Shiao Taoyuan

Shiao Taoyuan

Shiao Taoyuan is located in Shiao village, Zhoucun community, Guli street, Jiangning District, Nanjing city. It is located at the southwest foot of Niushou mountain scenic spot and the northernmost end of Niushou Yuntai ecological corridor. It is known as "the most beautiful village in China".

Shiao Taoyuan is rich in landscape resources and profound historical and cultural heritage. It is known as "the first village of Niushou culture". In October 2011, it was transformed by the government of Jiangning District to create the theme of leisure tourism and farmhouse entertainment. It is one of the "five golden flowers" of the first batch of urban ecological leisure agriculture demonstration villages in Jiangning District. With its unique advantages of being close to the mountains and near the water, it creates a rural landscape of Jiangnan that integrates natural mountains, water, forest and residence.

tourist resources

"Shiao Taoyuan" is rich in tourism resources, unique landscape resources and profound historical and cultural heritage. Among the 48 scenes of ancient Jinling, there are "smoke and haze at the head of cattle", "Zhenxi at the ancestral hall", "Qingxing at the sacrifice of flowers" and "sunset at a secluded habitat", as well as the tomb of Zheng He, the great navigator of the Ming Dynasty, the two tombs of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Zutang mountain and HongJue temple. The advantages of location and transportation are obvious, which is rich in the potential and characteristics of ecological, historical and cultural tourism.

In order to give full play to the unique advantages of Shikuo, which is located in the ecological corridor in the south of Nanjing, adjacent to Niushou mountain, the birthplace of Zen Buddhism, and rich in historical and cultural resources, focus on the display of Guli regional tourism resources and the achievements of "Three Civilizations" construction, seek new breakthroughs in "agricultural transformation, farmers' income increase, and new rural construction", and adhere to the principle of "adjusting measures to local conditions, Street investment, and local transformation" With the strong support of Jiangning District Party committee and government and the approval of the planning, the characteristic village reconstruction project was officially launched in October 2011.

The overall style of Shiao Taoyuan is dominated by Hui style architecture. Under the green mountain forest, there are white walls and grey tiles, which become a beautiful scenery under Niushou mountain. The green brick roadway, wooden gate and red lanterns in the village are like a world apart. The stone carvings, archways, pavilions and landscape corridors with spring peaches, summer lotus, autumn osmanthus and winter plum make it the "Niushou No.1" with "flowers blooming in four seasons and scenery step by step" One village.

historical origin

Speaking of Shiao village, we have to mention Yue Fei and Niushou mountain. Shiao has been named for the former for nearly a thousand years, and the latter has won the reputation of "Taoyuan". The original name of Shiao was Dashi Ao, but it was called "master Ao" 60 years ago. As early as the fourth year of Jianyan (1130), the anti Jin hero Yue Fei was ordered to recover Jiankang. He fought against the Jin soldiers at Niushou mountain, forcing them to retreat to the north of the Yangtze River, thus recovering Jiankang City, which had been occupied by the Japanese for half a year. In order to stabilize the political situation of the Southern Song Dynasty, Yue Fei stationed his troops in the southern foot of Niushou Shanxi, which is today's Shiao village. In order to defend the Jin soldiers and consolidate his achievements, Yue Fei strengthened his military training and organized his soldiers to build a 5000 meter long zigzag anti Jin stone rampart, which is connected with the original anti Jin stone rampart in Mufu mountain. Now there is a large area of Yue Fei's anti Jin old rampart under the Tang tower of Niushou mountain. Because this area is surrounded by mountains on three sides and belongs to the concave terrain, people call it "master concave", which refers to the place where the army of the Yue family and the division of the main force are stationed, and also refers to the defeat of the Jin army and the return of the small court division of the Southern Song Dynasty. Later generations changed the word "Shi" to "Shi" because the word "Shi" was shrouded in the atmosphere of war and chaos, which implied peace and prosperity.

NIUSHOUSHAN is a famous place for outing in Nanjing. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, NIUSHOUSHAN HongJue temple, as the lower courtyard of Royal Baoen temple, is full of incense. In March of spring, there are luxuriant forests, bamboo trees and peach blossoms. At dusk, there are misty clouds, in which there are illusory and dreamy artistic conception. It is worthy of the reputation of "Niushou haze" and "spring Niushou". The neighboring Shiao village is full of peach blossoms, beautiful scenery, full of tourists, gifted scholars and beautiful ladies, who write poems and Fu, and have many stories, enjoying the reputation of "paradise".

Another way of saying "Shiao Taoyuan" comes from a beautiful rural legend. It is said that hundreds of years ago, there was a beautiful and kind-hearted woman in Shiao village who loved peach blossom and liked a peach blossom blooming in her hair bun. She was called peach blossom girl by the villagers. At the foot of Niushou mountain near the village, there is a lake, namely Zhenghe lake. Due to the past cofferdams, the water area has greatly shrunk. It is said from generation to generation that there is a god of water in the lake to protect the rice harvest. Therefore, the villagers forbid children to come near the lake to avoid blasphemy. One spring, two urchins secretly played by the lake and accidentally fell into the water. The villagers were afraid of the God of water, so no one dared to go into the water to rescue them. Suddenly, they heard a sound of water. The peach blossom girl jumped into the water and held up the boy with both hands. When people rescued the boy ashore, there was only one floating peach blossom left. The beautiful woman could no longer be found The son came down to earth. In memory of the Peach Blossom Fairy, the villagers began to plant peach blossoms in the mountains and fields. They live in harmony from generation to generation. Every spring, peach blossoms are everywhere, just like the beautiful scenery in Tao Yuanming's peach garden, so it is called "Shiao peach garden".

Taoyuan in Shiao is rich in tourism resources due to its proximity to Niushou mountain. It is dotted with "Niushou Yanlan", "Zutang Zhenxi", "Xianhua Qingxing" in the "24 Jinling scenes", as well as Zheng He's tomb, two tombs of the Southern Tang Dynasty and HongJue temple. Shiao is rich in tea since ancient times. Its special tianque tea is famous for its delicious color and fragrance. This is the birthplace of Niutou Zen, which is called "Jiang Biao Niutou" by Buddhists. Up to now, master Xingyun and other Buddhist monks still worship Niutou Zen ancestral court.

The theory of tianque originated from the fact that emperor yuan wanted to build a double que outside xuanyang gate, the South Gate of the capital city, to show the supremacy of the imperial power. Wang Dao, the Prime Minister of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, could not bear to waste money and money. Seeing the confrontation between the two peaks of Niushou mountain, which was very spectacular, he pointed to the peak and advised emperor yuan: "this tianque is also, don't bother to change it!" The Yuan emperor knew the prime minister's painstaking efforts, so he gave up the idea of building a pagoda, and Niushou mountain was also called tianque mountain.

Functional zoning

As one of the first batch of "five golden flowers" of urban ecological leisure agriculture initiated in Jiangning District, the whole scenic spot construction focuses on rural natural scenery, cultural relics, folk customs, agricultural production, farmers' life and rural environment as attractions to meet the needs of tourists for leisure, vacation, experience, sightseeing and entertainment, and pays attention to the ecological environment without pollution in the original natural environment We should pay attention to the protection and excavation of local natural resources and rural landscape, retain the characteristic buildings and traditional customs, and develop cultural relics and cultural characteristics.

Combined with the functional zoning and planning positioning, Shiao Taoyuan is divided into seven functional areas, including farmhouse recreation area, Taohuashan mountaineering and oxygen inhalation area, farming DIY area, Niushou culture exhibition and seminar area, square leisure area, fishing area and lotus pond wet area, striving for "one family, one scene" and depending on the situation.

Nongjiale activity area: it is divided into "Taoyuan", "Yanlan" and "Gulei". Its business projects include local catering, flavor snacks, tea house leisure and rural hotels. It promotes organic healthy diet and ecological leisure tourism, and focuses on "health and ecology" to display local tea culture and catering culture;

Agricultural DIY District: it integrates agricultural sightseeing, fruit and vegetable picking, public claim and agricultural experience, focuses on the display of field features, and gradually develops rural fun activities such as digging wild vegetables, catching fish and shrimps;

Niushou culture exhibition and discussion area: Mr. Pei Jiatong, a famous Guli native Chinese painting master, is invited to return to his hometown in his later years. With tianque painting garden as the carrier, the first is to summarize and refine Pei's artistic career in his later years. The second is to focus on the exhibition, exchange and discussion of living, writing and painting Niushou. The third is to write Guli and painting Guli brings together all parties, excavates, sorts out and refines Guli culture, and promotes the construction process of "cultural Guli";

Taohua mountain mountaineering oxygen absorption area: as a wandering place for mountaineering oxygen absorption, flower viewing, poetry recitation and photo taking, it can blend into the sea of flowers and forests, and release the mood. It is far away from Niushou Tang tower, which implies the Zen of "borrowing flowers to offer Buddha".

In addition, flying kites in the square, dancing with the scenery, watching local intangible cultural heritages, watching rural cultural performances, stopping at the lotus pond to enjoy the scenery and painting, walking in the wetland and returning to nature, all of these are like living in a "paradise".

transport line

Bus routes:

Nanjing direction: Take Nanjing Metro Line 1 to Andemen station, transfer to "710 road" (Yuhuatai South Gate Guli) and get off at jiujiatang station.

Jiangning direction: Take Nanjing Metro Line 1 to hedingqiao station, transfer to "866" (Jinbao market Lulang) and get off at jiujiatang station.

Self driving line:

A Ningma Expressway Guli, Jiangning town exit Niushou Avenue Shiao Taoyuan

B Nanjing Tiexin bridge dadingfang Niushou Avenue Shiao Taoyuan

C Airport Expressway cuipingshan exit -- Jiangjun road -- Fucheng West Road -- ningdan road -- mozhou road -- Niushou Avenue -- Shiao Taoyuan

Address: Shiao village, Zhoucun community, Jiangning District, Nanjing

Longitude: 118.73006

Latitude: 31.91063

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