Shangqing ancient road

Shangqing ancient road

Shangqing ancient road, from Wangtan town of Shaoxing County to shangzao ancient boat port of Pingshui, is the main road for Wangtan and Pingshui residents to Shaoxing City before the opening of Shaogan line. Shangqing ancient road has been famous for a long time. It seems that its name comes from the place names at both ends, one is shangzao, the other is Qingtan. It is said that it is the only official road from Shengzhou to Shaoxing in ancient times. Some people also call it Kuaiji ancient road. From Qingtan to shangzao ferry is one section, shangzao ancient boat port is a waterway from RUOYE River to Shaoxing, and from Qingtan to Wangtan to Shengzhou is another section of mountain road.

Human history

As early as the Tang Dynasty, Yuezhou was a famous county in Hainei, and Pingshui was one of the five famous towns in Kuaiji County, which Yuezhou belonged to. At that time, the mountain goods of BEIXIANG, Jidong, Qingtan and Wangtan in Shengxian had to pass taozhao'ao and hujia'ao, taoyuanling, jinyu'ao, Pingshui to Pingshui quay, and then shipped to Shaoxing. The daily necessities needed were also carried into the mountains.

Of course, the busiest season is the tea transportation season. Because Pingshui is located at the junction of mountains and rivers, the water and land transportation is very convenient. In addition, Pingshui has always been the main tea producing area in China. Therefore, the production and marketing of a large number of tea made Pingshui tea market quickly form, especially from the early Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China. According to records, in the Tongzhi and Guangxu years of the Qing Dynasty, the annual output of pingshuizhu tea alone was as high as 150000 to 200000 Dan, and there were more than 100 tea shops in Pingshui tea district. The tea from Shengxian, Xinchang, Jidong and Wangtan must pass through taoyuanling to Pingshui, and the porters who carry the tea come in an endless stream day and night. After 1980, with the continuous extension of mountain roads and the development of transportation, taoyuanling lost its busy past.

Rizhuoling, also known as taipinggang, is the boundary between shangzao and Wanghua in Pingshui. Rizhuling ancient road starts from Jinshan Temple in Xiazhu natural village in the South and ends at suosiqiao in Meiyuan Village in the north. It used to be an important traffic road connecting Shengxian, Taizhou and Wenzhou in the South and Shaoxing, Hangzhou and Ningbo in the north.

According to the records of Kuaiji county annals of Kangxi, it is said that ouyezi set up the upper, middle and lower three stoves to cast swords when King Goujian of Yue was in power. The charcoal used for casting swords is transported from the mountains. It is named "RI Zhu Ling" because it casts swords every day. However, Wu chuhou, a scholar of the Song Dynasty, wrote in his "miscellaneous notes on the green box": "in the past, ouyezi could not cast the sword anywhere else, so it was cast in one day, so it was named this ridge, which was named RI Zhuling." Although there are different opinions, they all show the unique historical origin of rizhuling.

Rizhuo tea on rizhuo ridge was the representative of Zhejiang famous tea in Song Dynasty. Ouyang Xiu said in Guitian Lu: "herbal tea is abundant in Zhejiang and Zhejiang provinces. The products of Zhejiang and Zhejiang provinces are the first in Japan." Wu chuhou also said in the miscellaneous notes of Qingxiang: "Yue Zhou casts tea on a day, which is the first in the south of the Yangtze River." It is said that there was a royal tea Bay near the longevity Pavilion on the mountain. There were more than ten unique tea trees there. Their buds grew to two or three inches long and their hair was white. The tea they produced was listed as a tribute.

However, the charm of Shangqing ancient road is more than that. Taoyuanling, also known as taoyanling, is located in Jinyu village, Pingshui town. It was built in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. During the Qi and Liang dynasties, Tao Hongjing, a Taoist thinker and medical scientist, lived in seclusion here. Lin Jingxi, a poet in the early Yuan Dynasty, wrote a poem in his traveling to taoyanling: "laugh at the Buddha, ask Yinjun about the autumn scenery of Qianyan. At that time, no one knew the banquet, but the breeze and white clouds." Lu Dian, the left Prime Minister of Lu You's grandfather, also studied in Jielu. His tomb is under the branch peak of taoyuanling.

As a native of Shaoxing, Lu You's grandfather lived in seclusion here, which is understandable. Tao Hongjing, who has the reputation of "minister in the mountains", also took it as a place of seclusion, which shows that Kuili is really unusual.

Because of his grandfather's seclusion here, Lu You walked on these ancient mountain roads many times, and wrote a poem "from shangzao to Taoshan", which said, "the sun sets at the beginning of the rain, and the water flows into the pond. Silkworm family taboo guest door closed, tea for official everywhere busy. Green tree village stop drunk hat, wisteria frame at the end of the Hu bed. If you don't leave the dust behind because of Xiao, you will feel that the days in the world are long. " Some people began to guess whether this poem described the situation on taoyuanling or rizhuling?

characteristic

Shaoxing pingshuizhu tea is famous for its round shape, green color, rich fragrance and long-lasting foam resistance, which is known as green pearl. Tea lovers praise it as "the first famous tea in Jiangnan". Pingshui area was the tea distribution center as early as the Tang Dynasty. It has always been a tribute and one of the main export famous teas in China. In 1985, he won the world gold prize in the Spanish quality food competition.

Shaoxing is known as "the house of silk". Bai Juyi, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, once wrote the poem "Liao Ling", praising the delicacy of Shaoxing's silk. The white factory silk, spun silk, thread making silk, various kinds of satin quilt covers and silk clothing produced here are dazzling and exquisite. Shaoxing became the main silk producing area in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. At that time, "yueluo" was well-known at home and abroad

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Address: shangzao village, Pingshui Town, Keqiao District, Shaoxing City

Longitude: 120.648112

Latitude: 29.919293

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