Loess Plateau on the "floating village"

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Speaking of Shanxi hunyuan the XuanKong Temple, few people do not know. If told you have a whole are hanging in the hillside village above, you'll feel magic and wonder.






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  Mountainous forest, exotic scenery of Ningwu Shanxi Loess Plateau on a green pearl. Ningwu more than 80 acres of pristine secondary woodlands, the County, a dozen kilometers to the higher grade of "king of groove," this small village deep conceal them. King of Village of its unique location and distinctive architecture, well known in recent years gradually, passed as the current "floating village." It is flattening, the highest on the hillside, the village is built along cliffs on the situation, from the bottom looking up, is like castles in the air. Curved path along the spiral, the number of elderly people, children, do not panic, looking at us is not strange. "Floating village" of housing patchwork, every household connected to, or even the second floor or attic. Villagers, cattle, sheep, mule circle, also built in the cliff edge. For the entire village valley, the first half mostly wooden pillars support the building vacant. Widening in front, paved wood, the village is the only road less than a kilometer in length, forming a rare "air at large in" landscape.
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"Floating village" easy-going person, honest and friendly. Hospitality of the villagers, whether elderly people over seventy years of age, or retire very young children, will warm you to the guest house, without reservation, to introduce you to ditch the king of the past and present. 32-year-old villager Wang Jianjun enthusiastic, active as our tour guide. Only 13 households in the homeland of Geshi are only 40 people live in three, and now, like most rural areas, many villages have been out working to earn a living. Naked Oats face, bean flour and potatoes are their main food. Village in a mountain spring, long flow continuously, clear and sweet, is the village's only water source. Construction of housing, mostly stone and wood-based. Village, though small, have had Dragon King Temple, Wong Tai Sin Temple and 5 Ye three small temples in the hands of the villagers living in the mountains of the spiritual world.








Quiet valley in the "floating village", as if the South Diaojiaolou group, constitute a chic mountain house arrest plan. Exposure to stone pavilion, lean on a railing looking, green sea waves, everywhere Bi Ye. After every rain and snow, "hanging village" is miles Cloud, Silver Sea vast, magnificent. Plank road in the village, the clouds floated from time to time flashed like sheep and farming village of Wu's figure. Under the warm sun before the stone house wooden, the gathering of life of people idle and Syria. Good luck in the quiet of nature, the formation of a "floating village" a warm and unique. Local elderly people told me that resembles the mountain above the Yamagata Hericium, is the patron saint of the whole village. There is a mountain behind Hericium Hutoushan, mountains mountains, there are many legends ... ...








Between the cliff, there are two "Guyaju" caught my interest. According to legend, in the distant past, there is an ancient cliff dwelling in accordance with the Department. With binoculars I really see between the natural formation of the cliff, with the shape of dilapidated housing construction. It is said that earlier also can climb up, there is now no road to follow. "Floating village" over 200 years of history, according to village elders say, early in the Qing period, and their ancestors to avoid disaster and war, came to this inaccessible mountain Ningwu deep, built on the hillside This office is more secure home. Generations








Way Youminbuluo fifth anniversary of the 2007 Le Tibet White Paper on air travel, sacred wedding golden week travel all captures their own entertainment. We can not research the history of its exact cause, but "floating village" of the ancestors, chose this piece away from the earth, a beautiful place, and seek a comfortable and quiet, at the time point of view, can not be said that a more sensible choice.








The hardships of life and the environment as a closed, many young people can not marry married, there are 14 single men only. Village only 45 children, also faces abandoned their studies of the distress about the environment. Now, in the village many people are beginning to move out of the village, traffic is relatively easy in Ningwu or East Zhai Xiang settled down. King of living and farming village in the main tool is the donkeys, mules and other livestock. In recent years, due to population, shortage of livestock, the village of about 700 acres of arable mountain, over 200 acres near-deserted. Conversation with the villagers, feel they are most concerned about is how poor countries can get loans, the development of sheep, chickens, and to carry out tourism. Trust between Politics, 52, 37-year-old Tze, 56-year-old Zhang Chengyu ... ... met with us, outsiders, over and over again recounting the inner desire.