Go to Wanzai ancient city on weekends to taste the ancient charm of the Millennium.

Go to Nanjie on weekends to taste the Millennium charm of Wanzai ancient city!

On the eve of the Jiangxi Tourism Development Conference, on this early summer weekend morning, our group drove from Tonggu County for an hour and a half and arrived in the neighboring county of Millennium. In this county with a history of 1700 years. On the south street, you can see the heroic posture of three mountains and nine ridges, antique blue bricks and rows of ancient ancestral temples. Bluestone roadways crisscross, and the water of Longjiang River bends through the city. Inadvertently divided the ancient city into a beautiful picture of natural scenery and ancient buildings.

The weather is not good, and it is raining in Mao Mao. Accompanied by Ms. Li Jinhua, I walked along this ancient road with an umbrella. I am half wandering in a thousand years of history and half wandering in a modern dream. Standing at the contact of time, the trace of years, the brand of history. It is still fresh and unique after fading away from prosperity in the vicissitudes of life. Such beauty in front of us is not only precipitation, but also the cultivation and heavy cohesion of local history and culture.

Wanzai ancient city is a benchmark cultural project in western Jiangxi. Its core scenic spot is the ancient ancestral temple with a total area of about 6.5438+0.3 million square meters. At present, 27 ancient buildings in the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the Republic of China have been preserved and restored, involving the surname 13. There are many ancient houses, ancient streets, Gu Xiang, granaries, wells and other ancient buildings and immovable cultural relics. It is the most complete preserved ancient architectural complex in Jiangxi province at present, with the cultural background of western Jiangxi.

Wanzai Ancient City Complex is a very representative ancient building complex of Jiangxi School in China. The gatehouse is one of the traditional buildings in China. As a symbol of family fortune, the so-called "family status" means this.

The gatehouse is the main aisle of a family and the "facade" of the owner. The height of the gatehouse, the material of bricks and tiles, the characters painted and the relationship between neighbors are all exquisite, and they should be consistent with their own identity.

The ancestral temple gatehouse of Wanzai ancient city silently shows the social status, occupation and economic level of this family. This is the most important thing for all China people. Therefore, no matter rich or poor, they will try their best to be elegant in the gatehouse.

Small tile horse head wall with blue brick, and lattice window hanging in the cloister. Horsehead wall is a major feature of Jiangxi architecture in the Han traditional residential architecture school, and it is called "Horsehead wall" because it looks like a horse head.

Horsehead walls are often used in the ancient ancestral halls in Wanzai Ancient City Scenic Area, and one of the important reasons is fire fighting. In ancient blocks, ancestral halls, houses, streets and other buildings have a high density, which is not conducive to fire prevention. When a fire breaks out, it is easy to spread along the house. The horse head wall is higher than the walls on both sides of the roof, which can play a certain role in preventing the fire from spreading. Therefore, the horse head wall is also called the wind fire wall and firewall.

When you come to the ancient city of Wanzai, even if you don't know the architecture of Jiangxi School, you will be attracted by the blue bricks and tiles in this scenic spot, which are patchwork and antique.

The ancestral temple in the ancient city is not just a courtyard, but a number of courtyards step by step along the central axis, forming a space with a sense of depth. The so-called "how deep is the courtyard" refers to the courtyard structure that enters and exits several times.

Paintings and wood carvings are lifelike in these ancient buildings. Wood carving is good at dealing with the true colors of raw materials, which is not only in harmony with the whole building, but also fresh and elegant like Jiangnan ink painting.

Architectural painting is an image art, which plays an important role in architectural decoration. It has vivid observability and practicality, and contains inherent appeal and visual impact. It can not only protect the paint from rain, sun and moisture through the color of the paint, but also prolong the life cycle of the building, and at the same time capture objects and arouse people's hearts.

Cornice is a traditional tower shape in China, and cornice is one of the important manifestations of national architectural style in China. The corners of the roofs of these ancient buildings in the ancient city are tilted upward, like birds spreading their wings, light and lively.

According to the local customs, climate characteristics and living habits, the open and close patios in these Jiangxi-style buildings in the ancient city have evolved and improved into unique architectural forms, which have improved the ventilation, lighting and safety functions of the buildings, exposed the sky and the ground in the buildings and played the role of heaven and earth.

These ancient buildings in Wanzai ancient city are a spatial fusion of heaven, earth and architecture, which embodies the philosophical thought of the unity of man and nature in traditional culture.

The ancient city scenic spot takes the eternal intangible culture and Jiangxi architectural style as the core, and injects local folk customs and lifestyles. Watch lanterns, listen to Nuo opera, play drums, weave summer cloth, feel the local historical and cultural atmosphere, and create cultural characteristics such as cultural display, cultural performances, interactive experience, folk crafts and boutique inn that integrate Jiangxi.

National intangible cultural performances, victory drums, grass cloth weaving and fireworks production dances are staged here. Coupled with the cultural experience of Chinese studies, art galleries, waterfront leisure and ancient residential experience, Wanzai ancient city is lifelike.

Walking on the ancient road, I happened to see Yan, secretary of Yichun Municipal Party Committee, and other city and county leaders taking the rain to inspect and guide the preparatory work before the meeting. The moment I met him head-on, Secretary Yan also said hello to us, waved to each other and left.

Nanjie is the best preserved street in Wanzai Ancient City 15 Ancient Street. According to local records, there were city walls in the Southern Song Dynasty, and where there were city walls, there must be doors. The street gate of Nanda, located on the west side of Longhe River, is called Nanpu Gate. It can be seen that the construction of South Street began at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, and it took more than 600 years to form the present South Street.

This street, which is only more than 500 meters long and not more than two or three feet wide, enters from the small south gate at Nanpu Bridge Head and goes straight to Hexi Street, facing Wanzai Ancient County. It is also named South Street because it echoes Longhe East Street from a distance.

In addition to the main street, there are alleys at both ends of the street. To the east is Danshui Lane, where there are churches and shops. There is a large-scale Ouyang Temple in the alley and a roadway leading to the experimental shed in the west of the street, which sublimates the commercial and cultural atmosphere of South Street.

It is a wider road to the west from the middle section of South Street. Just entering the intersection, a six-legged stone archway stands tall in front. Behind it is the Guo family ancestral hall. What's even more surprising is that there is still an amazing ancestral temple building around the Guo family. The history of the world block is particularly heavy.

According to legend, around the Republic of China, South Street was crowded with businessmen. Although the shops are different in size, they are all wide and tall.

98 South Street is one of the relatively complete shops. Built in the late Qing Dynasty, it is a single-story building with an attic. There are five storefronts, the attic is next to the garage, and there is a room with a cover on the back street side, which is connected with the house at the back. In this form, there are many shops one after another. There are more than 40 shops with shop names. In the street, in addition to the endless sound in the street, there is also the creaking sound of a unicycle with wooden wheels and iron rings pressing on the green granite pavement. In the car body, there is also a migrant worker who carries goods with him. It is they who transport the local native products and then bring back the cloth from the department store outside. This has made the dazzling humanistic charm of Wanzai ancient city, just like the water wine brewed by the wine workshop on the street, which is sweet and delicious and full of fragrance.

Brewing Qingming winter solstice wine intoxicates people in the southeast and northwest. The wine brewed by the rice wine workshop in Qiandian Houchang, Nanjie is yellowish in color, sweet in taste, and thick and sticky.

There are also the traditional names of Juxiuzhai, such as Ruyi cake, Kumquat cake, burrito and crispy jiaozi.

The pea oil spoon on the street is made of a pot of wood and pulp. After eating it, I still want to eat it. And the unsatisfactory Li Ji Hotel. In order to make more money, Mr. Li sometimes oozes water from his wine, and his bored drinkers are not easy to be honest, so he makes up a story and tells it over coffee. It is said that one winter, the emperor had a whim and called talented people into the palace to make a snowman. The son of a Li family who applied for a job created a lifelike snowman in the shade. The emperor observed it for many days and was very unhappy. He was rewarded with a thousand dollars. The next year, the court ordered the Li family's son to go to Beijing to make a snowman. However, Li Zi went out and Li Fu had to go to Beijing for his son. Li Fu made several snowmen in a sunny place. The snowmen lived well and the emperor was very happy. In a few days, the sun stopped shining and the snowman completely melted. As a result, Li Fu was fined for splashing snow. Li's father was shocked by the snow and said, "This is really for Chiba! Since then, the Li family hotel is no longer good at mixing water in wine.

There are many grass cloth shops, paper shops and firecracker houses in South Street. The famous grass cloth, pottery paper and fireworks have played a decisive role in the local history and economic prosperity.

According to legend, a local boss attended a foreign exhibition held in Jiangxi Province for thousands of years. When he went to the bathhouse to take a bath, a North Korean businessman quietly exchanged his white spinning shirt for his Hangfang coat, which became a beautiful talk between Chinese and foreign businessmen.

Wanzai earthenware paper (face core paper) is one of the three major local products, and Wanzai's wealth is built on local products. Those who use local products to make local goods and cross the Yangtze River are just superficial articles. In addition to the needs of life, watch core paper also produces white tribute paper, heavy paper and burr paper, which is only slightly worse than Weizhou Xuan paper. Anyone who practices calligraphy must first buy a copy and write, and then write on rice paper after reaching a certain level.

Whether it is printed on the head or cut out, paper shed workers have the pain of "sleeping for two years in three years and eating for three years in two years". When it is quiet, it seems that you can hear the faint singing of Zhipeng Mountain.

"Learning to be excellent is to be an official, and learning without skill". It's about a haircut. In the early years of the Republic of China, the barbershops in Nanjie were mostly one-person chairs, and those who came again waited nearby, or smoked, or pulled the Kongming fan hanging under the floor, fanning the wind and chatting in the cool. For a famous artist, of course, he is proficient in craftsmanship. Knife skills, knife skills are very skilled. The weight and speed are particularly suitable. Push and cut, hit on the cut hairstyle, smooth and without bumping. Knife skill, light hand and sharp knife, clean shaving, no harm to the skin. A few more excellent projects will make you high-five.

For example, when shaving, he will gently shake your eyelashes with the back of the knife. Makes you feel numb and comfortable. He will also vibrate rhythmically around the back of your neck with a blade. Then sneak back to the vest pit from the neck along the back, feeling itchy and white. Then he will use a special knife to turn around your ear several times along the ear wall, so that you can not only feel the comfort from the outside to the inside, from the inner ear to the outer ear, but also take out the earwax by the way. It can be seen that "back climbing" is valuable.

The backstreet of the ancient city is a gathering place for the umbrella industry, including Peng Jine's Zhou Zhengxiang umbrella shop and Long Maoxing's Xingtai umbrella shop.

Companies with 10, such as Heshenghe in Tang Yuanshi, make oil paper and oil spikes, and their business is certainly booming. But there are exceptions There is an exclusive "single umbrella shop" on South Street. For example, on rainy days, especially when it rains suddenly, pedestrians hide under the eaves to avoid the rain. People who are anxious to go home will definitely go to the store to buy an umbrella and go home as soon as possible. At this time, the umbrella was sold and someone bought it at a higher price. However, Shanji Umbrella Store did the opposite. Whenever it rains, it gives customers a discount. People who are in a hurry to go home will of course buy umbrellas at once. Those who are not in a hurry to go home will be happy to buy an umbrella even if they have one at home.

One day, an anxious old man came to the umbrella shop and told the boss that he had lost an umbrella in the street. There is a will signed by a lawyer in the umbrella handle. Asked the boss how to get the umbrella back, the boss used his brains and immediately hung up the message of "trade-in" at the door of the store. Three days later, the old man who lost his umbrella finally found his old umbrella. Since then, the umbrella shop has added another "trade-in" business. Oil-paper umbrellas can also be replaced with new ones, and business will naturally flourish.

The unique and novel management mode has improved the commercial culture and commercial taste of Nanjie.

Wanzai ancient city is not only prosperous in business, but also crowded with people. Here, I heard a story of "losing a lesson". It is about Xin Yuzhan, a doctor who was born in the first year of Qianlong in Qing Dynasty. Xinjia ancestral home also belongs to the form of front store and back house, with 3 1 storefront nearby. After the store, the old house sits west to east, facing the Longhe River, with 39 rooms. Xin Yuzhan went home on business and went to sea to do business in a street shop, becoming the richest man in South Street. He usually warns his children to be honest in doing business with shop assistants and not to bully the market. We should try our best to help the poor.

Legend has it that one night, when the family was preparing to have a reunion dinner, they suddenly broke into several gangs that relied on "big eaters". The leader began to shout, "Boss Xin, how much did you owe us last time?" ? At this time, Boss Xin's son knew that he was coming to cheat money and was about to attack and drive away. Xin Yuzhan immediately stopped him: "You don't have to talk. I owe them a little" amount "and pay them 12 silver each." The beggars took the money and left.

However, another store not far from Xin's shop offended them for fear of losing money. As soon as the beggar gang opened the door, it was not only cheated of a large sum of money, but also discredited.

After the Spring Festival, Xin Yuzhan asked craftsmen to make a plaque, engraved with the words "study hard" and hung it on the lintel of Xin Jiazu's home. The Xin family's business is booming. At one time, "students" were all over Nanjie, Hexi Street and even all the streets in the county. The rich connotation of "learning to lose" has virtually entered the category of family rules. According to Mr. Xin Hongan, soon, the plaque of "Suffering Hall" was put up in Xin's ancestral hall. Because of its strict family law, even people with other surnames said, "I'm not afraid of firecrackers in Xinjia ancestral hall, but I'm afraid of the sound of boards in Xinjia ancestral hall."

Nanjie, whether a businessman or a resident, not only spares no effort to pursue commercial profits and make the development of the ancient city more prosperous, but also knows how to taste leisure and entertainment.

"On the willow shoots, people meet after dusk". In summer, at night, stools, even bamboo beds, are often moved to the roadside in front of every household's shops to enjoy the cool summer. Holding a fan, talking about everything. There is more laughter when there is controversy. They chatted for thousands of years, which made passers-by laugh. Side by side, talking and laughing. What's more, there are childhood friends, two innocent children, an old man with childlike innocence, a man with a good life and a small family.

On such a rainy weekend, standing on the node of time, I seem to hear an old and simple voice telling me about the people and things that have happened in the ancient city for thousands of years.

This weekend, I came to Wanzai Ancient City!

The material of this article comes from the Smart Wan Chai client, which was published by Bi Wan Chai. The official account of WeChat and the manuscript of Mr. Yi Dingguo were shot by Ms. Li Jinhua. Thank you very much