Section 493 The Temple Without Statues
I heard that the best drink is civet coffee. Three people listened to the story of how civets process coffee beans through their bodies and became fascinated by its aroma.
Director Chen claims to be the fourth generation of Chinese, so he can understand that when he speaks Chinese, he always tries to explain every word clearly. It sounds a bit difficult, but he can understand it completely.
He has a medium figure, his hair is a bit trendy and thorny, blacker than three people, whiter than Indonesian people, and claims to be coming to Wuwatu on Jawa Island, and comes to work in Bali to earn money and go home to build a house. Feng Wuyou, among the three people, likes to make fun of him, so he asks him if he has any wives or girlfriends.
Director Chen cooperated and pretended to be heavy and said: I am not married, the eldest son is not young, I want to find a girlfriend. Many local Indonesian girls like it, but they are not Chinese, mothers, and brothers who want to scold me.
It seems that although the Chinese are already the fourth generation, they still have a very family concept. Parents and brothers still have to listen to their fates. Feng Wuyou asked curiously: "If you really fall in love with local girls, what should you do? Now love still has race?"
Yes, Little Loli fell in love with a vampire who was actually a hundred-year-old, King Kong fell in love with humans, and Broken Arm Mountain has become a masterpiece. Age, gender, and even species are not a problem, let alone the difference in race.
Feng Wuyou asked again if you agree, will the woman have any questions? Director Chen replied: If you believe in Hinduism, then there is no problem. It turns out that Chinese people talk about race and disciples, while locals pay attention to religion.
Director Chen shook his head helplessly, Yun Luo thought he was just talking about it. In this era, if one day, he fell in love with an Indonesian girl at first sight under a big tree and met again under the same big tree, would his parents even force them to jump off the cliff?
Most Chinese believe in Buddhism, but do not force everyone in their family to believe in the same religion. This also reflects a tolerant and free attitude. In places with multiple religions and multiple races, Romeo and Juliet-like stories are most likely to occur. When Director Chen took three people to Uwatu, he did not tell the three people that they were going to Uwatu. He said he would go to the lovers cliff and continue to drink iced coffee.
Since it is a lover cliff, there must be a legend about a couple. Either their parents oppose it or their families or beliefs are different, it is impossible for lovers to meet on the cliff, because when they encounter something wrong, the cliff is right in front of them. It seems that it is natural to jump down and turn into butterflies or birds.
However, if Yunluo is the screenwriter, why should they jump off the cliff? There are tens of thousands of islands in Indonesia. The male protagonist builds a small boat or steals a small boat. The female protagonist packs up fire, coffee beans, and clothes, and takes advantage of the calm night to escape to any island. This is not as tragic as jumping off a cliff.
But in a second thought, he brought people to an uninhabited island and spread culture. Wouldn't it be beautiful? Standing on the cliff, Yun Luo suspected that the story about lover jumping off the cliff was compiled by a Chinese tour guide to cater to the tragic story of Chinese tourists who like Liang Shanbo and Zhu Ying, because the scenery under the cliff is right in front of him, so beautiful. Why would he bear to jump off the cliff?
If I only imagined, I would think that the sea was close to the cliff of Uwatu. In fact, it was not the case. I crossed a flat land like an African grassland, walked through a pool, and walked to the edge of the cliff. I stretched my head and saw that there was a pastoral farm under the cliff, and pastoral songs were staged below.
The same meadow is flat and is inlaid with dense tree walls on the edge of the sea. On one side of the tree wall, the waves roll over and rush over, forming a section like a diamond-cut surface near the coast, which is beautiful in the sun.
On the other side of the tree wall, cows or sheep are lowering their heads and eating grass quietly. No matter whether your waves are low or high, they only care about the fat grass, and they don’t know that there are several curious human eyes on the cliff staring at them.
It is probably the story of lovers jumping off the cliff that touched the people who came here for their honeymoons, and one-on-one Chinese couples took photos here. There is something strange about Chinese culture. It is obviously a place where lovers jump off the cliff, but couples are more willing to leave a happy moment here. Are you not afraid of the jealousy of jumping off the cliff?
Yun Luo is the screenwriter of the story, after seeing Wuwatu with his own eyes, he planned to adapt the script like this, otherwise he would be wronged Director Liu to be the male lead: Director Liu is a Chinese who is not aware of the generation. After meeting an Indonesian girl with black hair and black eyes and white frangipani under a big tree, he fell in love at first sight. The frangipani that the girl gave him to wear on his head, Director Liu treasured it in his favorite book.
They made an appointment to watch the sunset on the lovers cliff. After watching several people, they fell in love with the lovers cliff. However, their beliefs were different, and the girl could not believe in Buddhism. Director Liu believed in Hinduism. He was most unaccustomed to it: when he went to the temple to worship, he had to dress white all over because he felt that he was not suitable for white.
Stop, if you continue to write this, it is clearly a comedy. If you want to write a comedy well, it will be even more difficult to leave a deep impression on people. Therefore, the Chinese tour guides are very smart. Tell you the tragedy. If you compare it in front of you, it will make the happiness index rise.
Feng Wuyou is just a bastard, and he knows that he takes Yun Luobaiqi around and doesn't have fun.
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If there is a masquerade party, under the moonlight, in the deep garden of Bali, the fragrance of flowers floats in the air, and the fountain happily pours out from the water cup held by the statue of the elegant goddess. Not far away, the waves are sparkling, and it is the sea, and the bright moon on the sea is full of tides.
Since it is a masquerade, outfits are very important. Some people dress up as Cinderella, some people dress up as Aladdin, some people dress up as Bluebeard, and some people dress up as Miss Mermaid. Count Dracula or Snow White, each of them needs. These are characters in legends or fairy tales, and people will naturally understand after looking at it.
In Yunluo's opinion, the more funny the mask is, the more unexpected it is, and that is the more exciting it is. In Bali, there are countless reference objects of the mask. They may not exist in movies or books, and outsiders may not know their names. They are not in high places, they are squatting in the corners of the walls, with simple shapes, peaceful or weird faces, and they can hardly see similar faces.
They are ubiquitous statues in Bali.
From the first day of traveling to Bali, people from other places can find that the houses here are very distinctive. The buildings prefer heavy buildings, so many stones were obtained from somewhere. The walls were made of stones, and the puzzles on the walls were also made of stones, and the doors were carved with delicate and exquisite patterns belonging to wealthy families.
The narrow door is low, the courtyard is spacious, and the courtyard is high and low, and the green trees are hidden in the courtyard. What interested Yunluo is that every household always places a statue in a small temple or unexpected corner. Yunluo guessed that it was not a statue of a god, but a doll or a character in their own stories.
There are delicate shapes, thin eyebrows, slender figures, and pink embroidered sarongs or yellow sarongs. These clothes are directly drawn on the statues, and some are made of cloth. The portraits have their hands folded, quiet and peaceful. They have honest shapes, round face, round head, round body, long eyebrows, round eyes, thick lips, and a fat soldier with a good temper, squatting under the screen wall where someone enters the door.
Rather than being like a door god, it is better to say that he is like Maitreya Buddha in the Huaguo Temple, which makes people put down their guard at first sight. The family still puts red flowers on its ears, and I don’t know if they have washed themselves and dressed up the stone statue more happily;
There are also thrillers, directly like monsters coming from Harry Potter or the Lord of the Rings, looking very much like prehistoric monkeys. What’s funny is that they are wearing high hats on their heads, bracelets on their hands, and flowers all over their bodies. They are dressed neatly. The dull and contemplative expression looks very much like the giant statue on the Island of Resurrection, making people feel that this thing is just an alien, and there are no searches on the earth.
Yun Luo was most shocked to the point where she was squatting at the door of a silverware shop. She was surrounded by black and white plaids, and her eyes were so exaggerated that she almost popped out of her eyes. Her belly was bulging like a ball, and she also had three folds. On Halloween, she could go out to the street without makeup and scary.
What made Yun Luo wonder was that the styles of these statues were too different. They looked like gods, humans, animals, and monsters. The Indonesians’ hobbies were really fantastic and surprising. Chinese people liked to squat at the door, suppress demons and subdue demons, and Indonesians placed these statues, which looked more like family members, and they would wear hats and put flowers on them.
If it weren't for the land father-in-law, each family would have different land father-in-laws, and they would have transformed into various images. This family would have made the joyfulness more happy, and the family would have a scary atmosphere. Compared with those high-ranking statues, Yun Luo would prefer the statues close to the land. With the ground atmosphere, the statues seemed to have a human soul, a human expression, and even a human strange taste and worldly life.
If there was such a masquerade, the houses fell silent under the moonlight of Bali, and all the statues of people were resurrected, slipped out from every corner and gathered together. What kind of wonder would it be? Yunluo looked more lively than Toy Story, and more magical than Harry and Potter.
Each statue also carries a story about a family. They gather together and can tell a movie about a thousand and one night. Unfortunately, when Yun Luo wanted to see the statue, he always glanced at it, always on the road, and had no time to take a closer look. I wonder if anyone took such a statue and compiled it into a booklet.
Many places have vast coastlines, and many islands are full of white frangipani and red hissanthemum flowers. But is there another place with so many strange statues? A mysterious atmosphere envelops them, which may be a unique element to the indigenous people. If you change the place, you will become another flavor or other image.
When Yun Luo is fascinated or focuses on watching statues or other things, it is easy to become confused. He wanders around the local batik factory and is attracted by a bunch of cloth fans with rich pictures. After picking it up, he didn't find that Feng Wuyou and Bai Qi have left. The local tour guide came to Yun Luo and said that the car had driven a long way to find Yun Luo. He turned around and looked for Yun Luo.
Yun Luo is still thinking about the interesting and strange statues in the corners of the wall. If you look at them one by one, wouldn’t it be an interesting statue observation trip, and it is just right for Yun Luo to think of it.
However, if Yun Luo chooses a mask to participate in the Bali party, Yun Luo chooses a witch. Don’t look too ugly. It doesn’t matter if you have a sharp nose. Your eyes should look good, and it’s best. Your eyes are blue like the sea. You should wear a Bali sarong.
Chapter completed!