Guangling County, with beautiful mountains and rivers, beautiful scenery, long history, simple folk customs, known as the reputation of "Saiwai Jiangnan", is located in the northeast border of Shanxi Province, the upper reaches of the Yongding River, and the east of The Hengshan Mountain in the north. The key to the beauty of Guangling lies in a "spirit" word, the mountains and rivers and trees have spirits, the spirit of the kettle spring is in the water, the spirit of the Holy Buddha Temple is in the pine, the spirit of the Liuling Mountain is in the stone, the spirit of baiyangyu is in the stream, the spirit of the county town is in the spirit, and the spirit of the Guangling folk wind is beautiful and simple inside, and the spirit of the mountains and rivers outside the Saiwai is of the same origin. The unique landform and rich historical culture have bred a large number of colorful and distinctive natural and humanistic tourism resources. Guangling still maintains the natural charm of blue sky, clear water and white clouds. There are mainly water gods with unique Jiangnan water town style, the world-famous Han White Jade Forest, the Small Hanging Holy Spring Temple, the Natural Forest Holy Buddha Temple, the natural scenery of Baiyangyu, Shengjuyu, the Aerial Grassland Dianding Mountain and other resources.
Water Shrine
Located on Hushan Mountain, Huquan Town, Guangling County, it was listed as the sixth batch of national key cultural relics protection units in 2006. Originally known as the Yangshui Shrine, the Water God Hall was built during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Wenchang Pavilion was added and renamed the Water God Hall. Sitting on the north and facing south, the water god hall covers an area of 7600 square meters, and the main buildings are the Lingying Pagoda, the Hall of Our Lady, the Zen Room, the Wenchang Pavilion, the Mountain Gate, the Bell and Drum Tower, the Laojun Hall, etc. The current appearance of the Water God Hall is the scale of the Qing Dynasty, and the overall plan of the building complex is octagonal, each side is about 13 or 4 meters long, and the construction area is 900 square meters. The architectural layout design is peculiar, using the north-south axis, the middle body, the door, corridor, hall, room eight sides of the ring, compact structure, seamless integration. There are more than 40 buildings of different sizes and heights, which are arranged and orderly, orderly, and have no sense of narrowness and chaos. The typical appearance of the courtyard is rare in the history of architecture.
There are pavilions and pagodas on the mountain, and the grass and trees under the mountain are overgrown. The "Jiujiang Our Lady Shrine" and the "Guanyin Temple" are the main buildings of the Water God Hall, equipped with an east-west viewing hall and a dragon and tiger corridor, and a seven-level brick tower with a height of more than four meters. There is a pavilion in the northeast corner, and up the stairs is a hexagonal pavilion. Entering from the south gate, the temple is exalted and painted with carved beams. The bells on the tower are clear, and the matsuma birds are singing up and down. The left and right compartments are uniquely shaped, and the arches on both sides are more deep. If you enter through the back door, the house will be different from the mountain, and the path will circle around the hall, making people feel like a fairyland, as if entering Penglai.
Located on the west side of the Notre Dame Temple, the Baigong Society has a single eaves hard mountain style, with a depth of 7.57 meters and a width of 8.33 meters. Originally, it was the place where the three religions and nine streams worshiped the ancestors, so the statues are Lao Tzu, Lu Ban and Confucius, and the three families of Tao gong and Confucianism, which are harmonious and interesting. The original statue was destroyed, the idol was rebuilt, and the frescoes were restored, but the front frescoes failed to preserve them. The content of the murals is very rich, and it comprehensively reflects the handicraft industry and people's living conditions in the Qing Dynasty. For this county, it belongs to the image historical materials and is very precious. In the old days, on the fifteenth day of the second month of the lunar calendar and the seventh day of the first month of May, the craftsmen of various walks of life gathered here to worship Luban.
Lingying Pagoda is located in the southeast corner of the courtyard and has a height of 17.5 meters. The base of the tower is a 1.2-meter-high hexagonal stone platform with a side length of 3.28 meters. The tower has seven floors and is 16.3 meters high. The tower is well preserved, imitation wood structure, hexagonal cone, from bottom to top, layer by layer. The shape is smooth and dignified, exquisite and handsome. Brick carving throughout, exquisite and simple. The first and second layers of rings are made of brick carved partition doors with different styles, and the third to fifth floors are semi-circular brick coupon hollow doors that have the effect of reducing wind force. The corner columns of the tower are made of brick, with a flat fang on the top and a barricade. The eaves ring of the tower is made of three-step bucket arches, and it is not shiang. Out of the cocking head, the configuration of the flat body family four save, the horn family each saved. Each layer of bucket arches is carved with rafters, lotus eaves, etc. The corners are wooden old horn beams and baby horn beams, and the first end of the corner beams is equipped with brick sets of animals, and iron wind chimes fall. The imitation wood structure of the Lingying Pagoda is the essence of the Water God Hall complex, and has been pushed as a representative of the brick pagoda of the Qing Dynasty in Northern Yanbei.
Dianding Mountain
On the south side of Liuling Mountain, 48 kilometers away from the county seat of Guangling, there is a high mountain meadow with a total area of 66 square kilometers. There is a wide variety of plants and lush flowers. In the core area there is a strange mountain called Dianding Mountain. At the foot of the mountain, the undulating roadside golden canola flowers are piece by piece, and the colors are charming in the brilliant sunshine; the mountain apricots, mountain peaches, wild yellow flowers, bracken, bracken, oil apples and other wild vegetables and wild fruits in the forks of the ditch are clustered and clustered, dotted with vitality everywhere. Pine forests, natural birch forests, and sea buckthorn forests on the mountainside are lush and airtight. Dianding Mountain is 2008 meters above sea level, north of the commanding height of the Datong region, Huangyangjian, and west of the vast Citian Reservoir.
The top of the mountain is covered with a green felt blanket, and between heaven and earth, the grass is green, the flowers are blooming, the fragrance is quiet, and the view is endless. There are flowers in the four seasons on the meadow, and there are flowers everywhere, which is simply a world of flowers, an ocean of flowers. In early spring, it is warm and cold, with blue bald eagles, purple marans, and yellow small-leaved golden pheasants competing to bloom; in midsummer, the grass is high and flowers, and the green is like a brocade. White edelweiss, yellow poppies, and pale blue kingfishers compete. In autumn, the herbs are clinging, the flowers are brilliant, the butterflies are dancing, the birds are chirping, and the fruits are fruitful. In the middle of winter, the sea buckthorn here is a unique branch, turning out to be born, dying red and white snow, burning the blue sky, and a silver-clad northern scenery is born here. There are many kinds of wild plants in Dianding Mountain. Such as shallots, wild leeks, ferns, lilies, platycodon, bitter herbs, wild yellow flowers, mushrooms and so on.
Han White Jade Stone Forest
It is located in the northwest of the county seat, which is the treasure house of species resources in the North China Region, on the east side of the main peak of Liuling Mountain. The Han White Jade Stone Forest is located on the Ankou section of the border with Yanggao County on the east side of the main peak of Liuling Mountain, at an altitude of 2175 meters. According to the surveying and mapping data, the stone forest has a plane area of about 10,000 square meters, the main body is 500 meters long from north to south, 100 meters wide from east to west, and the highest column group in the landscape is about 30 meters. According to reports, the vegetation in this area is good, and various resources such as trees, plants, animals, marble, iron ore are very rich. In particular, the white jade forest in the natural landscape has different shapes, staggered and varied.
The most peculiar place in the stone forest is that at different times, different lights, different directions to watch, there will be different scenery. This White Jade Forest was formed 400 million years ago, and was formed by glacier cutting and ice bucket weathering in ancient times, which is "unique to China and rare in the world". According to the survey of the 217 geological team of the Geological Survey Bureau of Shanxi Province, the mineral body of the Han White Jade Forest is nearly 10 million square meters, ranking third in the world.
Guangling Baiyangyu
It is a typical natural scenic area with an organic combination of mountains, water and forests. The gorge is 15 km deep and has 15 bays. The whole mountain gorge is undulating, and the 30,000 acres of forest area are magnificent. The two sides of the canyon are stacked with green peaks, the mountains and forests are integrated, there are forests in the mountains, there are holes in the forests, there is water in the caves, the mountain springs are dense, the waterfalls are high, and the streams are converged into streams, which are the source of the Kettle River. In the spring and summer, the flowers are blooming and the birds are fragrant. There are many kinds of natural Chinese medicinal materials in the mountain forest, and more than 100 kinds have been identified so far, and edible mountain mushrooms abound.
Guangling Holy Buddha Temple
Located in the Sacred Buddha Forest Mountain, 14 kilometers south of the county seat, it was built in the jinzhang Zongtaihe period, Ming Jiajing forty-two years of major repairs, the Qing Dynasty many times rebuilt, the temple has more than 120 temples of various types, is the largest Buddhist temple in Guangling historical record. However, due to historical reasons, it was destroyed in 1967, and the existing temple base site, the forest of steles, and the Tallinn, and the five halls of the medicine master hall were rebuilt by the people. Tallinn is a Tomb Pagoda of Buddhist Zen Masters, which belongs to the Qing Dynasty. There were 14 original towers, 8 existing ones, the tower is 1.55 meters high and 1.5-2.5 meters in diameter, all of which are brick Cherumiya seats. There are more than 3,500 acres of natural primary secondary forest, lush, shaded by the sun, loose waves, birds and flowers, clean air, known as "natural oxygen bar". Coupled with the mysterious "cornucopia" legend, it adds endless charm to it.
Wetlands in Guangling County
Guangling County has more than 30,000 acres of wetlands, which are well protected, concentrated and contiguous, pollution-free, and diverse vegetation types, providing a living space for biological diversity. There are 24 orders and 65 families of land-dwelling wild animals, 278 species, 15 orders and 43 families of birds and 130 species of birds, and 33 species of mammals of 6 orders and 15 families. There are more than 120 species in 89 genera in 34 families.
There are national first- and second-class protected animals such as black storks, white-tailed sea eagles, great bustards, golden eagles, giant swans, owls and other birds roost during the migration process.
Holy Spring Temple
Located 13 kilometers south of Guangling County, the waist of the Tianwangling Cliff in the Beiyue Hengshan Mountain Range is loaded with steep mountains and deep valleys. A spring in the valley, gushing but not overflowing, inexhaustible, known as the holy spring. According to the inscription, the Holy Spring Temple was founded during the Northern Wei Dynasty. Built in the air, the Holy Spring Temple is magnificent and magnificent, with beautiful scenery, majestic mountains and dense vegetation. The whole building of the temple is based on a half-inserted flying beam, cleverly borrowed rock hidden support, wooden mortise stone, rigorous structure, reasonable layout, unique ingenuity, set of strange, dangerous, shocking, special, ingenious in one, from the bottom of the valley to look up, if the cliff flying rainbow, across the gorge to see from afar, and like the wall embedded in the air pavilion, amazing! The temple has a total of five grottoes, four for the upper temple and one for the lower temple. The main hall of the upper temple is Maitreya Cave, which contains 120 clay sculptures of hanging mountains and Buddha statues, the largest is 1.2 meters high, and the smallest is only 0.2 meters. The second is the Jizo Cave, which contains 15 clay statues of the King of Jizo. The lower temple is manjushri, Puxian and Guanyin Caves, and there are 5 clay statues inside. The paintings on the walls come to life.
Great Wall of Zhao
One kilometer west of the Holy Spring Temple, there is the earliest and best-preserved Great Wall of the Warring States zhao in the country. The Great Wall of Zhao stretches from Wei County, Hebei Province in the east to Hengshan Mountain in the west, stretching 55 kilometers from east to west, and runs like a green dragon pan chime, located on the ridge and steep ridge. According to the "Chronicle of Weizhou", the Great Wall of Zhao was built by marquis Zhao Su of the Warring States. Chen Dalin, chief reporter of the Xinhua News Agency, conducted a field investigation in 1996 and determined that the Great Wall in Guangling belonged to the only surviving Warring States Great Wall in the country, the Great Wall of Zhao.
Guangling Edelweiss
Mostly grown in the Alps, Edelweiss is a perennial herb belonging to the Asteraceae family. They are no more than 10 centimeters tall, and the white petals are only 2 centimeters in size when fully open. The flower buds are covered with fine fluff, sometimes gray, sometimes a faint yellow color, and do not look like a gorgeous and delicate flower. However, because it grows only on a very rare rocky surface, it is extremely rare. This life in the ice and snow has no bright colors, no graceful posture, only because of her unique charm, it has become the national flower of Austria dare edelweiss, and in some countries in Western Europe, it is a "gift flower" for guests. Edelweiss is also currently listed as an endangered plant. Foreign studies have shown that Edelweiss can block free radicals in ultraviolet rays, prevent cell membrane damage, delay the aging process, and inhibit melanin formation. The edelweiss flowers of Guanglingdian Dingshan are all over the sky and all over the place, covering an area of 6 square kilometers. The quality of the large area is very rare in China.
Guangling morel mushroom
After raining and sunny, walking on the meadow, careful people will find wild mushrooms of different colors and shapes breaking out of the soil. As large as a silver plate, as small as a grain of rice, the most precious is morel mushrooms. Morels are large edible fungi, with only 20 species found worldwide, and 8 species are recorded in the Chinese Fungi Compendium. As a rare wild fungus, morels are mainly distributed in the highland areas of Sikkim and Kashmir in India. Exports in India are priced at $136 per kilogram. Morels are quite nutritious, and it has been determined that every 100 grams of dried morels contains 25 grams of protein. Therefore, it has the reputation of "halo in the element". Morels are famous wild edible mushrooms, its shape resembles the belly of a sheep, so people call it morels, it is not only nutritious, delicious taste, and morels can quickly relieve the patient's pain and prevent the spread of tumor cells.
Guangling spiced dried tofu
The main raw material black beans are produced in the alpine mountains at an altitude of 1400 meters in the county, using natural condiments such as peppercorns, fennel, and large materials, using their own slurry water fermentation points to make handmade, without any chemical additives, unique process, the only one in the country, is a natural green food. It has the characteristics of mellow and delicious, rich in nutrition and so on.
Guangling spiced melon seeds
With the local specialty of "three eyebrows" sunflower seeds as the main raw material, after the selection of ingredients, add salt, peppercorns, large ingredients, cumin and other spices hot pot cooking, cooked, put into the pocket, rub off the black skin, and then dry, is the finished product. Guangling melon seeds, large and uniform, white and pure color, crispy flesh, salty and delicious, unique flavor, rich in nutrition.
Guangling millet
Produced in the alpine ecological area above 1200 meters above sea level, its color is golden, Guangling millet tastes moist, rich in nutrition, rich in more than 30 kinds of minerals and vitamins beneficial to the human body, is a natural nutritional nourishing food, since the Ming Xuande years to the Qing, has been used as gong rice, enjoy the "royal rice" respect.
Guangling black fungus
It grows on the rotting wood of oak, poplar, banyan tree, locust and other broad-leaved trees, and grows solitary or group- Mycological taxonomy belongs to the basidiomycetes, wood ear, fungus. Black fungus is a famous mountain treasure, edible, medicinal, can be replenished, the Chinese people on the table for a long time to eat tired, has the reputation of "vegetarian meat", the world is called "the black treasure of Chinese food". The cultivation method of black fungus is unique in the history of world agronomy, horticulture and fungus.
Guangling thrush donkey
Guangling thrush donkey is one of the four famous donkeys in China, with its tall body, thick bones, tolerance to rough feeding, able to pull good horses, and appearance "five white and one black" as the characteristics of the country, listed as the first batch of national livestock and poultry genetic resources conservation and protected area list.
Guangling spiced donkey meat
It is made from thrush donkey meat, a specialty of Guangling, and made with a cooked sauce. In the soup pot of boiling meat, salt, monosodium glutamate, soy sauce, ice and other spices are added, and then add spices such as tangerine peel, grass and fruits and tonic Chinese medicine after boiling, therefore, Guangling spiced donkey meat is not only unique in flavor, pure in taste, but also has a good nutritional and health care effect. The size of the edible value of livestock meat depends on the amount of connective tissue between muscle fibers, because connective tissue depends on non-high-quality proteins, and there is too much connective tissue, and muscle tissue is not easy to cook when cooking. In the meat of miscellaneous animals, the muscle fibers of donkey meat are thinner than those of horses, mules and camels, and their intermuscular connective tissue is not very developed, so it enjoys the reputation of "dragon meat in the sky, donkey meat on the ground".
World Intangible Cultural Heritage - Guangling Paper-cutting
Guangling paper-cutting, beauty lies in the delicacy of the knife technique. For example, every petal, every leaf and flower bud of the peony flower can be exquisitely carved under the artist's scissors, and the combination of yin and yang is exquisite. Others are supplemented by golden edges, which resemble gods. For example, several paper cuts in Guan Gongtu, the appearance of the characters and horses is natural and vivid, reflecting a high degree of expression and artistry. There are also hundred tiger diagrams, etc., showing the form of hundred tigers in the method of yang carving, the lines are smooth and natural, and a scissor and a knife are quite kung fu, which constitutes the artistic conception of gong pen painting.
Guangling paper-cutting breaks through the general concept of folk paper-cutting, the perfect combination of paper-cutting and painting techniques; and the material is exquisite, the dyeing is bright, the shades are contrasted, the cold and warm tones are contrasted, the layers are clear, and some are combined and integrated on multiple layers on the basis of realism, breaking through the traditional chinese paper-cutting flat layer, reflecting the three-dimensional effect, greatly expanding the performance space of paper-cutting art, with high artistic appeal and ornamentation, which is prominent in the portrayal of characters and scenes. It can be said that the art of paper-cutting has been pushed to a new level.
Guangling paper-cut is also beautiful in the vivid atmosphere of the composition. Generally speaking, it is not difficult to cut a small work, but it is very important to show a work in its entirety in a five-foot, eight-foot, or even ten-meter scroll. Intended to be the first of the knife, with a perfect composition and supplemented by knife skills and exquisite coloring, so that the lines of the works are natural, dense, layered, depicted into the gods, brightly dyed, coupled with exquisite mounting, reflecting a high degree of three-dimensional artistry, such as the Yin carved Baizi diagram concentrates on the expressiveness and fine creation of the gods. These works are all three-dimensional floral beauty, conveying characters, dynamic landscapes, they are perfect art, is a beautiful combination of Chinese painting, oil painting, brush painting and paper-cutting art, it can really be described as "the knife carved in the wind and thunder, the magic pen points out the colorful clouds flying", unique.
Guangling dyeing paper-cutting belongs to the "dyeing and engraving paper" category in paper-cutting, and the pattern processing is mainly based on yang carving, supplemented by negative carving, with exquisite carving, realistic shape and bright colors. The molding of a piece of paper cuts must go through the processes of design drawings, samples, smoked or dried samples, engraving, cutting, dyeing and so on. The first step in engraving is the starting draft. When drafting on white paper, it is necessary to reasonably connect the places that are not connected between the lines in the picture (such as the eyes, nose and mouth, eyebrows of the characters, and between the characters and the scenery), and then use ink pen to draw the picture, first to see how the expected cutting effect is. In this way, after some careful revision, the cut and carved works will have better results. If you are skilled in cutting, you can also cut directly on the drawing without drawing ink (but with a single line of pencil to double lines).
The second step is to cut the paper, place it under the drawing, and then fix it together with staples or paper twisting needles and threads, and place it on the wax board of the carved table. When engraving, it is necessary to carve from the central part of the drawing to the outside, first engrave the details, and then engrave other places, such as carving the characters, first from the facial features and clothing patterns, gradually go out, and finally cut the outer edge. After the cutting is completed, remove the fixed nails or threads that have been nailed, and slowly uncover the works one by one with small tweezers. The lines are clear, stretched, smooth, and never allowed to leave the slightest burr or opening. In the face of the dramatic characters, hundreds of whiskers are as thin as spider silk, arranged evenly, a trace is continuous, and there is a method of deep line penetration.
Guangling paper-cutting culture has a deep heritage, mainly knife carving, cut as a supplement, yin carving and yang combination, delicate knife technique, dark and light colors, cold and warm color contrast, distinct artistic style, vivid imagination, strong expressiveness, vivid conveyance, exquisite material and dyeing, fine packaging and production, unique in the world paper-cutting art gallery. Guangling paper-cutting paper-cutting is a knife-engraved rice paper, color dot dyeing of color paper-cutting, in china's three major paper-cutting genres belong to the North China genre, and is the finishing touch of the North China genre, in addition to the common characteristics of paper-cutting art: freehand, symbolism, imagery, innovation, fashion, but also has its uniqueness. In 2009, Guangling paper-cutting was included in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO as part of the application project of Chinese paper-cutting.
Guangling Paper-cut Art Museum, China
Founded in August 2007, it is the largest Guangling paper-cutting museum in China. The building area is 3600 square meters, with thirteen large exhibition halls and an underground collection hall, and the current collection reaches more than 16,000 pieces. On August 24, 2007, the museum successfully held the 3rd China Datong Guangling International Paper-cutting Art Festival. It has received more than 400 paper-cutting artists and more than 50,000 visitors from the United States, France, Germany, Japan, Poland, Switzerland, Hong Kong and other countries and regions.
The museum does not rest on holidays and is open to the public free of charge throughout the year, together with the entire design, production, packaging and other more than 30 sets of crafts such as the design, production and packaging of the Guangling Paper-cutting Culture and Art Research Center and Guangling Paper-cutting Culture and Art Development Co., Ltd. are also used as the experience area and visit route for tourists. China Guangling Paper-cut Art Museum ranks first in the province's private museums and sixth in the national ranking of private museums.
Guangling paper-cutting carries forward the traditional culture, forms a cultural industry, creates the Guangling brand, and is included in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of the United Nations, reflecting the best artistic level, the best artistic realm, the supreme artistic style and the highest artistic value.