Yao Zengzhan "Ancient Architecture in Shuhe Town"

Ancient buildings in Shuhe Town

Author: Yao Zengzhan

One weekend this summer, and my friends went to Shuhe Ancient Town, Ankang City to travel. What was unexpected was that in the narrow hillside of the hinterland of Qinba Mountain and the north bank of the Han River, such dense ancient building communities appeared to make people suffer. Shock.

Shuhe Town, known as "Yuxi" in ancient times, was named after Shuhe in the territory. It is an ancient town in eastern Ankang City.

Between Bashan. As early as the Western Zhou Dynasty, here

For the jurisdiction of the ancient Shu Kingdom, the original water transportation began. After a long history of development, the Hanjiang River Water Transport gradually flourished and prosperous. The water transportation here is busy, and the flow of people's flowing logistics has become an important logistics hub and a major trade town in the upper reaches of the Han River.

"Wu Gaofeng will be here, flower fragrant bees come from", and merchants in the surrounding provinces and regions come here to settle in business, establish business names, open shops, build tea clubs, open restaurants, and only have hundreds of money houses. Getting, busy logistics, and prosperous business, forming a scene of integration of business circulation and building culture. In the buildings of the ancient town of Shuhe, the Huangzhou Guild Hall, Jiangxi Guild Hall, Sanyi Temple of Shaanxi Gang, the Mosque and the Backbone Gang Yangsi Temple and other ancient buildings, whether it is the design style or the building scale, is very eye -catching. It looks luxurious, solemn and elegant.

Yangsi Temple was originally a venue of the gang. Below the temple wall was "Honglong Beach" in the past. There were many corners and rushing water. There were often shiplofnia accidents. Therefore, the sailors raised funds to build this temple to pray for the blessing of the gods and get spiritual comfort. The Huangzhou Guild Hall in the ancient town has a superior geographical location and a huge scale of the building. It is built by businessmen from Huangzhou and other places in Hubei. Its prominent feature is carving beams and painting buildings and decorating Fuli Hall. The tall buildings are nailed to the auspicious patterns of the animals such as bats, birds, and fish made of iron. There are elk and tung trees, fairy cranes and pile trees on both sides of the stone gate pier. Whenever the dragon swim in the phoenix, the woodcut is exquisite and the shape is beautiful. Although after thousands of years of wind and rain, there are still many rises in the Hanjiang River. It seems that there is not much movie about these ancient buildings

The deep mark of ancient architectural culture has been kept so far.

The ancient building communities in Shuhe Town, as well as the deep houses of mosques and stars, not only have very different architectural styles in various places, but also

There are many calligraphy works engraved on the plaque, couplet and door of the building, including rich cultural content, plus the narrowness of the blocks of the neighborhood

The narrow road constitutes a complete ancient building community. During the prosperity of the Ming and Qing dynasties, here "night photos of thousands of lights, thousands of people daily", reflecting the lively scene of material transportation and personnel in the same year. The tourists are here, as if returning to the bustling age, car water.

With the evolution of history, the past prosperity scene has long passed, especially the improvement of land transportation conditions. The only water transportation channel here has gradually faded out, and the ancient towns that were prosperous in the past gradually declined, and some ancient buildings were severely damaged. However, the full picture of the ancient town building that has been retained on the inside of the Yangsi Temple has still showed people the prosperity and prosperity of the past.

(Yao Zengzhan, Shaanxi Provincial People's Political Consultative Conference)

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