Jingzhou has a flat terrain, mild climate, crisscrossing rivers and lakes, with 92 rivers with a watershed area of more than 100 square kilometers, and the Yangtze River flows through the district for 453 kilometers.
Jingzhou has a long history and splendid culture, and is the birthplace of Chu culture and one of the three cultural centers. According to legend, Yu delineated the nine states, and there was Jingzhou at the beginning. In ancient times, Jing, Chu refers to the same area, Jing, Chu's word meaning, originally the name of the same tree. According to the history books, Jing and Chu as the land was first called Jing and then Chu. During the Shang Dynasty, the land of Jingzhou Chu, as a square state included in the jurisdiction of the Shang Dynasty. The Zhou Dynasty sealed Xiong Yi, the first ruler of Chu, in Danyang, and the state name was Jing. In the early Spring and Autumn period, King Cheng of Chu changed Jing to Chu.
According to archaeological discoveries, as early as 5,000 to 6,000 years ago, human beings flourished in the land of Jingzhou, creating the splendid Qujialing culture and Shijiahe culture. Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, bronze smelting technology, wrought iron technology, silk weaving and embroidery technology and lacquer craft technology are in the world's leading level; Laozhuang philosophy, Chu literature and music and dance, have also ascended to the hall of civilization of the ancient world. In and around Ji'nan City, the former capital of Chu, there are 5 ruins of Chu City, 73 ruins of Chu culture, and more than 800 large stone tombs, including the tombs of 18 Chu kings. During the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Liang said Jingzhou was "based on Han Shin in the north, with all the benefits of the South China Sea, connected to Wu Hui in the east and Ba Shu in the west, which is a country of martial arts."
Jingzhou has been known as "Only Chu has Talent" since ancient times. Qu Yuan, a world cultural celebrity, served here for more than 20 years; Lu Yu, the "tea saint" of the Tang Dynasty; Zhang Juzheng, the "prime minister of the Ming Dynasty"; and Cao Yu and Ouyang Shan, contemporary literary figures, are all from Jingzhou.
Jingzhou has been a place of war since ancient times. During the Three Kingdoms period, Wei, Shu and Wu tried to seize Jingzhou, leaving behind not only many touching stories such as "Liu Bei Borrowing Jingzhou" and "Guan Gong Losing Jingzhou by Accident", but also a large number of ruins of the Three Kingdoms. The main ones are Jiangling's Guan Gong Pointing Platform and Horse Running Spring, Honghu's Cao Cao Bay and Wulin Zhai, Jiali's Zilonggang and Huarong Road, Shishou's Xiulin Town and Liu Langpu, and Public Security's Lady Sun City. Jingzhou City has well-preserved ancient city walls, which have survived for more than 2,000 years. Especially the ancient city wall built in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, its scale is big and well-preserved, which is unique in the south of China, and is also one of the few in the country. Inside the city, there are Kaiyuan Guan and Xuanmiao Guan built in the Tang Dynasty, Taihui Guan built in the Ming Dynasty, Wenmiao, Guanmiao and Tie Nu Temple built in the Qing Dynasty, and there are Three Kingdoms Park, Bonsai Garden and Stele Garden built in modern times. The obvious mausoleum in Zhongxiang territory, the joint tomb of Emperor Jiajing's parents, is both the only Ming Dynasty emperor's tomb in the central and southern regions and the largest Ming Dynasty ancient architectural complex in the central and southern regions.
Jingzhou is the birthplace and center of Chu culture, the famous ancient battlefield of the Three Kingdoms, the center of the revolutionary base in western Hunan and Hubei, and an excellent tourist city in China. Jingzhou (Jiangling) ancient city is one of the first batch of the State Council announced 24 national historical and cultural cities, by the archaeological community, the historical community called "China's southern rare perfect". "The story of "Liu Bei borrowing Jingzhou" and "Guan Yu's carelessness in losing Jingzhou" in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms has made Jingzhou famous both at home and abroad. Jingzhou is famous both at home and abroad. Jingzhou has many humanistic landscapes and historical relics. Now there are 5 sites of Chu City, 73 sites, large-scale ancient tombs more than 800, there are also Wulin ancient battlefield, Huarong ancient road, three gas Zhou Yu Luhuadang, Guan Yu pointing platform, Zhanghua Temple, Wanshou Pagoda and other places of interest. The city's existing national, provincial and municipal (county) level key cultural relics protection units more than 540. Among them are 7 national key cultural relics protection units, namely, Jigongshan Paleolithic site, the old city of Chu Jinan, the ancient base group of Baling Mountain, the ancient city wall of Jingzhou, the old site group of the West Hunan E Revolutionary Bases, the site of the city of Yinxiang and the site of Going Horse Ridge; provincial key cultural relics protection units of 32, municipal (county) key cultural relics protection units of more than 500. Located about 30 kilometers southwest of Songzi City, Dangerous Water Scenic Area is a national forest park integrating mountains, water, caves, forests and springs, with a total area of 286 square kilometers. Scenic area has the famous dangerous water reservoir, by Asia's first large artificial type of earth dam surrounded by the system, the library shape such as coral, reservoir water blue, water quality is excellent. In the scenic area, trees, caves, lakes, mountains and colors, and the contrast is interesting. In the scenic area, there are ancient tomb sites of the Warring States, Wu Sangui military site, the site of the ancient stagecoach road in Hunan and Hubei, and Lingwu Temple, an ancient temple of the Jin Dynasty, etc., which are very rich in cultural connotation. Located in the southwest of Honghu City, Honghu Lake, with an area of 760 square kilometers, is the largest freshwater lake in Hubei Province with the richest organic matter content, and is also an important freshwater fishery base in the country, whose unique natural scenery and humanistic landscape are desired by both Chinese and foreign tourists. Founded in yuan taiding years (1324 ~ 1328) of zhanghua temple, according to legend for the king of chu ling palace - zhanghua palace site, the existing temple is the qing dynasty restoration, its scale and hanyang's guiyuan temple, dangyang yuquan temple and hubei's three jungles. Located in Jingjiang embankment Shashi section of the west of the Wanshou Pagoda, for the Ming Liao Wang Zhu Xian fire festival built, so far there are more than 450 years. Pagoda height of more than 40 meters, for the eight-sided seven-story building, the outer wall decorated with white jade statues of more than 100, the inner wall of the brick relief statues of a thousand, different postures. Placed in the tower next to the river promenade, overlooking the railings, the waves beat the shore, the river goes east, a hundred boats compete for the flow, the weather. Jingzhou is located in the ancient city of Jingzhou Kaiyuan view of the Jingzhou Museum has a collection of 120,000 pieces of cultural relics. One of the jade pottery, Chu lacquer, silk of the Warring States, the Yue Wang Goujian sword, the Western Han Dynasty ancient corpse, etc., can be called rare treasures, with significant archaeological, scientific research and ornamental value.
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Introduction of Jingzhou
Jingzhou - a famous historical and cultural city in China, an important port in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and a central city of the Jianghan Plain, it is one of the first batch of 24 famous historical and cultural cities in China announced by the State Council in 1982, and the ancient wall of Jingzhou was also announced by the State Council as a national key cultural relics protection unit in 1996.
Jingzhou is located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and the hinterland of the Jianghan Plain, and is the birthplace of the world-famous Chu culture. The state of Chu during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods built its capital in Ji'nan City, five kilometers north of the city, for 411 years, leaving behind rich historical and cultural relics.
The ancient city of Jingzhou has accumulated a rich history and culture. There are numerous monuments and attractions in and around Jingzhou. Dayu water resting soil, Xiongchu statehood of the capital, the remains of the Three Kingdoms strife, the celebrities of the victory trail ------ like a starry night, countless. Jingzhou ancient city wall is one of the most representative, the most weighty monuments. According to the "Houhan Book - Geography" records, Jingzhou ancient city wall construction history, can be traced back to more than 2,800 years ago in the period of King Li of Zhou. By the latest ancient city wall archaeological excavations in kind scientific verification: Jingzhou ancient city wall is China's longest continuation of the era, across the most dynasties, the development of the evolution of the only ancient city wall from the earth city. in March 1998, archaeologists have unearthed the Song Dynasty and the Five Dynasties period of the Brick City; the two Jin Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms period of the earth city. Superimposed on the current wall 10 meters below the discovery of the Five Dynasties brick city, so that the Jingzhou City brick city construction history from the beginning of the Ming Dynasty is generally accepted, and back more than 400 years. The archaeological excavation also confirmed: from the three kingdoms era, jingzhou ancient city wall has not happened big change, shift distance only in the range of about 50 meters; earth city wall is far earlier than the brick city wall. 2000 August, archaeologists in jingzhou city small north side of the gate, found a section of nearly 20 meters long of the ming dynasty chenghua years of rammed lime glutinous rice slurry city wall. This section of the city wall, although after more than 500 years, is still as solid as a disk stone, rare in the world.
Jingzhou ancient city wall around, the original city gate 6, namely the East Gate, small East Gate (also known as Public Security Gate), North Gate, small North Gate, West Gate, South Gate. Each gate are set up "double insurance", before and after the two doors, the two doors built between the urns, in order to "catch a turtle in a jar", to the attack on the enemy in the dead. In order to ease the traffic in the city, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the city opened three new gates, namely, the new East Gate, the new South Gate, the new North Gate. The newly opened gates are all without urns. 6 ancient city gates were originally built on the city building, now only the East Gate and the Great North Gate two have a city building. Therefore, the best place to visit to appreciate the elegance of the ancient city wall is the East Gate and the Great North Gate. The East Gate is also known as "Yinbin Gate". The city tower is "Binyang Lou", which was built in the Ming Dynasty, and the current tower was rebuilt in 1988. The east gate was the gate to welcome envoys and guests. Therefore, the gate tower is spectacular and the urn is the largest. Dabeimen, also known as Gongjimen, was the exit of the ancient post road leading to the Central Plains and the capital, where people used to send their friends and relatives on long journeys by folding willows and giving them as gifts, wishing them peace and safety, so Dabeimen was also known as the Willow Gate. Dabeimen tower name "Chaozong building", the tower ridge square below the book has rebuilt the time of this building: the Qing dynasty Daoguang eighteen years of age wuxu in September of polyoxyethylene nonyl phenyl Xu early ten wuxin auspicious time Ding Si time rebuilt. Great North Gate tower is the only surviving ancient city wall tower ancient architecture. This building is simple and spectacular, the movie "Little Flower", "Roads and Roads", "Bells of War" and so on have been filmed in this location. Both Binyang Building and Chaozong Building are equipped with staircases, which allow visitors to climb up and look down at the charm of the ancient city.
In the 21st century, the ancient city of Jingzhou has been through the vicissitudes of life. The construction of large-scale parks around the city, so that the national historical and cultural city has added a new landscape rich in connotations: pedestrians on the city walls, the inner ring road on the drive, the outer ring road running horses, moat on the boat.
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Jingzhou Tourism Guide
>> > Obvious Mausoleum
Commonly known as the Imperial Tomb. Department of Ming Shizong Zhu Houquan's biological father Xingxian Wang (later posthumously overflow Gong Rui Xian emperor) Zhu Youyuan (1476-1519) mausoleum. Built in jiajing nineteen years (1540). Covering an area of about 600 acres, surrounded by vermilion-colored high walls, 3.6 kilometers in circumference, in front of which two red doors were built, for the brick glazed tile roof beamless hall building. Outside the door there are "officials and other people to this dismounted" stone monument two, the Department of Yan Song handwriting. Stone pavement up to 1300 meters of the divine way, straight to the inner city. Divine path is arranged on both sides of the eight Yunlong Huabiao and lions, Xiezhi, camels, elephants, unicorns, kneeling horses, horses, a pair of stone people have civil servants, military generals, each of the two pairs. Neat and orderly, vivid form. Inner City for the main door of the school Si Gate, followed by the Hall of Nuclear Grace, were destroyed at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the surviving glazed jonquil, double dragon wall and palace stone base, stone balustrades and chi dragons, etc., have a high level of craftsmanship. Finally, the city of graves (also known as Bao Cheng), surrounded by two tall earthen mounds for Zhu Youhang and his wife Jiang's grave. In front of the city of graves on the platform there is a bright building, the plane square, side length 9.2 meters, covered with heavy eaves hysterical yellow glazed tile roof. Inside the building, a tombstone is erected, with the inscription "Emperor Gongrui Xian's Mausoleum" in block letters. The drainage aperture of the head of the city of the ring of tombs, carved in white jade with 36 huge dragon head decoration, extremely spectacular. For the national key cultural relics protection units.
Jingzhou, was once a strategic place of strife between Wei, Shu and Wu. In order to this piece of extraordinary land, launched a gas swallowed mountains and rivers, trembling history of the great fight. They not only for the world to play out a lot of popular legends, but also for the Jingzhou this piece of ancient land has left a lot of interesting traces of victory.
>> Liu Bei and the Public Security Gate
The Public Security Gate is located in the southeast corner of the ancient city wall, also known as the small east gate, is the only water gate in the ancient city. Today, although the water gate pier has long lost its function, but the pier above the green stone parapet railings, up and down the stone steps of the pier is still clearly recognizable. In 210 AD, Liu Bei, who set up camp in Gongan County, was lucky to borrow Jingzhou from Lu Su, who succeeded Zhou Yu in charge of the seal of command, and sent Guan Yu to guard the area, and he himself is still camped in Gongan. In the future, Liu Bei came to Jingzhou from Gongan to inspect the defense, all through the waterway, from the small east gate pier landing into the city. In order to commemorate this unforgettable history, the descendants of Liu Bei stationed in the place of public security instead of the small East Gate.
>> > Sheng Street and Wash Horse Pond
Sheng Street is the street outside the Jinshui Bridge at the Great Northern Gate of Jingzhou City. Legend has it that when Guan Yu was defending Jingzhou, he attacked Fancheng in the north and met Cao's army in Shinshui. In this battle, Guan Yu drowned seven armies, captured Yu Ban, decapitated Pang De, and won a great victory. Guan Yu triumph, through this street into the city, the people along the street spontaneously gathered on both sides to welcome the victorious soldiers, firecrackers, drums and music, singing and dancing, to celebrate the victory. This street is also named for the victory street, and has been used until now. Guan Yu victory back to the city by such a grand welcome, see its treasure sitting on the red rabbit horse dusty body, the feeling of pity was born, suddenly saw the north door on the east side of the pond with a clear bottom, so the horse to the hands of the red rabbit horse washing, so this pond is called the wash horse pool, for thousands of years, folk legend, the circulation is unceasing.
>> > point generals platform and pat horse mountain
Point generals platform is located in jingzhou city outside the west gate garden village. According to legend, before Guan Yu attacked Cao Ren in the north, he built this high platform to parade his troops and train his soldiers. Nowadays, as far as the eye can see, a piece of green. Northeast of the generals platform, there is a high but more than ten meters of the hill, the name of the pat horse mountain, is Guan Yu's northern attack before the pat horse rehearsal place. Throughout the ages, the point of the Generals has been the people hanging look forward to the Three Kingdoms victory. Qing Dynasty poet Tang right had come here to see things Shu Huai, wrote "Jiangling point generals platform" moving poem: "topography of the heavenly peril of the Chu River wide, want to borrow Jingzhou since ancient times is difficult. The false smile of a hundred paces to call an ancient bamboo hat? Pouch? The first is the "Frightened Tomb", which is a kind of "Frightened Tomb". Frightened tomb TongT store excise Kui Kui? I'm not sure if you're a good person or a good person. What's your name? Side by Side! What are you doing? What are you doing? The first time I saw it was in December of 1986, when the founding fathers of the country were in the middle of the war! In December, 986, the founding father Xu Xiangqian Marshal also personally inscribed the "point of view" plaque.
>> Horse Running Spring and Hat Mound
Horse Running Spring is located in the village of Horse Running Spring in the southern foothills of the Baling Mountains, which is closely related to Guan Yu's horse, the Red Hare, is full of magical legends and another relic of the Three Kingdoms. Qing Daoguang twenty years in the spring beside the establishment of the "Han Guan Gong horse running spring monument" stone tablet, said the reason. The inscription recounts: "Liu Bei was besieged by Cao Cao in Dangyang, Guan Yu led the division to save it, take the road through here, horses and men are trapped, burning thirst, can not change an inch, the red rabbit horse with hooves to plow the ground, head neighing. Loyalty touched the mountain gods, stone open springs, people and horses to drink, the energy back, quickly to save the Lord in Dangyang." Horse Running Spring is thus named. Running Spring was horseshoe-shaped, clear water tastes sweet, drought does not dry up, the water contains more than 20 kinds of minerals, the local development and production of mineral water has been named Horse Running Spring. Adjacent to the horse running spring east side of the drop cap platform, legend has it that guan yu went to dangyang to solve the danger of liu bei passing through here, the wind is strong, people rush, hoofs fast, the war hat was blown off by the gale, so this platform is called the drop cap platform. Every seam Chongyang Festival, people often come to this platform to pay homage to the distraction of the fun. Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai climbed to this platform, had a poetic outburst, leaving the ancient chant "nine days of Longshan drink": "nine days of Longshan drink, yellow flowers smile by opening, drunken look at the wind fall cap, dance love moon to stay people" fall cap platform next to a large mound of ancient tombs, and also so that the platform is named the fall cap mound.
>> Guan Gong scraped the bones and cured the poison place
"Three Kingdoms" vividly recorded Guan Yu because of poisoned arrows, Hua Tuo for the scraping of the bones of the story. According to Jingzhou local records and folklore, Guan Yu guarding Jingzhou Tiger Tent, in today's Jingzhou City Center Hospital area, the statue of its bone-scraping and healing, Guan Yu that does not fear scraping the bone of the great pain of the austere look, admirable, unforgettable.
>> unloading armor mountain and throwing armor mountain
Unloading armor mountain in the ancient city of new south door on the left side, and the earth city wall into one. Legend has it that when Guan Yu returned from his victorious campaign, he used to take a nap here. Over time, people will be accustomed to call this mountain for unloading armor mountain. Throwing armor mountain in the ancient city northwest of the city wall. Guan Yu guard Jingzhou, repeatedly winning battles, the idea of growing paralyzed and reckless, do not listen to Zhuge Liang's warning, do not listen to the advice of the strategist, the results of the Lv Meng, Lu Xun's arrogance of the plan. Guan Yu think they are, a large number of troops to Xiangyang, the results of the rear of the emptiness, the Wu army to take advantage of the situation, Guan Yu back to save less than, defeated, head to the other side, Jingzhou lost. The defenders in the city, was forced to throw the A mountain area, had no choice but to surrender the armament throw armor.
>> Guan Temple and the Spring and Autumn Pavilion
Jingzhou Guan Temple and Spring and Autumn Pavilion, are due to Guan Yu after the town of Jingzhou memorial buildings. Guan Temple is located in the ancient city of the south gate, was built in the twenty-ninth year of Emperor Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1396), the original building scale, majestic, and Shanxi Xiezhou Guan Ancestral Temple, Hubei Dangyang Guan Mausoleum and is listed as the country's three major Guan Gong Memorial Shrine. Jingzhou Guan Temple was destroyed in the war of the Japanese invasion of China. 1985 National Tourism Administration and other departments to allocate funds to rebuild the original site, the reconstruction of the ceremonial door hanging in the Qing Dynasty Qianlong Royal tin "Zenan Nanji" plaque. Yimen backyard, both sides of the stone monument, the front for the reconstruction of Guan Temple inscription, the back for the metaphor of Guan Yu's temperament of the bamboo leaf poem, the main hall basically maintains the original Guan Temple style, the head of the door for the Qing dynasty above the emperor's imperial plaque "shocked the Chinese summer". Hall of Guan Yu night reading Spring and Autumn and Guan Ping, Zhou Chang stood on both sides of the statue, hanging above the Qing Yongzheng Imperial "qiankun Zhengqi" plaque.
Spring and Autumn Pavilion was originally located in Jingzhou City, the eastern suburbs of the Golden Dragon Temple, built in the Qing Jiaqing years. The pavilion is enshrined in the Guan Yu read "Spring and Autumn Annals" statue, so the name of the Spring and Autumn Pavilion. The pavilion was built on a tall, thick steps, the face of three, divided into the upper and lower two floors, the upper for the cabinet, the lower for the room. There are two horizontal stone staircases on the front side, from which you can enter the pavilion. The entire pavilion building exquisite, three sides of the water, green trees, like yao tai qiongge. The pavilion is now the city's key cultural relics protection units.
>> Zhang Fei a load of soil
Zhang Fei a load of soil is located in the ancient city of public security gate on the opposite bank of the Ma River. The story of Zhang Fei is based on a magical folk legend. According to legend, when Guan Yu was defending Jingzhou, he made a bet with nine fairies to build a city. Guan Yu was in the east, the fairies were in the west, and the rooster crowed in the middle of the night as the limit, and whoever built the city first would have the jurisdiction over Jingzhou. Fairies have fairy law, full of promise, the city began to build the race, the fairies careless, Guan Yu is mobilized all the city guards, skillfully use the reed mat instead of the soil to build the city, soon finished, and make people to the side of the cockerel to learn rooster, triggered by the whole city rooster crowing four, the fairies in the hazy night to see the east city has been built, know that the momentum has gone, they slipped away. At this time from the public security news to come to the battlefield of Zhang Fei, hands carrying two baskets of soil line to the Mahe side, learned that Guan Yu has won, overjoyed, so hands a loose, two baskets of soil dumped on the ground, "Zhang Fei a load of soil," thus taking shape. Although a small flat-topped mound, but because the legend is beautiful and related to Zhang Fei, this scene to the world's attention. Sheng Hong of the Southern Song Dynasty, "Jingzhou Records", which has a colorful description of "a peak back to the west, reflecting the falling moon, and look at it from afar, such as a fan of paintings. Therefore, Zhang Fei a load of soil is also known as the painting fan peak. There was a hexagonal pavilion built on it, which was known as one of the eight scenic spots of Jingzhou City at that time.
Jingzhou City, also known as Jiangling City, is one of China's famous historical and cultural cities. Here are better preserved Jingzhou ancient city wall, the city east-west diameter of 3.75 kilometers, north-south diameter of 1.2 kilometers, an area of 4.5 square kilometers, the city wall circumference of 10.5 kilometers, 8.83 meters high, **** six city gates, each built on the gate with a city building.
>> City Walls
It is rumored that as early as the Qin Shi Huang, the land of Jingzhou appeared in the initial outline of the city, the Han Dynasty built a formal wall, and then by Shu general Guan Yu, the East Wu guard Zhu Ran and the East Jin Dynasty Jingzhou assassin Huan Wen and Liang Yuan Di, and so on, several times repair and expansion, so that the ancient city of Jingzhou is solid and strong, but all of these city walls are earth city building.
History of large-scale construction of brick walls in Jingzhou recorded in the "History of the Five Dynasties", the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period of the Jingnan section of the Shi Gao Jixing, in 912 A.D., the army drove more than 100,000 people to build a brick wall; to the Song Dynasty, the Southern Song Dynasty, Jingzhou Pacification Shi Zhao Xiong, the battle of "Jingkang," the wall was destroyed in 1187 AD, rebuilt a perimeter of 10,000 square meters of the wall, and the city was destroyed. In the Song Dynasty, Zhao Xiong, the governor of Jingzhou in the Southern Song Dynasty, after the destruction of the city wall in the battle of "Jingkang", rebuilt the brick wall with a circumference of 10.5 kilometers in 1187 A.D., and built more than 1,000 battle towers on the wall. During the Yuan Dynasty, Yuan soldiers captured Jingzhou City, and Kublai ordered the city wall to be completely demolished. After Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, it was restored again in 1374 AD with the same foundation. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, after Zhang Xianzhong attacked Jingzhou City, the city wall was demolished by the volunteers again. Qing Shunzhi three years (A.D. 1646), the third time according to the original base of the restoration, which is preserved to this day Jingzhou ancient city walls.
City construction is very firm, in order to prevent the wall from sinking due to water corrosion, the foot of the city wall is built with all the stones, brick wall are used to lime glutinous rice slurry grouting; two drainage holes under the wall is also built with all the stones, holes can be two people side by side; outside the city moat closely surrounded. Jingzhou city is easy to defend and difficult to attack, so there is "iron Jingzhou" said.
>> City Gates
The six gates of the ancient city wall have names linked to local geography, history and customs. The east gate is called Yingbinmen, the south is Nankimen, the west gate is called Anlanmen, the big north gate is called Gongjimen, the small north gate is called Yuan'anmen, and the small east gate is called Gonganmen (water gate). In addition to the small east gate, the other gates outside the city are curved city, for the two doors, between the two doors called urns. The city gate and the city door frame are made of stone, brick garden roof. Two-thirds of the city gate each set a hermetically opposed door, wooden door and a 10-centimeter-thick gate, to prevent flooding.
>> City Gate Building
Six city gates were originally built on the city gate building, the east gate building named Binyang building, small east gate building named Wangjiang building, west gate building named Jiuyang building, the south gate building named Qujiang building, small north gate building named Chaozong building. The most famous ones are Qujiang Lou and Jinglong Lou. In ancient times, the south gate is adjacent to the Yangtze River. When Zhang Jiuling, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, was relegated to the post of governor of Jingzhou, he often climbed the south gate tower to enjoy the scenery of the Yangtze River. When Zhang Shi was the governor of Jiangling in the Southern Song Dynasty, he also often climbed this building to cherish the past. He admired Zhang Jiuling, and because Zhang Jiuling was a native of Qujiang (present-day Qujiang County, Guangdong Province) and authored the Qujiang Collection, the South Gate City Tower was named the Qujiang Tower. Jinglong Building was built in the willow gate (big north gate) above the ancient willow gate outside the avenue leading to Kyoto, is the main traffic thoroughfare Jingzhou City, boarding this building tourists are many, so the fame is greater.
>> Three Kingdoms Park
Located in the ancient city of Dabeimen and the west gate between the city wall side of the inside of the vast area, covering an area of 260,000 square meters, of which 170,000 square meters of water. Historically, Jingzhou is the town of Wei, Shu and Wu, so the Three Kingdoms Park is named after it.
The large area of water in the Three Kingdoms Park is the North Lake of the ancient city. Park to the natural scenery of the North Lake as a basis, divided into the East Court, West Court, Pearl Island, the island of four pieces of natural, natural, sparkling lake, lotus; shore birdsong, green willows into rows. The Three Kingdoms Park is a large-scale popular amusement park with history in the scenery and beautiful scenery. Three Kingdoms landscape all over the park, into the park, the front face is a show of the "Three Kingdoms" of the large-scale wall. The south side of the wall, "Peach Garden" in Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei statues stand, implying the beauty of the three Peach Garden; north side of the "Qunxianzhai", next to the Boiling Wine Pavilion, Plum Garden Plum fragrance, alluding to the "Plum Boiling Wine Heroes "the historical story.
The garden has a 397-meter city wall-style promenade. On the north side of the promenade is the Bronze Sparrow Pavilion, where the statue of Cao Cao stands majestically. South of the promenade is the feather fan Pavilion, Kongming Bridge, the bridge in the feather fan spandex in the Kongming look at ease; and Kongming Bridge opposite the lake on the south shore of the Huai Gu Pavilion in front of the statue of Sun Quan, the leader of the Eastern Wu. In addition, the west side of the island in the east shore of the West Lake built a "borrowed arrows Pavilion", the Pavilion is equipped with ancient bows and arrows, visitors can be in the water on the "chain boat" to the "straw boat" moored in the lake to release arrows, in order to reproduce the year "straw boat". Recreate the story of "Borrowing Arrows from a Straw Boat". Three Kingdoms Park has a lot of amusement equipment, especially in the lake, swinging paddle swim, think of the Three Kingdoms Zhoulang Red Cliff, will have some fun in the heart.
Jingzhou food
Jingzhou City has four famous dishes:
One of them is "dragon and phoenix". It takes eel and chicken as raw materials, and is cooked by boiling, brining, deep-frying, slipping and other cooking methods, which is a traditional famous dish in Jingzhou area. Legend has it that during the Three Kingdoms period, Liu Bei's marriage to fake real, he returned to Jingzhou with his wife from the Eastern Wu, Zhuge Liang set up a banquet for them to receive the wind, the first dish on the table is the Jingzhou chef's special "dragon and phoenix match". See a large eel was made into a dragon, winding in the plate, scaly armor, feet on the clouds, head open mouth, the corner of the whiskers was flying; chicken-shaped phoenix stood next to the dragon, neck spread wings, feathers gorgeous, crown red like dancing. Liu Bei saw, the heart of the great joy, praise, since the "dragon and phoenix with" a dish is also known far and wide.
The second is "fish cake balls". Fish cake balls is Jingzhou area unique flavor, to eat fish not see fish, fish contains meat flavor, meat has a fish flavor, fragrant and tender, the entrance is dissolved by people. Legend has it that the production of fish cake originated in Chu, in the capital of Chu Ji Nan City, there is a hotel, specializing in a variety of fish dishes with wine. One day in summer, the owner of the store to buy more fish, but this day business is slow, to the evening there are still a lot of fish left. Seeing that the fish has been away from the thorns will be rotting, the owner of the store in a hurry, simply remove all the thorns of the fish will be chopped into mush, mixed into a few eggs, plus some soybean flour, and pour a little white wine in addition to the fishy, and then made into a cake in the steamer to be steamed. The next day the fish cake cut into pieces in a bowl steamed hot, poured with seasonings on the case for sale, the results were very popular. Later, the fish cake more and more beautiful, people with fish and fat meat cake, and then pork, yam, etc. made of meatballs. Meatballs at the bottom, fish cake on top, and finally to belly slices, slices of waist cooking cap, multi-cuisine **** bowl, commonly known as "chowder pills".
The third is "eel with leather strips". Jingzhou City, there is a "Jurchen Garden" restaurant, Jurchen Garden's "leather strip eel" is a traditional dish, eel is a good therapeutic product, the "famous doctors" will be listed as eel, said it has to supplement the five organs, treatment of deficiency effect.
The fourth is "winter melon turtle skirt soup". It is made of fat male turtle skirt and tender winter melon, plus chicken soup, seasoning stew, stew and become. According to "Jiangling County Records", during the Northern Song Dynasty, Emperor Renzong of Song Dynasty summoned Zhang Jing, a Jingzhou native, and asked him what was good to eat in Jiangling. Zhang Jing replied: "new corn cooking caviar rice, tender winter melon cooking turtle skirt soup". It can be seen, "winter melon turtle skirt soup" in the Song Dynasty is famous.
Jingzhou other specialties
>> Pi Strip Eel
Practice, especially important fire skills. Live eel slaughtered, cleaned, cut into strips, rubbing batter batter, with three different temperatures of oil blanching and deep-frying until the skin is crispy, and then hung on the sweet and sour sauce, so that the eel made of leather strips, shaped like wrinkled skin snake strips, color and lustre of the golden yellow transparent, outside the crispy, inside the oil tender, sweet and mellow taste.
>> Shin Yang three steamed
that is, steamed meat, steamed pearl meatballs, steamed white pills. Three steam with thin gravy, pure flavor, good at keeping the original flavor characteristics. Among them, especially the steam pearl meatballs.
Method: the fat and thin with comparable pork and fish as the main ingredients, chopped into mush, mixed with egg liquid, with all the pepper, ginger and other condiments, and wet powder mixing, squeezed into the diameter of five points of the size of the meatballs, put into a sieve rolled sticky sticky sticky rice, loaded into the cage drawer, with a high fire steam. Cooked glutinous rice crystal color, white and transparent, like a grain of pearl, meatballs soft and glutinous, oily and loose bubbles, tender meat, fat and not greasy taste delicious.
>>Steamed Wuchang fish
Wuchang fish is a kind of bream. Its meat is tender and rich in fat, and can be used in a variety of ways to cook dishes, including steaming is the best. Steaming Wuchang fish is generally used about two catties of a Wuchang fish, supplemented by ham, mushrooms, asparagus and chicken broth after steaming, and then in the fish decorated with red, yellow, green color shredded vegetables, looks colorful, lift the chopsticks to taste, fat and tender, fragrant soup, aftertaste for a long time.
>> net oil sand
For a noble dish, it is said to have begun in the Northern Song Dynasty in Bianjing, was then the royal relatives feast on the good. The material and practice of the net oil sand is very sophisticated, its filling selection of good red cowpeas, boiled by rice, simmering on a small fire, peeling the shell to remove the water with its mud. It can be used for one year without changing color or losing taste, and is fragrant all year round. Its skin surface is white, unbroken pig net oil skin, the filling will be rolled into strips, and then coated with fresh egg white plus yellow powder, warm fried in sesame oil, knife cut and shaped, sugar sprinkled on the surface, and then supplemented with green and red silk embellishments, placed on a plate, like a blossoming snow lotus, but also like a snowy plum blossom on the dotted. The outer layer of the net oil sand is crispy, the middle layer is soft, and the filling flavor is sweet in your mouth.
>> Shishou chicken velvet fish maw
Do Shishou chicken velvet fish maw this dish is the most rare is its main ingredient - Shishou pennant fish maw, "this thing is only Shishou have, traveled all over the world without a second home". Yangtze River Basin chicken velvet fish in Shishou mayor especially fat, more than a meter long, weighing seven, eight pounds to more than 20 pounds, the quality of the tender, delicious flavor, swim bladder fat and thick, unique and chic, the shape is very much like Shishou Yangtze River side of the Penjiao Mountain, swim bladder within the red Penjiao Mountain pattern, Penjiao fish maw and thus the name. Shishou Chicken Mushroom Fish Maw and hen breast as the main ingredient of cooking Chicken Mushroom Fish and become, flavorful and nutritious.
>> > Huangpi Sanhe
To fish balls, meatballs, meat cake three dishes in one and named. Fish ball selection of fish minced, egg white, white onion, ginger, lard as seasoning, blanching. Meatballs are selected pork leg meat, with fish and seasonings, crispy fried. Meat cake raw materials with meatballs, more steamed and made. Two or three kinds of combustion, a variety of dishes, fish with meat flavor, meat seepage fish fragrance, distinctive flavor.
>> lead-free loose flower eggs
Jiangling has more than a hundred years of history of production of eggs, XuanTongyuan year (1909), the grass city QiuHuCheng egg farms of the loose flower of the egg has been famous in the province and abroad.
Lead-free loose flower eggs color, aroma, taste, and superior to the traditional method of processing leaded eggs. 1984 early, the first batch of lead-free loose flower eggs sold to Hong Kong. By the Hong Kong Egg Enterprise Co., Ltd. sent to the Hong Kong health authorities for testing, lead content of only 0.01 percent, much lower than the international regulations (six percent) standard, and that "the quality is very good, chewing delicious aroma, throat cool, for the best quality".
>> sweet and sour garlic
The raw material is a kind of wild garlic without cloves, and then vegetable farmers planted it, and it became a specialty of Jingzhou area. With its pickled sweet and sour garlic, particles round, milky white crystal, sweet and sour crispy, is appetizing and appetizing, increase appetite delicacies. There is also the role of preventing intestinal infections and skin diseases.
Jingzhou snacks and fruits
>> Jiangling loose braised eight treasures
Also known as eight treasures rice, is the end of the Qing Dynasty court chef Xiao Dai produced exclusively for the Empress Dowager Cixi. Later, Xiao Dai was famous for making eight treasures rice at the Juchanyuan restaurant in Jiangling, where he lived in exile.
Jiangling Scattered Braised Eight Treasures is made of glutinous rice, red dates, lotus seed kernel, cinnamon yuan meat, dense cherries, melon seed kernel, sugar cinnamon, dense winter melon, etc. Steamed into blanks, and then added with sugar, lard scattered braised and become. It is bright color, sweet and moist, oily but not greasy, sweet but not tired of, there is a "shallow cup of fine tasting, away from the table for a few hours aftertaste long" idiom.
>> loquat
is a kind of perennial evergreen tree, the first year of autumn blossoms and fruits, the next year in May fruit maturity, the fruit is spherical, golden yellow, sweet and slightly sour taste, each fruit has a one to three nuclei, the leaves and fruits can be used in the manufacture of traditional Chinese medicine, is one of the specialties of Jiangling. 1986 as the city of Jiangling tree, the front and back of the courtyard of many residential homes are planted loquat, so the "loquat of the city". Therefore, it is known as "the township of loquat".