Yu's footprint

Chinese government made a talented dicision. The legal holidays become scattered, which means we may also have holiday in the festival such as Mid-autume, Dragonboat festival, etc. That’s good for the traditional culture, good for the economy, and without any doubt good for ME! I have more chance to go out without guilty, because it is legal.

Last week was the Sweeping Tomb Day. Every Chinese got a three-day-holiday. Thank God! None of my relatives has passed away, so it’s not a sad day for me. I needn’t to climb the high mountain to sweep the tomb, and cherish my memory of them. On the country, I went to travel again. It’s the second time for me to travel within three weeks. But this time, I went with my family.

Traveling alone has a lot of fun. But traveling with mum and dad, the biggist advantage is that I almost needn’t to pay anything! Living in better hotels, eating better food without paying, I think only foolish people will refuse it, right? Wrong! Nothing will be so perfect. Parents of couse will not allow the younger ones to stay in pubs so late. When I lived in a same room with my mum last week, she even didn’t allow me to watch a footbal game on TV after midnight. So my advice is, when you make the choice about traveling alone or with some others ( no matter whether they like footbal or not ), think twice!

Luckily this time we traveled to a small town in countryside, which had less pubs to spend the time after 22:00. This stifled an argument between parents and children. Weishan, locates near her famous sister Dali, is a place shyly hiding her beauty.

Now I need you to follow with my footprints, through the photos to go into that small ancient town with me.




The ancient city has a glorious history. The low houses along the street are nearly 700 years old! Some of them are rebuilt by different emperors in different dynasties, but we can still find all of the houses and the streets are streched out in a good order nowadays.


This building’s name is fasinating ---- a building with stars around it. It was built in 1390, when it was the Ming Dynasty of China. The time I went there was in the early morning. Though I had no chance to see whether there were a lot of stars around it in deep night, the sunlight lit up the old gate was also very beckoning.

This alley is unforgetable for me. Not only because of its narrow width ( I bet Hurley on Lost has problem to pass it ), but also its startling length. The full length of it is 412 metres. I was thinking in this alley, if I meet a robber in front of me, and with his confederate behind me, the only thing I can do is giving them all, and asking them to let me take part in their job. As their work in this place is so easy to complete.

What am I talking about? Robbing is impossible in such a pure place. You can push any doors of natives’ houses in the street, nobody will lock their doors. They are not worried about crimes. They are good souls.

An antique shop came into my eyes. Saddle, container of rice, wooden walking stick, Buddhist Scripture… Maybe some of them were dug from mud, maybe you will amazingly find a hairpin once belonged to a Chinese emporar’s lovest woman.

I guess this small old restaurant was very very renowned. The people who came to have breakfast stood in a long queue. The chef or the owner herself was busily cut the pork into long narrow pieces. It’s a traditional dish of local area. A kind of noodle ( perhaps I cannot call it noodle, it’s hard to describe ) with very soft pork. All right, I’d better give you its Chinese name ---- Weishan Parou Ersi. If you are able to be here someday, you must taste it, just like what I did. You can put the ingredient into your dish by yourself. Really tasty!

What made me impressed was the bus in the town. Without any pullution and harmful gas, makes me ---- an environmentalist ---- feel excited. Riding this kind of bus, you can also go sightseeing with fresh air and soft breeze.

See my shadow? We are in a same place, I mean me and a dog with an unknown name, under the same sunshine, but we are in two different world. He ( or she ??? ) is carefree and live in such a peaceful way all the life. I really envy him. I was still worrying about the poem reciting competition next week in my college!