One-Day Tour in Mianzhu

This trip to Deyang made me get to know the beautiful city of Mianzhu. Mianzhu is known as a ‘famous historical and cultural city in Sichuan’. It has rich intangible cultural heritages. It is the birthplace of New Year pictures and Jiannanchun liquor. It is also the origin of Zhaopo tea, a tribute tea in the Tang Dynasty. It also has abundant tourism resources. It is one of the ‘seventy-two blessed caves and paradises’. The Jiuding Mountain National Geological Park is also here. In one day, let’s see how I played. All in One Paper? Entering the New Year Picture Village in Mianzhu, Sichuan. The New Year Picture Village in Mianzhu, Sichuan is a western Sichuan village lit up by bright New Year pictures. It is one of the four famous New Year picture villages in China. The world-famous ‘woodblock New Year pictures’ originated here and it is a national intangible cultural heritage. Walking around in the New Year Picture Village, the gates and walls of the villagers’ houses are covered with wonderful New Year pictures. The old people sit at the door and make fires. Old friends talk around the fire, full of strong local characteristics. There is also the Mianzhu New Year Picture Exhibition Hall in the village, which integrates production, display and sales of New Year pictures. There are various forms of peripheral works of New Year pictures here, which have high collection value. You can also make New Year pictures by yourself. Here, you can also experience the fun of making Mianzhu New Year pictures by yourself. All in one paper. New Year pictures have high inclusiveness and can contain many contents. It can vividly and intuitively paint all the things that common people like to see and hear. New Year pictures are painted with bumper harvests and favorable weather. They are painted with achievements in learning and great prospects. They also record the straightforward expectations and jubilant lives of common people. ‘At the dawn of the new year, every household replaces the old peach-wood charms with new ones.’ Only when New Year pictures are pasted up is it called celebrating the new year. New Year pictures become a very important thing during the Spring Festival. It is a warm memory of years. It is the deepest traditional memory of generations of Chinese people. In addition to being the birthplace of New Year pictures, the filial piety culture here in the New Year Picture Village in Mianzhu also has a long history. For thousands of years, being filial has become a lofty virtue of the villagers. The stories of generations being filial have also been on CCTV-4’s ‘Remembering Hometown Season 1’. The program tells the simple and touching filial piety stories of three villagers in the New Year Picture Village. Meeting the Imagined World? Mianzhu Jiannan Old Street. The writer I like once wrote a scene. She said that when she was a child, every Spring Festival she would return to her grandma’s house in the countryside. There would be traditional operas sung in the village ancestral hall. People from the whole village would gather to watch the operas. It was lively and warm… Such a scene is strange to me. In Mianzhu’s Jiannan Old Street, I met it. It was raining and wet and cold. There was no one in sight on the whole Jiannan Old Street. The air was filled with the fragrance of wine. Walking to the end of the old street, there was a big stage. The actors were performing with all their hearts. There were many people under the stage, old people and children. They were listening to the opera carefully with masks on. A pot of tea was brewing. No one was in a hurry to leave.
One could easily be captivated by the scene. Jiannan Old Street is one of the must-visit spots in Mianzhu, with every structure exhibiting meticulous craftsmanship and a rich cultural atmosphere. The entire street is adorned with year paintings and elements of Jiannan Spring, lending a poetic charm to the surroundings. Walking along the bluestone slabs, one encounters the millennia-old ‘Tianyi Laohao’ ancient cellar cluster. To this day, there is a well from the Qing Dynasty used for brewing, along with numerous traditional production tools, all testament to the long-standing history of ‘Jiannanchun’. In the chilly winter of Mianzhu, it is perfect to sit around a stove and enjoy traditional fireplace chicken. This is a specialty of the region, made from locally sourced chickens and secret recipes, cooked using earthen stoves and firewood. In each small room, there is a large stove with a cauldron filled with delicacies. Besides the chicken cut into pieces, there are various meats and vegetables. Aunties knead dough and shape it into flatbreads, which they then stick around the iron pot. After covering it and letting it cook for a dozen minutes, the lid is lifted to reveal a rich and fragrant aroma, with the flatbreads and the meat and vegetables inside glistening with oil. Everyone eagerly picks their favorite ingredients from the pot. The secret sauce has simmered everything to a spicy and savory perfection, making it irresistible to stop eating. Recommended restaurant: Fang Xiaochu’s Fireplace Chicken.

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