Original link: https://macin.org/2023/04/10/li-zhuang/
From my hometown to Lizhuang, Yibin, Sichuan, the distance of 200 kilometers always makes me feel very far away. Yibin’s wine and Yibin’s bamboo sea made me feel that this is a big city from some incomplete cognition. Lizhuang in this big city is a place that I have heard many times but visited for the first time.
When I first arrived in Lizhuang, I arrived at its back door, so it is so simple and unsophisticated.
The perfect fusion of architectural style and beautiful natural environment, Lizhuang used to be a prosperous and prosperous mopan, with many outstanding merchants and ancient architects. Wisdom and ingenuity have built magnificent buildings full of cultural accumulation, which let people Here you can appreciate the beauty of traditional aesthetics and cultural heritage.
The fast-flowing Jialing River meanders along the edge of the city, adding a low-saturation soft color; the overlapping hills and hills, like a painted fan on a screen, surround this secret place that was the settlement of the ancient Bo in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, forming a pleasant atmosphere.
Yuan Daixiu’e, only this green, Jiang Ke came in through a secluded path, and the feather stream returned to the small door and knocked. The Yangtze River is like a white horse, passing through the whole town, connecting Lizhuang and the world.
Lizhuang has something in common with 95% of the ancient towns in China. They have many similarities, green bricks, white walls and green tiles, and the newly built antique buildings carry too many unrealistic dreams about tourism and getting rich.
A row of brand-new antique villas by the river, and the less lively business are all endorsing this ancient town with a high “duplicate check rate”.
However, the architectural society that once existed here added a deep rhythm.
Known as the “ISO9001” from the Northern Song Dynasty, the “Building French Style” was discovered by Zhu Qiqian, an official of the Beiyang government, in the Nanjing Jiangnan Library, and was then given to his friend Liang Qichao, and finally he sent it to his son Liang Sicheng who was studying in the United States There.
In 1928, Liang Sicheng returned to China and established the Department of Architecture of Northeastern University. Later, due to the Japanese invasion of Northeast China, he moved to Beijing and joined the China Construction Society founded by Zhu Qiqian.
In 1940, as Tongji University, the Central Museum, Academia Sinica and other institutions moved to Lizhuang , the China Construction Society also came here together. These special histories during the Anti-Japanese War provided Lizhuang with deeper meaning and connotation.
Lin Huiyin once sketched here, and used her brushstrokes to paint the taste and atmosphere of Lizhuang on the edge of the moon field. Each stroke of the stroke carried her prophetic vision of this small town. Liang Sicheng drew the “Image History of Chinese Architecture” with the duck tongue pen and ink line in his hand.
There is a short distance between the former site of the Construction Society and Li Zhuang. I was a little disappointed in Li Zhuang at first, but I became a little fascinated when I saw the restored old site. It turns out that we are not opposed to refurbishment, but just hate the decoration without aesthetics; it turns out that we don’t hate the same food, but we just don’t like the improved “garlic and white meat”.
The former site of the Construction Institute is very artistically repaired. The straw sloping roof imitated by metal has the same rustling movement under the breeze; It was the aesthetics of the great lady Lin Huiyin back then.
In the long river of development, we will inevitably take the path that most people take, but it does not affect the preservation of our own characteristics. Lizhuang is a small town full of beauty and romance. The elegant and ancient buildings, the beautiful and magnificent natural environment, the accumulation of ancient culture and the inscription of historical marks all come together not to be stewed in a pot, but to jump over the wall.
Facing the Yangtze River, the ancient and desolate artistic conception suddenly arises, the natural emotional freedom, and the deep inner melancholy of the individual.
Lizhuang is a quiet and profound cultural heritage, a quiet and elegant old world, an ancient town that can be eternal even though the world is ever-changing.
This small town has been built in cells, so I say it is different from the same, and it is a leader among the modeled ancient towns.
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