Last year's Lantern Festival night, the moonlight was like washing, and the alley at the foot was still bluestone. The ancient city of Pingyao in 2700 has a thick wall and introverted personality. From time to time, the distant suona sounds of joy and sadness, and the snow left on the blue-gray ruins exudes the unique flavor of the ancient city.
From the moment I entered the West Gate, I felt as if I had entered just visiting. Well-preserved ancient city walls, buildings left over from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and markets, county offices, banks, escort agencies, pawn shops, temples, etc. Inevitably, it aroused my yearning for its glorious years, and I looked up at its light devoutly like a scared pilgrim.
After a day's shopping, I feel that the most exciting place in Pingyao is not a tourist attraction, but a casual stroll in the streets and alleys of Pingyao, a casual walk into an ordinary quadrangle, and a casual look at those exquisite brick carvings, wood carvings, window grilles and paper cuts ... all of which make you feel sad and have unexpected gains. When I look for the elegance of the ancient city at random in the quadrangle, I can't help sighing that the past is like smoke and time flies. Here, every time visitors look back, it seems that they inadvertently reveal Pingyao's lingering worries.
In a trance, I feel that this sleepy ancient city seems to have never woken up from the silver world of "Huitong World" in the past, and it seems to be a peerless beauty who has lived through the storm but has not failed to fulfill her mission, just smiling meaningfully in a certain corner of history.
Chapter two: the composition of Pingyao ancient city Pingyao ancient city, a small besieged city, with broken surface and rich connotation!
Walking into Pingyao, I can't help but be surprised that this ancient city with a circumference of more than 6,000 meters carries such rich content. The west gate of the ancient city is like the mouth of just visiting. From the moment we entered, we were completely immersed in the architectural, economic and cultural atmosphere of the ancient Han city, and went back in time. . .
Underestimated Pingyao. I thought we had climbed the ancient city wall on the first day, so it was enough to walk around the city most of the time. I don't want to have to rush to the next scenic spot in the end. The biggest regret of this trip is that the time to visit the ancient city is too short! In the end, the 20 scenic spots on the pass only reached 12. Although the rest of the places are similar to some scenic spots we have seen, we still feel sorry! Pingyao's city walls, markets, banks, escort agencies, pawn shops, Taoist temples, temples and county offices. . . I want to have a good look everywhere.
However, Pingyao deserves more than just the open scenic spots where tourists are jostling with each other. Walking in an ordinary alley in Pingyao and inadvertently stepping into an ordinary courtyard may make you feel sad and surprise you.
Pingyao, with a history of 2700 years, is thick and restrained. Who knows how many historical fragments it has accumulated?
Composition of Pingyao Ancient City Pingyao Ancient City is the most intact ancient city in China at present. Because it looks like a turtle, it has been more than 1000 years, so people sometimes call it "turtle city". Today, I will be a little tour guide and show you around Pingyao ancient city.
First, let's go to the gate upstairs. Looking down, there is a square town between the two gates, called Wengcheng. Wengcheng has two functions. The first function is to collect rainwater and prevent rainwater from flowing out of the city. Because it is very dry here, rainwater is regarded as very precious, and even the herringbone frame on the roof of the house where people live is very short. For fear that rain will flow into other people's homes, the old saying that "rich water does not flow into outsiders" really needs to be answered. The second function of the urn is to attack the invading enemy with weapons such as stones and play a defensive role.
The walls of Pingyao ancient city are very wide, and the walls are covered with big city bricks. There were several cannons on the watchtower of the city wall, which were the most powerful weapons at that time, hence the name "General SHEN WOO". People can take pictures here because "soldiers who don't want to be generals are not good soldiers".
Let's go to the county government again. The county government sits facing south, and there are two big stone lions squatting on both sides of the main entrance. Opening their mouths looks terrible. The gate of the yamen is very high, and the two gates are thick and heavy, painted scarlet. Walking into the courtyard, the east and west rooms were places where taxes were collected and grain was collected in ancient times, each with six caves, which meant "Great Harmony in June and June". Further inside is a hall of great heroes, where the ancient county grandfather worked. There is a large plaque with a "mirror hanging high" on it, and many used torture devices in the trial hall are placed on the left and right sides, which makes people feel alert as soon as they enter. Bypass the main hall and enter the backyard, which is where the county grandfather eats and rests. There is a couplet hanging at the door, which means to treat others like parents. Do practical things for the people.
From the county government, we strolled on a street in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Here are all ancient buildings in Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the facades and plaques of various shops are also antique. If people wear costume, they can shoot costume dramas here.
Last stop, we went to Rishengchang Bank, the earliest bank in China. There are two wax figures in the accounting room on the right. One seems to be collecting money and the other is keeping accounts. It is said that a bookkeeper here can earn 80 taels of silver a year. At that time, one or two pieces of silver could buy an acre of land. There are strict anti-counterfeiting measures on the silver ticket. In order to prevent old customers from deciphering, 100 changed 300 sets of passwords. When I came to the backyard, the wall here was thick and high, and there were many coins in the cracks. It is said to show the strength of the host family.
Ok, the tour of Pingyao ancient city is over here.
Article 4: Composition of Pingyao Ancient City Today, our family took a bus all day and came to Pingyao Ancient City in Shanxi Province. Pingyao Ancient City, located in the middle of Shanxi Province, is one of the four well-preserved ancient cities in China, and it is also the ancient county seat where China successfully declared the world cultural heritage with the whole ancient city.
It's past seven o'clock here, and our bus can't drive into the city, so we can only park in the parking lot outside the city. We waddled into town by sightseeing bus. I saw a moat outside the ancient city of Pingyao and an ancient city wall inside. When you enter the ancient city, it will be lively. Large and small shops, dazzling array of goods, dazzling. Sightseeing bus took us through many hutongs and came to an inn. The inn is a wooden quadrangle with strict layout and symmetry, and the courtyards are separated by ornate hanging doors. Most inns are beautifully decorated.
The next day, we came to the ancient city wall. At present, the ancient city basically retains the embryonic form of the county seat in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and is called the "turtle" city. It is said that it is because of its square shape. The city wall is turtle-shaped: six gates, one in the north, one in the south and two in the east and west. The south gate is the glans, the lowest part of the north gate is the tail, and the east and west gates are the limbs. Four streets, eight small streets and seventy-two hutongs in the city constitute the gossip pattern on the tortoise shell. The pattern of streets and lanes is interwoven with warp and weft, in good order, with clear priorities. Now there are about 50 thousand residents living in the ancient city!
We came to Rishengchang, the first bank in China. Here, I understand that the bank is an ancient bank. Rishengchang is the founder of China Bank and the originator of China National Bank.
After that, we went to the county government of the Qing Dynasty in the center of the ancient city. This is the place where the county grandfather climbed to the court to handle the case. All kinds of instruments of torture are very complete, and there are cells for prisoners. Although it is daytime here, I feel gloomy.
Walking into the ancient city of Pingyao is like opening a thick history book, which is a living history.
Chapter 5: Composition of Pingyao Ancient City Pingyao Ancient City is the best preserved ancient city in China at present. Because it looks like a turtle, it has been more than 1000 years since, so people sometimes call it "turtle city". Today, I will be a little tour guide and show you around Pingyao ancient city.
First, let's go to the gate upstairs. Looking down, there is a square town between the two gates, called Wengcheng. Wengcheng has two functions. The first function is to collect rainwater and prevent rainwater from flowing out of the city. Because it is very dry here, rainwater is regarded as very precious, and even the herringbone frame on the roof of the house where people live is very short. For fear that rain will flow into other people's homes, the old saying that "rich water does not flow into outsiders" really needs to be answered. The second function of the urn is to attack the invading enemy with weapons such as stones and play a defensive role.
The walls of Pingyao ancient city are very wide, and the walls are covered with big city bricks. There were several cannons on the watchtower of the city wall, which were the most powerful weapons at that time, hence the name "General SHEN WOO". People can take pictures here because "soldiers who don't want to be generals are not good soldiers".
Let's go to the county government again. The county government sits facing south, and there are two big stone lions squatting on both sides of the main entrance. Opening their mouths looks terrible. The gate of the yamen is very high, and the two gates are thick and heavy, painted scarlet. Walking into the courtyard, the east and west rooms were places where taxes were collected and grain was collected in ancient times, each with six caves, which meant "Great Harmony in June and June". Further inside is a hall of great heroes, where the ancient county grandfather worked. There is a large plaque with a "mirror hanging high" on it, and many used torture devices in the trial hall are placed on the left and right sides, which makes people feel alert as soon as they enter. Bypass the main hall and enter the backyard, which is where the county grandfather eats and rests. There is a couplet hanging at the door, which means to treat others like parents. Do practical things for the people.
From the county government, we strolled on a street in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Here are all ancient buildings in Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the facades and plaques of various shops are also antique. If people wear costume, they can shoot costume dramas here.
Last stop, we went to Rishengchang Bank, the earliest bank in China. There are two wax figures in the accounting room on the right. One seems to be collecting money and the other is keeping accounts. It is said that a bookkeeper here can earn 80 taels of silver a year. At that time, one or two pieces of silver could buy an acre of land. There are strict anti-counterfeiting measures on the silver ticket. In order to prevent old customers from deciphering, 100 changed 300 sets of passwords. When I came to the backyard, the wall here was thick and high, and there were many coins in the cracks. It is said to show the strength of the host family.
Ok, the tour of Pingyao ancient city is over here. Thank you!
Article 6: Composition of Pingyao Ancient City "Hello everyone, I am the tour guide. My name is Jingjing. Now we are going to Pingyao Ancient Road ".
"Tourists, our place now is called the Dacheng Hall of Confucian Temple, which is a key protected unit in Shanxi Province. It is located on the north side of Yunlu Street in the southeast of Pingyao City, and it is one of the earliest guilds in China. The Confucian Temple covers an area of 65,438+10,000 square meters and consists of three buildings. There are two schools of things around Confucius Temple. Visit the three buildings in front of the temple, including four courtyards, Lingxingmen, Dachengmen, Dachengdian, Mingluntang, Jingyi Pavilion, Zunjing Pavilion and other major buildings, which are arranged on the central axis in turn, or on the western corridor, as well as the time study and the new study. Attached to both sides in a symmetrical way. Dacheng Hall has a long history and was rebuilt in Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Next, we came to Shuanglin Temple, located on the north side of Qiaotou Village, seven kilometers southwest of Pingyao County, Jinzhong District, and 97 kilometers away from Taiyuan. According to the "Aunt Monument" in the fourth year of the Northern Song Dynasty (A.D.10/), "Zhongdu Temple was rebuilt in Wuping, Northern Qi Dynasty. (A.D. 57 1), built in the early Northern Wei Dynasty in the 4th and 5th centuries, has a history of 1500 years. The original temple was "large-scale, with a wet temple on the Zhongdu River, a pavilion on the left of Zhongdu River, and a brand of Zhongdu River Temple given by Emperor Daqi". After the war, only inscriptions and inscriptions remained. In the Song Dynasty, nuns were renovated. For hundreds of years after the Song Dynasty, I was tired of fighting and fighting fires, so I avoided the monk's residence. He built a castle to guard against theft, repaired the waste, and carved the shadow of Dan. From the existing inscriptions and some inscriptions, it can be seen that during the years of Jingtai, Tianshun, Hongzhi, Zhengde, Jiajing and Wanli, Qing Daoguang and Xuantong were rebuilt many times. After the construction of past dynasties, most of the temples that have been preserved now are buildings of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. There is an ancient and colorful "Tang Huai" in the courtyard, which makes the whole temple very spectacular.
Go ahead, it's Qingxuguan. Look at all ten buildings and enter the courtyard in front and back. There are memorial archways, mountain gates, Dragon and Tiger Hall, Sanqing Hall, Chunyang Palace and Jade Emperor Hall on the central axis. Guanyuan doorplate building, with two columns standing, is stable by eight-character fork columns, and has the plaque of "Qing Xu Ji Xian" in the thirty-sixth year of Qianlong. Longhu Hall and Sanqing Hall were both built in Yuan Dynasty and rebuilt in Ming Dynasty. The Dragon and Tiger Hall is five rooms wide and six rafters deep. It adopts the peculiar structure of "hanging beam and hanging column". Your Highness, the East-West Corridor is divided into two statues, the Qinglong and the White Tiger, which are 5 meters high. The bones are vigorous, glaring and holding halberd sword, which is a work of the Ming Dynasty. There are images of dragons and white tigers on the wall, among which the abstract modeling of white tigers is quite strange, and this group of statues is a rare boutique in Yuan Dynasty sculpture. Sanqing Hall was rebuilt in the north of the Intermediate People's Court in Wanli period of Ming Dynasty, with five rooms wide and eleven rafters deep. The hall is built with five ridges and six beasts leaning against the mountain, with a strange structure. The clay sculptures such as Sanqing in the hall have disappeared, and only the Mongolian monument built in the Yuan Dynasty stands on the west side of the hall. There are three ear halls on both sides of the main hall. On the base of the high platform in front of Sanqing Hall, there is a rolling shed roof, which is the sacrificial hall. There is a clay sculpture of Lv Dongbin upstairs in the pavilion, also known as Chunyang Palace. Chunyang Palace was rebuilt in Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty, which was late and well decorated. Nearly 30 steles of Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties remain in the museum, which are treasures for studying Taoist historical sites and calligraphy art. There are eleven halls in the east and west of the Intermediate People's Court, and a small stele room is built on the left and right sides of the passageway in the courtyard. The central axis at the northern end of the backyard used to be the Jade Emperor Pavilion, and now there are three caves.
Then, we saw the former site of Rishengchang Bank, "what a strange name". Rishengchang is located in the south of Xidajie Road, Pingyao City. The former site of the ticket number is well preserved. Sitting facing south, the two rooms are juxtaposed, the depth from north to south is 65 meters, and the construction area is 1300 square meters. Three went into the yard. There are five rooms facing the street, with thick wooden doors, colorful paintings under the eaves and famous brand horizontal plaques. The first entrance to the quadrangle is the counter and accounting room, with two cabinets on both sides. Each building has three rooms. In front is the central hall, three rooms wide, which is the business room of the exchange, and there is a building for storing goods on it. Near the south eaves of the central hall, there are three Banpo bungalows, which are staff residences. There is a walkway in the middle, small suites on both sides of the east and west, and warehouses and guys' residences upstairs. There are five main halls in the south of the backyard, three rooms in the east and three rooms in the west, which are the residences of VIPs and senior staff. In the west, there is a corridor through which carriages can pass to ensure the stables and stables' dormitories. The whole courtyard has high walls and deep houses, compact layout and exquisite design. A wire skynet is erected on it, and a bell is tied on it. Five solid doors on the sidewalk of the street are closed and extremely safe.
Later, we saw the ancient commercial street in Ming and Qing Dynasties. There are banks, money houses, pawn shops, Chinese medicine shops, silk shops, grocery stores, fans, lanterns, clothing stores and so on. On the streets of Ming and Qing dynasties, almost all businesses of commerce were included. After hundreds of years of wind and rain, it is still difficult to annihilate the brilliance of excellent traditional culture. Strolling in the meantime, the charm of Ming and Qing dynasties echoed, showing the prosperity of commerce and market at that time.
Finally, I saw the ancient city wall of Pingyao that I wanted to see most. Pingyao, formerly known as "ancient pottery", borders Jiexiu City in the south and Qixian County in the north. It is one of the four ancient cities in China and one of the first historical and cultural cities announced by the State Council. Pingyao Ancient City Wall stands on Jinzhong Plain with its ancient and magnificent charm.
Tourists, today's tour of Pingyao ancient city is over. Please take your things and get on the bus. Everyone may be tired. Bye.