Huzhou, a city named after the taihu lake, dates back to 248 BC, the fifteenth year of King Chu Kaolie, and has a history of more than 2,000 years. This famous historical and cultural city has bred a legendary bright pearl - Nanxun, and today Pingtou Brother will introduce you here.
Nanxun Ancient Town
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > nanxun has a very long history, the earliest established in the Southern Song Dynasty Chunyou season, that is, 1252 AD</h1>
Nanxun is a city with profound cultural heritage, she is a brilliant spirit, celebrities, since ancient times there is a folk proverb of "nine miles and three pavilions, ten miles and two shangshu", which can also be seen that the local people are more officials, and most of them are high-ranking officials. Since the Song Dynasty, there have been as many as 41 Jinshi from Nanxun, 56 officials from Nanxun who have served in Beijing, and 57 local officials from Prefectures and Counties in the Ming and Qing dynasties. During the Period of the Republic of China, there were as many as 80 Nanxun scholars who had influence throughout the country. Therefore, Nanxun has the reputation of "the state of poetry and books" and "the state of Zhenzhi".
Zhu Guozhen - Ming Wanli sixteenth year (1588) raised a person, seventeen years into the soldier
Liu Chenggan - Zi Hanyi, Zhenyi, Wu Xingnanxun people. Guangxu Thirty-first Year (1905) Xiucai, grandfather Liu Yong, was the head of the "Four Elephants" of Nanxun
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Nanxun is not only a cultural city, but also has a very developed economy since ancient times</h1>
Nanxun has always been a famous "land of fish and rice" and "silk house" in Jiangnan, and since the Southern Song Dynasty, it has been a "land and water rushing place", known as "the wealth of cultivating mulberry, A in Zhejiang right". During the Ming and Qing dynasties, due to the rise of the silk industry and the development of the commodity economy, nanxun economy has been unprecedented development, by the end of the Qing dynasty and the beginning of the people, she has become the national silk trade center, the folk have "Huzhou a city, less than Nanxun half a town" said. Therefore, economically, Nanxun has become a town in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, with more than 100 rich families, and they are commonly known as "four elephants, eight cattle, and seventy-two dogs". It means that the property is more than ten million two silver called 'elephant'. Those who are more than five million and two million or less than ten million are called 'cattle', and those who are less than five million above one million and two silver are called 'dogs'. These rich people have abundant capital and are the largest group of silk merchants in modern China.
Four elephants, eight cattle, seventy-two pier dogs
Nanxun's geographical location is also very superior, she is located in the north of Hangjia Lake Plain, south of Taihu Lake, bordering Suzhou Wujiang River in the east, 32 kilometers west of Huzhou City, is the east gate of Huzhou City to connect with Shanghai Pudong. Now Nanxun relies on its strong cultural heritage and historical and ancient buildings left by strong and wealthy merchants, combined with the location advantage of the center of the Yangtze River Delta, the tourism industry has developed rapidly.
Nanxun is located in the central area of the Yangtze River Delta
If you want to travel to Nanxun, of course, it is indispensable to travel tips. Brother Pingtou himself went to Nanxun N many times, but also deeply understood the local culture and Nanxun specialties, and felt that it was still necessary to introduce it to everyone. Below, Brother Pingtou combines his own experience to talk about Nanxun's wind and material history.
Nanxun
As we said earlier, there are many silk merchants in Nanxun and the silk business is developed, which is because the silk in Nanxun is very good, and it has formed its own unique jili silk, that is, lake silk. In the Qing Dynasty Wei Yuan's "Haiguo Tuzhi and Preparing for the Sea Chapter IV", it is written: "China uses tea and lake silk to control foreign Yi. This sentence tells us that tea lake silk is an indispensable thing for foreigners, which shows that the lake silk at that time was exported overseas and was very popular. Silk is good, the silk produced by nature is good, and it also shows that the silkworm babies who spit silk grow well in the local area, and the mulberry leaves that the silkworm babies eat are certainly very good. This chain is good, making lake silk a local specialty of Nanxun. However, everyone should understand it, and it is useless to buy silk directly, nor may it be bought. If you like it, you can buy a silk costume, and the costume made of lake silk is very high-end.
Weaving
Mulberry leaf - silkworm - silk
Nice silk products
The second thing is still related to culture, in other words, the reason why culture and history can be recorded, the text should be regarded as the first hero, and the pen that writes the text can be ranked as the second hero. We know that pen, ink and paper are our "four treasures of the study room" and an important symbol of the long and splendid Chinese civilization. Among them, the "pen" refers to the "lake pen", and the hometown of the lake pen is the town of Shanlian in Nanxun.
Four treasures of the study room
The recognized inventor of the brush is Mengtian of the Qin Kingdom, and his wife Bu Xianglian is a native of Shanlian Town, so most of the pen makers, especially the pen makers of the Lake Pen, worship Mengtian as their grandfather, and there is a Mengtian Temple in Shanlian Town. Speaking of this, some people may have doubts, this Meng Tian is a great general who can command troops to fight, according to theory, he should dance the sword all day, how can he toss the writing stuff?
Mr. and Mrs. Meng Tian are married to nanxun shanlian town
In fact, this is related to the background of the times. At that time, most people used bamboo to record and transmit information, the army was fighting outside, there were often urgent military information needs to be transmitted back to the center, and it was a waste of time to use a carving knife to carve bamboo jane, even if it was slow to use a bamboo stick that was stained with ink to write, perhaps this was also the first need of the great general Meng Tian for the brush.
Bamboo slips
During a hunt, Meng Tian was surprised to find the shot rabbit dragging the injured body, and the tail was stained with blood and scratched a crooked blood stain on the ground. Meng Tian suddenly had a flash of inspiration, cut off a new rabbit tail, returned to the barracks and tied a wooden stick, and began to write with ink on the drapery, as a result, because the rabbit hair was not treated, contained a lot of grease, could not absorb enough ink, and the words written were intermittent and could not be read. Suddenly wasting a piece of paper that recorded important information, Meng Tian was so distressed that he threw the wooden stick tied with the rabbit's tail into the natural stone pit in front of the barracks.
The invention of the brush is related to the rabbit
After some time, Meng Tian finished carving the bamboo jian to report the military situation, walked out of the barracks to breathe, just the sunset afterglow shone on the previously discarded rabbit tail, looking golden, Meng Tian out of curiosity, he picked up the stick. The rabbit tail hair, which had been soaked in the water in the stone pit for some time, had become supple, did not look like it had been full of grease before, and sucked up the water in the pit. Meng Tian was surprised, and immediately squeezed the water back to the barracks, dipped in ink and wrote on a new piece of cloth, the rabbit tail soaked in the stone pit water wrote continuously and fullly, and the speed and efficiency of writing also increased by a large margin.
The girl who practices brush writing does not know whether she knows the story of the pen in her hand
It turns out that the water in this stone pit is natural alkaline water, and after a period of foaming, the grease on the rabbit hair fades and becomes soft and suitable for writing. It is said that when MengTian later lived in Shanlian Town, Huzhou, he improved the brush he invented, and taught the pen-making method to the villagers of his beloved wife Bu Xianglian, and when Mengtian left, the people of Shanlian Town already had pen workers at home, and every household could make pens. This is the earliest history of lake pen manufacturing.
Manufacture of lake pens
Lake pen is also called Lake Ying, "Ying" is a transparent and neat sharp edge at the tip of the lake pen, generally people who understand the lake pen are looking at the Ying can be fixed pen. As the primary responsibility in the "Four Treasures of the Study Room" pen and ink paper, the manufacturing process of the lake pen has been developed for more than 2,000 years, from raw materials to pens to more than 120 processes of pure hand-made. The main major processes include twelve ways, such as material selection, water basin, knot head, packing, pu pier, inlay, pen selection, and engraving. Among them, the four processes of material selection, water basin, knot head and pen selection are the most demanding and the most exquisite, especially the water basin and pen selection. The production craftsmen adhere to the principle of "fine, pure and beautiful", and produce finished lake pens with "sharp, qi, round and healthy".
Lake pen sharp
Handmade
If you have relatives and friends who like to dance ink or are practicing calligraphy, you can buy a lake pen as a souvenir when you play in Nanxun. Don't understand the lake pen and don't have to worry, go directly to buy the double sheep brand on the line, double sheep is the brand of the lake pen factory in Shanlian Town, in the first brush quality evaluation in the country, the quality is guaranteed.
Lake pen gift box
In addition to culture, food is also an unavoidable topic in the process of travel, first of all, to recommend hooves to meat eaters. It is said that this dish of Nanxun's delicacy "Xun Hoof" has a history of hundreds of years, originally developed by Liu Shi, the richest man in the "Four Elephants" of the Nanxun Silk Merchants, so the Xun Hoof is also called the Liu Family Big Hoof, and later the recipe spread to the folk, and we now have to play in the past to have a mouthful to eat.
Hooves
Authentic Hooves are cooked using Nanxun folk traditional craftsmanship, and the strong hooves are glowing with bright oil sauce, ruddy in color, soft and sticky in taste, salty and fresh in taste, fragrant but not greasy. After the broadcast of Tse Tingfeng's food program "Twelve Sharp Tastes" about Xun Ho, it attracted the attention of a large number of viewers, and "Xun Hoof" was also used as the city's business card, and its reputation continued to increase, so that tourists who really wanted to experience Nanxun's food culture took the steps to Nanxun.
Twelve-way fengwei recommended xun hoof shop
If you don't like greasy pig's trotters, it doesn't matter, let's have some light, I recommend Nanxun fragrant snack to you - orange red cake. Orange red cake is not only delicious but also delicious, the spice is made of local fresh rose petals marinated with white sugar, and the sushuang dyed by the plant "rouge" is used as a pigment after flushing, so it is very healthy. The main ingredients are rice noodles like ordinary pastries, and the ingredients are local osmanthus and kumquat from Suzhou Xishan.
Orange red cake
Nanxun orange red cake is pink and tender in color, exquisite in appearance, and the fragrance of rose, osmanthus and orange peel is fused together, the aroma is rich, refreshing, the taste is delicate, soft and sweet. It is recommended that you go to the wild water chestnut pastry shop to buy, where the orange red cake will not harden for a month or two, while the orange red cake sold by the general store may be hard and unpalatable in two or three days.
Wild water chestnut pastry shop
If the first two delicacies belong to the like, you can't like it, and you don't have any interest in not liking it. Then the third delicacy - Nanxun's double toppings can be said to be suitable for all ages, and eating bowl noodles can be tried by all ages. The so-called Nanxun double pouring noodles to the small is actually "crispy meat fried fish double pouring", to the large to say that as long as you choose two toppings to eat noodles, you can also call double toppings.
Nanxun crispy meat fried fish double topping
Nanxun is famous at home and abroad for its long history, cultural heritage and the dense geographical location of the Taihu Lake river network and superior natural climatic conditions, all of which are destined to make her extraordinary, so even the small plate of specialty food is not a picture can be clearly explained, there is a chance, Pingtou Brother will slowly explain Nanxun to everyone.
And Nanxun, as a national 5A-level scenic spot, is here, waiting for your arrival.