From the north of Shenzhen to the south of Guangzhou, there are crowded people, hurried figures, and hot and humid air. As soon as you leave the air conditioner, it feels like entering a sauna... The train runs all the way to the southwest, passes through Guangxi, and enters Yunnan. The sky outside the window changes. Today, the earth has changed, the clouds stretch gracefully and gracefully, the crops in the fields dance lightly, and you can feel the cool wind through the car window. At 8 o'clock in the evening, I got off the bus at Maitreya. It was still bright and scorching with the red sunset, but the temperature was nearly ten degrees lower than in Guangzhou. The platform was empty except for a few people who had just gotten off the train, and the platform was equally empty outside. I walked slowly to the bus station. There were only two empty buses parked there. After waiting for three or five people, the bus started. The idyllic scenery and dim lights made me feel like I was in an unknown small town in Europe. It's been a cold day, there are beautiful mountains and rivers, but it's so lonely.
Maitreya is closely related to mountains and rivers, and has a lot of water, with lakes of all sizes connected together, and many hot springs.
During the day, there are almost no pedestrians on the road. In the evening, when the sun is about to set, people walking, brisk walking, jogging, and having fun gather by the lake in twos and threes, with different accents. Maitreya has obviously become a popular place for foreigners to spend their summer vacation and retire.
View from high-rise resort condominiums by the lake
Most of the people I met in Maitreya were warm and kind, from the innkeepers, to Didi drivers, to the proprietresses of restaurants... The lady who baked tofu was the owner of a barbecue restaurant. When she saw me coming for dinner alone, she invited me and her I ate with my family and asked me to try the home-cooked food they made. Well, I pretended to be polite and moved my chopsticks. Wow! There was actually a big bowl of fresh wild mushrooms fried with chili.
Night and morning by the lake
Maitreya has beautiful mountains and clear waters, human touch, comfortable climate, and relatively low housing prices. It seems to be very suitable for living and retirement. But I worry that if I settle here for a long time, I will feel lonely without friends, monotonous without color, and as depressed as twilight... Although I also like silence and solitude, I am still a little greedy for the lively market atmosphere. , fresh and energetic literary and artistic atmosphere, interesting and creative people...and I found all of these after encountering "Dongfeng Yun".
"Dongfengyun" is an art town that integrates grape culture, natural scenery, and cultural tourism, and is characterized by culture, art and creativity. It is called the "Provence" of central Yunnan.
There are mountains and lakes, dancing windmills, colorful roads, mountains of flowers, loving little railways, castles and exhibition halls made of local original red bricks, bizarre stainless steel sculptures, and art. The manor, the music farm, the blue sky that reaches as low as the grass, and the white clouds that fall to your feet...
The landmark of "Eastern Charm": "Kaleidoscope Art Manor" uses a surreal and post-modern architectural style. It does not use a steel bar or a nail, and is only built with red bricks produced locally in Maitreya. Such a seemingly disorderly building was created by a "strange man" who was born in Maitreya, his name is Luo Xu. He has never received a systematic art school education, nor has he studied architecture. He is often called a wild man. It is said that he did not even have a design drawing when designing and building this building. He just moved according to his heart like an ant building a nest. However, three local cultures are mixed into it. The shape of the wine bottle represents the red wine culture of Maitreya, the fire culture and the symbiotic and upward culture of the Yi people. Not only the "Kaleidoscope", all the buildings in the "Dongfeng Yun" town have this original and surreal style. Creative artists have added the finishing touch to this green mountain and beautiful water, giving the quiet land a lively atmosphere and atmosphere. Graceful charm.
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The "Dongfeng Yun" art town is still under construction. Artist apartments, cultural and creative markets, art hotels, artist entrepreneurial parks, etc. will be added one after another. The future is promising.
