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Where to go for Mid Autumn Festival

The Mid Autumn Festival is coming. It's a good way to live in the same room with your family, recite poems and enjoy the moon and eat moon cakes. In addition, some friends who like to travel may also choose to carry backpacks to travel. Here, I'd like to recommend four ancient cities in China. In the Mid Autumn Festival, although not reunited with his family, in the ancient city, feel the charm and flavor of the ancient city, think about how the ancients enjoyed the moon at that time, but also have a different flavor.

A good place for mid autumn Tourism -- four ancient cities

[Langzhong, Sichuan]

Langzhong, a famous historical and cultural city in China, is located in the northeast of Sichuan Province, in the middle reaches of Jialing River, covering an area of 1878 square kilometers, with a total population of 860000. It is a major city of Bashu and an important town in northern Sichuan. According to archaeology, there were ancestors living here as early as 5000 years ago. During the Warring States period, it was the capital of the state of Ba. Qin destroyed Ba and established Langzhong County for more than 2300 years. In the past dynasties, there were prefectures, prefectures, governments, and Taoism. Zhang Fei of Shu Han had been guarding Langzhong for seven years and died in Langzhong and was buried in Langzhong. Yuanying, the son of emperor Gaozu of Tang Dynasty, and lingkui, the son of King Lu, had once ruled Langzhong. At the end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty, he was the temporary capital of Sichuan Province for 17 years. Langzhong was always regarded as the political, military and cultural center of northern Sichuan by the feudal emperors.

Langzhong is known as "the fairyland of langyuan, the treasure land of Fengshui". It is surrounded by water on three sides, mountains on four sides, mountains on the water and cities on the water. The scenery of Langzhong is exquisite, beautiful and picturesque. Langshan and langshui brought up Luo xiahong, the world's great astronomer of the Western Han Dynasty, fan mu, the leader of Ba people who assisted Liu Bang in the determination of Sanqin, the fourth champion of Yin Chen brothers in Tang and Song Dynasties, Han e, Huamulan in Shu, and many other celebrities, scholars and poets who admired Langzhong scenery, came here to visit and left a lot of precious calligraphy and immortal poems.

Langzhong ancient city is well preserved with unique Chinese style. The site of ancient city construction is a typical example of the integration of man and nature. It is the only ancient city with the largest preservation scale in Sichuan, covering an area of 1.78 square kilometers, and one of the four best preserved ancient cities in China. The chessboard style pattern of ancient city and the architectural complex integrating the north and South styles are the physical treasure house of Chinese architectural art.

Langzhong has rich cultural heritage and many places of interest. Langzhong is the birthplace of Chinese original culture. It is said that Hua Xu, Fuxi's mother, gave birth to Fuxi here. Langzhong is the main birthplace of Ba culture. Vigorous and mysterious Ba Yu dance is the living fossil of Chinese dance research; Langzhong is the main destination of the Three Kingdoms, attracting a large number of overseas tourists. Langzhong is the astronomical research center of the Han and Tang Dynasties in China. Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng, the geomancy astronomers of the Tang Dynasty, live in seclusion here. Langzhong is the hometown of the number one scholar in China. Since the implementation of the imperial examination in the Sui Dynasty, there have been 4 number one scholars, 116 Jinshi and more than 400 people. Langzhong's religious culture flourished, with Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, Islam and Christianity coexisting. There are more than 200 cultural relics and scenic spots in the city, such as zhangfei temple, Yong'an temple, Wulong temple, Baba temple, evangelical hall, Gongyuan, Huaguang tower and so on. The folk lantern show with pure taste, the shadow puppet and paper-cut with exquisite skills can be regarded as the treasure of Chinese folk art.

Langzhong is beautiful, and the world in Langzhong is rare. With boundless scenery, it can hold thousands of clouds and waves. Nowadays, under the leadership of the CPC Langzhong Municipal Committee and the Municipal People's government, Langzhong is a land of great changes & hellip; & hellip;

Pingyao ancient city

Pingyao ancient city is a famous cultural city with a history of more than 2700 years. It is one of the four most complete ancient cities in China, and the only ancient county city in China that has successfully applied for world cultural heritage with the whole ancient city. Pingyao ancient city of Shanxi Province was listed in the world heritage list in December 1997. Pingyao used to be called "ancient pottery". In the early Ming Dynasty, in order to defend the South disturbance of the foreign people, the city walls were built. In the third year of Hongwu (A.D. 1370), the old walls were rebuilt, expanded and covered with bricks. Since then, Jingde, Zhengde, Jiajing, Longqing and Wanli have carried out ten times of repair and repair, updating the city buildings and adding enemy platforms. In the 43rd year of Kangxi (1703 A.D.), because the emperor passed Pingyao on his way to the west, he built four big towers, which made the city more spectacular. Pingyao City Wall has a total perimeter of 6163 meters and a wall height of about 12 meters. It divides Pingyao County, which covers an area of about 2.25 square kilometers, into two different worlds. The streets, pavements and city buildings within the city wall retain the shape of the Ming and Qing Dynasties; the city outside the city wall is called the new city. This is a beautiful place where ancient and modern buildings are integrated, reflecting each other and making people daydream.

A bird's-eye view of Pingyao ancient city is even more amazing. This flat square city wall is shaped like a turtle. There are six gates, one in the north and one in the south, two in the East and two in the West. The South Gate of the city is the turtle head. The two water wells outside the gate symbolize the turtle's eyes. The north gate is Turtle tail, which is the lowest part of the city. All the water in the city must flow out through it. There are four urn cities in the East and west of the city. They are opposite each other. The gates of the upper west gate, the lower west gate and the upper east gate all open to the south in the shape of tortoise claws. Only the outer gate of the Lower East Gate directly opens to the East. It is said that when the city was built, I was afraid that tortoise would climb away, straighten its left leg and tie it on the foot platform 20 li away from the city. This seemingly false legend reflects the ancient people's great worship of tortoises. Tortoise is a living thing. In the eyes of the ancients, it is as holy as a spirit. It embodies the profound meaning of hoping to make Pingyao ancient city as solid as a rock, golden soup as ever, safe and immortal by the power of tortoise God. There are 72 watchtowers on the wall, and 3000 crenels on the outside of the wall top. It is said that it is the symbol of 3000 Confucius' disciples and 72 sages.

Pingyao ancient city is known as the "collection and treasure house of ancient Chinese architecture". It is rare in China that there are many cultural relics and historic sites preserved and of high quality. Among them, the most complete striking wall in China, which was built in the Western Zhou Dynasty and expanded in the third year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (1370), has a large scale and magnificent momentum; the most precious wood structure building, Zhenguo Temple Wanfo temple, which was listed as the third in China in the seventh year of Tianhui in northern Han Dynasty (963). The five generations of colored sculptures in the hall are treasures, which are the samples for studying the early colored sculptures in China. There are 2052 Shuanglin temples, which were built in the second year of Wuping in the Northern Qi Dynasty (571), known as the "treasure house of ancient Chinese colored sculptures", and the existing 2052 colored sculptures in the song, yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. There are rare objects of the Confucian temples in the song and Jin Dynasties, the Dacheng Hall of the Confucian temple; There are the earliest ancestors of Chinese finance, known as "No.1 in the world" and "Rishengchang" ticket number of "connecting the whole world"; there are the unique structure of "suspended beam and hanging column" which was built in the second year of Tang Xianqing, which is rare in ancient Chinese architecture. More than 20 wooden statues in the temple are rare to study the ancient Chinese wood sculpture art and the development of Taoism. There are 1000 stone inscriptions around the ancient city and various kinds of glass objects with different ages, forms and colors. At the same time, Pingyao ancient city is one of the gathering centers of ancient Chinese residential buildings. Of the 4000 existing ancient and modern residential buildings in the ancient city, more than 400 are typical of the styles and characteristics of Chinese ancient and modern northern residential buildings.

In 1997, when Tian Zhongdan, a special expert of UNESCO, visited Pingyao ancient city, he wrote the inscription "Pingyao ancient city is the best in the world". The evaluation of Pingyao ancient city by UNESCO is as follows: 'Pingyao ancient city is an outstanding example of Chinese Han nationality city in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Pingyao ancient city has preserved all its characteristics and displayed an extraordinary complete picture of cultural, social, economic and religious development in the development of Chinese history'. People who have been to Pingyao say: 'walking into Pingyao is like walking into a large history museum. '

Pingyao can't help saying 'Shanxi Merchants' and' Bank names', because this is one of the birthplaces of 'Shanxi Merchants' and also the birthplace of the' Rishengchang 'bank, the prototype of China's first modern bank.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, with the development of commercial economy, some big business names of Shanxi merchants gradually formed a business system of setting up a total number in Shanxi, a sub number in other places and cross regional operation. In this case, a large amount of wholesale, transportation and sales brings a huge amount of cash settlement business, so a new way of settlement - "bill exchange" came into being. In the fourth year of Daoguang's reign (1824 A.D.), on the basis of the "xiyucheng" paint shop in Pingyao West Street, the first "Rishengchang" ticket shop specializing in exchange and bank deposit business was established in China. Three years later, it has set up branches in Shandong, Henan, Liaoning, Jiangsu and other provinces. In the 1840s, its business further expanded to Japan, Singapore, Russia and other countries. At that time, driven by Rishengchang, Pingyao's ticketing business developed rapidly. At its peak, there were as many as 22 ticketing companies here, once becoming the center of China's financial industry. It can be seen that Pingyao occupies a very important position in the modern financial history of China.

The ancient Pingyao is brilliant, today's Pingyao is still full of charm. At present, many ancient cultural cities are dismembered and destroyed for the purpose of Commerce, but Pingyao is so well preserved. The ancient city of Pingyao has preserved all its features, and in the development of Chinese history, it has shown people a complete picture of extraordinary cultural, social, economic and religious development.

Ancient city of Lijiang

Lijiang ancient city lies on Xiangmian mountain in the north, Shizi mountain in the west, Wenbi mountain in the south, and Cuifeng is like a screen. It is well-known for not building walls, because the ancient chieftain of Lidong surnamed mu, if the walls were built, the wooden characters plus the frame would become the word "trapped", so there is no wall in the ancient city. Yuquan water gushes out from Heilongtan in the northeast of the city. It is divided along the streets and passes through the lanes. It is clear all the year round. There is a plateau water city style of "every household is rising in the sun, every household is running in the water". The residential buildings and streets are close to the mountains and rivers, along the mountains and on the trend. They are simple and natural. The site selection and construction of the city make full use of the geographical environment. Streets and courtyards are planted with flowers and trees. It is said that "Lijun always likes to plant trees, and every family in the ancient city keeps flowers". The road surface is paved with Lijiang special color stone slab, and the stone arch bridge is built on the stream. The small bridge is close to the wave, the curved channel is quiet, there is no mud in rainy season, and there is no dust in dry season. Lijiang was a dirt market at that time. It was muddy in the rainy season and windy and sandy in the dry season. In the Ming Dynasty, the chieftain excavated the Xihe River, used the terrain of the West higher than the East, manually controlled the movable slate, regularly led the Xihe River into the Zhonghe River, and washed the streets paved with five flower stones to keep the city clean. In the Qing Dynasty, Donghe river was excavated to lead Zhonghe River to the east of the city. In this way, Sanshui enters the city, passes through the streets and lanes, and is divided into numerous small canals, which are connected with the pool and spring, forming a water system as dense as a spider's web and full of golden city. Only then has' the front of the house flows the living water, the household weeping willow blows the eaves' the landscape. With water, there are more than 70 bridges, including single hole, double hole, three hole and multi hole bridges. Many Shigong bridges were carefully designed and constructed by skilled craftsmen hired by the Mu chieftain of Naxi nationality in the Ming Dynasty. They are of ornamental value and high practicability. The center of Lijiang City is Sifang street. Since ancient times, business and tourism have gathered together, and trade has flourished. It is also a Festival gathering place. There are many buildings in Ming and Qing Dynasties in the city, all of which are well preserved. There are conversion hall, Heilongtan, Wufeng building, Deyue building, suochui bridge, Jiefang forest, Mu chieftain's mansion and a large number of ancient houses, which are treasures of ancient city construction in China. Imitating the Forbidden City of Ming Dynasty in Beijing, Mu's Tusi mansion has dozens of courtyards such as three main halls, family temples, ten thousand volumes of library buildings and Shizishan's' Imperial Garden ', which is large-scale and magnificent, occupying 400000 square meters. Common people's houses have three sides and one screen wall. They have many East doors, spacious halls and corridors, generous patios, carved flowers and birds on doors and windows, which are full of cultural atmosphere, reflecting the artistic attainments and aesthetic interests of the Naxi nation. Yes'