Ancient city on water in China

Ancient city on water in China

The ancient water city of China is located in the ancient water city of Liaocheng City, Shandong Province, with a total investment of 3.8 billion yuan and financing of 2 billion yuan.

brief introduction

Guangyue tower is the center of the construction of the ancient city on water in China. The cross Pedestrian Commercial Street is used to divide the urban land into four parts. Cross street is a commercial pedestrian street with traditional commercial style on both sides. Loudong street is mainly for leisure, health care and health preservation; louxi street is a fashion and high-end commodity street; Loubei street is a catering street; lounan street is a cultural street. The central plot of the urban unit is a residential area with amorous feelings, mainly in the form of quadrangle houses. The buildings near the streets are used for small businesses with folk characteristics, and the front shops and back houses are flexible and convenient.

History of the ancient city

The ancient city is located in the middle of Dongchang Lake in Liaocheng City, a city wall in the Northern Song Dynasty. The city is square with a total area of about 1 million square meters. The city wall was first built in 1070, the third year of Xining of Song Dynasty. In 1372, Chen Yong, the commander of pingshanwei in Dongchang, built a brick city. The perimeter of the city wall is 3.5 kilometers, the height is 11.7 meters, the top width is 6.7 meters, and the base thickness is 11.7 meters. The interior wall is rammed with concrete and the exterior wall is built with masonry. The city has four gates, a gate tower and an urn. The south, East and West Wengcheng is the turn head gate. The South Gate looks like a phoenix head in the East, the East and West gates look like a phoenix wing in the south, and the north gate looks like a phoenix tail in the north, so it is called "Phoenix City". The gate towers of the four cities all have double eaves, and the four corners fly up. They are called "Chunxi" in the East, "Qingyuan" in the west, "Zhengde" in the south, and "Xuanwu" in the north. In the seventh year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1579), more than 2700 crenels and 27 enemy towers were built on the city wall; four gatehouses were renamed as Yinbin in the East, Nari in the west, Nanxun in the South and Suoyue in the north. Each gate has water gate and suspension bridge. There are two floors of Wangyue and Lvyun in the northeast and northwest of the city. The city is tall and strong, easy to defend and difficult to attack. It has the potential of being strategically located and dominating its neighbors. It also has the saying that "Phoenix can be trapped without losing".

Nowadays, the protection and transformation of Liaocheng ancient city, which has been brewing for many years, has begun. In order to truly reproduce the style of the ancient city, the ancient city of Dongchang will be built into a Chinese water ancient city integrating historical sites, cultural allusions, tourism and leisure, and ecological livability. The ancient city on water in China is the biggest popular project in Liaocheng City. It is a leading project to integrate tourism resources, develop tourism economy and drive the development of the tertiary industry. It is a new platform and fulcrum for Liaocheng to change its development mode. It is also a strategic brand to enhance the image of Liaocheng and enrich the connotation of "Jiangbei water city · canal ancient capital ecological Liaocheng".

characteristic

China's ancient water city covers an area of only 1 square kilometer, but it is surrounded by 6.3 square kilometers of lake water. Its characteristics of "water in the city, water in the city, City Lake integration, river lake corresponding" are unique in China's territory. Liaocheng is a famous historical and cultural city. It is also known as "Jiangbei water city · canal ancient capital". As the image and symbol of Liaocheng, the characteristics of the ancient Chinese water city can be summarized in eight words: Taking "Wen" as the soul and "water" as the rhyme.

Taking culture as the soul and water as the rhyme reflects the inheritance of history and the respect for nature in the construction of ancient Chinese cities on water, which also forms the characteristics of history, culture and modern civilization, and the coexistence of human landscape and natural scenery.

Ancient city architecture

The famous Guangyue tower is located in the center of the ancient city on the water in China. Its main structure was built in 1374 (the seventh year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty). It is a representative building from the song and Yuan Dynasties to the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is the largest existing Pavilion in the Ming Dynasty in China. It inherits the pavilion system of song and Yuan Dynasties in form and the tradition of Tang and Song dynasties in structure. Guangyue building is composed of two parts: the building base and the main building. The main building is of wood structure. There are a wide range of plaques, couplets, titles and carvings in the building. Among them, the tablets and couplets inscribed by Emperor Kangxi, Emperor Qianlong, Fu Yijian and Deng Zhongyue, Guo Moruo and Feng Zikai are most precious.

Myths and legends

According to legend, Liaocheng is originally a Wutong forest, with a pair of Phoenix, commanding hundreds of birds in the forest, and lead a happy life. One year, a dragon from the East China Sea came here and drove away the Phoenix, turning this area into a vast ocean. People call it Dongzhou lake. Seeing the rippling of the lake, the local officials wanted to build a city by the lake, but the craftsmen felt that the project was difficult and they did not dare to undertake it. At this time, two people came, one was Wang Dong, the other was Wang Chang. They volunteered and were willing to undertake the construction. It turned out that these two were the sons of the Phoenix who were driven away by the dragon. Wang Dong and Wang Chang built the city, and Phoenix led a hundred birds to send wood and stone materials. Soon, a magnificent Lake City was built. In order to commemorate the achievements of Phoenix in the construction of the city, people named the city phoenix. Later, the dragon in the East China Sea made waves in an attempt to destroy the new town. Wang Dong and Wang Changli fought against the dragon. The Dragon fled to the East China Sea and dug out a waterway to irrigate the city. In order to save the people in Phoenix City, Wang Dong and Wang Chang got into the water and blocked the waterway with their bodies. In order to thank the two brothers for their noble morality of dedicating themselves to protecting the city and rescuing the public, people changed the name of Phoenix City to Dongchang City, which is what we now call the ancient city of China on water.

Address: near 2 lounan street, Dongchangfu District, Liaocheng City

Longitude: 115.969819

Latitude: 36.444298