Anfeng ancient street

Anfeng ancient street

Anfeng Ming Qing ancient street is located at the south end of Anfeng ancient town old street in Dongtai City, Jiangsu Province. It consists of two sections of nanshiqiao street and Hebei Yujie street. It is the best preserved part of Anfeng "qilichang Street". The total length is 378 meters, and the stone slab street is reserved in the middle. There are Seven Lanes in the east of the street. In the block, there are Bao's building, a provincial cultural protection unit, Wu's ancestral hall (Wu Jiaji's ancestral hall, a poet of Yanmin in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties), Ge Xianglan, a famous painter, Qian Qian, an enlightened person, and Hou Xiangshi, an educator.

Introduction to scenic spots

Anfeng town was built as early as Kaiyuan of Tang Dynasty, with a history of more than 1200 years. Anfeng, formerly known as Dongtao, is often attacked by the tide because it is close to the sea, and the people are in dire straits. In the Northern Song Dynasty, Fan Zhongyan built the fan Gong dyke to resist the tide, and then changed its name to Anfeng, implying that the people were safe and the things were abundant.

Anfeng town is located on the Bank of Chuanchang River, the ancient salt transportation river. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Anfeng salt farm ranked first among the "top ten salt farms in Huainan". It is a salt distribution center with merchants from all over the world. It has seven Li Long Street, seventy-two and a half temples and thousands of shops. Now Anfeng ancient street is a well preserved part of the south section of qilichang street, with a total length of nearly 1000 meters.

Anfeng ancient street is also the hometown of Wang Gen, a Ming Dynasty Yanmin philosopher and founder of Taizhou School, and Wu Jiaji, a patriotic poet in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties.

According to records, Zheng Banqiao, one of the "eight monsters" in Yangzhou, once studied and lived on the ancient street for several years, so there is a Zheng Banqiao life Museum on Anfeng ancient street. At present, the most well preserved ancient building on this ancient street is the famous Bao's building, which was built in 1850 for Bao Zhiyuan, the ancestor of Bao Yungao, a scholar in the late Qing Dynasty. Its layout is neat, the construction is exquisite, and the carving is simple, which reflects the mutual penetration and integration of ancient Huizhou architecture and Northern Jiangsu residential culture. The building is composed of banks, pawnshops, shops, residences, gardens and warehouses, covering an area of more than 3000 square meters, with 105 rooms.

In addition, Wu's ancestral hall, Wan's ancient house, Hao's ancient house, Zhu's courtyard, Cao's courtyard, Qian Weixiang's former residence and Yuan Chengye's former residence are scattered in jiuba thirteen lanes of ancient streets in Ming and Qing Dynasties.

After winning the first Chinese historical and cultural town in Northern Jiangsu, Anfeng town has successively become a national key town, one of the first batch of Characteristic Towns in China, a national beautiful and livable Town, a national ecological town and a national health town. At present, the national civilized town has come to an end.

On Anfeng ancient street, folk performances and traditional crafts are held all year round to enrich tourism elements. On the ancient street, cheongsam shows and folk artists' performances are held. In addition, troupes from Taiwan and artists from Sichuan are invited to perform masterpieces.

The ancient street receives more than 600000 tourists every year. While developing the tourism industry, the ancient street creates a beautiful, livable and happy town.

Expert investigation

On February 14, 2006, Professor Wang Yongping from the school of architecture and urban planning of Nanjing University of technology led an expert group to Anfeng to work out the renovation plan for Baoshi building, a provincial cultural relic protection unit.

(Wang Yongping, now a member of the provincial heritage protection expert group and

He is a member of the expert group of famous historical and cultural towns, professor and master's supervisor of the school of architecture and urban planning of Nanjing University of technology, Secretary General of Jiangsu Institute of architects and vice president of Nanjing Research Association of famous historical and cultural cities.)

Event one

Professor Wang and his party set foot on the ancient streets of Ming and Qing Dynasties in the ancient town with a thousand years of history. In the past four days, Professor Wang, who is close to Huajia, has traveled all over the Qili ancient street, more than 50 roadways and more than 60 inspection sites in Anfeng. He has carefully looked up the historical and cultural resources of Anfeng. "Anfeng is rich in historical and cultural resources!"

"Anfeng is fully qualified to apply for the provincial historical and cultural town. The conditions for a famous historical and cultural town are to have a well preserved ancient street, provincial and municipal cultural relics protection units in the street, a certain scale of old city, rich historical and cultural connotation and outstanding historical celebrities. And these conditions can only be historical inheritance, original, not imitation. " History cannot be made, and cultural relics cannot be made. Anfeng people pay attention to the protection of historical and cultural resources, are good at using historical and cultural resources, develop cultural tourism, and promote development with culture. It's really a smart move. "

Two batches of famous historical and cultural towns have been announced. The first batch includes Zhouzhuang in Suzhou, and the second batch includes Tongli in Suzhou, Huangqiao in Taixing, and Qintong in Jiangyan. However, there is no one in Yancheng.

There were more than 120 shops on both sides of Anfeng street in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, including more than 10 old shops with gold lettered signboards, such as yuyuanlai soy sauce garden, wanyingmao soy sauce garden, zhouyisheng cloth shop, Zhoutongsheng department store, YANGHETANG drugstore, zhuxingji cloth shop, yanfusheng drugstore, Yisheng hengbu shop, shensentai drugstore, Dachang drugstore, Penglai village happiness garden teahouse (hotel), etc. There are also many mobile stalls, five craftsmen and hundreds of workers walking through the streets, shoulder to shoulder peddling. The most distinctive is the 7-valve tea house, where many people, especially the elderly, drink tea every day and talk with each other. Tea houses are also bookstores. There are often entertainers selling arts and storytelling. A biography of Dongtao, which reflects local anecdotes, has been talked about for several months and a half, with an audience of up to 100 people every day.

Event two

On February 15, walking on the slate street of Anfeng ancient street, Professor Wang and his entourage listened to the introduction of the entourage: "this slate street was formed in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. At that time, Anfeng was one of the world-famous" ten markets in Huainan ". The salt industry was prosperous and merchants gathered. Many Anhui salt merchants came to operate the salt industry. Huainan salt is sold to many provinces in China. Anfeng is one of the production and distribution centers of Huainan salt. There are many salt carriers and cargo ships in Hanoi. For the convenience of crossing the bridge back and forth, the boatmen often put some stone slabs in the cabin and took them to Anfeng. Over time, they paved the Qili long street and gradually formed a rich salt merchant culture. "

"An ancient street of Ming and Qing Dynasties as well protected and as long as Anfeng is not found in Northern Jiangsu, nor is it rare inside and outside the province.

Anfeng ancient street, Yancheng cultural relics protection unit. The existing section, from Taiping shopping mall to Beiyu street and nanshiqiao street by Anshi River, is 500 meters long and 4.5 meters wide. From Taiping shopping mall to Tiyan lane, it is a stone road. From Tiyan lane to Anshi River, it is a brick road. The storefronts on both sides of the street are Qing style buildings. Bao's building, a provincial-level cultural relic protection unit, and Wu's ancestral hall, a municipal cultural relic protection unit, are all in it.

Anfeng, formed in the Han Dynasty, was called xiaotaopu and dongtaopu in ancient times, implying the meaning of going to the East for gold. In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, it belonged to Ninghai County of Hailing county (the county is located in Xixi of Dongtai), and was built in the heyday of Kaiyuan in Tang Dynasty. During his expedition to the East, Xue Rengui excavated the Bagua river system for training troops and fighting against Japanese pirates, which is unique to China. Fan Zhongyan served as a salt officer in Xixi in the Northern Song Dynasty. After he built the Hanhai weir (later known as fan Gongdi), he changed his name to Anfeng and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Event three

Professor Wang and his party heard that there are many provincial cultural protection units, Yancheng and Dongtai municipal cultural protection units in Anfeng Town, so they happily came to the Baoshi building, a cultural relics protection unit in Jiangsu Province. Facing this "antique", they can't help standing in awe. Its magnificent momentum, dark tile gray walls, deep black paint gate, and fine brick carvings on the front of the door cover, let the experts take a look at it carefully. Professor Wang specially told the accompanying staff that I thought the Bao's building was an isolated ancient building of the Qing Dynasty. In fact, the Bao's building is not only a building, but a large group of Hui style buildings of the Qing Dynasty. The area of this group of buildings can reach 3000 square meters. Through the investigation of the ancient street, experts believe that the area of the whole ancient street area can reach 10000 square meters. During the investigation, we also found many ancient dwellings in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty, whose architectural technology and decoration characteristics are qualified for provincial cultural relics protection units. These ancient buildings reflect the inheritance and remains of the residential architectural culture in Lixiahe area of Northern Jiangsu.

"Anfeng is rich in cultural relics and historical sites, which are well preserved. This time, we found many valuable cultural relics, some of which can be applied for municipal protection, and some of which can meet the provincial protection standards. " The significance of the protection of ancient buildings lies not only in these, but also in the protection of human cultural heritage.

Anfeng Buddhism and Taoism, originated in the Song Dynasty, has a large number of believers, has built 72 and a half temples. There are four famous ancient temples: the North Pole hall, the Sutra collection hall, the Sanguan hall, and the Puji temple. Dabei nunnery in Hexi of lujiaqiao is famous for the famous calligrapher and painter Zheng Banqiao's residence in Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty. Most of the former sites of the 72 temples are traceable. More complete are Dongyue palace, beidutian temple, dizang temple, Yuying hall and Guanyin hall.

Event 4

"Religious culture is the characteristic of Anfeng. Despite the disaster of the cultural revolution, we still see the relics of Dongyue palace, Guanyin hall, dizang nunnery, Yuying hall, beidutian temple and other ancient temples.

If these remains are restored, it will be very beneficial to the tourism development of Anfeng and even Dongtai.

Anfeng Dongyue palace, a cultural relic protection unit of Dongtai City, is located on Anshi Road, facing south from north. A pair of stone lions are lifelike in front of the palace. In the palace, Dongyue emperor, Guanyin and God of wealth are worshipped. It is 10.2 meters wide, 7 meters deep, 8.8 meters purlin, 6.4 meters high, with porch, column base and beam frame. It is exquisitely carved, with a construction area of 86.2 square meters.

After more than two thousand years of Huainan salt culture, Anfeng has produced a large number of famous salt products

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