moon illusion

July 18st was another memorable day for Qi Fengyao.This day was the first time in his [-] years of life that he traveled with his parents.

Driving northward, spending two days and one night on the road, I finally arrived at Lanzhou, the capital city of Gansu Province, before dark.

The family was so hungry that their chests were sticking to their backs. Under the recommendation of the locals, they found a beef noodle restaurant that is very famous in the local area.Adding meat to the wide noodles, and pouring a spoonful of red oily spicy peppers, the empty stomach immediately felt a sense of fullness.

After basically filling their stomachs, the family drove to the reserved hotel. After parking the car, Qi Fengyao suggested to go for a walk nearby, so they went to the nearby night market.For a native southerner, the snacks in the Northwest are full of novelties - sweet embryos, milk and egg fermented glutinous rice, stewed noodles... The amount of food eaten in one night makes Qi Fengyao suspect that he has not eaten a single meal in more than ten years. A full meal.

After eating and drinking, the family returned to the hotel. After greeting his parents, Qi Fengyao returned to his room.As soon as he entered the door, he immediately lay down on the bed. It was so long that he almost felt that he was going to be in a daze. Only then did Qi Fengyao struggle to get up from the bed, ready to go to the bathroom to take a shower.

About half an hour later, Qi Fengyao came out wearing a cotton nightgown and slippers.The drowsiness that was originally there disappeared without a trace after taking a shower, sitting on the edge of the bed in a daze, Qi Fengyao got up and walked to the desk, opened his schoolbag and took out his notebook.

After confirming the route for tomorrow, I opened a blank page and wrote:

July 2020, 7 Qinglanzhou

Today I came to the first planned location in the Northwest. Sitting in the car, I saw the Zhongshan Bridge of the Yellow River in the night. It was very beautiful and spectacular.It is also the first time to eat authentic beef noodles, drink sweet, somewhat intoxicating sweet embryos, as well as stewed noodles and skewers...

If there is still a chance, I would like to come here with you to have a look.

After closing the notebook, Qi Fengyao opened his cell phone photo album and opened a photo taken from the computer, which belonged to Yun Zaiye, the host of Nanchuan University's celebration party.It was probably shot against a computer, the picture is not very clear, and if it is zoomed in, the face becomes more blurred.But even so, in Qi Fengyao's eyes, he is still so different that he can be attracted to him at a glance.

"I need to work harder and become better to see you..." Qi Fengyao murmured.

Then turned off the phone and turned to bed, falling into a deep sleep in the bright light.

The lights were not turned off, and the whole room was brightly illuminated by lights from several places, but only in such an environment, Qi Fengyao could sleep peacefully.

When he was a child, without the company of his parents, his elderly grandparents cooked for him during the day, washed his clothes, and took him to school... At night, he was alone. He was too afraid of the dark so he dared not sleep. Sleepy and hugged his legs against the wall and fell asleep.Forgot exactly when it started, he couldn't fall asleep without turning on the light, even if someone turned off the light after falling asleep, he would wake up from his sleep immediately...

At seven o'clock the next day, Qi Fengyao was woken up by the alarm clock, got up in a daze, changed his clothes, and staggered to the bathroom to wash up.After a while, Qi Fengyao packed his backpack and went out to the parents' room next door.

There was a knock on the door, followed by "Mom and Dad, I'll wait for you at the restaurant on the second floor!"

"Okay!" After receiving the response, Qi Fengyao turned and walked towards the elevator.

After gathering with their parents, the family started today's journey.The Yellow River Customs Line, Baitashan Park, Gansu Provincial Museum...until four o'clock in the afternoon, they were ready to bid farewell to Lanzhou and go to the next location - Xining.

It was already late at night when we arrived, so everyone took a quick wash and rested.

Early the next morning, Qi Fengyao got up and made some preparations for today's journey.An hour later, the family drove to Kumbum Monastery.

As people flowed into several monasteries, they saw the Duixiu, murals and butter flowers in Kumbum Monastery, and also saw the mysterious and shining Shwedagon Pagoda through the small window.There are many people who are waiting for the long head in the academy. They take all their belongings to eat and live around. When they run out of money, they go back to earn money. If they earn enough, they continue to kowtow. They spend their whole lives trying to kowtow 10 long heads. Live forever.In the noisy crowd, meeting these devout eyes, Qi Fengyao was shocked to realize how great the power of faith is, and couldn't help but think of a sentence he once saw——

How many secrets does a person need to hide in order to spend his life cleverly? This plateau shimmering with Buddha light is heaven in three steps and two steps, but there are still so many people who are too preoccupied to walk.

After coming out of Kumbum Monastery, they climbed over Laji Mountain, and the family came to the house of Tibetan herdsmen on the mountain.The Tibetan people are warm and hospitable, they served yak yoghurt, and also prepared Zanba, a traditional Tibetan staple food.

After a rest, the three of them arrived at the Daotang River in Riyue Mountain under the leadership of the herdsmen. As the name suggests, "All the rivers in the world flow eastward, but only this stream flows westward."In fact, the Daotang River was originally a river flowing eastward into the Yellow River. Later, due to changes in the earth's crust, Riyue Mountain was uplifted, and it turned its head westward into Qinghai Lake, becoming a Daotang River.

Then, go to the blue tears of the earth - Qinghai Lake...

Because it is a plateau area, the oxygen is thin, and my mother feels a little uncomfortable. After playing in Qinghai Lake, the group went back to the hotel they booked nearby.

He was indeed a little sleepy, and he didn't care about taking a bath, so Qi Fengyao simply washed up and went to bed.

Lying on the bed with eyes closed, the daytime scenery and Yun Jae-ye's face kept appearing alternately in his mind.About 10 minutes later, Qi Fengyao turned over and got up, came to the desk, and continued to take out his notebook——

Sunny in Xining on July 2020, 7

I went to many places today, and the most beautiful scenery is the bay next to Erlangjian in Qinghai Lake.The vast surface of Qinghai Lake, after bursts of heart-stirring turbulence, finally stopped at this bay beach.

Gentle wind, slight waves, tender grass, fine sand, distant skyline, majestic mountains are green, reflected in the jasper-like lake,

Rubbing and rubbing, rubbing away a lot of vicissitudes, but still standing in the sparkling waves, as if never left.

There is a very cute little girl standing by the lake, the sun is leaking from the clouds, sprinkled in this beautiful bay, the wind caresses gently, lifts the little girl's long fluttering hair, and shakes her soft clothes, She opened her hands to embrace this colorful world.

A little far away, on the tender grassland, there are cattle and sheep grazing leisurely, everything is still...

I hope to share all the beauty of all this with you and experience it with you.

After I stopped writing, it seemed that today's work was really completed, so I turned around and went to sleep peacefully.

At around five o'clock the next day, the family drove to the Black Horse River to watch the sunrise.Because it is a plateau, there is no other scenery around it, and the majesty at sunrise is really shocking.

After watching the sunrise, head west along the Kunlun Mountains to reach the realm of the sky - Chaka Salt Lake.Qi Fengyao was very lucky, the weather was very good on the day he came, and the reflection of the blue sky was so beautiful.

After playing in it for about four hours, after coming out, I went through the Qaidam Basin to Dachaidan, Delingha City.In the evening, the whole family eats kang pot mutton with beer in Dachaidan, which is worthy of the night...

A new day has begun, and the first place today is Yadan Devil City.Yadan landform generally refers to a kind of wind-eroded landform in dry areas. The ground formed by the soil-like sediments of rivers and lakes, after weathering, intermittent water erosion and wind erosion, forms wind-eroded mounds and mounds arranged alternately with the prevailing wind direction. Wind-eroded depression (trough) landform combination.

There is a section of the road leading to Devil City that is particularly beautiful and straight.After traveling through hundreds of kilometers of no-man's land, Qi Fengyao felt the most real freedom in the world.

Later, when I came to Yangguan, I was memorized in elementary school textbooks, "I advise you to drink a glass of wine, and there will be no old friends when you leave Yangguan in the west".

After today's journey, my father drove to Dunhuang and planned to camp in the desert in Dunhuang at night.

This is the most beautiful desert in China. Its gravel is golden and outlines a full color.The strong winds throughout the year weave the delicate textures on the dunes.

The bonfire lit in the frontier desert at night, the people passing by from all over the world, holding hands and dancing in circles are friends——Qi Fengyao likes this journey more and more.

The next day, the family came to Mogao Grottoes.Looking back at the past glory through the millennium, the wheels of history are rolling forward, and the historical rivers are scouring the sand. It carries the rusty spots that have crossed the mountains and deserts and the vicissitudes of life, leaving deep marks on the road it passes.

Along the way, Qi Fengyao followed the tour guide and listened carefully to the explanation. This was the place he yearned for the most and the scenery that fascinated him the most.

After watching the last sitcom of "Encounter Dunhuang", it can be regarded as a successful conclusion to today's journey.

As usual, I went back to the hotel, after a simple wash, opened the familiar notebook, and wrote down the words that Mr. Yu Qiuyu once wrote in "Cultural Journey". These words kept lingering in my mind when Qi Fengyao was still in Mogao Grottoes of--

You can think for a while in other caves, but here, once you enter, it will make you hot, make you lose your composure, and make you just want to fly your feet into the air.No matter what content it draws, you will exclaim in your heart when you look at it, this is the person, this is the life.

Life.

I believe that everything that comes for religion will definitely take away the feelings beyond religion and store them in the subconscious throughout life.The accumulation becomes heredity again, and the next generation of ascetic travelers is mighty again.

This ceremony is so grand and so vast that there is no desert, no Mogao Grottoes, and no Dunhuang.The ceremony has already started from the beginning of the desert, among the deep footprints in the sand nest, in the tents in the night wind, among the white remains, on the back of the long-haired camel , The eyes that have shed too many tears have been blunted by the wind and sand, but it doesn't matter, the worshipers who came back from there, their eyes are so golden.