1. Nanjing is the epitome of the Republic of China

In the summer of 1934, Lao She took a train from Jinan to the south, passing through Nanjing and getting off the train at Nanjing Xiaguan Station, with the aim of going to the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum.

He stepped out of the heat wave of the train and rushed to his face, and the fiery sun baked him breathlessly. He looked at the sun and said to his friend, "I have escaped from the pot and entered the furnace." ”

His friend couldn't help but laugh.

Nanjing, one of the three major furnaces, is a city that rarely has spring.

After the Spring Festival in 1937, every household had not finished eating the New Year's dishes, and the day was already getting hot day by day.

Ten dishes in a ceramic pot suddenly have a taste because of the heat. No matter how reluctant I am in my heart, I have to pour outward.

The bowl head fish, which symbolizes that there is more than enough every year, has to be served at every meal without touching the chopsticks. I can't put it down.

After a spring rain, the plum blossoms on the plum blossom mountain in the eastern suburbs of Nanjing bloomed early, and the news spread all over the city of Nanjing for a while, and people rushed to go up the mountain to enjoy the plum blossoms.

Colorful plum blossoms are full of trees, some are in full bloom, some are budding, and some are just budding. The mountains of plum blossoms make people can't get enough of it.

People stay on the plum blossom mountain and forget to return, there are people who take pictures under the plum blossoms, and there are people who leave plum blossoms in a variety of postures for plum blossom photography.

Climb to the top of Plum Blossom Mountain. Backed by the Purple Mountain and facing the city of Nanjing, the spring breeze is fragrant, which is refreshing and fun.

Nanjing Meihua Mountain is in the south of the Purple Mountain outside the Zhongshan Gate, as early as 252 A.D., it is a barren mountain with an altitude of 55 meters at the foot of the Purple Mountain.

Although there are plum blossoms growing on this barren mountain, there is no climate, let alone a sparse climate

There is interest in it and it is just a nameless hill.

In 252 AD, Emperor Sun Quan of Wu took a fancy to this feng shui treasure and chose this place as his burial place. Since then, people have called this nameless hill 'Sun Linggang'.

The bureaucrats and literati who went to the post to sweep the graves found plum blossoms on the mountain. People naturally

It is commonly known as Plum Blossom Mountain.

The month rotates, year after year. People know about Meihua Mountain and forget about 'Sun Linggang. ’

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang built the Ming Tomb of filial piety, and Meihua Mountain blocked the way out of the Ming Tomb in the south of the Ming Tomb. It was suggested that Sun Quan's tomb should be removed and Meihua Mountain should be razed to the ground.

Sun Quan is not Emperor Wu in the eyes of Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, but just a good man.

The Emperor is a very good man, and he can be a guard in the Emperor's Imperial Army.

The emperor was very happy to ask Sun Quan's tomb to be left to guard the gate of the Ming Tomb.

The emperor said who dared not listen, and the people who designed the cemetery could only build the Yuhe Bridge of the Ming Tomb on the north side of Meihua Mountain. Crossing the Yuhe Bridge is the bottom of Plum Blossom Mountain.

The stone people and stone horses on the Shinto Road of the Ming Tomb are built around the Plum Blossom Mountain, completely surrounding it. Sun Quan's tomb was preserved and became a veritable gatekeeper of the Ming Tomb.

After the completion of the Ming Tomb, the fame of Meihua Mountain became even greater.

When the Qing Dynasty was axe, the peony flower was designated as the national flower, and the Republic of China overthrew the Qing Dynasty to build the capital Nanjing, and the peony flower was no longer the national flower. Nanjing people regard plum blossoms as their symbols.

On June 1, 1929, Sun Yat-sen Feng'an Zhongshan Mausoleum, the cemetery management committee to commemorate the Sun Yat-sen cemetery, selected Meihua Mountain as a flower and tree area, and cultivated a large number of plum blossoms.

Chinese people regard plum blossoms as the national flower.

Since then, Meihua Mountain has been famous at home and abroad, and has become a must-visit place for people to travel. Tourists who have visited Meihua Mountain must go to Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum to pay tribute to Sun Yat-sen.

The Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum is located on the southern slope of the Purple Mountain, built along the mountain, sitting in the north and south direction, in front of the endless Pingchuan, and behind is the green peak of the Purple Mountain.

It has the Ming Tomb in the west, and the Linggu Temple in the east, with an area of more than 80,000 square meters.

From the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum back to Nanjing City, you must pass through the Zhongshan Gate, the city gate named after Zhongshan. Zhongshan Gate was formerly known as Chaoyang Gate.

After entering the Zhongshan Gate, Nanjing City has a road named after Zhongshan, which runs through Nanjing City until the Zhongshan Wharf on the bank of the Yangtze River in the west of the city.

Adjacent to Zhongshan Gate is the wide Zhongshan East Road, which is forty meters wide and is divided into fast lanes, slow lanes, sidewalks and safety islands. The Republic of China political axe is on the north side of the road.

On both sides of the road, tall tung trees are planted, and their lush branches and foliage cover the sky. Walking along shady boulevards, one forgets the fiery sun in the sky.

Walking west along Zhongshan East Road, you can see ancient ruins such as Wuchao Gate, Yudao Street, Donghua Gate, Xihua Gate, Xi'an Gate and so on.

These ruins are the ruins of the magnificent and solemn imperial palace built by Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, called the Ming Imperial Palace.

The Ming Imperial Palace is composed of two parts, the imperial city and the palace city, which are collectively called the imperial palace. Its area occupies half of the eastern city of Nanjing.

Inside the palace there is the Jade River and the Jade Belt River. There are five dragon bridges inside and outside the palace. Historically, the Ming Palace was the first imperial palace to unify the Chinese dynasty.

The architecture of the entire palace is full of the atmosphere of the Ming Dynasty. The big roof has large cornices, the yellow glazed tiles shine golden light under the blue sky, and the big red Optimus Prime is majestic and solemn.

The palaces and pavilions in the palace are thousands of doors and thousands of doors, and there are all kinds of gold, silver and jade. It can be described as brilliant and extraordinary.

The Ming Imperial Palace is from the Hongwu Dynasty to the Jianwen Dynasty and then to the Yongle Dynasty in the early Ming Dynasty. A place where three generations of emperors governed the country. It was up to 54 years.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing army invaded the city of Nanjing, and the rebels killed all the remnants of the palace and looted the magnificent palace.

The Qing army that entered the city later saw that the palace was already an empty city, and it burned for several days and nights. Unfortunately, more than half of the great palace was burned down.

The Qing army pacified Jiangnan and set up two yamen of generals and capitals in the Ming Imperial Palace. The Ming Imperial Palace was changed to a camp garrisoned by the Eight Banners.

When the Jintian Uprising Taiping army entered the city of Nanjing, the leader of the Taiping army ordered the killing of all the Manchus in the city of Nanjing.

In order to survive, the Manchurians, regardless of men, women, and children, took up arms and went into battle. They fought desperately against the Taiping army.

Many Qing soldiers were not killed by the Taiping army in battle, but were exhausted to death in the fighting.

The Taiping army killed all the Manchus and occupied Nanjing, lighting a fire to burn the remaining buildings of the palace to the ground.

The ruins of an ancient imperial palace in the city of Nanjing

The Ming Imperial Palace has nothing left except for the stone components buried underground and the foundation of the palace. The next year, the green vegetable patch covered up all the bad deeds.

Zhongshan East Road to the west across the Yixian Bridge, directly to Nanjing's commercial center Xinjiekou Square, from Xinjiekou Square to the south is Zhongshan South Road, here is a bustling commercial street.

On January 12, 1936, Nanjing's largest shopping mall, the Central Shopping Mall, and the Dahua Cinema, built in the same year, were built here.

To the north from Xinjiekou are Zhongshan Road and Zhongshan North Road. On both sides of the road are the ministries, judicial, military and diplomatic institutions of the Republic of China.

Out of the Rujiang Gate, you will arrive at the Zhongshan Wharf in Xiaguan. The original name of Rujiang Gate was Hailing Gate, and it was a newly opened city gate in 1913.

Zhongshan Wharf and its surrounding streets, street lights, and the office area of the roadside power plant are all typical buildings of the Republic of China.

The Presidential Palace of the Republic of China is on Guofu Road in Nanjing, and the presidential palace retains the solemn and beautiful official residence of Sun Yat-sen.

Everything that Sun Yat-sen used during his lifetime is perfectly preserved: desks and chairs, telephones, study rooms, furniture.

Nationals who want to learn about the Republic of China and overseas Chinese, foreign politicians, historians, scholars and explorers flock to Nanjing.

They first went to the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum and then to the Presidential Palace to pay respects to Sun Yat-sen's official residence. Then run around the streets and alleys of Nanjing.

They used their cameras to photograph their sister-in-law fetching water by the well and the girl washing clothes by the river. Photographed the deep alley mansion in the south of the city. The beautiful scenery and magnificent ancient city wall by the Qinhuai River.

All of these people will take a small train to visit the city at Guofu Station on Guofu Road, which was formerly known as the Supervision Office Station.

On January 1, 1912, Sun Yat-sen took a train from Shanghai to Nanjing, and he took a small train from Xiaguan Railway Station to the Supervision Station on Guofu Road.

Sun Yat-sen got off the bus here and entered the presidential palace to take office as the provisional president of the Republic of China. In order to remember this great moment forever, the Governor's Railway Station was renamed Guofu Station.

Nanjing is the capital of the Republic of China and the political and cultural center of the Republic of China. Nanjing is the epitome of the Republic of China. If you don't know Nanjing, you don't know the Republic of China.