Why was zhenhai tower destroyed in Qing Dynasty?
16 1 year, when Li Qifeng was the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, he went upstairs to pay homage to Emperor Wu Wen, and zhenhai tower once again became a place for Guangzhou people to visit and admire. For a time, "the sky is full of people."
This is the second renovation in the Qing Dynasty. At that time, although zhenhai tower was not as famous as the Yellow Crane Tower, Wang Tengting, Yueyang Tower and Stork Tower in China, it was indeed the "first floor" south of Wuling.
Zhenhai Tower faces south, with its eaves rising and ridges flying, towering and straight, and the top of the mountain is magnificent, with extraordinary bearing and unique features. Qu Dajun, a famous poet in the early Qing Dynasty, praised zhenhai tower for its beautiful mountains and seas. Although the Yellow Crane Tower and Yueyang Tower cannot be surpassed, they can actually "strengthen the concept of 30% and make the five mountains come together."
Zhenhai Tower has an extraordinary appearance. Qing Dynasty and zhenhai tower were listed as one of the "Eight Scenes of Yangcheng". Every time poets and politicians board it, they are filled with emotion. Zhenhai tower's famous poems are very rich and impressive, with two main themes: recalling the past and expressing feelings and aspirations.
Among them, Chen Gongyin, a famous poet in the early Qing Dynasty and a native of Foshan, Guangdong Province, has the most extensive influence:
Qing Zun will be drunk in front of the music bar, flying pavilion in autumn.
There is Wuling Mountain Peak in the north and Kyushu Floating in the south.
Chen Gongyin's poem "Climbing the Building" gives people the impression, especially the couplet "Five Ridges Coming from the North", which accurately and vividly shows the geographical characteristics of Guangzhou and can never be transferred to other places, so it has been passed down all the time.
1683, zhenhai tower was destroyed again due to the "San Francisco Rebellion". Two years later, Wu Xingzuo, Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and Li Shizhen, Governor of Guangdong, rebuilt the building. "The bill is huge and magnificent."
During the Kangxi period, Shen Yuancang, a famous scholar at that time, boarded zhenhai tower and looked out at the sea, and wrote a poem "Deng zhenhai tower":
Xu Ling Bai Chi leans against a dangerous building, which is like walking into Sendai.
Yushan half depends on Zhuqi, and a bead of water holds the city flow.
The sand bar is quiet and quiet, and the roof is thick with fireworks.
Huang Yunzi's qi is exhausted, but he is still strong and inflammatory.
Later, zhenhai tower was rebuilt, and the reconstruction project was still built according to the old foundation of Ming Dynasty. There are still 170 meters long Ming Dynasty city walls on both sides of zhenhai tower. After reconstruction, zhenhai tower is 28 meters high, resting on the top of the mountain, with five-story eaves, red walls and green tiles, which is magnificent.
The width of the first floor is 3 1m, the depth is 15.77m, the gable is 3.9m, and the back wall is 3.4m: each floor divides upward, and the width and wall thickness decrease. The fifth floor is 26.4m wide, 13.67m deep, 1.65m gable, 1.3m back wall. There are inscriptions in front of the building, and 12 ancient guns are displayed on the right.
Ding Zeng, a patriotic general in the late Qing Dynasty, wrote poems and lamented:
So Jiangshan, to the blue sea and blue sky, Wan Li is close at hand;
Don't say wine, it's worth banana Rayna Sue, and the first floor will be stormy for a lifetime.
Zhenhai tower has a peculiar shape: "The building is like a tower, and the tower is like a building". In this traditional architectural image with simple form and complicated details, symmetry is its most prominent form, which contains the image symbol of natural beauty and the organic imitation of nature.
From the perspective of geomantic omen, this peculiar shape also has profound implications: Yuexiu Mountain is the residual vein of Baiyun Mountain, where "life is fused", and the builders think that suppressing this vein will suppress the domineering of the south.
In terms of color matching, zhenhai tower's red walls and green tiles are harmonious and unified, and they are also very imposing. Bold collocation of red and yellow tones is the consistent style of ancient buildings in China, but in the Ming Dynasty, it was stipulated that only yellow glazed tiles could be used for royal gatehouses and only green for local gatehouses.
So the exterior wall of zhenhai tower is red, the roof is green glazed tile, and the red wall and green tile are the contrast colors. The red wall does not reflect light, and the green tile reflects light, which is both opposite and unified.
There is a stele gallery in the west of zhenhai tower, displaying 24 inscriptions of past dynasties. Among the numerous inscriptions, it is worth mentioning that the inscription of "Greedy Spring" includes the poem "Greedy Spring" written by Wu Yinzhi, the secretariat of Guangzhou in Jin Dynasty:
The ancients said this water, a cup of gold.
Try to drink this water, and then don't change your clean heart.
According to legend, he wrote this poem because there is an intriguing story: during the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Guangzhou was relatively rich because it was located on the coast of the South China Sea, and local officials were corrupt. There is a saying that "once you cross the city, you get 3200".
Beishimen, Guangzhou, is the only pass between the Central Plains and Guangzhou. There is a spring in Shimen, which is called "greedy spring" It is said that an official who takes office in Guangzhou will become a corrupt official once he drinks the greedy spring water.
Later, Wu Yinzhi made a secretariat of Guangzhou. When he went to Guangzhou to walk in Shimen, he heard that gluttony of spring water would change people's original honesty, so he drank spring water specially and wrote "Poetry of gluttony of spring".
Wu Yinzhi is famous for his poems. When he was an official in Guangzhou, he was clean and self-sustaining, leaving an image of an honest official. Therefore, future generations built monuments in the greedy spring to warn corrupt officials. The monument was originally erected at Shimen, but it was later moved here.
Next to the stele gallery, there are a number of ancient cannons, which were Guangzhou city defense cannons in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, four of which were made in Foshan. At that time, Lin Zexu, a patriotic general of the Qing Dynasty, went to Guangzhou to ban smoking. In order to strengthen Guangzhou's defense, he ordered Foshan gunners to cast a number of cannons, all of which were cast that year.
The big iron cannon was originally placed in Yuexiu Mountain Fort and played an important role in Guangzhou people's struggle against foreign invaders. Among them, some iron cannons and fortresses were seriously damaged by invaders, the ears on both sides of the gun body were broken, and the ignited holes were nailed, making the cannons unusable.
On the front of the top floor of zhenhai tower, there is a huge gold plaque of "zhenhai tower" hanging high, with a pair of woodcut couplets on each side:
There are thousands of dangerous houses robbed. Who will pick buckets and stars?
Five hundred years later, Hou An was here, letting me lean on the fence to see the sword and shed tears for the hero.
This pair of couplets was written by Peng Yulin, who went to Guangdong to organize coastal defense with the title of Minister of War in Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty, and instructed his subordinate Li Dihua. Zhu Liangzu, an architect in zhenhai tower, is an "old Hou" in Lianzhong. The existence of people in the building now can prove the vicissitudes of history. "Looking at the past" and "Tears on Heroes" are emotional. At that time, due to the Sino-French War, Peng Yulin led troops into Guangdong and stationed in zhenhai tower. He opposed Li Hongzhang's proposal and failure, and he was just a tearful hero.
Li Dihua knows the boss's mind and experience, so he recites that architecture is full of artistic conception and is a world-renowned leader. In a blink of an eye, 600 years later, things have changed, and the world is completely different. It's just that this crimson Gu Lou has experienced numerous disasters, numerous wind and frost, cold and heat, and shuddering. The bamboo wall of Biwa is still like an elder in history, tirelessly telling people about the lost years.
When you board zhenhai tower, you can see the lush green trees, green screens and colorful scenery on the mountain. On both sides of the Pearl River, Hongfei Frame, Yulou and Yulou are lined up, and the water is like an area. The blue sky, white clouds, red flowers and green trees constitute an incomparably beautiful picture of Guangzhou, which makes people feel suddenly enlightened and relaxed.