Walden

Before sleep, I like to keep the light on for a few minute, reading a book or doing nothing. These days I keep Walden at my pillow. Walden was written by Henry D. Thoreau, and it is a wonderful book. Reading his beautiful words, I feel that I am in the Nature and really part of the Nature. Life is amazing and peaceful. He was a true human being whom God or Nature created, who had the wisdom and can think and feel. But when I turn to see the real world the people are all creatures who have been modified, that is a sad thing for the planet.

Trip to Yunnan - Lijiang

Jan 31th, 2012 丽江一日

在丽江停留一日，是为了看纳西古乐的演出。曾听说古老的纳西文字濒临灭绝，所以想尽可能多的了解一些纳西的文化。

同住的女孩一大早赶飞机了，我也就醒了。在陌生的束河居住，离丽江古城还有一段距离。于是在前台买了地图，赶到了丽江古镇。这样似乎会离回家更近一些。

拎着行李，一大早在冷清的丽江街头寻找住处，感到的还是异乡的孤独。问了几家，都住满了。后来有人将我带到一个离四方街不远的胡同。终于住下了，虽然院子和房间都很阴冷。

这边的街道比较窄，房屋又是至少二层的，所以阳光很慢的才能撒在街道上、院落里。

我一手托着地图，一手拿着专业的指南针，就沿着地图走街串巷了。期间回客栈两次，纯粹是为了验证能否找回住处。

丽江太嘈杂了。人多、招牌多。招牌的名字，搞笑的很，都是故作浪漫的名字，跟古城不搭调。

在纳西摄影师牛DUN的店铺买了几本书。其中有英文原版的《LOST HORIZON》,有纳西纸书、东巴文化等等，还有他以前拍摄的丽江的照片——那是祥和的丽江，小桥流水，洗衣的妇人，开花的墙壁。据他讲，他是现在唯一一个居住在丽江古城的原古城人了。老城的人，都把房屋出租给生意人，自己去外面买房居住了。即使现在城里的纳西族人，也是周边过来的。他痛心丽江的被毁坏。开发旅游，确实是毁灭性的行为。

晚上的纳西古乐演出，出乎我的意料之好。我本来是只听摇滚的人，本没有抱太高希望的。宣科的演说，更是亮点。宣科绝对是一流的演说家。他的平实的语言、手势、柔和的强调、诙谐的词语，震撼心灵。那是智慧、沧桑，那是对世界的大爱。我的眼泪出来了。如果说马丁路德金的I have a dream,能让人热血沸腾，宣科的娓娓道来，却是心灵的相通、人生的俯瞰。希望有机会，我还能够去听他的演说。那一招一式，都会使人受益匪浅。

83岁的宣科，还在上山。上山下乡，去到山村，教农民唱歌。这个合唱团，要首先征服欧洲，然后征服世界。那天籁的声音，友善的眼神，每日劳作晒黑的脸蛋，指缝里的泥土。我会为他们骄傲，这才是真正的代表了中国的人民。

Trip to Yunnan - Hiking the High Trail

Feb 30th, 2012 Tiger Leaping Gorge

一大早，天还没亮，我们就从山白脸出发啦。今天是计划走高路到桥头的。
一段上升后，就是沿山脊行走了，正好恢复爬升的疲劳。左侧是玉龙雪山的背面，山体陡峭，下面就是奔腾的金沙江。这段徒步路线还是很有特色的。迎面大部分是来自欧洲各国的徒步者。

中午过后，又有一段不大的爬升，剩下就是下降了。

自己竟然坚持走下来了，还是很高兴的。然后我们就乘车奔丽江了。车开了很久呢。

Trip to Yunnan - Chateau de Woody

Jan 28th, 2012

山白脸客栈。客栈的院子面对高高直直的大山,下面是金沙江。庭院里开着花。客栈干净整洁，老板娘也颇有西式作风，说话做事利落平等。印象很好。

Trip to Yunnan - Potatso National Park, Shangri-La

Jan 27th, 2012

普达措国家公园。很美的地方。一路都为美景感动着。这里有高山、森林、湖泊，洁净的空气，使长松萝得以在树木上生长。

“普达措”为梵文音译，意为“舟湖”，是“碧塔海”的藏语原名。公园距香格里拉县城22公里，地理位置东经99°59′16″—100°02′38″，北纬27°43′52″— 27°58′30″，总面积约300平方公里。公园处于滇西北亚高山寒温性针叶林植被带，最高点在弥里塘北部山顶，海拔4159米；最低点在碧塔海东部金子沟，海拔3200米，相对高差959米。

北面的属都湖：

南面的碧塔海：

Trip to Yunnan - at Dawa's

Jan 25th, 2012

离开香格里拉县城往南，一路都是安详的田园、民居。远处是连绵的雪山。到了达瓦家，围着火塘坐下，达瓦美丽的妻子，两个活泼快乐的女儿，还有岳父母,他们很高兴、很热情的欢迎着我们一行。我为他们一家安详幸福的生活深深的感动着。飞机上看到的云朵的下面，就是生活着这么幸福的人群，他们富足、安详、勤劳又善良。

火塘是非常好的东西。一家人围着它，火苗燃烧，有了温暖、也有了活力，你可以出神，也可以思想，或者不思想。

藏区的风俗和观念，明显与内地不同。我能感觉到，这里更加安详，男女更加的平等，孩童更加自然的成长。

Trip to Yunnan - on the Airplane

Jan 24th,2012

今天全国范围内天气晴好。舷窗望下去，山脉连绵。心中强烈的感觉，是这么爱下面这片山、这片地。这里也是祖先生活的地方啊。即使看过去，是荒山野岭，我也是这么爱它们。

从昆明到香格里拉的那段，又是不同。云层漂浮，洁白的云层下面，是黛青色的山系，还有白色的雪峰、沟壑，也可隐约看到树木。一瞬间，飞机倾斜，远近的山脉汹涌过来，远方的赭红、近处的黛青，如临阿凡达电影里的场景，但那也远不及这真实画面的震撼和美丽。

这一望无际的朵朵云层，断续连绵，下面是美丽的山，山连山，无边无际。想想，能有幸生活在这美丽幻化的云层和阳光之下的，也一定只有神仙了。人类多么幸运，生命如此神奇，想不珍惜都不行啊。

The Reader

看了电影 The Reader. 很感人. 每一个细节, 都是真情. 现在回忆起, 眼泪还是出来.

在Hanna身上, 我看到的是生命的力量. 在监狱里，她自己学会了阅读和写字. 为什么最后选择了离开人世, 是她生命力量的体现, 还是导演的安排?

Michael 和 Hanna, 是一个生命对另一个生命的爱. 这个爱, 没有其它的夹杂. Hanna为他擦洗后背, 脖子, 胳膊, 那是爱. 他们骑车出游, 是最快乐的时光, 感动得人哭. Hanna的一句"I don't want to know." 满是信任和快乐.

即使是西方的影片, 如果恋爱的双方, 女性是年龄大的那个, 最后的结局, 也是女性退出. 这也是一种对女性的教育和熏陶? 为什么大年龄的男性, 就没有人置疑他选择年龄小的女性? 而女性大的, 就是不正常?

Out in the first snow

I need a new cupboard for my kitchen, and it would be best if I can have it custom made, so I went out this afternoon to a furniture store not far from home. It was still snowing, the first snow in the whole winter.

It turned out that the furniture store had been closed, and a new Carrefour hypermarket was opened at the very same place. I have been too busy to notice all the changes. I went in to see if they had the apples that one of my customers recommended to me.

I walked back home, carrying two bags of apples. It was getting darker. Still that feel, a small being walking in the big city. Remembered a word in V, - 'It is your soul that sustains you.'

The apples are expensive but sweet. The cupboard thing has to be postponed.

Gorgeous Xiling Mountain, Saturday August 22

秀美的西灵, August 22

The journey to Xiling Mountain was quite long. It seemed forever that our minibus steered along the winding mountain road. Three and a half hours later we were finally at the foot of the mountain.
去西灵的路很漫长, 全部是弯曲的山路, 好在我们的司机技术娴熟. 三个半小时后我们到达了山脚下.

Soon we were in a forest of white birch trees. It felt very comfortable that our feet stepped on soft and loose soil.
开始上山. 很长的时间, 我们都是穿行在白桦林里的小径上.



Often we saw mushrooms growing from under the trees.
脚下的泥土松软, 不时能看到有蘑菇长在路边树下.

This one happened to be growing on the trail and was knocked down accidently.
这一个长在小路上了, 不小心被人碰倒了.

We entered a wood of red birch trees as we ascended. And then, firs (杉树) covered the mountainsides near the top. Look at these lovely fir cones.
再上升, 是红桦林. 快到山顶时, 我们就穿行在杉树林里了.

抬眼看, 白云团团, 漂浮在洁净湛蓝的天空, 映衬着青青挺拔的杉树. 心情好多了.

Still, high mountain meadows were on the mountain top. This season the meadows were bursting with all kinds of flowers.
鞍部和山顶, 照例是高山草甸. 这个季节的花儿在竞相盛开. 由于昼夜温差的加大, 草叶的顶部已经开始变色. 秋天在临近.

Xiling, it is like a paradise to me.

Adventure Trip to Xiaowutai Mountains

Itinerary: 小五台西台-三岔-中台-南台-隧道口

我们在从南台下撤至隧道口时迷路了，领队不认路，带路的子弹大哥因为大雾可能恐慌而找不出正确的路了。同时迷路的还有大山队的几个人。
然后在黑漆漆的夜里等后队，等了好久。我们的后队还收了大山队的两个人，一男孩一女孩，他们不认路，也已经联系不上领队，他们真够幸运。

夜里很冷，山里风大，大雾中头灯也看不清多远。当时我就想，回去一定告诉阿猫，不要参加小五连穿了！
黑夜中硬撑着不能睡着！最大的威胁就是冷！那时穿羽绒服都不会热。——所以，保暖的衣服很重要！饿一天不会饿死，但那样的晚上，冻一晚，冻死的可能性不是没有。幸好没有下雨。

后来还是小山羊（他是大山队的领队）找到另一个老驴友（典工？），那位驴友对那一带非常熟悉，来接应我们下去了——其实我们离终点很近了。当地的警车也在等候，把我们全部带回上车，已经是第二天早上5点多了。所以我们是昨天上午到家的。

哈哈，平安回来啦！

教训就是：大强度的活动，不排除滞留山上的可能，带一件棉衣至关重要！

只顾走山了，没照几张PP。
On the way to South Peak.


The third from left, is me.

Trip to Inner Mongolia, July 24 -26, 2009

此行主要去了三个地方：岗更湖、贡格尔草原和达里诺尔湖。

We began our journey at 8pm Friday evening. This is our travelling bus.
The bus running in the dark and we all fell asleep soon. I remember that the sky was all red when I opened my eyes once - it must be the time when the sun was rising, but I fell back to my sleep again.

When I finally awoke, I was amazed! We were in a wonderland!

Our bus running fast. Out of the window was wide, open green land under the cover of the clear blue sky and magnificent clouds. On the land small grass growing like a carpet. Little dewdrops shining on the tips of grass blades and the morning sun cast light and shadows on the air, as if the lightest mist was rising.

Gang Geng Lake
Gonger Grassland
Sunflower Field
Me at the lake. I need to learn how to pose naturally next time. :)

又去海坨了！

今天跟的是绿野的达达驴队，走的阎家坪。玩得很开心。回程司机绕道沙城，车沿着白河，两侧的山、平原，一路风景优美。白河堡水库很大的一片水，很美。在此感谢达达驴 - 上山时还帮我背了东西。

海坨山顶的草甸上有很多这样的小花。

Trip to Xiaowutai Mountains - 小五台山

Last Friday at 8:30pm, we left Beijing for Xiaowutai Mountains, which are the highest mountains in Hebei Province. We arrived at about 12pm and then slept in a rough and crude room in the small village at the foot of the mountains.

We got up early the next morning, and started off to the mountains after breakfast, carrying our heavy backpack.It was the first time that I went hiking with heavy load. My back felt sore soon and finally in the afternoon we reached our campsite at the altitude of 2,200 meters.

I took a walk along the mountainside with a friend, and took some pictures of the high mountain flowers. The mountains are very magnificent. All the mountainsides were covered in trees and wildflowers.
The mountains are famous for this golden flower, which is also a member of the Buttercup family.
That night when I was lying in my tent, how I missed home! and my tears came out:(. The phone had no signals in the mountains, and we would have to walk many many hours to be out.I was worried my daughter, she insisted staying at home and not going to her grandma's.

海陀山 - Haituo Mountain, June 6, 2009

上山的时候一路下雨. 雨不大, 我们行走在湿湿的小径上. 林木遮掩下几头牛站在那里, 它们一动不动, 安详地望着我们. 牛角短短的, 很漂亮.
It was raining when we hiked up the mountain. We walked on the wet trail. A few cows were standing under the cover of trees, watching us innocently.

上到山顶, 云雾铺面而来. 鼻孔清透. 山谷里也满是浓浓的雾和云.
山顶的草甸上野花星星点点的开放. 蒲公英的花瓣都合拢着, 它们在等着太阳出来, 即刻绽放.

这是狼毒花, 它们的根和茎都是有毒的.
这是银莲花(white wood anemone), a member of the Buttercup(毛茛) family. They are also known as windflowers, because they tremble in the slightest breeze.
这是虞美人, 不是罂粟.
This variety of yellow flowers is my favorite. They bloom facing down at the tip of every stalk.
我一整天都在后悔没有拍牛的照片, 当时主要是怕影响队伍前进.

如果再去海坨，我最想看到的就是那些牛——它们的眼神，它们那种与自然一体的状态，似乎与我的心息息相通.

海陀之行，印象最深的是那些牛，它们有不同的颜色、斑纹，在雨中，站在那里，那是触动心灵的美.

另一个印象深刻的画面是，在大海陀村的田地里，一个妇女手里拿着镰刀，身后跟着她的小孩。那种老式的镰刀，我还是在只有几岁的时候见过，现在看到，格外的亲切。那个小孩，短短的头发，红红的圆脸，只有四五岁的样子，手中的绳子上牵着她的玩具小汽车。我小的时候一定就是那个样子的吧。
为什么我看到那些牛，心里会感到安详，而看到这个去田里劳动的妇女，心里就感到悲凉。有多少女性，一生生活在大山里，偏僻的乡村，长大，嫁人，生育，劳作，然后老去。生活在城市，又有区别吗？

雾灵山

刚从雾灵山回到家. 雾灵山是我见过的最美的山, 茂密的原始森林, 蓝蓝的天, 洁白的云 - 云在很近的山峰的背后慢慢的移动着.

All the mountain ridges are covered in trees.

Wildflowers are everywhere. They color the mountainsides, they bloom happily at my feet and keep me company all the way.

With this magnificent scenery, I was feeling happy and my sorrow was gone.

野三坡 - 十渡

长周末, 我和女儿去了野三坡和十渡.

过去的一年, 我经历了很多, 也成长了很多. 最大的收获, 是我懂得了珍惜 - 珍惜亲人, 珍惜自己, 也珍惜每一天. 如果是以前, 我会为风景的不完美感到失望, 我会为那些人工的建筑破坏了景致而惋惜. 现在, 我坦然的接受. 我看到美的一面, 我呼吸新鲜的空气, 我享受温暖的阳光, 我珍惜和孩子相处的分分秒秒. 也许, 我的成长是从空中楼阁踏到稳固的地面上, 但我不会与自己的原则妥协. That is, I will always be true to my heart.

We went hiking in the canyon first day, along the long loop trail. We spent the second day at 十渡. We walked into a village, where all the houses were built at one side of the mountain. It was the first time I had been in a real mountainous village. Dogs were barking in the distance. Chicken were chucking and sheep bleating. The village was peaceful and tidy.

过年

应该记录下来的, 是大年初一我哇啦哇啦一直在哭. 初二一早醒过来, 又满眼是泪, 接着哭.

会不会要哭一年呢?

即使是哭一年, 又如何呢?

哭完了, 我会哈哈笑. 我才发现自己其实是个乐观开朗的人.

我感到自己就象一只狼. 独自一人, 我行走于这个城市.