Amei, the tour guide, is a Yi girl with a cool personality and speaks Mandarin very well. She said that she used to be a people's teacher, but later she turned to be a tour guide.
I had breakfast at the Chinese Hotel. After dinner, at the same time, people from several travel agencies gathered in the lobby on the first floor, and a male tour guide came out to call the roll first. Unknown so also told his son that this time it was a male tour guide. As a result, people didn't call our names.
Later, two female tour guides came out to call someone and shouted away all the northeast aunts who had just greeted us.
Ah mui was the last to appear. There were only eight families in her group, but in the end there were only seven families and fifteen people got on the bus. The last one didn't wait for them because he didn't get up 15 minutes after the departure time.
This car is a minibus. I counted, except for the driver, there were only sixteen seats, just full. I've been thinking that if my family hadn't come late, I'm afraid there wouldn't be enough seats. Some people say that there is a child in the group, and the child may not have a separate seat, and there may be only one person in that family. However, this is only speculation.
After coming out of the hotel, I drove all the way to the east for an hour and a half before arriving at Shilin County under the jurisdiction of Kunming City.
On the way, Ah Mui told us a lot about local customs.
Yunnan is a region inhabited by ethnic minorities and a border province. Among the 56 ethnic groups in China, Yunnan accounts for 52, and some of them want to be part of them, which is only a minority in Yunnan.
The most populous minority in Yunnan is the Yi nationality, which has many branches. Among them, the Yi people in Shilin County are mostly Sani branch, while the Yi people in A-mei's own birthplace belong to the Ashi nationality. In the afternoon, we will go to Wei Chu, where the Yi people live in the black dress of the Yi people.
The Sani Yi people call the young men Ahei Ge, Abaige Ge and Ahua Ge, Ahei is positive and the other two are negative. The girl's name is Ashima. There is a movie called Ashima, and there is also a stone called Ashima in Xiaoshilin.
The custom of men in black is to kiss each other, and cousins get married more. Therefore, men are called cousins, and women are called cousins.
Shilin Scenic Area has a large area and many branches. Ah Mui told us to stay close to her, otherwise we would get lost and it would be difficult to find someone. Because there are big stones everywhere, although they have different shapes, just like the poem written by Guo Moruo: Look at the big stones from a distance, and look at the big stones from a distance. The stone is really big, really big.
The mountains here, mainly limestone, will turn a mountain into a huge stone forest in the long years of wind, sun and rain. Whether it is a stone in the lake or a stone on the shore, whether it is countless big stones gathered together or lonely stones, they were originally one long time ago.
Imagine that scene, a magnificent mountain, slowly, slowly falling apart. At first, there were many cracks. As the cracks became bigger and bigger, the mountain became a maze. Finally, it became what it is now.
This is the power of nature, and this is the power of time.
In the face of nature and the long time line, our human history is really too short.
Perhaps these stones will eventually disappear with the passage of time, but at least we have witnessed their beauty and magic!
There are ten scenic spots in Shilin, including seven in Oishinohayashi and three in Xiaoshilin.
We first followed Ah Mui into Hino District. Sure enough, there are big stones everywhere, some like peaks, some like ......
There are many inscriptions in the middle of Oishinohayashi, among which one is written as "the best in the world" as "the youngest brother in the world", which is what the ancients called a general name.
The Eye of the Stone Forest is at the top of Oishinohayashi, where there is a pavilion, which can shelter tourists from the wind and rain. In these two days, I saw strong sunshine in this red soil plateau area at an altitude of 17800 meters. The altitude of our hometown is only a few meters to tens of meters. 1000 meters gap clearly felt the power of ultraviolet light. So, I had to hold an umbrella all the way.
After climbing the eye of the stone forest and looking at the whole stone forest, we can only describe everything we saw at that time with spectacular. No matter which direction you look down, it's a stone forest with gray-black stones. After hundreds of millions of years of wind and frost, it constantly changes its shape until it becomes what it was before we met!
After coming down from above, I followed Ah Mei in the other direction. After passing through the heart of Shilin, there are three stones called "heartless", the other one is a bit like a heart, and the other one can't remember its name. Three stones have been touched by tourists coming and going, smooth, moist and crystal clear as a layer of patina.
Out of Oishinohayashi, soon came to the small stone forest. There is a scenery here, called auspicious three treasures. They are elephants, turtles and golden toads. Among them, the golden toad is the smallest, lying on the tortoise's head.
The stone called Ashima is the last sight. After going out, we left the scenic spot and went to have lunch by car.
I spent most of the afternoon in the car.
Because Shilin is in the east of Kunming, and Chuxiong, where we are going, is in the west of Kunming. So, the car returned to Kunming and drove from east to west, which was equivalent to crossing the whole city. In the meantime, traffic jams are inevitable. It was not until we got to expressway that we increased our speed.
I arrived in Chuxiong at five o'clock in the afternoon. Along the way, the sun was scorching for a while, it was raining cats and dogs for a while, and it was still raining lightly ... As Ah Mui said, a hundred miles of different days, a hundred miles of different races!
When I arrived in Chuxiong, it happened to be sunny. After learning about the place to eat, A-mei took us to a small scenic spot here, the Yi tribe.
The Yi people hold the Torch Festival on June 24th every year. There is a Little Square where the Torch Festival is held.
There is also the toast mansion, but you can't visit it. In the history of Yunnan, it can be said that there are toast everywhere, and every place has its own toast. In fact, their status is equivalent to local local tyrants, but they are only local emperors recognized by feudal rulers. Toast is hereditary, from grandfather to father, from father to son, from son to grandson, from generation to generation. ......
I had a local wild mushroom hot pot for dinner, which was very rich. Generally speaking, the taste of Yunnan cuisine is relatively light.