Lijiang's Secret Garden: Hold the Snow Mountain in Your Palm

Zhongjihai is not a lake, but a jade makeup box overturned by the Naxi people, with the entire Jade Dragon Snow Mountain swimming in the scattered jade pieces. Venture into Zhongjihai Park, the spiritual sanctuary of the locals. Old willow trees fish for cloud shadows, and the end of the boardwalk bumps into the snow mountain. Bai women teach me to pick wild bayberries and dip them in salt, saying that this way, the snow mountain will taste sweeter. The alternative aesthetics of the Bang Bang Hui: Hundreds of carved wooden plows bask in the sun together, succulents stacked in bamboo baskets, and the clanging of the coppersmith's shop plunges you into the past and present lives of the Tea Horse Road. Be a child of the snow mountain in Lijiang for a day, let the smoke from the Bang Bang Hui's chimneys scent your skirt. When the moonlight begins to paint the wooden plows with silver, hear the lake water teaching the stars to sing Naxi lullabies.