Beijing city sub-center is rich in historical and cultural relics. At present, there are 236 immovable cultural relics registered, and 50 cultural relics protection units at all levels have been announced. Among them, there are 2 national key cultural relics protection units, including the Grand Canal and Tongzhou Modern Education Complex; There are 4 key cultural relics protection units in Beijing, including burning Buddha stupa, Li Zhuowu tomb, Tongzhou mosque and Tongzhou barracks; There are 44 district-level cultural relics protection units and 7 underground cultural relics burial areas.
In recent years, Tongzhou District has proposed to protect the cultural heritage of "One Line and Four Districts" as a whole, in which the first line refers to the area along the Grand Canal, and the four districts refer to Tongzhou ancient city, Lu Xian ancient city ruins area, Zhangjiawan ancient city area and Shexian ancient city area.
Three temples and one tower scenic spot is the landmark exhibition area of Tongzhou ancient city. These three temples are Confucius Temple of Confucianism, Ziqing Palace of Taoism and Shengjue Temple of Buddhism. One tower is the burning Buddha pagoda of Youshengjiao Temple. The layout of the "three religions" temples shows the historical trend of the gradual integration of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, and embodies the openness and inclusiveness of the canal culture. Three temples and one tower are adjacent to the yamen, highlighting the status of Confucianism, relying on each other and bringing out the best in each other, which is unique in the country.
Burning Buddha Pagoda is an octagonal 13-story brick and wood solid tower with 2248 hanging clocks and 408 statues and Buddha statues. Built in the Northern Zhou Dynasty more than 1400 years ago, it is a scenic spot at the northern end of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and a landmark building of the ancient city of Tongzhou. Wang Weizhen, a poet in Qing Dynasty, wrote a poem praising the cloud: After the new rain, a tower shadow recognized Tongzhou.
Daguanglou-Shibuya-Hulutou area is the exhibition area of water transport culture in Tongzhou ancient city. Daguanglou is located on the east side outside the north gate of Tongzhou Old Town, next to Shiba Inu Wharf. It faces the river on two levels. The lower floor is a high and wide coupon hole, which is a passage. The upper floor is a single-eave ridge tile roof with three rooms wide and deep. All four corridors have guardrails. Chen Yupeng, a poet in the Qing Dynasty, once wrote poems such as "The famous dam hangs high and the two streams flow backwards" and "Jianghuai is thousands of miles away from Tianjin, shouldering strong sounds", which bear the magnificent great light tower and the vast water surface at the intersection of the Grand Canal in front and the Tonghui River in the back. A large amount of grain is transported from the vast remote areas of the Central Plains and the south of the Yangtze River along the Grand Canal, and many grains are bagged and transported downstairs after inspection.
Shibuya Wharf was built in the seventh year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1528), so it was named because the wharf was made of strips of stone and was a stepped stone dam. It is the highest-level water transport terminal ordered by the Ming court, and it is also a special terminal for receiving and transferring official warehouses in Beijing. Private merchant ships are not allowed to use and park. During the nearly 400 years from the completion of Shibuya Wharf to the closure of the North Canal in the 27th year of Guangxu (190 1), Shibuya Wharf contributed to the political, economic and cultural development of Beijing.
Hulutou was named after the tributary of the Hedong Sect of the ancient sorghum merged into the land water (now the North Canal), with a wide water surface and a gourd-like shape. The estuary of Jinkou River and Zhahe River, which were successively opened during the Jin Dading and Taihe years, is here. During the dredging of Tonghui River in Ming Dynasty, the old lake outside the north gate was excavated and expanded to stop ships. The east of the lake is adjacent to the stone dam, and the west is connected with the excavated "old river", which can reach Pujimen. This lake is shaped like a gourd, so it is called "gourd head". The locals also compare Tonghui River to a dragon from the west, so it is also called the "old dragon head".
Xihaizi Park, founded in 1936, is the earliest city park in Tongzhou and a well-known cultural card in Tongzhou. It was called Haizi Lake in Liao, Jin and Yuan Dynasties. In the old days, there were two Haizi in the north of Tongzhou, next to the city walls on the east and west sides. Today, Donghaizi is long gone, and only Xihaizi has survived to this day. /kloc-in the autumn of 0/936, the puppet Jidong government turned it into "Xihaizi Scenic Area", planting trees and flowers, and repairing bridges and pavilions. After the puppet government moved to Tangshan, it was abandoned because of nobody's management. After liberation, under the leadership of the government, Xihaizi Park was rebuilt. In the future, Xihaizi Park will serve as a city center park to welcome tourists from home and abroad.
Jing 'an Temple is located in Jing 'an Temple Hutong, Xinhua Street, Tongzhou District. Founded in the 13th year of Jin Dading (1 173). It was rebuilt in Hongwu and Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, destroyed in the 18th year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty (1679), and then rebuilt in the original site.
In the old society, Jing 'an Temple held a grand Orchid Festival on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, that is, the Mid-Yuan Festival. During this period, urban and rural residents came here to give alms to monks, who held large-scale religious activities such as chanting ceremonies, land and water Dojo and river lanterns. At the same time, the temple fair was held, and people crowded the streets and alleys, rubbing their shoulders and bumping their heads, which was very lively.
Jing 'an Temple is one of the earliest existing temples in Tongzhou. The heights of Shanmen Hall and Daxiong Hall were quite bold in the Northern Jin Dynasty, which also reflected the Jin Dynasty's emphasis on Buddhism. It is also the place where the Mid-Autumn Festival of Buddhist temples in Tongzhou City is held, the source of the folk custom of releasing lanterns in Tongzhou, and the place where Tongzhou temples used Mid-Autumn Festival activities to form temple fairs earlier. It is an important carrier of canal culture and has high historical value.
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