Gansu tourism, Qingcheng ancient town, spans thousands of years and remains prosperous.

Original title: Qingcheng ancient town spans thousands of years.

Qingcheng academy

Luo Jiayuan

Ancient town gallery

A small town with a population of 2 1 000, with nearly 30,000 square meters of various forms of ancient residential buildings. In addition to residential courtyards, there are school theaters, ancestral halls and shrines. The earliest buildings can even be traced back to the Song Dynasty. As early as 20 13, these ancient dwellings were rated as national key cultural relics protection units.

Walking in the meantime, time seems to go back, antique buildings, blue tiles and red paint are circulating in the world, and mottled traces are like old people who have come through the wind and rain, serene and quiet.

This is the Qingcheng Ancient Town in Yuzhong County, Lanzhou City: a famous historical and cultural town in China, and a famous scenic and tourist town with national characteristics. Across the Millennium, Fanghua is still there, and it is an ideal place for people to spend their holidays and relax.

Millennium ancient town: profound cultural heritage

Qingcheng town is surrounded by mountains on three sides and faces the river on one side. Located in the east of Lanzhou, the land distance is100km, and the water distance is 50km. According to local legend, this ancient city was built here as early as the Tang Dynasty. During the reign of Renzong in the Northern Song Dynasty, General Di Qing, then the secretariat of Qin Zhou, built a new city on the basis of the old city with the help of the natural barrier of the Yellow River in order to prevent the invasion of Xixia. Because the new city is long from east to west and narrow from north to south, it is called "one city". Later generations changed "One City" to "Qingcheng" in memory of Di Qing.

However, some experts pointed out that although Di Qing's fortification theory was recorded in Gansu Tongzhi, Lanzhou Fuzhi and the old county annals of Gaolan and Yuzhong counties, the later new annals of Gaolan made no mention of it, so it was questioned that Di Qing was a general. Qingcheng was occupied by Xixia at that time, and it was not until Song Yuanfeng's four or five years that he became a general of Song Dynasty. At this time, Di Qing has been dead for many years, and it is impossible to build a city here.

Although experts dispute the name, Qingcheng has many cultural relics and profound cultural heritage. Since ancient times, it has been a flood and drought wharf and business center on the ancient Silk Road, and is known as the "Millennium Ancient Town of the Yellow River".

Here, visitors can visit many "state-protected" ancient buildings such as Gaojia Ancestral Hall, Luojia Courtyard, Qingcheng Academy and Chenghuang Temple. They can also visit Dongtan Lotus Pond and Centennial Ecological Pear Garden to enjoy the rural scenery.

In addition, there are unique folk activities, such as local hero drum, Chai Shan lion, Huang Chengchu House, and enduring folk culture, such as Qingcheng minor, paper-cutting and embroidery. Among them, Lanzhou Qingcheng hookah production skills, Taoist lions and Qingcheng minor have been included in the intangible cultural heritage list of Gansu Province.

Qingcheng Academy: Winning the Title of "Land of Benevolence and Righteousness"

Qingcheng is also known as "the hometown of hookah in China". The production of hookah began in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and it was very popular from Kangxi to Daoguang years. Known for its silk, fragrance and taste, it is known as "Lanzhou hookah is the best in the world". The prosperity of economy promoted the development of cultural undertakings. A simple stone tablet was engraved with the "decree" of Qingcheng at that time: to operate hookah, the academy must pay the fees in proportion to ensure the normal operation of the academy.

Qingcheng Academy was founded in the 11th year of Qing Daoguang, namely 183 1 year. The whole academy faces south and consists of the mountain gate, front yard, middle court and backyard. There is a brick carving in front of the academy, and the couplets in the courtyard "mirror with Liu Huang, learn Haiming nine songs;" Chonglan stack, Wenfeng dew for three nights. " Reveal a strong educational color.

Here, Four Treasures of the Study on the Eight Immortals table still has a faint ink fragrance; The calligraphy and painting on the wall are lifelike, and the pen is long and snake-like, which is amazing; Wooden doors, windows, tables and stools are simple and gentle, like a modest gentleman; Hanging a plaque, penetrating the ages, looks like a dialogue with history; Looking up, we can see that the rafters here are square, because this is where students make rules and impart knowledge, and the beams and columns are round, which proves the truth that "no rules can make Fiona Fang".

According to statistics, only in the Qing Dynasty, Qingcheng Academy trained 1 1 Jinshi, with 74 juren and 83 Gong Sheng. At that time, only 49 people in Lanzhou were admitted to Jinshi.

With the rise of education, talents are gathered here, education is developed, culture is prosperous, and folk customs are simple. It is known as "elegant Qingcheng, the hometown of benevolence and righteousness".

Luojia Courtyard: Witness the Brilliance of Qingcheng hookah

Qingcheng hookah has declined now, but the production process and some hookah workshops have been preserved.

Luojia Courtyard, built in 1927, is the home of Luo Xizhou, one of the four hookah workshops in Qingcheng during the Republic of China, which embodies the glory of Qingcheng hookah. This compound covers an area of more than 7000 square meters. It has three courtyards, namely East Courtyard, Middle Courtyard and West Courtyard, all of which are quadrangles. The whole Luojia Courtyard is connected by sixteen gates, which is unique in design, rigorous in layout and simple and elegant. Luojia Courtyard is also the shooting place of the TV series "Old Persimmon Tree". The huge wooden rafters, huge stones and hookah bundles suppressed in the yard are still well preserved.

Gaojia ancestral hall: the representative of Qingcheng clan culture

If the Luojia Courtyard embodies the glory of Qingcheng hookah, then the Gaojia ancestral hall is the representative of Qingcheng clan culture.

Gaojia Ancestral Hall was built in the fifty years of Qing Qianlong (1785), covering an area of more than 2,000 square meters, with more than 20 halls and Langfang. It is a relatively complete ancestral hall among dozens of clan ancestral halls in Qingcheng. There is a "Jinshi" plaque given to Jinshi Gao Hongru by Emperor Xianfeng in the hall. The Ming and Qing architecture with typical architectural style is unique and magnificent.

Qingcheng Temple is said to have been built in the first year of Bao (1038), covering an area of 1000 square meters. In recent years, the gatehouse and theater have been restored and become places for local cultural exchanges and entertainment.