Ancient city of Jianshui

--The ancient city of Jianshui, called Lin'an in ancient times, was built in the Tang Dynasty and has a history of more than 1200 years. There are more than 50 well preserved ancient buildings in the city, which can be called a "Museum of ancient buildings" and "Museum of folk houses".

--The ancient city is not big, mainly a few streets with Lin'an road as the center. The most famous buildings in the city are the Confucian temple and Zhujia garden. In addition, there are many ancient buildings worth stopping.

--If you want to stay in the ancient city, in addition to hotels and inns with friendly prices, you can also go to Zhujia garden to experience the feeling of the old house, but the price is not cheap.

--In the streets of Jianshui, baked tofu fruits can be seen everywhere. A few people sat on a small bench, surrounded by a small brazier, with an iron shelf on it, and the inch square tofu was baked into a burnt yellow color on it.

Ancient city of Jianshui

The ancient city of Jianshui is located 220 kilometers south of Kunming, Yunnan Province. It was called Butou in ancient times and badian in ancient times. Nanzhao regime built Huili city in Yuanhe period of Tang Dynasty (around 810 years), which was the governor of Tonghai. Huili is an ancient Yi language, which means the sea. Jianshui is translated into Chinese. In the Yuan Dynasty, Jianshui Prefecture was set up, which belonged to Lin'an Road (the road governance was in Tonghai), and Xuanwei department was set up in Jianshui, including Lin'an, Guangxi, Yuanjiang, etc., which governed Lin'an, Guangxi (now Luxi County), Yuanjiang, etc. In the Ming Dynasty, it was still called Jianshui Prefecture, which was changed from Lu to Fu. Lin'an government was transferred to Jianshui. In the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, it was transformed into Jianshui County. In the first year of the Republic of China, it was rebuilt as Lin'an County, and in the next year it was renamed Jianshui County.

Historical evolution

Jianshui city was first built in Nanzhao, and was expanded into brick city in 1387. When Li Dingguo captured Lin'an City, the three towers of North, South and West were destroyed in the war. They were rebuilt in the fourth year of Kangxi, and then damaged again. Only the Chaoyang building in Dongmen, despite many wars and earthquakes, has stood still for nearly 600 years. Jianshui County began to build Temple School in Yuan Dynasty. During the reign of Ming Hong, Lin'an Fu school was built, and between Wanli Institute and Shuizhou Confucianism was built. In Qing Dynasty, Chongzheng, Huanwen and Chongwen Qujiang academies were established successively. At that time, it was known as "Lin Ban Bang", that is, Lin'an Prefecture accounted for about half of the candidates in Yunnan's imperial examination, which was the highest in Yunnan and rarely seen in the whole country. Therefore, Jianshui has always been known as "a famous country in literature" and "Zou Lu in southern Yunnan".

In 1994, Jianshui was approved by the State Council as the third batch of famous historical and cultural cities in China.

The ancient city of Jianshui has been listed as a national historical and cultural city. After 12 centuries of construction, the ancient city has preserved more than 50 ancient buildings, known as the "Museum of ancient architecture" and "Museum of folk houses".

Famous buildings in Jianshui

Zhu Jia Garden

Zhu's garden was built in the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty. It was built by Zhu Weiqing, a local squire. It is adjacent to the ancestral hall. The building covers an area of more than 20000 square meters, of which the house covers an area of more than 5000 square meters. The main building is in a "vertical three horizontal four" layout. The layout of the houses is in good order. The courtyards are well arranged. The materials used in the residential buildings are excellent, the carvings are exquisite, the structure is exquisite, and the layout is exquisite. The whole group of buildings, with steep ridges, cornices, carved beams and painted buildings, is exquisite and elegant. The courtyard hall layout is reasonable, and the spatial landscape level is rich and changeable, forming a "labyrinth" building group. It is a typical homestead forest with southern characteristics. It is elegant and elegant, regular in shape, flexible in layout, rich in space, gradual in level, quiet in environment, elegant in color, well decorated and unified in structure. It contains profound cultural connotation in rich forms. It is the product of the combination of inland culture and frontier culture, and has high architectural art value.

Zhangjia Garden

The construction scale of Zhangjia garden is in the middle of Jianshui people, second only to Zhujia garden, and the construction quality, integrity and cultural relic value can be called the first. Located in Tuanshan village, 13 kilometers west of Jianshui City, Zhangjia garden was built in the late Qing Dynasty, covering an area of more than 10000 square meters. It is a private residence of Zhang family. The plane layout of the house is basically the plane form of "four in five patios" in the traditional residential buildings in Jianshui. It is a group of residential buildings with large scale, good construction quality and relatively complete preservation, which is composed of two groups of three entrance courtyard and garden ancestral hall. Different from Zhujia garden, zhangjiahua garden still plays the role of folk house, but it is different. Several families are scattered in various courtyards, no longer the big family. But the courtyard still has the elegant atmosphere before, especially the wooden doors and windows with a light layer of gold paint. The woodcarving is as exquisite as Zhujia garden, and even as beautiful as Huizhou.

Chaoyang building

Chaoyang tower, built in 1389, has been more than 600 years. It is one of the main symbols of Jianshui, an important town in southern Yunnan, and a symbol of the old important town in the border of the motherland. During the period of Tang, yuan and he, the Nanzhao regime built Huili city here, which was a Tucheng. In the 20th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, after the Ming army pacified Yunnan, it set up Lin'an Wei, built Lin'an Wei Cheng, and rebuilt it into a brick city on the basis of the original earth city. There are four gates in the city: Yinghui gate in the East, Fu'an gate in the south, Qingyuan gate in the West and Yongzhen gate in the north. At the end of Ming Dynasty, the third floor in the north of Southwest was destroyed by war, and only the East Tower was left.

Swallow Cave

Yanzi cave is famous for its unique landscapes, such as the wonder of ancient cave, the gathering of spring swallows, the hanging plaque of Bell and breast, and the unique skill of picking bird's nest. The ancient and famous trees outside the cave are located between the cliffs. There are more than 30000 square meters of natural forest land with luxuriant branches and leaves, and dozens of birds inhabit. There are hundreds of thousands of white backed swiftlets nestling on the rock walls inside and outside the cave, hence the name of Swallow Cave. During spring and summer every year, a group of swallows fly in, such as thousands of arrows, and hundreds of thousands of swallows come and go. The sound of swallows and the sound of water resonates in the cave, forming a cave symphony that shakes the valley. Yanyudongcheng is rich in bird's nest, which is the treasure of nourishing beauty. At the beginning of autumn every year, local farmers climb the top of the cave more than 50 meters high and 450 meters long with their bare hands to collect bird's nests in the cluster of bell breasts. The thrilling scene is breathtaking. "Ancient cave holding wonders is not only the swallow of spring breeze, but also the water hanging rock.".

Shuanglong Bridge

Shuanglong Bridge is a 17 hole stone arch bridge with double pavilions. It is located at the junction of Lushui River and Tancun River, 5km west of Jianshui city. It is named because the two rivers are winding like two dragons. The so-called "Double Dragons" means to lock the "Double Dragons" with the help of the two rivers of the douchong River and the Lujiang River.

Other related

The city has a well preserved, large-scale Confucian temple known as "the first in Yunnan", as well as a large number of distinctive ancient buildings such as Chaoyang tower, SHUANGLONGQIAO, Zhilin temple and Zhujia garden. There are nearly 100 ancient temples in the county, and more than 40 in the urban area alone. These treasures, which have gone through many vicissitudes and are mottled with historic sites, have considerable historical and artistic value.

Traffic guide for Jianshui

Passenger car:

Jianshui County is 214 kilometers away from Kunming, and there are buses from Kunming bus stations through Tonghai.

train:

Jianshuitong railway, the train can go to Kunming, Shiping, Mengzi, Kaiyuan, Yiliang, but this train carriage is narrow and hard seat, not very comfortable.

highway:

Taking a car is the main mode of transportation in and out of Jianshui. There are many shifts every day at suanjiaoshu passenger station, including cars, CMBS, buses and sleeper cars. Generally, it takes 15-20 minutes, which is very convenient, but the phenomenon of cars and other passengers is also very serious.

Highway mileage from Jianshui to Kunming and counties in the Prefecture:

Jianshui Kunming (214km) Jianshui Kaiyuan (89km) Jianshui Mengzi (88km)

Jianshui Shiping (57km) Jianshui Yuanyang (117km) Jianshui Honghe (152km)

Jianshui -- Luchun (234km) Jianshui -- Jinping (230km) Jianshui -- Hekou (281km)

Jianshui Gejiu (82km)

Jianshui tourism strategy

Jianshui cuisine

Jianshui local diet is mostly natural, pollution-free green food, where there are a wide range of vegetables, and even many wild vegetables with medicinal value. The specialty food includes Lin'an roast bean curd, lion cake, bubble cake, etc.

Braised bean curd in Lin'an

All foreign tourists to Jianshui have to taste Jianshui's unique Lin'an roasted tofu. The unique flavor, the aftertaste around the cheek, is often memorable.

The history of bean curd in Lin'an City is very long, and it was famous as early as the middle and late Qing Dynasty. Among them, Zhou's roast tofu in the west of the city has the best taste. It is said that Zhou's tofu was made in 1883. It was carefully selected and processed. It was specially made of large and round white soybeans. The tofu was white and tender, and the fire did not change black. After it was made, it was wrapped with small gauze, pressed on special boards, and after the water was exhausted, the gauze was removed and put into the dustpan, and each piece of tofu was put into the dustpan On a little salt, and then covered with a dustpan, flip every other day, until gray, you can cook. When burning, put charcoal in a brazier, and put iron bars on the Kang. The iron bars are coated with sesame oil, and then put tofu to bake. When the tofu is inflated, you can dip it into the seasonings such as sweet and salty soy sauce, chili noodles, garlic puree and MSG. Today, bean curd in Lin'an City has gone to the provincial capital and spread all over southern Yunnan. Jianshuicheng streets, vegetable markets, night markets, scenic spots, bean curd stalls, people come to live, become a beautiful scenery in the ancient city.

Jian'an lion cake

Jianshui lion cake is a traditional famous food in Jianshui County, Yunnan Province. It is said that it was created by the surname Wu in the pastry shop of "rongxiangzhai" in Jianshui County in the late Qing Dynasty

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