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Chapter 21 Guizhou Smart and handsome
Huangguoshu Waterfall
Guizhou Province is an exciting place!The mountains in Guizhou are multi-layered, with towering peaks and majestic ridges.The people of Guizhou are good at singing and dancing, warm and hospitable. She exists with her unique charm—barren but not desolate, simple but not monotonous—although there is no grandeur, there is no lack of vivid spirituality.

Here mountains, water, waterfalls, caves, peaks and forests are integrated, not only gorgeous in various poses and with different expressions, but also floating like ribbons.

Located in the southwest of Buyi and Miao Autonomous County, Guizhou, Huangguoshu Waterfall is the largest waterfall in Asia.The waterfall is 77.8 meters high and 101 meters wide, hidden in a dense green bamboo, like a white ribbon, descending from the sky with a majestic momentum, roaring.Whether you come here just for the name or just casually, you can feel the breath of the waterfall when you come to Huangguoshu Waterfall Park. From a distance, its roaring sound hits your eardrums, making you want to see what happened.Go up the moss-covered stone steps in the park, and you can see the big waterfall hanging there from a distance. The water drops splash, the foam surges, and it rushes down like smashing beads and jade. The smoke rises into the air, and the momentum is very majestic.

And the pool of clear water under the waterfall is so clear that you can see the bottom, like a girl's eyes, looking at you quietly.However, when the water falls from a cliff of more than 70 meters and goes straight to the bottom of the deep pool, the water in the pool will also rise angrily, and the splashes of the water will be like jade, snow, and pearls.Very beautiful.If the sun is in the sky, under the refraction of the sun, the waterfall will shine silver, and a gorgeous rainbow hangs obliquely on the waterfall. The waterfall at this time is absolutely wonderful.

Huangguoshu Waterfall
The most beautiful Huangguoshu Waterfall is after the rain.At the beginning of the rain, the clouds and mists have not yet dissipated, and they surround the waterfall mistyly. The roar of a galloping horse reminds me that it is hard to imagine that I am in the world.

Perhaps Huangguoshu Waterfall is really a fairyland on earth, just like Huaguo Mountain in "Journey to the West", so there is a water curtain cave.The Water Curtain Cave is at a height of 40 to 47 meters in the Huangguoshu Waterfall, not far from the Waterfall Pavilion.The cave hidden behind the waterfall has a total length of 134 meters, including 6 cave windows, 5 cave halls, 3 cave springs and 6 passages.Although there is a curtain of waterfall in front of the water curtain cave, when you walk along a path and walk to the back of the waterfall, the water curtain cave will appear in front of your eyes.Walking in the cave is like being in the clouds and mists, surrounded by gurgling water and lingering clouds and mists, which has a psychedelic and hazy beauty.

There is a dedicated tourist bus from Guiyang to Huangguoshu Waterfall, and the round trip costs about 60 yuan.The best time to visit Huangguoshu Waterfall should be in July and August every year, when the water is abundant and magnificent, while other times are mostly dry seasons, and the waterfall lacks majestic momentum.In addition, when visiting the waterfall, it is best to bring your own umbrella, otherwise you will get wet.

Looking back suddenly, through the small window of the Water Curtain Cave, the Huangguoshu Waterfall is close at hand, like a beautiful landscape painting embedded in a well-defined frame.

Fanjing Mountain

In the Buddhist scriptures, it is said that there is a paradise that can purify all souls, and people call it "the land of Brahma purity".In the deep mountains of Tongling, Guizhou, there is actually a Fanjing Mountain.

Mount Fanjing is the main peak of the Wuling Mountains, located in Tongren, Guizhou Province, and has the reputation of "the first peak of Wuling".It is majestic and majestic, gathering the ultimate landscape of stones, trees, clouds and wind.On its pure land of nearly [-] miles, there are towering peaks, vast forests and secluded valleys, sea of ​​clouds changing, and the atmosphere is myriad.Fanjing Mountain is another mysterious and majestic mountain. It was opened up as an ancient Buddhist temple as early as the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, its name and story have been passed down in the southern country for a long time.

There are three major peaks at the core of Mount Fanjing, namely Old Golden Summit, New Golden Summit and Phoenix Mountain, among which Phoenix Mountain is the highest with an altitude of 2570 meters.But the most beautiful place in Mount Fanjing is in Laojinding.Standing on the top of the mountain, looking far into the distance, you can see the majestic and handsome appearance of the Wuling Mountains at a glance. The white clouds are misty, and the dense parts are like piled up new wadding, and the thin parts are like Xi Shi's veil, rushing and surging in the mountain wind.

Turning around in the peak, walking south along the stone steps on the old Jinding, a slender river like an oxtail lies in front of you.At the source of this small river, there stands a stone mountain with an altitude of 1748.2 meters, which is like a sword and an axe. From a distance, it looks like a giant is looking up. It is said that this stone was transformed by the prince, so it is called "Prince Stone".According to legend, during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, an imperial concubine devoted herself to Buddha and came to this mountain to practice.Just when the imperial concubine succeeded in self-cultivation and was about to become a Buddha, her son, the little prince, slipped out of the palace secretly because of missing his mother, and arrived here after going through difficulties and obstacles.The Buddha was worried that the prince would prevent his mother from becoming a Buddha, so he used the body-fixing method to fix the little prince in the Niuwei River Valley, and planted a bodhi tree on top of his head.Because Bodhi is the treasure of Mount Fanjing, the Buddha once cultivated himself under this tree and became a Buddha. There is a statue of Buddha on every leaf, and the little prince no longer grows taller. After a long time, he turns into a stone.In this situation, who can not sigh for what happened to the little prince?Perhaps even the "Feixian Bridge" on the Golden Summit is feeling emotional. Which one is the liberation and the real happiness?no one has an answer...

Because the imperial concubine practiced and became a Buddha, today’s Fanjing Mountain is full of cigarettes, and the temples are dotted with dots. There is an endless stream of people who come to worship Buddha every day in front of the Buddha Hall and the Maitreya Hall. Perhaps this is also a contradiction among people. Blessed by gods and Buddhas, on the one hand, there is a constant family affection.However, it is precisely because of such concerns and contradictions in life that people live so completely.

Zhijindong

Only when you have been here, you can feel the strangeness in the cave. Only when you look at the world from the ground, you will find that there is something different in the cave.

Zhizhi Golden Cave is located on the south bank of Liuchong River, one of the source streams of Wujiang River in Guizhou. It is an authentic underground cave.It used to be called the "chicken-hitting hole", and it was said that it was the place where the Miao people killed chickens to sacrifice to the gods. Now it has washed away the mystery of the past and fully displayed it in front of people.

Perhaps it is because Zhijin Cave is located in a remote place and "raised in a deep boudoir without anyone knowing it", this largest cave in the world seems a little lonely.Go through the hole like a big mouth and go down the stone steps. A pair of male lions sit facing each other with wide smiles, and you enter the "Welcome Hall" of Zhijin Cave.At this time, if you look up and look around, you will definitely find the small round skylight on the top of the cave, which is the small opening of Zhijin Cave.It is said that if there is a destiny, you can see sunlight and moonlight entering the cave through the big hole and the small skylight at the same time, reflecting each other, which can be called "the sun and the moon shine together".But there is also another view. When people enter the reception hall and look back, the big hole is like a huge sun, which is warm and dazzling, while the small skylight on the top of the cave is like the moon above the head, shining gently and coolly. It is the shadow of people, so it is called "the sun and the moon shine together".

Along the stone steps, gradually walking towards the depths of the Zhijin Cave, a gust of cool air comes leisurely, bringing a touch of refreshment to this hot summer.Accompanied by the cool temperature, the wonders of Zhijin Cave are gradually approaching the eyes, making people overwhelmed.The surveyed length of Zhijin Cave is 12.1 kilometers, and the total area inside the cave is 70 square meters. It is divided into 11 high and low halls and 47 halls, connected by winding passages in the middle.Here, you can look up at the sky under the "Nantianmen" and experience the joy of climbing the "Southern Heaven", or you can live in the illusory "clouds" and feel the mysterious fairyland.

Among the many strange stones in Zhijin Cave, the most attractive one is a scene called "curly stone".People often say that the stone is hard and the water is soft, but the curly stone completely subverts people's views. It is slender and exquisite, transparent and crystal clear like jade, and its slenderness is like fine grass in the water. It was hard to imagine that it was a rock.On the contrary, when the water around the curly stone falls on the ground, it is as crisp as a steel ball falling to the ground, which makes people marvel at the magic and charm of nature.

Although Zhijin Cave brings people a kind of unprecedented magic, but behind these magic, they can feel the real life.

(End of this chapter)