Qin'an Long Town Tour beacon border city, with hanging street pavilion ancient battlefield
Nuwa Shrine
Street kiosks
The ancient city of Luoyang
Longcheng Town is located in the eastern part of Qin'an County, Tianshui City, 45 kilometers away from the county seat. As the throat of the "Silk Road" Longshan Road, the ancient ruins, ancient buildings and precious cultural relics of Longcheng Town truly record the traditional style, local characteristics and ethnic customs of a specific historical period, and have high historical and cultural and artistic value, and in 2018, it was rated as "China's Historical and Cultural Town" by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage.
The secret of the ancient town's name is actually in the spring water
Coming to Longcheng Town, a "T" shaped street runs through the town. Looking around from the Ming and Qing streets in the town, the ancient buildings look more and more solemn in the sun, the neat green tiles are covered with pieces of moss, the cornices of the carved beams and paintings are old and dim, and the vermilion lacquer doorposts have been mottled, but the crouching stone lions are still majestic, not reducing the grandeur and might of the year. In South Street, an ancient locust tree more than 400 years old seems to be silently telling the vicissitudes of the years. Longcheng has been a place of prosperity in commerce since ancient times, the Ming and Qing dynasties, there are many business seekers, there is a Shanxi guild hall specializing in Shanxi merchants. The mighty merchants set out in droves from Xi'an, passed through Guanzhong on Guandongnan Avenue, and then entered the territory of Gansu from the foot of Longshan Mountain. You can imagine how prosperous the western frontier town once was full of shops, logistics and merchants.
The name of the town is hidden in a small pavilion in the center of the street, looking forward, there is a well directly below the pavilion, look at the plaque in the pavilion, this eye spring water is named "Dragon Spring". Although this spring is small, it has a long history, and the street kiosk may be named after this spring. According to the "Geographical Records of the Book of Han", emperor Yuan Ding of the Western Han Dynasty set up Tianshui County in the third year (114 BC) and had jurisdiction over Jiequan County, which should be the predecessor of the name of Jieting. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, the street spring entered Luoyang (in present-day Qin'an County), and was reduced to a pavilion, and there was a street pavilion at the beginning.
In Longcheng Town, the Nüwa Ancestral Hall is one of the must-punch attractions. According to legend, Longcheng Town is the birthplace of Nüwa, the ancestor of humanities, and the earliest Nüwa Ancestral Hall was built before the Han Dynasty. Over the past two thousand years, the Nüwa Ancestral Hall has been destroyed several times, repaired and restored, and has gone through vicissitudes and endured for a long time. The newly built Imperial Palace, the cornices of the beast ridge, the flow of Dan Feibi, the carved beams and paintings. The statue of Nuwa in the palace, which is kind-haired and solemn and peaceful, is carefully sculpted by the famous sculptor Ms. He E. Directly in front of the Imperial Palace stands a archway with twelve pillars and three doors, and the Nüwa sacrifice ceremony has been included in the third batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.
The city is here, and where is Nanshan?
When you go to Longcheng Town, you can also experience the charm of the culture of the Three Kingdoms. In front of the remnants of the ancient city of Luoyang, in front of the remnants of the ancient city of Luoyang, galloping on the Prancing Horse in the Jieting School Yard, you can also look for traces of the Jieting Ancient Battlefield in the Qingshui River Valley between Longcheng Town and Longshan Town.
The Han Dynasty folk song "Longtou Flowing Water" sings: "Longtou flowing water, flowing away from the mountain." I was alone, floating in the wilderness. The trip further north to Zhangjiachuan Hui Autonomous County, and then to Gongmen and Malu, you can reach Longshan, also known as the boundary of Guanshan. During the Three Kingdoms period, Shu occupied it and could go straight down to Guanzhong, and Wei could cover long right, so the gain or loss of the small street pavilion became the key to the success or failure of the entire war.
The "Battle of Jieting" took place in the territory of Longcheng Town. In 228 AD, Zhuge Liang went out of Qishan and raided Longyou, and the three counties of Tianshui, Nan'an, and Anding responded by rebelling against Wei. Wei Chaoye was terrified, and Emperor Ming of Wei was in charge of Chang'an, and personally supervised the rescue of the various armies. At the street pavilion, the Wei general Zhang Guo defeated the Shu general Ma Chen, the Wei army took the initiative in the battle, Zhuge Liang was forced to retreat, and the victory was destroyed. Since then, the street kiosk has been famous for thousands of years, and through the interpretation of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "lost street kiosk" and "walking maicheng" have become synonymous with failure.
According to the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, the place where Ma Mo defended against Zhang Gao was not Jieting City, but the mountainous area south of the city. The "Biography of Wang Ping" of the Three Kingdoms Chronicle has the saying "Tan She Shui Shan", and the "Biography of Zhang Gao" has clouds "Obstructing the South Mountain, not going down to the city". The city is in Longshan Town, but where is the Nanshan Mountain mentioned in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms?
Driving along the southeast, the next destination is Longshan Town, Zhangjiachuan Hui Autonomous County, because there is also a saying that "the ancient battlefield of Jieting is in Longshan Town, and the Broken Mountain is more like a horse mo camp", and there is such a description in the Qin'an Local Chronicle, "The eastern head, there are twenty miles of Broken Mountain, and its mountain is slightly the north and south of the Yang." Cut off in the middle, not connected with the mountains, looking at its momentum, overlooking the mountain town, Longshui through the Yan. Underneath it is Lianhe River, Yunchuan River and Mountain Break", which is almost the same as the description of Ma Mo's camp in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, not to mention that The Broken Mountain is closer to Longshan than Longcheng, and Ma Mo's camp here seems to be closer to common sense. Coming to Longshan Town, it is also a thriving scene of people and shops. Wading through the Qingshui River on the edge of the town, climbing a gentle slope, looking at the broken mountain in the distance, and imagining the situation when Ma Mo was trapped on the mountain.
Ancient battlefield tourism, unique charm
In the relevant records of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it is mentioned that Ma Mo resisted the Wei army and did not occupy the city, and forgot Zhuge Liang's advice, disregarding the taboo of the soldiers, and planted a walled city on the waterless mountain. The Jieting ancient battlefield is naturally in the Qingshui River Valley of Longcheng Town and Longshan Town, the terrain is relatively flat, in the eyes of the soldiers, it is more suitable for a decisive battle of strategic significance, so some scholars believe that the Jieting ancient battlefield site should not be between the two places. Moreover, Zhang Hao led 50,000 troops, and Ma Mo led 20,000 soldiers, and the battle between the two armies was by no means able to be accommodated by one city and one place, and it seemed that it should be distinguished between the Street Pavilion Governance Office and the Street Pavilion Ancient Battlefield.
With the opening of the high-speed railway in Qin'an, many tourists from the south and north of the South China Sea came to Longcheng Town to play. Nowadays, the shadow of the sword and light sword has dimmed, the drums and horns have been far away, the Yellow Dust Ancient Road has not been annihilated, and the Beacon Border City is no longer barren, presenting a beautiful scene of harmony and tranquility in front of people. However, that tragic historical story and heroic epic are still spread in the ancient town today, which may be the charm of the ancient battlefield!
At present, Qin'an Long Town has taken the Nüwa Ancestral Hall and the Ancient Battlefield of the Three Kingdoms Street Pavilion as the key development scenic spots for tourism, and the scenic spot is based on the Nüwa Ancestral Temple, the Nüwa Cave, the Street Pavilion Ancient Battlefield, the Street Pavilion Ancient City and other scenic spots that can reflect the ancestral relics, war scenes and northwest folk customs, with the worship of ancestors, battlefield hanging, leisure and entertainment and other tourism projects as the content, and vigorously build a Chinese Nüwa cultural tourism destination with the main function of searching for roots and worshiping ancestors.
Pocket Lanzhou Lanzhou Morning News reporter Liu Xiaolei
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