我八月份独自一人去了浙江,选择了比较艰苦的旅行方式,不过这种旅行的快乐是跟团旅游永远无法比的。一直没有时间详细整理我的游记,先用给友人的信代替吧。
The first day, I went to Zhuji, the town of Xisi (one of China’s Four Ancient Beauties) by train. In order to save money and experience the hardship, I bought the ticket for the hard seat. And I couldn’t sleep the whole night. I arrived in Zhuji at half past five the next morning. I took a bus to a state-level forest park. It is so amazing! Travelling in the slack season is the best choice. There aren’t many visitors and I can fully enjoy the natural scenery. Some people felt it strange that I came alone. They kept wondering what happened to me: loss of love or divorce.
After I visited Xisi’s home, I took the bus to Shaoxing where many great persons were born. I love the city so much. The colour of the city is black, white, grey and indigo. The city smells ancient. Even the air conditioner is rounded by red-painted wood in order not to show the modernization. Stone-paved paths, lanes, legends, a clear inner-city river and celebrities(such as the great writer Luxun and the late Premiere Zhou Enlai) make up the thousand-year-old city. Old people here like to wear white-and-black cloth shoes. People are gentle and polite.
The second day, I took a bus to Anchang, an ancient town. I lived in a hotel recommended by the web. It is only 15 yuan per night. I tasted the rotten fried bean curd (chou toufu), appreciated the town scenery in a black-roofed boat(which is famous because of Lu Xun’s novels) and met a restaurant owner who attracts reporters from around the world and who becomes the representative of the town.
The third day, I went back to Shaoxing and transferred buses to Ningbo. It took about 3 hours. On the way, I hesitated whether I should stay in Ningbo or went directly to Xikou, the hometown of Jiang Jieshi who was the opponent of Chairman Mao Zedong and escaped to Taiwan. Finally I decided to stay in Xikou. That is really a wise decision. I stayed in a home hotel and wandered around the small town. People here show great thanks for Jiang Jieshi. It is only because of him that people all over the world come to visit it and bring them chances of making money. Taro, peaches and thousand-level cakes are the specialities of Xikou. Peaches are really very sweet and juicy and the thousand-level cakes are very crispy. But the taro is just so so. And it is very expensive.
The fourth day, I climbed the Xuedou mountains. Not knowing the lines, I went around the same scenic spot for several times. I can only comfort myself: one ticket, two visits. Luckily I met a person from Xi’an, or I would get frightened in the deep mountains. He gave up his job and stayed in Hangzhou for a specific research twenty years ago. He hasn’t succeeded yet but he said hope was ahead. And in the meantime, he found some relics while he was picking up the rubbish to support himself. He began to collect the relics. But without experts’ authority, he couldn’t prove his collections were valuable. Once he could hardly go on his way. Then he met a person and began to study Buddhism. This time he came to Xuedou temple to have a look. After he finishes the research and finds a museum which would like to have all his collections, he is going to a temple and to leave the world behind. I asked him whether he felt regretful. He answered no. All people’s roads are designed beforehand. All ways of life have their own reasons. Such persons are rare in the present world.
I took the bus back to Ningbo. Ningbo is quite a modern city, just like Fuzhou. I feel no interest in it and decided to leave for Fuzhou the next day.
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