Longwen pagoda

Longwen tower and Bagua tower are the landmark buildings of Zhangzhou ancient city. The tower is built on Longwen mountain in the west corner of the southern city wall. It has seven floors and is made of granite. The body of the tower is octagonal with eaves exposed on each floor. There are two arc-shaped tunnel type stone gates on the first and second floors, and no doors on the third and above floors.

Longwen pagoda

Longwen tower is located in Heming mountain, Buwen Town, Longwen District, Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province. It is the landmark of Zhangzhou ancient city. The tower was built on the Longwen mountain in the west corner of the southern city wall. According to the county annals of Zhangzhou Prefecture, it was built by Liu Tianshu, magistrate of the county in 1535, and then abandoned. It was rebuilt in 1732.

Development history

Historical evolution

Longwen pagoda has seven layers, which are made of granite. The body of the pagoda is octagonal, with eaves exposed on each layer. There are two arched tunnel type stone gates on the first and second floors, and no gates on the third and above floors. And Bagua building is the landmark of Zhangzhou ancient city. The tower was built on the Longwen mountain in the west corner of the southern city wall. According to the county annals of Zhangzhou Prefecture, it was built by Liu Tianshu, magistrate of the county in 1535, and then abandoned. It was rebuilt in 1732. Under the tower is a "resting garden", in which peach trees are planted everywhere. Every time peach blossom is in full bloom, it attracts many tourists to visit the tower.

Longwen pagoda went through the years of war and great changes. It was abandoned several times. It suffered heavy losses in the "Cultural Revolution", and then it was demolished and tended to annihilate. Now the new Longwen pagoda has been moved to Longwen district. In recent years, the people of Longwen district have planned and built a Longwen horticultural garden with Longwen tower as the center. The garden covers an area of about 4 hectares. It is composed of two pavilions, one garden and one water surface. It is connected with the first forest of Steles in Southern Fujian, yundongyan, a provincial scenic spot in Fujian Province, the Song Dynasty giant Shiliang bridge, Jiangdong Bridge, wansongguan and other scenic spots, which are the national key cultural relics protection units.

Related Legends

There is a note in Zhangzhou Shicun: the title of Zhangzhou Fu Zhi is "Longting mountain", the first sentence is "to see the red sun shining on the Dragon platform", and the third sentence is "peach color living through rain".

Longting mountain, or Tenglong mountain, also known as Longwen mountain, is a small hill with mud and rocks rising from the flat ground. On it, you can overlook the scenery of Xixi. It is said that in ancient times there was a dragon taking off from the stream, so a pavilion was built on this hill to commemorate it, which is called "Yunlong Pavilion". Later, Ting di. In 1732 A.D., Liu Liangbi, the magistrate of Longxi County, built a seven storey stone pagoda, which stood in front of Longxi Academy (Confucius Temple) and was known as the "Longwen pagoda". There was a "Kuixing Pavilion" nearby, which was in charge of the cultural movement.

Related poems and essays

In Song Dynasty, Cai Xiang (A.D. 1012-1067, Xianyou man), a military judge of Zhangzhou Prefecture, once wrote a poem about Longting mountain

If you want to see the red sun shining on the Dragon terrace, the high brocade barrier of baiyutang will open.

The trees are alive with rain, and the light of the stream comes to the mountain.

The clouds are deep, the cave is thin, and the village flute mourns before the wind.

I'd like to chant the brothels all over the world, and I'd like to think about the king.

(Volume I of Wanli's Fu Zhi)

Adjacent attractions

Bagualou is one of the places of interest in Zhangzhou. Bagualou was built in 1572 ad. it is an octagonal three-story wooden structure Pavilion, named "Weizhen Pavilion". It is also known as "eight trigrams building" because it has eight windows and looks like eight trigrams. At that time, there was a couplet on the upper floor, which said: "five famous mountains, two beautiful waters, wind and smoke outside the city, lianhaifeng; qizhenru, Sanji, Zhangnan literature, Jiamin Ou". It was to rebuild the Bagua building in Zhangzhou, which was based on stone (as high as the city wall), and then rebuilt the octagonal three-story Pavilion on the cornerstone, which was more than 6 Zhang above the city wall (about 20 meters). In 1918 (the seventh year of the Republic of China), when Chen Jiongming of Guangdong army was stationed in Zhangzhou, the city walls were demolished to build roads, and the Bagua tower was preserved. During the cultural revolution, Bagua building was shot and collapsed by armed forces. When Zhangzhou bridge was built, it was razed to the ground. In 1997, Zhangzhou Municipal People's Government rebuilt Bagua building. After reconstruction, Bagua building covers an area of 750 square meters, which is divided into one, two, three floors and mezzanine, with a height of 48.8 meters.

Weizhen Pavilion, commonly known as bagualou, has been built for more than 400 years. According to the records of Zhangzhou Prefecture, "in 1578, the sixth year of Chengli reign of emperor Shenzong of the Ming Dynasty, Luo Qingxiao, the magistrate of Zhangzhou, built a low-lying building in Xunyu. He removed the old buildings in the city and built a storied Pavilion." At that time, the blueprint for the construction of Weizhen pavilion was made by Luo Gongchen, a Tongzhi of Zhangzhou. Weizhen Pavilion is three stories high, with Yin Yang and eight trigrams as its top surface. The pavilion is paved with rectangular boulders of the same length and width into an octagonal shape. Each boulder is engraved with square characters of "Qian, Kun, Zhen, gen, Kan, Dou, Xun and Li" according to its orientation, so it is commonly known as the eight trigrams tower. The building stands opposite the Weizhen Pavilion at the top of Zhishan mountain, which is called Weizhen Pavilion. Weizhen pavilion has eight windows on its eight sides. When you climb to the top of the pavilion, you can have a panoramic view of the scenery. Luo Gongchen, the designer of that year, went up to the building and looked at the scenery. He wrote a pair of Fu couplets: "five famous mountains and two beautiful waters, the wind and smoke outside the city connecting the sea and Qiao; seven true scholars and three, Zhangzhou literature Jiamin ou." Ingeniously incorporated the essence of Zhangzhou's cultural landscape into the joint. Over the past 400 years, Weizhen pavilion has experienced many ups and downs. In the ninth year of Shunzhi (1652) in the early Qing Dynasty, Zheng Chenggong led the anti Qing army to fight against the Qing army in Zhangzhou City, and Weizhen pavilion was destroyed by fire. In the second year of Qianlong reign (1737), Liu Liangbi, the magistrate of Zhangzhou, continued to rebuild the system. Another 20 years later, the top of Weizhen pavilion was destroyed by lightning. Two years later, the magistrate Jiang Yunjun presided over the renovation. During the "Cultural Revolution" period in 1967, Weizhen pavilion was bombed and collapsed by gunfire. In 1970, due to the tension between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, the Weizhen pavilion was completely demolished when the Zhangzhou war preparation bridge, one of the top ten strategic bridges along the coast, was built. For more than 20 years, Zhangzhou parents have always been concerned about Weizhen Pavilion. In 1997, the government complied with the public opinion and decided to raise huge funds to rebuild Weizhen Pavilion. With the efforts of all parties, Weizhen Pavilion reappeared the land of Zhangzhou in the Spring Festival of 1999 and became the landmark building of Zhangzhou. Weizhen Pavilion is still a three story building with eight trigrams, but its scale is far larger than that of previous dynasties. The main building is nearly 52 meters high, tall and elegant, with extraordinary momentum and profound meaning. On the left and right sides of the pavilion in front of the main building, there are exquisite triangular pavilions and four corner pavilions. The flower stands are well arranged, in which famous flowers and different grasses compete for fragrance and vitality. The gallery is composed of exquisite relief and vividly shows the famous scenery in Zhangzhou. It is called the epitome of Zhangzhou's essence. The mountain gate is composed of two 7.35-meter-high, 1.2-meter-diameter and two 6.35-meter-high, 1.1-meter-diameter relief jade pillars from Hua'an, Kowloon. The three big characters of "Weizhen Pavilion" on the lintel of the mountain gate are iron and silver hooks. The strokes are strong and powerful. It is a masterpiece of a famous calligrapher. There is a stone lion on the left and right sides of the mountain gate, which is carved from a whole piece of Jiulongbi with a weight of 28 tons. It is exquisite and lifelike. In front of the mountain gate is a small square, and at the end of the square is an antique weizhenge commercial city which blends with the style of weizhenge.

In order to improve the cultural taste of Weizhen Pavilion, Xiangcheng District government moved Zhangzhou lantern riddle Art Museum, which is known as "the first museum of Chinese riddle history" at home and abroad, into the pavilion. The rich lantern riddle collection and various lantern riddle activities add a lot of color to Weizhen Pavilion. Today's Weizhen Pavilion integrates cultural landscape, tourism, sightseeing, riddles and shopping, becoming a beautiful scenic line in Zhangzhou city.

Diet guide

Zhangzhou's most distinctive dishes are nothing more than seafood and various local sauces. Seafood includes prawn, red crab, eel, razor clam and so on. Steaming is the best cooking method, which can keep the original taste, fresh and refreshing, very delicious. Stewed pork head meat, stewed pig tongue, stewed duck and stewed chicken are all delicious and delicious.

Special dishes: hand noodles, bacon dumplings

Shopping Directory

Zhangzhou has always been the "hometown of flowers and fruits". You can buy the bulbs of the most famous Narcissus flowers here. If you take them home and cultivate them carefully, you will not come to Zhangzhou in vain. There is also Pinghe Guanxi pomelo, which was listed as a tribute by the imperial court as early as the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. It has been cultivated for more than 500 years. Besides tasting it personally, it's not a pleasure to bring some back to relatives and friends and chat about the interesting stories along the way? In addition, Zhangzhou is also rich in Eight Trigram citrus, shiting Brown pear, "Tianbao Gaojiao", Zhangpu dananban pineapple, Tianbao Yuzun longan, Baxian oolong tea, Baxian Kuding tea, white backed fungus, crispy bamboo shoots, clear water bamboo shoots, stewed bamboo shoots, Pianzihuang and so on.

Zhangzhou Sanbao

Narcissus: also known as Chinese Narcissus, is a perennial herbaceous flower or bulbous flower of the genus Narcissus in Lycoris family. It is distributed along the southeast coast of China, and is more common in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Hunan and Hubei provinces, with Zhangzhou Narcissus the most famous. This flower has been cultivated for more than 1300 years in China.

In the Song Dynasty (especially in the Southern Song Dynasty), Narcissus, a precious flower, was gradually popular as a gift to each other. During the reign of Emperor Guangxu of Qing Dynasty, Narcissus began to export from Xiamen. During the period of the Republic of China, the export volume of Narcissus Bulbs increased continuously. Since the founding of the people's Republic of China, Narcissus production has increased significantly. Zhangzhou Narcissus has been exported to some European countries, the United States, Japan and Southeast Asian countries and regions.

Eight treasures inkpad: Zhangzhou eight treasures inkpad, known as "gold and stone add luster", is a treasure of China's study. Zhangzhou eight treasures inkpad was founded in the 12th year of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty. It is said that Wei Chang'an, the founder of the company, is a drug dealer. He used pearls, agates and musks

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