Recommended tourist attractions: Chengyang Fengyu Bridge, one of the four most famous historical bridges in the world; Liuzhou’s celebrity: Liu Zongyuan, a generation of literary giants. There are Liuhou Temple and Liuhou Tomb in Liuhou Park, which were built by the people of Liuzhou to commemorate more than a thousand years ago.

It was built by Liu Zongyuan, a famous Chinese thinker, writer and politician.

Liu Zongyuan (773-819), courtesy name Zihou, was born in Hedong (now Yongji County, Shanxi Province) in the Tang Dynasty, and was known as Liuhedong in the world.

Because he had outstanding political achievements as the governor of Liuzhou and died here, the world also called him Liuzhou.

When he was a boy, he studied diligently and was very talented. His articles were already very famous.

In the first year of Yongzhen (AD 805), he joined the political reform group headed by Wang Shuwen.

He was promoted to a member of the Ministry of Rites, Wailang, who was in charge of etiquette and other government affairs.

Reform measures include combating the autocratic power of eunuchs and the arrogance of vassal towns, removing corrupt officials, canceling some exorbitant taxes and so on.

But the fight to reform corrupt politics has been stifled by conservative forces.

The reformist leader Wang Shuwen was killed, Wang Gan was forced to death, and eight reform figures including Liu Zongyuan and the poet Liu Yuxi were demoted to Bianzhou as Sima. This is known in history as the "Two Kings and Eight Sima Incident".

Liu Zongyuan was demoted to Yongzhou (now Yongzhou City, Hunan) for ten years.

During this period, he wrote many poems and essays to express his love for life, express his concern for the country and the people, and criticize ignorant and backward ideas and social phenomena.

Among them are fables such as "The Donkey of Guizhou", which satirizes the darkness of society and exhorts the world; biographies such as "Snake Catcher", which praises the working people and exposes tyranny; and "Eight Notes of Yongzhou", a travelogue that depicts the local landscape and natural scenery with exquisite and beautiful details.

, there are poems such as "Tian Jia" that reflect the suffering of farmers, and some philosophical papers criticizing the superstitious ideas of "mandate of heaven" and "divine right of kings".

In 815 AD, Liu Zongyuan was transferred to Liuzhou governor.

When he arrived in Liuzhou, he climbed up the city tower and looked at the wonderful and beautiful mountains and rivers. He missed his demoted colleagues and lamented the hardship of the country's refugees. With a heavy heart, he wrote the poem "Climbing the Liuzhou City Tower to Send to Zhang, Ting, Feng, and Lian".

Zhou" At this time, he was frail and sick, and came to a remote and backward minority inhabited area, but his spirit was not depressed.

He recited a poem: "From now on, worrying about the future is not a thing, how can we allow the beauty to wait for the fleeting time."

Determined to do practical things for the people of Liuzhou and not let the years go by in vain.

With deep sympathy and intimacy, he deeply observed and understood the living habits of ethnic minorities.

There are vivid descriptions in poems, such as "Liuzhou Dong Meng": The county town goes south to connect Tianjin, and the people in different clothes are incompatible with each other.

The green bamboo slips wrapped in salt are returned to the caves, and the green purses and rice are used by the Wei people.

Goose feathers are sewn with wax to sew mountain felts (ji, wool felt), and chicken bones are used to pray to the water god.

I was worried about asking the public court for a re-translation, and I wanted to have Zhang Fu get a tattoo.

Mountain people wrap salt in bamboo leaves and rice in lotus leaves to satisfy their hunger while going to the fair. They wear clothes made of goose feathers and fur to keep out the cold. They use chicken bones to predict the success of the year and worship the water god during droughts.

All this made him feel novel.

Due to the language barrier, he came up with the idea of ????going to live among the caves and learn the language in order to eliminate the gap with them.

In the second month after arriving in Liuzhou, Liu Zongyuan repaired the Confucius Temple and strongly expressed his desire to develop local culture and education in the "Inscriptions" on the temple repairs.

He was very knowledgeable and taught people how to read and write. Liuzhou's cultural atmosphere was greatly open.

Nowadays, scholars in Hunan often go not far from Xiali to Liuzhou to worship him as their teacher.

While improving the cultural knowledge of the people, he also wanted to reform backward customs that hindered production.

At that time, Liuzhou still had a bad habit of superstitious belief in witches and gods. When they were sick, they would ask shamans to slaughter animals of all sizes to worship the gods. If they were not sick, they would think that the gods were not allowing them to live, so they would go on a hunger strike and wait to die.

Due to the high population mortality, lack of cattle, and abandoned fields, Liu Zongyuan used the Buddhist viewpoint of abstaining from killing animals and medical knowledge to enlighten them.

There is also a bad habit: the poor borrow money at usurious rates and cannot repay it when it is due, and when the interest exceeds the capital, they become slaves forever.

Liu Zongyuan made a stipulation: Those who became slaves due to debt can redeem themselves if they can pay off the debt. Those who cannot pay can be paid according to the labor time. If the reward is offset by the debt, the slave status will be cancelled.

This relieved the suffering of many oppressed and enslaved people.

The states in northern and northeastern Guangxi followed his example and liberated thousands of indebted slaves within a year.

In "The Biography of Tongquji", Liu Zongyuan enthusiastically praised the eleven-year-old Liuzhou Zhuang shepherd boy Quji for his wit and courage in defeating two bandits who violently captured him and sold him into slavery, and profoundly exposed the local plundering and selling of slaves.

An ugly social phenomenon.

Liu Zongyuan attached great importance to tree planting in Liuzhou.

He planted two hundred citrus trees with his own hands in the northwest corner of the city, and wrote the poem "Planting Sweet and Sweet Orange Trees in the Northwest Corner of Liuzhou City": He planted two hundred yellow and sweet orange trees with his own hands, and new leaves are everywhere in the corner of the city in spring.

Fang and Chu Ke pitied the emperor's tree, but did not learn from Jingzhou Limunu.

How old are the blooms and the smell of snow spraying? Who picks them and sees the hanging pearls?

If you sit and wait for a long time, it will be as good as supporting an old man.

He said that he did not follow the example of Li Heng, the prefect of Danyang during the Eastern Wu Dynasty, who planted citrus only to leave an industry for his own children and grandchildren, but for the benefit of the local public.

It is also to appreciate the steadfast character of the orange tree like Qu Yuan.