Beijing: Town of Changyu

It was a day after the first now in early November this year. Several bloggers and planed a western Beijing’s ancient Great Wall tour. Most tourists come to Beijing for the famous Badaling Mountain in their Beijing Xian tour, but for me, I like the unrepaired Great Wall more.
Town of Changyu, Zhenbian and Baiyanggou are called as “the three towns of Beijing frontier”. 50 days have passed since the last snow, some feelings have gone away gradually with the time. When I view these photos again, I do not know how to describe my feelings at that time. So I have to provide more pictures for sharing.

Stepping on the thick snow and walking through the forest, it give me a delusion of the scene described in the novel The Guerrilla Warfare. It reminds me of my Xian tour last winter in the Xian City Wall suddenly.

Standing on the beacon tower and overlooking, we had a panoramic view of Huanglouwa Great Wall and Badaling remnant Great Wall. I couldn’t help to recite the famous poem to the tune of Chin Yuan Chun composed by the great Chaiman Mao:
North country scene:
A hundred leagues locked in ice,
A thousand leagues of whirling snow.
Both sides of the Great Wall One single white immensity.
The Yellow River's swift current
Is stilled from end to end.
The mountains dance like silver snakes
And the highlands charge like wax-hued elephants,
Vying with heaven in stature.
On a fine day, the land,
Clad in white, adorned in red,
Grows more enchanting.

This land so rich in beauty
Has made countless heroes bow in homage.
But alas!
Chin Shih-huang and Han Wu-ti Were lacking in literary grace,
And Tang Tai-tsung and Sung Tai-tsu
Had little poetry in their souls;
And Genghis Khan,
Proud Son of Heaven for a day,
Knew only shooting eagles, bow outstretched
All are past and gone!
For truly great men
Look to this age alone.