Ancient city of Tang and Song Dynasties

The ancient city of Tang and Song Dynasty is located in Tianchang town in the middle of Jingxing. It was called Tianchang military city in Tang Dynasty, Tianwei military city from Jin Dynasty to Song Dynasty, and Jingxing county from Jin Dynasty to 1958. During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the stone wall preserved in the Jiajing period was basically intact. It was about 2000 meters long. The East, West, South Gate and small South Gate of the city were built in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The buildings such as Confucious'temple, Town God's Temple and Ming right, and Huo Peng's former residence were still well preserved.

Ancient city of Tang and Song Dynasties

The ancient city of Tang and Song Dynasty is located in Tianchang town in the middle of Jingxing, Hebei Province. It was called Tianchang military city in Tang Dynasty, Tianwei military city from Jin Dynasty to Song Dynasty, Jingxing county from Jin Dynasty to 1958. During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the stone wall preserved in the Jiajing period was basically intact. It was about 2000 meters long. The East, West, South Gate and small South Gate of the city were built in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The buildings such as Confucious'temple, Town God's Temple and Ming right, and Huo Peng's former residence were still well preserved.

The past of ancient town

Changting, with a long history, is an important birthplace of Fujian ancient civilization. As early as 4000 years ago, the people of Fujian and Vietnam had been living and reproducing here, opening a page after page of the history of Changting civilization. They take the snake as their totem, and the surviving "snake king statue" is the most representative physical witness.

More than 200 Neolithic sites have been excavated, and a large number of Paleolithic tools and pottery have been unearthed, telling the story of ancient times and civilization.

In 733, Tingzhou was established. From then on, after the changes of city walls, the ancient city of Tingzhou was located in the mountains, "pillow mountain and river as the city", gradually forming the Fu city characteristics of "one river meets three rivers, thousands of buildings surround the city on all sides", and became the administrative center of state, county, road and government and the political, economic and cultural center of Western Fujian from the prosperous Tang Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty. For more than 1200 years, the ancient city is still the same and the ancient style still exists.

Ancient town scenic spots

Ancient city wall

Built in Tang Dynasty, the ancient city wall was built along the Tingjiang River in an arc from east to west. The East and West ends were built along the ridges on both sides of Wolong mountain to the top of the mountain. Half of Wolong mountain was encircled into the city, so that there was a natural moat of Tingjiang River in front of the whole city and Wolong mountain behind it as a screen. It became a "high city wall" that could attack and defend. In the past, from a distance, the ancient city wall was like a string of Buddhist beads hanging on the mountain; today, the ancient city wall is only more than 1000 meters long.

The ancient city gate

As old as the city wall, there are five ancient city gates in the city, which are magnificent. Their names are Chaotianmen, wutongmen, huijimen, guangchumen and baozhumen. Guangchu gate is now the Sanyuan Pavilion, which has been renovated. However, the octagonal base of the Tang Dynasty preserved on the city gate stack, the compound basin type column base, and the Tang brick in the arch, indicate its age. Baozhumen, built in the Ming Dynasty, also retains the architectural style of the Tang Dynasty. The manger on both sides of the gate shows the architectural characteristics of the Tang Dynasty.

The ancient traditional block extends along the gate of the ancient city. Wutong street, South Street and banpian Street are the existing traditional blocks in song and Ming Dynasties. The street is 6 to 8 meters wide, and the road surface is made of river pebbles; the houses on both sides of the street are mostly of wood and soil structure, which are mainly front shops and back houses; the shops are dense, and there are many workshops, one by one. At the intersection, the four corner wind and rain Pavilion, which has been preserved so far, used to be used not only for shelter, but also for hanging lanterns at night. This is a precious relic of the ancient block. Through the ancient streets, crisscross streets and dense shops, you can still see the prosperity of the ancient city in those days, which is not less than that of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhongzhou.

Bagua Longquan

The "eight trigrams dragon spring" in the Tang Dynasty and the "Fu Xue Yin tower" in the Song Dynasty are collectively known as the "double Yin tower". "Bagua Longquan" is located in Kaiyuan Temple. The well is 16 meters deep, with a diameter of 1.72 meters. It is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom. Each layer is built into a Bagua shape with stone slabs. It is just opposite to the tower on the ground, just like an inverted Bagua tower on the ground, so it is called "Yin tower". There is an old brick round well in Tingzhou Fuxue, with a depth of 13.5 meters and a diameter of 11 meters. Beside the well, there is a stone tablet inscribed "Fuxue Yin tower". According to the inscriptions, the ancient well of "Shuangyin tower" was built "in the hope of bringing more talents to Tingzhou.". In fact, as the ancients would like, the ancient city of Tingzhou has many outstanding people and talents.

Tingzhou Confucian Temple

The Hakkas always have the style of cultivating and studying their descendants and respecting Confucius and Confucianism. Therefore, most of the places where there are Hakkas have built Confucius temples, and Tingzhou Confucian temple is an example. Tingzhou Confucian temple in Song Dynasty, located at the foot of Wolong mountain in the urban area, has been restored after repair. It has become a cultural and entertainment center of today's ancient city, inheriting the Hakka tradition of emphasizing education.

Tingzhou College

Tingzhou trial court, which is the cultural center of the ancient city as well as Tingzhou Confucian temple, no longer exists. However, the two ancient cypresses of Tang Dynasty, which had accompanied the trial court for several years, still stand in the museum yard with luxuriant branches and leaves, and have spent thousands of years.

Red "Mindu"

A land, a city, is only a corner of the territory, and its name is only a symbol. However, a period of history, or an event, often makes it forever. Changting also occupies an important position in the history of the Communist Party of China.

In January 1929, Mao Zedong and Zhu De led the main forces of the Fourth Red Army to fight in southwest Jiangxi and West Fujian from Jinggangshan, creating a new situation of "armed separatist regime of workers and peasants". In March, the Fourth Red Army entered Fujian for the first time. After fighting in Changling village, it entered Changting city. From then on, the city became the center of the Central Soviet Area during the second Civil Revolutionary War, held the "red foundation" ceremony for the victory of the Chinese revolution, and ranked among China's famous revolutionary holy land.

Yunji Pavilion, an ancient building built in the Song Dynasty, gave birth to Changting County Revolutionary Committee, the first county-level red political power in the Central Soviet area.

Deep in the alley, xingeng villa held an enlarged meeting of the front Committee of the Fourth Red Army, which determined the great strategy of creating the central revolutionary base. The headquarters and Political Department of the Fourth Red Army are located here. Mao Zedong and Zhu De also live here.

"A red star on his head, revolutionary red flag on both sides." Lenin's dress is a suit composed of grey cloth jacket, grey cloth trousers, red collar, red five-star military cap and grey cloth leggings. This is the first uniform in the history of the founding of the Communist Party of China. It is now in the Gutian Conference Memorial Hall. As for the first uniform of the Red Army in Changting, Agnes Smedley, a famous American writer, quoted Jude's recollection to describe it in her book the Great Road: "now we finally have the first batch of regular red army uniforms It's not as beautiful as a foreign uniform, but for us, it's really wonderful. ".

"Evangelical hospital", a missionary hospital founded for nearly a century, became the first hospital in the Central Soviet area to serve the Red Army. Later, it moved to Ruijin, Jiangxi Province, the "red capital", and was renamed "Central Red hospital". President Fu Lian is the first red doctor. Mao Zedong and other leaders of the Communist Party of China used to recuperate here.

At that time, Fujian provincial Party committee, Fujian Soviet government, provincial military region, provincial bank, Provincial Youth League Committee, provincial postal administration and other provincial organizations were all located here. Changting became the capital of Fujian Soviet Area, so it was called "red Fujian capital". The former sites of the museum, Chinese Christian Church and zhangjiaci are the witness of the red capital of Fujian. At that time, Tingzhou had numerous stores, prosperous commerce and trade, strong financial foundation, and prosperous economy. It also established a number of backbone enterprises in the Central Soviet Area, such as the Red Army quilt factory, the Zhonghua weaving factory, and the red army hat factory. It became the economic center of the central Soviet Area, similar to Shanghai, and was known as "little red Shanghai".

Changting was also one of the starting points of the 25000 Li Long March of the Chinese workers' and peasants' Red Army. A Red Army Long March Memorial Park has been built here.

More than half a century later, quite a number of revolutionary cultural relics and sites have been preserved on this red soil, including six national key cultural relics protection units and Qu Qiubai monument, including xingeng villa (former residence of Mao Zedong and Zhu De), Yunxiang Pavilion, evangelical hospital, former site of Fujian provincial Party committee, former site of Fujian Soviet, former site of Fujian workers' Federation (former residence of Liu Shaoqi) A national key martyr memorial building protection unit.

Archaeological significance

The large-scale excavation of porcelain shows that Wanshou County in Tang and Song Dynasties was prosperous in economy and had business contacts with surrounding areas. Archaeological findings show that the site of the eastern city of Han Dynasty is one of the most abundant, well preserved and the best historical sites in Chongqing.

Address: Tianchang Town, Jingxing County, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province

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