Récits de voyage · 18/02/2025

Yanzi | Building a Wilderness Shelter

You can go to the riverbank, find a large stone as the main frame, and there are plenty of stones around for walls. Find some dead wood, and a saw is enough. Stack and pile them up, cover the top with moss, and also fill the gaps inside with moss. Just enough to lie down flat. Then go gather some pine needles to lay down. The more I think about it, the more feasible it seems. I can't wait for daylight! Even rain doesn't matter.

Every night before falling asleep, I habitually scroll through an episode or two of wilderness survival shelter-building videos. Last night while watching, I felt an increasingly strong urge to build a shelter myself! Since it's just me going, I don't need to worry, no need to hurry, I can do whatever I want.

You can go to the riverbank, find a large stone as the main frame, and there are plenty of stones around for walls. Find some dead wood, and a saw is enough. Stack and pile them up, cover the top with moss, and also fill the gaps inside with moss. Just enough to lie down flat. Then go gather some pine needles to lay down. The more I think about it, the more feasible it seems. I can't wait for daylight! Even rain doesn't matter.

Carrying the bamboo basket that Dahua gave me, I'll bring a gas canister stove, oil, salt, and a pan to fry a chicken steak. Bring some flour, starch, and an egg. The cudweed at the foot of the mountain is just fresh. After building the shelter, I'll make a fried vegetable cake and then go down the mountain.

In the future, I can go check it out and play there from time to time. I can also invite He Chen, Zhenhao, Jason, Xiaojing, and Yang Min... to come visit when they're passing by, haha. They should like it too. If it turns out nice, we can even go camping. Hahaha, falling asleep with such pleasant thoughts.

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Jason | Using AI to Create Your Own Mini Program/Website

Two months ago in Chiang Mai, I stumbled upon the chance to start learning how to build mini programs. My AI programming mentor, Wangshen, told me, 'Once you finish your mini program, write a summary report.' Now I've completed the new mini program for Cangshan Hiking Home, and it's already being tested. It not only solves problems I've wanted to address for a while, like adding age tags to filter activities and providing an English version, but it has also introduced new features, such as browsing restaurants, guesthouses, and meeting points on a map for a more intuitive experience, and using AI to provide quite intelligent responses.

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Celebrate the Torch Festival in a Nanzhao Royal Clan Village

Over the past two years, we have taken guests to celebrate the Torch Festival in Songhe Village, Eryuan. Together we slaughtered a sheep, and with the whole village, erected a huge torch in the center of the village square. Everyone made their own torches from hemp stalks, and together with the older and younger villagers, we rushed to grab the blessing baba (cakes) from the big torch, passing blessings to each other with fire. Even for me, a native Bai person, these are rare and precious traditional festival experiences. Dali has endless festivals, and I want to experience them more before they fade away. I remember the Torch Festival of my childhood: torches were no longer enough for me. Before the festival, I would tell my dad to prepare a bucket of waste engine oil and diesel, mix them together, and then I would tightly bind cotton and old cloth with rope into a ball (some kids would secretly take cotton from their quilts at home to make it). Finally, I would make an iron wire ball, soak it in the bucket of oil, and secretly take it out every day to look at it, looking forward to having a great time on the day of the Torch Festival. We would compete in the village and by the rice fields to see whose fireball or torch was more impressive. When the torches and fireballs were almost burned out, we would rush home, walk around the potted fruit trees in circles, and say blessing words, hoping they would grow even better in the coming year.