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Nowadays, ancient town tourism is loved by more and more people, but many ancient towns are modern and renovated, and the traces of artificial carving are too obvious, and the original appearance of the ancient town has been lost.
It is too difficult to find the original ecological ancient town, in the downtown area of Chengdu there is a hidden original ancient town, it was founded in the Three Kingdoms period, more than 2,000 years ago, it is the throat town of the Southern Silk Road, it is the ancient town of Tuqiao.
Tuqiao, located in the southwest of Chengdu, at the intersection of Wuhou Avenue and Sichuan-Tibet Highway, tuqiao was historically under the jurisdiction of Shuangliu and later assigned to Wuhou District.
The old appearance of Tuqiao Ancient Town (Source: "Tuqiao Zhi")
First, the name traceability
According to legend, during the Qin and Han Dynasties, there was a rushing river in the Tuqiao area, and people built a bridge on the river in the way that the people tied bamboo ropes, called "Qiqiao". Later, the locals also named this area "Duqiao". During the Jianwen period of the Ming Hui Emperor (1399-1402), the bridge was rebuilt into a 5-hole stone arch bridge with a span of 30 meters and a feasible boat under it, and the bridge was renamed Tujin Bridge, referred to as Tuqiao Bridge.
In ancient times, the "cluster" of tukky had the meaning of silkworms, and silkworms were mostly made of rapeseed stalks, wheat straws, etc., for silkworms to spit silk for cocooning, which confirmed that the Tuqiao area is not a false legend; the "jin" of tujin is the same as the meaning and origin of the "jin" of Chengdu, which is also known as Jincheng, and is closely related to the production and trade of Shu brocade.
Second, the eight views of the Tuqiao Bridge
Tuqiao has a long history and profound cultural heritage. In Tuqiao, people have eight major scenes that represent the memory of the history and culture of Tuqiao, namely Wangjin Haichao, Longjing Erquan, Shiniu Wobo, Tujin Cool Breeze, Jackdaw Shade, Jade Tree Towering Heaven, Wugui Fragrance, and Xinqiao Feiyan" by word of mouth. Behind every view is a legendary story about the Tuqiao Bridge. Whether it is a touching legend, or an ancient building, or a thrilling legend, they all carry the thousand-year-old heritage of this cluster bridge.
For example, the scene of "Stone Cow Lying Wave" is located at the junction of the three groups and ten groups of Longjing Village in Tuqiao. Standing on the Niu'er Bridge, looking down, you can see the rapids under the Niu'er Bridge rushing and the waves are overturning. There is a pair of stone cattle on the stone wall on both sides of the bridge, the stone cow is about one meter long, about 30 centimeters high, the stone bull head, eyes, nose, horns, limbs and tail, the structure is uniform and reasonable, the carving is delicate, and it is lifelike.
Another example: in the scene of "Wangjin Sea Tide", a song that has been passed down for a hundred years is "Wangjin Bridge looks at the clusters of brocade, colorful and dazzling." Under the sea tide temple, the tide surges, and the waves crash on the shore to listen to the sound of the tide. In this picture that contains two scenes of the Tuqiao Wangjin Bridge and the Haichao Temple, standing on the Wangjin Bridge and looking north, the three-mile-long Tuqiao Bridge is the whole town, the rows of houses, the exquisite flat streets, the bustling crowds, the unobstructed view, the panoramic view.
In 2017, the Longjing community of Tuqiao Street launched the "Longjing Memory" community construction project, hoping to excavate the ancient Tuqiao memory passed down from generation to generation in this form and restore the true face of local culture. In 2017, feng tiankui and Zeng Guorong, who were more than 70 and 80 years old, spent 500 days and hand-painted the "Eight Views of tuqiao" based on historical materials and folk memories, which was known as the tuqiao version of "Qingming Upper River Map".
Third, Tuqiao cuisine
1. Wear ducks
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Dai's ancestors created the "Dai's Roast Duck" for their livelihood, which has been more than 100 years ago. Roast duck carefully selected materials, in the early years with Chengdu around the specialty of the hemp duck, around the Mid-Autumn Festival, from the Pujiang and other places to open the rice fields, all the way to Chengdu's "Pu Duck" as the material, now "Dai Duck" used in the duck to self-breeding. "Dai Duck" from the initial chicken bus along the street to sell, to the shelf car stalls, and then to the sitting hall to open a shop, with a number of stores and restaurants, has developed into a chengdu famous snack known as "Tuqiao a must".
Dai family roast duck was originally made of earth stove hanging stove, after many improvements, the Republic of China passed to the hands of Dai Shanhe, roast duck making technology is becoming more and more mature.
2. Spicy sweet water noodles
"Spicy Sweet Water Surface" - Features: Entrance lubrication, endless fragrance, water egg white mixed with flour, pull a long row of continuous pull, red oil spicy, hemp taste appropriate, sweet and salty appropriate, delicate non-stick teeth Zeng Jinshan boss pioneer, located on the east side of the bridge.
3. Assorted braised noodles
Features: Tender and fragrant, soft and spicy, is a large pot boiled by the thin dough skin of the inch, there are belt skin, potatoes, white radish, cabbage, yam, carrot, pork, beef, chicken, add spice powder and soy milk and salt, color and flavor, into the raw fragrance. It was pioneered by Guan Guoxing and is located on the east side of the bridge.
4. "Horse Trail Cake"
Features: Fragrant HD fragrance, soft and sweet, made of Fumi Eagle into a spring to remove water, stirred artemisia mashed, mixed with glutinous pulp steamed into a five-inch wide strip. Cool and cut into two-centimeter-thick horseshoe shapes and fry in a pan of vegetable oil until yellowish on both sides. Made by Li Shaoquan's boss, he sells along the street with a pick, and sets up a stall in the Sanbo shop to sell on the day of the scene.
5. "Osmanthus Hibiscus Cake"
Features: Soft and sweet. With apricot blossom flavor, the sautéed glutinous rice is ground into powder. Mix the sugar and osmanthus juice with rice noodles, pour them into a five-centimeter-high two-foot square wooden frame, lay it on top of the hibiscus color and flatten it, then remove the wooden frame and cut it into cakes that are three centimeters wide and five centimeters long and four centimeters thick. Created by the owner of Your Jade Garden in Tongbao Garden, it is located on the right side of the Lingguan Building in Tuqiao.
6. "Pear Candy"
Features: The fragrance is particularly strong, the sweet and sour bitter source has the entrance to the living, anti-disproportionate. Zuqiao F Street with the bao group yulian boss Toshikawa Bei, Yin Ren, get tea, insert red. The soup before the pear slices is boiled into a cake, mixed with glutinous rice flour (boiled) and kneaded into strips, cut into 10 cm long segments. Becoming a medicinal delicacy is very popular to buy. The owner of Zhan Wangting was the first to create the fourth shop on the right side of the Lingguan Building on Tuqiao Lower Street.
7. Oil circle pot helmet
Features: three centimeters thick, ten centimeters in diameter, double-sided roasted yellow, layers of incense "white noodle pot Kui" crisp, crisp and moist, pepper and salt delicious, made by Yuan Shaoqing boss on the right side of the bridge "pepper salt sesame pot Kui", passed down to more than ten years after liberation before it ceased to exist.
8. Cannabis flowers
Features: Sweet and crispy, melts in the mouth. Tuqiao Chen oil cake, pu make small twist flowers. Chen Shi should master the technique of winter heat and cool spring and autumn temperature when making noodles, and the noodles should be reconciled and good, and they should open strips. Press the strips, rub the strips, and finally knead into a twist-shaped oil pan, the oil can not smoke, fried not old and tender, crispy and sweet. It was first created by Chen Jiayun's father, Boss Chen, and is located on Tuqiao Shangjie Street.
9. Ancient soda
Features - cool heat dissipation, heat relief and disease prevention. Wang Laomo's ice powder and drinks are sandwiched in a double-layered wooden barrel, filled with cotton for heat insulation into the inner tank, filled with soda and Puhe plus sugar and water, and sometimes stalls are set up along the street or on the bridge. This is the best old soda of Tuqiao.
10. "Yellow and White Cool Powder"
Features: spicy sour white cool powder, spiced spicy yellow hot cold powder. White cold powder is made from a selection of bean flour. Yellow cold powder is made by grinding rice into gouache and lime water and boiling over low heat. Produced and operated by Huang Bowan's boss, it is located on the east side of the bridge.
References: 1. "A Small History of the Tujin Silk Industry", by Ji Tingxiao; "Little Chengdu" - Tuqiao, by Yu Xiaoning
2. "Ru Lin Ancestral Hall and Tuqiao Private School", by Xu Yongcai, the article has been deleted
3. "Tuqiao Zhi", compiled by the Compilation Committee of Tuqiao Zhi in Wuhou District, Chengdu
4. "Tuqiao Zhi"