Travel to the northwest (2) Walking into Tianshui, Gansu when the poplars are blooming
Tian Shui, get the water from the sky. It was called Qinzhou in ancient times.
On the desert Loess Plateau, Tianshui is a unique geomantic land. The Wei River and Hulu River pass through the city. On both sides of the city are loess slopes with plateau characteristics. The locals call them mountains, but that It is a flat mountain without any peaks. There are sparsely planted trees on the slopes, and it seems very deserted. But it is such a place. If you have never heard of it, you will be so heartless, because this is the hometown of Fuxi and Nuwa, the ancestor of China. If you’ve heard of it but haven’t been there, you’ll be confused because it’s the birthplace of Chinese civilization. If you've always wanted to go but never made it, that's a shame.
From Xi'an via Xianyang and Baoji, you can reach Tianshui in a short time.
In late spring, in Tianshui City, poplars are blooming, camphor trees are fragrant, and plane trees are lush, and the fruits are as beautiful as those in the south of the Yangtze River. The soul of Tianshui does not lie in the mist and rain of Maiji Mountain, nor in the graceful and uncanny workmanship of the grotto murals. It does not lie in the hometown of Qin Shihuang, Fu Jian, Li Yuan, Li Guang, Jiang Wei and Li Bai. The soul of Tianshui lies in the birthplace of Fuxi. , Fuxi created a system suitable for human survival and development, thus starting the long history of Chinese civilization.
Fuxi Temple
The ancient Tianshui City was divided into five cities. One of them was Fuxi City, which contained the Fuxi Temple. It once occupied a quarter of the city, including the main gate, Yimen, Xiantian Hall, and Taiji. There is Yi Pavilion in the hall and backyard. Due to being destroyed many times, only this much remains. Inside the temple, there are towering cypresses and birds singing. Under the foyer, in the corridor, and the roof beams are all decorated with dragon patterns, like a giant dragon winding around until it reaches the top of the hall. It is very different from all the temples and palaces I have seen. It has green tiles and purple eaves, and a wooden-colored house. On the roof are two jade dragons coiled opposite each other. The dragons are supported by green and light yellow flowers. The window lattice and door panels are all carved with flowers, and I prefer the flowers painted under the eaves, such as orchids, plums, and tea, like flowers in a fairy garden, which make people forget their worries. The entire Taihao Palace is solemn, elegant, solemn, and peaceful. Really, only gods can live in this kind of sapphire-colored palace.
There is a statue of Fuxi in the main hall. I am pious and awed. The top of the hall is painted with the Eight Diagrams created by Fu Xi. Below is a picture of the river. On the right is a painting screen depicting the process of the "Yi". Below is a blue dragon, white tiger, red bird, Xuanwu, and unearthed bells. Listening to the copper wind chimes under the eaves jingling in the spring breeze, time becomes leisurely.
From Jianyi Pavilion, you can see the folk houses in the back mountains, and you can get a glimpse of the customs of the Loess Plateau. There is a deep ravine between the two loess slopes. You can't get through it, and I can't get through it. It's visible but inaccessible, so I thought this is Xintianyou, the flowers in the northwest. I want to shout a few times at the top of my voice, in the silence. On the lonely road, the two of us chatted.
There are four pillars erected in the square in front of the temple, which are used for performing Yi, and there are twenty-eight constellations, but I don’t understand them at all.
Tianshui, Fuxi Temple, half-dry Wei River, wide river bed, and surrounding mountains make people friendly, gentle, and inorganic.
At night, in a place that doesn’t like rain, raindrops started to fall. They hit me diagonally on the left side of my face in my sleep, and I fell on the floor while sleeping.
Tianshui snacks
Tianshui is humanistic, life-like and interesting.
I wanted to stay in Tianshui for one night and see the trains to Lanzhou or Yinchuan as planned, but I didn’t want to leave. My son was a little tired and he didn’t want to go any further, and I also wanted to Resting here, we decided to stay here for one more night.
Snacks are the best display of a local lifestyle and living conditions. The food here is light, but it is different from the light food in Zhejiang, which is light without salt, oil, and seasoning, while the food in Tianshui is very tasty.
A dish called Chopped Pork Shreds. At first I saw a piece of dough covering it and thought it was a steamed bun. But later I said no, so I asked for a portion. The landlady was interested and said, "This dish has a strong taste." "Most outsiders are not used to it." She seemed very honest, so I asked, "What does it taste like?" The lady boss couldn't tell for a long time, and her little daughter next to her, who looked about 13 or 14 years old, said, "It tastes like seafood." "Oh, that's it." I like to eat.” In fact, it just has a bit of shrimp flavor. The first bite is a bit weird, but the more you eat it, the better it tastes. The taste is completely penetrated into the meat, and it has a lingering taste. It also has a bit of durian flavor. I asked the boss lady how to make it, and she said it is the local way of eating. Add fermented bean curd and steam over slow heat. The bad meat is added with red ingredients.
There are many varieties of snacks, including more than a dozen kinds of pancakes. Buy and try each type of pancake, and there are even more steamed buns with different fillings, but the most famous "Guanzhong Boiled" is in There are them everywhere.
Dozens of types of noodles can be made, divided into large and small bowls. The small bowls are much larger than the large bowls in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which shows that the people in the northwest are really honest.
Tianshui Museum
The Dadiwan site in Qin'an County, Tianshui, is one of the most representative prehistoric cultural relics in China. Between 8220 and 7330 years ago, the "six best in China" of Chinese civilization were created, namely, the earliest dry crop specimens, the earliest painted pottery, the earliest prototype of writing, the earliest palace-style buildings, and the earliest "concrete" were unearthed. Grounds and earliest paintings.
Today, the Tianshui Museum displays a large number of precious cultural relics unearthed in the Tianshui area. I have selected a few that I like, among which the green-glazed puppy is my favorite.
Mr. Ma Weidu said that next to the Majiayao cultural site in Gansu, these painted pottery were piled in every farmer's house, but I didn't see it because I didn't go in, but I found that it was the same as the pottery I picked up. The pottery sherds we received are really similar.
My trip to Tianshui is coming to an end. I am very nostalgic, but I am just a passer-by. I come in a hurry, but I go there in love. It is said that I have walked into Tianshui, but I know that I cannot get a glimpse of it. , let alone understand, but my heart is willing to understand and I am willing to learn.
The trip to Tianshui was very hasty, and it was just a glimpse through the crack in the door. Tianshui didn't eat enough snacks, and the Weihe River has never seen its surging water, but life is never that perfect, and only if you leave some regrets will you never forget it.