Anyang---the first of China's seven ancient capitals, but not many people know about it. Many friends may be confused after seeing this title, and even friends from the other six ancient capitals may be dissatisfied. Hear me coming:
Anyang is one of the seven ancient capitals of China but it has been forgotten by many people. But his brilliance is enough to make you gasp.
Yes, first of all you should remember the ancient performance artist King Zhou. His wine pond and meat forest can be said to be an unparalleled creation for generations to come. And his capital, Yin, is in Anyang. Of course, the glory of 3,000 years ago is not seen now, but for tourism, or to make money, the Yindu Cultural City was built here on the Yin Ruins site. The simplicity, solemnity and ferocious style of the Yin and Shang Dynasties have gone far away from us and become memories. The blood of businessmen is already very weak on our bodies. but. The achievements of China's first female general, Fu Hao, have been kept silently among a bunch of cheap games taking advantage of the ancient Yi Dynasty. She watched the commotion with tolerance, but said nothing.
She is silent, and her offspring babies are crying...
The Yin Du Museum is located on the north side of the Yin Shang Cultural City. Cultural display. From the emergence of the Bagua to the collection of Yi numeral hexagrams and oracle bone inscriptions, the Zhouyi, the Military Yi, the Future Yi, as well as the evolution of Chinese characters, the Yi calligraphy art and Laozi's Tao Te Ching, etc. Then, whether it was stubbornness or optimism, entertainment permeated the place, and it became an amusement palace. Of course, no matter what you love, you can come. Because if you love ancient culture, you can be as tolerant and silent as the ancients.
There are also places that are old but not that old. Wenfeng Tower is one. It is located at the former site of Tianning Temple in the northwest of Anyang old city. Some people describe it as a symbol of Anyang. It is thought to have a special shape, large at the top and small at the bottom, in the shape of an umbrella. It is extremely rare among ancient pagodas in my country. Some people say that it is also rare abroad.
Wenfeng Pagoda was originally named Tianning Temple Pagoda. The temple was originally built in the Renshou period of the Sui Dynasty (601-604), and the pagoda was built in the second year of Guangshun (952) of the Later Zhou Dynasty. It has been more than a thousand years. This pagoda was rebuilt in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. In 1772 (the thirty-seventh year of Qianlong's reign in the Qing Dynasty), Huang Bangning, then the magistrate of Zhangde (now Anyang), presided over the renovation of Tianning Temple and Pagoda. He believed that the pagoda echoed the Confucius Temple in the south (in today's Xijie Primary School in Anyang City), and that the two could represent the cultural peak of the ancient city, so he inscribed the four characters "Wenfeng Shuxiu" on the banner of the pagoda door. The tower was also named "Wenfeng Tower", which is still used today. After liberation, the People's Government carried out two renovations and listed it as a key cultural relic protection unit in Henan Province.
Wenfeng Tower is 38.65 meters high and has a base circumference of 40 meters. Brick body and wooden eaves. The octagonal tower body stands on a circular lotus base, with seven layers of lotus petals, staggered up and down, stretching left and right, supporting the tower body at the top and protecting the base at the bottom, making the tower more beautiful and spectacular. The upper body of the tower has five levels of eaves, which gradually increase in size from bottom to top. The brackets on the eaves of each floor are different. The octagonal eaves are tied with copper bells, which jingle in the breeze, giving people a sense of loftiness and tranquility. There are phase wheels and pagoda brakes on the top of the tower. There is a door on each side of the lower body of the tower. The south side is the real door and the rest are false doors. On the front of the coupon gate, there is a brick carving of two dragons playing with beads. There are dragon columns surrounded by giant dragons in the eight corners, and iron chains and shackles are added on them, which is very spectacular. Between the eight dragon pillars, there are eight brick relief images of Buddhist stories: in the south is the three-body Buddha statue; in the southwest corner is the image of Sakyamuni Buddha preaching; in the west is the image of the birth of Prince Siddhartha; in the northwest corner is the image of Sakyamuni Buddha There is a statue of the Snow Mountain practicing asceticism; in the north is a statue of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva and the Good Fortune Dragon Girl; in the northeast corner is a statue of the Buddha preaching to gods and humans; in the east is a statue of Sakyamuni Buddha in Nirvana; in the southeast corner is the King and Queen of Persia attending the Buddha and listening to the Dharma picture. These reliefs are vivid in shape, lifelike in expression, natural in posture, and lifelike. They are rare art treasures. There is a platform in front of the south gate of the tower, about 2 meters high. Climb onto the platform, enter the tower gate, and spiral up to the top of the tower along the 72 steps. The top platform of the tower is surrounded by a parapet more than one meter high. In the middle of the platform stands a small gourd-shaped pagoda about 10 meters high, which is roughly similar to the small white pagoda in Beihai Park in Beijing.
So, based on this, Wenfeng finally involved facts that we are familiar with. We know that after Yin, time did not stop in Anyang.
Generation after generation of babies are born, becoming people who may go down in history or fall into the secular world. Then some subdued noise held up China and history. Among these people, the distant ones include the Five Emperors and King Zhou, the more familiar ones include Yue Fei, and the more recent ones include Yuan Shikai.
Yuan Lin, also known as Yuan Jialin or Yuan Tomb, is the cemetery of Yuan Shikai, the great thief of the country. It is located in Taiping Village in the northeast corner of Huanshang Village, Anyang City. Covering an area of ??238 acres, it was built in August of the fifth year of the Republic of China. It took more than two years to complete and cost more than 1.5 million yuan. According to the layout of the Ming and Qing mausoleums, this mausoleum adopts a combination of Chinese and Western wall construction techniques. It takes the traditional Chinese classical form as the body and Western architectural styles as the use. The ancient and modern coexist with different styles. After passing through the traditional Chinese archway gate, there is a sacred road lined with tree-lined streets. On both sides of the sacred road are facing Chinese watches, stone horses, stone tigers, stone lions, stone military commanders, stone civil servants, etc. This is of course a ceremonial guard for Yuan Shikai's tomb in accordance with the "emperor's" specifications. What makes people feel special is that whether they are stone horses, stone tigers, stone lions or civil servants and generals, they all have short legs. The stele pavilion is traditional. Yuan Shikai's tombstone in the pavilion is also carried on the back of a huge pigeon like the emperors and generals in feudal society. After passing the stele pavilion, there is the gate. There is a main hall on the front and side halls on both sides, all of which are Qing Dynasty style buildings. Going further forward is the foundation of the tomb. There are three gates at the base of the platform, and the iron gate in the middle is completely a Western-style building, which looks like the "General's Mansion" in the early Republic of China. However, the tomb emblem hanging on the iron gate is carved with blue dragons, tigers, etc. The three-story high platform tomb inside the iron gate is where Yuan Shikai was buried. It is round in shape and made entirely of reinforced concrete. The stone lions carved around it also imitate Western-style "realism" rather than traditional Chinese "freehand brushwork." This strange tomb of Yuan Shikai exists strangely. Weirdly, he handed himself under the nose of the Chinese ancestors. When we arrived at Yuan Lin, we were already in the suburbs. If you have not forgotten all your historical knowledge, you should remember that there is a place called Xiaotun Village in Anyang - in 1899, the villagers of Xiaotun Village discovered many tortoise shells and animal bones with inscriptions on them. The oldest written text is the oracle bone inscriptions. This is the source of our civilization. In the 14th century BC, King Pan Geng of Shang moved his capital to Yin (now Xiaotun Village), where he established the first stable capital in the history of our country. The total area of ??the Yin Ruins is 24 square kilometers, and there are a large number of bronzes, stone tools, bone tools, jades and other cultural relics with precious historical value. The most famous one is the "Simuwu Dafang Ding" weighing 875 kilograms, which is the largest in the world so far. The largest and heaviest bronze ever found. It is a memory that we kept staring at in the art and history textbooks in primary and secondary schools. This memory is too heavy. Fortunately, the real thing is no longer here. The nearby Tangyin is the hometown of Yue Fei, where there is a Yue Temple, with couplets and statues that we are familiar with; in the open field between the You and Tang rivers in Bahuali, north of Tangyin County, is the city of Youli - "Book of Changes" The place of origin, where King Zhou of Yin imprisoned King Wen of Zhou, was the first national prison in the history of our country since written records began. Because of the imprisonment, there was that outpouring of wisdom. Therefore, in Linzhou, not far from Anyang, there is the "man-made Tianhe" - Hongqi Canal. The history of fighting against heaven and earth has never stopped.