It is the ancient capital of the Southern Song Dynasty that appeals to both refined and popular tastes!
This is an authentic tourist city, but it attracts countless talents and eyes because of the aura of "internet plus". In fact, cities, like people, are difficult to sum up with a label.
Hangzhou has had different colors since ancient times: both the elegant West Lake and the common streets.
0 1. Ordinary city
In the north of Hangzhou, I believe everyone can imagine what the bus stop name "Mishixiang" and "Selling Fish Bridge" looked like hundreds of years ago.
The place names with their own fireworks make people feel delicious when they listen.
A few steps away from Zhao Hui, the streets and lanes are still the same old slow rhythm: on the table of the pavilion in the community, there is a plate of leisure fruit, and a group of old Hangzhou sit together, or play cards or rub hemp; On the radio next to it, excerpts from Wang and Yuan Xuefen's Yue Opera are playing. ...
If I want to use a word to describe the old Hangzhou people, the first thing I think of is the street.
In the Tang Dynasty, Yan Shigu commented on Hanshu: Who talks about the market, the market and the trading place? Well, * * * painting, that's all.
In those years, the city and the well were the focus of people's life in the south of Hangzhou: a narrow alley, where grocery stores and fruit stalls on both sides were crowded with customers, and along the alley, there was always a well in the corner, where gossip about Zhang's parents and Li's family gathered-Hangzhou, the local flavor of this Internet city, was next to the well.
There are ten gates in old Hangzhou. The ancients once compiled the scenery under the gates into Hangzhou Minor, which has been sung so far:
Lan Xiang outside Qiantang Gate
Boating outside Yongjin Gate
Chai Daner outside Qingbo Gate
Horse racing outside Fengshan gate
The jars outside the Houchao Gate
Cai Daner outside Wangjiangmen
Salt Dan 'er outside Qingtai Gate
Shit eggs outside Chun Qing's door
The silk basket outside the Genshan Gate
Fish eggs outside Wulin Gate
In the minds of ordinary people, the tall and majestic gatehouse is far less impressive than the department store sold at the gate. Poetry, books, rituals and customs, but as soon as I entered Hangzhou, I was exposed to the fireworks in the market.
Shihui Bridge and Midu Bridge are unknown to the people of Laohang, but Shihui and Midu are their renamed names.
The original name of Lime Bridge is Rihui Bridge, but in Hangzhou dialect, "Lime" and "Rihui" are homophonic. For ordinary people, the meaning of "sunshine" is too high, and "lime" is something that everyone knows. Over time, Rihui Bridge became a lime bridge.
As for Midu Bridge, the original name was Wuduqiao, which was originally built by Buddhist disciple Huayuan to raise money, and Wuduqiao was the realm of liberation pursued by Buddhists, so it was named Wuduqiao. But how can ordinary people know the silent Dharma of Nirvana! So the extinction bridge naturally became a crossing bridge.
More than 800 years ago, when Song Gaozong took a group of civil servants from the Central Plains to Hangzhou, he also brought Goulanwa Temple in Tokyo to the foot of Wu Shan. Standing in front of the railing to watch the performance, "the rich hold a money field, but the poor hold a personal field", the cheers at the foot of Wu Shan quickly won the popularity of the grassroots actors who just arrived in Lin 'an.
Hangzhou was once the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the city still has the aftertaste of the Southern Song Dynasty. The flavor of the Southern Song Dynasty, is it aristocratic? No, this is a market.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the Japanese scholar Naito Hunan put forward the theory of "Tang-Song Transformation". During the Tang and Song Dynasties, the nobles withdrew, and the civilian culture gradually occupied the mainstream position.
In the Southern Song Dynasty, the performance in Goulanwa Temple gave birth to a new literary genre-storytelling. Nowadays, people are used to adding the word "novel" after "story book", so it is not difficult to know how grounded the entertainment activities in Hangzhou were.
The market in Hangzhou was inherited from the Southern Song Dynasty. Historian Chen Yinque once said that "the culture of the Chinese nation developed for thousands of years and reached its peak in the Zhao and Song Dynasties".
In addition to fireworks, the streets of Hangzhou have their own elegance.
0 2. Elegant West Lake
Visitors to Hangzhou often have the impression of "West Lake+Other Places".
For thousands of years, few people have paid attention to the geographical label of the original "lagoon" of the West Lake. Her body is full of humanistic colors of Bai Juyi and Su Dongpo. West Lake seems to be a symbol of Hangzhou culture.
By the West Lake, what Yang Wanli saw when he bid farewell to his friends was "the lotus leaves are infinite, and the lotus leaves reflect the sun in a different color", and what Lu heard when he stayed in the inn was "the small building listened to the spring rain all night, and the deep alley sold the apricot flowers", all of which became the excellent content of today's one-day tour in Hangzhou.
There is even the phrase "When will the West Lake stop singing and dancing?" It is not enough for Hangzhou people to satirize the ruler of the Southern Song Dynasty who was partial to Jiangnan. Have you noticed that the most famous old hotel by the West Lake is the one outside the building? 1972 During Nixon's visit to China, Premier Zhou did not go anywhere else, but hosted a banquet in honor of the President of the United States here.
Different from Confucian culture in poetry, West Lake is the birthplace of western isolation.
The name of Lingyin Temple is well known all over the world. There are three Tianzhu beside Lingyin Temple. Everyone in old Hangzhou knows that vegetarian food in Tianzhu Faxi Temple is cheap. What is ignored by everyone is that since the Song Dynasty, Lingyin Tianzhu has long been the center of Guanyin belief. Figuratively speaking, "Guanyin Bodhisattva is in the west of the West Lake when she is not in Putuo".
Zhao and Song Dynasties not only brought poetry wine and Buddhism to Hangzhou, but also brought tea, a necessity of daily life.
Tea, which originated in ancient times, flourished in the Tang Dynasty and began to enter thousands of households in the Song Dynasty. Song Huizong wrote Daguan Tea Theory, which recorded the aesthetics of tea ceremony represented by ordering tea in Song Dynasty. His son, King Kang Zhao Gou, brought cultural relics to the south and Naifu's tea ceremony aesthetics to Hangzhou.
West Lake Longjing is very famous. Although today's brewing method is far from the tea ordering in the past, Longjing Tea, the "Top Ten Famous Tea", still stays in Hangzhou. Did it touch the elegance of the Zhao and Song royal families?
Careful observation reveals that the elegance of Hangzhou lies in the West Lake, and the elegance of the West Lake comes from all corners of the country.
0 3. Five-square miscellaneous places, just like the Southern Song Dynasty.
The Southern Crossing in the Song Dynasty not only continued Zhao's national culture, but also brought the Central Plains culture to the Qiantang River.
Although today's Hangzhou dialect belongs to Wu dialect, it has a distinctive feature of northern mandarin-Hua Er Yin. Do you still remember the scenery outside the tenth gate of Hangzhou above? All the "silk baskets outside Genshan Gate" and "fish baskets outside Wulin Gate" end with "er", a linguistic feature brought by the royal family of Zhao and Song Dynasties.
There is also a famous dish that you must eat when you come to Hangzhou-Song Sao Zi Tang. I believe many people have tasted it after tasting it. Tastes like hot soup! Yes, Song Saozi Soup is a famous dish in the Central Plains, which went south with Zhao Gou and Kang Wang. After taking root in Qiantang, it joined the big family of hangzhou dishes. ...
Lin 'an, the smallest town in ancient China, was flooded by more than one million people in the early Southern Song Dynasty.
Someone asked me, Hangzhou people, why do you say that the Southern Song Dynasty is the peak of Hangzhou? I said, not because she was the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, but because Lin 'an City in the Southern Song Dynasty was full of rivers, lakes and seas.
A Millennium dream, today's Hangzhou attracts young people from all corners of the country because of the Internet.
On the subway, you can hear Beijing films and see Sichuan girls; On the street corner, you can eat Chaoshan streaky chicken and taste Huainan beef soup: this situation, like the Southern Song Dynasty, is really the best time in Hangzhou!
In the old city of Hangzhou, the cry of "duck feather turtle shell" in the distance seems to echo the past, reminding us of the memory of the streets of Hangzhou; And when night falls and the gem mountain near the West Lake is brightly lit, it will remind me of that elegant feeling.
This is a complicated city. On the one hand, it is the elegance of the West Lake, on the other hand, it is the life on the street. Elegance is her connotation, and the street is her local flavor.
If you want to read Hangzhou, you must know that she tastes both refined and popular.
Only by touching the breath of the street and savoring the connotation of elegance can we know this ancient capital of Southern Song Dynasty best!
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