[Source: Global Times]

Tianshui, Gansu

The lines Tonight we start the season of white dew; The moon is just as bright as in my homeland in the poem Thinking of My Brothers on a Moonlight Night written by Du Fu expressed the hope of travelers on their way back to their hometowns. The poem was composed in Tianshui, Gansu.

Maiji Mountain, located in Tianshui city, is a typical Danxia Geomorphologic Landscape. The Maiji Grotto is listed as one of the four large grotto groups in China. The landscape around Maiji Mountain is very beautiful, with green cypresses and pines, wild flowers and flourishing grass on the chain of mountains. There are over 7,200 clay sculptures found in 194 grottoes. One of the remarkable characteristics lies in that the locations of the grottoes are very breath-taking, as most of them are chiseled on cliffs and people can only access the grottoes through the overhanging plank roads among the grottoes.

In the Mid-autumn Day, after the moon rises, the white moon light spills over the mountains. The cold and desolate mountain and grottoes will surely invoke the feeling of homesickness.