Jinci Town, Jinyuan District, Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province

Jinci town

Jinci town is located in the outskirts of Taiyuan City, 25 kilometers away from the city center, with Tianlong mountain, xuanweng mountain and Longshan in the west, Fenhe River in the East and Jinyang ancient city in the north. Jinci town is under the jurisdiction of Jinyuan District of Taiyuan city. With a total area of 74.62 square kilometers and a permanent population of 38832 (2017), the town has one neighborhood committee and 28 administrative villages.

Cultural relics

Jinci Town, with a long history of more than 2500 years, is one of the birthplaces of politics, economy and culture in Shanxi Province. There are many famous people in the past dynasties. They are the birthplace of the world's "Wangs", the ancestral hall of the "Zhangs" and "tangs", and the ancestral hall of ziqiao, the place where Wangs seek their roots and visit their ancestors. Jinci, as a famous tourist attraction at home and abroad, has unique tourism resources. There is a well-known national tourist attraction Jinci; there are more than five centuries of stone carving essence of Tianlong mountain scenic spot; there are known as the "national treasure" of the Yuan Dynasty Taoist Grottoes dragon hill grottoes. In addition, Yu Hong's tomb, which is one of the top ten archaeological discoveries in 1999, is located in wangguo scenic area. It has great excavation and development value, such as liuxiazhi flag stone, zangbing cave, Paomaping, Mingxiu temple, lourui tomb, Xianju temple, baiyun temple, Heilong cave, Huata temple, yurang bridge, yangeryou reading Pavilion, Dazi lotus, etc. There are 197 kinds of wild animals and 213 kinds of plants in Tianlongshan Forest Park, xuanweng mountain and Longshan mountain. Jinci temple is known as "the hometown of rice in the Lotus World" and "the hometown of fish and rice in the north". Jinci rice, Dashi Honglian and wangguomingjiu are well-known for a long time. They are the largest fresh egg supply base in Taiyuan, with a stable chicken stock of more than 400000. Pingchuan has rich cultivated land, rich resources in mountainous areas, and rich reserves of surface water and groundwater. It is a rare water rich area in northern cities. In October 2002, it won the title of "beautiful environment town in Shanxi Province"

Beautiful villages and towns in China

The State Environmental Protection Bureau announced the list of "beautiful villages and towns in China in 2006", and Jinci town and Bagong town in Jincheng city were on the list. Most of the 181 townships elected were in eastern regions such as Jiangsu and Zhejiang. The selection of Jinci town marks that through the painful economic transformation, the ecological environment construction of Jinci town has achieved remarkable results. Jinci town is named because it is located in the famous Jinci scenic spot. At the beginning of reform and opening up, township enterprises in Jinci town suddenly emerged, but at the same time, they paid a heavy environmental cost, resulting in smoke and sewage flow in the scenic area. At the end of last century and the beginning of this century, Jinci town banned according to law small coking, small refractory, small cement, small lime and small coal mines within its jurisdiction, shut down paper mills that failed to meet the standards, blew up 24 chimneys and 10 private mining outlets, and cleaned up more than 700000 tons of coal piles. After the economic restructuring of the town, the air quality improved. Since 2003, Taiyuan has invested 13 million yuan to build a central heating and heat source plant, which has made more than 20000 residents bid farewell to small boilers and successfully built a 1 square kilometer coal-free smoke control area. In the same year, another 30 million yuan was invested to complete the Jinci large circulating water project. Jinci town invested 3.23 million yuan to build river protection embankment, Nansha River and Beisha River highways, five river barrages and two river crossing bridges, which fundamentally changed the environment of the small watershed, and built a waste transfer station, realizing the non landing management of waste. The town also commissioned experts and scholars from Tsinghua University, Beijing Normal University, Shanxi University of Finance and economics to complete the ten year development plan of Jinci (2001-2010), Jinci in Taiyuan, Shanxi Tianlong mountain scenic area planning, and Jinci town environmental planning in Jinyuan District, Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province. On the basis of scientific planning, Jinci town has successively implemented a series of projects such as "agricultural ecological project", "sightseeing agricultural project" and "new town Diversion Construction Project". In the mountainous area, 1560 mu of farmland has been converted to forest, 3600 mu of dry fruit forest has been built in seven villages along the edge of the mountain, 17100 mu of farmland forest network has been built, and Fenhe protective forest belt, Jinci double line road forest belt and edge mountain economic forest belt have been initially built. Jinci town organized experts to consult on the yellow leaves and dead branches of Panlong pine caused by the pollution in the scenic spot, formulated the protection plan of Panlong pine, and forcibly demolished 10 hotels and more than 30 stalls around, so as to make Panlong pine come back to life.

Regional characteristics

Jinci town got its name because there was a temple for worshiping Tang Shuyu in the Western Zhou Dynasty. Speaking of Jinci, which is now a national AAAA scenic spot, many people are very familiar with it. To Jinci Town, most visitors want to see Jinci this beautiful art palace with their own eyes. Jinci temple is the only and precious historical and cultural heritage integrating ancient Chinese sacrificial architecture, gardens, sculptures, murals, and tablet inscriptions. It is also a brilliant and magnificent chapter in the world's architecture, gardens, and sculpture art from the 7th century to the 12th century. When you visit every part of Jinci temple, you must see the Notre Dame hall, fish pond flying beam and Xian hall. Zhou Bai, Nan Laoquan and the maid statue of Song Dynasty in the temple are known as the "three wonders of Jin temple." As the predecessor of modern overpass, fish pond flying beam plays an important role in the history of bridge construction in China. Notre Dame hall, Xian hall, reflecting the atmosphere of Jinci, magnificent. Notre Dame hall is the main hall of Jin temple. The God sitting high above the shrine is Notre Dame, the mother of Tang Shuyu and the daughter of Jiang Ziya after Emperor Yan. No one knows why the mother took the place of the son. In a word, in Jinci temple, Tang Shuyu is willing to play a supporting role. Tourists almost have a consensus on Jinci, which is one of the treasures of ancient Chinese architectural groups, the only remaining Tang and song gardens in China, and a perfect combination of ancestral architecture and gardening art. Jinci inscription is a rich "stone history". there are 4 buildings with more than 800 years old, 42 statues, 135 steles and 8 casting works of art in Jinci; there are also many buildings with 600-800 years old and 300-600 years old. It is rare to have such a large number of cultural relics in a cultural heritage. Its uniqueness and rarity are unparalleled elsewhere. From east to west, the ancestral temple gate, shuijingtai, huixianqiao, jinrentai, duiyuefang, Zhonggulou, Xiandian, yuchuanfeiliang, and Notre Dame hall are arranged on the east-west axis, and the end point is Wangchuan Pavilion on Huanxiling. In the south, Taitai temple, gongshuzi temple, wangqiong temple, Sansheng temple, tongleting, baiheting, shengyinglou, Jinxi Academy. In the north, Miao ancestral hall, Chaoyang cave, luzu Pavilion, Santai Pavilion, daifengxuan, jingyiyuan, tangshuyu temple, Haotian temple, juntianletai, Dongyue Temple, Wenchang palace and Wuyun pavilion are arranged around. These buildings are either close to the mountains or near the water, and the buildings, halls, pavilions, platforms, bridges and pavilions form a beautiful picture along the canal, which adds some aura and movement to the solemn temple. Notre Dame hall is the main hall of Jinci temple. It was built in the Tiansheng period of the Northern Song Dynasty (1023-1032) and rebuilt in the first year of Chongning (1102). The hall is built on the mountain, just above the source of the Jinshui River. It sits on the West and faces the East, with double eaves resting on the top of the mountain. It is seven wide and six deep, with a single trough and a surrounding gallery. That is to say, it is recorded in the Song Dynasty's "Zao Zao FA Shi" as the practice of "auxiliary steps and circles". A wide front porch is formed. The structure of the front porch is specially treated. The four beams of the three rooms in the front porch of the lower eaves are lengthened to two deep rooms, and the beam tail is crossed on the inner column of the single slot joint of the hall body, so that the four columns of the three rooms in the front porch of the hall body do not fall on the ground but stand on the above beams. The front door and window sill walls of the hall body are moved back between the inner columns to form the front porch of the two deep rooms, which is particularly spacious. In the inner part of the hall, three deep rooms are equipped with beams, and the space is complete and high open. The eight porch pillars in front of the hall are each wrapped with a wooden dragon, which is the "dragon wrapped pillar" recorded in "Zao Zao FA Shi", which is an isolated example of this practice in the Song Dynasty. The main hall is made of six dougongs, with three leaps of Dougong arch, double column head and double column head, double column head and double column head. The lower eaves and the upper eaves are big and flat. The color painting of Dougong is very similar to Volume 34 of Zao Zao FA Shi. Although it belongs to later generations, it should be an ancient method. The hall is the only existing building in the Song Dynasty with single groove and secondary steps. The side feet of the column body are prominent. The roof and cornice are curvilinear and harmonious, which shows the typical architectural style of the Northern Song Dynasty. It can be regarded as the representative of the Song Dynasty style hall. The fish pond flying beam is between the Notre Dame hall and the Xian hall, and its origin can be traced back to the northern and Southern Dynasties. The existing Feiliang was built together with Notre Dame hall in the Northern Song Dynasty. There are thirty-four octagonal stone columns in the marsh. They are carved with lotus in compound basin style. The capitals are intersected by Pu Bai Fang. On the top of the column, there is a bucket, and the cross arches are used to support the beam Fang. They are connected to the coast in four directions, forming a cross shaped slab bridge. It is wide from east to west, connecting the hall of sacrifice and the hall of Notre Dame. It is inclined from north to south, echoing the angle of the ridge of the hall of Notre Dame. Its unique shape, occasionally seen in ancient paintings, and the existing object is only one example. Xun is valuable. The sacrificial hall in front of the flying beam is a place for furnishings and sacrifices. There are three doors in front of and behind the Ming Dynasty, three in width, two in depth, a single eaves, and a rest on the top of the mountain. The walls are equipped with vertical lattice fences, five Dougong, four rafters, one in the middle. The upper beam is supported by four rafters, the front and rear eaves are connected with beams, and the hump is supported by flat beams For a long time. The hall is open inside, with four wings stretched out, and its appearance looks like a pavilion. The overall structure is simple, light and stable. Jin ancestral temple integrates Zhou rites, Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, which makes the spirit of Jin ancestral temple most inclusive and full of associations. It builds a cross bridge between the state and the people, leaving a lot of spiritual and material wealth for future generations. Very commendable

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