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Before watching the TV series "Qiao's Courtyard", I had no idea about Pingyao, or I didn't even know that there is a small town of Pingyao in China. After watching Qiao's Courtyard, I even knew about Pingyao, so I habitually checked it out on Du Niang. , but I was so surprised that I couldn't close my mouth from ear to ear, this is not an ordinary small town.
During the Ming and Qing dynasties, Pingyao was once the financial center of the country. At that time, there was really nothing like Shanghai, maybe it was still a small fish village on the beach. At that time, Pingyao was quite prosperous, and all major bank accounts in the country had semi-colons here. Ticket offices, banks, bodyguard bureaus, and shops are lined up one by one, and one can imagine the prosperity at that time. The prosperity of Pingyao is inseparable from the tireless efforts and struggles of a group of people. This is Shanxi merchants. Generation after generation of Pingyao merchants, on the road of doing business and becoming rich, are arduous, pioneering and innovative, and always walk an endless business road. The poet Su Zhigao of the Ming Dynasty wrote a good sentence for the ancient city of Pingyao, "The water surrounds the mountains and the ancient posthouses, the bee whiskers and the wings of the wheat blossoms in autumn, and the road away from home for a long time after returning home, and the travel and dust to see off the guests are worrying", which vividly describes Shanxi merchants. The ups and downs.
The ancient city of Pingyao is located in the middle of Shanxi Province, more than 100 kilometers away from the provincial capital Taiyuan. It is a famous cultural city with a history of more than 2,700 years. One of the two ancient cities whose heritage was successful. In 1986, Pingyao was designated as a "national historical and cultural city" by the State Council, and in 1997, it was listed as a "world cultural heritage" by the United Nations. In 2015, Pingyao Ancient City became a national 5A tourist attraction.
{Travel information}
Airplane: To go to Pingyao by air, you must first fly to Taiyuan Wusu International Airport. Wusu International Airport is open to all domestic airports, level 4E, domestic flights:
Air China Limited: Beijing, Tianjin, Xining, Chengdu, Hangzhou
China Eastern Airlines Co., Ltd.: Beijing, Lanzhou, Chengdu, Chongqing, Kunming, Yantai, Qingdao, Nanjing, Shanghai, Wuhan, Changsha, Wenzhou, Taipei, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong
China Southern Airlines Co., Ltd.: Urumqi, Yantai, Changsha, Nanchang, Hangzhou, Guangzhou
Sichuan Airlines Co., Ltd.: Harbin, Shenyang, Chengdu, Chongqing, Hangzhou, Haikou
Shenzhen Airlines Co., Ltd.: Chengdu, Shenzhen
Shanghai Airlines Co., Ltd.: Shanghai
Xiamen Airlines Co., Ltd.: Changsha, Hangzhou, Fuzhou, Xiamen
EVA Air Co., Ltd.: Taipei
Air Macau Co., Ltd.: Macau
International Flights:
China Eastern Airlines Company Limited: Bangkok
From the airport, you can take No. 201 bus to Taiyuan Jiannan Bus Station, Taiyuan Bus Station and Taiyuan Railway Station. From these three places, you can go directly to Pingyao, and the journey takes one and a half hours.
Train: Pingyao Railway Station is located on the west side of the ancient city, only 300 meters away from the northwest corner of the ancient city. Now the ancient city is open to bullet trains, which is much more convenient.
Bus: The roads in Pingyao Ancient City are relatively developed, but since Pingyao Bus Station mainly operates provincial lines, it is most suitable to transfer buses from Taiyuan to Pingyao
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Every city has its unique style, and every city has its unique food flavor. In addition to the world-famous ancient city of Pingyao, the local cuisine has a strong characteristic flavor. Catering features are mainly pasta, bowl tray, beef noodles, wrapping noodles, yogurt, oil cake, boiled lumps, paste, tipping, knife-cut noodles, rubbing fish, stone cakes, dipping pointed, dipping slices, Bean noodles, cat ears, corn cakes, and rice. Walking along the street of Ming and Qing Dynasties, there are a lot of food bins on both sides, and people who look at the colorful food have an appetite. Of course, the price is a bit expensive.
Corn flour cake, soft, glutinous, sweet and delicious, attractive in color.
I don't know what this is called, it should be a kind of vanilla meat.
This is the bowl support, which is similar to the Liangpi in Xi'an, thicker than the Liangpi, and can be eaten hot or cold.
Pingyao vanilla meat, with various flavors, beef, pork, chicken, donkey meat, etc.
Pingyao beef is very famous, and it is really delicious. The beef shaved noodles were great.
This is called pot helmet, crisp on the outside and crispy on the inside, very delicious.
{Ticket Information}
Pingyao Ancient City implements pass: full price 130 yuan/person, half-price ticket 65 yuan/person (Pingyao Ancient City tickets do not need to be booked online, you can buy them at the scenic window), valid within three days.
Preferential policies: Children under 1.2 meters, active military personnel, the disabled, and seniors over 60 years old can enjoy free tickets with valid certificates. Teenagers and students under 18 years old (including 18 years old) can purchase half-price discounted tickets with valid certificates. {Travel preparation}
I travel by self-driving, which is relatively casual. The small city I live in is Anyang in northern Henan, 360 kilometers away from Pingyao, and the whole journey is high-speed, and the journey takes 4.30 hours. Since the travel time is not long, no special preparation is required. A change of clothes, a set of pajamas, skin care products, sunscreen, umbrella, mobile phone, charging treasure, and one more thing that must be brought, a U-shaped pillow, from Tuniu, and fill up the car one day first.
DAY1 (Anyang---Pingyao Ancient City, ticket 130)
At 7 o'clock in the morning, we set off in the rising sun. After leaving Anyang, we drove 102 kilometers north on the Shangjing-Hong Kong-Macau Expressway and turned into Donglu Expressway, and then 118 kilometers into Hefen Expressway. After 125 kilometers, we arrived at Pingyao. When we arrived in Pingyao, it was nearly 12:00, and we went straight to the ancient city after putting away our luggage at the hotel. For lunch, we could find food everywhere in the ancient city.
{Attraction 1} City Wall
The architectural pattern of the ancient city of Pingyao is a square pattern with the South Street as the central axis and the city building as the center. The city wall and various streets and alleys form a huge gossip pattern. The layout of the city is strict, with ingenious ideas, rigorous design, and complete shape. In addition, the ancient temples, city buildings, streets, and houses in the city show the world traditional civilization. The ancient city of Pingyao covers an area of only 2.25 square kilometers, but such a small area is the condensed history of hundreds of years in China.
The west gate tower of the ancient city is majestic and heavy, with simple and elegant shape and dignified and stable structure. The city wall is 10 meters high, the battlements are 2 meters high, the top width is 3-5 meters, and the circumference is 6162.7 meters. The wall is compacted with plain soil and covered with green bricks. Walking into this heavy gate, it seems to have traveled to ancient times.
The alleys paved with blue bricks, the mottled city walls, and the old carved windows seem to be in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Bricks, tiles, trees and flowers describe the changes and vicissitudes experienced by this old city.
The gray and white walls enclose a paradise, which is extremely disproportionate to the high-rise buildings on the opposite side. Things that come out of history always seem to be unique. However, as one of the most complete architectural complexes preserved since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the ancient city exudes The charm is irresistible.
The red lanterns hanging high in front of the gate make the ancient buildings full of vitality.
Walking along the West Street, the more you walk, the more you feel, and the more people will be there in ten minutes.
{Attraction 2} Qingming Street
Continue along West Street, and you will arrive at the famous Qingming Street in about 20 minutes. The Ming and Qing Street (South Street) is located on the central axis of the ancient city of Pingyao. The remains of shops from the Ming and Qing Dynasties are concentrated and completely preserved here. It is one of the most important and prosperous commercial blocks in the ancient city, which clearly reflects the brilliance of the ancient city culture. On this more than 400-meter-long ancient street, there are 78 ancient shops closely connected, including ticket offices, banks, pawn shops, medicine shops, butcher shops, tobacco shops, grocery shops, silk and satin shops, etc., which almost accommodated the commercial needs of the time. All business.
Shanxi merchant giants regard this place as a golden land, and set up headquarters and open stores one after another to show their talents. If the courtyards of Shanxi merchants are the luxurious living places of Shanxi merchants, then the South Street of the ancient city is a place where Shanxi merchants show their abilities and compete fiercely in the shopping malls.
The street is very narrow, and there are shops on both sides of the street. The products are Shanxi specialties, especially old mature vinegar and old Baifen wine. When I got home, I also bought two altars of mature vinegar, which tasted very pure.
Walking on the street, a group of people wearing official uniforms of the Qing Dynasty will suddenly appear and walk by beating drums and gongs. From time to time, people wearing ancient costumes will be seen in various poses, which makes people feel that they have traveled to ancient times..." County Grandpa passed by, everyone avoided!"
A team of welcoming parties passed by, and it was very lively.
{Attraction 3} Tongxing Public Escort Bureau
Qingming Street is only 400 meters away, and you will come to the gate of Tongxing Public Escort Bureau while talking.
Tongxing Escort Bureau is located at No. 105, South Street, Pingyao Ancient City. It was founded by Wang Zhengqing, a famous martial arts master in Pingyao, who was famous in the capital and powerful throughout the country. It was founded in the fifth year of Xianfeng in Qing Dynasty (1855). As a result, Tongxing Public Escort Bureau became one of the famous national bodyguard bureaus at that time when it was founded.
I think Escort is like the current logistics company. It also transports items from one place to another. It’s just that the situation in the past was chaotic and there were many people who stole, so people who can fight can deliver the items safely.
This is the Escort meeting room, which is used to receive some customers with large business, which is equivalent to a VIP room.
There are two plaques hanging on the meeting hall: Discussion by decree; Celebrating the age of flowers. Its yellow and blue inlaid "Fengzhi Yixu" is a plaque given by Cixi to Wang Shumao, the second generation shopkeeper. This plaque is carved with a pattern of a phoenix above a dragon. The interesting thing about this plaque is that the writing next to the word "Feng" is so small that you can't see it if you don't pay attention. In addition, the words "purpose" and "xu" were deliberately wrongly written. One means that the status of Lafayette is higher than that of the sun, and the other is that the Manchus are higher than the Han people.
Ingots and large jars representing wealth and peace are placed in the middle of the courtyard, hoping that Liu Ding will prosper and gather wealth and health.
It can be seen that the courtyard is very narrow, with a facade in the front and wing rooms in the back, with one courtyard, two courtyards or even three courtyards. This kind of structure is everywhere on Qingming Street. It can be imagined that every inch of land here was expensive at that time.
Escorts are all martial arts practitioners with a low level of education. Mr. Accountant is the most educated person here, equivalent to today's college students. See if you look like him.
{Attraction 4} Rishengchang Bank Bank Museum
After coming out of the Escort, passing through the bustling crowds, we came to Rishengchang, the first bank in China. Rishengchang was founded in the fourth year of Daoguang (AD 1824). It has a century of vicissitudes and brilliant performance. The cow's ear, with semicolons all over the country in more than 30 cities and important commercial towns, as far as Europe, America, Southeast Asia and other countries, is famous for "connecting the world". After the establishment of Rishengchang Bank, Jiexiu, Taigu, and Qixian successively followed suit. Her birth and development have favorably promoted the national financial circulation, accelerated capital turnover, made outstanding contributions to the development of national industry and commerce at that time, and opened a glorious page in China's financial history.
Rishengchang, the first bank in China, is located in the bustling area of West Street in the ancient city of Pingyao, the "first financial street in the Qing Dynasty". The entire old site covers an area of 2324 square meters, with compact land and distinct functions. But it was such a small courtyard that pioneered China's national banking industry and once controlled the economic lifeline of the entire Qing Dynasty in the 19th century.
Rishengchang is famous all over the world for its first bank account. However, after seeing the former site of Rishengchang with one's own eyes, one cannot but admire its architectural style! Rishengchang faces the bustling market in the front and the quiet alleyway in the back. It covers an area of more than 1,600 square meters and has 21 buildings of various sizes, forming a complete and fully functional commercial shop courtyard. Its architectural style has both the commonality of commercial buildings and the It has its unique characteristics.
A bank is now called a bank. Although the small courtyard of Rishengchang cannot be compared with the skyscrapers of modern banks, and the only semicolon of Rishengchang cannot be compared with the contemporary financial outlets covering the whole country, we can learn from the Rishengchang sees the shadow of contemporary banks.
From Rishengchang, we can appreciate the wisdom of the Chinese nation; from Rishengchang, we can feel a spirit of reform and listen to the voice of progress in an era.
{Attractions 5} Pingyao County Government
The county government is the focus of Pingyao tourism, and here is a magnificent scroll of ancient officialdom culture.
Pingyao County Government is located in the north of the middle section of Yamen Street, facing south, 131 meters wide from east to west, 203 meters long from north to south, covering an area of 26,600 square meters. The buildings are organized in an orderly manner, with symmetrical layouts, with the front facing the rear and the sleeping at the back, and the left is civil and the right is military. Outside the yamen, there is Guanfeng Tower on the left wing, Le Tower on the right wing, and Zhaobi in front. Inside the yamen, along the central axis from south to north, there are 3 Yimen, 1 archway, 5 halls, 3 house gates, and 5 second halls ( In the Ming Dynasty, the name of the plaque is "Loyalty Hall"), there are 5 inner houses, and 3 Daxian Buildings. There are 7 kilns in the east and west chambers outside the gate of Yimen, each of which is a tax service room. There are 11 east and west rooms in front of the lobby, which are for officials, households, rituals, soldiers, criminals and workshops. On both sides of the lobby, there are three Zanzheng halls and three Luanjia warehouses. There are east and west wing rooms on each floor of the house. In the east of the Yamen Office, there is Zhangyu Pavilion, and from south to north, there are Chuanlou, Ditu Temple, Yin Hotel, Hou Temple, Liangting Hall and gardens. There is Shenming Pavilion in the west, and heavy prison, women's prison, light prison, Hongshan post, supervision hall and "horse number" in the north.
Entering the first courtyard of the county government office, also called the Qinmin hall, is the hall where the magistrate held some important ceremonies, tried important cases, and greeted and sent off superior officials. There is a pair of couplets that are very good: "Eat the food of the common people and wear the clothes of the common people. The common people can deceive themselves to be the common people. If you win an official, you will not be honored and if you lose an official, you will not be humiliated. Don't say that an official is useless. It all depends on an official."
Passing through the Yimen Gate, you will arrive at the lobby courtyard, where the courtyard is spacious, and the lobby with a platform towers majestically at the front. There are 11 rooms in the east and west verandas, collectively referred to as "six rooms".
In front of the lobby, there is a large gilded plaque: a bright mirror hangs high. It is said that there is a legend about the origin of this plaque. Once upon a time there was a man named Song Zhongyuan who went into the city with a big umbrella on his back, and he met Wu Lianchi from a neighboring village. The weather was cloudy for a while, and it really started to rain heavily. Song Zhongyuan held up a big umbrella and invited Wu Lianchi to go with him. After arriving in the city, Song Zhongyuan found a place to rest, Wu Lianchi took Zongyuan Song's umbrella and went to the south of the city to do errands, and when he came back, it happened that the rain was over and the sky was clear, Song Xiang didn't ask for an umbrella, so he didn't give it to him, saying that the umbrella belonged to him . The two quarreled and went to the county government. The county magistrate suddenly slapped the gavel when he knew the situation, and said, "Damn people, if you have something serious, you have to sue the county government. Are you testing the IQ of this official?" The umbrella was torn to pieces, thrown down the hall, and ordered to leave the hall. The plaintiff, Song Zhongyuan, came down from the hall with tears streaming down his face, while the defendant, Wu Lianchi, was elated. The two walked out of the county government office and walked to Zhaobi South Street. Four government servants rushed out and summoned the two to return to the county government office. The two knelt in the lobby again, and the magistrate Wang Jie judged with a pleasant face that the umbrella belonged to the plaintiff, Song Zhongyuan, and the defendant, Wu Lianchi, was falsely accusing him. Afterwards, Song Zhongyuan sent a plaque to Wangzhi County, engraved with the four characters "Mirror Hanging High".
From the back door of the first hall is the second courtyard: the second hall, also called Sibutang, is the place where the county magistrate does his daily work, summons his subordinates individually, and conducts small-scale research and trial of civil cases.
The screen in the middle is painted with "Songhe Yannian Picture", which is a bit more lifelike than the "Landscape and Chaoyang Picture" in the lobby.
The second hall forms a quadrangle courtyard by itself, and is connected with the inner house behind, so the courtyard gate of the second hall is also called the gate of the house. The janitor is called "access control", also known as "door". The gate is on duty day and night, and idlers are not allowed to enter. If you want to see the elder, you must bother the gate and report. In the Qing Dynasty, Menzi had an annual salary of six taels of silver, but many visitors often rewarded him with tips for convenience. This position is of course a fat vacancy. Modern people say the term "walking through the door", probably because of this.
The inner house, also known as Qinshen Hall, is the place where the magistrate lives in daily life. The gate of the house is the throat leading to the inner house, and there is a "gate room" next to it, which is equivalent to the current security department. The daily life of the county magistrate is spent here. There are study rooms, living rooms, reception rooms, and the east and west rooms are guest rooms. It is used for inspection by superior leaders and accommodation for relatives and friends.
On both sides of the second hall are the rooms of "Master Qiangu" and "Master Xing". "Master" is neither an official nor an official. It is a special name produced by the bureaucratic system of the Qing Dynasty.
Passing through the second hall is the inner house, which was the living area of the county magistrate in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. There are five couplets in the main room, three couplets in the middle are the living room, and one couplet in the suite on each side is the study and bedroom. A plaque is hung on the front of the living room, and the inscription "Shen Mian Tang"
During the Ming and Qing dynasties, county magistrates were all relocated as officials, and they were not allowed to bring their family members with them. It was not until the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty that the emperor decreed that this rule could be broken. Therefore, in the past, the county magistrate changed his place to be an official five hundred miles away, and the magistrate and above had to travel thousands of miles away. Families are generally not allowed to be visited by any office. In addition to the closed social concept, magistrates can only read books, write essays, recite poems, and play the piano in this small world when they are not handling official duties. Life is monotonous and boring, and it is difficult to enjoy family happiness.
It was here that I learned that during the Qing Dynasty, one could not be an official locally, one had to travel hundreds of miles away, and one could not bring one’s family members with one another.
The 2,000-year-old locust tree in the courtyard has witnessed the vicissitudes of life here.
The last building on the central axis of the Pingyao County Government is the "Daxian Tower", which enshrines the Great Immortal who keeps the seal, that is, the Fox Immortal. In the Qing Dynasty, the government government enshrined the Fox Immortal as the Great Immortal of Seal Keeping, for unknown reasons. The seal-keeping Great Immortal Wood Lord is a plaque decorated with golden characters and clouds on a red background, with a Xumi seat and an external shrine.
Daxian Tower is the only remaining original building in the Pingyao County Government, so the terrain is low. Originally known as Guanyun Tower, it is the place where the magistrate of the county observes the weather in the four townships after tea and dinner every day, reflecting the status of ancient Pingyao agriculture in the feudal economy. His age can be seen from the peeling bricks.
There is a small door in the southwest corner of the second courtyard. When you enter the front of the small door, you will see a big prison character. This is the prison in ancient times.
Seeing this pair of shackles reminds me of Lin Chong... creepy
A courtyard like a narrow alley, with a high wall on one side and single rooms on the other side, imitating a cave dwelling building with windows and doors. The light prison is imitating a cave dwelling building, warm in winter and cool in summer. And there are kangs and fires, and the conditions are quite good. This is the first time I have seen kangs and fires in prisons. Finally, there is a severe punishment cell. First of all, there are no windows, no kang inside, and it becomes dark when the door is closed. The walls are also very thick, twice as thick as an ordinary cell.
Tailor-made according to the height of the prisoner. Fix the head on the top of the cage, and the prisoner can only stand in the cage. If you offend the third class of yamen servants and tie a stone to your body, you will die;
When I came out of the county government office, it was already the first time when the lights came on, and the ancient city that had been boiling for a day gradually quieted down. Looking back at the ancient city, the quaint towers under the neon lights looked more majestic and solemn. The baptism of hundreds of years has washed away the lead, leaving only the thick and simple city, restoring the most authentic scenery for the world. What history has always bestowed on us is not the beautiful appearance, but the heavy interior. DAY2 (Pingyao Ancient City---Wang Family Courtyard Tickets 55)
In the morning, I ate a bowl of evening care outside the ancient city wall, just to feel the breath of the ancient city at a close distance. The ancient city in the morning light is like an old man who has experienced many vicissitudes, solemn and wise. Goodbye to the ancient city, we drove to the Wang family compound.
Attraction 6: Wang Family Courtyard
The Wang Family Courtyard is located in Jingsheng Town, a famous historical and cultural town in China, 12 kilometers east of Lingshi County, Shanxi Province. It is 35 kilometers away from the ancient city of Pingyao, a world cultural heritage, and it takes 40 minutes to arrive.
The Wang Family Courtyard was built by the Jingsheng Wang family over the Ming and Qing dynasties and lasted for more than 300 years. It includes a street with five lanes and six castles, with a total area of 250,000 square meters. It is also an architectural art museum with traditional cultural characteristics. .
The Wang Family Courtyard is built on the hillside. It is arranged in four layers from low to high. It is symmetrical on the left and right. There is a main road in the middle, forming a very regular shape of "Wang" and implying the shape of "Dragon". There are 88 buildings in the castle. The courtyards have their own characteristics, and none of them are the same. The gate building of the Wang Family Courtyard is magnificent and majestic, like a castle, so some people call the Wang Family Courtyard the Red Gate Fort complex. It is like a castle and a city, not like a courtyard
The Wang Family Courtyard is also a filming base. Many film and television films are filmed in the Wang Family Courtyard, such as: "Autumn in Yuyang", "The Woman of the Swordsman Family", "Tie Lihua", "The Legend of Luliang Heroes", "Killing the Tiger's Mouth", Film and television works such as "The Great River in the Ancient Town".
You see, the road in the courtyard is uphill, which indicates that you will rise step by step.
There are 88 courtyards in the Wang Family Courtyard. Among them, the Jingye Hall is also called Ningruiju. It is the residential area of Wang Rucheng, the chief minister of Wang Rucong. The high-end living room, the left and right gatehouses, and the left and right relative rooms are for the nursing staff and senior fluttering people.
This is a typical northern courtyard structure with gorgeous decoration and exquisite carvings.
The brick carvings, wood carvings and stone carvings in the Wang Family Courtyard are rich in themes and skilled in techniques. They use a large number of symbols, metaphors, homonyms, and even taboo art forms recognized by secular concepts. With the joint participation of literati, painters, and sculptors, the Flowers, birds, fish and insects, mountains, rocks, water boats, allusions and legends, opera characters are carved on bricks, stones, or wood, which embodies the architectural decoration style of the Qing Dynasty, and integrates Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism and traditional folk culture into one One.
Leshantang is Wang Mengpeng, the 15th descendant of the Jingsheng Wang family, who obtained a degree as a student. He did not seek official positions, was not greedy for money, burned loan deeds, and built bridges. After the sixteenth Wang Fenzhi started his business, he set up food sheds in Zhili and Shandong, thousands of miles away, to give food to the local poor. The 16th Wang Zhongtang and his eldest son Wang Rucong donated more than 6,000 taels of silver successively to relieve the victims of the disaster area, as well as the widowed and lonely students who were unable to go to school.
This is the place where Wang Rucong lives, with a certain degree of privacy and concealment. The five cave dwellings on the front are for the elders, the east and west wing rooms on the first floor are for children and grandchildren, and the second floor is specially designed for young ladies. Ziqiao Pavilion on the top of the main kiln is a place for worshiping ancestors.
It can be seen that all the buildings were built in strict accordance with the feudal hierarchy, and the exquisitely carved brick, wood and stone decorations in the courtyard, with various themes and rich content, concentratedly demonstrated the unique family management philosophy of the Wang family.
The architectural decoration of the Wang Family Courtyard is a masterpiece of "delicacy and denseness" in the Qing Dynasty. The decorations of the structural accessories are gorgeous, exquisite, graceful and elegant. For example, the wood carvings on the arches, architraves, sparrows, etc. on the corridors, the stone decorations such as the pillar foundation stones and wall foundation stones, and the couplets and plaques in the courtyards are various in form and excellent in workmanship, reflecting the ancient Chinese northern dwellings. Practical and beautiful" architectural features.
Everywhere is meticulously crafted.
Guixin Academy is the place where the descendants of the Wang family go to school. It has three courtyards: front, middle and back. From the front yard to the main house in the back yard, there are three groups of three steps, which symbolizes continuous promotion to three levels. Under the feudal imperial examination system, the descendants of the Wang family worked hard to study here, looking forward to being named on the gold list. It seems that not only are students studying hard now, but it was the same in the past.
During the three dynasties of Kangxi, Qianlong, and Jiaqing, there were many people who achieved fame and fame in the royal family, either through scientific research on the right track, donating to insurance in different ways, or stealing from their ancestors. Among the eunuchs, there were as many as 101 officials from the second rank to the fifth rank, more than 130 people who were listed as scholars, and more than 300 people were tribute students, supervisors and students. They were truly aristocratic families.
There are couplets in each courtyard of the Wang family compound. As a symbol of culture, the couplets make the Wang family, which made its fortune from business, very cultural, and subtly influenced generations of descendants to reborn, know the etiquette and observe the rules, and follow the ancestors' precepts, guiding them to live in a well-established way. Make a difference on the road, and constantly promote the prosperity of the family.
"Wang is a surname, and the surname is half of the country; a family is a courtyard, and the courtyard is half of the city", this is the sigh of Mr. Wang Luxiang from Tsinghua University after visiting. On the premise of complying with etiquette and paying attention to functions, the whole building properly integrates the southern garden art and the construction of northern courtyards. It not only preserves the common spiritual features of traditional northern residential buildings, but also creatively displays the Wang family's grandeur. Hospital personality style. Its layout, its interspersion, its coherence, its separation, there are distinctions between light and dark, virtual and real, and different shades, so that the overall appearance may be agitated, or elegant, with poetic, pictorial, and The sense of music. There are ever-changing changes in the seemingly uniform, and vividness is created in the stillness and solemnity. Between the layers, the form and spirit stand together, and finally become an immortal residential architectural art masterpiece that attracts attention from all over the world.
It was already one o'clock in the afternoon when I came out of the Wang Family Courtyard, and I didn't feel hungry at all. It was "beautiful and delicious". Facing such a feast of architectural art, there is no food worthy of my nostalgia. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, I officially returned with a full harvest, and arrived home safely at 6 o'clock, ending the two-day cultural journey.
{postscript}
When I went there, I felt that the Wang Family Courtyard was just a courtyard, no matter how big it could be. I arranged for half a day, but when I arrived, I was dumbfounded. This is not a courtyard, it is clearly half a city. The Wang Family Courtyard needs to be carefully appreciated, and it is best to spend one day. I look forward to my next trip and meet Pingyao and the Wang Family Courtyard again. .
