Chinese architect Liang Sicheng once said: "Others hide their treasures at home, and my treasures are placed all over the country." The treasure he said was the ancient building.
In Chaozhou, Guangji Lou is such a treasure.
Guangji Building
The most rare thing is that in this treasure with a history of more than 600 years, there is also a treasure of the essence of The Thousand Year Chaozhou. Let's go, let's go to Guangji Building to "treasure hunt"!
Shocking treasure
Guangji Bridge, Guangji Lou and Archway Street are typical representatives of Chaozhou cultural relics attractions. To go from Guangji Bridge to Arch Street, Guangji Lou is a must-pass place!
It is not too much to say that Guangji Lou is a treasure. It is a palace-style three-story hilltop loft that stands above the Guangji Gate on the east side of Dongmen Street on Taiping Road in Chaozhou City, and locals are accustomed to calling it the "East Gate Tower".
Guangji Building at night
The normal way people know Guangji Lou is to look up. Only to see the majestic and magnificent whole building, the heavy eaves on the top of the mountain, with glass tile walls, plus zhuzhu lattice windows and carved columns, just one face, can make people shocked. Looking at it again, the ground floor of Guangji Building is 25.8 meters wide and 13 meters deep, covering an area of 335 square meters, and each floor is a five-bay room, gray tile roof, bucket arch lifting beam structure.
As a landmark building in the ancient city, the plaques and pillars on each floor of Guangji Building highlight the profound cultural heritage of Chaozhou.
Plaque of Guangji Building
On the first floor, there is a plaque inscribed by the calligrapher Liu Bingsen entitled "Lingdong Shouyi", as well as a column written by Chen Jingshu entitled "Chengbaojiang Ru belt, heaven hanging on the mountain"; on the second floor, there is a plaque written by the master of traditional Chinese studies, Rao Zongyi, "East for Wanchun", and a pillar link "Wanfeng when the household stands, a water comes from the sky"; on the third floor, there is a plaque inscribed by Xiao Xian "Guangji Lou"; and a column written by Lu Ruihua "Deshan Water And Clear Air, Extreme Ancient Bridge Beautiful Wind".
Baby's Metamorphosis
Guangji Tower was built in the third year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1370), is the most majestic and spectacular city tower in the seven gates of the original Chaozhou Ancient City, and has always been the defense of Chaozhou City, and the traffic is passed.
For various reasons, Guangji Building has also been rebuilt several times, and every time it is built, the structural form has changed.
According to the Qing Dynasty's "Records of the East Gate Tower", in the third year of Qing Xianfeng (1853), the Guangji Gate City Tower was destroyed by fire, and "the county people rebuilt it with gold, and the Hongjie was beautiful, several times more than before." The real image of the reconstructed Guangji Building, preserved in the "Map of the Ancient City of Chaozhou" in the late Qing Dynasty, became the main basis for the Chaozhou Municipal Government to rebuild the Guangji Building in 2002 when it fell into disrepair.
Wooden window flowers of Guangji Building
"Rebuilt the falling frame", that is, the old components left behind in the old building are installed in situ, which fully reflects the principle of "repairing the old as the old".
In order to restore the original earthquake and windproof function of Guangji Building, when it was built this time, the wooden and stone structure was restored, the beam frame, doors and windows, railings, tile ridges, etc. were restored to the Ming Dynasty form, and the disassembled components were used as much as possible after screening to preserve more historical information. When decorating the interior, in order to better reflect the characteristics of Chaozhou ancient architecture, a famous ancient architecture master in Chaozhou was specially hired to paint and paste gold.
A gem among treasures
The first and second floors of Guangji Building are now set up as chaozhou intangible cultural heritage exhibition halls. These treasures, which are treasured with treasures, are important cultural wealth created and accumulated by the people of Chaoshan region over the past thousand years.
Guangji Building Exhibition Hall
Walking into the exhibition hall, you can see exquisite intangible cultural heritage works such as Chao embroidery, Chaozhou porcelain, Chaozhou wood carving, Chaozhou flower lanterns, etc., or the charm flows, or blooms dazzlingly, telling the moving intangible cultural heritage story of this ancient city.
Tide porcelain
Teochew wood carving
Looking back on the past, walking into Guangji Lou, feeling the "baby" of Chaozhou, traveling through the time and space of the years, and glowing with the brilliance of the new era.
Source: Fang Zhi Guangdong
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