Fengcai Building is located on Fengcai Road in Shaoguan City, Guangdong Province. It was built by Qian Yong, the prefect of Shaozhou in the 10th year of Hongzhi in the Ming Dynasty (1497 AD), to commemorate Yu Jing, a famous official of the Northern Song Dynasty who borrowed money from Shaoguan. It has been renovated many times. . The word "style" comes from Song Xiang's poem praising Yu Jing: "There must be a plan for the emperor to serve him, and he will move the court with more grace." Song Xiang borrowed the word "style" to describe Yu Jing's knowledge and character. The three-character inscription "Fengcailou" is a treasure of the Ming Dynasty calligrapher Chen Baisha's Mao calligraphy.

The Fengcai Building is a building of the same era and style as Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City in Beijing. The building is 22 meters high, square in shape, with triple cornices on top and a small ornate dome in the middle. Covering an area of ??more than 100 square meters, it was originally a brick and wood structure. It was rebuilt with a cement steel plate structure in 1934, maintaining some of the characteristics of the original building. Fengcai Building faces the Zhenjiang River in the east and Wushui in the west. It is majestic, exquisitely constructed and antique, and is known as the symbol of Shaoguan.

Fengcai Building is located in the urban area of ??Shaoguan, facing Wushui to the west and Zhenjiang River to the east. It was built by Qian Yong, the prefect of Shaozhou during the Hongzhi period of the Ming Dynasty, in memory of Yu Jing, a famous minister of the Northern Song Dynasty. It has been renovated many times. Because Yu Jing has the reputation of "more abundant and dynamic at the end of the dynasty", it is named Fengcai Tower. Chen Baisha, a scholar of the Ming Dynasty, wrote "Fengcai Lou" in calligraphy with flexible, vigorous, free and elegant ink, and it was engraved into a stone plaque and hung high on the gate tower. The whole building of Fengcai Building is majestic, unique and majestic. It is the landmark building of Shaoguan City and is now the Shaoguan City Museum.

Attachment: There is a story beside the charming building in Shaoguan

In Shaoguan, I finally abandoned without reservation the long-held belief that travel can only be achieved by backpacking far away and exile myself to the sky and the sea. Childish - I began to understand that as long as you discover with your heart, those so-called small places actually have the most intriguing beauty. There is no need to go to small towns in France, rural areas in England, or castles in Germany. The small towns in China are just like people with rich expressions. Different histories and different cultures have finally created indelible and lasting memories. A character that makes you sigh.

Walking on the road in this small town in northern Guangdong, all I can do is slowly chew on every story that happens here. A photo, a detail, carefully experienced, mixed with things we have experienced and not experienced, heard about or not heard of.

There is no bustling traffic here, no towering skyscrapers. She is like a girl raised in a boudoir. Only those with a discerning eye can understand her.

The landmark building of the ancient city

Assuming the geographical indication of a city, its mission is probably not only the building itself, but also the character and culture of the place. It witnesses the story of the city and creates a historical allusion. I think Fengcai Building is the landmark of Shaoguan.

The Fengcai Building was built in memory of Yu Jing, a famous official in the Song Dynasty. He was a representative of outstanding figures in Shaoguan history. He was once known as one of the "Four Admonitions" like Ouyang Xiu to the imperial court who dared to give advice, and " The word "Fengcai" comes from Song Xiang's poem praising Yu Jing: "There must be a plan to serve the emperor, and he will be more elegant."

In the urban area of ??Shaoguan, the Fengcai Building is the only ancient relic. With the rules and grandeur of modern architecture, the Fengcai Building under the Fengcai Building now looks even more quaint. It is an exquisite beauty that comes out of history. When the Fengcai Building has completed its historical mission in the past, this style seems to It is also foreshadowing the longevity in tomorrow. It is a symbol of the ancient city, and many businesses still use "style" as their trade name and trademark.

There is an alley about two blocks away from Fengcai Building called Yuxiang Lane. I heard from the locals that this is the ancestral home of Yu Jing. The deep alley is unremarkable, but the current residence in Yu Most of the people in Xiangxiang Alley are ordinary people. Only the Yu Jing Memorial Hall inside reminds you that this is a place worth remembering.

Today's prosperous Fengdu Road

The most prosperous road in Shaoguan today is called Fengdu Road. This "Fengdu Road Pedestrian Street" seems to be difficult to relate to the history of the Tang Dynasty, but It was indeed named in memory of Zhang Jiuling, the Ming Prime Minister of the Tang Dynasty. If you open the local history textbook "Shaoguan History" here, you can see Zhang Jiuling's name at the beginning. He once presented a memorial to Emperor Ming of the Tang Dynasty, stating the lessons of the rise and fall of emperors in the past dynasties. However, Emperor Ming of the Tang Dynasty was only intoxicated with the prosperity of the Kaiyuan Dynasty and turned a deaf ear to loyal words. Fifteen years later, the Anshi Rebellion occurred. After the rebellion was over, Emperor Ming finally regretted not listening to Zhang Jiuling's advice. From then on, Emperor Ming of the Tang Dynasty would always ask when appointing officials: "Is his demeanor as good as Zhang Jiuling's?" Hence the name "Fengdu Road". .

Fengdu Road is the oldest commercial street in Shaoguan. It may be difficult to demolish and build it, which is a blessing. Walking on Fengdu Road and experiencing the changes in the shops on both sides are actually a mirror reflecting the development of people's lives. The ancient street is full of energy, which always arouses my endless curiosity to explore what this street was like yesterday.

Ciba and the taste of life in dialect

After eating Lijiang’s cake, Yangshuo’s cake, and Wuzhen’s Qingtuanzi, when I came to Shaoguan, I couldn’t help but mix them with Compared with the moxa leaf glutinous rice cakes sold in the streets here, I often have a soft spot for the latter. The glutinous rice cakes here are filled with mugwort leaves. According to today's trend of advocating dietary therapy, mugwort leaves have unique curative effects in traditional Chinese medicine. Unknowingly, the people who make glutinous rice cakes put a lot of thought into this small and delicious food.

There is also gray water glutinous rice cake. Old Shaoguan people naturally remember it freshly. During the New Year and festivals, every household will make gray water glutinous rice cake. The prepared gray rice dumplings can be made into soup slices with some green vegetables and pork, or they can be fried until golden brown and sprinkled with sugar for a smooth texture. Now these things may only be found deep in alleys, but this is the most primitive taste of life.

I have to mention the Shaoguan dialect. Those "astringent" dialects and local dialects are now spoken by very few among the younger generation. They have transformed into speaking Cantonese or Mandarin, but the older generation The Shaoguan people of the previous generation insisted: they would rather sell their ancestral fields than sell their ancestral dialect. The dialect seems to have become the dialect of the older generation. When I saw two old people stopping at the edge of the market and chatting about their daily life in dialect, at that moment, I understood that this city still belongs to the old people. It is they who have continued the culture of this city and accumulated the essence of this city.

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Diaojiaolou, arcade and sliding door - the "old house" tells you everything about Shaoguan

In the memory of Shaoguan, there is no " "Fast food", there is no "batch", there are ordinary objects, exquisite craftsmanship, ingenious ideas, and old houses that have carried the wind and rain for a hundred years.

Dilted Houses

There is a dilapidated "Dilted House" on Dongdi Middle Road in the urban area. Today it looks like an eyesore on an oil painting. However, in many "Old Shaoguan" "In my mind, this used to be the most prosperous area in Shaoguan and the famous "Boss Street". The emergence of "diatilized buildings" has a lot of origins: in the past, the Beijiang water system was the main line of transportation in Guangdong. Thousands of sails were sailing on the river, and commerce along the coast was very busy. Therefore, "diatilized buildings" came into being. Cargo ships could sail directly under the stilted buildings for convenience. Lift the ship's cargo upstairs.

Arcade

In the water towns of Jiangnan, we can always see those characteristic buildings of the water towns called corridors and sheds. We can also see similar buildings with Lingnan characteristics on the old streets of Shaoguan. The arcade is a street-facing building created to cope with the hot sun and heavy rain in the south. "Arcade buildings" are built across the sidewalk in front of the building, and are connected to each other on the side of the road to form a promenade for free walking.

For middle-aged Shaoguan people, such arcades are actually childhood memories; for children, they are like a distant legend. What a real life they once had is now in their eyes. I already don’t know what I’m doing.

Walk-to-door door

Walk-to-door door is the most common living object in the homes of ordinary people in Lingnan area. Wai, in the Cantonese word interpretation, means sliding and pushing, which is very vivid; Wai Ling is a fence-style sliding door that moves horizontally, with a pulley at the bottom and a vertical latch and a small copper bell at the rear. Usually when someone is at home, the door is left open and just closed. As long as someone comes and closes the door, the small brass bell on the door will jingle.