摘要：Golden October during the China's National Day holiday is the perfect time for a "Reading-Travel" experience in Lingnan. Tracing t

Golden October during the China's National Day holiday is the perfect time for a "Reading-Travel" experience in Lingnan. Tracing the footsteps of Mi Fu, a cultural icon in the Song Dynasty of more than 900 years ago, one walks into Yingde, where vermilion cliffs resemble ancient calligraphy scrolls, black tea embodies the elegance of the Song Dynasty, and peak forests look like ink-wash paintings, as if browsing through a living cultural history of Lingnan.

Downtown Yingde

The ink-wash landscape motifs created by Mi Fu when he served as the County Defender of Yingde in the Song Dynasty still read as a tangible cultural handscroll today. In the Tang Dynasty, Yingde was known as Yingzhou, famed for its "Ying stone" prized by connoisseurs for the four principal aesthetic criteria of thinness (shou), openness (tou), perforations (lou), and wrinkling (zhou). At Zhenyang Gorge, a cliff-carved inscription about hewing a passage through the rock seems to "converse" across centuries with Mi Fu's "Baozang" cliff-carved inscription; Nanshan Cliff Carvings unfold like a book, preserving the "Record of Nanyan Pavilion" of the Tang Dynasty and poems by Su Dongpo.

The Yingde Museum holds a substantial collection of rubbings of stone carvings

Stone Carvings of Mi Fu's Works

As China's hometown of black tea, Yingde's tea culture runs deep. Hongqi Tea ridges echo the refined spirit of On Sichuan Silk with tea liquor steeped in a millennium of tea culture, and today its fragrance wafts far and wide. The karst of the Yingxi Peak Forest carries the ink-wash mood of "Spring Mountains and Auspicious Pines"; Biluodong's legends find echoes in the very rock; the roasting craft described in "The Classic of Tea" remains visible; and the Yanshanzhai site bears the marks of early Lingnan cultures often associated with the Baiyue people.

Zhenyang Gorge

Cliff carvings

Even now, you can perceive the artistic style of Mi Fu calligraphy in Yingde's fantastic stones, and savor the elegance of the Tang and Song Dynasties in a cup of Yingde black tea.

Yingde karst caves

国庆“读游”英德：循着米芾墨韵品岭南文脉

金秋十月国庆长假，正是“读游”岭南的好时节。循着900多年前“宋潮达人”米芾的足迹走进英德，丹崖如古帖、红茶藏宋味、峰林似水墨，宛如翻阅流动的岭南文化史。

米芾任英德尉时泼墨的山水意象，如今仍是可触的文化长卷。英德唐时为英州，因“瘦、透、漏、皱”的英石得名，浈阳峡“凿山通道”石刻与米芾“宝藏”手迹对话，南山摩崖群如册页展开，还留存着唐代《南岩亭记》与苏东坡题咏。

作为“中国红茶之乡”，英德红茶文化源远流长。红旗茶垄似《蜀素帖》文气，茶汤里沉浮着千年茶文化基因，如今茶香远播四海。英西峰林的喀斯特地貌，有《春山瑞松图》的水墨韵味，碧落洞传说与实景呼应，《茶经》焙茶工艺可现，岩山寨遗址藏着百越先民印记。

如今，仍能从英德奇石读米芾笔意，于红茶中品唐宋风雅。

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