Ningbo is located in China's East China, southeast coast, is a typical Jiangnan water town with a seaport city, as a national historical and cultural city with a long history, as early as 2000 years ago in the Xia Dynasty, Ningbo was named "Yin", but also makes Ningbo has a wealth of historical relics, the most representative of which is "Tianyi Pavilion", is a must-punch attraction to Ningbo tourism.
Tianyi Pavilion is located in Haishu District, Ningbo City, and is a national key cultural relics protection unit, a national ancient book key protection unit, and a national 5a-level tourist scenic spot.
Tianyi Pavilion has a very long history, dating back to the Ming Jiajing period, and has a history of more than 400 years, which was built for the library building presided over by Fan Qin, the retired Ming Dynasty soldier at that time, and named "Tianyi Pavilion", which is the oldest private library in Asia today.
As a library cabinet, Tianyi Pavilion is a "collection culture" as the core, set book protection, research, display, education and tourism visits as one of the thematic museum, and is a national first-class museum, its scale is also very large, covering an area of about 26,000 square meters (about 40 acres), by the library culture area, exhibition area and garden leisure area, this tour we mainly based on the garden, feel the graceful beauty and cultural heritage of this private garden.
Tianyi Pavilion Library building as a whole sits north facing south, is a two-story brick and wood structure of the hard hilltop heavy building, the overall height of about 9 meters, far away, you can see that this pavilion is very distinctive, the slope roof is covered with green tiles, hidden in the dense jungle, coupled with the surrounding garden layout, for the typical Jiangnan courtyard garden characteristic buildings, antique atmosphere spontaneously.
The whole Tianyi Pavilion still has many points to see, the main attractions include the ancient opera stage, the Qin Clan Ancestral Hall, the Mahjong Origin Exhibition Hall, the Manor Hall, the Boya Hall, the Tianyi Pavilion, the East Garden, the Qianjin Zhai, the Dongming Caotang, the Zunjing Pavilion, the Sima Di, the Paradigm Former Residence, the Mingzhou Stele Forest, etc., if it is generally summarized, it is the South Garden and the East Garden, the courtyard has many cultural relics, very rich, and it is the main visit to visit here.
The building of the white-walled Dewa, in which people feel like they have entered the water town of Jiangnan.
There are several buildings in Tianyi Pavilion that are very distinctive, such as the Baoshu Building (Tianyi Pavilion) of the heavy building on the top of the hard hill, the Zunjing Pavilion of the heavy eaves and the mountaintop, and the rockery, Ming Pond, promenade, forest of steles and pavilions in the East Garden have a feeling of being in the garden of Suzhou.
Tianyi Pavilion has a very large collection of books, including nearly 300,000 volumes of various ancient books, and the number is shocking, and these ancient books are mainly based on historical books such as local chronicles and Dengke records. In addition, there is also a rich collection of calligraphy and paintings, inscriptions, ceramics, bronzes and jades and other fine crafts, and a dazzling variety of artworks.
Many people who come here may be very interested in the origin of the name "Tianyi Pavilion", and there are two theories about the name of "Tianyi Pavilion".
First, the Qing Dynasty scholar Quan Zuwang wrote in the "Catalogue of Tianyi Pavilion Steles" that Fan Qin had built a pool of water at the beginning of the construction of Tianyi, and later collected many inscriptions, including the "Dragon tiger mountain Tianyi Pond Stone Carving", from which Tianyi Pavilion got its name; second, because the pavilion was a library cabinet, in order to prevent fire, it was named Tianyi Pavilion in the "I Ching" meaning "Heavenly life water, 60% of the earth".
I don't know, when you went to Ningbo, did you ever go to or hear of "Tianyi Pavilion"? What are your impressions of the architecture here? Welcome to leave a comment.