Today (April 14) is the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, and the old Kunming people have the traditional folk custom of "March 3rd, Playing the West Mountain". However, in accordance with the requirements of epidemic prevention and control, all officially organized cultural and sports activities in the Xishan Mountain Scenic Area were cancelled on the third of March this year. What is the situation in xishan mountain area today?
At 10:00 a.m., the reporter walked from Xishan Mountain to Huating Temple and met a group of tourists on the winding road.
The circular square near Huating Temple was originally the most lively place on the third of March every year, where everyone would sing mountain songs to minor tunes, play dragon and lion dances, and enjoy picnics... Although cultural and sports activities such as song and dance performances have been suspended this year, there are still people wearing national costumes, which should be a lively atmosphere on March 3.
Tourist: "According to previous years, before the epidemic, we were still dancing and singing, but now it is gone, we can climb the mountain, there is no activity this year, because there is no way to have the epidemic." ”
Reporter: "Can the government's policy be understood?" ”
Tourist: "Understand, understand." ”
"March 3, playing the West Mountain" has a long history, as early as the Ming Dynasty, Yang Shen wrote in the southern Yunnan Moon Festival: March Yunnan tour appreciation competition, peony peony medicine morning makeup competition. To this day, the west mountain climbs to the top of the third day of March, which is still the traditional spring travel custom of the people of Kunming.
Tourist: "'March 3 Play west mountain' is very fun, everyone comes back to this season, regardless of the elderly and children, I also saw a lot of children on the road." ”
Tourist: "Before going to work there was no time, now retired, it is estimated that this year's epidemic, a lot of activities have been cancelled, is to walk to see." ”
Tourist: "Come to play at 8 o'clock in the morning and come home for lunch at noon, we elderly exercise The air here is good." ”
This citizen is over seventy years old, and climbs the West Mountain three times a year in March, which is not only a custom, but also a day to reunite with old friends and enhance friendship.
Tourist: "Come here to see and play, several people have not seen for many years, there is this tradition today to see, before the old tide will come to the party, now it is not OK, people are old, no longer there, can't get up." ”
There are also many young people who play Xishan, and this young man in order to catch up with the "sense of ceremony" of early ascension, he got up early in the morning with his friends and took the earliest Line 3 subway to Xishan.
Tourist: "We set off at 6 o'clock in the morning to catch the first subway, when we came, there were still relatively few people, and the tradition of climbing the West Mountain on March three times now feels quite crowded, and the smell of the festival is heavy." ”
No matter how the form changes every year, the climbers change one after another, and the three days of March play the West Mountain are already the unchanging memories of Kunming in people's hearts.
Don't think that march three play west mountain is just climbing the mountain so simple, for many people, "eating" is the serious thing of this day.
Merchant: "Golden potato, eat something to come in, bean blossom rice noodles, tofu brain." ”
The Tea Horse Flower Street at the foot of Xishan Mountain reproduces the food in the memory of old Kunming through the layout of one main axis, two laneways, three corridors and two squares of the Tourism and Culture Pedestrian Street, with antique buildings and authentic traditional food.
The street, which is usually full of food, is even more lively on the third day of March, and the stores along the street are dazzling.
Pot stickers, barbecues, kimchi, cold drinks, Chinese snacks, Western meals, Japanese cuisine, Steamed bait silk in Qujing, oil noodles from Shaanxi, beef offal from Macau, stinky tofu from Changsha... A few hundred meters of pedestrian street, as long as you have enough stomach management, you can eat all over the country.
Tourist: "Bought a cup of papaya water, bought this potato cake, and bought a bowl of cold rice noodles, it felt like the atmosphere was very good, and it was very interesting to eat while walking." ”
For some young people, it is better to play with the Western Mountains than to eat the Western Mountains. After all, the steepness of the West Mountain is prohibitive, and the low-hanging fruit is the temptation.
Tourist: "Chutney, stinky tofu, buy this juice to eat, I know today is 'March 3rd' only came." ”
Reporter: "How did you feel today after coming, did you come to climb the mountain?" ”
Tourist: "I didn't go climbing the mountain, it was too high, and I didn't want to take the car." ”
Reporter: "So today is mainly to punch in these delicacies?" ”
Tourist: "Right, right, right. ”
Ms. Li, who is over seventy years old, needs to use a wheelchair to travel, and it is inconvenient to participate in mountaineering activities, so she simply came to the foot of the mountain and tasted the spicy and refreshing cold roll powder with her sisters.
Reporter: "How does this roll of powder taste?" ”
Tourist: "Well, it turns out that we like to go to Chenggong to eat, the old taste, I pushed her up the mountain, so I just tasted it here." ”
There are places to eat and drink, there are always people bustling, bustling, and there is the taste of fireworks in the world. No wonder some people say that the fireworks in the world are the most soothing to the hearts of mortals. And many people's childhood memories of "playing west mountains" began from this way of walking around and playing all the way to eating.
Bar Code Jun also reminds everyone here: at present, the epidemic prevention and control can not be relaxed, and citizens should pay attention to wearing masks and maintaining safe social distancing.
Reporter: Zong Yuyu Guo Wei
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