When I was young, I aspired to be a backpacker, a traveler who lived on the road, carrying a map and a few poetry collections in my bag.
As I get older, my enthusiasm for walking gradually fades, and I hope to live in the places I yearn for a while: Suzhou, Hangzhou, Dali, Shaoxing, ......Just to deeply experience the life of the locals, and realize a dream of "being a Suzhou person" and "being a Hangzhou person".
Although I know that in terms of the meaning of my hometown alone, no matter how long you have lived in a foreign land, if you don't have the connections you have accumulated since childhood, if you don't have the years you spend with your parents, if you don't have "the girl in the next class", if you don't go crazy and grow up together, no matter how good you are in a foreign land, you will be a foreign land after all. But I still want to live in each of these places for a few months, and I'll never be a local, but so what? I just wanted to broaden my life and really experience a different way of life.
Suzhou. Visual China data map.
I've been to Hangzhou three times, but I've only been to Suzhou once. It was still in the 90s of the last century, I lived in Suzhou for three days, and browsed several famous gardens, far from knowing Suzhou. If there is a Suzhou in everyone's heart, then the Suzhou in my heart is more intentional: it symbolizes classical, symbolizes Jiangnan; It symbolizes the ...... of "Xiaolou listens to the spring rain overnight" and "the bell rings in the middle of the night to the passenger ship".When I left Suzhou, I made a wish that if I had the opportunity to come back in the future, I would definitely stay in Suzhou for a few more days and get closer to the city of my dreams.
Later, I wrote for travel magazines and traveled to many places. During this period, I met people in many places, saw the scenery of many places, and photographed many things that were about to disappear: in Datong, I photographed horse-drawn carriages speeding through the market; In Phoenix, I photographed the collapsed old house of King Miao in Sanjiang Miao Village; In Pingyao, I photographed the old people basking under the ancient city walls, ......Today, these have become valuable video historical materials. I also realized that although the experience of life is like a fleeting cloud, there are still some unforgettable moments that are amazing and make people look back on them frequently.
Yes, that's what I used to yearn for in my traveling life: sometimes a dragonfly touches the water, and then a taste stops; Sometimes Anbu is a car, and I can't think about it. I don't care if I have to go, and I never pay attention to the fame of the scenic spot - looking back, it is some nameless places that do not charge tickets, which are more interesting, such as the undeveloped Hongjiang Ancient **, raised in the ancient village of Gaozhi that people do not know, and the unknown but very historical ...... of Jingzhou FeishanCompared with the destination of the trip, I pay more attention to the process of traveling, and the feeling of walking on the road.
I remember the old story of sitting on the roadbed in front of the mall on the streets of Chengdu one year, munching on braised pig's trotters. That time I wandered all the way, came to Chengdu, tired and greedy, saw the delicatessen display of oily braised pork trotters, can't help but salivate, buy it and can't wait, sit under the roadbed to eat, eat first, not fast!
One year, I was in the ancient city of Qingzhou, and I casually walked into a snack bar selling tofu brains at noon and asked for a bowl of tofu brains, which turned out to be the best tofu brains I had ever eaten in my life!
One year I was in Mizhi in northern Shaanxi, chatting speculatively with the taxi driver, and at the end of the day, the driver master actually stopped picking up passengers, first took me to listen to the Qin dialect, and then went to the people's house to buy donkey sausages, drink together, and feast on ......
Writer Shu Guozhi believes that wandering "is originally a clear wall, a changing space in exchange for a broad horizon, and a long time in exchange for a calm and empty state of mind". This is also in line with my pursuit of travel: a life attitude and interest in life, a broad and open vision and a leisurely state of mind. Once you enter such a realm, travel is "all good, you can stay, and you can leave at any time, and you don't care if you have to be nostalgic for your hometown".
I divide travel into three types: first, traveling with your family; second, travel with friends; Third, it is a solo trip. These three types correspond to three different moods: traveling with family and taking responsibility; Traveling with friends is an interaction; But my personal favorite is to travel alone, because only when the heart is unencumbered and unfettered, can we do what we should do, stop when we stop, and truly "can stay and leave at any time".
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