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The mountains in Guangxi are domineering that can make the universe shake three times by a single name. For example, the southernmost mountains in Guangxi extend from Qinzhou in the east to the Sino-Vietnamese border, covering 2,600 square kilometers, called “Hundred Thousand Mountains”; it stretches across Liuzhou and Hechi to the southern border of Guizhou.Yes, there are “Ninety Thousand Great Mountains”; even in Yulin, there are “Sixty Thousand Great Mountains” hidden.

△There are so many mountains in Guangxi / unsplash

Although there are experts in popular science, the above figures are not actual references, but only transliterations of Zhuang, but the mountains in Guangxi, regardless of quantity or quality, are to the extent that they can greedy the neighbors next door.

You must know that the TV series “The Hidden Corner” brought fire to Zhanjiang, Guangdong, but the mountain where Zhang Dongsheng sent out the “Climb Together” invitation was Liufeng Mountain in Qinzhou, Guangxi.

Liufeng Mountain is named after the six peaks of Dragon Head, Phoenix Tail, Crane, Turtle Back, Baozhang and Chongxiao. Although the name is domineering, but in front of nearly two hundred thousand-meter peaks rising from the ground, he can only be regarded as a little brother.

△Climbing the mountain together? / “The Hidden Corner” stills

The mountains seem to be similar, but their styles are different. There are many mountains in Guangxi, not only in quantity, but also in the vast diversity of geological features. As Xu Xiake described in his travel notes: “In the mountains of western Guangdong, there are those who have pure stones and those who have some stones, each branch stands alone, not mixed.”

In addition to the karst landforms with rugged rocks in the distance, giant blue snails lying on the ground, and karst caves and tiankengs in Dacheng, the “first peak in South China” is more than 2,000 meters high on Maoer Mountain and Siling Mountain in southeastern Guangxi. On Yuanbao Mountain in northern Guangxi, you can also see a granite landform with thousands of walls, mountains and valleys, and many spherical exposed rocks.

Move the lens to Dayao Mountain and Daming Mountain in Central Guizhou. The hills that come into view are replaced with iron-bearing clastic rock formations, the stone bodies are dark red in color, and the Danxia landform with steep cliffs. .

Guangxi, with its many willful mountains, under the tens of thousands of hectares of green green brought by the lofty mountains, is also a life of water.

Take Hechi as an example. With the flourishing river system on the vast plains, you can write the word “Ming” in cursive script with a large brush, or you can trace a natural Tai Chi Bagua picture in a gentle curve.

There are as many as thousands of such flourishing water networks that run through cities, fertile fields, and village houses in Guangxi, with a total length of three to four thousand kilometers connected.

△The water in Guangxi can be static and movable / pixabay

The water in Guangxi is derived from the gentleness and tenderness of the inland rivers in the mountains, and it also has the magnificent wildness of “the storm hits the shore and rolls up a thousand piles of snow.”

The Guichun River, which originated from Equan in Jingxi, entered Vietnam and then reflowed back to Guangxi. The river flew down and fell into the fourth-order cliff, forming the first waterfall in Asia, Detian Waterfall, with a water volume approximately equal to three Huangguoshu Waterfalls.

Bunches of water hung like silver silk ribbons on the rugged stone buds, and under the waterfall was the clear turquoise pool water. It’s no wonder that when the drenching water vapor puts a soft light filter on this beautiful scenery “Flower Thousand Bones” will leave the scene of the long stay in Wonderland here.

△Guangxi Detian Waterfall / Wikipedia

Like my sisters in southern China, Guangxi can also see the sea. The 1,595-kilometer coastline connects the three coastal cities of Beihai, Qinzhou, and Fangchenggang. A lush mangrove forest grows on the mud flats, and the pure white quartz gravel piles up the North Sea silver beach that will glow with a little silver under the sun.

The clear water in the Beibu Gulf also guards a the youngest volcanic island in the world—Weizhou Island.

The unique geological resources are like a business card of Weizhou Island: the seawater has eroded out caves where you can sit on the sand to view the sea; the boulders formed by the cooling of volcanic lava have become the closest viewing platform to the sea;

△Weizhou Island / pixabay

According to local materials, the Catholic church built of rock and coral on the island guards its own mystery; like a sleeping crocodile lying on the coast watching the lighthouse on the Crocodile Mountain, the entire island’s life originated from the volcanic crater. .

Is there anything else that can be more romantic than watching the sea on an island created by a volcanic eruption?

Second, under the peaks and forests, Guangxi is also a small and fresh countryside

The mountains and rivers that God bestowed on Guangxi’s beauty also brought the survival challenge of how to be full.

Mountains and hills that are not suitable for farming account for nearly 76% of the land area in Guangxi. In order to obtain land from the mountains, as early as the Tang and Song dynasties, villagers living in Longji Mountain began the livelihood project of “opening up mountains and making farmland”.

Simple hoes and primitive manpower work, after nearly a thousand years of hand-cultivated day after day, spanning five dynasties, the dragon’s ridge covers an area of ​​10,000 mu, “hills are like snails, and mountains are like towers”. Terraces can grow.

△Guangxi Longji Terrace/unsplash

The circles of contours drawn by these people and nature are known as “the most beautiful curve on earth.” The contiguous terraces full of rice crops not only fill the stomachs of farmers, but also feed the eyes of visitors with the extraordinary scenery of different seasons.

Every spring in April, the Longji terraced fields start to be irrigated. Coupled with the natural rainfall during the rainy season, the fields change into a bay of bright mirrors hanging on the top of the mountain, and the shadows of the sky and clouds can be caught in the eyes, waiting for the morning The fog rises, and everything falls into the fairyland. In the midsummer, the paddy fields are filled with wanton growing green seedlings. The characteristic houses of the Yao and Zhuang nationalities are hidden in the green sea, and the pastoral poetry and coolness are blown by the wind.

In the golden autumn, the Longji Terraces ushered in the best landscape season. The sky is blue, the clouds are white, the trees are lush, the wheat waves are golden, and the saturated and brilliant colors are like the artist knocking over the palette in the mountains. As you walk through the high-altitude cable car, you can smell the warm fragrance of the sweet-scented osmanthus trees in the distance.

△The changes of Longji Terraces throughout the year

You can keep your roots if you have food, and the Longji terraces also preserve the most traditional Zhuang Yao culture in Guangxi. Plowing in May, rice planting in June, and clothes drying in July…every festivals, folk songs are sung between villages and villages. Villagers wearing characteristic national costumes walk onto the fields, pick up poles and other farm tools, and jump. Play a unique dance.

Besides Longsheng, there are still many smallThe beautiful terraced fields are scattered all over Guangxi. For example, Yubu Miao Village in Liuzhou Rongshui is also a paradise hidden among the dense forest terraces.

The Xiangfen River flows around the village like a jade belt, and the Fengyu Bridge, which has witnessed the historical storms, hangs over the river. There are primitive wooden stilts on both sides of the river. Riding on the bamboo raft, the river water will lead people to the depths of the bamboo forest like the sea.

After drinking wine at the door, having a long table banquet, seeing the colorful glutinous rice with the characteristics of the Miao nationality, there is a bonfire barbecue with singing and dancing at night. The misty Miao village and terraced fields, at this moment, turned into the emotions of the heart, the taste of the tongue.

The countryside also hidden in the secret realm, and the city of Hechiluo at the southern foot of the Jiuwan Mountain.

Located in the transition zone between the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and the Guangxi Basin, people have built villages at the foot of the mountain, and the vast flat in front of the house is divided into paddy fields. During the spring plowing, the paddy fields in the paddy fields were like shattered mirrors; during the autumn harvest, the different shades of yellow vegetable green dyed the land into a colorful picture.

The Mulao people who live here are full of personality in food, clothing, housing and transportation. The dwellings must have blue tiles and white walls, the roof is auspicious for dragons and phoenixes, and there must be a sign of copper in the middle. Farmers are putting out copper coins, which means “stop (earn) money”; businessmen put copper coins horizontally, which means “getting money from all quarters.”

There are “gopo” love and marriage customs of “following husband’s house” after marriage, and a grand Yifan Festival is held every year. In this festival, which is equivalent to the Chinese New Year, the tribes take turns to hold a family banquet and dance grass dragons to grab rice dumplings. The men, women and children of the Mulao tribe, in a small world isolated from the world, enjoy their due joy with their unique rhythm.

3. Guangxi has ancient meanings, but there are also fireworks among people

Is it enough to have mountains, rivers, and countryside?

Entering Quanzhou from Guilin and playing in Guangxi for nearly a year, well-known travel KOL Xu Xiake will tell you: No, this is the big Guangxi that supports one-third of “Xu Xiake’s Travels”!

Everyone knows that Xu Lao fell over the cliff and water on the way to free his body and soul, but he didn’t know that he also grabbed the job of a food blogger and taught people how to cook Yangzhou fried rice. The place where he exhibited his cooking skills was raised in the mountains and rivers of “peaks looping like june and lotus petals”, in the ancient town of Huaiyuan, Yizhou with little heat.

Low key, wideThe temperament shared by ancient towns and villages in the west. Even the ancient town of Huangyao, which was fully featured in the Hollywood movie “The Veil”, which won the Golden Globe Awards, failed to show a sense of existence comparable to Phoenix and Lijiang.

But the old artist believes that everyone who has watched a movie has been fascinated by the land on which Edward Norton set foot: a bamboo raft rides over a river with clear water, two banks are lush bamboo forests, and behind it is a hazy million. Chongshan; the patter of spring rain makes the cornfield glow with oily green, the stone arch bridge leading to the village is faintly visible with pedestrians; beside the stream under the ancient banyan tree, there are laughter and laughter of children playing in the water, and a stone jump not far away. , The paired women gossiping about their homework while washing clothes and choosing vegetables.

“If there is a mountain, there must be water, if there is water, there must be a bridge, if there is a bridge, there must be a pavilion, if there is a pavilion, there must be a joint, and if there is a joint, there must be a plaque”. The ancient towns with the surnames of Huang and Yao for more than 900 years are obviously different from other ancient towns.

△Huangyao Ancient Town / pixabay

But when the stone bridges, streams, fields, banyan trees, village dwellings, and innocent recluses of the ancient town are integrated with the vista of the mountains and rivers, people can always tell at a glance that this pen is sentimental and lustful. The ancient town that is still closed belongs only to Guangxi.

The stone road with blue tiles and white walls, small bridges and flowing water are home to people. Although the ancient towns in Guangxi have gathered elements that meet everyone’s imagination, each ancient town retains its own part that cannot be copied and pasted:

The ancient town of Daxu, where the movie “Sister Liu” was filmed, is full of creaking old wooden houses along the street, including old workshops for making straw sandals and making bamboo weaving; Yangmei Ancient Town, which houses more than 700 buildings from Ming and Qing Dynasties On the river beach, there are still strange stones shaped like elephant trunks or golden frogs for Xu Xiake to stop; in the ancient town of Zhongdu, guarded by the 600-year-old ancient banyan tree, long tables are placed along the long street during the annual Chenghuang Temple Fair. People eat together and have a family dinner; and the ancient town of Danzhou, which needs to be reached by boat, is the only ancient water town in the country on an isolated island in the middle of the river…

In Guangxi, where there are many ethnic groups and different customs, look for differences in the same ancient towns.Can find surprises.

The mysterious villages scattered like Bishan, Xiushui, Fuxi, etc., can illuminate the secret realm of Guangxi more than the large-scale ancient towns.

What’s the different scenery in the distant places where the peasant farms and chickens and dogs hear each other? Believe that the knights who have their own “blue sea and dark blue sky” will explore for us.

Reference materials

1. Overview of Guangxi Geological Tourism Resources Zhang Daxiang

2. Where are the most beautiful terraces in China? Local scenery

3. Xu Xiake in Guangxi and his “Xu Xiake Travels” Zhang Jiewen

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