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Hongjiang ancient commercial city

The ancient buildings preserved in Hongjiang Ancient Shopping Mall are the classics of ancient residential buildings in southern China, and the movable edition of Riverside Map on Qingming Festival is rare in China. If it is developed as a key cultural landscape in Hunan, it will become another brand of Hunan tourism.

Hongjiang, an ancient city on the edge of Xuefeng Mountain in western Hunan, was famous for its flood oil, timber, opium and Bai La in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. It is the distribution center of materials in Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Hunan and Shu provinces, and enjoys the reputation of "Little Nanjing" and "Southwest Metropolis". Hongjiang ancient shopping mall has a long history, but it is only "hidden in the boudoir". According to expert research, there are more than 380 ancient buildings in Ming and Qing dynasties that are still well preserved, including houses, temples, ancient temples, money houses, business houses, foreign firms, workshops, shops, inns, brothels, newspapers, cigarette houses, etc., with a total area of about 200,000 square meters.

Most of the houses in Hongjiang ancient shopping mall were built in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, with bucket arch shape, monochrome blue tiles and gray walls, cornices and corners, and carved dragons and painted phoenixes. These ancient buildings crisscross, forming a unique pattern of "seven rushes, eight lanes and nine streets". In the alley of Gucuowu Formation, the Qingshiban Road and the wharf are winding and unfathomable. There are plaques, couplets, stone carvings, stone carvings and inscriptions in Kangxi, Qianlong, Daoguang, Tongzhi, Guangxu and the Republic of China, which can be seen everywhere; There are more than 48 Taiping cylinders with exquisite designs and carvings, which are used for fire prevention. Experts say that this is the earliest, largest and most complete ancient shopping mall in southwest China.

Up to now, many experts, scholars, celebrities and news media at home and abroad have visited and interviewed Hongjiang Ancient Mall. Hong Kong Phoenix Satellite TV made a special report on this. At present, the local government has taken effective measures to strengthen the protection of Hongjiang ancient shopping mall.

On June 10, 2006, the State Council announced the sixth batch of national key cultural relics protection units, and Hongjiang Ancient Mall was included in the list with the name of "Hongjiang Ancient Architecture Complex".

Hongjiang has a long history, and there were activities of ancestors 3000 years ago. It has been a post station and commercial port since ancient times, and developed into a huge town with thousands of fireworks in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is famous for its distribution of tung oil, wood, white wax and opium. It is the economic, cultural and religious center of southwest Hunan, and is known as the Pearl of Xiangxi, Little Chongqing, Little Nanjing and Southwest Metropolis. At present, hongjiang city has preserved a complete ancient shopping mall during the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the Republic of China, just like the Riverside Map of Ming and Qing Dynasties, which shows the social market of Ming and Qing Dynasties intuitively. It is a specimen of modern commercial development in China and one of the best preserved and richest ancient cities in China. It is praised by experts as "the living fossil of budding capitalism in inland areas of China", which is of great historical and cultural protection and tourism development value.

The legends of Shennong's "China is the city" and Zhuan Xu's "Zhu Rong is the city" recorded in documents mean that there was a commodity exchange market at the end of primitive society in China. According to "China Cultural Relics Atlas Hunan Volume" and the records of Neolithic sites in Hunan Province, "Yuanshui and Xijiang River have always been important channels to purify the ancient cultures of Changgong River and Pearl River, but they have long been ignored by researchers". In other words, Shui Yuan was the main communication channel between the Yangtze River and the Pearl River as early as the Neolithic Age: Mr. He Lin, a folklorist in China, believed that the earliest Silk Road in China was the Water Silk Road, which began in Shang Dynasty 3,000 years ago. Its route is that Sichuan's materials pass through the Yangtze River to Youshui, through Youyang and Xiushan to Shui Yuan in Yuanling (the county seat of ancient Guizhou), then through Ping Huang in western Hunan (the former site of ancient Galand State) to the source of Qingshui River, then to Yunnan, Myanmar or Vietnam for business trips, and finally to the Western Regions by land or Indian Ocean (looking for the lost Chinese civilization: the Maritime Silk Road set sail from ancient Guizhou). Hongjiang, as an important transit point of the Maritime Silk Road, also has the opportunity to breed and produce shopping malls. A Yuan Dynasty carved cultural relic unearthed from Hongjiang can be seen that the river was covered with merchant ships of all sizes, with doors and windows, eaves, curtains and masts. On the river bank is the connecting corridor between the pier and the wind and rain bridge. There are spectacular ancient city walls with gates, temples and halls with carved beams and painted buildings, and rows of houses and bustling crowds in the market. This shows that in the Yuan Dynasty, Hongjiang Ancient Mall has become a big market at the junction of Hunan and Guizhou.

Although Hongjiang is a tiny place, it is home to Yuanshui, Witch Water and Dance Water that flow directly into the Yangtze River. These tributaries flowed into Yuanjiang one after another. At this point, the river has widened and the water potential is huge, just like a torrent, so it is called "Hongjiang". The unique water transport conditions make Hongjiang an important post station and prosperous commercial port in southwest Hunan since ancient times.

During Jiajing and Qin Long in the Ming Dynasty, when capitalism was in its infancy, the commodity economy in China's coastal areas had begun to take shape, and the traditional identity of "four people" changed from "scholar-worker-farmer" to "scholar-merchant-farmer-worker". Commerce, the last neglected industry in the past, has been recognized by Hongjiang people who have emigrated; As early as 1573 ~ 1620 in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the Litouzui of Hongjiang (now Yuanjiang Road) had formed a certain scale of material trading and distribution market, with many shops and workshops, becoming the earliest port of Hongjiang. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it became an important commercial center in southwest Hunan, guarding the material circulation channels of Hunan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi and Hubei, and was called the "thoroughfare of five provinces". After the Ming and Qing Dynasties, merchants gathered in Hongjiang, shops were like forests, and Qian Fan on both sides of the Yuan and Wu Dynasties competed for supremacy. In the 26th year of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty (1687), Wang Jiong, a scholar, recorded in the Diary of a Journey to Yunnan that "there are thousands of fireworks, which is called a huge town" and described Hongjiang as "a gathering of merchants, goods and sails". In the early years of Qianlong, the story of Hongjiang's baby-rearing described the bustling scene of Hongjiang: "At that time, there were a lot of clouds, such as cinnabar, ash, gum oil and the beauty of wood, which spread from the east to Dongting, and then the Yangtze River helped wuyue. The sails are large, the goods are piled up like mountains, and the rate is mainly cotton cloth. There is Guilin in the south and Yungui in the west, which is three times the profit of the city, the descendants of people living in the city, the flow of technology, the narrow land and many people, the mountains and rivers, the buildings and pavilions, just like the city in the southwest. "

In the 23rd year of the Republic of China (1934), among the 37,600 people in Hongjiang,13,000 were engaged in business. According to the statistics of the Republic of China in 19 (1930) and the Industrial Records of China in 22 years (1933), Hongjiang's currency circulation at that time ranked second in Hunan Province, second only to Changsha, the provincial capital, and became the political, economic and cultural center of western Hunan. Shen Congwen, a famous writer, wrote in the article "Several Counties in the Upper Reaches of Yuanjiang River": "From Chenxi to Hongjiang, Hongjiang is the center of Xiangxi ... usually called' Little Chongqing'." In The Ship of Changde, he described it this way: "A ship with great momentum and extraordinary weather should be a Hongjiang oil tanker. This kind of bow has many high tails, bright colors, and occasionally a little gold lacquer decoration ... It can transport three or four thousand barrels of tung oil on the downstream, and two thousand pieces of cotton or a ticket of salt on the upstream. Twenty-six to forty people use paddles, and thirty to sixty or seventy people use their hands. " According to 1938 waterway survey report, there are 5 1 1 wooden sailboats in Hongjiang, which shows the prosperity of the market. During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, Hongjiang, located in the "rear area", experienced "wartime prosperity", and merchants from more than 20 provinces, cities, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions and foreign countries flocked to open more than 300 stores/kloc-0.

Hongjiang ancient shopping mall is famous for its distribution center of flood oil, timber and opium. At that time, timber, tung oil, medicinal materials and homemade paper in the southwest mountainous areas were exported by Hongjiang through waterways. As early as the ancient Chu-Wu War, Hongjiang was a famous producer of tung oil in Chu. During the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, only "Hongyou" (Hongjiang Tung Oil) was exported to 200,000 tons (about 7 million kilograms) a year, valued at more than 2 million yuan, and shipped to Zhenjiang, Shanghai and other places for resale in overseas markets. Wood from Guizhou and Xiangxi is also distributed in Hongjiang, becoming the best pillar of the palace and nobles. Salt, cloth and department stores shipped back from the coast are scattered in remote mountainous areas of Hunan, Guizhou, Hubei, Guangxi and Yunnan. Because there are vast markets in Shanghai and the south of the Yangtze River behind Hongjiang, and the department stores needed by the southwest must also be distributed here, Hongjiang was once a paradise for gold diggers.

The formation of Hongjiang ancient shopping mall has a complex social and historical background and rich cultural connotation, which can be called a "living fossil" in the embryonic period of Chinese capitalism. "Hongjiang Ancient Mall is a specimen of modern commercial development in China. Its radiant surface and well-preserved buildings are very rare in China, and they also have a certain position in the history of world commerce and architecture (Luo, head of the National Cultural Heritage Administration Ancient Architecture Expert Group). " In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, a new type of capitalist production relations sprouted in Hongjiang ancient shopping mall, and merchants accumulated original wealth by squeezing the surplus value of employees. "This is the same as the emergence of capitalist buds in developed textile industries such as Suzhou and Hangzhou in the late Ming Dynasty." "Like Hongjiang Ancient Shopping Mall, Yibin, Wuhan, Chongqing and Shanghai in the Yangtze River Basin have also developed in this way, but their ancient buildings are not as concentrated and complete as they are now (Deng Wei, an expert of the World Heritage Expert Group)." Hongjiang Ancient Mall is like an intuitive picture of streets in Ming and Qing Dynasties, a textbook to understand the historical image of Chinese capitalism, and a living museum with a comprehensive collection of political, military, economic, religious and cultural historical materials, which attracts the attention of the world.

Lijiang, Pingyao, Hongjiang and Fenghuang are four ancient cities.

As a rising star of tourism, Hongjiang Ancient Mall officially signed a contract at the second China Ancient Town Ancient Village Forum held in Huaihua, Hunan Province, and became sister ancient cities with Lijiang, Pingyao and Fenghuang. The four places promise to break geographical boundaries, cooperate in competition, improve through cooperation, and realize the exchange of tourism information based on the principles of protection first, development second, resource sharing, information exchange, exchange of tourists and mutual benefit.