travel starts with photography

Every time he walked out of the Internet cafe after staying up all night, Chen Xing could always feel the biting chill.

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that it was too warm in the Internet cafe. The air conditioner was turned on all night and I walked out before dawn. It was definitely cold.The surrounding area is also very quiet. Although some shop signs on the street are lit up, the cold colors intensify the desertedness in the early morning.

Four o'clock in the morning is also early morning.

Very few people go out at this time, and even the uncles and aunts do not come out to exercise at this time. Only the sound of sanitation workers sweeping the floor with brooms can be heard from a distance.

Chen Xing was also a little hungry. After walking about a hundred meters, he saw a breakfast shop on the street. He bought a few steamed buns and ate them while walking.

By the way, I checked the news about Qinghong Temple in Laoyashan.

This is a Taoist temple built in the middle of the Ming Dynasty. It has only undergone two small-scale reconstructions and renovations in the past few years. Generally speaking, it is still a Ming Dynasty building, which also represents the inheritance of this place. It has a long history, and there must be true Taoist priests.

Nowadays, many scenic spots have temples and temples inside, but many of them were built by scenic spots to attract tourists.

Let’s not talk about whether the Taoist priests there are the ones who preach too much. The Taoist temple itself is not recognized by the Religious Affairs Bureau of China, let alone Taoism... This makes no difference to people who do not believe in religion, they are all Taoist temples. , are all temples.

But if a believer goes to such a place to offer incense, the Patriarch will not bless you.

Biting a bun, Chen Xing came to the park on the navigation screen.

This large park has a gate on one side of the road. Although there is a security room, no one is on duty inside. Chen Xing went over and took a look. There was a lot of dust inside, and there were no daily necessities.

It seems that no one has lived or worked here for a long time.

After entering, there is a parking lot. Walking further inside, you can see a series of roads. The road to the right goes up the mountain. The sign on the roadside also says "Laoya Mountain goes here."

I didn’t mention Qinghong Temple, but those who really want to go here should also know that Qinghong Temple is on the top of Laoya Mountain.

After entering the park, the breakfast shops on the street and the few people who got up early to work were no longer visible. The environment returned to silence... but the insects in the mountains were still very loud.

Speaking of silence at night, many people will think of complete silence.

But coming to a place with many woods like this is actually not quiet.

There is a kind of insect that makes various sounds at night, called a chirping insect, which is like the familiar crickets, grasshoppers, etc. Generally speaking, chirping insects are most active in summer and autumn, but there are also some in winter, such as grasshoppers. Make noise.

The temperature in Guizhou is not too cold and the climate is mild. It is one of the provinces where insects like to stay most.

So even now, the insects in this forest are still buzzing, but that's it for now. It may be twice as quiet next month.

The way up the mountain is a staircase about three meters wide, going straight up.

I heard that climbing Huashan Mountain at night is also like this kind of ladder, but Chen Xing has not climbed Huashan Mountain yet, so he doesn’t know what it’s like over there.

This hill is definitely not comparable to Huashan. Chen Xing only walked for about half an hour to reach the top of the mountain.

Chen Xing, who was far away, saw the ancient building on the mountain.

But before going there, there was an observation deck on the mountain that could see the city. He was the only one who went up the mountain for half an hour. But when he got here, he found that there were many people climbing up the mountain at night. Some people were even on this observation deck. We set up a tent on the scenic platform to sleep, probably waiting for the sunrise.

It is already five o'clock now. Although the sun has not yet risen, the streets of the city are much busier than at four o'clock.

Vehicles were traveling on the road with their lights on, and each car formed a light strip. These light strips were square, and the dark places in the middle were various buildings.

The outline of the city is very clear here.

Look towards the horizon.

Eh?
It seems a little brighter?

Chen Xing quickly stopped moving forward, set up his camera on the viewing platform, and waited for the sunrise for a while.

You don’t need to be too particular about the location when taking photos of the sunrise on the observation deck. This platform is already the best place to enjoy the sunrise, so if you set up the camera, it just needs to be set up so that it doesn’t block others, and others don’t block you.

The big brother next to Chen Xing used a telephoto lens, which was very long. He looked at Chen Xing's slightly smaller lens and said, "Handsome, this camera of yours is quite beautiful. How much did it cost?"

"This is a gift from a friend."

"It looks beautiful. It seems different from ours?"

Others heard the two chatting and looked over. One person smiled and said, "This is Hasselblad. One lens can buy you a whole set of equipment."

"Hasselblad!" He was surprised.

So Hasselblad looks like this?
He had only heard of it before, but this was the first time he had actually seen it.

"Well, Hasselblad, it was given as a gift. I don't know how much it's worth."

He glanced at Chen Xing again and said nothing.

I don't want to accept Chen Xing's words.

Everyone chatted in twos and threes, exchanging experiences about photography, waiting for the moment of sunrise.

Many photos are waiting to be released, whether they are landscapes or humanities.

Chen Xing had been waiting for a long time to take the sunrise photo of the Buddha statue in Wuyuan, but this was the first time he waited with so many photographers. This feeling was really strange.

"Come out, come out!"

"Get ready to shoot! Don't doze off, brother!"

The observation deck suddenly became noisy, informing each other about the sunrise.

The sun has come out, and the first ray of sunshine in Boyu County shines on this mountain. After all, this is the highest altitude place around them.

If you are in the city at this moment, you may be able to see a feeling similar to Western Sichuan or Tibet, where the sun shines on the golden mountains.

There was a small photography group of seven or eight people in the distance. The youngest among them was two years older than Chen Xing. The leader was a Mediterranean man who shouted: "Everyone, pay attention! Now the white balance is automatic, ISO100, aperture 11, aperture Priority, start shooting now!”

Chen Xing looked back when he heard the sound.

The uncles and aunts had a great time taking pictures after adjusting according to the old man's parameters.

The parameters are correct, just have fun shooting.

Chen Xing was still a little envious of them.

My photography knowledge went from a novice to a professional level in no time. Without their learning process, I would have lost a lot of memories.

It’s great to be able to feel your improvement anytime and anywhere...

Chen Xing moved quickly. After taking the photo, he continued to admire it for a few minutes. After the sunrise sunshine completely illuminated the city below, he took two more photos, then put away the shooting equipment and walked towards the Taoist temple on the mountain.

Some photographers who had finished their work also walked with him towards the Taoist temple.The tourists who come here to watch the sunrise should be the earliest pilgrims to Qinghong Temple every day.

The door of the Taoist temple opened at some point, and the sound of chanting sutras came from inside.

Chen Xing and the two tourists who came up together looked at each other and thought what a coincidence. They also met a Taoist priest chanting sutras, so they all walked towards the place where the sound came from.

The further we got to the main hall, the louder the Taoist priests chanted sutras.

Chen Xing first saw a few people who were not Taoist priests sitting on the futon in the back. In front of them were the Taoist priests, about twenty of them. Among them, the people in the front row were holding many musical instruments, including drums, wooden fish, and more. There are many musical instruments that Chen Xing cannot name.

Chen Xing wanted to find a Taoist temple in China some time ago, so after searching, he found that wooden fish are actually from Taoism.

Again, the influence of Taoism among ordinary people is so weak that many people don’t even know about things that are common sense to others even when they are old.

Seeing someone else coming in, a bespectacled girl wearing clothes from a Taoist temple handed a few people what looked like a book. She pointed to the free futon in a low voice, indicating that they could go over and sit down and be quiet.

Chen Xing made a gesture of ok clearly, and went over to imitate the people around him and kneeled down here.

I looked at the book she gave me.

"Morning and Evening Lessons at Qinghong Temple in Laoya Mountain"

This should be what Taoist priests are reciting now.

Chen Xing flipped through it, and there were indeed some scriptures on it, such as the Qingjing Sutra that Chen Xing was familiar with, as well as the Golden Light Curse, Xuanzong of Heaven and Earth, and Wanqi Bengen that he had seen in anime.I have cultivated for hundreds of millions of kalpas to prove my magical powers...

This is one of the eight great Taoist mantras.

If Chen Xing were directly asked to listen to what these Taoist priests said, Chen Xing would definitely not understand.

Even though these people seemed to speak the dialect of southwest China, Chen Xing could only say that even though they spoke very slowly, Chen Xing still couldn't understand anything.

Sure enough, the real monks' chanting comes with a privacy code, and even if you look at it with a book, you can't understand it.

At this time, the Taoist priests finished reciting another sutra, and the person holding a musical instrument in the front row began to beat and beat, and then said in a relatively slow voice: "Tai Shang Laojun said the Chang Qing Jing Sutra, Lao Jun said the Great Dao invisible……"

When Chen Xing heard this, he immediately opened the book in his hand to the Qingjing Sutra.

Looking at the words and listening to their voices chanting sutras, Chen Xing finally understood what they were saying.

I couldn't understand it at all before, but now I read the words together with the sounds of their chanting, and found that these Taoist priests actually chanted quite clearly. It's just that the sentence breaks are different from the commas and periods in the book. There seems to be a special Recite this morning and evening lesson sutra according to its rhythm.

For example, this Qingjing Sutra.

At the beginning, he read out the name of the sutra. Taishang Laojun said the Chang Qingjing Sutra, and then immediately recited without any pause: "Laojun said that the great road is invisible." This whole paragraph is without a pause, and it seems like the process of chanting sutras. There is no concept of punctuation marks, only various ventilations.

The Taoist priests recited very fast, and the sound of the wooden fish became faster and faster.

The rhythm of knocking on the wooden fish is the same as the frequency of Taoist priests chanting sutras, so Chen Xing could only listen to the rhythm of the wooden fish, and then he could not read along with them, so he read the book and mentally followed the rhythm of the wooden fish. Read on.

There are also various precious edicts after the Qingjing Sutra.

Chen Xing didn't like to listen to this kind of chanting in the past, because every time an old man in his hometown died, a team of Taoist priests would be invited to come over and chant sutras. The instruments were similar, so chanting was actually equated with mourning and music in Chen Xing's heart. .

But today, after knowing the meaning of the scriptures, Chen Xing realized that chanting the scriptures is just reading the scriptures in a rhythm.

I don’t know what scriptures are recited during the ritual, but it most likely has nothing to do with the content of the morning and evening classes, right?

As I listened, I didn't know if it was an illusion, but I felt like my heart was becoming pure.

Half an hour after the morning and evening classes ended, an old Taoist priest led by him finished reciting alone: ​​"The great road is immeasurable and the merits are incredible..." After that, some Taoist priests were ready to stand up and start the day's work.

Chen Xing also stood up and took a deep breath.

Not to mention, the fragrance inside the Taoist temple is quite delicious.

A tourist I saw at the observation deck asked the girl with glasses who was handing out the book, and said, "We have accumulated merit by following the Taoist priests, right?"

"If you sincerely pray to Grandmaster, Grandmaster will of course also pay attention to you."

"That's great, can you make some incense here?"

"Okay, register outside."

Chen Xing looked outside the door.

The Taoist priests were all reciting morning lessons in this hall before. Now after they dispersed, a man was sitting outside the hall. He placed a stack of thick-looking incense sticks on the table, and then... then he took it out. cell phone.

This……

Chen Xing looked at the "Morning and Evening Lessons at Laoya Mountain Qinghong Temple" in his hand, walked over to the girl with glasses and said, "Female Taoist Priest, do you need money to burn incense?"

Such thick incense would probably cost 200 yuan per stick in Shaolin Temple, right?

She looked at Chen Xing, smiled and said: "Handsome guy, there are no male or female Taoist priests in the Taoist temple. If you want to speak, just say the Taoist priest. And I'm not a Taoist priest. I'm just a volunteer. I'm here to help." It’s been a busy few days.”

The number of tourists in Boyu County has increased significantly this month, and their Taoist temple is also a must-visit place for many tourists after visiting Boyu County.

The Taoist priests couldn't bear it anymore, so they found some people from the society who were willing to be volunteers to help.

"Are you a volunteer?"

"Yeah, handsome guy, do you have any questions?" she said, and then suddenly remembered the question Chen Xing asked before, and said, "Well, incense costs money, fifty cents a stick."

Chen Xing looked at the incense people lined up to buy, frowned, and asked, "Five yuan?"

"Fifty cents, fifty cents, half a dollar, okay?"

"OK OK, I'm sorry. I've been exposed to monk temples a lot before, and the incense there is very expensive, so I couldn't believe it when I heard it was fifty cents."

"Haha, that's why I like Taoism."

She laughed a few times and saw that Chen Xing had no other questions before answering the questions from other tourists.

The tasks that volunteers do after arriving at the Taoist Temple are actually relatively easy, such as arranging for you to direct the queues of tourists, or answering some simple questions from tourists like this girl, and taking a look at the Taoist canteen.

This is the top of the mountain. It takes an hour to go up and down the mountain, so the Taoist temple also has a canteen selling some snacks, water and other things.

You can offer a stick of incense to the founder of the Sanqing Dynasty for only fifty cents, which is too profitable.

Chen Xing hurriedly went over to line up.