The Hakland Miscellany

Two days ago, in Lanzhou to participate in the province's a software training course, not long, but a small gain. The training center management of food and housing, in addition to learning without worrying about other, but also comfortable. Only the accommodation conditions are a little poor, three people a house, the bed is very simple, a quilt a mattress a pillow and itself, the participants are too poor living conditions complained about a lot. The relationship with the people who run the meeting was good, so I was given a house for one person, although simple but quiet. The good thing is that the food is good, including breakfast, three meals are buffet, there are many delicious dishes to choose, not to lose everyone's taste, more or less to reduce the bad accommodation conditions and complaints. There is no tension in studying, no exams, and no certificates are issued, but there is a lot of time to spend outside of class, especially the time after dinner. A friend who has a good relationship lost more than 400 yuan in one night, and was very uncomfortable, and was still a little upset when he told me about it the next morning. I deliberately teased him: "Manly man, willing to gamble to lose." I do not like these, like to go for a walk outside alone.

Training center in the north bank of the Yellow River, a north-south canyon, named Dasha Ping. To the north is another medium-sized city in Gansu Baiyin, and further north is the Gobi Desert and Tengri Desert. Out of the training center gate, north-south is a national highway, north through Baiyin, turn Ningxia Zhongwei, Inner Mongolia Baotou, Hohhot, can reach Beijing. A few kilometers south across the Yellow River is downtown Lanzhou. Although this is a part of Lanzhou city, it is a world away from the main city. In recent years, the Lanzhou city government has increased its efforts to renovate this area, but it is still full of desolation. Here is a canyon, east and west width of more than a mile, all the buildings are built on the hillside, or cut off a piece of the hillside built close to the mountain. The mountains on both sides are red sandstone, there is no trace of water, artificially planted cypress trees, if you do not look closely, as dry as possible, almost no signs of life. In windy weather, from the top of the mountain, the whole canyon is lightly dusty and heavily sandy, a desolation. This evening, the weather was good, the wind was light, and the sun was still blindingly bright at the western slope. Out of the gate of the training center, want to go north along the national highway, there are many cars on the road, exhaust choking, I changed direction, from the west side of a turn-off road up the mountain. It was the first time in my life that I came into close contact with the mountain here. The structure of the mountain is red sandstone, vegetation is sparse, and a hill is connected to a hill, high and low stretches. The depression between the two hills is formed by soil erosion and wind erosion, and the more time passes, the steeper the mountain becomes, especially near the top where it is almost at right angles. The special mountain, the special natural conditions, formed a special landform. When I climbed it, I had a feeling of being in the West. I followed a road for the forestry and the construction of the mountain up, halfway up the mountain at the bend there is a mountain pass, the mountain pass to the west open up, far away, three connected round and pointed hills across the west, the middle of the hill is lower, the two sides of the slightly higher, at the moment the sun is red hot red, just on the middle of the lower hill, a beautiful picture, red red light lined in the north and south of the mountain on the red sandstone, blood The same; red red light spilled on the open ground, a red. Oh, the sun is really like blood! The shaded side of the mountain to the west was greenish because the sun did not shine. I stood in the pass, covered with the red of the sunset, the shadow was stretched to reflect far and wide. The northwest corner of the open space is a low cottage, a wisp of green smoke from the chimney curling up, smoke and haze, hard is a layer of poetry. "The desert is straight, the long river is round", is not in front of you? This is not as open and majestic as Wang Wei's desert, but it is no less spectacular. The sun gradually sank, the gaze moved past, from the three hills connected between the two gaps can still see the sun's light, but the whole open space but darkened. Dark night is coming, dead silence, that moment in the heart of a sudden rise of a desolate feeling. The heart woke up: "the desert is straight, the Yangtze River is full of sunset", the majestic and spectacular contains the bleak beauty of the bleak, this spectacular soul, this bleak can penetrate the heart. It is because of this shocking and penetrating power that the poet's wisdom shone through, writing words that traveled through a thousand years of time and space. Suddenly a desire arose in my heart to continue to go up, wanting to catch up with the sinking sun and lock the beauty of this bleakness, but until I went up to the end of the road, I did not see the sun again, but came to chase the darkness of the sky and the earth.

Bewildered looking south at the city, a bright, an orange, like a burning flame, but a hundred times brighter than the flame, in addition to a scattering of red green purple in which flashes, the whole body of orange bright, can not see for any building, as if the night melted the daytime towering buildings, into a beautiful orange light, this light stretches for dozens of kilometers, the same shocking, full of illusionary beauty. Taste this beauty, rich, warm, romantic, indulge in desire. When I moved down the mountain, the surrounding area was dark, silent, dead quiet, but I love this kind of quiet.