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More than a decade ago I lived in Xinkaipu and often drove home along the river. At night, there were always a few cars parked under the Monkey Stone Bridge by the river, and there were still people in the cars, and they didn't know what they were doing.
At first I didn't care, until one time I passed by, and the high beams swept past to find that there was a car parked under the bridge, which was the car of my old friend hot pillar in the factory. Can't blame me for looking good, it's because his license plate number is too easy to remember, and the color is a very windy red, which is particularly easy to recognize.
I was very strange, the hot pillar lived in the north, ran to the monkey stone in the middle of the night, and parked the car by the river for what? Suddenly remembered to watch the news a few days ago, saying that monkey stone is a good thing netizens selected as one of the top ten unreliable national "car earthquake holy land". The reason is that the land here is sparsely populated, the car is few, the environment is good, and it is close to the river.
I had a good relationship with Hot Pillar, and he was able to make jokes again, so he decided to tease him. I parked the car behind the hot pillar, walked to the side of the car, knocked on the window with my hand, deliberately thickened my throat and said, "Is the car parked?" At the police station, open the car window and take out the documents. ”
In the car, there was a commotion in the car, and in the middle of the night, the window of the car opened a slit, and one hand handed out the certificate: "Officer, we just have to stop and look at the scenery and talk about it." ”
I couldn't stop laughing: "Look at the view? It's so cold that it looks good, hurry up, open the window. ”
An old man's head was handed out in the window slit: Really, you buy a pack of cigarettes and pretend to see it. ”
My stomach almost hurt with laughter, and I took the "old man's head" and said, "Cigarettes are so expensive, I'm afraid it's less." ”
The hot pillar was also generous, and without saying a word, he handed over a few red tickets. I took the money, I couldn't help it, and I laughed out loud. This smile revealed the filling, and the hot pillar knew that he had been deceived, jumped out of the car and chased me.
I squatted down on the ground and was about to laugh and gasp, so I let him take two blows to relieve my breath.
Two days later the hot pillar invited me to dinner, of course in return for not waking his door, and who was the other person in the car that night, I did not ask him. However, at a glance, it was definitely not his wife Li Sister. It doesn't matter who she is, it's none of my business anyway.
According to the summary of the hot pillar, in Changsha, the monkey stone area is indeed the best "car earthquake holy land". However, what the hot pillar does not know is that since ancient times, this is the famous "net red punch card" in Changsha.
In the old days, Xiangtan boatmen had a "waterway song", and the mention of the Changsha section of the Xiangjiang River was: "Stone Monkey South Lake Port, West Lake Bridge outside the boat bend". Boats in the upper reaches of the Xiang River, such as Zhuzhou, have similar folk songs. Like hengyang boat home has "boat stand head song", also known as "beach head ballad", involving the Changsha section of the Xiang River is "loach bending banana beach, turning across the bay to monkey stone." The monkey looked at the stone and asked Changsha An if he was uneasy." Loach beach and basho beach are shallow shoals in the river.
Whether it is the waterway song of Xiangtan and Zhuzhou, or the head song of the boat station of the Hengyang boatman, it is mentioned that the first stop in Changsha is monkey stone, which is the first harbor after the Xiangjiang River enters Changsha, and it is a natural shelter and good port. It is not far from the ancient Changsha City, the distance is moderate, and the scenery is beautiful. Standing in monkey stone, the north is one of the "Eight Views of Xiaoxiang" orange island, especially in winter " river twilight snow" scenery is rare; the south is loach beach, basho beach, in the afternoon the sunset will be thankful, the rainbow is brilliant, a leaf fishing boat from the river through, is the standard "fishing village sunset" map; looking to the west, the Yuelu Mountains on the opposite bank are full of forests, majestic and beautiful; and the east is an elegant hill, named Shangyuan Gongshan.
Of course, the most famous nature of the Monkey Stone is the large stone, where the original boulder is about two meters high, standing under the ShangyuanGong Mountain, close to the Xiang River. It resembles a monkey crouching on the riverside. The opposite river is the mouth of the Jin River into the Xiang River. Qing Chen Yunrong's "Xiangcheng Visit to the Ancient Record" Yun: "The east bank of the Xiang River is three or four meters high, there are stones like lion heads, and there are deep pools under it", "Strange and dangerous, commonly known as monkey stones". This large stone is also called black stone by locals because of its dark color.
Image source: Network
It is no exaggeration to say that this is the best place for the people of ancient Changsha to go on the outskirts of Qingqing. Attracted all kinds of Internet celebrities (at that time should be called "Wenqing", "literati and scholars") called friends to come to punch the clock.
More than three hundred years ago, that is, one day in the fourteenth year of Ming Chongzhen (1641), several big Internet celebrities in Changsha came here by boat, led by The Changsha Governor Cai Daoxian, and other six people such as Zhou Shengkai, Guo Jintai, Yang Deyuan and other six people were Changsha celebrities with countless fans.
At that time, there were no place names here, and the literati liked to take names everywhere. Everyone discussed for half a day and finally decided on the name "Pushi".
Guo Jintai is a person who not only writes well, but also writes good poems, and also gives a poem "Pu Shi":
The boat line cut towards the light, and the cold smoke curtain jiang hu.
The reply to the letter is appropriate, and the hearts of the group are too ancient.
May you travel from the Master, and listen to the stones.
The western mountains are different colors and enjoy each other.
Dark and strange stone posture, named pressed the countryside.
Fuzi Cai Yuanyi, Yun is Xiangzhipu.
Ye Bu conspired from man to wander from a different domain.
Li Bailang Guanhu, Zongyuan Yuxi Lord.
Sven does not indelible, le stone to guard against wind and rain.
However, the name "Pushi" did not pass on as they imagined, and it was still the easy-to-understand and vivid name of "Monkey Stone" that became known hundreds of years later. The stone on which Guo Jintai inscribed was soon moved home by the townspeople to lay a pig pen.
But two years later, with the heroic righteousness of Cai Fuzi, the story of "seven Internet celebrities traveling with monkey stones" has been passed down. In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong conquered Changsha and burned half of the city. Cai Daoxian, who was a defender of the city, was arrested, and Cai Ning did not surrender.
In the end, Cai Fuzi was executed by Ling Chi in Mingyuechi. Since then, whenever Cai Daoxian is celebrated, officials and scholars and students have come to the monkey stone to set up a platform to worship and praise Cai's loyal spirit. Several old friends who traveled here with the Master naturally came every year. Qing Tongzhi Jinshi Wang Kai (said to be the military minister Qu Hongyu of the late Qing Dynasty) "Wing Monkey Stone" pins infinite admiration and mourning on Cai Gong.
Poetry Cloud:
The soul beckoned the righteous emperor to the emperor, and the song was not extended.
In the past, mu monkeys are now fossilized, and the Chu people are still on the banks of the Chu River.
Today's Monkey Stone is famous for the Monkey Stone Bridge, and many outsiders wonder why they took this name and did not see the boulder? In order to meet the scene, after the bridge was completed, the southeast viewing platform was not far from the water plant, and a rockery about three meters high was built with steel and cement. There is a pale and thin stone monkey on the top of the hill, surrounded by several small monkeys below, which is not unusual and roughly made, which looks very funny.
This rockery is still there, interested friends can pass by can see, personally think that Changsha is the most embarrassing attraction, there is no one.
Somehow, the little monkey recently wore a red horse clip Source: Network
I also saw this stone when I was a child, although it is a long time ago, I still vaguely remember the image of this big stone, the height is about six or seven meters, personally I don't feel like a monkey, but like a crouching big dog, the head faces the southwest of the upper reaches of the Xiang River. However, there is a group of small stones behind the big stones, probably dozens of them, the tallest of which is about the same height as I was at that time, about one meter, with different shapes, indeed like a small monkey.
After searching the Internet for a long time, I found a clear photo of the monkey stone on the blog of a netizen, which is consistent with my memories of the monkey stone when I was a child. According to the owner of the photo in the article, the photo was taken in 1925, and there are 12 people in the photo, either sitting or standing, all of whom are the elders of his family. Can't contact this netizen, in order to respect privacy, the characters on the picture have all been blurred (I p picture technology is not good, forgive me), thank you here.
When I was a child, I came twice with my cousin, who lived in the new shop, and one of his friends, who was a few years older than me, had the courage, and climbed to the top of the stone to play. I was timid, not to mention the top of the big rock, even the middle did not dare to climb, because there was moss on the stone, a little slippery. Play only in the small rock group below. The three of us had a heated argument over what the stone was like, I thought like a dog, my cousin said like a monkey, and another little buddy said like a lion. Strictly speaking, it's all a bit like that.
This stone is close to the bottom of ShangyuanGong Mountain (now the Southern Suburbs Park), which was originally connected with the mountain, and after 10,000 years of wind and frost, the rock was exposed. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the People's Republic of China, after the construction of the Cantonese-Han Railway, the stone monkeys under the railway roadbed were completely cut and peeled off from the Houshan mountain rock, and the stone monkeys squatted on the riverside of the roadbed, while the mountain rocks on the inside of the roadbed were cut into 90-degree cliffs and steep mountain rocks. Even more prominently, the stone monkey seems to stand majestically in the mighty water of the river, appearing to be upright and majestic.
If you look closely, the face of the monkey stone still has a vague expression of contemplation, when the Xiang River floods, all kinds of ships, sailing far past here, use this stone as a coordinate to avoid the rapid flood flowing out of the Jin River on the other side. Folklore: No matter how big the Xiang River floods, it cannot flood the head of the "Monkey Stone". Therefore, the people near the Xiangjiang River believe that the monkey stone can suppress the flood of the Xiangjiang River and ensure the safety of the people. In the old days, people talked about superstition, and boat owners, passengers, and fishermen who passed through here naturally thanked the stone monkeys, believing that the stone monkeys were the gods who guaranteed the peace of the XiangJiang River.
Monkey stone in the river for how many years has been impossible to verify, according to geologists, it should be Paleozoic Devonian limestone, more than 300 million years ago, due to the movement of the earth's crust, sea and land alternate. Surfaced millions of years ago, it is the only Paleozoic limestone that has emerged in the Changsha area.
In the old days, from the upper reaches of the Xiang River, we took wooden rows, sailing boats, sand boats, small steamers and other means of transport to Changsha. After passing through the sandbars and shore shoals in the river such as Xingmazhou, Ezhou and Basho Beach, when you see this boulder in the distance, you will be happy to know that you have arrived in the provincial capital of Changsha.
This huge rock gifted by nature to the Xiangjiang River has faced the vicissitudes of the world over tens of thousands of years and witnessed countless "ship earthquakes and wild unions", but it is impossible to foresee the disaster of being destroyed. In the mid-1970s, the preparation of the third water plant in Changsha was completed in August 1977 due to the depth of water, steep slope, good geological foundation and excellent water quality in the Shangyuan Gongshan Mountain where the Monkey Stone was located. A pump room needs to be built to draw water from the riverside, and the monkey stone left by the guardian of the Xiangjiang River has been selected as the base site of the water tower. In the early winter of 1975, with a loud noise, the boulder was blown to pieces and sank to the bottom of the river. This is confusing, why do you have to choose a location here? The water plant is obviously on the east side of the road, and the pump room for fetching water can't be moved a few meters?
The two pump houses in the picture above, the newer one in front is the eight water plant that was built later, and the older one in the back is the pump room of the three water plant built in 1975 that blew up Monkey Stone.
Since then, the only natural stone site in the Urban Section of Changsha on the Xiang River has disappeared without any artificial carving.
Source: Changsha Water Industry Group website
In the 1970s, two lonely abandoned piers can be seen in the picture above, which are the remnants of the Xiangjiang South Bridge, which began construction in 1958, and was completely stopped in 1963 due to the compression of capital construction. The Monkey Stone is clearly visible and still stands by the river.
The Southern Suburbs Park and Water Works are the largest units of Monkey Rock here, and there are no attractions related to history and culture in the park. In recent years, some scholars have proposed to rename it "Monkey Stone Park" and restore the altar where cai gong used to be worshipped in the park (the old site is in the park).
Double Pavilions in the Southern Suburbs Park Source: Network
Combined with the story of Monkey Stone, it should be a good selling point for tourism. Cai Gong's heroic righteousness to protect Changsha City deserves to be remembered by the people of Changsha. During the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, Ding Sikong, the Inspector of Hunan, wrote "The Re-repair of Cai Zhonglie Cemetery", praising Cai Gong for "blue blood as new, refreshing and shining, plugging heaven and earth, weeping ghosts and gods, thousands of years, and lasting light".
Cai Cemetery is outside the South Gate in Renpo, and now there are only a few broken stele stones left, and it is unlikely that it will be rebuilt, but the place name "Cai Gong Tomb" has been left. If the altar dedicated to Cai Gong can be restored in the southern suburban park, it is still very meaningful.
About the author
Born in Changsha at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, He worked as a worker, accountant and financial director. He is currently a senior accountant.
Source: Story Changsha