The story and soul of Tbilisi

📍 Tbilisi This city has a history of four thousand years, and its story and soul come face to face. From the airport to the hotel check-in, I was waiting to cross the road at a busy intersection with a big bag on my back 🚥 It is well known that Georgian drivers are famous for their crazy driving style. At this time, an old man in a suit with white hair came up to me and said, let's cross the street together (in Russian, I guess he thought I was a Central Asian). Then he took me across the busy main road .... I was surprised to find that this country has nurtured such a rich culture, history and art. People have found the remains of ancient humans 1.8 million years ago in the mountains south of Tbilisi. Although this nation has been invaded many times by neighboring countries from the south and north, the foreign culture has been absorbed and shaped this unique cultural personality, making it now possess the characteristics of various cultures such as ancient Rome, Persia, and Russia. The unique Georgian script has been used since the 4th century BC, and the tradition of wine brewing alone has a history of more than 8,000 years (Qvevri, this is a wine brewing technology listed as a world cultural heritage)🍷 Great Russian writers of the 19th century, Gogol, Lermontov, Tolstoy, all spent their key growth period of artistic personality here. Georgia's artistic heritage is also colorful, with achievements in film and drama, covering a variety of styles such as romantic, realistic, and abstract (of course, it is not surprising that most artists have studied in Moscow or St. Petersburg). Georgia was ruled by Russia in the early 19th century, and was included in the rule of the Russian Tsar and the Soviet Union until 1991. Since 2003, in the world-famous "Rose Revolution" and subsequent movements, it has chosen to scrape the bone and heal the wound, and has repeatedly carried out systematic reforms on itself... 📌 Today, a day trip to the Kakheti winery.