“The green hills under the blue stream, the river trees lead to Shuzhou. A thousand miles away from the light sails, the water towers are seen layer by layer.” This is “Wang Anqing” by Hu Zongzong, a great master of the Ming Dynasty. The footprints are all over the north and south of the river. During the period when his county was guarding Anqing, he traveled through the mountains and rivers of Anqing, leaving a lot of ink marks. This poem was written before Anqing, which is enough to show his expectations for the beautiful scenery of Anqing. . Of course, since ancient times, there have been countless literati and literati who praise Anqing, such as Li Bai, Bai Juyi, Wang Anshi, Huang Tingjian and so on. As for whether there is such a beauty described in the poem, of course, it is waiting for tourists to discover for themselves.
Anqing, also known as “Yicheng”, means “safe and auspicious celebration” and “Yicheng here”. It is located in the southwest of Anhui Province and is close to the Yangtze River. Since Anqing City was built in 1217, it has more than 800 years of history. Anqing has a profound historical and cultural heritage. As early as the Paleolithic period, there were traces of human activities. During the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Anqing belonged to the ancient Anhui state, and today the abbreviation “Wan” of Anhui Province comes from this.
Anqing is located at the junction of the three provinces of Anhui, Hubei, and Jiangxi. It is surrounded by mountains and borders the Huaihe River. It has a very advantageous geographical location. The exchanges between ports have become more frequent and have become an important commodity distribution center in southwest Anhui. Anqing Port is not only one of the top ten ports on the Yangtze River trunk line, but also has the reputation of “a thousand-year ferry port for a century”. In the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Anqing became the capital of Anhui Province, and it took more than one hundred years to do it. As one of the origins of the Westernization Movement and one of the earliest cities in China that accepted modern civilization, Anqing was the leader of urban economy in the Yangtze River valley in China at that time. It was also called the “Five Tigers of the Yangtze River” along with Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuhan, and Chongqing. Very high social status.
Anqing is a well-known excellent tourist city in China, with beautiful natural beauty, as well as dazzling culture and humanities. Tianzhu Mountain, once one of the “Five Sacred Mountains”, has Cuiwei mountainous terrain, and its peaks stand tall. It has a history of “Ancient Nanyue” for nearly 700 years and is known as “the first mountain in Jianghuai”. There are many wonders, such as Alchemy Lake, Feilai Stone, and Duxian Bridge. The scenery is picturesque in four seasons and the scenery is amazing. It is called the “Three Famous Mountains in Anhui” along with Mount Huangshan and Mount Jiuhua. The beautiful scenery and outstanding people of the giant rock mountain are named after the unique geological landscape of giant rocks formed by the volcanic movement hundreds of millions of years ago. There is not only a fresh and excellent ecological environment, beautiful and colorful landscapes, but also countless cultural monuments for nostalgia. The culture of Huangmei Opera and the myth of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl attract many tourists from home and abroad.
As the only national historical and cultural city approved by the State Council, Anqing is full of historic sites and numerous sites. Qiaolou, first built in the first year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1368), stands majestically on the top of Anqing. It used to be the watchtower in front of the Anqing Government Office, and it is a well-deserved landmark of the founding of Anhui Province. Linghu Park, built around Linghu Lake, is known for its “Linghe Landscape” and “Linghu Night and Moon” landscape. The China Huangmei Opera Museum next to the park is an excellent place for people to learn about the “land of drama”. The Zhenfeng Pagoda of Yingjiang Temple in the urban area, and the shadow of the Pagoda on the Hengjiang River, is known as “the first tower of the Yangtze River in thousands of miles”, and is known as “don’t talk about the tower after Anqing. There are also famous temples and ancient temples in the Huating Lake scenic area, known as the “Birthplace of Zen Buddhism in China”, and the Five Thousand-Year Cultural Expo Garden, which inherits the concept of protection, inheritance, and development of Chinese folk culture and art, and so on.
Anqing is known as a “Cultural State”, “Hometown of Drama”, and “Sacred Land of Zen”. The interaction of multiple cultures has formed a unique regional culture and left countless historical and cultural relics. This is the hometown of the “Tongcheng School” who led the Chinese literary world for more than two hundred years. Famous stories such as “Peacock Flying Southeast”, “Three Kingdoms and Two Joes”, “One Step Without Lei Chi”, and “Liu Chi Alley” have occurred. It is also a new culture. The hometown of outstanding figures such as movement pioneer Chen Duxiu, Buddhist leader Zhao Puchu, “two bombs father” Deng Jiaxian, and popular novel master Zhang Henshui. In addition, there are the euphemistic and refreshing Huangmei Opera, the Huiban Peking Opera with singing and singing, and the famous specialties since ancient times, all of which are extremely eye-catching in Anqing.
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