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Introduction to Qiantong Ancient Town attractions:

Qiantong Town is located in a national ecological demonstration county- -Southwest of Ninghai County, with an area of ??68.77 square kilometers, jurisdiction over 36 administrative villages, a total population of 26,000, a cultivated land area of ??11,700 acres, and a mountain forest area of ??66,000 acres. It is adjacent to Chengguan Town to the east, a town to the south, Xipanchalu Town, and Huangtan Town to the north. It is 14 kilometers away from the county seat and is the back garden of Ninghai. The provincial highway Yonglin Line and Tongsan Expressway lie across the town from north to south. Baixi, the largest stream in Ninghai, passes through it from west to east. It is an ancient town in the south of the Yangtze River with a long history, profound cultural accumulation and rich cultural landscape. During the Anti-Japanese War, the Administrative Office of Eastern Zhejiang was located in Qantong. During the War of Liberation, the Ninghai County Working Committee was born here. It belongs to the old revolutionary area of ??Ningbo City and was named the "Hometown of Guting". It is a provincial tourist town and a provincial historical and cultural reserve. Donghai Cultural Pearl Town, Ningbo City.

In recent years, Qiantong has gained a reputation for its unique layout of residences and the complete preservation of the ancient buildings of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The Baixi Shuiyuan Canal enters the village and circulates from house to house. Every house is connected to a small bridge over the flowing water, and every house is connected to a pebbled winding path. Here, historical information content and organic connections can be found in demography, education, architecture, arts and crafts, environmental protection and even all humanities, which has attracted widespread attention from the media and experts. In addition, Emperor Liang Xuan of the Southern Dynasties lived in seclusion, the first stop in "Xu Xiake's Travels", and the ancient battlefields of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom lay in front of and behind the village.

Qantong has convenient transportation and is located at the midpoint between Ningbo and Taizhou, with Provincial Highway 34 and Tongsan Expressway passing through it. I believe that your sightseeing will be enjoyable and enjoyable.

Tong is one of the oldest surnames in China. The ancestor of Qiantong Village was Tong Huang, a scholar-bureaucrat with the official title of Di Gonglang. In Shaoding of the Southern Song Dynasty (1228 AD), Tong traveled here and saw "the spirit of the mountains and the beauty of the water". Then came the idea of ??moving. They moved from Taizhou to the foothills of Tashan Mountain and lived in front of Huimin Temple. They built the "Siqiantong Village", commonly known as Qiantong. Over the past 770 years, it has taken root and multiplied over the generations, finally becoming a large village of ten thousand people.

The main landform features of Qiantong Town, where Qiantong Village is located, are: surrounded by mountains in the northwest and southeast. There are Lianghuang Mountains in the north and Gaobei Mountains, Yangjiashan Mountains and Yanxia Mountains in the southeast. The central part is Pingyang, which accounts for a quarter of the total area of ??the town.

Most of the alleys in Qiantong Village are nearly a rod wide, and there may be gurgling streams flowing beside them. The road surface is paved with Baixi's unique creek stones. Only important items such as large car doors are used. Bluestone pavement is used only in certain areas, and the waterless streets often make people feel that they are places for walking rather than places for people to stop. However, streets with water are often accompanied by open spaces of several feet in size, making them the most popular places for people to relax.

There are 157 authentic courtyards (siheyuan) with green tiles and white walls in the village. These houses are unique in the style of eastern Zhejiang. When it was most prosperous, there were 3 pavilions, 3 nunneries, 12 academies, 31 ancestral halls, 13 temples, 2 festival squares, 2 pairs of flag trunks, and 15 ancient trees over 300 years old. The architecture retains the style of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, integrating brick carvings, wood carvings, and stone carvings, showing the unique style of the "Hometown of Five Craftsmen". Tall and sturdy courtyard pillars, unique seahorses and beams, preserved numerous genealogies, birthday screens, emperor's edicts, plaques, couplets, ancestral statues, ancient books, etc., a poem on the door and window plaques, family mottos and blessings for good luck. The words all reflect the profound cultural charm of the folk houses in eastern Zhejiang and the prosperous and rough ethnic communities of the past.

Qiantong Village has experienced more than 760 years of development, leaving behind a number of complete ancient buildings from the Ming and Qing Dynasties. This group of ancient buildings is mainly composed of ancient temples, old houses and old streets. Among them, the Tong family's large ancestral hall was built in the 18th year of Hongwu at the beginning of next year. It covers an area of ??1.2 acres, has four eaves, two corridors and hair pavilions, a high stage in the south, and a sacrificial chamber in the north. Dozens of other small temples, such as "Yansi Temple", "Yongyan Temple" and "Chongben Temple", were built around the village. They were built in the Qing Dynasty, Shunzhi and Qianjia years of the Qing Dynasty, and their outlines remain the same to this day. Surrounding the ancient temple is a courtyard (siheyuan) with black tiles and white walls. There are more than 40 folk houses such as "Qunfeng Hairpin Hut", "Zhisi Qiju" and "Xinsuoji", which are almost intact and preserved during the Qianjia period of the Qing Dynasty. style.

Through more than three years of tourism development, the villagers' tourism awareness has been greatly improved and they are very concerned about tourism. At present, a tourism office and a tourism development company have been established in Qiantong Town, with 6 tour guides who can lead tourists around at any time and provide considerate services.

Famous figures:

(1), Fang Xiaoru - an important figure who made a big splash in the 770-year history of Qiantong Village is Fang Xiaoru, a scholar from Ninghai, Zhejiang Ren, also named Xigu, was named Xigu by King Xian of Shu during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty. He was appointed as the teacher of his son because his study room was called "Zhengxue", so he was known as "Fangzhengxue". He was the editor of the Hanlin Academy at that time. In the 18th year of Hongwu's reign in the Ming Dynasty, Tong Boli built the "Shijing Jingshe" in Nan'ao and invited Fang Xiaoru to give lectures. Fang was 29 years old at the time and was in his mature stage of thinking. Most of the extremely thoughtful "Miscellaneous Comments" in his "Xunzhizhai Collection" were completed during this period. All three generations of Tongmen studied under Fang Xiaoru, including the 21-year-old Tong Boli. This moved Fang Da greatly, and he came up with the idea of ??teaching and educating people here for the rest of his life. Because Fang Xiaoru was so good at teaching, his reputation became so great that for a time, disciples of famous scholars from all over the country came here to gather under the Shijing Jingshe. The emergence of Fang Xiaoru not only greatly improved the cultural level of the Qiantong people, but the regulations he helped Qiantong write have influenced people's ethics and moral standards for several generations.

It should be said that without Fang Xiaoru, it would be difficult for the former children to be knowledgeable, sensible, harmonious and upright.

In 1402, King Yan, Zhu Di, the founder of the Ming Dynasty who later held the Yongle reign, entered the capital (now Nanjing), seized the throne, and killed all those who dared to resist. This edict was sent to the world, and Fang Xiaoru was ordered to draft an edict to ascend the throne. Fang Xiaoru was loyal to the late emperor, went on a hunger strike to reject the edict, refused to obey the edict, wore linen clothes and mourned the death of the late emperor to protest Zhu Di's usurpation of the throne. This is Fang Xiaoru's grass as recorded in the "History of the Ming Dynasty" Zhao was killed. This case is also unprecedented among the literary murder cases involving nine ethnic groups since the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The number of dead was over 870, and the number of survivors was over 870. Yu Di invented the "Guamanchao" because Fang Xiaoru would rather die than surrender. ", the criminal law for exterminating ten clans. A literary inquisition involving ten ethnic groups in Chinese history broke out. In addition to Fang Xiaoru being executed, students from the Tenth Clan were persecuted and many were exiled and sent to the army. Yu Yue wrote poems to commemorate: "The blue snow rivers and mountains are sinking ten tribes, and the white clothes shed tears to mourn the lonely ministers"; "Shijing Mountain is so high that it is far away from the dust. At that time, I aspired to pass on my legacy. Mr. Feng Qiyue Leng went to Yiyi to study and leave his seeds." Lu Xun Mr. Fang Xiaoru was praised as "Taizhou-style toughness". As a scholar from the south of the Yangtze River in the Ming Dynasty, his upright character, his ironclad character, and his integrity that he would rather be a piece of jade than a piece of brick have shaken several generations of Confucian scholars in China. The far-reaching influence of Mr. Fang is evident.

(2) Tonghuang - named Tianshui. The Tong family traveled here and saw the spirit of Qiantong Mountain and the beauty of the water, so he wanted to move there. Therefore, he became the founder of the Tong family in Tashan, Ninghai. Ming Dynasty archaeologist, Zhongdu Imperial Academy Dianbo, and Yuyao native Zhao Huiqian wrote "The Biography of Mr. Tong Tianshui, Digonglang of Song Dynasty"

(3), Tong Sili-Zi Bo. Li, named Jinjie, was the ancestor of the Dafang sect of the Tong family in Tashan. He was good-looking, capable of reading, and had a chivalrous temperament. It was he who built the "Shijing Jingshe" in Nan'ao in the 18th year of Hongwu's reign in the Ming Dynasty, and hired Fang Xiaoru, a scholar. Regardless of his age and frailty, he listened to the lectures with young disciples humbly and asked for advice seriously. This spirit not only inspired the Qiantong people, but more importantly, it started the trend of respecting teachers and teaching. It laid a solid foundation for the future development of the ancient village.

(4) Tong Hao, named Jile, led his tribe to build a fire pit in the original Yangliu Hong River in the fourth year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty (AD 1510). The dam diverts the Baixi water through the village and divides it into ditches along the way to irrigate crops. This produces the famous "Yangliu Honglu". Tong Hao completed Qian Tong's earliest and most complete water conservancy project, which has benefited to this day. In order to commemorate this feat, Qian Tong formed the custom of the Lantern Festival Drum Carrying Pavilion Guild in the future. Tong Hao has been famous in history for hundreds of years.

(5), Tong Guilin - named Fangwu, also named Youxiang, named Yanshan. This Qingju man was extremely diligent in studying and very filial. In his later years, he was highly respected and respected. He wrote genealogies for many ancestors and left many poems praising his predecessor.

(6) Tong Baoxuan--During the Revolution of 1911, Tong Baoxuan (Bochui), a former member of the Tongguang Liberation Army, responded to the Wuchang Uprising and became the Acting Commander-in-Chief of Hangzhou in the Northern Expedition at the age of 25, commanding the campaign to regain Hangzhou; During the National Defense Movement, Tong Baoxuan led his troops to rebel against Yuan as the commander of the Zhejiang National Defense Army. He was known as "Zhejiang Cai E" and became an army general after his death. Today, Tong Baoxuan's former residence remains in the village.

(7), Tong Xianlin - also known as Lin Xiong and Xiansen, a member of the Communist Party of China. He used his identity as a teacher to engage in the anti-Japanese national salvation movement and later served as a member of the Ninghai West District Working Committee. He was also responsible for the work of Ninghai and Sanmen counties. After the liberation in 1949, he served as the first county magistrate of Ninghai County. He has been dedicated to the revolution for more than 50 years and has won great respect.

(8) Master Jianzhen - Qiantong is located at the critical point of Yongtai, backed by Sanmen Bay and facing Tiantai Mountain. It is the only way for North and South pilgrims to go to Japan. Later, I stayed overnight at Baiquan Temple not far from Qiantong, and went to Tiantai Mountain the next day. Fourth, when I was crossing east to Japan, I deliberately took the road from Sanmen Bay to Fuquan Temple in the north of Qiantong Village and then passed by Qiantong. The boy went to Tiantai and then to Kaifeng. There is a stone tablet "This Road Leads to Tokyo" in Fuquan Temple, which is still vaguely identifiable.

(9) Xu Xiake - plays an important role in the history of science in China and the world. A management scientist, writer, and famous traveler in the Ming Dynasty, he inspected most of China's geographical landscapes and left an immortal book, "Xu Xiake's Travels". The first volume of Xu Xiake's travel notes is also "Tiantai Travel Diary". The first chapter of Xu Xiake's travel notes describes the scenery of Tiantai Mountain, and he revisited it in 27 years. The second is a comprehensive three-dimensional investigation of the heights below Tiantai Mountain and the Tiantai water system dominated by Shifeng Daxi. This is a unique masterpiece of this great geographer's love for Tiantai. The third is to go beyond the scope of geography and pay attention to the cultural heritage of Tiantai Mountain, which is also Xiake's unconventional move. Tiantai Mountain is located in the northwest of Qiantong Town. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, It was the secluded place of Prince Liang. Therefore, the former child had a close relationship with Xu Xiake.

(10) Fang Guozhen was born in Yangyu Village, Xinqiao Township, Huangyan County in the eighth year of Yuan Dynasty (1348). After being falsely accused and pursued by the government, he raised the flag of righteousness, gathered thousands of people in ten days, robbed the shipping grain, and defeated the Yuan army and the local soldiers several times. East Zhejiang.

He established Confucianism in the three prefectures in eastern Zhejiang, promoted water conservancy, imposed strict punishments and laws, and made the people live and work in peace and contentment. Fang Guozhen was extremely filial. According to legend, the former child celebrated the Lantern Festival on the 14th day of the first lunar month and the Mid-Autumn Festival on the 16th day of the eighth lunar month. They both ate vegetarian food on the 15th day of the lunar month. This was changed in order to have fun with the people. This custom continues to this day.