The Langya District of Chuzhou City is named after the Langya Mountains in its territory, and its rich cultural heritage is everywhere. The accumulation, inheritance and development of thousands of years of culture have bred characteristic cultures such as pavilion culture, drunken culture, Mazheng culture, and Yangming culture. Langya adds brilliance to Chushan Mountain and adds color to Chu Water.
Pavilion culture
Chuzhou has the reputation of "China's Pavilion City", and pavilion culture is the most prominent symbol and feature of Chuzhou culture. Chuzhou Ancient Pavilion was built in the Southern Tang Dynasty, the early Song Dynasty, most of them were built on the top of the main scenic spot of Langya Mountain or on the high slope facing the southeast direction, after nearly a thousand years of the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, especially the number of poems praising the Drunken Pavilion and Fengle Pavilion is very large, laying a solid foundation for Chuzhou culture, making Chuzhou a veritable pavilion culture ancient city dominated by drunken Pavilion culture.
Drunken Pavilion
In May 2012, the Chuzhou Municipal People's Government applied for the "China Pavilion Cultural City", vigorously excavated the cultural elements of the ancient pavilion, with the title of "Millennium Pavilion City", to create the "Most Beautiful Pavilion City", restore and rebuild the Fengle Pavilion, Nanjing Taibu Temple, the Nanhu Waterfront Landscape, and more than 100 small pavilions in Chuzhou Street Park. Strolling through the streets of Chucheng, pavilions of various styles can be seen everywhere, which greatly enriches the cultural connotation of Chuzhou pavilions.
Drunken culture
During the Northern Song Dynasty, Ouyang Xiu served as the Taishou of Chuzhou, and made the Drunken Pavilion famous all over the world because of the famous passage "The Record of Drunken Pavilion". The reason why "Drunken Pavilion" is called the ancient song in the history of mainland prose is not only that it describes the beauty of the landscape, but also that it conveys an immortal spirit, and the optimistic mentality, tolerance and rigid character embodied in the text have formed the drunken feelings, drunken minds and drunken bones that have been praised, remembered and inherited by posterity, that is, the "drunken spirit".
At the same time, "The Tale of the Drunken Pavilion" also more prominently expresses Ouyang Xiu's political ideal of "enjoying with the people". Officials should enjoy themselves with the people, and even more so, they should enjoy themselves, so that there will be harmony between the government and the people, social harmony, and harmony in the world. The ideas of "drunken spirit" and "enjoying with the people" complement each other, forming a "drunken culture" with deeper and broader connotations, which deeply affects the material and spiritual life of Chuzhou people.
Yangming culture
Wang Shouren (1472-1529), also known as Bo'an, nicknamed Yangming, was a native of Yuyao County, Shaoxing Province, Zhejiang (now part of Yuyao, Ningbo), a famous thinker, writer, philosopher and military figure of the Ming Dynasty, and a master of Lu Wang's xinxue, who was proficient in Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. From December to April of the seventh year of Ming Zhengde (1512), Wang Yangming was appointed as the Shaoqing of the Taibu Temple in Nanjing, supervising Ma Zheng. During his stay in Chuzhou, Wang Yangming gave lectures at the foot of Langya Mountain, recruited disciples, opened lectures, and taught the basic ideas of "mind science", and hundreds of disciples came to visit. "However, the conscience is the same, and the four parties come to learn, think of the song and celery, empty smell and empty sight, empty and light, such as climbing the dragon gate", the above words and sentences written by Qi Xian, a disciple of Wang Yangming, enthusiastically praised the grandeur of Wang Yangming's lectures in Chuzhou.
Although Wang Yangming's tenure in Chuzhou was short, his "to the conscience" doctrine and ideology had a far-reaching impact and played a very good role in educating the people and purifying the people's customs. The local people of Chuzhou greatly recognized Wang Yangming's "heart study" and respected him. In order to commemorate this great ancient philosopher and thinker, Dongguan Street was renamed Zunyang Street.
Zunyang Street
Guan Pass culture
Chuzhou east to Yangzhou, west to Luyang, south to the Yangtze River, north to control the Jianghuai hills, the strategic location is very important, has always been a place of contention for soldiers, there have been many wars in history. In order to strengthen the defense, since the Tang Dynasty, all kinds of buildings have been gradually built to ensure peace and tranquility, and over the past thousands of years, after several wars and wind and rain erosion, most of the city walls and passes have been damaged, and there are still Qingliu Pass, Shangshui Pass, Xia Shui Pass, and some Ming City Wall ruins.
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Heritage culture
Chuzhou is located in central China, south of the Qinling-Huaihe River and north of the Nanling Mountains, belongs to the subtropical climate, the average annual temperature is 15 °C -20 °C, the annual precipitation is about 800-1500 mm, the annual growth period is 270-300 days, the temperature is humid, the four seasons are distinct, suitable for human survival activities. As early as the Neolithic Age, which is 4,000 to 5,000 years old, there are traces of human ancestor activities in Langya, and there are many sites of human activity in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties.
Neolithic - Shang Zhou ruins - Pujiadun ruins
Shang Zhou settlement site - He Yin site
Horse politics culture
The great affairs of the country are in the rong, and the great affairs of the rong are in the horses. Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang immediately won the world, and after the capital was Nanjing, he attached great importance to Ma Zheng and paid special attention to the reserve of military horses, so in the sixth year of Hongwu (1373), the Taibu Temple was set up to be in charge of the national horse affairs, and the location was in front of the Longchi At the foot of Fengshan Mountain.
Nanjing Taibu Temple
After Ming Chengzu moved the capital to Beijing in the eighteenth year (1420), another Taibu Temple was established in Beijing, the original Nanjing Yamen was retained, and the Taibu Temple in Chuzhou was changed to Nanjing Taibu Temple, which was ruled by border with the Beijing Taibu Temple. At that time, it was stipulated that Mazheng in Hebei, Shandong and Henan was under the management of The Taibu Temple in Beijing, and the Mazheng in Lianghuai and Jiangnan was under the management of the Taibu Temple in Nanjing.
The Nanjing Taibu Temple ended with the fall of the Ming Dynasty, and it took more than 270 years. Nanjing Taibu Temple is the only state-level government agency in Chuzhou in history, which has had an important impact on the political, humanistic and social life of Chuzhou. Most of the officials of the Taibu Temple were elected by the imperial family, and many of them were famous literary calligraphers and painters in the country, leaving a large number of scrolls, cliff inscriptions, and inscriptions, highlighting the style of the Ming Dynasty scholars. In a certain sense, the Ming Dynasty Langya culture is a "Tai servant" culture and a "Ma Zheng" culture.
Furui Culture
People can not eat for three days, can not be without water for a day, and wells are closely related to the lives of residents. Chucheng has always had the saying of "first well and then home", groundwater resources are relatively rich, the diving layer is shallow, the sinking is convenient, and the groundwater is stable, reliable and clean than the surface water, so the domestic water of Chucheng residents mainly relies on wells to draw water. Chuzhou people are more particular about sinking wells, and most of the location of the wells is to choose the left side of the main entrance of the residential or courtyard outside the courtyard. The left belongs to yang, called "Yang Shui", also known as "Dragon Water", after the family drinks the dragon water, people will prosper and the family fortune will be prosperous. Chucheng wells have square wells, circular wells, hexagonal wells, and Bagua-shaped wells, which are roughly divided into earth wells, tile wells, brick wells, stone wells, brick (stone) wood mixed wells, etc.
Chucheng people are inseparable from the well, and over time they have formed local customs of wells. For example, every first and fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the residents of Chucheng will worship the well god; Chinese New Year's Eve night will hold a well sealing ceremony, and every household will fill their own water tanks, pots and pots with water on the day of the sealing of the well, in preparation for the Chinese New Year's Eve and the first and second days of the first three days of the first and second days of the first year, this custom is called "worship of the well god", which means that the well god has worked hard for people to supply water for a year, so in the new year, people let the well god rest, so that the well god will protect the well water in the new year.
Source: Langya District Cultural Center
Organizer: Chuzhou Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism