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#Huaxi Hall Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in May)
Anhui Bozhou Huaxi Building | One of the must-visit attractions in Bozhou
Please check out the travel guide for Huaxi Building ✅||| Huaxi Building, originally named Ge Tai, is a stage for performances. It is a temple for worshipping the famous person from Shanxi, Guan Yu, and also served as a meeting place for Shanxi and Shaanxi medicine merchants operating in Bozhou during the Ming and Qing dynasties, hence it was called 'Shan-Shaan Guild Hall' and 'Great Guandi Temple'.
The main hall of the Guandi Temple was built in the twelfth year of the Shunzhi era of the Qing dynasty (1656), and the Huaxi Building was added in the fifteenth year of the Kangxi era (1676). During the Qianlong era, many colorful paintings and carvings were added. It is famous at home and abroad for its exquisite carving art and brilliant color paintings; the entire building covers an area of 3,163 square meters, consisting of the Huaxi Building, Bell Tower, Drum Tower, Seating Tower, and the Great Hall of Guandi. The guild hall is called Huaxi Building because the colors are dazzling and magnificent in the courtyard.
📍Huaxi Building
🚗 It is recommended to drive directly to 🔍Huaxi Building
🚆 By train/🚝 high-speed rail, you can also get off and take a taxi directly to Huaxi Building
⏰: 09:00--17:30 (Entry to the scenic area stops at 17:30)
🎫Ticket: Adult ticket 50r
6-18 years old, 60-65 years old 25r
✅ Must-visit photo spots 📸
1⃣️ Iron Flagpole: A pair of iron flagpoles built in the first year of the Daoguang era of the Qing dynasty, piercing the sky. The flagpoles are over 16 meters high and weigh more than 12,000 kilograms. They were forged and cast by craftsmen with their blood, sweat, and several tons of pig iron, standing tall through more than three hundred years of wind and rain, becoming an indispensable symbol of Huaxi Building. 🚩
2⃣️ Brick Carving: The large poplar through-carving on the opera stage is known as the divine product of wood carving because it has a strong sense of hierarchy and dimensionality, a grand scene, and delicate knife work, inlaid on the outer eaves of the stage's large pillars. Perhaps because Bozhou is the hometown of the Three Kingdoms characters Cao Cao and Hua Tuo, the wood carving drama is themed entirely on Three Kingdoms stories. 🎨
3⃣️ Wood Carving: The singing and dancing on the stage are flowing wood carvings, and the inlaid wood carvings are frozen singing and dancing. An old artist sang about Huaxi Building like this: 'The decorated Ge Tai spans ancient and modern times, awakening how many people from ancient and modern times? The color carving is indeed the work of a divine craftsman, with the smoke and clouds of the Three Kingdoms right before your eyes.' 📙
✅ Accommodation and Dining 🍔
Huaxi Building is located in the northern old city area of Bozhou, and there are many homestays nearby, such as Sanguan Residence. The Bozhou Old Street at the entrance of the scenic area is the famous local snack street, with all kinds of snacks readily available (ordering takeout is also very convenient~)
✅ Small tips
In the evening, the Wo River road next to Huaxi Building is the preferred place for local people in Bozhou to stroll after dinner~🉑
Central Treasure - Bozhou Huaxilou!
Huaxilou, originally named Daguandi Temple, is also known as Shanxi Shaanxi Guild Hall. Its brick carvings, wood carvings, and colored paintings are mainly based on local opera dramas, so everyone is used to calling it Huaxilou. Huaxilou was first built in 1656, located in Xianning Street, Guanyu, north of Bozhou City, Anhui Province. Shanxi businessman Wang Bi and Shaanxi businessman Zhu Kongling both participated in the fundraising, and then experienced several expansions over more than a hundred years during the Kangxi and Qianlong periods.
The gate of Huaxilou is a three-story archway frame, imitation wood structure, the water-milled brick wall is filled with brick carvings, including characters, carriages, cities, mountains, flowers, birds and beasts, etc. The main hall of Huaxilou is the main building, and the theater building is next to it. The main hall is 10 meters high, with a courtyard on each side, containing the book carvings of Yuan Zhao Mengshun and Qing Liang Xian. Then there is the main hall, with a wooden statue of Guan Yu in the hall, and the images of Guan Ping and Zhou Cang on both sides, unfortunately destroyed during the Japanese invasion. The stage of the theater building is convex-shaped, with the four golden characters "Performing Ancient Style Today" in the center of the stage. The east side of the theater building is the bell tower, the west side is the drum tower, the front door is in the middle of the two towers, it is an imitation wood structure three-story archway water-milled brick facade building, with exquisite brick carvings inlaid in it.
The layout of Daguandi Temple is facing south, with the main hall as the main building in the courtyard, the theater building as a foil, and the sitting building on both sides, where you can watch the opera and drink. There is a deep path courtyard on each side of the main hall, and there is a Zen hall on the west side. The bell tower and drum tower are on both sides of the theater building.
The front wall of the mountain gate of Daguandi Temple has three passages, which are the main gate, the bell tower, and the drum tower. The entire wall is full of various reliefs, all made of water-milled bricks, all hand-carved, and have a history of more than two hundred years.
There are nine colored paintings in the caisson above the stage of Huaxilou, including "Dragon and Phoenix Bring Auspiciousness", "Cranes Dance to the Sun", "Deer Spirit Offers Longevity" and other patterns. Between the pillars, there are two heavy beams, with lotus hanging lions on the beams, divided into two or three sections, each section is a large wooden through-carving, with clear layers, which complements the front door brick carving.
Address: Xianning Street, Guanyu, North City, Bozhou City, Anhui Province.
Opening hours are 8:00-17:00
The ticket is 50 yuan/person
Huaxilou
Bozhou Flower Opera House: The millennium echo of resounding drums and gongs
Flower Opera House, in Bozhou, is known to all. It is located in the old street of Bozhou and is the most famous attraction in Bozhou. Initially, it was a Shanxi and Shaanxi guild hall built by the medicine merchants from Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces in Bozhou, also known as the Great Guandi Temple. The Flower Opera House was originally just a magnificent opera house built in front of the Great Guandi Temple in the courtyard. Over the years, the performances here have enriched the lives of the locals, and the reputation of the 'Flower Opera House' has gradually overshadowed the Shanxi and Shaanxi guild hall and the Great Guandi Temple. The editor also recommends the three unique features of the Flower Opera House - the iron flagpole, brick carvings, and wood carvings. These brick carvings of the Flower Opera House are based on various opera stories, which are very unique.
The Flower Opera House was named as the Anhui Provincial Patriotic Education Base in the 1990s, and now the Flower Opera House has become a research base. Many primary and secondary school students and some university students will be organized to visit the Flower Opera House, and there are also activities such as Chinese studies lectures. Through these activities, patriotic education is carried out for primary and secondary school students and the majority of tourists, and the awareness of Chinese studies is increased, achieving good results.
Bozhou Tourism
🗺 Overview of Bozhou
There are always surprises in the search for ancient times in the north of Anhui, and Bozhou, a cultural city, is even more so. From Shang Tang to Cao Wei and then to the Red Turban Army, it accumulates the foundation of being a key town in the Central Plains. The trend of large-scale construction has not deeply intervened in the lives of Bozhou people. The old streets and alleys still retain the ancient meaning. There is no full commercialization here, and there is no potted landscape in the city that imitates the ancient.
🌸 Huaxi Building
The national protected unit Huaxi Building full of brick carvings is a symbol of Bozhou. The Shanxi merchants built this large Guan Di Temple. They borrowed the brick carving skills of Huizhou craftsmen to carve the historical story themes that the northern folk art is keen on, quietly explaining the important position of Bozhou's integration of the north and south. The fact that the Huanghuai area, which has been plagued by floods and wars in modern times, can retain such a delicate ancient building is even more difficult. This also makes the Central Plains treasure status of the Huaxi Building Guandi Temple unshakable. Moreover, this place is almost integrated with the old city residential area, and the sense of harmony is the theme of the tour here.
🏛 Underground Troop Transport Tunnel and Cao Cao Family Tomb
The legacy left by Cao Wei is even more. Compared with the Cao Cao family tomb group named "Lonely Pile" in the south of the city, the underground troop transport tunnel, which is also a national protection, is even more amazing and mysterious. This is the most complete and huge relic left by the fleeting Cao Wei in the world, a microcosm of Emperor Wu of Wei's life of conquest. Everyone comes here, all for the well-known hometown of Cao Wei in the Three Kingdoms, Pei County, Qiao County. It's just that the underground tunnel buried deep underground is too narrow and cramped, and can only accommodate people to move forward with their waists down, and the structure is tortuous, and they will be dizzy after a while. The two big signs of Bozhou tourism are both 4A scenic spots, and the ticket prices are reasonable, the content is colorful, which shows the hard work of the local creation of a tourist city. The Cao Cao family tomb has recently been temporarily closed due to water accumulation.
✨ Bozhou Museum
Although the Bozhou Museum is small, the exhibition of cultural relics from the Cao Cao family tomb is the most interesting. The inscribed bricks unearthed from the Cao Wei family tomb are the most interesting. Walk into the museum and take a look at the words of sorrow or flattery carved by the craftsmen who built the underground palace on the bricks. A live drama of the end of the Han Dynasty emerged before our eyes.
🛴 Wandering Bozhou
There are temples and palaces such as Huazu Temple, Tao De Zhong Palace, and Baiyi Law Court in the old city of Bozhou, all of which are worth seeing. And Tao De Zhong Palace also left a famous allusion in history that Confucius asked Lao Tzu for rituals, and the alley is still called Wenli Alley. Walking in the old city of Bozhou, historical allusions are everywhere.
🚩 Tang Wang Tomb
Not far from the city is the second largest tributary of the Huai River, the Wo River. Although it is in the midwinter season, the Wo River has no intention of freezing, and it is rolling to the southeast. The north bank is the tomb of King Tang, who established the capital of Bo, which is the beginning of the founding of Bozhou. Now Tangling has become a playground for Bozhou people. Children chase and play, play on swings and merry-go-rounds; young people compete on the basketball court in the mausoleum. Everyone in front of this ancestor of Bozhou, put down the fatigue of life, enjoying the relaxed moments in life. On the south bank of the Wo River, in the flood pool, there are the palaces where Xiao Ming Wang Han Lin'er built the capital in Bo, which makes people feel sad about the sorrow of the millet.
Life is like a drama, drama is like life. Walking into the Huaxiu Building in Zhangzhou, I really understand the philosophical rationality of this sentence, and life should not be like this, so exquisite.
When I walked into the Hua Opera Building, there was a play that couldn't be named at the door, surrounded by a large audience. The wind blew slightly, and the clouds on the top of the head flowed like water. This kind of bustling time has been staged in countless times. When it is scattered, there is a faint loneliness in the dust.
Hua Xi Lou, formerly known as Shanshan Guild Hall, was built in the 13th year of Shunzhi in Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces. It also has the architectural style of Shanxi and Huizhou, and has the taste of Shanxi merchants and Huizhou merchants. Known as the Central Plains Treasures and the architectural art of China, this statue is proud of its centuries-old charm on the south bank of the Vortex River. The main building of Huaxiu Building is composed of Daguandi Temple. The entire scenic spot also includes Zhangfei Temple, Yuefei Temple, Zhugong Academy, Huo Shen Temple and the Grain Square Guild Hall.
Hua Xi Lou has three musts: brick carving, wood carving and iron flagpole.
Sights Reference:
Address: North of Huaxiu Street, Yucheng District, Luzhou City/Hh/ Tickets: 60 yuan, explanation: 50 yuan
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