Chapter 172 Murals
This is also the reason why the food in the Shanding Hotel is so rich but very easy to eat, because these things are not worth anything here, and only a small amount of labor is needed to pick or capture them.
The students couldn't help but be amazed at this paradise-like life, and even a little envious. Only Lu Yang had a cold face and was always highly vigilant. The plants and trees were all soldiers, like frightened birds. Here, the more beautiful the scenery in his eyes, the more strange the scenery, the enviable it must be traps and youhuo. No matter what you see, it feels abnormal.
After passing the livestock planting area, it was completely primitive. The blue sky, the clouds, the strange stones of the blue lake, and from time to time, the birds sing and flew past their heads. The mountains and waters are beautiful, and the grass is fragrant, making people linger.
If Lu Yang hadn't heard about Shanding Village from Zhou Ling and Han Cheng, and had made him have many bad associations with these, he would have been immersed in this beauty like everyone else around him.
But now he can't. Although he is surrounded by laughter and joy, he can't fit in.
Speaking of which, the people who developed the Shanding Village scenic spot were still very good at it, but the infrastructure in the later stage has not been kept up, or there are some unknown reasons that have not really started to operate lively. It is a great regret.
However, it is also possible that this reason has kept the original appearance so complete. Once Mopan Mountain is really open to the roads and developed transportation, and humans have entered here on a large scale, all the beauty will no longer exist, and will be replaced by a large amount of garbage and smelly water.
Because the scenery along the way was so beautiful, the students kept taking pictures of each other and walking and stopping, after more than an hour of trekking to Shanding Village, the not-so-long mountain road, two small classes finally arrived at the end of the inspection: the location of the ruins of Shanding Village.
From a distance, the entire mountain top village is hidden in a lush green area, but there is no sign or a fireworks. Inside and outside the village, except for stone roads and artificial paths, there are clusters of weeds, which almost grew to more than one person tall. Surrounded by these weeds, there are very dilapidated Qing Dynasty-style buildings.
These weeds gave students the opportunity to catch the mi hiding. Two counselors and three tour guides had to shout from time to time to remind the students not to run away.
After entering the wall, there is a stone wall outside Shanding Village. It is the real site of the ruins. The houses in the ruins have obviously been abandoned for many years and have been disrepaired for many years. Most of them have collapsed. Although the surface is complete, the dust on the windows and door frames and the iron locks on the doors that are almost completely rusted on the doors indicate that no one has lived here for a long time, so it is called the ruins.
Regarding the origin of Shanding Village, there are some records in the library collection of the China Academy of Arts. It is roughly a wealthy family in the late Qing Dynasty. In order to avoid the war, they built a large mansion here and moved here with all their tribesmen, making it a paradise.
This record of origin has not been verified or the source is not known. It seems to be from the mouths of some Mopan Mountain people, so the authenticity cannot be truly confirmed, but no one seems to care too much about these.
When contemporary people discovered this paradise ruins, only houses and buildings were left here, and no living person was seen. Not only did they not see the living person, but there was not even a single body found in the entire village. Although there was a cemetery on the high hill behind Shanding Village, all the coffin pits were empty. I don’t know if they were visited by tomb robbers, but there was no corpse anyway.
The valuable things in Shanding Village have long been plundered by the mountain people who came here accidentally, and all the things that could be taken away were taken away. However, because it is not easy for Shanding Village to get out of the mountain, the bulky tables, chairs, benches, clay pots and other things were left behind.
The local government has also considered retaining the entire village as a cultural heritage, but after investigation and demonstration by relevant experts, it felt that these buildings were not very old, and the maintenance costs were too high, and the economic significance after declaration was not very great. In the end, the cultural heritage matter was left unresolved and was changed to bidding the society, transforming the surrounding area of Shanding Village into a natural scenic spot.
When the scenic spot was first built, the investment was still very large, widening the mountain roads and solar energy,
Wind power generation, water diversion projects, including the construction of mobile telecommunications and communication base stations, etc. Of course, there is also a mountaintop hotel building group that can accommodate more than 300 people.
After the first phase was completed, the scenic spot released a large number of advertisements to the public, and even provided free boarding tickets, etc., which was very lively. However, tourists did not come as they imagined. The scenic spot was not as profitable as they expected, and a large number of employees were fired. They had to invite some mountain people to live here for daily maintenance, which eventually became one of the countless abandoned development scenic spots in China.
As for why this place has never become popular, the relevant personnel involved in the construction of the scenic spot were puzzled, but this is the fact that the investment failed. You cannot think about the reasons. All the construction projects planned in the scenic spot later had to be suspended.
In recent years, if it weren’t for the students of the China Academy of Arts to divide them into dozens of groups every year to conduct cultural historical sites, the place would have been permanently abandoned.
Although Yiya and her classmates came here for the first time, the scenery of Shanding Village is not unfamiliar to them, because previous students have long painted all the beautiful scenery that can be painted in Shanding Village on canvas. The school museum can browse the excellent selection of these paintings, but this time they can come here to witness all this with their own eyes.
The beauty depicted in the painting is far less than one-tenth of what you see on the spot. This feeling of being in it in all aspects cannot be fully expressed even by the exquisite painting.
"Remember the inspection discipline I announced to you earlier! You are not allowed to leave the team and run around!
It is not allowed to move the facilities in the house! We must try to maintain the original appearance of Shanding Village! Because not only will we come here to inspect historical sites, but the next and next juniors will also come..." The male counselor held a loud trumpet in his hand and repeated the inspection discipline to the students loudly.
Although there were many people around him, and it was very lively, and it was broad daylight with direct sunlight on his head, Lu Yang didn't know why, looking at the mountaintop village in front of him, it was like seeing a demon cave, a demon cave that would devour everyone's lives. This made his premonition of unknownness even stronger, and even made him feel a little chilled on his back and his whole body tremble.
At a certain moment, Lu Yang even felt that the sun's light suddenly became colder, and the laughter and noise of the students around him became extremely far away.
This kind of scene made him think of the strange domain, and the arrival of the strange domain was never warning.
"Yin Yin, are you okay? Why are you so bad in your face?" Yiya came over and asked with concern. "Lin Yin, and at the same time, he also awakened Lu Yang from his meditation.
"I'm fine." Lu Yang shook his head and forced a smile at Yiya.
"There is still no signal on the mobile phone. What are the people in the mobile company doing?" Yiya held the phone with a depressed look on her face.
"Do you miss him?" Lu Yang teased Yiya with Lin Yin's mouth.
Yiya gave Lin Yin a blank look and did not reply to Lu Yang's words.
"Everyone was grouped in advance, and three tour guides led a team to Shanding Village for inspection!
Today is the time for the collective inspection, and we will start grouping and sketching in groups tomorrow! Finally, we will emphasize it! We must meet at the entrance of the village at five o'clock in the afternoon!" The male counselor continued to announce the inspection discipline and arrangements to the students with the horn in his hand.
"Let's go, go into the village for investigation." Yiya took Lin Yin's hand and walked towards the team of ten people where they were.
Looking down from the sky, Shanding Village is an oval collection complex with an area of not small, with a diameter of at least about a thousand meters. The outer edge is a circle of stone walls about four meters high. They are relatively strongly built and there are not many collapsed parts, making Shanding Village look more like a closed town.
The houses in the center of the small town are relatively high, and they even use glazed tiles and other materials that were used by the aristocratic houses in the city at that time. I don’t know where they were transported. These tall houses should be places where people of the tribe live. The more they go to the edge, the lower the houses are, and the materials for building houses are much worse. Then some places where livestock are raised are apparently raising.
It is so far away from the central town that it can build such a huge mountaintop building complex. The ruins of the mountaintop village are indeed full of mysteries, but for some reason, they have been ignored by artificially chosen and still sleep here.
The students were divided into three teams, each with about ten people led by a tour guide. Although the routes of the inspection were different, the three teams would transfer the entire Shanding Village. Although the mountaintop forest was not very large, the village had ancestral halls, a small square, market, blacksmith shop, carpenter shop, etc. It seems that the people who built the village had a lot of thought and brought a large number of people. According to Lu Yang's preliminary estimate, so many architectural houses could accommodate at least hundreds or even more than a thousand people in it.
Although the people in the village are gone, the obvious traces left by their living here can be seen from the decoration of many things.
"This is the ancestral hall of Shanding Village. The copper furnace used for sacrificial sacrifices has been stolen. A lot of spirit tablets have been destroyed. Only this mural is preserved the most intact." Guo Xiaohong, the youngest among the three tour guides, introduced to the ten-person team where Lin Yin and Yiya are.
"Why are the people on the murals shiny faces, no eyes, nose and mouth?"
A student asked the tour guide Guo Xiaohong.
Chapter completed!