I am waiting for your composition in Lijiang.

When I left Lijiang eight years ago, I thought I would come again. Nevertheless, my trip to Shuhe Ancient Town originated from my daughter.

My daughter's wedding photography studio set up a point in Shuhe. As a photographer, my daughter will go to Shuhe once when she needs to work for a long time.

My daughter once sent me a postcard from Shuhe, which read: Lijiang is beautiful, Shuhe is beautiful, wisteria is beautiful, and preserved ribs are beautiful. I thought, this girl, write a postcard and don't forget to eat.

In mid-May, my daughter and colleagues went to Shuhe to take wedding photos, so I took a few friends to Lijiang and chose to stay in Shuhe ancient town.

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There is no direct flight from Haikou to Lijiang. They are all connecting flights. After waiting for several hours at Guiyang airport, I rushed to Shuhe ancient town in Lijiang non-stop.

The place to stay is the inn reserved by my daughter, and my daughter and small colleagues are already waiting for us at the inn.

After the taxi turned into a path from the broad and flat main road, it continued to drive in the narrow lane very well. It was dark around, so I couldn't see clearly what was on the side of the road.

Further on, by the dim light not far away, I saw buildings next to each other on the left, a wilderness on the right, and several cars parked on the narrow road.

Thinking about where the driver took us, I heard the driver say, here we are, right here.

Just then, my daughter called in and asked if there was any. I did it. As soon as the voice fell, I saw my daughter trotting out.

Mother and daughter meet in a foreign land, and a warmth spreads in the cold plateau at night.

The name of our inn is "My Dwelling House", which is located at the street end of the ancient town, opposite the Songyun parking lot. Moreover, this inn is not the most roadside, located behind a row of shops, and there is also an "Adu Inn" on the side.

My daughter has prepared a snack for us-Lijiang's famous native rice noodles, each with a native chicken leg, which can drive away the cold when eaten warm.

A handsome boy is on duty in the inn. Later, I learned that he was the second shopkeeper. He doesn't talk much, but he has a good attitude and is considerate. Several of us exchanged pleasantries for a while. I think it's too late, so let my daughter go back to their office first. The shopkeeper said several times to send them back, but her daughter and her little colleague said they didn't need to and left.

After our daughter left, we also settled down and washed and rested separately. I slept comfortably in a room full of wood fragrance.

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I did my homework before I went to Shuhe Ancient Town. I looked up some information about Shuhe ancient town on the Internet.

Shuhe ancient town, located in the northwest of Lijiang, is called "Shaowu" in Naxi. It is an important post station on the ancient tea-horse road and the best-preserved market town. In 2005, it was selected as "China Charming Town" by CCTV.

Shuhe ancient town is surrounded by mountains and rivers, with scattered houses and stone roads. There is an inn next to one in the ancient town. It is said that there are thousands of them, and there are seven or eight hundred registered ones.

Folk houses are an extremely important part of the buildings in Shuhe ancient town. The typical structural layout of Naxi folk houses is: flowers are planted in the courtyard, trees are planted in the courtyard, and flowers and fruits are fragrant all year round. Some people even brought water into the hospital, storing water into pools and matching them with pavilions, which became a unique scenery in Jing Ya.

At present, most houses in ancient towns have been built into inns. On the basis of retaining the wooden structure, they use glass material, which improves the lighting of the room and makes the accommodation more comfortable. Inn and Shuhe ancient town are suitable for scenery, simple and pure, with roughly the same structure, but each has its own characteristics.

In the morning, the sunshine came in through the carved cracks in the wooden door, basked in the bed and stirred my cheeks. The dazzling light woke me up directly, and I felt so comfortable.

With a sigh of "eyah", I pushed open the wooden door and saw a small cherry tree and an apple tree in front of me. Some green apples were planted on the apple tree.

Last night, the dew wet the green flag in the courtyard, and the flowers and plants were wet by the dew, which made them look greener and crystal green.

There are lounge chairs, swings and hanging baskets in the yard, which is quite emotional. Sitting on the swing, looking up and looking along the quaint blue tile eaves, the sky on the plateau is particularly blue, and those quaint houses are vicissitudes and blurred by the blue sky.

Some people say that the ancient buildings of Shuhe River are full of life and passion. The passage of time makes these decadent buildings with modern cultural elements look simple and honest, and they also show diversified vitality and vitality.

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The small bridges in Shuhe ancient town are dizzying. Flowers everywhere, in May, when the beauty of the world is drifting away, are particularly warm and unrestrained in the sunshine of the plateau, which makes people seem to have entered a dream.

Yunnan is the kingdom of flowers, that's right. It is said that flowers in Yunnan have 365 days, and they can bloom whenever they want. Once it's open, it's endless, endless. I saw someone carrying a basket in the street. The basket is full of flowers and the price is very cheap. God loves Yunnan too much.

The wind from the plateau blows from different directions, which is cool and fresh, and has a feeling of passing through in an instant.

We can walk around. We can walk into any inn and look around. The host family is very enthusiastic. It is entirely conceivable that the Naxi residents in the ancient town have lived in this simple and quiet environment for generations, guarding their homes and striving for peace with the world.

The spring water of Yulong Snow Mountain leads to the door of every household, forming a unique landscape of small bridges and flowing water in the ancient town.

The spring water is clear and transparent, cold and biting, and the water plants are tender. Washing your face with such crystal clear spring water may wash away a trace of dryness in your heart.

There are no cars, horses and small electric tricycles in the ancient town. They are means of transportation or transportation. For tourists, it's a long way to their residence. Moreover, the luggage is heavy, so the store will transport the guest's luggage to the inn by tricycle or rented horse.

On the streets of the ancient town, from time to time, you will see young backpackers in groups of three or five or alone. Young people are as bright as the sunshine on the plateau in May, and as fragrant as flowers in full bloom in the sun.

Walking on the stone road, touch every corner of the ancient town with your eyes and feel the peace with your heart.

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The store I met at breakfast was a beautiful woman from Guangzhou. At first glance, her Mandarin is very standard. Later, I learned that her mother was from Nanjing and she grew up in Nanjing. Interestingly, her partner, her childhood classmate, was born in Wenchang, Hainan, and they grew up in the same military compound.

The proprietress's family opened an inn in Shuhe for several years, and then went abroad. The inn is rented to someone else, and she settles the rent in Shuhe every year. After leaving the army last year, I simply went to Shuhe to open a restaurant called "Yan 'an Mansion" and at the same time run an inn with my classmates, killing two birds with one stone.

It is worth mentioning that some of the delicious vegetables eaten in various eating places in Shuhe can't be named. These vegetables are all local Naxi people in Shuhe, fresh, tender, crisp and sweet.

The proprietress was very enthusiastic, knowing that we were going to have a barbecue, introduced us to roast leg of lamb, and took us to the inn of her old friend Dapeng, Xilin Gol, Inner Mongolia.

Dapeng also runs an inn and has a studio full of paintings, all of which are his brother's works. Dapeng occasionally drinks tea and plays cards with friends, organizes an art salon and cooks a roast leg of lamb. Of course, the leg of lamb was flown in from Inner Mongolia, and the roast leg of lamb is generally not open to the public.

Dapeng Inn is not far from my humble abode, and it's only a few minutes' walk.

As soon as we entered the yard at dusk, we smelled the fragrance. It's really "out of sight, out of sight, out of sight". No wonder it was a famous dish that Genghis Khan loved to eat.

When I entered the room, there was a charcoal stove on the table and a roast leg of lamb on the shelf. The roast leg of lamb was dripping with oil, but the owner was gone. It turned out to be dipped in water. Seeing us, a sweaty old friend of Dapeng greeted us and said, "Come?" So I started to cut mutton slices and pick sheep bones for us.

We drank the famous plum wine in Shuhe, while Dapeng and the son of the proprietress of Yan 'an Mansion drank beer. We have a short family together, and all kinds of experiences are very pleasant.

Everyone is together, not like strangers, just like neighbors visiting each other. This artistic conception is a bit in tune with the name of his inn "Good News".

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The names of Shuhe Inn have their own characteristics, all of which are very pleasant to listen to. That was not the case. Just look at the business card "If the wind stops, if the clouds know", there will be clouds.

The enthusiastic little boss made us Pu 'er tea, knowing that Big Head Girl coughed, and sent us a cup of brown sugar ginger tea.

It happened that several of his friends came from Chengdu, Sichuan, and were drinking and chatting. The boss told us that one of his sisters was his landlord and they were good friends. The boss also invited us to taste his own cherry wine (many people in Shuhe ancient town brew their own cherry wine), and his friend also brought us a plate of bittern chicken feet from Sichuan to drink. In a foreign land, we felt warm affection.

It's raining in Mao Mao, and the stone street in the ancient town is wet. The plateau in May, the climate is so casual, hot and cold, so the streets are full of shorts, scarves, shawls, as well as coats, trousers and down jackets.

The pedestrians in twos and threes, walking slowly and whispering, and the romantic light and color just constitute a simple but three-dimensional picture, bearing the coldness of Yunnan after the rain in summer and May, and seem to hear a humming in the blurred light and color.

I sat by the window, under the open windowsill was the rushing water, and the faint fragrance of the window lattice wet by the rain rushed into my nose.

On the table by the window, there is a bunch of pink roses in a big vase, mostly in bud, like a woman's low eyebrows and tenderness in light colors.

At this time, I don't want to say anything. I just want to be in a daze, a glass of wine, a pot of tea, endless imagination, quiet and peaceful slow time.

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Before I came to Lijiang for the first time in 2008, I was haunted by such a picture: an inn, in front of the inn, a small bridge, running water, weeping willows, moist flowers and plants, a woman stroking a lovely dog, the dog squinting lazily, a meter of sunshine and a bustling crowd.

After arriving in Lijiang, act's heart will store its imprint in a corner.

Now, once again standing under the blue sky of the plateau, bathed in the wind of the plateau, the imprint of that year was filled with some contents. That kind of graceful feeling can be heard by people with the same emotions.

There are many tambourine shops and vegetable shops on the streets of Lijiang. Where there is music, you can hear the sound of African tambourines and musical instruments with bright rhythm and enthusiasm.

Passing by a tambourine shop, Xiao Gan's "A Moment" of Lijiang River crashed into the eardrum. A beautiful young woman, a Naxi shawl, beat her hands and drums with the music in the speaker, and got carried away in the music world. No wonder there is music to interpret Lijiang's theory. I have experienced it.

Every time I hear this music and drums, I am completely petrified and can't go any further.

I couldn't resist buying a tambourine. I like the cheerful and unrestrained rhythm of drums very much, which is a happy expression, a brave performance and an emotional catharsis.

On that day, I returned to my humble abode from the snowy Yulong Snow Mountain, and my boss happened to be there. He warmly invited us to taste alpine tea, drink his own maca wine and chat together.

Chen Ge, the big shopkeeper, comes from Hsinchu, Taiwan Province, wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, smiling, warm and cheerful, very cultured, and totally doesn't treat us as outsiders.

Brother Chen was born in the 1970s. To our surprise, he is a bachelor.

Dao's elder sister and younger brother are married and have children, and live a well-behaved life. Only he lives outside the besieged city, and the whole family is not hungry. He feels that he has a good life and is very happy.

Almost all the inns in Shuhe are run by foreigners like Lu. A few years ago, Brother Chen came to Shuhe to travel and liked the environment here. He prefers the tranquility here to the noise of big cities. So, after handling the business in Guangdong, Chen Ge opened an inn in Shuhe. The shopkeeper beast used to be a tenant of his inn. They became friends and then stayed to run the inn together.

Speaking of the difficulties in the initial stage of starting a business, the painstaking efforts and all kinds of ups and downs, it is difficult to understand and experience. So the ups and downs came. In fact, running an inn did not imagine how much money he could earn, but just wanted to be free and relaxed. This is the significance of running an inn.

It really is.

Our flight to Kunming that day was after eleven o'clock in the evening. I discussed with two shopkeepers whether we could check out at night. Their tone is the same: Never mind, stay and have a good sleep before flying. There is no extra room charge at all. If you are in a hotel, the room rate is calculated by the day.

I feel at home in my humble abode. Going in and out is like going out shopping and then going home. There is a kitchen in the inn. There are all kinds of pots, pans and basins in the kitchen. Guests can use it at any time if they need it, and there will be no extra charge except the room rate.

William, a lovely and sensible dog in the inn, thought of us the first night. It is said on the road that the little guy is very good at seeing strangers.

Speaking of happiness, the big shopkeeper has moved out of the house _ A friend of Erdos just sent him beef jerky and cheese, and gave it to us happily.

Shuhe ancient town is an important post station on the ancient tea-horse road, and its quaint humanistic customs are very obvious.

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Here, I want to use a little pen and ink to talk about the two treasured beasts in my humble abode.

Beast is a post-80s generation, with few smiles on his face. He is a slow-moving person, but his coolness and handsomeness have the upper hand. It surprises me that animals don't drink alcohol or tobacco. In Lijiang, a unique place, you can't say that you don't understand the customs, but you always lose something if you don't drink.

Walking on the street of Shuhe ancient town or eating and drinking tea, others ask: Who do you live in? We answer: My humble abode, the person who asks will suddenly say: Oh, oh, beast. It is conceivable that animals and wild animals are famous in the ancient town.

Once when we were chatting over tea, we learned that the beast was unmarried. At first, I thought I just didn't find a suitable girl to marry. Unexpectedly, the beast actually said, "I am not suitable for marriage", which really scared me.

The beast is from Xianyang, Shaanxi. His parents have three children under their knees. The beast has two sisters, both married. Animals think they have walked a lot, met many people and things, and have their own unique views on marriage. His parents were very worried about him. He also dated many times, met some girls, and finally broke up after dinner.

The beast asked, you are also a parent. If your child doesn't want to get married, will you rush him? I was stumped by this sentence. Although I am an enlightened and compassionate person, I don't want my children not to get married anyway. Leaving aside the traditional "marriage between men and women" and "carrying on the family line" for the time being, it is natural for a person to do anything at any age.

The beast said that he thought more about Lijiang, and he would choose to live in Lijiang. Once he talks about marriage with a girl, it involves that the other party may not want to live with him in Lijiang. Furthermore, consider having children when you get married, and then how to solve the problem of children's reading? It is unrealistic to live with either parent or stay at home. Beast said, in this way, you can't give the girl a perfect explanation, so at present, he won't plan his marriage, and feels that he should think of each other and be responsible for each other.

After listening to his words, I looked at the angular face and felt sorry for the child involuntarily.

Some people say that the beast gives people the impression of being cold-hearted, but I think his experience and accumulation are much more than his age.

Shuhe, a place with thousands of inns, may be nothing special in my humble abode, but two shopkeepers and two men of different ages came together by fate. In the slow time of Shuhe, they abandoned impetuousness and treachery and guarded their happiness and loneliness. This reminds me of another sentence, "Only by enduring loneliness can we remain prosperous".

Every experience is a kind of maturity. Tao and beast, their ideological realm is beyond my reach, and it is difficult to spy out their open or closed hearts, but I can't help but feel an inexplicable respect in my heart.

Some people say that any state of life corresponds to a choice. There are gains and losses when you have a choice. Yes, it's hard to have the best of both worlds. Bless their future.

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On that day, it rained all night in Shuhe ancient town, and the lingering rain wrapped around people's emotions, which was difficult to sort out.

The rain accumulated into small pools on the uneven stone road, and the alley in front of my humble inn felt a little rainy. It's just that the alley is not long, and it's impossible for a girl like Lilac to walk under an oil-paper umbrella.

There seems to be a story hidden in every corner of Shuhe ancient town, and there is a legend in the arms of everyone who stops at Shuhe.

If I went to Lijiang to see the scenery eight years ago, then I came to see my old friend Lijiang eight years later. A wonderful encounter, no agreement, but reasonable, fate followed. The blue sky on the plateau, one meter of sunshine, is within reach and so far away.

The spacious courtyard of my humble abode is more quiet in the drizzle. Wooden floors, wooden stairs and wooden balconies are full of poetry in the rain bath.

The raindrops falling under the eaves drop on the stone steps one by one, slowly ringing the time of Shuhe ancient town.

At this time, what wandered in my mind was Wen Tingyun's "phoenix tree, it rains in the middle of the night, and it is more bitter to leave love." A leaf, a sound, empty footsteps fall into the light. "

Lijiang is such a place: meet some people, meet some friends, have tea and tell stories together. Fate from all corners of the country, the mottled legend of ancient towns, and those uneven lives like stone roads.

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The Shuhe River is so beautiful that people are as quiet and simple as the scenery.

Others look at Shuhe, perhaps from the perspective and level of history and culture. Indeed, this is an ancient town with profound cultural heritage. But when I look at Shuhe, I like to feel its simplicity and nature with the eyes of a little woman, just like wandering in front of my house.

The bayberry, cherry and mulberry on the fruit stand in the alley attracted me. The woman sitting at the door of the house sunbathing while peeling lettuce with a knife, the woman squatting in the ditch and washing vegetables with clear and transparent water, and the uncle sitting in the field peeling broad beans also came into my eyes, behind whom were rape flowers that had passed the flower season and were bearing seeds.

In my opinion, the scene of a northern woman sitting on a stone bench and a Naxi girl braiding her hair is also a very intuitive picture.

Every roadway in the ancient town is a stone road. If you suck on a pair of clogs and step on a slate, the sound of kicking may be comparable to the rhythm of the African tambourine.

If I am old, I really want to borrow a place like this. Free flowing bluestone lanes, small bridges, running water, singing waterwheels, low fences, sunshine and colorful flowers jumping in the one-meter-long running water.

Some people say that Lijiang is a place that can be ambiguous all the time, but I think others may be ambiguous, but I met them with quiet and simple scenery and interesting people who are integrated with the scenery of the ancient town.

I left a few messages in the walking time guest book: I like the feeling of stepping on the stone road, I like the flowing water of the small bridge, I like the sunshine in the flowing water, and I like the slow time of Shuhe.

When I am old, I don't know who can sit in front of such a court with me and laugh at the fleeting time. I am willing to wait in quiet time, leaving a miss and a tie. In the quaint and quiet ancient town of Shuhe, let my thoughts sprout, let my tie blossom, and let my thoughts bloom under the plateau sky.

I'll wait for you in Lijiang!