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Eh, DD, are you that one called Xixi? A guy pretending to be a girl?

Of course not, I thought you were talking about me~~

I’ve actually been to Guizhou to visit Huangguoshu Waterfall. It’s the biggest waterfall in China. At that time it was the season with the most water. The water crashed down into the pool, and the spray bounced onto the mountain opposite, then formed little streams flowing back into the pool. When the sun is out, you can see a rainbow forming above the pool, right by your feet.
Another impression Guizhou left on me is that there are lots of mountains, lots of rocks, lots of rain, and lots of medicinal herbs. One mountain after another, all rocky mountains, high and steep. The mountain water doesn’t form valleys and streams and flow away; instead it seeps down through cracks in the rocks below. The ponds in the mountains are like big funnels, so the locals all call them funnels. When there’s no water, those funnels look like huge gaping mouths, kind of scary.
Guizhou also left me with the impression of how hardworking the mountain people are. The low-lying parts of the valleys have all been opened up into rice paddies. In the higher places, the mountain people use one stone after another to enclose little platforms for growing corn, and the whole mountain looks like fish-scale cornfields. On some mountains the corn is planted all the way up close to the summit, places we might not even be able to climb to. But that corn is hard and powdery, and doesn’t taste very good, so it wasn’t popular with the people in our tour group. In Guangdong now, people generally eat corn that’s soft and sweet.
Guizhou produces a lot of medicinal herbs like gastrodia and eucommia, with many complete varieties. Even while riding in the car I would often notice wild lily flowers by the roadside. Plants in the lily family are all medicinal herbs.

Wild lilies are also called juandan or shandan, and there are a lot of them growing wild. They taste pretty good stir-fried with meat.
The “shandandan flowers bloom” sung in Northeastern xintianyou songs refers to this.

I don’t know whether that was really a wild lily, but it was definitely just a flower from a plant in the lily family.

The following is a quote from mys at 2003-6-8 11:28:21:
I’ve actually been to Guizhou to visit Huangguoshu Waterfall. It’s the biggest waterfall in China. At that time it was the season with the most water. The water crashed down into the pool, and the spray bounced onto the mountain opposite, then formed little streams flowing back into the pool. When the sun is out, you can see a rainbow forming above the pool, right by your feet.

The biggest waterfall in the world is of course Niagara Falls, on the U.S.-Canada border.. I went there last time, and it really was quite magnificent!

Huangguoshu Waterfall is only number one in China. Behind it there’s a Water Curtain Cave, and you can walk from one side of the waterfall to the other. There are also many openings in the cave where you can view the waterfall from inside, close enough to reach out and touch it.

I’m a Beijing girl, and I don’t think Beijing girls are that scary~~!! But then again, Beijing girls really can be hard to mess with sometimes~~!!

MM above, could you change your avatar?
Seeing an MM who looks like Popeye feels kind of awkward..

Hehe, just think of her as an MM in very good physical shape and that’ll do~~

Xixi MM is still very gentle, hehe.............