The Yellow River is not only a river of nature, but also a river of humanities. The splendid culture is the deepest heritage and connotation of the Mother River.
The spring city of Jinan, born by the water, living by the water, the Yellow River has always had a special significance to the city. Jinan, which is the central city of the Yellow River Basin, is striving to make the Yellow River culture the thickest background of urban culture.
The Cpc Jinan Municipal Party Committee and the Jinan Municipal People's Government recently issued the "Jinan Yellow River Basin Ecological Protection and High-quality Development Plan", proposing to strengthen the protection of the Yellow River cultural heritage system, dig deep and expound the rich connotation and era value of the Yellow River culture in Jinan, continue the historical context, inherit cultural genes, plan and build the Yellow River National Cultural Park, promote the creative transformation and innovative development of the Yellow River culture, and tell the "Yellow River Story" of Jinan in the new era.
The Yellow River culture is not historical and fixed, but constantly moving forward, constantly spawning new cultural types and contents. Tens of millions of sons and daughters of Jinan are using their full enthusiasm and high morale to paint a "Quehua Autumn Color Map" that belongs to the new era!
There are 9 districts and counties, and the Yellow River culture is different
The Jinan section of the Yellow River flows through 9 districts and counties, and is about 183 kilometers long. For thousands of years, many cultural sites, celebrity anecdotes, legends and stories, Xiaoqinghe culture, etc. have been added together, making Jinan's Yellow River culture thick and rich.
From Dong'a Town in Pingyin County to Renfeng Town in Jiyang District, each district and county has its own unique Yellow River culture and many natural and cultural landscapes.
Pingyin, a thousand-year-old ancient county, has seen countless historical and cultural deeds and cultural relics since ancient times, and in modern times, many projects and cultural undertakings related to the Yellow River have been built. Ancient cultural relics include zhai zhuang village, Pingyin Yongji Bridge, Wenmiao Temple, Cuiping Mountain Multi-Buddha Pagoda, Pingyin Wall Building Complex, Yuncui Mountain Nantianguan Building Complex, Dongyu Nanya Architectural Complex, Xianziyu Architectural Complex, Hongfanchi Longwang Temple, Qianzhuan Village Lian's Former Residence, Pingyin Four Mountains Moya Stone Carving, etc.; in modern times, there are Pingyin 1030 Yellow Project, Pingyin Yellow River Highway Bridge, Shandong Yellow River Rose Lake National Wetland Park, Pingyin Yellow River Tower and other modern Yellow River cultural new construction.
Continuing to the northeast, the Yellow River flows through Changqing District, and the newly built Yellow River Cultural Square is a new landscape that attracts tourists to show the majesty of the Yellow River in Changqing. Wolongyu, Liantai Mountain, Guyun Lake and other natural attractions are also intoxicating natural attractions.
In terms of cultural landscape, Changqing District is also very rich, with the "first plastic in the sea" of the millennium ancient temple Lingyan Temple, the Great Wall of Qi, the Taoist holy land of Wufeng Mountain, The Guo Ancestral Hall, the Shuanglushan Han Tomb, etc., are all unique historical and cultural resources.
On the opposite bank of the Yellow River in downtown Jinan is Jiyang District. With 73 villages in the five towns (subdistricts) of the Yellow River Economic Yang, with a river channel of 56.5 kilometers and a embankment of 60.7 kilometers, it is the only district and county in the lower reaches of the Yellow River that is close to the Yellow River and the district and county with the longest length. For thousands of years, Jiyang has been famous for its water and prospered along with the Yellow River. 2500 years ago, Confucius traveled to Jiyang to study Shaole, leaving behind the ancient beauty of "the son is in Qi Wenshao, march does not know the taste of meat".
At present, Jiyang has accelerated the construction of key cultural relics protection projects such as the Han Tomb of the Three Officials Temple and the Ruins of Liu Taizi, and created a unique cultural tourism project north of the Yellow River. The construction of the Yellow River Style Belt, Lu's Former Residence, and The Riverside Cultural Tourism Area is also in full swing. In addition, Jishui Shaoyin Museum, Yellow River Fitness Park, Gedian Insurance Workers, etc. are also very important Yellow River cultural carriers in Jiyang; and intangible cultural heritage such as Jiyang black pottery and Jiyang Yellow River clay sculptures are more famous at home and abroad, and have a high position in Jinan's intangible cultural heritage.
At present, Jiyang is promoting the restoration of Wenshaotai and The Temple of Literature in a timely manner to create an ancient cultural landscape with strong Confucian cultural characteristics; and based on resources such as "Wenshao Culture", it is cultivating high-quality research and tourism projects such as "Journey along the Memory of Huang Countryside" and "Shaole Study" to attract more Jinan citizens to "travel north".
The last "stop" in the southern region of the Yellow River economy is Zhangqiu District. From the ancient Xihe Ruins, Chengziya Ruins, Dongping Lingcheng Ruins to Luozhuang Han Tombs, Weishan Han Tombs, and the newly excavated Jiaojia Ruins, this land has a proud historical depth. Zou Yan, Fang Xuanling, Li Qingzhao, Li Kaixian, Ma Guohan, Meng Luochuan and other historical celebrities have made this place a place where humanities gather, coupled with many ancient village springs, famous mountains and rivers, etc., so that the Yellow River culture in the Zhangqiu section is more abundant.
In fact, if you carefully explore the Yellow River culture in Jinan, it takes a lot of time. Because there are many cultural resources of the Yellow River in the Jinan section of the Yellow River, it is difficult to count, which is the most valuable wealth of cultural Jinan, and it is the most proud pen and ink for us to write the Yellow River article in the new era!
The city of springs, the story of the shining Yellow River
The Yellow River enters downtown Jinan in Huaiyin District, where the most important section of the lower reaches is the Luokou section.
The Luokou section of the Yellow River is famous for its many unique and precious natural and cultural landscapes. Luokou Dam, Luokou Dangerous Worker, Luokou Yellow River Iron Bridge, Century-old Yellow River Hydrological Station, 5 Tongzhi Huangde Zheng Monument, Ming Dynasty Zhenhe Sacred Beast, the remains of the former Luokou Water Conservancy Hub Project, etc., plus the Yellow River beaches and ginkgo forests that have now become Internet celebrities, have made the Luokou section the center of The Yellow River culture in Jinan and even Shandong.
Zhihuang Dezheng Monument on the Yellow River Dam in Luokou (Photo by Lü Chuanquan)
Among these Yellow River cultural relics, the most famous is the Luokou Yellow River Iron Bridge. The Luokou Yellow River Iron Bridge, which was loaned and built by Germany, began construction in July 1909 and was completed on November 29, 1912, at a cost equivalent to 4.5456 million taels of flat silver at that time. The location of this iron bridge is located on the north side of Luokou and was determined after many surveys by engineering personnel. Luokou was also chosen because it was a very prosperous dock ancient town at that time, which was beneficial to the economic development and prosperity of Jinan.
The construction of this iron bridge has been related to many historical celebrities, including Zhan Tianyou and Sun Yat-sen. Premier Zhou Enlai also personally came to inspect the Yellow River iron bridge and flooding. In 1977, a marble monument was erected at the south end of the railway bridge, with the inscription "Premier Zhou inspected the Luokou Yellow River Iron Bridge Memorial Site", which was listed as a provincial key cultural relics protection unit, and later listed as a national key cultural relics protection unit.
From its delivery on November 29, 1912, until the founding of the People's Republic of China, the bridge was the largest railway bridge in Asia. Today, the Luokou Yellow River Railway Bridge is still in normal use, becoming the only century-old bridge that still undertakes railway transportation tasks on the Yellow River. In 2013, the Luokou Yellow River Railway Bridge was listed by the State Council as the third batch of national key cultural relics protection units, and in 2018, it was selected into the first batch of China's industrial heritage protection list.
In addition, according to expert research, jinan's spring water gushing and the Yellow River are also closely related, deeply affected by the size of the Yellow River. Through research and analysis, when the water level of the Yellow River Luokou Hydrological Station is above 26.7 meters, there will be a significant promotion of Jinan spring water, below this water level, Jinan spring water is prone to stop spraying phenomenon.
This year, Jinan's spring water is abundant, which is rare in recent decades, and the Yellow River has also ushered in a very rare high-water level autumn flood, which shows that Jinan spring water and Yellow River water have a very close relationship, which is the actual embodiment of the deep and close relationship between the Yellow River culture and Jinan, a historical and cultural city.
Take the initiative to dock and create a model for the cultural inheritance of the Yellow River
On October 22, in the Jinan Baili Yellow River Scenic Area on the embankment of the South Bank of the Yellow River in Luokou, Jinan, the main building has been completed, and the Jinan Yellow River Cultural Heritage Base Project showed its majesty, and the main buildings "Jinan Yellow River Culture Exhibition Hall" and "Quehua Building" have been listed.
Jinan Yellow River Culture Exhibition Hall (Photo by Cui Jian)
The overall architecture of the Yellow River Culture Exhibition Hall in Jinan adopts the Han and Tang Dynasty style, with a stable and restrained temperament, echoing the Yellow River culture from the largest to the most rigid. The first and second floors of the main exhibition hall will serve as the Yellow River Culture Exhibition Hall to showcase the Yellow River culture to the outside world. After the opening, Jinan citizens and tourists from all over the world can climb the Quehua Tower to look at the Yellow River and enjoy the scenery of "Quehua Smoke and Rain" and "Quehua Autumn Colors".
The completion of the Jinan Yellow River Culture Exhibition Hall marks that the yellow river cultural construction in Jinan has reached a new stage. And this is only a microcosm of Jinan's inheritance, development and construction of the Yellow River culture.
In recent years, Jinan has dug deep into and sorted out the rich connotation of the Yellow River culture, highlighted brand leadership, improved brand publicity, built an all-round, three-dimensional, multi-angle cultural brand publicity pattern, and expanded the brand effect and external influence of Jinan Yellow River culture.
The municipal party committee and the municipal government clearly put forward that Jinan city should build a development positioning of "Yellow River Basin Cultural Protection and Inheritance Model Area", under this overall positioning, Jinan City will give full play to the advantages of profound historical and cultural heritage and high cultural resource endowments, take the creation of "East Asian Cultural Capital" as the guide, build a bridgehead for East Asian cultural exchanges, and make every effort to build the Yellow River culture and Chinese civilization protection and inheritance system, and build Jinan into a leading city in the development of Yellow River cultural tourism and an important gateway to promote exchanges and mutual learning among world civilizations.
The "Opinions on Accelerating the Construction of Jinan's New and Old Kinetic Energy Conversion Starting Area" released some time ago pointed out that around "digging deep into the value of the Yellow River cultural era", fully do a good job in the "Yellow River Culture" article, and mold a stronger "cultural kinetic energy" into a stronger "cultural kinetic energy" in the process of construction of the new and old kinetic energy conversion starting area. Jinan will dig deep and expound the essence of the Yellow River culture, and vigorously carry out the excavation, collation, dissemination and transformation of the Yellow River story, Qilu story and Quancheng story.
In the next step, Jinan will take the ecological corridor of the Yellow River levee in Jinan as the link, give full play to the cultural characteristics of different regions along the Yellow District and County, adhere to the regional linkage, string beads into chains, and form a continuous surface, forming a cultural tourism corridor along the Yellow River, and jointly building a support for the development of cultural tourism in Jinan' Yellow River with the "Shanshui Sage" Chinese cultural pivot. On this basis, we will strive to build the core area of the Yellow River cultural landmark and the five groups of the Yellow River legendary ancient village, wetland oasis, farming pastoral, dynamic experience, and hot spring health care, and build a spatial layout of "one corridor, one axis, one core and five groups" to promote the rationalization of layout, resource agglomeration and development coordination.
The announcement of the Outline of the Yellow River Basin Ecological Protection and High-quality Development Plan has once again ushered in the key historical opportunity of ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin. The "Outline" specifically points out that the implementation of the protection and development of the Yellow River ancient town, support Jinan to build a new and old kinetic energy conversion starting area, and support Jinan to build a gateway for the Yellow River Basin to open to the outside world.
To play a leading role in the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin, it is necessary to find the root and soul of Jinan, cross the core connection tipping point on both sides of the Yellow River - Luokou Ancient Town, accelerate the gathering of various resource elements, tell the "story of their own Yellow River", and comprehensively build the central city of the Yellow River Basin.
The reporter learned that the Tianqiao District, where Luokou is located, has established the concept of "project is king", and this year at the district level, it has focused on the implementation of "ten key tasks" such as urban renewal actions and industrial strong zone strategies, as well as "ten key projects" such as the Dingtailu Yellow River Cultural Tourism Landmark Area and the Luokou International Commercial and Trade Zone, taking the "double ten" as the starting point to drive a comprehensive breakthrough in the work and provide a strong engine and power source for high-quality development. Among them, there are two major projects related to the Yellow River. One is the Dingtailu Yellow River Cultural Tourism Landmark Area Project. The project covers an area of about 2,657 acres, with a total construction area of about 2.1 million square meters above ground, and will rely on the excellent environment along the important landscape along the Yellow River and the important corridor nodes across the river to create a "Yellow River Window" cultural tourism city with ice and snow as the theme, integrating culture, tourism, entertainment, shopping, and five-star hotels, forming a Yellow River living room for innovative industry incubation and cultural exchange display.
The second is the Luokou Ancient Town Project. The historical Luokou Ancient Town was an important town for bustling commerce and trade, and an important wharf in the lower reaches of the Yellow River. After the opening of the port of Jinan, the Yellow River Railway Bridge was built near Luokou, and there was also the "Qingluo Small Railway", and water and land transportation flourished.
With the opening of the East Tunnel through the Yellow Tunnel today, the Luokou area is also about to usher in transformation and develop into a new landmark of the city on the south bank of the Yellow River. The Luokou Ancient Town to be built covers an area of about 3536 acres, and on the basis of reshaping the style of Luokou Ancient Town, it is planned to build a landmark building complex based on high-end commercial complexes, attracting international high-end commercial and trade services, and creating an international business demonstration zone integrating international trade, business exhibition and trade, commercial port culture and ecological protection.
At the same time, the reporter learned that in addition to the top-level planning and design, will also build the Yellow River cultural tourism data "cloud platform", the current cultural relics and intangible cultural heritage along the Yellow River has been thoroughly investigated, is being systematically sorted out, once the data platform is built, the public can find the introduction of the Yellow River cultural tourism attractions and cultural relics on the platform, further inherit the Yellow River cultural genes, and promote the protection and promotion of the Yellow River culture.