Rebirth of the Wild Age

Culture belongs to the world, and the world belongs to Korea.

South Korea has only more than 90,000 square kilometers of land. It began to apply for World Cultural Heritage in 1988. By 2000, it had 7 World Heritage Sites. In a few years, there will be 10 items, and an average of less than 10,000 square kilometers will have 1 item of world cultural heritage.

But there are only so many tangible cultural heritages, and they cannot be created out of thin air, so then apply for intangible cultural heritage.

Therefore, this year, South Korea successfully applied for the ritual and music of the palace ancestral temple as a world intangible cultural heritage. Since then, it has passed one item every two years on average, and even passed five items in one go in 2009. The world's intangible cultural anomalies are like wholesale cabbage.

The most well-known to our countrymen is probably the Jiangling Dragon Boat Festival, which aroused public opinion all over the country at that time.

So China followed suit from the official to the private sector. Those who played the suona applied for it, and those who falconed and hunted also applied. Even the prairie singer Humai became an intangible cultural heritage.

The root of this phenomenon is actually to develop tourism!

South Korea's tourism industry began to take off in 1988, and it was also the year when South Korea applied for World Cultural Heritage. The Asian financial turmoil hit South Korea’s economy hard. South Korea decided to vigorously revitalize the tourism industry, so it became even more crazy in applying for world heritage. Reputation.

The first stop of Song Weiyang and Lin Zhuoyun's honeymoon trip was Jeju Island, South Korea, and they even invited a local tour guide.

The tour guide was Ming Taixun, who claimed to be a descendant of Emperor Ming Yuzhen of Great Xia, and had gone to the mountain city several times to pay homage to their "first emperor". But this is nothing unusual. After Zhu Yuanzhang destroyed the Great Xia Kingdom, he sent the Xia Kingdom emperor, empress, and empress dowager to Korea, and their descendants have multiplied tens of thousands in Korea and North Korea.

The descendants of the Ming family in South Korea go to the mountain city every year to worship their ancestors. This kind of worship is only limited to the rich and powerful, Ming Taixun is not qualified to participate, he can only fly to China at his own expense to join in the fun. Because of this, he "accidentally met" a nobleman in the mountain city, and was sponsored by the clan to study in China. After graduation, he served as the assistant to the general manager of a joint venture.

It's a pity that the Asian financial turmoil hit, Korean companies laid off employees, and the joint venture company in China closed down directly. Ming Tae-hoon could only return to Jeju Island to work as a tour guide. He speaks Chinese very fluently, so he became a special talent of the travel agency, who is specially responsible for receiving Chinese tourists, and the main tourists are Wanwan tourists. At this time, Wanwan tourists are the second largest source of tourists in South Korea's tourism industry, second only to Japanese tourists. Benz tourists.

Ming Taixun has worked in China for several years. Of course he knew Song Weiyang. He was very excited all the way. He introduced: "There are three nos in Jeju Island, no thieves, no gates, and no beggars. Jeju people have lived in this land since ancient times. The living conditions have cultivated the virtue of mutual help among their neighbors, so no one needs to live by stealing and begging, and there is no need to set up gates to dam neighbors. Therefore, when the owner is out to work, he builds a crossbar at the door of the house , to show that there is no one in the house, and this kind of crossbar is also called 'Zhenglan'."

"Is this the case?" Lin Zhuoyun asked, pointing to the wooden bar in front of her.

Ming Taixun nodded and said: "Yes. One wooden stick means that the owner is nearby, and visitors can wait or call; two wooden sticks mean that there are children at home, but no adults; three wooden sticks mean that the owner is traveling far away, and visitors can wait or call. will go home; the four wooden poles indicate that there are widows in the house, and men are not allowed to enter at will."

Lin Zhuoyun smiled and said, "It's quite an interesting custom."

Song Weiyang couldn't help laughing, and said with a smile: "It seems that tourist attractions are the same all over the world, so it's easy to fool."

"It's not fooling around," Ming Taixun said with a serious expression, "Mr. Song, this is really a traditional folk custom of Jeju Island. The folk village we are visiting now retains the style of hundreds of years ago."

"I believe it." Song Weiyang didn't bother to say any more.

Jeju Island can really boast, and there are a lot of aliases, such as Lover Island, Honeymoon Island, Romance Island, Myth Island, Oriental Hawaii... There are all kinds of things here, and there are all kinds of legends. It is said that there are still 18,000 people living on the island. There are more than a thousand ghosts and gods, which are comparable to Japan's 8 million demon gods.

Song Weiyang and Lin Zhuoyun walked around the folk village holding hands, walked to several places to watch, and bumped into the Wanwan tour group in a small shop.

The tour guide Wanwan is talking about the history of horse breeding in Jeju Island, and cooperates with the shopkeeper to sell horse bone meal and other commodities. Soon the shopkeeper began to sell popular honey again, claiming to be pure natural unsweetened honey, and added water to the honey, and then a miracle appeared. After the honey is added with water, it rotates, and a honeycomb-like net soon forms. The owner said that this is the special live bacteria in the honey from Jeju Island, which has various good effects on the human body, and even has the effect of aphrodisiac and beauty.

The tourists in the Wanwan tour group were so amazed that they paid for it one after another and paid the IQ tax in full.

"Is this true?" Lin Zhuoyun asked the tour guide in a low voice.

Ming Taixun's customer was Song Weiyang, and he didn't make money by selling commissions, so he took the two of them out of the shop and said, "The honey in the shop should be pure natural, but it's definitely not that magical. If you want to buy it, leave You can buy them at the airport when you are in Beijing, and the price is only one-fifth of the price here."

Lin Zhuoyun has turned into a curious baby during the tour: "Then why honeycomb-shaped hexagonal patterns appear when you add water and turn it?"

Song Weiyang couldn't help complaining: "When you go back to China and buy a bottle of honey, most of them can be shaken out, even fake honey can be shaken out."

"What is the scientific principle?" Lin Zhuoyun asked.

"How do I know?" Song Weiyang said.

The only thing Song Weiyang knew about honey was doing business as a gift in his previous life. He learned that the other party likes to drink honey water, so he got some stone honey. This thing can only produce a small amount of stone honey in the crevices of the mountains south of the Yellow River, or when the wild black bees in Caiyun Province build their nests on the cliffs.

Just a few small pieces of stone honey cost Song Weiyang tens of thousands, and he owed favors to get it.

Song Weiyang came to visit with Shi Mi, and the boss who received the gift was overjoyed. Not only did the deal come to an end, but the other party forced him to buy 30,000 yuan for honey money, which can't be bought even if you have money, so you can only try your luck. The other party also chatted with Song Weiyang about the secrets of appreciating and appreciating honey, saying that the methods on the market are basically fake, and the artificially prepared fake honey can be shaken with water to form a honeycomb shape.

People in the world have all kinds of hobbies, some play with antiques, some play with jade, some play with walnuts or gourds, Song Weiyang just happened to meet one who plays with honey.

The two went to see the diver in the afternoon, stayed in the hotel at night, and went to the racecourse the next day.

Just happened to meet the Wanwan tour group from yesterday. The tour guide continued to fool around, saying that Jeju Island was the horse breeding base of the Yuan Dynasty, and many famous horses have been raised for hundreds of years. It is also said that during the Wanli period, Toyotomi Hideyoshi led an army to attack Pusan, and Yi sun-shin won the decisive battle riding a Jeju horse.

Song Weiyang couldn't help complaining: "Li Sunshin is a navy general, can his horse gallop across the sea?"

The tour guide's face was very unhappy, and he retorted: "Yi Sun-shin also fought land warfare."

Song Weiyang retreated in an instant, and led Lin Zhuoyun to ride the horse. Although this broken horse farm raises a lot of horses, the local breeds are very short, and the horses for tourists to ride are imported horses.

Lin Zhuoyun was very happy, riding the same horse with Song Weiyang, holding the rein and leaning against her husband's arms, galloping the horse, singing a popular song: "Let us live a chic and unrestrained life as companions in the world of mortals, ride the horse and gallop to share The prosperity of the world..."

In the past two years, "Han Zhu Ge Ge" is really popular!

"I'm so happy," Lin Zhuoyun said after riding for a few laps, "Why don't we go back to China and ride horses if we have nothing to do. By the way, does Shenghai have a horse farm?"

Song Weiyang said: "Yes, we can raise another horse."

Speaking of raising horses, Song Weiyang suddenly laughed for no reason, because he remembered a famous person. This man's father is a martial artist, an archaeologist, an old western doctor, a gynecologist, the chairman of the Bada Hutong, the cuckold king of the Bada Hutong, the in-law of the Mongolian navy commander... Anyway, there are a lot of titles.

That's right, it was Yu Qian who was burning his hair from smoking and drinking. He was also the executive director of the China Horse Industry Association, and by the way, the vice president of the Beijing Rock and Roll Association.

If you want to raise horses, you can find Yu Qian to cooperate and open a private horse farm for fun. .