beyong Scenery | In Chongzuo, I embarked on a "geographical and cultural" reading journey

This trip felt like reading a three-dimensional book. The main storyline is the "Epic of Chongzuo": from Taiping Ancient City in the urban area, the Guilong Tower—one of the world's eight leaning towers—to the Chongzuo Stone Forest, which rivals the Stone Forest in Yunnan, these are the prologue of culture and humanity. Then, the story shifts to the grandeur of nature: Tongna Yuwan, Detian Transnational Waterfall, Tongling Grand Canyon... The "reading station" I chose happens to be in the most exciting chapter of the whole book—Mingshi Pastoral. Here, there is not only beautiful landscape but also living culture: villagers of Mingshi Longgantun who work from sunrise, and the warm grandmother offering fruit, are the most vivid footnotes between the pages. By day, I go out to "read" the world; by night, I return to the station to "digest" what I have seen. This quiet place that allows me to calm down and slowly savor every mountain, every river, every city, and every pond is called Huashan Yunye. It makes me believe that true travel is a dual arrival of both body and soul.