Travel Notes | Enjoy Yongfu Cherry Blossoms

Yongfu is one of the few places in the country where you can enjoy cherry blossoms during the Spring Festival. It is located in Yongfu Town, Zhangping City, Longyan City, Fujian Province. It is only more than 50 kilometers away from my home. It is a county-level mountainous road with good scenery. It takes more than an hour to drive.
The Yongfu cherry blossoms are different from the cherry blossoms on Qinglong Temple, Jiaotong University and other streets in Xi'an. The petals are relatively small and they are planted on tea mountains. They are not suitable for close-ups. On a sunny day, the crimson cherry blossoms are along the mountains and green. The curves drawn among the tea mountains are really eye-catching.
Because I planned to go to Japan after the Spring Festival, I originally arranged for my wife and daughter to come to Xi'an to celebrate the New Year with the old man, and then drive to Sichuan and Yunnan by myself. However, my daughter had to go to work on the sixth day of the lunar new year. Obviously, there was not enough time to go back and forth, so the old man asked me to go back to Fujian. New Year.
When I returned home on the evening of the 24th (the 27th of the twelfth lunar month), my wife told me that they would have to go to work until the afternoon of the 29th. The cherry blossoms in Yongfu were in bloom, and she suggested that I go and take a look. I took my parents there with me in the first month of that year. There were a lot of people, and the old man's health made it impossible to watch for a long time. This time, most people didn't have a holiday. I went alone, so I could enjoy it.
After the peak flow of people to work passed, I drove there alone. The road in the mountainous area was winding and winding. Sometimes it was in the woods, and sometimes it was under the bamboo trees. However, the road surface seemed to be still so broken. Suddenly, a big hole appeared on the road surface, which caught me off guard. After crossing the highest mountains, patches of tea gardens appeared on the slopes on both sides from time to time. The woods felt a little dark and lacked the greenness of that year.
Although it is winter in the North, wearing a jacket is a bit too much for me under the sun at this time. I am not afraid of the sun, so I want to find a shade to avoid it. The sky is very blue with some white clouds dotted in it. I like it very much.
The tea garden is very big, and cherry blossoms are planted along the road, scattered on the three hills in the shape of "pin". It may be 5-6 kilometers to walk all around.
There are very few people. The roads are wide and spacious. Tourists in twos and threes are basically keen on taking "mug photos" under the flowers. I don't like this, but they like it. Seeing their happy faces after taking the photos is actually a sign of their happiness. Regarding the scenery, I don’t understand the Hokkien dialect. I have been living here for more than ten years, but I don’t live here for more than a few days a year. My friends all speak Mandarin to me, so of course I can’t learn the Hokkien dialect.
I decided to walk through the three hills at once. I could take photos of whatever I wanted, or just stand there and watch the crimson flying clouds or the whispers of pretty girls. , listening to the laughter of children, and the mediocre expressions of middle-aged and elderly people like me.
At the highest point of the mountain top, there are houses or pavilions with gray columns, gray roofs and white walls, dotted around them, adding to the poetic charm. Just walk all the way up the slope, go up a long gentle slope, then slowly walk down the other side, and then walk to the top of the mountain on the opposite side. On this slope where people often come, the house is for commercial use and is clean and neat. Few people go to the pavilion on the hill opposite. The road in front of the pavilion is also very dilapidated. There are garbage and bottles everywhere. The stairs were even more unsightly. I stopped for a moment and then left. After walking a few hundred meters, I looked back and saw that it was still crimson flying clouds, gray roofs and white walls in the green tea mountains, beautiful. Unusual, listening to a play with Brother Xun is like the same thing.

The camellias have already bloomed. It took me a long time to find two or three of them. I found them while walking straight from the tea garden. After walking straight for two or three times, I finally brought myself to a roadless place. Looking at the cherry blossoms not far away, I could only get past by taking a detour.
After walking for several hours, it seems that we have gone to all the places we should and want to go. The weather is getting hot, so we should go back and prepare the things we need to go out tomorrow. When I opened the car door, a heat wave hit my face. It was not winter at all.