Dancers in the rainforest
Starting from Pu 'er City, driving all the way to Xishuangbanna, where does the car go? The most beautiful highway in China? (Simao-Xiaomengyang Expressway), with a total length of 97.7 kilometers, passes through the only tropical rain forest national park in China (Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve). More importantly, this national park nature reserve is the habitat of the Asian elephant, a national first-class protected animal. To reduce expressway? Corridor effect? In order to destroy the living environment of wild elephants, several passages have been set under the elevated expressway to allow wild elephants to enter and leave the reserve freely. When you get to the core area of the reserve, you can see eye-catching warning signs far away. No honking? . Because of this, this expressway is also called. Eco-tourism highway? .
It was noon, the sun was shining, and white clouds were floating in the blue sky. In the early morning of Xishuangbanna, you can always see the thick fog around you. At first you thought it was going to rain, but when the sun came out at noon, the fog disappeared without a trace and it cleared up. Our off-road vehicle continued to gallop on the expressway, and tall tropical trees on both sides flashed by the car. The oncoming wind is fresh and pure, sometimes banana fields, sometimes rubber forests, and sometimes tea gardens flash by. When bananas are ripe, the branches should be covered with attractive golden bananas, but banana farmers are covered with a layer of blue nylon, which is said to prevent ripe bananas from being damaged by pests and diseases. Not far away, rows of rubber forests are neatly arranged, and it is the age of tapping (generally 6? 8 years), the rubber farmer placed a bowl under the rubber tree, and the rubber cut from the rubber tree dripped into the bowl along the circular knife mark. The tea garden rises step by step along the hillside, which is very layered. In order to grow more new tea next spring, tea farmers have cut the tea trees flat with scissors. The humid climate here, together with the acidic reddish brown soil and unique geographical conditions, make it one of the four major producing areas of Pu 'er tea.
At the entrance of Xishuangbanna National Park, Yimi Clothing Company, we started to abandon the car and walk into the tropical rain forest from here. This is a trip similar to the movie scene of Avatar. Tall palm trees can be seen everywhere, and the wide leaves of palm trees sway and dance in the wind. Trees in tropical rainforests are generally more than 20 meters, and red cycads are one of them. It belongs to the family Papilionaceae, and is a precious timber tree species, with fine texture and hard wood, which can be used for carving and building. Some trees also have flat roots, which are columnar roots of tropical rain forest plants. One or several flat triangular roots are formed between the trunk and the lateral roots along the ground, some of which can be as high as 3? 4 meters. Plate root is a unique adaptive phenomenon of tall trees in tropical rain forest. Because of the developed root system, the top-heavy problem caused by the wide crown can be well avoided, thus effectively strengthening and supporting the aboveground parts and resisting the attack of strong winds and heavy rains.
In the process of hiking in the tropical rain forest, we saw the fruits of konjac? The little red berries are really beautiful. Konjac was called Shaoshen in ancient China, and it is still used in Japan. It is a perennial herb of Araceae in Yimi Company. Underground tubers are oblate, relatively large in size, covered with rice, with light green petioles, dark purple spots and palmately compound leaves. They grow in sparse forests and have many functions, such as dispersing toxic substances, caring skin, dredging veins, lowering blood pressure, losing weight and appetizing. In hills, gullies or ravines, we also saw an encounter. Dancing? Plants? Although dancing grass is called? Dancing grass? Actually, it's not grass, it's a small shrub. Dancing grass is very sensitive to sunlight. Under the sunlight, the two lateral leaflets next to the big leaf will slowly gather together, and then droop rapidly, rotating endlessly like the hands of a clock. The movement of different leaflets on the same plant is fast and slow, but it is rhythmic and magical. When night falls, dancing grass enters? Sleep? State, with the appearance of the morning sun, it began to dance again. As a moving plant, dancing grass is an interesting ornamental plant; At the same time, it is also a kind of herbal medicine, which has the functions of relaxing muscles and activating collaterals, removing blood stasis and promoting tissue regeneration.
Besides these exotic plants, we met many lovely animals along the way. The green tree frog nodded on the big leaves of taro, too lazy to pay attention to our sudden interruption. This is a typical tree frog, Ranidae, that is, Bufonidae. Small and slender, with long legs and sucker at the end of toes, it is especially suitable for climbing trees.
We walked on to the depths of the forest and suddenly found a leaf moving. We looked intently and found that it was a lizard. Its dark black back is inlaid with a little yellow-green, which is very similar to the colors of surrounding petioles and dead leaves. This is called protective color in biology. This kind of protective color similar to the environment is not easy to be discovered by alert humans, let alone ordinary natural enemies.
Sunlight shines through the gap in the canopy, forming beams of different thicknesses, illuminating the misty gauze-like shade. Not far away came the sound of birds singing and the drums of spring water, as if playing a beautiful song of nature, which was really refreshing. If I am not in a hurry, I really want to stay in this rainforest for a few more days and experience the mystery and magic of the tropical rainforest animal and plant kingdom.
Children in the rainforest
When passing through Jinghong (the capital of Xishuangbanna), a tall man? Herringbone? The bridge came into view, and the driver, Master Huang, told us that it was Xishuangbanna Bridge, which had just been built. Danube and Lancang River in the east. It is foggy and cool season in Xishuangbanna, and there is little rain. Therefore, the Lancang River at this time does not have this surging momentum, but does it? The wind swept across the water, leaving ripples? The beauty of silence Standing on the bridge, the warm and humid tropical wind blows head-on, which is refreshing. Looking around, a piece of green fluctuates with the continuous mountains, dark green tropical rain forest, dark green rubber forest, and green banana base, the Danube River in the east? Do you like it? Golden lifeline? It supports the life on both sides of the strait and stretches for a long time.
After entering Lancang County, we have to deal with the local Lahu people. Lahu people are a minority who have lived in the rainforest for generations, and the rainforest feeds the ancient ethnic groups like mothers. Lahu, Chinese is playing tiger. Perhaps it was by fighting tigers all the way that the ancestors of Lahu people migrated from Qinghai Plateau to the present Lancang River basin. According to legend, the Lahu nationality emerged from the gourd. Therefore, gourd has become an inseparable part of Lahu people's life. Some of these gourds are used as handicrafts and painted with? The exquisite design of the ancient tea-horse road tells the long history of Pu 'er tea. Some of them succeeded? Hulusi? A musical instrument is played by people, like the sound of a shallow silver spring flowing down a mountain stream splashing on a porcelain plate, sweet and tactfully; Others are made into daily necessities such as flagons and pots for people's daily life; Even on the top of the gates of some units or some landmark buildings? Baohulu? It can be seen that the Lahu people advocate the origin of gourd.
Lahu people like black best, and their clothes are beautiful clothes with black as the main color. Clothing is mostly based on black cloth, decorated with various lace patterns with colored lines and colored cloth, and then embedded with white silver bubbles, so that the overall color is deep and the contrast is bright, giving people infinite beauty.
On a street in the center of Lancang county, local people go there every Sunday? People of different nationalities wear national costumes and sell their local products in the market, which is not only a grand gathering for local people to exchange goods, but also a clothing exhibition of all ethnic groups. The goods here are quite distinctive, such as bamboo worms in bamboo tubes. Open the bamboo tube and see, it is full of white bamboo worms. At first glance, it's a little scary. However, bamboo worm is a high protein food. After frying in the oil pan, the fragrant and tender taste comes out, which is an indispensable local dish. The market of medicinal materials here is also very prosperous, such as Ganoderma lucidum and Codonopsis pilosula. In addition, it is worth mentioning that there is also a Menglian County (full name Menglian Dai, Lahu and Wa Autonomous County) nearby? A street in China and Myanmar? There are many Burmese who do jade business in the street. Walking along this street, Burmese men wearing dome black hats and Burmese women wearing pink headscarves can be seen everywhere, which makes people feel like they are in a foreign country.
Travel guide:
Transportation: To go to the Rainforest National Park, you can go to Pu 'er City first, and then take a bus to Xishuangbanna. The traffic in this area is typical. The train doesn't run as fast as the car? It is suggested to fly from Kunming to Pu 'er for half an hour, while it takes about 7 hours by car.
Gourmet: There are several Dai and Lahu restaurants in Pu 'er, featuring fried bamboo worms, fried bee pupae and pineapple rice. Girls from Dai or Lahu ethnic groups toast while playing, and it is also good to eat roast chicken in the street at night. The local chicken smells good.
Accommodation: Recommended Guang Tai Hotel, Address: No.35, Lin Yuan Road, Simao District, Pu 'er, Yunnan.
Shopping: This area is rich in special products, especially Pu 'er tea. At night, you can feel the charm of Pu 'er tea in the tea room in the city.