History and Culture of Yangliuqing Town

Yangliuqing Town has a long history and deep cultural heritage. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was an important hub of canal transportation, and became a distribution center for commerce and cultural exchange in northern China, with prosperous business, and was known as a small Jiangnan in the north and a small Yangzhou in the Gu. There are many historical and cultural relics in Yangliuqing Town, including Wenchang Pavilion, the best-preserved Ming Dynasty pavilion building in China, which was built in the fourth year of the Wanli reign of the Ming Dynasty (1576). Yangliuqing people to catch the camp first person An Wenzhong built 130 years ago, such as the Anjia compound known far and wide.

Yangliuqing Town, while focusing on the protection of tangible history and culture, has revived and developed many intangible historical and cultural heritages by excavating, organizing, promoting and developing them. For two consecutive years during the Spring Festival (from the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year to the 16th day of the first month), there was held a folk culture and tourism festival, performing more than 20 programs such as flower shows, drum songs, operas, folk music and hall shows. For seven consecutive years, the summer cultural stage was held, each festival lasted for one month, and the programs mostly showed traditional culture and increased the historical and cultural connotation of the ancient town. Yangliuqing town is rich in folk art, which started in Song Dynasty, flourished in Ming Dynasty, and flourished in Qianlong Dynasty of Qing Dynasty. Yangliuqing woodblock prints, which had a prosperous scene of "every family knows how to do dyeing and painting and every household is good at painting", was promoted as the first of China's woodblock prints, and profoundly influenced nearly a hundred kinds of year paintings in the country, and the posting of year paintings on the New Year's Day has thus become a custom of the northern region. Yang Liuqing paper-cutting, kite, brick carving, stone carving and folk flower will also be brilliant view, is a treasure of Chinese folk art.

Yangliuqing town of folk culture is very rich. The old town has a theater building, pagoda, Wenchang Pavilion, known as Yangliuqing three treasures. In the Qing Dynasty, there was the famous Chongwen Academy in Tianjin and more than 40 ancient temples, which still exist, such as the Puliang Pagoda, the Temple of Retribution, and the ruins of the White Sandalwood Temple. Located in the town of 1875 built in North China's first folk house known as the Shi family compound for its grand scale, architectural splendor and famous in North China. These cultural relics, together with the ancient Qing Dynasty streets, courtyard houses and the scenery of the ancient Canal*** form a picture scroll of Yangliuqing's simple and beautiful customs.

Yangliuqing is famous for "Yangliuqing New Year's Paintings", and there are many legends about Yangliuqing New Year's Paintings. Residents of Yangliuqing also love the art of engraving bricks, almost every door in front of the upper part of the door is hung with a brick, and each family has a different pattern of engraved bricks, as if the engraved bricks are the same as the door emblem. People as long as the carved brick in front of the door to take a look, will immediately say the family name of the owner. It should be said that Yangliuqing is a folk art township. Yangliuqing Town is a modernized town that is both ancient and young, traditional and modern, with a near-perfect fusion of tradition and modernity. Here, the ancient townscape has been preserved intact, and the long folk culture of northern China has been gathered here.

Reform and opening up, especially by the Tianjin Municipal Government named as a folk culture tourism area, Yangliuqing Town to the north as an opportunity, in respect of history, not to split the history of the premise, the complete preservation of historical remains, places of interest and monuments, and vigorously save, excavate the folk culture, and flourish in the development of folk culture industry. At the same time, carried out a large-scale transformation of the old town, the tradition and modernity into one, so that the town not only reflects the traditional style, but also rich in a strong modern flavor.

First of all, we emphasize the protection and restoration of historical relics and monuments, and the valuable ancient buildings that inherit the history and culture and embody the style of the old town are kept intact. In the process of transformation of the old town, in accordance with the principle of repairing the old as the old, the restoration of the Shijia compound, restoring the Anjia compound, planning out 140,000 square meters, restoration of the old Yangliuqing residence, built with folk characteristics of the compound group. In accordance with the historical style of the ancient town in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Ming and Qing Streets were restored and 500,000 square meters of ancient building clusters were planned and constructed, restoring the traditional dwellings of the ancient town and showing the prosperous scene of the ancient town with its commercial ports and trade in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Secondly, in the transformation of the old town, focusing on reflecting the deep historical and cultural heritage of the town, the formation of the town's history and culture of heavy classical style, reflecting its ancient elegance. Government offices, residential and commercial areas, educational areas, industrial areas are light gray for the overall color, the old homes and modern buildings naturally reach the transition, reflecting the architectural culture of a lineage, a perfect combination of both the ancient inhabitants of the flavor, but also reflect the breath of modern civilization, not only let a person feel the town's deep historical and cultural heritage, but also to let a person feel the vibrant vitality of the new town.