"Qingming Poems" by Tang Dynasty poet Du Mu
Xinghua Village in Chizhou City, Anhui
It rains heavily during the Qingming Festival, and pedestrians on the road feel like they are dying.
May I ask where the restaurant is? The shepherd boy points to Xinghua Village in the distance.
This popular "Qingming" poem by late Tang poet Du Mu sings about the intoxicating rain, flowers and wine during the Qingming Festival in the south of the Yangtze River, and also sings about a famous Xinghua Village through the ages.
Xinghua Village is named after poetry. "The shepherd boy points to the Xinghua Village in Chizhou."
Xinghua Village is a cultural monument that integrates human landscape and natural landscape. It is the most distinctive historical and cultural village in Chizhou City, Anhui Province. People in Chizhou understand that the main reason why Guichi was listed as a provincial historical and cultural city by the Provincial People's Government in 1996 is because there is Xinghua Village in the west of the city, and there is also a provincial key protection unit in the village—— The ancient well in Xinghua Village in the Tang Dynasty was called "Huanggong Well" in ancient times, also known as "Xiangquan Well".
In the aspirational garden of our country, those who aspire for the village are very rare. The only village chronicle that can be included in the "Sikuquanshu", the largest document in ancient my country, is Chizhou's "Xinghua Village Chronicle". It should be said that this all depends on the huge effect of Du Gong's eternal masterpiece "Qingming" poem. When Du Mu served as the governor of Chizhou in the fourth to sixth years of Huichang (844-846), he visited Xinghua Village in the west of Fucheng in the spring and wrote this artistic masterpiece rich in Jiangnan style. After that, celebrities from all over the ages came here in droves, and the ancient village was constantly built. By the Qing Dynasty, the entire Xinghua Village had formed an quaint and picturesque area of ??scenic spots and historic sites with a radius of more than 10 miles. There are the famous "Twelve Scenes of Xinghua Village" in ancient times, namely: Pingtian Spring Rise, Iron Buddha Zen Forest, Baipu Lotus Wind , Huanggong Jiulong, Santai Sunset, Sangtuo Danfeng, Qiyun Songyue, Xixiang Misty Rain, Zhaoming Academy, Tea Field Mailang, Duwu Fishing Song and Meizhou Xiaoxue.
However, Xinghua Village has experienced changes over the years, especially the indiscriminate bombing by the Japanese invaders, which destroyed the twelve scenic spots in ancient Xinghua Village.
The spring breeze of reform and opening up has brought vitality to the ancient Xinghua Village. On November 21, 1984, the former Guichi County Government proposed the beautiful idea of ??"listing the apricot blossom as the county flower", "making the Qing Dynasty the Apricot Blossom Festival" and "turning Guichi into an apricot blossom city". In the first spring of the 1990s, Guichi City built a large-scale Xinghua Village Park, the Martyrs Cemetery, not far from the ruins of Zhaoming Academy. During the Qingming Festival, this place becomes a base for the children of Chizhou, especially young people, to remember the martyrs’ ambitions and heroic spirit and to carry out patriotic education.
Duhu Lake in the "Twelve Scenes" refers to the water surface where the Qiupu River flows into the Yangtze River. There are Duwu Village and Duwu Mountain on the shore of the lake, and there is a fishing village called Duwu Village in the valley. Since ancient times, there has been a ferry on the Qiupu River, called Duwu Ferry. It has been crossed for thousands of years with poles and oars. In August 1990, the local government built a majestic Duwu Bridge on the Qiupu River, which is "as clear as autumn", ending a thousand-year ferry history and setting up a magnificent rainbow at the Duhu scenic spot in Xinghua Village. . At the end of 1997, the Guichi Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government regarded the restoration of Xinghua Village and the development of Xinghua Village attractions as a strategy to establish the "Xinghua Village Famous Brand" and put the restoration and construction of Xinghua Village's historic sites on an important agenda. This move was favored by the Ministry of Construction and the Provincial Government. Support from relevant internal departments.
The Huanggong Well, where Huanggong Jiujiu was built, was known in history as "the fragrant spring is like wine, and it is inexhaustible." The local Xinghuacun Liquor Co., Ltd. and Xinghuacun Winery have successively developed a series of famous wines with three registered trademarks: "Xingcun", "Shepherd" and "Jiuhuashan", and launched dozens of varieties of products as tourist souvenirs, creating a lasting legacy for the apricot industry. Hanamura adds infinite poetry and painting.
At the turn of the new millennium, with the implementation of the "Two Mountains and One Lake" (Huangshan-Jiuhuashan-Taiping Lake) tourism economic zone strategy in Anhui Province, Xinghua Village ushered in a bright spring. Mr. Zhan Xiaorong, an overseas Chinese and the owner of Ohua Company, was attracted by the ancient Xinghua Village and kicked off the reconstruction project of Xinghua Village. He built the Xinghua Village ancient well gate, Huanggong wine cellar and the iconic ancient bottle sculpture in the middle of the street. Recently, the Chizhou Municipal Government is organizing the drawing of a blueprint for the overall project of Xinghua Village. The infinitely beautiful tomorrow of the eternally famous village will be erected as a beautiful scenery on the tourist hotline of "Two Mountains and One Lake".
By that time, Chinese and foreign tourists will once again appreciate the charm of the ancient village of "a village of ten miles of smoke and one color of red" and "a village of wine and flowers."