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Qi Shu Mingxia Wufeng Building - Kaifeng Travelogue

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Qi Shu Mingxia Wufeng Building - Kaifeng Travelogue

Girder doors

The earliest known Kaifeng is from the theme song of the TV series "Bao Qingtian" "Kaifeng has a Bao Qingtian, the iron face selflessly distinguishes between loyalty and adultery" Later, it was learned from the history books that this was the xiadu laoqiu, the warring states Wei capital Liang, the five generations of later Liang, Later Jin, Later Han, Later Zhou, Northern Song, Jin, and the ancient capital of the Eight Dynasties. Especially in the Northern Song Dynasty, we can still feel the original prosperity from Zhang Zeduan's "Qingming River Map" and some Song notes.

Qi Shu Mingxia Wufeng Building - Kaifeng Travelogue

Anyuan Gate

When the train arrived at the station, it was still dark, and I ate something at the snack bar outside the station and rode a shared bicycle to start my journey to ancient Times.

Qi Shu Mingxia Wufeng Building - Kaifeng Travelogue

National Revolutionary Army Memorial Tower

More than 300 meters northwest of the railway station, the "National Revolutionary Army Memorial Tower" was built by Feng Yuxiang as the chairman of Henan Province to commemorate his friend Cheng Shen, and later some people proposed that it was inappropriate to build a tower for one person, so it was renamed the "Memorial Tower".

Qi Shu Mingxia Wufeng Building - Kaifeng Travelogue

Clariant Residences

In the Yuwangtai District Cancer Hospital, there is a three-story British villa, known locally as "Kejia Lou". Kejia Building sits west to east, for the Western-style three-storey brick and wood structure building, there are basements and large and small rooms more than 30 rooms, divided into living rooms, living rooms, etc., complete facilities, reasonable design, strict layout. It was the villa of KeLain, the director of the Henan Postal Administration in the 1920s.

Qi Shu Mingxia Wufeng Building - Kaifeng Travelogue

The former site of the Kuomintang-Communist "Yellow River Return" negotiations

In June 1938, when Kou was advancing into the Central Plains, Chiang Kai-shek, in order to cover the retreat of his army, opened the Yellow River embankment at the garden mouth in the north of Zhengzhou, diverting the Yellow River into Huaihuai, and the disaster areas of Henan, Anhui and Jiangsu provinces reached 44 counties and cities, with a population of 12 million, drowning 890,000 people, causing a catastrophe that shocked China and foreign countries. After The surrender of Japan in 1945, Chiang Kai-shek actively planned to block the mouth of the garden, plotted to return the Yellow River to its homeland, and acted as a 400,000-strong army, in a vain attempt to achieve the goal of "replacing the army with water" and dividing and flooding the liberated areas. Under the pressure of righteous public opinion, the Chiang Kai-shek clique agreed to negotiate with the Chinese Communists on the time, procedure, and related matters of the Yellow River's return. The first negotiations were held in Kaifeng on 7 April 1946, and after more than a year and many iterations, the Shanghai Agreement was finally reached in July 1947.

Qi Shu Mingxia Wufeng Building - Kaifeng Travelogue

Kaifeng Umbrella Tower

In the early days of the establishment of the New China Airborne Troops, in order to expand the training method of parachuting and popularize the national parachute jumping movement, Unit 2721 (parachute instructor) began to build a parachute tower in September 1955, and was completed and used in June 1956, the tower was a cylindrical reinforced concrete structure, with 3 suspension arm jumping platforms, the tower was 85 meters high, and it was known as "the first in Asia and the second in the world." The tower is the new China airborne troops shake blue, is also a famous domestic national defense sports facilities, has tens of thousands of airborne officers and soldiers and local parachute jumpers have been trained here, held many major national skydiving tower parachuting competitions, for the airborne troops to build and China's parachute development has played a major role.

Qi Shu Mingxia Wufeng Building - Kaifeng Travelogue

Fanta

Originally known as Xingci Pagoda, because it was built in the Northern Song Dynasty royal temple Tianqing Temple, also known as Tianqing Temple Pagoda; and because it was built on top of Fantai, commonly known as Fan Pagoda. It is the first stupa built in Kaifeng and one of the oldest surviving buildings in Kaifeng, which is typical of the transition from a four-shaped stupa to an octagonal stupa. The only thing that remains of the pagoda is the three floors below the original tower, and the upper half of the tower is dismantled and shoveled, consisting of a basic layer, an outer wall, and a six-level small pagoda repaired in the Qing Dynasty. It was not until the early Qing Dynasty when the Guoxiang Temple was rebuilt, that a platform was built in the upper part of the three-story pagoda, and a seven-level solid small pagoda was built on the platform, so that the pagoda became the peculiar shape of the stack of small pagodas on the three-story pagoda, which has been preserved to this day.

Qi Shu Mingxia Wufeng Building - Kaifeng Travelogue

Ancient Blowing Platform - Statue of Shi Kuang

Qi Shu Mingxia Wufeng Building - Kaifeng Travelogue

Ancient Blowing Terrace - Archway

Located in Yuwangtai Park, the ancient blowing platform is the place where musicians play music in the Spring and Autumn Period, and it is also the Liang Garden built by King Xiao of Liang in the Western Han Dynasty.

Qi Shu Mingxia Wufeng Building - Kaifeng Travelogue

Daisangkoku-ji Temple

Daxiangguo Temple, one of the four major Zen forests in Henan, is a royal temple of the Northern Song Dynasty. In "Water Margin", Lu Zhi deeply pulled out the weeping willows

Qi Shu Mingxia Wufeng Building - Kaifeng Travelogue

Yanqing Temple - Jade Emperor Pavilion

The Jade Emperor Pavilion, also known as the Tongming Pavilion, covers an area of about 76 square meters and was built in the fifth year of Emperor Taizong of Yuan (1233) and has a history of nearly 800 years. Jade Emperor Pavilion north facing south, through the height of 18.25 meters, divided into upper, middle and lower three floors, all made of green bricks, bluestone and glazed tiles, the entire building does not apply beams, rigorous structure, rich in change, is a Han and Mongolian culture skillfully combined, with the characteristics of the Yuan Dynasty Ming Dynasty Liangless Pavilion, in the history of Chinese Taoism, architectural history, art history, ethnic relations history occupies an important position.

Qi Shu Mingxia Wufeng Building - Kaifeng Travelogue

Kaifeng Tower

The Kaibao Temple Pagoda was built in the first year of the Northern Song Dynasty, because the brown glazed bricks inlaid with the pagoda body resemble iron casting, so it is called the Iron Pagoda. It is one of the landmark buildings of Kaifeng.

Qi Shu Mingxia Wufeng Building - Kaifeng Travelogue
Qi Shu Mingxia Wufeng Building - Kaifeng Travelogue
Qi Shu Mingxia Wufeng Building - Kaifeng Travelogue

Dragon Pavilion Hall

The building here is the Wanshou Palace built in the Qing Dynasty, which is the former site of the Imperial City of the Northern Song Dynasty, and every October there is a chrysanthemum exhibition that attracts tourists from all over the world.

Qi Shu Mingxia Wufeng Building - Kaifeng Travelogue

Kaifeng Dongda Temple

The date of the founding of Dongda Temple is unknown, but there are Arabic "Quran" stele from the Ming Hongwu period and mosque stele rebuilt during the Qing Kangxi period. The first time I walked into the mosque, I was still a little nervous.

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