Beidaihe Aranya Hiking Tour - Forest Sea Secret Journey Line D

Starting point: Yinlu Hotel - a poem of light and shadow of oriental aesthetics When you step into the Yinlu Hotel at dusk, this building complex designed by Zheng Dongxian of PLAT ASIA looks like a bamboo slip floating on the sea of ​​forests. The lobby is inspired by the "tea pavilion streets". The wooden grilles and suspended light boxes are interwoven into a maze of light and shadow. The texture of the stone paving extends under your feet, as if you are walking on the moss garden of Kyoto's Philosopher's Path. Walking into the guest room, the arc of the special-shaped bar counter echoes the branches of the acacia tree outside the window, and the tatami tea table is laid with Kutani ware tea sets and Morinaga matcha powder. First stop: Senhai Secret Realm - A symbiotic narrative of architecture and nature As the morning light penetrates the mist, it goes deep into the forest along the path on the west side of Yinlu. The eight phase building complex is scattered among the native locust trees at a density of less than 10%. The glass curtain walls of the steel-structured villas reflect the folds of the treetops. A courtyard of a household is paved with gravel and moss using the dry landscape technique. Next to the stone lantern stands a haiku monument: "露の世は 露の世ながら さりながら" (The dew world is like dew, and also disappears like dew). At the locust tree forest viewing platform, I came across a gardener wearing a bamboo hat who was pruning branches: "These locust trees are left over from the windbreak and sand fixation project in the 1950s. We only thin out the cross branches to let the light shine into the forest like gold foil." His silhouette overlapped with the vertical lines of the concrete facade of the Yinlu Hotel in the distance, forming a modern version of "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji." Second stop: Sophora japonica market - a midsummer night's dream of the five senses At noon, the Sophora japonica flower market spreads out on the wooden boardwalk in the wetland, and the air is filled with the sweet aroma of Sophora japonica honey and mugwort. The hidden secrets of the market stalls: Hanaon Handcraft Workshop: A white-haired craftsman carves a Noh mask out of locust wood. The dialogue between the chisel and the wood grain sounds like the low hum of a shakuhachi. "Breath of the Forest" Fragrance Shop: The perfumer wearing an indigo-dyed kimono mixes "Chao Sao" perfume cream with acacia flowers, sea salt and cedar, and the perfume test paper is soaked in sake; "Lu Cao Tang" Teahouse: An old iron kettle is simmering on a ceramic stove, and the owner serves cold-brewed Gyokuro tea in a Wajima lacquer bowl. The tea snack is a piece of Sophora japonica yokan decorated with salted cherry blossoms. At the end of the market, a group of children sat together to make a "moss jade micro landscape". The instructor guided them to wrap the white hair moss collected from the wetland into a sphere: "Moss is the poet of time. It will record the temperature of your palms." Hiking Notes: The Time and Space Overlay of Hermit Aesthetics Architectural philosophy: The "tea pavilion lobby" of Yinlu dissolves the grand narrative with suspended wooden structures, forming a dialogue with the "negative architecture" concept of Senhai Villa - the former is the humble concession of man to nature, and the latter is the gentle penetration of nature into civilization; Healing code: In the "Sound Healing" course of the hotel SPA, the frequency of the singing bowl is adjusted to 432Hz (natural harmonic frequency), which forms a healing system that echoes day and night with the white noise of the waves projected in the late night restaurant; Time ritual: The vendors at the Sophora japonica market follow the “Sophora japonica clock” – picking flowers in the morning, making honey at noon, and brewing wine at dusk, which is in line with the quaint rhythm of “four seasons” in The Pillow Book; Photography Easter Egg: On full-moon nights, the "Moon Viewing Device" will be activated in the Yinlu Courtyard Hot Spring Pool. The light spots projected from the roof skylight and the reflection on the water surface will combine to form a "crescent moon". The best time to take photos is from 23:00 to 24:00. Reference traffic map Yinlu Hotel→Sennhai Secret Hiking Trail→Sophora japonica Market→Wetland Observatory→Eighth Canteen The whole journey is about 3.8km.