I heard that the ancient city of Luanzhou in Hebei has attracted more and more tourists because of its unique tourism resources in recent years. This can't help but remind the reporter that from July 2011 to June 2013, the reporter went to the ancient city of Luanzhou many times to collect wind, and witnessed the rapid development of this ancient city in the early stage from one side.
I remember that the first time I came to Luanzhou was on July 8, 2011. The reporter and his party drove to Luan County, Hebei Province, which is more than 200 kilometers away from Beijing. The ancient city of Luanzhou, which embodies the harmony of natural scenery and cultural landscape, therefore went to explore.
Our cultural tour of the ancient city of Luanzhou started with a visit to the Luanxian Museum located in the Luanxian Cultural Square. Accompanied by Mr. Zhao Wuying, secretary to the chairman of Tangshan Luanzhou Ancient Town at that time, and Mr. Liang Zhonghui, planning director, we got a chance to fully understand the thousand-year history and cultural development of Luanzhou in the museum.
Located on the west side of Luanxian Cultural Square, Luanxian Museum is also called Luanzhou Museum of Cultural Relics. The overall design of the museum is unique and novel. The main exhibition hall is located underground, with the indoor hall in the middle and long white marble relief murals on both sides of the outdoor hall. wall. Entering the museum, there is an open courtyard in front of you. Walking down the steps from the right side of the courtyard, there is an east-west direction, a relief mural wall showing the historical development of Luan County. On both sides of the entire passage, there are lifelike reliefs of historical figures and event scrolls, vividly showing the cultural development history of Luanzhou from ancient times to the present for more than 3,000 years.
From the relief mural wall on the north side of the cultural museum, you can enter the indoor hall for a visit. A series of cultural relics, pictures, texts, sculpture groups, sand tables and other carriers are displayed in the museum, showing the origin and development of Luanzhou to the visitors. Eloquently. After coming out from the south side of the museum, there are still long relief walls on both sides of the south passage that is displayed in front of tourists. The visit to the entire museum is not successfully concluded until after seeing the relief wall on the south side. The Luanzhou Cultural Museum and his party made people think a lot after watching it, and they all marveled at the millennium development history of Luanzhou.
Luan County, known as Luanzhou in ancient times, is located in the east of Tangshan City, on the west bank of Luan River at the southern foot of Yanshan Mountain. According to the "History of Liao? Geography" contains: This ancient Huangluo City. Surrounded by the Luan River... Taizu set up Luanzhou as a captive household. Since 923 AD, her jurisdiction has almost covered the entire southeastern Hebei region including Tangshan. In 1913, Luanzhou was changed to Luan County, and both the prefecture and the county got their names from the Luan River.
Luanzhou has a long history and profound heritage. It is the seat of Guzhu Kingdom, one of the earliest enfeoffed vassal states in China during the Yin and Shang Dynasties. The state was established in the second year of Liao Tianzan (923 AD), with a history of more than 3,500 years. From Qin to Qing, 18 emperors visited Luanzhou 37 times. It is the birthplace of Yiqi Rangguo and Old Horse Knowing the Way, and it was once the place where "Guan Xuedong Comes" was promoted.
The Luanzhou Uprising of 1911 broke out here, and Li Dazhao called it "the memorial site of history!"; here is the decision-making place of Zhang Xueliang's "Northeast Changing Banner"; here is the Luanhe Railway Bridge, the first bridge in China designed and built by Zhan Tianyou; here It is the birthplace of "Three Branches of Flowers in Eastern Jidong" Luanzhou shadow play, Pingju opera and paper-cutting, among which shadow play was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. Huang Suzhi, the founder of Luanzhou Shadow Puppetry, Jin Kaifang, one of the founders of Pingju, and Bai Yushuang, a performing artist of Pingju, are all from Luan County.
All of the above can be vividly reflected in the Luanzhou Cultural Museum through different exhibition forms and carriers. What impressed the reporter most was a lighting sand table that reflected the urban construction and development of Luan County. Through the electronic demonstrator, the old city and new city of Luan County can be vividly displayed in front of people's eyes through lighting and plastic arts.
After leaving the Luanzhou Cultural Museum, drive a few kilometers east to the bank of the Luan River. It is said that the mountains and rivers are beautiful and the scenery is beautiful, and the flowing water of the Luan River is extremely beautiful among the green fields and lush vegetation on both sides. The car drove along the embankment road along the bank, looking through the window, you can have a panoramic view of the beautiful scenery on both sides of the Luan River.
Luan River, called Rushui in ancient times, is one of the largest rivers in North China. Originated in the northern part of Hebei Province, at the northern foot of Bayangurtu Mountain in Zhangjiakou City, it flows north into the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Then it turned sharply to the southeast and entered the northeast of Hebei Province, and continued to flow southeast into the Bohai Sea, with a total length of 885 kilometers and a total drainage area of 44,600 square kilometers, basically all in Hebei Province.
The main tributaries are Wulie River and Qinglong River. In Tangshan City, the total length is 207 kilometers, which is a relatively long section of the Luan River. The scenery along the Luan River is beautiful. Li Daoyuan once mentioned the "Qinghammer Peak" beside the Wulie River, a tributary of Rushui (the ancient name of the Luan River), in "Shui Jing Zhu".
The reporter and his party drove along the embankment avenue, and stopped near the foot of Yanshan Mountain and came to the bank. The riverbed here is relatively wide and the scenery is pleasant. Mr. Zhao Wuying pointed to some scenes of boating in the river and introduced to the reporter: We will build two piers No. 1 and No. 2 on the Luan River, and customize several large tourist boats. merchant ships; there are also cruise ships that carry out projects such as freshwater baths and are specially used for water tourism.
At the same time, the ancient city of Luanzhou also uses the Qinglong River, a tributary of the Luan River, as the axis of national culture, showing the diversity of "river" culture. In the future, buildings along the river will adopt a unified architectural style and form, marking the harmony and unity of the Chinese nation. Xunluan Street divides the circular channel of Qinglong River into two parts, the north and the south. The south channel and the north channel respectively display the different cultural characteristics of the south and north of China, including the different catering culture, clothing culture, song and dance culture, and totem culture in the north and south. , wine culture, architectural painting and bridge culture, etc. Based on the Luanhe culture, do it fully and thoroughly.
On the banks of the Luan River, the journalists and accompanying comrades Zhao Wuying, Liang Zhonghui, Yang Hui and other comrades from the ancient city of Luanzhou took our first group photo of our trip in Luanzhou, and then we drove up the mountain along the Panshan Road of Yanshan , the car has been driving to the Wenfeng Pagoda on the mountain.
Group photo by the Luan River
It is said that the Luanhe Bridge located in Luan County, Hebei Province is the only way to go from Guannei to the northeast. When the train passed the Luan River, looking south, I saw a row of green peaks stretching across the west bank of the Luan River. It was originally named Yanjue Mountain, which is now Yanshan Mountain.
Yanshan is very much like a crouching tiger, with its head held high against the sky in the east, its head screaming; its middle is strong, its waist is steady; its west is round and thick, its buttocks are plump. Its shape and momentum seem to have a tiger tail stretched in the air, with its forelimbs stretching towards the Luan River and its hind legs crouching on the ground, so it has always been called "Yanshan Huju".
Climbing up Yanshan Mountain, you can see that the railings on both sides of the mountain are covered with red ribbons. These red ribbons symbolize the symbol of young people in love who will forever form a vow of one heart. They flutter gently in the breeze, like A unique landscape on Yanshan Mountain is extremely eye-catching. Another eye-catching sight is the Wenfeng Pagoda standing on Yanshan Mountain.
The Wenfeng Pagoda on Yanshan Mountain also has a long history according to textual research. It can be traced back to the period of Liao Shizong Yeluyuan (947-951), when a tower was built on the top of the mountain. The base of the tower was made of cotton stone, and the upper part was a blue brick structure. The tower is 20 meters high, divided into 13 floors, triangular, facing south and backing north. On the front, there is a regular script "Wenfeng Pagoda" carved in stone. "Chongxiao Han" is engraved on the left, and "Lingyun Ladder" is engraved on the right. Copper bells are hung on each corner of the tower.
Wenfeng Pagoda has a history of more than 1,000 years since it was first built. After the Ming Dynasty established its capital in Beijing, the world was peaceful, education was emphasized, and the imperial examination was admired. In the 16th year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty (1811), Zhu Gaoxi, the magistrate of the state, blamed Wenfeng Pagoda for the reason, saying: "Building a pagoda with a tiger's head, isn't it 'a tiger with horns'? It is neither fish nor fowl, and breaks the Fengshui of the whole state."
Luanzhou ancient city water scenery beauty
Of course, destroying the tower will not produce talents. In the first year of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty (1821), Huang Kechang, the magistrate of the state, came to office. He said: "Since it is called 'Wenfeng Tower', we can know that it specializes in literary affairs, that is, it dominates the 'School of a City', and it will be ominous to go there." They raised funds to build the tower again.
The Luan River flows long, the rocks and tigers are perched, and a tower volleys in the sky. Over the years, not only Luanzhou people have regarded Wenfeng Pagoda as a symbol of their hometown, but also tourists who have traveled to and from the pass have left deep memories. For more than a hundred years, there have been a lot of literati and scholars, passing by and admiring his name to climb the mountain. There is a poem among them: "The mountain peak and the tiger do not know how old it is, and the victory is on the Sheling Peak. Thousands of miles of mountains and rivers return to the bottom of the eye. ".
On July 28, 1976, the Tangshan earthquake destroyed Wenfeng Pagoda, leaving only one pagoda foundation. In 2011, the Luan County Government raised 4.4 million yuan to repair the Wenfeng Pagoda in Yanshan Mountain, completely recreating the prosperous landscape of Wenfeng Pagoda in accordance with the historical style of more than a thousand years ago. The new tower body seen today has 13 floors and 8 sides, and is 32.67 meters high. Standing tall and majestic on Yanshan Mountain, it is extremely spectacular. Overlooking from the Wenfeng Pagoda, you can have a panoramic view of the scenery of the Luan River, which is a beautiful view of the natural landscape.
Coming down from Yanshan Mountain, the reporter and his party drove to the ancient city of Luanzhou, which is under construction. The core of Luanzhou's culture is "harmony". The culture of sages and sages in harmony and comity, and the 18 emperors patrolling Luan, are the harmony of the country. The fusion of ethnic disputes is the harmony of the nation. Therefore, the landscape construction of our Luanzhou ancient city also revolves around the important concept of showing the sum of the country, the nation, and the city. It is reflected through the four major tourism themes of historical and cultural tours, ethnic customs tours, temple fair cultural tours, and folk custom experience tours.
Accompanied by Comrade Zhao Wuying, the reporter then visited the built demonstration area of Luanzhou ancient city. I saw that this place seems to have shrunk down the scenery of the water town in the south of the Yangtze River. There are all kinds of pavilions, small bridges and flowing water. Although the area is small, it has charm. Strings of red lanterns are hung in front of the shops in the jewelry and jade shopping street. In the quaint courtyard is a coffee shop with a combination of Chinese and Western styles, full of strong cultural atmosphere.
In the evening, a grand fire sacrifice ceremony was held on the square of Luanzhou Ancient City. People and tourists from Luan County who came from all directions gathered on the square to watch this unique custom performance of the Yi people. Before the ignition, the actors of the Luanzhou Ancient City Art Troupe played shamans and gods respectively, and they performed for the audience with great dedication. When the bonfire was lit, the whole scene was boiling, and tens of thousands of people sang and danced here, carnival to their heart's content, and it was extremely lively.
Zhao Wuying told the reporter that: while the ancient city of Luanzhou is not yet fully built, four cultural and natural landscapes, such as the Luanzhou Cultural Museum, Luanhe River, Yanshan Wenfeng Pagoda and other cultural and natural landscapes, as well as bonfire parties in the ancient city, are mainly carried out. An integrated cultural tour of the ancient city of Luanzhou.
With the gradual improvement of the construction of the ancient city, I believe that it will be built into an ancient city with water scenery in the north integrating cultural tourism, business meetings, living and leisure. She will also become one of the most distinctive tourism products in Tangshan and even Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei. one. To be honest, I miss everything here after not going here for so many years. I believe that if there is a chance, the reporter will definitely take the time to visit Luanzhou Ancient City again. (Photo: Feng Ganyong)
