Border Town Chadong: Farewell to the Green Mountains and Green Waters of Northern Guangxi (4)

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After visiting Guangxi, I went home via Hunan. The first stop on the return journey was Dong Township, the capital of the Hunan Province. In the afternoon, we watched the village performance team of Huangdu Village perform Dong songs. The Dong villagers were warm and hospitable, singing and dancing for us. The Dong village emphasizes that "food nourishes people, and songs nourish the heart". The song, an unaccompanied multi-part chorus is like the sound of nature, purely moving and beautiful, although I can’t understand what is being sung.

Dong Da Ge climbed to the commanding heights with great interest, overlooking the panoramic view of Dong countryside from the hill, and wandered around at night to take in the night view. The village is primitive and vividly displays the life of Dong people. There are not many tourists and the business atmosphere is not strong, but it is said that ticket sales will start soon. The next morning, we happened to catch up with Hunan Satellite TV's "I am the King of Singer" Dong audition contest in three provinces (Hunan, Guangxi, and Guizhou) held in the imperial capital. The contestants wore Dong clothes and were all good at playing. Sing. Listening to Dong songs in the Dong Village, this scene and this song is really a wonderful audio-visual feast.

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The second stop on my way home was Zhijiang. Zhijiang is a famous city that won the Anti-Japanese War. It also has the delicious Zhijiang duck and the Longjin Wind and Rain Bridge, which is the longest in Guinness. This is not the first time I have seen the Shoujiangfang. I can feel the elation of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War again. joy. Hunan Food——Zhijiang Duck

On the way from Dongxiang, the royal capital of Tongdao, to Zhijiang, I found the famous Tangji Beef Restaurant in Tongduochengguan. The taste was pretty good.

Gongcheng Academy in Tongdao, Hunan is the former site of the famous Tongdu Military Transfer Conference. After the bloody battle on the Xiangjiang River, the troops were transferred to a unified understanding, and the Zunyi Conference came into being. The Red Army once established a high-level headquarters in Millennium Academy.

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The third stop on the way home - Chadong, a border town. After visiting Zhijiang Shoujiangfang, go directly to the expressway and briefly get off the expressway to view the Aizhai Bridge. In the afternoon, we went to Chadong and wandered around the border town. Chadong, a border town in western Hunan where the three provinces of Chongqing, Hunan and Guizhou meet, is where the story of the novel "Border Town" takes place.

Because I wanted to visit this place again and read Mr. Shen's masterpiece again, when I came to the ferry, I saw that the scenes in the novel had long since disappeared. There were only Laladu and the eldest and second elders in the distance, as well as Cuicui and Huang Gou, who were lonely and confused, watching the two elders. The statue of Nuo Song reminds us of that sad love.

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The sky is getting late, and the number of tourists is gradually becoming less and less. Sitting by the ferry, I imagine the life of Cuicui and the dog working at sunrise and resting at sunset every day. Even the air is filled with a trace of sadness. It is rare in the country for a novel to turn the place where the story takes place into a tourist hotspot. The border town of Chadong is at the junction of three provinces. Live in Hunan, eat in Chongqing, and travel to Guizhou. Go to the market in Hunan in the morning, eat the long-awaited angle fish in Chongqing at noon, take a look at the Aizhai Bridge, and go home. A spring outing from Guangxi to Hunan ends perfectly.