The ancient city of Luoyi

After drinking the tofu soup, Zhao Cui said to Li Juan: "It's still early, why don't you find a fun place to go around." Li Juan flipped through her phone: "Okay, I heard that Luoyang has opened a new ancient city, called Luoyi Ancient City, there are many places in it that are quite good, suitable for taking pictures, and there is no ticket." Zhao Cui thought that she was now pregnant, and her figure was inevitably a little out of shape, so she said to Li Juan: "No, I'm not suitable for taking pictures now." Li Juan touched Zhao Cui's lower abdomen: "It's okay, that's it, I was much more out of shape than you at the beginning, besides, it's a big deal to wear Hanfu, and I can cover a lot." ”

"Luoyi" is the ancient name of Luoyang, since the Western Zhou Dynasty from ancient times to the present, is the representative of Chinese civilization, after thirteen dynasties of the ancient capital, it is known as the "cultural holy city". It is a fashionable scenic spot that not only reflects the traditional cultural heritage of the ancient city of Luoyi but also does not lose the modern atmosphere, and at the same time can combine the protection of cultural relics of the ancient city with the inheritance of cultural tourism. Here you can enjoy the beauty of cultural charm.

The first thing you see when you enter the scenic spot is an ancient tower: Wenfeng Tower. Wenfeng Tower, the tallest building in Luoyang in ancient times, has a folk song as evidence: "There is a Wenfeng Tower in Luoyang, only seven or eight zhang from the sky." Wenfeng Pagoda was built in the Song Dynasty, destroyed in Li Zicheng at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and rebuilt in the early Qing Dynasty. Wenfeng Pagoda and Xintan, Henan Confucian Temple, tower, lake and temple complement each other, forming the cultural landscape of the ancient city of Luose. The first floor of the tower is for Wenchang, and the second floor is for Kuixing. Wenchang: Also known as Wenchang Emperor and Wenqu Xing, the god of fame and honor in Chinese mythology, was mostly worshiped by scholars in the old days. The tower is a dense eaves type masonry tower, square, about 30 meters high, composed of three parts: tower base, tower body, tower stop. The base is made of square bluestone, with a length of 6.8 meters on each side and a height of 3.3 meters. Cast iron is embedded between the base and the body of the tower to maintain the firmness of the entire tower. The body of the tower is nine layers, the whole body is tried with blue bricks, from the first layer to the ninth layer shrinking layer by layer, each side is 3 meters long. The first to eighth floors each have an arc-shaped arch to this, which can be looked out, and there are inscriptions on the doors; The ninth floor is an arc-shaped arch on each side, the original couplet on both sides is a pair, the handwriting is vaguely decipherable, the right side is - upstairs wind and clouds pass this bucket, the left side is, - the flower machine Li picks up the stars. Wenfeng Pagoda summarizes the advantages of various brick tower structural forms since the Tang and Song dynasties. The outer wall of the tower is made of bricks, and there are wooden floors and wooden stairs in the middle of each floor, which can be spiraled up, but the wooden ladders were destroyed in the war.

On the north side of Wenfeng Tower, there is a blue wave Qingtan, which is the famous Xintan Port in history. Xintan was excavated during the Wuze period. It is the shipping hub on the Grand Canal, and Xintan was very prosperous at that time and afterward. At that time, the scenery of Xintan was pleasant in all seasons, and the merchants and tourists who came to Luoyang were parked here. From August to November 2014, archaeological experts carried out archaeological exploration and excavation of the Luoyi site, which further confirmed the facts recorded in history.

On the east side of the inner side of the gate of the scenic spot, a section of the city wall of the ancient city of Jin Yuan has been restored. The ruins of the ancient city of Luoyang Jin Yuan are in the old city of Luoyang City today, the Jin Dynasty took Luoyang as the "middle capital", and built a new city on the site of the east side of Luoyang City in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. The city has gone through four dynasties: Jin, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. The city of Luoyang in the Jin Dynasty was Zhongjing, which was rebuilt on the foundation of the city built in the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty in the early years of the Jin Dynasty. There are four main streets in the east, west, south and north of the city, and the merchants on the streets gather, and the business is booming, which has laid the layout and scale of the old city of Luoyang today. Also in 2014, the Luoyang Institute of Archaeology carried out archaeological excavations in the southeast corner of the old city, with an excavation area of more than 4,000 square meters. The east city wall and the south city wall of Luoyang City in the Jinyuan, Ming and Qing dynasties were excavated, and the scope and direction of the ancient city of Luoyang Jinyuan were basically clarified.

Not far away is the Tuling Palace, located in the southeast corner of the old town of Luoyang City, east of Wenming Street. In the 25th year of Jian'an, in the first month of spring, Cao Cao was fortunate to recuperate in Luoyang, and suddenly heard that Sun Quan had killed Guan Yu and sent an envoy to send Guan Yu's head! Cao Cao was shocked, so he built a courtyard of the arsenal into a sacrificial hall. After the sacrifice, it was buried in the southwest of Luoyang City with a princely ceremony. The sacrificial hall was renamed the Shouting Marquis Temple, because Guan Yu's title was "Hanshou Pavilion Marquis". Shouting Hou Temple, later known as Guan Gong Temple, is also today's Toling Palace. Therefore, the Guangong Temple here should be the earliest Guangong Temple in history! It should be earlier than what Liu Bei built in Chengdu and Yuncheng (Guan Yu's hometown).

Wu Zetian, the Guangong Temple built a new pond in the south, which is a large wharf, businessmen gathered, thanks to the geographical advantages and people and the Guangong Temple incense flourished. During the Northern Song Dynasty, Guan Yu was posthumously named the King of Wu'an, so the Guan Gong Temple was also called the Wu'an Wang Temple, and the main hall was called the Wu'an Palace. In the Northern Song Dynasty, the Guangong Temple was destroyed in the war at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty; In the fifth year of Jin Zhenyou (1217 AD), the Jin Dynasty set up Zhongjing Jinchang Mansion in Luoyang, and built a "retribution" hall on the site of Guan Gong Temple; Later, the Mongol army burned down the Bao'en Hall, and in the sixteenth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1279 AD), the Yuan Dynasty set up Henan Jiangbei Province in Kaifeng, and then rebuilt the Guangong Temple on the original site; The temple was burned down by Li Zicheng's army in the fourteenth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty (1641 AD); At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, three groups of buildings were built on the site of the Guandi Temple, namely the Guandi Temple, the Kuiguang Pavilion and the Yuandi Temple. In the fifteenth year of Qianlong (1750 AD), Emperor Qianlong visited Luoyang in the south, worshiped Guan Gong here, and issued an edict to build Guan Gong's temple on the basis of "three groups of buildings", and ordered it to be "Tuling Palace", and wrote a book plaque with a royal pen.

Walking in the ancient city is like traveling back in time. The restaurants of the Tang Dynasty and the shops of the Song Dynasty walked through the Ming and Qing dynasties carelessly, and looked up at the old wall of the Republic of China. However, the real charm of the ancient city of Luoyi lies in the intangible cultural heritage hidden in the ancient streets. Zhao Cui and Li Juan walked inside, the cold wind blew, it was already sunset and dusk at this time, the two changed into Hanfu, and the Hanfu chosen by Zhao Cui did not highlight the lower abdomen, so it was okay to see it as a whole, Ma Xiaoliang took pictures of the two, tried to choose a picture with few people, and then took an atlas and named it "Luoyi Ancient City", and when he finished visiting the ancient city, it was already the beginning of the lanterns, so he was ready to return to Guanzhou.