The other day, a ginkgo tree was on fire in the middle of Gem Mountain, and a large number of tourists took pictures every day.
Last week, Zhong Xiangping, vice president of the Hangzhou Historical Society, entered 85100000: If you only talk about the net red ginkgo tree and ignore the deep history and culture around it, it is a pity.
Earlier report:
Last Wednesday, we recruited 15 readers and netizens to gather at the west lake broken bridge. Under the leadership of Teacher Zhong, there was a humanistic tour of Beishan Street.
There are more women and fewer men in the team, and the ratio of men to women is about 1:3, and the age range is from 20 to 70 years old. Among them were old Hangzhou people, new Hangzhou people, and some people came from other places. Xiao Hu and Xiao Lu two girls from Shanghai, the two are particularly interested in the old house, these two days just by the West Lake, after seeing the express newspaper collection, immediately signed up.
The oldest is 75-year-old Li Qinai, who was once named the "most beautiful Hangzhou person", she is still along the mountain river - for 5 years, every morning at 6 o'clock out of the house, she hiked along the mountain river, baziqiao river, Xixi river, Zhejiang University Xixi campus along the mountain river along the eastern section of the river, 365 days a year rain or shine.
"I am old Hangzhou, I only knew that the scenery of the West Lake is very beautiful, and Beishan Street has a long history, but I don't know what is hidden inside." Aunt Li Qin'ai smiled and said, "I have known Teacher Zhong for more than 10 years, and I am an old acquaintance, so I came here today to listen to him tell stories." ”
It was a cold day, but the atmosphere was warm along the way.
Starting from the former residence of Jiang Jingguo on the side of the broken bridge, the former site of the Zhejiang-Gansu Railway Bureau, the Great Stone Buddhist Temple, the Liuyu Caotang, the Jianzai Villa to the tomb of Sun Huaweng, the Zen Temple of the Wise Man, the Shouxing Rock, the Qiushui Mountain Villa... All the way down, everyone surrounded Teacher Zhong, walking and stopping, sometimes pushing open an iron gate, sometimes drilling into an alley, Teacher Zhong pointed to a wall, a brick, a tree from time to time, telling an interesting story.
Teacher Zhong led the cultural tour of Beishan Street
More than two hours of travel, walking through 21 historic buildings.
Shortly after the end of the event, ms. Chen, a reader, sent a sentiment in the circle of friends: a Beishan Street, history is like a picture scroll, unfolding along the road, in the disputes of history, there are brotherhood, there are the pride of the literati, there is the romance of the poet, there is smoke, there is peace heroes. The West Lake across the road is like a beautiful fairy lying quietly next to it, watching the world.
The old building closest to the Broken Bridge was built in 1931, and after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Chiang Ching-kuo and his wife stayed here from October to November 1948. Teacher Zhong said that for a long time afterwards, this house was not open to the public, and it was so close to the broken bridge, tourists were full of mystery and curiosity about the house where the "Iron General" put the door, probing the brain. After 2015, it opened to the public and opened a fast food restaurant. "Tourists eat and drink while admiring, replenish their energy, I think it's much better than behind closed doors."
Why do Buddhist temples love to grow ginkgo biloba?
The ginkgo tree in front of the Great Buddha Temple has a history of 130 years, and the golden leaves on the ground were spread on the Internet a few days ago.
Teacher Zhong asked everyone: Hangzhou or other parts of the country, why are ginkgo trees planted in Buddhist monasteries?
Ginkgo biloba is revered by the Buddhists as a "sacred tree", the tree body is tall and majestic, the most suitable to set off the grandeur of the temple's treasure hall, the ginkgo biloba leaves are elegant and clean, and have the meaning of not being disturbed by wind and dust. Another reason, Teacher Zhong said, is that the wood and pattern of the ginkgo tree are very suitable for carving Buddha statues.
Bust of the Great Buddha
It was the library of Liu Chenggan, whom Lu Xun called "Silly Gongzi". Liu Chenggan (1881-1963), famous bibliophile and engraver.
"This Liu Chenggan is a rich third generation, their family is in Nanxun, Huzhou, and was once the richest man in Zhejiang. Liu Chenggan loved books, secretly hid nearly 10,000 books, most of the family property was used to engrave books, Lu Xun once bought his books, laughing at him as a fool. Teacher Zhong said, "He is the largest private bibliophile in modern China, and most of the ancient texts in the Zhejiang Library are now donated by him..."
The Jianzai Villa was built by Liu Yong's son and Liu Chenggan's father, Liu Jinzao. Liu Jinzao (1862-1934) was gifted and intelligent from an early age, becoming a xiucai at the age of 14, a middle-aged man at the age of 28, and a middle-aged soldier at the age of 34. After resigning from the government to do business, he set up an electric light company in Nanxun, initiated the establishment of Zhejiang Railway Company in Hangzhou, and participated in the establishment of Zhejiang Industrial Bank. Liu Jinzao especially likes to travel in the mountains and rivers, and after the Xinhai Revolution, he resigned all his official positions and traveled all over the famous mountains and rivers. Teacher Zhong said that the Hangzhou Jianzhai Villa he built was once the only mountain landscape garden in Hangzhou.
Teacher Zhong said that Chen Bray was Chiang Kai-shek's "literary guts." After the Xi'an Incident, Chiang Kai-shek asked Chen Brei to write him "The Half Moon of Xi'an", and Chen Brei was very embarrassed. In the 1930s, he lived in Lelu to write "Xi'an Half Moon", had a headache, wrote at night and broke the brush and threw it away, lost his temper, stopped writing, and dragged on for a long time before delivering the manuscript. The biggest entertainment during this period is to watch movies in the North Hill Street Auditorium.
Chen Brei wrote such a passage in his diary afterwards: "Whenever he wandered around the lakes and mountains with his family, Fang Jue's mood was slightly relaxed, but when he received the official letter from the attendant' room, he was suddenly unhappy. ”
Sun Hua weng / Sun Weixin (1179-1243), a Southern Song Dynasty poet, died and was buried here, and the top of the tomb was cast with molten iron. His tomb was long gone, and during the Guangxu years, it was found and rebuilt by Ding Songsheng, a great bibliophile in Hangzhou, and asked the university scholar Yu Fan to write the "Preface to the Tomb of Sun Huaweng" and erected it in front of the tomb: The ancient tomb was actually of whose clan, and there were several stones in front of the tomb. He Nian cast stubborn iron, and hammered this earth steamed bun.
Teacher Zhong said, "Now it is said that it is the former residence of Wang Fenghao (1858-1933), which is actually controversial, as far as I know, it should be the house of Chen Xizeng (1897-1961), who was said to be Chiang Kai-shek's great housekeeper." The provincial house was all built of green bricks, which can be said to be the 'green brick world', and later became a railway system staff dormitory. ”
Many of the wall tiles bear the name of the owner of the house
Chen Wenlong (1232-1276) was a famous anti-Yuan general of the same period as Wen Tianxiang. After being captured, Chen Wenlong went on a hunger strike, and when passing through the West Lake of Hangzhou, he died of grief after worshipping at the Yue Fei Temple and was buried on the west side of the West Lake Zhiguo Temple.
Teacher Zhong walked here and asked everyone, look for it, where is Shouxing Rock?
When everyone looked around and was confused, Teacher Zhong pointed to a rock that was half a person high and said, This is the one. Shouxing Rock, also known as Banzai Rock, was originally the same as the stone of the Great Stone Buddha, all of which were red volcanic rocks, and looked a bit like an old shouxing on the side.
Quiet Villa, No. 5 Geling Road, covering an area of 1900 square meters, was built in the 1920s, with a construction area of 1200 square meters, and the main body is two European-style Western-style buildings. The original master, Zhang Jingjiang, a native of Nanxun, Huzhou, whom Sun Yat-sen called "a revolutionary sage", was the money bag of Sun Yat-sen's revolution.
At the entrance of the villa, there are more than 170 steps, which are very wide and flat. "It is said that because of health reasons, the owner does not walk on weekdays, and someone carries the car up and down the stairs, so the steps are very wide and the car is convenient to carry the car." Teacher Zhong said, "This step looks mottled, in fact, the texture is clear, the lime used in the construction of that year was packed in a jar like a milk powder can, imported from Europe." ”
This is a courtyard-style house, with two floors of about two wings and a patio courtyard, which is full of traditional Chinese residential architectural characteristics. Teacher Zhong said that it is different from ordinary nunneries, it is a family nunnery, and it is a private nunnery of a rich family. There are more than 200 nunneries like this in Hangzhou, and there used to be more than 40 on this side of Beishan Street.
In 1926, 24 merchants in Shanghai and Hangzhou, as laymen, raised funds, bought more than two acres of land and built this Bodhi Essence House in the location of the West Lake, where they chanted buddhist sutras and cultivated themselves. Different from the political and business celebrities who spent thousands of dollars to buy land and buy a house, these 24 people used the now hot "crowdfunding" method, and also set up regulations such as "each person only passes one room" and "meat wine is not allowed to enter, and chess and cards are prohibited".
The 24 are: Fu Yuzhai, Yu Ganren, Ni Dachun, Tan Bushao, Yan Ziliang, Sun Liangchen, Fu Yujing, Fu Tingfang, Shen Jinyong, Jin Yiru, Lin Shuangquan, Chen Zaifeng, Zhuang Haitao, Li Shuchu, Wu Zuchang, Tan Zilin, Tan Shiqing, Tan Haiqiu, Tan Zhuxin, Luo Zhiyun, Xie Chonghua, Tian Yushu, Fu Mengbi, and Tan Zhaogui.
When I read these names one by one, a simple and elegant atmosphere swept over me, Yu Zhai, Jin Yong, Shu Chu, Shi Qing, Meng Bi, Zhao Gui... Years later, when people see the current boys' "son", "Xuan", "Rui" and "Hao", they will also have a strong sense of the times like me.
When the group walked here, Teacher Zhong stopped and pointed to the black tile and white wall and asked, guess how many years old this wall is? "30 years? 50 years? This wall has been more than 110 years old, so far well preserved, now almost become a teaching point for the protection of architectural relics, many domestic cultural relics projects have to go here to investigate and teach, I have told many construction team leaders, look at the quality of people's projects! ”
(When walking to the front of the West Expo Museum, Teacher Zhong pointed to several lampposts and said that these street lampposts are original from the old bottom, the overall mold is poured, the process is very beautiful, and it has been more than 90 years.) ）
Lampposts are also over 90 years old
Chunrunlu villa is Song Chunfang and his friend Zhu Runsheng jointly funded the construction, there are two villas in the lu, the entrance of this one is Zhu Runsheng, the back of the building is Song Chunfang's, the two names take a word to form "Chunrunlu".
There are hongru and there is no white Ding, the most famous tenant here is The president of Peking University, Cai Yuanpei, Tan Xihong, Ma Yin and others who come to Hangzhou will stay and gather here, which is jokingly called the "Peking University Guest House" that is not listed.
Teacher Zhong said that at midnight on November 13, 1934, a bulletproof car carrying Shi Liangcai (1878-1934) and his family drove out of Qiushui Mountain Villa to Shanghai, and on a high-grade highway built at his own expense, Shi Liangcai was shot dead in Haining. Later, it became an unsolved case, and it is understood that it is most likely to be the work of the Kuomintang military command agents.
Shi Liang was a newspaper magnate in the 1930s and the founder of Shanghai's "Declaration". Qiushui Villa is a Jiangnan courtyard-style building built by his beloved wife Shen Qiushui, which is now part of the new new hotel.
Ge Ling, 166 meters above sea level, is said to be the famous Eastern Jin Dynasty Taoist Ge Hong (284-364) here to practice Dan, hence the name. Ge Hong was born in the Jiangnan Shi clan, was the nephew of Ge Xuan, the Fangshi of the Three Kingdoms, known as Xiao Xianweng, a Taoist teacher, alchemist, and medicine scientist.
In 1894, at the Yongjin Gate in Hangzhou, a coffin was lifted up by the workers who repaired the city wall, and the front panel of the coffin was written "Wusong Coffin". "At first, I thought it was an empty tomb, an imaginary tomb, or a cloaked tomb. Unexpectedly, once excavated, there was a coffin, the coffin had decayed, and its bones were quite long when glimpsed from the decaying cracks..." Later, wu song's tomb was moved to XilingQiao, and the three people who funded the shanghai beach gangster tycoons Jin Jinrong, Zhang Xiaolin and Du Yuesheng built tombstones on the original site. It was destroyed in 1955 and restored in 2004.
(Children's Palace Square to Beishan Road Shuguang Intersection)
(89 in total, provided by Zhongxiangping)
Children's Palace Square - Shi Ta Er Tou - Former Site of Japanese Consulate - Wanghu Tower - Stone Carving of Stone Pagoda Ertou Moya - Chen Diesheng's Former Residence - Chiang Ching-kuo's Former Residence - Broken Bridge Remnant Snow - Former Site of Guangji Hospital Branch - Former Site of Zhejiang Gansu Railway Bureau - Hundred Flowers Villa - He Zhai Old Site - Big Buddha Temple - Liuyu Caotang - Maitreya Temple - Xixia Xiaozhu - Qianlong Emperor Inscription - Ginkgo Forest - Jianzai Villa - Sun Hua Weng Tomb - Xiahou Temple - Chen Bui Former Residence - Guihua Hall Republic of China Arch - Guandi Temple Site - Deqing Hall - Innocence Era Book Bar - Runlu - Railway Guest House - Rulu - Haiyan Pavilion - Zhiguo Zen Temple - Samson Spring - Chen Wenlong Tomb - Shouxing Rock - Baoyun Temple Site - Jingyi Villa - Provincial Lu - Yuxiu Nunnery - Baoqing Villa - Xibo Industrial Pavilion Site - Wang Zhuang - Agate Temple - Servant Spring - Huangyuan Former Residence - Geling Road Republic of China Arch - Bodhi Jingshe - Le Lu - Chunrun Lu - New New Hotel Old Building - Lonely Cloud Grass House - Jingguan Hall - Guandi Temple Site - Idle Place An Old Site - Xiandi Nunnery Site - Qiushui Villa - Zhaoxian Temple - Fengzikai Lakeside Cottage Site - Tang Enbo Former Residence - West Lake Villa - Mingyue Building - Xilu - Jinghu Hall - Jiyi Building - Yilu - Tan's Villa - Dielai Hotel Site - Xiling Bridge - Su Xiaoxiao Tomb - Wusong Tomb - Fenglin Temple Site - Hangzhou Hotel - Xiling Villa - Wind and Rain Pavilion - Chang House - Quyuan Fenghe Royal Monument Pavilion - Yuewang Temple - Bihe Danxin Arch - Bamboo Garden - North China Hotel - Huang Binhong Former Residence - Ziyunli - Xiangshan Jingshe - General Xu Fanting "do this to repay" stone carvings - Jiangnan Famous Stone Garden - Crepe Cloud Peak - the former site of the Mountain House - Sui Lu - Jiang House - Gong Wenqian's former residence - Dongshan Villa...