The Yue Lu Mountain

The Yue Lu Mountain, located in the west part of Changsha, is very different from other mountains in China. It has an area of no more than 8 square kilometers and its highest altitude is 306.2 meters. Thousands of tourists are attracted because of its special scenery. Trees, grasses, flowers are all telling one story, a story about quietness and peacefulness.

Although it is only 6 in the morning, there are already a lot of people exercising in the mountain. Middle aged women, wearing casual clothes, are jogging along the way, aiming the top of the mountain. The old couples are walking down slowly and talking quietly, with bottles of spring water in hands. There comes little boys’ laughing and shouting. Though you have no idea where they are exactly, because of the flourished trees which have lived for hundreds of years, you’re sure they must be very lively, energetic boys.

The silence is suddenly broken when a touring car with its horn blaring passes. Then you notice there is a figure in front of you. It’s a monk who buries himself in reading a piece of newspaper, waving his head with an air of self conceit.

The sun rises. Then the old Yue Lu Temple also starts to shine, for its yellow walls, reflecting sunshine. Monks there are reciting scriptures. The wind, blowing, flies their sound intermittently over the old temple’s walls, into your ears and somewhere deep into your heart. It makes you feel like you have been here before. But you just can’t remember it clearly.

Now it is half way up the mountain. Hundreds of slab stones with mosses on lead to the top, telling people the ancient stories. Alongside the slab stones are the spring water, singing, flowing down. The water is so clean that you can’t help putting your hands into it. How cool it is! How pleasant it is to have such king of feeling in this hot summer. Sometimes you could even hear a leaf touch the surface of the spring water, circling.

There is a lake in the mountain with a pavilion at west in case people are tired and can have a rest. Qiao Yu says:” A place with water and fish must be good setting, which keeps people in good mood.” I believe this is one of the places he’s talking about. People here are always involved in surroundings. Birds and insects are singing competitively, rising one after another. The sun shins in the middle sky, shadowing trees. You smell waterweed when a gust of wind blows, which frightens butterflies.

With the goal of climbing to the top of The Yue Lu Mountain left behind, some people are addicted here. Others keep moving, knowing there is something better waiting ahead. Finally they get to the top. The blue sky embraces them. It is a brand new world with your own heart beating.

written by Ocean Lu   walkeith@163.com   http://asiafriend.siteem.com/