Gansu Ningxia Xuezhi Book: Don't Take the Ordinary Path, Only Love Strangers

Author: Zhang Guosheng
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: Westward to Hexi, southward to Gannan, then to Ningxia—there are hardships, warmth, silence, astonishment, ideals, and the essence of travel. Because Gannan and Ningxia are there, because we are on the journey. Stared blankly without the sound of flowing rivers in Langmusi; soared ideals but not on the Sangke Grassland in summer; witnessed piety but not the prostration on the ground in Labrang Monastery; seen sunsets but not the sunset at Jiayuguan with the poetic line "A solitary column of smoke rises from the desert, the long river rounds off like the sun"; walked long distances but not on the Silk Road beneath the Qilian Mountains; eaten Lanzhou hand-pulled noodles but not Ma Baozi Beef Noodles in Lanzhou.