Peaceful ancient town of ancient town characteristics

Peace town is rich in folk cultural heritage, many folk activities are quite peculiar, very ornamental, such as known as the living fossil of the Nuo dance, the unique dragon lanterns - Candle Bridge; peace and the "three greats" - the pendulum fruit table, Stargazer tea, tour pulp tofu, are very attractive to tourists.

There are nearly 200 brick, carved beams and paintings, extraordinary luxury homes of the Ming and Qing dynasties, a half-kilometer-long green slate dirt street and dozens of pebble-paved ancient alleyways; here in the Peace Academy has nurtured 133 scholars, as well as the Huang's Crag Cemetery, Jukui Pagoda, the light source of the temple, as well as more than 20 sites of human life.

The numerous clan shrines and family temples are also one of the features of Heping Ancient Town. Among those preserved are the Qishan Gong Ancestral Hall, Zhao Clan Ancestral Hall, Liao Clan Ancestral Hall and Ding Clan Family Temple.

Located in the north gate of the Qishan Ancestral Hall, also known as the "half of the garden", built in the Qing dynasty between the Guangxu period, for the court of the doctor, the state Secretary Liao Duchang (name Weizhou, the number of Qishan) of the enjoyment of the ancestral hall, his grandson Chuanzhen, Chuanqiong to commemorate his father and built. The original shrine covers an area of about 2000 square meters, is to ask the famous architects in Tianjin at that time to collect a lot of excellent garden building style and then combined with Shaowu local architectural style and design and construction, and from Tianjin to buy a large number of valuable flowers and trees planting, become a elegant and chic garden-style buildings, so also known as "half of the garden". Existing monolithic building, a single entry, five rooms, about 300 square meters, built in front of the gatehouse stone bridge, pam pond. Ancestral shrine of a hundred years giant camellia tree, a spring in March, the branches will be rosy red flowers, fragrant, refreshing.

The ancient town of Heping has preserved the complete ancient streets and lanes. The castle has two streets connecting the east and west city gates and north and south city gates respectively, and both sides of the streets crisscrossed with large and small alleys are paved with green stone slabs in the middle and river cobblestones on both sides, and some all of them are paved with river cobblestones. Through the old town north and south of the old city street, known as "the first street in Fujian". The old street is more than 600 meters long, 6-8 meters wide, the center of the street is paved with green stone slabs, due to the topography of the north high and south low relationship, the street with the shape of the formation of "nine curves and thirteen bends", like a green dragon wanting to fly in the air. Distributed on both sides of the ancient street nearly a hundred criss-crossed network of ancient pebble lanes, or long or short, or wide or narrow, high walls and narrow alleys, simple and faraway. Ancient dwellings lined up, both the ancient style of the Central Plains, but also with local characteristics, known as the treasure of the ancient dwellings. Dongmen Street is crowded with old houses on both sides of the street, most of which are of brick and wooden structure. Street pavement slabs, blocks of smooth, after the rain is clean as a mirror, picturesque. Poetry: "Jiangnan cold rain north blowing slanting, the silhouette of a hundred reflected in the street. Clean stone mirror is not filed, but by a thousand loads of shoes." Street every 100 meters there is a paved with stones, like a chessboard pattern, locals call it chessboard stone. What is the role of the chessboard stone? The traditional saying is: peace through the ages, there are a large number of people in the imperial examinations or outside the official, they return home in fine clothes, honoring their ancestors, riding a horse or sedan chair back into the Castle, every piece of the chessboard stone will stop, dismounted or sedan chair to stop for a moment, to show his glory and honor. There is also a role: there is a certain identity or status of the family funeral, the coffin every lift to a chessboard stone will stop, so that filial sons and daughters kneel down to bow and worship, worship and then lift the coffin to go forward. Generally speaking, people who do not have an official position or status are not qualified to stop the coffin here.

Almost a hundred alleys on both sides of the main street of Heping are winding between the high walls, which are simple, quiet and deep, but contain vitality. A poem reads: "The wall cuts out heaven and earth, and the ground is quiet and blue and strange. Moss abounds in the deep alleys, and white clouds are rare in the small sky." Every ancient alley has a name, and every alley name has an origin. One of the alleys, which is only 75 centimeters wide at its widest point and 50 centimeters narrow at its narrowest point, is called the Alley of Harmony. Because two people meet in the alley, must at the same time side, mutual modesty to pass, so the name "and gas alley". Panjia Lane, the fire wall is high, because most of the residents in the alley named Pan and so named. Panjia Lane in the middle of a bend, standing at the mouth of the lane to see, giving a person the feeling of "no way out of the mountain"; into the see is "dark flowers and a spring". Nearly a hundred alleys, criss-crossed, like a maze, strangers into the very easy to get lost, very challenging.

Peace of the ancient town of deep historical and cultural deposits, many traditional folk folklore is still inherited, such as Nuo dance, triangular theater, folk music, festivals, wedding customs, as well as the tour of battered bean curd, weaving loincloth, and so on. Heping the production process of soybean curd is known as China's best, it is the use of old soybean milk as yeast, fermented, without adding any gypsum and chimney water, is pure green food. Heping's deep-fried tofu is unique, and a poem praises it as follows: "The gentle jade plate is full of freshness, and pounces into the oil flower singing and upside down. Golden armor cloaked in the fragrance of the four escape, thousands of cooking always lingering." There are also "loach drill tofu", "smoked dried carp", "peace bag patties", "peace snails", "Heping rice noodles" and other culinary masterpieces, known far and wide, enjoying a long reputation.

Heping also has "the old city of the three prohibited monuments", in addition to the previously mentioned "prohibit the handling, to protect the place" monument, there is a lion-shaped mountain under the forest monument, the monument prohibiting indiscriminate setting up of stalls. Lion-shaped mountain under the forest monument, monument height 1.2 meters, the bottom width of 0.43 meters, a natural triangle. Monument said: "the city's public white, not allowed to steal and cut pine and cedar bamboo, cutting firewood, digging bamboo shoots, violators Ming official investigation and punishment." According to the old man said, this monument was established in the Ming Dynasty, more than three hundred years ago. From this we can see, three hundred years ago, the residents of the ancient town know the importance of protecting the environment.

Peace as early as the first year of the Tang Tiancheng five days a market period. Every market day marketers up to 5,000 or 6,000 people, concentrated in about 600 meters long, 4-6 meters wide peace street trading, resulting in crowded and disorderly situation. Therefore, the Qing Daoguang three years on the street to repair, rectify the order of the market, and in the Peace Street Street, a forbidden monument, the inscription reads: "Daoguang three years, the market repair street. This narrow, up and down a lot of people, both sides are not allowed to pile up to sell goods, violators of public punishment." Monument for the lapis lazuli, 1 meter high, 0.2 meters wide. Now, although the monument has not survived, but so far on both sides of the street for the bazaar set up fixed stalls are still within the eaves drip, has become a tradition.

The years flowed unhurriedly, the peace of the ancient town quietly greeted each sunrise and sunset, listening to the familiar and unfamiliar footsteps, watching everything that happens in the ancient town. The people of the ancient town are also enjoying the ancient town day and night like a song, like a painting.