The lofty blue mountains of Shanxi Province were like a blurry wall standing gravely and silently on the opposite side, looking on as the waves of loess ridges and knolls spilled themselves with abandon over the edge.

• 蓝青色的山西省的崇山如一道迷朦的石壁，正在彼岸静静肃峙，仿佛注视着这里不顾一切地倾泻而下的黄土梁峁的波涛。