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When I visited the Dinosaur Museum, when I visited the Dashen Well, and when I went to the Lantern Festival at night, Zigong gave me a different experience.
For my parents, Zigong is a lively city not too far away; for me, Zigong is synonymous with delicious Yanbang cuisine. As for its street market, I never paid attention to its bricks and tiles until I went to Gongjing Ancient Street to buy Guokui.
Gongjing Ancient Street
This shop named Xu’s century-old Guokui is the busiest stronghold in the old street. Although I was closed by the Guokui shop, I inadvertently broke into Gongjing Ancient Street, as if entering an emotional, A time tunnel full of vitality and desire.
As the birthplace of ancient salt culture, a number of salt wells represented by “Dagong Well” were dug during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. With a history of more than 2,000 years of well salt production, there are more than 200 Ming, Qing, and Republic of China buildings with different styles in the urban area. There are 2 national key cultural relics, which can be called the Southern Sichuan Residential Architecture Art Museum.
At the beginning, a batch of salt wells represented by “Dagong Well” were excavated in the middle section of Gongjinghe Street. The long and narrow Hejie could no longer meet the needs of development, and the town began to develop contiguously from the Hejie area by the Xushui River across the steep rocks to the Old Street area on the second-level platform. During the period of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Anti-Japanese War, Huai salt suffered setbacks, and Sichuan salt was donated to Chu twice. The salt production in Gongjing and Ziliujing entered a historical heyday. At that time, the area around Gongjing Old Street had reached its current scale.
There is a big house under renovation on the old street, which is written as “Nanhua Palace”. It is the Guangdong Salt Merchant Guild Hall, also known as the Lingnan Guild Hall. In addition, there are many private houses and Western-style buildings. If it is not so dilapidated, I think a lady from the official house will walk out of the small building in a few minutes.
As the source of the word “Gong” in Zigong, this road is a street that skillfully combines tradition and modernity. The sun is hot. Although there is nothing new under the sun, people who walked through the old streets a hundred years ago were also blessed by the sun.
Walking through the big sun is like entering an organic, fluid and gradually changing field, like a cultural history full of flesh and blood. The sun is shining, and the world is as quiet as a collective amnesia. I finally feel my thoughts are flowing. It wasn’t until the whole world stopped that my slow mind moved at a relative speed.
Zhangjia Garden
Zhang Boqing’s mansion is in Gongjing People’s Park. By noon, people who visit the park have gone home to cook, so People’s Park is more like what it was at the beginning – Zhang Boqing’s mansion.
How he himself made his fortune is rumored to be related to a prostitute, but when his family became rich, he spent 40,000 silver to build a mansion, and the Zigong people complained a lot. There are many precious flowers and trees in the garden, which is the most exquisite garden with the most varieties of flowers and trees in Zigong City. The green area accounts for more than 90% of the total area of the park: camphor, sweet-scented osmanthus, yellow jue orchid, yellow jue tree, nanmu, gray willow, There are dozens of camellias, forest greens, kumquats, orchids, peonies, peonies, crabapple, plums, grapefruits, peaches, plums, and chrysoprase trees that are over a hundred years old.
There is an artificial lake in the park, originally named “Wanghu Lake”, and later changed to “Guiying Lake”.
Let’s talk about this building combining Chinese and Western. It was generally believed that the outside of this Roman building was designed according to the style of the German Consulate in Chongqing. In fact, this Roman building was designed by the director of the Ziliujing Cash Withdrawal Department of the Sichuan Frontier Army and a famous scholar in Deyang. Designed by Qiufan.
After working as an office building, a zoo, and a classroom, there was finally a professor of Tsinghua University who knew the pearl with his eyes and was listed as the seventh batch of national cultural relics protection units.
Zhong Yunshan Fresh Fish Balls
Tired of shopping, have something to eat.
As a gourmet capital with cold-eat rabbit dan dan noodles and boiled beef, if you want to fight your way through the gourmet rivers and lakes in Zigong, you must have two brushes.
How biased is this store, anyway, I can’t get in because of my driving skills. The boss is very enthusiastic, I came prepared, so I will share with you the taste.
Carp eggs : they are not too big carp eggs, and the degree of grasping is just right. The reason why I didn’t dare to order crucian carp eggs was that they were too tender and could not be picked up at the bottom of the pot. Slightly chewy but not old fish eggs, the flavor of pickled pepper is enough. Have a bowl of noodles in clear soup, pick up the fish eggs that sink to the bottom of the bowl and pour them on the noodles, mix well and eat, it is a perfect substitute for noodles with crab roe.
Fresh pepper fish maw : It is also unexpected, because the maw of the big fish is not used, but the maw of the small carp is used, which is not tough at all, but crisp and bouncy.
Duck intestines and blood : the 20 yuan small bowl is very generous, the blood is full of flavor, and there are vegetables under it, which can be full for two people.
There is nothing more pleasant than this small town life when you are full of wine and food.
The brightest business card of Zigong is the annual lantern festival. 90% of the national lantern festivals and 95% of the world’s lantern festivals are organized by Zigong people. Zigong.
In the small town of Zigong, one long board like this is enough. While driving, I was thinking: Humans are the same, we don’t need to be perfect in everything, and being sufficiently proficient in one or two fields is the way for ordinary people like me to become talents.
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