The vicissitudes of Qianyang ancient city

In the east of Guizhou, in the territory of Qianyang, at the intersection of Yuanjiang and Wushui, there is the first ancient town in western Hunan with a history of 2200 years-Qianyang Ancient City. The Bell and Drum Tower is located on Longbiao Mountain, the highest place in Qianyang Ancient City.

The reason why the ancient city of Qianyang was branded as an ancient cultural city is that Wang Changling, the "poet emperor" in the Tang Dynasty, was demoted to be the chief of the Longbiao County for seven years, leaving many poems about the population of moxibustion, especially the sentence "When the cold rain comes into Wu night, the relatives and friends in Luoyang are like asking each other, and there is a piece of ice in the jade pot", which was sung by literati and poets in all previous dynasties. The ancient city of Qianyang has a long history, profound cultural heritage and rich folk culture. Although it has experienced vicissitudes, the context is constantly changing, especially the bell and drum tower on Longbiao Mountain. Like an old-fashioned wise man, he looks up at the sky and overlooks the smoke cage Yuanjiang. The vicissitudes of the ancient city have been described by this old-fashioned wise man.

Passing through the east gate of the ancient city and walking up dozens of steps along the dark blue slate, a thousand-year-old bell and drum tower comes into view. The Bell and Drum Tower is the only relic of Fumi Temple destroyed by the war. It is a three-eave square pavilion with a pointed wooden structure, covering an area of 200 square meters and being 14 meters high. There are spiral ladders to climb, short railings on each floor, and the beautiful scenery of the ancient city can be seen by tourists.

There is a thousand-year-old Cycas in the flower bed outside the Bell and Drum Tower, which absorbs the aura of the sun and the moon and the essence of heaven and earth, only for one child. Next to the building stands a lush century-old camphor tree. In the eyes of the ancient city people, the ancient camphor tree next to this ancient temple is aura, and everyone likes to sit under the tree and feel his agility. Despite the freezing weather, lightning and thunder, the sea is flowing, and the majestic gesture still exists, witnessing the prosperity of the Millennium secret ancient town.

The Yuanjiang River and dancing water on the edge of the ancient city, like two blue ribbons, are embedded under the exquisite ancient town wall. In the morning fog, several fishing boats were faintly visible under the willows by the river. A row of cormorants stood at the bow and jumped into the water from time to time to catch fish in the river.

The sunset glow splashed in the ancient water town, the river was sparkling, and the ancient town with blue bricks and white glazed tiles was also golden. Several sketch boys are busy splashing ink on the drawing board, just to keep this fantastic color. The river winds slowly, and the elegant and crisp bell comes from the bronze bell on the top of the red tower on the other side of the river, playing a graceful, smooth and natural soft country music.

Furong building, which has the reputation of "the first scene in the upper reaches of southern Chu", is located by the Wushui River in the north of the city? Under the pavilion next to the plum blossom stone by the river, it is misty rain and dancing water. In that foggy and rainy late autumn, when I returned to Xin Zhe in the north by boat, did I bring a poet Bing Xin's great ambition in the jade pot to his relatives and friends in Luoyang? Stepping on the water-stained bluestone steps and passing through the gate of Longbiao Scenic Area, a beautiful and elegant hibiscus building with black wood and blue tiles is hidden in the swaying garden. In the solemn hall, the portraits of "Seven Wonders" are lifelike, and Tian Zi, a poet who cares about the country and the people, sings wine here to express his feelings of bing Xin.

There are labyrinthine streets and lanes of the ancient city under the Bell and Drum Tower, and each street and lane is connected by a T-shape, which naturally forms the pattern of "southern merchants living in the north, western politics teaching in the east", and people and gods live together. Soaked in the world of mortals for hundreds of years, the green flag still carries passers-by in the fleeting time. At night, looming lanterns shine on tourists who can't forget to return to the ancient city, looking for Miaolian Opera in Qianyang ancient city, which is hidden in a house deep in Gu Xiang and is called "living fossil" of China's plays by UNESCO.

Nuo opera with primitive dance style is still staged in the ancient city ancestral temple Wanshou Palace. Dancers wearing wicker masks play the role of exorcists to drive away plague demons, and the exorcist in Naji is a god that people in the ancient city can't get enough of. At the gate of Yamato, by a stone powder wall, several old people sat with yellow banana fans to drive mosquitoes flying around for their grandchildren who only hung a red bag.

The faint morning mist is still holding the silent ancient fragrance, and the ancient city spring rolls, known as a must in western Hunan, also overflow from the ancient street with fragrance. The pure natural Ashima tofu in the stalls on the ancient street exudes a faint fragrance of leaves, which looks like a green trembling spirit and a plate of noble jade. The pot noodles made by the Lion King in the sparkling Xuefeng Mountain are sprinkled with garlic water, a little sour water from the old altar, a little parsley and onion ginger foam, showing a smooth Xiangxi flavor.

The Christian Church in the depths of Gu Xiang sang a soft poem "Let Praise Fly". The Dragon King Temple, which is shrouded in incense and fog, also welcomes devout believers, who bow down before the altar and pray for good weather and good luck this year. Two religions with completely different beliefs can live in harmony in the ancient city, and both of them are full of incense, thanks to the broad mind of the ancient city culture for thousands of years. China culture has the great spirit of accommodating foreign cultures, and any foreign culture can find its habitat in China. I think this is one of the reasons why the ancient city of Qianyang can last for thousands of years without breaking, and it is also the only mystery in the history of the world that Chinese civilization can continue from ancient times to the present without breaking.

The ancient streets of Ming and Qing dynasties under the bell and drum tower are still bustling and crowded. On the only remaining wall, there are several photographers with cameras, capturing the geese returning to the south. Squeezed by modern civilization, most of the eight famous landscapes in the history of the ancient city are submerged in the long river of history. If they were hidden in the memory of the ancient city, they would never appear in today's picture. The plaque of the government of Qianyang Ancient Town next to the Bell and Drum Tower is like adding a childish graffiti to the picture scroll of the ancient city. Facing the bell and drum tower, we are just passers-by who pass by in a hurry every day.