has become a real landscape in reality, and the stone forest is still the stone forest, but it seems to have the mood of things being not.
I have seen many hills, rivers and lakes formed by karst landforms, and even underground caves and dark rivers, but the Yunnan Stone Forest is indeed unforgettable.
"Stone Forest" two big characters, it is said that the Republic of China period of Yunnan Province Chairman Long Yun book, here is crowded with tourists, the sun is bright, the sky is blue, tourists are weaving, there is no good angle for taking pictures, in addition to the head or the head below.
The peaks and loops in the scenic area, the winding paths are quiet, and the scenery is easy to move, making people feel like entering the labyrinth wonderland. But seeing the strange stones of Qifeng rising from the ground, jagged and varied, its ingenious shape, in the tour guide, no, in the mouth of "Ashima" have become spiritual beings: Tang Monk Stone, Wukong Stone, Eight Precepts Stone, Guanyin Stone, General Stone, as well as double bird crossing food, peacock combing wings, phoenix spirit instrument, elephant stone... Of course, the least is the eternal Ashima statue stone, which is exquisite, breathtaking, and fascinating.
The beautiful legend of "Ashima" is widely known with the circulation of the film "Ashima" in the last century. Ashima's moving story and the beautiful music in the movie have added to the national color of the "Stone Forest" and the yearning of people of all nationalities for a better life.
The earliest known stone forest is because there is a "stone forest" brand cigarettes on the market, the earliest know of Ashima because of the movie and the movie interlude "Horse Bells Jingle Jade Birds Singing" and also "Ashima" cigarettes, and the real touch to Ashima, or 30 years ago for the first time to know the stone forest, at that time the tour guide "Ashima" how young and beautiful and enthusiastic, her body is full of youth.
Decades have passed in the blink of an eye, the stone forest in the memory has long changed its appearance, the trail has been widened, the boardwalk and viewing pavilion have been newly built, the lawn, the artificial weir pond... There are also magnificent ancillary facilities, and the original stone forest seems to have been set with gold edges.
What about the memory of Ashima? At that time, the young, beautiful and enthusiastic tour guide "Ashima" was unified into the current tour guide "Old Auntie", and even the people in the stone forest who wore national costumes to perform songs and dances were all old Abba and old aunts. Alas, the Ashima in my memory, like me, has grown old with time.
I was not reconciled, I was looking for Ashima in the stone forest, and Ashima should be forever young Ashima.
