Introduction to the ancient city of Guangfu Ancient City

Guangfu Ancient City (also known as Yongnian City) is located in the southeast of Yongnian County, Handan City, Hebei Province. It is 15 kilometers from Handan City to the southwest and 20 kilometers from Linmingguan, the county seat, to the northwest. It is a national key cultural relics protection unit. .

It was originally the county seat of Yongnian County (the county government moved to Linmingguan in 1958). It was called Guangfu because it was the seat of Guangping Prefecture in history.

The ancient city of Guangfu is just a geographical name and has nothing to do with the Cantonese ethnicity, Cantonese dialect, or Cantonese people.

Guangfu Ancient City is located 15 kilometers northeast of Handan City, Hebei Province. It has a history of more than 2,600 years and is a national key cultural relic protection unit.

Because the ancient city wall built during the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties is well preserved and attracts many spontaneous tourists from all over the world, the Internet calls it a forgotten mysterious ancient city, and the name Guangfu Ancient City began to spread.

The ancient city of Guangfu was a fiefdom of Zhao State during the Warring States Period.

Dou Jiande, the leader of the peasant uprising army in the late Sui Dynasty, established his capital here and established the "Xia Kingdom".

In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, this place became the seat of Guangping Prefecture of Zhili Province.

The well-preserved Hongji Bridge in the east of the city is the sister bridge of Zhaozhou Bridge.

The ancient city of Guangfu is the birthplace of Yang-style Tai Chi and Wu-style Tai Chi, and holds the banner position in the Tai Chi world.

The 88 and 24 forms officially announced by the National Sports Commission and performed on many occasions are all Yang-style Tai Chi or evolved from it.

Among the eight major Tai Chi sects in the country, five are originated from Yongnian, which is known as the "Hometown of Chinese Tai Chi".

In 2013, Guangfu Ancient City was promoted to a 4A-level tourist attraction.

The ancient city has a circumference of 4.5 kilometers, a wall of 10 meters high and 8 meters thick. The city covers an area of ??1.5 square kilometers and is distributed in more than 30 streets.

The ancient city of Guangfu was originally a Tucheng with an area of ??six miles and thirteen steps. In the Yuan Dynasty, it was increased to nine miles and thirteen steps. In the 21st year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1542), Chen Zu, the prefect of Guangping Prefecture, mobilized nine counties. It took 13 years for migrant workers to build the earth city into a brick city, with towers built at the four gates, turrets at the four corners, and 876 stacked walls. What is particularly special is that there is an urn city outside the four gates to guard it. The authentic customs are locked and impregnable.

The ancient city now has two urn walls and six city gates. There is Yanghe Gate in the east, Baohe Gate in the west, Yangming Gate in the south, and Zhenyuan Gate in the north. There is a moat and Yongnian Wa around the outside of the city.

Historically, Guangfu Ancient City was the seat of Quliang County, Guangping County, Wu'an County, Guangnian County, Yongnian County, Mingzhou, Guangping Road, and Guangping Prefecture.

The city has a vast river, low-lying terrain, and is surrounded by water. It is easy to defend but difficult to attack. It has been a battleground for military strategists of all ages.

This is also the birthplace of Yang-style and Wu-style Tai Chi.

The former residences of Yang Luchan, the founder of Yang Style Tai Chi, and Wu Yuxiang, the founder of Wu Style Tai Chi, are well preserved.

Yang-style Tai Chi is stretched and generous, while Wu-style Tai Chi is small and compact. Both styles are known for their softness and hardness, and the combination of hardness and softness. They are known as "living sculptures, flowing music, and the spring snow of sports." .

Yang style and Wu style Tai Chi have a wide influence, and their disciples are all over the world.

Yongnian was named the "Hometown of Tai Chi" by the National Sports Commission.

It has held eight consecutive international Tai Chi *** events.

Every year, more than a thousand Tai Chi enthusiasts and many Tai Chi sects come to compete and exchange events, making it a hot spot for tourism.

Yongnian Guangfu Old Town has more than 46,000 acres of wadian, and the "Nine Miles and Thirteen Steps" Yongnian Ancient City is located in the center of wadian.

With water around the city and thousands of acres of reed ponds, it is a rare Jiangnan-style town in northern China.

However, the ancient city of Yongnian is famous all over the world, not only because of its rice fields and the fragrance of lotuses for ten miles, not only because of its nine miles and thirteen steps, four gates and four towers, but also because of its The origin of Tai Chi.

Since 1991, the ancient city of Guangfu has held twelve International Tai Chi Sports Exchange Conferences.

In addition to the Tai Chi Conference, the development of Yongnian Wadian is also a new highlight to attract tourists.

Yongnian Lake is considered to be the third largest lake in North China after Baiyangdian and Hengshui Lake.

Yongnian Wadian covers an area of ??46,000 acres, with an average altitude of 41 meters above sea level. It has accumulated water all year round and is in a wetland state.

Rice reeds are planted lightly here, and lotus roots are planted deeply. Not only are there abundant fish and shrimps, but also many wild birds, showing "luxuriant reeds, fish and shrimps, clear water, wind and lotuses, and geese playing and singing birds." The southern water town scene is known as the "Little Jiangnan in the North". Therefore, the ancient city of Guangfu has many wetland attractions, including 10,000 acres of lotus ponds, reed swamps, wetland forest parks, 1,000 acres of fishing gardens, 800 acres of Tai Chi maze and 300 acres of Tai Chi. The lakes are all open to tourists.

At the same time, Guangfu Ancient City is also one of the world’s summer camp bases.

Yongnian County is the third place in China to be awarded the World Summer Camp Base after Beijing and Ningbo.

Therefore, summer is the best time to travel.

Guangfu Ecological Cultural Park is located in the southeast of Yongnian County, Handan City, with a total planned area of ??166.8 square kilometers, of which the core area has a planned area of ??41.8 square kilometers, including Guangfu Ancient City, wetlands and surrounding tourist and leisure resorts, and the park The overall industry positioning is ecological culture, tourism and leisure, and sightseeing and vacation.

The overall goal of tourism development in the core area is to build a national 5A tourist attraction that integrates ancient city sightseeing, Tai Chi observation and practice, wetland leisure vacation, and pastoral sightseeing experience.

Currently, the Guangfu Ancient City Scenic Area is managed by the Guangfu Ecological Cultural Park Management Committee (referred to as the "Guangfu Management Committee").

The Guangfu Administrative Committee is a public institution directly under the Handan City ***, and is managed by the Yongnian County Party Committee and the County ***. It implements integrated county and district management and is a county-level management organization.

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