Chapter 3 : Yunnan, the land of spring flowers.

Spring

By Gerard Manley Hopkins

 

Nothing is so beautiful as Spring –         

   When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;         

   Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush         

Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring         

The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing;

   The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush         

   The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush         

With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling.         

 

What is all this juice and all this joy?         

   A strain of the earth’s sweet being in the beginning

In Eden garden. – Have, get, before it cloy,         

   Before it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning,         

Innocent mind and Mayday in girl and boy,         

   Most, O maid’s child, thy choice and worthy the winning.      

       Yunnan province is the land which Chinese people call 'The land of spring flowers'. Because of the colorful flowers there. So, spring is a high season which a lot of tourists go to visit it. Every cities in Yunnan is colored with flowers. Many Chinese people spent their vacations in the park. And do some activities like picnic,  play cards, dancing or drawing with a beautiful flower plants. Before the winter comes and everything will be erased.

"Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean."

                                                                                                                                         John Muir

Related Links

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/travel/2014-02/10/content_17274355.htm

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/travel/2017-02/06/content_28113262.htm