Cui Zengqi: Trip to Yunnan (Part 3)

Cui Zengqi: Trip to Yunnan (Part 3) Another beautiful sight in Lijiang is the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. Snow Mountain is located at the northern end of Lijiang County. From a distance, steep peaks stand...

Another beautiful sight in Lijiang is the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. Snow Mountain is located at the northern end of Lijiang County. From a distance, the steep peaks tower into the sky, like a silver-white dragon floating above the clouds. The white snow on the top of the mountain shines in the sun, like diamonds emitting dazzling light. From a distance, you can see a wide milky white strip from top to bottom, which is an ancient glacier. Due to global warming or the increase in heat emissions from Lijiang, the width of the glacier has become smaller, and people are worried that changes in climate will affect their pure water supply. Jade Dragon Snow Mountain is 5,596 meters above sea level. It is the lowest and highest mountain in the world and the highest snow mountain in southern China. It is said that no one has climbed to the top. Some people also say that an American mountaineering team has been there, but there are no records left in China. This time I also used the cable car and walking to climb Yunshanping, which is 3,240 meters high. The ancient trees here are towering, and the environment is quiet. The wind rustles the large leaves. Looking up, you can clearly see the Jianfeng of the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. Looking down, you can see the clear Baishui River winding through. This is the place where Naxi men and women died for love. It is said that the Naxi people yearn for a free and happy marriage. In order to resist the influence of feudal arranged marriages in Han culture, some young people often come to Yunshanping to die for love, pray to the sky, jump off the cliff, and go to heaven to seek their happiness. They believe that Yunshanping is the road to heaven, where they can love each other freely. There are endless silks and satins, endless fresh fruits and treasures, endless wines and fragrant milk, and endless gold and silver balls. This kind of sacrifice continues to this day. This is the power of faith and love. Everyone has experienced the impulsive passion of love in youth, and will pursue the pure and sweet love of their own at all costs. I believe that both men and women have special magnets in their bodies. When corresponding magnets collide together, powerful opposite-sex attraction energy will be generated, prompting people to behave in a super rational way. Tourists have also left countless wooden plaques with wishes and blessings here. It is said that they are truly enlightening and can be said to be sincere and spiritual.

Prayer cards in Yunshanping

In Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, the famous director Zhang Yimou made another big move. Zhang Yimou has shown his uncompromising self-reliance in literary and artistic creation since his first masterpiece "The Red High Liang", which he became famous as a director, attracting the audience with strange, special, big and strong shocks. "Impression of Lijiang" he created and directed, I knew it was Zhang Yimou's work as soon as I saw it. This performance is performed on a mountain three thousand meters high. It is the highest theater in the world. The actors are the aborigines who live on this land. The content of the performance reflects the life that the local residents have experienced. So, here came the strong men of 10 ethnic minorities, ordinary farmers from 16 rural villages, these more than 500 non-professional actors with dark skin, in this magical and vast land, with the beautiful snow-capped mountains as the background, wearing mud clothes The smell of soil sweat, with their thick shoulders like their ancestors, the most primitive movements, the most simple singing, the hottest sweat, dancing with the heaven and earth, and singing in harmony with nature, presented people with a heart-shaking and soul-cleansing feast. Under the blazing sunshine, your blood will boil. Our blood seems to have flowed together with that of the Naxi people. Facing the snow-capped mountains, they sang, Friends are here, let’s drink! Friends are gone, drink! Get high and drink! Even when you are feeling down, you drink. The gesture of looking up to the sky and drinking happily fully demonstrates their enthusiasm for treating friends and open-mindedness towards life, and vividly expresses the boldness and roughness of ethnic minorities. Many world firsts have been created here.

Impression Lijiang Performance