📍 Xiangcheng: Tibetan card name, meaning the Buddhist beads in the hand,
It is a 2.5-hour drive from Daocheng Airport and is 2,680 meters above sea level.
📆 Suitable season:October 20th-November 20th is the most beautiful time of the year in rural areas
📷 It is the filming location of the movie "Passing Through Your World"
It has the Tibetan fragrant countryside and villages in the golden autumn
The First Hall of Kham – Sangpiling Temple
Changshou Lake, which allows you to enjoy the snow-capped mountains and sacred lakes exclusively
B&B that won the International Designer Pioneer Award: Yunjue Qijing·Guiyuan
Looking back on the two days in Xiangcheng, it is not a complete story, but some flow of heart.
Fragmentary, jumping, enjoyable and healing.
If Daocheng Yading is a long-cherished wish, Xiangcheng is "love at first sight".
Just a few photos I stumbled across, a white house on the vast land, made me fall in love.
They happened to be still in the same line, so they waited until after the National Day and took advantage of the crowd to disperse and set off together.
I can’t remember which photo moved me. I didn’t save the picture. I just secretly decided to see it with my own eyes, just like going to see a person I like.
Those white houses are firmly rooted in the earth, as if they have grown out of the soil. They seem to have existed for a long time, and are as timeless and new as the surrounding mountains and the land under the sun and cloud shadows.
Compared with the pure natural scenery, I am more greedy for the existence of fireworks in the world. I like the warmth of the interdependence between people and the earth. People bring chaos and also bring fun. When I arrived in western Sichuan, the chaos disappeared. Instead, I saw order: ladder-like, Layer by layer, each layer has its own beauty. There are 18 counties in Ganzi Prefecture and 13 counties in Aba Prefecture. You will see that the houses in each county are different. Even if they are all watchtowers, they will have their own obvious style adapted to local conditions. Every small change will make a long difference. s story.
Why is it bright, pure and noble white? I searched it on Baidu: "White Cangfang" is a civil structure with strong local characteristics. The walls of the Tibetan house are made of ordinary mud with suitable humidity and are generally used for hundreds of years. The outer side of the wall is inwardly inclined and the inner side is vertical. The whole house is a dense frame of indoor wooden columns. The more column heads, the bigger the house. The overall house is trapezoidal, with flat and smooth walls. Every year around January before the Chuanzhao Festival, a kind of Ago soil unique to Xiangcheng Mountain is mixed with water to make a white soil slurry, which is filled with teapots and other utensils and poured slowly from the top of the wall. down until the earthen wall turns white. This not only makes the wall beautiful and rainproof, but more importantly, it prays for good luck and happiness. Legend has it that every pouring is equivalent to lighting a thousand butter lamps and reciting a thousand peace sutras.
It is not only due to the Tibetan people's talent in adapting to local conditions, but also due to religious rituals and sustenance, that is why the whiteness is so holy and consistent.
What also attracts me is Yunjue Qijing, a design hotel located at the highest point of Zhongde Village, Qingde Town, Xiangcheng County. I was also captured by just one or two pictures. I don’t need to know any details at all. There are only two One word: go live.
So Xiangcheng became the first stop of our trip to Daocheng and Aden. After leaving Daocheng Airport, we went straight to Xiangcheng.
We also had no "itinerary" in Xiangcheng. Yunjue Guiyuan Hotel implemented a housekeeper system. The housekeeper gave us some suggestions and helped us arrange a driver and car to take us around Zhongde Village.
On the first day we went to Sangpiling Temple and Kemai Village. Sangpiling Temple is a large temple built with the efforts of the people of the city. It was built without design drawings and was the result of the brainstorming of skilled craftsmen among the people. The temple is located on the mountain. The architecture has clear layers. Whether it is a wood carving or a bronze carving as small as a square inch, or a thangka mural as large as covering the wall, they are all beautiful and ready to be seen.
That is the world of the sacred Buddha, and it is also an artistic treasure in the world.
Photography is not allowed inside the temple, but I always remember the dried white peony petals used for blessings and decoration, pasted on transparent tape, row after row, under the sun, so beautiful that I couldn’t breathe. This innate, easy-to-hand perception and application of beauty instantly defeated the literary and artistic pretentiousness in Xiaohongshu. I looked up, dumbfounded, and my heart suddenly felt like a feather. I know I will come back again.
Kemai Village is full of aura. There is a stream outside the village and a natural hot spring in the village. Going inside, you will find the secret place Chachenggou.
Returning to the countryside, I want to walk to Chachenggou to see the flowers in spring, the shade in summer, and the golden color in autumn.
I was just passing by the apple orchard in Zhongde Village. Passing through the apple orchard, there is an "Internet celebrity check-in photo point". It is a cement step with a door on it. I have seen photos of it in Xiaohongshu, but... To me, it is really just a step. When you climb over it, you will find another valley countryside.
When I turned back to the apple orchard, I suddenly didn’t want to leave. Maybe it's the sudden return of the sunshine from the plateau to the green shade, maybe it's the crisp chirping of birds, maybe it's the silence of the deserted place, maybe it's the unique fragrance of the orchard.
"We go into the orchards for the apples. But we
What I brought back was a day in the forest and the smell,
Cool, dappled light and time. "
My companion later asked me why I stayed in an unknown orchard for so long. Aren’t there places like this everywhere? Why not go to a more recognizable movie location? I thought for a while and couldn't even give her an answer. Maybe there were eight reasons for me to stay in the orchard. As a result, I was healed by this small space and time.
To me, this corner favored by light has a strange energy field, which is like the green shade in my heart. It suddenly appears in front of my eyes. The sunlight outlines the branches of the apple tree in the style of Japanese painting, and the freshness and sweetness of the orchard is dispersed. The sadness in my heart slowly penetrates, bringing a relaxed and happy smile to my heart.
I lay on the cool boulder, looked up at the remaining apples, and imagined that over the long season, they had accumulated nutrients in their bodies under the sun. How could they not be sweet?
Next article, let’s go to Xiangcheng Tiancun and Changshou Lake, attend a traditional Kamba wedding in the evening, and then go to Daocheng Yading from the Yaya Highway.
