Spring and Autumn Building, also known as Dajie Pavilion, is located in the middle of Wenmiao Front Street in the center of Xuchang. It flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Legend has it that Guan Yu studied. In the first month of the fifth year of Jian 'an in the Han Dynasty (200 years), Cao Cao levied Liu Bei's eastward expedition, Liu Bei was defeated and went to Yuan Shao, and Cao Cao captured Guan Yu and Liu Bei's wife in the next pi. Cao Cao, the sergeant-in-chief, first worshipped Guan Yu as a partial general, and later named Han Shou Hou Ting. And gave a house for Guan Yu to live with his two yellow sisters-in-law. Guan Yu divided a house into two courtyards, and let the two yellow sisters-in-law live in the inner court and live in the outer court. Guan Yu greeted him in the morning and evening, reading Spring and Autumn by candlelight and staying up all night. Later generations praised Guan Yu's moral integrity and built the Spring and Autumn Building and Guandi Temple here.
The spring and autumn building is called the big festival pavilion, also known as the all-night place. In the Qing Dynasty, Zhen Ruzhou sang: "Hold a candle in the middle of the night to avoid suspicion temporarily, and the house is divided into two houses. According to Cao, he returned to Han for a long time and left Yingfeng in Yingchuan. " The following is a gifted scholar in Xuchang: "English style in both houses".
The Spring and Autumn Building is the main building of Guandi Temple, with brick-wood structure and double eaves and mountain-resting style. It is more than 30 meters high. The roof of the temple is paved with green glazed tiles, three rooms wide, surrounded by 16 colonnade, and there are cloisters upstairs and downstairs. The green stone pillars are carved with flowers, birds, insects, fish and figures. The building is rigorous in structure, generous in shape and magnificent.
The Spring and Autumn Building is the tallest building in the temple. There is a colorful statue of Guan Yu reading Spring and Autumn Annals at night, which is lifelike. There are a knife building and a seal building on the two wings, which hide Guan Yu's Qinglong crescent moon blade and Hanshou Pavilion. The East Courtyard is divided into a front palace and a harem, and there are two statues of Huang Sao. There is also a garden, an Anting Pavilion and so on.
There are two stone tablets in the Spring and Autumn Period downstairs. Yitong is a stone tablet of "Wang Guan gives Cao Tu" erected in the sixth year of Jingtai in the Ming Dynasty (1455), which reads "Guan Yu gives Cao Yuan Shu" and the following is "Guan Yu gives Cao Tu". Guan Yu led the horse and bowed to Cao Cao with clear lines and vivid characters. The other is a portrait painted by Wu, a painter in the Tang Dynasty, carved by Liu. Guan Yu is riding a red hare, carrying a crescent knife and his eyes are shining; The long beard is flying, imposing, majestic but not hateful, resolute but not stupid, and it is a living painting of the glory of a Confucian general. Guan Yu's mount stands upright, with four hooves like columns, clear eyes and sharp ears, and is magnificent. The above two inscriptions are elegant in pen, exquisite in calligraphy and exquisite in engraving.
The whole Guandi Temple has a clear primary and secondary, symmetrical left and right, towering halls, cornices and arches, pines and cypresses pressing clouds, willow blowing smoke, quiet courtyards, sparse bamboo and trees and picturesque scenery.
Guan Yu is a recognized warrior in the history of our country, as well as Wen Sheng and Kong Qiu. Guan Yu was born in Changping, Xiezhou, Shanxi. Because of his lifelong loyalty to Liu Bei, he is "loyal but not dead", so the ruling class of all dynasties is a model for courtiers. In the Song Dynasty, the imperial court made him the loyal king, and in the Ming Dynasty, it even made him the emperor, and changed the Martyr's Temple into Guandi Temple.
Suzhou gardens are the best in the world.
In more than forty days, the 28th World Heritage Congress will be held in the ancient city of Suzhou, which is also a special honor for this city that left its name on the World Heritage List as early as 1997. Classical gardens such as Humble Administrator's Garden, Lingering Garden, Master of Nets Garden and Huanxiu Mountain Villa are included in the World Heritage List. Canglang Pavilion, Lion Forest, Art Garden, Lovers Garden and Retreat Garden are the expansion projects of Suzhou Classical Garden, a world heritage. So today, I will show you the elegance of Suzhou gardens.
Most gardens in Suzhou belong to private gardens and occupy a small area. In order to show infinite depth of field in a limited space and let tourists enjoy the scattered and orderly scenery, Suzhou gardens adopted the method of seeing the big from the small in the process of gardening. Humble Administrator's Garden, Lingering Garden and Master's Garden are typical representatives of Suzhou classical gardens. They came into being in the heyday of Suzhou private gardens. With profound artistic conception, exquisite construction, elegant art and rich cultural connotation, they have become the models and representatives of many classical gardens in Suzhou. It seems that the Baisi Pagoda in the garden is actually only three miles away from the Humble Administrator's Garden. The three miles from the garden to the tower is called the "aerial landscape corridor", so it must not block the scenery. Greening workers prune trees spontaneously, which naturally makes this corridor more distant and clear.
Suzhou's classical gardens and folk houses are integrated, which can be appreciated, visited and lived. The formation of this architectural form is a creation of human attachment to nature, pursuit, beautification and improvement of living environment in a densely populated city lacking natural scenery. Zhuo Yuan, Lingering Garden, Wangshiyuan and Huanxiu Villa are four classical gardens with complete architectural types and well-preserved. They systematically and comprehensively show the layout, structure, modeling, style, color and furnishings of Suzhou classical garden buildings. They are representative works of Jiangnan residential buildings in Ming and Qing Dynasties, reflecting the high living civilization in Jiangnan area of China during this period. They influenced the architectural style of the whole Jiangnan city and promoted the design and conception of folk architecture. In addition, Suzhou classical garden, as a combination of house and garden, also reflects the lifestyle and etiquette of China ancient Jiangnan folk living and leaving their relatives, and is the physical data for understanding and studying the ancient Jiangnan folk customs in China.
An important feature of Suzhou classical garden is that it is not only the product of history and culture, but also the carrier of China traditional thought and culture. It is manifested in the naming, plaque, calligraphy, carving and decoration of the garden hall, as well as the meaning of flowers and trees and the love of stacked stones. It is not only a beautiful art that adorns the garden, but also stores a lot of historical, cultural, ideological and scientific information. Some reflect and spread various philosophical concepts and schools of thought such as Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism; Some preach the philosophy of life and cultivate noble sentiments; With the help of classical poetry and literary works, the landscape is embellished and rendered, which makes people lively and fragrant, and turns the scenery into emotion. The park has a well-preserved collection of calligraphy works by famous calligraphers in China, which is a precious work of art with high cultural value.
The inclusion of our classical gardens in the World Cultural Heritage List means that we should do a good job in the future according to the requirements of UNESCO and the World Heritage Convention. This is a dynamic process and a long-term process. The purpose is to make the world cultural heritage-classical gardens sustainable development and pass it on to future generations through protection. Creating "Suzhou Garden is the best in the world" … can make guests from all over the world feel that they are really in China and Suzhou.
June 28th, come on! Let the world know Suzhou!
Feel the exquisiteness of Suzhou gardens
Even in October, the vegetation in Suzhou is still full of vitality. A touch of green in the faint rain lane, against the gray background, is more quiet, elegant and solemn, just like an ink painting, melting into a classical love, vaguely revealing the beauty and sadness of the ancient rhyme in the south of the Yangtze River.
This is the famous Suzhou Mudu, and Emperor Qianlong visited it six times. This place may be famous for its prosperity, but thousands of years ago, a woman, Xi Shi, sank the fish and fell into the swallow, subverting the fate of a country. There is too much connection with this woman here, and the cork is "blasphemy". In order to please the stone, the king of Wu began to build the official tile palace and transported a lot of wood, which blocked the waterway of Wu for three years. Who knows this is also one of the strategies of the King of Yue to weaken the economy of Wu. Today, Guanwa Palace is still there, but I'm going to the second place, a typical private garden in Suzhou.
The second place is the former residence of Feng Guifen, a politician in the late Qing Dynasty. Feng Guifen was a student of Lin Zexu, and his former residence was called the second place because he won the second place in the high school of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty for twenty years.
The whole park is centered on the pond, and other scenery is arranged in harmony. This is a kind of garden layout in Suzhou. Lotus leaf field in the pool, lotus flowers like blue. Fish frolicking among the lotus leaves reminds me of that poem: lotus can be picked in the south of the Yangtze River, lotus and lotus leaves, and fish frolicking among the lotus leaves. Fish hits the lotus leaf, and fish hits the lotus leaf. ...
The second place is the typical landscape architecture style of Qing Dynasty. It features "Three Carvings in the South of the Yangtze River", including stone carving, wood carving and brick carving. A picture bred in a prosperous time, with smooth lines and vivid charm, reflects the prosperity of ancient books; The two brick-carved gatehouses are beautifully carved and the operas are lifelike; The flower blue hall, 208 long and short windows and screen doors, which are compared between the north and the south, show the exquisiteness of woodcarving art in Jiangnan.
However, the classical furniture in that room, after years of baptism, is more elegant and solemn. I think of Lin Qingxuan's words: the beauty of Ming-style furniture is that the thief's light disappears after time's tempering, and its light does not decrease in the humble room; In the palace, it won't be dazzling.
Mr. Ye Shengtao admits in Suzhou Gardens that the essence of Suzhou Gardens is "exquisiteness", which makes people feel like painting. Good Jiangnan! It is no wonder that thousands of years ago, Bai Juyi expressed his unforgettable feelings of Jiangnan.
Tingxiang garden
A few years ago, I went to a garden called Tingxiangyuan. No matter from that angle, the flowers, buildings and so on are unforgettable.
This park is located in the northwest of the city, with an area of about 6.5438+0.8 million square kilometers. There is a fountain in the middle and two lifelike statues of fish in the center of the pool. The two fish opened their mouths and drew a silver waterline, which was colorful under the sunlight. There is a yard in the east of the garden, which is full of flowers. These flowers are not very big. From a distance, the colors are yellow, red and white ... and there is a fragrance, and the decoration in the yard is magnificent. The western part of the garden is mainly a rockery. The rockery is mountainous, and the design is very realistic, giving people the feeling of visiting a real mountain. There is a small forest in the north of the garden, where bamboo, apricot, peach and hemlock are planted. It is the best place to avoid the cold and summer in summer.
This garden is very beautiful. It is famous for the flowers, trees and bamboo in the courtyard, so it is called Tingxiang Garden. The fragrance of flowers in the yard smells good, and walking in it makes people forget all their troubles. The trees in the forest are tall, big and lush, which have quite pastoral scenery. There is a pavilion behind the garden. Standing on it and looking at the garden from a distance is like a beautiful painting. Its layout is unified, even if it is not standing on the pavilion, it is also a beautiful picture. Who doesn't praise such a beautiful garden?