There really is a Yuen Long in Langzhong, Sichuan.

Langzhong Ancient City is located in Nanchong City, Sichuan Province, surrounded by water on three sides and green hills. The winding Jialing River has cared for this ancient city for more than two thousand years.

Langzhong has a good name, called Yuen Long Wonderland.

We have heard the word "Yuen Long" in many literary works, far from it. In A Dream of Red Mansions, one of China's four classical novels, there are "one is an immortal in Yuen Long, and the other is ...".

The word "Yuen Long" is synonymous with fairyland. But in Langzhong, there really is a Yuen Long.

Located on Yutai Mountain in the north of Langzhong ancient city, this Yuen Long was built by Wang Teng Li Yuanying in the Tang Dynasty.

You may not be familiar with the name Li Yuanying, but if I say that he is the younger brother of Li Shimin of Emperor Taizong and the youngest son of Li Yuan of Tang Gaozu, you should know something about his identity.

At that time, he was sent to Longzhou County, where Langzhong belonged, as a secretariat. After he came, he began to build a large-scale project and ordered people to build a "Long Yuan" on the mountainside of Yutai Mountain.

Later, Longzhou was changed to Langzhou, and Long Yuan was renamed as Yuen Long.

When you come to Langzhong, remember to visit the Yuen Long Scenic Area on the Yushan Mountain. The scenery is very good ~

Langzhong is not only beautiful as a fairyland, but also rich in information. The richness here does not mean that there are one or two ancient buildings, but actually has the reputation of "the hometown of Spring Festival culture".

It's still a little far from the Spring Festival at this time, but I won't delay giving you Amway for the time being.

Langzhong's reputation as a cultural hometown of the Spring Festival benefits from one person, that is, the astronomer Luo Xiahong of the Western Han Dynasty. This Langzhong astronomer has unparalleled achievements.

He created the taichu calendar and set 24 solar terms, which made agricultural production have rules to follow.

He put forward the theory of Huntian, which innovated China's ancient theory of "the origin of the universe".

He also invented the "passing rate", which influenced China's astronomical mathematics in 2000. ...

I won't elaborate on the rest. In taichu calendar, after he designated the first month as the beginning of a year, people began to celebrate the New Year on the first day of the first month, so there was the Spring Festival, which has been used ever since.

Luoxiahong is called "the old man of China Spring Festival", and Langzhong has become "the hometown of Spring Festival culture".

Oh, by the way, there is also a Charlotte memorial hall on Mawangmiao Street in the ancient city. Remember to take a look when you go to Langzhong ~

Of course, the folk customs about the Spring Festival here are also very unique.

For example, when the Spring Festival is approaching, there will be a performance custom of saying spring at home.

Then, the gatekeeper on the door of the local residence is not Weichi Gong, but the one mentioned in the original book Shan Hai Jing, and this gatekeeper is not attached to the door, but painted directly. ...

If there is an opportunity, everyone must go to Langzhong for an "authentic" Spring Festival ~

Finally, I would like to introduce the "Han Huan Hou Ancestral Temple" in the West Street of Gucheng, which was built to commemorate the famous Zhang Fei of the Three Kingdoms.

If you want to know the real Zhang Fei in history, you must come to Langzhong, where you can subvert all your imagination of Zhang Fei.

Physically willful? Don't! He is a clever coach and a minister who has the ability to benefit one side.

At that time, after Liu Bei pacified Yizhou, he appointed Zhang Fei as the Brazilian satrap and stationed in Langzhong.

Because when this place is particularly important, we can gradually win Hanzhong by cleaning it up.

Of course, it didn't work out in the end. Let's just say what Zhang Fei did in Langzhong.

The first thing he did when he came here was to repair Langzhong City, because Langzhong was a tucheng at that time, and its defense ability was not good. From the perspective of a guarding city manager, it is very necessary to strengthen the city.

Secondly, he also built water conservancy projects and irrigated farmland with Jialing River water, which made local agricultural production develop rapidly.

Even, he learned that the climate here is suitable for planting mulberry and raising silkworms, and carried out a series of measures to promote agriculture and mulberry. During Zhang Fei's seven years in Langzhong, the silk industry here developed very rapidly.

Look, this is the masterpiece of flying in Langzhong.

Zhang Fei's series of measures made Langzhong rapidly develop into an agricultural economic center in northern Sichuan. In order to commemorate him, Langzhong people built this "Han Huan Hou Ancestral Temple" around his cemetery, offering sacrifices in four seasons and offering incense constantly.

Langzhong is a place with profound cultural background. In addition to what is mentioned in the article, there are many delicious and interesting things, such as beef, stamp steamed buns, champion cave, shark fin project ... just waiting for everyone to explore for themselves!

That's it for today's # Talking about this city #

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