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Great Wall Chinese ...

Unfortunately, publish posts to Blogger that it became virtually impossible. China is blocking a lot of websites - YouTube, Facebook and Blogger. For over a year already tried different ways, and they all were always a bit troublesome, but somehow functioned. Recently, however, most of them fail, or provide input on the page by only a short time, after which the connection is broken and everything you need to start from scratch. Only if you manage to shoot a "window" connection, there is a chance that the entry will be published (which I hope this post will happen.)

Frankly, that scares me - we have the 21st century, China has become one of the most significant countries on the economic map and political world, and so ordinary a thing as free surfing becomes impossible. Who remembers the times of communist regime, this will see in this very typical restriction to information and the imposition of single binary worldview citizens.

PRC will celebrate in a few days 60ta anniversary of its establishment - and caught the whole country is the euphoria, TV on the widely advertises August accomplishments the past 60 years, the citizens of the screen squeak with delight, progress, achievements, economic development, "harmonious society", dozens of empty slogans aimed at reversing the attention of citizens from what could spoil the mood - to say the least.

Month ago I went on 20 years of residence here, not the fate threw us here, but a conscious choice, and some use; outside this country, our guests who also should not complain. Just a little pity that so hard to break through this wall, in order to describe this beautiful country on your own blog ...

PS.Jesli someone knows how to bypass the wall and enter the blogger, then please do the trick - and thank you!

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deserved, hard-working holidays in the southern seas ...

Since July 1, I'm out of the Great Evil One Town, busily spending holidays with family. I have internet access limited, and too much does not have time to publish new posts, but whenever possible saves everything, and after returning to Shanghai, I will intercede successively relationship with staying here, and happens a lot.

come back around Aug. 10, so I invite old and new guests to read new posts on the blog later!

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Worst Day Week ... Heavenly Terraces

Today special day. Not only because they came in and P, and they brought marshmallows, prince polo fete. After the early motive (to happen at the airport and pick up) rang T from Seattle. T is my good friend the Internet, fascinated s internal martial arts. T selflessly podsylal my various machines magazines and books from the U.S., not posing for it never had anything in return. Spotkalism only once, except for about 3 minutes in the lobby of a hotel in Xi'an, when he led a group of Polish. Several years ago, T sent me the "Road to Heaven" by Bill Porter. Book looked, and considered that what might know about China, the foreigner, who spent much time here (because the majority in Taiwan). A few years later for lack of something better I reached for a book again i. .. I read in one breath. It was not an alien wymadrzajacy August, who heard something somewhere and sells immediately, to do an impression of not knowing readers. Bill's book showed not only perfect the art of feathers (in so far as I can assess his language is not native speakers of English Being), but also great erudition and knowledge of China, this knowledge from the inside, especially Buddhism, but also history, poetry, culture in general . Nothing, moreover, not surprising, since Bill spent several years in Formosa, and most of the time in a Buddhist monastery with translating Chinese into English classics of Buddhism. In fact, Bill had brought fame to translate poetry Cold Mountain (Hanshana 寒山), considered to be very successful and showed his literary talent. Then he was already mentioned the "Road to Heaven", whose translation into Chinese in 2006, it got here furore. A last perfect "Zen Baggage."

But back to this morning. I am on fire preparation, and here the cell phone rings. Picking up eagerly, because early and I'm on the run. On the other side T. Pospiech fall, we talk for a moment, he says that it is next to someone who wants to replace a few words with me. I still speak, but I hear that T is trying to say something. Says something to him Addressing a "T", and here I hear, "This is not T, is Bill ..."

me speechless.

Bill Porter.
talked
moments. The first contact has been established. There is a chance to meet soon.

And who says that Monday is the worst day of the week?

SP.A. all interested Chinese culture, I strongly recommend the book with Bill, especially those listed in this entry.

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天台山 in May - the unknown - Part One

little over a week ago we celebrated the feast of Chinese Duanwu 端午节 and on this occasion both M had four days off. Two years ago Chinese people had free only on the occasion of the first of May and the first of October, and from their own traditional world had only a Spring Festival. In a country in which there is no paid leave, only these three holy nation traveled wakacjonowac, \u200b\u200bwhich, given a large amount of people meant a monstrous crowds everywhere. Had occasion to lead tours of the Polish 1st of May and early October, and it was a nightmare. Especially stuck in my memory of visiting the Forbidden City (Imperial Palace that is) in Beijing, where one of the contestants stumbled on a high threshold in one go, and lost her balance, and a crowd of nearly trampled. Fortunately, thanks to the crowd managed to return to its equilibrium, but the fear ate at niemiara August - me too. Another trip had to spend an exciting day at the famous Taoist top of Huashan 华山, known for its vertical walls and spectacular views. When we arrived at the end of the extract, it turned out that we are standing in line for at least 3 godziny. Ruszylem wiec do naczialnika wyciagu, a ten byl ze mna szczery. Powiedzial, ze nawet jesli wpuscilby nas do kolejki (choc grozilo to zamieszkami ze strony tlumow czekajacych), to nie ma pewnosci, czy to samo uczyni jego odpowiednik na szczycie. Poniewaz wieczorem mielismy pociag z niedalekiego Luoyangu, nie moglismy podejmowac takiego ryzyka, i zrezygnwalismy z wjazdu na gore. NB ta grupa, ktora zwiedzala Chiny w czasie Zlotego Tygodnia 黄金周 swiat pierwszego maja byla upiorna - nigdy jej nie zapomne, a nawet gdybym chcial, to siwe wlosy, ktorych mi wtedy gwaltownie przybylo, nie pozwola na to...

Rzad chcac rozladowac takie sytuacje skoncentrowanych wyjazdow w trzech okresach w roku, postanowil wskrzesic kilka tradycyjnych World Chinese - Feast Duanwu and Moon Festival 中秋节. Mainly to resurrect it in order to relieve a bit of tourism on the occasion of 1st May, and at the same time give people more opportunities for short - and in this way a bit to enliven the tourism sector in China. Not quite made it. A full week off from Labor Day allowed for longer trips. Shortening, and in return give here and there, 2-3 days meant that people either sit at home, or szwendaja August after the shops, or eat any where near. I will not hide from us is a good solution, because we do not have to be afraid of problems with buying tickets, hotels or crowds busy on the trails. Besides, as a rule, avoid busy trails, going into the little known regions, exploring the wild and little available space.

Not really had a chance to prepare yourself for the last trip - quality control, report writing, fast packing, little sleep, filled with nights, at the end of the bus on Wednesday morning, load your favorite hotel from a bad breakfast. Luckily I took with me an excellent book, which are described in the space, which is often difficult to find on a map, and even local residents frequently Tiantai in general do not hear about them. Tiantai resident wrote books and traveler with a passion, and that is our true bible, supplying much information about the area. On Wednesday evening, when the girls went to bed tired of traveling, I sat down on the book and started studying it again. Previously I have had ideas how to spend the first day. Planned to krotka wyprawe, zeby pospac dluzej i odpoczac. Chcialem w ten pierwszy dzien pojsc w okolice swiatyni, w ktorej znajduje sie pagoda - sakrofag z cialem Zhizhe, zalozyciela odmiany Tiantai chinskiego buddyzmu. Ksiazka mowila, ze znajduje sie tam inna, opuszczona swiatynia, zwana Swiatynia Wielkiego Pokoju 太平寺. Niedaleko niej mialy znajdowac sie dzikie formacje skalne warte zobaczenia. Taki plan postanowlismy zrealizowac, i nastepnego dnia po jak zwyke kiepskim sniadaniu (do tego w tlumach lokalnych turystow przepychajacych sie do koryta, Duza M strasznie sie tym frasowala) zamowilismy z recepcji taksowke. Taksa przyjechala szybko, po 15 minutach, od kierowcy, ktory nas wiozl z dworca autobusowego do hotelu poprzedniego wieczora znalismy przyblizona course fee, so I got a tenner zbilismy and went. The driver turned out to be very sympathetic, he knew us (a total of 150 taxi drivers in Tiantai, many of them wiozlo us during our previous visits), talked a lot about the area. Quickly zgadalismy August, because it turned out that his and my message overlap - we read the same book ... The driver, Zhang Xingji 张兴吉, took us to the place from which you can get to the temple. Next to it was the path the other way, to the village Shuimokeng 水磨 坑, or Cleft Wyszlifowanej by water. Considering that we follow a narrow path of what can sit on it - on one of wensajtow discouraged venture into krzaczory, August when warmer, because in Tiantai crawling with snakes, venomous also. I went first, doing noise for me, Mala M, and Large M closed derivatives. We said goodbye to the driver, I took him to the number of cells in case we missed the last bus, we went down path. After a while we saw green terraces, flooded with water, could be heard singing rechoczace frogs and birds.

Photo: Water for bamboo terraces is addressed "Water Works" from nearby mountain streams:
music to the ears of the rows of Shanghai. We were walking slowly, enjoying the fragrant air, and views - because after a while, vanish along a path covering their views of the trees and saw that we walk side slopes, and below there is a deep valley. Tiantai name means "Heavenly Terraces" and this is a very accurate name. Mountains - their tops - are flat, and when you look at the map, it is clear that they are flat tops, cut by deep rifts. And it is these peaks are not so interesting, just like the chasm 坑. When he writes about the valleys, I'm already thinking of the chasm - deep ravines, cracks. And that was clear - the spring of hundreds of meters depth in May and the length of many kilometers, are a bit like miniature canyon of the Colorado River. He writes about it specifically, in order to keep-more made aware to the reader as it is shaped area in Tiantai.

Photo: Picturesque villages around Shuimokeng , visible in the distance:

After a few hundred meters, we have come to the village Shuimokeng 水磨 坑. Located very picturesque, a group of stone and wooden houses, raised on a flat promontory with one from the slopes of the chasm. We went to the village, and confirmed that what she said book - with her only live in old people. The young had left me going to the city, and there working, earning, in the city also settling. The total is quite sad, because we had the impression that the village is completely desolate when we all will die of old residents.

Photo: Welcome to our village - we welcomed the apartment just walking down the wybiry:

After the entrance to the village and one of the override, welcomed us smile, an elderly woman - again tripped spell Lesser M, though, and so we have no doubt , the Tiantai is a special place - the people are welcoming, smiling, helpful, willing to share what is in May, not expecting much in return. I do not know whether that Buddhism and Taoism as they changed, or are eminent mystics rather because both religions have chosen as the seat of the Tiantai, because people here are simple and good. Walked the village, looking for the override.

Photo: The room, kitchen in one of the houses in the village Shuimokeng :

In one one of the women volunteered to lead us a bit for the village to the "secret of the valley," as he called it in his book the author mentioned above. We went after her, when suddenly we heard some moaning. We looked into a dark stone room - became instantly Hospital bed, on which he lay ill, apparently much suffering. She revealed that the younger brother of her husband, 40-year-old, who during the construction of the house had an accident and broke his spine. Paralysis chained him to the bed, his wife looks after him.

Photo: Most of the buildings in the village is built of stone, in whose neighborhood does not lack:
We went on - the woman led us to work around, where a small courtyard in the middle of vegetables confuse old man pants. Interesting was the courtyard - surrounded rozpadajacymi August, but the beautiful buildings with carved windows, lined with stones, which formed the theme of deer. Jelen 鹿 Lu, is a symbol of career officials (Lu 禄 - another sign, but similar pronunciation). Apparently this workaround was born person who silting up climbing on the career civil service levels.

Photo: The narrow passage in the village Shuimokeng allowed easier to fend off bandits attacks:

Across the courtyard we noticed a strange stove with built-in bowl obliquely. As it turned out she would serve tea to a browning.

Photo: Bake to the browning of tea:

Chinese green tea after harvest, is toasted 烤, and only then you can drink herbal tea in her zaparzony. Toasting is poured into the machine fresh leaves of tea into the bowl (a kind of wok), which is hot, and mixing it, przesypywaniu, "Rubbing" in the hot walls of the bowl. Often in the vicinity of the Chinese Saints (more or less the beginning of April) can in many hotels and tearooms zobaczych browning cup of tea, such as high temperature damaged palms mingle me - except I do not have to write that is accompanied by a fantastic aroma. The villagers have their own tea fields, and I collect tea toast to their own needs in these basins already / furnaces.

Photo: In the bowl of freshly toasted tea leaves:

When I photographed the oven, Large M called me, which, as usual, noticed something interesting. I actually - in the room, you just watched and in which nothing special not noticed, Large M was spotted ... coffin. Many times I read that it is a tradition, and after completing 60 years (an age considered here for the border - each year is proof of sticks above the heavens), a man buys a coffin and put me in the living room, seeing her every day with it. No wonder that when already comes this last moment, man is drawn to it and is not afraid of him. Frankly, as I had never seen a coffin standing in the home, but he's not surprised we are here - the old man lived alone, had over 80 years, and perhaps feared that if he had gone who will not even buy him a coffin. By the way we were full of admiration, because being in such elderly was moving briskly, he handled the work in the yard, not It looked like, lest anyone's need the care.

Photo: Leciwy owner decided to pay for a coffin, and on the walls of the keywords of leadership Komusntycznej Party of China - often those already password rescued old buildings from destruction by the Red Guardian:

We went further, passing next to a grove of bamboo, and we have come to the old stone bridge 石 拱桥. These bridges were built on important routes, have the shape of the hold and fits beautifully with the traditional landscape. As it turned out, the bridge was passed by rwisty stream, and provide an interface between the Buddhist temples of the route by Zhizhe folded, a Taoist temple Tongbai, while the company was at the bottom of the valley, today flooded by a reservoir of peak power. The current palace Tongbai - who visited in December 2008 - is located on the site of another temple of Taoism. Today no one goes this route, tourists will Take the circular, comfortable asphalt road, the locals do not have what walk, pilgrims and tourists also elect a bus and an easy passage. Route entire bushes, so the next time we need to take with you machete in order to cut the passage itself. Of course in the summer we will not to risk such a route because of the snakes. Chinese are the works for 24 year periods 二十 四 节气, which is the basis of their agricultural calendar. This calendar operates to this day, to this day plowing, sowing and harvesting takes place according to principles set thousands of years ago. Each period has its own name, one of them is called the Awakening 惊蛰 worms. This awakening is taking place between a 5tym 3cim on the Third Month, which is somewhere near our April (approximately, because the Chinese months are moving). Chinese used to classify snakes into worms, and they just wake up then it - and after this period it is better not to venture into the thick bush or bushes Tiantai. Thus, learning to appreciate what wilder environs will have to wait, and worms will go to sleep ... The literature states that the route is very scenic.

Photo: Our tour guide was leading us uczynna through bamboo groves to kamiennemu bridge:
After the entrance to the bridge on the right saw surrounded vertical valley walls at the bottom of which were fields, bamboo groves, bush. However, we decided to go left, because there, the huge covered 1950 to 1960 meters, the water stream oszlifowanymi trough was located waterfall, whose sounds were coming to us.

Photo: huge boulders at the bottom of the stream, deep inside the stone bridge:

After the entrance to the bridge on the right side we saw a valley surrounded by vertical walls at the bottom of which were fields, bamboo groves, bush. However, we decided to go left, because there, the huge covered 1950 to 1960 meters, the water stream oszlifowanymi trough was located waterfall, whose sounds were coming to us. Bade farewell to our friendly tour guide and we went to the left, but nowhere could be seen descending to the creek. Walked the banks of terraces, often going in the mud. Gave a little hot in the characters, so we did a little picnic under the stone, and while the girls rested, I went barely visible path in the bushes. The path was difficult, overgrown on both sides, muddy, cut through small rivers once slipped, luckily caught hold of the bushes, to my horror I saw that the path leads over a deep precipice, gave up further exploration, I returned to the girls and went back . After reaching the vicinity of the bridge in August plowing through the bushes and finally we have come to the stream. Mala M loves to play in the water, so the two girls sit, on the flat rocks i Mala M zaczela grzebac w wodzie, podczas gdy ja poszedlem w druga strone, zeby dojsc do wodospadu i zobaczyc, czy da sie zejsc jakos bokiem na dno doliny. Chwytajac sie krzakow i balansujac na krawedziach kamieni doszedlem na sam skraj wodospadu. Dalej bylo juz tylko pionowe urwisko i spadajace z halasem wody. Miejsce dosc niesamowite, jakiego bysmy nigdy sie nie spodziewali tutaj. Czesto poronwywane jest do Jiuzhaigou 九寨沟, przepieknego miejsca w prowincji Sichuan, gdzie jesienia jasnoblekitne wody potoku plyna po bialych tarasach, w ktorych odbijaja sie zolte i czerwone jesienne liscie. To porownanie nieco na wyrost, ale tylko nieco - to niejsce kolo wioski Shuimokeng bylo tez przepiekne. Zabawne, podczas gdy turysci jezdza w znane miejsca, czesto These already offer more impressions wild and are more beautiful, but no order to reach them but need a little luck and burial in the literature.

Photo: Vertical cliffs, and at the bottom of high waterfalls - this place has been discovered just a few years ago, but hardly anyone here goes:

I went back to the girls, because I wanted to find the Great Peace Temple, still chased them a little. I went first, looking for passage through the bushes from the bottom of the stream to the path located higher.

Photo: Stone bridge on the Buddhist-Taoist route:

Suddenly we heard a provocation - it was some grandfather on the path indicated to us their way through bush. After a while, guided by his instructions we entered the path. Another helpful man - that is, for what do we like - apart from everything else - Tiantai. After a while, when we entered the bridge, the view on the other drew our attention - is a mysterious, overgrown valley, which had earlier widzeilismy.

Photo: The Mysterious Valley on the right side of the bridge:

So fast decision - we go there. Large M after a dozen meters zrejterowala digging - unless these snakes sunk deep in her memory. So was the Lesser M, sit, on the bridge, while I walked away into the bushes. Far has not gone unnoticed - path ended quite suddenly, it got virtually impossible transition. Well, we had to go back.

picture: "Then you can go, but still there is no transition ":

Returning, we passed near the village, we met an elderly woman, who asked whether we can buy tea. our interest in the offer, because tea from Tiantai called" Tea clouds and fogs "云雾茶 is very well known and reportedly delicious. We went to the house, after a short tea tin Fair bought for 80 yuan, which - as it turned out - was a good price.

Photo: Business has gone, we got the can of tea, and this leciwa resident Shuimokeng - 80 yuan:
said goodbye, just a glance at cielaczka and dog - the task of Little M - and after half an hour we reached to today's starting point, the place in which we left the taxi.

Photo: Old friend - returning from a field laden with pyrami:

not the end we knew which way to go, but we decided we went up the side road - we had a feeling that just once we took this route. And really - after a while climbing (road Piela rather rapidly in the gore), we have come to the well-known shop GSowskiego like it a few months before we called. In the heat of the shop was a real godsend, as it turned out offered a chilled beverage from a rusty fridge, I bought your favorite drink Lesser M - tea with honey to heat your wanglaoji 王老 吉 in the characteristic red cans. overthrew every one of us after two cans, we have taken yet something there on the road, and after consulting the language went further. Seller says, "the temple is deserted, it's probably one small building and there is nothing in the middle is not. In the shop three guests watched with interest some sort of costume soap opera.

Photo: Bridge still serves the residents Shuimokeng :

Photo: Once again, the stone architecture of the village Shuimokeng :

Photo: Old wooden houses in the village Shuimokeng :

We went continue the road, passing picturesque villages. Little M was delighted some sort of goat herding and loudly beczaca August at the roadside, after a while we came across a blonde, which cools the bajorze. We were walking away, next to the bamboo grew, some small patches, you could see the bottom of the terraces and roofs of small villages of stone huts. On the terraces were working people, mostly women. Frankly we had no idea where the temple. We walked a bit on the side of the road, where there was a small terrace, from which we could admire the views of the surrounding area. It was not seen anyone in the vicinity, whom we could ask for directions, so at random chose a small path down, and through the little grove of trees we have come to the old cottage. Peasantry who worked beside her told us that the next path we come to the temple. So we went, the area was interesting - the water-drenched terraces, huge czwórniak (trees somewhat similar to milorzebow), bamboos, deafening croaking frogs. At the end of the path took us to a small chapel.

Photo: picturesquely situated village of Great Peace, which takes its name from the temple:

chapel was built of stone and overgrown with ivy, hidden by a huge tree - we had a lot of luck that we came across at her. In the middle there were the some agricultural tools, apparently by local peasants have used it as a composition. In the middle of the room stood a white marble stupa height of about 2m. The inscription on it spoke of the stupa is a Master Chuandenga - transferring Lampe - 传灯 大师.

Photo: Stupa at the place of burial Master Chuandenga in the chapel at the Temple of the Great Peace:
I wrote about him earlier in this blog on the occasion of the relationship with our December trip. However, finding the stupa Chuandenga was a surprise to me. The stupa is a sacred building, most often put at the place of burial Buddhist monks. In December, during a visit to the temple with the relics of Zhizhe - "He who possesses wisdom, in the shaded alley next to one of the monks showed us a stone stele (disc) standing on burial places of prominent Buddhist masters of the Tiantai school. Among them was Chuandenga stele with the name. I was confused - so where they buried him in the end? Turns out the truth, as usual, is in the middle - clothing and headgear is buried in the place where stands a stele, while the body of the Temple of the Great Peace 太平 寺. The chapel, where we were, has become a central place swityni - for which, sadly, few remained, although originally it was a one in four - next to the Temple 10 thousand years 万年 寺, Clean your 国清寺 护国寺 Land Protection - the most important temples Tiantai Buddhist. Later I saw fanning literature are any more pictures of buildings, but we have not noticed. The chapel was also mentioned as an already standing in the center of the old temple site. Although the temple today practically non-existent, it was historically one of the most important places of worship in Tiantai Buddhist. In the old temple there were the items for Zhizhe stone - a stone drum, stone lodges, the pulpit, but unfortunately they have not survived to this day.

Photo: Chapel of the Great Temple of Peace:

"Good birds and dense forests, recite the name of Buddha
a golden flowers and bamboo Jade underway in meditation," as he wrote

Zhiguo Liu 刘 知 过, famous poet Song Dynasty, in the poem "Temple of the Great Peace." Besides

old stone chapel became motherboards with the inscription indicating that the monk is buried there Guantong 观 通. Guantong (1873-1955) came from Zhejiang province, there was born and raised. At the age of 21 years as a result of an altercation Married decided to leave home and become a Buddhist monk. For this purpose, went to the Tiantai mountains, where the temple of the Clean Your 国清寺 took him Master Congjing 从 镜, who introduced it in the science of Buddhism. Seeing that the Guantong has deep "roots of goodness" 善根, Congjing sends him to the monastery on top of the mountains, where the goals Guantong head and joins a Buddhist convent. Will soon make himself known as an intelligent student, meets expert experience of the 'three vows "三 戒. In 1921 he became the abbot of the Temple of True Awakening 真 觉 寺 (namely the one in which there is a stupa with the body Zhizhe) in 1923 - Temple High Brightness 高明 寺. It's just for his term of office, In 1924 a man called Zhang Yuesong 张月松, the follower of Buddhism in Shanghai, being the Temple of high brightness, has a dream in which he manifested the spirit of caring temple. The result supports the temples Zhang, contributing to the reconstruction of the Bell Tower and the Pavilion of Heaven's rulers. In 1937 Guantong goes to Shanghai, where he established branches of the Temple of high brightness. There, at the age of 83 years, overpowered the disease, he asks for inflammation of the incense, washes in August, are taken in the sense, and in a dream, with the sound of sutra recited by students, dies.

Photo: View from the shrine are visible from behind the bamboo covered with water terraces:

Above died two deadlines - Good Roots and the Three Vows. For explanation - In Buddhism believes that the man should cultivate good roots, as no one is born bad. But lest these roots have grown, it is sowing the seeds of good - or saying to simplify doing good deeds. These should show compassion for all beings and help them drift humiliation, no killing, no cheating, not eating meat, etc.. There are people whose roots are deeper, they are, and those whose roots are shallow, it all depends on what we do in everyday life. Often the champion decides to convey its teachings only on a particular student, in whose deep roots noticed that good, at the same time may refuse to teach that, at whose roots are shallow, as with such a person must first change your actions and are not ready to accept advanced sciences.

Three Vows - a Buddhist vows, which takes a person deciding to "leave the family" 出家 and join the monastic community.
first wedding - Shamijie 沙弥 戒 - suitable for novice (Sanskrit: samanera), and I can go by him, even children aged 7-8 years. As part of this wedding a person commits to comply with the fundamental commandments prohibiting the killing (also animals), theft, adultery, lies and drinking alcohol. Then also shaved the hair, and before the year 1983 on the head novice fired trociczkami Round three small points. In 1983, banned this practice as kaleczacego body, and so preciwnego Buddhist teachings. At the age of at least 19 years old rookie had the right to accept subsequent marriage, "introduction" (the religious community) - Biqiujie 比丘 戒 - as a full monk (Sanskrit: Bhikkhu). The monk then it przyjmowal 250 marriages, a nun - 348th The third wedding, a wedding Boddhisatvy - recognizing their utmost to achieve Buddhahood and helping all beings in attaining it, as its highest goal.

Photo: Stele commemorating the Master Guantonga:

It was late in the afternoon and found that time in a way. We went for a small path towards the shore terrace zagajnikowi bambusowemu and wlezlismy in the field of pyrami (ie - for the uninitiated - potatoes). Suddenly, Mala M yelled - "worm!" and screaming przeploszyla some great bird, which sprang up and quickly flew a bamboo. After a moment of searching we found another path pou, and the present we have come to the village. Families of the village with stone, clearly ludniejsza than Shuimokeng. Along the way, we caught a curious villager, but just because it was carrying two heavy buckets of golf of the contents of septic tanks, whom aroma almost knocked us out of legs, not wdalismy with him in the longer run agonizing. We went through the courtyard house, on whose steps the old man sat merry (NB I never saw so many smiling people, just like the Tiantai'u), and headed visible in the distance, "spit" - slope, on top of which was located a friend of our gazebo and a huge boulder with the words "Place of delivering Zhizhe Master's teachings. "

Photo: Village of the Great Peace, which takes its name from the now defunct Buddhist temple and its resident joyful - the less people have, the happier they seem:

We were there in December, but it is nice come back in the old Katy. The girls sit, on rocks and Large M She pulled shafts, I went to yet located close to the group of boulders.

Photo: Glaz to write an "Taras proclamation by Zhizhe Dharma 'was founded by a monk Haidenga 海登 法师, a famous master pieces Shaolin fight, who spent many years in the Temple of True Awakening in Tiantai:

These rocks, known as "Arhats Sluchajacymi books "听 经 罗汉 石 Tip promontory were - for they were already the vertical walls of rock. Apparently the boulders were once very much, but the local people used them as building material, and were only 3 or 4

Photo: Arhaci Listener Papers - a group of boulders near the terrace science Zhizhe:

with boulders, looking to the left, you could see yellow walls of the Temple High light, and to the right - the narrow terraces built on the rather steep slope. Somewhere below the peasant ran two red oxen, their roar could be heard . I went back to the girls, we ate sardines, drinking Wanglaoji them, obey even birds, and we went on. Droge remembered well, so I do not We were afraid of maturing dark. Path, which was partly dealt with stones, led us to visibly on the edge of the wood house.

Photo: stone path leading from the terrace, on which Zhizhe proclaimed doctrine, for the woods, in which there is a Temple of True Awakening:

We cast along the way have a look at the place where once stood the Temple of Meditation 修 禅寺, a of the 12 seats of Buddhist practices established by Zhizhe. Apparently just a few years ago, it was planned to rebuild, but today it is just overgrown field from looking any big puddle like a pond - the former Pond 放生池 release of living creatures, and a group of trees.

Photo: Mountains and terraces that make up Folong 佛 陇 - in the deep valley of the temple of the High Light, while the wgorzach around the temple of True Awakening, Meditation and the Great Peace:

We went to the woods, we stopped for a moment at the stone stelae (I checked, and indeed on one of the them there is a name Chuandenga), we passed an alley near gates leading to the Temple of True Awakening 真 觉 寺, but were already closed.

Photo: Stela (stone tablet) on the grave of the Master Chuandenga the walls of the Temple of True Awakening - in this "grave" are composed only of his robes and headgear:

Girls sessions have been done on the front, The big M but suddenly called me - in front of us on the field a bit below, stainless wioskowy mongrel barking. When I went to them with the side doors of the monk emerged and began to recall the dog, but this apparently was afraid we could not violence and fear, in order to run near us and get back to the temple.

Photo: Eastern entrance to the Temple of True Awakening, in which there is a stupa with the body Zhizhe, founder of the Tiantai school:

turning to the monk as to whether indeed a stupa in the temple there is a body Zhizhe. Monk said he had placed them there. Because Zhizhe was darzony great esteem by the emperor, the one year she sent an emissary, who consisted tributes dead master. Apparently the first and second year body was in the stupa, but on the third visit he was gone - disappeared mysteriously. Perhaps Zhizhe was entranced, lasting years, and finally awoke. Earlier I wrote about a trance, as it was empty, a cloud can only assume that his experience was not isolated, and not excluded that there were meditative trances lasting years.

Photo: A small stupa located at the entrance to the Temple of True Awakening was founded by the Japanese Tendai school of Buddhist followers, the equivalent of Chinese Tiantai Sect:

said goodbye, went further path, walking past a herd of confused yet koz, we entered the asfaltowke, and almost total darkness went back to the hotel. We were walking we are familiar abbreviations, Mala M I entertained with stories of snakes, small was the distinctly impressed - how could you not be when it goes in the dark in the woods in which they live snakes, and watched the film two parts of the cycle of anakondach ... Luckily, somewhere in the middle of the road in August Stood Honda - van, and kind woman offered us a ride to the hotel. We took the car, conducted a husband, sat on the back of two children, and no Chinese family (with the two children.) A woman told us that eats with the village Longhuangtang 龙 皇 堂 (of which I have heard that jesty very attractive for tourists) are about business, there May villas, which rested on the empty floor. The question of whether The villa is in some neighborhoods, the woman said that no, none of the developer still am not invested, they have adapted an old factory space to residential, and recruited two residents of the village to guard the estate. I must admit I envy your home in such surroundings ... Quickly we got to the hotel, thanked the people friendly, we went to the hotel, we called a taxi from there, we did have a round of shopping for beer, soft drinks and fruit. Large bright next to the M on the door of the shop noticed some weeds beam.

Photo: mop of tangled some herbs are hung on the occasion of the feast Duanwu at the entrances to homes and stores to drive away the evil spirits - that is, mainly mosquitoes:

Jak sie okazalo z okazji swieta Duanwu 端午节 (potocznie nazywanego Swietem Smoczych Lodzi, bo wlasnie wyscigi tych lodzi odbywaja sie w to swieto), na drzwiach domostw wiesza sie to zielsko, ktore nie tylko dostrasza komary, ale picie naparu z niego pozwala lepiej znosic upaly. Pytalem o nazwe, ale wlasciciel sklepu nie potrafil wymowic jej w standardowym chinskim. OK, powiedzialem, to prosze napisz jego nazwe - ten znak jest zbyt zlozony i go nie pamietam. Rzeczywiscie, z chinskim jest ten problem, ze czlowiek - takze chinski - poznaje go przez cale zycie. Glodni wiedzy wrocilismy do hotelu, zjedlismy arbuza, obalilismy dwa browary i zasnelismy snem sprawiedliwych. Czekaly nas kolejne dni, i wiele nieznanych miejsc do zobaczenia.

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something completely different

week ago, returned from another residence in the Tiantai Mountains, and somehow I can not get started at to record impressions. I am frustrated that the Chinese after blocking Youtube blocked Blogspot. This means I do not have direct access to my blog, but I need him Containers with tricks - usually utilizes software Hotspot Shield, a program that allows anonymous surfing, and originally was created with safety in mind of those who use free access to the network public places. However, this program also serves us a nice, closed for the Chinese Great Wall, blocking access to many websajtow inconvenient for the Chinese government. Unfortunately, this means still some pop- advertising, opening your browser window, silent, burdened processor, etc. Word - pain in a noble part of the body, if one wants to see what the local scale will not show its citizens.

all began with events in T7becie last year - a riot, insurrection. This year, so the next round anniversary. "Peaceful liberation T7betu" blocked Youtube. T7bet a sensitive point in the mind of the president of the country. Not so long ago I talked with friends, the Chinese, ot like that Chinese people talk over dinner. It is known how to drink a little, then sooner or later the conversation go down on political issues - the venue of policy - the type that once he got the seasons since then, and pretends to be a great master of kungfu. NB I one Shixionga 师兄 ("elder brother" in kungfu, a student of my master of longer than me), who was very flaunts his abilities, appears on all major events, shows, etc.. Once it came to fighting - did not want to pay the bar bill karaoki, so the owner sent some thugs, who pointed him obili; do not have to write that in kungfu circles has lost face, but it turned out that the owner pulled out from the bar and then a lot of money as compensation, So while in other circles has gained quite a good Renome ...

also talked about a larger policy. In China, everyone in power is trying to leave something behind. Mao Zedong known - turned into a communist country of China, left behind a great thought, written in the famous Red book 毛泽东 思想. Deng Xiaoping, the Great Architect, introduced a revolutionary country on the path of openness to the world, and caused the economic development of the Almighty. Remaining on the theory underpinning these changes 邓小平 理论. On the other hand, Jiang Zemin left his theories of "Four Team" 四个 代表, which has udawadniac, the Communist Party represents all the forces of the nation. What legacy of the current president? It's hard to say. Chinese people do not respect Jiang Zemin. They consider that in reality nothing much is accomplished - no because of the particulars of the introduction of China into the World Trade Organization (WTO) is not to measure achievement of those whom August can boast of its predecessors. The Chinese are furious at Jiang for his weakness - when the Americans "accidentally" bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, and Jiang during their stay in the U.S. played on Erhu and laughing foolishly. The current president is another. Hu Jintao during his visit to the U.S. refused to pass through the streets, along which the Protestants set themselves. Set a condition that will go to any meeting where important only when the Americans to remove the protesters. So in the end Yankees August diffract, Hu assured the peaceful passage, Hu stood his ground. Hu was reportedly elected to the highest authorities of the Deng Xiaoping, as a young man of great hope prognosis. Friends claim that Hu was the captain of the troops stationed in T7becie. When I started to riot there, perhaps even in the 80s, Jiang not quite know how to deal with them. Apparently Hu said at a meeting with Deng Xiaoping, in order to leave things in his hands, give him full authority to take decisions on the subject, that he'll handle it. Well arranged. Rumour has it, the army guided by the orders of Hu spacyfikowaly several villages, favorable to the insurgents. The villages and their inhabitants either has not been a trace. Dengowi liked the people, moreover, also. Stalin, Hitler is a very respected here - no, not for genocide, but for the countries done so with their real empires. Tough, unyielding, bezpardonowi. Hu is a well-liked stocks, because this is also supposed. Jiang's no respect, Gorbachev, for example, moreover, also, because surely this has led to the disintegration of the empire USSR.

is possible with the information about Hu is just rumors, with nothing that will not happened. With just a nation wants to have a strong leader, the same as if only famous Qinshihuang, the first Chinese emperor, who conquered six kingdoms and created a great empire. Just let the nation does not forget that the Qin Dynasty, which started the Tenz Qinshihuang, lasted only a dozen years, and one of the reasons was the Political zamordyzm (see: burying alive Confucian scholars) and the domination of a single legitimate ideology ...

politics does not interest me, but how can you not be frustrated present when the present can not be free to watch the stupid clips on Youtube or enter on your own blog.

A supposed to be a fascinating Away to the Tiantai ... Next time.

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old friend ... Heaven's mysterious nooks

Pictured above: The summit of Great White Mountains Taibaishan

first travel back in time.

It was somewhere in 1995, while he willingly worked on the pot in a trading company, tore a few days holiday in the gore in the holy Western Huashan 西岳 华山. After an overnight train ride, get off at 4:30 on the small, dirty train station, from which busik took me groggy, and after an hour of slow driving on a bumpy road dowiozl uphill. Gora is amazing - almost vertical cliffs, growing suddenly and climbing on to heaven, to die somewhere in the clouds and mists. Gora is not high, has a little over two thousand meters above sea level, but among the five famous mountains of Taoism is famous for its dangerous approaches, move along the vertical scale on the swaying planks, where only the strings that give a sense of security-such. Of course, to think about in high heels paniusiach extract was built on the north summit of the mountain, but when I stood before the gate leading to the trail, the ski was not yet.

Input on the gore was very laborious. Stairs very high, sometimes to the 70cm height, sometimes instead of the stairs were depressions in the rock, and climbed the chain. I started hiking around 7:30 am, and went up in late afternoon. I walked all the peaks of mountains, including the vertex, in the end I decided to stop for the night in a small little hotel on the East Summit. As it turned out, hotelik bordered with an old Taoist temple, so I went to her, say hello to me a young monk near twenty. He invited me for tea in his cell, we began a conversation, which rolled out late into the night, and ended Wspolna meditation. We talked about his decision to become a monk. He told me that he worked in a pub in the south of China, and saw the money, and corruption, and the emptiness of entertainment, which you can buy for the money, one day he decided to throw it all, and arrived at Huashan, in order to meditate. He found himself abandoned caves - the same, which 800 years earlier wydrazyl 郝大通 Hao Datong, one of the Seven Taoist Masters School Total reality. In this cave he survived the whole year, especially meditating. Life there was difficult - no source of water we had to collect rainwater, suffered from the winter frost, summer - the heat and the scorching heat. After a year under pressure from the local association took care of the Taoist temple at the summit. As he said, without a master, and the true message of a man just pale, but is ready for it, and does not intend to abandon the Way, or regret their decision. However, there is hope that the master will appear, and although some will be able to get closer to the ideal of immortal.

meeting with the monk, younger than me guy, but at the same time a very mature, and a remarkable aspiration, had a big impression on me. First of all, become aware that in China are still alive the traditions of a hermit, the traditions of meditation and the pursuit of immortality.

the next day we did together a photo (I have to find them, is somewhere in the chest), a boy gave me some tips how to get to the cave where he meditated, said goodbye, and already then there has never met.

Photo: Taoist temple on top of the Great White Mountains, the highest peak Gor Zhongnan:


year or two later met in Xi'an nice young couple from the USA. They have plans to enter Huashan, I give them some hints, how to get uphill, as the present FORMED. Also asked, in order to greet me friend the monk. While they went to Huashan, I went to the Cave of the Dragon's Gate in the county 龙 门洞 Long 陇县 (the place where he meditated famous Chuji 丘处机 Qiu, founder of Dragon Gate sect.) After a few days we met again in Xi'an - as it turned out they did not find a monk, also could not tell what happened to him.

But back to the present time. Last Tuesday I flew to Guangzhou for one day to work. Inspection of goods, discussions, negotiation. On the plane, yet I studied my preparatory materials for inspection, in the end I finished, and to pass the time I reached the CAAC Inflight Magazine, colorful magazine airlines. To the great surprise, among the ad Patek Philippe, Omega and Tissot found an article titled "In Search of Taoism in the Zhongnan Mountains" 寻道 终 南山. In one of the entries in the blog I mentioned these mountains - situated near the Xi'anu, were thousands of years the place to which we went to odosobienie August Taoist and Buddhist monks, in hermitages among inaccessible mountains devote themselves to meditation and inner alchemy practices. Perhaps the most famous recluse in the mountains was empty Zhongnan 虚云 法师 Cloud, who spent many years there. Empty Cloud wrote the diary, which became a kind of bible for many, it also described the collapse event in deep trance meditation. Now, one day he decided to cook the beans, meal, and that this is cooked long enough to not wasting time Empty Cloud sat down to meditate. After a moment of trance, he blurted out knocking on doors hermitage - that came to visit his friends, the monks living in hermitages located near 茅棚. Empty Cloud was very pleased, and invited them to join us for the meal. Imagine his surprise when it turned out that not only the fire in the hearth, and expired, but the beans in a pot was covered with a thick layer of mold. What seemed to him a moment, was in fact a dozen days ... NB

often talk about how the human lifespan has been extended due to the progress of science and medicine, we live much longer than our ancestors. But why it seems to us that time moves very quickly, slipping through her fingers, with before we look in August, passing many years? Some time ago I read an article the Chinese internal alchemy researcher, who claimed that the subjectively perceived our lives is not necessarily a longer run from the people living 100 or more years ago, the people who lived kalendarzowo less from us by 10 or 20 years. Wines for that impose on the haste of civilization, the number of entertainment and temptations that await us.

But back to the topic. Gory, once avoided in the absence of adequate tourism infrastructure, became the site of many pilgrimages mostly young people, after the release in China in 2006, the Chinese translation of the book by Bill Porter's Road to Heaven, "in which he describes his encounter with Zhongnan monks in the mountains. Article

already described the meeting the Taoist monk, living in a mountain hermitage. The further I read an article, the wider I opened my eyes - with astonishment and surprise. As it turned out, the monk was about 40 years old, came from southern China, where he worked in the city of Zhuhai, which the pub manager. Quit his job, went to the Mount Huashan, and after several years of their stay there, he started studies at the University of Taoism in Beijing. Studies, however, not graduated, he decided to lie low in the mountains and pay the meditation ...

fools it was the same monk, whom I met on Huashanie 15 years ago?

Photo: A wild and raw Zhongnan Mountains - in the upper right corner of the highest peak, Taibaishan, with a tiny dot Taoist temple:

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sent me a book by Bill T from Seattle a few years ago, and I read in one breath. You would then the idea was born, in order to go in the Zhongnan Mountains. The first approach was the entrance to their highest peak, whose Bill failed to take, as you it was a closed area. NB peak is closed to this day, he can enter on only for special and difficult to get permission, but we bribed the guards yuanami paltry 100, and was among the first foreigners we entered the snorkelling itself - a trifle - 3768m above sea level vertex. At the top there is a - what else - Taoist temple. However, we did not meet any recluse, though we saw several caves of meditation. Entrance to the Great White Gore deserves 太白 山 on a separate entry, so I will not dwell here.

winter this year, while in Xi'an, I visited The Palace of Eight Immortals 八仙 宫, and there - also by a curious coincidence - zgadalem August with the monk, with whom - as it turned out - we were "brothers" when training the same faction Taijiquan. The monk offered to be my guide in the mountains Zhongnan. This is a valuable aid in a country where knowledge can open doors normally closed (although they may also open to close ...)

Photo: "Brother" in Taijiquan, and can guide a prospective Zhongnan Mountains:


In each If an article in the journal did his. I have more than one reason to finally go in search of Taoism in the Zhongnan Mountains ...

PS.Stare pictures I did on films, so this record shows only photos of the Great White Mountains of June ub Incidentally, the banner at the top blog is also a photo taken during that trip.

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Tarasov 天台山 - Mountains Peak Nine 九 遮 山

Before I started to describe a previous stay in Tiantai Mountains, we went there again, and as before, the obdarowalo us with new experiences, which we did not expect.

Going there, we knew where we direct our steps - in the Mountains Peak Nine 九 遮 山. We were there last time, and place us totally charmed. No tourists, no law vehicles, drowning in mountains of fantastic mists shapes, crystal clear streams, scattered Taoist and Buddhist temples.

Photo: Mountains of strange shapes, terraces, fruit groves of bamboo, the absence of humans, is a beautifully Jiu Zhe Shan:

top are called Nine Mountains peaks - this is my rather free translation of the name Jiu Zhe Shan, which literally means Gory nine screens. This is actually the valley, which measures winds stream tea 茶 山溪 Hills. Stream turns nine times bypassing the hills in his way top. Are passed through the bridges, and in the valley lie the ancient village. In the center of every village grow large, numbering over 1000 years old trees, the people are friendly and hospitable. At the bottom of the valley on both sides of the river, there are tea fields and orchards, is overgrown part of hot bamboo groves. The landscape really like a fairy tale.

Photo - On the occasion of Chinese Saints - pure and Qing Ming Jie 清明节 - local residents eat dumplings stuffed pastry in the green 青 饺 - the word "Cleanliness" 清 and "Green" 青 pronounced the same:


On the first day of your stay we woke up early, crazy taksowkarka neglected his steed with a screech of tires drove us to the bus station in Tiantai, and soon found ourselves in the Jietou busiku 街头 镇. The driver had a heavy leg for gas and we were able to happen, on the bus at 11:00 am going to town later in the mountains. The bus was full, we stood, but driving down rather quickly, and 20 minutes for 7 yuan in total, we got to the loop, which is located in the village Mingtang 明堂. The bus was going to a lot of old friends - including Jingcheng nun from Bright cliff (which is on the way), and one of the women living there. We got to know, wanted to step down Mala M place, but the pinched up and preferred to go on standing. I am in niedzyczasie obtain the language of the fellow. All agreed that the most savage place in the area is the village Xueshang 雪上, lying in the high mountains, difficult of access and does not inhabited. Apparently to get to it you need to go over the deep abyssies narrow, steep path, that often sprawl snakes. Hearing this, all our eyes shone with interest, although we were aware that such an expedition in the wild, inaccessible areas will have to leave for another time.

After leaving the bus we went on the road, NB asfaltowka very decent. We were among the mountains, on both sides of the road attracted the eyes of fresh spring green terraces of orchards and bamboo groves.

Photo: In the small, warm spring rain, landscape Jiu Zhe Shan fabulously presented themselves:

One such grove attracted our attention, as there plenty of growing giant bamboo shoots.

Photo: On both sides of the stream grow dense groves of bamboo:

admit frankly that such a second orthopedic surgeon I saw just before the vegetable market, never in kind. We went down to Little M, in order to do some pictures, and I decided to check the strength of momentum kick. To our surprise, broke like a match, so I "dug" yet his neighbor. M gave me a big plastic bag, wrapped the prey to the backpack, will be for dinner. We decided that we Pedy to cook our favorite boss in the pub, one for us, and one for her in the payment for the trouble ...

Photo: In the bamboo grove grew giant bamboo Pedy, treat residents of the Middle Kingdom:

We were walking away, siapil fine, warm rain, mountain tops were lost in the fog, the birds went wild, blooming trees and shrubs, and fresh green eyes almost offended. Took pictures, but they look quite unnatural, as if the colors were podkecone. Walk asfaltowka, although convenient, we soon got bored. Staying in town we try to always get away from civilization, so no wondering a long time we did jump on the side of the road, we passed the rocks by the rushing stream and continue along its shores. We walked, walked, admiring the surrounding nature and landscape. It is known miastowi ... In late August zwezyla path and gradually disappeared, it became quite slippery and they had to start thinking about returning to the other side of the stream, closer to the road. Mala M loves to dabble in the water, and recently built in a similar situation with the Large M bridge So eagerly set about throwing stones into the water and build the crossing. It helped a large M, because this bridge was actually needed, as the did not want us to return to an earlier crossing. I went ahead to look for an alternative, in the end I found a narrow place, threw a few larger kamlotow dry leg and somehow went through a stream.

Photo: I am in this city crossed the stream, while the girls continue building their bridge:

the other side I went back to the girls, who have already ended their buildings. Large M already claimed some big stone, when he suddenly left him with fear. Under the stone lying curled in a ball with a blue tail lizard. Pet harmless, but taking into consideration that one will come across in the mountains of venomous snakes (including cobras too) fun with raising the stones should not be the safest. Fortunately, early spring and animals are still drowsy, so we caught a lizard, and after a short photo session released to freedom.

Photo: lizard curled in a ball of delicious burns beneath the stone, which pushed Large M, in order to build a bridge by a stream:


helped dziewczynowm that have passed on my page stream. Little M was delighted, because it had contracted with the water and gathered a lot of pebbles into the bottle. But we returned to the road, and suddenly we heard the sound of water. We entered the small path on the left side of the road bamboo grove, behind which the huge rock walls fell down from the waterfall by noise.

Photo: waterfall near a bamboo grove:


road soon ended unexpectedly in August ... We went for the instinct away, going in the next, narrow valley, at the bottom of which there was a stream. We passed stone cottage situated next to a small group of graves (traditional Chinese are hiding, dead at family burial grounds, or in place of the preferred geomantycznie on the deceased estate) located on the slopes.

Photo: Stone cottage next to a small cemetery:


We were walking away, did the neighborhood in August corac more wild, there were no visible traces of man maybe except something that looked like the tank ruts ... It got very hot, the valley had special microclimate surrounding mountains did not allow the wind to the humidity made me felt like a sauna.

Photo: Wild valley, warm and moist:

We were walking slowly and aimlessly, overwhelmed by nature. Large M once complained about our very lives in China, saying that in a country you can go on the green grass, to the bosom of nature, and in China it is difficult to find such places, because everywhere are garbage or snot. The latter term, however, changed its negative approach, and this walk was a turning point.

Photo: Between the rocks in the valley went big spiders:


Later on stream, along which we walked somewhere to disappear, we entered a broad valley covered with boulders, lying in a mess of the stumps and the remains of trees. The place was quite strange, no path, no transition.

Photo: Broad valley ...


Time passed inexorably, so I turned back, surprised by the way - we noticed that st jealously hidden under a big boulder. Imagination run at full speed, Large M she said about a military base, driven by the whips I saw hordes of prisoners from a nearby labor camp, who in the sweat of his forehead frail hands move big stones ...

Photo: Ul standing guard at the big boulder - interesting, so who is it carefully placed the?

Street figured Seeing a hermit, living somewhere high in the mountains, who have kept bees here. The combination of stocks, the Wudang Mountains, I once met a Taoist master 贾 爷 Jia, who lived and meditated in a cave - and have kept bees ...

we finally reached the asfaltowki, and there we came upon a small, maybe 10 year old boy who walked with the satchel in the opposite direction, toward the mountains and wilderness.

Photo: Near the end there is a small asfaltowki Taoist shrine:


asked him where he goes, and he, as home to the village Xueshang. He told us that in half an hour can be reached, and that can lead us there. We thanked and slowly getting dark already, for us it was time to return to Tiantai on the other hand we already knew that Xueshang is not so inaccessible, as alleged in the bus, and already knew where got you the next day.

We walked slowly back, until the departure of the last bus was not much, but I really did not want to leave this place yet. We concluded Mingtang village, where our attention attracted huge tree growing near the road. Went up to him - a plate on it indicated that called Xiangfei 香榧, and that has 1600 years.

Photo: With more the 1,600 years Czwórniak Giant:


Previously read of increasing the Jiu Zhe Shan Mountains 1,400-year-old kamforowcu, but it dzrzewo was a surprise to me. Then I checked the Internet, the Polish name of the tree is a giant Czwórniak - Torrey Grandis. A tree is considered by Chinese people as a treasure - not only with stunning releases aroma, it has a distinct medical action - you control the lymph glands in dealings cancer, leukemia, and apart from the works of such common ailments as cough, constipation, and parasites. May curative Czwórniak fruits and nuts, which, moreover, the inhabitants of the south have traditionally ate at the Spring Festival. NB near Tiantaiu is located in China, moreover, the only park in which the surface of the square is located 50km over 30tys. czworniakow. Another place worth visiting ...

Photo: The dwellings in the villages in the valley of hills Stream tea are very picturesque:


Villages in the area of \u200b\u200bJiu Zhe Shan are very interesting, especially the old bypass. Cottages are built with two basic kinds of raw material - wood or white brick, in part material is combined together. All the houses are standing on stone foundations, the types of terraces, as the terrain is mountainous, uneven. Most farms are built in this way, the buildings stand from 3.4 pages, and release the space inside the yard. Interesting buildings are brick, because they seem to be an indirect link between the rural, wooden buildings, and urban, brick. These buildings have a very narrow door locks, through which it can squeeze just one person, the window openings are rare, also slim. House makes the impression of a fortress, it is clear that he had to protect the citizens against possible criminals.

Photo: The future of the nation and her proud mother:


old architecture like the village is slowly starting to give way to new, however, devoid of taste, brick monsters. On the other hand, people want to live better and better, so it is hardly surprising that they are building a new house, chco We were told that often it is because of a neighbor build a 2-storey house, this is the next must build a 3-level, though really it is not necessarily required. Later, these houses are standing here and there, often unfinished, because really nobody wants to live in them - the old prefer the old houses, young people usually work in cities. The only exception are increasingly common in China, hostels household, the type of tourist farms Nong Jia Le 农家 乐, which give quite acceptable housing and meals for little money, and are a good alternative in places where hotel accommodation is not developed. Reflect on the Large M living in the farm in the near future, last year I lived so being in Shaanxi province and going to the Great White 太白 山 Gore, and it was an interesting experience, and full of exoticism to this, especially when it comes to toilets, in which one could slip on the enormous amount of white slippery worms of foul wypelzajacych dziurym, from which the bottom of the hungry eyes of a pig was looking ...

Photo: Beekeeper in the village Mingtang at work:


We were walking the streets in the village, on the porch of the house of one woman sat industriously nawlekajac wooden beads on strings. I asked, whether on Buddhist rosaries, and she said, with the Christian. Jiu Zhe Shan region is known for producing wooden beads (and is hard to believe that you can have such a specialization), and getting them rosary or type of seat covers for cars.

Photo: Rosary jewels f. cottage industry - and not the Buddhist ...


In every village in the region is August bridge, which is also a meeting place for locals. As in any healthy society, while the women sit at home and are working, the men gather to smoke on chatting. Talked to them, asking for directions, which wila August, on the other side of the river between the mountains, said to lead to a hydroelectric Dragon 龙溪 stream.

Photo: bridge, village meeting place and lazy loafers:



picture: And this is probably henpecked husband, without an ounce of masculine pride, because it works, rather than spend useful time on the bridge ...


The whole area is rich in streams, their regulation is needed, a dam and hydroelectric power plants are very common, although there is no electricity, and so, stocks in Taizhou, the central and largest city area is built out of nuclear power. Zhejiang is one of the largest manufacturing Shamrock China and the world (interesting fact - 98% lighter costing less than one dollar is already manufactured here), and the demand for electricity is enormous and growing.
when it comes to bridges, a few years ago being in a small town in southern China, made this remark. It was so much fun with the bridge on one side of steel Chłopacy with motorcycles, bicycles, mopeds and other horses of, on the other girls in groups, giggling. Word - the bridge of lovers, and not as the one in Mingtang, lazy loafers ...

Photo: Children in Mingtang with an armful of freshly picked mountain azaleas:


Mingtang Approaching the bus heard the horn, but in August it did not care too much, because the time for departure was still a lot of theory, although it is known, the buses depart the country only more or less according to the timetable. When we reached the bus stop turned out that the bus is not, but babcinka side assured us that more will come, but the driver went for something to settle.

Photo: On the road to Dongjiang, still look backwards to Mingtang:


So we went on, walking down the road along the stream and reaching the village of Dongjiang 东江.

Photo: Schoolyard in the village of Dongjiang:


When we approached the bridge to the local bus pulled up. Turns out we were the only passengers; bileterce told that they we run a bus to Tiantai, and she rang for the second loop and arranged that it will wait for us. I like Jiu Zhe Shan and those already around you for all the organizations, where there are issues not to jump - well unless you negotiate the price ...

Photo: Dongjiang Bridge, near which we caught the return bus:


prul driver as the driver F1 (M sat in. The big green and told me to keep a tight Mala M) and no problem had time for another bus. The Tiantai city bus took us to a friend's pub, where we had - besides other meatless meals - trofiejne bamboo shoots.

picture: we dug bamboo shoots ready to eat:


They were OK, we ate better already. Then walk to digest and fee to the hotel. To our surprise, when one of the intersections the police stopped us and flashlights devoted himself to the eyes. As it turned out the previous evening, local youth in an internet cafe with a knife zaciahal two buddies. According to the taxi driver who told us about it, it went to a woman. NB Internet cafes in China 网吧 - just like us gaming - are nests of crime among minors, and they think that if someone goes to the cafe, it is not it is no good.

we finally reached the hotel, We fell exhausted to bed, still wondering just what will bring us the next day ...