"After all, west lake in the middle of June,
The scenery is not the same as the four hours.
The lotus leaves are infinitely blue,
The lotus flowers are different red. ”
This is the Hangzhou of the Southern Song Dynasty poet Yang Wanli.
On the shore of the West Lake, on the shore of the Qianjiang River, the ancient city of Hangzhou has stood quietly for a thousand years.
Three autumn guizi, ten lotus flowers, four times the scenery is different.
Smoke willow painting bridge, wind curtain green curtain, poetic painting of people.
Living in Hangzhou, the landscape is pleasant, the architecture is pleasant, the long history and deep cultural context nourish the talent and culture, and it seems that there is an aura between one breath and one inhalation.
Hangzhou, the poetic city of smoke and rain in Jiangnan, is bordered by the West Lake in the west and the Qiantang River in the east.
The spirit show of the West Lake has bred its gentleness and gentleness, and the surging tide of the Qianjiang River has created its bravery and fierceness.
For thousands of years, the people of Hangzhou have faced the tide and gone up the river, not only building this city in the process of living with this exciting water, but also leaving behind stirring legends and immortal wind bones.
King Qian shoots the tide
"August 18 tide, spectacular world no".
Now hangzhou's Qiantang tide is a grand scene that people look forward to every year. But for the people of Hangzhou more than a thousand years ago, facing the tide, it is a completely different feeling.
More than a thousand years ago, wuyue was fixed in Hangzhou, and the king of Wuyue, Qian Wei, was bent on keeping the place in order, but the biggest problem in front of him was the extremely destructive Qiantang River tide.
At that time, the Qianjiang River was tidal and the huge waves were surging and "overturning the river and overturning the seamounts for destruction", and the Qiantang River was also called the "fierce river" by the people of Hangzhou.
Faced with such a situation, King Qian decided to build a levee surrounding the sea to avoid any trouble.
However, in the process of construction, the levee was repeatedly hit by the huge impact of the turbulent tide, and it was always just repaired on this side and washed down on the other side.
For a time, folk rumors spread around, saying that the levee was difficult to repair, all of which were the reasons for the strangeness of the Tide God of the Qiantang River.
But the fierce Qian Wang did not think so.
On the birthday of the eighteenth tide god of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, he led ten thousand archers to the river.
When the tide surged forward, king Qian gave an order, and ten thousand arrows were fired in unison, firing at the tide in unison, seeking stability from the gods with determination.
It can be imagined that the scene at that time must be imposing and thunderous.
King Qian's fierce spirit of not accepting defeat and not giving up deeply inspired the people in the city. After Qian Wang shot the tide, 200,000 people only took more than two months to build a levee with the "stone hoarding and wooden pile method", which effectively curbed the harm of the tide to Hangzhou.
After the establishment of the landscape, the King of Wuyue began to expand the city walls on a large scale, and finally built the city of Hangzhou into a slender waist drum-like terrain from north to south and narrow from east to west, and the ancient city of Hangzhou was also called "Waist Drum City".
Natu returned to Song
The people-oriented King of Wuyue always respected the Central Plains Dynasty as Zhengshuo.
During his reign, he adopted the strategy of protecting the territory and the people, and let the people rest and recuperate as much as possible. The economy of the two Zhejiang and thirteen prefectures is prosperous, and "the profit of the fishing salt silkworm is in jiangnan".
Later, with the rise of the Song Dynasty, Qian Hongli, the fifth king of wu yueguo, received an edict, and the emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty ordered him to enter the hajj.
After weighing it over and over again, Qian Hongli decided to obey the ancestral order, not to raise the sword soldiers, and to return to the Song Dynasty. "Returning the soil to the Song Dynasty" preserved a jiangnan yuanqi for the land of China in the chaotic world.
During the Jing Kang period, the Jin army invaded and the Northern Song Dynasty fell. Emperor Gaozong of Song fled south and eventually settled down in Hangzhou.
At that time, hundreds of industries in Hangzhou were prosperous, and the development of agriculture and handicrafts promoted the further prosperity of the city.
In the Southern Song Dynasty Wu Zimu's "Record of Dreams", the lively scene of the Hangzhou night market was recorded: clothes and hats, fan tents, bonsai flowers, seasonal fruits, and everything. Ten miles long street, brilliant lights, crowds, shoulder to shoulder.
Aoyama had the honor of burying loyal bones
Today, the Yue Wang Temple under the Qixia Ridge of the West Lake is buried with the heroic soul of Yue Fei.
In the ten years of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty, Yue Fei, who was galloping to kill Yue Fei on the front line of the anti-Jin Dynasty, received twelve gold medals from Lin'an in succession, causing him to immediately return to the dynasty.
Yue Fei, who had to obey the military order, had to tearfully bid farewell to the common people.
Yue Fei, who returned to Hangzhou, was immediately imprisoned at the Dali Temple by Song Gaozong, who was bent on negotiating peace, and Qin Ju, the adulterous minister, on the charge of "conspiracy to rebel", and later, on the charge of "false accusations", was executed in the Fengbo Pavilion at the age of 39.
At the time of execution, Yue Fei wrote down eight big characters, "Tian ri Zhao Zhao, Tian Ri Zhao Zhao."
The imperial court was weak and peaceful, resulting in the death of the loyal general Liang, but the people of Hangzhou, who admired Zhongliang, stepped forward. They not only secretly buried Yue Fei's body, but also commemorated and honored this fierce hero in the later millennium.
"Aoyama has the honor of burying loyal bones." In addition to Yue Fei, the famous Ming Dynasty minister Yu Qian, the anti-Qing hero Zhang Huangyan, and the Jianhu heroine Qiu Jin were also buried in this landscape, accompanied by the sages, injecting the most powerful support into Hangzhou.
The fire of civilization is not extinguished
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, China was facing major changes that had not occurred in three thousand years, and the context was precarious.
However, in this chaotic and dangerous situation, Ding Fuzhi, Wang Fu'an, Ye Weiming and Wu Shiqian, four young people, climbed the Lonely Mountain, hoping to "become apprentices with the ancients" and preserve the fire of Chinese civilization. In 1904, they donated their private property to build a printing company in Gushan.
This piece of "Han SanLao Stele", which still stands on the lonely mountain in Hangzhou, records the birthday, death date and name of the third ancestor of a Han Dynasty person living near Hangzhou, and its historical value is extraordinary.
In 1919, it was purchased by a Shanghai antique dealer for 3,000 pieces of ocean, but this also attracted the covetousness of some Japanese antique dealers.
After hearing this news, the literati of the Xiling Printing Society were extremely anxious, and they decided that even if they smashed pots and sold iron, they could not let the ancient stone monuments flow overseas.
Therefore, at the call of the first president, Wu Changshuo, all the members launched a fundraising. Everyone generously donated money, and finally bought back this stone stele with 8,000 pieces of ocean, so that this Han stele that inherits the Chinese cultural context will be permanently settled on the top of the lonely mountain.
Since its inception, under the leadership of seven presidents, Xiling Printing Society has inherited the excellent Chinese culture with the indomitable wind and bone of the literati.
If the flame of civilization is not extinguished, future generations will be able to know where they come from and where they will go, and face the future with better wisdom and attitude.
The city of the future
Speaking of today's Hangzhou, the city of wisdom, the city of science and technology, and the city of the future are already its labels.
In the tide of the turning tide of the times, the people of Hangzhou face the surging tide of the river and write their own moving chapter.
Nowadays, the development of Internet technology in Hangzhou is at the forefront, Internet technology has spawned a city brain, scientific management makes the city operate efficiently, the road is more smooth, and life is more convenient. The people-oriented concept of urban development has made today's Hangzhou a model for livable cities.
The health code used for epidemic prevention and control in our hands now is an efficient management system developed in Hangzhou in only three days after the outbreak of the new crown epidemic.
In the face of social crisis, Hangzhou has proposed its own solutions as a city of the future.
The West Lake and the Qianjiang River have jointly created the character of Hangzhou people who are strong and soft, which has also become the driving force and source of the prosperity of Hangzhou's ancient city for thousands of years.
Tonight at 20:00, lock the cctv-4 and see the majestic atmosphere hidden under the Lingxiu Grace of the ancient city of Hangzhou.
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Broadcast content: "Hangzhou - the most memorable is Hangzhou" (Part 2) Broadcast time: February 3, 2021 (Wednesday) 20:00 Broadcast channel: cctv-4 Chinese international channel
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