Text| Jade cherishes poetry
Editor|Jade Cherish Poems
Preface
A small river crosses in the middle, two rows of antique bluestone slabs, the east side is a local specialty, and the west side is a small restaurant.
The same actions, costumes and backgrounds, the pseudo-ancient city produced by the assembly line, I am really tired of watching it!
Pseudo-ancient city
Different ancient towns are influenced by the region, and the style is different, each with its own merits.
The Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions are the residential buildings in the south of the Yangtze River, the Hui style buildings in southern Anhui, and the Jiangxi style buildings.
Mindong, Minnan, and Minxi buildings in Fujian, Hunan Hunan architecture, Bayu architecture in Chongqing, and Cantonese architecture in Guangdong.
Diverse ethnic minority buildings in Yunnan and Guizhou, Sichuan-style architecture in Sichuan, Jin-style architecture in Shanxi, Beijing-style architecture in Beijing and Hebei, and so on.
The buildings are different in various places, the horse-head wall in southern Anhui, the carved beams and painted buildings, and the Sihe waterway in the small courtyard.
The pavilions and pavilions of the Pillow River Garden in the ancient town of Jiangnan, the autumn in Jiangxi, the brick carvings of the local tyrant compound in Shanxi, the well-preserved Pingyao Ancient City, and the stilted buildings in the southwest have different styles and are very appreciative.
These ancient cities and towns with their own characteristics make tourists from all over the world come from thousands of miles away, just hoping to witness the relics of this history and culture and feel the different customs and customs.
Quiet and peaceful, only the carving of the years, this should be the original appearance of the ancient town, and it is also the most attractive to tourists.
But I didn't expect that the commercialization was overdeveloped, and the folk customs were gone, most of them were newly built houses, reinforced concrete, and there were no aborigines in them, and many of them rented shops to do business.
Many ancient towns in the country are now the same, which looks completely uninspiring, and it looks like mass production, a national model.
Nowadays, many tourists will feel this way, and every ancient town in the country sells the same things.
The commercial street inside sells exactly the same snacks, and it seems that every ancient town has old yogurt, old Beijing chicken rolls, grilled gluten, large chicken cutlets, and grilled cold noodles......
The old town is indispensable for local knick-knacks, and tourists come here to buy some as a souvenir of the place.
But who would have thought that these seemingly delicate and beautiful cultural and creative products with local characteristics are all wholesale, and they are made entirely for the purpose of making money, and they can't feel the commemorative significance at all.
As long as there is a little antique and cultural heritage of ancient streets in the country, they will eventually be deliberately developed and created.
Unified tickets, unified grilled squid, lamb skewers, sugar gourds, stinky tofu, and a variety of milk teas.
Obviously, the ancient town should be the peace and ease of the old teahouse, and the leisurely people are bargaining, allowing people to see the "border city" written by Shen Congwen.
Shen Congwen single-handedly became popular with the little-known Phoenix Ancient City, but with the increase in the number of people, the Phoenix Ancient City seemed to have lost its original appearance.
Is commercialization necessarily bad?
The ancient city is protected from being visited, so what is the significance?
This is a contradiction, should the ancient city belong to the tourists, or to the indigenous people?
Is it good that the real ancient city and town are not discovered? And if people flock to it, it will inevitably be uniformly commercialized, and it may even be destroyed.
Advantages and disadvantages of commercialization
The ancient town is very beautiful and simple, and in addition to tourists watching, for daily rest and entertainment, etc., if there is no business operation in the ancient town, the tourist experience will not be very good.
Commercialization not only gives tourists a better experience, but also allows local residents to develop economically.
As long as the business development is a certain degree, then this is not necessarily a good direction.
What the ancient city needs to do is to keep it simple, and the commercial development must have a bottom line.
Among the several ancient towns I have visited, Pingyao is well preserved, and the ancient towns of Lijiang, Dukezong, Phoenix Ancient City and Anju actually have too many similar commercial elements to a greater or lesser extent.
There is also the ancient city of Zhenyuan in Guizhou, where most of the people live are aborigines, and the people here have lived for generations, and there are almost no outsiders.
Venice of the East
Zhenyuan Ancient Town is located in Zhenyuan County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province, the Wuyang River meanders through the city in the shape of "S", the north bank is the old mansion city, and the south bank is the old acropolis.
Both cities were built in the Ming Dynasty, and there are still some city walls and gates. Ancient buildings, traditional houses, and historical wharves still exist inside and outside the city.
The beautiful scenery of Zhenyuan is picturesque, the mountain is dark green, the water is blue-green, the soul of Zhenyuan Wuyang River bridge posture is thousands, the ancient stone road is smooth and delicate, and the stone archway abounds.
Zhenyuan has historical, natural and cultural landscapes, and there is a transcendent embodiment of the integration of landscape, heaven and earth, architecture and history, giving people a kind of spiritual intoxication and lingering.
The shops on both sides buy and sell things that are local specialties, which is very rare. The pavilion on the hillside looks like a mirage from afar, sometimes disappearing, beautiful and mysterious.
The night is also beautiful, the night view is beautiful, you can choose to drink a little wine here, and look at the scenery while drinking. In particular, the riverside scenery at night is very intoxicating, and on a summer night, the evening breeze blows by the Wuyang River, eating river fish, which is particularly pleasant.
The wine here is also made by the locals themselves, and it has a unique taste.
There are also countless delicacies, the most famous here are sour soup fish and mutton noodles, and the food and beverage prices here are very affordable, and the locals will not ask for the price.
An ancient temple under the mountain rock in the east of the town, built by the mountain, Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism coexist in harmony, the building is exquisite, up and down meandering, the pavilions and pavilions are half embedded in the rock, the tall building can browse the panoramic view of the town, it is very worth visiting. There is also a Japanese prisoner of war prison built during the Republic of China, which is now a museum and is also worth seeing.
Don't play anything, it's also good to experience the feeling of time passing slowly in the town's ancient lanes, riverside trails, pavilions and pavilions everywhere, mountain stream trails, and bizarre night scenes!
The river water is very clear, the riverside is dreamlike at night, the ancient bridges, ancient temples, ancient alleys, ancient houses, and tortuous stone roads are all there, less hustle and bustle, more quiet.
Although the scenic spot is free to open, but eating to buy local products is also earning, as long as there is no extortion, the scenery is excellent, there is a certain historical and cultural heritage, it will always attract many tourists to sightsee, and have a greater role in promoting local economic development!
Many Chinese people look down on domestic attractions and go abroad, thinking that the customs and customs of foreign countries are real tourism.
But who knows, there are countless beautiful rivers and mountains in the motherland, and I can't swim in this life.
Antique, simple and elegant, play with nature, the ancient city and secluded town, straight to visit. Just a Yellow Mountain is the world's material heritage, there is nothing more beautiful than it, swim through the Yellow Mountain in this life without regrets, and travel more to China!
epilogue
Zhenyuan is indeed a well-preserved ancient city, which makes people want to visit it again.
In particular, the town's pro-people approach of not charging tickets is commendable. The purpose of promoting ancient towns and scenic spots in other places is to make money, not to spread history and culture.
It is hoped that tourist attractions in various places will reduce their fees, learn from the town and Xi, and have more practices close to the people's hearts.
The commercialization of the existence of ancient towns is an inevitable trend of social development, although it allows tourists to have a better experience, and also allows the locals to better achieve economic development.
In any case, the ancient city should not lose its original simplicity, and the ancient town should know why it attracts tourists and what tourists really want to see.