Why is the most underestimated city in Guangxi?

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Talking about the city in Guangxi, except for Guilin, which is already well -known enough, and Nanning, the capital that we have to mention, we should not ignore the most is the heavy town in the north of the autonomous region-

Liuzhou

Panorama in Liuzhou City.

Photography/Ganlin

Now I know many people in Liuzhou, but most of them are because of snail powder. However, if you have the opportunity to notice that when others mention the landscape of Guilin, the kind of unknown disdain that a Liuzhou face muscles appear, and when you hold Wuling Automobile, two -sided needle toothpaste, and television, hold a golden throat and throat treasure. The smiling Ronaldo, one time with this "small city" that is neither the provincial capital, nor the "Jiatianxia", you will realize:

This is really a city of inner show in the stereotype. Although, even in Guangxi, which has a low sense of existence, Liuzhou has not been confused, but its thick internal force and the stunning layers of layers can definitely give those who only know that it have snail powder. Cognitive impact.

In the name of Liu:

The puzzlement of Liuzhou and Liu

The name of Liuzhou is nice. Liu is a slim and soft wood. Among the stars in the sky, there are eight stars in the mouth of Suzaku in the south, arranged in grace, like a willow leaf, which is for Liu Su. Some people think that the word "Liu" in Liujiang and Liuzhou is due to the corresponding geography and stars.

The area where Liuzhou is located has a magnificent Karst landform, which is the Mount Karst in Luzhai County, Liuzhou.

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Some people also said that Liu Jiang was turbulent. Such evidences naturally lack a lot of romance. Fortunately, no one knows which one is correct.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, a Lu state became a "male moral benchmark" at the time with a non -chaotic frankness. Because he food at Liu Xia, he called him Liu Xiahui, and was the ancestor of Liu. His descendant Liu Zongyuan is a palace -level figure in the history of Chinese literature. Due to a political reform that was young, the great poet was long -term degraded in the south of the south. And Liuzhou is the last stop of his life.

Liuzhou's geographical location in Guangxi.

Map/Sun Lu

That year, the big poet who was sad and sick was by the Liujiang River, leading the local people to practice his agricultural reform project. He saw a vibrant, the situation was happy, and he was in a happy mood. He wrote the first poem. Yes:

"Liuzhou Liu Chi History, planting the Liu Liu River."

The four willow characters overlap like this, which is the mysteries of history. One year later, Liu Chongshi died of illness in Liuzhou. His talent entered the room and was respected into the "Tang and Song Eight Everyone" by later generations. Liuzhou, the "Baiyue Tattoo Land" in this epic poem, also gradually incorporated into the Chinese cultural circle.

Liu Zongyuan sculpture in Liuzhou City.

Photography/Zhou Jian

It can be said that Liu Zongyuan's arrival is the first luck of this Lingnan Jiangcheng, but it is by no means the last time.

The former "coffin city":

How does the river be blessed in Liuzhou?

In the age of Liu Chong, Liuzhou is undoubtedly deserted. What really made the city show the coffin in history.

There are rumors that Liu Zongyuan's body was sent back to Shaanxi that year. Wars became famous.

Mountains in the Liuzhou River are rich in wood.

Figure/People's Vision

Needless to say, like the Emperor Qianlong's Jiangnan food, this story is probably made up by the coffin merchants of the descendants. But one fact is: since the Song Dynasty. Due to its absolutely reliable quality, Liuzhou coffin has indeed become famous and has become the most popular funeral utensils in the country.

To this day, the coffin has become the deepest cultural symbol of Liuzhou. A Liuzhou people who sincerely wish you a coffin crafts as a gift will be given to you. A small and exquisite coffin, in the living room, placed in the front of the car, promoted to get rich, opened the house. No one feels wrong. Under the immersion of the coffin culture for hundreds of years, Liuzhou people have already learned the death of this narrow wooden box with the most frank gesture.

Master of Liuzhou Shoucai Workshop is processing Shoucai.

Photography/Zhou Jian

The reason why Liuzhou's coffin is superior and exported to the world is the foundation of this city.

Let's take a look at the status of Liuzhou in the entire Guangxi water transport system: In the domain of Liuzhou, the three water volume of the three water volume of Longjiang, Rongjiang, and Luoqing River remitted it into Liujiang, that is, Liuzhou is the place where the Sanjiang water is gathered, so then The water, people, and things on the upper reaches of the three rivers are naturally gathered in Liuzhou.

The upper reaches of Liuzhou Sanjiang Water shows.

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Let's look at the details of Liuzhou's urban geography: In the magnificent Karster peaks in the north of Guangxi, Liuzhou is located in a relatively flat Gui East Basin. Like Guilin, except those who are dotted in the city and are used as natural citizen parks, they are used as natural citizen parks The beautiful Shifeng, Liuzhou as a whole. Here, Liu Jiang went directly to a large bend of nearly ninety degrees. This twists and turns of riverside was a typical "affectionate water" on feng shui, and the most gathered to raise qi.

The center of Liuzhou City has almost never changed for thousands of years, because this "pot city" that is pocked by Liu Jiang, the ground spirit and water show: to keep people, get affordable, do buy and sell Wang clan.

Winding through Liujiang in Liuzhou City.

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It is not difficult to know that at that time, the premium bearded of the villagers from the upper reaches of the Liujiang River was distributed from the merchant ship to the Liuzhou City of Tibetan wind. The business craftsman inherited from the city for generations, opened the shop, processed and sold it, and gradually formed a cluster of the coffin industry. The Xijiang Basin that Liujiang communicates is the most important (even the only important) water transportation channel in Guangxi. It can directly reach Guangzhou Port to the sea, and the north can communicate with the Xiangjiang River and the Yangtze River through the Lingqu. The materials can be available, the goods can be sold, and a complete coffin industry chain is naturally formed.

The smooth Liujiang, since ancient times, has been an excellent channel.

Photography/Zhou Jian

Such geographical advantages are of course not only cheap coffin. As the most popular town on the entire Xijiang route, after the renovation of the soil, Liuzhou gradually became a veritable cities of the dock commercial port. The famous "pier culture" of Wuhan and Chongqing on the Yangtze River also existed in Liuzhou.

Water buses on the Liujiang River today.

Photography/Fan Kejun

The fierce Huxiang habits in the north also followed the businessmen along the river, which made Liuzhou permeate the wind. You know, until now, the official words that Liuzhou and Guilin people in the Guidong Basin River can communicate with many people in Hubei and Sichuan.

Immigration has also brought taste changes. Many foreigners think that Guangxi people can eat spicy, and the stereotypes are actually from Liuzhou snails. This really distorted many Guangxi people. In fact, many places in Guangxi do not eat spicy food, especially in the southeast of Guangxi, where the food and food are very rich, people's food tastes light and sophisticated. Only Liuzhou and Guilin in Northeast Gui were dyed by Huxiang's cultural aggression, and they turned their heads with a spicy reputation.

Sour and spicy snail powder soup base.

Photography below/Wu ​​Xuewen

What's more interesting is that Liuzhou not only retains immigrants, but also has the ability to export immigrants in large quantities.

In the old town of Ganzhou, Jiangxi, which is 700 kilometers away and Hakka, people speak the same dialect as Liuzhou people. This is the famous "Ganzhou Dialect Island" in linguistics. Today, probably because the power is too thin, Ganzhou Dialect Island is gradually being eroded by the surrounding dialects, showing a trend of death. More and more people who grew up in the old town of Ganzhou have claimed that only when traveling in Liuzhou can they find "when they were young, they could find" when they were young, a feeling of".

The market scene of Liuzhou.

Photography/Wu Xuewen

In short, the vertical and horizontal river nets, Lin Li's docks, prosperous commercial ports and immigrants, these restless energy and things make Liuzhou's local territory tolerance and agility. This open -free atmosphere has also cultivated deep soil for the future industrial development of the city.

What the people need, what do we create

Modern industrial civilization is in the Liuzhou, on the one hand, starting with the New Gui warlords investing in factories here; on the other hand, it is inseparable from the construction of the railway. You know, like the ancient river, the modern railway is also particularly favored by this beautiful small city of Gui.

Liujiang Iron Bridge.

During the War of Resistance Against Japan, Liuzhou's engineers spliced ​​out the Liujiang Iron Bridge by limit under the condition that the materials were scarce, and the Guizhou and Guizhou Railway intends. This directly establishes the position of transportation hub in Guangxi and even southwest of Liuzhou. After the founding of New China, Liuzhou became the starting point of the Jiao Liu Line. These factors have led to a long time, the Liuzhou Railway Bureau is the only railway bureau in China that is not in the provincial capital.

Liuzhou Railway Transportation Location.

Map/Sun Lu

Since the 1930s, under the dual blessing of political forces and transportation systems, Liuzhou has begun to enter the industrialization rushing advancement.

In the 1950s, Chairman Mao personally patted it. A large number of factories and workers from Shanghai, Wuhan and other super cities successively migrated to Liuzhou. This time, industrial immigrants had a profound impact on Liuzhou. It is said that at least half of Liuzhou people are currently the descendants of Shanghai workers.

Factory and mountains in Liuzhou.

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Liuzhou became a city of factory in an absolute sense. Whether it is a heavy -duty factory such as steel and machinery, or a large or small light industrial factory area such as textiles and daily necessities, as long as you can want the factory form that you can want, it can almost find it in the small Liuzhou that year.

The chimneys of the factory are towering into the clouds with the Karst peaks next to it. The large dormitory area is scattered on both sides of the Liujiang River. Essence

Industrial landscape in Liuzhou City.

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By the 1980s, the Liuzhou factory, which precipitated the deep internal power of the Republic's manufacturing industry, began to outbreak of powerful strength: from mechanical parts such as bearing and gear, to daily necessities such as toothpaste, soap, and electric fans. Everything is made, everything makes money. "This small Guangxi city can not only be self -sufficient, but also sells well in the country. The convenience and superiority of citizens' lives is not lost to any traditional prosperous city.

Made in Liuzhou, pragmatism.

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The biggest features of these industries bred in Liuzhou's localism are practical first, dexterous and capable. And the great achievement of integrating this idea is undoubtedly the Liuzhou automotive industry that shouted "what the people need, what do we create".

The history of Liuzhou's production of cars is very long, and the earliest dates back to the warlord period. Liuzhou Machinery Factory and its derivatives have successively produced charcoal trucks, aircraft, diesel engines, tractors, and even sewing machines. Since the 1980s, the Liuzhou Drag Machine Factory began to turn to researchers' vans. Because their main imitation objects were Mitsubishi Basic, they became a bigger name than Mitsubishi: Wuling. Today's Liuzhou Baojun Automobile Production Base.

Photography/Zhou Jian

At the beginning of the century, like many domestic car brands, Wuling encountered a bottleneck in engine technology. After some weighing, Wuling decided to send most of the equity to foreign capital for core technologies. The only condition is to leave all supporting manufacturers in Liuzhou.

Later the storytelling knows that the van produced by SAIC -GM Wuling perfectly inherits the essence of Liuzhou's industrial benefits and convenience. Wuling Hongguang was named a generation of magic cars, galloping the world, and became the most reliable partner of countless workers.

Liuzhou SAIC -GM Wuling's production workshop.

Photography/Lu Yu

Today, Liuzhou, the so -called "small and medium" city of the four million population, is one of the four major automobile cities in China, and it is also the only city in China that has four major automotive group production bases at the same time.

Walking on the streets of Liuzhou today, you will directly feel its unique landscape as a car city: here are all small electric vehicles produced by Baojun or Wuling. In this city, do n’t even primary school students hold a driver's license?

Small electric vehicles on the streets of Liuzhou.

Photography/Zhou Jian

If you immigrate to Liuzhou now, the first thing is of course to buy such a car for 40,000 yuan (including government subsidies), it is easy to charge, small and flexible, and most importantly, it enjoys in this city. Nearly utopian -style wonderful treatment, everyone drove the same car, so there is no comparison or discrimination. You drove it through the bridge one by one, tasted the family of pink shops, and the four banks of the Liujiang River. Said, this is a very attractive life state.

As a city of Guangxi, of course, there is no shortage of electric two -wheeled vehicles on the streets of Liuzhou.

In addition to the Cyberpunk cars in this place, Liuzhou also has many urban landscapes with the same industrial characteristics. For example, there are solar charging boards on the trash can, which allows the butterfly pattern on the barrel to glow at night. For example, the number of high -rise buildings in Liuzhou is extremely large, and the number of high -rise buildings higher than 20 floors exceeds 1,300 buildings. The Diwang Building in Liuzhou, 303 meters high, a total of 72 floors. It is the first 300+ high -rise building in the provincial capital cities in Southwest African. It is also the earliest tallest building in Guangxi. When a foreigner walks into the elevator, he often feels stubborn and can't help but sigh. He can't think of a small Liuzhou. The development of urban construction is stronger than many provincial capital cities.

Of course not only snail powder

Liuzhou is not a typical tourist city. Even today, there is no shared bicycle in the city. But it is lying on the list of many senior travelers. You know, those old travelers come not only for snail powder.

Don't forget that Guangxi is an autonomous region, and there are a large number of ethnic minorities in Liuzhou.

Photography/Zhou Jian

First of all, if you want to see the unique cities in the world, the most typical Guilin, which is the most typical Guilin, is definitely worth seeing. It should be said that except for Liuzhou's wonders without Guilin Xiangbi Mountain, these two cities have their own advantages in terms of average perception.

The problem of industrial pollution has indeed troubled Liuzhou in the past, but after nearly thirty years of governance, this city has basically no pollution problem.

Liuzhou citizens' colorful water activities.

Photography/Zhou Jian

It is difficult to imagine that such a city with heavy industry as the pillar, the quality of the surface water has ranked first in the country for many years. Every year, Liujiang will host various world -class water sports competitions. If you are an experienced swimmer, you can jump into Liujiang to swim with confidence.

It is said that there are more than 300,000 bauhinia in Liuzhou City. Every year in April, the flowers are full of sprouts and gorgeous. When the flowers were falling, the Liujiang River was turbulent, the petals fluttered, and the peaks of the mountains, the water on the water shore, and the red ten miles were particularly stunning. It can be said that the shock of Liuzhou flowers is no less than any city in China that is famous for flowers.

Bauhinia blooming on the streets of Liuzhou.

Photography/Zhou Jian

Of course, as a bowl of cities in the sea in a bowl of snail powder, food is naturally a topic that can not hide from Liuzhou.

As I said earlier, discussing the food in Guangxi is a very complicated project. It is not a typical province that can summarize a unified diet style. As for this deeply influence of Huxiang culture, in the traditional color of the traditional taste, due to its strong immigration and industrial attributes, the most important feature of food here is the integration.

Citizens of the streets of Liuzhou.

Photography/Wu Xuewen

The birth of the snail powder is the best example: Liuzhou workers who are nine to five to five fifth in love to eat supper. At the supper stall next to the dormitory of the factory area, everyone who eats the snail pot is still unreasonable. The most common rice noodles are the earliest snail powder.

Liuzhou has a broad vision and openness. They will not tell you any "authentic", "rules", "authentic", as long as the taste is unacceptable.

Snail powder.

Photography/Lu Yuyu, for example, if you come to Liuzhou to eat snail powder and want to find "the most authentic", then there is absolutely no. The snail powder of each family is different. Some people focus on the fragrance of Tian snails. Some people love the thick bone soup. In the past two years, the best snail powder sold in the local area has changed from traditional soup powder to "fried snail powder" ... In short, this young food is still in a rapid evolutionary state in Liuzhou. No one knows what the snail powder will look like ten years later.

Snail duck feet.

Photography/Liuzhou Simi, Figure/Figure Worm · Creative

The supper culture of Liuzhou is still prosperous, and the snails are still a must -order food on the desk of Liuzhou's supper. The sweet and glutinous Lipu taro and the long strip tofu full of soup give this pot of the endless cohesion. The night was deep, the Jiangfeng, three or five friends gathered to the alley, snails, duck feet, baked a dozen oysters, stir -fry a few bowls of snail powder. night.

Liujiang Night.

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It is a relatively concealed in the world all year round, and Liuzhou people are more cold -looking. In the current situation, no one knows in the change of the situation, what surprises will this country give birth to the ancient cities that are gathered in this country.

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