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Old the intersection of department and city lie Yongshun flax of place go by chance the intersection of township and the intersection of department and the intersection of city and village more than 20 kilometers east of the county town. This ancient city, good fortune Shicheng of real name, because is the ancient capital that the toast imperial court ruled in 800, also call department city, old department city. The intersection of toast and period, good fortune Shicheng ancient political/economical, in the center of culture, state of small stream, very flourishing. Common people spread, the Luo s of one s job of department city that old, the Luo s outside, there are criss-cross lanes ten, streets eight, people s family is dense, the city shop is prosperous, there are 3,000 in the city, 800 outside the city history records , the five huge town of small stream, border town in the Wan Record. Clear tribute grow Peng construct tongued bell, make ancient folk songs with love as their main theme Zambia silk make nest, the intersection of soil and the intersection of Royal Palace and the intersection of side and aquatic wave in the the intersection of good fortune and Shicheng, the intersection of red light and the intersection of point and thousand of people Wan, a slice of touching song of waving . The old department city retains the site numerously, understand the precious human cultural sight of studying Tujia s history and culture ready-madely for the visitor, expert, scholar. Mainly have ancestral hall, toast benevolent rule tablet, wing south memorial archways, toast underground palaces, toast ancient tomb group,etc. of founder s hall, Peng. Old the intersection of department and city, ancient to call small stream state, imperial court of toast, ruler of ethnic minority, located in place 18 kilometers east of Yongshun county town clever the intersection of small stream and bank of the river. According to the records of historical data, Tang it is awarded for two years (690) Put the state, continue and revitalize for five years (1135) in the Southern Song Dynasty Build the city, the fifth year of Yongzheng in Qing Dynasty (1727) Abolish. In June of 2001, the site of ancient city is announced as the Chinese Key Cultural Relic Unit under State Protection by the State Council of China.
The old department city is the ancient capital of a small stream state toast, the small stream state toast is from five generations, namely Peng s hereditary regime begins, generation it adopt 34 times, 27,when be for more than 800 years, and cut off never,the governance long in history, it is rare in the other ethnic minorities of China. A great characteristic that the toast rules is carried out does not quite appear, Chinese does not enter a country Prohibition,it is last state that is be isolated not to last small stream state, be lasted development processes forward of this area. The old department city has gone through 3,000 in the city, 800 outside the city the five huge town of small stream, border town in the Wan Thriving and prosperous for period,have four piece city gate at all directions town, at place of less than three kilometers of having an area of, there are nine streets, and the street is all paved from dark red cobblestone, and form all sorts of different pattern. Founder s hall, benevolent rule tablet, southern Hebei memorial archway, warm cool hole,etc. are intact so far.
Step foot on The old department city The jurisdiction, must cross the river, in today s view, efficacious small stream The ferry is still full of ancient purpose. The high and steep precipice perilous peak of two sides, a gulf river dies far around the mountain. From here if beginning to drift about, two or three hours, can support king s village directly. Some old department cities Villager,carry by hoe, take barefoot in street by 800 year, or whether every one is always getting older very woman very, sit on the threshold of the old room by the street, the expression in one s eyes gazes at, really let people feel in a flash time is dimly discernible, still there are indistinct traces during time unexpectedly in figures in an imperial court.
Hall, founder of toast, lie in old the intersection of department and the intersection of city and peaceful southern foot, establish in will it be will it be 2 years (A.D. 937) such as good fortune day the Later Jin Dynasty ,Rebuilt on the Ming Dynasty. The column great number of main hall is enclosed, it does not have axe that dig the trace that put the wooden square-column on the shelf, make its presence or power felt and build for Lu Ban according to legend. This hall accounts for main hall of more than 580 square meters of ground five widely, enter four deep hiprooves of layers of eaves, 17.5 meters long, 13 meters wide, 20 meters high, the whole timber structure, 34 huge pillars support the roof forever. The stone base of column uses one pair of round drum types, the eaves of spine hall of the hall are exquisite pottery brick pottery tiles of pattern. In front of the gold column in the hall, build one shrine for idols or ancestral tablets, offered up founders The spirit is alike. The sets of brackets on top of the columns of the hall are grand and simple and unsophisticated, a structure of roof beam is rather special, it is Tujia area that there are the buildings of the national characters, it is a Key Cultural Relic Unit under State Protection of Hunan Province. Peng last department city centre ancestral hall,at toast the imperial sleeping palace Behind,it support memorial tablet when it is past dynasties toast inside, be be be be exquisite statues woodenneddeddedded, be had no expression each, such as growing, has also collected the the three cardinal guides and the five constant virtues law table that the past dynasties toast is made. It was the Ming Dynasty Finish, go through 19 1591) of the Christian era The 24th generation of the intersection of toast and the silk let, declare, console enable, building. From the ancestral hall gate until the straight street there is one of an officer more than 200 meters long, will pass four platforms and five sections of stones and over 30 stone steps of ladder, promotion shows a kind of magnificent majestic one progressively. There is a stone drum at the gate of ancestral hall, it is estimated that each one weighs more than 2,500 kilograms at least, popular legend the intersection of Tujia and ancient the intersection of hero and the intersection of Kazakhstan and from mention from the intersection of facial features and the intersection of level ground and one portable one in the over one hundred here department city come on bar, main officer of Tibet of strength. There are three old sweet-scented osmanthus trees in front of the ancestral hall, it is said that was planted by toast era, the tree of sweet-scented osmanthus is still verdant now, whenever the sweet-scented osmanthus is blooming in season in August, the sweet-scented osmanthus floats fragrantly everywhere in the department city. And if the refined lawn in the cloud academy in the south memorial archway Purple Mountain in the south of department city of wing, established in Jiajing Year of Ming Dynasty, carved descendants enjoyed forever on Four word, for cite 26 the intersection of toast and southern Hebei Peng lead soil soldier resist against Japan and work stand. The 33rd of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty Annual ( 1954) ,26 generations of 18 -year-old toast Peng southern Hebeies, lead 5,000 soil soldiers to hurry to the generation of Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces and resist Wo s bandit. The soil soldier is good at enabling the hook, the formation is flexible, brave and battlewise, a servant of Wang Jiang foot-path destroys more than 1,900 enemies, called since there is Wo s bandit, southeast use military forces exceed this person, first work cloud their this in history tomorrow ,Set up descendants enjoy forever The memorial archway is with the clear discipline. The toast benevolent rule tablet placed oneself in the left side of site of government s administration of department city, dug by the blue and green stone carving. Unless it is high in tablet 2.74 meters, unless 1.2 meter wide, belly be carved characters to be carried,at carry for stone dome,by support by stone pillar. This tablet was the 52nd year of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty 1713 of the Christian era Annual) The Yongshun land officer declares consoling to make Peng HongHai eulogize and build for places such as Yongshun,etc. in February. The head seal character of the tablet The sweet chinese bush cherry offers as a gift the love Four words. There is an antithetical couplet on both sides of straight tablet: a stone engraves the favor thick, extol the mountains and rivers newly a thousand years . Carved with in the centre . Tablet inscription record and narrate 58 had jurisdiction over flag, 380 the intersection of hole and army and the people think of benevolent rule of HongHai Peng and taste and smell kindness to form the popular feelings, can t make to forget work can apparent at that time, can t enable the following the example of of later age popular feelings Toast rule creed.
The toast ancient tomb group concentrate on more Purple Mountain, refined lawn, three places of handkerchief barrel lake of department city, among them the most with Purple Mountain. According to reconnoitring, there are 109 graves of toast king and noble in all in Purple Mountain. Toast, soil officer and his family dependents after washing Peng FuShi, are all buried here respectively. The scale of the ancient tomb, depend on its officer s rank of nobility. Look from already digging more than 30 ancient tombs opened, the basic form is to join hands into a half round with the soil brick, there are stone people s stone horses before the tomb, built enclosure all around, passing in and out must pass the iron gate. The wall of coffin chamber is carved with exquisite flowers and plants pattern and dragons and phoenixes pattern. Nanmu of coffin department, Chinese catalpa wood are completed, paint pitch-black with the soil, and hang within the stone room with the iron hook. The implements buried with the dead are extremely abundant too, there are gold and silver ornaments such as beauties, gold example, sending inserting, the earrings, seedpod of the lotus,etc., there are various jade wares,etc.. Some toast grave to show Great Britain, Peng JiNan,et al. Peng still intact so far Ming Dynasty. The ancient tomb group is a Key Cultural Relic Unit under State Protection of Hunan Province now.
