▲ "Dragon meat in the sky, donkey meat on the ground", Baoding's winning code? Photography / Dapeng 16888, Photo / Figureworm Creative
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Yanxia capital, directly subordinate to the bureau
Yesterday's old provincial capital
Today's Champion City
Baoding, Hebei. It is said that no donkey can get out of the city alive.
North of the Great River, east of Taihang, this land between the mountains and rivers is never lonely. For hundreds of years, Baoding people have eaten donkey meat and burned it, stepped on a period of turbulent and magnificent history, and precipitated many nicknames with super high "gold content"——
The old capital of yanguo
Gyeonggi Heavyland
Directly under the Governor's Office
The old capital of Hebei Province
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This summer, Baoding's resounding title is not these, but "City of Champions". At the end of the Tokyo Olympic Games, Baoding athletes created a new history - 4 people went out, all gold medals!
▲ At the Tokyo Olympics, Baoding girl Li Bingjie won the team gold medal with her teammates. Photo/Visual China
Pang Wei of the shooting team, Wang Han of the diving team, Li Bingjie and Zhang Yipan of the swimming team, these Baoding faces all appeared on the podium of the Olympic gold medal. At the 14th National Games, the first and second gold medals of the Hebei team were won by Baoding girls Ju Wenxin and Wang Han respectively.
▲ Wang Han and teammate Shi Tingmao, the women's three-meter board final at the Tokyo Olympics. Photo/Visual China
The golden light on the chest of the athletes is the most eye-catching color in Baoding.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" Data-track="34" > how strong is the "City of Champions"? </h1>
Every Olympic season, the "champion wall" at the entrance of the Baoding Sports Bureau is always shining. Baoding athletes have been seen in almost every Olympic Games since 1984. So far, Baoding has produced 6 Olympic champions and 9 Olympic gold medals, and the "gold winning rate" of this year's Olympic Games has reached 100%.
▲ Probably the tip of the iceberg of Baoding's "Champion Wall". Cartography/May
The "City of Champions" shines not only during the Olympic season, Baoding is also home to 24 world champions, 32 Asian champions, and countless national champions.
Among them, the "diving queen" Guo Jingjing won the Diving World Cup at the age of 14, and then won 4 Olympic gold medals in the 2004 Athens Olympic Games and the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, and earlier than Guo Jingjing, qian Hong, who was known as the "water butterfly", won the championship in the 100-meter butterfly at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games with a record-breaking Olympic record.
▲ At the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, Guo Jingjing, who received the award. Photo/Visual China
Therefore, why is Baoding's "gold content" so high? Why are Baoding athletes so capable of playing?
In Baoding, sports are not just a matter for a few professional athletes. "The champion starts from the doll", 251 sports schools of all levels and types are all over Baoding, and the sports facilities are as high as tens of thousands. Lucky Primary School combines sports and education, and has so far produced 6 Olympic champions and world champions. Even ordinary schools have sports classes, and it is a very glorious thing for parents to send their children to practice sports.
▲ Junior Martial Arts Championship, Baoding people's brave martial arts physique has been trained since childhood. Photo/Visual China
In addition to a strong atmosphere of physical education, Baoding also has no shortage of advanced training equipment. There is a national ice and snow sports training base for the Beijing Winter Olympics and a wind tunnel laboratory in Laiyuan County, which is the perfect combination of modern technology and sports training.
▲ Located in Baoding, the National Ski Jumping Training and Research Base can also be trained not only in winter but also in summer. Photo/Visual China
As a "city of champions", Baoding has a long tradition of advocating bravery and martial arts - Baoding Iron Ball, which is not only an entertainment toy, but also a well-known "artifact" for strengthening the body and bones; parks and squares can be seen everywhere, it is a scene of a circle of people kicking shuttlecocks; almost every "old Baoding" is still a master of shaking bamboo.
▲ Experience the uncle's empty bamboo control technology. Photo/Visual China
"Jingyouzi, WeiZuizi, The Hook Leg of Baoding Province", the "Baoding Fast Wrestling" that flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, is famous for its move "Hook Leg", condensing the "martial soul" of Baoding.
Taihang is ancient and resolute, easy to water and wind Xiao Xiaoxi; ancient tragic songs and thorny Qin, modern heroic anti-Japanese resistance - the glory of the "City of Champions" and the brave spirit of Baoding people have long been integrated with the jizhong landscape.
▲ Between Beijing, Tianjin and Shijiazhuang, it is Baoding. Cartography/Sun Lu
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="67" > mountains, plains, and yodopo</h1>
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="68" > Baoding: A Shrinking China</h1>
Eight hundred miles of majestic Taihang, stretching across the west and north of Baoding, the Jizhong Plain spread out in the middle, and the western part is full of Dianpo Water Township. The west is majestic, the east is open, and the terrain from west to east is gradually decreasing, and the landform of Baoding is like a miniature version of China.
▲ The Juma River meanders in the Taihang Mountains, and on both sides of it is the town of Sanpo in Laishui County. Photo/Visual China
In the depths of Taihang, the mountains are victorious. The wild three slopes are headed by the word "wild", both the green white grass banks, the stalactites lined with fish valley caves, and the hundred mile gorge with a depth of tens of kilometers, such as a knife and axe, creating a "hundred miles and a line of heaven", the narrowest point is only 0.83 meters, and the narrow valley is next to it, all of which are majestic and frightening.
▲ Haitangyu, Baili Gorge. Photography / Flying Ocean's Sadness, Picture / Figure Worm Creative
Baishi Mountain, which integrates "the wonders of Huangshan Mountain, the danger of Huashan Mountain, and the beauty of Zhangjiajie", is the only stony peak forest formed by white Dali rock in China, with strange peaks and strange stones scattered in a staggered manner, during which the sea of clouds rolls, sometimes gathered into a clump, sometimes like silk sliding. There is also the longest hanging glass boardwalk in China, which has led to a new trend of tourism.
▲ The hanging boardwalk that can be seen everywhere on White Rock Mountain. Photography / Liu Yunze
West of Baishi Mountain, near Wutai Mountain, there is the largest waterfall group in the north, the Tianshengqiao Waterfall Group, a ditch and nine waterfalls, connected in a stepped layer. To the east of Baishi Mountain, there is a rugged and rugged Wolf's Tooth Mountain that resembles a wolf's tooth.
During the War of Resistance Against Japan, in order to cover the transfer of the masses and the main forces, the "Five Heroes of Wolf's Tooth Mountain" resolutely walked towards the top of the Qipantuo Mountain and led the enemy to a dead end. "It is the glorious tradition of Yan Zhao heroes to prefer death to die", after completing the cover mission, the brave soldiers jumped off the cliff, and the three heroically sacrificed. Standing at the foot of the Wolf's Tooth Mountain, it seems that you can still hear the heroic and heroic killing of the enemy by the soldiers and civilians of Baoding.
▲ The main peak of Wolf's Tooth Mountain is a chessboard, where the five heroes jumped and fell into the cliff. Photography / Han Yang
To the east of the mountains, the vast plains make up about half of Baoding. Above the plain, a symphony of man and water is played. Once on the banks of the Yishui River, Gao gradually left the building, Jing Kehe and sang, leaving behind the ancient song of "the wind is xiaoxiao, the water is cold, and the heroes will never return", and now, the Yishui Lake is quiet and beautiful, the water is rippling, and the scenery of the southern country is all in sight.
▲ The sparkling Yishui Lake is no longer the appearance of "wind and xiaoxiao". Photo/Visual China
Nearly ten rivers, such as the Lilong River, the Tang River and the Cao River, which originate in the Taihang Mountains, go east and inject into large and small lakes and lakes, shaping the largest freshwater lake in North China - Baiyangdian. Within the 360 square kilometers, there are more than 90 berths of various sizes, more than 3,700 trenches, 120,000 acres of reeds and 36 island villages. The "Pearl of North China" Baiyangdian is a scenery in all four seasons, especially the lotus flowers swaying in summer and the reed flowers fluttering in autumn, and the entire lake is rendered misty.
▲ Baiyangdian, reed trenches stretch like a labyrinth. Photo/Visual China
Water transport around Baiyangdian is in all directions, and earlier you can take a boat from the Baodingfu River Wharf and you can sit all the way to Tianjin. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, this was the only way for the Japanese army to transport arms and materials by water. The reed trenches stretch like a labyrinth of Baiyangdian, and it is also a guerrilla battlefield for the "Water Flying General" Yanling Team. During the long battle on the water, they sang songs like this:
"Fish, swim away, our ship is going to fight;
Geese, fly away, our guns are going to shoot the enemy. ”
The anti-Japanese deeds of the baiyangdian soldiers and civilians inspired Xu Guangyao, a writer and veteran soldier in Xiongxian County, to create "Little Soldier Zhang Ga"; on the other hand, Baiyangdian was bright and picturesque, achieving the "dream of lotus pond" of writer Sun Li. Today's Baiyangdian is the most important ecological water body in Xiong'an New Area, like a beating "heart", escorting the construction of the new area.
▲ Baiyangdian, which is now located in Xiong'an New District. Photo/Visual China
Baoding, not only in the terrain like a shrinking China, its turbulent history, as magnificent as Taihang, like the waves of easy water, it is also a microcosm of the history of Hebei, and even the history of China.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="109" > ancient Yan Zhao, nearly directly subordinate</h1>
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="110" > the "boot city" spawned by the war</h1>
The name of Baoding is derived from war and resorts to peace. The people who came out of here have carried a wave of hot blood and chivalry since ancient times -- Jing Ke who sang the song of Qin, Lian Po who "still can eat or not", Zhang Fei, one of the Five Tiger Generals of the Three Kingdoms, and Zu Di, a famous general of the Northern Expedition who "smelled the chicken dancing" in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, are all Baoding faces in the shadow of the sword and light.
▲ The lower capital of the Yan Kingdom, the Han tombs of Mancheng and the Dingyao porcelain are all Baoding's "cultural relics business cards". Cartography/Nefer
The Baoding region of the Song Dynasty was not only the hometown of the founding emperor Zhao Kuangyin, but also a military fortress on the front line of the war. This place is on the border of song and Liao, where the Northern Song Dynasty set up a Baosai Army, and later set up Baozhou, taking the name of defending the border. The war between the two countries, in addition to leaving the ancient war road of the Song and Liao dynasties in Xiongxian County, there is also the legendary story of the "Yang Family General", which wrote the most tragic Northern Expedition in Chinese history. The Kaiyuan Temple Pagoda (Dingzhou Pagoda) in Dingzhou was a "enemy tower" during the Song and Liao wars, silently looking north at the "Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures" that the Northern Song Dynasty was eager to recover.
▲ Dingzhou Kaiyuan Temple Pagoda. Photo/Visual China
Baoding at the turn of the Song and Yuan dynasties witnessed how the war destroyed family affection - Zhang Shijie of the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhang Rou and Zhang Hongfan, the famous generals of the Yuan Dynasty, were all Baoding people. Zhang Shijie and Zhang Hongfan were originally brothers of the same ethnic group, but in the Battle of Yashan, Zhang Hongfan led the Yuan army to attack the Song army, and Zhang Shijie was defeated at Yashan, and finally sank the sea and martyred.
▲ Da Ci Ge was once the tallest building in Baoding City. Photography / Han Yang
The capital of the Three Dynasties of the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties was Beijing, and Baoding was the "Southern Gate" and has since become the center of Gyeonggi. Baoding's "Ding" is not only "defending the capital and stabilizing the world", but also Zhang Rou's reconstruction of Baoding City's "painting the city well, placing officials and settling residents", which has the old appearance of today's "Boot City". The ancient lotus pond, Da Ci Pavilion and other scenic spots seen today were also built by Zhang Rou.
▲ Ancient lotus pond, lotus leaf field. Photography / Shi Yaochen
Since the Yuan Dynasty, the new Baoding City has been accompanied by Hebei. The Ming and Qing dynasties continued the yuan dynasty provincial system, changing Zhongshu Province to a province directly under the yellow river, and laying the general scope of today's Hebei in the north of the Yellow River. Baoding became the "provincial capital" of the province in the Qing Dynasty, and the office of the governor directly under the governor was established here.
▲ Directly under the Governor's Office, the most complete preserved provincial government office of the Qing Dynasty in China. Photo/Visual China
Later, although Hebei Province changed many times in Baoding, Tianjin, Beijing and Shijiazhuang, Baoding was undoubtedly the oldest provincial capital with the longest time, the oldest qualifications, and the most "Hebei". It can be said that no city can represent Hebei more than Baoding.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="135" > the "old provincial capital" of Hebei</h1>
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="136" > reflects the most bumpy modern Chinese history</h1>
Gongwei Jingshi was the first important province of the Qing Dynasty. Directly subordinate to the governor, he was naturally also an important minister of the imperial court, "inspecting and raising officials, repairing the feudal territory". During the Yongzheng period, after the establishment of the governor's office in the provincial capital of Baoding, it became the second political center of China. "A governor's office, half of the history of the Qing Dynasty", 74 governors came and went, and the fate of life and the fate of the country collided in Baoding.
▲ Located in the mountains of Baoding Yi County, the Qingxi Mausoleum is the last imperial tomb group in the Qing Dynasty. Photography / Yue Zhiqiang
Here, Hu Jitang, the eighteenth governor directly under his direct subordination, indignantly wrote down the recital of the corrupt officials and the emperor; Zeng Guofan left behind the exhortation to "treat civil affairs as family affairs"; here witnessed Li Hongzhang's highlight moment and also witnessed his desolation and loneliness; here witnessed the strange humiliation and humiliation of the nursing governor Tingyong being executed by the Trial of the Eight-Nation Alliance, and also witnessed the new atmosphere of Yuan Shikai's drastic reforms.
Baoding in the midst of the vicissitudes is still a "military city". Li Hongzhang took office as the governor of Zhili, and brought with him the Huai Army he founded, to defend the Beijing Division, defend the sea frontier, and build the Huipai style Huaijun Office to commemorate the Huaijun generals who died on the battlefield and died heroically, including Ding Ruchang, Deng Shichang, and Liu Butou in the Sino-Japanese War, as well as Nie Shicheng in the Eight-Nation Alliance's invasion of China.
▲ Zhili Library, founded in 1908, witnessed the centenary of Baoding. Photography / Shi Yaochen
In 1901, Yuan Shikai was appointed as the governor of Beiyang, training the Beiyang New Army and establishing the Beiyang Accelerated Martial Arts Academy. After the Xinhai Revolution, it was changed to Baoding Military Academy, which is the earliest, largest, and most complete officer school in the history of modern military education in China.
After Yuan Shikai, the Republic of China was frequently in turmoil, the Beiyang warlords were divided, baoding became the base camp of the direct warlords, and the direct general Cao Kun was known as the "King of Baoding" and stationed here for eight years. He built the Garden of Light in Baoding and named it after Qi Jiguang, a famous general who worshipped the Anti-Wu Dynasty. In the 1920s, Cao Kun planned the Eight Provinces Alliance in Guangyuan, major events such as the Battle of Zhiwan and the First Zhifeng War, which profoundly affected the political structure of the Republic of China.
▲ Baoding Guangyuan, in addition to Cao Kun, Chiang Kai-shek, Zhang Zuolin, Zhang Xueliang and other military and political leaders of the Republic of China once lived here. Photo/Visual China
Baoding in the midst of change is also a "city of learning". In ancient times, lianchi academy was the first of the ten major academies in the Qing Dynasty and the center of national scholarship. After Yuan Shikai became the governor of Zhili, he drafted a shangzhi and asked the imperial court to abolish the millennium examination system and create a large number of new-style schools, such as the Zhili Agricultural School, the predecessor of today's Hebei Agricultural University. Suddenly, Baoding poured in students from all over the country.
▲ Library of Hebei Agricultural University West Campus. Photo/Visual China
In 1905, the League established Yude Middle School here, which trained a large number of revolutionary figures to overthrow the Qing Dynasty. Since 1917, Yude Middle School has also become one of the centers of work-study in France, and early communists Liu Shaoqi, Li Weihan, and writer Sun Li have all walked out of Yude Middle School.
▲ Memorial Hall of the Work-study Movement in France and Yude Middle School. Photography / Shi Yaochen
Of course, Baoding in the midst of change is a city of heroic blood. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Nie Rongzhen led the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region to create an anti-Japanese base area in the Taihang Mountains in western Baoding, which was the first anti-Japanese base area created by the Communist Party of China behind enemy lines. The brave Baoding military and civilians cooperated to carry out mine warfare, tunnel warfare, sparrow warfare... Mountains, plains, and Baiyangdian are all battlefields for killing the enemy.
▲ During the war, Baoding's status as the "Gate of Gyeonggi" was particularly important. Photography / October 32, Photo / Figureworm Creative
During the Anti-Japanese War, a total of 12,500 kilometers of tunnels were dug in the Jizhong Plain, and these "underground Great Walls" in all directions became an underground barrier to block the Japanese Kou. In today's Ranzhuang Tunnel Battle Site, it seems that the sound of bloody fighting in the past still echoes.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="169" > Baoding, the land of donkey fire</h1>
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="170" > to win the championship if you eat hard! </h1>
The status of the old provincial capital of two hundred years has also left many old brands for Baoding. Especially at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the People's Republic, the most turbulent era of Baoding City was also the era when Baoding's old brand left its name.
▲ Baoding West Street, there are still many old brands preserved today. Photography / Midnight Hunter, Picture / Figure Worm Creative
Bai Yunzhang, founded by Baoding bai yunzhang, once competed with Tianjin dogs to ignore the buns, and is still a favorite shop of Baoding people; in addition, Huaimao pickles, He Jia baked cakes, Baijia beef cover cakes, Majia old chicken shop, YichunLou Restaurant, which ranks first in the "fifth floor of Baoding", and the most famous white meat cover fire in the restaurant, etc., are still all over the streets and alleys of Baoding.
"Dragon meat in the sky, donkey meat on the ground", when it comes to Baoding cuisine, the most famous nature is "donkey meat burning".
▲ Baoding donkey fire, is a round donkey fire. Photography / Dapeng 16888, Photo / Figureworm Creative
"Donkey fire" has always had a dispute between the "round fire" of Baoding Province and the "square fire" of Hejian Province, you have to ask which is authentic, which is delicious, Baoding people must say: "There is no need to discuss, it must be our big Baoding drop!" ”
When you come to Baoding, you can see that there are rows of donkey meat burning shops, which are definitely more than the shops selling water on the roadside. Donkey meat must be burned with a freshly beaten fire clip on the ruddy and rotten donkey meat that has already been prepared, and when it is put together, it must be eaten in the store quickly, and when it is cold, it will lose its unique flavor.
▲ Chopped donkey meat to be packed, ruddy and fragrant. Photography / Dapeng 16888, Photo / Figureworm Creative
Fire in Baoding is omnipotent, in addition to colliding with donkey meat to produce sparks, sausage fire, pork fire, loin fire, etc., are all snacks that Baoding people often buy on the street. In addition to the long-established shops in Baoding City and the donkey meat fire everywhere, the cuisine of Baoding counties and cities is also countless -
▲ In Baoding, everything can be burned. Photography / Dapeng 16888, Photo / Figureworm Creative
Dingzhou stew is different from the stew in the donkey meat fire, as the meat sausage with cold mixing, steaming, stir-frying has its own flavor; Quyang baked cake is thin and crisp; Shunping hanging oven baked cake stove fire on the top, burnt cake on the bottom, it is not surprising; Mancheng Han tomb where the mancheng Han tomb is located, the grinding plate persimmon is really as big as a "grinding plate"; Yixian Qingxiling's Manchu Han full table steamed deer tail, now the common people can afford to eat; Baiyangdian aquatic products are countless delicious, whole fish feast, fried lotus, after eating and crayfish...
▲ Baiyangdian smoked fish. Photo/Visual China
Only when we eat hard can we have the courage to face the turbulent times and the strength to continue to write new brilliant chapters.
On April 1, 2017, the State Council announced the establishment of Xiong'an New District, which administers the three counties of Anxin, Xiongxian and Rongcheng in Baoding, and tightly wraps the "Pearl of North China" Baiyangdian. Today, the new district is "rising from the ground", and this new city, which is enough to represent the future, is being conceived on this ancient land.
▲ Xiong'an high-speed rail station, like an eggshell, is incubating new life. Photo/Visual China
And Baoding, which casts gold medals, is like a capitalized Hebei abbreviation - "Ji", which is still a promising "city of champions" after thousands of years of magnificent history.
▲ Baoding, which was once turbulent, is still full of hope. Photography / Han Yang
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Wen 丨 Liu Hao, Li Yi
Text editor | Li Yi
Picture Editing | Nefer
Cover photo | Dapeng 16888, Figureworm Creative
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