Huizhou is a historical ancient city, leaving behind many ancient city gates and ancient buildings. Among the many ancient city gates of Huizhou, the Chaojing Gate is the most famous, its name is domineering enough, the city gate faces the direction of the ancient capital division, and the second it faces the river, which has the meaning of swallowing mountains and rivers.
Chaojingmen was built in the third year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1370 AD). Also known as "Huizhou Heavenly Graben". In history, the ancient city of Huizhou, which was praised by the soldiers as the fortress of Dongjiang because of its 7 strong city gate towers, the ancient city wall was witnessed by more than 600 years of history, and it underwent many baptisms of war, all the city gate towers were destroyed, only the Chaojing Gate was preserved, according to historical records, no army in ancient times could conquer this gate.
Hejiang Building
Huizhou Guhe River Building is located at the confluence of Dongjiang and Xizhijiang in Huicheng District, and is one of the six famous buildings in Guangdong, with the same name as Guangzhou Zhenhai Tower and Zhaoqing Yuejiang Building.
Hejiang Lou was originally a high-level post office for imperial court officials. The equivalent of a modern high-ranking cadre guest house. Logically, Su Dongpo, as a degraded official, could not live in the Hejiang Building. However, Huizhou Taishou Zhan Fan admired Su Dongpo very much and specially arranged for him to stay. Su Dongpo arrived in Hejiang Lou, lived for more than a year and more, and wrote popular poems such as "Living in Hejiang Lou".
On October 2, Su Dongpo's family came to Huizhou by boat. Although it has entered early winter, Lingnan is still sunny and the climate is pleasant. Su Shi stepped out of the cabin and found that the dock was crowded with people, and it turned out that the local people had heard that the famous poet Su Dongpo had come and rushed to see him. Seeing everyone's eager gaze and hearing intermittent greetings, Su Shi was quite moved, and blurted out a song "Arriving in Huizhou at the Beginning of October 2":
It is as if I have traveled in a dream, gladly knowing Xinfeng.
The people were amazed at what was going on, and the father and the elder greeted him with him.
Su Wu knew that he was still in the north, and Guan Ning wanted to be old Liaodong.
Lingnan thousands of households are spring colors, there will be a ghost guest yugong.
Huizhou Taishou Zhan Fan Jiu heard of Dongpo Daimyo, and he greatly admired Su Shi's talent and personality. After Su Shi arrived, he immediately arranged for them to live in Hejiang Lou.
Hejiang Tower is built on a small hill by the river, and the gushing river water flows downstairs, and the scenery is particularly majestic and beautiful. Su Shi was amazed and immediately wrote a poem "Yuju Hejiang Lou":
The sea and mountains are lush and beautiful, and the Two Rivers are open at Zhu Lou.
The abbot of Penglai should not be far away, and Ken will come to the Suzi Floating River.
The river breeze was cool and I was sleeping beautifully, and the crows upstairs called me up.
I am in this world in two opposites, flowing west and day and east.
The old man in the building is fresh, and there are idiots in the sky.
The three mountains are not returning, and a cup is paid with Luo Fuchun.
The poem praises the beautiful environment of Hejianglou and compares it to the Immortal Mountain on the Sea. However, the poet has been repeatedly belittled and displaced, which can be said to be "the opposite of the two lives", looking at the "west flow day and east flow", his full heart can only be "a cup of fu and Luofuchun" (Luofuchun is a famous wine in Huizhou).
The blue-gray granite on the main wall of Hejiang Building reflects the elegant and solemn style. The building is handsome and upright, the architectural shape is in the Qing Dynasty official style, the gray tile white wall, the iron red pillar, the painted bucket arch beam, the overall building gradually narrows upwards.
The top is a heavy eaves with a pointed roof, with a handsome shape, and each floor above the second floor is surrounded by a pick-up platform.
The white suspension bridge on the left is the Hopson Bridge, which is the first bridge in Huizhou City.
In Huizhou City, which used drones to take aerial photos of "half-city mountains and half-city lakes," the water of the East River was slightly turbid due to continuous rain.
Food in Huizhou
Three hundred litchi in a day, not to quit being a Lingnanian
—— Su Dongpo in Huizhou
To get to know a city, start with gastronomy, an indispensable part of it.
Huizhou people love to eat fried snails, which is said to be related to the eating of snails by Su Dongpo, a great scholar of the Song Dynasty. One day, Dongpo's friend Buddha Seal monk found a few pounds of snails, gave birth to Yaxing, and wanted to share it with Dongpo. Unfortunately, Po Gong is not in the apartment.
Yahuan asked what happened to the Buddha Seal, and the monk reached out and patted Yahuan on the buttocks, kissed her on the small mouth, and then smiled and left. Dongpo returned, and after listening to Yahuan's complaint, he laughed and said, "Good! Good! There was a snail to eat tonight. This palm vividly and vividly compares the characteristics of eating snails: first knock off the tail of the snail shell, and then use it as a material to fry. When eating, suck the snail mouth with the mouth of the snail, in order to get the snail meat and eat it. The snails in Nankunshan are not farmed and are all wild. The pit snails are small, the snails are full, and they are stir-fried with minced chili peppers and garlic, and a few pieces of perilla are added before serving, and the taste is extremely interesting.
Put down the wooden chopsticks, take one directly in your hand, suck the meat out with your mouth, and then suck the soup outside the shell clean.
Longmen Mountain is beautiful and clear, and the mountain pit snail inhabits the lush forest, fresh air, and crevices of the creek. Because the mountain pit snail can only survive in the environment where the water quality is clear and clear, it is very fat. Cooking with perilla and ginger shallot ingredients is truly a pollution-free green mountain treasure and an original delicacy.
Plum button meat is the most famous dish in Hakka cuisine. It is said that during the Northern Song Dynasty, when Su Dongpo lived in Huizhou, he specially selected two famous chefs to go to Hangzhou West Lake to learn to cook, and after the two chefs learned to return to Huihui, Su Dongpo also asked them to imitate the "Dongpo Buckle Meat" of Hangzhou West Lake and use plum vegetables to make "Plum Vegetable Buckle Meat". Plum dish blends the button meat with greasy, crispy pork skin, tight lean meat. Dip a little plum vegetable, bite down, the oil star of the pork is splashed out, the mouth is fragrant. Even people who don't like meat will be attached to the taste that melts in the mouth. And plum vegetables are also a traditional specialty of Huizhou, the aroma is fragrant, not cold, not dry, not wet or hot, it is rumored to be a "positive gas" dish, which has long been famous.
More and more people come to Huizhou to play, because Huizhou's cultural tourism landscape is a lot, here there is a unique Dongpo culture, Dongjiang special cuisine, come to Huizhou tourism to taste the food at the same time, really feel the Su Dongpo in this city left by the humanities, absolutely let you linger!