Fourth Trip to Yunnan (Dali No. 9, the Ancient Village of Nuodeng, Part 2)

Number of days：18 days
Time: March
With whom：a person
Tour kinds：Humanities, Free Travel, Saving Money
Updated: 2024.12.19

The salt industry was thriving, attracting many merchants, making the villagers rich.

The courtyards of the past are now mansions, and you can often see beautifully decorated gatehouses at the corners of alleys.

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With an unintentional turn or a look up, I often feel that a certain scene is quite consistent with a pastoral poem.

Going in that order, you'll find the Confucian Temple, the Martial Temple, the Jade Emperor Pavilion, and the Buddhist Temple, each dedicated to a variety of deities.

The gods stand high on the mountain, responsible for bridging the gap between humans and heaven.

This kind of grandeur is simply beyond the reach of any ordinary mountain village!

Inside the temple complex, I saw traces of a school. As recently as 2005, a school was still operating here.

After asking the locals, it turned out to be true. Elementary and junior high schools operated for decades.

In the atmosphere of the time, using Confucian temples, martial temples, Taoist temples, and Buddhist temples as schools was, arguably, a good choice out of necessity.

More than a decade after the new school building was built, the children bid farewell to Miaotang Primary School. The new building appears to have dormitories.

At 5 p.m., a grandmother picked up her grandson from kindergarten. She told me that the primary school here has kindergarten classes, but each class has more than ten students. The original junior high school has been abolished. Many parents send their children to boarding schools in the county town.

Children of Nuodeng Village. The rural primary school in the mountain valley is no longer the shabby, run-down image we had when we funded the Hope Project. The children in the mountains no longer have dirty faces or runny noses. Rural areas are rapidly progressing, and rural education is undergoing tremendous changes.

The most encouraging thing is the young people. Communication with them is seamless, allowing them to keep up with the city's information. Hope lies in the next generation.

The Yunlong Suspension Bridge and the Tai Chi diagram on the Bian River.