Wangjiang tower

Wangjiang tower

Wangjianglou park is located in Wangjianglou Park, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province. Wangjianglou park is located in the South Bank of Jinjiang River, Jiuyanqiao, dongmenwai, Chengdu City. It covers an area of 176.5 mu. The main buildings are Chongli Pavilion, Zhuojin Pavilion, HuanJian Pavilion, wuyunxian hall, liubeichi and quanxiangxie. It was built in memory of Xue Tao, a female poet of Tang Dynasty in Ming and Qing Dynasties.

On May 25, 2006, Wangjiang tower, as an ancient building of the Qing Dynasty, was approved by the State Council to be listed in the Sixth Batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

history

Wangjianglou Park was built in Ming and Qing Dynasties in memory of Xue Tao, a famous poetess in Tang Dynasty.

Xue Tao is a native of Chang'an (now Xi'an, Shaanxi Province). He lived in Sichuan with his father. He was intelligent, studious and outstanding. After his father's death, because of his poor family, he was included in the music book at the age of 15. She was good at poetry and writing, but also proficient in temperament, which was appreciated by Wei Gao, the governor of Xichuan at that time. She was able to enter and leave the government. She once worked as a schoolboy, and was known as a schoolgirl at that time. According to records, Xue Tao has 500 poems. Her contemporaries, such as Yuan Zhen, Bai Juyi, Ling Hu Chu, Pei Du, Du Mu, Liu Yuxi and Zhang Ji, all highly praised her and wrote poems in harmony with each other. Unfortunately, most of these poems are lost, and only more than 90 have survived.

Most of the ground of the park is covered by bamboo forests. Because Xue Tao loved bamboo all his life, he often encouraged himself with the virtue of "vigorous and self-sustaining", and later generations planted all kinds of good bamboo in the park. Therefore, he became a famous bamboo gathering place in China, also known as "Bamboo Park" or "Jincheng bamboo garden". There are more than 150 kinds of bamboos in the park, including not only famous bamboos from Sichuan, but also rare bamboos from southern China, Japan and Southeast Asia. The main varieties are bamboos with human face, bamboos with Buddha belly, bamboos with square shape, bamboos with chicken feet, bamboos with purple color, bamboos with Mian color, bamboos with Hu Qin color, bamboos with wheat color, bamboos with solid color, etc.

Wangjianglou Park was established as Wangjianglou Park in the period of the Republic of China and became a famous scenic spot in Chengdu. What can arouse people's interest most is the wide variety of bamboos. Therefore, it has the nickname of bamboo park and Jincheng bamboo garden.

scenic spot

Wangjiang tower

Wangjianglou, also known as chonglige, is the most magnificent building in Wangjianglou park. Standing on the Bank of Jinjiang River, it is 39 meters high and has four floors. It was built in 1889. The bottom two floors are square cornices, and the top two floors are octagonal. The ridge and sparrow of each floor are decorated with exquisite animal clay sculpture and figure carving. The base of the pavilion is protected by stone railings. Zhuzhu Biwa, Baoding gilded. The pavilion corridor is spacious, with four columns per square. The roof is covered with green glazed tiles, cornices, carved beams and painted cabinets. The golden items are magnificent. It is not only robust and magnificent in northern architecture, but also beautiful and exquisite in Jiangnan Pavilion.

Because the building is located on the side of Jinjiang River, it is called Wangjiang building. Chonglige is named after the famous sentence in Zuosi's Shudu Fu of Jin Dynasty, which is "both beautiful and reverent, and actually named Chengdu". It has become a symbol of Chengdu.

Zhuojin building

Zhuojin tower, located on the west side of chonglige, was built with chonglige in 1889. It has two floors and three rooms, slightly like a boat. There are corridors around it. Because the brocade households in Chengdu in the Han Dynasty often put the brocade into the Jinjiang River for washing, Jinjiang River is also called Zhuojin River, so Zhuojin tower is named. The building is in the shape of a boat. It is said to commemorate Xue Tao's farewell to his close friend Yuan Zhen.

Poetry reciting building

Poetry reciting tower, located in the east of Chongli Pavilion, was built in 1899. It's three fold on the first floor. It was built on the basis of the poetry reciting tower of bijifang, where Xue Tao lived in his later years. It was open on all sides and depended on each other in three layers. The loquat gate in the southwest of the poetry reciting building was built according to the meaning of "living in a closed door in loquat flowers" in the poem presented by poet Wang Jian to Xue Tao. Passing through the loquat gate, there are memorial buildings such as Wuyun fairy hall, spring Pavilion, Qingyuan room and HuanJian Pavilion. One Pavilion, two floors and the adjacent wuyunxian Pavilion constitute a garden complex with Sichuan style. The building is built on the side of the building, and the stone steps are used as ladders. The artificial creation contains natural interest, which can indeed arouse the poets' interest in writing and reciting poems. He Shaoji, a famous calligrapher in the Qing Dynasty, wrote a couplet for this building: "poetry notes, tea bowls, fragrance for thousands of years; cloud shadow and wave light live on the first floor.". It is a true portrayal of the scenery of this building.

Xue Taojing

In the garden, there is also Xue Taojing, formerly known as yunvjin, which is said to be the water source for Xue Tao. There is a stone tablet beside the well with the words "Xue Taojing" written on it, which is the handwriting of Yiying Xiong, the magistrate of Chengdu during the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty. In his later years, Xue Tao made a kind of crimson paper in bijifang, where he lived. Its color is gorgeous and exquisite. It is known as "Xue Tao paper" in the world, and has been imitated in many dynasties. The water quality of this well is very sweet, so it is suitable for making wine and tea, and it is better than river water for making paper. Because the king of Shu in Ming Dynasty imitated Xue Tao's well for drawing water, later it was mistakenly said that Xue Tao himself drew water from the well for making paper, so it was named. In 1664, a stone tablet named "Xue Taojing" was erected, which gradually became a scenic spot. In the late Qing Dynasty, HuanJian Pavilion, Wuyun immortal hall, spring Pavilion, Liubei pool, poetry reciting tower and other memorial buildings were built around the well, with many inscriptions and couplets.

Bamboo forest

Wangjiang Park is the largest bamboo park in China, which is also rare in the world. When you enter the garden, you will see a dense forest of bamboos, with more than 150 varieties of bamboos. In addition to all kinds of bamboo native to Sichuan, many bamboo species have been introduced from outside the province and abroad. They either form green arcades, or are covered with shade to block out the sun, or stand on the banks of a pool or a river, or encircle water pavilions and pavilions. Some are like Phoenix tails flying in the air, some are like emerald pavements, some have wider leaves than palms, and some are narrow like pins. The color of stem is yellow, black, purple, green, powdery or burred. The shape of the stem is round and square, free and solid, strange as human face, such as bergamot, such as abacus, such as chicken feet, such as piano silk, such as tortoise tiger skin, various, eye opening.

There is a tomb of Xue Tao in the courtyard.

background

In addition to Xue Tao, Wangjiang building has an unknown meaning. Today, the location of Wangjiang tower is called yunvjin in ancient times. Jin means ferry. Why is it called Yu Nu Jin? This is because in the Tang and Song Dynasties, this ferry was relatively prosperous. At that time, flowers were blooming all the year round on both sides of the Jinjiang River. Girls often got on the boat from Huanhua River and stayed all the way to enjoy the beautiful scenery. The ferry where yunvjin was located was the terminal point, which made the ferry beautiful with a lot of aura. At the same time, people who want to travel far often go ashore from the wanliqiao wharf, and send their relatives and friends to yunnujin on the same boat. Generally, they can't go any further. When the escort got off the ship, the cloud sail of the ship was high, and the ship turned a corner forward, everything disappeared without a trace, leaving only endless thoughts.

Xue Tao is a famous musician in the Tang Dynasty. He has a lot of contacts with Yuan Zhen, Bai Juyi, Pei Du, Liu Yuxi, Du Mu and other poets in the Tang Dynasty. He has been praised by Yuan Zhen and "the graceful Emei show in Jinjiang, which conjures up Wen Jun and Xue Tao". The paper she made with her own well water was very famous at that time, and was called "Xue Tao Jian". Xue Tao didn't live in today's Wangjiang Park, but was buried by the Bank of Jinjiang River outside the east gate of Chengdu. In Wangjiang Park, there is her earth grave, which is 6 meters high and more than 10 meters long. In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Chun, king of Shu Xian, built a workshop in Wangjiang Park to imitate Xue Tao's notes. Because the well water is filtered through the sandy stratum, it is sweet and clear, and the paper number produced is top grade. In the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, a stone tablet named "Xue Tao well" was carved beside the well. From then on, people thought that Xue Tao's hometown was in today's Wangjiang Park.

In the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, poetry reciting tower, Zhuojin tower and HuanJian Pavilion were built one after another. Chongli pavilion was built in 1886. Chonglige, named after the famous Shu Du Fu by Zuo Si, a great writer of Jin Dynasty, has become a landmark of Chengdu today.

The four storey Chongli pavilion has a very beautiful and spectacular appearance. The upper two floors are octagonal and sharp, and the lower two floors are square cornices. It stands out by the river and looks at the majestic appearance of the snow mountains in Northwest China. In the Song Dynasty, Wangjiang tower was also built here. Lu you once went to the tower to see the scenery, and wrote the poem "climbing the tower" with "snow mountains crossing northwest and big rivers flowing southeast". Chonglige, built on the edge of Jinjiang River, is an integral part of the river. The whole picture combines hardness and softness, and combines vigor and spirituality, forming a beautiful picture.

Chonglige has two couplets, which are famous all over the country and can be regarded as the best of couplets. One of the couplets is 212 words long. It expresses feelings through scenery. It talks about the past and discusses the present. The couplets are completed at one go, engulfing the mountains and rivers. This couplet was written by Zhong Yunfang, a strange hero of the Qing Dynasty. He once wrote a 1612 word couplet in Linjiang building in Jiangjin, and it is also the first one in China. It is said that at that time, Zhong Yunfang was sent to prison for denouncing corrupt officials. He wrote this couplet to express his injustice.

A few stories stand alone on the east side of the mountain, close to the water and far away from the mountain. Gather Congling snow, disperse Baihe smoke, dry danjingxia, dye Qingyi fog. Sometimes poets hang on to the past, and sometimes brave men raise the border. Only pitiful pistil Ladybug zero, early buried boudoir mirror; loquat lonely, empty stay green field fragrant grave. There are many different opinions about it. Smiling butterfly always indulges in dreamland. Try to shout from the top, ask, who is this half of the moon? For thousands of years, Xichuan Bureau has been changed repeatedly, making great contributions and acting heroes. Jump on the dragon, perish the Phoenix in front of the slope, lie down and shut down the tiger, sound the frog at the bottom of the well. All of a sudden, the iron horse and the jade flute are playing. It's not like long songs and short Fu, throwing away some sorrow and sorrow; it's better to enjoy the music in the corridor

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