East Sichuan Trip 1: Hejiang Yaoba

Taking the Chengdu-Chongqing Ring Road highway from Tanghe, Chongqing, you will enter Hejiang, Sichuan, where there is an ancient town of Yaoba. I remembered that my trip to the east of Sichuan in the Spring Festival of 2014 started from Yaoba, and now I'm in the "memory mode", talking about the "east of Sichuan trip"--

4-day Spring Festival itinerary 1300 kilometers, driving line from Chengzilu tour, Chengdu-Chongqing line back to the south of Sichuan Luzhou Hejiang Yaoba ancient town, Fubao ancient town, Tiantang Dam National Forest Park, Chongqing Chongqing Qijiang Dongxi ancient town, Longchang Yundingzhai. Travel on the second day of the month, rush back on the evening of the fifth day of the month, successfully avoided the travel back to the peak.

Cheng (Du) Zigong (Gong) Lu (state) highway actually surprisingly smooth, 3 hours to Luzhou. Along the way, listen to the "private car 925" said Cheng Wen Qiong high-speed Jinma section temporarily closed due to fog, fortunately, Cheng Zilu high-speed section has been a mist, visibility can be. Along the way, in addition to the countryside scenery nothing else, but from time to time to see was hit dead even crushed dogs and cats, very intolerant, until to see are numb ......

The plan to go directly to the Chengdu-Chongqing ring road highway to Yaoba, in order to visit the Luzhou and enter this beautiful city, and then was navigated into the provincial highway leading to the Yaoba! (the road is closer). We found out that this road is actually bad enough, we "off-road" like (also fortunately SUV) to reach the Chengdu-Chongqing ring road highway Fuyin exit (unfortunately did not take the highway), about 1:30 pm stopped to rest, eat some of the morning preparation of the "car meals" (fried rice in a warm pot). I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to get a good deal on this, but I'm sure I'm going to be able to get a good deal on this.

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 in the combination of southern Sichuan and northern Guizhou, 37 kilometers from Hejiang County, 22 kilometers from downtown Luzhou, 27 kilometers from downtown Chishui, Guizhou, 310 kilometers from the provincial capital of Chengdu, 210 kilometers from Chongqing, is the best combination of history, culture and folklore in the south of Sichuan and north of Guizhou, with a history of 2,000 years ago, it is the post on the Sichuan-Guizhou transportation road, and it is a necessary way for the ancient Jiangyang to the country of Yelang, and it is the "Sichuan-Guizhou Corridor", and the "Sichuan-Guizhou Corridor". "Sichuan-Guizhou Corridor". When there was no highway between Luzhou and Chishui, the merchants and officials from the south and north of Chuanqian were passing through Yaoba to Chishui, and had to stop at Yaoba, and the officials built the Yaoba post station, where all kinds of merchants gathered, and the commodities were complete, and the market flourished, which was famous far and near.

Yao Dam is rich in tourism resources, deep cultural heritage, exquisite ancient architectural complexes, unique folk customs, the famous economist Li Yining to be highly evaluated. There are 1,000-meter-long green slate street and the ancient house group which is regarded as "living fossil of ancient house" by the ancient architecture expert of Tsinghua University, and there are the ancient temple of Dongyue Temple in Ming Dynasty, the building of Dahong Rice Shop and the scholar's plaque in Qing Dynasty, the Shenxian Cave, the ancient tomb of Yao Wang, and the ancient town history exhibition hall and other buildings. The National Excellent Tourism City Acceptance Leading Group and Expert Group unanimously agreed that Yaoba Ancient Town is no less than the six major ancient towns in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Yaoba ancient town has heterogeneity and very good complementarity compared with the neighboring ecological scenic spots.

In this magical and beautiful land, it has nurtured a number of outstanding celebrities such as Li Yuelong, a martial arts scholar during the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, Ren Dairong, an anti-Qing fighter at the end of the Qing Dynasty, Liang Ziming, a revolutionary fighter in modern times, Ling Zifeng, a renowned director, Dynasty Wen, a founder of aesthetics, Li Ziying, a renowned writer, Zhou Chongxian, the bearer of the tripod of working-class literature, and Yang Honglie, a famous art designer. Attracted Ling Zifeng, Huang Jianzhong, Guo Baochang, Su Chongfu and other famous directors, successively directed and filmed more than ten film and television movies such as "Madness", "Dahong Rice Shop", "Mountain Wind", "Luzhou Uprising", "Heroes Without Boundaries", "Kung Fu Pride", "Deep Wine Lane", "Red Memory" and so on, and accomplished Xu Qing, You Yong, Tao Zeru and other film and television superstars, and renewed the screen myths of Shao Bing, Ma Yili, Liu Bei, Tong Lei, and became famous in China and abroad. It has become a famous "western film and television base".

Entering the ancient town requires a ticket of 30 yuan.

The scholar's memorial hall is a symbol of the achievements of the feudal society, martial arts scholar's memorial hall is located in the south end of the ancient streets, is the Qing Jiaqing 15 years (1810), the emperor specially edited the martial arts scholar Li Yuelong built for the south of Sichuan unique. The pagoda sits in the northwest to the southeast, imitating the wooden and stone structure, three eaves hysterical style building. The width is 8.80 meters, the height is 7.80 meters and the depth is 2.10 meters. Face width of 3 with 4 columns, plaque, title intact.

The center columns are inscribed with couplets. Front: to the heavenly battle to be able to present, brave champion brave team; Wear palace flowers and colorful, the glory of the state of mulberry and catalpa. On the back: the feast pre-yin Yang, silver list of gold flowers at the beginning of the will; the name title of the wild goose pagoda, copper and iron elbow as much as the wonder. The pagoda is beautifully carved, majestic, is a landmark memorial building in the ancient town of Yaoba Wuking party.

We found that this gate, which is slightly in the middle of the street, can be entered without a ticket. If tourists know that this place can be freely entered and exited, more or less internal injustice haha. But the ticket is also useful, such as to the rice store upstairs view of the whole town, you need a ticket Oh. But I feel that this is only for foreign tourists to set up a "barrier" (Chengdu around the ancient town is not charged admission), a little less "WTO" ha. Honestly, tourists should pay a little management fee, as long as it is worth it, tourists will not care.

According to the introduction, Yaoba ancient streets and ancient residential groups totaling nearly 60,000 square meters. Street north-south, flat zigzag extension, slightly S-shaped, a total length of 1,000 meters, are 5 meters wide, the widest place 7.50 meters, narrow place 3.50 meters. North Street for the Zhou family construction, South Street for the Li family construction. The street surface is paved with green stone slabs, below the slate street is 1.5 meters wide, 1.2 meters deep drainage ditch, the street on both sides of the wooden structure of the building trade stores, store for the courtyard residential life after the building complex, counting more than 2000 small green tile room. The upper street is built according to the mountain, with undulating houses in a staggered pattern; the lower street is quiet and peaceful, with a coherent tile ridge, rich in rhythmic beauty. Yaoba residential architecture has significant local characteristics of the Qing Dynasty period in southern Sichuan, is one of the few ancient streets in Sichuan Province that have been preserved more complete, with exceptionally distinctive local characteristics, and has a high value of cultural exploration, cultural relics research and tourism development.

Jinshi plaque inside the right side, that is, China's famous sculptor, literary theorist, aesthetics master Mr. dynasty wen's former residence. According to reports, Mr. Wang dynasty Wen original name Wang Zhaowen, take "Yuyuu Wenya" meaning, seems destined to Mr. Chinese culture for a lifetime of struggle. Therefore, Mr. dozens of nearly ten million words of writings, the achievement of an academic monument, affecting several generations of art workers.

Dynasty Wen was born on April 18, 1909 in Yaoba Hua Tanzi. The former residence is located in the ancient town of jinshi pagoda down side, standing wood structure, is a typical courtyard in southern Sichuan, an area of 500 square meters, courtyard patio 50 square meters, there is an ancient well of the Ming Dynasty, a party theater, three-way compartment building, wood carvings are exquisite. The residence is divided into theater, main hall, living room, bedroom, patio, workshop room, side rooms and so on. The main hall is dedicated to the shrine, shrine, left and right set of tai shi chairs, can be seen when the family style of poetry, books, rituals and music. Workshop room is the mill, keel car, wind duster, dustpan, dustpan, straw raincoat, bucket basket, hoe, plow and rake, etc., used in the days of dynasty wen's youth. The former residence is simple and neat, and the style remains the same. Mr. Wang Xiaowen became a generation of aesthetics master, it is the hometown of pure and simple beauty as a base, after rational sublimation, the essence of beauty to the world.

Yaoba Ancient Town is the famous "South Sichuan Film and Television City", where the deep cultural heritage, unique folk customs, exquisite ancient architectural complex, loved by many famous directors and movie stars. Shot more than ten films and TV movies such as "Crazy", "Dahong Rice Shop", "Mountain Wind", "Luzhou Uprising", "Heroes Without Boundaries", "Kung Fu Pride", "The Way of the Interceptor" and so on, and the famous directors, Ling Zifeng, Guo Baochuan and Huang Jianzhong, and the movie stars, Xu Qing, You Yong, Tao Zeru, Yang Kun and Shilan, have left their shadows one after another.

Ling Zifeng, born in 1917, was born in a famous family, his ancestral home is Chen wall in Yaoba, and he is a famous movie director in modern China. Yaoba is the childhood hometown of Mr. Ling Zifeng. The former residence is now 4 houses, small green tile roof, backed by a small mountain, lush forests and bamboo, a quiet environment, cultural atmosphere. 1991, Mr. Ling Zifeng in the old town of Yao Dam filming the movie "crazy", happy to live in the old house for more than a month.

In the courtyard of Ling Zifeng's former residence, there is a banyan tree, which is rumored to have been planted by Mr. Ling's hands before he left home, showing the power of life in a strange way. The roots have wrapped around the original green stone flower platform, showing the power of age.

At the end of the town there is a large mansion, Zhou Gongguan, which was originally the Zhou Clan Ancestral Hall, built by the Zhou family represented by Zhou Qibin Wuju.

The plaques and calligraphic inscriptions of "character and fame" and "heavenly reward for hard work" reflect the legacy of this scholarly family.

The town's famous Luzhou oil umbrellas are handmade and have a history of hundreds of years. This umbrella is handmade and requires more than 100 procedures to complete a finished umbrella. It enjoys a high reputation in the industry for its exquisite paintings and unique production process. Unfortunately, the festival umbrella workers rest, we did not see the production of oil umbrella process, good just watched the CCTV "distant home" in other places in the process of umbrella production. Some tourists bought it as a souvenir.

Dahong rice house, also quite famous, for the Qing Jiaqing years scholar Li Yuelong built, is located in Yaoba ancient town on the street on top of 17 steps, for the ancient town landmarks. Rice store on the street, located in the middle of the kilometer-long street on the hill, sitting east to west, covers an area of about 2,000 square meters, for the South Sichuan style of the front and back of the yard all wooden string frame building, locals call it "horse corner building", the front yard is divided into the upper and lower levels, the upper floor of the guards string flower carving, the lower corridor is exquisite and elegant, the building on both sides of the sealing fire wall intact as in the first place. Inside is a spacious and elegant patio, patio on both sides of the corridor, corridor carved beams and paintings, delicate and elegant, ancient colors.

Dahong Rice Shop is the Yaoba ancient town in the history of Sichuan-Guizhou grain trade as an important distribution center of the remains of the ancient buildings, is the study of Sichuan-Guizhou economic history, transportation history and architectural style of the important physical information. Famous director Huang Jianzhong once used this background to shoot the movie "Dahong Rice Shop", which made the store famous all over the world. Now, in Dahong Rice Shop, there are all the movie and TV props exhibition halls and furniture exhibition halls of Ming and Qing dynasties, which were filmed in Yaoba Ancient Town.

Because he had earned the title of Wujinshi, his family was quite prosperous.

Now, visitors can have a tea break here.

There is a Dongyue Temple in the old town, which is a bit more majestic than anywhere else, and is crowded with a small but steady stream of people offering incense.

Dongyue Temple, commonly known as the Fire God Temple, sitting southwest to the northeast, located in the center of the town, according to the Nine Dragons Jubao Mountain and built, first built in the Ming Wanli years (1573-1620), the Qing Dynasty, Kangxi, Jiaqing several times overhauled. The building as a whole in accordance with the terrain, climbing step by step to the top of the slope, the architectural style is hermetic wood and stone structure, composed of five halls. Total depth of 84 meters, a total width of 29 meters, covers an area of more than 6500 square meters, is a typical folk religious buildings in southern Sichuan. A heavy hall, the name of the festival theater, commonly known as the Wannian platform, is a single heavy eaves hiatus type through the comma wood and stone structure, covers an area of 210 square meters. Roof molded two dragons grabbing treasure, the picture is lifelike. Ceiling painted with symmetrical 36 "life" character pattern. Terrace fence carving a large number of exquisite deep relief woodcut theater content. The second hall is called Kuixinglou. Three Temple named City God Hall. Four Hall named Dong Huang Hall. Fifth Hall named Kong Sheng Hall.

The town has a number of tea stores, drinking tea and playing cards a lot; there are also some catering stores, usually for the townspeople need to live.

We had planned to stay overnight in Yaoba, but it seems that the conditions are not very good, so we went straight to Hejiang.

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