Hongya Cave, as a landmark building in Chongqing, is a must for a foreigner visiting Chongqing for the first time, because it represents the characteristics of Chongqing, the stilted building complex, and here It was also drawn as a prototype by the Japanese comic master Hayao Miyazaki in "Spirited Away", which made Hongya Cave even more famous at home and abroad, and it has become a business card of Chongqing. Lao Zhu also visited here last year and was shocked by the night view here. He couldn't help but take many photos as a souvenir. I will also post a few here to share with you. Let's take a look under these beautiful photos. A glimpse into the history of Hongyadong. All photos were taken by Lao Zhu himself and are not allowed to be reproduced without permission. Hongyadong can be traced back to the Ming Dynasty. After the Ming Dynasty just established its political power, local official Dai Ding began to build Chongqing City. He designed seventeen gates, nine open and eight closed. The so-called closed gates are just fake gates. In terms of the appearance of the door, no door can actually provide the function of a door, and Hongyadong is one of the eight closed doors. The closed door is set up here because it is close to the Jialing River. Friends who have been there have felt it. If there is a real door here, , then it is easy for intruders to break in here. The geographical location of Hongyadong is very dangerous. Not only a closed gate was built here, but also cannons were set up on it as military defense facilities. The reason why it is called Hongyadong is also named after the terrain. , because the door here is called Hongyamen, and there is a cliff below the door. There is a naturally formed hole on the cliff, so this place is named Hongyadong. During the Republic of China, there were more and more people in Chongqing, and Hongyadong was a dock where people could find work, attracting a large number of urban poor people. They adapted to local conditions and built rows of mountain city buildings on the cliffs. Diaojiaolou, from a distance, looks like one piece after another, and it feels like a gust of wind has blown them swaying, but this unique building is the unique style of Chongqing, but the Hongya Cave at that time was not as beautiful as it is now. It is said to be a shanty town, and the people living in it are the common people at the bottom, such as laundry workers, trackers, and the unique stick sticks of Chongqing. Although it is a shanty town, it is also full of human touch. The beautiful buildings in front of you were actually built around 2000. Before the construction, a large number of residents in shantytowns were relocated, and Hongyadong was re-planned to give it a more mountain-city-style architectural style. About five years later, Hongyadong took on a new look and became what it is now, with rows of modern stilted buildings built along the mountain, equipped with modern light strips to create a light of Chongqing. Chongqing, I will come again. Thanks for the invitation! Chongqing Hongyadong is located in the riverside area where Cangbai Road, Jiefangbei Road, the Yangtze River and the Jialing River meet in the core business district of Chongqing. It has urban tourism landscape, business and leisure landscape and urban cultural landscape integrated into one. The address is located on the 1st and 2nd floors of Hongyadong Folklore Area, No. 88 Jiabin Road. The style of building on the mountain and along the cliff is really amazing. You can have a good view of the Jialing River from the top floor. Except for the few floors occupied by the Hongyadong Hotel in the middle, the interior is basically full of shops. The contents of each floor are different, such as bars, local snacks, specialties, antiques, etc. Chongqing Hongyadong is based on the style of stilted buildings with traditional Bayu architectural features. It is built along the mountain and along the river. The Liberation Monument reaches directly to the riverside. Hongya Cave has a history of more than 2,300 years. The Hongyadong Folklore Area Project is one of the eight popular projects of the Chongqing Municipal Government in 2005, with a total area of ??46,000 square meters. It is a key landscape project and an AAA-level key tourism project in Chongqing. This scenic spot is famous for integrating urban tourism landscape, business leisure landscape and urban cultural landscape. It is mainly based on the stilted building style with the most traditional architectural characteristics of Bayu. It is built along the cliff according to the mountain situation, allowing the Liberation Monument to reach directly to the riverside. It is a good place to visit the stilted buildings, watch the dripping green cliffs, visit the old streets of the mountain city, appreciate the Bayu culture, watch the confluence of the two rivers, and taste delicious food from all over the world. It is also the living room of the Jiefangbei. All in all, Hongyadong is full of Chongqing flavor and can be regarded as a very representative building of Chongqing. The eleven floors are all built against the mountain, layer upon layer, and they are all made of wood. If you have seen Spirited Away, you will feel very much like the house inside. In a word, superior. The top floor is a sightseeing platform overlooking the Jialing River. The stairs on the platform wind all the way to the end. Each floor has its own characteristics. You can sit in the bar and sigh while looking across the river. You can also take a peek in the antique shop. You can also go out for a big meal, which is a very interesting process when you discover it by yourself. The first time I went there, I didn’t take the elevator. I climbed the eleventh floor in one breath and was exhausted. Later, I went there at night, and under the lights, it exuded a different kind of beauty. Welcome to follow and comment! Even earlier, there were stilted buildings and shantytowns left over from the Kuomintang period. They had been poor since liberation and had no money to renovate. Most of the people living there were Chongqing locals. Later, in the 1990s, they were rented to Bangbang, and finally they were rented to Bangbang. The Little Swan Group has created a folk cultural scenic spot. It was not popular at first, but it has only become popular in recent years. It is mainly spread through the Internet, and foreign tourists are largely responsible. This place turned out to be a excrement collection place in Yuzhong District, on the upper reaches of the Jialing River. The dung boats parked on the riverside flowed into the cabin through wooden troughs and were then transported away. Hongya Fucui is a large sewage outlet in Yuzhong District. Every year when the water rises, this place will be flooded. Unexpectedly, by some combination of circumstances, it has now become a tourist destination.

Hongyadong, Chongqing, before liberation. Because there are natural caves, they are also channels for urban sewage to drain. There are no residents there and it is a place where "beggars" gather! Make a living by begging and scavenging. After liberation, the people's government organized and established a "material recycling company" to solve their employment problem! But the terrain there is simply not suitable for large-scale housing construction. So most of them are the most dangerous "stilted buildings" built by the "poor" with the simplest materials! Forming an urban slum closest to the Liberation Monument. Successive governments have struggled with the "elimination" and "transformation" of this area. It was not until Chongqing was under direct control that the city government proposed that the "Little Swan" Group take the lead, mobilizing city planning, city construction funds and even professors from the Academy of Fine Arts. A brand new "Hongya Cave" has been fully opened! After more than ten years of hard work, a new "city business card" has finally been formed! When we evaluate Hongya Cave in the future, we will be able to be more objective. 1. Hongya Cave is really a cave. Maybe you all want to know, why is a complex of stilted buildings called a cave? This goes back a long time. Do you still remember the previous article "Tongyuan Gate", which mentioned that Ding was built in the late Ming Dynasty to build the city. For military needs, Chongqing built seventeen city gates with nine openings and eight closings. The Hongya Gate, which was built around the Song Dynasty, has since become A closed door. In today's popular terms, this is a fake city gate, with towers and forts, but no gates. This ancient people's routine is really well hidden. The Hongya Cave is a huge grotto on the edge of the cliff under the rocks outside Hongyamen. According to legend, there was an immortal in ancient times, named Hongya Immortal, who lived in this cave all year round, hence the name of Hongya Cave. From ancient times to the present, people have never stopped pursuing gods. Guo Pu, a great scholar in the Jin Dynasty, once wrote "Right on the shoulder of Hongya". Wang Erjian of the Qing Dynasty wrote a poem: "If you pat on the shoulder of Hongya, it is hard to find the ancient cave image." During the Daoguang period, Wang Mengeng, the prefect of Chongqing, could not bear to leave. He chanted the famous line "Clap your shoulders to cherish the ancient immortals, lingering and can't bear to go" while half drunk and half awake. No matter what the ancient people did, they had to do it for good luck and have a meaning. For example, the layout of the seventeen city gates in Chongqing is taken from the "Nine Palaces and Bagua", which symbolizes the harmony of yin and yang and the flow of luck. The naming of Hongya Cave and Hongya Gate was also intended to use the name of the gods to gain good fortune and protect Chongqing from war. There is also a wonderful beauty at Hongya Cave, called Hongya Dicui. Just how beautiful it is, please read the literary expressions of the ancients: Summer and autumn are like waterfalls, winter and spring are like drops... The stone moss is green, the pool water is rolling, the sunset is shining, and the five colors are different. Unexpectedly, the inland city of Chongqing can also have colorful and beautiful waterscapes. Unfortunately, the gradual growth of human beings has caused many beautiful scenery to become extinct. During the Qianlong period, the population of Chongqing was growing day by day, and the area higher up Hongyadong, known as the upper half of the city, became more and more prosperous. Domestic sewage flowed down the river, and the greenery on Hongyadong was implicated. From then on, the beautiful scenery turned into smelly water. The ditch, on the surface, still seems to be full of jade, but in fact it smells terrible. Since then, a piece of unparalleled beauty has been tragically lost. 2. Once a place blessed by gods and gods, it later became a refuge for beggars. Seeing that more and more people in Chongqing have come to beg for food from all over the world, there are also more “beggars” coming to beg for food. They saw that the area around Hongyadong was so empty. It was very comfortable, not humid, and could shelter from wind and rain. Although it was a bit smelly, it was still an ideal place to live, so they wrapped themselves in tattered quilts and settled in Hongyadong. After some time, the porters, boat trackers (trackers), and Xili people carrying water for sale on the river also took a fancy to Hongyadong, a geomantic treasure land. In order to save money, some people Some people had no place to live, so everyone took it into consideration and actually built a stilted building next to the river in Hongyadong, leaning against the mountain. It looked quite spectacular from a distance. These stilted buildings are where poor people live, so they are not beautifully designed buildings. Most of them are made of the cheapest materials such as fir and bamboo, and are built with perforated structures and binding methods. The poor people don't have money to buy gunpowder, so they can't blow up the mountain and build again. They can only stand staggered or side by side on the cliff. They are simple and crude, but they can stand firmly for decades and tell the world about it for a long time. That vicissitudes of life. At that time, Hongyadong was a paradise for the poor. Most of the houses closest to the cliff are laundry workers. Every morning, the alley begins to be filled with hot air, the smell of soap, and intermittent crisp laughter. During the day, when you look down from the Hongyamen city wall, you can see that the bamboo poles sticking out from the stilted building are covered with clothes to dry, and they are swaying in the river wind. It is a very special sight. But this low-cost stilted building is also extremely dangerous. Every year, the Jialing River floods. When the water level rises, the stilted buildings in Hongyadong will be flooded. People have no choice but to move away and hope that the flood will not wash away the homes they have worked so hard to build. Fortunately, Hongyadong Diaojiaolou has always been peaceful. Every year when the water recedes, people in the whole street work together to wash away the mud and move the furniture back home. In a few days, the Diaojiaolou will come to life again, as it does every year, stubborn and persistent. The once cliffside fairyland and beautiful greenery have long been replaced by the atmosphere of the market. Along with this "sewage waterfall" that was abandoned by the citizens, the Hongyadong Diaojiaolou has been living tenaciously. Additional answer: Hongya Cave is located on Cangbai Road between Linjiangmen and Qiansimen on the south bank of the Jialing River in Zhongqu District, Chongqing. From here you can see the Jiangbeizui area and the intersection of the two rivers. Today, it is built in the style of old residential buildings in the form of stilted buildings along the cliff. , has long become a tourist business card of Chongqing.

In fact, Hongya Cave was historically called Manzi Cave. Until the early days of liberation, some enemy agents left behind by the Kuomintang, in order to avoid being eliminated by the Japanese army, hid in Hongya Cave with the beggars. In the 1950s and 1960s, it was still a place where very poor people lived. This area was even poorer than the slums. In the 1970s and 1980s, it was home to hundreds of poor families. I also took many photos. Perhaps because I live nearby, I was deeply impressed by the slum in Hongyadong.

It should be an old building (a residential building on stilts in eastern Sichuan), which was later built by Little Swan Group based on "Spirited Away"!