Text | Ugly Wu tou
The photo above shows the Tongyue Pavilion next to the Xili Bridge of the Canal.
The canal crosses the Beili Bridge and turns west to the south through the Xili Bridge and enters the Three Pagoda Pond, which means out of Jiaxing City. There is a three-pagoda road on the bank of the river, along which there are archways, temples, and mulberry trees, forming a unique scene.
Since The Three Pagoda Road is located on the outskirts, after liberation, in order to commemorate the revolutionary martyrs, the people's government built a cemetery here. When I was a child, every year during the Qingming Festival, all schools had to organize students to go to the Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery to pay homage to the heroes of the martyrs and receive patriotic education.
The photo above shows the original dairy factory site, which has now been developed as an ocean oasis community.
In those years, due to conditions, travel was not yet fashionable. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the school will organize students to walk to the cemetery under the guidance of the red flag and worship the martyrs. The school also took advantage of this hiking and walking opportunity to exercise the hard-working spirit of students.
Although it takes most of the day, you have to bring your own kettle of dry food, but no one will complain, but excited and excited, after all, everyone can step on the activity. I also believe that the vast majority of my classmates, like me, can never go home to make mistakes in their essays: with a feeling of reverence, Treading in the footsteps of revolutionary martyrs... Now that I think about it, this kind of activity has been deeply helpful for my growth.
The photo above shows the old Three Towers Road sidewalk tree.
Out of XiliQiao is The Three Pagoda Road, in addition to the Martyrs' Cemetery, from east to west, there are dairy factories and pharmaceutical factories. At that time, Jiaxing Dairy Factory was a star enterprise in Hecheng, and the "Chinese" milk powder produced sold well in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, and could not be bought with money alone, and it had to be supplied with milk powder tickets. In the 1980s, waffles and grains were also produced.
I still remember that at that time, I often went to the chief of the finance department, Chen Shanrong, to buy the hi-sugar grain for many friends, as well as the eliminated calf meat. There are several bungalows under a few old maple poplar (yuanbao) trees by the river, and there are two or three families, including the home of my high school classmate Wang Xiaoying. Living by the canal, the neighbors live in harmony, like a paradise, quiet and leisurely.
The photo above is a newly imitated archway, and the red computer body "Champion and Brother" text is particularly conspicuous.
Next door to the dairy factory is the pharmaceutical factory, which is a national designated pharmaceutical company. Because of the working relationship, I got to know the young factory director, Yu Genbao, as well as the driver Xu Keyu and his apprentice Bi Yongzhong, both of whom are capable people, and later one became an accident handling expert of Jiaxing public security traffic police, while Yongzhong changed careers and became the boss of the insurance company.
The photo above shows the newly restored "Yue Wang Ancestral Hall".
To the west of the pharmaceutical factory is the Blood Seal Temple and the Yue Wang Ancestral Hall (changed to the Martyrs' Cemetery after liberation), according to relevant records: "Between the three pagodas and the Blood Seal Pillar, there is an old Yue Wang Ancestral Hall. The ancestral hall was built during the Ming Dynasty for Yue Yuansheng, a descendant of Yue Fei. When the Qing soldiers went south, the shrine was destroyed. During the Qianlong Dynasty, Yue Jianjian, after more than thirty years of efforts, rebuilt the Yue Wang Ancestral Hall, and in front of the pine and cypress towering the ancestral hall, the vermilion characters 'Jing Zhongguo Repay the Country' were written on the wall.
The Yue Wang Ancestral Hall is the Yue Fei Family Ancestral Hall. There are some cultural relics of the Yue clan in the temple, especially Yue Ke's personal copper lord is the most precious, which is a time object of the Song Ning Sect. The Bronze Lord's engraving of 'Jing ZhongGuo' is the Book of Yue Ke. After the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, it was lost and recovered several times. During the Qing Dynasty, the Bronze Lord's restored ancestral hall was exhibited in Hangzhou before the Anti-Japanese War, but it was lost during the Anti-Japanese War and collapsed after liberation. ”
The picture above is an introduction to the martyr Wang Qingyun.
The location of the restored Yue Wang Ancestral Hall is the location of the Three Pagodas Revolutionary Cemetery, which we used to go to to visit the tombs. I still remember that there was a good soldier of Chairman Mao buried there, the martyr Wang Qingyun, an air force pilot at Jiaxing Airport. He is a hero who sacrificed his life to protect people's lives and property, and gave up the opportunity to parachute to save his life.
In that year, the glorious deeds can be said to be household names. There is a large cement tomb bag in the cemetery, and a tall monument is specially erected for him in front of the tomb. Every year during the Qingming Dynasty, the monument is piled with flowers and wreaths, because heroes will always be respected and loved by the people and cannot be forgotten by history.
The photo above shows the Blood Seal Zen Temple Arch.
In Jiaxing, the stories about the Blood Seal Zen Temple and the Blood Seal Monks, I think the old Jiaxing people will say one or two. There are many versions, and the storyline is also very attractive, but it appears in front of people with different periods, different occasions and different needs. It focuses on several stories, such as the fight against the Wokou, the protection of women and children, and the telling of filial piety. It is nothing more than a propaganda that persuades people to be kind, patriotic and takes care of the family, etc., and it is also a beautiful vision that the people pray for.
In fact, these beautiful legends are all produced around a natural form of humanoid bloodprint stone pillar. This pillar is a relic of the Sixian Arch during the Ming Zhengde period, the temple was built in the 14th year of the Republic of China (1925), named Blood Seal Zen Temple, commonly known as the Blood Seal Monk Temple, and the incense has gradually risen, and has now become a municipal cultural security unit.
Above is the legendary Blood Seal Monk Pillar.
At the west end of the Three Pagodas Road is the Three Pagodas that Jiaxing people are proud of. The pagoda was built in the Tang Dynasty and took decades to build. It was rebuilt in the second year of the Qing Dynasty. It belongs to one of the few three-tower juxtaposition groups in the country, with seven solid brick towers.
With the ingenious design, people can see the three towers from different angles on the water or the shore. Legend has it that there was originally a white dragon pond in this place, and the boats often sank when passing by, and the descendants cast spells to fill in the earth and build a tower lock "White Dragon". A tea zen temple was built next to the pagoda, also known as The Dragon Yuan Temple and the Three Pagoda Temples.
The photo above is a sunset photo of the Three Towers.
Because the canal has two consecutive 90-degree turns here, the water is turbulent. The three towers stand on the edge of the Grand Canal and serve as a beacon for the boats. Always remind the passing boat owners, drive carefully and Jiaxing City has arrived.
Is an important symbol of the Grand Canal, in the last 20 years, the American Geographic Magazine once took the three towers as a symbol of China's Grand Canal, introduced to the people of the world, which shows how important the three towers occupy a position in the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal.
The picture above shows the three towers of fiber protection stone.
Around 1971, the abandoned three towers were demolished and became the site of the Jiaxing Cement Factory, producing high-grade cement. Because of the unified purchase and marketing in that era, the construction of cement is in short supply, it has become a tight commodity, and the purchase must go through the relationship, and the back door can be obtained, which is not worrying about sales, so the enterprise benefit is particularly good.
In my impression, the cement plant welfare is famous, when we are still burning briquettes in the stove every day, the employees of the factory are already using clean and environmentally friendly gas tanks, which is definitely the envy of everyone.
In the late 1980s, at the beginning of the shareholding reform of the enterprise, the cement factory and Huiken Department Store became the earliest units in Jiaxing to issue shares, which caused a sensation in the whole city of Jiaxing, and the director of the factory at that time was called Zhang Xiangyuan.
The photo above is a picture of the three towers of net red ginkgo biloba.
At the turn of the century, the government responded to public opinion by relocating the cement plant and building three more towers on the original site. Once, Mr. Ding Weici, a person from the democratic party and vice chairman of the Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, talked to me about the inside story of the reconstruction of the three towers, and revealed to me that in order to meet the needs of urban development, the height of the three towers has been raised accordingly.
The photo above is of a sculpture of a porter by the canal.
In the past, boats were sailing against the current, and porters often appeared along the canal. As a child, I saw bare-chested porters, carrying ropes, shouting orders in their mouths, and walking forward with difficulty. In order to prevent the fiber rope from damaging the three towers, two fiber stones were erected next to the tower.
For hundreds of years, he silently guarded the three towers, and the fiber pillar was full of deep marks, as if telling the past life of the three towers. It is a pity that one of the frost-beaten pillars was artificially broken at the beginning of this century.
The photo above shows the Dragon Boat Festival white boat performance.
My old uncle told me that when he was a child, he used to go with the adults to the canal Santa Tang to watch the white boat race. This is a folk water competition unique to the water town, and it is an event held specifically for the worship of the silkworm god.
It is said that the origin of the name is related to Yue Fei, who was called "Stepping on the White Messenger" because he served as a "white messenger". Every 16th day of the third month of the lunar calendar, farmers in the four miles and eight townships will shake boats and gather in the three pagoda ponds, take advantage of the agricultural leisure, through competitions, temple fairs and other forms, accumulate energy, and pray for a good year.
With the passage of time, it has slowly combined with the Dragon Boat Dragon Boat, and has now become a reserved project with the unique Dragon Boat Festival in Jiaxing, moving the performance site to the waters of the Southwest Lake, giving a new cultural connotation.
The photo above is a relic of the tower tiles.
On the other side of the three pagodas across the canal is the original Nanhu Township fertile field, and whenever the harvest season is harvested, the persimmon red crab fat rice flowers are everywhere.
It is rumored that Zhong Liyan, a young singer who looks beautiful and beautiful like Fan Bingbing and sings like Guan MuCun, is a masterpiece of this land.
After Jiaxing was withdrawn and established as a city, it became a concentration area for colleges and universities, and a large number of residential buildings named after the word "Wen" were built. At that time, my marriage room, like a group of young colleagues such as Zheng Yilu, Shen Kaijun, Huang Changqing and Zu Zhujun, was located in the canalside "Wenjingli", "Wennanli" and "Wenweili" communities.
Photo above Tea Zen Sunset Illumination Workshop.
With the change of the times, the development of the city. The area around SantaTang has been renovated many times and become more and more beautiful, the Three Pagodas and the Yuewang Ancestral Hall have been rebuilt, the cement factory address has built a Three Pagoda Park, and a greenway has been built along the Santatang, which is more beautiful.
The Three Pagoda Road is planted with ginkgo trees, and every late autumn, the golden yellow ginkgo leaves form a beautiful landscape in Jiaxing, attracting the feelings of many old Jiaxing people.
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