As a life attitude of modern people, tourism has gradually integrated into everyone's life. Choosing to travel can not only see the scenery you have never seen before, but also relax your mood. The mountain city of Chongqing has always been a very popular tourist city, where you can feel what is called a gap and what is called navigation "lost". There is also a "mountain city" in Fujian Province. Different from Chongqing, there are a large number of Hakkas here. This unique mountain city is Changting County, Fujian Province.
It is said that there are three things to do in Chongqing: eating hot pot, taking the light rail and climbing stairs. The most troublesome thing in Chongqing is climbing stairs. Changting ancient city wouldn't have this kind of trouble. Changting ancient city is located at the foot of Wolong Mountain. The particularity of architectural layout makes the ancient city and Wolong Mountain depend on each other, forming a pattern of "there are mountains in the city and cities in the mountains". Didi won't confuse navigation like Chongqing, so don't worry. Although it is not a staircase, it is difficult to move forward on a road with a gap. This is the trouble of Changting ancient city. The ancient city of Changting is very strange in appearance, like a string of beads hanging around Guanyin's neck, so it is also praised by outsiders as "Guanyin hanging beads" and is known as one of the landmark landscapes here.
Since the war at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, a large number of Central Plains people came to Fujian to find a place to settle down in order to escape the war, and settled down in into the badlands, gradually forming a unique resident system in China-Hakka. Many people know that Hakka is because of its tulou, but Changting ancient city is the most representative gathering place of Hakka. Because of the war, most Hakkas have the tradition and habit of family gatherings, and each family is very big. Therefore, Changting has preserved a large number of Hakka residential buildings. Like the earth building in the building structure, the houses around Changting are the most typical, which can generally accommodate dozens of households. Unlike tulou, it is not as huge and spectacular as tulou. I think this is one of the reasons why Changting is not as famous as Tulou.
The historical origin of Hakkas is very difficult, so Hakkas have a tradition of respecting their ancestors, and ancestral temples are all over the ancient city. Ancestral temples are also conspicuous in the ancient city. Most of the buildings are magnificent, which is obviously different from the surrounding buildings. The ancestral temple is beautifully carved and covered with all kinds of paintings and calligraphy, which shows that it has a profound historical accumulation and cultural heritage. The memorial hall is the main hall of the ancestral hall, where various sacrificial activities are held. The memorial tablets and portraits of ancestors are concentrated in the bedroom, and the architectural style of the bedroom suddenly gives people a solemn feeling. It is this ancestor worship handed down from generation to generation that keeps the Hakka people's long-standing culture and their own characteristics.
Hakka people choose to settle in Changting, a mountain city, because it is rugged and easy to defend but difficult to attack. Because it is a mountain city, the traffic is not very convenient. In order to facilitate pedestrians to shuttle safely in it, Hakkas built a wooden bridge between gullies and built a roof on it, providing a shelter from the wind and rain or a place to rest. This kind of bridge is called house bridge in the local area, which is basically invisible in other places and has become one of the characteristics of Changting ancient city. Very spectacular. Walking in it can not only experience the comfort of shelter from the wind and rain, but also the auspicious patterns carved sporadically on the beams, which look like a rainbow across the mountains from a distance.
Changting has too many history and stories to tell, just like a thousand-year-old book, waiting for people to read and continue to write. Hakka culture makes this ancient city unique, which is also the result of the hard struggle of several generations of Hakka families and is worth learning. So, have you ever been to Changting ancient city? Do you want to come here and see for yourself? Welcome to comment below, thank you for your support.