Tour of Phoenix Ancient City in Zhangjiajie——Tianjia Courtyard, a courtyard where many celebrities come from
After appreciating the scenery of Tianmen Mountain in Zhangjiajie and having a Tujia New Year banquet, the next day we came to the famous Tianjia Courtyard in Zhangjiajie City. Visiting this compound was not part of my itinerary. It was a gift from the tour guide, but it left a very deep impression on me.
As we all know, most of the people living in Zhangjiajie are Tujia, Miao and other ethnic minorities. We Han people are equivalent to ethnic minorities here. Therefore, the most powerful people in this land are mostly local chieftains. Xiangxi has historically been a place where bandits often appeared, and wars often broke out among various ethnic groups and tribes here.
During the Renzong period of the Northern Song Dynasty, the imperial court sent Imperial Envoy Tian Chengman to lead the chieftains from all walks of life in the southwest, established the chieftain palace, and built the Tian Family Courtyard, which has a history of nearly a thousand years. It is said that it is more than 400 years older than the Forbidden City. During the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, Tian Qiyuan, a descendant of the Tian family and the richest man in the area, spent a lot of money to repair and expand the old site of the Tian family compound, making it the first residence in western Hunan and the first residence of the Tujia people. And here, the legendary story of Tian's famous family is interpreted.
It was not until 2003 that this ancient courtyard, which had been dusty for thousands of years, was unveiled and opened to the public as a tourist attraction. It was praised by the world as "the Millennium Tuwang Palace that treasures the essence of Tujia history and culture."
Although the Tian Family Courtyard manages all the Tujia people in the southwest, the Tian family is Han. In this old courtyard, the Tian family has carried forward traditional Chinese culture in this remote Xiangxi. It can be called a model of traditional Chinese education.
For thousands of years, the Tian family has been following the ancestral motto of "leaving poems and books to descendants and passing on filial piety to the family". The descendants of the Tian family have trained more than 800 civil and military champions, scholars and senior officials of fourth grade or above. It is said that "wealth cannot last more than three generations", but the Tian family has performed a legend of a thousand-year-old noble family. This has a lot to do with the Confucian culture passed down from generation to generation of the Tian family, the infinitely extended Taoism and Feng Shui culture, and the fact that every generation of the head of the Tian family persistently values reading, education, integrity, and good moral character.
There is a "Tianmen Academy" (earlier known as Bauhinia Academy or Bailu Martial Arts Academy) in the Tian family compound. From this academy came three "prime ministers" (Tian Chengman, Xiong Xiling, Zhu Rongji) and two major revolutionaries. (Song Jiaoren, Lin Boqu), a literary giant (Shen Congwen), a hero Du Xinwu (North and South Heroes), a scientist Tian Qirong (Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences). They all studied or taught here.
When we were guided by the tour guide and sat on the desks and chairs where these great men had sat, it seemed as if time had suddenly traveled through time, as if the young prime ministers were concentrating on their studies here, with their chests full of ideas to help the world. The ideal of saving the country. I suddenly felt that people who have been nurtured in such a cultural environment, even if they cannot become great men, I believe they will become elites or leaders in their respective fields.
The purpose of "Meng Meng's mother moving three times" is to give her children a good learning environment and atmosphere, because "those who are close to red are red, and those who are close to ink are black." Under the influence of the Tian family's thousands of years of Confucian culture, in Under the influence of so many celebrities and elegant people, being exposed to advanced culture and a lot of reading and learning every day, a person will definitely undergo a transformation!
Therefore, many parents now would rather spend a lot of money to send their children to the best schools and receive the best education. Now it seems that they have inherited the excellent traditions of the ancients. When a child has seen the world and is exposed to great ideas, he will no longer care about trivial things and will focus on greater ideals. This may be a subtle influence.
Just as my thoughts were wandering between the past and the present, the tour guide said: Guess which seat Premier Zhu Rongji sat in for three years? Everyone looked around curiously and kept guessing. At this time, the tour guide pointed his finger at the separate desk where I was sitting and said, this is the desk.
Wow, everyone looked at me with envy at that time and said that I was really a lucky person! I am also very happy, I have always been very lucky. I hope that this time I can catch the light of a great man and bring me more good luck.
Of course, the Tian Family Courtyard has not only produced many outstanding students and teachers, but the compound is also a geomantic treasure. It is called the "living fossil" of Tujia architecture and folk customs. It has a three-story hall, four patios, and four surrounding walls. It faces north and south, is symmetrical from east to west, has a rigorous layout, and has a brick and wood structure. Its lighting and ventilation mode of "eight skylights and seven stars" is a masterpiece of architecture in the world! It can be called an architectural wonder.
In addition, Tianjia Courtyard also collects a wide variety of ceramics, ancient beds, bronzes, silverwares, linen yarn, calligraphy and paintings, etc. There are 14,370 pieces that are relatively valuable in the collection world, with a total value of 14,370. has reached 1 billion yuan.
In addition, there are many unsolved mysteries in the Tian Family Courtyard, such as: the five-drop water blessing bed that is indestructible for thousands of years, the dragon-headed turtle that knows the weather, the stone slab that can predict the future, and the creature that cannot be killed by a knife. People...
It is said that the Tian Family Courtyard is as famous as the Qiao Family Courtyard. This thousand-year-old Tujia architectural courtyard, the treasures handed down throughout the courtyard, the unique Tujia cultural customs, and the eternal masterpiece "Xiangxi Ancient Music" are all amazing.