The poem depicts is a "foot on three provinces" called Hong'an Ancient Town, which is located in Chongqing, Hunan and Guizhou at the junction of the east and Hunan Province, Huayuan County, the border town across the river, the south and Songtao County, Guizhou Province, Yazhou Town, the water and the mountains, for the "Gateway to Southeast Chongqing". It is a foot in three provinces of the insertion of flowers, but also Shen Congwen's "Border Town" prototype.
"From Sichuan (now belonging to Chongqing) to Hunan, there is an official road to the east. This official road is close to the western border of Hunan to a place called "chadong" small mountain city, there is a small stream, there is a small white tower by the stream, under the tower lived a separate family. There was only an old man, a girl and a yellow dog in the house. ...... "Border City" begins with a description of the ancient town of Hong'an, a border town in Xiushan, Chongqing.
Hongan ancient town of ancient buildings standing, its craftsmanship, molding unique, Tujia Miao village style distinctive. The natural attractions "Elephant Trunk Sucking Water", "Nine Dragons Slope" and "Three Unregulated" islets are all famous. Hong'an Town is surrounded by mountains and water, with lush greenery and a picturesque river. Hongan old street is the most flavor of the Solar Ferry, by a steel wire connecting the two sides of the pier, but also tied up the power of the ferry to rely on. After the full passenger, the old man sitting leisurely in the boat house on the wooden square platform, with a two-foot log dug with a fine groove as a winch, stuck in the river on the steel wire little by little to drag the boat to the other side of the river.
There is also the Hongcha Bridge, which spans the border between Chongqing and Hunan.
In the left side of the bridge, Hongcha dock down, through the bridge, you can walk into the known as "a foot on the three provinces," known as the "chicken singing three provinces Pavilion". The so-called "a foot on three provinces", refers to the pavilion established in the place, is the intersection of the three provinces, which both Chongqing land, but also the land of Hunan and Guizhou. Standing in the pavilion, not only can a foot on the land of three different provinces, even from three different provinces from the sound of chickens can be heard, which is "chicken crowing three provinces Pavilion" origin.
The "Three Unregulated Islands" were originally named after an unnamed local island. Before the liberation, the island neither belongs to Hunan, nor to Guizhou and Sichuan (now Chongqing), whenever the masses conflict intense, they will meet to the island of armed combat or duel, the three sides of the government is not asked. Over time, the island became known as the "unregulated" island. The local people and merchants called "Jing Yang Gang".
Hongan ancient town also has a more than a thousand meters long An old street, the terrain is sometimes slow and sometimes rapid, unique charm. Standing high above the street, looking forward and back are lined up with sealed fire tube, unevenly arranged on both sides of the street, the scale of the building complex is extraordinary. It is said that the town had 24 four-cornered patio, the Republic of China and the Cultural Revolution period of damage is more serious, but there are still several preserved intact.
It can be imagined that when the Hongan market town, the kind of merchants gathered in the bustling scene is how prosperous! Until now, Hongan town of trade activities remain as frequent as the beginning, including Hunan, Guizhou, the border people come here to trade activities, the local people will be called to catch the "side side of the field". Whenever the town market, only to see the street crowded, shoulder to shoulder. Shaving and mending pots and pans, fortune-telling and divination ...... all walks of life are available, business is booming and bustling.
Today's Hongan has become a well-known tourist destination. Not only is it an ideal place to revisit the story of Border Town, savor the civilization of the ancient town and experience the trade of the border area, but it is also a spiritual home with natural beauty and deep cultural deposits. When Mr. Shen Congwen returned to Xiangxi from Beijing and revisited Biancheng, he was once again infected by the pure, kind and tolerant folk style of the people in the border area, and after returning to Beijing, he wrote the immortal classic biographical novel Biancheng in 1934, which created another fascinating paradise. Hong'an Ancient Town, as the place where the poignant love story in the novel "Border Town" took place, is thus endowed with a more profound cultural meaning.
Hong'an is not only a tourist and leisure resort integrating natural scenery and humanistic landscape, but also a famous old red revolutionary area. During the Liberation War, when Liu Deng's army marched into the southwest, Hongan was the first stop in Sichuan.
Liu Deng army into the southwest monument, towering in the town of Hongan Xinhe Hotel square, inscription by the mayor of Chongqing municipality Wang Hongju inscription. The monument is more than ten meters high, unique shape, three-pronged. The three sides represent a city and two provinces bordering the city, and the whole monument is like a snowy bayonet, pointing straight up to the sky, which makes people feel shocked.
After visiting many ancient towns, you will find that most of them have long been assimilated to the commercial sector, but Hong'an is different in that it still retains a strong local flavor of life. In the street cooking wood-fired rice grandmother, breastfeeding the child's mother, or sitting in the sun to smoke a dry old man, and in their own courtyard music and companions practicing square dance women ......
They live in their own life interlude in the enjoyment of themselves.