Chapter 34 huge boring

Germany is full of forests and rivers.The gloomy dark green stretches endlessly, and there is an indifferent tile blue passing through from time to time, both of which are serious and profound. Compared with finely carved Austria and popular France, the wilderness of Germany retains more of the overall spirit of nature.No specific expression can be seen, like low-pitched but not gorgeous singing, or a large article without embellishment or paragraphs.Traveling in Germany will not point and scream all the time, but it will not be sleepy.A thickness hidden in the monotony makes you inexplicably energetic.

But in the south-central, the situation changed drastically.In the valleys of the Rhine, Main, and Moselle rivers, the land is suddenly bright and beautiful.There are also old castles elsewhere, mostly on the hills, but the old castle here is close to the river bank, next to the vineyards, and the vineyards produce wine, so the ancient buildings are swaying in the reflection of water and wine, and they are all alive. stand up. Back then, there were knights with fluttering cloaks in the reflection. They came and went in and out of the castle and vineyards, and soon became drunk and squeezed into the carnival crowd.It's just that carnivals don't happen often, and most of them have nowhere to go, so they sleep soundly in the castle early.There may be one or two strangers sitting beside them, lighting lamps and scribbling musical scores and poems.

Today I went up the mountain and walked into the largest ancient castle in Heidelberg. I looked up and looked around. It was really steep, huge and majestic.Standing on the watchtower of the platform, you can overlook all the water and land passages, towns and fields under your feet. If there were foreign enemies or civil strife in those years, you could see it all in your eyes.The houses in the castle are spacious and open, and the ground hovers high and low. You can imagine the safe and unsafe, comfortable and uncomfortable living conditions of the nobles and princes in those days.This is a kind of authority, and it is also a kind of imprisonment. In those days when the land was barbaric and the heroes were divided, the patent of authority was how to make the prison in which you were imprisoned beautiful and secure.

In this castle, I saw the largest wine barrel in the world. This wine barrel also has a name, called Karl Ludwig barrel, and it is placed in a blockhouse-shaped building on the west side of the central square of the castle.The wine barrel is lying down, seven meters high and more than eight meters long. Standing on the ground and looking up is like facing a hill.There is a valve at the lower end of the wine barrel, which is where the wine is taken, but how to put the wine in?Then climb to the top.To this end, there are more than forty wooden stairs on both sides of the barrel, and there are several turns on the stairs to the top.

When I saw the steep stairs, I really wanted to climb them, and of course I wanted to see the wine spout on the top.But I felt that this staircase was considered a cultural relic, and tourists must not be allowed to go up, so I looked around for a while and left quickly.When I met the team members in the inner courtyard of the castle, I volunteered to lead them to see the big wine barrel. At this time, I regretted it. Why didn’t I explain our interview task to the management staff and apply to climb the barrel stairs? When I led everyone in, I found a manager, but I was about to ask, but hesitated, because his face was as gloomy and indifferent as this castle.After thinking about it, since I walked in front of him, I should bite the bullet and ask, who would have thought that the words he spit out expressionlessly were like this: Why can't I climb?Please, but be careful.

As soon as we climbed, a large group of Japanese tourists followed, and two long queues hung from the side of the wine barrel, making it even bigger. Halfway up the stairs, I saw some small window holes on the wall outside the wine barrel, which may be for air circulation.At the end of the stairs is the upper surface of the wine barrel, which can be walked on. The valve for holding the wine is not big, so it is tightly screwed. Going down the stairs back to the flat ground and then looking up, I thought to myself that with such a huge storage capacity, even if the whole castle is full of wine masters, they can drink for decades if they get drunk every day.According to records, this wine barrel can hold more than 200,000 liters of wine. If there are many guests at a banquet in the castle, they can drink more than 2,000 liters a day.

At that time, there were so many vineyards near and far from the castle for wine making, and skilled winemakers could be hired from anywhere in Europe, so all the wines stored were high-quality wines.Although the prison-like castle is extremely boring, there are so many good wines, and the boring becomes comfortable.The owner of the castle must magnify this comfort countless times, so he made a huge wine barrel to promise.Let you block for a thousand days and besiege the city for several years, what you surround is a kind of mellow enjoyment!I estimate that the owner of this castle must have suffered from the fear of exhaustion, so he expresses the hidden worry about the future crisis in an exaggerated way.The extremely large wine barrel is proud of the extremely small window opening, and the unpredictable and dangerous land outside the window opening provides a reason for the storage of thousands of fine wines.In addition to being proud of the land, this wine barrel can also be proud of the years. The time and space in the castle are all opened and closed by it.

However, this wine barrel in my eyes has another problem: no matter how big it is, it can only store one kind of wine, so is the decades it promises too monotonous in taste for this small castle?Tens of thousands of drunk dreams are exactly the same, isn't this another ecological prison? Thus, it completes a logical conversion unintentionally.In order to be safe and comfortable, promise and security must be created, and at the same time, it is the monotony and boredom that are created. But in fact, a monotonous and boring life is not a guarantee of safety.In the late seventeenth century, this seemingly impenetrable castle was invaded by the French. A very important reason was that the defenders of the castle were drunk.

Boredom exposed weakness, so more and more people ran away from the castle. The castle gradually became deserted, and its guard was lifted, becoming a landscape on the land outside the castle. Hundreds of years have passed in a hurry, and today people step into the castle from the outside, but there is a kind of guilt in the darkness, timidity in the twists and turns, and panic in the old.After walking on tiptoe for a long time, I started to feel at ease, because we basically saw the boredom here back then. The busyness of the ancients and the boredom of the ancients can be appreciated by modern people as long as they leave relics, but unlike real life, it is more interesting to appreciate the boring relics.

Busy, mostly a transpirational consumption.