51 Shanxi Tour (2)
2001.5.2 Wednesday Taiyuan - Qiao Jia Da Yuan - Pingyao Ancient City
Breakfast in Shanxi Grand Hotel to solve. Ctrip lodging and free breakfast set fee, be about 70 yuan per person per Contributions. The lady wearing the clothing is very classical, dark green dress with dark green dress with flowers, but they face expressionless, walked up and down mechanically, as if done reluctantly. I feel that is not a question of money, but awareness of service issues.
10:00 am many of the hotel front desk attendants to discuss how to Qiao's Grand Courtyard, there is no direct train, and only a taxi. The hotel's car had been set out by contact a hotel at 10:40 am outside the car parked outside the hotel. Allegedly from Taiyuan to Qiao's Grand Courtyard is about 60 km. 11:30 am, nearly an hour's journey reached Qiao Jia Da Yuan.
Qiao's Grand Courtyard was built in the Qing dynasty Qianlong period, dating back more than 200 years of history, was the wealthy side of the financial and business caused by Yong Ju Giaccio mansion. The compound is very scale, sub-6 compound, 20 small homes, the whole building was double happiness character structure, which from the exhibition can be seen in the model. It seems the entire architectural design has been integrated into the macro-planning point of view, we can see the great designers of military strategy. Back to Today, from our unit 16 floor of a building down a look, Shenyang City, floor disorder, probably are so many cities, compared to the planning even more important. Covers an area of more than 9000 square meters of the compound can not be 11 come, not to mention today's overcrowded, are filled. The hospital is similar, but larger individual. Like photographed "Raise the Red Lantern" and that the largest courtyard, as well as for the second floor overlooking. On the second floor you had better pay 10 yuan / person. Different forms can be seen on the upstairs eaves chimneys, modeling unique and beautiful, the study of architectural structures are very much worth a visit. Many compound houses, under eaves, doors are richly ornamented on the Big Dipper, it is worth pondering.
One by one in the room is exhibiting the folk thing, because Qiao Jia Da Yuan has become a Qixian Folk Museum. The past, the status of women is not only sitting in a chair without armrests, and only the first third of the seated position, the tooth did not reveal mouth, feet do not reveal skirt. Worse still are those grueling three-inch golden lotus. After the needs of adult women's bound feet, forcibly good Sang Sang's feet wrapped around into a toe pointed, and placed only three inches of the small shoes. After the four toes of each foot is off the soles of the feet, the said pain. My grandma once did not heed the command of her elders, ideas are not feet and the results of her feet that era than the normal woman's foot is small, but larger than the three inch golden lotus. People say: To bound a man bound his hands and legs from the beginning. Regardless of whether you believe that history have proven this point.
People say: look at the Royal Palace, homes to see QIAO Jia. Qiao Jia Da Yuan passed, you have to admit, this a worthwhile trip.
But there are also disappointments of the office. It should be said, Joe Grand Courtyard of the management is not very good. Because a lot of visitors entering and leaving each showroom doors are a bit confused. I would suggest, it is better to add some activities, railings, if more people, you can then flow into two directions to ensure that does not affect each other. Another service personnel should regularly wipe the dust, so that the old material is still a sense of vitality and vigor.
After nearly three-hour visit, 2:20 pm we began to move to the ancient city of Pingyao. Qiao Jia Da Yuan to the ancient city of Pingyao from about 20 km, 3:00 pm we arrived at the ancient city of Pingyao.
Pingyao Ancient City is China's 27 heritage inscribed on the World Heritage List, is one of China's four ancient city (the other three were in Xian, Shaanxi, Hubei and Liaoning Xingcheng Jingzhou). Electric tricycle brings us to the car can no longer walking street, the taste of city riding the tricycle from the boss's face and strange Cang injury has been a vague sense of accent. Go look inside the more ancient the more concentrated flavor.
Pingyao Ancient City was built in the Western Zhou period, have elapsed since the 2700 years of history. During the Ming Dynasty (1370, dating back 600 years of history) to extend for today's brick walls. The whole fortress was square. 6.4 km perimeter walls, the wall 6 ~ 10 meters high and equipped with turret and watch watch tower and Embrasure, we can see the construction of the initial purpose is very clear, that is defensive aggression. The Ming dynasty, the Qing Dynasty during the present economic, cultural, further development, resulting in a number of well-known trade names, ticket numbers, Biaoju and temples and so on. We first visited China first Biaoju. It Jian Yuqing on behalf of the middle, there were three well-known Biaoshi bodyguards engaged in this business. The museum shows the then 18-like weapons, Biaoche, dart boxes and underground silver libraries. A thick wall, thick wall up to 1 meter, there are illegal channels organs, can be used to put money and other important items. 18-like weapon with a heavy smell of blood stood in the door had just entered. Biaoju generation is also reflected at the time people get rich first part of the exchange of funds required for protection needs. Tickets are 13 yuan / person.
Then go to the "hundreds of rivers pass." It was one of China's top ten ticket numbers. The so-called ticket numbers shall be the current bank. The wall line training interesting. On the surface, it is only a few lines of how to do banking business rules, in fact, every word has a different meaning. Through these words to represent a certain period of day and how much to borrow or lend, paragraph, as the code word. This is for those who do not understand banking do not see the mystery. This knowledge first time I heard and saw, I really informative! Tickets here 10 yuan / person.
Out of hundreds of rivers pass, we came for a "lucky." It is similar to today's international cooperation in the company. Of its scale has been developed to Russia. Tickets are 13 yuan / person.
There is also the Emperor Kuang Hsu spent time to escape the forces of eight offensive of "Wei-Sheng Long," and also a ticket number. The ticket number to open in 1862 (dynasty, 6 years), the initial capital of 12 million taels, after 90 years to 1916, went out of business fashion silver deposit 200,000 2. My children where put on princess clothes, the United States and the United States to look like photographed, just like in a Manchu lady. Tickets priced at 10 yuan / person.
"Rishengchang," known as China's first ticket number, was founded in 1823, after over a hundred years, its a semi-colon in 35 cities across the country, business across the country and Europe and the United States and Southeast Asia and other countries. Tickets are 10 yuan / person.
Turn full circle, and then walk a few important places in the city looked for a restaurant to eat. Meals are not expensive, a burning eggplant 8 yuan, but the smaller amount. Eating is easy, but the toilet can be difficult. Miss the hotel took me to go alley, another Shui Po, Khan came to a toilet, the kind of digging dirt, dead.
The city almost turn, we came to look at the tower. It is 19:00 o'clock, the sky's getting dark, strong winds blowing rampant manner. Looked gray in a humble house, high and low scattered without much order. Curl of smoke rising and the 3322 people who let this ancient city still has vigor and vitality.
The sky is late, originally scheduled to be Shuang Lin Temple or Jinci it was impossible. We took a taxi to wait a long time fled to Taiyuan.
The way back, I think, inside the ancient walls and buildings is relatively preserved so well, it is rare. Destroyed during the Cultural Revolution the number of historical legacy, I really do not know how it is preserved. I would like to inconvenient it may help it. Unfortunately, one aspect is worth, where many ancient objects have been destroyed risk. A lot of casual visitors touch an object, contact, and then continue, in less than two years, the ancient East and West will be destroyed everyone's hands, when the time on the bad reputation of the ancient city of Pingyao saved. Furthermore, waiters inertia, the exhibition of the objects are off a lot of dust, but no one wipe, as if their mandate is only to collect money. Money can buy ancient civilization do? Who is destroying these few centuries of the ancient city, who is condemned through the ages. Alert ah!
We are back to the hotel around 9 pm. One-day city tour has ended, but my thoughts are still floating around in the ancient city, along the gray walls, drifting into a one of the ancient buildings, but also drifting towards a distant era of Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Author: ingwei45
