Live Your Best Lives
Perhaps,
the Dali you know is
the Cangshan Mountain,
the Erhai Lake,
the Three Pagodas,
the Butterfly Spring,
the romance,
the Foreigner Street in the ancient city.
The silver town of Xinhua Village in Heqing at night
Bai women in their best clothes at the Qifeng Mountain Pear Blossom Festival
A silver archway in the silversmith town
But what you don’t know is that
there are two small towns lying in the crisscrossing rivers,
sparsely populated and beautiful,
a hometown of craftsmen, a hometown of gourmet food,
and a plateau water town
Heqing Dongcaohai Wetland
Heqing Huanglongtan Park
If you don’t know how beautiful life in a water town is,
then please follow me,
paddle a bamboo raft,
row a small boat,
row into Heqing’s Caohai Wetland,
row into the 108 dragon pools,
row into Eryuan’s Cibi Lake,
row into the geothermal hot spring kingdom,
row into the source of Erhai Lake.
There are pear blossoms and peach blossoms there,
There are orchids and papaya flowers there,
There are also golden flowers there.
Tourists at the Eryuan Papaya Flower Festival
Silversmith in the Silver Town
In Fengyu Ancient Town, several old men in long gowns play Nanzhao ancient music.
The days in the water town are long and endless.
A small hammer, clanging and clanging, has been knocking for a thousand years.
An old tune, humming and humming, has been played for a thousand years.
A small village, with smoke curling through thousands of years.
A jar of old wine, intoxicating people for thousands of years.
A home-cooked delicacy, still nourishing people's taste buds for thousands of years.......
Heqing Dry Liquor buried under peach and osmanthus trees.
There are over 600 bird species in the Caohai Wetland. Hundreds of bird species in Heqing Water Village have been neighbors with the people here for generations. They don't disturb each other, yet they live in harmony. Throughout the changing seasons, they meet, say goodbye, and reunite... The eight bowls of earthenware served at a farmhouse on Qifeng Mountain are truly delicious. The men and women of the water village are like the opposite sides of a river, echoing each other while each enjoying their own unique scenery.
Men hold on to their craftsmanship for a long time,
women venture into the world with ambition,
men are steady but meticulous,
women are gentle on the outside but strong on the inside.
In this place known as the "hometown of Chinese Jews",
men and women each hold half the sky.
In the silver town, boys aged 14 or 15 begin to learn the craft as apprentices.
The water town provides a place for people to settle down.
It allows people to focus on a craft for their entire lives.
It is through this craft that it is passed down from generation to generation.
It is through this craft that artisan villages are created:
Silverware village, papermaking village, blacksmithing village, coppermaking village...
Various tools for making silverware
There is a "Tuibudang" in Eryuan,
which offers people a lifestyle that seems to be neither secluded nor hidden.
In a life that moves forward at a fast pace,
sometimes one needs a period of quiet,
undisturbed,
to be with the people and the circles one loves,
listening to the sound of wind and rain, each sound pleasing to the ear.
"Tuibudang" Hotel - A Hotel with a Circle
The two small cities of Heqing and Eryuan
support another side of life in Dali,
not noisy but full of life,
not stunning but worth savoring.
Life in a water town may be just like this -
neither fast nor slow, soft and warm,
a steady and long-lasting flow.
Camping site on Qifeng Mountain
Qifeng Mountain in March is full of great movies
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