About Taierzhuang-one city and one person (20112-0217: 50: 49)
Tags: Culture, Taierzhuang, Chenwei Ancient City, vs Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal Miscellaneous Talk Classification: Drinking Ili-My Soft Text
One city, one person.
/kloc-an unexpected visit in October added some heavy contents to my shallow experience, about history, about war and about culture.
That's because Lunan, Jiangbei, a place called Taierzhuang.
Before I went, Taierzhuang was the bus stop behind General Li Zongren in the history textbook. It's a movie called The Battle of Taierzhuang. I knew there were flying tigers around here, and there was Silence on Weishan Lake. I want to "play my beloved pipa" when I go.
Only after I went did I know that Taierzhuang was already a rebuilt ancient city.
There is a cultural site with a tragic war, which is as famous as Warsaw, Pompeii and Lijiang. There are water and waterways in the city, and there are many ancient houses in the city. Courtyard houses in the north, houses in southern Shandong, Huizhou architecture, southern Fujian architecture, European architecture, religious architecture, Shanxi architecture, and water town architecture are elegant, solemn, exquisite, or majestic, and stand in harmony in the city with various postures.
This ancient city, which was formed in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, used to be a merchant's fishing boat, but the famous 1938 war destroyed this ancient city, and of course let the world remember the name of this small town.
Five years ago, because a real estate project with an investment of 500 million yuan was stopped, the foundation of this ancient city was preserved.
Now, walking in the ancient city, stepping on the bluestone slab beside the canal, looking at the antique shops and inns next to the bluestone slab and seeing the old objects in the shops and inns is like dreaming.
The scenery is familiar. The late autumn moon swaying above the canal has been shining on this land for thousands of years, but the ancient city is not the ancient city 73 years ago. Sometimes, looking at a city is like reading a page of history and the vicissitudes of the past years.
Avoid the bustling crowds during the day and wander alone in the dim lights of the ancient city at night. The noise receded, and the night just highlighted the charm of the ancient city. In pavilions and alleys, people feel that time and space are disordered. Is it because the soul has traveled for hundreds of years?
a city
The famous emperor Qianlong once praised Taierzhuang and wrote a calligraphy: the first village in the world.
This "first village in the world" is not a hollow reputation.
At that time, the prosperity and comfort of this important canal were traceable. At the same time, in the memory of the elderly and the remains of literature buildings, some tenacious cultural genes were left, which revived the ancient city.
Wanjia Courtyard, Yuehe Street, Kaierboro Post Office, Tianhou Palace, Chuanxing Street, Supreme Bridge ... This is an important land and water route in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and docks, restaurants, brothels, banks, pawn shops, theaters, and all kinds of people are performing various world situations, and it seems that they can still vaguely remember the crowing, feasting, Qilu pride and Jiangnan charm at that time.
Seeing the bullet wall in front of the mosque, the rusty helmets and simulation guns displayed in the "Riding a Thousand Miles Alone" bar pushed the memory to 1938.
Textbooks have a high evaluation of "Taierzhuang War": after the Opium War, the people of China won their first major victory in the frontal battlefield against foreign aggression. More than 10,000 Japanese invaders were killed here, and more than 30,000 Japanese soldiers and civilians fought bloody battles here, "destroying a city. Saved a country. "
Walking in the ancient city, the lights in the water street and water lane are blurred at night, and tourists with high interest are still rowing. Occasionally, "Boat Lady" will sing a melody.
Listen carefully, the lyrics are actually written about Taierzhuang: Taierzhuang, my home, which was famous in the world after a bloody battle. Dad said the bullet went through the brick on our wall; Mom said that the shells overturned the tiles in our house. What a fierce battle! My China hero wiped out our arch-enemy. Strengthen my China and love my China ... Later, I knew that this was "Ode to Taierzhuang" written by Qiao Yu.
Song is the cry of the soul, and hearing this song in this place at the moment has a different feeling.
There are occasional bells in the ancient city.
At this moment, people lying on the original boat, looking at the shadows on both sides with a little drunkenness, must be like being in the prosperous time of Kanggan hundreds of years ago, listening to Gan Long singing with great interest in a cadence and forceful voice: "The terrace is covered with steam, and the setting sun bank will not open after the rain. There are good people in the depths of the pavilion, and the sails come in one by one. "
In a trance, I feel that time flies, and the distant history and colorful reality of the ancient city suddenly become within reach, familiar and cordial.
Far away, prosperous as a dream, many things in ancient and modern times have been laughed at and bid farewell to endless struggles. At this moment, the ancient city is quiet and real.
The radiance of June is sprinkled on the grey ridge of classical blue tiles. In the distance, the cover song "1938, Devils Enter the Central Plains", accompanied by the sound of pipa coming from a corner, suddenly came the violent rap of the drummer of Lunan Canal, and a period of history was thus reproduced.
one person
The man in front of me, wearing glasses, is gentle and gentle. He was born in Jinhua, Zhejiang, and was an executive of Omron Corporation in Japan. He holds a doctorate in engineering and management.
His name is Chen Wei, and now he is the mayor of Zaozhuang City, Shandong Province, where Taierzhuang is located.
In 2006, the new mayor was faced with an embarrassing reality. A coal city that once ranked first in Asia had exhausted its resources. How to transform? How to start?
Faced with the employment pressure of 200,000 people, the intersection with the ancient canal during a survey made him attached to this ancient land. After weighing in many ways, he locked in the cultural tourism industry.
Since he took office two months ago, the mayor in cloth shoes has started his plan of "building a city". Of course, this is not simply copying with the wind, but combing a cultural context, certain historical inheritance, condensing the essence, spirit and spirit of the Chinese nation, and looking for a visible future for Taierzhuang people.
Chen Wei and the ancient city are two key words that cannot be avoided in the topic of Taierzhuang people in those years. This seemingly weak person has a stubborn temperament and the courage to persist.
Standing next to the ancient river only three kilometers away from the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, staring at the remaining dangerous houses and shanty towns, Chen Wei put his eyes far away.
He started riding a bicycle, turning from east to west, talking with the old people in the deep streets, reading the relevant information collected from all over the world, consulting the first-class experts in ancient architecture in China, and "begging" from the bosses of several large enterprises. ...
Investigate, visit, excavate, excavate, rescue, investigate and verify, find and consult various documents and folklore from different channels, and collect a large number of things and utensils scattered among the people.
I have collected countless materials and held numerous argumentation meetings to improve them. In accordance with the principle of preserving, restoring ancient ways and building ancient times, in addition to building the ancient city, hundreds of crafts, museums and formats have been planned to settle in.
The ancient city built in this way is not a modern building covered with ancient buildings, but bears the culture of war, canals and southern Shandong.
The activation of cultural genes has made the ancient city of Taierzhuang not mediocre.
In the past five years, the young mayor's perseverance has not been worn away. He has broken through many doubts and brought an ancient city with bright colors from his dream to reality.
Sometimes, the persistence of a middle-aged man can change many things, not to mention that this man is also the mayor.
At the regular meeting, I met this scholar-type mayor.
In the meeting of more than three hours, he talked in Kan Kan, Kan Kan, in front of more than 100 domestic professional cultural journalists. He knows all about economic data and historical anecdotes, with clear logic and humorous talk. In the process of interactive communication, his answer was wonderful. No one walked away from the meeting.
This should also be a miracle, which proves that his knowledge and ability are worthy of the name.
The story is not over yet.
From an economic point of view, we must list some data.
By the end of 20110, the ancient city of Taierzhuang was only 40% built, attracting more than 2 million tourists. Without a penny from the government, the initial start-up capital of 400 million yuan invested by five enterprises has become the net assets of the ancient city of 654.38+053 billion yuan, an increase of 38 times; In three years, it has created 80,000 jobs for the local area; In the past three years, the activity of Zaozhuang private economy has also jumped from the penultimate to the second in the province.
This is the report card of Zaozhuang Municipal Government and the real welfare of Taierzhuang people.
Relying on the 2700-year-old Grand Canal culture, the northern water towns have enabled tourists within 500 kilometers to realize low-cost water town tours.
The unique 53 World War II sites left by the Taierzhuang War 70 years ago have filled tourists with national pride.
According to historical photos and video images, 6,600 buildings in eight styles of Ming and Qing Dynasties seem to bring tourists back to that era. In the ancient city, a large number of intangible cultural heritage and hundreds of handicrafts endowed it with strong cultural connotation.
Now this handmade ancient city, which can be seen with a magnifying glass, is rich in architecture and cultural forms, which not only makes tourists feel close to history, but also attracts cultural units such as Wen Wei Po and Far East Publishing House to invest.
During the Taierzhuang War, Wen Wei Po reported the war situation on the front page every day, which was both true and objective and inspired the morale of the Chinese people. Today, the Wen Hui Restaurant in the ancient city has become a cultural exhibition area of the Great War, which has concentrated all the reports of the Great War in Wen Wei Po, allowing tourists to experience the tragic war.
The Wanjia Courtyard, which was built at a cost of 4.6 million yuan, was rented to merchants at an annual rent of 600,000 yuan. Merchants invested 6,543,800 yuan in renovation, with an annual profit of more than 2 million yuan.
With the appreciation of land, the income of tourists' tickets and the presence of cultural enterprises, Zaozhuang has initially realized the development and transformation from relying mainly on coal to relying on cultural industries without a penny of investment and a penny of loans.
At present, in the case that the ancient city of Taierzhuang has not been fully built, more than 2 million tourists have brought great vitality to the local economy, and the industries such as conferences, restaurants, farmhouses, taxis, cultural products and performances have begun to show prosperity. Even the salted duck eggs here are sold for 1 2 yuan.
What has been achieved is only the beginning.
Chen Wei, his team and the ancient city of Taierzhuang all have higher goals. Zaozhuang is striving to build a world cultural heritage, and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is an indispensable part. At the same time, Taierzhuang Ancient City and Warsaw Ancient City are the only two cities in the world that were destroyed by World War II artillery and can be rebuilt as world heritage. The second is to build an international leisure tourism destination, and the first cross-strait exchange base and national-level cultural industry demonstration park will be built in China.
The ancient city of Taierzhuang is like a story of ups and downs, but its plot continues, and no one can predict its future. Maybe an orgasm is brewing.
We are full of expectations. (Cai Lipeng)