Yuantong ancient town

Yuantong ancient town

Yuantong ancient town, Chongzhou City, is a national AAAA tourist attraction, 38 kilometers away from Chengdu City, with a planning area of 3.5 square kilometers and a built-up area of 1.7 square kilometers. The ancient town has a history of 1650 years. As one of the four major market towns, Wenjin River, Weijiang River and pojiang River converge and run through the whole territory of Yuantong.

Yuantong is a famous ancient town. In history, Yuantong was an important Wharf on Wenjing river. It was once prosperous for a time. It is very appropriate to use "ancient" to summarize Yuantong ancient town. Take a rest in the stilted building beside the old stone arch bridge at the end of the half side street to see the river flowing by. Imagine the prosperity of Yuantong 1600 years ago, and let people sigh that "time passes like a husband". Yuantong ancient town used to be an important Wharf in history. There are three rivers converging here, so it is called Huijiang. There are eight existing historic sites and ancient sceneries in the town: Yongli bridge, Luo's residence, Huang's residence, Huang's ancestral hall, Yuan Tongtian main hall, Wang Guoying's former residence, tiegan bridge and gongnongbing bridge, which started in the Eastern Han Dynasty and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Chengdu Houyuan, Minshan vestibule.

Introduction to ancient town

Yuantong ancient town is an important Wharf on Wenjing River in history. There are three rivers converging here, so it is called Huijiang. It used to be prosperous for a time, so it's more appropriate to use "ancient" to summarize Yuantong ancient town. Take a rest in the stilted building beside the old stone arch bridge at the end of the half side street, watch the river flow by, imagine the prosperity of Yuantong 1600 years ago, and make people sigh that "time passes like a husband"

It's about 40 kilometers from Chengdu Wenzhou Qiongzhou Expressway to Chongzhou in less than an hour, and it's about 10 kilometers from Chongzhou to Yuantong in less than 20 minutes. It seems that ZF hasn't paid much attention to it in the past two years, and the ancient town has retained a rare calm.

In the days of not going to the market, the street is very quiet, walking on the stone road can clearly hear their own footsteps. From the former residences of Huang and Luo in Qilin street, we can see the magnificence of Yuantong. The Gothic architecture at the entrance of Linhe alley shows the magnificence of the town. There is an ancient town in Chongzhou - it is not publicized, but it is full of noble atmosphere; it is not famous, but when we get close to it, we find that its connotation has surpassed many famous ancient towns. It is located in Chengdu Chongzhou Dujiangyan tourist channel, people go to Jiezi, wenjinjiang, Jiguanshan, jiulonggou Tourist spots, generally in a hurry, rarely enter it. It is Yuantong ancient town, known as "little Chengdu" in the Qing Dynasty. This is an ancient town near Chengdu.

Shuangfeng, Qilin, Yulong; Dongsheng, Zengfu, Changshou, ancient streets row upon row; Liuguan, yishanpeng, Jiutai, qiziku, cultural context is long and prosperous; Tiesuo ancient bridge and Vatican Palace are quiet, convenient and warm; corner wooden buildings, high wall cornices, comfortable and livable

Yuantong is a living Riverside Scene during the Qingming Festival. Wenjing, Weishui and BOJIANG are three dragon dances, so it's also called Shuizhen. The pulley, wharf and warehouse are scattered in department stores. She takes water as her body and water as her soul. She was born of water, she was born of water. Xizigong and longjingshui have cultivated the people of Yuantong for thousands of years. They are made of cast iron, bamboo ware, chuanxiong and Youhua.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, businessmen from Huguang, Jiangxi and other provinces also came here to do business and build guildhalls. The astute Yuantong people built a town by the river. From a gate of the grain station in Yuantong Town, you can climb up to the top of a 6-story building. From the top of the building, you can see a lot of green tile roofs, row upon row along the Wenjing River, and live near the river. A street in the middle runs through it. It's like a water town in the south of the Yangtze River.

The ancient town of Yuantong with solidified history reverses thousands of years. When you look back at it, you can see that the cornices are tilted. The cableway across the river tightly locks the pace of time. Brick by brick, it carries the vicissitudes of time. The spider silk on the eaves and the green moss on the walls are soaked by the long history of the town. In the early morning, holding a cup of authentic ancient town morning tea and a mouthful of river breeze blowing from the other side of time awaken the deep feelings of the soul. A few white clouds in the sky float by the window and watch the ancient town wake up in the mist, so Yuantong ancient town slowly uncovers her charming face in the chirping call of birds. Yuantong ancient town was first seen in written records. It was built more than 1650 years ago in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. However, its original name was Shuiqu Township instead of Yuantong. The origin of Yuantong's name was recorded in chongqingzhou annals in the third year of Guangxu period, which means it is related to ancient temples. Yuantong Temple was first built in Shuiqu Township during the reign of emperor Zhengtong in Ming Dynasty. Because it lived in the main stream of water and land, monks and merchants gathered here, and businesses and homes gradually gathered here, it became prosperous. Therefore, a town was built here in Qing Dynasty. It was named after the temple. Later, it was called Yuantong in the period of the Republic of China. It was changed into Yuantong town in the 1940s, implying "harmony and smoothness" in business. It's true that Yuantong ancient town is a very important water transport wharf on Wenjing River in history. Since the founding of the town, there has been a continuous flow of merchants and boats. As early as the Ming Dynasty, there was a saying that "tens of thousands of acres of fertile land and thousands of fireworks". In the Qing Dynasty, the merchants from southern provinces came here one after another to build museums and start business, so it was called "little Chengdu". Today, the streets of the ancient town, the provincial Guildhall standing silently on the Bank of the bridge, are still witnessing the glory of the past.

Yuantong ancient town is surrounded by water on three sides and mountains on one side. For thousands of years, the rolling river has been moistening this sacred land. There are thousands of hectares of fertile land outside the river bank, and there are many courtyards on the streets of the ancient town. The streets and alleys of different sizes are well preserved. Wooden houses and green tile houses are linked together. The ancient dwellings that remain today are magnificent and full of ancient charm. They move every inch and push every window lattice. They seem to have opened the door of history. They can't help but walk into the past and into history. Into the depths of Yuantong, one by one houses, a street, feel the history of the corner, and finally found the end of the soul. Yuantong ancient town has been built all the way along the mountain and water. The main buildings in the town are built along the Wenjing river. Thousands of families live near the river. Water is their sustenance and the foundation of their life. Water has an indissoluble bond with the people here. Therefore, the residents living here have stone steps in their backyards to go down to the river. In ancient times, most people in the town were far away from water, and every family went in and out along the stone steps of the back door. It was like walking into a water town in the south of the Yangtze River. On the river, an iron bridge connects the ancient town with the Bund tightly. The villagers who are sparse and dense come and go on the bridge like walking on the ground. This bridge is called Huijiang bridge. It is 164 meters long, 2 meters wide, 5 meters high and 6 meters high. Besides the two ends of the bridge, there are several pavilions with Xieshan in the middle, which are quite elegant on the wide river. Under the bridge is Wenjin river. Weijiang River and Bohe River are at the confluence of Yuantong. The bed is wide and the current is fast, which is very conducive to water shipping. According to Fang Zhizai, the ancient transportation is navigable, and the yuan transportation is worthy of great responsibility. From then on, we have to go through Baimadu, chenjiadu and Fangdu, and then go along the Xihe River, the largest and longest river in Chongzhou, to longwangdu in Xinjin, and then to Minjiang River. This 30 kilometer waterway is very important for water transportation in Chongshan. It is through this channel that the local products in Yuantong are exported to Leshan, Yibin, Luzhou and other places. At the same time, they also get daily necessities from this channel, because Yuantong is the distribution center of logistics. At the same time, foreign merchants also gathered here, so Yuantong was prosperous and prosperous, and finally became a big town in Xianfeng Period of Qing Dynasty. Although Huijiang bridge is ancient and elegant in shape, it was built in 1986. According to records, the earliest Tiesuo bridge was built in the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty. It was more than 130 meters long and grand. Because of the collapse of many people at the Qingming Festival in the late Qing Dynasty, Yuantong people raised money to rebuild it. The shape of the bridge is just like today. Unfortunately, it was destroyed by the storm of the "Cultural Revolution". Yuantong people regarded the bridge as their emotional sustenance With the emotional consideration of history, the bridge was built again.

At the east end of the bridge is the junction of Qilin street and Shuangfeng street. Shuangfeng street is an old street. With the passage of time, the old street has lost its former prosperity. There are few pedestrians. Occasionally, several shops are open, like hungry mouths, greedily waiting for hopeless food. Occasionally, some girls with schoolbags are walking through the old street. They are The only flowing scenery on the street. Walking here, the foot is heavy, the heart is heavy, it seems that the dust of the years is also so heavy, it is like an old cow pushing an old mill. To the north of Shuangfeng street is the half street along the river, which leads directly to the stone arch bridge. There are some shops buying incense, wax, paper money and funeral supplies in the street. The business is not very good, but there are many colorful wreaths in front of the door. When I first came here, I didn't prepare for it. I mistakenly thought that there were several bereaved families here. I scared myself. People used to have this way sooner or later, but the other people's dead made people feel terrible. In fact, it was these people who came and died that formed people's seven emotions and six desires and sang the world's romance. Walking through half of the street, straight up the stone arch bridge, you can see the countryside not far away from you. With winding terraces, rows of green willows and wisps of cooking smoke, the ancient town has another unique scenery. Looking back at the arch bridge under your feet, you can see that it is the component of the ancient town that has not changed for thousands of years. It is called Yongli bridge. It was built in the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty. In 1938, it sailed forever with the flood. Later, Yuantong people rebuilt it on the original scale. Stone railings are carved on both sides of the bridge, and stone dragon heads are carved on the pier facing upstream. It is said that this is the only large stone arch bridge in Chongzhou, and there is one at the end of the bridge“ Wuqiao office is an organization specialized in the management of Wuqiao in the ancient town

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