Why ride to Huanglong River—D8: Jiuzhaigou Scenic Area—Songpan

▲ Mavericks went to the scenic spot early in the morning. My shuttle bus was at 7:30. Before leaving, I found that the tire was flat. It was actually a small glass slag that caused the slow deflation. I took the time to repair the tire and went to the bus station. Everything went smoothly. Get on the bus to Songpan. There was another car accident and a huge traffic jam on the way. After waiting for two and a half hours, we finally moved.

▲Songtsen Gampo & Princess Wencheng

It was already noon in Songpan. I originally planned to go to Mounigou Scenic Area today, but after calculating the time, it was obviously too late, so I had to rest in Songpan Ancient City for a day.

▲Songpan Ancient City is divided into two parts: the inner city and the outer city. The inner city spans the Chongshan Mountain and is slightly triangular in shape along the mountain. The valley part under the Chongshan Mountain in the east is rectangular. The outer city is adjacent to the lower valley of the valley south of the inner city, with a city gate and an inner city. The cities are connected and the plane is rectangular. The city wall has a total length of 6.2 kilometers. It is built with locally fired green bricks and made of earth and stone. It is 12.5 meters high and more than 12 meters thick. It is made of mortar made of glutinous rice, lime and tung oil and is jointed and strong. Like a copper wall and an iron wall. Each city gate is only made of large regular rectangular stone arches.

▲Li Deyu, he was once called "China's Six Great Politicians" by Mr. Liang Qichao, the core figure of the reform movement. The other five alongside him are all well-known figures: Guan Zhong, Shang Yang, Zhuge Liang, Wang Anshi and Zhang Juzheng. Liu Yu, a statesman of the Five Dynasties, commented on him: "He succeeded in the Northern Palace, and his bones were buried in the Southern Sea. Who is going to paint at the Yange Pavilion? "

▲Songpan Ancient City is magnificent in scale and extraordinary in momentum. The length, height, thickness of its city walls and the exquisite relief stone carvings are second to none in ethnic areas.

▲Entering Songpan County, the city gates and walls covering a ten-mile radius are tall, ancient and well-preserved.

▲Reappearance of folk customs

▲Walking around the city wall, you can see the residential houses located far and near. Standing on the city wall and overlooking the whole ancient city, their lives continue before your eyes, and the road in the distance is at your feet.

▲Standing on the tower, you can have a panoramic view of Songpan City.

▲My ancestor: Liu Bang, the great ancestor of the Han Dynasty

▲Li Bai’s 100 poems about drinking wine

▲Since ancient times, Songpan has been an important border town that military strategists must compete for. Today, a large number of ancient battlefield relics such as passes, military camps, Jingdun and beacon towers along the Minjiang River Valley and Fujiang River Valley can still be seen everywhere.

▲This is a maid holding a lamp, not a pole dancer.

▲"Travel to the North Wind" is an ancient poem written by Li Bai, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, who borrowed ancient Yuefu titles.

▲It’s a crisp autumn day today, the sun is warm, and there are few people on the broad city wall.

▲Now Songpan is far away from the smoke and disputes and is no longer a market city. The commercial streets here are also newly built and the environment is very good. People of the four ethnic groups, Qiang, Tibetan and Hui, live here in harmony.

▲When I visited the ancient city wall, there were no tickets for sale and there were very few tourists. Nowadays, the ticket to climb the city wall is 150, but there are so many tourists. In fact, this is a kind of consumer psychology: No matter how beautiful the scenery is without tickets, no one will see it. The higher the ticket price, the more you will break your head and spend money to buy it. Just like the Mounigou Scenic Area that I will introduce tomorrow, you will know it just by looking at it.