Chinese civilization attaches importance to the left.
Salute with a fist, press your right hand with your left hand, and hold a spear in your right hand to show peace and respect. The right hand presses the left hand, which can only be used when mourning white things.
The son of heaven lives in the north and the west is in the left. Let's not talk about historical evolution and the origin of civilization. It is inevitable that China is more expensive than the West.
The so-called feng shui is smooth sailing. China's ancient civilization was highly developed, and geomantic omen has been passed down to this day. Land with good feng shui must have favorable weather conditions, so that people can be peaceful and food can be harvested.
In the west of Chengdu, there is the famous Qingcheng Mountain dozens of kilometers away. Qingcheng Mountain, as its name implies, has a reputation of "Qingcheng Mountain is quiet in the world" since ancient times. The Qingcheng Mountains in the west protect the Chengdu Plain, with good weather and few storms. The gloomy Mount Qingfeng provided a lot of natural resources for the ancient people's living and living.
The Yangtze River stretches for thousands of miles from west to east. The Yangtze River basin has nurtured the oldest civilization in southern China. As an important tributary of the Yangtze River flowing through Chengdu, Minjiang River runs through Chengdu from west to east. As the upper reaches of Minjiang River, the west side has a developed water system. Wherever we go, the land is fertile and the crops are bumper. The west of the city has occupied the natural advantage of water since ancient times.
Only the west of the city is smooth sailing.
Li Bing controls Dujiangyan
Dujiangyan is located more than 50 kilometers west of Chengdu, Sichuan Province, on the Minjiang River in the west of Chengdu Plain. It was built at the end of Zhao Haoqi in the Qin Dynasty (about 256 ~ 25 BC1). It is a large-scale water conservancy project organized by Li Bing, the prefect of Shu County. For more than two thousand years, it has prevented floods and irrigated the land. Chengxi benefits first. In an era when ancient transportation and construction were still relatively backward, Dujiangyan was actually mainly for the benefit of the west of the city. After thousands of years of evolution, the west of the city has driven the development of Chengdu.
Rich land, the capital of ancient Shu
Good feng shui ensures that the west of the city becomes the richest place in Chengdu Plain. At the same time, the population in the west of the city began to be dense from the beginning. At this point, the capital of ancient Chengdu was built for the first time, which is today's Jinsha site. Jinsha Site is located in Jinsha Village, Su Po Township, western Chengdu, with a distribution area of about 5 square kilometers. It is the capital of the ancient Shu kingdom and the center of ancient civilization in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.
The first capital of Chengdu is in the west of the city, which laid the historical foundation for Chengdu to be expensive in the west thousands of years ago.
Scholars and poets have been circulating for thousands of years.
With the change of history, the development of the west of the city has reached unprecedented prosperity in Chengdu Plain. The civilization of population and economy gave birth to the development of culture. So there was Du Fu Caotang and Huanhuaxi Park. National famous cultural and historical sites. Du Fu, a "poet saint" in the Tang Dynasty, lived here.
Time flies, Bashu culture has spread in the fertile soil of the west of the city for thousands of years. West of the city is the birthplace of Sichuan Bashu culture.
Millennium civilization was born in the west of the city.
After counting the ancient experience and cultural development of Chengdu. It is not difficult to see that the historical development of other ancient cities is also the same. Under favorable natural conditions, human beings gather here, and then establish polis and kingdom, and then establish culture.
As the birthplace of Chengdu civilization, the west of the city is bound to do its part.