On the last day of the trip to Enshi, March 22, 2019, the tour guide was scheduled to witness the vicissitudes of Enshi Tusi City in the morning and go shopping in the afternoon. In the drizzling morning, an inexplicable sorrow of separation has settled in my heart.
Enshi Tusi City is located on Tusi Road, Enshi City, 500 meters away from the city government. The current Tusi City was planned and constructed in 1998 and completed and opened in 2002. "Enshi Tusi City" is an inscription for Mr. Fei Xiaotong.
Tusi City includes 12 scenic spots including the Gate Tower, Fengyu Bridge, Linjun Temple, School Field, Jiujin Hall, City Wall, Bell Tower, Drum Tower, Baiyuan Garden, White Tiger Statue, Crouching Tiger Iron Bridge, and Tingtao Tea House30 More attractions.
The chieftain system is a political management system in the history of the central feudal dynasty that implements ownership of ethnic minority areas by the central government and autonomy of power. The Tusi system of the Tujia people started from the Yuan Dynasty and ended in the 13th year of the Yongzheng reign of the Qing Dynasty when they "reformed their native lands and returned to their native places". It lasted for more than 450 years during the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. The chieftain system means that the chieftain pays tribute to the central feudal dynasty and calls himself a vassal. The central dynasty canonizes the chieftain and grants autonomy to the chieftain. The chieftain king controls life and death and dominates the country. He is actually the local emperor of a place.
Tusi Gate Tower. It is 25 meters high and 12 meters wide. It is a wooden building with pure mortise and tenon structure. It is tall and spectacular and has an exquisite and reasonable layout. The corner stairs on both sides can spiral to the top, connecting the layers. The gatehouse consists of 200 doors and 189 hollow carved patterns. The content is mostly dramas and folk legends. The gate tower is 4 stories high, with 12 columns and 24 beams. It means the 4 seasons, 12 months and 24 solar terms in a year. On the roof of the gatehouse, several bats support a decorative sculpture of ancient coins, which is called "Blessings Before Your Eyes". Fortune is the bat, and the money is the copper coin. It is really better to have no words than to have words, saying auspiciousness in a silent place.
The antique Wind and Rain Bridge, with raised eaves and corners, painted pillars and carved beams, is very exquisite and beautiful. It is an excellent place for tourists to rest, enjoy the cool air and chat.
Jiujintang, the chieftain’s palace.
Jiujintang is the core part of the entire Tusi City. It consists of 333 pillars, 333 stone pillar foundations, 330 doors, more than 90 windows, thousands of carved wooden windows, thousands of purlins, and It is composed of thousands of rafters. With a depth of 99.99 meters, a width of 33 meters, and a total construction area of ??3,999 square meters, it is a rare pure wooden structure with mortise and tenon joints in China.
Looking up, you can see the pavilions, towers, corners, eaves and flying claws, high and low, well-proportioned, showing majesty, majesty and magnificence. Jiujintang, also known as a Tusi Imperial City
The patio accepts water falling from the sky for daily water use and even drinking water. It is really a very practical design. I saw several in the city.
The Golden House hides the beauty. The young lady lives upstairs, and the gold and silver jewelry is stored downstairs, so it is called the Golden House. The white unicorn on the wall has no butthole, it can only go in and out, haha.
The parents of food and clothing, the mother lives upstairs, and the granary is downstairs. They are called the parents of food and clothing.
This is a stage. Different from the conventional ones, it is shorter than the stands. Because of the difference between superiority and inferiority, the actor cannot let the chieftain king look up to him. We had no choice but to let the actors sing below, while the chieftain king looked down at the people.
In the stands, the toast king is sitting on the upper floor, and the others are downstairs. The chieftain king must always be superior. Since ancient times, life has been high or low, and the common people can only live in poverty and leisure.
In the Crane Pond, the golden carp is actually the most at ease, taking care of himself and taking care of himself, no matter how powerful you, the chieftain king, are.
The Tusi City Wall is 2,320 meters long and 1.2 meters wide. It is built on the mountain, stretching and majestic. Wars between chieftains to siege cities and plunder villages often occurred. Therefore, beacon towers were widely set up on the city walls to defend against invading enemies.
The bell tower is located at the highest point of the city wall and is a three-story pavilion and tower building. A large bronze bell weighing more than 3,000 kilograms hangs in the pavilion, called the Tusi Chaodian Bell. There is a 999-word inscription on the bell, describing the magnificence and sentiments of the various landscapes of Tusi City. The generosity and tragedy of the Tujia people, descendants of the Cubans and the Tujia people, are far away. vicissitudes of history. The chieftain court bell is mainly used for worshiping Tujia gods and chieftains of past generations; for congratulations on the enthronement of new chieftains enthroned by the court; and for praying to God every year to avoid floods, droughts and insect disasters.
Whenever the bell rang, the chieftain would lead the civil and military officials of the territory, royal family members, soldiers and local people to worship together. It was very solemn and sacred.
At noon, we left the chieftain's city and came to a house. When we ate in the restaurant, unexpectedly, the dishes were rich and tasted great. We devoured it and had a truly delicious meal for the first time in many days. When we got back to the car, tour guide Aping asked if it was delicious, and we all responded in unison that it was delicious.
Then A Ping introduced the afternoon itinerary, going to China·Se Port for sightseeing and shopping. He praised the medicinal and health-care value of selenium, exaggerated the benefits and disadvantages of Miao medicine, and talked about the magic of Miao medicine. This kind of magical selenium, Miao medicine and Miao medicine are available in the selenium port we went to today and are affordable. After finally making a trip to Enshi, Aping persuaded us to buy some.
Aping sighed deeply and said that he was severely criticized by the leader yesterday because we did not sell any latex products in this car the day before yesterday. Ah Ping bowed deeply and said in an extremely soft and pleading tone: I hope I can buy some for him today, okay? Everyone had no choice but to respond in succession: Okay, okay. Then Aping bowed deeply: Thank you.
I am a little confused. The tour guide should guide us on the trip. Has he ever become a product salesman?
Then we were driven to Selenium Port, lambs to be slaughtered.
Entering Selenium Port, a sweet-tongued funny guy guided us around Selenium Port. He made witty remarks along the way and burst into laughter from time to time, which made everyone laugh.
The same routine, entering the house for re-education. Today is an era of re-education. Fetuses are taught in the womb, children have various trainings, and primary school students have various supplements and classes. Even in your sixtieth year, there are universities for the elderly to let you go back and reform...
The funny shopping guide, tall, with a square face and squinting eyes, continued all kinds of humor and the atmosphere was unusually relaxed. However, the afternoon drowsiness couldn't stop coming. Some teammates, including me, fell asleep while sitting there. . The shopping guide was introducing the various miraculous effects of selenium, Miao medicine, and Miao medicine, with clever interactions and burning enthusiasm... We squinted slightly and could vaguely hear it, but suddenly there was a loud "boom boom" bang on the table, which scared us and woke us up. Come and open your eyes, Maitreya's smiling brother stopped laughing and stared at us very seriously: Don't sleep. Then my brother quickly squeezed out a lot of smiles. However, the cold winter sun could not feel the warmth. He only felt like a pile of cool waves after the roar of the sea.
Then the funny brother held up a few tickets, saying they were green channel tickets to see Miao doctors, five of them, and those who wanted them raised their hands, so five team members won the prize. At the last moment, the funny brother prayed very sincerely, saying that he could not leave empty-handed under any circumstances, but he should take a little bit with him.
The get out of class was finally over, and we were led one by one into the selenium harbor like a supermarket. Looking around, I saw cabinets and piles of selenium packaged in gold, a golden ocean. I looked down at the price and was shocked: 980 yuan/box. I thought that I didn’t have enough financial resources to take care of my health. Unhealthy. But I have to buy something anyway, so what should I buy? I saw a box of Eucommia ulmoides chopsticks that cost 48 yuan and put them in my basket. I also saw a box of Duhuo essential oil that cost 78 yuan. I also saw three bags of kudzu root powder that cost 100 yuan. The total price was more than 200 yuan. I planned to retreat but I couldn’t find it when I looked around. When I exited, I asked the shopping guide, who told me that I had to pass by the Miao Medical District. I looked over at the vast expanse of white and dozens of people in white coats. I was startled and flew away, regardless of the warm greetings from the Miao doctors behind me.
We were the first to evacuate Selenium Port and the first to return to the bus to rest. After a while, teammates came back one after another, with bills ranging from 500 yuan, 600 yuan, 700 yuan, 800 yuan, and 1,000 yuan. Later, a 5,000 yuan man came back with a bag of black wheat-like Miao medicine and said it cost more than 2,000 yuan. The Miao doctor said that you should also take the 980 yuan per box of selenium. Miao medicine and selenium worth 8,000 yuan and 9,000 yuan were brought in one after another. Anyone who had seen a Miao doctor spent more than 5,000 yuan. It was said that in two hours, we spent about 50,000 yuan per car. I was dumbfounded. Could it be that I was really being treated like this? Ping was moved to buy it for him, or was it because of the infinite magic power of the Miao medicine, or was the Miao doctor tapping on the disease point?
Tour guide Aping came back with a smile, bowed deeply to express his gratitude to the car, and then the driver went under the car to bring up a pile of beef jerky and tofu, and divided them into small packages one by one to taste and sell. Someone buys it again.
No wonder Aping said: Those who travel are all rich and successful people.
At about four o'clock in the afternoon, it was time to leave. After all, we had to leave in the direction of the station. While waving frequently, Tour Guide Aping turned his back and left in his own direction.
The green train that boarded at half past five was soon buried in the dark night, moving forward with a bang.
This is an Enshi group formed by friends from my hometown. We plan to go back to our hometown to stay for a few days. I arrived in Yiwu at 6:30 the next day. The bus from my hometown was already waiting. The warmth of my hometown was rippling in the carriage. The gold and silver in my home were not as good as my hometown.
Flying in the fields of my hometown, the spring is warm and the flowers are blooming, which is particularly cordial. We arrived in Chengzhou at about 8:30. The five of us got off first at Xinyuan Station. We smiled and waved goodbye to our fellow travelers. We bid farewell to the Enshi team one by one, returned to our homes, reunited with our families, and then went out again. , all kinds of gatherings, all kinds of partings...
I looked up at the slowly leaving bus and was filled with emotion. The Enshi group members who had been with me for the past six days were leaving, and we could still get together again. ?
Some people say that life is a process of constant encounters and partings.