History and Culture of Longchang, Sichuan

“The Hometown of Chinese Stone Archways” and “Blue Stone Cultural City”

There is a provincial-level scenic spot (Guyu Lake Scenic Spot) in Longchang County. Guyu Lake Scenic Spot: consists of Golden Goose The town scenic area, Guyu Lake Scenic Area, Yunding Scenic Area and Shengdeng Mountain Scenic Area are connected together, collectively known as "one city, one lake and two mountains".

Main attractions: Guyu Lake, the Pearl of Southern Sichuan, Shengdeng Mountain, the Holy Land of Petrochemicals, Yunding Mountain, a fantasy peak, and a group of three-dimensional historical archways.

Two county-level scenic tourist areas (Dafokan Scenic Tourist Area, Heishuidang Scenic Tourist Area).

Western Bluestone Cultural City

The unique urban landscape is also a unique tourism resource.

Longchang is rich in bluestone. In order to give full play to its resource advantages and highlight the characteristics of the city, Longchang is working hard to build a bluestone cultural city in the west.

The overall urban landscape construction plan of Longchang County’s “Bluestone Cultural City” has been compiled by Ruidi Design Office of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute.

According to the overall urban style construction plan of "Qingshi Cultural City", "city gates, urban context, urban living room, urban corridors, urban green spaces, landscape loops, urban golden areas" will be set up in the urban space. The eight major bluestone image element landscapes of "streets and landmark buildings" construct a bluestone cultural city of "an ancient town with archways, a bluestone cultural square, two urban contexts, and four city gates".

The construction of the Western Qingshi Cultural City has added new highlights to Longchang tourism.

"Three-dimensional History Book" Stone Archway

The Longchang Stone Archway Group is a national key cultural relic protection unit. It was built "by decree" in 1989 and has a history of more than 500 years. It is known as the "three-dimensional history book".

There are 17 existing stone archways in Longchang, of which the main 13 are in the shape of beads and are arranged from north to south. They are located in the center of the north and south ends of the Bashu ancient post road in Longchang County.

The archway embodies and embodies the essence of Chinese civilization. It is the essence of Ming and Qing architecture that integrates philosophy, history, mathematics, literature, mechanics, architecture, and aesthetics. It has high scientific, artistic and ornamental value. .

With its largest group of stone archways in the country, the only single-sex archway in the country, various types of archways, built according to orders, and exquisite carvings, it is comparable to the archway in Shexian County, Anhui Province.

In March 2005, Longchang County was named the "Hometown of Chinese Stone Archways" by the China Native Art Association.

"Dream Peaks" Yunding Village

General Zhang Aiping's inscription Yunding Ancient Village was built in the fourth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1368 AD). It has a history of more than 600 years and covers an area of 245 acres, with a total wall length of 1,640 meters, a wall height of 7.4 meters, a wall width of 4.5 meters, and 48 villages (13 existing ones). It is the most unique tourism resource in Longchang and unique in Sichuan and even the southwest.

Yunding Village has a unique family culture.

The Guo family has lived in Yundingzhai for more than 600 years, thrived and multiplied, and developed into a large family as famous as the Fang family in Tongcheng, Anhui.

Over the past 600 years, the unique clan rules, rules and regulations of the Guo family have been formed; many legendary stories of joys and sorrows in Yunding Village have been interpreted; and the Guo family has become an outstanding talent of workers, farmers, businessmen, students and soldiers.

Yunding Village has a unique architectural culture.

Yunding Ancient Village is the residence of the Guo family who built stone walls for self-protection. The wall is large in scale, tall and majestic, with village towers, forts, barracks, stables, warehouses, and weapons depots. , coal storage pool, etc., the content and form of the castle are similar to those of European castles, which is rare in China.

There are various architectural styles in the village, including southern Sichuan folk houses, Hakka folk houses, Hui style folk houses and mixed Chinese and Western styles. Experts from the Provincial Planning and Design Institute commented: The buildings in Yunding Village are architecturally rare in the world. Yes, it is an open-air museum of traditional Chinese and modern architecture.

Yunding Village has unique folk culture.

Yundingzhai Inner Lake Yundingchang, which is based on the ancient village, is known as the living fossil of the folk customs in southern Sichuan.

The market transactions have formed a unique and mysterious midnight market that "gathers together at midnight and disperses when the rooster crows". It is commonly known as the "ghost market" and constitutes a vivid picture of the folk customs in southern Sichuan.

This folk custom is unique in the country, attracting tourists from all over the world to come and explore the mystery of the "ghost market".

In short, Yundingzhai is famous all over the world for its "Ten Thousand Dan Landlord Tax Collection House", 40 square kilometers of miniature landscape of landlord manors, thousand-year-old living fossils of folk customs and unique folklore "Ghost Market".

CCTV's "Traveling China" and "Search the World" programs went to Yundingzhai to film tourism feature films and broadcast them during CCTV's prime time, which increased the influence and popularity of Yundingzhai.

Yundingzhai has good transportation and location advantages. It is only 19 kilometers away from Longchang County and only takes 20 minutes by car.

"Pearl of Southern Sichuan" Guyu Lake

Guyu Lake Guyu Lake is an artificial medium-sized reservoir built in the 1970s.

The lake covers an area of ??5.4 square kilometers, with a longest length of 7.5 kilometers from east to west, a maximum width of 2 kilometers from north to south, a maximum water depth of 27 meters, an average water depth of 15 meters, a storage capacity of 56 million cubic meters, and many islands and peninsulas in the lake.

Featuring lakes and waterscapes, pine forests surrounding the lake, and flocks of wild ducks and gray cranes, you can enjoy the beautiful lakes and mountains in spring and summer, and watch thousands of waterbirds in autumn and winter. It is known as the "Pearl of Southern Sichuan" and the "Paradise of Migratory Birds."

There are 16 species of wild waterfowl in Guyu Lake from 5 families, including great egrets, cormorants and other rare species in Sichuan. Wu Xianzhi, director of the Sichuan Provincial Panda Museum and a famous provincial bird expert, commented: "The uniqueness of Guyu Lake is There are many types of waterfowl and large numbers, which are rare in Sichuan's rivers, lakes, ponds and ponds."

From November to April every year, more than 100,000 waterbirds fly on the lake, which is a spectacular sight and outlines a beautiful picture of people and birds living in harmony.

Guyu Lake is only 0.5 kilometers away from the county seat. It is the lake closest to the city in the Chengdu-Chongqing region and is extremely suitable for urbanites to travel for leisure.

"Petrochemical Holy Land" Shengdeng Mountain

Shengdeng Mountain, which is connected to Guyu Lake, commemorates the inspection of the older generation of revolutionaries such as Mao Zedong, Zhu De, and *** The memorial hall of the "March 27" carbon black workshop is the place where ***'s only squatting inspection record photo was left in his life.

The hot spring resources have water and gas in the same well. According to preliminary measurements, the daily output of the hot springs can reach 800-1000 cubic meters, the water temperature reaches 60-70°C, and they are rich in mineral substances that are beneficial to the human body. It has great medical and health value and great potential for development.