What’s there to do in Jiangjin Zhongshan Ancient Town!

Shanlongdongchang has been a water and land wharf with prosperous trade since ancient times. Most of the products and materials from Guizhou, Danjiang, Hejiang and other places are concentrated here for trade. Mountain goods are transported by water, including rice, salt and other daily necessities. After daily necessities were transported to Longdong Field by water, they were then transported by caravans to Hejiang, Guizhou and other places. Inscriptions on inscriptions such as "Ban on the Sale of Water-rich Rice" in the 25th year of Guangxu's reign, and "Public Punishment of Wood Gangs" in the 13th year of Guangxu's reign can prove that every event at that time The number of meters is more than 10,000. You can imagine its prosperity at that time. There are still small handicraft workshops such as pot factories, quarry factories, silver shops, blacksmith shops, machine rooms, and dyeing rooms, as well as traditional snacks such as smoked tofu and slate glutinous rice cakes. Old taverns, old teahouses, old drug stores and other old shops still exist.

Zhongshan’s traditional folk architecture old street is an important representative work of Zhongshan’s historical and cultural town. Locally known as Sanhe Old Street, also known as Longdongchang, the whole street runs from south to north, along the Sunxi River. Extended, it is divided into eight sections: Jiangjia Wharf, Guanyin Pavilion, Wanshou Palace, Shui Alley, Renren Alley, Juandong Bridge, Yueliangba, and Yandiantou; there are 453 shops with a total length of 1,586 meters, which are now well preserved. There are 307 shops and a length of 1132 meters. The entire old street is centered on the street paved with bluestones and runs in two rows east and west. The street surface ranges from 3 to 5 meters. The buildings are of cross-cut wooden structures or a mixed structure of cross-cut and platform beams. The middle one is The building complex is a corridor-style pavilion building. The building complex cleverly utilizes the terrain of Sanhechang, which is surrounded by mountains and rivers, to flexibly and economically create platform-shaped foundations with scattered heights. It relies on tree piles along the bank to adopt a hanging turret-style building. The building height is 1-3 The walls are made of wooden piles, wooden boards, and bamboo clips, and the roofs are all covered with green tiles. The entire old street has the characteristics of being warm in winter and cool in summer, and is warm in winter and cool in summer. Experts on residential architecture who came to the town to inspect It is the largest, best-preserved, and most ethnically distinctive group of ancient buildings in Southwest China.

Zhongshan Ancient Town is a concentration of dignified and simple dwellings, ancient manors, ancient villages, ancient castles, ancient temples, ancient bridges, ancient piers and other ancient buildings. The ancient manors are represented by Zaoziping Manor and Longtang Manor. 9 places, more than 10 ancient temples represented by Shuangfeng Temple, and 3 ancient castles represented by Chaotianzui Ancient Village and Dayanshan Ancient Village.

Zaoziping Manor was built in the late Qing Dynasty. It is 850 meters away from the old street and covers an area of ??4,000 square meters. It has a civil structure and is equipped with a flower hall, patio, fish tank, flower stage, theater, etc.; the flower hall is used to connect the left and right wings. The interior is both continuous and forms a closed space throughout the manor. The flower hall and window edges are all made of light and dark wooden reliefs or hollow carvings, and the patterns often have stories or ancient costumes.

Longtang Manor, also known as Yujia Courtyard, is 900 meters away from the old street. It was the residence of the Zhongshan Government from the founding of the People's Republic of China to the 1980s. It has a construction area of ??3,500 square meters and has a patio, fish tank, garden, green tiles and whitewashed tiles. The walls, pillar bases, arches, and roof beams are all carved with patterns. The front yard is majestic and spectacular. Except for one and a half of the watchtowers that were demolished, the rest is extremely well preserved. The manor is surrounded by lush green trees. Thousands of white cranes and egrets fly in the forest every morning and evening, making friends with people all year round, forming a landscape that is enjoyed by a family.

Chaotianzui Ancient Village, located 1,200 meters south of Changle Village, was built in the 8th year of Jiazi in the Ming Dynasty as a military fortress to prevent bandits. In 1950, the Chinese People's Liberation Army fought hard for three days and three nights to annihilate more than 400 bandits at the expense of 17 soldiers and a platoon leader. To this day, this place is still a living textbook for patriotism education.

Shuangfeng Temple is located in Shuangfeng Temple Village, Zhongshan Town. There is no confirmation of the year when it was first built. However, according to the inscriptions, it was built in the Tang Dynasty. It was successively repaired in the Kangxi and Daoguang years of the Qing Dynasty. It is the modern temple of our city. Shaocun's well-preserved duplex courtyard temple. The main hall is a civil structure with a hard mountain roof and a bow-shaped wind and fire wall. The beam frame structure uses five columns, with a breast lattice in the front, two arched beams in the middle, with the hump as the pillar, and five cross beams and four pillars in the back. The pillars do not fall to the ground and are placed on the back of the toad. There are more than 30 square gardens, large and small, in the temple, with various forms and exquisite carvings, which are relatively rare in Jiangjin. According to the inscriptions in the temple, there were once 500 warrior monks. Together with Jiangjin Zhuyang Temple, they formed the two major ancient temples in Jiangjin. After the destruction of Zhuyang Temple, it existed alone.

Ancient bridges and ancient remains are another sight of the ancient town. The Juandong Bridge on Sanhe Old Street is an inevitable connection between the two sections of Sanhe Old Street. The craftsmanship and ingredients are very fine. There are no dusty sand or gaps in the whole bridge, and they are all seamed together with knife edges. Each arch stone is made of whole stone, and the double The layers of rolled arches are extremely strong. Even after more than 800 years of wind and frost, they are still intact.

Youduhe Bridge ranks first in the country in terms of span among single-hole stone arch bridges. The ancient ship lock under the bridge was originally a wooden lock and was later changed to a stone lock in the 1960s, but traces of the installation of the wooden locks are still clearly visible. The ancient town is dotted with ancient ship locks. There are thousands of ancient tombs. The ones that have been discovered include Han tombs, Tang tombs, Song tombs, and Ming and Qing Dynasty tombs. They are all of high archaeological value. The foundations of the Ming and Qing tombs are exquisitely carved and have high artistic value. Research and architectural research value.

The tens of thousands of cultural relics collected are physical witnesses to the history of Zhongshan Ancient Town. In addition to 21 town-level cultural relics protection sites approved by the superior government, there are 14 municipal-level cultural relics in the ancient town. In addition to the protection sites and 6 fixed cultural relics included in the China Cultural Relics Atlas, it also collects 11,230 historical ancient coins, 23,180 Chairman Mao badges, 6,341 ancient coins, 82 ancient dental beds, ancient tea tables, dressing tables, show tables, and pottery. There are especially numerous scattered cultural relics such as porcelain, flower-carved boards, and root carvings. Among the ancient coins, there are many unearthed knife coins, shovel coins, grimace coins, and nose coins, which can provide physical evidence for the ancient history of Zhongshan Ancient Town and the exploration of the extinction of the Ba people. < /p>

Zhongshan, a famous historical and cultural town, not only has rich historical culture, cultural relics and other cultural landscapes, but also has rich natural landscapes, which are in the same vein as the national scenic spot Simian Mountain. There are 100,000 acres of forest within the territory. The forest coverage rate is 46.7%, and the green coverage rate is 97.8%. It is a typical zone for broad-leaf mixed growth. Among more than 1,500 species of plants, more than 20 species are first- and second-level plants under national key protection, especially Cyperus alba and Ginkgo biloba. Among the hundreds of animals, there are dozens of animals under national key protection, mainly tigers, leopards, monkeys, and golden roosters. There are 75 kilometers of streams within the town, and there are forests and streams such as Bamboo Garden, Black Temple, and Chuan Chuanyan. It gives people a natural enjoyment that integrates mountains, water, streams, waterfalls, drifts, rocks, cliffs, caves, pillars and beaches; it allows people to experience the secluded, dangerous, majestic, strong, beautiful, beautiful, surprising, strange, A strange feeling of returning to nature.