introduce
Zhengding Ancient City is located 15 kilometers north of Shijiazhuang City, the capital of Hebei Province. It is a city built according to traditional Chinese planning ideas and architectural styles. It embodies the historical and cultural characteristics of China from the 5th century to the 19th century. The crystallization of perseverance.
In history, it was once called "Northern Sanxiong Town" together with Baoding and Beijing, and the stone forehead of "Sanguanxiong Town" is still embedded in the south gate. Zhengding is the hometown of Zhao Zilong, a famous general of the Three Kingdoms.
The long history has left the ancient city with magnificent and unique cultural attractions, known as "three mountains are missing, nine bridges are not flowing, nine floors, four towers, eight temples, and twenty-four golden archways".
"Three Mountains Not Seen" refers to the fact that Zhengding used to be the seat of Zhongshan State, Hengshan County, and Changshan County in history, but there are no mountains in Zhengding.
"Nine bridges do not flow" refers to a single-hole three-way stone bridge in front of Longxing Temple, a Pan bridge in front of the Fu Confucian Temple and the county Confucian Temple hall (the ancient Pan bridges are all in the form of three bridges side by side), but both No running water flows.
"Nine floors, four towers and eight great temples" refer to the four gate towers, four corner towers, and Yanghe Tower in the original city; the four towers are Lingxiao Tower, Hua Tower, Xumi Tower, and Chengling Tower; Bada Temple refers to They are Longxing Temple, Guanghui Temple, Linji Temple, Kaiyuan Temple, Tianning Temple, Hongji Temple, Sheli Temple and Chongyin Temple. The last three temples have been destroyed.
"Twenty-Four Gold Memorial Archways" refers to the 24 large and small golden archways in Zhengding in the past, such as the larger Xujia Archway, Liangjia Archway, Changshan Ancient Commandery, Shengde Tongtian, Depei Tiandi, Muduo Wanshi, etc. .
However, due to historical changes, wind and rain, especially after ten years of Cultural Revolution turmoil, many precious cultural relics were destroyed, but from the existing 9 national protected cultural relics, 6 provincial-level protected cultural relics, and county-level protected cultural relics Looking at more than 10 places, Zhengding is still a famous historical and cultural city.
The ancient city was listed as a provincial historical and cultural city in 1990 and a historical and cultural city in 1994.
Zhengding's tourism has the characteristics of "both new and old", "both elegant and vulgar". Among the scenic spots and historic sites, Longxing Temple, which was built in the sixth year of Emperor Kaihuang (586 AD) of the Song Dynasty, was conferred and expanded by Zhao Kuangyin, the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty. It is magnificent and well preserved, and enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad. Mr. Liang Sicheng, a famous scholar, praised it as "the first of the famous temples outside Beijing".
The wall sculpture of "Avalokitesvara sitting upside down" in the temple is called "the God of Oriental beauty" by Mr. Lu Xun. "Runlun Zang" is called by physicists a model of the operation of Newton's laws, as well as a Chinese scripture cabinet.
The Sui Longzang Temple stele is one of the more well-known ancient steles in China. Its font is an example of the evolution from Han Li to Tang Kai. It was once praised by Kang Youwei as "the first stele in the Sui Dynasty"; The earliest and tallest copper-cast standing Buddhas exist; the planar cross-shaped "Mani Hall" is constructed using typical construction methods of the Song Dynasty. There are four famous pagodas around Zhengding. The Hua Pagoda of Guanghui Temple is an ingenious combination of gold steel pagoda and flower pagoda.
The Lingxiao Pagoda of Tianning Temple is the first wooden pagoda in my country.
The left-right symmetry of the Tang Dynasty bell tower and ancient pagoda in Kaiyuan Temple is an example of the transition of the architectural pattern of Buddhist temples in my country from pagoda-centered to Buddhist hall-centered.
The Chengling Pagoda of Linji Temple is the mantle pagoda of Master Yixuan, the founder of the Linji Sect of Buddhism, and has become a witness and bond of Sino-Japanese friendship.
Located in Zhengding City, Rongguo Mansion was designed and built completely according to the description in Cao Xueqin's famous book "Dream of Red Mansions" and in strict accordance with China's "Great Qing Huidian". It is the first antique building complex with Ming and Qing architectural styles in my country. Most of the scenes of the large-scale TV series "Dream of Red Mansions" were filmed here.
"Ningrong Street", a street in the Qing Dynasty at the west suburb gate of Rongguo Mansion, has a total length of more than 200 meters. The most important scenes in the TV series "Dream of Red Mansions", "Concubine Yuan Visiting Relatives" and "Qin Keqing's Funeral" were all filmed on this street.
Zhengding Ancient City Wall[edit]
The ancient city of Zhengding has a history of more than 1,600 years. It was built with earth in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and built with stone in the Northern Zhou Dynasty. It was expanded into an earthen city in the Tang Dynasty, and then changed into a brick city with a circumference of 24 li after expansion in the Ming Dynasty. The existing Zhengding city wall is a relic of the Ming Dynasty, and the remaining 8,106 meters of the city wall remain.
The most majestic and magnificent of Zhengding City Wall are the four city gates, named Yingxu in the east, then Huancui, Changle in the south, Zhenyuan in the west, and Yongan in the north. After years of erosion, the west and north city gates have lost their former style, and the east gate was completely covered under the defense fortifications in the 1960s.
Previously, the South City Gate Tower and the 50-meter city walls on both sides called on the people to donate old city bricks, and an investment of 3.99 million yuan was invested in the restoration in 2001.
opening hours
open all year round; open all day
