Baqiu Ancient Town · Houxi

Author: Wang Jizhu, Wang Ji (Photographer)
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: This book is part of the Chongqing Ancient Towns Photo-Text Series, an effort to contribute our small share. The series comprises 8 books, with each book featuring 100 to 150 photographic images, accompanied by 50,000 to 60,000 descriptive words, to introduce a historically and culturally significant ancient town in Chongqing. The authors strive to achieve the realism and presence of the images, ensuring that the text's depth and transcendence are grounded within a specific temporal and spatial framework. Meanwhile, the text fosters divergent thinking, allowing the visual and intuitive nature of the images to be interpreted from multiple dimensions. This series not only helps in calling for people to understand, appreciate, and protect ancient towns but also contributes to enhancing cultural awareness, promoting tourism development, and advancing urban construction. Even when a certain ancient town inevitably disappears, this series can serve as a historical record. The Bayu region boasts majestic mountains and picturesque landscapes, with a rich historical heritage. From the indigenous peoples who established villages in this land as early as 4,000 years ago to the emergence of cities along the riverbanks during the Spring and Autumn period, and from the elevation of Gongzhou to Chongqing Prefecture in the eighth month of the sixteenth year of the Chunxi era of the Southern Song Dynasty to its becoming the largest commodity trading hub in eastern Sichuan during the Qianlong era of the Qing Dynasty, the establishment of market towns has evolved over time. As regional economic and social hubs, many of these towns originated during the Qin and Han dynasties, flourished during the Tang and Song dynasties, or reached their peak during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Each is an important cultural symbol of the Bayu civilization's evolution and is highly.