2020.08.06 Thursday Yin

When talking about Kunming in Yunnan, many people will think of the Stone Forest and the touching legend of Ashima. The first time I knew about Ashima’s story was from seeing it in an old movie.

Veteran artist Yang Likun interprets for us a love story about Ashima and Brother Xiao Hei from Sani of the Yi ethnic group, who fight against power and pursue freedom. It also shows the Yi people's spirit of "breaking without bending."

We are fortunate to come to Stone Forest to experience the real story of Ashima. The Yi girls who explained to us all wore beautiful Yi costumes and were beautiful and elegant. We all called them Ashima directly.

Follow Ashima into the stone forest. While admiring the stone forest lined with strange rocks, listen to the tour guide explaining the story of the beautiful and kind-hearted Ashima and the little black brother who fought against the power of the landlord. Scenes and stories. , everyone listened with great interest.

The Stone Forest Group is a typical karst landform, with winding paths leading to secluded areas and different scenery as you move. You can see stone peaks and pillars everywhere, some forming a separate scene, some connected together, and in various shapes, which fully demonstrates the beauty of the karst landscape. The uncanny workmanship of nature. The elephant stones with countless names show us stories one by one.

?The most famous and vivid one is "Ashima". It vividly depicts Ashima, a Yi girl, standing there with a basket on her back, looking at her beloved Brother Ahei in the distance.

The expression and movements were so lifelike that one really thought that it was Ashima's disguise. If you call her name loudly, you can really hear the wonderful echo. This is the story of the magic and wonderful legend of nature, which has created such a strange world for us.

Not only the unique landforms of the stone forest attracted us, but what attracted us more was the beautiful and moving story of Ashima. We applaud this stubborn girl who is kind and brave and does not bow to power.

If you come to Stone Forest on June 24 of the lunar calendar, you will also catch the annual "Torch Festival" here. The surrounding Yi and Han people will gather here to celebrate the festival. They wrestled, climbed poles, fought bulls, performed dragon and lion dances, and performed folk songs and dances. The actors and tourists sang and danced together, which was very lively.

?Every time you go to a place, in addition to admiring the scenic spots, the most important thing is the local cultural characteristics. The essence of these nations and the inheritance of their thoughts have converged into a unique national culture.

It is these unique and distinctive cultures that attract Chinese and foreign tourists here. Perhaps the stone forest is just some silent stones in the eyes of the world, but it symbolizes the Yi people, the resolute, courageous, smart and kind-hearted Ashima people.

Author: Ye Ziyez2004, a mobile photography expert, focusing on mobile photography for 6 years, teaches you to make posters with mobile phones, teaches you to edit videos with mobile phones, partner of Diary Planet, partner of Jingling Culture, literature lover, The prose was included in the collection of emerging prose writers, "Orchid in the Empty Valley".

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