Last weekend, an outdoor hiking group went to the mountains for a 100-yuan lunch. More than 30 people boarded a bus, which drove to the end of the concrete road of county road and township road, got off and started hiking.
There is a small pond by the side of the mountain, and a family of five houses built against the mountain. On a roadside farm stood a simple pergola with a sign selling local produce, a flock of free-range chickens pecked at it, and a few goats stood at the edge of the slope. Want to sell the local products may be the local chicken bacon and so on.
Not far past the house, the mountain path soon became narrow and crooked. A foot wide path hidden in the grass between wild flowers, slightly not careful, but also thought there was no way to go. There were yellow and white wild flowers among the lush weeds along the road, but not a single red flower. It is the roadside hillside cotinus out of the red florets like fluff, reflecting the green leaves of the blue sky brilliant bloom. Cotinus leaves in the autumn red tree, pleasing to the eye, did not expect in early summer season will also be bonus topper, intoxication.
The mountain road extends to the mountain along a stream, and on the bank of the stream stands a tall and handsome Melia tree. Under the blue sky and green mountains, the trees are full of lavender flowers swaying gently in the breeze, filled with a strong romantic atmosphere.
"In front of the peach and plum fly to do, and see the spring to neem flowers." As the last of the 24 flower trade winds, Neem flowers send off blooming spring flowers with elegant colors and pleasant fragrance, followed by "gentle breeze, gentle breeze, gentle rain, ripe plums", ushering in a prosperous summer. Maybe the temperature in the mountains is cool, neem flowers are still in bloom, and neem flowers at the edge of the city have already opened.
The winding path and the twists and turns of the water side by side, the road followed the peak, through a wild chestnut forest, the stream banks are many willow, locust and walnut trees. It is surprising how many trees that are common below the mountain are wild here. Full of locust flowers like a string of white pearls, shining in the sun, sending out attractive fragrance. Unfortunately, the tree highland danger, unable to pick up, had to empty to sigh. Those wild dry willow branches do not like weeping willow branches as low and graceful, but stubbornly up. Walnut trunk thick, luxuriant foliage, it seems that some years. I just don't know if I can taste the delicious walnuts when autumn comes.
Under the dense shade, slowly walking in the gravel, mud mixed with the secluded path, looking at the gurgling stream flowing at the foot, listening to the gurgling sound of the water in the ear, suddenly a wear deep and dense, slow to find deep static, the stream with the mountain, the sound of noisy rocks in the wild interest will pour into the heart.
Walking, from time to time there are butterflies in pairs in front of the flying, most of the butterflies here are small blue butterflies. Full of green, yellow flowers, white flowers throughout the meantime, fighting for fragrance. Elf-like blue butterflies dance in the legendary Butterfly Valley.
When we reached the mountain, the locust trees, willow trees and walnut trees had disappeared. "No beautiful trees on the top of mountains hurt the sun; If there is no grass under the tree, it will hurt the shade." The ancients were right to conclude that the environment here was no longer suitable for them to live.
The hills were dominated by cotinus, oaks, and a great many miscellaneous trees of unknown origin, many of which had become shrubs.
From the mountain to the other side of the hill, it is a different scene.
The jujube is in bloom. The Chinese toon trees have also blossomed, with panic-shaped inflorescences hanging from their branches. Quite a few people are impressed by the tender buds of Toon in spring, but will not notice that toon also has flowers and will bear fruit.
Continue down the hill, there is a roadside temple, a small temple equivalent to three roof-houses, in which guan Gong, with the words "Han Shou Ting Marquis Guan Yu" written. In front of the temple stand empty, stand a monument, write to focus on the magnificence, "temple carve liang and draw meng, fly dragon huangqu to rise, Jin Feng Qi beast along. Courtyard giant poplar towering, on the sky, surrounded by dense forest, cui Qingyun clouds, temple after the establishment of bamboo clusters, gurgling streams, its strict and quiet, every festival auspicious day, village people salty gather here......" The inscription is seriously inconsistent with the actual situation on the site.
Such a holy place, pity the fifties and sixties were robbed, temple destroyed. Though we rebuild now, times have changed.
The procession reached a village where the coach had been waiting. There's a lot of landscaping going on in the countryside these days, with the flowering of hypericum, willow verbena, day lilies and cherry blossoms, among other cultivated varieties.
But there are always villagers think that flowers are useless, not as good as vegetables, so the village will always be filled with the thick taste of farm manure.