Jiangnan Song Cheng

Stroll in the imaginary world, walk through the forest of iron bars, listen to the voice of Berlin and feel the confession of a protagonist. I met Song Cheng in the south of the Yangtze River in the crisscross of time and space. Give me a day to pay you back the Millennium Song Cheng.

The breeze and the afterheat of late summer. In this tender early autumn, I came to Song Cheng in the south of the Yangtze River in Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province, and experienced the unique cultural landscape, crossing the Millennium Song Cheng.

"A city of Ganzhou is the history of the whole Song Dynasty." Ganzhou is one of the 36 largest cities in the Song Dynasty. Today, the ancient city area is a collection of ancient city walls, ancient grottoes, ancient kiln sites, ancient docks, old pontoons and other places of interest in the Song Dynasty. Ganzhou is a national 4A-level tourist attraction, known as "Song Cheng in the south of the Yangtze River" and "Song Cheng Museum". There are ancient city walls of Song Dynasty, Yongjinmen, Yugutai, old pontoon bridge, Bajingtai, Jiang Jingguo's former residence, Zaoer Lane and other scenic spots in Song Cheng.

From Jianguo Road, you can see a Song Dynasty gatehouse-military gatehouse, which stands in the center of the square. There are buildings under the city gate and above it. In the distance, there are black window ink bars and blue tiles, which look like a lost vicissitudes. Take a closer look, cornices, lintels and carved windows tell the infinite prosperity of the past. Walking into Song Cheng through the gatehouse, I was instantly stunned by the scene before me. I saw the red light hanging high, the crowds on the street surged, and a bustling scene came into view. I suddenly crossed time and space into the real Song Dynasty. Walking on the streets of the Song Dynasty, the commercial streets on both sides are dazzling, with small streets extending in all directions and shops closely connected, which restores the scene of the Song Dynasty. Walking in Song Cheng, the south of the Yangtze River, seems to have the feeling of crossing a thousand years. You have strayed into Ganzhou in the Song Dynasty, and the streets are full of bustling people. Song Cheng, which is walking in the south of the Yangtze River, is not an ancient city moved down from the painting "Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival", but the restoration of a real ancient city. The feeling of this Song Cheng is real, and every part of it is full of traditional ancient charm and strong classical atmosphere. Walking into Song Cheng is like dreaming for a thousand years, and people are immersed in the charm of Dasong culture.

"The fishing drum platform fell into the Qingjiang River, and pedestrians shed tears." Bodhisattva Man, written by Xin Qiji, a famous poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, brought Yugutai from the Song Dynasty to today. This Yugur platform is located on Helan Mountain near Song Cheng in southern Ganzhou today. Yugutai is famous for the word Xin Qiji. It was early autumn morning, and I crossed the ancient street in Song Cheng and came to the foot of Helan Mountain alone. Climbing the steps and looking up at the balcony among the lush trees on the mountain is the fishing drum platform. In the early morning, the sun slowly sets on the blue bricks on the Yugur platform, and through the ancient breath, it seems to be telling the forgotten past. Today, the Yugur platform is as silent as ever, as if it had remained unchanged for thousands of years. And I stood alone on Yugutang, quietly as if I were integrated with Yugutang, overlooking Song Cheng in the south of the Yangtze River, until I met Yugutang, and Dong, a woman from Yangzhou, Jiangsu who came to travel alone, called, and I realized the reality.

The ancient city wall under Yugu is said to be one of the most intact and longest ancient city walls in the Song Dynasty in China at present, with a total length of more than 3,000 meters. Standing on the tall and majestic ancient city wall built near Gongjiang River, you can see the vast face of Gongjiang River, and the rolling water is endless. The walls are thick and mottled, covered with moss and grass, connecting Yongjinmen, Jianchun and Bajingtai. Ru Yan and I walked through the tall and straight walls, just as we walked through the history of yesterday and came to today. Look up, blue sky and white clouds; Look down, inside and outside the city wall; Looking back, the smile on the woman's face, through the powder, I seem to understand the vicissitudes of the ancient city wall.

The Gongjiang River under the city wall and the old pontoon bridge outside Yongjin Gate are 400 meters long. It consists of 100 ships, with three ships as a group. The whole pontoon bridge is divided into 33 groups, connected by cables, and then fixed on the river surface by steel cables and iron anchors, which constitutes the unique cultural landscape of Ganzhou, a famous historical and cultural city. Stepping on the pontoon bridge, the ancient wooden boards creaked with a heavy sound, as if telling the story of the ancient Jinge Iron Horse. Nowadays, a fish market has been opened on the pontoon bridge, and fishermen sell all kinds of aquatic products every evening. Tourists and locals come and go for a walk, and it has also become a good place for citizens to take a walk and enjoy the cool after a meal.

Near noon, find something delicious in Zaoer Lane. Walking all the way from cobblestone alley, stepping on the slate inlaid with the pattern of "Qian Ming" seems to pass through a place that has just been visited, from the sparkling Gongjiang River near the city wall to Zaoer Lane, with diverse architectural styles, large-scale Huizhou architecture and antique narrow lanes. The memorial archway facing the street is simple and solemn, the cobblestone pavement is flat, the wind and volcano walls are patchwork, the gray plastic gatehouse is antique, and the deep house courtyard has extraordinary momentum, which makes the memory of Song Cheng in the south of the Yangtze River more intense. Looking at the ancient appearance of the roadway, they bring out the best in each other, which makes people go back to ancient times at once. ...

It has been more than 1000 years from modern times to Song Dynasty. Walking into Song Cheng is like walking into a period of history of the Song Dynasty, spreading the depth of history in the time and space of tourists and showing an ancient Song style in front of me. Out of Song Cheng, the epitome of Song Cheng in the south of the Yangtze River is still there, full of memories of the dissolute luxury of the Song Dynasty, but the air exudes a breath of return and end, and the inverted space-time returns to reality. The once prosperous seems to be calm again.