Did Nanxiong have a good time?

Gu Xiang-the most beautiful block in Guangdong.

Gu Xiang, the ancestral home of Pearl River Delta people in Nanxiong City, was recently named "the most beautiful block in Guangdong" by chinese national geography magazine. The block has a certain length and an appropriate number of buildings. The building is harmonious and forms a certain style. On the whole, it has a certain aesthetic feeling and constitutes a cultural landscape. Residents live a quiet and contented life, giving outsiders a pleasant feeling. The judges believe that the ancient incense is the perfect combination of Lingnan culture and overseas Chinese culture, which can best represent the unique Lingnan culture.

Shaoguan Nanxiong Zhuji Gu Xiang

The barrier of Nanling Mountains separated ancient Guangdong from Lingnan, but for more than two thousand years, Central Plains culture has been spread through Nanling Mountains. Since the Tang Dynasty, the Central Plains culture has penetrated into northern Guangdong through this ancient Meiguan Road, and has taken root in Guangdong. And Zhuji Lane, which is only 20 kilometers away from here, has also become one of the earliest settlements of Hakkas in Lingnan.

Shaoguan Nanxiong Zhuji Valley Xiang Bai Jia Xing Daquan

Historically, it used to be a wild place, and many early residents later migrated from the Central Plains through Gumeiguan Road. They crossed Nanling and first came to Zhuji Lane. Legend has it that at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, in a disaster caused by the Hu Fei incident, about 70 surnames from 58 villages near Zhujixiang moved south from here to Guangzhou and the Pearl River Delta. Now, it is said that there are 153 kinds of Zhuji immigrants in 29 cities and counties in the Pearl River Delta, and there are tens of millions of immigrants.

Shaoguan Nanxiong Zhuji Gu Xiang

Walking into Zhuji Lane, the most common ones are ancestral genealogy and ancestral temple. There are more than 20 ancestral halls with surnames on both sides of Gu Xiang, which is exactly 1.500 meters. Here, you will involuntarily integrate into the unique surname culture of the Chinese nation. During the Spring Festival, the descendants of these Guangfu people will come to Zhuji Lane to find their roots, so selling surnames and genealogy has become the most prosperous business in the area. On both sides of the alley, you can see small shops with various surnames and genealogies.

According to legend, Zhuji Lane was called "Jing Zong Lane" in the Tang Dynasty. Because of the cohabitation of Zhang Hang VII, Tang Jingzong gave Zhuji a sash ring. By the Southern Song Dynasty, many officials of Xiangfu in Kaifeng, Central Plains moved south to avoid the Yuan people and settled in Nanxiong. Xiangfu has Zhuji Lane. In order to remember my hometown, Jing Zong Lane was renamed Zhuji Lane. The residents of Zhujixiang later moved south to the Pearl River Delta and became the ancestors of many ethnic groups in Guangdong. There is an inner street called Zhuji Lane in Xiguan, Guangzhou, which is said to be named after the people who moved south from Nanxiong Zhuji Lane.

Gu Xiang made the Dragon Boat Festival in Nanxiong, Shaoguan.

Nanxiong Zhuji Lane is located nine kilometers north of Nanxiong County. This is an ancient road in an ancient village, about half a kilometer long, quite wide in the north-south direction, surrounded by ancient houses, and there are three gatehouses on the road. The first gatehouse is called Zhuji Street, the second gatehouse is called Zhuji Building, and the third gatehouse is called Zhuji Gu Xiang. "Zhuji Building" has the inscription "Zhuji Gu Xiang, my hometown", which has now become the propaganda language of Zhuji Lane. China people's awareness of this root and the concept of hometown are also unique in the world. There is a shrine for the statue of "Prince Bodhisattva" in the gatehouse, and there is also a stone carving of "Zhu Xiang" and "Ancestor's Former Residence" in the gatehouse.

Shaoguan Nanxiong Zhuji Gu Xiang

Near the "Zhuji Gu Xiang" gatehouse, there is a stone pagoda named Zhuji Ancient Pagoda, which is 3.5 meters high, seven floors, solid, with octagonal figures on the first to fourth floors; The fifth layer is semi-oval; the sixth layer is cylindrical; The top of the tower is gourd-shaped. There is a street called "Zhujilou" called Xiangfengfang. There are Wu Zhou and Leo in Zhuji Township, with surnames as place names.

Shaoguan Nanxiong Zhu Ji gu Xiang Jiang ya Xiang

There is a story that people in Nanxiong Zhuji Township moved to a different place.

According to the Records of Nanxiong County, in the Southern Song Dynasty, an imperial concubine who was neglected by the Song Emperor escaped from the palace and changed her name and surname to marry a family in Nanxiong Zhuji Lane. The courtiers knew about it, but they were afraid to tell Emperor Song. They lied that there were many thieves in Nanxiong and they wanted to send troops to suppress them. In fact, they sent people to Zhuji Lane to investigate the imperial concubine. At that time, there were 33 surnames and more than 90 families living in Zhuji Lane. In order to avoid implicating each other, they moved to the south collectively. Later, they scattered in the Pearl River Delta, set up villages and families, and produced offspring. These people and their descendants call Nanxiong Zhuji Lane "ancestral home". Some Cantonese people want to find their roots and ancestors, so they will naturally visit Nanxiong Zhuji Lane. There is an inner street called Zhuji Lane in Xiguan, Guangzhou, which is said to be named after the people who moved south from Nanxiong Zhuji Lane.

According to the legend of the villagers in Nanxiong Zhujixiang, when the imperial concubine married here, she was chased by the officers and men in a hurry and was afraid of implicating the villagers. When everyone in the village fled to the south, she threw herself into the well with grief and indignation. Up to now, there is an ancient well under the ancient pagoda in Zhuji, where the imperial concubine is buried. After her death, the villagers were afraid of her ghost, so they built a brick tower to cover the wellhead, with the intention of suppressing her ghost and showing the tragic fate of the "imperial concubine". This ancient pagoda was destroyed by war in the Song Dynasty and rebuilt in the Yuan Dynasty. It is a rare stone pagoda in Yuan Dynasty in Guangdong.

Recommended route

Shaoguan/Danxia Mountain/Nanhua Temple/Meiguan/Zhuji Gu Xiang Bus Tour.

Day 1: The tour guide meets the delegation in Shaoguan at noon. After lunch, he visited Meiguan Ancient Post Road (Meiguan, located on Meiling at the junction of Guangdong Province and Jiangxi Province, 28 kilometers north of Nanxiong City). It is the shortest road connecting the Yangtze River and the Pearl River system in ancient times. ), Zhuji Gu Xiang (Zhuji Lane, full length 1, 500m, starting from Hummer Bridge in the south and ending at Fenghuang Bridge in the north. The pavement is paved with pebbles, and the width is about 3-4m. The ancient post road passes through the alley, and the three gatehouses in the south, middle and north of the alley were built in the early Qing Dynasty. )。 After dinner, stay in the Harmony Hotel in Danxia Mountain or the same level hotel and/or quasi-three-star hotel in the city.

The next day: after breakfast, visit the scenery of Danxia Mountain (Danxia Mountain is a national key scenic spot and a national geological and geomorphological nature reserve, of which Shaoshi Mountain is only more than ten kilometers away from the urban area. It has more than 380 stone peaks, stone castles, stone walls, stone bridges and 36 caves. ), after lunch, visit Nanhua Temple (Nanhua Temple is located on the bank of Caoxi, 22 kilometers southeast of Shaoguan City, where Huineng, the sixth ancestor, created Zen, which is the ancestral court of Zen Buddhism. 1983, the first batch of Nanhua temples were designated as key temples in the State Council.

Food information

Nanxiong people like to eat Chili. Almost all meals are spicy, and nothing is not. How to eat: eat raw, chop the pepper and shake the soy sauce and cooked oil; Fire roasting: stew the newly produced pepper in boiling ash, add cooked oil and salt; Stir-fry in oil, stir-fry chopped peppers with oil, salt and spices, and stir-fry with salt. Boil the whole new pepper with salt water. In addition, it is also processed into garlic Chili sauce, wheat sauce, etc., which is usually used as seasoning. After the peppers are ripe in early winter, every household dries them or grinds them into powder and stores them for consumption all year round.

Data flow information

After arriving in Shaoguan from Guangzhou along the Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway, take a bus to Nanxiong and then take a bus to Zhuji Lane. It will take about 4 or 5 hours in total.

Shopping information

Nanxiong's most famous specialties are yellow smoke, preserved duck, mushrooms and so on.

Accommodation information

There are some family hotels near Zhuji Lane. Generally 40-50 yuan per bed per day. There is a three-star hotel in Nanxiong City. Each bed in a standard room is about 120 yuan per day.

Other information

Climate: Spring Festival is the best time to visit Zhuji Gu Xiang. If it snows, you can also enjoy plum blossoms on the ancient Meiguan Road.