If you don’t know Shuitingmen, you will come to Quzhou Prefecture in vain
It’s 7:30 in the morning, overcast, and the weather is comfortable. A luxury bus carried 30 members of the Aojiang Business and Trade Association and their families, driving to the first stop of this inspection tour - Quzhou City, Zhejiang Province. Quzhou is a prefecture-level city located in the west of Zhejiang Province. It borders Nanping, Fujian to the south, Shangrao and Jingdezhen, Jiangxi to the west, Huangshan, Anhui to the north, and intersects Jinhua, Lishui and Hangzhou in the east. It has "four provincial thoroughfares and five main roads". "head". It governs Kecheng District, Qujiang District, Jiangshan City, Longyou County, Changshan County and Kaihua County, with a total permanent population of about 2.3 million.
Quzhou, with "Southern Confucius Holy Land·Quzhou Welfare" as its city brand, is a national historical and cultural city, a city with beautiful ecological landscapes, an open and atmospheric city, and a city of innovation and vitality. At 12 noon, a group of people from the Aojiang Business and Trade Association arrived at the "Shuitingmen" ancient district in Quzhou City to inspect the long history and culture, admire the "Shuitingmen" ancient city wall, and taste Quzhou cuisine.
"If you don't know Shuitingmen, you will come to Quzhou Prefecture in vain." "Water Pavilion Gate" is an important part of the core area of Quzhou National Confucian Cultural Industrial Park. It is also the main attraction of the 5A-level scenic spot created by the central leisure area of Quzhou Ancient City and the municipal government. It is like a book, embedding the past storms and clouds quietly between the lines. There are 14 national, provincial and municipal key cultural protection units and 36 historical buildings in the block. The architectural style and street texture are well preserved. The area is dotted with temples, ancestral halls, guild halls, towers, historic sites and numerous traditional houses.
The "Shuitingmen" historical and cultural block is based on "Confucian culture" and aims at "Nan Kong Pilgrimage Site, China's Shuitingmen". The block includes leisure experience, cultural and creative retail, catering, Art spaces, beauty and health care, VR technology, traditional Chinese academies, hotels and inns have become a fashionable gathering place for "urban tourism, cultural and creative business". At noon, we specially chose Gupu Liangshi, a Zhejiang intangible cultural heritage gourmet store in the "Shuitingmen" neighborhood, and ordered Quzhou specialties - three heads and one palm, which are rabbit heads, duck heads, fish heads and duck paws to taste. .
After lunch, the group came to the "Shuitingmen" ancient city wall square, where they looked west to the roaring Qujiang River, and behind them, through the city gate, was the ancient administrative center of Quzhou. "Shuitingmen" is a common city building style in the south during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is built in four directions, with double-story pavilions, mountain rests and flying eaves, and a graceful manner. The four characters "Feige Liudan" above the city tower are elegant and imposing. A bird's-eye view of the majestic ancient city, the majestic water pavilion gate, and the long Qujiang River carry the vicissitudes of history of the ancient city and bear witness to today's carrying forward the past and opening up the future, and the peace of the country and the people!
Last year it was Jiangbian Road,
Today it has been transformed into Lai Garden.
The water pavilions and pavilions are in contrast to each other,
The winding paths of the railings are interdependent.
The fragrant flowers win the love of thousands of bees,
The green trees attract hundreds of birds to squat.
Where is the garden?
Shuitingmen on the south bank of Qujiang River.
(To be continued)
Photo provided by: Zhao Hongbo? Zhang Haiqing
? Zhu Zhulingzi
2022.06.21 Essay in Quzhou