Scenic spots and historical sites in Shawan town

Chebei Street is an important ancient street that reflects the style of Shawan ancient town. Located in the center of Shawan ancient town, east-west trend. Shawan has a prosperous economy in history and has the reputation of "three streets and six cities".

Chebei Street is a concentrated representative of Lingnan architecture in Ming and Qing Dynasties. The pavement is paved with granite, and the houses and ancestral halls are mostly brick-wood structures with brick walls at the top. There are gables with good fire-proof and ventilation performance, quaint water-mill blue brick walls, oyster shell walls unique to Lingnan coastal areas, exquisite and gorgeous brick carvings, wood carvings, stone carvings and murals, and "Hui"-shaped porches and foot doors can be seen everywhere.

Chebei Street has ancestral temples such as Yan Hui Temple, Chichang Hall and Youqi Hall. It used to be a place for people to worship their ancestors, discuss and get together, and learn cultural knowledge. At the same time, it is also the revolutionary front, where underground guerrillas (armed forces) once publicized revolutionary ideas.

Chebei Street is also the residence of Guangdong musicians. Guangdong famous musicians He Bozhong, He Liutang, He, He Shaoxia and so on. They have all lived here, and gathered many famous musicians at home and abroad to play, pull, play and sing, and * * * learned from each other, and created famous Guangdong music songs such as "Cylon Won the Brocade", "Raindrop Banana" and "Hungry Horse Rings the Bell".

Anning west steet

Anning West Street is an ancient street that embodies the style of Shawan ancient town, and it is also an important commercial site. The history of Anning West Street originated from Anning City. Shawan, an ancient town, has developed commerce. Anning City, Qiao Yun City, Yong 'an City, Yili City, Luoshan City and Sanhuai City are the six major markets. Anning City has the longest history, the longest duration and the most prosperous business.

Anning City was built in the first year of Song Dynasty and divided into three sections: East, Middle and West. Anning West Street is located in the western section, with a total length of 205 meters and a history of 600 to 700 years.

The ancient Anning West Street is a typical representative of the affluent rural commercial street in the Pearl River Delta. After the development of Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, the traditional market pattern is still preserved. The common shops along the street that "go down to business and live up" reflect the characteristics of Guangfu residential commercial buildings in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Anning West Street contains 14 antique hutongs, retaining the traditional narrow alley living mode of Qingshi Street in Guangdong.

Baomoyuan

Baomo Garden, located in Zini Village, Shawan Town, is a national AAAA-level tourist attraction. The park was built in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, destroyed in 1950s, rebuilt in 1995, and expanded in several phases, covering an area of 654.38+10,000 square meters.

Baomo Garden combines Bao Gong's honest and clean official culture, Lingnan gardens, Lingnan ancient buildings, Pearl River Delta water town features, and ancient and modern fine arts. The whole garden is surrounded by flowers and birds in the cloister, with natural pavilions and gardens, ingenious ideas, and exquisite works of art such as pottery, porcelain, brick carving, gray carving, stone carving and wood carving are dazzling. The waterscape of the whole park is a must. More than 30 physical replica stone arch bridges span the flowing water of Hucheng Lake, and koi fish plays in the water in groups. Other amazing works in the park, including the porcelain relief "The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival" and the huge brick sculpture "Singing the Wall with Flowers", have been listed as "the best in the world".

Baomo Garden is also a theme park to commemorate Bao Zheng, an upright official in the Song Dynasty. There are Baogong Temple, Longtu Pavilion, Qingfeng Bridge, Qingxin Pavilion, Yang Lian Bridge, Zongdi Hall and other cultural landscapes in the park.

Guangdong Music Memorial Hall

Guangdong Music Birthplace Memorial Hall is located at No.7 Anning West Street, Beicun, which was built during Jiaqing period of Qing Dynasty. From the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, it lasted for a hundred years, and the Three Halls became the gathering place of Guangdong music and Quyi elites, and the concert hall in Shawan, the birthplace of Guangdong music. Guangdong music celebrities in Shawan, such as Bo Zhong, He Liutang, He Shaoxia, etc. Through Sanrentang, Yi people and music lovers inside and outside the province are often invited to play, discuss and create Cantonese music. From the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, because many famous artists and celebrities from Guangdong and Hong Kong often gathered here, it became the center of cultural exchanges and foreign affairs activities in Shawan that year. It was during this period that a large number of famous Guangdong music songs came out, such as "Rain Beats Banana" and "Cylon Won Gold".

Liugengtang

Located in Beicun, "Lujiang Zhoudao" is the ancestral hall of He family in Shawan. It was built during the period from Yuan Dynasty to Yuan Yihai (1275), and it has been destroyed and built repeatedly for hundreds of years. The present appearance began in the thirty-ninth year of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty (1700), and it was expanded according to the relevant specifications of Guanjia Temple of Ming products, which lasted for 17 years.

The topography of the whole temple is high in the north and low in the south. The main building covers an area of 3334.25 square meters. It has a five-opening and five-entering structure, including the head door, bell and drum tower, instrument door, east and west hall, worship hall, back bedroom and Lining hall. The buildings are laid out according to the functions required by the ancient patriarchal etiquette, arranged according to the central axis, symmetrically spread on both sides, magnificent and spacious. Its architectural layout, structure and elegant and magnificent decoration show superb ancient architecture art. 1983, Xia Nai, an academician of China Academy of Sciences and the founder of modern archaeology in China, visited and evaluated Liugeng Hall as "Lingnan Ancient Architecture Comprehensive Art Hall".

Academician he memorial hall

Yanqing Hall, located in Anning Middle Street, was built in Jiaqing period of Qing Dynasty. It was originally an ancestral hall dedicated to He Zhiming's ancestors and their descendants. Now why is the academician memorial hall?

He (19 18-2007), the 24th generation descendant of Shawan He nationality, is a famous polymer chemist and educator in China. He has made outstanding contributions to the successful test explosion of China's first atomic bomb and trained a large number of scientific and technological talents for the country. The most important thing is to create and develop the ion exchange resin industry in China, which is known as "the father of ion exchange resin".

Shuilvshan Qingwen Pagoda

Shuilushan Qingwen Pagoda, formerly known as "Shuilushan Qingwen Pavilion", commonly known as "Wenchang Pavilion" and "Wenfeng Pagoda", was built in the 60th year of Qing Emperor Kangxi (172 1). Located at the top of Wentagang at the intersection of Beicunguan Lane and Buyun Lane in Shawan Town, which is the eastern end of the old name "Tiyun Street", it is about 300 meters away from Liugengtang by the south. To the north of the tower is Guanli Lane, and to the south is the corner of Li Buyun Lane and Jinwei Lane. The two lanes form a "herringbone" shape, connecting the west street of Anning City to the south.

Wenfeng Pagoda was once the commanding height of the ancient Shawan, and entered from Jinshili Lane in Anning West Street. The tower, with six corners and three floors, is not only the geomantic architecture of Liugeng Hall of the Hezu nationality, but also the statue of "Wen Kuixing" enshrined in the tower, which was originally a god that rural scholars and children must come to worship at the beginning of winter school. The tower is intended to prosper the writing style of Shawan and inspire scholars to study hard and make progress.

Dishuiyan Forest Park

Dishuiyan Ecological Forest Park was built in 2002, located in the north village of Shawan Town, with a planned total area of more than 7,000 mu, including more than 6,000 mu of ecological public welfare forests.

This park is famous for its beautiful mountains and clear water. The third peak of Panyu, "Qingluozhang", stands towering, with an ancient hilltop fire platform on the mountain, covering a large area of ecological forests, including Pinus massoniana forest, wetland pine forest, Robinia pseudoacacia forest and eucalyptus forest. Herons, egrets, owls, monkey-faced eagles, tits, orioles, hairy chickens and other birds inhabit and breed here, and the park has become a paradise for wild animals such as birds.