Chapter 139 The capital, a city that makes people forget to return
After participating in the re-examination and leaving the examination room, the staff at the door re-checked Yang Wenbin's work permit and admission ticket, and left his contact number and mailing address. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
This is the end of the retest.
Yang Wenbin booked a ticket for the evening, and now the retest will be completed in the morning, and the remaining half a day will be at his disposal.
It just so happened that the capital hadn't been here for a long time, so he just took the opportunity to visit the capital.
For the capital, Yang Wenbin is still familiar.
When he was in the third grade of primary school, his father once brought him to the capital.
In his impression, the capital is so big.
And the deepest memories left in his impression, one is the Forbidden City, and the other is the Summer Palace.
That time, his father took him to Tiananmen Square, entered the Forbidden City, and saw the magnificent palace, the harem full of cloisters, and the towering rockery, which really saw the world.
However, in his childhood mind, the most impressive thing was the Treasure Hall.
In the treasure hall, there are so many dazzling treasures, such as porcelain, jade, gold and silver, jewelry, and clocks, and so on.
At that time, he thought, he would be satisfied if he had one of them, because every treasure is worth a fortune.
Another impressive place is the Summer Palace.
His father led him through the corridor of the Summer Palace, and he felt that the corridor was too long, and he couldn't walk no matter how he walked, and his legs were tired and weak.
On the purlins above the corridor, there are various exquisite patterns painted, and the one that impressed him the most was Journey to the West, the story of Sun Wukong's three fights against the white bone spirit.
It seems that there are also the stories of the Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, and Chang'e Running to the Moon.
Since the Academy of Military Science is relatively close to the Summer Palace and the Old Summer Palace, Yang Wenbin decided to visit the Summer Palace and the Old Summer Palace first.
Yang Wenbin got on the nearest bus and traveled about two stops to the Summer Palace.
Entered the south gate of the Summer Palace.
As soon as he entered the door, Yang Wenbin saw a huge bronze bull sculpture, standing on the east bank of Kunming Lake, on the north side of the east bridgehead of the 17-hole bridge, and the description said that it was set up to suppress floods. It was cast in copper in 1755 and was called the "Golden Bull".
Walking through the Golden Bull, it is the Seventeen-Hole Bridge.
The 17-hole bridge is located on Kunming Lake, between the east embankment and the South Lake Island, which is used to connect the embankment island, and is the largest stone bridge in the park.
The stone bridge is 8 meters wide and 150 meters long, and consists of 17 bridge holes.
There are more than 500 stone lions of different sizes and shapes carved on the railings on both sides of the stone bridge.
After crossing the seventeen-hole bridge, you will arrive at the Dragon King Temple.
The most famous building on Nanhu Island is the Dragon King Temple.
Cross the seventeen-hole bridge, step on Nanhu Island, face is a memorial arch, walk to the front, the right side is the Dragon King Temple.
The Dragon King Temple sits in the north and faces south, the courtyard is not big, but there are archways on the south, west and east sides of the small square in front of the temple, which is the highest specification in all the Dragon King Temple.
In order to pray for good weather in the feudal society, there are dragon king temples built on the water's edge.
This dragon king temple on Nanhu Island began in the Ming Dynasty, it was originally the dragon shrine on the long causeway in the east boundary of the West Lake, the surrounding land was left when digging the embankment and expanding the lake in the Qianlong period, forming the Nanhu Island, and rebuilding the dragon god temple, renamed "Guangrun Temple", as the place to pray for rain in the garden.
The dragon king has the dragon king of the four seas, because Kunming Lake was originally called the West Lake, therefore, the dragon king enshrined here is the dragon king of the West Sea, Ao Yan, and the title is the king of Guangrun of the West Sea.
It is said that when the capital was dry for a long time and there was no rain, Kunming Lake dried up, and Emperor Jiaqing came to the Dragon King Temple from the Old Summer Palace to pray for incense and pray to the Dragon King.
Coincidentally, when I returned to the Old Summer Palace after the ceremony, before I sat down, there was a rumbling thunder, and soon it was pouring rain. Afterwards, Emperor Jiaqing personally changed the title of the temple to "Guangrun Lingyu Temple".
Out of the Dragon King Temple, Yang Wenbin got on a cruise ship, swinging on Kunming Lake, watching the beautiful scenery on the opposite side.
Kunming Lake is the main lake of the Summer Palace, accounting for three-quarters of the total area of the park.
Standing on the yacht, looking at the rippling blue waves in the south, undulating in the west, and a group of pavilions in the north.
There is a in the lake, which winds from the northwest to the south, and the peach willows are lined up on the embankment.
The seventeen-hole bridge lies across the lake, and there are also classical buildings of different forms on the three islands in the lake.
The levee and its dikes divide the lake into three bodies of varying size, each with a mid-lake island.
These three islands form a towering array on the surface of the lake, which is said to symbolize the three sacred mountains of the East China Sea in ancient Chinese legends - Penglai, Fangzhang and Yingzhou.
Looking west from the lake and the lakeside, the scenery outside the park and the lakes and mountains in the park are integrated, which is an outstanding example of the use of scenery borrowing techniques in Chinese gardens.
On the huge Kunming Lake, "the lake and mountains are rippling", it is really a good place for leisure!
After a while, the yacht reached the north side of the stone boat, and Yang Wenbin got off the boat with the passengers.
The stone boat, by the lake at the west end of the promenade, is actually a big stone boat that decorates the scene, also known as the "Qing Banquet Boat".
Legend has it that its predecessor was a "release platform" in the "Yuanjing Temple" of the Ming Dynasty.
The so-called "release" can simply be described as the release of animals such as fish and shrimp.
Every year on the eighth day of April, the Qianlong Emperor would accompany his biological mother, the Empress Dowager Xiaosheng, to a "release platform" in the "Yuanjing Temple" to show their kindness.
Over time, Emperor Qianlong reminded me of Wei Zheng's famous saying: "Water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize a boat", thinking about it, I think that this famous saying, although it is very reasonable, can also encourage me to pay attention to the important relationship between water and boats, but also make me feel that this famous sentence also contains an inauspicious side, and it also makes me taboo, what should I do?
Emperor Qianlong pondered and pondered, remembering that the Holy Ancestor Emperor Kangxi paid attention to avoidance, and whenever people all over the world encountered the word "Xuanye", they all wrote it as a missing pen word "", and rewrote the word "Xuan" to "Yuan", for example, the first sentence of "Thousand Character Text" "Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang" was rewritten as "Heaven and Earth Yuan Huang", and the north gate of the Forbidden City "Xuanwu Gate" of the "Imperial Palace" (commonly known as) was renamed "Shenwu Gate" to show respect for Emperor Kangxi of Shizu.
So, why didn't my Emperor Qianlong break the big stand and rebuild the "release platform" into a big stone boat and put it in the water?
In this way, we can kill two birds with one stone, not only can remind me that "water can carry a boat, but also can overturn a boat", and there is also a signal that "water can only carry a boat but cannot overturn a boat", so that my Qing Dynasty will be forever.
Legend has it that this is how the stone boat originated in the first place.
Boarding the stone boat, Yang Wenbin remembered the song "Chinese Beauty":
"In the past we had many, many of the world's best,
The four major inventions are well-known,
The Great Wall Canal dots the earth,
There is also a stone boat by Kunming Lake, silently enduring the rain and wind.
Now we are no longer discouraged, no longer drunk,
Heroes have the courage of the year, the courage of the year,
There have also been bitter and painful tears,
Remember the thousands of twists and turns that have passed, a thousand twists and turns,
Catch up with the flow of the times, catch up,
China's future is infinitely beautiful,
……”
Yang Wenbin hummed this song he learned when he was a middle school teacher in his mouth, and thought to himself: "After the efforts of several generations of Chinese, our national strength has been greatly improved, and the era of being bullied and not daring to echo is gone forever. ”
Then, he turned north and climbed up from the western foot of Wanshou Mountain, and on the way he browsed the middle reaches of the painting, the Wisdom Sea, the Buddha Xiang Pavilion, the Paiyun Palace, the Gyeongbok Pavilion, and the Duobao Pagoda.
Then turn west, to Suzhou Street, then to the east, to the north, to the west, to the North Palace Gate.
After a short rest, Yang Wenbin changed to a bus and drove for about half an hour to the Old Summer Palace.
The Old Summer Palace is composed of three parts: Qichun Garden, Changchun Garden and Old Summer Palace.
Yang Wenbin traveled to miniature landscapes, Huanglong Array, Western Building, Dashui Law, Yuanying View and other places.
The Great Water Law Site is part of the Western Mansion Scenic Area in the Old Summer Palace.
The main scenery of the Western Building Scenic Area is the artificial fountain, which is called the "water method" at the time, which is characterized by a large number, great momentum and peculiar conception.
It mainly forms three large fountain groups of Harmony Wonder, Haiyan Hall and Da Shui Fa, which are quite interesting and are the essence of Chinese and Western cultures.
Da Shui Fa is adjacent to Haiyan Hall in the west, at the intersection of the north-south main axis of Changchun Garden and the east-west axis of Xiyanglou, it is the most spectacular European-style fountain landscape in the park.
In 1860, when the British and French forces invaded the capital, the Old Summer Palace was destroyed and set on fire.
After visiting the Old Summer Palace, the mood is especially uneasy.
Both royal gardens, the Summer Palace and the Old Summer Palace share the same tragic fate.
The British and French forces did everything they could, and burned down the Summer Palace and the Old Summer Palace.
The Summer Palace was rebuilt by Cixi's embezzlement of naval funds, but the Old Summer Palace could never be restored.
Sad, joyful!
Lafayette never imagined that the place where she lived has now been opened up as a scenic spot for visitors to admire and remember!
Great, great!