Here is, Quzhou, Zhejiang Province, my destination this time, a county under Quzhou, Longyou.
Have you heard of Longyou? I've never heard of it before. A month ago, I made a friend from Quzhou on my travels, and that afternoon, in the narrow gap of the train sleeper, he sat across from me and talked about his hometown, Longyou, with great interest. Bamboo rafts, grottoes, green mountains, a thousand years of mystery, and a variety of tantalizing food?
It was evening, the setting sun through the window of the green train, spread on the humble table, like a layer of brilliant dining cloth. In front of my eyes as if out of a hundred meters long corridor, a wide range of shops and fragrant snacks lined up on both sides? The sea of people, the situation, the scene, is the most beautiful encounter.
Longyou, located in the Jinqu Basin, belongs to Quzhou City, Zhejiang Province. The whole county is low in the middle and high on all sides, Qu River and Lingshan River pass through the city, standing in the county town looking around, surrounded by mountains. Longyou is one of the first 13 counties in the history of Zhejiang Province to be established, connecting Jiangxi, Anhui and Fujian provinces, with a temperate climate and verdant surroundings.
A month later, I boarded a high-speed train to Quzhou, the same station mentioned at the beginning of this post.
Out of the station, see a clean and neat new city, backed by the mountains, I asked the passer-by what is the name of that distant mountain? Shake your head: old man I'm more than 50 years old from do not know what is that mountain? Also, as long as it feels right, what is the name, and how important. In fact, Longyou is a high-speed rail station, just I just want to meet a long time in Quzhou will be a friend, we are about to the station is opposite the Wanda Plaza to eat a lunch together, and then continue to go. My friend told me that there is an intercity bus from Quzhou to Longyou, which is a 40-minute ride, and the ticket price is 14 yuan when booked online. I followed this route and soon reached Longyou County.
The first stop on the Longyou tour: the Longyou Folk Court.
Longyou was the former capital of Gugu during the Spring and Autumn Period, so there are a lot of stories passed down and rich historical relics preserved in this county with a history of thousands of years, among which the most famous ones are the traditional residential houses that have been passed down since the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
These dwellings were the big gates of the time, and in today's words? The houses of the rich and powerful were the homes of the rich and powerful, and they were the homes of the rich and powerful. These landed gentry in the old days scattered in various old streets and alleys in the city, deep courtyard, in the eyes of the common people, quite mysterious. These exquisite ancient art, in the traditional architecture of Jiangnan occupies an important position.
After visiting the Longyou residential garden, I privately believe that, in addition to the Suzhou Garden, belonging to the Longyou residential gave me the most profound impression, shock. Let's talk about this later. From the eighties, Longyou government one after another will be a number of highly ornamental and historical reference of mortise and tenon structure of the ancient homes dismantled, relocated, in accordance with the ratio of one to one re-installation, site selection? Jiming Mountain. Jiming Mountain, centralized and protected,? Build Longyou Jiming Mountain Folk Court.
Longyou Folk Residence featured cultural relics: Scholar's Square.
The plaque is for a man called Liu Wenru Longyou set up, the Southern Song Dynasty, the scholar. At the beginning of the official secretary, equivalent to the current cadres, and later and Qin Hui's party have contradictions and was transferred to Jiangxi Gao'an County. Then later Qin Hui died, Song Xiaozong Zhao昚 ascended to the throne, the scholar was appointed minister of the Ministry of Rites, equivalent to the current guo wu court deputy secretary-general, after his death posthumously awarded the honorary doctor of light, is the title of the first grade in the civil officials. A life of ups and downs, end of life. This scholar's plaque is located at the entrance of Minjuyuan.
Longyou Minjuyuan featured cultural relics two: phoenix dance nine days.
This is a red bean tree root, locals call it ? wood hugging stone? Sometime in the 1970s, a township in Longyou, in order to build a large hall, cut a very thick tree, the results of this tree's roots for more than 30 years have not rotted, and then the cultural relics department of Longyou saved it, placed in Longyou Folk House Court, because it is shaped like a phoenix, named ? Phoenix Dance Nine Days?
Longyou Folk Residence Court featured cultural relics three: Goka up phoenix.
The original address of this building is Longyou County Hengshan Township, Gaozhan Ding Village, a ? Standing on a high hillock? The house, behind the house is the Phoenix Hill, hence the name. Gao Gang Qifeng was built at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and was overhauled once in the Qing Dynasty, which is the Zhang Clan Ancestral Hall. The Zhang family has always been harmonious and is an enviable large family, with no separation of families for nine generations, a ? Dunmutang?
Standing in front of the door of the Zhang family, the first thing you see is that the threshold of this family is quite high, and the whole building is carved with dragons and phoenixes. The design of the room beams is its essence, unique in Longyou County Qingming architecture.
Longyou Folk Residence Court featured cultural relics four: siliconized wood.
Siliconized wood of Nanyang pine has been 135-205 million years ago. The cause is roughly: the tree in the volcanic eruption instantly buried into the ground, the chemical substances around the trunk invaded the tree, into the silica fossil, not only retained the characteristics of the tree, but also has the research value of the ancient plant specimens.
Longyou Minjuyuan featured cultural relics V: Zishutang.
Zhang's 18th grandson, Zhang Shitang, spent three years in the late Qing Dynasty to build the building, which has brick carvings made to imitate the style of wood, brick carving skills, rich and colorful content. The building has another unique design: there are two small patios at the junction of the two courtyards, surrounded by stone balustrades, which is a unique design. Architectural wood carving art are superior cattle legs, up to one meter, for the county so far found the largest cattle legs?
Longyou business tycoon's classic mansion, so to speak.
Longyou Folk Residence Court featured cultural relics six: Yu's residence.
Built in 1912, is a century-old building, the wonderful thing about this house is its wood carvings, these carved patterns of opera characters are exquisite craftsmanship, vivid modeling, realistic image, worth studying. It is a classic building of high-level carving art in Longyou County in the early Republic of China.
Longyou Folk Residence Court featured cultural relics VII: Juxing Hall. This is a family? place where the wise and talented people gather? , an early Qing Dynasty building, it is not easy to preserve. The owner of the building is different from other tycoons, from the simple and light brick carvings in its house, he appears to be very fresh and widowed, with a floor area of 200 square meters, built for Yu Duanli's descendants. Patterns involved in the content of the allegory? Fuk, Luk, Zhen, Xiang? The good wishes. But it is this building is a light building but a great study, its columns show a very high level of wisdom, the use of traditional principles of building mechanics, and Beijing? The pillars of the Hall of Supreme Harmony in Beijing are similar to those of the Hall of Supreme Harmony in Beijing. s pillars share a similarity and can be considered an earthquake-resistant classic.
Longyou Folk Residence Court featured cultural relics VIII: Woo's Hall. The original was built by a clan surnamed Zhu before it was sold to the Wu family for ? Woo's Hall. Now relocated to protect the building of the second into the main part of the building. First built in the late Ming Dynasty, has a dignified and simple charm, the building's attraction, is the Zhejiang Province? So far found extremely rare beam bucket conjoined building, design in line with the principles of architecture, mechanics, with strong seismic performance? In 1937, the famous painter and calligrapher Mr. Yu Shao-song Fangzhi school to escape the war, living in this place for eight years, during the period made by the ink treasure subject matter is mostly bamboo, so here is entitled ? Neighboring Bamboo Zhai?
Longyou Folk Court classic architecture, far more than these, but space is limited, it is introduced here. Walking in this court, as walking into a ? Longyou Ming and Qing Dynasty residential art exhibition hall? , 45 marvelous ancient dwellings, by the mountains and the water, patchwork, is one of China's few ancient architectural collection of places.