In Lianjiang's Gushi Village, I stepped into Hayao Miyazaki's summer with my mother

Originally, I also wanted to visit Qidacun, but after reading the travel guide, the elderly were dissuaded by the 1800 steps and we drove directly to Gushi Village. My mother doesn't know about Hayao Miyazaki, yet she exclaimed, 'Isn't this a comic world❗' Mountains and seas, windmills, terraced fields, and various beautiful flowers surround a stone village with distinctive architectural features of Eastern Fujian. Under the sunlight, everything is clean and naturally colored like a comic. The last time I felt so fond of a seaside stone village was Dongsha Fishing Village in Yuhuan, but the atmosphere is completely different, perhaps because the intangible creativity of humanity always sparks new inspiration with nature. The quaint Gushi Village is actually a long-lived ancient village established in 1713. Nearly a hundred stone houses are built with locally sourced granite, many of which have withstood a century of weathering. From a high vantage point, the orderly saddle walls look simple and adorable under the large windmill. I always feel that Gushi Village is like an old child in the comics, who, no matter the age, always maintains the innocence and curiosity of a child, yet it has clearly endured much hardship. Look, age is just a mark of the years. Walking into the village's stone tunnel with my mother, who is also an old child at heart, felt like stepping into a kaleidoscope, with the sea on the other side of the tunnel. Gushi Village is about 8000 meters away from Taiwan's Mazu Archipelago in a straight line across the sea, and it seems that it won't be long before we no longer just gaze across the sea at each other. No admission fee, parking fee is 10 yuan There are usually few tourists, the village has a supermarket, B&Bs, coffee shops, and not many restaurants, but it feels like you can bring your own food, enjoy the sea, the mountains, the sun, and have a beautiful time.