Going around, China can be regarded as a rough experience. Every time the old place of the Three Jin Dynasties comes and goes, it is too hasty. Yanmen Pass, the "China's first pass" that ranks first in the world's nine fortresses, and the ancient city of Pingyao among the four ancient cities in China, yearn for I've done it thousands of times, but it's always on one side.
Before the National Day, traveling at different peaks to avoid the turbulent crowds, it is better for me to listen quietly to these stories buried in the depths of history.
Pingyao Ancient City
After getting off the plane in Taiyuan, there are almost 20 high-speed trains from the south of Taiyuan to the ancient city of Pingyao every day, and there are many trains.
But I suggest... If you can get to Pingyao Station, don’t go to Pingyao Ancient City High-speed Railway Station. Get off at Pingyao Station and walk for more than ten minutes to reach the ancient city. If you take the Gucheng high-speed rail station, it will take about 50 minutes by bus alone...
The ancient city of Pingyao is located in Pingyao County. Its earliest history can be traced back to the period of King Xuan of the Western Zhou Dynasty. It has a history of about 2,800 years ago. It is also one of the four best-preserved ancient cities in China (Pingyao, Lijiang, Langzhong, Shexian ).
In December 1997, the ancient city of Pingyao successfully applied for the world cultural heritage with the entire ancient city, becoming one of the two ancient cities in China that became the world cultural heritage with the entire ancient city, and the other is Lijiang, Yunnan.
The ancient city of Pingyao used to be the financial center of China in the late Qing Dynasty. In the commercial history of China, the Shanxi merchants who "stretched across Europe and Asia for nine thousand miles and dominated shopping malls for five hundred years" went from this ancient city to the whole country and the world.
During the Qing Dynasty, with the development of the commercial economy, Shanxi merchants expanded their business more and more, forming a cross-regional commercial system with the head office in Shanxi and semicolons all over the country, and various problems of capital turnover followed.
There is more and more cash flow that needs to be turned over, but it can’t be transported across the country with silver every day, so there is a bank exchange, which is the early bank. The bank notes that often appear in Qing operas are the notes used for deposits and withdrawals.
At that time, Pingyao West Street was known as the first financial street in the Qing Dynasty, and there were several large-scale bank accounts on the street, including the first and largest bank account "Rishengchang" in my country that operated remittance business. .
Rishengchang is the embryonic form of my country's modern bank. It pioneered the national banking industry in China. Its branches spread all over the country. It once controlled the economic lifeline of the entire Qing Dynasty in the 19th century. It was a well-deserved financial giant at that time. It was called by Liang Qichao "Executing the leader of China's financial circles".
Under the leadership of Ri Shengchang, Pingyao’s bank business developed rapidly. At that time, there was a saying that can reflect the spirit of Shanxi merchants, “A letter of a letter is spread far away, and ten thousand taels of silver is collected.” There is no collateral for goods, and only With a single letter of faith, you can loan tens of thousands of silver cars in different places.
It is unimaginable in today's society ruled by law. After all, there are always people who take risks and study how to take advantage of legal loopholes every day.
At that time, there were 51 ticket offices in China, 22 of which were located in the ancient city of Pingyao, with semicolons as far away as Japan, India, Singapore, Russia and even Britain in Europe.
It is not a lie to connect the world. This shows the status of Pingyao in China's modern financial history.
Oh, by the way, in "Qiao's Courtyard", the Beijing Da Dexing Tea Ticket House was filmed in Rishengchang.
Before the appearance of the ticket number, the Escort Bureau also played an important role in the capital and goods turnover in the world.
Do you still remember the martial arts movie that you have seen? The bodyguards of the bodyguard bureau escorted the convoy to and fro between the mountains and rivers, dealing with all kinds of green forest heroes. In fact, thinking about it now, it seems to be the logistics and express delivery of today.
The difference from movies and TV shows is that Escorts first appeared in the Qing Dynasty, and most of them were founded by Shanxi people. The originator of the Escort is Shanxi's "Shenquan Zhang Heiwu". The more famous Escorts include the Tongxing Gong Escort established by Wang Zhengqing of Pingyao County, the Taifen Escort established by Dai Erlu of Qi County, and the Changlong Escort established by Wenshui Zuo Erba. .
The Chinese Escort Museum in Pingyao was transformed from the old Tongxing Escort Bureau.
In this ancient city, the style of literature and art is also retro and nostalgic, just like an old CD or an old yellowed photo.
The old yamen is very well preserved.
I still remember watching TV dramas when I was a child. I always felt that the yamen of the government was dilapidated and lacked any momentum. No mansion can compare.
I found out later that there was an unwritten custom of "officials do not repair government offices" in ancient times.
Why don't officials build a dignified office space for themselves? There are probably two reasons. One is that the term of office of an official is only about three to five years. There is no need for an official with an iron-clad yamen to spend this effort; Well, even if it is approved by the higher authorities, and the consumption and envy are returned to the public, this "public" will be withheld from your salary, and it will be withheld for several years, which official is willing to repair it.
If things go on like this, from the Song Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, there are many records in various historical records such as the collapse of yamen and rain leakage, which are generally repaired hastily.
More importantly, in the project approval and budget tables of the ancient imperial court, government repairs were always at the bottom of the list of "non-urgent tasks", far behind other public projects. For example, in the eighth year of Song Shenzong Xining, the imperial court "declared that in addition to building warehouses (grain depots), treasury (state treasury), store affairs (public rental housing), and taxation (tax office) houses inside and outside the capital, from the palace, Gardens, as well as hundreds of houses, temples, etc., will be shut down. After seven years, the construction of palaces, gardens, government offices, temples and Taoist temples will be stopped for basic public construction, and after seven years, whether they will be repaired or not Let's talk about it.
To give another example, during the 31st year of the Hongwu period in the Ming Dynasty, 674 schools were newly built or rebuilt in various places, while only 26 government offices were built during the same period.
It has to be said that although the practice of "officials do not repair government offices" has various drawbacks, the governing philosophy behind it is considerate of people's wealth and power, which will never go out of date.
Pingyao Formerly known as ancient pottery, the history of large-scale construction of city walls probably began in the early Ming Dynasty, when it began to be built to resist foreign disturbances.
Later, Hongwu, Jingtai, Zhengde, Jiajing, Longqing and Wanli dynasties repaired and repaired ten times, updated the towers, and added enemy towers.
Today's Pingyao City Wall has a total circumference of 6163 meters and a wall height of about 12 meters, which separates Pingyao County, which covers an area of about 2.25 square kilometers, into two worlds with very different styles.
Inside the city walls are well-preserved streets, pavements and city buildings from the Ming and Qing dynasties, while outside the city walls is a modern society full of traffic.
Classical and modern, separated by a wall, complement each other. Passing through the majestic towers is like walking through the long river of history, which makes people imagine.
It was getting late, and we drove to Yanmen Pass, more than 200 kilometers away.
The Beijing-Kunming Expressway turned to the Erguang Expressway, and the National Day traffic jam army had not yet arrived at the battlefield. In more than three hours, we arrived at Shangguan Town, the resident of Dai County County Government, next to Yanmen Pass.
I found a Xiangtu restaurant on the side of the road to make a tip, and the taste is very good.
The accommodation is also in the town, only a 20-minute drive from Yanmen Pass.
Get a good night's sleep to recharge your batteries, and you will have to hike with your camera tomorrow morning.
DAY2 Yanmen Pass
There are nine frontiers in the world, and Yanmen is the leader.
Yanmen Pass is located in Yanmen Mountain, 20 kilometers north of Daixian County, Xinzhou City, Shanxi Province. Here, there are thousands of walls and dangerous peaks, and the terrain is very dangerous. Yanmen Pass is located in the throat. It is known as "Three-Jin Throat" and "Central Plains Lock and Key".
Throughout the ages, in front of this majestic pass, too many stories and legends, gunpowder and war have happened. Listening carefully, the wind whispered, as if whispering, those glorious years in the past.
Suddenly hearing the sound of war drums, a group of imposing sergeants in battle armor walked towards us through the city gate against the sun.
More than a thousand years ago, the well-known and legendary Yang family had a deep relationship with Yanmen Pass. Yang Ye once garrisoned here for eight years to fight against Khitan.
In the cool autumn season, Yanmen Pass is the best place for hiking. There is a national-level hiking trail. The whole journey is in the Yanmen Pass Scenic Area. The scenic spots and historic sites and the spectacular mountain scenery of Yanmen Pass are all swept away.
In the shops by the roadside, there are a wide variety of local specialty snacks and snacks, and bursts of fragrance are blowing in the wind in the sun.
"Three sides are unparalleled, and Jiusai respects the first pass." The first time I read Yanmen was in "Lu Shi Chunqiu".
The earliest history of Yanmen Pass can be traced back to the Western Zhou Dynasty. At that time, Yanmen Pass was still a pass in the natural sense. In the Warring States period, it was already a famous military fortress in the world.
The "Lushi Chunqiu · Tangible", which was written at the end of the Warring States period, contains: "Nine fortresses in the world, one of which is Gouzhu", and nine fortresses refer to "Jingxing, Lingzhen, and Juyong in Hebei, Dafen, Miantuo, and Jingruan in Henan. , Fangcheng, Mixan and Shanxi's Gouzhu". Gouzhu is today's Yanmen.
During this period, three major events that affected the course of Chinese history occurred at Yanmen Pass.
The first one is in "The Biography of Emperor Mu", King Mu of Zhou is on a west tour. This is probably the earliest well-documented human activity at the Yanmen Pass. It has been more than three thousand years since the participation of Emperor Zhou, leaving traces for us to explore in the vast historical records. .
At that time, King Mu, the emperor of Zhou, was young and promising, and the Zhou Dynasty was also at its peak. King Mu of Zhou led his army to march westward on the day of Wuyin, winding like a dragon, with banners stretching to the sky, what a huge army it was. They overcame thorns and thorns all the way, crossed rocks, climbed mountains, and moved forward along the Hutuo River. No amount of wind, frost, rain and snow could stop their firm and calm steps.
Then at Yanmen, Zhou Tianzi defeated the mighty Rong tribe. Of course, the Zhou Dynasty at that time despised those uncivilized peoples and called them Dog Rong. At that time, Yanmen Pass was not called Yanmen Pass, but it was probably called Gouzhu Fortress. The army passed through the pass on the day of Jiawu, and patrolled all the way west to the present-day Xinjiang area.
The second event happened about 500 years after King Mu of Zhou went on a westward tour. Zhao Xiangzi died, and the world was shocked. At that time, the three families had not yet been divided into Jin Dynasty. The hero of the Zhao family, Zhao Xiangzi, a doctor of the Jin Dynasty, killed his brother-in-law Daiwang during the alliance in order to prosper the Zhao family, and seized the land. That murder took place on the mountain next to Yanmen Pass.
Unexpectedly, more than two hundred years later, Zhang Yi of "Lianheng" revealed this disgraceful past by virtue of his sharp tongue, thereby alienating the Yanzhao alliance and laying the foundation for the final victory of the Qin Dynasty.
At that time, the State of Zhao was the last front of the Central Plains. It had alone carried the Central Plains against Qiang Qin for more than a hundred years. With the disbandment of the Yanzhao Alliance, no one could resist Qiang Qin's offensive.
The third thing is the event that made Zhao Guo the leader of the Central Plains-"Hu Fu Riding and Shooting" by King Zhao Wuling.
King Zhao Wuling's father, Zhao Suhou, is also known as a hero of the previous generation. During his reign, he beat up the surrounding forces all over the place. During the Warring States Period, King Qiwei was the wisest among the successive princes of Qi State, and King Wei Hui, who was militaristic, traveled like wind. Loufan and other ethnic minorities, as well as Qin, which has gradually risen after more than 30 years of political reform, have not been dealt with by him?
As a result, when Zhao Suhou died, he was surrounded by a pack of wolves. The five families of Wei, Chu, Qin, Yan, and Qi sent troops to the funeral, and the ambition of wolves was clearly revealed. The fifteen-year-old King Zhao Wuling also strives for success. With the help of his ministers, he thwarted this round of conspiracy, and then reformed and reformed.
And Yanmen Pass is where he resisted the intrusion of Loufan and other ethnic minorities going south, and it is also the place where Zhao Guo learned from other ethnic groups and started "Hufu riding and shooting".
From the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Warring States Period, around this majestic and majestic pass, there were so many beacon fires and so many beacon fires.
On the city wall, actors wearing costumes of Khitan and other ethnic minorities are performing.
The actors in Hanfu played the pipa quietly. For more than 2,000 years, Yanmen has been closed, and the ethnic minorities in the north and the Han people in the Central Plains have played the leading roles in history.
As one of the most important military fortresses in northern China, it has always affected the most sensitive nerves of the Central Plains dynasties.
Read Yanmen Pass again, it is in the great man.
In the Han Dynasty, Yanmen Pass also had two famous events in history.
The first is the shame of the Han Dynasty, the siege of Baideng. In the sixth year of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, Mao Dun, the hero of the Xiongnu, personally led 400,000 elite cavalry to invade the border. Liu Bang, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, had to drive himself to conquer, and 300,000 imperial troops were stationed at Yanmen Pass.
This was the most spectacular decisive battle between the Huns and the Han in history. Unfortunately, Han Gaozu finally fell into the Huns' trick to lure the enemy. For seven days and seven nights, in a desperate situation, he only got out of trouble by bribing Mao Dun's wife, and from then on he had to start the road of marriage.
Since then, outside the Yanmen Pass, the sobs of women from the Central Plains looking at their homes have been heard from time to time.
The second is the well-known Zhaojun going out of the fortress.
The Xiongnu, who were bewitched by their relatives, still often violated borders. After the rule of Wenjing, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty finally launched a war of revenge against the Xiongnu.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent thousands of people to excavate Yanmen Pass, and then the army went north from Yanmen to point at the Xiongnu. After two Shanxi generals, Wei Qing and champion Hou Huo Qubing, two Shanxi generals made thirteen northern expeditions, chasing death and chasing the north. Finally vented his useless anger.
In this way, the Xiongnu split into the Southern Huns and the Northern Huns. The Northern Huns went to Europe to dominate the Roman Empire, while the Southern Huns attached themselves to the Han Dynasty but went back and forth from time to time.
The Xiongnu was disabled and the national treasury was emptied. As the relationship between the Han and the Huns tended to ease, marriage was put on the daily routine again. The Southern Xiongnu Shanyu went to Chang'an to beg for a marriage. This time, one of the four beauties appeared Zhaojun, the "Luoyan" in "Closing the moon to shame the flowers, sinking fish and falling geese".
But at that time, Wang Zhaojun was not well-known for her beauty. She was neglected in the palace because she offended the painter.
At that time, the marriage route was all the way to the north, passing through Linfen and Taiyuan, passing through Yanmen Pass and Datong, and going north to Shahukou to Inner Mongolia.
Legend has it that Wang Zhaojun was painted ugly because he offended the painter Mao Yanshou, so he hid in the deep palace and no one knew about it. It was too late when Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty regretted it greatly, and there was an idiom allusion of "painters abandoning the market".
Since the millennium, the past is like smoke. I stood on the city wall and looked north. My eyes were blurred by thoughts, and the autumn sun was warm.
When Zhaojun stepped out of the Yanmen Pass, she was in such a sad mood, did she stop and look back, she would never return to her hometown, she would never go back to her hometown, and the rest of her life was doomed to be homeless and ups and downs.
Does she resent the indifference and ruthlessness of the big man, the tall city walls can't stop the cavalry of the Huns, and the peace of the country falls on her tender shoulders.
All kinds of complex emotions have turned into the sustenance of poets through the ages to express emotions through ancient times. Li Bai, Du Fu, Du Mu, Liu Changqing, Wang Anshi, Luo Binwang and others have all written about Zhaojun going out of the frontier. My favorite is Liu Changqing's "Song of Wang Zhaojun" ":
Conceited and arrogant, disregarding Danqing people.
Unexpectedly, Fenhui can bear the burden, but it made Ronghua turn over by mistake.
After getting on the horse and saying goodbye to the king to marry the arrogant prisoner, Yuyan said nothing to the king.
The north wind and geese are rushing to float the clouds and autumn, and the Yellow River can only be seen for thousands of miles.
The slender waist is no longer favored by the Han Palace, and the two moths grow to Hu Tianchou.
There are many bitter tones in the strings of the pipa, and the sounds of Xiao Xiao and Qiang flute are harmonious.
Whoever pities a piece of music spread to Yuefu can make Qianqiu hurt Qiluo.
What people need is the thousand-year-old beauty of "Luoyan" beauty standing on the majestic pass, and the great feelings of a generation of strange women who care about their homeland and the world. Because of her, the beacon fire outside Yanmen Pass disappeared for sixty years.
But who has ever cared, her thoughts, her mood, the pain in her heart, these are also the pains of China, the wounds of China.
History is incomprehensible, but the Emperor of Han was not a grass and tree. Zhaojun's delicate back disappeared in the depths of the windy and sandy desert. Emperor Han Yuan changed his reign name from Jianzhao to Jingning, which meant "border tranquility".
I don't understand, at that time, the great Han Dynasty, facing the disintegrating Xiongnu, the aloof Han Emperor, and the humiliating Hu Hanxie Chanyu, so longed for the tranquility of the border?
All I know is that three months later, Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty, who was in his prime, passed away on a lingering sick day in a summer full of durian flowers.
Internally, he has lost authority, while externally he is close to Wei Ning, the stagnation and pain in his heart may only be clear to him.
Yanmen Pass is the "pass of Jueyu" when King Mu of Zhou visited the west, the "Yanmen Danger" that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent ten thousand people to control, and the local people called it the "Gouzhu Fortress" of iron-wrapped gates.
Later, Yanmenguan was the southern barrier of the Northern Wei Dynasty. The name Yanmenguan first appeared in the fourth year of Taichang in the Northern Wei Dynasty. Later, the famous ancient geographer Li Daoyuan wrote "Shui Jing Zhu" and maps of the Northern Wei Dynasty. : "Nine frontiers in the world, Yanmen is the head."
In the Sui and Tang Dynasties, officials in charge of Yanmen Pass finally appeared, and there were official records about the establishment of the pass in the "Book of Tang", and the East and West Xing Passes were collectively called Yanmen Pass. So far, the well-known name of Yanmenguan has stood high in the historical smoke after Tang Dynasty.
However, compared with the Qin, Han, Song and Ming Dynasties, looking at the Tang Dynasty, not to mention the Yanmen Pass, the many fortifications actually played little role. They just blocked the Turks when the dynasty was first established, and it was over.
Why do you say? If someone provoked them, they would send troops to destroy them. It would be good to build a Dufu mansion in place. There are so many things.
After looking through the history books for a long time, I found out that during the Anshi Rebellion in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, Guo Ziyi led an army over the Dongxing Pass and entered Hebei. At this time, military strategists from all walks of life in the Tang Dynasty discovered that Yanmen Pass could still be used for surprise troops to rush in, and its military strategic status has also become higher and higher.
One of the masterpieces of poet Li He, "Yanmen Taishou Xing", which shocked his year-end friend Han Yu, one of the eight great masters of Tang and Song Dynasties, is a description of the frontier scenery of Yanmen Pass and the ever-changing war situation:
Black clouds overwhelm the city and want to destroy it, and Jiaguang opens to the golden scales of Japan.
The sound of horns fills the sky in the autumn scenery, stuffed with swallow fat and night purple.
The half-rolled red flag is facing Yishui, the frost is heavy, the drum is cold, and there is no sound.
Report to the king on the gold platform, and support the jade dragon to die for the king.
The most exciting drama was in the Northern Song Dynasty. Yanmen Mountain was the dividing line between Song and Liao at that time, and Yanmen Pass was the throat of the Song Dynasty. Throughout the history of the Northern Song Dynasty, Yanmen Pass was always filled with smoke.
It is the border guarded by the generals of the Yang family in folklore. According to historical records, the "Invincible General" Yang Ye and other Song Dynasty generals repelled Khitan's southward invasion for an unknown number of times, but the decadent Northern Song Dynasty failed to stop it in the end. Jurchen horseshoe.
Further on, Yanmen Pass was the fortress of the Ming Dynasty against Oara, and the bridgehead of the Yongxi Northern Expedition in the Qing Dynasty. The ancients surrounded Yanmen and built a rare in the world. Daizhou Ancient City and Thirty-Nine Forts and Twelve-linked City are grand national defense military projects with deep defense.
Such a large and magnificent defense project is rare in ancient and modern times.
Have you ever remembered that in 1937, the great victory at Pingxingguan, one of the 18 passes of Yanmen, and the burning of Yangmingbao Airport at Yanmenguan, dealt a heavy blow to the arrogance of the Japanese invaders and inspired the determination of the Chinese people to resist foreign aggression.
Jin Bo was once drunk in Yanmen Prefecture, and there was a June autumn in the world.
The ancient mountains and rivers are fortified, and the wind and moon enter the south building at four o'clock.
The Han family fought for thousands of miles, and the hero of the Tang Dynasty was Tu Yiqiu.
Department of Ma Zhu Lan back, who is fishing in Yanbo.
From Qin's attack on the Xiongnu, Tang's resistance to the Turks, Song's imperial Khitan, and Ming's defense against Wa'a, billowing smoke and beacons have been floating over Yanmen for more than 2,000 years. As the gateway to the Central Plains, generations of heroes and emperors such as Li Mu, Li Guang, Xue Rengui, Li Keyong, Yang Jiajiang, Dai Wang, Zhao Wuling, Han Gaozu Liu Bang, Sui Yangdi Yang Jian, etc., performed many impassioned and eternal swan songs at Yanmen Pass !
From the Great Qin Dynasty to the Republic of China, for a long time, the majestic Yanmen Gate, in addition to fire, is blood, around this grand gate of the world, there are so many long songs, so many joys and sorrows.
The years have passed, the curtain of history has fallen, and the smoke and flames of war that linger in history have already moved farther and farther away and gradually dissipated. I stroked the mottled brick wall, but what came to my mind was Fan Zhongyan's "The Pride of the Fisherman" ":
Autumn comes under the plug, the scenery is different, and the geese go to Hengyang without paying attention. There are sounds from all sides, and thousands of miles away, the long smoke sets and the lonely city closes.
A glass of turbid wine is home for thousands of miles, and Yan Ran has no plan to return. The Qiang pipe is long and frosty all over the ground, people can't sleep, the general's white hair is crying for his husband's tears.
Although the location is slightly different, it is quite suitable for the occasion, nothing more than one is Khitan and the other is Dangxiang. The artistic conception of this que, if you pick out a sentence at random, can surpass "Chile Song" by far more than a thousand.
I only hope that the world will be peaceful, that all directions will be peaceful, that I will live forever in China, that I will live forever!
Ying County Wooden Pagoda
In the ancient East, there is a historical site as precious as Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
This is one of the "Three Great Towers in the World" together with the Leaning Tower of Pisa and the Eiffel Tower.
After we came out of Yanmen Pass, we drove to the Fogong Temple in the north of Ying County, Shuozhou, more than 100 kilometers away, to visit this thousand-year-old pagoda.
Yingxian Wooden Pagoda was built in the second year of Liao Qingning (1056 A.D.) and has a history of thousands of years. It is the tallest and oldest wooden pagoda building in China. It inherits the heavy buildings with national characteristics since the Han and Tang Dynasties. The form, the whole body is pure wood structure, without nails or rivets, but it has survived thousands of years without decay, immortality, or collapse. It is known as a wonder in the history of world architecture.
Since the 1930s, after 80 years of research in the construction industry, it has been discovered that, first of all, from a structural point of view, the structure of the wooden tower is very scientific and reasonable, with a combination of mortise and tenon, hardness and softness, and a significant energy consumption and shock absorption effect.
From the perspective of the foundation, the foundation soil of the wooden tower is mainly composed of clay and sand, and the engineering geological conditions are very good, and its bearing capacity is far greater than the weight of the wooden tower itself. The most interesting thing is that every summer, thousands of swallows will settle on the pagoda and eat up the moths in the wooden pagoda. The pagoda is the most talked about reality "myth" by the sacred Yingxian people.
There are also two Buddha tooth relics of Sakyamuni enshrined in the pagoda, which are contained in the silver profiles of two seven treasures. After Shakyamuni passed away, seven tooth relics were left behind. According to the research of Buddhist scholars, the two tooth relics enshrined in Yingxian Wooden Pagoda should be the fast-moving Rakshasa place recorded in the "Mahaparinirvana Sutra". A pair of Buddha teeth stolen in stealth.
Ten years of China sees Shenzhen, 100 years of China sees Shanghai, 1,000 years of China sees Beijing, 3,000 years of China sees Shaanxi, 5,000 years of China sees Shanxi.
Walking through the old place of the Jin Dynasty is like walking through the long history of three thousand years. The setting sun in the sky is like blood, and the banners on the city head are flying. So many stories and legends, all turn into clouds and smoke with the afterglow gradually dissipating.
Everything is gone, only the years are long, and the wind is still whispering, those smoky past events that have been buried in the wind and sand of history are waiting for you to listen, seek, and remember.
