How about Quzhou, Zhejiang?

Quzhou, Zhejiang is a very good place, known as "Little Tibet in Zhejiang", which is very different from the gentle impression of Zhejiang in people's hearts.

Quzhou, located at the junction of Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi and Anhui provinces, is the real "thoroughfare of the four provinces and the first of the five roads".

Quzhou is connected to Nanping in Fujian in the south, Shangrao and Jingdezhen in Jiangxi in the west, Huangshan in Anhui in the north and Jinhua, Lishui and Hangzhou in the province in the east.

Unlike other cities in Zhejiang, Quzhou is not facing the sea, nor is it in the core of Shanghai-Hangzhou economic circle. Obviously, you can eat by your face value, but you have to rely on your talent, and you are horribly low-key-many people may be "stupid in Xuzhou, Quzhou".

Her existence is the power to break people's stereotypes about Zhejiang or all related areas.

Quzhou has only natural scenery? Naive!

When it comes to Quzhou, many people think of a poetic landscape.

Jiang Lang, Xianxia Ancient Road, Skyline Longmen, Sanqu Stone Forest, Longyou Grottoes, Wang Yao Scenic Area, Qianjiangyuan Forest Park ... Quzhou has beautiful landscapes and is full of wild interests that urbanites yearn for.

However, Quzhou is not only an online celebrity, but also a beautiful family with profound heritage. "Two subcultures" ("Confucius Culture" and "Chess Culture") meet here, and the city is silent.

Besides the famous Confucius Temple in Qufu, another famous Confucius Temple in China is located in Quzhou. "Kong Shi bulk, the world belongs to Zou Lu. The difficulty of Jingkang, a large number of people came to the south, Song and Jin confronted each other, and Confucius began to divide into two cases. " At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the nomads from Shanxi invaded south, crossed south with Zhao Gou, and established Lin 'an as its capital.

Kong Duanyou, the 48th grandson of Confucius and the third duke's feast, moved from Qufu, Shandong Province to Quzhou with wooden statues of Confucius and his wife, and established a Confucius Temple, which was called Nanzong. Quzhou is also called "the second holy land" by Confucius.

Gutianshan National Nature Reserve, with lush forests and well-developed natural secondary forests, is known as "Xing 'an Mountains in western Zhejiang". Photo/As one of the only two Confucian temples in China, vision china has undergone three relocations and three constructions. Now, Quzhou Confucius Temple is located in Xinqiao Street in the center of Quzhou, which is connected in series with Confucius Cultural Park (Fushan Park), China Confucianism Museum and Quzhou Museum, drawing the core circle of Quzhou Confucian culture.

Confucian culture influenced Quzhou, while Gushe Academy spread all over the city, and the cultural blood of farming and reading was passed down from generation to generation. Qingyang Village at the foot of Jianglang Mountain is the birthplace of Shi Mao in the south of the Yangtze River and the hometown of Mao Zishui, a master of Chinese studies. There have been 8 Shangshu and 83 Jinshi in history, which is a veritable "Jinshi Village".

If you want to explore the "chess piece culture", you can't miss the "Go Holy Land"-rotten tail mountain. Weiqi originated in China and rooted in Lankeshan.

According to Li Daoyuan's Notes on Water Classics in the Northern Wei Dynasty, there was a woodcutter named Wang Zhi in the Jin Dynasty who went to Shishi Mountain to cut wood. When he saw two boys playing Go, he sat by and watched.

At the end of the game, the boy said to him, your axe handle is rotten. When Wang Qiao returned to the village, he realized that decades had passed. Later, Shishi Mountain was called rotten Ke Mountain, and rotten Ke was another name for Go.

Since 2006, the "Quzhou Michelle Cup China Weiqi Championship" has been held every two years here. All kinds of Weiqi experts gather at the foot of Michelle to compete here and draw a constantly updated "Michelle Map".

The picture shows Ding's Bad Ke Xian. Figure/Yachang Auction In addition to the landmark buildings of "two subcultures", Quzhou people have already integrated the history and culture of their hometown into an atmosphere and become a part of their daily life.

Quzhou people who have lived here for thousands of years, with their wisdom, cleverness and sweat, have turned their hometown into a "hometown of China specialties" rich in root carving, Hua Kai paper, Jiangshan Xiyan and other famous things. Longyou business gang is famous for its broad mind.

Standing on Beimen Street, the smart and fresh Huizhou architecture, Qingshiban Road Old Street, carries ancient scenery and ancient legends, and comes leisurely. People in the old Quzhou make a pot of tea, play mahjong and talk about their family, just like the old street-quiet and lively, comfortable and orderly.

Walking to the intersection at the southern end, you can see the bell tower in Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, where the story of the one-horned ghost, one of the three monsters in Quzhou, happened.

Pu Songling wrote in Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio: "Zhang Wozhong joined hands with Quzhou and said,' Quzhou is quiet at night, and people dare not walk alone. There is a ghost in the bell tower with a horn on its head. It looks so ugly that people will hear it when they walk. People run away in panic, and ghosts also go. But it's disgusting to see it. There are many dead people. ""climb the bell tower and you will have a panoramic view of the ancient city of Quzhou. Looking to the north is the ancient Beimen Street, and looking to the west is the symbol of Quzhou's regional historical context-Shuitingmen Gate Tower.

As the most complete network celebrity block in Quzhou, Shuitingmen ancient block has preserved three streets and seven lanes, temples, ancestral halls, halls, towers, historical sites, patches of traditional houses, and emerging creative restaurants and shops scattered among them. Tradition and fashion coexist and become a "museum without walls".

"There was the Heavenly King Pagoda first, then Quzhou City". As soon as we approached the Tianwang Tower at the entrance of the water pavilion, the whole block could hear the bells ringing in the wind, worrying about the homesickness of Quzhou people.

In addition, Tianhou Palace, Zhaobian Temple, Dayuan Bank, Zhou Temple, the descending point of germ warfare, and the ancient city wall ... all kinds of relics in different periods, like different paragraphs of history, are carefully embedded in the texture of the city to piece together a cultural map about Quzhou.

Wenzhou dialect is the hardest to understand? Naive!

If Quzhou always makes people feel mysterious, it should come from her dialect filtering.

Quzhou, as the thoroughfare of four provinces, has a special geographical position, and has experienced wars, garrisons and immigrants in history. Under the influence of northern Wu dialect, southern Anhui Hui dialect, Jiangxi Gan dialect and northern Fujian Jianzhou dialect, the dialects are very complex and diverse.

There are not only Quzhou City Dialect, Kecheng District Dialect, Qujiang District Dialect and Longyou Dialect commonly known as "Urban Dialect", but also Hua Kai County, Changshan County and Jiangshan City whose dialects belong to Wu dialect.

Among them, there are subdivisions in various places-Ke Cheng is divided into urban areas and suburbs; Qu County is divided into Danan Township, Xiaonan Township, Xixiang Township and Beixiang Township. Longyou is also divided into county towns, south townships and north townships. Gaojia Town in Qujiang District speaks Quzhou dialect, while Fangshang Town speaks Longyou dialect. There are many Jiangshan immigrants in Xiaonanmen Village of Quzhou City, and the old people also speak Jiangshan dialect. Huahua Huahua Huahua Huahua Huahua Huahua Huahua Huahua Huahua Huahua Huahua Huahua Huahua Huahua Huahua Huahua Huahua Huahua Huahua.

One of the dialects is more difficult to understand than Wenzhou dialect. That's Jiangshan dialect in Quzhou. Known as the "key to the southwest of Zhejiang", Jiangshan 28 Cross, a cultural enclave, not only has diverse architectural styles, but also has prominent dialects. There are 14 dialects in the town alone.

Jiangshan dialect, which frequently appears in the "Ten Most Difficult Dialects to Learn in China" all the year round, is rich in vocabulary and expressive, and retains a large number of medieval sounds in pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar.

"Listening to Jiangshan dialect is like listening to gobbledygook", regardless of whether the pure Jiangshan dialect makes outsiders feel that they have come to the wrong planet, even if a little Jiangshan accent is mixed with Mandarin, it often makes people listen to it in a fog.

Dialect is difficult to understand, although it will affect the communication with the outside world, but it is particularly convenient for "internal communication" and strengthen centripetal force. Because of this, Jiangshan dialect became the secret language of the army in the era of treacherous men, and also helped Dai Li become the "acting king".

At that time, Jiangshan dialect became the primary working language in the confidential room of the Military Bureau. After all, there are four ways of saying "kill him" in Jiangshan dialect-"help, er, curl up", "help, er, scoff", "help, er, wrap it up" and "help, er, leave it behind".

Bao an xiang, Jiangshan City, is only a few tens of kilometers away from Pucheng County, Fujian Province. From the outside, it is just an ordinary house with white walls and tiles. If there is no logo set up after the transformation, it is really hard for people to think of Dai Li, who was once in power.

There are many offices in the former residence, but hidden weapons can hide and ambush. One of the most famous is the spiral escape secret passage, which is located behind the wardrobe and curtains, so it is not easy to be detected and can only be passed sideways by one person.

People in Zhejiang don't eat spicy food? Naive!

In everyone's impression, Zhejiang people don't eat spicy food. But Quzhou people are an exception-"spicy and salty" is the favorite of Quzhou people and the flavor of Quzhou cuisine. In Quzhou, in addition to the Chili sauce that every household always has, even the light Japanese cuisine should be improved-"extra spicy fried udon noodles", which is spicy when you think about it.

Rabbits eat brains, ducks suck bones, and ducks eat skins. In Quzhou, almost every family sells "three heads and one palm" (rabbit head, duck head, fish head and duck palm), and every family has its own unique secret recipe. The "three heads and one palm" made of pepper, ginger, garlic, cinnamon, medlar, Chinese medicine and other auxiliary materials is full of color and flavor, which is the strength of Quzhou supper stall.

No rabbit can jump out of Quzhou alive.

Among the "three heads" in Quzhou, rabbit head is the earliest and the most famous one. Authentic Quzhou people's eyes glow when they see the rabbit's head-after sucking up the red and hot oil on the rabbit's head, they use chopsticks to break off the soft and rotten cheek meat on both sides and send it straight to their mouths. The burning smell rushes from the tip of the tongue to the throat, leaving a stinging pain between the lips and teeth, which is addictive.

As for duck head and duck's paw, most of them are soft and crisp, which is very tasty. The first couple thought it was ok. Half a duck's head chewed up, and the spicy stamina slowly came up. They sucked hard and sometimes they could suck out two peppers. There is duck's paw soup, mixed with a little Friedvermicelli and a spoonful of pepper, which is authentic Quzhou flavor.

Another delicious food that I have to mention is Quzhou scones.

A Quzhou city, half a city scones. In Quzhou, eating scones is by no means the privilege of breakfast. Many people in Quzhou list it as a snack for drinking. Even the goddess Zhou Xun mentioned in an interview with her hometown TV station more than 20 years ago-"I especially miss the scallion cake in our hometown". This snack, which can be seen everywhere in the streets and lanes of Quzhou, is inexpensive and exquisite when it is made.

I saw that the scone master picked up a small piece of dough, rubbed it twice, flew under the rolling pin and turned it into a thin piece of dough. Then, put a spoonful of stuffing on the dough and pour it into the pot with onions.

Then evenly folded and flattened, sprinkled with a handful of fragrant sesame seeds, coated with a layer of water on the surface of the cake, and then pressed into the shape of a pancake, and the cakes adhered to the high-temperature inner wall of the oven one by one with lightning speed. After about two or three minutes, the scones in the furnace will slowly turn brown, and with the sound of "Zi-",the oil will splash and the scones will be baked.

Take a gentle bite, and the crispy dough is mixed with delicate meat stuffing, fresh chopped green onion, sesame seeds, mustard tuber and plums. Just the right fat juice oozes from the bread and flows on the tip of the tongue, which is fragrant but not greasy, crisp outside and tender inside, spicy and refreshing.

Although scones also have three flavors: spicy, slightly spicy and not spicy, for people who love spicy food in Quzhou, spicy is the soul of scones. Of course, the food in Quzhou never stops there. The rolling Xianxia Mountains and the clear and sweet source of Qianjiang River provide Quzhou people with rich Shan Ye ingredients and various seafood. At the same time, delicious genes are also flowing in their blood.

The real Quzhou cuisine is always accompanied by a strong market atmosphere. Whether it is Hua Kai moss, Longyou hair cake, Shuangqiao dry powder, Chen Da hemp seed, Bulao Ji Shen, Changshan Gong Mian, Jiangshan rice cake, and Nianbadu Tongluo cake, they are all accompanied by the memory of the city's taste buds for thousands of years, full of human feelings, which makes people want to stop. The nightlife of Quzhou people is inseparable from midnight snack.

Lianhua East, Rende Road, Baihui Road, Nanhu Food City, Rainbow No.8 Courtyard, Bajiaolou, Mazhan District and Shenjia Zhenxing Middle Road. Left-handed scones, right-handed duck heads, crystal cakes, pork tongues, and cold beer fried snails.

It is the way of opening the midnight snack of "that guy eats ghosts" in Quzhou. While being flushed with spicy food, he is blowing air conditioning and sweating.

Just like the straightforward Quzhou people, most of them are outspoken and easy to be "provocative" in words, but they dare to say and do it, which is very loyal and somewhat valuable at the moment. In recent years, Quzhou, which has long been regarded as the "economic depression of Zhejiang Province", can be described as a constant stream of good news-formally joining the Hangzhou metropolitan area, starting the construction of the Hangzhou-Qu high-speed railway, cooperation between mountains and seas, and mutual assistance and win-win.

Ali, Netease and other industries settled in, and the first cross-administrative pioneer park in Zhejiang was born here. Cultural enclaves have become "innovation enclaves", and high-end talents stand out. New landmarks have sprung up, characteristic towns have blossomed everywhere, and online celebrity food, which was originally out of reach, has gradually become the daily life of Quzhou people.

At the same time, more and more Quzhou people are facing demolition, leaving the old streets and houses where they grew up and having to adapt to soaring prices.

Accustomed to the rhythm of "slow city", Quzhou people gradually began to feel the pressure of life brought by the rapid development of the city. But for Quzhou people who are full of aura and have seen the world, the rapid development of their hometown is just to regain their former glory.