Lishan Huqingchi is a place that attracts many visitors and tourists, as everything here is infused with the prosperity and glory of the ancient Tang civilization. Whether it’s the Zhou Dynasty, Qin Dynasty, or Tang Dynasty, everything here carries strong signals and elements. Below is a one-day tour guide to Lishan Huqingchi for you.
Xi’an, the ancient capital of thirteen dynasties, is a city with a dragon vein that buried seventy-two emperors.
Besides the Terracotta Army, Xi’an also has Lishan, where there is a beautiful love story between Emperor Xuanzong of Tang and Yang Guifei. “The spring chill grants a bath at Huqingchi, the hot spring water washes away the congealed fat. The attendant helps her up, weak and delicate, just newly graced by imperial favor.”
This is the place mentioned in the poem. Today, we spent a whole day touring Lishan Huqingchi. We climbed mountains, played in the water, listened to the birds, fed the fish, and even went to a hot spring.
Along the way, every piece of rubble, every path, and every tree seemed to have a beautiful story and a long history.
Besides the love story between Li and Yang, “In heaven, we would be a pair of phoenixes, on earth, we would be a pair of osmanthus trees. Time and space may come to an end, but this hatred will linger forever.”, there was also the Xi’an Incident in modern history, where Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng held a military remonstrance here.
The history of the Chinese nation is like a dream, sometimes it is dazzling, magnificent, and turbulent, and sometimes it is unbearable to look back, a series of nightmares.
When we arrived at the stage of the Xi’an Incident, it was as if we were transported to the days before and after December 12th, 80 years ago.
After the September 18th Incident, the Chinese nation was in a state of peril. The various factions of the Nanjing government were in conflict, and the working people were in hell, suffering the utmost torment.
Patriotic students held demonstrations and marches, demanding resistance to Japan and national salvation, uniting against the outside world. Chiang Kai-shek flew in from Nanjing and arrived in Xi’an to personally supervise the war.
Chiang Kai-shek stayed at Huqingchi. In order to persuade Chiang Kai-shek to resist Japan, Zhang Xueliang knelt down in tears. Chiang Kai-shek roared and slammed the table: “To resist the outside world, we must first pacify the inside!” The two parted ways unhappily.
After a fierce ideological struggle and struggle, Zhang Xueliang finally decided to join Yang Hucheng in a military remonstrance.
At 4:00 AM on December 12th, the troops of the military remonstrance clashed with the soldiers of Chiang Kai-shek’s guard at Huqingchi, forcing the action to be brought forward.
In the fierce gun battle, Chiang Kai-shek was desperate and fled out of the window. Soon, the Northeast Army soldiers found Chiang Kai-shek in a mountain recess in Lishan and carried him down the mountain.
Chiang Kai-shek finally agreed to unite with the communists to resist Japan, and Zhang and Yang breathed a sigh of relief. From this moment on, a magnificent united front of the Chinese nation against Japan began to take shape.
When we marched with the patriotic students on the stage and shouted together, “Chinese people don’t fight Chinese people” and “Our guns are aimed at the outside world”, we were just as passionate and enthusiastic as the students of that time. We couldn’t wait to catch the Japanese devils and chop them into a thousand pieces.
When the love of our country burned fiercely within us, our eyes were also filled with tears. It turns out that patriotic dramas can be expressed in this way! It allows every audience member to go back in time and experience the scene, thus igniting the passion for patriotism within us.
Especially when we saw the many bullet holes on the wall next to Chiang Kai-shek’s guardroom, I realized that the gentle description of the Xi’an Incident in history textbooks was actually written in blood.
Many soldiers sacrificed their lives for the future and destiny of the nation.
The Xi’an Incident was a major turning point in modern history. It was an example of the Chinese nation uniting and facing the outside world together. We relive that thrilling history and feel the weight and hardship of history. Too many unsung heroes have written this great event.
Xi’an rarely gets rain. When we arrived, a taxi driver told us that it had not rained for many days.
The fog was heavy these days, but the rain would not fall. The soil in the fields was already dry. Who knew that the rain would start just when we were watching the stage play “The Song of Everlasting Sorrow” that night.
We all wore raincoats, and the rain was getting heavier. My glasses were full of water drops, and the lenses were blurry.
Rainwater ran down our cheeks to our chests, and the wind howled, making us feel a little chilly. It seems that God wanted us to experience this human tragedy firsthand, so He let us relive that poignant history in the rain and wind.
We traveled through time and space, admiring the beautiful love story that took place at the foot of Lishan and by the Huqingchi over a thousand years ago, and felt the strong cultural atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty.
If it were the love of ordinary people, it might not have ended in tragedy. Since ancient times, monarchs have been fickle, and emperors are the most heartless. But the creator of the Tang Dynasty, the great hero of the Kaiyuan era, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, would still be sentimental in his old age. This is a source of sigh and regret.
He spent eleven years with Yang Guifei in a harmonious, intimate, and affectionate love life. However, “The emperor never went to court again” and led to the decline of the Tang Dynasty. The mutiny of the soldiers at the Mawei Slope led to the separation of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang and Yang Guifei.
A monarch who could not even protect his beloved woman in the end. This is also the sorrow of being in the imperial family!
Isn’t the dance effect very dazzling?
But their thousand-year love story has created the feast for our eyes and ears tonight. Especially in the second act, “When there is no one at midnight to whisper to”, the moon slowly rises above the misty waterfall, and the stars are scattered across the sky. But we are surrounded by raindrops, and we feel a chill. We don’t know whether it is raining or romantic moonlight, it feels like a dream. In the scene of the third act, the petals of water curtain effects are added to the bottom of the slowly rising “bathtub” of the noble concubine, along with the misty water mist on the scene, we are brought into the romantic setting of “The spring chill grants a bath at Huqingchi”, which makes people infinitely imaginative.
In the final act, the blue tunnel that appears in the sky seems to transport us to the Tang Dynasty, when it was transitioning from prosperity to decline, connecting us modern people with the emperor and concubine who lived over a thousand years ago, sharing the same breath and the same fate.
Let alone the beautiful dance, every actor is a professional, and only they can perform the ancient classic “Dance of the Feathered Robe”.
There are also the flowing clothes and exquisite costumes of the Tang Dynasty, which will make people dream of them, as well as the return of the history of the Tang Dynasty, which was full of flowers and brocades, and the shocking scene of the later war and the devastation of the country.
Even in the rain, we were still intoxicated, enjoying the beauty that perfect art brings us in terms of sight and sound.
The rain kept falling. Every audience member was shocked by this magnificent epic love story!
Yang Guifei’s life was tragic, but she received the love of the most powerful man at that time and became one of China’s “Four Great Beauties.” She left a strong mark on history. Her life was brilliant and dazzling.
When the stage play ended, everyone left Huqingchi reluctantly. They looked back at this place where the emperor once lived and imbued it with deep affection. Their hearts were filled with emotion.
We may never come here again in this life, but the many memories it has given me are forever fixed in the moment of looking back.
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