Songkou ancient town

Songkou ancient town

Songkou ancient town is located in the southwest of Yongtai County, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province. It is a famous historical and cultural town in China and the only famous historical and cultural town in Fuzhou City. Songkou ancient town is the hometown of Zhang yuangan, a patriotic poet in the Southern Song Dynasty. It is also the political, economic and cultural center and an important transportation hub in the southwest of Yongtai. Songkou town has more than 60 ancient dwellings of Ming and Qing Dynasties in good condition, and its villages have more than 100 well preserved ancient dwellings of Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Songkou ancient town is adjacent to Minqing County in the East, Youxi County in the north, Dehua County in the West and Xianyou County in the south.

In 2008, Songkou ancient town was rated as a famous historical and cultural town in China.

Historical evolution

In Song Dynasty, it belonged to Yingdali, Heping township.

Yuan Dynasty was divided into 29 capitals, 33 capitals and 34 capitals.

In Ming and Qing Dynasties, they belonged to Yingdali, Yingdali and baodeli respectively.

At the beginning of the Republic of China, it belonged to the Southern District. In 1915, the first township chamber of Commerce in Fujian Province was established. In 1918, it was established as a town. In May 1926, Songkou also issued its own banknotes, set up a tax card and opium Monopoly Bureau. In 1938, it was changed to Songkou town.

At the beginning of the founding of new China, it belonged to three regions.

Songkou district was established in 1955.

It was changed into Songkou commune in 1958.

Songkou town was established in 1984.

In 2011, Yongtai County Government launched the special protection project of Songkou ancient town.

In 2014, the protection and development headquarters of Songkou ancient town has carried out planning and initially finalized the development framework of Songkou ancient town.

geographical environment

Location context

The ancient town of song Kou is located in the southwest of Yongtai County, Fuzhou City, Fujian province. The latitude is 25 degrees 48 minutes, the east longitude 118 degrees 35 minutes, the West connecting mouth Township, the North connecting Changqing Town, the East connecting Wutong Town, the total area is 34.34 hectares.

topographic features

Songkou ancient town has rugged mountains, alternate peaks and valleys, and steep terrain. The ancient town crawls among the mountains, surrounded by Dazhang River from the west, the north and the East. The altitude of carp on Tianshan Mountain in the East is 1533 meters, that of Wushishan mountain in the southeast is 887 meters, that of baiyanjian in the west is 1608 meters, and that of donghujian in the South is 1681 meters.

climate

Songkou ancient town has a typical subtropical monsoon climate, with the highest temperature of 38 ℃ and the lowest temperature of - 1 ℃. The annual average temperature is 20 ℃ and the annual average precipitation is 1387.9 mm.

natural resources

Water resources

Songkou ancient town has Dazhang River, the largest tributary of the lower reaches of Minjiang River, and its tributaries Yuezhou River and Changqing river running through the territory. There are 13 hydropower stations developed in the territory, including Daxi reservoir, lianpengli reservoir, Lingwei reservoir and Jiaokeng reservoir.

Forest resources

Songkou ancient town has 333000 mu of forest land, including 152000 mu of ecological public welfare forest, 691000 cubic meters of forest stock and 76.7% of forest coverage.

Main attractions

Using the flat

Yongtancuo is located in Xiaban village of Songkou Town, covering an area of more than 5000 square meters. It was built by Chen Shangzhen, a local rich man in Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty. There are main hall, lower hall, hengcuo, hengting, study, gatehouse, Neicheng, Waicheng, rainwater well, back garden and more than 200 rooms in the mansion. There are a set of 12 gold-plated screens, four doors and windows in front of the shrine in the main hall, and the stories of the characters of the three kingdoms are exquisitely carved.

Ningyuan Village

Ningyuanzhuang is located in a small hill in Yuezhou village, Songkou town. It was built in 1729 and took five years to complete. It is a fort. The walls are hundreds of meters long and 6 meters high. They are all made of nearly one meter thick bluestone blocks. There are four gates on the wall of the village. The east main gate is equipped with two wooden gates, and an ancient stone manger is left at the gate. The buildings in the village are built according to the mountain situation, and the wooden buildings in the shape of pin are connected with each other.

Former residence of Zhang yuangan

Zhang yuangan's former residence is located in Yuezhou village of Songkou Town, which is called "banyueju". It covers an area of more than 400 square meters. It was originally an earthen house, the birthplace of Zhang yuangan. The new building was rebuilt by the descendants of Zhang yuangan in the late Ming Dynasty (1643). It has a well preserved "arc wall". Besides the former residence are "Shuiyue Pavilion", "Hanguang Pavilion", "snow cave", "Zizhu rockery" and other sites. Among them, the snow cave is built beside the stream according to the slope, with a total of 3 small rooms.

Ancient ferry

Gudukou is located in the straight street of Songkou town. Its gatehouse and pillars are well preserved, and boats can be moored beside the stone steps. There are four steles at the ferry: the stele of planting banyan in Lin Dai Xi in the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the stele of reorganizing Yidu in the first year of Xuantong period of the Qing Dynasty, the stele of yongban drowning women in Fengxian period of the Qing Dynasty, and the stele of Fengfu constitution established in the Qing Dynasty to deal with the murder cases caused by Lin Chen's contention for water. Among them, "reorganizing Yidu monument" clearly defined the ferry fee standard, such as "wedding sedan transition only charge four colorful money, coffin transition is not allowed to ask for colorful money cent". It also stipulates the safety requirements for ferries, "whether old or new, the ferries must be repaired firmly if they are damaged, and it is not allowed to be confused and abused.". According to the regulations on the stone tablet, the ferries at the ferry crossing the Dazhang river for generations.

Folklore Museum

The folk custom museum is located in the Zhijie street of Songkou Town, covering an area of 646 square meters and a construction area of 420 square meters, with a total investment of about 2.3 million yuan. In accordance with the antique style of repairing the old as before, the original pharmaceutical company was designed and decorated to display agricultural items, precious historical relics and related cultural relics of Songkou ancient town, folk customs and other photographic works, highlighting the themes of agricultural civilization, historical features of the ancient town and local characteristic culture.

On January 29, 2013, the folk custom museum officially opened, with nearly 600 exhibits of various folk customs and farming objects, such as ancient stone trough, ancient porcelain jar, earth shell, rolling cake, etc. At the same time, it is also the first township level museum opened in Fujian Province.

Famous specialty

Egg swallow

Egg swallow is an indispensable dish in Songkou ancient town. It is indispensable in wedding, housewarming, birthday celebrations and family gatherings. Egg swallow, also known as Taiping swallow, symbolizes happiness, peace, auspiciousness, health and longevity.

Jiuchongzhen

The production of Jiuchong rice is rather complicated. It needs to be polished with the fresh rice of that year, and then poured into the cage drawer. For each layer, steam for 10 minutes. As soon as the rice paste solidifies, lay another layer of rice paste and steam again. It takes nine layers to steam, so it's named jiuchongzhen.

Onion cake

The pork stuffing for onion cake should be fat and thin, mixed with spices, soy sauce and other seasonings, and the onion should be cut into small sections and placed in the basin. When baking a cake, you need to wait until the surface of the cake is scorched and the sesame seeds start to smell.

Li Gan

Lotus plum, a special product of Songkou ancient town, is named after its green and pink fruit, which looks like lotus. The fruit of Furong plum is dried by local people after several procedures, such as shaking green, washing fruit, drying, pickling and baking.

Kojima Rattus

Rattan is another famous rice product in Songkou ancient town. After blanching and chopping the Kojic grass collected from the mountain, it is put in the mortar together with the hot japonica rice, pounded into a ball by manpower, and then pressed into a block.

Customs and customs

Lantern Festival

Yuezhou village in Songkou ancient town has the custom of making lantern festival every year. When wandering around, young people in the village carry a statue of Zhang Shengjun and a sword and sedan chair. The village is full of colorful flags, gongs and drums. After a rush of gongs, people looked solemn. A man danced naked and barefoot. First he danced with a sword, and then he jumped into a knife and sedan chair to sit all over the village. The man is nine days cold, barebacked and barefoot, and doesn't feel cold. Before he gets to the edge sedan chair, he runs like flying. The jumping god man uses a sharp sword to slash on his chest and back in turn. He sees that the muscle at the place where the knife falls is white, but the knife is not damaged when it rises. The sedan chair he sits on has three pairs of sharp knives on his feet, buttocks and back. He holds two knives with both hands. The blade is upward, and the blade is sharp. The team of wandering gods toured around the village, passing every household, setting off firecrackers, burning incense, worshiping, blessing the peace of the whole village, praying for the next year's wind and rain, happiness and well-being.

Wuxian Temple Fair

Every year, September 28 of the lunar calendar is the birthday of emperor Wuxian. On this day, a grand temple fair will be held to celebrate his birthday and pray for good weather and good harvest. Later, it has a lot of meaning. Emperor Wuxian was the God of wealth, and won the religious worship of businessmen. On the first and the fifteenth day of every month, businessmen go to the "Wuxian Temple" to burn incense and offer sacrifices. Every year from the 15th to the 18th of the first month of the lunar calendar, believers would choose "five animals" (chicken, duck, fish, pig, cow), incense sticks and paper cannons to sacrifice in the temple. Later, it was interpreted as the five blessings in the five blessings: one is longevity, two is wealth, three is health, four is virtue, and five is good death.

Lin Gong's travel

Every year on the 14th, 15th and 16th of the first month, the statue of ambassador Lin Gong is moved to Dexing tower for the Lantern Festival. On the 17th, 18th and 19th of the first month, I went on a tour of the whole town,

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