Eastbound Sichuan 1: Hejiang Yaoba

From Chongqing Tanghe to Chengdu-Chongqing Ring Expressway, you will enter Hejiang, Sichuan, where there is an ancient town of Yaoba. Thinking of the trip to East Sichuan during the Spring Festival of 20 14, starting from Yaoba, I am now in "memory mode". Besides, the trip to eastern Sichuan-

Spring Festival travel rush four-day trip1300km. Go on road trip runs from Lu Cheng to Chengdu-Chongqing line, reaching Yaoba Ancient Town, Fu Bao Ancient Town, Luzhou Tiantangba National Forest Park in southern Sichuan, Dongxi Ancient Town in Qijiang in eastern Sichuan and Yundingzhai in Longchang. I traveled the next day and came back in the evening of the fifth day, successfully avoiding the peak of return trip.

Cheng (Du) Zi (Gong) Road (Zhou) Expressway is surprisingly smooth, and it takes three hours to get to Luzhou. I heard from "Private Car 925" that the Jinma section of Wen Qiong Expressway was temporarily closed due to heavy fog. Fortunately, the section of Chengzi-Luzhou Expressway is foggy and the visibility is OK. There was nothing but pastoral scenery along the way, but I couldn't bear to see cats and dogs that were killed or even crushed from time to time until I was numb. ...

The plan is to take the Chengdu-Chongqing Ring Expressway directly to Yaoba, enter this beautiful city to visit Luzhou, and then be guided into the provincial road leading to Yaoba (the road section is close). Only then did we realize that the road was actually rotten. We arrived at the Fo Yin exit of Chengdu-Chongqing Ring Expressway like an "off-road" (fortunately, it was an SUV) (unfortunately, we didn't take the expressway), stopped for a rest at around 1: 30 in the afternoon and had a "car meal" (warm fried rice) prepared in the morning. Starting again, we arrived at Yaoba in less than half an hour.

Yaoba ancient town has a long history and is one of the earliest six ancient villages and eight ancient towns in Hejiang. Yaoba Ancient Town is located at the junction of southern Sichuan and northern Guizhou, 37km from Hejiang County, 22km from Luzhou City, 27km from Chishui City, Guizhou Province, 3 10km from Chengdu, the provincial capital, and 2 10km from Chongqing. It is the best place to combine history, culture and ancient folk customs in southern Sichuan and northern Guizhou, with a history of 2000 years. It is a post station on the main road of Sichuan and Guizhou, and it is a place from ancient Jiangyang to night. When there is no highway from Luzhou to Chishui, merchants and official books in southern Sichuan and northern Guizhou all pass through Yaoba to Chishui and stop at Yaoba. The official Yaoba Post Station was built here, with various vendors gathered, complete products, prosperous market and famous far and near.

Yaoba is rich in tourism resources, profound in cultural heritage, exquisite in ancient architecture and unique in folk customs, which has been highly praised by the famous economist Li Yining. There are 1000-meter-long Qingshiban ancient streets and ancient dwellings, which are praised as "living fossils of ancient dwellings" by Tsinghua University ancient architecture experts, including Dongyue Temple, Dahongmi Temple, Jinshi Paifang, Shenxian Ancient Cave, Wang Yao Tomb, Ming Dynasty Ancient Town History Exhibition Hall and other buildings. The National Leading Group for Acceptance of Excellent Tourist Cities and the Expert Group agree that Yaoba Ancient Town is no less than the six ancient towns in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Compared with the surrounding ecological scenic spots, Yaoba ancient town is highly heterogeneous and complementary.

In this magical and beautiful land, a number of outstanding celebrities, such as Li Yuelong, Wu Jinshi in Jiaqing period of Qing Dynasty, Ren, a fighter against Qing Dynasty, Liang, a famous director, Li Ziying, the founder of aesthetics, Zhou Chongxian, a working literary worker, and Yang Honglie, a famous art designer, were born. It has attracted famous directors such as Ling Zifeng,, and Su, and has successively directed and filmed more than ten film and television blockbusters such as Crazy, Red Rice Shop, Mountain Wind, Luzhou Uprising, Boundless Heroes, Kung Fu Passion, Deep in the Winery, Red Memory, and made film and television superstars such as Tao Zeru.

30 yuan tickets are needed to enter the ancient town.

Jinshi archway is a symbol of imperial examination achievements in feudal society. Wujin stone archway is located at the southern end of the ancient street. It was built by Li Yuelong, a martial arts special student in the 15th year of Jiaqing in Qing Dynasty (18 10), and is unique to southern Sichuan. The archway sits northwest to southeast, imitating wood structure, with three eaves and resting mountains. 8.80m wide, 7.80m high and 2 2. 10/0m deep. The three rooms are four columns wide, and the plaques and titles are intact.

Central column antithetical couplets Positive: show your ability to the sky and win the team; Wear a palace flower photo to honor Sangguo. On the back: the banquet is overcast, and the golden flowers on the silver sheet are proud at the beginning; The famous Wild Goose Pagoda, with copper ribs and iron elbows, is breathtaking. The archway is exquisitely carved and magnificent, and it is a landmark memorial building on the Wuqing side of Yaoba ancient town.

We found this door in the middle of the street, so we can go in without admission. If tourists know that they can come and go freely here, they will be a little unhappy. But tickets are also useful. You must have a ticket if you want to go upstairs and see the scenery of the whole town. But I feel that this is just a "barrier" for foreign tourists (the ancient towns around Chengdu don't accept tickets), which is a bit less "WTO entry". To tell the truth, it is also right for tourists to give some management fees. As long as it's worth it, tourists won't care.

According to reports, the total area of Yaoba ancient street and ancient residential group is nearly 60,000 square meters. The street runs in the north-south direction, extending smoothly and zigzag, slightly S-shaped, with a total length of 1000 meters, all 5 meters wide, 7.50 meters at the widest point and 3.50 meters at the narrowest point. North Street was built for the Zhou family, while South Street was built for the Li family. This street is paved with vertical stone slabs. Below the slate is a flood drainage ditch with a width of 1.5m and a depth of1.2m. There are wooden commercial shops on both sides of the street, and quadrangle houses are behind the shops, with more than 2,000 Xiaoqing tile houses. The street is built on the mountain, and the houses are ups and downs. The houses on the street are quiet and peaceful, with coherent tiles and roofs, full of rhythm and beauty. In the Qing Dynasty, Yaoba residential buildings in southern Sichuan had obvious local characteristics. It is one of the few ancient street residential buildings with relatively complete preservation and distinctive local characteristics in Sichuan Province, which has high cultural exploration, cultural relics research and tourism development value.

On the right is the former residence of Wang Chaowen, a famous Chinese sculptor, literary theorist and aesthetic master. It is reported that Mr. Wang was originally named Wang, which means "gloomy and literary". It seems that Mr. Wang is destined to fight for China culture all his life. So Mr. Wang made an academic monument with dozens of works of nearly ten million words, which influenced several generations of artists.

Wang Chaowen 1909 was born in Huatanzi, Yaoba on April 18, 2008. The former residence is located in the lower side of Jinshi brand building in ancient town, and it is a vertical wooden structure. It is a typical quadrangle in southern Sichuan, with an area of 500 square meters and a yard of 50 square meters. There is an ancient well in the Ming Dynasty, with a theater on three sides and exquisite wood carving. The former residence is divided into theater, main hall, living room, bedroom, patio, workshop and wing room. The main hall is dedicated to shrines and sacred cases, and there are plush chairs on the left and right, showing the family style of poetry, books, rituals and music. The workshop is the mill, dragon bone car, wind duster, dustpan, dustpan, hemp fiber, bucket basket, hoe, plow and so on used by Wang Chaowen when he was young. The former residence is simple and tidy, and the style remains the same. Mr. Wang Chaowen became a master of aesthetics. It was with the simple beauty of his hometown that he brought the essence of beauty to the whole world through rational sublimation.

Yaoba Ancient Town is a famous "Southern Sichuan Film and Television City". Its profound cultural heritage, unique folk customs and exquisite ancient buildings have won the love of many famous directors and movie stars. He has made more than ten films such as Crazy, Red Rice Shop, Mountain Wind, Luzhou Uprising, Heroes Boundless, Kung Fu Passion and Jeet Kune Do. Famous directors Ling Zifeng, Guo Baochuan and Huang Jianzhong, as well as movie stars Summer Xu, You Yongzhi, Tao Zeru, kun yang, Shi Lan, etc., left their figures in succession.

Ling Zifeng, born in 19 17, is a famous modern film director in China. Yaoba is the hometown of Mr. Ling Zifeng's childhood. There are 4 existing houses in the former residence, with small tile houses, backed by hills, lush forests and bamboo trees, quiet environment and lively atmosphere. 199 1 year, Mr. Ling Zifeng filmed the film "Crazy" in Yaoba ancient town and happily lived in his old house for more than a month.

In the courtyard of the exhibition hall of Lingzifeng's former residence, there is a banyan tree planted by Linglao before he left home, which shows the power of life in a strange way. The roots have wrapped the original green striped stone terraces, showing the skill of the years.

At the end of the town, there is a big house, Zhou Mansion, which was originally the ancestral hall of the Zhou family and was built by the Zhou family represented by Zhou Qibin's martial arts.

The plaque and the calligraphy of "emphasizing the same name" and "rewarding diligence" reflect the family style of this scholarly family.

The famous hand-made Luzhou Youzi umbrella in the town has a history of hundreds of years. This umbrella is made by hand, and it takes more than 100 processes to complete a finished umbrella. It enjoys a high reputation in the industry for its exquisite paintings and unique production technology. It's a pity that the umbrella workers have a rest during the festival, and we didn't see the making process of the oil umbrella. Fortunately, we just watched the process of making umbrellas in other places in CCTV's Home Far away. Some tourists bought it as a souvenir.

Dahongmi Mansion, also quite famous, was built by Li Yuelong, a scholar in Jiaqing period of Qing Dynasty. Located on the 17 steps facing the street in Yaoba ancient town, it is a landmark building of the ancient town. Midian Street, located on a hill in the middle of a kilometer-long street, covers an area of about 2000 square meters. This is an all-wood building, and the front yard and backyard are all in the style of southern Sichuan. Locals call it "Zou Ma Jiao Lou". The front yard is divided into two floors, the upper guardrail is carved, the lower corridor is exquisite and elegant, and the bank walls on both sides of the building are intact. Inside is a spacious and elegant patio surrounded by cloisters on both sides. The corridor is beautifully carved and antique.

Dahongmidian is an ancient building in Yaoba ancient town, which was an important distribution center of grain trade in Sichuan and Guizhou in history. It is also an important material for studying the economic history, traffic history and architectural style of Sichuan and Guizhou. Huang Jianzhong, a famous director, once made the film "Dahongmidian" under this background. Now in Dahongmi store, there are all the film and television props exhibition halls filmed in Yaoba ancient town, as well as the furniture exhibition halls of Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Because of the fame of Wu Jinshi, his family is quite well-off.

Now, tourists can have a tea break here.

There is an Dongyue Temple in the ancient town, which is more magnificent than other places. Although there are not many people burning incense, there is also an endless stream.

Dongyue Temple, commonly known as the Temple of Fire, sits southwest to northeast, is located in the center of the ancient town, and is built according to Jubaoshan in Kowloon. It was built in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty (1573- 1620), and was rebuilt many times by Kangxi and Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty. The whole building climbed to the top of the slope step by step along the terrain. The architectural style is xieshan wood and stone structure, which consists of five halls. With a total depth of 84 meters, a total width of 29 meters and an area of more than 6,500 square meters, it is a typical folk religious building in southern Sichuan. Yichong Hall is a famous celebration theater, commonly known as Wanniantai. It is a wooden and stone structure building with single double eaves and built on the mountain, covering an area of 265,438+00 square meters. Carved two dragons on the roof to rob the treasure, the picture is lifelike. There are 36 symmetrical "longevity" patterns painted on the ceiling. There are many exquisite deep relief woodcut drama contents carved on the balcony fence. The name of Shuangtang is Kuixinglou. The triple temple is called the City God Temple. The quadruple hall is called the East Emperor Hall. Temple of Five Heaven, Temple of Famous Cave.

There are many tea shops in the town, and many people drink tea and play cards. There are also some catering shops that usually meet the needs of villagers.

I was going to spend the night in Yaoba, but it seemed that the conditions were not very good, so I went directly to Hejiang.

(Related introductions come from the network and scenic spots)

(To be continued)