Zhaohua ancient city

Zhaohua ancient city is located at the confluence of Bailong River, Jialing River and Qingjiang River. Jialing River flows here, and its water system is perfect. Taiji is natural. It has the reputation of "the first landscape in the world, Taiji". Surrounded by mountains and facing water on three sides, the ancient city is an ideal place for tourists, leisure, scholars and archaeologists.

Zhaohua ancient city

Zhaohua ancient city is located in Zhaohua Town, Zhaohua District, Guangyuan City, Sichuan Province, with a long history and rich culture. It was originally named Yichang County, but later changed to Zhaohua county. Located at the confluence of Bailong River, Jialing River and Qingjiang River, Jialing River flows here. The water system is Wancheng and Taiji is natural. It has the reputation of "the first landscape in the world, Taiji".

Surrounded by mountains and facing water on three sides, the ancient city is an ideal place for tourists, leisure, scholars and archaeologists.

brief introduction

Zhaohua is a national key scenic spot Jianmen Shudao scenic spot and an important part of Jianmen Shudao site group, a national key cultural relic protection unit. With an area of 20 square kilometers and a total population of 17000, the ancient city was named as a famous historical and cultural town in Sichuan Province by the people's Government of Sichuan Province in 1992. The style of the ancient city remains the same, with rich historical and cultural heritage. On December 10, 2011, Zhaohua ancient city in Zhaohua District of Guangyuan, together with ten ancient cities and towns in Lijiang, Yunnan, won the top ten awards in China at the 2011cctv-7 first "local festival" party jointly organized by China Association of folk artists, international organization of UNESCO Folk Arts (IOV), China Agricultural film and Television Center, CCTV agricultural program, and China network television Ancient town with Cultural Heritage Award.

geographical environment

The layout of the buildings in the ancient city is reasonable. The existing four main streets and five alleys are made of local green sandstone slabs with tile back style of three horizontal and two vertical, high in the middle and low on both sides. The alleys and streets are connected by the word "d", which has the military defense characteristics of "roads crisscross and the gates are not opposite". The streets and alleys have a good spatial pattern and pleasant scale. On both sides of the ancient street, there are complete Ming and Qing buildings, mostly with wooden structure, small green tiles and simple northern Sichuan style houses.

Seven kilometers to the east of the ancient city is the tomb of Bao Sanniang. Bao's family is the wife of Guan Suo, the third son of Guan Yu. She fought with the army and died here. The tomb was stolen by French archaeologists Segaran and latige in 1914, and its extension remains in the Paris museum. However, the tomb still exists, with strong stone masonry and dark interior. There is a stone tablet in front of the tomb: "the tomb of Bao family, the wife of Guan Suo, a general of Shu Han Dynasty". This is a rare ancient tomb of Han Dynasty.

Outside the east gate of Zhaohua ancient city, the confluence of Jialing River and Bailong River is the famous "jubai ancient ferry" along Shu Road. In the old days, thousands of people held hands in the daytime and thousands of bright lights at night. This is where the story of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, which is recorded in the old and new books of the Tang Dynasty, is that "when he meets a Pisces and crosses Tianjin in a boat, the arguer thinks the dragon". It is said that Emperor Ming of Tang Dynasty still held a banquet on the South Bank of the ferry for three days, which is still called "banyan dam". "County annals" records that Tang Fu Zong fled to Sichuan and joined at the jubai ferry. The water was sharp and the waves were high, and it was difficult to cross by boat. Because the water of Bailong River was white and Jialing River was red, the two rivers were confluent at the beginning, and they kept their own flow direction and true colors respectively. They were "clear-cut" and turbid, just like two dragons rolling. Du Fu, Yao he, Le Yu, Yang Shen, Wang Shizhen and other poets of the past dynasties all wrote about it. There are more than 30 inscriptions on the ferry crossing, but few of them exist. However, the people remember most clearly the "Tang County Linghe Yaohu laxian stele".

According to this stele, He Yi, the magistrate of Yichang (now Zhaohua) in the reign of emperor Yizong of the Tang Dynasty, tied his waist around his coat and inserted a wat board in his waist to lead a boat and pull fiber for Cui Pu's spring outing pleasure boat in order to resist his boss Cui Cishi's busy farming and ask him to catch the people to pull the boat. The magistrate was so ashamed that Cui had to stop the boat. Sun Qiao, a contemporary Jinshi, passed by Yichang and inquired about it. He wrote the article "how easy is the book?". In this way, he mercilessly exposed and denounced those cruel officials who did not care about the life and death of the people and the decadent official system of the imperial court. Many of Dukou's steles praised He county magistrate. In the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Chuanshan's poem says: "the two rivers still flow around the county. In the Tang Dynasty, there was no husband and wife among the immortals and officials. They were only fond of burning imperial edicts, so why not draw boats at waist wat. Under the stele, the farmers should shed tears, and the mulberry women should not worry. Sun qiaobi, a Jinshi of Xiantong, often made people pay more attention to profits. " The local people are all steles, which is a good story for thousands of years.

Outside the west gate of the ancient city, close to Fei Yi's tomb, there is also a "Ding Gong Temple". Ding Gong, the father and son of Ding Gongbao, was governor of Sichuan Province in Chengdu in the second year of Guangxu. The famous Sichuan dish "Gongbao diced meat" was advocated by him. Ding Gongbao's father, Ding Jianye, worked as a magistrate in Zhaohua. Gongbao was born here. It is said that his nurse is from Lishu village, Baolun township. After Ding Gongbao became the governor of Sichuan, he built the "Ding Gong Temple" in Zhaohua, and the inscriptions still exist.

History and culture

Zhaohua ancient city is a precious historical picture, which condenses the continuous history of the establishment of local political power in China. It is one of the earliest counties in China to implement the county management system, and has the reputation of "the first county in Bashu".

Living fossil of ancient city civilization

The ancient city of Zhaohua has a history of more than 4000 years since Tang Yu. Although it has a long history, the ancient city civilization is less impacted by modern civilization. It is a well preserved ancient county town and the only best preserved ancient city of the Three Kingdoms in China so far. The ruins of the ancient city of Jiameng in the Qin Dynasty after the flood are clearly distinguishable. A large number of national, provincial and municipal protected cultural relics, such as the ancient post road, Jiameng ancient pass, Fei Yi tomb, Wuhou Temple, Fei Jing temple, shenguiba, Tianxiong pass, Niutoushan, Jiang Weijing, jubai ancient ferry, guansuocheng, Bao Sanniang tomb, are still intact, which is rare in China. The ancient city wall of Han Dynasty and the ancient city gate, baguajing, Longmen Academy of Ming and Qing Dynasties are well preserved. Bronze stone tools, boat coffin tombs, Qin pottery and Han bricks have been excavated. The ancient city of Zhaohua is famous for its outstanding people and beautiful Zhong Ling. Numerous honest and upright officials have left touching stories. Many literati, scholars, poets and poets have left numerous works handed down from generation to generation, adding a magnificent chapter to Chinese history. Fei Yi's mansion was founded in Hanshou City, He Yi's boat was pulled by Ju Bai Du, Xu Xin's death in Changling mountain, Wu Zhenqi's writing on drama, Zeng Fengji's teaching of sericulture, and Meng Zhaojian's Academy's educating people. The vicissitudes of Jiameng ancient pass and Tianxiong pass, as well as the sound of the river in jubai lake, have left many poems by Du Fu, Lu You and other scholars. To commemorate the father and son of Ding Jianye and Ding Baozhen, who "donated money to buy property, and will never have a husband and a horse in the world", the ancestral hall of Ding Gong was built outside the west gate of the ancient city. A meeting of the ancestral hall of Ding Gong was held on April 28 of the lunar calendar. The Niuwang fair in Niutoushan on the first day of October of the lunar calendar and the Chuanzhu temple fair on rentou mountain on the first day of the first month and the 24th day of June of the first month of the lunar calendar, as well as the "Three Kingdoms culture and Art Festival" and "Three Kingdoms culture and Tourism Festival" held in the golden week of the Spring Festival and the National Day each year, have become the traditional activities of the ancient city, attracting tourists and scholars from all over the world to visit, travel and archaeological research.

According to the biography of the first master in the annals of the Three Kingdoms: "the first master came to Jiameng in the north, and he sought Lu before he came to Jiameng. In the 17th year of Jian'an (212 A.D.), Liu Bei went to Jiameng and looked at the terrain. It was like the map presented by Zhang song, "the two rivers of the city converge and go around the East; the ancient Jinniu Road passes through the city; the Jianmen pass is majestic; the jubai ancient ferry strangles the river and refuses to defend". Although it is a "city of bullets, it has a solid foundation of gold", it is a strategic place, so we should Garrison and train our troops in the 10th year of Jian'an In the seventh year (212 A.D.), taking advantage of Cao Cao's attack on the eastern Wu, he adopted Pang Tong's advice, turned around and left Jiameng on the ground of helping the eastern Wu, went out to the west of Jiange, captured Chengdu, and forced Liu Zhang to surrender, which laid a solid foundation for the establishment of Shu. In the first year of Zhangwu (221 AD), Liu Bei established the kingdom of Shuhan in Chengdu and became emperor zhaolie. At that time, Liu Bei, who did not forget to make a fortune in the old base area of Jiameng, took the first and last words from the popular auspicious "Han Zuo Yongshou" (Zuo, meaning the position of the king) and changed Jiameng into Hanshou County. He hopes to create his own Hanshi mountains and rivers, coexist with heaven and earth, and live with the sun and the moon. Therefore, there is a saying that "Shu and Han flourished, Jia sprouted".

After the establishment of the Shuhan regime, Hanshou city was the transfer base and command center of military supplies for Zhuge Liang's six expeditions to Qishan and Jiang Wei's nine expeditions to the Central Plains. Since the fifth year of Jianxing, Zhuge Liang has been busy on Jiameng ancient Shu Road. In the 19th year of Yanxi (252 A.D.), Fei Yi was ordered to set up the prime minister's office in Hanshou. After Jiang Wan, he was in charge of the military and political affairs of Shu. The next year, he was drunk and killed by Guo Xun, a general of Cao Wei. After his death, he was buried in Hanshou (now Zhaohua). After Fei Yi was killed, Jiang Wei took charge of the military power of Shu, but nine expeditions to the Central Plains failed. In the winter of the fourth year of Jingyuan (records of the Three Kingdoms. Biography of Zhong Hui), the state of Wei divided three armies to attack the Shu Han. Jiang Wei retreated to Jianmen pass. He wanted to resist the enemy by virtue of Jianmen pass's natural danger. He sent Zhang Yi, the general of left chariot, Dong Jue, the general of auxiliary country, Hu Ji and Guan Suo, the general of jiamengyuan, to defend Hanshou (Zhaohua). At the same time, Wei general Zhong Hui set up a battle at jubaidu in an attempt to cross the Jialing River and capture Hanshou city. After many fierce battles between the two armies, Mrs. Guan Suo's wife Bao Sanniang died

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