Sketching Lake and Mountains, Visiting Yunlong and Victory - Viewing Xuzhou's Urban Cultural Cards from a Young Perspective
Dongpo Stone Bed, Crane Pavilion, Spectacular Stone, Fifty-Three Ginseng... On May 22, the 5A-level tourist scenic spot in Xuzhou welcomed a group of youthful young tourists. Different from the general walking and watching flowers, this group of tourists tells stories, takes pictures, or sketches, and they have a close dialogue with the history and culture here while walking.
This is organized by the Xuzhou Young Artists Association, supported by the Yunlong Mountain Management Service Center, and jointly planned by the Cultural and Creative Alliance of the Municipal Youth Artists Association and the Watercolor Painting Art Committee. Visitors carefully read the beauty of the lakes and mountains, and took pictures of their hometowns in the form of literature and art.
◆Xuzhou Interpretation of Landscape Gardens
The Shanxi Guild Hall, which was built in the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, is located at the foot of Yunlong Mountain. and other main buildings. The inner wall of the hall is inlaid with 5 tablets of Qing Dynasty memorial tablets, which record the long history of five reconstructions and expansions of the Shanxi Guild Hall. In a quaint and heavy old building, Jin Ruixin, deputy secretary-general of the Municipal Qingmei Association and a teacher of Jiangsu Construction Academy, took the development of Yunlong Lake and Xiaonan Lake scenic spots as examples, and held a "Four Seasons Scenery, Poetry and Painting Gardens -- concurrently. Lecture on the Gardening Method and Basic Context of Xuzhou Urban Gardens.
"Heaven and earth in the pot are close to square inch. Although it is made by people, it is like the opening of the sky." Jin Ruixin introduced the ancient Chinese classical gardening method by taking Yunlong Landscape as an example, "Xuzhou gardens have absorbed the advantages of various places according to local conditions and formed their own The five bridges built on the Xiaonan Lake of Yunlong Lake not only have practical transportation functions, but also show the profound heritage of Chinese gardens.”
◆Take a photo for the great beauty of Xuzhou
After the sharing class, the young artist started a tour of Yunlong Landscape. Yunlong Mountain is a famous mountain in the old city of Xuzhou. Although it is close at hand, everyone has climbed it countless times before. However, this time, it is revisited from the perspective of Xuzhou urban renewal and development and garden art construction, so that everyone has different harvests.
As one of the most representative famous mountains in Xuzhou, Yunlong Mountain still has more than 300 statues and inscriptions left by various dynasties of Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties and modern literati. In order to excavate and protect the history of the mountain, the Yunlong Mountain Management Service Center started the inscription and hammer extension project in 2021. After 5 months of hard work, precious historical materials have been preserved for the study of Xuzhou history.
Famous mountains and famous temples are indispensable. Xinghua Temple in Yunlong Mountain, formerly known as Stone Buddha Temple, was built around the Great Stone Buddha in the Northern Wei Dynasty. Because of the existence of Stone Buddha, Yunlong Mountain was once known as Stone Buddha Mountain.
"The pavilion is expensive to remember, and the mountain is precious to the pavilion." Outside the north gate of Xinghua Temple, the Fanghe Pavilion, Zhaohe Pavilion and Yinhe Spring, which are famous for "Fanghe Pavilion" written by Su Shi, Zhizhou of Xuzhou in the Northern Song Dynasty, are not far away. On the side of Drinking Crane Spring is a rectangular stele "spectacular", which was engraved by Li Genyun, the prefect of Xuzhou, during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. The members of the Municipal Youth Artists Association are accompanied by "spectacular" here, leaving behind a youthful beauty.
◆Witness the butterfly change of Yunlong landscape
Yue Kai, who is known for researching and collecting historical documents in Xuzhou, showed you the images of Yunlong Mountain that he had collected for many years, including the panoramic drawing of Yunlong Mountain during the southern tour of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, the Fanghe Pavilion written by Wu Youru, a famous painter in the late Qing Dynasty, and the Republic of China. Period "Oriental Magazine" published "Xuzhou historical sites" Yunlong Mountain Fanghe Pavilion and Zhaohe Pavilion.
Based on a large number of historical readings, Yue Kai introduced: "Before Yunlong Lake, Xuzhou people or outsiders often called it 'Shigou Lake' and 'Shigou Lake', and in ancient times it was also called 'Erjiachuan' and 'dustpan depression'. Floods in Xuzhou City due to lake water leakage also occur from time to time. In the 1970s, Yunlong Lake was listed as one of the dangerous reservoirs in the country and was ordered to be rectified within a time limit. At this time, Yunlong Lake and the old Yellow River were also called 'Xuzhou 600,000' Two big jugs on the people's heads'."
Since 1958, the Xuzhou Prefectural Party Committee and the Xuzhou Municipal Party Committee have made the decision to build the Yunlong Lake Reservoir. After three years of hard work, 100,000 soldiers and civilians built the eight-mile-long Bayi Embankment and supported a lake. Clear water has changed the landscape of Xuzhou. Since then, after the continuous advancement of the river and lake treatment, the reinforcement of lake embankments, and the construction of spillways in the 1970s and 1980s, the hydrological conditions of Yunlong Lake have been greatly improved, and the flood control system has also been operating normally. The worry of the "Lake" became history.
Focusing on the construction of the central city of the Huaihai Economic Zone, Xuzhou has made great efforts to improve the functional quality of the city in recent years, change the way of thinking of urban development, strive to build an urban ecosystem, and shape the characteristics of the city. After years of management, Yunlong Lake Scenic Area is a typical representative of Xuzhou's "one city with green hills and half a city lake". Today, the vast waters of 7.5 square kilometers are beautiful and beautiful, forming an urban landscape complex with lakes and mountains interdependent with Yunlong Mountain. The demonstration window of Xuzhou's urban ecological governance is also the urban meeting room showing the style of Xuzhou. Wandering in the meantime, let the tourists linger.
A connection between art and reality, a dialogue between fashion and history. Through lectures, explanations, photography, sketching and other methods, they have become more three-dimensional. The young people from the Municipal Youth Artists Association, who come from all over the world and have met in Xuzhou because of work or life, through a one-day visit, are rich in Xuzhou Pengzu culture, In the landscapes of Han culture, canal culture, Dongpo culture, folk culture, red culture, military culture, religious culture, and garden culture, one can truly feel the thickness of the city's history and touch the pace of the times. difficult to forget".