Jinling in the Qinhuai River: the mist and rain of the Six Dynasties and the fireworks of the world in a city
When it comes to Nanjing, the most charming thing about this city is not the majestic and majestic scenes of emperors who ruled the world in the past, but the atmosphere of ordinary people's lives flowing freely among the narrow streets in the city after the grandeur of the past.
It is like a pearl that has been continuously polished and polished by history; its texture is gentle, soft and restrained; the brilliance it emits is not dazzling; however, it can reflect the light and shadow of thousands of years.
Dragons and tigers roosting: the historical beginning of scenic spots in the shape of rivers and mountains
In 333 BC, King Wei of Chu took action. He buried gold on the stone mountain and then built Jinling City, so the city got its first name.
At that time, Jinling was just a military fortress on the riverside, guarding the rolling river water and watching the Yangtze River flowing towards the east.
The person who really made this land feel kingly was Zhuge Liang, who compared himself to Wolong.
He stopped his horse and placed himself in Qingliang Mountain. He looked at Zhongshan and saw that Zhongshan looked like a coiled dragon. He then looked at Stone Mountain and saw that Stone Mountain looked like a tiger crouching. Then he uttered the sentence "dragon and tiger crouching". From then on, he confirmed the nature of Nanjing and also laid the foundation for the city to be the capital of the emperor.
Sun Quan, the great emperor of Soochow, was the first to put his ambition into practice.
He built a stone city on the former site of Jinling City in Chu State.
In today's Stone City Heritage Park , the ocher-red cliffs are witnesses of history.
The river water washed away the brown rocks, causing countless potholes to appear. These potholes were mottled and varied, just like an old man with wrinkles on his face.
Liu Yuxi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, lamented this place with ruins. He said: "The mountains surround the former capital, and everything around it still exists. The tide laps at the empty and uninhabited city, turning back lonely." The tide has not stopped for thousands of years. What it wets is not only the material of stone, but also the hearts of those who came after when they paid attention to history.
Traveling to the South in Clothes: The Foundation of Culture in Yanshui during the Six Dynasties
At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, the Yongjia Rebellion occurred. At that time, the gentry from the Central Plains carried out the "southern migration". After that, they established the Eastern Jin Dynasty in Jiankang, which is now Nanjing.
This was a great migration in the history of Chinese culture and a turning point in the fate of Nanjing.
These nobles from the north brought the etiquette of the Central Plains to Jiangnan, brought elegance to Jiangnan, and also brought the longing for their homeland to Jiangnan.
As a result, Wuyi Alley emerged on the bank of the Qinhuai River .
During the Soochow Dynasty, it was the headquarters of the imperial army, which was dressed in black, hence its name.
In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, it became the residence of the Wang Dao and Xie An families.
The Wang Dao in "In the old days, when the king was in front of the hall and the swallows flew into the homes of ordinary people", he was the man who made outstanding contributions to the founding of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, but Xie An was the overall commander of the Battle of Feishui.
They not only strategized here, but also laid the cultural foundation of the gentry in the Six Dynasties.
At that time, those famous people drank wine and took medicine while talking about metaphysics on the banks of the clear stream near the Confucius Temple. They created one of the most elegant and elegant eras in Chinese history.
Li Yu of the Southern Tang Dynasty was a failed emperor, but he was the emperor in poetry.
Under the bright moon at the top of Nanjing City, he wrote an eternal masterpiece like "When will the spring flowers and autumn moon come, how much do you know about the past?"
Although this small and peaceful court in the south of the Yangtze River did not have the ability to compete in the Central Plains, the area around Chaotian Palace allowed the continuation of the cultural context since the Six Dynasties, and carved the word "elegance" into the marrow of Nanjing.
Weather of the Ming Dynasty: Memory of World Cities and City Walls
In 1368 AD, a farmer named Zhu Chongba proclaimed himself emperor in Yingtian Mansion, and then established the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Yuanzhang was a pragmatist. The Ming city walls he built did not follow rules, but only wanted to be strong.
He made craftsmen from the Huguang area, kiln workers from the Hunan area, and even Shen Wansan, who was as wealthy as the entire country, devote themselves to this extremely large-scale project.
On each city brick, you can see the engraved place and name of the person who fired it. This is the simplest embodiment of the responsibility system, and it gives this city wall the warmth of the world of fireworks.
Nanjing in the Ming Dynasty was the largest city in the world at that time.
Where the river is named Qinhuai River, the sound of oars is accompanied by the swaying of lamps and shadows, and the boat rides lightly on the water. There is the Confucius Temple, where there is the Jiangnan Gongyuan, the imperial examination room, and a large number of talented people came out of this Gongyuan.
In "The Scholars", Wu Jingzi vividly described the bleakness of the world here. However, what Li Xiangjun performed in the passionate Meixianglou was the opposite of "business women who did not know the hatred of their country's subjugation, but still sang among the flowers in the backyard across the river", that is, the national integrity in the dust of the world.
Modern Times: Urban Spirit Reborn from the Ruins
Set in 1842, a treaty was the first unequal treaty in modern Chinese history. It was signed on a British warship on the Xiaguan River in Nanjing.
The bells of Jinghai Temple have become heavier since then.
In 1853, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom established its capital in Nanjing, which was later renamed Tianjing. After ten years of fierce fighting, a place called the Confucius Temple and a river called the Qinhuai River were once again damaged by the war.
The most painful scar was the winter of 1937.
Nanjing, which was the prosperous ancient capital of the Six Dynasties in the past, has experienced the darkest chapter in the history of human civilization.
The bullet holes on the city wall at Zhonghua Gate still exist to this day; the mass grave at Jiangdong Gate expresses endless grief and indignation.
Every stone existing in the Memorial Hall of the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre seems to have a silent soul making accusations in it.
But Nanjing did not fall.
The Nanjing people who stood up from the ruins used a silent tenacity to rebuild their homeland.
It is exactly this that the strength that has been able to survive despite many hardships is the core spirit of Nanjing, which is embodied in tolerance and tenacity, and is manifested in the new life born of tragedy.
Fireworks in the city: the taste of Jinling in ordinary alleys
At this time, the place called Nanjing has long since lost the gorgeous luster that symbolized the imperial capital, and has returned to the way life should be.
In the early morning, go to Pingshi Street or Sanqiba Alley to listen to the authentic Nanjing dialect.
The greeting "Would you like spicy oil?" is more cordial than any welcome words.
Buy a piece of duck fat sesame cake that has just been baked, it is so crispy that it will fall off the crumbs; at noon, cut off half of the duck, this is the last stubborn attitude of the Nanjing people who will not give in.
The saltiness of the salted duck and the sweetness and crunchiness of the roast duck, paired with a bowl of belly noodles , will make life more interesting.
Stepping into the Republic of China Mansion area on Yihe Road, the plane trees blocked the sky and sunlight, and the small yellow buildings stood upright quietly.
On both sides of the road, there are some humble grocery stores and second-hand bookstores.
Gently push open the ajar door, perhaps hiding the former residence of a famous person during the Republic of China, but now it is home to four or five ordinary families.
On the balcony of the room, clothes are hanging to dry, and flowers are placed on the windowsill. History and reality overlap here, lacking the sense of disharmony, and instead creating a harmonious atmosphere.
The character of Nanjing is very much like the water of Xuanwu Lake , deep and tranquil.
It is accustomed to seeing the light of swords and shadows, and it is also accustomed to listening to silk and bamboo orchestras; it once carried the glory of the empire and swallowed the shame of the nation.
In the end, it precipitated all of this, turning it into a shout in the streets, into the salty smell of salted duck, and into the rustling sound of falling sycamore leaves.
This is Nanjing.
It is not the kind of high-altitude monument that you have to look up at, but a rather heavy book that you have to sink your heart into and read slowly. The end of the sentence is punctuated with a period.
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