Chapter 6 Traveler's Style◎Cao Youfang

The beginning of my relationship with Ma Zhongxin was of course for the cover photography of a publishing house that promoted the women's movement organized at that time, but the real acquaintance was through the use of mountains as a medium. I still remember the first time I joined the mountaineering activity led by Ma Zhongxin, he declared to me in a tone of 70% seriousness and 30% joking: Cao Youfang, please bring a boyfriend yourself, I will not carry a backpack for you. Such underestimation of others, undoubtedly, did not arouse the injustice at that time, but aroused all the fighting spirit in my nature.In the following mountaineering trips, I never lagged behind, nor did I let any man do what he should do for me.

This team leader is very good at psychological construction! Ma Zhongxin's travel style is the most assiduous and frugal one.Because of the value, it was able to go deep into some non-tourism areas.Often we are in the deep mountains, if we are not camping, we are living in local folk houses or working dormitories.This allows me, as a novel author, to see different aspects of life beyond the magical beauty of nature. In these beautiful and recordable scenes, I use a pen, while Ma Zhongxin uses his dual identity of traveler and photographer.Over the years, he has accumulated a large number of excellent photographs from Taiwan, mainland China and around the world, which are enough to show the world.

For landscapes, I have always had a spiritual longing.Traveling will also be the biggest hobby in this life besides writing.Haruo Sato wrote about the melancholy of the city and the melancholy of the country in his early years. The struggle between the husband in the city and the wife in the countryside is probably the most common ambivalence among modern people.But I will not be so sad and indignant that, like the French poet named Baudelaire, he places happiness outside the world.I think that travel is necessary for everyone, and it is especially important that urban and rural areas can be more easily adjusted.

In those years, we often gathered a group of Chinese and foreign friends to climb mountains.These horses who know the way will naturally become our guides and leaders.Many years have passed, but the good memories are still engraved in my heart. Once when we went to Taiping Mountain, we got up at four in the morning. In the dim light of the flashlight, we let our hiking boots step on the abandoned train tracks carefully, for fear of slipping on the slippery and gapped sleepers.However, the resentment at that time was fully compensated for by the good scenery brought by this good guide.So far, the beauty of the blue fir forest is still intact in my heart, without fading.

As for the fruit growers around the mountains, the beautiful mountain girls, the hot springs on the island, the naked swimming in the streams, the cherry blossoms in Wushe, the vegetables in Wuling, and many other places where I used to stop and show mercy, these are all things I am happy to return to. A treasure for the soul to ruminate on.These are all thanks to the good guide of this horse. More than ten years ago, when I climbed the mountain with foreign friends, whenever outsiders praised the beauty of Baodao, they would always disagree.Perhaps this mood is similar to Nietzsche's deep belittling of Germany, but it is nothing more than a deep love and deep responsibility.However, over the years, it is far from suitable for other countries.After traveling through thousands of mountains and rivers, I suddenly realized that my hometown is beautiful.Taiwan is indeed a beautiful island, the kind of beautiful fairy island that sailors sailing in the ocean hope for.Just that kind of special and moist intoxicating green can make people fascinated.

This green has always been in my dreams. During my return to Taiwan, I made a deliberate visit to the Huadong Road that once left a beautiful impression.When the plane flew over the east coast, the surging white waves and the blue sea with different depths set off the green of the mountains, making it as rich as it could overflow.That green is almost a symbol of life, giving people a sense of comfort.When the car window was filled with wind, and I breathed wantonly against the blue mountains not far away, I was connected with the trip to Huadong and Lanyu that year. This trip never ends.Until I was writing the preface for Ma Zhongxin's new book, it was still in progress.This is just like his journey, and even everyone's life journey, which must be completed with the whole life process.But whether it is a journey of life or a world journey of a traveler, according to me who has been Ma Zhongxin's travel companion, Ma Zhongxin is a worthy life, and he is an excellent and outstanding adventure traveler.His exuberant vitality, hard-working endurance and perseverance, and fearless courage are all elements that make him successful.And every time I tease him about what he eats, everything is delicious, and it is also the best capital for him to live with the situation, travel alone, and have a strong body.

Although I have never participated in Ma Zhongxin's adventures in the world, but after reading this travel note, I feel like he traveled around the world.Dear readers, please also let Ma Zhongxin be the team leader and join in this thrilling and fun-filled adventure.