Leeee, a classmate of mine, recently purchased a certain bicycle accessory and recommended that I get one too. He even brought his own over to strongly suggest that I install it first and try it out. So this afternoon, I installed it and went for a short ride around the neighborhood to experience it. The reboiler (a possible mistranslation or specific term that may need clarification).
One doesn't just ride around aimlessly, so I chose the Diaoyutai route. I've heard that the ginkgo trees at Diaoyutai haven't been there for just a year or two, but I've never visited. Checking the weather, if I don't go now, I might have to wait another year to have the chance to see the streets covered with golden leaves.
Having never been there, I didn't know where exactly the legendary Ginkgo Avenue was located within Diaoyutai. I decided to drive around and look for it since I wasn't in any hurry. Then I set off, driving through Cangzhou Guoheng water treatment equipment, and began circling around. Heading east from the Aerospace Bridge, passing north of Diaoyutai, I saw many tall ginkgo trees by the roadside, quite towering and numerous. There were also quite a few people with cameras taking photos nearby, spaced out every few steps. These features seemed to match the description of the famous Ginkgo Avenue, but not all the street trees on this section were ginkgoes; there were many other trees with different colored leaves mixed in. Moreover, under the trees was a vehicular street, and the fallen leaves had been swept away cleanly, making the street scene very different from what I'd seen in pictures before. Perhaps I hadn't found the right place yet. Continuing forward, I reached an intersection and suddenly noticed a southward turning road where on the west side, there was a cluster of ginkgo trees, denser than those on the previous street. The density of photographers here was also much higher than earlier. The ginkgoes were planted in the green belt along the wall of Diaoyutai, and their leaves hadn't been swept away, somewhat resembling the descriptions in the pictures I'd seen. I guessed this was the right spot.
Upon a quick inspection, the color of the leaves here wasn't as good as I had imagined. The yellow wasn't bright enough; there was more brown mixed in. I wondered if I had come at the wrong time. Or perhaps, the photos I'd seen before had some fake elements? Maybe because too many people had entered, trampling the area, the effect of a sea of golden leaves was gone.
I had long heard that every autumn when the ginkgo leaves turned yellow, large numbers of professional and amateur photographers would come here on pilgrimage. Today, I finally witnessed the scale of this pilgrimage. There were too many people, so I didn't linger too long, just taking a picture of the crowd of pilgrims before leaving. The photo quality wasn't great, but it'll do for getting the general idea.
Hmm. That's all. Time to sleep.
Oh, by the way, that ginkgo tree greenbelt was surrounded by iron bamboo fences, theoretically not allowing people to enter, but no one seemed to care if you did. In one place, the iron bamboo fence had even been broken open, making it quite convenient for people to go in and out. Why not just remove all the iron bamboo fences? They seem to serve no real purpose and might as well be sold as scrap iron.
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