▲ Fujiang River at sunset. Photography / Zhang Xiaoping
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As the only science and technology city in China, Mianyang has been the legendary founder of Chinese civilization since ancient times. Located in the middle and upper reaches of the Fu (fú) River, Mianzhou (present-day Mianyang East) is an important town for cultural integration, with Qinlong in the north, Qiangqiang in the west, Bahan in the east, and Dadu in the south.
▲ Full view of Fuller Court. Photography / Liang Yan
"Water flows downstream from Longzhou... Entering the Tong River, out of the Guanghan, surrounded by shape victory, it is appropriate for the humanistic eunuch industry, called shengfu decline. "East of Tianchi, west of the FuJiang River, ancient Mianyang is named after water, also known as Fucheng, between the mountains and rivers gave birth to the water hero Dayu, the human ancestor of silkworm reeling (léi) ancestors, "embroidery mouth Tusheng Tang" "poetry immortal" Li Bai, one of the "Tang and Song Dynasty Eight Masters" Ouyang Xiu, the Northern Song Dynasty "Ink Bamboo Master" Wen Tong...
▲ The Fu River flows through the Wuyin Dam. Photography / Zhang Xiaoping
Today's Mianyang is the "Western Silicon Valley" of China, the China Academy of Engineering Physics, known as the "Heart of China's Nuclear Weapons", and the China Aerodynamic Research and Development Center, which is known as the "heart of China's nuclear weapons", and other national research institutes gathered here. In addition to the thousand weights, here is also the "folk gourmet" Plum Ziqi's snowy mountains and forests, and the egret flower field.
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The so-called "Sichuan is not destroyed, China is not dead" and the "strategic backup area" Sichuan Basin deserves indispensable contributions. The Sichuan Basin, which has natural barriers such as the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, Wushan Mountain, Longmen Mountain, and Daba Mountain Range, is a hilly and open "Tianfu" within the greenery.
▲ One of the barriers in the north of the Sichuan Basin - Jianmen Mountain (partial). Photography / Western Filmmaker Photo / Figureworm Creative
Compared with Chengdu, where "the stars hold the moon", and Guangyuan, which has dangerous terrain, Mianyang, which is located at the junction of high mountains and plains, is an important strategic support point on the defense line of the Jialing River.
Originating from the Min Mountains, the Fu River flows into Mianyang through Pingwu County, and is like a sharp sword between the heavy mountains in northern Sichuan, opening up the first rich and shallow hills after the Central Plains entered Sichuan, and then merging into the Jialing River, which also communicates with central and southern China south of the Yangtze River. To the southeast across the Fujiang River Valley and Chongqing, in the southwest to look at the fertile Chengdu Plain, Mianyang, is a well-deserved C position in northern Sichuan.
▲ The strategic location of mianyang 'Shu Dao throat'. Cartography/monk
Historically, this is also a place where soldiers must fight and where culture and martial arts gather. Zi Tong, which "united the land with QinGuan and the road to choke Shu", was located at the southern end of the ancient Shu Road, jinniu Road, and had already established a county before Qin Shi Huang unified China. From the beginning of the Han Dynasty to the Southern and Northern Dynasties and the Western Wei Dynasty, with the "ShuBei Lock Key, Yizhou Wei Collar", Zitong County gradually rose and became the seat of county governance for five times.
▲ The Eastern Han Dynasty cash cow that exists in the Mianyang Museum. Photography/Arterial Shadow
Known as the national treasures of Mianyang Five Gems - Han Dynasty copper horse, Eastern Han rap pottery figurines, Eastern Han Dynasty cash cows, Eastern Han Bronze Buddha statues, Western Han Dynasty human meridian wood carving model, it is born in this era of splendid culture.
"Confucius in the north, Wenchang in the south", wenchang culture with "chongren and heavy morality" as the core, composes Confucian and elegant articles on the fertile land. Legend has it that Zhang Yazi, a Western Qiren, once taught on the Qiqu Mountain of Zitong, was revered by the people as "Zitong Shenjun", and later incarnated as "Wenchang Emperor" under the impetus of Taoism.
▲ Seven-curved Mountain Grand Temple. Photography / Jiang Xi
Over the centuries, countless literati and scholars have gathered in Wenchang Mansion to worship religiously, and the Qiqu Mountain Grand Temple in Zitong has become the ancestral court of The Tianxiachang Palace.
"The Shu Han Dynasty rose and fell in Fu County (present-day Furong Hancheng, Mianyang)", at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Bei established a political power here and built a pavilion to consolidate its strategic position as a barrier to the northeast of Chengdu. During the Northern Expedition of Cao Wei, Jiang Gongyan also set up an offensive and defensive base camp in FuXian County, where the waterways were developed.
▲ Fuller Court. Liu Bei and Liu Zhang once "shook hands and climbed the hill" in Fule Mountain. Photography / Shi Yaochen
When Sima Zhao ordered his men to cross the Min Mountains from Wen County, Gansu Province, through Jiangyou Pass (present-day Pingwu County, Mianyang), the Shu Han Dynasty finally collapsed, and this Yinping Road, which won with strange dangers, shook the world from then on, becoming a shortcut between Gannan and northern Sichuan on the ancient Shu Road.
▲ Jiangyou Pass, also known as "Fushui Pass", is one of the famous passes in northern Shu. Photography / Liang Yan
In the second year of the Tang Dynasty, the replanned Sichuan was divided into Jiannan Dongchuan and Xichuan, and the Dongchuan Festival was set up to envoy to Zi Prefecture (present-day Santai County), "sealing the territory for 5,000 miles". As one of the three ancient Shu provinces in China, the Rice Cang Road that runs through the three platforms is also stained by the smudge of the Sheng Tang Dynasty, and the "Chengdu Official Road" is mentioned. Since then, whether it is Zizhou Road or Tongchuan Province in the Northern Song Dynasty, Santai County has always been a provincial administrative region station in the long history of more than 520 years.
▲ Santai County, Yingjiang Ancient Town. Photography / Xiong Ke
This political, economic and cultural center of Dongchuan was not only the homeland of the country of Qi (qī), the "gateway to Yizhou (present-day Chengdu)", the throat of Guolang (present-day Nanchong), and the key point of water transportation on the Fujiang River. Even a Salt Pavilion County under its jurisdiction is also the "key to the north of Sichuan" where the silkworm salt industry flourishes.
Santai County, where the literati were born, gave birth to the Tang Dynasty poet Chen Ziang, who "read the heavens and the earth slowly, alone but drooling", and Su Yijian, the only champion in the history of Mianyang. The poet Saint Du Fu once abandoned his official position and went into exile in Zizhou, where he chanted "Singing in the daytime must be drunk, and youth is a good companion to return to his hometown", and wrote "the first fast poem in his life". Today, the reconstructed Shuzhong Second Caotang silently tells the immortal Confucian poetry culture in Zizhou Park.
▲ Zizhou Park in the center of the city. Photo/Visual China
After the Ming and Qing dynasties, due to the blockage of shipping on the Fujiang River and the abolition of Chuanzhong Avenue, Santai, with traditional agriculture as the golden signboard, fell into a "quagmire" development. At the same time, Mianyang County, once a "subordinate", has become a "fragrant feast" in the eyes of a large number of industrial and mining enterprises by relying on the Baocheng Railway, which is "difficult to overcome the "Shu Road", and has since entered the stage of history.
▲ Baocheng Line, Xicheng High-speed Railway and travel across the Jiangzhang Plain. Photography / Song Tianxi
In response to the severe international situation, in the 1960s, Mianyang, which was selected by the central government to become the "Third Line Construction Zone", was like a rocking boat full of hope, and intellectual youth and enthusiastic workers from all over the world flocked to it. Suddenly, only a local Yuejin Road, which is 10 meters wide and more than 500 meters long, has created a third of the output value of the electronics industry in the province.
▲ Science and Technology City Innovation Center Phase II. Photography / Liang Yan
From the ancient "important town in northwest Sichuan" to the contemporary "Chinese science and technology city", this city covered in glory and forging ahead has once again responded to the "hometown of Fule" that Liu Bei praised Sanlian under the Dongshan Mountain.
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How to recognize Mianyang people at a glance in the field?
For example, it must be one of them to use the famous middle schools such as Mianyang and Nanshan as the opening statement of the hometown meeting.
▲ Dongchen Middle School in Mianyang, surrounded by a school district. Photography / Liang Yan
The education industry imitates the industrial reform, which is a stroke of great color in the breakthrough of modern Mianyang education. In the 1990s, Mianyang Middle School took the lead in opening up a new avenue of "principal responsibility system, full appointment system, structural salary system, and full evaluation system".
The pioneering and hard work of autonomy is like a vigorous seed buried deeply, and after many years, it has cultivated a bright flower of the motherland.
▲ Jiangyou Foreign Chinese School. Photography / Zhang Xiaoping
At the beginning of the new century, during the implementation of the "211 Project" by the state Chinese, Mianyang used the "light of science and technology" to establish the Southwest University of Science and Technology with the strength of the Southwest Institute of Technology and the Agricultural College, and vigorously promoted private education.
▲ It's the end of another year of college entrance examinations. Photo/Visual China
The cultural and educational undertakings that mianyang people are proud of are also as brilliant and bright as the vast stars in the historical retrospection. The ancestor of humanities from ancient times ,born in Xiling, now Yanting County, Mianyang), pioneered the cultivation of silkworms and mulberries, and the weaving of silk, which blessed all the people. During the Warring States period, the State of Qi was destroyed, and Jiang Ziya's descendant, a branch of the Jiang surname Wang, moved from Shandong into Sichuan and lived in Guanghan County (present-day Zitong County).
Yang Xiong, who is known as one of the "Four Great Masters of Han Fu", can be described as a "meeting confidant" with Mianyang. This cultural master came to Fucheng to read a lot of books and became an important Bole for Xishan's fame. And the Mianyang people who revered Wen Shangde also took this opportunity to build a mountain rock pond lake to remember the sages, and only then did they have the "Nanyang Zhuge Lu, Western Shu zi Yunting" in the "Buried Chamber Inscription".
▲ Western Shuzi Cloud Pavilion. Photo/Visual China
During the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Wang clan from the famous town of Qi County shined in the official arena - the scribe Wang Changwen was "known for his talents and learning, but he was debauched", and Luoyang County ordered Wang Zhuo to "uphold the festival of Qing cultivation, and follow the righteousness of the lamb (for the official innocence)"... When the Shu Han Dynasty of the Three Kingdoms fell, thousands of troops and horses stationed in Mianyang were scattered throughout the city and countryside, adding a majestic military force to Fuxian County, which was originally sparsely populated.
The so-called "one Yue Wang Lou, half of Chinese history", since Tang Taizong's eighth son Li Zhen served as the history of Mianyang Thorn, the construction of the Yue Wang Lou to recruit talents, this "first building of poetry under the heavens" in thousands of years, attracted countless literati and poets to sprinkle ink here, but also began a brilliant chapter of Mianyang poetry culture.
▲ "The First Floor of The Poetry of the World". Photography / Shi Yaochen
"At the first sight of the geese has no cicadas, a hundred feet of high water meets the sky", in the painting of water and sky, another "half of the country" is the "color ribbon" in front of the Yuewang Building - the Fujiang River where water transport is flourishing.
Li Bai, who studied abroad, Du Fu, who escaped from the world, Li Shangyin, who went to his post, and Wang Bo, who lingered here, dropped thousands of thoughts back to the tip of the pen, continuing the prosperous culture from the early Tang Dynasty to the late Tang Dynasty, and also leaving behind the "River of Tang Poetry" that made future generations feel nostalgic.
▲ Taibai Park on the banks of the Changming River. Photography / Wind chimes in the breeze
Zhong Lingyuxiu's Mianyang people, in the city with water as the pulse, enjoy the moisture of water rhyme, but also constantly open up new horizons of life.
In the Qing Dynasty, the Zhongba Wharf in Jiangyou County was well developed, connecting Pingwu County along the Fujiang River and reaching chongqing in the southeast of the Sichuan Basin. As a result, Zhongba was also named "Little Chengdu", and during the Republic of China, it became one of the four famous towns in Sichuan and one of the five major medicinal materials distribution centers.
▲ Fujiang First Bridge, which was once the water transport distribution center - Zhongba Wharf. Photography / Liang Yan
The time and place are favorable, and it also requires human blessings. In order to reverse the situation that although Santai County has a water system, there is no hard-core water conservancy, three million Mianyang people have drawn water for thousands of miles and built the luban reservoir in the shoulders of the current "Shuzhong Zeguo". The Mianyang people's "ambitions" for water conservancy projects that do not accept defeat do not stop there, stepping on the threshold of the new century, and creating a picturesque "fairy sea" in the Shenkang Reservoir.
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Mianyang, located at the junction of the four sides of the southern, central plains, northwestern and Tibetan areas, met its first nobleman, the Baocheng Railway, in the 1950s.
▲ Baocheng Railway on the Jialing River. The picture shows Mianyang's "neighbor" - Guangyuan Road Section. Photography / Hu Wenkai HDR picture / figure worm · creative
From Baoji in Shaanxi to Chengdu, the "country of tianfu", a railway track crosses Qinling, Bashan and Jianmen Mountains, breaking the ancient rumor of "difficult to go to the qingtian" between rivers and rivers, and also laying the important position of Mianyang as a political, economic, cultural center and water and land hub in northwest Sichuan.
▲ Sword Gate Pass on Jianmen Mountain. Photography / Jiang Xi
In the same period, the integration of the "First Five-Year Plan" and the construction of the third line almost pulled the city's storage capacity value to full. Mianshan Road, a potholed dirt road that once connected to the Hongqi Brick and Tile Factory, the Pharmaceutical Factory and the Clay Pottery Factory, later became the main urban road that ran through bishui Temple, Mianyang TV Tower, Science City No. 1 Middle School and China Academy of Engineering Physics.
▲ Towering into the sky in the distance is the Mianyang TV Tower. Photo/Visual China
In the new industrialization, standing tall is the only airborne fire control radar production base in China - the state-owned Changhong Machine Factory, the state-owned 783rd Factory (now Jiuzhou Electric Appliances, Sichuan), the China Aerodynamic Research and Development Center established by Qian Xuesen and Guo Yonghuai...
Since the mountains have moved to the plains, another pearl on the Baocheng Railway, Jiangyou County (which was withdrawn from the county in 1988 to establish a city), made its grand debut in front of the rushing water.
▲ Qinglinkou Ancient Town in Jiangyou, where the crew of the sequel to "Journey to the West" was filmed. Photography / Pennesi Photo / Figureworm Creative
In 1958, after the introduction of equipment from Germany, the cement factory built with the assistance of the Soviet Union was officially settled in Jiangyou, and since then, the Great Wall Steel Plant, the China Gas Turbine Research Institute (now located in Mianyang) and a number of other national key construction projects have been unveiled, and decades later, in exchange for the rise of China's science and technology city.
Located in the southwest, this "northern industrial city" once connected with the Qiang ethnic group in the west, arrived in bazhong in the east, reached the border of Gansu and Shaanxi in the north, and reached the southern part of Chongqing Tongnan in the south, covering the largest area in the country during the 35-year rise period. In 1985, the Mianyang area was divided into three, and Mianyang was promoted to a prefecture-level city, commanding three districts and five counties and a county-level city, completing the last assembly in modern times.
▲ Xicheng high-speed railway crosses the Jiangzhang Industrial Development Zone. Photography / Song Tianxi
At the beginning of the new century, the State Council approved the resolution to build a "China Science and Technology City," which became a powerful assist for Mianyang to become a modern and powerful city. However, "young fame, eventually frustration", accompanied by the undulating development of the manufacturing giant - Changhong, and the curtain of the planned economy era fell, a number of old industries were confined to a restrained temperament, stagnant, and finally embarked on the road of adjustment and merger, and Jiangyou, once the "top ten counties" in Sichuan, also retreated to the rear.
▲ Yuejin Road, which is more than 500 meters long, has also achieved good results in the electronics industry. Photography / Liang Yan
"Heaven will send down a great task to the Scythians, and they will first suffer their hearts and minds, and work their bones and bones." As a city "pulled" by military state-owned enterprises, Mianyang, which is lonely, still has heavy scientific and technological chips in its hands.
With the completion of the country's first Mianyang Sanjiang Bridge separated by people and vehicles on both sides of the Fujiang River, high-tech industries such as BOE have settled down, the Chengdu-Chongqing Twin Cities Strategy and the continuous advancement of the western development 2.0, Mianyang, which is running endlessly in the midst of historical ups and downs, is loaded with supreme glory and has a thousand autumns on its shoulders, but more importantly, it is still shining with infinite possibilities.
▲ At night, the TV station and the Yue Wang Lou watched the Mianyang alternating between the old and the new. Photography/_Ethereal Graphics/Figureworms Creativity
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="167" > mianyang that is both rigid and soft, and even rice flour has to be "poured" from north to south! </h1>
Surrounded by three rivers and surrounded by mountains, this is the Gang that belongs to Mianyang. And the white-headed yellow boy who grew up in the mountains and rivers paid tribute to the ancestor civilization with an ingenious attitude to life, which is the softness of Mianyang.
Whether it is the "Qiang Nian" of the Beichuan Qiang people, the "Gaotai Opera" of Jiangyou Qinglinkou, or the hand-cut paper in Fucheng, the "White Horse - Jumping Cao Gai" in Pingwu, the Wenchang Cave Jing Gule in Zitong... Brilliant folk culture is passed down from generation to generation here.
▲ Spring Festival Lantern Dragon Performance in Santai County. The "fire dragon" originated in the Qing Dynasty, and has the meaning of praying for smooth wind and rain, peace and auspiciousness. Photography / Liang Yan
As a city in the southwest and north, Mianyang's food customs include the spirit of "small family jasper" and the "wind of the general".
Shortbread, slices of flour and inlaid bowls, which are known as the "Three Gems of Zi Tong", together with Dongxiang cake, fire-fired steamed buns, Beichuan bacon, Tongchuan tempeh, etc., are all unique flavors with simple texture, rigidity and softness. Jiangyou, the hometown of the world's fat intestines, has played with an ingredient in a new flower with a very different style.
▲ "Boss, come to the bowl of sweet bean blossoms." Photography / Kawago LOHAS Picture / Figure Worm ・ Creative
However, if there is a food that can represent the temperament of Mianyang, rice noodles will definitely come out on top. The rice noodles that the Mianyang people eat in a month can probably wrap the earth into a ball of wool.
However, more than a thousand years ago, the rice noodles popular in the streets and alleys were still a round and thick "fat hair ball", until Jiang Gongyan, one of the "Four Phases of Shu Han", put forward the argument that "fine powder is more flavorful" during a private visit to Weifu, and since then, Mianyang rice noodles have become the originator of fine rice noodles in the world.
▲ The fine powder hanging juice is flavorful and cannot be rejected. Photography /Photographer 161953222570326 Photo/Figureworm Creative
The white yingying rice noodles were scattered by hand, and as soon as they slipped into the hot water, the tadpole tail rolled up with the bubbles of the bulging sac, and it only took more than ten seconds to "bubble" the heat. "Two or two bamboo shoots fat intestines, green and red soup poured", this is the joint code belonging to the "rice noodle star people".
The red soup made of chili peppers melts into the bone broth on the basis of chicken, and large pieces of beef, fatty intestines and ribs are dropped. Kelp, peas, yellow cauliflower, green onions, coriander, sauerkraut and other small ingredients are flavored by each person's preference, decorated with a unique "rice noodle paradise".
▲ Jiangyou fat sausage and production process. Photo / Weibo @ Ermao Big Search
The fine powder that was lifted up, there were still a few drops of red "dew" hanging on the tail, into the mouth, and then sucked a large mouthful of thick soup, often the freshness of the nose has not yet drifted away, and the rice noodles "grinding" with the tip of the tongue have slowly melted, leaving only a fuller fragrance between the lips and teeth.
The silky and soft rice noodles contain the delicate gentleness that belongs to the south; the integration of the green and red two soups is quite a bit of the bold atmosphere of the north, so it is really inheriting Jiang Gongyan's "Literary Zhuge legacy, Wuju Jiang Wei's courage" both ability and moral integrity.
▲ Young people singing on the Sanjiang Bridge. Photography / Liang Yan
Rice noodles soaked in the soup, at first "do not show the mountains and dew", it seems to be different from other places. Waiting until the taste is near the end, the silk left in the heart of the bowl is still like a light hot, not "bending the waist" for the red soup, but vividly wandering between a pool of bright red, just like the hometown it guards, both for China Science and Technology City and like The Sichuan Sweeping Monk.
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Wen 丨 Apple, Yue Ge
Text Editing | Yue Ge
Picture Editing | Zhu Mengfei
Cover photo | Liang Yan
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