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| Tang Xianzu Memorial Hal |
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¡¡¡¡Tang Xianzu Memorial Hall is built up for commenorating dramatist & litterateur Tang Xianzu in Ming Dynasty. The hall can be use for education , entertainment , sightseeing. It covers 480 acre and is made up of three parts that are Four Dreams Village, Vacation Village and Entertainment Village.
¡¡¡¡Tang Xianzu£¨1550-1616£©, he has other names such as Yireng, Ruoshi, Hairuo and Qingyuandaoren, was born in Linchuan. His dramas are ¡°Peony Pavilion¡±, ¡°Dream of Nanke¡±, ¡°Dream of Handan¡± and ¡°Story of Purple Hairpin¡± which are called ¡°four dreams of Lin Chuan¡± or ¡°four dreams of Yumingtang¡± by descendants. ¡°Peony Pavilion¡± has been translated into various languages and is famous all over the world and is always performed greatly to make people moved tears.
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| Wang Anshi Memorial Hall |
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¡¡¡¡Wang Anshi Memorial Hall is built up for commenorating Wang Anshi who was the famous statesman, thinker, litterateur in Northern Song Dynasty. It has been completed and opened to the public in 1986.
¡¡¡¡There are ¡°Wenyue Lofty¡±, ¡°Zhizhu Garden¡± ¡°Xinyi Garden¡±, ¡°Jinggong Pavilion¡± and ¡°Huaiwen Hall¡±. In the delicate and elegant exhibition hall, there are ¡°All Wang Anshi¡¯s Life Introduction¡±, the exquisite photographs, drawings and sculptures which shows the revolutionist¡¯s politic courage and insight and his literature achievement. |
| The First Ancient Village¡ªLiukeng Village |
The key historical site under state protection,
Chinese history & culture village
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¡¡¡¡Liukeng village, is considered as ¡°The First Ancient Village¡±, is located near the Wujiang River of the southwest of Niutain town, Le¡¯an County of Jiangxi province. Surrounded by connected green mountains, it is pregnant with beauty and productive of talent. It endows the village the convenient irrigation, water transportation as well as the advantage of being against the mountain and facing a river. At present, it covers an area of about 3.61 square kilometers, 3572 Mu of cultivated land and 53400 Mu of forest with a population of 4290 in 820 households.
Liukeng village is a miniature of Chinese feudal patriarchal society. Within a thousand years, Clan Dong depends on close feudal clansman system to maintain order, solidify the masses and stabilized development. The feudal clansman sites can be seen everywhere in the village, especially the various editions of genealogies and ancestral temples all over the village that are rare human landscape. At present, it still preserves 3 genealogies of the tenth year in Wanli of Ming Dynasty and 20 editions of every clan genealogies in Qing dynasty and 58 ancestral temples and halls. The Dazong Ancestral Hall is a wonderful site which has 5 granite steles with 8 meters of height and 0.7meters of diameters that is called ¡°Yuanmingyuan Palace¡± of Liukeng.
¡¡¡¡Liukeng village is famous with grand scale traditional architectures and unique layout. In the middle of Ming Dynasty, the village had been built under clansman's plan to form eight streets and lanes with seven horizons (from the east to the west) and one erect (from the north to the south). The people habited in their streets according to their clan branch. They had set up arch gates on laneways which connect walls. People laid cobblestones on the laneways and built sewerage system. There are over 260 ancient buildings and sites of Ming and Qing Dynasties in the village. 19 of them are buildings and sites of Ming Dynasty, 18 building groups, 14 cultural buildings, 5 memorial gateways, 48 ancestral halls 8 temples, and 32 ancient well, pavilions, docks, ancient bridges, ancient tombs, ancient towers and others. These ancient houses have been built by bricks and woods with half and one layers height and a skylight. The architectures are modesty and concision but are particular about decoration. They are rich in exquisite and graceful in handicraft and colorful drawing, permeated with a strong religious and cultural atmosphere. The ancient buildings of Liukeng village are characteristic in Jiangxi¡¯s architectural style which has been preserved completely. They are rich in high value of history, culture, science, environment and architecture.
¡¡¡¡Liukeng village is the representative of ancient classical culture. It is a pearl of the classical folk architecture in our country and treasure of the human civilization. |
| Fuzhou Catholic Church |
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¡¡¡¡Fuzhou Catholic Church, namely, Fuzhou San Josee Cathedral, is located in Lingzhishan Road, the east of Wenchang Bridge of Fuzhou City, has been built up in the 34th year of GuangXu in Qing Dynasty. (A.D.1908) and been completed in 1918. The whole church covers an area of 3850 square metre. The building covers 2109 square metre. This is a Cathedral of the Gothic order,a pointed arch and pinnacle edifice which is decorated by black brick, red stone and white granite with light white line in bright colours. There are a Bell Tower and a Tower on both sides of the church facade. The Bell Tower is up to 28.4 meters with a gate and two small doors. There are high pointed-window, large-scale white rose, copper cross and stone-inscription niche on the gate. The solemn statues like Jesus, Virgin Mary, Joseph, and angel statue have been set in the niche. There is a gate respectively at the back of the church in the east and west. In front of the two gates, there is a tower in the north and south respectively. The church is elegant and grand. 58 heavy and strong red Corinth posts stand in the inner of the church. The dome is 15.3 meters away from the floor, the vault framework tendons scatter from the top just like the empty vault covers the whole inner space. On the central niche of the church, there are Joseph, Jesus, and Virgin Mary statues. The church walls are decorated by 14,200 pieces of colorful glassed windows. The highest colorful window is 13.5 meters that embodied sufficiently people hope to seek the bright life after 12 century. Fuzhou Catholic Church manages the religion affairs of 6 counties including Le¡¯an, Yihuang, Chongren, Linchuan, Dongxiang and Jinxi. Meanwhile, it has established Zhenhua primary school, Dehua primary school, Zhenguang middle school, the old people¡¯s hall and hospital and other charity and education projects. San Josee Convent has been established in Shangdundu Town of Linchuan at that time. During the Anti-Japanese War period, the church suffered havoc due to the Japanese battleplane booming. In the Autumn1951, Priest Huang Ke¡¯ai has been deported because he disobeyed the Chinese policy and decree. During ¡°The Great Culture Revolution¡± period, all the altas and statues in the church had been smashed. The church had been taken as the storehouse or classroom by the factory or school. The building had been damaged. In 1982, it returned Catholic Church according to the Party¡¯s religion policy, In October 1985, the concerning departments of the state, the province and the city appropriated funds to repair the building that it has been completed in November 1987. On 8th December 1987, the local government held ceremonious ceremony for resuming the church and arranged the professional priest to carry out Mass and other religion activities every day. From 2003 to 2004, Priest Li Suguang has made great efforts to promote provincial Catholic Patriotic Union to support repairing and decorating the church again. |
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