More than 1300 years ago, coinciding with the fireworks in March, the poet Li Bai was about to leave Jinling, and wrote a popular poem on the banks of the Qinhuai River with a drink, interlaced with each other: "Please ask the East Flowing Water, don't you want to be short and long with whom?" ”
In his lifetime, Li Bai stayed in Nanjing for a long time at least four times. Painting the boat is beautiful, the orchestra is light, the song is drinking bitterly, and the poet immortals are stirring up the waves of history on the banks of the Qinhuai River, leaving several good sentences.
Most of the legends on the banks of the Qinhuai River are extremely romantic, and many celebrity scribes have left magnificent chapters here. In the change of thousands of years, the status of the Qinhuai River in Nanjing has not wavered, and the civilization on the banks of the river that was born is brilliant and brilliant.
A Qinhuai River, half of the history of Jinling. The Qinhuai River is the cradle of Nanjing's ancient civilization and the mother river of Nanjing, which is extremely famous in history.
The name of the Qinhuai River comes from a beautiful misunderstanding. During the Qin and Han dynasties, it was rumored that there was a king qi in the southeast, and Qin Shi Huang toured the east, passing through Moling (present-day Nanjing), chiseling Changlong in Fangshan to vent the king's qi, and later generations used this to attach Huai Shui to Qin Shi Huang to excavate, and the QinHuai River came from this.
In 2014, China and France decided to jointly issue a set of commemorative stamps, and the designers decided to position the design of the two stamps on a river that can represent the symbols of their own culture. The French side chose the Seine. China's choice is neither the Yellow River nor the Yangtze River, but the Qinhuai River, which is only more than 100 kilometers long.
This narrow river with almost intertwined treetops on both sides of the river is a nutrient-rich cultural artery, known as "China's first historical and cultural river" and "the river with the highest cultural gold content".
The sound of the paddle gently chants the six vitality, and the light shadow drunkenly plays the ten-mile string. The significance of the Qinhuai River to Nanjing is a city symbol with profound humanities, and it is also the spiritual coordinates of Nanjing City.
The ancient capital is in context, the humanities are gathered, and the prosperous place of Jinling
Six Dynasties Golden Powder Land, Ten Miles Qinhuai River.
"Ten Miles of Qinhuai" is a prosperous place in Jinling since ancient times, and the prosperity of the Qinhuai River began in Eastern Wu and has never been broken since then.
"Look at huai shui by the Suzaku Bridge, ask the Wang family in Wuyi Lane", the inkblots of the literati rioters record the first prosperity of Nanjing, the prosperous and stable ancient Jinling, the gathering population on the banks of the Qinhuai River is more dense, and during the Six Dynasties, it became a place where famous and prestigious families lived, Confucianism flourished, literati gathered, and merchants gathered.
Ancient map of Qinhuai
The "Heavenly Hub" is famous for Qin Huai
Yu Huai, a famous scholar in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, commented on Qin Huai: "The cultural relics of the crown are flourishing in Jiangnan, and the literary style is in the sea." "Here, the prosperity of Confucian culture, the stirring of multiculturalism, the style of the Six Dynasties, the style of the Tang and Song Dynasties, and the elegance of the Ming and Qing dynasties, blend with each other here, and each is wonderful.
South of the Confucius Temple on the banks of the Qinhuai River and north of panchi, stands a magnificent archway called".
In the fourteenth year of the Ming Dynasty (1586), this archway rose from the ground and became the cultural landmark with the highest gold content in the history of Nanjing.
At that time, the center of the national examination was the now well-known Confucius Temple and jiangnan tribute temple, and more than half of the chinese leaders of the Ming and Qing dynasties came from here.
The archway of the "Komitsu Pivot" at the end of the 19th century
After the Six Dynasties, Ming Taizu fixed the capital jinling, making it a national cultural center, and there were many literati and celebrities gathered here, bringing together a rich and splendid multiculturalism, which was the "heavenly time", "geographical advantage" and "people" of the Tianxia Shu; on the bank of the river connected by the Wende Bridge, the humble gentleman who walked out of the Gongyuan Bookstore had Wu Cheng'en, Tang Bohu, Zheng Banqiao, Wu Jingzi, Weng Tonggong, Zhang Xiao and other celebrities.
In China's colorful art history, there are so many leading figures, and there is no one who is in one place, but also Qin Huai. "Shusheng" Wang Xizhi and "Painting Ancestor" Gu Kaizhi lived in Qinhuai, and their works such as "Orchid Pavilion Preface" and "Female History Zhentu" and "Luoshen Futu" are all extremely influential masterpieces.
The ancient Qinhuai deposited a deep historical and cultural heritage, and also gave birth to a thick cultural context of family inheritance. The former residence of Gan Xi on the banks of the Qinhuai River is the largest private residence in China, together with the Ming Tomb and the Ming City Wall, known as the three major landscapes of Nanjing, Ming and Qing Dynasties, with high historical, scientific and tourist value, and is the largest and most complete private residence in Nanjing.
Gan Xi was a famous literati, Jinshi family, and bibliophile in the late Qing Dynasty, and his life works were very rich, including "Trivial Words under the White", "Tong Yin Essays", "Qixia Temple Chronicles" and so on.
The Gan father and son once visited Wuyue, collected 100,000 books, built a library building, and the famous Jinjiao Building, and thus left a name in qingshi. According to legend, the Gan clan is the Jinling Wang clan. His ancestors can be traced back to the Warring States of Qin Cheng Xiang GanMao, and then Ganluo, Ganning, Ganzhuo, etc. are all famous figures, and in this life, Gan Gongsan and his sons Gan Nanxuan, Gan Tao, and Gan Luzhi are also celebrities in Nanjing's literary and art circles.
Ten dynasties bustling merchants gathered
In addition to occupying absolute cultural weight, Qinhuai also has a prosperous merchant culture, which has been a symbol of Nanjing's prosperity since ancient times.
Since the establishment of the capital by Emperor Sun Quan of Wu, the two banks of the Qinhuai River have developed commerce and prosperous markets, and there are more than 100 large and small markets along the river. Building houses and shops along the riverbank, most of them are front shops and back yards, initially forming a mixed pattern of residential and shops. The Western Jin Dynasty ZuoSi's "Wu Dufu" wrote: "Hengtang Chaxia, Yiwu Longqua; Changgan Yan genus, Fei Yong Hu".
During the Southern Dynasty, commercial trade on both sides of the Qinhuai River was more prosperous, and the internal and external trade at that time was realized through water transportation. According to records, a strong typhoon blew during the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and more than 10,000 merchant ships were damaged at the Stone City Wharf alone. The developed water transport industry has driven the development of commerce and trade, and has also stimulated the prosperity of all walks of life on the Qinhuai River.
During the Southern Song Dynasty, there were 36 squares of residents in Nanjing City, of which 32 squares were located in the south of the old city, and the prosperity exceeded history.
"Nandu Fanhui Map" (partial)
On the banks of the Qinhuai River, where scenic spots and historical sites are dotted on both sides of the strait, liquor stores and tea houses and shops and houses live next to each other, which is called "Ten Mile Pearl Curtain". Ming Dynasty painter Qiu Ying's "Picture Scroll of The Scenery of the Southern Capital" shows the lively scene of the Qinhuai River Festival during the Yongle period 600 years ago.
"Kangxi Southern Tour Map" (partial), the city of the Qinhuai River in the Confucius Temple in the early Qing Dynasty
In the painting, the ten miles along the Qinhuai coast, the street market is longitudinal, the shops are lined up, the pedestrians are shoulder to shoulder, and the city gates, temples, official palaces, residences, opera stages, archways, and water pavilions on both sides of the river are connected by layers, which shows the grand view of the Qinhuai River.
The Qinhuai Riverside Courtyard hides Jinling and inherits the urban fabric
The Qinhuai River, which gushes from the source of history, is infiltrated with the roots of the ancient capital Nanjing, and in the long years of Nanjing's nearly 2500 history of city building and 450 years of capital construction, the Qinhuai River continues the humanistic context of a city.
In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the ancient and beautiful Inner Qinhuai River flowed from the Zhonghua Gate to the West Gate of the Water, and between the two sections of the ancient city and a bay and clear water, it was known as "Menxi" since the Ming Dynasty, where the earliest prosperous commercial and residential area of Jinling City was born, known as the "leisurely residence of the officials, the elegant residence of the literati, and the happy residence of the people". The East and West Gardens of Xu Da, the King of the Ming Dynasty, and the Dukedom of Xinguo in Tanghe were all built here.
Ancient map of Nanjing
To this day, in the hearts of the new and old Nanjing, living next to each other on the banks of the Qinhuai River is still the ultimate living dream pursued. Nanjing's unique cultural self-confidence contained in the riverside architecture is unmatched elsewhere. In order to inherit the revival of the Chinese cultural context, the Government of Qinhuai District proposed that it will reproduce the grand scenery of the "Nandu Fanhui Map", and is committed to building an international-level cultural and creative park in the Menxi area, and the historical and cultural resources such as Jiangnan Gongyuan, Chaotian Palace, Zhonghuamen Urn City, and Gan Xi's Former Residence will be planned and protected and utilized as a whole.
Inheriting the historical context of Nanjing for about 2500 years, in order to continue the glory of the Ten Dynasties of Qinhuai and recreate the beautiful scenery of Nandu, during the National Day, Nanjing Taihe Courtyard will jointly hold a theme activity of "Nandu Fanhui Map" with Jiangnan Silk Culture Museum, through the exhibition of Nandu Fanhui Map and Yunjin, showing the historical evolution of the rare area on the Qinhuai River and the core value of the lot.
Talent is scarce and location is precious. With the landing of the new Qinhuai plan and the gathering of high-end commercial resources in the surrounding area, the value of the Qinhuai Riverside area will be immeasurable in the future. Located in the center of Jinling Guimai on the banks of the Qinhuai River, Nanjing Taihe Courtyard inherits the commercial settlement of Hengshan Clubhouse, as a continuation of Nanjing's 2500-year-old political and commercial civilization, adhering to the aspiration of reviving the Qinhuai business vein, it will gather at the peak of Jinling's wisdom, which will surely raise the crown of social circle value and be valued by the times.
【Source: Yangtze Evening News Network】
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