Moganshan, a long-term name, is long overdue.
Before setting off, I did my homework and researched the human history, geographical knowledge, legends and stories of Moganshan. It wasn't until I was in the mountains that I realized that in such a season, in the world of autumn red with old houses, all the strategies about it were redundant.
All the words seem to be redundant.
Mogan Mountain has beautiful scenery, "clear, quiet, green and cool", located in Deqing County, Huzhou, Zhejiang, which is the remaining vein of Tianmu Mountain, and is known as the "first mountain in the south of the Yangtze River". The Moganshan Scenic Area covers an area of about 43 square kilometers.
Moganshan is "abundant" in villas, due to the history of the late Qing Dynasty to the first period, when Moganshan was the summer resort of celebrities and giants in Shanghai and Hangzhou. More than a century ago, Moganshan was almost occupied by foreigners, and people from Britain, the United States, France, Germany, Russia and other countries have stook their lands and built residences here. In the later period, most of them were villas of key officials and wealthy businessmen.
According to statistics, there are more than 250 villas in Moganshan, which combine different architectural styles from the East and the West. The Nordic pastoral and Oriental classics collide and blend in the Cuiling jungle, and Moganshan has the title of "World Modern Architecture Museum". After liberation, the fate of the villas varied, either converted into sanatoriums, resorts open to the public, inhabited by local mountain people, or vacant due to the lack of news from the owners.
Why is it called "Mogan" Mountain?It is said that in the late Spring and Autumn Period, the famous swordsmith and his wife Mo Ye forged a pair of unparalleled male and female swords in the mountain, and the mountain was named. On Mogan Mountain, there is a scenic spot of "Sword Pond Waterfall", and the sculpture of the cadre Mo Xie casting the sword, many tourists come to check in.
Legends that have been passed down through the ages, but I chose to ignore them automatically. I just came to see the fall.
The autumn color of Moganshan is not the kind of red that "spreads all over the mountains", but red and green, red (maple), yellow (apricot), blue (sky), green (bamboo), and colorful. Huishou designed the nature of Moganshan, and is undoubtedly a master of color matching and spatial aesthetics.
I heard the staff of the scenic spot say that because of the influence of cold air some time ago, the maple leaves of Moganshan are the reddest and most colorful until these days, and at this time in previous years, the best opportunity to appreciate the red maple should have been missed.
Perfect encounter, everything was just right.
In fact, in this season of Moganshan, in addition to the red maple, there are more gorgeous and colorful trees to "add to the fun", it is difficult to say who is the protagonist and who is the supporting role. Ginkgo, metasequoia, sycamore, black tree ......It's like God has overturned the color palette and splashed the entire autumn in Jiangnan.
Xuguang Terrace, built in 1986. Xuguangtai has always been one of the must-see attractions for celebrities visiting Mogan Mountain, and it is said to be a great place to watch the sunrise and enjoy the mountain scenery on Mogan Mountain.
Missed the sunrise and was lucky to have a mountain view. The scenery is unique here.
Villa No. 126 - In 1953, when the chairman of the *** inspected Moganshan, he stayed at the time. The villa was built in 1934 by Jiang Yiwei, the former chairman of Zhejiang Industrial Bank.
I have always felt that among all garden plants, it seems that only maple leaves are versatile varieties with the environment, whether it is appearance or temperament, wild or courtyard, and whether it is in the dark green, light red or vermilion leaf color stage, it is the same.
Queen's Hotel. Baiyun Hotel.
The cathedral, formerly known as the "Synagogue", was built by the American missionary Hayes and completed in 1923.
Chiang Kai-shek's official residence (Songyuelu).
Over the years, I have seen the autumn leaves in other cities many times, including many boutique landscapes and 5A attractions, but I always feel a little familiar sameness, and it seems to lack some "spirituality". It wasn't until I met Moganshan today that I realized that the autumn red must be seen with the old house, and the green leaves were sad and scorching at the last moment of life, gorgeous and brilliant, all of which were frozen in the mottled brick wall fence.
It's like sunset red to the extreme.
From Chiang Kai-shek's official residence to the Mogan Villa area, there is a large group of villas. When I walked here in the afternoon, I was pleasantly surprised to find that I was the only tourist in the huge park!
In an instant, it was as if I had traveled through a time and space tunnel of more than a century, and I was thrown by the time machine to an unknown corner.
Wooden steps, stone foundations, carved balustrades, ochre window lattices, the garden is full of withered yellow needles, and moss grows wildly. The sunlight shines through the gaps between the leaves of the tall metasequoia, lazily sprinkled on the rough and frosted bluestone walls, and the shadows of the trees are swaying, and the years are long. The world is like a big dream, and it has disappeared for more than a hundred autumns in a snap of a finger, presumably Song Meiling must have had a heart of leaning on the fence here to rely on her will.
For the first time in my life, I was moved by a "scenic spot".
At this moment, there is no longer much interest in finding and reading the old past of more than 200 villas in Moganshan, the footprints of historical celebrities, and the poems and stone carvings left by wise men and scholars in more than 1,000 years.
I would rather indulge in the light and shadow of the years, to interpret the meaning of autumn, and to touch the imprint of the passing year in autumn.