From April 26th to October 28th, the long-awaited 2024 World Horticultural Exposition was held in Chengdu. During this period, focusing on the theme of "Park City, Beautiful Habitat", the expo will hold a world flower and horticultural event with "characteristics of the times, international level, Chinese elements, and Chengdu characteristics".
When it comes to horticultural exposition, nature is inseparable from the garden, the Chinese garden landscaping is unique, representing China's unique classical art aesthetics, and the pavilions, landscapes, flowers and trees of the landscape elements are the beautiful imagination of the Chinese about "poetry" and "dwelling". Xinjin is a branch venue of the 2024 Chengdu World Horticultural Expo, and Jin Xiaozhi specially invites everyone to come here, wander through the pavilions, gardens, and pavilions, send love to the landscape, flowers and trees, taste the life of "Tianjin", and meet the romance of "Tianjin".
Pure Yang View Loyal Filial Piety Pavilion
The main building of Chunyang View is the second pavilion of Zhongxiao, which is the first pavilion of brick and wood buildings in Sichuan. The two pavilions were built in the 18th to 20th years of the Republic of China (1929-1931), the triple eaves octagonal helmet top type, tall and straight, magnificent and beautiful, and have the reputation of "Wuyang scenic scenery, mighty earthquake in the whole Sichuan".
The whole picture of pure yang
Dazhong, to filial piety two pavilions, the shape is unique, majestic and magnificent, all kinds of designs have special implications. The four large pillars of Nanmu in the pavilion imply the four seasons of the year; The 12 stone pillars in the corridor imply 12 months; There are 24 undulating layers of eaves and teeth, implying 24 solar terms; It is surrounded by 44 corridors, which means that everything goes well. The statue of the 24 loyal characters and the 24 filial piety figures in the pavilion symbolize that loyalty and filial piety are the most rational and virtuous between heaven and earth.
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Zhongxiao Pavilion line draft
The scale of the two pavilions of loyalty and filial piety is magnificent, the shape is special, it can be called the crown of the whole Sichuan, even if it is put in the whole country, it is enough to cloud the giant pavilion of Huaju, which is the dominant in China. The Southwest Institute of Architecture once made the pure Yangguan architectural form into an architectural model and explained it to students. In the autumn of 1980, Luo Zhewen, a famous ancient architect, once praised: "The scale of the two pavilions is magnificent and magnificent, and its architectural characteristics are the collection of ancient towers, pavilions and halls in one, which are few in the country, comparable to the Yi Nian Hall in the Forbidden City in Beijing, and are the treasures of modern classical architecture." ”
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Bagua Pavilion is the landmark building of Laozi Temple of Chengdu Cultural Protection Unit, rebuilt in 1926, it is a heavy eaves octagonal pointed building, and the pavilion imitates the Bagua Pavilion of Chengdu Qingyang Palace, which is specific and micro. There is the innate gossip on the pavilion, there is the acquired gossip under it, the shrine in the pavilion molds Lao Tzu riding the green ox to pass the letter pass and sits on the statue, which means that the heaven and the earth are connected, and the three talents are harmonious and natural. The whole pavilion is square, the pavilion body is round, one side is round, one is rigid and one soft, complements each other, contrasts with each other, the two layers of eaves are exaggerated to roll outward, forming a beautiful and elegant eaves warping angle, such as the light spread of bird wings, emphasizing the aesthetic meaning of Taoism flying into immortals, showing the beauty of flying, light and spiritual, rising.
Bagua Pavilion
There are 36 stone steps in front of the Bagua Pavilion, symbolizing the 36 caves of heaven, the stone steps are steep, and it is called the ladder to the sky. There are 12 zodiac stone carvings behind the Bagua Pavilion, and there are Taoist doctrines such as Bagua diagrams and 64 hexagrams around the pavilion. Outside the pavilion around hanging four plaques, respectively, "its dragon", "Gong Shen creation", "old but not old", "not old and old", the plaque inscription contains a strong Taoist meaning. The pavilion pillar also hangs four pairs of woodcut columns, among which the Qing Dynasty educator, the great Confucian of western Sichuan, Li Xichun (Li Hao) Lianwen: "What kind of person is Mr. Lao Tzu is like a dragon", this couplet is composed of Tao Yuanming's "Biography of Mr. Wuliu" and "Historical Records, Lao Zhuang Liebiography", which points out Lao Tzu's "dragon" and praises Lao Tzu's profound knowledge and wisdom.
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Shujue Mountain Kikatsu Pavilion
Ji Sheng Pavilion is called Juesheng Pavilion before the end of the Ming Dynasty, the pavilion is located on the top of Xiujue Mountain, it is a single-eaves hexagonal pointed building, so the folk also call it Hexagonal Pavilion. Mr. Tong Cixiang, a librarian of the Sichuan Provincial Museum of Culture and History, once wrote a joint painting of its shape and victory: the cliffs are in danger of the pavilion, and the mountain torrents and ravines are full of splendor; The river bends horizontally, and the sky and clouds and shadows wander together. The pavilion was built in the Song Dynasty, destroyed in the Ming Dynasty, and Xinjin County in Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty made Wang Mengeng rebuild, and the pavilion collapsed in 1974 due to disrepair. There is a poem tablet standing in the pavilion, and a poem "Pavilion" written by the Northern Song Dynasty writer Su Zhe and Su Shi when they came to visit Xiujue Mountain in Xinjin:
Yelang autumn water rises in the sky, and there is a void pavilion in the ethereal.
The mountains are full and the sky is long and the sun sets, and the river blows in the wilderness as a frightening wind.
The smoke is bleak and snorkeling, and the fishing boats are crisscrossing the fishing tube.
Why is Yueyang like this, you should ask Nangong carefully.
Shujue Mountain Kikatsu Pavilion
In Su Zhe's pen, the pavilion overlooks, the smoke is vast, the river sky is wide, the river breeze, the sunset, the fishing boat, the fishing tube, the cooking smoke, the image is similar to the scenery of Yueyang Tower in Dongting Lake.
There are flying chairs between the pavilion pillars, which can be used for visitors to rest and overlook, which is the best place for Ji Sheng Pavilion. In the long historical period, the pavilion has become a symbol of Xinjin because of its location and because of its distant view. Lu You, Fan Chengda and other distant guests come to Xinjin, will climb the pavilion and look far away, Fan Chengda recorded in the "Wu Boat Record": "There is a pavilion of victory, a look at the plains, can be as far as Xichuan." Counting it up, this is the most fascinating place in Ji Shengting.
Source: Fang Zhi Xinjin