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From Pingyao to the south, the 108 National Highway has been extending forward on the west bank of the Fenhe River, when we turn to Huozhou, we turn to the Houwan Fenhe Bridge across this Shanxi people's mother river, Huozhou Binhe Avenue is spacious and clean, the next Gulou West Street is bustling and lively, and the big trees on both sides of the road shade the sun, which is very the shadow of the southern city. Shortly after passing by the Ming Dynasty Drum Tower, our destination, the Huozhou Bureau, suddenly appeared in front of us.
In the downtown area of Huozhou, in front of it is the Ming Dynasty Drum Tower
Huo State Department
After Huozhou was upgraded from the early years of the Tang Dynasty to a prefecture, most of them followed the rank of prefecture, and the Huozhou Bureau was the highest official seat in a state. Mr. M was not impressed by the Huozhou Prefecture Bureau before, but do not underestimate this unpopular State Bureau, which is now the most complete preserved of the same level of the Government Department in China, and together with the Forbidden City in Beijing, the Governor's Office of Hebei Province, and the Inner Township County Of Henan Province, it is called the "Four Ancient Officials", which is the leader in the country within the scope of the State Bureau.
Tang Dynasty plaintiff Stone
Huozhou Department has several highlights that are very attractive, the first is the door god inside its door. Legend has it that this was the shuai mansion of Wei Chi Jingde, who followed Song Laosheng to lead the Sui army to confront Li Shimin, and finally submitted to the Tang army. Because Li Shimin felt that he and Qin Qiong were guarding around him and could scare off the demons in their sleep, he let people paint images of the two and paste them outside the big tent or in front of the palace gate to ward off evil spirits, thus creating thousands of years of Chinese door god culture, and Huozhou became the source of Chinese customs of sticking door gods. And now the mighty Wei Chi Grand General and the Grand Duke of the Tang Dynasty have to guard the gate of their own Shuai Mansion for the younger generations, which seems to be a little awkward.
Instrument door
Statue of Wei Chi Jingde
The lobby in the middle of the state office is the highlight of the entire complex, the lobby was originally built in the Tang Dynasty, but now we see the building was rebuilt in the Yuan Dynasty, more than 700 years ago, more than 100 years before the history of the Forbidden City. The main building is wide and deep are 5 rooms, and there are 3 wide houses in front, the overall layout of the building is strict, the appearance is majestic and imposing, and it is a rare ancient wooden structure architectural work.
But this lobby isn't just known for its history and craftsmanship. When Liang Sicheng and his wife visited the Huozhou Office in the 1930s, they made a bizarre comment about the lobby building, calling it a "comical architectural precedent" in the history of Chinese architecture. In Mr. Liang's view, the first is that the center of the three-bay building is too wide and the two sides are too narrow; secondly, the upper end of the pillar of the building is only connected by a narrow forehead, but above the small fang is placed a huge pupai fang, far beyond the regulations of Ming and Qing dynasty architecture; the bucket arches of the roof of the hall are also arbitrarily arranged, and none of them are placed on the pillar head.
From the perspective of construction industry experts, this Yuan Dynasty hall may really have a lot of irregularities, even in the eyes of our laymen, the contrast between the simplicity of the main hall of the lobby and the bright paint of the Baoxia, as well as the curved and slender interspersed fangs at the top of the Baoxia pillar, will feel a little irrational and strange. But it is this free and casual style that has also allowed the ancient building to stand for 700 years to this day, so Mr. Liang's comments may be more like a relaxed admiration of an architectural style beyond the conventional, although rare, but also enough to make the ancient culture strong to this day, which should be regarded as a humorous story.
Behind the lobby are the second hall and the inner house, when the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty went out to visit Shanxi, he used the Huozhou Bureau as a palace many times, and the Kangxi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty also lived in the Prefecture Office. The most lamentable thing is that on October 6, 1900, Empress Dowager Cixi came to Huozhou with the Guangxu Emperor from Lingshi, spent a night in the state office, and rushed to ZhaoCheng the next day. A state office, which has received so many emperors, should be rare in other places.
In the East Axis building complex of the Department of Justice, there is a cultural center for honest government, focusing on the deeds of Cao Duan, an ancient honest official. Cao Duan's name is not well known to many people, but his famous words "Gongsheng Ming, Lian Shengwei" were regarded as a guideline and had a great influence by later generations of politicians, and today we can see this golden sentence in many ancient counties and ancient prefectures.
Cao Duan like
Cao Duan lived in the early Ming Dynasty, twice as an official in Huozhou, although he only did the Jiupin Xuezheng when he died, but he was incorruptible and virtuous all his life, it is said that when he died, Huozhou was full of people, shops closed, children cried, and everyone rushed to support him. After his death, he had to be buried in Huozhou because he had no money to return to the tomb, and it was not until 13 years later that his students donated funds and finally moved the tomb back to his hometown , Shichi, Henan.
Cao Duan was also a famous theologian in the early Ming Dynasty, and during the critical period when Confucianism suffered a heavy blow after the Yuan Dynasty, he took the lead in reviving the almost lost Cheng Zhu Lixue, making Confucianism the mainstream of thought in society again. During the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, Cao Duan was allowed to receive from the Temple of Confucius and received a lofty honor that Chinese readers can say covet. To have such a knowledgeable and virtuous person in Huozhou can make the people of Huozhou mourn for the loss of him, Cao Duan's personality charm can be seen, and Huozhou should be fortunate to have been instructed and educated by him.