Jiangnan is rainy, every seems to be lingering for many years, the water town of Keyan is no exception, as one of the oldest areas in Shaoxing, Keyan's grass and tree streams are more sentimental, exuding ancient charm all the time.
Keyan Scenic Area is located in Keqiao District, Shaoxing City, the area of Jiangnan architecture, ancient quarrying relics, lakes, stone cave stone walls and other natural natural, water village customs and mountain forest ecology blend with each other, creating a unique temperament of Jiangnan soft steel.
There are many attractions in Keyan, such as Jian Lake, Puzhao Zen Temple, Xianglin, Jingshuiwan, Town Hall, Ancient Opera Stage, Ancient Fiber Road, etc., each of which has a long-standing story.
The huge lake I saw at the entrance to Keyan was Mirror Lake, and somehow, the first thing I thought of was the "Little Mirror Lake" in "Tianlong Babu", perhaps the small scenery of this lake, and it had the texture of the lake.
There is a plaque on the shore that describes the area of Jian Lake is 1.47 square kilometers, which was formed more than 1800 years ago. Pavilions and pavilions are built on the water and surrounding paths, and the smoke waves, boats and buildings and houses on the shore outline an unparalleled beauty, and every breath here seems to imply a historical narrative.
Jianhu "Eastern Han Di Pavilion" said quite, this is a Han Dynasty style antique building, the name is naturally related to the "flute", in ancient Keqiao name "Flute", said that in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the great literary scholar Cai Yong offended the imperial court members, in order to escape the disaster of killing, he fled to Jiangnan with his family, settled in "Flute", that is, Keqiao, Cai Yong, who loves music, met the biggest "Zhiyin" in his life here - a bamboo rafter.
It was the eaves of a burrow, so many bamboo rafters, he looked at the 16th on the side of the eaves, it was so different, the bamboo knots were strong and round, still upright after the wind and rain, he moved over the stool, stood up, reached out and took it off, and then made a horizontal flute, and the sound was ethereal and melodious when playing.
It is said that this flute later passed into the hands of Huan Yi, the "first musician of Jiangzuo" in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He used the Keting flute to play the famous piece "Plum Blossom Three Alleys" for Wang Huizhi, the fifth son of Wang Xizhi in Nanjing, on the Qinhuai River in Nanjing, which was a good story for a while.
The world's unparalleled flute was born in Keqiao, so posterity built a pavilion here, named "Eastern Han Flute Pavilion". Many literati and rioters in later generations have come to pay homage to and reminisce about the cultural holy places in their minds, and now the "Diyang Road" in Shaoxing City also originated from here, which is in the same vein as "DiLi".
As a national AAAA-level tourist area, Keyan has existed in the Han Dynasty, with a history of more than 1,800 years, and there are ancient quarrying ruins, temples, residential courtyards, lakes and streams, and a newly built town - Luzhen.
It is said that in the past, there was no such place as Luzhen, and the town was completely restored according to the description of Lu Xun's works, no less than other natural ancient towns, which is worth a visit.
Luzhen may be a completely artificial scenic spot that I think is relatively good, and those ancient towns that are built in a rigid way want to compare, here is the charm of history, there is also the style of Jiangnan, which should be attributed to Lu Xun's works. Many cultural elements such as streams, stone bridges, wine shops, stone tablets, courtyards, folk customs and operas seem to be able to find the original style following Lu Xun's writings.
Especially the town office, of course, this only exists in "Kong Yiji", but the plot of the novel is restored here, and tourists will be surprised to see the town mansion here.
As soon as you enter the gate of Lu Town, there is a powder wall of Dewa, a small bridge flowing water, houses and shops along the river, walking on the stone road, seeing the patrol soldiers dressed in Qing Dynasty costumes, as well as the costumes of the old people, Xianglin Sister-in-law, fake foreign devils, Lu Si Laoye... Lu Xun's characters appear on the street one by one, and you seem to have arrived in another dynasty. The men and women who played the ancients had natural expressions, as if they had crossed over, occasionally saying hello to each other, and looking at people who seemed to be street thugs, smoking dry cigarettes, looking at you with ill will... Of course, this is showing a distant scene of life.
Some people say that Luzhen is a condensed Shaoxing, perhaps so, the story here is so rich, the group of exaggerated group sculptures on the street is quite eye-catching, and the bronze statues of dozens of story characters tell the stories in Lu Xun's novels. If you have enough time to visit, you can take a slow stroll here and taste it alone.
I prefer the neighborhood here, walking into Zonghengfang Lane, I will naturally see the bridge and the street, where there is a bridge to lean on, and the environment with water to play is amazing.
Felt hat shops, oil candle shops, tin foil shops seem to be shops and commodities in the past life, but in fact, it is now the traditional industry of Shaoxing, the shop layout along the street, dense and elegant, a jiangnan ancient style, occasionally, there will be one or two black canopy boats sailing under the small bridge, through the willow branches, leaving a circle of ripples.
Lu Xun described the stage of his childhood countless times in the work, no accident, there is also a stage here, but I don't know if I still sing the small songs of the year, when I arrived, this performance was being performed here, a man in a coat was chanting and singing in the sound of the huqin, is it Lu Xun's social drama? I do not know. Nowadays, this stage will often perform some cultural and artistic programs to bring tourists the joy of Jiangnan.
Along the winding river, you will see some strange peaks, saying that the peak seems inaccurate, but there are no words to express, the stone pillar-like stone stands straight up on the lakeside, like a rockery, it seems to have or is not, a plaque says that this is the landscape created by ancient quarrying, there are some Buddha statues on the surrounding stone walls, but this stone pillar looks really surprising.
This is the legendary Keyan strange stone "cloud bone", its formation is completely derived from the artificial carving, the large and small strange stone pillars stand abruptly on the lakeside, straight into the clouds, from the side to view, the bottom of the cloud bone is less than one meter wide, and the top is several meters wide, which can be described as a wonder under the world.
According to the data, during the Sui and Tang dynasties, there was a family of three generations of stonemasons, who had been excavating successively over the past hundred years, and the Maitreya Stone Buddha on the stone wall was also their work. This surprised me, if they carved the Buddha statue on purpose, then was it fun to keep a stone pillar that they had inadvertently done in the process of mining the stone?
The reflection of the lake on this stone pillar is also a different landscape. For thousands of years, with the embellishment of natural landscapes and the intervention of religious culture, coupled with the dot dyeing of literati and inkers, the famous "Eight Views of Keyan" has been formed here in the Qing Dynasty.
It is said that the overall layout here began in the Han Dynasty, there are historical records, in the Han Dynasty, the local people from Keshan, Hunan Mountain, Haishan, Pengshan and other mountains artificially quarrying, used to pave roads, bridges, build houses, over time to form a unique ancient quarrying relics.
Walking through the cloud bones and walking along the lake, you will see a temple, Puzhao Zen Temple, cigarette smoke, quiet and deep, some buildings crawled with green plants, a glance at the feeling of historical vicissitudes.
The building of Puzhao Zen Temple seems to be in the Style of the Tang Dynasty, according to the mountain, along the steps to enter the temple, the Luohan Temple in the park has 18 ordinary-sized stone arhats, if you have enough time, you can slowly explore it.
There is another place worth mentioning here, and that is the ancient fiber road. Out of the Keyan scenic spot, along the water's bank, the stone paved path in the water is, visually wide and narrow but 80 centimeters, allowing only one person to pass. It is said that this trail was the same way that people used to pull fibers, but it has been rebuilt many times in later generations. In ancient times, this path was also a passage for people to avoid the wind and waves.
The Shaoxing Ancient Fiber Road was built in the 10th year of the Tang Dynasty, that is, in 815 AD, when the boats may all be manpower, and when the driving is slow, they hire porters to provide power, which can also be regarded as a rice bowl for the toiling masses.
Keqiao this section of the fiber road is 7.7 kilometers long, the fiber road is not completely in the water, some places are waterfront intersection, some places are facing the water side of the shore, some places are facing the water, the ancient fiber road is like a jade belt flowing, such as Changhong Lying Wave, if there is a Jiangnan girl in the rainy season to support a flower umbrella to walk on it, is it not very good-looking.
I always feel that every place is in such a hurry, ke Yanxing is the same, look forward to the opportunity to step on the flowing water bridge here again, feel the different Jiangnan here, and taste the old style here.