Picturesque Qingshui a mysterious and full of legends of the millennium ancient county

Qinshui County, Shanxi Province, is a mysterious place for me, confident that I have seen all the Shanxi compound and ancient fortresses, in recent years I learned that there is a Xiangyu ancient fortress was a little surprised. To know that it is almost all around the footprints left me, and even close to the Imperial Palace of Xiangfu and the main city have traveled, but I do not know that there is a Qinshui ancient castle group. This may have something to do with its geographical location. It may also be the reason that it has retained a number of monuments; may also be the reason that it became the Anti-Japanese War in the anti-Japanese military and political university residence.

Qinshui County, Jincheng City, Shanxi Province, is located at the junction of the three mountain systems of Taihang, Taiyue and Zhongtiao. The water by - Qinshui note ":" Qinshui and run Qinshui County, the former city of the north, cover by water to the name of the county carry on." Qinshui County is named after the Qin River. In my opinion, Qinshui belongs to a transitional hilly area, although the side of the Taihang Mountains, but there has been no Taihang's standing wall, towering, although the road is a little rugged, and not steep; Qin River some of the Gulf Stream, and not turbulent. It is also possible that geography has allowed the culture of the Jin merchants and the culture of the Central Plains to merge extremely well here.

When you walk between the mountains and the water in Qinshui, you will find that the village buildings here are well organized: horizontal and vertical, spiked roofs, black tiles, yellow mud walls, two-story structure, a new socialist countryside scene. In fact, this is not the case, it has been the case for thousands of years.

Nanyang Village is the representative of Qingshui ancient village. The whole village is a king-shaped structure, from a distance to see the same width of the courtyard, the same roof height, can not see who is rich or poor, even if the bandits came to worry about, who should be robbed? I'm afraid that's why it has become a 2500 year old village. Here there is no worry of "let him three feet and what's the harm".

Nanyang Village has three treasures: one is the 2500-year-old acacia tree; the second is the unique two-dragon glazed wall in front of the Jade Emperor Temple of the Ming Dynasty; and the third is the wonderful hanging sculpture in the Guanyin Pavilion of the Ming Dynasty in the Jade Emperor Temple.

The 2,500-year-old Nanyang Village has preserved many ancient customs. If you look closely enough in Nanyang Village, you will find that although the New Year's couplets here are mainly in red, there are also some green, yellow and purple couplets. In the Chinese culture of loyalty and filial piety, it is customary to keep the filial piety, mostly at the time of weaning, i.e. 18 months. The couplets of those who keep filial piety are posted in different colors according to the different time of keeping filial piety. This time and color correspondence varies from place to place.

In my habit, it is not easy to drive to a place, and I usually pick some representative places to visit. And Qinshui's Liu's Residence almost made me miss it. I thought it was just a family name in an ancient village, but I didn't expect it to be much more exciting than some Shanxi compounds and ancient castles.

Liu's house is located in the mountains, originally for the Tang Dynasty famous literati, philosophers, essayists, known as "Yongzhou Sima" Liu Zongyuan descendants of the house. In those years, Liu Zongyuan participated in Wang Shuwen's political innovation movement and was persecuted and deported. Liu Zongyuan repair book to warn his relatives to escape the "extermination of the nine clans" harm, scattered to avoid, this is a large branch.

Liu's residence is located in the valley on a high platform, legend has it that during the War of Resistance against Japan, Japanese invaders also came here, far away from just a temple, and do not see the residence, do not dare to disturb so far away. Visible Liu's residence in the construction has used a great deal of thought.

Liu's residence is an independent castle, people in and out are walking under the gate of the Quixing Pavilion. The architecture of the castle is extremely elaborate, and Mr. Chang, a first-generation non-legacy expert who traveled with the company, was extremely interested in the eight-lion culture. Some of the gates in the independent courtyards in the castle have twelve organs, which can be seen in its precautionary heart is extremely cautious.

Liu's ancestral temple may be to avoid suspicion and not Liu Zongyuan's record, and to represent is not chaotic Liu Xiahui so a modest gentleman image.

The Xiangyu Fortress was originally called Xianggu, meaning that the fengshui here is very good, is a good fengshui of the generals. Fort built in the early years of the Ming Chongzhen, by Sun Ding phase presided over the construction, because it is the third in the ranking of brothers, also known as "Sandu Fort". It is the late Ming dynasty household minister Sun Juxiang, four departments of the first Secretary Sun Dingxiang's former residence.

The ancient fortress is located in Xiangyu Village on the north side of the hillside, north of Phoenix Mountain, south of Xiangyu River, east and west of the natural village adjacent to the location of the surrounding terrain for the high point. Fort 280 meters long east to west, 100 150 meters wide north to south, the total length of the fort week about 760 meters, covering a total area of about 32,500 square meters, quite a scale. The entire fort terrain north high south low, a glance, full of momentum.

Just four days to go in a hurry, can be described as a dragonfly point of the water, walk around. Qinshui is a place worth going to alone. --- I will come back again.