A warm and pleasant holiday trip

My children and grandchildren have had their summer vacation one after another, and my wife and I should go back to my hometown of Nanchang for a while. My son arranged a self-driving trip to Ningbo before we left, and the family set off again, which opened the prelude to our 2019 warm and pleasant holiday trip. To feel the elegant demeanor of the modern international port city, the national historical and cultural city, the national civilized city and the famous academician's hometown in China for four consecutive times.

First of all, pass through the Hangzhou Bay Bridge. Hangzhou Bay Bridge is a cross-sea bridge across the sea area of Hangzhou Bay, China. It starts from Zhengjiazheng, Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province in the north, and Cixi Waterway Bay in Ningbo in the south. It is one of the longest sea-crossing bridges in the world. With the completion of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, which ranks first in the world, Hangzhou Bay Bridge has become the third longest cross-sea bridge in the world after the Pangchatron Lake Bridge in the United States. More than 30 kilometers of cross-sea bridge stretches continuously, extending to the sea and sky in the distance, the momentum is like a rainbow, impressive!

Our car stopped at the Haitian Yizhou garage, the sea platform of the bridge, which is located to the south of the Hangzhou Bay Cross-Sea Bridge. The overall appearance of the Dapeng Optimus Pearl means that the development of the Hangzhou Bay area can spread its wings and fly higher and higher; it is divided into two parts: the sightseeing platform and the sightseeing tower, which provides comprehensive services such as catering, accommodation, leisure, entertainment, sightseeing, shopping and so on; the sightseeing tower allows tourists to stand at the commanding height overlooking the magnificent momentum of the bridge and the magnificent Hangzhou Bay. The main building integrates the functions of sightseeing, boutique hotel, bridge exhibition hall, Yangtze River Delta theme tourism and shopping center, and is a pearl in the Yangtze River Delta region. Visitors can personally experience the feeling of watching the sea, listening to the tide and watching the bridge. Reading and appreciation of American articles

In the Bridge Exhibition Hall, we learned about the bridge from the concept, planning, design, construction and other processes, its innovation and technology broke a number of world records, leaving a strong ink in the history of world bridge construction. On the interactive experience platform, grandchildren compete to operate construction projects such as piling, hoisting, lifting, pouring cement and framing beams on the motor. The magical interactive experience of teaching and entertainment makes them interested and overjoyed.

Our seven-row car arrived in Ningbo at 4: 00 p. M. on July 11. The first stop is to visit Yuehu Park and enjoy the scenic spots of ten continents on Yuehu Lake, which reflects each other with three embankments and seven bridges. Since the Song and Yuan dynasties, Yuehu has been a gathering place for literati to meet and rest. He Zhizhang, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, Wang Anshi, a famous minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, Shi Hao, prime minister of the Southern Song Dynasty, Yang Jian, a famous scholar, and Wan Shitong, a great historian in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, these romantic figures lived in seclusion, gave lectures, were officials, or wrote books, all left an indelible mark on Yuehu. After dinner, I took a walk to watch the night view of the Old Bund. Having seen many night scenes of the city, I felt that the night scene of Yongcheng was a combination of Chinese and Western scenery.

The next morning as planned, we visited Tianyi Pavilion, the most important scenic spot in Ningbo. Tianyi Pavilion is the earliest existing private library in China, the oldest library in Asia and one of the three earliest family libraries in the world. Tianyi Pavilion was announced as a national key cultural relic protection unit by the State Council in 1982, and is now a national AAAAA-level tourist scenic spot.

Across the gate of the Southern Book City, there is a statue of Fan Yin, the owner of Tianyi Pavilion, sitting there, smiling to welcome the admiring tourists. Dongming thatched cottage is a world of books! All kinds of books are displayed in the window, including engraved copies and manuscripts of the Ming Dynasty, many of which are solitary copies at home and abroad, which have become valuable documents.

Nine lions like the scene around the pool strange stone base mountain, there seem to be nine lions play during it, after hundreds of years of wind and rain, it still looks so lifelike and lively. The stone in the middle and the tree together form the words Fu, Lu and Shou, which is really miraculous craftsmanship. On the side is the wing of the pavilion, covered with ancient trees and bamboo; the rockery is exquisite, planting bamboo and raising fish, which is very quiet. Tianyi Pavilion is like a maze. Only when we walk strictly according to the map will we not fall behind the important scenery or get lost.

The weather forecast says there will be heavy rain in the afternoon. Tianyi Pavilion has already come out at noon. We rushed to the next stop of Ningbo Xikou Scenic spot without going to dinner. It is said that Tao Yuanming's Peach Blossom Garden is today's Xikou. In modern times, it attracts people's attention because it is the hometown of Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang's father and son. The scenery around the mountain ring here is beautiful, and the main scenic spots in the scenic area are: Chiang Kai-shek's former residence, Chiang Kai-shek's mother's tomb road, Xuedou Mountain, Sanyintan, Zhang Xueliang's forbidden place, and so on.

Xuedou Mountain is a national scenic spot, a national forest park and a national AAAAA tourist spot. It is the center of Maitreya Buddha, one of the five famous Buddhist mountains in China. It has the reputation of Penglai at sea and rooftop on land. Outside the Xuedou Temple, the first mountain inscription on the mountain gate can be seen, written by Chiang Kai-shek himself.

In front of Xuedou Temple, Chongyan Biili, Gao Qianzhang, hence the name Qianzhangyan. Water flows from the top of Qianzhang Rock to form a waterfall, which is as thin as an avalanche. The waterfall is 186 meters high, splashed with jade, colorful and spectacular. Since the Song Dynasty, there have been numerous poems praising the scenery of Qianzhang Rock. Among the eight masters of the Tang and Song dynasties, two left excellent poems and essays to Qianzhangyan. Wang Anshi, the prime minister of the Song Dynasty and a great writer, came to Xikou and wrote down the standing of the heavenly green peaks, hanging in the air, and watching the jade female machine silk hanging, reflecting the sun into a famous poem in five colors.

The great literature mound Zeng Gong stood on the hillside to the west of Qianzhang Rock to watch the waterfall and wrote down the poem that the snowflake turned over at the drop of Yuqiu, and the thunder of the four seasons was cold in June. Please look up from under the rock. At that time, when Chiang Kai-shek returned to Xikou, he only had to stay in Miaogaotai in a sedan chair. When passing through Qianzhang Rock, you must get off the sedan chair to watch the scenery. He often watches waterfalls and makes poems and paintings with Soong Mei-ling. Many celebrities of all previous dynasties stopped at Qianzhangyan, pleasing to the eye, leaving beautiful allusions, words and chapters, and folk allusions to become a Buddha came from here.

We came to the bottom of Xuedou Mountain and looked up at the mountain, unfathomable and misty. Sun Tzu proposed to take the cable car up the mountain, and their father patiently encouraged him and inspired them to fight. They no longer insist, but not long after walking, a heavy rain poured down, holding umbrellas clinging to their parents' hands, hard to walk, and finally saw the majestic appearance of Qianzhangyan waterfall, really worthy of its reputation.

After that, our son let us go first, and we finally reached the peak, drenched and weak. After visiting the scenic spot of Miao Gaotai in Jiang's official residence, we came down the mountain and happened to meet four people entering the door. This greatly surprised us, such a long and difficult trek, for only six-year-old children, usually seldom walk a long way at home, it is not easy, I sincerely praised their indomitable will.

Finally, we came to Xuedou Temple and paid our respects to an open-air Maitreya Buddha in Xuedou Mountain. The statue is 33 meters high, plus the lotus pedestal and the pedestal are 56 in height. 74 meters. The big Buddha sits north and south, sitting in a copper posture, holding a cloth bag in his left hand and Buddha beads in his right hand, smiling and showing his chest and belly. It is a Chinese Maitreya Buddha statue modeled by the basic form of the cloth bag monk in Fenghua. The Giant Buddha is located on the hillside of Xuedou Mountain at an altitude of 369 meters above sea level, condescending, connected with the whole rock, solid and solid, as steady as a rock, magnificent and magnificent.

After going down the mountain, we couldn't wait to get on the bus and rush home, and there was going to be another heavy rain. Sure enough, shortly after our car left, it was raining cats and dogs, which was frightening. Fortunately, near the service area, we hastened to avoid danger and buy some food to solve the problem of hunger. When we got home in shock after fighting the rain, our son, who had been driving for three and a half hours, heaved a sigh of relief and said, "We're finally home." We have the right to regard this dangerous storm as a salute to welcome us home.

Shanghai, July 14, 2019