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Into the center of the town, the first jumped into the eye is the iconic national heritage - built in the Qing Dynasty in the eighth year of Qianlong (1743) of the Wenchang Tower. This tower octagonal five-storey, brick and wood mixed pavilion type, each layer has a waist eaves, wings and corners of the sky, the top of the tower is steep, set on the gourd-shaped tower brake, wind Duo tinkled, like a pipe string. Inside the tower, there is a wooden ladder circling the top of the tower to look at the Jingyang landscape as far as the eye can see.
A poem says: "Looking over the fence, the view of the ghostly feelings, green shade of Zen forests and ancient trees across the road between the bamboo and pine buildings outside the layer, ten thousand over the lights tower side of the city." Is described as climbing this tower to see the scenery. Wenchang Tower, the original Wenchang Pavilion. Ming Jiajing thirty-seven years repair, Qing Yongzheng year demolition. For feng shui, in the Qing dynasty Qianlong eight years to repair, change the cabinet to build a tower.
About Wenchang Tower, the local legend: due to the image of Jingyang land "turtle out of the hole", if the turtle out of the away will take away the luck of the wealth. And because the southwest has a shape like fire Zishan, resulting in frequent fires in the town, in order to "set the turtle" and "town fire", specially built this tower.
Come to the ancient town tourism, can not help but go to visit the Temple of Literature. Built in the Northern Song Dynasty in the first year of Chongning (1102), Jingde Wenmiao is an ancient and dazzling scenery in Jingyang.
The red wall with tiles and high eaves, magnificent and elegant, is covered in a lush garden. Because of its lush trees, as if there is a natural beauty screen, so even in the breeze, dusty days, the Temple of Literature still maintains its unique elegance, serenity, quiet, showing the ancient Confucianism.
Qing Jiaqing "Jingde County Records": "Examination of the Tang Zhenguan four years (630) Zhaozhou County all set up Confucius Temple, when there is not yet a clan also. BaoYing built after, talk about the system of learning heard nothing, the Eup's Palace of Learning since Song ChongNingYuanYuan (1102). "Jingde Confucian Temple complex through the Southern Song Dynasty, Yuan, Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty Shunzhi fourteen years (1657), repeatedly subjected to the disaster of fire, overhaul 24 times, rebuilt 5 times, the existing building for the second year of Shunzhi (1645) built." Dacheng Hall, the main building of the Temple of Literature, was first known as the Temple of King Wen Xuan, and was renamed Dacheng Hall in Song Chongning four years (1105). It is the existing ancient architectural complex of Jingde with long history, well-preserved and largest scale. The entire Temple covers an area of 4700 square meters, the existing Dacheng Hall, east and west compartments, halberd door, famous eunuchs ancestral hall, township sage ancestral hall, Panchi, Pan Bridge, Lai room, etc., is now a national key cultural relics protection units.
Only closer to find that the wood carvings here are too exquisite, carved beams and painted buildings, the front of the main hall on the column "carp jump Dragon Gate", and Dacheng Hall on the wooden columns of the carvings, up and down as one, the dragon disk stone columns, teeth and claws, through the majesty of each piece of carving, are finely crafted, lifelike. Reminiscent of the year the craftsmen actually have such a masterpiece, the scenery portrayed so evocative. And Dacheng Hall pillar base relief, everything is as it should be, imaginative, Ruyi and persimmon symbolizes a long, not only makes people think. Algae well two layers of colorful paintings in the hall, the content of the phoenix, chicken, cranes, dragons, elephants, deer, unicorns and peonies and flowers, etc., and there are eight immortals face, and the most eye-catching is the star of the Wenqu. Throughout the size of a hundred colorful pictures, the picture is vivid, unique charm, symbolism is obvious, it is only hope that the children and grandchildren of SPARKLING Star of Wenshine, the great show of power.
Here, there is a "Zhou Fu Works Exhibition Hall", which displays more than 4,000 pieces of literature donated by Mr. Zhou Fu, a famous writer and calligrapher of Jingde nationality. The ancient town also has the aroma of ink and books.
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The Huishui River, which runs through the town, divides the town into two pieces, and the bridges connect them. The "Three Bridges" is one of the most famous sights of the ancient town.
The three bridges in the driving rainbow bridge for the stone pier two-hole beam corridor bridge pavilion architectural style, tile cover warped eaves, as if built in the Huishui River on a cabin, that simple and elegant modeling, practical and scientific construction, rough and not lose the delicate style, reflecting the ancient town of pioneers of the cultural concepts, aesthetic taste and high technology. Rarely is so far, driving Hongqiao bridge is still paved with stone. Nowadays, three new bridges are built on the Huishui River, ending the history of the ancient bridge loaded with cars.
Each bridge is an ancient book, an elegant poem. Semi-circular bridge holes and reflections in the water into one, synthesizing a jasper ring. There is a poem that says: "The boat from the jasper ring through, people step on the rainbow belt line, up and down the shadow of the bottom of the waves of the moon, the people crossing the water in the sky." Standing on the ancient bridge, looking into the distance, the ancient town has become an elegant Jiangnan ink painting, green and white water, green and gray walls, green trees, far and near the thick and light deep and shallow ......
According to the local cultural relics department statistics, at present, the town's ancient buildings exist in 65 places. There are ancient alleys, ancient houses, ancient wells and ancient roads with long architectural ages. Most of those ancient dwellings are the Ming and Qing dynasties, the ancient dwellings contain the main door, patio, main hall, back hall, compartment, auxiliary and cross house, doorway, hall niches, column bases, window lattices, hall walls, stone flagpole, etc., some of which have been mottled and dilapidated, and even some of them are only left in ruins, but still no loss of simplicity and sophistication, gravity and vicissitudes of life. Ancient color and charm is still there today, so that people have a sense of a world apart.
Jiefang Street, the busiest street in the center of the town, is also called Pedestrian Street, which is the oldest street in the town. In the ancient streets and lanes of the business of a variety of commodities stores, flavors of food and drink snacks, leisure teahouse and characteristic handmade workshops lined up. It's like a time-traveling experience, and it's a lot of fun.
Along the west bank of the Huishui River, is the most lively place in the old town. A small hotel one after another, the interesting thing is that the hotel is opposite a small food market, vegetable farmers coincidentally in this hotel side of the Dragon Front, green a color of home-grown green food. The owners of the hotel are also happy not to have to travel long distances, locally sourced and fresh and cheap and will not be less weighing. You can come here to enjoy the beauty of the river while experiencing a variety of meals, sipping tea, and playing cards. Although it is not as grand as the magnificent scene of the heyday of Bianliang City, Tokyo in the Song Dynasty as shown in Qingming Shanghe Tu, the ancient town has a longer historical connotation and deeper cultural deposition. After thousands of years of development and historical changes, people in the basic needs of people to meet the needs of reproduction and reproduction on the basis of the river, ancient temples, ancient streets, ancient bridges, ancient wells, ancient towers, ancient dwellings, and many other elements are skillfully integrated together, and at the same time injected into the ancient folklore, ancient folk, formed the today's such aura full of deep and profoundly beautiful ancient towns.
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The people of Jingyang are highly educated and talented. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, there were only 142 people with names, and 206 people with names. The people's culture of education cultivated the ancient town of the flourishing humanities, the old record: "Jing custom heavy poetry, hard recitation, more than a famous teacher to train children."
The Ming and Qing dynasties were in their heyday, with merchants and businessmen gathering and literati gathering, and in the thousands of years of business, various cultures have collided and blended here, and have gradually accumulated and formed a variety of cultural and artistic forms, giving rise to colorful and colorful cultural landscapes, such as the Meilian Opera, the Jaitang Opera, the Tang Opera Ching-Sing, the Puppet Opera, the shadow puppet show, the Dragon and Lion Dance, the Traditional Lantern Festival, the Bamboo Horse, and the March 28th Temple Fairs, etc.
The old record says: "The Jing custom emphasizes poetry and books, and is diligent in reciting lessons.
The Meilian Opera, which flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, is a combination of folk juggling, table-turning, stomping, rope-jumping, fire-drilling and other skills. The main repertoire of the play is "Meilian Saving Mother", which promotes the idea of karma and retribution. Whenever the leap year of the lunar calendar, Jingyang often invited Nanling, Zhejiang Changhua and other places in the theater troupe in Zhangjiatan (now Zishan Square), the North Gate Guanyin Pavilion (New Bridge) and other places to sing, the content is generally to drive away evil spirits, praying for a good year and so on. Jaitang Opera is a singing ritual of the big families in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China when they open the fast. Jingyang Town Prince Hall (now distillery), Dingjia Village, Ou Chuan, Nanchong and other places to perform this play; some places to ask monks or Taoist priests to sing for seven days and seven nights, usually performed in the leap year of the lunar calendar. Hall opera singing in the pre-statehood, every lunar February 2 (according to legend for the land god's birthday), all over the world are invited more than 10 folk artists in front of the land temple stage singing hall opera, singing "Peach Orchard," "Guo Ziyi birthday" and other celebratory Peking Opera repertoire. Some rich families in the event of red and white wedding, but also invited the old artists to sing opera. All types of performance forms are steeped in history and culture of the magnificent color.
It has been said that "the city has a history, but also has a connotation." The city of connotation, will not be obliterated by the smoke and dust of the years. Wandering in the ancient town, look at the ancient houses between the ancient streets, a new building up, the new street goods, showering the spring breeze of reform and opening up, Jingyang - the millennium-old town has applied for the creation of an international slow city. Here there are beautiful scenery, rich resources, hardworking people, simple folk customs, the future development of the road Xiawei cloud steam.
Through the years, this ancient town is like a party of ancient jade, more transparent and exquisite, ethereal and timeless, looking forward to more people to get closer and familiar with.
Through the years, this ancient town is like a piece of ancient jade.