Chapter Seventy-Four: See You Again

After separating from the Lingsexuan in Qing'an Temple before, Zhang Xi asked himself to come to Lingsexuan in Changganli every two days, saying that there was still room for improvement in tea.

Early in the morning, Ling Sexuan sent a carriage over, Liu Yifu sat in the carriage that Ling Sexuan came over, and drove to Changganli, it was a coincidence that the soup kitchen site arranged by Ling Sexuan happened to be near Danyang County, but Zhang Xi asked Ling Sexuan to go to Changganli first, and there were some things I wanted to explain to Liu Yifu, so the soup soup for disaster relief was probably in the afternoon.

After the carriage drove for a while, Liu Yifu saw the big voyage from a distance, a huge arched bridge floating on the water, very conspicuous, Liu Yifu's heart moved, and ordered the coachman to walk over from the float.

This bridge is the Suzaku Bridge mentioned before, the Vermilion Bird Bridge has always been an important symbol in Jiankang, the general owl head is hung on the city gate, merchants come and go, the throughput is huge, and here, the owl head will be hung on this side of the Vermilion Bird Bridge.

What's more, the bridge connects the two sides of the imperial road is the central axis of the Jiankang Tai City, yes, you heard it right, later generations like the Forbidden City built a symmetrical palace model, in this era of the Jiankang Palace has a precedent.

At this time, Jiankang and the Han Dynasty Chang'an Luoyang and the later Tang Dynasty Chang'an are very different, Jiankang in addition to the palace dotted around, the hierarchy is clear, the construction is meticulous, the pattern is also modeled after the former Zhongjing - Luoyang City, but in the palace outside the residential area and the division of the commercial area is not obvious, this is not the same as the former Luoyang City, this layout is also because Jiankang here and Luoyang kind of plain area is different, hills, rivers around Jiankang divided into pieces, in order to make full use of the land, Conform to geographical conditions and adapt measures to local conditions, so at the beginning, it was not like a chessboard like Luoyang, dividing the square market in the city into a model of almost the same size, and the commercial area and residential area were strictly separated and managed.

Therefore, "hundreds of thousands of houses are like a game of Go, and the twelfth street is like a vegetable garden." Such a scene of Chang'an and Luoyang is destined to be seen in Jiankang at this time, if you want to compare, Jiankang at this time is more like the Tokyo city of the Song Dynasty, the square city is blended with many people, it is both a commercial area and a residential area, looking at the dazzling banner fluttering in the wind, listening to the shouts of the merchants who walk in the alleys, people come and go, rubbing shoulders, Liu Yifu can't help but sigh, worthy of being the capital, some places have the feeling of CBD in later generations.

Jiankang City, now than the prosperous capital of the Tang Dynasty in later generations are bigger, the resident population in the city is more than then, the vitality of the city is incomparable, the daily flow of people makes the spiritual outlook of the people of this huge city appear extremely confident, at this time Jiankang City is the most prosperous and advanced city in the world, there is no one.

The ancients especially liked to plant those symbolic trees, for example, the willow tree in addition to the poems and songs in the "stay" saying, there is also the use of the town house to drive away disasters and evil spirits, the locust tree from the pre-Qin period has the "palace acacia" said, "Huai Ding" is a metaphor for the "position of the three princes", is the "tree of the minister".

For example, along this main royal road all the way to the north can see the Jiankang Palace, and the palace wall is planted outside the orange tree, orange, also called orange, take the auspicious meaning, the palace wall is planted with pomegranate trees, pomegranate trees have the effect of warding off evil in the secular view at this time, at the same time the pomegranate itself also symbolizes the red and prosperous, many sons and many blessings, see a glimpse and peek at the whole leopard, some exquisite things are contained in some inconspicuous such as what tree to plant in the small things, seemingly random, the greening effect is also good, in fact, it has a deep meaning, When you study it carefully, you really have to admire the meticulous thinking of the ancients.