For China's Guizhou Province, journalists have a special relationship with it. Not to mention, since the first time I came to Fenggang in January 2016, it has been four consecutive times in April, June, and September of that year. Arrived in Fenggang, Shibing, Xingyi, Weng'an and other places in Guizhou Province. Every time I come to Guizhou, I have an unusual feeling, especially from September 24 to 26, 2016, I was invited to participate in the three-day "Green China Tour-Entering the Beautiful Weng'an". Weng'an is an old red area, so the memory is particularly deep.
This trip to Weng'an, an old red revolutionary area in Guizhou, is destined to be a hasty itinerary. On the afternoon of September 24, the reporter took Tianjin Airlines flight GS6464 from Changsha Huanghua Airport, stopped at Liupanshui Rizhao Airport, and then flew to Guiyang. Longdongbao Airport. Walking out of the airport, the comrades who came to pick up the plane immediately drove to Weng'an non-stop, and arrived at Yongjiang Hotel in Weng'an smoothly when the lights were on.
On the morning of September 25th, the first event jointly sponsored by the National Afforestation Committee, the State Forestry Administration, and the China Greening Foundation that the reporter participated in was the "Green China Walk--Walk" to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Long March The launching ceremony of entering the beautiful Weng'an and the ten thousand monkey field to listen to the party class and study the educational practice activities". After driving from the hotel to the event site of the Caotang Guyi Cultural District Square opposite the site of the Houchang Conference held on the Long March of the Red Army with the "great turning point", the reporter was in awe of the incomparably shocking scene. I saw thousands of people composed of Weng'an students, workers, government officials and citizens waiting in the square.
The rostrum of the conference is located in the middle of Caotang Guyi Square, on the front of the double-sided solid wood theater building in Weng'an County, Guizhou Province, which is called "the world's largest theater building" by the Shanghai World Guinness Headquarters. On the colorful publicity board above, the words "Commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Victory of the Red Army's Long March 'Green China Tour--The Launching Ceremony of Entering the Beautiful Weng'an and the Ten Thousand Monkey Field Listening to Party Classes, Studying and Educational Practice Activities'" are strikingly eye-catching.
Just arrived in Weng'an, an old red area, where the Red Army was at an important historical turning point, and participated in such a grand event, which made the reporter very excited, especially at the moment when Zhang Wenqiang, secretary of the Weng'an County Party Committee in Guizhou, led the re-swearing of the party speech, As a member of the Communist Party of China, I feel even more excited...
Houchang Town, Weng'an, the first event in the "Green China Tour—Entering Beautiful Weng'an" series of activities, can be described as a place with rich and profound cultural heritage and multiple elements such as a red revolutionary historical and traditional memorial site. Zhao Su'e, a cadre in charge of external publicity of the Weng'an Propaganda Department, told reporters: Houchang Town in Weng'an County has a history of more than 1,000 years. It is a famous commercial town in the history of Guizhou, known as the Pearl of Central Guizhou, the four famous towns in northern Guizhou, and the top ten villages in Guizhou.
The history of the Houchang Caotang tribe can be traced back to the Yin and Zhou Dynasties. Since the Han Dynasty, it has been ruled by the Central Dynasty. For thousands of years, the cultures of various ethnic groups have merged and coexisted. In modern times, as an important stop of the Red Army's Long March, it is a national patriotic education base. In addition, there is a long-standing folk custom of playing dragon and lion in Caotang, which is "the hometown of dragon and lion in the national folk art". It can be said that all the essence of Weng'an ancient architecture is concentrated here, as well as the essence of Weng'an history and culture. Its magnificent architectural scale, exquisite architectural craftsmanship, rich cultural heritage and profound historical connotation are shocking.
In recent years, Weng'an has combined the historical and cultural imprints of Houchang to deeply excavate the excellent merchant culture, chieftain culture, dragon and lion culture, humanistic culture and red culture, and restored the solid wood double-sided theater building, the cabinet Zhongshudi, and the first Jinshi in Qianshan Building, Tusi Yamen, Huguang Guild Hall and other ancient buildings. The Houchang Conference Exhibition Hall, Zangzhang Gate, Jian'an Gate, Houchang Conference Site, Mao Zedong's residence and other historical relics were built and repaired. Create a retro-style national-level tourist area "Caotang Millennium Ancient City Tourist Area" with Houchang Market Town as the key protection area and Houchang Red Cultural New Village as the core area.
Weng'an Caotang Ancient Town Tourist Area consists of a square, the world's largest wooden structure theater building·Guyi Grand Theater Building, Weng'an Ancient Academy·Qianshan Jinshi Building, former school·Qishan Academy, and the former site of Houchang Conference across the street and It is composed of scenic spots such as the Monkey Field Meeting Memorial Hall. Looking closely at the theater building, you will be deeply shocked by the ancient theater building in this hometown that has experienced wind, frost, snow and rain. The theater building covers an area of 2,158 square meters, with a construction area of 4,650 square meters, a depth of 48 meters, a width of 41 meters, and a height of 26 meters. The theater building has 26 double-eaved roofs and eight-petal lotus flowers. The pillars are held up high, and the momentum is magnificent.
Walking into the theater building, looking up at the wooden beams carved with thousands of figures, you can see that it is carved from a whole mahogany tree, which is the largest mahogany beam in the world known so far. There are countless exquisite reliefs, hollow carvings, wood carvings, brick carvings, stone carvings, and murals in the theater building, all of which are exquisite classical crafts. . Someone has calculated that if the exquisite reliefs, carvings, wood carvings and other flower panels in the theater building are connected one by one, it can just extend from Houchang to Zunyi. History is such a wonderful thing: the thousand-year-old Guyi Grand Theater has witnessed a magnificent drama in the history of Chinese revolution.
Folk dramas are often staged in the Guyi Grand Theater, which also promotes the development of Weng'an drama and culture. Back then, there were huge crowds of people on the stage, and many of them were children watching the theater. Two of these children later became famous dramatists and writers in Guizhou and even in China, and became the pride of Weng'an. They are Fu Yushu, a playwright of the Qing Dynasty, and Chen Jing, a famous writer of the Red Army General in China.
On both sides of the theater building, there are many bronze sculptures that span the ages and reflect the characters and shapes and movements of different periods. Whether it is a barber, a textile girl, a bearer, a porter, a shopkeeper, etc., the sculptures are meticulously detailed. Lifelike, attractive shape, rich in visual aesthetic appreciation.
On one side of the Grand Theater Building is a towering Qianshan Jinshi Building, which is also the first Jinshi Building in Guizhou and the only surviving Jinshi Building. This magnificent 5-story building has cornices and corners, which is very magnificent. The construction area is 2,286 square meters, 25.2 meters long, 25.2 meters wide, and 26 meters high. The beam-column structure is mortise and tenon. Majestic, the reliefs, wood carvings, brick carvings and stone carvings in the building are exquisite in craftsmanship. The contents include ancient opera figures, animals, flowers, birds, insects and fish. It belongs to Huizhou architecture, and the carvings are extremely exquisite.
Qianshan Jinshi Building is actually the ancient academy of Weng'an and the birthplace of Weng'an's culture. Due to Weng'an's profound historical and cultural background, coupled with the cultivation of Qianshan Jinshi Building Academy, Weng'an has produced a large number of literati in the past dynasties, and its prosperity has attracted the attention of the world. According to incomplete statistics, Weng'an produced more than 800 scholars, 110 Juren, 19 Jinshi, and more than 500 contemporary doctors and professors. Nearly 1,000 students were admitted to institutions of higher learning such as Peking University and Tsinghua University, ranking first among counties and counties in Guizhou. During the Kangxi and Qianlong years, there was also a miracle that Wang Shijun, Wang Mengxu, and Wang Mengyao's uncle and nephew from Weng'an were officials in the same dynasty, and their official positions were all Hanlin. It was called "three Hanlins in one dynasty" in history, which was an extremely rare phenomenon in officialdom in all dynasties.
Across the river from Weng'an Grand Theater is Qishan Academy. The four characters "Qishan Academy" on the plaque hanging on the gate of the academy were written by Mr. Li Hui, a famous calligrapher in my country. The title of Qishan Academy comes from a well-known mountain in Weng'an County, which is named for its shape resembling a flag. Mr. Fu Yushu's "Sangzi Shuwen" once recorded: "Qishan, named Chuanyan, is about five miles southeast of the city, and there is a cave on the top of the mountain." Qishan Academy is quite literary. As early as the Ming Dynasty, the poet Zhu Yingzheng wrote "Qishan" The poem "Hu Guo slanted to open the blue peaks, climbed the tower and pointed to the champion flag, and the spring breeze was blowing like green, it was the time for the literary world to set up banners."
Stroll across the square from the Caotang Guyi Tourist Cultural District Square, and across the road is the site where the Red Army held the Houchang meeting. The meeting site was originally the Song family's residence, which was built in the first year of the Republic of China (1912). It is surrounded by blue brick walls, about 7 meters high, with 5 main halls, complete wing rooms and lower halls, and a stone-inlaid patio. It is a standard courtyard house, commonly known as a "one seal" house. On the left side of the wall are bunkers, stables, and a garden behind the main hall. On the right side of the barrel wall, there is a bamboo forest, and the ancient trees on the back mountain are towering. Around 1948, due to industrial disputes, it was demolished and sold out. In 2003, some components of the original house were taken back and restored to its original appearance. In 2004, the exhibition was opened to the public. In 2006, it was announced as a provincial cultural relic protection unit in Guizhou. The fourth batch of national patriotic education demonstration bases announced by the Central Propaganda Department in 2009.
The history can be traced back to December 31, 1934, when the column of the Central Military Commission arrived at Houchang. The "Left" opportunist leaders ignored the danger of the Red Army facing heavy troops in front of them and chasing them in the future. "Decision to Build a New Base in Guizhou", still disagreed to cross the Wujiang River, insisted on fighting guerrillas on the south bank of the Wujiang River, and waited to return to Xiangxi.
The meeting was held until the early morning of January 1, 1935, when the "Decision on the New Action Policy after Crossing the River" was made, which reaffirmed and developed the spirit of the Liping Conference, further affirmed the strategic direction of the Red Army, and ended the leadership of the "Leftist" line. The party and the people's army realized a life-and-death turning point in the history of the party and the people's army, and made decisive preparations in terms of ideology, politics, organization, and military affairs, and laid a solid foundation for the successful convening of the Zunyi Conference.
Walking into the courtyard above the gate of the meeting site, which was inscribed by Zhang Aiping, the former Minister of National Defense, as the "Houchang Conference Site", not far away stands facing Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, Wang Jiaxiang, Zhang Wentian, Bogu, Liu Shaoqi, Standing statues of Li Fuchun, Chen Yun and others. Below are the five big golden characters of "The Eve of the Turning", which are extremely eye-catching. Looking at the faces of everyone in the statue, they are all radiant, looking forward.
Pass through the statue of the Great Crowd, and you will arrive at the gate of the courtyard through 68 steps of four steps from bottom to top. There are flower ponds and lawns on both sides of the stone stairs.
The whole courtyard is composed of main hall, hatchback and lower hall. The main hall is 5 rooms wide, 25.5 meters wide and 9 meters deep, and the left and right sides are 3 rooms wide, 11.8 meters wide and 4.7 meters deep. They are both upper and lower floors, with a total of 24 large and small rooms. It is a wooden structure with a bucket-shaped hard mountain and green tile roof. Plant flowers and trees. The architectural layout of the entire meeting site is reasonable, magnificent and exquisite in craftsmanship, reflecting the architectural style of the local residents at that time.
The main hall building directly opposite the courtyard was the main conference room at that time. On the facing wall in the middle are photos of Marx and Lenin. On the other two walls are photos of the people who attended the meeting that year. In the center is a rectangular conference table surrounded by ten chairs. There are also items such as lanterns and kettles on the table. The reporter stood here concentrating and closing his eyes to daydream, as if the scene of the monkey field meeting was still in front of his eyes.
Leaving the conference site, we came to the newly completed Houchang Conference Memorial Hall in the courtyard next door. Construction of the Memorial Hall started in July 2012 with a total investment of 27 million yuan, covering an area of 9,147 square meters and a building area of 2,792 square meters. On December 31, 2014, the 80th anniversary of the Houchang Conference was opened for trial operation. The completion of the memorial hall is of great significance for displaying the Red Army's Long March across Weng'an, publicizing the Monkey Field Conference, promoting the spirit of the Long March, and inheriting red culture.
The outside of the memorial hall is composed of a square and a main building. The center of the square is composed of four stone sculpture books and the main sculpture "River Dance", implying the victory of the Red Army's four crossings of Weng'an and the forcible crossing of Wujiang River. Each sculpture is engraved extremely finely. On the white stone wall, the red font is particularly eye-catching, expressing to people the history of the time when the Red Army passed through Weng'an.
There are also groups of sculptures in the middle of the square, composed of ordinary people pushing carts and Red Army soldiers charging with live ammunition. Above the figure is a red ribbon, on which the golden words "The Eve of the Great Turning" are very eye-catching.
Walking into the memorial hall, it is divided into upper and lower floors. Since the Liping Conference was initiated at the Houchang Conference and the Zunyi Conference was launched next, the memorial hall mainly takes "highlighting Weng'an, highlighting the monkey farm" as the overall layout idea, and takes the Red Army's four passes through Weng'an as the theme. , taking time as the main line, connecting all the historical events that happened during the Red Army's four passes through Weng'an from the three parts of "strategizing and fighting in the middle of Guizhou, inheriting the past and ushering in the dawn, and deeply feeling Weng'an", and highlighting the four passes of the Red Army through time nodes The historical significance of the An and Houchang Conference and the great victory of the Battle of Forcing the Wujiang River, supplemented by scene display, historical pictures, historical relics and sound, light, electricity, video and other scientific and technological means to show the audience the great historical significance of the Houchang Conference in an all-round way .
If we say that the Caotang Ancient City Cultural Tourist Area and the Houchang Conference Site and Memorial Hall embody Weng'an's unique profound cultural heritage and red revolutionary history, then in the extremely limited time, the European The Wuhai tea garden in Biaomiaoling embodies the epitome of Weng'an's modern agricultural economic development from one side.
In recent years, Weng'an County, Guizhou has accelerated the pace of agricultural restructuring, an effective carrier to increase farmers' income, innovative ideas, careful organization, and strengthened measures. With the "six persistences" and strict implementation, the tea industry has entered the "fast lane" of development. The highlights are outstanding and the results are obvious. Weng'an organically integrates the tea industry and tourism, and the integration of tea and tourism is being implemented at an accelerated pace, which is gradually becoming a major feature and highlight of agricultural tourism.
On the morning of September 26, the reporter accompanied Geng Guobiao, deputy editor-in-chief of "Green China" magazine, Ai Ruo of Fenghuang.com, Wang Xizhi, a senior reporter of "China Green Times", Tian Xinyuan of "China Reform Daily", Lin Hui of CCTV, and Xie Shuna of China News Network. , People's Daily Online, Wang Panpan, Wei Qingcheng and others formed the "Green China Tour-Entering the Beautiful Weng'an" group. They drove to Jianzhong Town, which is 18 kilometers away from Weng'an County, and drove from Weng'an County. After Guiweng Expressway, get off at Weng'an West Station, then enter the wide Xinjian Avenue, and arrive at Oupai Tea Town in less than 5 minutes.
This is a tea-tourism integrated town built in European architectural style, with a total planning area of 25 square kilometers. Zeng Wei, member of the Standing Committee of the Weng'an County Committee of the Communist Party of China and Director of Propaganda, said: This Miaoling Wuhai tea farm is just a microcosm of Weng'an County's creation of ecological and organic tea gardens. , is also quite competitive.
It is reported that the tea leaves in this tea farm never use chemical fertilizers, but use natural oil residues as fertilizers. Although the cost is 25 times higher than that of ordinary chemical fertilizers, Zhao Hai, the person in charge of the tea farm, thinks it is worth it. He said: "Our tea leaves are It is planted and produced in accordance with EU standards, and the original ecological pollution-free organic tea is safe to drink.” Zhao Hai told reporters that they use solar insecticidal lamps, yellow boards and other means to control the occurrence of diseases and insect pests, and continuously improve the quality of tea. Today, the best tea can be sold for more than 10,000 yuan per catty, mainly sold abroad, and the supply is in short supply.
The European Standard Miaoling Wuhai Tea Farm is surrounded by green hills. The clear lake complements the surrounding beautiful flowers and green tea gardens. European-style buildings with red roofs and white walls are scattered among the tea gardens, full of exotic customs. There is an organic tea garden in the town for export to the EU, where tourists can experience picking and frying tea.
The reporter and his party took a battery sightseeing car, accompanied by Zhao Su'e from the Weng'an Propaganda Department, and drove in the huge tea garden. The scenery here is pleasant, and the lake and mountains are pleasing to the eye. There are extensive tea plantations, and there are many entertainment projects such as sports, picnics, entertainment and so on.
Since the tea farm here is still in the first phase of construction, it is estimated that after the trial operation during the National Day, it can accommodate about 100 people for buffet every day, and at the same time it can accommodate 200 people for barbecue. The reception center is responsible for providing the necessary tools for barbecue. However, the accommodation requirements for tourists have not yet been met, and tourists can be accepted for accommodation after October.
On the 7-kilometer sightseeing road around the town, tourists can take a battery sightseeing car to enjoy along the way. At the foot of the tea garden, the huge lake can satisfy the wild fishing hobby of anglers. There are beautiful mountains and clear waters here, and the beautiful and beautiful pastoral scenery makes people linger and forget to return.
Although the three-day trip to Weng'an, an old red revolutionary area in Guizhou, was extremely short, the intensive itinerary made every reporter of the "Green China Tour-Entering Beautiful Weng'an" feel very fulfilled. Everyone said: If there is a chance in the future, you must come to Weng’an, Guizhou to take a good look and take a walk... (Photo: Feng Ganyong)