Ancient town of peace

Heping Town is located in the northwest of Fujian Province. It was built in the Tang Dynasty. It is one of the oldest ancient towns in Fujian Province. It is a rare Castle style village in China. Many of its ancient buildings are one of the most distinctive ancient residential buildings in China. It is a national tourism resource. Heping Town is rich in folk cultural relics, and many folk activities are quite unique, which are of great ornamental value. For example, Nuo dance, which is known as living fossil, unique dragon lantern - Candle bridge, Heping, as well as "three wonders" - fruit table, star watching tea and Youjiang tofu, can attract tourists.

Ancient town of peace

Heping ancient town is one of the oldest ancient towns in Fujian Province. It is located in the northwest of Fujian Province, covering an area of 192 square kilometers. It was built in the Tang Dynasty. It is a rare Castle style village in China. Its many ancient buildings are one of the most distinctive ancient residential buildings in China, and it is a national tourism resource.

Characteristics of ancient town

Heping Town is rich in folk cultural relics, and many folk activities are quite unique, which are of great ornamental value. For example, Nuo dance, which is known as living fossil, unique dragon lantern - Candle bridge, Heping, as well as "three wonders" - fruit table, star watching tea and Youjiang tofu, can attract tourists.

There are nearly 200 luxurious houses of Ming and Qing Dynasties with blue bricks and tiles, carved beams and painted buildings, a half kilometer long Qingshi Bantu street and 10 cobble paved ancient roadways; the Peace Academy has cultivated 133 Jinshi, as well as Huang's Cliff cemetery, jukuita, Guangyuan temple and more than 20 sites of human life.

Numerous ancestral halls and temples are also one of the characteristics of Heping ancient town. There are Qishan ancestral hall, Zhao ancestral hall, Liao ancestral hall, Ding family temple and so on.

Qishan temple, also known as "Banshan garden", is located in the north gate. It was built in Qingguang Xujian. It is the ancestral hall of Chaoyi official and Zhou simaliao Dechang (Weizhou, Qishan). It was built by sun Chuanzhen and chuanqiong to commemorate Nai's father. The ancestral temple originally covers an area of about 2000 square meters. It was designed and built by the famous architectural designers of Tianjin at that time to collect a large number of excellent garden architectural styles, and then combined with the local architectural style of Shaowu. In addition, a large number of valuable flowers and trees were purchased from Tianjin for planting, making it an elegant and unique garden style building, so it is also called "Banshan garden". The existing single building, single entrance, five bay, about 300 square meters, stone bridge and panchi are built in front of the gate tower. A hundred year old giant camellia tree in the temple, when it comes to spring, its branches will be bright red, fragrant and refreshing.

The ancient town of Heping has preserved complete ancient streets and alleys. In the castle, there are two streets connecting the East-West gate and the South-North gate. The large and small lanes crisscross on both sides of the street are paved with bluestone slabs in the middle, river pebbles on both sides, and some are all paved with river pebbles. The old street running through the north and south of the ancient town is known as "the first street in Fujian". The ancient street is more than 600 meters long and 6-8 meters wide. The center of the street is paved with bluestone slabs. Due to the terrain of high in the north and low in the south, the street forms "nine bends and thirteen bends" with the shape, just like a blue dragon flying in the air. On both sides of the ancient street, there are nearly 100 crisscross cobble roadways of ancient buildings, long or short, wide or narrow, high wall narrow roadways, simple and secluded. There are many ancient dwellings, which not only have the ancient style of the Central Plains, but also have local characteristics. The old houses on both sides of Dongmen Street are crowded with brick and wood structures. The pavement of stone slabs on the street is smooth. After the rain, it is as smooth as a mirror and picturesque as a poem. The poem says: "the cold rain in the south of the Yangtze River blows to the north, and the shadows are reflected in the streets. Clean stone mirror is not a file, but with thousands of years of shoes. " Every 100 meters on the street, there is a checkerboard like pattern paved with stones, which is called checkerboard stone by local people. What is the function of chessboard stone? The traditional saying is: in the past dynasties of peace, there were a large number of people who took imperial examinations or worked as officials outside. They returned to their hometown in fine clothes and glorified their ancestors. They came back on horseback or in a sedan chair and entered the castle. When they arrived at a chessboard stone, they stopped and dismounted for a moment to show their glory and glory. Another function is: when someone with a certain status or status goes to a funeral, the coffin stops every time it reaches a chessboard stone, so that the filial sons and grandchildren can kneel down and kowtow, and then lift the coffin and walk forward. Generally, people who have no official position or status are not qualified to stop and worship here.

There are nearly 100 alleys on both sides of Heping Main Street winding between the high walls. They are simple, quiet and deep, but full of vitality. There is a poem: "the wall cuts the world, the earth is quiet and blue. The lane is deep, the moss is abundant, the sky is small, and the clouds are sparse. " Every ancient lane has a name, and every lane has its origin. The lane with the widest part only 75 cm and the narrowest part only 50 cm is called Heqi lane. Because two people meet in the alley, they have to side at the same time and yield to each other in order to pass, so it is called "Heqi lane". Panjiaxiang, with a high fire wall, is named after most of the residents in the alley. There is a bend in the middle of Panjia lane. Standing at the entrance of the lane, it gives people the feeling of "mountains are heavy, rivers are complex, and there is no way out". When you walk in, it is "another spring in the dark". Nearly 100 alleys crisscross like a labyrinth. It's very easy for strangers to get lost when they walk in. It's very challenging.

Heping ancient town has a profound historical and cultural heritage, and many traditional folk customs are still handed down, such as Nuo dance, triangle opera, folk art, festival custom, wedding custom, bean curd, waist weaving machine cloth and so on. The production technology of hepingyou milk tofu is unique in China. It is made by fermentation with old soybean milk as yeast, without adding any gypsum and water. It is a pure green food. Heping's fried tofu has its own characteristics. A poem praises it: "the tender jade plate is full of fresh food. You can jump into the oil and sing again. The golden armour is full of fragrance, and the thousand cooks and ten thousand cooks are always lingering. " There are also "loach drilling tofu", "smoked and roasted dried carp", "peace Baoci", "peace snail", "peace rice noodles" and other cooking skills, which are well-known and well-known for a long time.

Heping also has "three forbidden steles in the old city". In addition to the above-mentioned steles of "forbidding transportation and securing the place", there are also steles of forest protection at the foot of lion shaped mountain and steles of forbidding random stalls. The stone is 1.2 meters high and 0.43 meters wide at the bottom. It is a natural triangle. The inscription says: "he Shi Gong Bai is not allowed to cut pine, fir and bamboo, cut firewood and dig bamboo shoots. Those who violate the rules will be punished by officials." According to the old man, the monument was erected in the Ming Dynasty, more than 300 years ago. It can be seen that 300 years ago, the residents of the ancient town knew the importance of environmental protection.

As early as the first year of Tiancheng in Tang Dynasty, peace had a period of five days and one market. On every market day, 5000 or 6000 people rush to the market to trade on the Heping Street, which is about 600 meters long and 4-6 meters wide, causing congestion and disorder. Therefore, in the third year of Daoguang reign of the Qing Dynasty, the streets were renovated to rectify the market order, and a forbidden stele was erected at the entrance of Heping Street, with the inscription: "in the third year of Daoguang reign, the streets were repaired together with the city. It's narrow here. There are many people up and down. It's not allowed to pile up and sell things on both sides. Those who violate it will be punished. " The monument is bluestone, 1 meter high and 0.2 meter wide. Today, although the stele no longer exists, it has become a tradition that the fixed stalls set up on both sides of the street for the market are still within the eaves.

Years are flowing slowly. The ancient town of peace quietly welcomes and sees off every sunrise and sunset, listens to the familiar and strange footnotes, and watches everything that happens in the ancient town. People in the ancient town are also enjoying the ancient town day and night.

Main attractions

County Office

Since the history of peace, it has been the political, economic and cultural center of the southern part of Shaowu. Therefore, in the 34th year of Qianlong (1769) of the Qing Dynasty, the county was divided equally, and the "county division" and "General Administration" were set up. The garrison was stationed for defense and was subordinate to the Shaowu government. The county government office, commonly known as the county yamen, is located in Xiefu Lane in the southeast corner of the ancient town. It has an area of more than 500 square meters, with two halls and five bays. The framework is a combination of beam lifting and bucket piercing. It is made of huge materials. Four longitudinal beams and beams form a well shaped roof, which makes the hall more powerful and spectacular. The whole building retains the architectural heritage of Ming Dynasty. There are also two rows of semicircular pits on the ground, which were left by the Yamen officers who chanted "Wei Wu" and held water and fire sticks when they ascended the hall. Outside the gate, there is a square stone for prisoners to stand when they are shown to the public. It is called the punishment standing stone, and a pair of footprints are clearly visible. The former bungalow (commonly known as "ban Fang") on the right side of the front of the government office was used for detaining criminals. The open terrace in front of the Yamen is a training and martial arts training place for garrison officers and soldiers, which is called "school field". In the fourth year of the Republic of China (1915), the county chancellery was auctioned to the Christian Church, evangelical church. In the ninth year of the Republic of China (1920), the Christian church set up a Junior Girls' primary school here, which stopped in 1940. Heping County Government Office is the best preserved Branch County Government Office in China.

Peace Academy

Since he became an official, Heping has produced 137 Jinshi, which is well known as the hometown of Jinshi. This is closely related to Heping academy, which has a thousand year history. What we see now is the Qingshiban road leading to the Peace Academy, through which many peace students have achieved their fame. Peace Academy was founded in the late Tang Dynasty by Huang Qiao (871-953). In the Tang Dynasty, when Huang Qiao's father was an official from Henan to Shaowu, he found that the water of peace flowed westward, which was unusual, so he placed his home in peace. His son really proved that he was good at peace and Feng Shui. He was admitted to Jinshi at the age of 18 and became a minister of the Ministry of industry in the Tang Dynasty after the Five Dynasties. When he was an official in the imperial court, Huang Qiao's greatest ambition was to "recover the Tang Dynasty". When he felt that there was no hope of recovering the Tang Dynasty, he abandoned his official position and returned to peace, and founded the Peace Academy. Huang Qiao married three concubines (Shangguan, Wu, Zheng), and each of them had seven sons, a total of 21. On his 80th birthday, he called his 21 sons together to hold a family meeting and ordered them to go home

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