Chapter 1485: Destroyed Soldiers and Burials
The remaining buildings to be relocated also have their own characteristics, such as Ziguang Pavilion located in Chenjiawan Village, Xietan Township. The gables and eaves are made of hollow bricks made of green bricks, and the hollow buckets are filled with broken bricks and mortar. The sill wall has three urns and six sleeping urns, or nine urns and six sleeping urns.
The building structure of the Wang Ancestral Hall in Longmaxi Village, Quyuan Town is mainly a mixture of brick and wood. The beam frame is a combination of bucket type and lifting beam type to support the roof. The bucket wall masonry is installed, and the hard gray tile roof is dry. A two-story pavilion-style building on the mountain. There are seven stone tablets in the temple.
The main facade of the Du Family Ancestral Hall in the same village is transformed into a six-column, seven-story archway. This approach is very exquisite and unique, with a distinctive personality.
Zheng Shuxiang's residence in Guilin Village, Tongzhen, has a large number of hollow carvings on the wooden components, and the content is mostly about characters, stories, curly grass and flowers.
Zheng Qiguang's residence in the same village is even more prosperous. Within the territory of Xiahu, it is second to none in terms of architectural scale, structural form, sculpture and color painting art. In addition to its historical and artistic value, it has a unique front hall structure and empty columns. The form of internal water drainage is unique among ancient dwellings, and even has extraordinary architectural and scientific value.
This village also has Zheng Shaonian’s residence, Liu Zhenglin’s residence, Zheng Wanlang’s residence, Sanlaoye’s residence, Peng Shuyuan’s residence, Zheng Wanzhan’s residence... which can be called a treasure house of ancient residences.
Guilin Village, Longmaxi Village, Qingtan Town, and Xintan Town constitute the focus of Zigui cultural preservation and relocation.
“Our Guizhou City ruins are actually well protected.” Old Chen from the cultural center looked at the shocked people and sighed: “A few years ago, we were still discussing the use of the site located in the center of the Three Gorges The unique advantages of the region are used to create an ancient city and develop the tourism economy.”
“Now, the whole area will be flooded.”
"Don't we have to move so many ancient buildings?" Zhou Zhi comforted: "Our foundation has to work hard on the rest. Even Yinghe Gate and Jingxian Gate have to be moved to Fenghuang Mountain. Old Chen, too. It’s time to be content.”
“But the scale of the city’s layout cannot be seen.” Lao Chen was still a little confused: “Guizhou City was built in the first year of the Shu Han Dynasty, and it was built many times in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It has been repaired and reinforced, and its overall shape is like a gourd. It is commonly known as "Gourd City". It is made of red sandstone strips and built along the undulating mountains. The city gates and walls all reflect the characteristics of ancient city defense buildings in Guizhou and even the Three Gorges area of the Yangtze River. It is of great significance to our research. The history of the ancient city, as well as the planning, design, and structure of the past dynasties, are extremely important physical examples. How can just moving two city gates be enough?"
"Stop complaining if you complain." Li Laosan also advised, flipping through a thick stack of inspection reports in front of Lao Chen: "The two city gates are already the limit. Look, there is also a Xima Bridge here. Four pillars On the top of the wooden archway on the third floor of the verandah, Guo Moruo wrote the plaque "Qu Yuan's Hometown" in regular script during the reign of Guangxu and the "Han Zhaojun Wang Qiang's Hometown" monument in regular script."
"There are also Huiji Bridge, Jiangdu Bridge, Quzi Bridge, and Qianshan Bridge. How about we just remove the arches and stone plaques? Protect the remaining parts on the spot?"
< br>"That's not possible," the flesh on Lao Chen's face trembled twice: "These bridges are all well-preserved ancient bridges, dating from the Qing Dynasty at the latest. We cannot let future generations lose sight of them."
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"Then there's no need to move this well?" Lin Wanqiu also started teasing Menzi: "There are too many things to move in Guilin Village, but this Xintan Well looks average?"
"No. It's not ordinary..." Lao Chen quickly defended: "The structure of this well is different from ordinary water wells. It is not a vertical hole type, but a parallel box type surrounded by local bluestone. The running water used to store the two springs on the side is very rare in the country."
"There is no other way." Zhou Zhi was helpless: "It cannot be said that the walls of Guizhou City can be used. Is it more important than Chuwangcheng, Liulinxi, Taoyuan Tower, Guiping River, and Yanglinyan?”
The Chuwangcheng site is located in Chuwangjing Village, Guojiaba Town, from the Warring States Period to the Ming Dynasty. There are bricks dating from the first year of Longqing in the Ming Dynasty on the city wall of the ruins; the rammed city wall in the middle part contains rope pattern pottery shards, slab tiles, tube tiles, etc. from the Han Dynasty; the rammed city wall in the lower part contains stone axes, sand-filled red pottery, and black pottery pieces from the Neolithic Age. .
It has been found that it was built in the Han, Jin and Ming dynasties respectively. It is of great value to the study of Chu culture and ancient Chinese city construction. The Liulinxi site is located in a group of Miaohe Village, Maoping Town. It is even more remarkable. The Hubei Provincial Institute of Archaeology and other units conducted excavations on the site twice in 1960 and 1981, and are now undergoing a third excavation.
The cultural accumulation of the site is very rich, covering a wide era and well preserved, including remains from the Six Dynasties, Eastern Han Dynasty, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, and the Neolithic Age; unearthed stones, pottery, copper, iron, silver, bones, etc. Thousands of items of all kinds.
The most impressive thing is the outer bottom of the pottery ring, the top of the support and the edge of the mouth of the jar. A total of more than 40 carved symbols were found in the ruins, which are similar to those in Yangjiawan and Chaotianzui in the Three Gorges area. The symbols unearthed from the site are very similar and richer, and are older than the Yangjiawan and Chaotianzui sites.
The engraved symbols discovered at the Liulinxi site are about three thousand years older than the oracle bone inscriptions. They are large in number, rich in connotation, and complex in structure. They have been recognized by academic circles as one of the important sources of the origin of Chinese characters. They are important to the origin of Chinese characters. The origin of writing in China and even the world is of great significance.
This is also a key area for excavations sponsored by the foundation. The reason is simply that Zhou Zhi "pretends for public benefit for personal gain" because philology is his specialty.
The results of this excavation are also huge. The number of symbols has been expanded to more than 60. The more than 20 newly discovered characterization symbols will further study the relationship between the specific meaning and function of the characterization symbols and the emergence and evolution of the original writing. , and provided a batch of new materials.
The Ancient Taoyuan Tower was built in the third year of Tongzhi. It is a 15-meter-high, six-cornered, seven-level blue brick and three-layer mud structure. There is a door in the tower body, and there are steps inside the door that can go up to the sixth floor. The entire tower is well preserved, but some of the corners, eaves and brakes have deteriorated and need to be repaired during this relocation.
There are still many copper bells damaged in the tower, which make sounds when the wind blows. They are also objects from the Tongzhi period, so they had to be rescued.
Guiping River and Yanglinyan are dotted with dense clusters of hanging coffin tombs.
The cliff tombs in Guiping River are all artificially carved nearly square caves. Based on the observation of the coffin structure and the shape of the gray pottery multi-bellied jars, it is inferred that the age of these hanging coffins is the Eastern Zhou Dynasty in the Central Plains.
The cliff caves in the Yanglin rock coffin tombs are generally excavated horizontally along the river bed, and some are excavated vertically along the cliff.
Most of the tombs here are the tombs of the Ba people. The latest archaeological results have discovered a special burial style of the Ba people.
The Ba people advocate bravery, and their totem is the ferocious white tiger. Historically, the Ba people are also known for their bravery and fighting skills. They once dominated the Jianghan Plain for many years.
Perhaps the Ba people think that they are a weapon, or that weapons are their other lives. Therefore, in many Ba people’s tombs, they found that the weapons buried with them were broken.
This is the custom of "destroying soldiers and burying them with them". The Ba people believe that human life and their cherished weapons are integrated, living together and dying together.
(End of this chapter)