Guilin Life Network News -- Guilin Daily (reporter Gui Chen) Chinese has a deep complex of famous buildings, such as Yueyang Tower, Stork Tower, Tengwang Pavilion, Yellow Crane Tower, etc., these pavilions have become the cultural essence of a place and the cultural pride of a city. There is also such a building with a long history and profound cultural heritage in Guilin, which is the Runaway Building. Although it has been annihilated for a long time in the vast river of history, its figure has always remained in the minds of the world, and it is due to a song "Looking at the countryside upstairs, green water and clouds." Go north to Hengyang for two thousand miles, no reason for the goose foot system book. "The Tang poems are famous in the sea. Today, the beautiful Runaway Building 1300 years ago has reappeared on the banks of the Li River, which is the luck of the Runaway Building, and it is also the blessing of the people of Guilin.
The famous building XiaoyaoLou, which carries Guilin's thousand-year-old historical memory, is reproduced on the banks of the Lishui River (adding a new historical and cultural landmark to the Guilin International Tourist Resort (pictured is Xiaoyao
On the evening of September 16, the autumn wind gusted, and the Runaway Building on the shore of the Li River was endlessly crowded with citizens and tourists. Some stopped to observe the "XiaoyaoLou" inscription written by Yan Zhenqing, a great calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty, some read poems, calligraphy and paintings, and Mozi's "Record of Rebuilding the Xiaoyaolou", some carefully admired the Xiaoyaolou, and some went straight upstairs to look up and look at the beautiful scenery of the peaks of the Li Bank... Nowadays, the Happy House has become a "punch card" resort for citizens and tourists, and everyone is happy to listen to the echoes of the 1300-year history and culture of Guilin City in this historic building.
The Runaway Building, once clearly visible in the historical map of Guilin, was once engulfed by the flames of war. In 2014, the municipal party committee and the municipal government identified the reconstruction of the Happy House as a key project to "find the power of culture and tap the value of culture". In 2016, under the full support of the municipal party committee, the municipal government and all sectors of society, this famous building in Guilin more than 1300 years ago has returned not only to the territory of Guilin City, but also to the historical and cultural memory of contemporary Guilin City after years of research and construction. The restoration of this historical site of Xiaoyaolou has stimulated a valuable cultural force and cultural value, and has also become a model for Guilin to implement the strategy of "finding the power of culture and excavating the value of culture".
Tracing the Runaway Building: the "Hometown" That Carries the Humanistic Memory of Guilin for 1300 Years
Prior to the reconstruction of the Runaway Tower, the last surviving historical record of the Ruins of the Runaway Tower was found in some publications in the 1940s. According to the "Guide to Guilin City" published in 1942, the XiaoyaoLou, originally on the Xingchun Gate City, Xuanying overlapped, overlooking the mountains and rivers, Tang Yan Zhenqing wrote three characters in the stone, and the late Qing Dynasty Building was abandoned and stored in stone tablets. In the 29th year of the Republic of China, due to the demolition of the city to build the Zhongzheng Bridge, the stone monument was moved to the foothills of Putuo Mountain.
According to the "Guangxi Stone Carving Exhibition Special Edition" published in 1946 by the Guilin Library, there is Mr. Lin Banjue's words: "The stele was originally in the Upper Runaway Building in the East City of Guilin, the building was long abandoned, and the Republic of China's Twenty-six Years of The War of Resistance, demolished the city to take stones to pave roads and build bridges, and then moved to the front of the Jiangdong Yuan wind tunnel ..."
Since then, the Runaway Building has once disappeared into the memory of the city, and the people of Guilin have since "only seen the stone monument and not the building".
In 2016, the Reconstruction of The Happy House was completed, how many wonderful memories of Guilin's history and culture are collected by this new historical and cultural landmark?
"The Happy House is a 'longevity building' in the history of Guilin, and the relevant poems left over from the past tell us that the Three Dynasties of the Song, Yuan, and Ming Dynasties are all in the Happy House." Fan Ping, a Guilin literary and historical scholar who specializes in the research and collation of Guilin literature and history classics, introduced that as a "coordinate" of Guilin's history, there are not many historical materials that have survived today, but traces of The Runaway Building can be found in poetry and historical documents.
"Looking upstairs at the countryside, the green water is clear and the clouds are misty. Go north to Hengyang for two thousand miles, no reason for the goose foot system book. This is the first Tang poem explicitly mentioned "Runaway Building" found by Guilin historical and cultural researchers so far, written in 711 AD. According to reports, this was composed by song Zhiwen, a Tang Dynasty court poet who lived in Guilin at that time, and the poem was called "Climbing the Happy House." After the Tang Dynasty, many famous scholars from outside the Ling Dynasty ascended the building to recite chants, And in the Tang Dynasty, Xiong Rudeng, Sun Lan, Fan Chengda, Zhang Chun, li Zengbo of the Song Dynasty, Bo Du Lu Ding, Jian Dusi, Wu Boyin of the Yuan Dynasty, Chen Lian, Tian Rucheng, Chen Xian, Yang Fang, Xu Xiake, etc., all of which had chanting or inscriptions.
Historical documents, such as the late Tang Dynasty Mo Xiufu's "Guilin Customs", the early Song Dynasty's "Taiping Huanyu Record", the city's parrot mountain in the north of the city and the late Song Dynasty Moya stone carving map "Jingjiang Fu City Pool Map", the late Yuan Dynasty "Jingjiang Road New Town Stele Yin Record", the Ming Dynasty Zhang Mingfeng's "Gui Sheng" and "Gui Gu", the Qing Dynasty", the Qing Dynasty "Guangxi Tongzhi", "Lingui County Chronicle", etc., have all entered or marked the XiaoyaoLou.
Around 2004, the proposition of "where is the Runaway Building now" returned to the vision of Guilin historical and cultural researchers and enthusiastic citizens. Everyone conducted a multi-year study, and many scholars and citizens successively published articles in the media such as Guangxi Daily, Guilin Daily, and Guilin Life Network, ranging from 10,000 words to 1,000 words in short, and launched one after another meticulous examination and heated discussion on the relevant history and culture of the Happy House. Although there are still some issues debated, everyone is more convinced that the Happy House was built in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, built on the wall of the northeast corner of the Tang "Sub-City", and its location and the name of the Happy House have not changed for thousands of years.
"The reason why the Runaway Building was famous at that time, in addition to being able to enjoy the grand scenery when climbing the building, was because of the poetry, song and historical bits left by the literati and inkers." He Qiongyu, deputy researcher of the CppcC Xiufeng District, once served as the deputy leader of the historical and cultural excavation and finishing research group of Zhengyang Dongxi Lane. In order to let more people pay attention to the Runaway Building, around 2011, he published a related article "The Lost Getaway Building" in Guilin Daily and Guangxi Daily. At present, he and many researchers who pay attention to the Runaway Building are still collating and collecting literature about the Getaway Building.
According to He Qiongyu, the earliest Runaway Building was built as a fortification, and it was difficult for ordinary people to access it except for dignitaries and nobles. Therefore, there are very few historical records of the Runaway Building, and only some traces are found in poetry or historical maps.
According to scholars, on the completion map of the Expansion of Guilin City Wall in the Southern Song Dynasty, "Jingjiang Fu City Pool Map", the scale of Guilin City in that year was more comprehensively recorded, and except for a few parts of the map, most of them were still clearly recognizable. On the city wall next to the Li River, buildings such as the Happy House are clearly visible and are marked with the name "Happy House".
In the book "General History of Guilin" edited by Zhong Wendian, a professor of the History Department of Guangxi Normal University, it is also mentioned that "Qing Daoguang Twenty-five Years (1845) Painted the Map of Guilin City" clearly marked "XiaoyaoLou" between the "Xingchun Gate" and the "Dongjiang Gate" at that time.
Guilin has tens of thousands of years of prehistoric history and more than 2,000 years of urban history, carrying 1300 years of Guilin city memory of the Runaway Building, after the examination of experts and scholars, the historical appearance has gradually been restored, guilin city's thousand-year changes have also been sorted out again under the spotlight of the new era.
Rebuilding the Runaway Building: Condensing a city's respect for history and painstaking pursuit
Rebuilding the Runaway House requires strategy, courage and courage.
More than a decade ago, the reconstruction of the Happy House was included in the discussion of the construction of the ancient city of Guilin. In 2004, the "Guilin City Master Plan (2001-2010)" approved by the State Council mentioned that the restoration of Kuixing Building and Xiaoyao Building was used to restore the important cognitive points that reflected the pattern of the ancient city, and create a new landscape that strengthened the style and characteristics of Guilin's ancient city.
Ten years later, in 2014, the municipal party committee and the municipal government proposed to "find the power of Guilin culture and excavate the value of Guilin culture", decided to sort out, protect and inherit, develop and utilize the historical and cultural system of Guilin scattered pearls and jade, and then organized various departments to conduct many heated discussions on the reconstruction of the Happy House.
As an important "Guilin symbol", the Happy House has become a key project to retain the "memory of Guilin" and enhance the city's taste, and the reconstruction of the Happy House is about to come out.
It is understood that based on the current situation of urban construction and development in Guilin, it is no longer realistic to rebuild a new building on the original site of the Happy House. In this regard, the relevant person in charge of the Guilin Municipal Planning Bureau said that at the beginning of the reconstruction, the designers investigated and surveyed, and invited experts and scholars to compete many times, and after more than three months, the location of the reconstruction of the Happy House was finally selected on the platform of the Jiefang Bridgehead Waterfront Ecological Square near the original site of the Happy House.
At the end of November 2014, the final site selection plan of the Runaway Building and the architectural style design text were announced to the public. Due to the disappearance of the historical Runaway Building, no specific morphological information has been found in the historical data, the designers said that according to the historical elements of the Runaway Building, the stylistic characteristics of Tang and Song dynasty architecture and the rules of ancient construction, the application of modern building technology materials, the current conditions of the reconstruction site of the Runaway Building and the modern urban planning requirements for the reconstruction and design of the Runaway Building, the final determination of the Tang and Song Dynasties style, to create a two-story three-eaves pavilion landscape building with a height of about 24 meters. The reconstruction of the Happy House has aroused the attention of the public and generated heated discussions on the design plan, and the Happy House has run through the history of Guilin City for more than 1300 years, which has also aroused the interest of many citizens for a time.
Xu Zongwei, chief designer of the reconstruction of the Happy House and an expert in architectural design in Guilin City, still remembers that Zhao Leqin, secretary of the Municipal Party Committee and director of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress, conducted many discussions and studies with the experts on the reconstruction of the Happy House, and repeatedly proposed that "all relevant responsible units should scientifically plan, accelerate construction, and carefully manage it in an attitude of being highly responsible for history, cultural inheritance, and urban development, so that it can become a landmark in the old town of Guilin.", and the specific requirements of this reconstruction run through the entire reconstruction of the Happy House.
"The municipal party committee and the municipal government attach so much importance to this project, and Secretary Zhao personally does many things, which really encourages us." According to the recollection of the construction owner unit and the relevant person in charge of the Municipal Federation of Literature and Literature, in the process of rebuilding the Happy House, Zhao Leqin conducted on-site research and guidance on many occasions, coordinated and solved relevant difficulties and problems, and personally examined and wrote the inscription "Reconstruction of the Happy House".
Kung Fu pays off. After a year and four months of intensive construction, a tang and Song style building covering an area of about 400 square meters and a construction area of 630 square meters stands out. "The Xiaoyao Tower, which was built in the Tang Dynasty, has been a cultural landmark in Guilin since ancient times, and was once on a par with the Yellow Crane Tower, the Tengwang Pavilion and the Yueyang Tower. Today, this historical and humanistic coordinate has reappeared in front of the eyes of the world. He Qiongyu said that the Runaway Building has entered the eyes of more and more people and has become a new entry point for perceiving the history and culture of Guilin.
Xu Zongwei is still excited when he talks about the Runaway Building. "The completion of the Runaway Building not only embodies the good intentions of the municipal party committee and the municipal government, but also brings together the strength of the whole society." Xu Zongwei reviewed the reconstruction process and said with great emotion that the Runaway Building is a cultural landmark in the history of Guilin and has an important position in the hearts of Guilin people. The reconstruction of the Runaway Building by the Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government has received support from all walks of life, and the people of the city have worked together to find the power of culture and excavate the value of culture, which not only improves the popularity of Guilin as a famous historical and cultural city, but also unites the hearts of the people and gathers the strength.
Taste of the Runaway Building: Become a model for the construction of a "cultural city"
"At present, urban cultural construction shows a development trend from 'functional city' to 'cultural city'. Guilin is a typical city where cultural elements and natural elements are closely combined and complement each other, and landscapes and culture are interdependent. In December 2016, Shan Jixiang, a member of the Party Group of the Ministry of Culture (now the Ministry of Culture and Tourism) and the president of the Palace Museum, made a special visit to the Happy House when conducting research on the protection of Guilin's cultural heritage. Shan Jixiang said that as one of the first batch of historical and cultural cities in the country, Guilin enjoys a high reputation in the world. It is hoped that Guilin will continue to promote urban cultural construction and cultural heritage protection in the process of accelerated urbanization, and explore the road of cultural heritage protection with Guilin characteristics.
Not only that, the reconstruction of the Runaway Building has also received affirmation and support from all walks of life. "The restoration of such a historical and famous building as the Happy House must reflect the contemporary level, and must be built into a fine product that can be passed on to future generations, and the quality can withstand the test of history, which can add points to The profound cultural accumulation of Guilin and live up to the laurel of Guilin's 'Famous Historical and Cultural City'." In 2015, when the Runaway Building was in the implementation stage of reconstruction, Tong Mingkang, then deputy director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, led an inspection team to Guilin to inspect the protection, repair and utilization of cultural relics in our city, and fully affirmed the reconstruction of the Runaway Building.
A series of suggestions by experts coincide with Guilin's strategy of excavating historical and cultural values, as one of the first 24 historical and cultural cities announced by the State Council in 1982, Guilin is full of cultural relics and historical relics. "As a modern Guilin person, we must be highly responsible for Guilin's thick history, 'look for the power of Guilin culture, and tap the value of Guilin culture'." Zhao Leqin, secretary of the Municipal Party Committee and director of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress, attaches great importance to the protection and utilization of Guilin's history and culture, and this concept also leads the process of Guilin's urban development. In 2016, the Runaway Building, which embodies the city's painstaking pursuit of urban history and culture, was completed. The 1300-year-old Happy House has once again been displayed in front of the world, and has also become a model for the construction of Guilin's "cultural city".
"Many people only know guilin's 'beauty of mountains and rivers', but they don't know guilin's 'cultural weight'." On the evening of September 16, in front of the Getaway Building, the tour guide Jiang Zhengke handed out the city's business card of the Getaway Building to tourists. In the past 3 years of working as a tour guide, he has led tourists from all over the country to the Getaway Building to perceive the beauty of humanistic Guilin. Although he has explained the XiaoyaoLou and the history and culture of Guilin behind it dozens of times, he feels that the more he chews, the more delicious it is. Jiang Zhengke said with heartfelt admiration that with the efforts of the municipal party committee and the municipal government to promote the excavation, inheritance and utilization of history and culture in recent years, the history and culture of Guilin have gradually made this city of mountains and rivers have more charm.
The free and open Runaway Building not only naturally integrates into the pattern of urban landscape and humanities, but also becomes one of the best perspectives for Guilin's urban scenery and history. According to the relevant person in charge of the Xiufeng District Government, in May 2018, the upgrading plan of the 4A-level scenic spot of the Xiaoyaolou DongxiXiang Historical and Cultural Block was completed, and the reception volume has exceeded 5 million people since the reconstruction and opening of the XiaoyaoLou. Citizens and tourists climb the tower to overlook, and they can also trace the Yuan Dynasty poet and politician Bo Du Lu Ding's "Runaway Building" between the lines depicted "the mountain is wide and the twilight is misty." Outside the clouds of the mudi, the fishing song falls in the light" of the year.
"Urban cultural landmarks are figurative urban cultural symbols, the spiritual link of urban social and cultural identity, and the concentrated embodiment of the projection image of urban history and culture in the public mind." Lin Gang, associate professor of the School of History, Culture and Tourism of Guangxi Normal University, has instructed students to investigate and analyze the public recognition of guilin's urban cultural landmarks. They believe that cultural landmarks should have the functions of "city business card", "improve the visibility of the city", "have a good commemorative and educational role", and be widely recognized by the citizens. As a new urban cultural landmark in Guilin, the reconstructed Happy House has the above characteristics.
On the evening of September 16, standing on the runaway building on the shore of the Li River, the peaks of the Li River were in full view, the lights were on the four banks of wanjia City, and the galaxy was in the middle of a river, and many citizens and tourists stopped for a long time to look at the overlook, and they were not willing to leave. They praised guilin, which is famous for its landscape and water, because of this run-through 1300-year history of the rise and fall of the Runaway Building, exudes a more chewy humanistic beauty.