After half a year of laziness, I finally learned the hard way that I need to get back into the habit of going out every weekend. Originally, the place of choice was Baoding, but because of the haze, Baoding's haze can only be more serious compared to Beijing's, and therefore chose Jixian County, which is located a little east of Beijing and less polluted.
The lively town, the old town commercial street to the drum tower direction line, all kinds of food street and roadside stalls are endless, more than nine o'clock at night, although the cold people touch the nose, but all around is a lively crowd. Unlike Hongcun and other places I've been to before, there are all kinds of snacks and vendors here in the middle of the night. Kebabs or casserole soup store can be open until two o'clock at night, around the fire, sold by the pound pot stickers or steamed buns staple, store door hanging fresh sausage and sausage.
However, at 8:00 am, a new day has already begun here, and the streets are crowded with cars - the chaotic parking along the street is truly disturbing for drivers stuck in traffic. Think of the night market is bustling, from 10:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m. before the new day of Liuzhou, can only feel the people of Jixian really hardworking.
Jixian County, the ancient name of "Yuyang", is also the source of An Lushan's rebellion against the Tang Dynasty. The center of the county is Yuyang Square, covering an area of about five thousand square meters. The center of the building Yuyang Drum Tower, just after the demolition of the ancient city wall left the gatehouse, the square in front of the next is an underground supermarket, the square during the day, some people play shuttlecock at night, some people dance, corresponding to the drum tower, is a combination of ancient and modern. On one side of the Wuding Street on both sides of the construction of a number of antique buildings, the west entrance of this pedestrian street is the Duluo Temple.
The pass for the Dule Temple Complex includes the Dule Temple Gate, Guanyin Pavilion, White Pagoda Temple, Luban Temple, and the Temple of Literature. Dule Temple and White Pagoda Temple across the street from each other, think back in the day, Dule Temple is directly across the street, is the Liang Sicheng fieldwork team stationed. Lu Ban Temple and the Temple of Literature is on the other side of the Drum Tower, the Temple of Literature and Jixian County Primary School is adjacent to the Confucian scholar.
Duluo Temple mountain gate is three rooms wide, two rooms deep. Roof with five ridges, four slopes, and the Palace of Imperial China, the same, commonly known as the "hipped roof", which is China's earliest existing, the highest specification hipped roof gate. Standing on the outside of the gate, you can see that from the ridge to the eaves, showing four beautiful arcs, to the corner of the roof outward, like a bird wings to fly. The ridge on both sides of the scops owl for the dragon fish tail shape, simple and vivid, and we can see now with the Ming and Qing temples of the big kiss the dragon's tail flipped outward differently, allegedly the Tang Dynasty carving legacy. However, the eye can not reach, failed to recognize one by one the rest of the kissing beasts are what, only feel inexplicably cute.
The columns of the gate are about fifteen centimeters in diameter, simple and heavy, wooden structure. The most noteworthy is its arch. This is a structure unique to Chinese architecture, used for the transition and connection between the beam square and the column. However, we often see the Forbidden City, as well as other Ming and Qing dynasty buildings, the arch appears "weak and small, every dozens of saving arrangement under the eaves", almost for decoration.
And here we can clearly feel the practical function of the arch, not only connecting the beams and columns, the appearance of the "majestic solid, solemn and meticulous" style, a kind of atmospheric thick and simple temperament came. The back of the Guanyin Pavilion is also the same form.
The east and west sides of the mountain gate is the Liao Dynasty clay sculpture, 4.5-meter-high humming two generals modeling, facial modeling exaggerated, concise knife method, the overall lines are smooth and vivid, no dull and hard air. Haha two will be the mouth just right on the "hum" "ha" two words, staring round eyes inexplicably added a few points of joy and cute.
After the four heavenly kings mural, presented in front of us, is the three-story construction of the Guanyin Pavilion. On the upper plaque there is "Guanyin's Pavilion" four words, said to be Li Bai handwritten. And Qin students argued half a day in the end is not a descendant of the imitation, the final conclusion can only be the following "Taibai" two small words should be the descendant of the addition of ......
Liang Sicheng said that the Guanyin Pavilion, "bearing the legacy of the Tang Dynasty, under the start of the The first one is a wooden structure with a pavilion, and it is also the earliest existing wooden structure with a pavilion, because of this unique form of construction, which makes the neighboring Tangshan Jixian County in the great earthquake will be able to save the Guanyin Pavilion. Finally got to see the Guanyin statue, 16.08 meters high, is also China's tallest existing colorful clay standing statue, standing in the Sumeru seat, both sides of the hanging down the belt to do the balance of the support, on the painting of the gorgeous floral pattern. Guanyin wearing cape, skirt, painted in turn with the scene of flowers, phoenix flying and other different patterns, colorful, clothes decision fluttering, dignified manner.
Looking up, Guanyin seems to smile, a compassionate, some say, climbed to the third floor will find that the Guanyin eye, is the opposite of the White Pagoda.
And standing in front of this 16-meter Guanyin statue, but can not help but worship, not for the sake of, only for the beauty of this submissive. I think a thousand years ago, the statue was first completed, it is how glorious, beautiful? Through the Tang, Liao, Ming and Qing so far, still retains the beauty of this quiet. Time and space dislocation trance, just want to become a small sweeping maidservant, serving in front of the statue, the daily replacement of flowers and fruits in front of the case, you can always look at this beauty to the end of time.
Guanyin's head there are ten small head, so named eleven Guanyin statue. Behind the statue of Guanyin, there is an Indian style statue of Guanyin, about life-size, with a sprightly and self-assured posture.
On both sides of the statue there are equally beautifully rendered maids of honor, surrounded by Yuan dynasty murals of sixteen luohans, each surrounded by devotees and whatnot, though built in the Yuan dynasty, some Tang dynasty charm can still be seen.
And the recreation of this mural is even more legendary. In the Ming Dynasty when re-drawing, in the Qianlong years somehow was laid to a layer of white ash, in 1972 when the renovation found that the wall white ash fall off, only to reveal, and at the same time let Liang Sicheng is responsible for the perfection of the mural work.
Hate to know the story is too little, this wall of sixteen Lohan is said to have two Ming Wang's stories and legends can not read, can only walk around the general, one by one browsed once.
(White Pagoda, Lu Ban Temple content some other day have time to come not on it 0 0)