On April 24th, the theme of "Visiting the Capital City of the Yangtze River and Seeing the Wonders of Yilu" focused on Shuanghe Town, Changning County. Here, the reporter will continue to take you around Shuanghe Ancient Town as a "cultural tourism promotion officer", feel the endless thousand-year-old cultural context of the ancient town, and taste the charm of Shuanghe on the tip of your tongue.
The long cultural context - Shuanghe Confucian Temple
Shuanghe Confucian Temple is a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit, is the most complete existing Confucian Temple in Yibin City, was built in the Southern Song Dynasty Chunyou period, about 1241 to 1252 A.D., rebuilt in the first year of Qing Xianfeng more than 600 years later, that is, in 1851 A.D., the existing Dacheng Hall and Chongsheng Shrine two buildings. According to reports, Dacheng Hall is the highest level of the top of the Ming and Qing Dynasty Palaces - the top of the heavy eaves palace, and has the characteristics of the helmet top, which is rare in the country.
In the temple, the wall of the palace of ten thousand people, the bridge of the Pan Palace, the Dacheng Palace, and the Chongsheng Shrine are arranged in turn along the central axis, the layout is symmetrical, the scale is magnificent, and the momentum is magnificent. The curve of the top of the main hall is smooth, steep and rear, and the hump is exquisitely carved, which perfectly reflects the artistic achievements of the temple architecture in southern Sichuan in ancient times.
Shuanghe Confucian Temple is a temple that has both the function of sacrificing Confucius and education and teaching, and has walked out of 18 jinshi, 78 people, and hundreds of officials. The story of "two eyes across the river, seven jinshi in five miles" and "one door and three jinshi, Weng's son-in-law and Dengke" are still widely spread today.
Walking into the Temple of Literature, it seems to have traveled through a thousand years, with traditional cultural performances with ancient style, unique Keju competitions, oversized chess games, pot throwing, champion parades, and ancient imperial examination rooms...... Tourists wearing Hanfu roamed in twos and threes, and felt the history and culture of thousands of years. The students of the study wear Hanfu, dress properly, learn etiquette, worship the teacher, recite the classics, cross the champion bridge, step on bamboo tube stilts, experience the unique traditional culture, and appreciate the cultural spirit of respecting teachers and filial piety, respecting morality, and aspiring to virtue, strong cultural atmosphere and colorful cultural charm.
As a valuable historical and cultural heritage and tourism resource of Changning and even Yibin, Shuanghe Confucian Temple has high cultural and artistic value. Through the rise and fall of the Confucian Temple, we can get a glimpse of the vicissitudes of Changning County and perceive the profound cultural heritage of Changning County.
Shuanghe on the tip of the tongue - Shuanghe cold cake
There is a street in Shuanghe Town, called "Liangbao Street", and the door-to-door Liangqiao shops form a unique landscape. There is a unique well hidden here, which was called "Jiayu Clear Spring" in ancient times. The ancient well was built in the eighth year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty, that is, in 1869 AD, the well water is crystal clear, and it has been well preserved so far. Because there are bubbles at the bottom of the well from time to time, it resembles a bunch of grapes, so it is also named "grape well". Since the Qing Dynasty, Shuanghe people have picked the well water of grape wells, and the "Shuanghe Cool Cake" made with traditional production techniques has unique characteristics and is well-known far and near with the characteristics of crystal clear, delicate and delicate, and melt-in-the-mouth.
A bowl of bowls, a plate of cold cake is like ice and snow cream, white and crystalline, poured with sugar water, just look at it to feel the tempting coolness, the food is refreshing and delicious, the taste is delicious and sweet, set "cool, sweet, cotton, tender" in one, by foreign friends praised as "Oriental ice cream".
A bowl is eternal, and the classics are eternal. As early as 2018, the cold cake making technique of Shuanghe Town, Changning County, was included in the representative list of intangible cultural heritage of Sichuan Province. Nowadays, Shuanghe Liangbao continues to innovate in the inheritance, from a single half-moon shape to the current grape shape, turtle shape and other flavors, from the original traditional brown sugar to the current spicy, glutinous cake, fresh fruit and other flavors, everything. Shuanghe cold cake has become an intangible cultural heritage at the same time, but also from a corner of southern Sichuan to the whole country, "production, marketing and tourism" to create a model of the integration of agriculture, culture and tourism, showing the food aesthetics and craftsman spirit in the daily life of ordinary people, reflecting the industrious wisdom and creativity of the Chinese nation, will surely shine in the long river of history.
[Reporter's Notes]
Shuanghe, an ancient town with a history of more than 1,300 years, has a long history of innovation in the stories passed down from mouth to mouth, between the pen and ink treasured on paper and paper, and in the years of spring flowers and autumn moons and light winds. In recent years, Shuanghe Town has taken the Shuanghe Confucian Temple as the carrier, while adding a variety of projects such as traditional cultural experience, Chinese culture classroom, cultural and creative product development, etc., it has also planned to connect the Southern Song Dynasty Confucian Temple, Liangbao Street, the ancient city of Shuzhou and the four scenic spots of Shujing, forming a half-day tour loop of Shuanghechang Town, creating a new landmark of cultural relics display, cultural experience, food tasting, leisure consumption, etc., which can be called a successful example of cultural relics protection, especially the activation and utilization of cultural relics.
Reporter: Lei Lirong, Wan Youling
First instance (proofreading): Feng Peixin Second instance (proofreading): Liu Kaimei Third trial (proofreading): Yang Yong