In the ancient city of Zhengding, every brick seems to tell the story of history. Walking through this land that has gone through vicissitudes, I feel the precipitation of time and the weight of culture. Each of these monuments made me stop and immerse myself in the long river of history. It not only has beautiful scenery, but also has a profound cultural heritage. I think this is the meaning of travel, allowing us to feel the charm of history and understand the true meaning of life while walking. The ancient city of Zhengding travels historically.
We have been walking towards the road in the distance of our hearts, walking one journey after another, and every time we go on the road, we are unpredictable about the future.
After walking on the road for a while, I was out of breath. The bus did not stop at the scheduled terminal, crossed the Hutuo River, and stopped at the west turn of the crossroads ahead. It wasn't until the last passenger got off the bus that I reacted and quickly asked the driver, who said that the front repair project could not reach the terminal of Zhengding Longxing Temple, and in a hurry, I did not ask the driver how I should go to Zhengding County.
When I was just in junior high school, the TV station began to broadcast the TV series "Dream of Red Mansions", and the characters and storylines in the play and the filming scenes in the drama feasted the audience's eyes, and the audience was amazed by the luxury of the Rongguo Mansion Grand View Garden. After the broadcast of the drama "Dream of Red Mansions", some classmates visited Zhengding Rongguo Mansion, and also took big color photos, pretending to be Jia Baoyu in the play, I was very envious of them at that time, and I also wanted to go to Zhengding to take a walk and see Rongguo Mansion. When I went to school, I felt that history was boring and boring, and studying history was just a rote memorization for exams. In the future, I will know that not only the country has a history, but also a city, a family, a person, and a cultural relic will have a history, and the history will record their development process. I also became interested in history and learned more about Zhengding, an ancient city of history and culture.
Zhengding has extremely rich historical and cultural heritage, there are many places of interest and historic sites, there are many ancient temples, ancient towers and ancient temples, Zhengding County Confucian Temple was built for the emperors of the past dynasties to commemorate Confucius. I first knew that there was a Longxing Temple in Zhengding. There are also many ancient towers in Zhengding, among which the Lingxiao Tower of Tianning Temple, towering and towering, is a nine-storey pavilion-type tower of brick and wood structure, the tower was built in the Tang Xiantong period, and all dynasties have repaired. There are also many celebrities in the ancient city, such as Zhao Yun and Zhao Zilong, who are familiar to us, and Fan Zhongyan, a politician and writer in the Song Dynasty. There are still a lot of historical sites that I don't know about, and I want to go to Zhengding to take a look.
A few years ago, among the few books I bought at the second-hand book stall, there was a "Jia Dashan ** Collection", (the author Jia Dashan, a native of Zhengding County, has served as the director of the county cultural bureau, the vice chairman of the county CPPCC, and the vice chairman of the Hebei Writers Association. It has the profound sharpness of Lu Xun, the simple humor of "Yam Egg Pie" and the freshness and eternity of "Lotus Lake Pie"; The literary quality and character are excellent. Excerpted from the book). This ** is written by the author in the seventies and eighties of the last century in the Zhengding countryside living and working experience, the book mentions a lot of folk snacks, cultural monuments, I like this book very much, often read it. Those interesting stories in the countryside are the same as the things I heard and saw when I was a child, there are simple neighborhood nostalgia, and there are sobering human feelings. There is also the rural scenery described in the book, which is also like my hometown when I was a child. I was warmed by the simple nostalgia in the book, and I wanted to get closer to this historical city more and more.
In the late autumn of 2014, I went to the ancient city of Zhengding alone without my companions, to feel his ancient culture and look for the nostalgia in Jia Dashan's book. Speaking of shame, this is the first time I went to Zhengding, although it is not very far from Zhengding County, Zhengding County is in the north of Shijiazhuang, 15 kilometers away from the city, and I have never had the opportunity to go. My husband told me that he took bus No. 177 at the Nanjiao Bus Station near us, and the terminal of this bus was at Longxing Temple in Zhengding.
When I got off the bus, I couldn't be sure what the trip ahead would be, I hesitated on the road, the bus was already far away, it was a small road, there were no signs on the road, the passengers were already running to their destinations, and I rarely saw a car passing by. As the number of passengers dwindled, I caught up with a female passenger my age, who was walking west on the trail with her bag, and I asked her for directions as I went. She told me to walk a short distance west along this road, and saw the intersection turn north, and the street led straight to Zhengding County. I regained my courage and put a lot of strength under my feet.
Today's weather is fine, the sun has penetrated the haze and sprinkled on the earth, the weather has just turned cold, and the clothes inside are warm, and the body is hot. There are farmlands on both sides of the road, and there are many kinds of work, many of which I don't know. Soon I turned to the north, and saw in the distance piles of dirt hills, faintly gray brick walls, and the mounds of earth were joined into high and low hills, until a row of trees to the east. The more I walked forward, the road became muddy, obviously this is the construction site, I realized the recklessness of my trip, the driver said that the construction repair project, is the Zhengding city gate, the repair of the city wall. I have seen the high city gate, this is the south gate, and the surrounding area is full of mounds of earth large and small, messy, but I still feel the majesty of the city gate. Occasionally, a worker passed by, and I walked carefully, feeling that this trip was destined to be tortuous.
Standing under the city gate, the quaint atmosphere followed, the city wall was so thick, so high, the west city wall began to be repaired, the east city wall stretched to the direction of the woods, and I saw that there were pedestrians walking on the east wall in the distance. The newly repaired city wall bricks are blue antique bricks, with white gray brick joints, and a few photos were taken in a hurry. Fortunately, there was no construction work on the engineering team today, so I didn't have to take a detour, and I could enter the city through the city gate, and the workers told me to be careful. A layer of shelf was also laid on the ground of the city gate hole, and scaffolding was erected against the wall on both sides. I didn't dare to be sloppy, and walked out of the city gate cautiously.
Out of the city gate, the view is very broad, connected to the wide newly built street, the east side has been built a green belt, stick to the road signs, I walked on the easternmost sidewalk, and saw the green belt in the begonia flowers are blooming. Not far ahead, connected to the old street, walking on the old street, the breath of life is strong, there are more, and there are many shops. The door face of the shop is uniformly decorated, the door is hung with a unified wooden plaque, the red border is lowered, and the big black characters in different book styles are written, which looks simple and elegant, and there are occasional weeping willows on both sides of the road. The shops, the old street as much as possible to retain the original appearance, the deliberate unified decoration is not very artificial, but the street lining is more neat, the whole street is full of ancient atmosphere. I walked around, almost visited every store, the shop owner bought and sold at will, without deliberate solicitation, into the store, without losing the sense of welcome and enthusiasm, can not help but make you think that this comes from cultural self-confidence, the self-confidence accumulated in the ancient city.
It was already noon, and after a morning of nervousness, loss, and then the surprise of entering the city, the excitement had calmed down a little. My stomach also began to feel hungry, so I walked into the nearby dumpling restaurant, the seats were full, and I could share the table, just right, the noodle diners across the table were ready to leave after eating. This is a family-run dumpling restaurant, only to hear the female shopkeeper who served the bowl calling to the back kitchen for her father to come. The dumplings are marinated and topped with leeks and thinly sliced beef, and the portions are generous, authentic dumplings. I still remember ten dollars a bowl and I was very full.
Continue to walk on the street, to the front of the crossroads, and then there are no shops, the stop sign on the east of the street road is marked to go to Longxing Temple, Rongguofu train, I also saw that the stop sign specifically indicates that there is a train to the vicinity of the bus when I came, and then take the 177 road back to the original road. It was just after noon, and I wanted to go back down the street again. I noticed that there are a lot of time-honored snacks on the street, and they are all time-honored brands mentioned in the book, "Huahua Zhengding Mansion, Mianxiu Luoyang City", I knew in the book that there are a lot of delicious things in Zhengding, and there are three ways to eat tofu brain, a kind of "old tofu brain", made of soybean milk in brine, and leeks are put when eating; A kind of "gypsum tofu brain", made of gypsum bean paddles, with minced ginger and garlic when eating; One is "braised tofu brain", gypsum tofu brain is marinated, marinated well, with gold needles, fungus, vermicelli, and gluten. There are also the braised chicken of the Ma family, the roasted wheat of the Liu family, sugar twist flowers, honey hemp leaves, bean curd cakes, and fried vegetarian rolls. Now you can see that the food on the street is even more dazzling, so you can't help but stop.
Going back and forth on the street, every short distance, between the shops, there are narrow alleys, and you can see the leisurely life of the residents in the alleys, with a quiet and tranquil expression. With only the little knowledge I knew, I went to fulfill my own selfish wish, tried to visit the ancient city and monuments in my impression, and I saw a lot of them. According to the street signs, turn an alley in the east, walk not far, see the Lingxiao Pagoda of Tianning Temple, but I can't take a closer look, I am very satisfied. When I went back, I bought a piece of siu mai, but it was still wrapped in lotus leaves, and it was still the book that said, "It has a long taste.""The Liu family roasted wheat.
Returning to the crossroads ahead, next to the northwest corner of the street, I saw a stage built in the early years, the stage was very ordinary and simple, the brick and stone base was built around the platform, which was filled with loess, and the sloping roof built of wood, there was a big five-pointed star left above the front of the roof, and the five-pointed star had been caressed by the years to be red and sharp, and it became more and more crimson and solemn. I wonder if this is the stage mentioned in Jia Dashan's book.
I got on the bus in Zhengding County, reversed and re-took the No. 177 train, and went home the same way. Later, I learned in the ** report that in 2013, the Zhengding ancient city wall became a national key cultural relics protection unit, and on October 1, 2014, the first phase of the Zhengding city wall repair project and the protection and repair of the south gate system was officially launched. The long history has left the ancient city with splendid and unique style of scenic spots. In order to protect and inherit the history and keep pace with the times, in recent years, a lot of manpower and material resources have been invested in the restoration and development of the ancient city, and on November 5, 2021, the Zhengding ancient city block was identified by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism as the first batch of national night culture and tourism consumption clusters; On February 8, 2022, it was included in the preliminary list of the top ten new archaeological discoveries in China in 2021. Zhengding's tourism has formed the characteristics of "both new and ancient", "elegant and vulgar".
Read 10,000 books, walk 10,000 miles", although I experienced the simple customs of Zhengding in a simple way, saw some historical sites, and saw more things that I did not know, I was very gratified, and followed my own little cognition to go out a step.