The Sharing of Tour Guide Words in Imperial Capital

The Sharing of Tour Guide Words in Imperial Capital

Huangcheng Xiangfu is located in Huangcheng Village, Beiliu Town, about 0/5km east of Yangcheng County, Shanxi Province. It is an old castle complex built in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The following is my guide to the imperial city. Welcome to learn from them!

Ladies and gentlemen,

Huangcheng Xiangfu is located in Huangcheng Village, Beiliu Town, about 0/5km east of Yangcheng County, Shanxi Province. It is a castle complex built in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, with a total area of 36,580 square meters and a history of more than 500 years. He was a college student in Wen Yuan Pavilion in Qing Dynasty. It is also the former residence of Chen Tingjing, a senior official of the official department, the president of Kangxi Dictionary and the teacher of thirty-five years of Kangxi. The Imperial City Xiangfu is a national 4A-level tourist area, and it is also the shooting place of the TV series Kangxi Dynasty.

Chen Tingjing, a brilliant young man, became a scholar at the age of 20 and was promoted 28 times in his life until he became a famous figure. He is praised by contemporary historians as a famous politician, writer and philosopher in Qing Dynasty. The Chen family in the imperial city is full of talents, and the royal family is thriving. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, 9 people entered imperial academy and 6 people entered the Hanlin Academy, which was a big cultural family in northern China in the Qing Dynasty.

[Imperial Bookstore]

This ancient and magnificent building is called the Imperial Bookstore, which is named after the possession of Kangxi Imperial Pen. It was built in the fifty-third year of Kangxi (17 14). In the forty-ninth year of Kangxi (17 10), 72-year-old Chen Tingjing repeatedly asked to retire and return to China, but was politely declined by Emperor Kangxi. In June of that year, 1 1, he resigned again because of ear disease and finally got permission. However, Emperor Kangxi ordered the dismissal of former officials, but he still stayed in Beijing to manage the editing work of Kangxi Dictionary, and said, "Qing is an old man and can be called a perfect man." After Chen Tingjing resigned, Emperor Kangxi paid more attention to him and often went to his apartment. In February of the following year, Emperor Kangxi visited his study again, and was deeply moved when he saw that Chen Tingjing was seriously compiling a dictionary regardless of his infirmity. Immediately, he presented Chen Tingjing with the calligraphy of "Wu Ting Mountain Village" and "The spring trees are deep in shade and the autumn colors are yellow and fragrant", fully affirming and highly praising his life, and said emotionally, "This plaque is specially dedicated to your honor." Wu Ting Pavilion is the evening newspaper number of Chen Tingjing. After Chen Tingjing's death, his third son, Chen Zhuanglv, copied imperial books and built a building to collect it as a souvenir.

[Gate of Zhongdaozhuang]

The outer city of the Imperial City Xiangfu is called Zhongdaozhuang, which was built in the thirty-eighth year of Kangxi (1699) after Chen Tingjing worshiped Xiangfu and was promoted to be a college student in Wen Yuan Pavilion and an official minister. According to the style of the inner city, the stone foundation, the blue brick wall, the tower, the tower and the river pavilion echo back and forth, lean against each other and connect with the inner city. Not only can you climb high and enjoy the scenery, but you can also be condescending and advance against the enemy. There are two plaques embedded in the outer city gate, one is "Tianen Shide" and the other is "Zhongdaozhuang". The meaning of Zhongdaozhuang: First, since ancient times, there has been Meizhuang on the river bank, Sanhuai Village on the lower side, and the imperial city in the middle, hence the name Zhongdaozhuang; Second, according to legend, the owner of the imperial city lives in the officialdom and abides by Confucius and Mencius, so it is called "Zhongdaozhuang". The words "God has grace and virtue" are engraved on the plaque to show that God is above, God has grace and endless generations.

[Merit archway]

After crossing the gate of Zhongdaozhuang, you can see these two stone archways. This is a merit archway, which is used by the Chen family to show the fame and honor of his people. This large archway, built in the 38th year of Kangxi (1699), has four columns and three floors, with dragons and phoenixes carved on its forehead and Swiss beasts around its base. It's magnificent. The word "burial slaughter" above the archway is another name for the prime minister, meaning the head of a hundred officials; The word "General Constitution" is another name for Shi Yu, the left capital of Douchayuan. Below the archway, "The Hundred Days of the Reform Movement of 1898 gave scholars a taste of Guanglu, doctors, banquets for officials, households, punishments, four ministers, Duchayuan, Zhang Zhang, Hanlin, and Chen Yushi Tingjing, the left capital", which is a master of auspicious symbols. He served as an official in the DPRK for fifty-three years, successively serving as four ministers of official, household, punishment and industry, and was merged into the cabinet to worship the ministers, making him famous. In feudal society, the ethical code of "father's son, woman's husband" was respected, because Chen Tingjing was a senior official of the imperial court, and his official position was very high, and all parents and above had to be promoted and knighted. Therefore, these three lines were given to Chen Tingjing's father, grandfather and great-grandfather. There are eight big characters on the left and right, which are "A Yanze Gate" and "The Gift of Five Dynasties", indicating that Chenmen and Five Dynasties all received the gift of the emperor. The following are the fame and official positions obtained by Chen Tingjing's brothers, sons and nephews. The pillars of the archway are composed of the patterns of rolling hydrangeas by lions. The small archway was built in Shunzhi of Qing Dynasty 14 (1657), with two columns and one floor. The structure is simple, and it records that Chen Tingjing won the bid from Jiajing in Ming Dynasty to Shunzhi in Qing Dynasty. Due to the limitation of feudal hierarchy, the scale and decoration of the small archway were not as good as the former, but it was still the glory and symbol of the Chen family before the completion of the big archway in Kangxi period.

[Nakazadi]

Tezuzadi's gatehouse is tall, majestic and spectacular. There are three Chinese characters "Tezuzadi" above the gate. After Chen Tingjing entered the cabinet, a plaque of "Master" was added between the two columns outside. There are two flagpoles in front of the door. As soon as you enter the gate, you can see the corridor hall at that time, and the aftertaste still exists. It is a building with four pillars, three doors, three rooms and seven frames. The middle door is called the instrument door, which is generally closed, and the left and right sides are the aisles that walk in turn.

The architectural decoration of "Nakazadi" is both antique (oriental), simulation and realism (western), which was the first in Qing Dynasty. These decorative themes entrusted the master's ideals and hopes in a moral and concrete way, showing people's aesthetics at different levels. The main building of the quadrangle is the welcoming hall, where Kangxi was a guest twice. In the thirty-ninth year of Kangxi (1700), in recognition of Chen Tingjing's great achievements, Emperor Kangxi wrote a plaque for Chen Tingjing, which was hung in the hall to show his glory.

[Competing to build a house]

Above the inner city gate, there is a small stone tablet engraved with four big characters: "Building a house with war". This is uncle Chen's calligraphy. The inner city is shaped like a bucket, which was built by the Chen family in the late Ming Dynasty to avoid bandits. Chen Chang compared the inner city to a fight, which means that there is a place for security guards to live in a small room.

[Station Cave]

We are now on the inner city wall, and the most striking thing in the inner city is three seven-story and 100-foot-high buildings, such as Heshan Tower and Garrison Cave. The five-story caves are made of masonry according to the terrain, with different sizes, internal and external communication, and tunnels connecting the top and bottom. There are both connections and connections inside, and it looks simple and heavy after entering three or four rooms. These caves are labor-saving and material-saving, durable, warm in winter and cool in summer, and convenient to live in; It is also patchwork, changeable, three-dimensional hidden, and quite ingenious in architecture.

[Heshan Building]

Heshan Building was built in the fifth year of Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty (1632), which was a defensive building built by the Chen family to resist the invasion of rebels. The building is 3.4 feet long, 2.4 feet wide and 10 feet high, making it the tallest building in Xiangfu. The building is divided into seven floors, with stairs in the wall and wooden ladders between floors. It is strong and can accommodate thousands of people to take refuge in it. There are windows above the third floor, and there are cribs and female walls on the roof, which are convenient for observing the enemy and throwing stones. The ground floor goes deep underground, with living facilities such as wells, stone mills and stoves, as well as tunnels leading to the outside of the city to prevent accidents.

[inner city]

Since the completion of Heshan Tower in the fifth year of Chongzhen, the Chen family has resisted several attacks by bandits with its solid Heshan Tower, ensuring that the lives of thousands of villagers around it are not infringed. However, the content of architecture is limited after all. In order to keep everything safe forever, Chen Jia spent a lot of money. In the sixth year of Chongzhen (1633), construction started in July and was completed in the following spring. The inner city is 467 meters long and has 149 stacks, with an average width of 2 meters, a height of 12.5 meters and the highest point of 25 meters. There are more than 7,000 square meters of stones and more than 3.7 million bricks. The west and north gates are wrapped in iron sheets, and there are pavilions on the doors. To prevent accidents, there is a thick wooden fence outside the iron gate. The buildings in the city are all Ming Dynasty buildings, and each courtyard has its own system and characteristics, which is of great historical value to the study of Ming Dynasty buildings.

[Shideju]

This exquisite and unique courtyard is called "Ten Virtues Residence". Commonly known as "Shideyuan", it was named after Chen Tingjing's great-grandfather Chen Sanle's firm "Shidetang". Shidetang was founded in the Zheng De period of the Ming Dynasty, with a history of more than 400 years. This is the early building when the Chen family moved to Zhongdaozhuang. After many repairs and expansions, it has gradually formed its present scale.

Shideju is the birthplace of the prosperity of the Chen family and the residence of his father Chen Changqi. The first floor is the birthplace of Chen Tingjing in the East, the second floor is the library building, and the third floor is the Tibetan version building. Because Chen Jia's family is well-off, well-read, and all previous dynasties respected teachers and attached importance to education, he built a block printing factory to print all kinds of books for his children to learn and had his own library.

Standing at the height of the inner city, we can see that the inner city and the outer city are connected together, relying on each other, reflecting each other, integrating into one, and being able to attack and defend. Most of the buildings in the inner city are quadrangles in the east-west direction, which is a typical residential feature in southeastern Shanxi, while the buildings in the outer city face south, with the architectural style of the Ming Dynasty, built on the mountain and strewn at random.

[Chen ancestral hall]

Chen ancestral hall is a ancestral hall dedicated to Chen ancestors, which contains memorial tablets dedicated to Chen ancestors. The portrait of Chen's ancestors and Chen's genealogy are hung in the wing. On both sides of the main entrance of the ancestral temple, there are couplets of "Nine Scholars, Three Scholars and Six Hanlins", which record that in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Chen had nine scholars and six people joined the Hanlin. Emperor Chen, originally from Linzhang County, Henan Province (now Anyang City, Linzhang County now Linzhang County, Handan City, Hebei Province). During the Yongle period of Ming Dynasty, due to natural disasters in his hometown, Mrs. Chen was forced to lead his family and children to move to banpo village in Tianhuli, Zezhou County, Jincheng City, and moved here in the fourth year of Ming Xuande (1429).

The value of the imperial city lies not only in its magnificent architecture, but also in its rich historical and cultural connotation. The Chen family not only left many poems, relics and legends, but also left a large number of imperial books, poems, plaques and poems, as well as a courtier, the hometown of Zaifu, the supreme ruler of the Qing Dynasty. It is rare in history to leave so many imperial pens. The Imperial City is of great value to the study of China's politics, economy, culture, folk customs, philosophy and architecture in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. This is also its unique charm.

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