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¡¡ ¡¡In the beautiful and mysterious LuXi county, xiangxi tujia and miao minority autonomous prefecture£¬in the hometown of Panhu (the ancestors of the Miao nationality,Yao nationality and She nationality), in qu yuan's penal colony where he wrote his famous writings named"Crossing the River"¡¢"Hymn to the Orange Tree"¡¢"the Goddess of the Mountain"£¬by the side of Xiangzi rock which was written by Shencongwen, in the west bank of middle reaches of the Ruanjiang River(one of the four main rivers of Hunan province),there is an ancient town called Pushi,which is very ancient,beautiful and cozy.
¡¡ ¡¡Pushi, just like a cup of rice wine.For the reason that it is very difficult to moved for newcomers, but you will be deeply drunk and seems to be stepping into your previous generation if you settle down here for a long time. Returning to "pu" to find the reality, living in the beautiful paradise outside of modern city,is the best portrayal of current ancient town.
¡¡ ¡¡Pushi is located at the southern tip of Luxi county,the west bank of middle reaches of Yuanjiang River,20 kilometers away from the Baisha county center, with a total area of 134.71 square kilometers and a population of 68000 people. Pushi has been one of the important commercial ?collecting and distribution port in southwest China more than two thousand years,enjoying the reputation of "xiangxi first of four big ancient towns".she is Chinese capitalist sprout, multicultural fusion, the folk custom museum,the big stage of heroes,economic prosperity,the main revolutionary base area of the two and six Red Army of Chinese Communist Party,and the hometown(Gao Shanping village,Hejia stockaded village) of marshal Helong.
¡¡ ¡¡In 2008,"Pushi Discovery" is listed as the second of ten major archaeological discoveries of Hunan province;In 2010,Pushi was rated as ¡°Chinese Historical and Cultural Towns¡± and ¡°Hunan Tourism Leading Towns¡±;In 2014,Pushi was named as ¡°National AAA Level Scenic Region¡±.Pushi`s ancient buildings architectural technology,Chenhe High-pitched Tune, chrysanthemum stone, tiger carved flowers,the Miao nationality yarn, are listed as ¡°the national and provincial intangible cultural heritages¡±.Yanmen Kang`s Castle Village,Gaoshanping Millennium ancient post road and 50 ancient dwellings are also listed as ¡°the national and provincial key cultural relics protection units¡±.
¡¡ ¡¡Pushi, is the birthplace of the Chenhe High-pitched Tune.Hunan Chorography in Qing dynasty recoeded: "High-pitched Tune was created in Pushi,which is known how to sing by even three years old children".Chenhe High-pitched Tune is known as the "magic Oriental opera art treasure",which is the combinative product of the culture of Han nationality and Tujia nationality.Yanmen Kang`s Castle Village,which has more than 600 years history,forming the offensive and defensive idea by a number of alleys,can be rated as the model of the fighting in the Wuling mountain areas and production,and is the representative building of the early years of the Ming dynasty which has both political and military functions.Gaoshanping Millennium ancient post road is a significant channel of the Silk Road upon river in south China,which is also protected well in the existing channels of China.
¡¡ ¡¡Pushi, a place where"hundreds of boats depart in the sunrise, thousands of lamps lighten in the sunset",classical and elegant,with a long history,the convenient transportation and the flourishing commercial trade , rich in tourism resources, is a border town which develops greatly depending on water.
In the history of Pushi,there were three main commercial Streets and 45 alleys, 10 miles walls and 12 gates,6 old opera theatres,23 freight terminals,72 temples and Taoist temples,99 guild halls and trading firms,50 ancient dwellings,206 ancient buildings, more than 1130 firewall building.According to the "Chen State Government":" There are thousands of family along the two sides of the river,and mass merchants develop commercial trades and a large sum of ships travels on the river,deserving the reputation of large city","The men of literature and writing,workers,farmers and merchants always gathered there", shows all the glory days of the ancient town.
¡¡ ¡¡Pushi, the ancient town which wears a mysterious veil,leaves too many stories and reputation to humans in the long river of history: "small Nanjing", "a harbor without darkness", "three Chu impregnable pass", "the big town of the five streams, the border town within hundreds of miles".It also ever enjoyed its booming just like Suzhou,Hangzhou,Hong Kong and Guangdong today.There are also many old saying goes:"you will prefer to go to Pushi rather than cross the east river ","Coming to Pushi to be a boss with only a backpack and an umbrella",and so on.
¡¡ ¡¡Pushi, a quiet and peaceful town in the west of Hunan province,witnesses the prosperity and decline dying out with time flying by the Yuanjiang River,and keeps its own peculiar and vivid lifestyles.Chinese literary master Shencongwen once wrote: "All the scenery is so beautiful with some melancholy.Choosing a part at will and painting it on paper, can be a great painting of Song dynasty. Your eyes will be full of poetry,a kind of pure poetry.Another form of life, namely the fitness between human and nature,which you can feel it with senses. If one person can keep calm, in this situation, will feel even not enough to put his whole heart into it, at least is willing to temporarily forget the bustle of the world."
¡¡ ¡¡Today£¬Pushi still keeps its ancient beauty.It is not easily to find the old streets£¬alleys and buildings with hundreds of years history in the whole country. Each piece of brick and tile, need to look at from the view of scholars,and to precipitate from the view of history.
¡¡ ¡¡The existence significance of Pushi lies in its origin and reality,in presenting its prosperity,tolerance and freedom along with hundreds of years,in its today`s unduplicatedness¡­¡­