Chapter 1451 Shi Family Ancestral Hall and Yu Palace
The riverside villages and towns in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River have a unique layout, and the houses are basically similar in shape. Zhenxi Town and Jiachuan Rongshan Town and Baisha Town, which Zhou Zhi is familiar with, look similar. Almost the same.
Basically, there is a road along the river along the river and west. Both sides of the road along the river are old houses with brick and wood structures. There is also a stone-step road along the pier, leading to the top of the hillside. , there are usually palaces, temples and other buildings on them.
Zhenxi is indeed unknown. People from the Fuling Cultural Center were already waiting for Zhou Zhi and his party at the pier. Zhou Zhi was shocked when he heard the introduction. It turns out that this place is said to be the home of a famous pre-Qin figure. Baqing is the birthplace of Widow Qing.
Ba Qing was a great industrial and commercial owner during the Warring States Period, and could be called the earliest female entrepreneur in the world. She provided a large amount of mercury for the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang. Because of her special political and military status, she and another big businessman The great herdsman Wu Shiluo was treated as a distinguished guest by the state. Later, Qin Shihuang left her as a guest in Xianyang to take care of herself. After Ba's death, Qin Shihuang, in recognition of her chastity, named her a chaste woman and ordered the construction of a "Nvhuai Qingtai" at her burial place to make it known to the world.
Ba Qing is not well-known in China now, and will only become widely known after Huang Yi's "Looking for Qin" becomes popular all over the world and is made into a popular TV series by TVB.
With this background in mind, Zhenxi had nine palaces and eighteen temples built during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, as well as the "Eight Scenes of Zhenxi" based on the popularity at that time.
Many of them have disappeared by now, but Wantian Palace, Yuwang Palace, Shi Family Ancestral Hall, Yan Family Courtyard and other places are still there.
In addition, there are many Han tombs.
Zhenxi is a small river like Jiachuan Gaodong River. The small river also has several small tributaries such as Xiaozhenxi, Quxi River and Bixi River. It is surrounded by green trees and is warm in winter and cool in summer. , when everyone walked together on the stone road of the side street, although it was scorching hot, they no longer felt much heat.
"This place is really nice. It will be developed into a place of cultivation in the future. It will be warm in winter and cool in summer. It will be very comfortable." Zhou Zhi felt physically and mentally happy.
“Don’t mention this in front of the folks.” Mr. Xu from the Fuling Cultural Center who was in charge of the introduction smiled and said: “Warm winters and cool summers mean no harvest. In the past few years, the Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, The teacher came to our place to inspect and said that the relict plants here include Miscanthus and Ligusticum. White, golden retriever, fern, stone pine, sea golden sand, metasequoia, ginkgo, etc., it can be called a "Tertiary plant refuge""
"It is a big glacier, even if there is heavy wind and snow. There's nothing you can do, right?" Zhou Zhi changed his mind, understood what Lao Xu meant, and smiled.
“Everyone is waiting to be relocated now. Those places of interest and historical sites were not able to be protected before, and we focused on maintaining them in their original state. Now, we can’t even hope for them.”
After finishing his words, He made a rough gesture: "From there, from Xuejia Village at the mouth of Quxikou to the Yu Palace area upstream, the side facing the river will all be flooded."
"The city has learned that the inundation area will submerge two cities, 11 counties, and 114 market towns, and more than 1.2 million immigrants will need to be relocated. Just looking at this number, we know that the country is I have made a big decision.”
The Shi Family Ancestral Hall is a Qing Dynasty building that combines traditional residences with ancestral halls. It covers an area of more than 1,000 square meters and a building area of nearly 700 square meters. .
The whole building is of brick and wood structure, facing south and facing the Yangtze River. It is three rooms wide, with four steps and three floors from north to south, forming a layout of a courtyard with three entrances and three wells.
There is a screen wall in front, a cloister inside, and more than 20 large and small rooms. It was built by Shi Jiyun and Shi Yu, the father and son of the local Jinshi in the Qing Dynasty and editors of the Hanlin Academy, after they became prosperous.
This residential house is quite complete, but the Shi family seems to have adhered to a low-key style. Although the scale is complete and grand, there is no excessive decoration, and the overall look is simple and solemn. The meaning of simplicity and solemnity is that this place has research value for studying the Qing Dynasty southern Sichuan dwellings, the pattern, orientation, regulations of ancestral halls, etc., but it is lackluster in terms of collection value.
The only two places are the screen wall in front of the door and the unique ship-shaped stone gate tower on the head of the ancestral hall, which is rare to see elsewhere.
There are five exquisite brick carvings on the screen wall, and there are also couplets on both sides made of blue and white porcelain fragments.
The top of the ship-shaped stone gatehouse is carved with many dramatic figures, and the bottom is carved with auspicious beasts and spiritual grass. They are very top-notch in terms of craftsmanship and are the only two luxurious places in the entire Shi Family Courtyard. place.
With the capacity of the Three Gorges Cultural Preservation Fund, it can only demolish these two places. The only thing left is to take away the valuable wood. If there is a chance to sell it in the future, it can be offset. part of the cost.
Yes, Zhou Zhi has set such a path for the Cultural Preservation Fund from the very beginning. The foundation will also collect materials that are clearly going to be flooded and damaged, and no organization is willing to take over, but are not without value. They can be used as materials to build the Three Gorges Residential Museum in the future, or they can be sold after waiting for appreciation in value to raise funds.
Including some porcelain, metalware, statues, architectural components, etc. that are currently difficult to be included in the protection level of cultural relics, the same is true.
The most abundant wood in Shu is golden nanmu. Other rare woods such as rosewood, huanghuali, rosewood, chicken wing wood, iron wood, ebony, ebony and mahogany have also been preserved or preserved in various periods of history. Imported.
In the Palace of King Yu in Zhenxi, Zhou Zhi discovered an ebony throne and a statue of King Yu.
Ebony is actually the product of wood sinking into water. After millions of years of erosion, the cavities in the wood cells are filled with mineral products. It has a fine and even structure, a hard and heavy material, and no smell of wood, but It has a lustrous and greasy feel, sinks in water, is as black as red sandalwood and is more fine-grained, and its biggest feature is that it will not rot in water.
The construction site of King Yu's Palace is very close to the water. According to Lao Xu, the statue of King Yu here was often submerged by the river. It is also damp and humid near the river. The doors and windows of the main hall are often replaced, but the statues and shrines are not corrupt. The villagers think it is supernatural. Therefore, it has always been worshiped throughout history.
It turns out to be made of ebony, so it’s no wonder that it doesn’t rot. Zhou Zhi can be considered as having solved a case.
This shrine with the statue is also valuable. There is a stone turtle underneath. Unlike the ordinary dragons who carry stele, this turtle also has something in its mouth. Writing a scroll.
This is an allusion to Dayu's control of floods and his visit to Luoshui, where a divine turtle presented a book. Together with the picture of Fuxi encountering a dragon and horse in the Yellow River, it is collectively called the "River Picture and Luoshu".
The palaces of King Yu are everywhere in the country. Because King Yu once allied with the princes in Tushan, the Palace of King Yu is also called the Tushan Temple. Usually, King Yu and the Tushan family are worshiped together, which makes them more prone to floods. In this place, everyone was more and more grand about the construction of King Yu's palace, hoping to use the magic power of Yu and his wife to suppress the flood.
The preciousness of Zhenxiyu Palace can only be said to be average. Only the statue shrine needs to be moved.
(End of this chapter)