Qiantong ancient town

"The first Confucian town in the south of the Yangtze River", "little Lijiang in the south of the Yangtze River" and "the living folk custom museum" are Qiantong, a quiet ancient town with thousands of years. In this largest Tong surname settlement in the south of the Yangtze River, the complete Ming and Qing architectural complex is magnificent, with carved beams and painted buildings, white walls and tiles. The whole town is a rural painting with strong ancient charm. Every family has carved beams, every household has living water, and the eight trigrams water system flows through the whole village. The village is arranged in the form of nine palaces and eight trigrams. The streets are very narrow and the buildings are very dense. It's like walking in a maze.

Qiantong ancient town

Qiantong ancient town, located in the southwest of Ninghai County, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, covers an area of 68 square kilometers and has a population of 26000. It is a Jiangnan ancient town with a long history, profound cultural accumulation and unique geographical environment. It has been named as a famous historical and cultural town in Zhejiang Province and a tourist town in Zhejiang Province.

From the date of resumption of opening up to December 31, it will be open free of charge to medical staff with valid certificates (doctor's practice certificate, nurse's practice certificate and ID card).

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Located 14 kilometers southwest of Ninghai County, Ningbo City, it is the most ancient town with Confucian culture preserved in eastern Zhejiang. In 2007, it won the title of China's famous historical and cultural town

. The local Tong family has been diligent in farming and studying since they settled here in the shaoding period of the Southern Song Dynasty. In the early Ming Dynasty, Tong Bo Li invited Fang Xiaoru twice to give lectures in Shijing jingshe, which laid the foundation for a famous poet. Since then, following the virtues of diverting water and planting trees, optimizing the environment, cultivating and studying, and educating posterity, talents have emerged in large numbers in all dynasties, forming an ancient cultural style of "small bridges and flowing water all over the courtyards and households, and ancient courtyards in egg alleys collect art and Literature". It was also the hometown of Tong Baohuang, the commander-in-chief of Zhejiang Province during the 1911 Revolution, and the revolutionary base of taishu. There are good ancient houses, old streets, folk custom museum, Lushan, Shijing mountain, Xiaonv lake, Chaiwan yingbai and Xu Xiake's ancient tour path for tourists.

history

Qiantong, where the ancient town is located, was built at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty. Tonghuang, the first ancestor of digonglang, was an official residence. During a tour, he happened to find this place surrounded by mountains and water

The family moved from Huangyan in Taizhou to Qiantong because they lived in front of Huiming temple. Fang Xiaoru, a great Confucianist in Ming Dynasty, once taught and educated people here twice. In modern times, it became the base of two democratic revolutions and anti Japanese war. During the revolution of 1911, Tong Baoxuan, a 25-year-old villager, served as the temporary governor of Zhejiang Province. He was a revolutionary hero when Zhejiang abolished the imperial system and fought against yuan. During the Anti Japanese War, it was once the seat of the eastern Zhejiang administrative office. During the war of liberation, the working Committee of Ninghai County of the Communist Party of China was established here, which was the revolutionary cradle of Ninghai. In recent years, Qiantong is famous for its unique residential layout and complete preservation of ancient buildings in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Baixi water edge canal into the village, door-to-door circulation, every family even water bridge, every household through pebble path. The old streets, pavilions and memorial archways complement each other and are known as "Lijiang in eastern Zhejiang". There are also famous trees, magic medicine spring, and lianghuangshan, the opening place of Xu Xiake's travels, which add charming charm to Qiantong.

Ancient town customs

Qiantong ancient town is an extraordinary original folk house in the south of the Yangtze River during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is a rural painting with strong ancient charm and vivid colors, and a beautiful section of Jiangnan Silk and bamboo tunes. It was built in the late Song Dynasty and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Up to now, there are more than 1300 ancient dwellings. When you go there, "every family has a carved beam, and every household has a living water", the eight trigrams water system, with flowing water and quiet blue water, flows through every household, not like the water town, but better than the water town. It is a good place to appreciate the folk culture of eastern Zhejiang. It is not only a tourist town in Zhejiang Province, but also a historical and cultural reserve in Zhejiang Province.

When you get to Qiantong, you'd better go to the top of the mountain. There is a panoramic view of the former child. Lushan is not high. It is named for its shape like a lying deer. It is regarded as an auspicious holy mountain and has been strictly guarded for generations.

Although there is no ancient pagoda in Tashan, which is far away from Lushan, the two peaks stand opposite each other, and the Zebei front child has another meaning. The former children with mellow folk customs gave them two elegant names: Lufu Xiehui and tafeng xiaori. The ancient town is spread out between these two not tall foothills.

Looking south across the stream from the top of Lu Mountain, Shijing mountain is in front of it. Because there is a huge stone in the mountain, smooth as cut, every rainy day, the water overflows the stone surface, bright as a mirror, so it is named. There is a small mountain village at the foot of the mountain. In the east of the village, there is still a stone mirror house with a plaque of "the legacy of Zhengxue", which was built by Tong Boli in the early Ming Dynasty for more than 600 years. In order to open up civilization, Tong Boli took out thousands of volumes of six classics collected for many years and hired Fang Xiaoru, who was respected by the government and the public at that time, to give lectures and teach his children. Fang Xiaoru once gave lectures in jingshe twice, which lasted for four years. Together with Tong Boli, he laid the foundation of Confucianism. Among the former children, only 202 people in the Ming and Qing Dynasties were distinguished as scholars or above. In modern and contemporary times, there are more than 400 professors, doctors and international students.

In the north of Lushan Mountain, there is a mysterious and beautiful lianghuang mountain. There are many historic sites, such as lianghuang temple and lianghuangzan, which have a great influence in Shanghai, Taiwan and other places. There are not only "immortal pagoda", "hidden word stone", "square bamboo and purple bamboo planted in the same mountain", "small village 36 surname", but also the first camp of Xu Xiake's travels. Since ancient times, they all wear the laurel of famous mountains in eastern Zhejiang. No matter which version of the ancient map, there must be Liang emperor in Ninghai.

Walking into Qiantong's Pebble path, you can see the green water on the side of the road, the blue bricks and tiles beside, the carved lattice, and the ground (patio) under your feet. If you are in the spring, you can feel the beauty and serenity of the ancient town! At this moment, you must want to be an erudite scholar, or a raccoon girl in a skirt, or even a hermit in a secluded countryside

characteristic

Qiantong town is located in the southwest of Ninghai, Zhejiang Province. Former children give us more, is its vicissitudes, haggard beauty, the most perfect peace.

The eight trigrams in the structure of "Hui"

Speaking of Jiangnan

An ancient town is always connected with a small bridge and flowing water. It seems that this is the only way to match. Qiantong is also a family with small bridges and flowing water, but has a unique scenery. The streets are paved with pebbles, and most of the house foundations are made of pebbles. The streets are very narrow and the buildings are very dense. It's like walking in a maze.

The village is arranged in the form of nine palaces and eight trigrams. According to the principle of eight trigrams, the ancestors of Tong family name introduced the water of Bai River into the village. The water flowed around the village door to door. Everyone could wash vegetables and clean clothes in the stream. Every family was connected to a small bridge of flowing water, and every family was connected to a smooth path of pebbles. Green vine white walls and black tiles, stone carved windows, carved beams and painted gatehouses show the prosperity of the past in the desolation.

Well preserved ancient buildings

Compared with some famous ancient towns, Qiantong is still an undeveloped ancient village. Walking in the deep alley, you may even see a domestic pig or a spider accidentally falling down. Also less the invasion of the commodity economy and better preserved the folk customs. The wall is gray because of the vicissitudes of life, and the house is gray because of age.

On both sides of the old street are shops with long boards. Adjacent to the old street, there are many ancient buildings which have been preserved completely up to now

Fang doors and windows are full of carving, exquisite Yueyu horse head wall and ridge shaped wall flower has a unique local style. Horse head wall is a symbol of the authority of the rich families in Jiangnan in ancient times. It is said that the more grades, the higher the position. Carved stone windows are embedded on the wall, and relief characters are carved on the outer wall. On the top of the wall are leaping fish and flying dragon, implying the meaning of "carp leaping from the dragon's gate". There are two active lions hanging upside down on the doorpost, and a pair of porcelain pots on the wall of the door are decorated with five flying bats, symbolizing the five blessings coming to the door. The ancestral hall was built in the 18th year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty. There are 32 large columns in the hall, which are like 32 chess pieces, implying the meaning of a game of chess. Each column is large in the middle and small at both ends, which is a typical Ming style architecture of Sui and Tang Dynasties.

A living and vivid town

What tourists see is a large number of tourists

This is a picture of the real life of the original residents in the old house day after day. No matter which street you are in, as long as you have a smile on your face, you can open the door and enter the quiet courtyard at will. Sometimes you will meet some craftsmen who work hard, and they will not answer you. They will not even look up and pay attention to whether you hand things in the house. Yes, trusting others is also a virtue we used to have.

Qiantong is a living and vivid town. On the side of the road is the flowing water, beside is the black brick and tile, at the foot is the real ground (patio), they have experienced the wind and the sun, but the ancient appearance still exists. Look at the withered stems of the wild grass swaying in the wind on the silent eaves. It seems that there is an ancient sound in my ear.

The night in the ancient town is the real night, only the silent ancient trees, old houses and the faint sound of running water give people a deep sense of loneliness. When the pure black town around us, so that we have a deeper understanding of the connotation of light. Wandering in the dark night of the ancient town, it's time to experience the journey of spiritual purification.

Local customs

When we get to Qiantong, if we can meet the Lantern Festival there, it's a great pleasure in life.

Since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, every day after the eleventh day of the first lunar month, Qiantong's streets and alleys have been bustling up, and farmers from neighboring villages such as zhaxia and Xiaye have come out from all directions to gather and play gongs

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