Minqin guild hall

In the second middle school of Zhangye, it is a classical temple building. Minqin County merchants built in the 18th year of Guangxu (1892) of the Qing Dynasty as a place for gathering, discussing and worshiping gods. The main hall is the main building of the guild hall, which is simple and simple and well preserved. Along the central axis are the main hall, the companion hall, the wing room, the bell and Drum Tower, the memorial archway, etc., which are symmetrical and set off at the same time. It constitutes the characteristics of ancient buildings. Before liberation, private Minqin primary school was set up in the front yard. The museum is still in good condition. Minqin guild hall - the main hall with architectural features is the main building of the guild hall. The ancient and simple Dougong is well preserved. On a central axis, there are memorial archways, bell and drum towers, main hall, side hall, wing rooms, etc., which are symmetrical and set off, high and low, magnificent. Mupaifang has four pillars and three doors. The main building is large and the left and right secondary buildings are small, with a total width of 11.2 meters. It has a Xieshan style roof. On the entrance of the ticket are carved Erlong Xizhu, elephant, Haima and Qilin, with a vivid look. On the front of the main building is engraved with running script "Fuyin Sushan", on the back is engraved with "paste flowing into the vast sea", and on the panels of the left and right secondary buildings is engraved with a pair of eight character couplets. About the archway, there are two bell and drum towers arranged in a square plane with a side width of 6.2 meters. There are two floors up and down, and there are steep peaks on all sides. The lower level is open in the east or west center, passing through the East and west sides of the memorial archway, there are symmetrical wing rooms, 9 in width and 1 in depth, with a suspended mountain top. The final center is the main hall, 3 in width and 1 in depth. The main and secondary of the whole building is clear, which constitutes the characteristics of ancient buildings. Before liberation, a private Minqin primary school was set up in the front yard. The library is still in good condition. It is a relatively complete group of buildings in the early period of the Republic of China, and is now a municipal cultural relics protection unit.

Minqin guild hall

Minqin guild hall is a classical temple building in the second middle school of Zhangye. Minqin County merchants built in 1892 (the 18th year of Guangxu of Qing Dynasty) as a place for gathering, discussing and worshiping gods. The main hall is the main building of the guild hall, which is simple and simple and well preserved. Along the central axis are the main hall, the companion hall, the wing room, the bell and Drum Tower, the memorial archway, etc., which are symmetrical and set off at the same time. It constitutes the characteristics of ancient buildings. Before liberation, private Minqin primary school was set up in the front yard. The museum is still in good condition.

Architectural features

The main hall is the guild hall

The main body of the building. The ancient and simple Dougong is well preserved. On a central axis, there are memorial archways, bell and drum towers, main hall, side hall, wing rooms, etc., which are symmetrical and set off, high and low, magnificent. Mupaifang has four pillars and three doors. The main building is large and the left and right secondary buildings are small, with a total width of 11.2 meters. It has a Xieshan style roof. On the entrance of the ticket are carved Erlong Xizhu, elephant, Haima and Qilin, with a vivid look. On the front of the main building is engraved with running script "Fuyin Sushan", on the back is engraved with "paste flowing into the vast sea", and on the panels of the left and right secondary buildings is engraved with a pair of eight character couplets. About the archway, there are two bell and drum towers arranged in a square plane with a side width of 6.2 meters. There are two floors up and down, and there are steep peaks on all sides. The lower level is open in the east or west center, passing through the East and west sides of the memorial archway, there are symmetrical wing rooms, 9 in width and 1 in depth, with a suspended mountain top. The final center is the main hall, 3 in width and 1 in depth. The main and secondary of the whole building is clear, which constitutes the characteristics of ancient buildings. Before liberation, a private Minqin primary school was set up in the front yard. The library is still in good condition. It is a relatively complete group of buildings in the early period of the Republic of China, and is now a municipal cultural relics protection unit.

History and culture

Speaking of Minqin's immigrant culture, we have to mention the dizang temple, which is located outside the South Gate of Seoul in Barkol. This temple was built in the second year of Jiaqing in Qing Dynasty. It was donated by Minqin merchants, so it is also called Minqin guild hall. During the period of the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, every year on May 16 of the lunar calendar, Minqin people in Zhenxi gathered here to "have a meeting". At that time, all the cultural entertainment and customs of Minqin hometown will be displayed here, and Minqin Xiaoqu opera is the most popular reserved program here. Balikun was once known as the "temple crown of Xinjiang" in the Qing Dynasty. According to the local records of Zhenxi, since the reign of Daoguang, there were four temples in Siying and three temples in Sanxiang. Due to the geographical location and superior natural conditions of Barkol, all dynasties attached great importance to it and managed it with painstaking efforts. The advanced culture in the mainland has accumulated here for a long time, thus forming a unique western town immigrant culture with east-west intersection and farming and animal husbandry. The Temple community, which is rare in China and Xinjiang, is the epitome of this culture.

Balikun is an important town on the Beixin road of the ancient Silk Road. It is known as the "three commercial ports" and "eight famous cities" in Xinjiang. During the prosperous period of Kangxi Dynasty, there was a high tide of reclamation of juntun, Mintun, zhaitun and qitun. With the rise of the widespread construction of temples, 57 temples were built within the seven and a half mile area of Seoul and Mancheng. According to the population of the city at that time, there were 50 temples A temple has become a wonder in Xinjiang. However, under the erosion of historical wind and rain, many temples and buildings in Barkol have become a thing of the past. Only the dizang temple built by Minqin people has the same atmosphere and charm as before, which is also a miracle in Minqin immigrant culture.

Dizang temple is not a single temple. It is the largest and most complete Temple community in Xinjiang. The whole courtyard covers an area of more than ten Mu from south to north. The mountain gate is extremely magnificent, with two layers of structure, the upper stage and the lower gate. Entering the mountain gate is the theater square and the place for trade exchange. Entering the mountain gate is a spectacular Pavilion. Going up the stairs, passing the pavilion is a beautiful East-West wing room. On the pillars of the wing room, there is a couplet: "before the hall, you can be forgiven, you can be forgiven; on the Naihe bridge, you can be forgiven.". Another couplet: "if I have ever read a book, I can tell people everything.".

Immigrant culture is a flowing and jumping culture, like a surging river, which breeds vitality and moistens life. Culture has its unique representation. A kind of folk custom, a building, or a ballad can become a carrier of culture, and people are the most active carrier and representation of culture. In fact, Chinese culture is also a kind of immigrant culture, which is very inclusive. For example, the Hu bed in the Wei Dynasty became the chair and stool in the Central Plains, and Indian Buddhism became Zen after it was introduced into China.

The infiltration of Minqin immigrant culture into Zhenxi and other areas of Xinjiang is actually the integration of Central Plains culture and western region culture. It is not only reflected in architecture, diet and folk customs, but also fully reflected in all aspects of production and life.

Ge Jianxiong believes that immigration is the most active carrier of culture, and the culture that immigrants bring basically comes from the places where they move out, especially the immigrants who move into newly developed areas, sparsely populated areas and areas of different nationalities, often stubbornly maintain the culture of the places where they move out. A considerable part of today's Minqin huzu came from Jiangsu and Zhejiang. This part of the immigrants moved in between Hongwu and Chenghua in Ming Dynasty, which has a history of more than 400 years. However, after such a long period of time and space, the natural environment of Minqin oasis has changed, but many humanistic traditions from Jiangnan Water villages have been inherited forever. No matter what the political environment and economic conditions are, Minqin people will never forget to let their children go to school. They regard reading as the foundation of their life and the foundation of their survival Don Therefore, even in the crisis of survival, today's Minqin people still do not abandon the tradition of their ancestors and let their children work as child laborers to earn money. They also do not give up the efforts of their children's college entrance examination because of the high tuition fees, even if there is only a glimmer of hope. The enrollment rate of Minqin primary school has been maintained at 100% for a long time, the graduation rate of middle school has been maintained at 98% for a long time, and the enrollment rate of colleges and secondary schools has been maintained at more than 70% for many years. In the field of Minqin, it's hard to find a farmer who has never studied before, that is, the shepherd who follows the sheep in a desert pastoral area with few people. As long as he is a Minqin person, his education level is always above junior high school. Some people say that the reason for this phenomenon is that Minqin people can only get rid of the poverty caused by ecological deterioration through further education. Although this view is reasonable, it is not entirely true. As early as the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was a common practice for Minqin people to study and run schools. At that time, the ecology of Minqin Oasis did not deteriorate. This shows that the traditional origin of Minqin people's respect for culture and education is long. Its origin is from Jiangsu and Zhejiang where the immigrants moved out, and his flow is in Minqin where the immigrants moved in.

geographical position

Zhangye, formerly known as "jinzhangye" and later renamed Ganzhou, is located in the middle of Hexi Corridor, Gansu Province. It is adjacent to Wuwei area and Jinchang City in the East and Jiuquan area in the West. It is the intersection of the north and South lines of "ancient Silk Road" and "Juyan ancient Road". It is now on the Eurasian Continental Bridge Economic Belt.

Zhangye lies on Qilian Mountain in the south, heli mountain and Longshou mountain in the north, and Heihe River runs through the whole area, forming a unique desert oasis scene. In the territory of flat terrain, fertile land, lush forest, abundant grain, fruit fragrance. Snow mountain, grassland, clear water and desert complement each other, which not only has the charm of the south, but also has the customs of the frontier. Therefore, it leaves behind such a good sentence as "don't look at the snow on the Qilian Mountain, mistakenly regard Ganzhou as the south of the Yangtze River".

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natural resources

Zhangye is irrigated by Heihe River, with flat terrain, fertile soil and abundant products. Wujiang rice is the most abundant, and it is rich in wheat, corn, rice, rape, flax and other crops. It is one of the 12 key commodity grain bases in China,. There are many kinds of melons and vegetables with good quality, such as onion, pepper, eggplant, watermelon and newly introduced fine melons and vegetables

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