qikou, an ancient town of the yellow river, is located near the yellow river in Luliang mountain, Shanxi province. The name of this ancient town is Qikou. The historical qikou, relying on the turbulent waves of the Yellow River, pushed its reputation downstream and swam in all directions. In the waves of the Yellow River, the name of the ancient ferry Qikou on the edge of Linxian County, Shanxi Province, drifted for a long time.

qikou is named after Datong moraine, the second largest moraine in the Yellow River. Qikou, which rose in Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty, has been a famous commercial town in northern China for more than 211 years, with many shops and merchants. Rafts shuttled through the Yellow River, and camel bells echoed in the valley. In 171 years before the construction of beijing-baotou railway, more than 511 wooden boats came and went to Qikou Wharf every day. From Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Suiyuan and Mongolia, a large number of grain and oil, furs and medicinal materials were shipped, and cotton cloth, silks and satins, tea and ceramics were shipped from Taiyuan and Fenzhou.

There is a folk saying that there are endless bogs, but there are unsatisfied martial arts cities. There is a folk ballad about Qingtou, Nanyukou and tying a mule to Qikou. There are more than 511 camels in the local area, which shows the prosperity of that year. The so-called flood and drought wharf metropolis is the first town of Jiuqu Yellow River. In 2113, the Shanxi provincial government named Qikou as a scenic spot. Qikou Tourist Area mainly includes residential buildings along the Yellow River, such as Datong Qikou Town, Xiwan, Lijiashan and Zhaizishan, Black Dragon Temple, Chairman Mao's Du Dong Yellow River Monument and natural stone carvings in the Yellow River Canyon. Datong moraine: Datong moraine is the largest moraine in Qin Jin Canyon, located 511 meters southwest of Qiaokou Ancient Street where Qiushui River flows into the Yellow River.

When the Yellow River enters the Datong moraine, the river surface shrinks sharply to about 111 meters, and the river rushes to the chute with a drop of about 11 meters and a length of 3111 meters. Suddenly, the water was rushing, the turbid waves were exhausted, the roar was like thunder, and the acoustic shock was ten miles. All the audience were amazed. Hundreds of meters downstream of Datong moraine, the Yellow River is wide and gentle, forming a natural sand pool of up to 1,111 meters. Ancient Town: The streets and shops in Qikou Town are models of traditional buildings in mountainous areas in Qing Dynasty.

The main street runs along Wohu Mountain, starting from the east, reaching Qiushui River to the west, and then going north against the Yellow River. More interestingly, the backstreet of the ancient town is only more than 211 meters long, but it turns 18 times. These buildings are built entirely according to the terrain, the streets are paved with stones, the shops are flat doors, and there are high terraces in front. There are two streets and three streets in the south of the main street, one of which is shorter than the other, forming a ladder-like architectural pattern. According to records, the large-scale construction of Qikou shops began in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. During the Daoguang period, there were more than 61 shops in the town. By the fifth year of the Republic of China, there were more shops. In addition to the county, there are as many as 214 private shops in Baotou, Hequ, Suide, Fugu, Mengmen, Fenyang, Xiaoyi, Jiexiu and Pingyao.

Ancient Temple: Black Dragon Temple, built in Ming Dynasty, is located in Wohu Mountain in Qikou. The whole building is magnificent and stacked on the cliff. The building is great. You can hear it ten miles away without sound facilities. Climbing high and looking far, there are thousands of stones and valleys, and the Yellow River is a hundred miles away. Gudu: In the past, it was the land and water transportation hub of Sui, Bao, Jin, Shaanxi and Henan trade. Today, it is an ideal place for Yellow River rafting and rock surfing.

xiwan folk house: xiwan folk house is an ancient building in Ming and Qing dynasties. It is surrounded by mountains and waters, covering an area of 251m long and 1.21m wide, with a total area of about 31,111 square meters. The building complex is surrounded by a village wall (now incomplete) more than 2 meters high. There are two streets across the compound and five lanes vertically, which connect the whole hospital in an orderly way. There is also a small door between the courtyards. As long as you enter a yard, you can walk around the village through the small door. It can really be said that the village is a yard and the yard is a mountain village. Xiwan residential building is a typical Lvliang quadrangle with profound historical and cultural heritage.

The whole residential building is distributed on the loess slope. The larger quadrangle is made of water-milled blue bricks, and its shape, style and art are very elegant. The brick carvings, wood carvings, figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, fish and insects, birds and animals on the walls, on the gatehouse, on the eaves of the mansion and on the doors and windows of the cave are exquisite and have high art. Wu Guanzhong, a famous painter, ranks it with Zhangjiajie in Hunan and the Loess Plateau in Shanxi, Shaanxi and Mongolia as his three major discoveries. He commented on Li Jiashan like this: such a house is hard to find all over the world. Relief of natural stone wall: from Qikou to Kaiyang, 21 kilometers north of the Yellow River, the stone wall on the east bank of the Yellow River stands. The walls are hung with interesting natural pictures formed by the scouring and wind turbidity of the Yellow River for thousands of years.

These natural stone carvings are fantastic, and people, landscapes, birds and animals can all be associated with others. The natural picture scroll covers a total area of about 11111 square meters, which is very spectacular. It is called the ancient ferry because it is as famous as the ancient town. This ancient town faces wubu county, Shaanxi across the river. We have been together for thousands of years, becoming a pair of complementary partners, a pair of interdependent partners, and two mutual echo bosom friends. The waves of the Yellow River bind the two places together, and the bridge between the two places is the ferry. People on both sides of the strait come and go by ferry. Ships, an ancient means of transportation, are now equipped with engines. Therefore, when the ship is sailing in the Yellow River, it will make a magnificent rhythmic motor sound.

With the sound of motor coming from far and near, groups of people will rush from Shaanxi to Qikou for the fair. Moraine, in the local language, refers to the rapids and shoals on the Yellow River due to topographic relief. The water of the Yellow River splashed on this shoal, making a loud noise, stirring up snow-like spray and becoming a landscape. No wonder some local boys and old boatmen often wash cymbals in teams with white towels tied to their heads. This is a local feat, a sprint of adventure and a great challenge to exercise the will. This proverb has some ancient rhymes. Ancient dwellings have become the first local scenery. Here, Ming and Qing houses were built into streets and stood by the Yellow River. Residential buildings are arranged in a slope-like combination according to the terrain.

In the alley, the old cobblestones of the Yellow River paved the streets. And those ancient bricks are built into houses, which have an ancient rhyme. The house is in disrepair. Although it is not incomplete, it has a strong character. Some high-walled courtyards used to be shops, showing the traces of commercial ports in this history. All the bluestones, rows of large urns, oil baskets, and horse drinking troughs fully make people feel the glory of history and the rich commercial atmosphere here. On the ancient streets, there are naturally extraordinary displays. Baked cake shops smell like cakes. Fresh, baked, hot, delicious, really attractive. What is more attractive is the street banners, which are just daily necessities and are hard to see in the city.

Those bright bronzes, with the charm of Huang Cancan, are even more dazzling. All kinds of copper products are perfectly integrated with the ancient rhyme of Qikou. Wulong Temple is Zhouyu in the ancient town of Qiyu. It stands on the height of the Yellow River with extraordinary momentum, overlooking the Yellow River, commanding and emitting a kind of majesty. Historically, local people prayed for rain here. Originally, facing the Yellow River, we still couldn't get rid of the drought, so Wulong Temple was often in a state of flourishing incense.

Go up the Qiushui River for less than two li, and turn behind Qikou. There is a small village surrounded by mountains on three sides and a river on the other. It is called Xiwan Village because it is located at the corner of Qiushui River. Xiwan is a village with a single surname, all surnamed Chen. Judging from the layout of the village and the structure of the houses, the people in Xiwan Village in the past were by no means ordinary people who made a living by farming. Its bearing, its scale and its prosperity are by no means ordinary small villages along the Yellow River. Although the night in Qikou is quiet, the lights are dim. The red light hanging on the street makes the night in the ancient town seem so quiet and peaceful, poetic and imaginative. On the day when the river lantern shines, it will still be b

the river lantern in the night, with a soft and attractive red light, drifting quietly downstream in the dark night, adding poetry and ancient charm to the ancient town. The Black Dragon Temple in Qikou is located in Wohu Mountain, Qikou Town, at the entrance of Qiushui River at the southern end of Linxian County. According to the records of the Bell and Drum Monument added in the 21st year of Qing Qianlong (1756), the temple was built in the Ming Dynasty. During the Yongzheng period, the Music Building was built. During the reign of Taoism, the main hall and the East and West Ear halls were rebuilt. The temple is magnificent and eye-catching. Black Dragon Temple is located from northeast to southwest, surrounded by mountains and rivers. On the central axis, the first is the mountain gate, which consists of three stone arches. In front of the door is a three-room wide door. The gate is covered with a sloping gate building, and the two-story building is supported by eight large wooden pillars.

There is an inverted music building (stage) next to the gatehouse, and the front and rear buildings are integrated. The stage is unique in structure and exquisite in architecture, which is the first of the ancient buildings in Linxian County. Music is the top of Europe, with glazed tiles, which is very beautiful and generous. The music building is surrounded by a bell and drum tower that spans the hills. The scale is not large, but the style is small and exquisite. The front of the hall is three rooms wide and two rooms deep. The top of the mountain is hard, and there is the Black Dragon King. The left and right ear halls are dedicated to Hebo and the God of Wealth respectively, while the other Cang Guan, Jinlong and Temple Children each have one seat. In addition, there are 22 east-west halls, stands and corridors. The Black Dragon Temple has been built for more than 311 years. After several repairs, the whole building is rigorous, reasonable and symmetrical. Looking at the temples stacked on the cliff, carved beams and painted buildings are simple and elegant, all of which are pleasing to the eye.

looking down the temple gallery, I saw the Yellow River surging and the river gurgling, and I had a panoramic view of the ancient Qikou town. The mountains, water, towns and temples set each other off in the Yellow River Basin. Therefore, Qin Jin Province is well known. The acoustics of the concert hall are more peculiar. No amplification equipment is needed. Ten thousand people went to the theatre, and the sound was clear and crisp, even resounding through Wan Li. So Tao Huang sings * * *, and the running water sings. Therefore, during the Ancient Huilong Festival, people in Qin Jin and four towns in two provinces are not afraid of steep mountain roads, and tourists are constantly coming. There are 4 stone tablets in the temple, among which Daoguang Guimao rebuilt the stone tablet of the Black Dragon Temple and wrote books for Wang Jixian, who is well-known in Yongning Prefecture. The gate is inlaid with two stone couplets, a small town rich in things, a small town rich in people, and a big strip of river beauty, written by Cui Bingwen, a county man, during the Daoguang and Guimao years.

Another book, "Mountains and rivers gather humanities, wind and rain are auspicious, sweet and harmonious", is written by Wang Jixian Yisi, who is well-known in Yongning Prefecture. Wang Jixian is not only elegant in writing style, but also profound in calligraphy, and is famous as the capital. When North Korea sent messengers to ask for the word "bodybuilding mausoleum smoke" many times, Wang Yiran wrote this book, and the messengers returned with satisfaction. For this reason, the Qing emperor gave him 4,211 taels of grain and silver, and people praised it. In a word, it was worth thousands of dollars. In 1988 and 1991, the Heilong Temple was renovated twice with funds from the Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau and raised by the masses, which was well protected. Xiwan Village, a folk house in Xiwan, Qiaokou, is where the Chen family lives. Xiwan dwellings are one of the villages radiated by economic forces in Qikou's brilliant period.

It is different from the Qiao Family Courtyard, the mansion of a giant businessman, and the Wang Family Courtyard built by Beijing officials in the Tang Dynasty. It is the family dormitory of our businessman named Chen in Qiaokou. At that time, merchant families occupied a lot of land and their children also had jobs. Therefore, Xiwan is a comprehensive feudal castle. Xiwan Castle-style ancient buildings in Ming and Qing Dynasties, located on the west bank of Bashui, one kilometer north of Qiukou, sit northwest to southeast, close to mountains and waters, with beautiful scenery

Toilets, stables, wood yards, mills, mills or under walls, or repaired back corners. Make good use of every inch of land. Its design is simple but not unique. It is both practical and elegant, and the high floors are strewn at random, which fully embodies the designer's superb wisdom. The gates, hanging flower doors and opposite walls of each family are even more splendid, each with its own romantic style and different architectural shapes. Woodcarving, stone carving and brick carving are exquisite and original, and the birds and animals are lifelike, which makes the viewers applaud. Stone tablets abound on both sides of the street, such as Fuduo Sanbei, Suijinshi, Enjinshi, Mingjingdi and Fuhai Shoushan.

These plaques have profound artistic attainments in calligraphy, each with its own charm, just like a large calligraphy exhibition. Xiwan Village is an exquisite Ming and Qing architectural complex, which was built in the late Ming Dynasty. The ancestor Chen Xianmo and his son Fan Shi moved from Daipo Mountain in fangshan county to Xiwan in the late Ming Dynasty. At that time, Erhuali in the north of Xiwan was a prosperous town in the background and the center of market trade. Erhuali is the Yellow River pier. The ancestors chose such a favorable terrain with outstanding people, outstanding people, a proper family background and hard work. They have become the fourth generation of three generations, and Chen Sanxi is the best. Chen Sanxi was born on July 3rd in the 24th year of Kangxi (1685) and died on April 18th in the 13th year of Qianlong (1758).

During his 74 years in the world, Chen Gong Sanxi went to school at an early age, studied classics hard, failed in the rural examination and went into business. His wife is Xue's granddaughter who teaches in Jingbian County, Yan 'an area. She is also very knowledgeable. With the help of such a wise man, Chen Sanxi first did freight forwarding business between Qikou and Houtai Town, and then ran around and did big business. The great famine near Qikou occurred in the 1931s. Sanxi used the Yellow River to transport water, bought naked oats, grains and other grains from Baotou, opened a shop near Qikou and sold it to the poor at a small profit. He also bought two cauldrons from Zhao Xian and cooked porridge to help beggars. The governor of Shanxi, knowing the grace of the public, invited the emperor and gave the general punishment to the state government of Fenzhou. At this point, the Chen family in Xiwan built a large building in Qikou and became the founder of Qikou's prosperity. In the east of Xiwan Village, there are also large-scale buildings and magnificent houses, which is the beginning of the prosperity of the rich families in the East. Later, the houses of the rich in the west were also built in the west, comparing with each other, and the more they were repaired, the richer they became.

After the painstaking efforts of 11 generations, the two rich people have become the famous Xiwan Village for more than 211 years. The ancient buildings in Xiwan Village were severely damaged during the Japanese invasion of China, but today there are more than 31 ancient buildings and 5 Gu Xiang buildings, which have high artistic value and are rare treasures left by our ancestors. Today, with the development of tourism, we should make every effort to protect these cultural relics and make their majestic appearance shine again.

Let the pioneering spirit of our ancestors enlighten our younger generation and create more glories! Li's notes on bloom inside the wall and red flowers outside the wall. In recent years, Lijiashan Village has welcomed thousands of scholars, experts and scholars at home and abroad. People in Licun said, What are you looking at in a poor mountain? Experts say: Lijiashan people are begging for food with golden rice bowls! The writer is from Qikou. When I was a child, I went to Lijiashan and watched the performances of Lijiashan Troupe from 1755 to 79111 with my friends.

in the early 1971s, Wang Jian, secretary of the county party Committee, and I went there to visit the poor and ask questions. At that time, the word "tourism" was out of vogue, and it was only bourgeois thought to say that it was a tour. Farmers only talk about eating secretly, and cadres often have flat stomachs. So we went to Lijiashan several times, but no one had the heart to appreciate its cultural landscape. With the development of tourism, the author is a beggar because of his advanced age, and has become an interview object for tourists. After listening to the experts' praise of Li Jiashan, I realized the profound meaning of Tang poetry that I don't know the true face of Lushan Mountain and only live in this mountain. Phoenix-shaped architecture I

According to (genealogy) and word-of-mouth information, when Li Jiashan had two rich men, Dong Fu Deng Xiang, who was called Xiang Rich Man, opened Dehe Store and Wansheng Yong at Qiaokou; Li Defeng, a rich man in the west, opened a Sanhe Monkey at Qiaokou. These two families are prosperous, and they are getting more and more money, which can be compared with Chen Jiafu in Xiwan Village, Qikou. When you have money, you gradually start to make big moves. They invited the Feng Shui master to watch and saw that there were two small ditches flowing south in Lijiashan Village, which merged in the south of the village and poured into the Yellow River. The headland between the two ditches is shaped like a phoenix head, and the left and right mountains are wings. This terrain is surrounded by mountains. Feng Shui masters have repeatedly said that this chariot is headed by a dragon, and the moon rises from Dongshan Mountain, which makes those who are not graceful and restrained afraid of ugliness and yin. The rich dragon should be (genealogy) built on Feng's east rich mansion, while the west rich mansion is built on Feng's right wing, and Feng's left wing is still the old village.

It seems that the rich and the poor are competing in secret. On hundreds of high slopes of 41-degree Mi Yue, they are carefully designed and built, standing by mountains and competing with each other. From the ditch to the top, there are as many as nine floors with different shapes and styles. The buildings in Lijiashan Village are all paved with water mill bricks, and bricks, wood, stone carvings and exquisite plaques abound. Most of the buildings are brick arches (caves), exposed columns and eaves quadrangles, which sit by the mountain. The side houses and stables are mostly hard-topped tile houses with one or two splashes of water. Streets are strewn at random, with stone edges and stone pavements. Waterway layout is reasonable, and there are holes in the ditch.