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The scenic spot we are going to visit today is the Ancient Culture Street, which is a street with local characteristics of Tianjin, centered on the Queen of Heaven Palace. It is located at Gongnangong North Street, Nankai District. In 1985, the city government sorted out and restored its traditional style, and named it "Ancient Culture Street". The Ancient Culture Street is different from the general commercial street. It gathers all kinds of handicrafts and cultural goods from Tianjin and even all over the country. Among them, the willow youth paintings with strong local characteristics of Tianjin, the clay figurine of Zhang Caisu and the kite of Wei Kite are the most famous. The whole street is full of strong Chinese, Tianjin, ancient and cultural flavor. So what about Ancient Culture Street? Let's make comments after you visit in person.
Well, we have arrived at the parking lot of the scenic spot. Please remember that our car is a white big golden dragon, and the license plate is Jin A2345. The car will be waiting for you at Gongbei Street at 4pm. I hope you don't be late. Please lock the window for tourists near the window. Please take your valuables with you. OK, please get off.
The first thing that catches our eyes is a Qing Dynasty archway with gold color painting and green roof and bamboo couplets, which is tall and majestic. The color painting on it is called Xuan Zi color painting, and the four words "Hometown of Jinmen" are written on it. It definitely points out that the area near the Ancient Culture Street was a settlement before 82019 years ago. At that time, the Jin people who ruled the north established the Zhigu Village, the most popular prison in Tianjin. Today's Tianjin is formed by taking this area as the original central area and gradually developing and expanding. It has been a busy commercial area in Tianjin for six or seven hundred years, and has played an inestimable role in the development of Tianjin. It is worthy of being called the hometown of Jinmen.
Ok, please come with me into this street. You have noticed that many shops without this street have colorful paintings under the eaves and between the architraves. These are Kaiguang Qing style Su paintings, most of them are character stories. Let's take a look at the color paintings of Your Excellency Ji Zhen's Fang Jian, which are eight paintings from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, including "The Three Kingdoms of Peach Garden", "The Three Kingdoms of Tiger Prison", "The Three Kingdoms of Tiger Prison", "The Three Kingdoms of Tiger Prison", "The Three Kingdoms of Phoenix Pavilion", "The Three Kingdoms of Lu Bu Play Diao Chan", "The Sun Rejects Cao", and so on. From the perspective of Western Shu, it focuses on portraying the loyal and heroic stories of Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei. We are looking at the Fang room in the opposite Liyuan Pavilion. The painting on it is the classic opera "The Story of Western Hunan", which describes the love story between Cui Yingying and Zhang Junrui.
OK, let's walk forward and look at it. There are color paintings in every shop, and each color painting has a story. Well, now we have arrived at the Palace Square. The famous Queen of Heaven Palace is located here. Before entering the Queen of Heaven Palace, let's take a look at the theater opposite. This theater is the earliest open-air stage in Tianjin and also the earliest place for people to enjoy themselves. The theater is a wooden structure building, which faces east and west, connects with the Haihe River in the east, and faces the square in front of the palace in the west. There is the stage above, the passage below, and you can also cross the carriage. The original theater was only 5 meters away from the Queen of Heaven Palace, surrounded by low bungalows, which seemed crowded and disorderly. During the Cultural Revolution, the theater was demolished. The theater we see now was rebuilt in 1985. It is 12 meters high, 10 meters wide, and 11.5 meters deep. The column and gold couplets read: "Look at the sea and sky, and sail to meet the dawn, like the wind and clear clouds, and wish a good harvest.". In the past, the theater was the main venue for the god performance. The god performance reached its climax on the day of the Empress's birthday on March 23 of the lunar calendar. Later, after the Japanese invaders occupied Tianjin, the theater stopped the god performance.
Well, now we turn around to see that there are two tall flagpoles in front of the gate of the Temple of Heaven, which are straight into the sky. They are particularly eye-catching. This is the flagpole, which is 26 meters high. The flagpole is made of several pieces of copper brown wood and iron brown wood. The outer layer is wrapped with hemp and plastered, and then painted. It is strong and strong through winter and summer. It is said that when the flag pole was first erected, on the one hand, it hung the lights to guide the water boats going to and from the Sancha River mouth, and on the other hand, it served as a foil for the Queen of Heaven Palace, making the whole building complex look well-arranged and magnificent. Later, it was specially used to hang the long flag with the title of "Tian Tian" during the pilgrimage on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month and during the temple fair.
Please continue to move forward. Now we can see the main building of the Queen of Heaven Palace. The local folk in Tianjin are known as "Empress", so the Empress Palace is also known as the Empress Palace. It was first built in the Yuan Dynasty, and has been rebuilt and strengthened many times since then. As you know, most temples in China face south, but the Queen of Heaven Palace faces east and west. Why? Because the Sancha River in Jinmen is a necessary place for water transport, which is both the starting point of river transport and the end of sea transport, and becomes a transit station for river-sea intermodal transport. At that time, the navigation technology was not developed, and the water tankers often died. In order to meet the spiritual sustenance required by the shippers, merchants and government officials in the water transport, and pray for the protection of the god of the sea for navigation, the Temple of the Queen of Heaven was built on the west bank of the Haihe River, with the temple door facing east, facing the Haihe River, and the ships coming from south to north, all anchored, and burned incense in the temple. Some ships can't get ashore because of lack of time or for some reason. Boatmen and merchants can also worship on the ship and pray for peace. In this way, it not only met the folk worship requirements of the ashore believers, but also complied with the busy shipping demand at that time, and met the folk worship requirements of the non-ashore believers.
What we can see now is the mountain gate, which is a brick-wood composite structure, with nine ridges and a green tile roof. There are three gates, with a circular arch in the middle. It means the ancient saying "the sky is round", and the two sides are rectangular side gates. On the forehead of the gate is carved the four words "imperial edict to see the queen of heaven", and in the middle arch is a plaque "protect Sanjin". There was no such mountain gate at the beginning of the construction of the Queen of Heaven Palace. This mountain gate was added by Qianlong in 2019.
Please follow me in. The front is a two-storey archway with wooden structure, and the drum tower and bell tower are on the left and right sides. After walking through the archway, the front hall is displayed in front of us. In the center of the hall is the spirit officer of the Dharmapala God King, and on both sides are "eyes of thousands of miles", "ears of the wind", "evil" and "good".
Now we pass through the front hall and come to the main hall, which is the place where the Heavenly Empress is worshipped. Sitting in the middle is Queen of Heaven. As we said before, Queen of Heaven can protect the safety of ships passing by. So what god is Queen of Heaven? Since she is called the queen of heaven, she must be the goddess. She is not the deity invented by the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother of the West, but is based on the exaggeration of some people and some legends.
According to the historical records, her surname was Lin, a native of Meizhou Island, Putian, Fujian Province, in the Song Dynasty. Because he won't cry for a period of time after birth, he named him Linmo. She grew up on an island and is accustomed to water. It is said that she was intelligent from childhood. At the age of 15, she was proficient in medical treatment and was determined to do good to others all her life. At the same time, she was familiar with water and often went across the sea to rescue fishermen in distress at sea. Unfortunately, the typhoon took her young life and died at 27. It is also said that after his death, there were times when he appeared to help the refugees. So the rich merchants at sea took money to build Mazu Temple to pray for the safety of crossing the sea. Of course, these are all legends. However, in the Song Dynasty, despite the great development of China's navigation industry, under the conditions of shipbuilding and navigation technology at that time, maritime safety could not be guaranteed. The vast number of seafarers imagined that there was a superhuman force to protect them to sail across the sea safely. Some moving legends of Lin Mo are naturally easily chosen as idols of superhuman power. The legend of Queen of Heaven was only spread in Zhejiang and Fujian at first, and was gradually recognized by the government. In the Song Dynasty, it was successively awarded as "Lady Linghui" and "Concubine Linghui". In the Yuan Dynasty, it was awarded as "Princess of Heaven". In the Qing Dynasty, it was awarded as "Queen of Heaven". The title gradually increased.
Through the main hall, we came to the Sutra Pavilion, formerly known as the Back Pavilion, which is a two-story pavilion of brick and wood structure, built in the Ming Dynasty, and then repaired many times.
Through the Sutra Pavilion, now we can see the Qisheng Temple, that is, the back hall, which was originally the place for worshipping the parents of Empress Dowager, and later used as the place for storing the wood carvings of Empress Dowager during the imperial assembly. The wing rooms on both sides of the Queen of Heaven Palace are Tianjin Folk Museum, which introduces the rise and changes of Tianjin City, Queen of Heaven Palace and the Royal Society. From the side, we have witnessed the saying that "there is Tianhougong first, and then Tianjin City". At the same time, it also displays the city bricks of Tianjin in the Ming Dynasty, the model figures of water transport in the Qing Dynasty, and the marriage customs exhibition.
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Ancient Culture Street is located at the east gate of the northeast corner of Nankai District, on the west bank of Haihe River, starting from Laotieqiao Street (Gongbei Street) in the north and ending at Shuige Street (Gongnan Street) in the south. There is a memorial archway at the north and south corners, with the letters "Hometown of Jinmen" and "Gushang Art Garden", 687 meters long and 5 meters wide, which is a commercial pedestrian street. In ancient times, it was a place for worshipping the sea god and boatman to gather and entertain. The ancient cultural street that has been restored includes the Queen of Heaven Palace, Gongnan Street and Gongbei Street. The Queen of Heaven Palace, commonly known as "Niangniang Palace", is the main tourist project on the Ancient Culture Street. Queen of Heaven was called the escort goddess in ancient times. It is said that she was born in Putian, Fujian Province, and her surname was Lin Mingmo. She often sailed to the sea to rescue the victims, so she was honored as a goddess by later generations.
In the Yuan Dynasty, the capital needed to transport a large amount of grain to the north every year, first by sea to Tianjin, and then by river to the capital. In order to pray for the safety of navigation, the Yuan government worshipped the escort goddess as the princess of heaven, and built the Queen of Heaven Palace in coastal towns. The Tianhou Palace in Tianjin was built in 1320__. The 23rd of March in the lunar calendar is the mother's birthday. At this time of the year, the "Emperor's Meeting" is held to perform stilts, dragon lanterns, dry boats, lion dances, etc., with a variety of operas gathered and very lively. Today, the Hougong has become the Tianjin Folk Museum, which introduces the historical changes in Tianjin and displays various kinds of folk customs. Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty visited this meeting when he went down to the south of the Yangtze River. The traditional performance venues are in the square in front of the Queen of Heaven Palace and in the south and north of the Palace. After the completion of the Ancient Culture Street, a grand imperial party will be held here on the 23rd day of March of the lunar calendar (the auspicious day of the birth of "Tian Tian"), performing dragon lantern dance, lion dance, Shaolin meeting, stilts, drums, dry boats, local yangko, martial arts, Beijing opera, Pingju, Bangzi, etc.
As one of the ten scenic spots in Tianjin, Tianjin Ancient Culture Street has always adhered to the business characteristics of "Chinese flavor, Tianjin flavor, cultural flavor, and ancient flavor", focusing on cultural goods. There are nearly 100 stores in the Ancient Culture Street.
In 1989, Qiao Xiangge, which mainly deals in cloisonne, Suzhou embroidery, and painted crystal, settled in the Ancient Culture Street. Over the past 20__ years, Qiaoxiangge has duly expanded its business scope and expanded its sales channels to Germany (Bremen, Berlin, Lubeck), Japan (Osaka), Malaysia (Klang, Kuala Lumpur, etc.). With the increasing number of similar stores, Qiaoxiangge has always stood on the position of customers and insisted on attracting Chinese and foreign customers with new products and high quality.
Today, under the careful management of the shopkeeper, the variety of goods in Qiaoxiang Pavilion has increased to more than ten kinds, including cloisonne, Suzhou embroidery, crystal with interior painting, pearls, jadeite, emerald hands, craft umbrellas, craft swords, Chinese clothes, etc. There are also necklaces made of crystal, pearl and tourmaline, which are hand-woven by the shopkeeper with originality. Qiao Xiangge hopes that in the era of deepening internationalization, Chinese products with national characteristics can go abroad and add glory to the country.
There are also many time-honored brands in Jinmen, such as Guoren Zhang, Pitang Zhang, Tiaodou Zhang, clay figurine Zhang and so on.
A street composed of small folk shops imitating the Qing Dynasty in China. Centered on Tianhou Palace, a historic site of the Yuan Dynasty, the Ancient Culture Street is located at the east gate of the northeast corner of Nankai District, Tianjin, on the west bank of Haihe River, north to the northeast corner, in the downtown area, starting from Laotieqiao Street (Gongbei Street), east to Haihe River, south to Shuige Street (Gongnan Street). There is a memorial archway at the north and south corners, with the letters "Hometown of Jinmen" and "Gushang Art Garden", 687 meters long and 5 meters wide, which is a commercial pedestrian street. In ancient times, it was a place for worshipping the sea god and boatman to gather and entertain. The ancient cultural street that has been restored includes the Queen of Heaven Palace, Gongnan Street and Gongbei Street. The Queen of Heaven Palace, commonly known as "Niangniang Palace", is the main tourist project on the Ancient Culture Street.
There is an ancient temple with a reputation of hundreds of years on this street. Its original name was "Tianfei Palace", and later it was renamed "Queen of Heaven Palace". Tianjin faces the Bohai Sea in the east and backs on the capital. It has been a land and water transportation hub for the collection of boats since ancient times. Under the circumstances of the great development of water transport, Tianhou Temple is a temple built to worship the sea god Tianhou to protect the water transport.
Tianjin Ancient Culture Street was completed and opened on New Year's Day, 1986. Since ancient times, this area has been Tianjin's largest bazaar trade and New Year's goods market. Every spring, Tianjin's grand imperial meeting, the auspicious birthday of the Empress, is held here. At that time, stilts, dragon lanterns, roller coasters, lion dances, etc. will be performed. In the newly built Ancient Culture Street, except for the archway at both ends and the theater in front of the palace, which are large buildings imitating the Qing Dynasty, the other nearly 100 houses are small folk ancient buildings imitating the Qing Dynasty.
Walking along the Ancient Culture Street, when you enter and exit the shops, you will see many Su paintings with Jiangnan gardening art style under the eaves and between the Fangs of the shops. The composition is vivid and classic, and the form is lifelike, making the Ancient Culture Street gorgeous and charming.
In addition to color painting and story painting, brick and wood carving decoration is also unique in the decoration of facade buildings. Its content is extensive, and most of them have strong folk flavor and auspicious and festive implication.
The wood carving in front of the Shibaozhai takes the meaning of several undulating and changing scenes in the Qingming River Map. The picture at the north end shows that there are many boats on the bank of Bian River, and seven or eight people on a big boat in the middle of the river are rowing desperately. The strenuous efforts of the boatman show the busy and tense situation of the river water transportation. In the middle of the picture is the Hongqiao outside the Dongshui Gate on the Bian River. Under the bridge, a large ship was about to pass, and all the boatman were operating nervously. The vehicles, animals, pedestrians of all colors and people watching the water and boats on the bridge were jostling with each other, forming a torrent of urban life, which was the climax of the picture of "On the River at the Qingming Festival".
The ancient culture street has a strong artistic flavor in terms of architectural style, shop decoration, plaques and couplets, as well as its business products. Walking on the ancient culture street is enough to be pleasing to the eyes; Professional shops such as antiques, calligraphy and painting, the four treasures of study, inscriptions, ancient books, willow youth paintings, clay figurines, and Tianjin kites gather in this street for your viewing and shopping. As for Chinese and Western musical instruments, art ceramics, and small decorative pieces, there are also special stores. It is always pleasant to buy one or two. But if you linger for a while, you may also be edified and inspired, and get some nutrition.
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Tianjin Ancient Culture Street is a street composed of small folk shops imitating the Chinese Qing Dynasty. Centered on Tianhou Palace, a historic site of the Yuan Dynasty, the Ancient Culture Street is located at the east gate of the northeast corner of Nankai District, Tianjin, on the west bank of Haihe River, north to the northeast corner, in the downtown area, starting from Laotieqiao Street (Gongbei Street), east to Haihe River, south to Shuige Street (Gongnan Street). There is a memorial archway at the north and south corners of the street, with the letters "Hometown of Jinmen" and "Gushang Art Garden". The Queen of Heaven Palace, commonly known as "Empress Palace", is the main tourist project on the Ancient Culture Street.
There is an ancient temple with a reputation of hundreds of years on this street. Its original name was "Tianfei Palace", and later it was renamed "Queen of Heaven Palace". Tianjin faces the Bohai Sea in the east and backs on the capital. It has been a land and water transportation hub for the collection of boats since ancient times. Under the circumstances of the great development of water transport, Tianhou Temple is a temple built to worship the sea god Tianhou to protect the water transport.
It was completed and opened on the New Year's Day of 1986. Since ancient times, this area has been Tianjin's largest bazaar trade and New Year's goods market. Every spring, Tianjin's grand imperial meeting, the auspicious birthday of the Empress, is held here. At that time, stilts, dragon lanterns, roller coasters, lion dances, etc. will be performed. In the newly built Ancient Culture Street, except for the archway at both ends and the theater in front of the palace, which are large buildings imitating the Qing Dynasty, the other nearly 100 houses are small folk ancient buildings imitating the Qing Dynasty.
Walking along the Ancient Culture Street, when you enter and exit the shops, you will see many Su paintings with Jiangnan gardening art style under the eaves and between the Fangs of the shops. The composition is vivid and classic, and the form is lifelike, making the Ancient Culture Street gorgeous and charming.
In addition to color painting and story painting, brick and wood carving decoration is also unique in the decoration of facade buildings. Its content is extensive, and most of them have strong folk flavor and auspicious and festive implication.
The wood carving in front of the Shibaozhai takes the meaning of several undulating and changing scenes in the Qingming River Map. The picture at the north end shows that there are many boats on the bank of Bian River, and seven or eight people on a big boat in the middle of the river are rowing desperately. The strenuous efforts of the boatman show the busy and tense situation of the river water transportation. In the middle of the picture is the Hongqiao outside the Dongshui Gate on the Bian River. Under the bridge, a large ship was about to pass, and all the boatman were operating nervously. The vehicles, animals, pedestrians of all colors and people watching the water and boats on the bridge were jostling with each other, forming a torrent of urban life, which was the climax of the picture of "On the River at the Qingming Festival".
The ancient culture street has a strong artistic flavor in terms of architectural style, shop decoration, plaques and couplets, as well as its business products. Walking on the ancient culture street is enough to be pleasing to the eyes; Professional shops such as antiques, calligraphy and painting, the four treasures of study, inscriptions, ancient books, willow youth paintings, clay figurines, and Tianjin kites gather in this street for your viewing and shopping. As for Chinese and Western musical instruments, art ceramics, and small decorative pieces, there are also special stores. It is always pleasant to buy one or two. But if you linger for a while, you may also be edified and inspired, and get some nutrition.
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hello everyone! Welcome to Tianjin Ancient Culture Street. The ancient cultural street built in 1985 has added some splendor to the city of Tianjin, attracting foreign tourists from afar with its unique "Chinese flavor", "Tianjin flavor", "ancient flavor" and "cultural flavor".
There is an ancient temple with a reputation of hundreds of years on this street. Its original name is "Tianfei Palace", and later it should be called "Queen of Heaven Palace". Tianjin faces the Bohai Sea in the east and backs on the capital. It has been a land and water transportation hub for the collection of boats since ancient times. Under the circumstances of the great development of water transport, Tianhou Temple is a temple built to worship the sea god Tianhou to protect the water transport.
The Queen of Heaven Palace, from east to west, is composed of the theater tower, the flagpole, the mountain gate, the floor sign, the front hall, the main hall, the Sutra Pavilion, the Qisheng Temple, as well as the bell and drum tower, the Zhangxian Pavilion and the side hall, which are divided into the north and the south.
The flagpole is in front of the gate of the Queen of Heaven Palace. It is said that when the flag pole was first erected, on the one hand, it hung lights to guide the water boats passing through the Sancha River mouth, and on the other hand, it served as a foil for the Queen of Heaven Palace, making the whole building complex look well-arranged and magnificent. Later, on the first and fifteenth day of each month in the lunar calendar and during the temple fair, the flag pole was specially hung with the long flag of the title of Tian Hou.
The mountain gate is composed of brick and wood mixed structure. The front of the gate is carved with the whole brick "Empress of Heaven", which was added during the reign of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty.
When you enter the mountain gate, there are two columns of wooden structure facing you - the building archway. The archway is a sign in front of the Tianfei Palace in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. "Protect the country and the people" means "protect the country at the top and the people at the bottom."
On both sides of the archway is the Drum Tower on the north and the Bell Tower on the right.
After the archway, it is the front hall. The front hall is the earliest mountain gate of the Tianfei Palace. It worships the spirit officer of the Dharmapala and the "thousand mile eyes", "ears", "good" and "evil", known as the "four great vajras".
Beyond the front hall, the main building of the Queen of Heaven is the main hall. The main hall is the place where the Queen of Heaven is worshipped. The Queen of Heaven is in the middle of the Buddhist shrine, wearing a Xiapi and a phoenix crown. Four maids are standing on both sides with seals, bottles and fans.
Through the main hall, it is the Sutra Pavilion. The Sutra Pavilion is a two-story pavilion of brick and wood structure. Now it is the exhibition hall of Folk Museum.
At the back of the Sutra Pavilion, across the Yonglu, is the Qisheng Shrine, namely the Back Hall.
In the past, the Queen of Heaven Palace worshipped the Lord God, and of course it was the Queen of Heaven. However, due to historical reasons, the Temple of Heaven and Earth has formed a complex situation of mixed Buddhism and Taoism and the gathering of hundreds of gods in the long years. The north and south side halls are dedicated to the Third Granny Wang, the elder brother carrying water, the medicine celestial master, the white old lady, the dragon king, and the medicine king gods.
Now, the wing rooms on both sides of the Queen of Heaven Palace are displayed to introduce the rise and changes of Tianjin City, the Queen of Heaven Palace and the Royal Society, as well as Tianjin city bricks in the Ming Dynasty, water transport models in the Qing Dynasty and various folk shapes (wedding guards, costumes, etc.), water machines and other cultural relics in the Qing Dynasty. Tianjin tour guide speech · Tianjin Haihe Bund Park tour guide speech · Mosque tour guide speech
Taking a comprehensive view of the architecture of the Queen of Heaven Palace, it has gone through various stages of renovation, overhaul and reconstruction, and has formed its unique style.
The street to the north of the temple gate is called "Gongbei Street", and the street to the south of the temple gate is called "Gongnan Street".
There are four floor plaques at the entrance of "Gongnan" and "Gongbei".
The plaque on the south side of the south entrance is "Hometown of Jinmen", and the plaque on the north side of the north entrance is "Gushang Art Garden", with two words and eight sentences. The antithesis is neat, just like an excellent couplet.
Walking along the Ancient Culture Street, when you enter and exit the shops, you will see many Su paintings with Jiangnan gardening art style under the eaves and between the Fangs of the shops. The composition is vivid and classic, and the form is lifelike, making the Ancient Culture Street gorgeous and charming.
Let's take a look at Su's paintings!
The painting under the eaves of Jizhen Pavilion in Nankou is "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". The easternmost Liang Fang is "The Three Ties of the Peach Garden", followed by "Lv Bu at Sanying Station at Hulao Pass", "Lv Bu at Fengyi Pavilion plays Diao Chan", "Sangu Maolu", "Cao is rejected by Dangyang", "Liu Bei at Ganlu Temple", "Ma Chao at night", and "Catch the River and seize the battle". The eight paintings focus on depicting the loyalty and heroic stories of Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei from the perspective of Western Shu. There are also eight paintings in the Fang room of the Liyuan Pavilion opposite. The paintings are the classic drama "The Story of the West Chamber", which is the love story between Cui Yingying, the lady of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and Zhang Junrui, the scholar who is studying for the exam. From a beam on the north side, there are "Zhang Sheng Amazing", "Zhang Sheng Pujiu Temple Borrows a Box", "View from the Corner", "Cui Yingying listens to the piano at night", "Zhang Sheng jumps over the wall", "Meet in the study", "Torture the Hong Niang", and "Farewell in the long pavilion".
In addition, the "butterfly" and "eighteen send-offs" in the Fang Fang room of the village view; Wenyuntang Bookstore's "water overflows the golden mountains" and "offering sacrifices to the pagoda to save the mother"; The Fangjian paintings of Yuncuizhai, Yinjingxuan, Fenglai Pavilion and Shiguzhai are also some well-known stories in Dream of Red Mansions.
Tianjin Ancient Culture Street is located on the west bank of the Sancha River mouth in Tianjin. It was originally a place for worshipping the sea god and boatman to gather and entertain. It was built in 1986, including the Temple of Heaven and the Gongnan and Gongbei Streets, with a total length of 580 meters. There are giant antique archways at both ends. There are nearly 100 shops on both sides of the street, mainly engaged in cultural goods: ancient books, folk goods, traditional handicrafts, etc., including the famous willow youth paintings, clay figurines, painted sculptures Kite Wei Kite and brick carving Liu brick and other exclusive stores. Tiantian Palace is one of the three Mazu temples in China. It has a Tianjin Folk Museum. The square and theater in front of the Palace often have folk art and opera performances. The whole Cultural Street is full of strong historical, cultural and Tianjin flavor.
The street appearance, shops and commodities of the Ancient Culture Street are full of artistic flavor, especially the antiques, calligraphy and painting, tablet stickers, four treasures of study and Tianjin folk handicrafts. Nearly 100 shops on the street are all in the style of Qing Dynasty, all of which are made of blue brick masonry and ground bricks facing each other. There are pavilions with sloping roofs and flying rafters, as well as flat-topped pavilions with ice pan eaves, hanging boards, and balustrades facing the sky. Looking up, you can see the ups and downs. In front of the Tin Hau Palace in the center of the Ancient Culture Street, the across-the-street theater is magnificent, with the mast and flag flying in the sky, and the square in front of the palace is wide and bright.
Today's main tour is the birthplace of Tianjin, located in the ancient culture street around the Sancha River mouth. During the whole tour, you can ask any questions, and I will try my best to help you solve them. At the same time, I hope you can give me the greatest help. Thank you and wish you a pleasant journey!
In Tianjin, there is a saying of "eating food street, shopping culture street". Ancient Culture Street is the best place for people to understand Tianjin folk customs, feel Tianjin folk customs and experience Tianjin life. It is a place name determined by the orientation of "Tiantian Palace", one of the three Mazu temples in China. Its Gongnan and Gongbei streets had been formed long before the construction of Tianjin Wei. Therefore, there has always been a saying in Tianjin that "Heaven comes before the Palace, and then Tianjin Wei". The completion of the Ancient Culture Street in 1985 added some splendor to the city of Tianjin, and it was fully renovated in 20__. The "Chinese flavor", "Tianjin flavor", "ancient flavor" and "cultural flavor" attract foreign tourists from afar. In 20__, the Ancient Culture Street was honored as one of the "Top Ten Commercial Streets with Chinese Characteristics".
It is now ten o'clock in the morning and will arrive at the destination in fifteen minutes. I will show you around and explain in detail. Of course, I will leave some time for you to visit by yourself. At 1:30 in the afternoon, we will gather under the archway at the corner of Gongnan Street. Please remember that our bus is the Blue Golden Dragon Bus! The license plate number is Tianjin A12345. Please pay attention to your safety when getting off. Please take your valuables with you and keep them properly.
We are now at the intersection of Gongbei Street, Ancient Culture Street. The first thing you see is a large archway imitating the Qing Dynasty. The four words "Gushang Art Garden" are written on the plaque. Because the ancient culture street has a strong artistic flavor in terms of architectural style, shop decoration, plaques and couplets, and its business products, it is more appropriate to call it "Gushang Art Garden". On the other hand, there is also a memorial archway of the same style at the corner of Gongnan Street, except that the plaque on the south side of the south side of the south side of the south side of the gate reads "Jinmen's hometown", which definitely points out that today's Tianjin urban area is gradually developed and expanded with this area as the original central area. It is well deserved to be called the hometown of Jinmen.
The newly built Ancient Culture Street is 680 meters long from south to north. In order to improve the cultural taste of the Ancient Culture Street, eight nodes of ground decoration have been added from north to south. You can see that there are 12 copper coins of different sizes under our feet. These twelve copper coins. It represents a prosperous era from the Tang Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty. "Kaiyuan Tongbao" refers to the "Chongning Tongbao" and "Dasong Tongbao" in the early Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, representing the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty respectively, "Dayuan Guobao" and "Taiding Tongbao" representing the Yuan Dynasty, "Jiajing Tongbao", "Jiading Tongbao" and "Yongle Tongbao" representing the Ming Dynasty, and "Yitong Wannian", "Qianlong Tongbao", "Xianfeng Tongbao" and "Guangxu Tongbao" representing the Qing Dynasty. These copper coins, from small to large, symbolize that our street can make you "rich".
The ground of Nankou is paved with the bronze seals of the twelve zodiac signs, which have two implications; The second is to reflect China's traditional folk custom of recording the year with the "12 Zodiac" for thousands of years. If you are interested, you can step on the patterns corresponding to your own attributes, so that you can bring wealth and auspiciousness back to your hometown and bring them to your family.
In addition, there are "Tongqing Square", "Tianyan Square", "Lily Square", "Queen of Heaven Palace Square" and "Baby Square".
Walk along the Ancient Culture Street, and when you enter and exit the shops, you will see many bright Qing style Su paintings under the eaves and between the architraves of the shops. Due to the relationship between the times and techniques, these Su paintings are not completely restricted to the old style. Instead, on the basis of inheriting the style of Su paintings, they flexibly use composition, cross-color and rendering techniques to form their own unique style. In addition, the classical character format with plots and allusions has become an eye-catching and interesting "cultural landscape" in the ancient cultural street.
These paintings are divided into four sections from Nankou to Beikou, and the content is based on the chronological sequence of the historical story, which is not reversed or misplaced, that is, from the Han, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. In the west, the content is the wonderful fragments from the four famous Chinese works; The east side is themed with historical stories and legends.
The section from the north entrance to the Tianyan Square: the west side takes "Dream of Red Mansions" as the theme; On the east side, the famous historical song Peach Blossom Fan and the historical stories of the Qing Dynasty are "Zheng He's voyages to the West" and "Zheng Chenggong's recovery of Taiwan, China from the Dutch colonial rulers".
Go ahead, from the Tianyan Square to the Queen of Heaven Palace: the west side is themed with "Outlaws of the Marsh", "Story of the Song Dynasty" and "Strange Stories of Liaozhai", among which there is a wooden hanging picture of "River Map on the Qingming Festival"; The eastern side takes the historical stories of the Song and Yuan Dynasties as the theme, including "The Story of the West Chamber", "The Legend of the White Snake", "The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl", etc.
The theater square in front of the Queen of Heaven Palace has its own section: folk auspicious paintings as the theme, and the stories in the paintings of willow youth as the theme.
From the Queen of Heaven Palace to Nankou, there is another section: the west side takes the four famous ancient Chinese works "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Journey to the West" as the theme; The eastern side takes the historical legends of the Han and Tang dynasties corresponding to its age as the theme, including historical songs and allusions such as "Phoenix Seeks a Mate", "Zhaojun Goes out of the Frontier", "Wenji Returns to the Han Dynasty", "Peacock Flies Southeast", "Song of Everlasting Regret", "Liang Zhu", "Yang Jiajiang", "Shuo Yue Quan Zhuan" and so on.
Now you come to the "Tianyan Square", where the statue of Yan Fu and its corresponding "background wall" are built to commemorate this modern Chinese thinker and educator.
We continue to travel south. Later, you will arrive at the Tianhou Palace, the center of the Ancient Culture Street. Before entering the Queen of Heaven Palace, you will first see the Queen of Heaven Palace Square, where there are two large flagpoles that have been erected for more than 600 years and are 26 meters high. It is said that at the beginning of the flagpole, on the one hand, the lights were hung up to guide the water transport boats passing through the Sancha estuary; On the other hand, it serves as a foil for the Queen of Heaven Palace, making the whole building complex look disorderly and magnificent. Later, with the decline of Sancha Estuary as a shipping terminal in the north of China, and the continuous commendation of Empress Dowager, the flag pole became a special flag for hanging the title of Dowager Dowager during the pilgrimage on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month and during the temple fair. At night, the flagpole is hung with a large red string of lanterns. In the night, the string of lights flutters and the red light flickers, making the viewer happy and relaxed.
On the east side of the square, near the Haihe River, there is a theater, which is far away from the Tiantian Palace Gate. It is the earliest open-air stage in Tianjin and the earliest place for people to enjoy themselves.
Now we are ready to enter the Queen of Heaven Palace. In 1954 and 1982, the Tianhou Palace was twice designated as a municipal key cultural relics protection unit by the Tianjin Municipal People's Government. It was built in the third year of Yuantaiding and rebuilt in the first year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty. It was repaired in the tenth year of Ming Zhengtong. It was rebuilt in the thirtieth year of the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. Since then, it has been rebuilt ten times from the seventeenth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty to the thirtieth year of Guangxu. During the Republic of China, it was rebuilt and rebuilt several times. During the "Cultural Revolution", the Queen of Heaven Palace was seriously damaged as the "Four Old". In 1985, the Tianjin Municipal People's Government decided to repair the Tianhougong while repairing the Ancient Culture Street. When the Queen of Heaven Palace was first built, it was called the Tianfei Palace. The name of the palace came from the title of "the imperial concubine in the Ming Dynasty" of the Yuan Dynasty, also known as the Western Temple.
From the east to the west, the Queen of Heaven Palace is composed of a theater, a flagpole, a mountain gate, an archway, a front hall, a main hall, a Sutra Pavilion, and a Qisheng Temple, as well as a bell and drum tower, a side hall, and a Zhangxian Pavilion.
There was no such gate at the beginning of the construction of the Queen of Heaven Palace. The gate was added in the 14th year of Qianlong's reign in the Qing Dynasty. It is a brick-wood composite structure with nine ridges and a green roof. The door is carved with five words "Empress Dowager Palace" on the whole brick. There is a plaque of "Protect Sanjin" on the front and a brick of "Protect Wanfang" on the back.