It was the residence of Wang Guoguang, an outstanding politician and reformer in Ming Dynasty, and served as the minister of punishment, household and official. Wang Guoguang, which assisted the Ming Dynasty for 40 years, is also a large-scale official residence complex built by his family for generations.
There are more than 40 well-preserved official residences in Tianguan Wang Fu, covering residential, sacrificial, cultural, commercial and other architectural types. From the oldest houses in China in the Yuan Dynasty, to the official residences in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and then to the "Jia Fan Manor" where Chinese and Western cultures were combined in the Republic of China, you can find everything here.
In Tuwo Township, 25 kilometers southwest of Qinshui County, Shanxi Province. The descendants of Liu Zongyuan, a thinker and writer in the Tang Dynasty, lived in Liu Mansion in Qinshui County, Shanxi Province for hundreds of years.
There is such a little-known village in the south of Shanxi, but it has appeared frequently in front of the world in recent years. This is Liu's former residence in Qinshui, Jincheng. After Liu villagers in Xingwen ancient village in the west were proved to be descendants of Liu Zongyuan, a famous writer in the Tang Dynasty, they caused a sensation from all walks of life. It fills a gap in the study of Liu Zongyuan in China, and also provides real evidence for inheriting Liu Zongyuan's culture.
Among the Liu's dwellings, Zhongxian Mansion is as magnificent as Sima Yi, but not very luxurious. The plaque of "Farming and Reading" is hung high under the bucket arch of the building, and there is a wooden balcony on the second floor of the building, from which people in the hospital can look out. Different from other courtyards, this courtyard seems to be the educational center of Liu's descendants in Xiwenxing Village-the location of the private school.
Judging from its construction scale, art, craft quality and construction technology, Liu's former residence has a very high level of construction technology, exquisite layout structure and solid brick-wood structure. From the doors, windows, pavilions, eaves, eaves, reliefs and other aspects, its ornamental and research value is greater than that of Qiao's courtyard, and there are many cultural relics preserved, which is rare in Shanxi Province.
On the Taihang Mountain in Zezhou County, 20 kilometers north of Jincheng, there is an ancient town with a history of more than 2,600 years-Dayang Ancient Town, which is the largest existing ancient town in Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties in China. Dayang Town, formerly known as Yang A, has a long history and splendid humanities. Historically, it used to be a place where "the Qin emperor set the county, the Han dynasty ruled the Hou, and the Western Jin dynasty set the county". For more than 800 years, it has been the seat of counties, marquis countries and counties.
Dayang Ancient Town is the hometown of famous officials in China, with a large number of talented people in history. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties alone, there were more than 150 officials with historical records. There is a local proverb that "three buckets and three liters of sesame officials, some officials are not praised by the sun" is widely circulated. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the ocean economy reached its peak, and cultural undertakings also advanced by leaps and bounds.
When I first arrived in the ancient town, I already felt the excitement of the ancient town. On the rostrum of the ancient town, four powerful characters "Guyang Axian" are engraved. Tourists come and go between the towers, and the smell of special snacks under the tower makes tourists want to move.
Among them, there are six ministerial officials in charge, one of whom is a big shot above 10,000 people, and Wuzhong's top scholar stands out in the southeast of Shanxi, and there is an alley, which is the wonder of nine scholars, so it is not surprising that there are so many official hats on the signboard. Many double flower arrangement buildings in Dayang ancient town also coincide with the shape of the official hat.
Dayang Town is therefore called "the living fossil of the ancient town of China". Strolling through the ancient town, there are many castles, official residences and commercial houses, pavilions and bridges, and temples and temples can be seen everywhere. Every brick and stone, every grass and tree exudes vicissitudes of life, attracting tourists from all directions.
Jiexiu Zhangbi Castle The whole castle is built along the tableland, high in the south and low in the north. Looking down from the north of the fort, there is a deep ditch extending downward on the left, middle and right. There are three outward passages in the south of the fort, and Yaowan ditch in the west of the fort. The cliff is steep and tens of feet deep.
Where is dad going? Jordan chan's son Jasper, Chun Wu's daughter Nene and her son Max, Du Jiang's son Uh-huh, Liu Kaihong's daughter Pufu and Allen gathered in Zhangbi Castle, which is known as the "Top Ten Charming Towns in China".
The whole world has heard of the quadrangle in Jinzhong, but few people have heard of the castle-like village like Zhangbi Village, which was mentioned by Professor Tsinghua University and famous architect Chen Zhihua in his book Zhangbi Village, an ancient Chinese village. Now, it has become a hot spot for domestic and foreign tourists, especially construction experts.
The castle was built in the form of a military fortress with a special internal structure. The doors of the house are all inward, and the external walls are different in height to block each other. If no one leads the way, it is inevitable to get lost when you walk in. The mysterious "underground maze" is a test of tourists' ability to find their way.
Some people say that Taihang Mountain has the most dangerous village, Guo Liang Village, and ningwu county has the proudest village, Hangkong Village. Taihang Mountain has the most amazing wall-hung highway, and Ningwu has a pocket-sized wall-hung highway-cliff plank road; Hengshan has world-famous temples, hanging temples, and Ningwu also has a folk version of hanging temples. These metaphors are actually images.
Shanxi is rich in history, culture and charming natural scenery, and has been paying attention to some characteristic tourist attractions in Shanxi. There are many temples here, and almost every village has large or small temples. Villagers can tell its fairy tales or which emperors and dynasties have been there.
Deep in Guancen Mountain, among the lush forests, there are three ancient and magical floating villages: Wanghuagou Village, Wuhuashan Village and Caojialiang Village, all of which belong to Guancen Mountain Township in ningwu county. The three villages are very close, all built on a cliff 100 meters high. From a distance, they look like castles in the air and people in the sky.
Today, as in ancient times, the residents of the mountain villages here still build their bedrooms and courtyards on the cliff-half-hill Noel more than 0/00 meters above the ground, and the roads between them still use cliff plank roads. The local people regard these residents with typical ancient customs as "people in the sky" or "people on the plank road". The residents here still maintain the ancient folk custom of sleeping on kang, lighting oil lamps and taking the plank road.
Shanxi merchants are the earliest businessmen in China, and their history can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The Ming and Qing Dynasties were the heyday of Shanxi merchants, who became the top ten business gangs in China. In China, business has ruled for 500 years. Shanxi merchants' family is different from the general official gentry's family. It is a traditional cultural family in China and has the characteristics of commercial branding.
The Museum of Shanxi Merchants Culture, opened by this wonderful architectural work, is the first museum in China to display Shanxi merchants' culture. Through 7 series and 25 exhibition rooms, this paper reveals the mystery why Shanxi merchants can become the top ten business gangs in China, and shows the profound cultural connotation of Shanxi merchants.
The Qu family is one of the famous Jinzhong businessmen in China since the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Qixian county has more than a dozen courtyards and more than a thousand houses, covering an area of more than 30 thousand square meters, and is called "Quban City". In the 17th century, the Qu family had three famous rich men: Tian (Qu Yuan Chao), Qu Yuan Mian and Qu Yuan Gan.
During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, due to his meritorious service in helping the victims, Qianlong gave the plaque the light of registration.
200 years ago, it was the headquarters and settlement center of all banks and teahouses in China, and it was called the China version of Wall Street.
In 2006, the former site of Qujia Courtyard and Qujia parents Yuchuan Teahouse were announced as the sixth batch of national key cultural relics protection units.
On June 20 1 1, Jinshang Old Street was named as the third batch of famous historical and cultural streets in China.
It seems that in the mottled gray, we can see the heaviness and vicissitudes of history, and depict the annual rings of the years in the powerful city bricks. Climbing the stairs, this land shows the unique beauty of the ancient city.
The mighty soldiers guard the city, with dignified and calm faces, distinctive personality and strong characteristics of the times.
The picture shows the south gate.
There is one in the north and south, two in the east and two in the west, and a small south gate in the west of the south gate, which constitutes the seven gates of Pingyao city wall, thus showing the status of the gates. The size, shape, administrative level and commercial and traffic conditions of the number of gatehouses are the decisive factors to determine the number of gatehouses. Sidaomen is as big as a general county town. In other words, there is one in the middle of each of the four walls. The bleak trees in Yingxunmen Square and the deep city walls make people feel desolate and tragic.
The extra gates of Pingyao city wall have little to do with the administrative level, because the traffic situation is set accordingly. Pingyao city wall faces south, but the tunnel of north-south traffic passes through the ancient city from east to west. First, geographically, the location of east and west is extremely important. Second, since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Pingyao County has been an important trade distribution center and the birthplace of Shanxi's financial industry, where many rich and powerful people have gathered. The throughput of commerce and trade is beyond the reach of surrounding counties. The writer Yu once praised that "in the most prosperous era of Shanxi, the wealth center was not in Taiyuan, the provincial capital, but in Pingyao, Qi and Tai counties in Jinzhong, especially Pingyao". It is not difficult to understand that Pingyao city wall has two tunnels, east and west.
I often hear from local students in Shanxi that Yuci ancient town has a long history, profound cultural heritage and unique tourism resources. It integrates ancient dwellings, ancient city walls, ancient county halls, ancient temples, ancient streets, ancient shops, and natural scenery such as mountains, water, forests, springs and waterfalls, and integrates Shanxi merchant culture, national culture, Yellow River culture, Sanjin culture and urban culture in one furnace.
According to the data, Yuci is one of the oldest cities in Shanxi, and the south gate of Taiyuan is known as the important town in the south. As early as the Warring States period, Yuci Castle was recorded in the history books. Yuci Old Town was built on the site of Seoul in the second year of Emperor Kai of Sui Dynasty (AD 582), with a history of 1400 years. This ancient city, which is "five miles high, three feet high, four feet wide at the base, two feet wide at the top and half deep at the pool", has been completely preserved until the 1940s.
With magnificent building momentum, beautiful modeling, gorgeous colors and exquisite structure, it is an excellent gathering place for China's urban culture, political culture, religious culture, commercial culture and residential culture based on ancient architecture art. Its unique geographical location is the starting point of Shanxi merchants' golden tourism route.
Jinci Temple is the earliest royal ancestral temple in China. In it, the ancestors of our Sanjin culture are enshrined, and Sanjin culture originated from this. The history of more than 3,000 years has been handed down, imbued with the land of Sanjin, and nurtured the splendid culture of Sanjin.
Jinci Park is actually an ancient architectural complex with many buildings built in different eras. Although the Jinci Temple may not be as beautiful and spectacular as the Forbidden City in Beijing compared with the gardens in the south, it is also a great thing to build a garden with unique architectural style that is almost completely covered with trees on this plain in Shanxi.
Jinci has become a tourist attraction in China classical gardens, with dozens of ancient buildings. The temples, pavilions, pavilions, small bridges and ancient trees here are in harmony, surrounded by mountains and waters, rich in cultural relics and ancient trees. It is an ancient garden with beautiful scenery. It is known as the "Little Jiangnan" in Shanxi and is famous at home and abroad. There are many cultural relics and historic sites in Jinci, among which Notre Dame Cathedral, Maiden Statue, Fish Bridge Flying Beam, Difficult Old Spring and so on are famous.
Jinci is located in Jinci Town, Jinyuan District, Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, 25 kilometers away from the city center. It is a famous scenic spot at home and abroad, the earliest existing royal garden in China, the ancestral hall of the State of Jin, the concentrated carrier of ancient architectural art in China, and an isolated case with complete sequence of ontological architectural types from Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties to the Republic of China. Jinci Temple was built before the Northern Wei Dynasty to commemorate Yu Shu, the second son of King Wu, the founding emperor of the Zhou Dynasty.
On the Gorkon in Haozhuang, Dongshan, Taiyuan City, there is a Twin Towers Temple. There are two towers in the temple, which are less than 50 meters apart, forming the wonders of the twin towers. Therefore, Shuangta Temple is commonly known as Shuangta Temple. These two towers were not built by the royal family, not at the same time, nor by Foton alone, and their coexistence was not the original intention of the builders.
Although the scale of Shuangta Temple is small, it has distinctive features. First, sitting south to north is just the opposite of ordinary temples; Second, the brick structure building is very distinctive, and the temple is a typical beamless building in the Ming Dynasty. Third, the twin towers are opposite, which is rare in other places; Fourthly, peony planting, which began in the Ming Dynasty, is a scenic spot for peony viewing.
The Twin Towers are located at the highest point of Shuangta Temple, both in the southeast of Shuangta Temple. Although they are all called Wenxuan Pagoda, in fact, one pagoda is called stupa and the other is called Wenfeng Pagoda. The two towers are about 60 meters apart, with octagonal planes and a height of about 54.7 meters. As a masonry structure, the tower is decorated with exquisite brick carvings and arches with brilliant glass cornices.
The Twin Towers of the Twin Towers Temple are like twin sisters, which set each other off. One is the Wenfeng Pagoda built first, and the other is the stupa built later. The Petronas Towers are magnificent, making them the best in China. Climbing the Twin Towers, you can have a panoramic view of the Dragon City. One of them belongs to the Feng Shui Tower, which was specially built to make up for the lack of Jinyang context and is of great significance.