The legend of eight octaves a year, the more the better.

Because the terrain is dangerous in the eighth crossing of the year, it is easy to defend but difficult to attack. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was afraid that once he rebelled, he would take all the local villagers to other places and become a place where "people are inaccessible and lanes are blocked". Because the Huang Chao Uprising took two years to get through the Xianxia Ancient Road at the end of the Tang Dynasty and the traffic in the three provinces, it was not only a military emergency, but also a thousand miles from Zhejiang or Fujian to Nianbadu, which made the service industry adapt to the past business travel flourish. By the time of the Qing Dynasty, the whole country was unified for a long time, and the four parties protected each other, which was rarely affected by the war and the business was prosperous. During the rush hour, thousands of Poles are carrying goods every day. Foreign businessmen, handyman, lost soldiers and retired officers and men all settled here. In fact, Nianbadu is the only ancient immigrant town with more than 100 surnames. All big families have genealogies and know where their ancestors came from.

"four big families"

The "four big families" of Cao, Yang, Jiang and Jin in the town became famous in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. The Cao family mainly manages fields, as well as southern goods stores and cloth stores; Yang's family switched from operating Zhushan to papermaking, and later switched to trading in North and South goods. Jiang family from operating oil to opening cloth; The Jin family went from doing business to collecting rent to farming. Most of the 36 key protected ancient buildings in the ancient town are the homes of the "four big families".

Nine dialects

In 1998, the residents of Batu mainly immigrated from all over the country, and naturally brought dialects from all over the country. So far, there are nine different dialects in southern Zhejiang, western Jiangxi, northern and southern Fujian and Huizhou. It is strange that the dialect in a small area is only used by a few families. Badu became the garrison station of Xianxia Pass and Fengling Pass in 1998, with at most 1500 horse infantry, not less than the residents at that time. There are so many soldiers and civilians from all over the world living in the town that the language is inconvenient. Dialects are not allowed in Manchu military camps, and so-called Mandarin is enforced. In the eighth capital of 2008, the garrison also forced the local residents to use Manchu Mandarin. In order to greet this big customer, the merchants also took the initiative to learn Mandarin, but they all had a little accent. After a long time, it became the standard dialect in the town. It is said that when young people in the town attended the rally of volunteers in Dandong, they found that the local dialect was actually the same as that of their hometown. As a matter of fact, Manchu Mandarin has a foreign accent, and Mandarin is also called Huaguan, because it comes from the common language of the garrison. It is not surprising that people in the eighth capital can speak some Mandarin. However, the local languages of local residents, such as Jiangshan dialect, are still preserved and will never be assimilated by the forced Manchu Mandarin.

The unique custom of North-South integration The customs and food culture of Erbadu Old Street are integrated with local folk customs, and after hundreds of years of mutual assimilation and sublation, they have formed distinctive features. For weddings, funerals and celebrations, relatives and friends come to congratulate each other for dinner. The host of each meal only receives a few yuan in gift money, and all the extra money is returned. When a girl gets married, she should hang a pig leg on the man at the door and insert a knife, which symbolizes that marriage is like "cutting meat with a knife". Traditional cultures such as folk songs, paper-cuts, puppets, stilts, yangko, dragon lanterns, lion dances and dry boats are very popular here. Because some officers and men in ancient times came from the north and southwest, some folk games also had traces of ice sports in the north or entertainment activities in Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan.

28 ferry is 70 kilometers away from the county seat of Jiangshan city, which is an ancient town. There are more than 800 households in the town with a population of more than 4,000. In the fourth year of Xining in the Northern Song Dynasty (107 1), it was the capital of Jiangshan, ranking 28th. It was named Nianbadu, with a history of more than 900 years. Because there are few wars in history, the ancient buildings in the town are well preserved. According to statistics, there are 36 large-scale houses and halls in Ming and Qing Dynasties. 1 1 Public buildings include Confucius Temple, Dawang Temple, Wenchang Pavilion, Wanshou Palace, Zhenwuzhou, Loyalty Hall, Guanyin Pavilion, Laoyamen and Xinxing Society. Among these numerous temples, temples, palaces and halls, the King Temple is the largest and the Confucius Temple is the most magnificent. Confucius Temple was built in Xuan Tong period, covering an area of 65,438+0,500 square meters. The overall layout along the central axis is as follows: zhaobi door, main entrance, front hall, patio, main hall, patio and sleeping hall, with wings on the left and right, connected by eaves gallery. Structurally, the open rooms are all beams, and the edges are attached to the bucket. The main hall has two double eaves. Exquisite wood carving art and rich colorful paintings are the most distinctive features of the building. All the beams, beams, ridges and ceilings are painted with pictures of the moon, landscapes, people's stories, dragons and phoenixes, flowers and birds. Geometric figures, brackets, sparrows, window sashes, railings and other wooden components are embossed or hollowed out, with rich themes and vivid images, just like an art treasure house.