Guizhou Hangzhiliu (Zhenyuan Ancient Town)

? This morning, I bid farewell to Storm Bridge and left Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village. Thinking of Mr. Xu Zhimo's poems, I left quietly, just as I waved my hand when I came quietly without taking away a cloud.

? It takes about two hours to drive to Zhenyuan ancient city. In the service area before entering town, I ate the last group meal arranged by the tour group. The group meal was good, and the tour guide also sent a bottle of Guizhou Maotai-flavor liquor. Compared with other Maotai-flavor liquors, it is slightly softer, and it is said that it has some origins with Maotai.

? Zhenyuan is known as "the hub of Yunnan and Chu and the gateway to eastern Guizhou". Shi yue: if you want to seize Yunnan and Chu, you must first occupy the town; If you want to get through Yunnan-Guizhou, you must first stay away from the town. Because it is located in the main traffic road, the terrain is dangerous and very important, so it is named. Since Wang Jian County, Zhaoqin County, more than 2,200 years ago, it has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times, stepping on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and wading across the Yangtze River. It was once the central post station of the ancient South Water Silk Road in China, and the most important military tunnel connecting the Central Plains and the southwest border. Built and prospered by martial arts, it became the military, economic and cultural center in the history of China. It is also the hinterland of China.

Here, the smoke of war is accompanied by dancing, the passion of iron-blooded soldiers, the tactfulness of Miao songs, the clanging of war drums and the melodious of Dong people. On the banks of Wuyang River, it seems that you can vaguely hear the agitation of fighting on the wall, echoing the long cries of vendors along the river. .....

Especially in the period of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, it was not only a distribution center for anti-Japanese support materials and soldiers, but also a military gateway for military strategists to gather and generals to become independent. Zhenyuan, as the main strategic support point, played an important and unique role in the battle of Xiangxi, which led to the defeat of the Japanese army in Xiangxi.

Wuyang River shipping, Yunnan-Myanmar highway and hump route constituted the three major channels for the transportation of anti-Japanese war materials at that time. Historically, Wuyang River has an average width of 1.30 meters and a large flow, which is one of the eight waterways connecting Yunnan and Guizhou in the Central Plains. A ship with a load of 20-30 tons goes up to the old state, down to Changde and down to the Yangtze River. At that time, in the heyday of Zhenyuan Port, there were nearly 20 wharves, large and small, and as many as 200 to 300 ships were often moored on the Chengguan River, with an annual throughput of tens of thousands of tons. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, a large number of factories, schools and factories moved away from the town, especially the troops frequently crossed the border, and a large number of personnel and military supplies needed to be rushed, so the shipping of Wuyang River was particularly tense. The number of ships in the city is limited, which is far from meeting the needs. Zhenyuan mobilized wooden boats along the river in the rural areas of the county, including rafts of ethnic minorities, to rush to the beach.

It can be seen that Zhenyuan people are good at shipbuilding and boating, and the hometown of dragon boats is worthy of the name. I have seen CCTV's Around China, and there is a special episode about Zhenyuan Dragon Boat. I was deeply impressed by the way the dragon boat racers were selected in the film. That is the real Jianghu.

? The dragon boat race is called the Dragon Boat Festival in Zhenyuan. It is estimated that the Dragon Boat Festival here is as grand as the Chinese New Year.

? Wuyang River bears the memory of this ancient town, accumulates its traditions and culture, and is also the most important landscape of this ancient town. The ancient Qinglong Cave complex, which is surrounded by mountains and waters, was built in the twenty-first year of Ming Hongwu. The cave walls are cliff-broken, the walls are facing the sky, the first floor is five steps, the first floor is ten steps, the cornices are upturned, the buildings are carved with beams and painted with blue tiles and red walls, the cloisters are winding, the courtyard is quiet and the garden is charming. These ancient buildings have adopted a variety of techniques such as hanging down, borrowing, attaching stones, embedding and building platforms, which make them present a unique style of "building a building with holes", "hiding holes in the building", "hiding without revealing", "restraining without raising", hanging feet on the ground floor and hanging the attic. An architect once said: McKee Cave Group is world-famous, and Qinglong Cave can be compared with it when it is built to the top of the mountain; Shanxi Hangkong Temple enjoys a good reputation at home and abroad, and Qinglong Cave is superior in architectural art.

? Qinglong Cave also integrates Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, and the building is also very harmonious. According to legend, Zhang Sanfeng once practiced in Zhongyuan Cave, and still retains his immortal bed, baggage, umbrella and furnace. Zhang Sanfeng believes that although the founders of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism are different, their theories are all called Taoism, and their purpose is to restrain themselves and benefit others, which is the same. It can be said that "although teaching three points, the Tao is one", so the Qinglong Cave is the old gentleman, the Sage Hall is Confucius, and the Buddhist guanyin temple and the Jade Emperor Pavilion are all together, living in peace and incense.

? There is a Zhu Sheng Bridge over Wuyang River, which has a history of more than 800 years. Between the third hole and the fourth hole, there is a three-story octagonal pavilion, named Kuixing Pavilion, also known as Zhuangyuan Building. There are couplets on the table, "Sweep away the smoke from the five streams, and Han will float out;" The road is very heavy, and Burmese people ride elephants across the bridge. " The horizontal batch is: "the pillar of rivers and mountains. "Sitting in Tingdong, the northern alliance is:" People climb the green ladder, and Pengdao listens to the spring of the sky; "Guests come to book paintings, and peach blossoms flow on the third day of the month." The horizontal deputy is "Han Yun Zhang Tian".

Looking back now, this trip to Guizhou was a bit perfunctory and hasty in Zhenyuan. Because of the rain, I am worried that the mountain road is not easy to walk, and my mother is afraid of slipping. I wanted to save my strength for climbing Fan Jing the next day, so I didn't go to Qinglong Cave.

? Compared with Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village, Fenghuang and other ancient towns, Zhenyuan is less commercialized. But the tour guide only took us to the place with the heaviest traces of commercialization, and I don't blame him, because we went to Qinglong Cave, which is known as the "Hanging Temple" in the south. Walking along Wuyang River is the most convenient route. There are large and small inns, bars and cafes by the river, which are a bit like Xitang. ? However, in addition to these two streets, Zhenyuan still retains more urban original ecology and fireworks. The residents in the small town seem to look down on the world, and appear indifferent, pure and open-minded, just like the layout of Taiji map in this small town.

? Legend has it that when the Zhu Sheng Bridge was built, the silt in the river was thick, and the foundation became a difficult problem for craftsmen. Zhang Sanfeng passed by, bought some tofu from the market, threw it into the river and turned it into a green slate, which solved the problem.

? There are still eight complete stages and eight halls. Unfortunately, I was in a hurry and didn't have time to go.

? I think this is a good place to be in a daze, and it is a place that needs to be savored slowly. These, unfortunately, will stay next time.

Although the journey of regret is not perfect, it is not enough. Maybe it's better than eating too much.