100-meter stone bridge Yokose Creek, Daiei Castle blessed hometown.
In ancient times, Changzhou Road Confucius Field is famous for its beauty today.
Now Rongchang District, Chongqing, ancient is Changzhou, Ming Dynasty to take the meaning of "prosperity" to get the name Rongchang. Its Wanling Ancient Town is a walled fort-style ancient town that prospers the city with water and the city prospers.
Darong Bridge, known as the characteristic scenery of the ancient town, was built in the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty, is a stone slab bridge, spanning the east and west banks of the Sexi River, with a total length of 116 meters, a width of 1,75 meters, and a total of 24 spans. On its ** bridge, there used to be a dragon head and dragon tail stone carving, but unfortunately it was destroyed in the 60s of the last century.
As early as the Southern Song Dynasty, this place is famous for producing palace tribute honey, and the Sexi River next to the town is the Cao Canal Road, the government money and grain, the merchants from the south to the north will meet here, and gradually form a water wharf integrating accommodation and warehousing, and develop into a bazaar in the early Qing Dynasty, and form a bazaar by the wharf flourishing, called the road hole field.
In the fifth year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty (1800), the local gentry donated money to build a large-scale castle according to the mountain in order to prevent banditry, called Darong Village.
The prosperous period of the ancient town should belong"Huguang fills Sichuan"At that time, most of the important prefectures, counties or towns in Sichuan were places where immigrants gathered.
The ancient town resembles an immigrant mother's house"Huguang Guild Hall", praying for the protection of the god of water"Yuwang Palace", an ancient stage for seeking spiritual comfort, and an Erya library for increasing cultural literacy, silently tell the hardships and vicissitudes of time.
In the name of Darong Village, the city wall that surrounds the whole ancient town, there are four gates, namely: Taiping Gate, Sun Moon Gate, Lion Gate, Hengsheng Gate.
Taiping Gate, Department of Darong Zhai East Gate, take"The world is peaceful, and all things are peaceful"meaning;
The Lion's Gate, i.e., the West Gate. There are two gates, divided into gates, two doors, the door panel is thick, the door bar is thick, very solid;
The Hengsheng Gate is the South Gate, with"Sun and Moon Gate"Echo each other from afar, take"The sun rises and the moon is constant"meaning;
Sun and Moon Gate, North Gate, there is Sun and Moon Pavilion on the gatehouse, an alley in the door is winding and secluded, and there is a name that makes people think about it: Yanyu Lane.
The ancient town dwellings, the original Ming and Qing Dynasty buildings, row upon row, wandering in the meantime, dizzying.
City gates, stone bridges, flowing water, stilted buildings, blue bricks, green tiles, bluestone slabs streets, temples, towers, pavilions and ......The appearance of the ancient town must be the dream hometown of many wanderers.