Guangyuan City has been an important passage into Sichuan since ancient times. It is the hometown of Ju State, a fortress for entering Shu, and an important town in the Three Kingdoms. Guangyuan has a profound cultural heritage, especially the bright red gene that has been passed down from generation to generation.

Guangyuan is a concentrated display of the ancient plank road culture of the Pre-Qin Dynasty and the Chinese Shu Road culture, a core corridor of history and culture of the Three Kingdoms, the birthplace of Wu Zetian, the only female emperor in Chinese history, and the core area of ??the original Sichuan-Shaanxi-Suzhou District. The late capital of the Front Army, the main battlefield of the Western War and the starting point of the Long March

In the year 624, a cry of a baby came from the awning boat on the river bank of Lizhou City. An oolong and a golden phoenix flew out and hovered above. After a while, one of the oolong and the golden phoenix fell to the west and transformed into an oolong bag on the west mountain, and the other fell to the east and formed Phoenix Mountain in the east mountain capital of the city. This is a long-standing legend about Wu Zetian's birth in Guangyuan, called "Jiangtan Feeling Pregnant".

Queen culture centers on commemorating Wu Zetian, the empress of the Zhou and Tang Dynasties, and continues for nearly a thousand years the custom of "women swim in the river on the 23rd of the first lunar month", which is the Daughter's Day custom, forming a unique cultural landscape with local female characteristics. The three main halls of Huangze Temple, the Wu family temple, and the pavilion and waterside pavilion have been restored.

Sima Guang, a famous historian, politician and prime minister of the Northern Song Dynasty who is famous for his editorship of "Zizhi Tongjian", lived in Guangyuan with his father when he was young. He set up a platform on the west hill behind Huangze Temple to study and left A large number of poems and essays were written.

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Culture and Art:

Guangyuan wrote "Three Kingdoms and Guangyuan", "Red Guangyuan", "Three Kingdoms and Zhaohua", "Jia Meng" "Spring and Autumn", "Huangze Temple", "Thousand Buddha Cliff", "Guangyuan Mingyue Gorge", "Guangyuan Grottoes", "Mid-level Stone Chronicles" and other travel series and novels such as "Empress Wu Zetian" and "Young Wu Zetian". In terms of art, we organized rehearsals for the large-scale musical and dance drama "The Legend of the Queen" and filmed the TV series "Forced Crossing of the Jialing River" which reflected the history of the Red Army's revolutionary struggle.

Grotto Art:

Guangyuan has the earliest, longest and largest grottoes in Sichuan. It is important for studying the transmission route of Sichuan grotto sculptures and exploring the origin and evolution of grotto art in Sichuan. Among them, the most representative and tourist value ones are: the cliff statues of Huangze Temple, the first batch of cultural relics protection units in the country, which were excavated from the time of excavation to the Northern Wei Dynasty. ?

The excavation started in the Northern Wei Dynasty and continued to the Qing Dynasty. There are more than 10,000 statues, and more than 7,000 of them are now in existence. The Thousand Buddha Cliff Cliff Statues are among the first batch of cultural relics protection units in the country known as the Grotto Art Museum of the Past Dynasties.

The statues were carved during the Tianbao period of the Tang Dynasty. There are more than 400 statues in more than 40 caves, including those carved by Princess Yonghe, the granddaughter of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty and the daughter of Suzong, reflecting the "Anshi Rebellion" when Emperor Ming of the Tang Dynasty fled to Shu and Emperor Xizong of the Tang Dynasty fled. Guanyin Rock is a provincial cultural relic protection unit with historical statues of Sichuan and the Huangchao Uprising.

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