From Chengdu to Xishuangbanna via Zhaotong.
On the way, I saw the karst landform for the first time. The mountains are stacked and the slopes are connected, like the wind pouring into the sea.
Completely different from the desolate impression in geography textbooks, this place is a corrugated fold on the earth, like the old man on the plateau at an altitude of 1800 meters.
The tropical rain forest climate is hot and humid all the year round. The daily temperature in April has reached 37 degrees, which is almost the same as that in Chengdu in August.
It often rains suddenly at noon, then suddenly stops, and the burning sun comes out of the clouds, smiling like a child through tears. Xishuangbanna, bordering Thailand, Laos and Myanmar, is located on the border, with complex folk customs, rich products and cultural blending. Similar to the ancient frontier fortress. Walking on the road, I heard Chinese for a while, and someone walked by in Thai for a while; This street is still selling fruits from Laos, and as soon as it turns around, it faces businessmen selling Burmese jadeite.
Banna's way of eating and drinking can be described as a contention among the four countries.
Even if no acquaintances recommend you, you can eat orthodox Dai, Thai, Myanmar and Laos dishes. You won't be disappointed by recommending top restaurants according to public comments. Dai food is spicy, Lao food likes lemon, Thai food is neutral, and Burmese food tastes strange.
Dai calendar new year: dragon boat rowing, Buddha bath day, pendulum festival and water splashing festival.
In Xishuangbanna in April, everyone is preparing for the New Year. The man scrubbed the dragon boat and the girl prepared new clothes.
I have about ten years, and my perception of the New Year is probably only in shopping malls, dining tables and Spring Festival Galas.
Cultural apathy, like this, occurs quietly and continues to affect. Many times, many cultures and many inheritances need a sense of ceremony. I don't understand why the emperor always worships heaven, closes temples, worships Confucius, and does something important but meaningless. It is best to recuperate and develop economic construction.
However, it is these seemingly futile ceremonies that have changed the civilization of thousands of years of war and left a foundation called Confucianism.
In fact, girls wearing Dai costumes can be seen everywhere on Banna Road, with dark skin, clear eyes and introverted expression. They will understand that there are Dai costumes here, which are clearly wedding dresses.
In every village, the girls who "hide" on weekdays gather in their own groups and file out, fighting for beauty with the charm of Zhuo Zhuo.
Similar to Hanfu, Dai is different in simplicity and complexity, daily wear and celebration, and its technological changes, streamlined workmanship and material selection are also completely different. In-depth, naturally there is a complete set of national costume culture.
The "Catch-up Festival" of Dai calendar New Year is probably a feast of this kind of costume culture. Its magnificence, magnificence, exquisiteness and girls who can't find anything are no less than a secret show of Victoria in Xishuangbanna.
Bannard gourmet
Fruit and vegetables should be divided. Let's talk about fruit first. Banna's fruit must be one of the best in the country, and there are almost all kinds of choices. There are many fruit markets with warehouse management, where you can choose by yourself, accept large orders and sell instant finished products.
In particular, durian, pitaya, cantaloupe and small pineapple are full, sweet, rich and juicy in season, and the price is cheap, with an average of several yuan a catty. You can eat a wide variety of fruits and mix them.
Moreover, because of business trip, take-out will be the first choice, and word-of-mouth evaluation depends on public comments.
Chicken fried rice, lemon salsa and Paruda recommended by the public are rich in taste, sweet and sour, and have a natural plant fragrance from ingredients to seasonings, which is different from the direction of the eight major cuisines and runs counter to the aesthetic feeling emphasized by the central plains food culture, but has made another delicious category.
You don't even have to figure out whether the food you eat is Dai, Lao or Thai, and you don't have to deliberately define the taste. It is enough to know that this is a meal belonging to Banna, and it will leave a lifetime impression.
Banna's daily life
Because of the hot weather, Banna people's day often begins at 10 in the afternoon. With Lancang as the boundary, it is divided into two cities, old and new. The north shore is Jinghong business circle, and the south shore is a new living area, with different nightlife forms, ghost restaurants, nightclubs, bars and KTV. At two or three o'clock in the morning, the streets are still bustling, shops are brightly lit, vehicles and pedestrians are in an endless stream, and there are songs of the Lancang River. Fan Zhen in the Southern and Northern Dynasties said: Life is like a tree and a flower, which is scattered with the wind or falls on the mat with a curtain; Or close the fence and fall into the soil.
Sometimes you are too used to this world, addicted to life, satisfied with existence, and don't think about life and death, so you won't be surprised at this world.
You know that everything is a pale dog, and what you love is hard to hold, such as the morning dew, the sunset in the ancient plain and the flying stars in the Han Dynasty.
You walked through such a sexy and special city and wrote its name on Xizhou, where dreams are blowing in the south wind.
I've been thinking about it for a long time, and I want to write a sentence about it as the end of Banna's trip.
Inadvertently turned to this book, I saw Premier Zhou Enlai's sweet words to his wife Deng:
"I have been a staunch materialist all my life. Only you, I hope to have an afterlife. "
Banna here is also full of expectations for the future.