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翻译、解说:郎郎乾坤
伴奏、合成:Lotus
The landscape of Guilin is right in the city proper. Living in Guilin and surrounded by mountains and rivers, people enjoy great scenery everywhere.
Both today and in ancient times the hill stands and stood in the center of the city and people from far or near can see the pavilions on top of it.
The buildings at the foot of the hill were once the Examination Compound for the imperial examinations. Building the examination site in such a place where the entire city could see at any time fully shows the ancient people’s yearning for fame. Today, interestingly the “exam” has become a tourist program. Tourists are quite interested in taking the exam and see whether they can pass it.
Although mountains and rivers occupy most of the land people with wisdom still find suitable places for farming. There’s some distance to travel there, then simply take a small boat. With these faithful fellows’ eagerness to working a bumper harvest is indeed in sight.
Where the farmlands are, the homes are. In Longji Rice Terraces area, the Yao people set up their homes on the mountainsides. The artistic conception of Guilin’s landscape is relatively subtle, but the Red Yao People here express their feelings about life with the most unrestrained red colors. On the Clothes-sunning Festival the sixth day of the sixth lunar month every year every family takes their clothes out to air to get rid of the moisture. This collective activity flourishes their continuously impassioned life while keeping their clothes bright red.
The formation of the artistic conception of Guilin landscape has a lot to do with this mountain. Mao’er Mountain is located on the east of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, where the abundant moisture carried by the monsoon is retained by the mountains before it reaches the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau.
The moisture that does not climb the plateau then acquires another fate. It enters the swamp in a form of rain, nourishing the trees, and becomes streams that slowly converge and flow down the river quietly becoming the intoxicating Li River with mists and rain.