Qinghui Garden
Xiangji Temple Pagoda
Taiyuan Baiyun Temple
Liquan County Yuanjia Village Spicy ZiFang
Mother's Day Filial Piety
As one of the traditional virtues of China, filial piety plays a pivotal role in the long history of the Chinese nation, and many stories related to filial piety have been passed down from ancient times to the present, and people's praise for these filial piety stories has never stopped. In history, some filial piety children have built special memorial sites for their mothers to commemorate their mothers' kindness. As the epitome of the filial piety culture of the Chinese nation, these places are worth taking your mother to walk around and see, which is very meaningful.
Text/Guangzhou Daily all-media reporter Chen Weiwei
Filial piety place: Qinghui Garden
Among the famous gardens in Guangdong, Qinghui Garden is a very unique one, which is an ancient garden building originally built in the Ming Dynasty and is still a representative work of Lingnan gardens. The site of this garden is the Huang's Garden built by Huang Shijun at the end of the Ming Dynasty, which was inspired by the famous sentence of the famous poet Xie Lingyun of the Southern Dynasty: "The climate changes in the dusk, and the landscape contains Qinghui", so it is named "Qinghui Garden".
There is such a story in the origin of Qinghui Garden: Huang Shijun, a native of Xingtan Town, Shunde, was a high school official, an official to the Ministry of Rites Shangshu and a university scholar, and later returned to his hometown to build the Huang Clan Ancestral Hall and the Tianzhang Pavilion and the Ling'a Pavilion, after the Decline of the Huang Family, the courtyard was abandoned, and during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Long Yingshi zhongjinshi bought the Tianzhang Pavilion and the Ling'a Pavilion. Long Yingshi's eldest son, Long Tinghuai, was also admitted to the Jinshi, and served as an editor of the Hanlin Academy, waiting for the imperial history, and later resigned from the official Nangui, Zhuyuan Fengmu, and his son Long Yuanren invited Jiangsu Wujin Jinshi and calligrapher Li Zhaoluo to write the three characters of "Qinghui Garden" above the main gate of the Yu Garden, as a metaphor for "the grace of the parents is like the sun and the sun shines". Therefore, from the name alone, Qinghui Garden is closely related to filial piety.
Nowadays, walking into Qinghui Garden, many people will sigh at its largeness and refinement, the current Qinghui Garden scenery is elegant and beautiful, the old house and the new scenery of the expansion are integrated, the clear water, green trees, leaky windows, stone mountains, small bridges, curved corridors are fully present in the park, the pavilions and pavilions blend with each other, and the modeling architecture is unique. Sculptures in the garden are also a must, and artistic decorations such as carvings, poetry paintings, and gray sculptures in Lingnan gardens can be seen everywhere in the garden, reflecting the characteristics of "majestic, strange, dangerous, quiet, beautiful and open" in the classical Chinese garden courtyard architecture.
If you take your mother to the park, you must go to see the Bixi Caotang. It is said that this is the earliest building of Qinghui Garden, earlier it was the place where Long's mother was enshrined, in the Bixi Caotang there is a hollowed-out bamboo carved round light cover, its craftsmanship is exquisite and antique, on the skirt board of the glass screen door on both sides, there are forty-eight different forms of "Shou" characters engraved with Lishu, Seal Book and Bird and Insect Book Body, called "Baishou Tu", the general "Baishou Tu" is composed of hundreds of characters, and the "Baishou Tu" in Qinghui Garden is only ninety-six "Shou" characters, which is also different from other gardens in Qinghui Garden.
Tips:
Take the bus from the Provincial Bus Terminal to Shunde Bus Terminal, transfer to Shunde 303 Bus Station at the Bus Station of Shunde Bus Station to Qinghuiyuan Station. By car, you can get there from Fangcun on the Guangzhu West Line, ring highway, and from Xinji North Road, about 1 hour.
Where filial piety goes: Xiangji Temple Pagoda
In Liujia Village, Beacon Town, 25 kilometers east of Liquan County, Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province, there is a 44-meter-high ancient pagoda, which is said to have been built by Liu Heng, the Emperor of han Wen, to commemorate his mother, Empress Bo, which is the only pagoda built by Chinese emperors to miss his mother, so it is also known as the "Wangmu Pagoda". In history, the story of "Emperor Wen tasting soup" tells the story of Empress Bo and Wangmu Pagoda, which is also a story of filial piety and goodness. Emperor Wen of Han was famous for his filial piety, because his mother was sick, he often took care of him without wearing clothes, and the soup medicine that his mother took had to be tasted by himself before he was relieved to let him take it.
The Wangmu Pagoda that can be seen today was built on the original site during the Tang Dynasty, which is thousands of years ago. It is a pavilion-style seven-story brick square tower with a double-storey base and many small niches on it, in which various sculptures are placed. The tower has a variety of carved decorations, and the eaves of each tower are hung with brass bells, and the wind blows bells, which are crisp and pleasant.
Liquan County, where the Xiangji Pagoda is located, is a place where Xi'an people like to go on weekend vacations in recent years. If you take your mother to Xi'an for a trip, you may wish to include Liquan County in your itinerary. By way, visit small villages with history, such as Yuanjia Village, to make rural tourism flourish and experience the colorful Guanzhong folk customs. In the folk culture street of Yuanjia Village, there are still various handicraft workshops in various traditional buildings of green bricks and gray tiles, carved beams and paintings, grinding sesame oil, making tofu, and donkeys grinding noodles, taking their mother to relive these old crafts and retrieve the memories of that year. In the spring and summer, the flowers in Yuanjia Village are in full bloom, and I remember to take beautiful photos of my mother against the background of the sea of rural flowers. Liquan County is a well-known producer of apples, apricots, and crispy pears, and there are many fruit forest bases, and you can also experience the pleasure of picking when you enter the orchard.
Liquan County is about 40 kilometers away from Xi'an Xianyang Airport, and Liquan County can be reached by bus from the airport.
Liquan noodles are local specialties, can be eaten with soup, can also be eaten dry, the noodles are placed in a bowl, poured with bone broth or spiced sour and spicy soup, mixed with condiments can be eaten, is a local breakfast must eat food.
Filial piety place: Taiyuan Baiyun Temple
In the southeast of Taiyuan City, there is a Baiyun Temple, commonly known as "South Ten Square Temple", which was originally built in the Tang Dynasty, originally as the Guanyin Hall built by the name XiangDi Renjie as his mother, and has been repaired many times after generations, and has been preserved to this day, becoming a famous tourist attraction in Taiyuan.
There is such a legend in history, when Di Renjie returned home to his relatives, there were always white clouds with him, and the sun could not be sunburned, but when he arrived near the red earth ditch at that time, the white clouds stopped moving, so he chose the Guanyin Hall built for his mother here, which also reflected his filial piety to his mother.
Baiyun Temple is known for its grand scale, unique layout and elegant environment, and the temple is built on a mountain, sitting north to south, divided into two courtyards. Nowadays, walking into this ancient temple, surrounded by ancient trees, surrounded by thick shade, the scenery is quiet, giving people a sense of elegance. Taiyuan is an ancient city with a history of 2500 years, and Baiyun Temple, like the Jinci Temple, the Temple of Literature and many other monuments are now hidden between the streets and alleys, which is worth accompanying the mother to go to the place where there is also the Forest of Steles Park, different from the Forest of Steles in Xi'an, Taiyuan's Forest of Steles Park is more leisure, in addition to a variety of stone inscription carvings, the Forest of Steles Park is also planted with a variety of flowers and plants, it is spring and summer, a hundred flowers bloom, the scenery is pleasant. Taiyuan's food is also endlessly evocative, sip a sip of aged vinegar wine, taste a bowl of ramen fragrant, Taiyuan flavor is thus condensed on the tip of the tongue for a long time.
In Taiyuan City, take bus No. 23, 619, 805, 808, 819, 830, 831 and 861, get off at Wuyi Machine Factory and walk to the alley on the east side of the road. In Taiyuan, you can taste authentic Jin cuisine, such as oily meat, large stewed vegetables, small crispy meat, Datong grilled lamb chops, etc. are all local specialties. When you come to Taiyuan, you can't miss the local pasta, knife-cut noodles, ramen noodles, scissor noodles, cat ears and other noodles are varied, which is very fresh for tourists.