Stone
Laojun Cave Stone Carvings There are 150 stone carvings (blocks) in Laojun Cave, which is the place with the largest and most concentrated stone carvings in ancient Rongzhou. In 1963, it was listed as a key cultural relics protection unit at the autonomous region level. In 1967, the state-owned Yonghong Machinery Factory built a factory building in the cave, and nearly a hundred square monuments were buried under the workshop of the three-story building, and some of them were scattered in the wild. At that time, only the Song "Yuanyou Party Monument" and the "Persuasion Monument" were rescued. Only the cliff carvings in the cave are well preserved, and there are 30 places. Among them, there are 26 in the Song Dynasty, 2 in the Ming Dynasty, 1 in the Qing Dynasty, and 1 in the Republic of China. For example, in the Song Dynasty, Zhang Xiao wrote "The First True Immortal Rock under Heaven", Sima Bei carved Sima Guang's book "Wind and Fire Family Gua Ci", Ming Wang Zuo's title "True Immortal Cave", and Lu Tao, a general of the Qian Army of the Republic of China, wrote "Yunshen". Most of the stone carvings are engraved on the cliff cliffs, the characters are large and small, the main grass is combined with the seal, the styles are different, the engraving process is exquisite, and the collection of calligraphy is the masterpiece of one side, which is a treasure of culture and art.
Shouxing Rock Carvings Shouxing Rock is located on Laozi Mountain in the south of the city, also known as Old Man Rock and Lansheng Rock. There are more than 10 rock carvings from the Song Dynasty to the Republic of China. There are Song Dynasty Li Gui's high inscription "Shou" character stele, Ming Feng Tianjun inscription poem stele, Qing Mo Huolin inscription "Lan Sheng Yan" three characters and so on.
Liu Gong Rock Carvings Liu Gong Rock was formerly known as Xifeng Rock. It is located 1.5 kilometers southwest of Xiaguo Village in Rongshui Town. There are four words engraved on the rock of the rock mouth cliff" "West Peak Rock", which is the book of Li Guigao in the third year of Baoqing, and there are inscriptions in front of it, one of which is indistinguishable due to erosion, and the other is that when Song Shaoding reopened this rock in the first year of the taishou Liu Jizu, the Guilin Si Li joined the army Rao Mou to make a record and write a book. There are also three words "Liu Gongyan" on the cliff rock on the east side of the rock mouth. At present, all 4 square cliff carvings have been preserved.
De Rock Carvings De Yan is located 1.5 kilometers southwest of Xiaguo Village in Rongshui Town, 200 meters from the exit of Liu Gongyan. The old Zhizhai "Deyan is the marble rock, the toshi garden, shaped like a marble. There is a stone inscription of the word "Deyan". Ming Sangyue changed his name to 邃岩, there is a record. The three characters of "Marbles Rock" and the SangYue inscription have not been preserved, and only the word "Deyan" has been found directly above the rock mouth, and the money has been listed. The east wall of the rock mouth is inscribed with the "Deyan Record", which was made by Meng Shi, the governor of the Zhijun Prefecture in February of the sixth year of the Northern Song Dynasty (1078). The stone carvings on the other side of the rock have been weathered for a long time, and most of the characters are no longer recognizable.
Yuhua Cave Stone Carvings Yuhua Cave is located 2 kilometers northwest of the county seat, and the stone walls on both sides of the entrance to the cave are engraved with the inscription "Yuhua Travels" by Zhao Shan during the Song Jiading period, the poem "Yuhua Travels from Horse Hunting for Spring to Yuhua" and the 4 characters of "Yuhua Cave Heaven" in Gantang Song, and the inscription "You Yuhua Immortal Cave Record" by Li Hongwen in the first year of Song Jingkang. In this 4-square stone carving, 2 sides are weathered and 2 are preserved.
Brief introduction to some of the stele
Yuanyou Party Monument This stele originally contained the True Immortal Rock, which was transferred several times and was collected by the Prefectural Cultural Center in 1974. The stele is 1.45 meters high and 0.73 meters wide, and the stele is divided into four layers, one is the stele, the second is the stele order, the third floor is the inscription and the names of the party members, and the fourth floor is the stele, and the font is all in letters. The Yuan Prayer Party monument is a list of 309 "traitors" such as Sima Guang and Su Shi, the so-called "ministers of the Yuan Dynasty and the government", who were written by the chancellor Cai Jing himself and carved into a stele in the fourth year of chongning (1105). First, the carved stone was "placed on the east wall of the gate of the Wende Hall" and "the ring of the courtiers of the ten thousand worlds", and then the emperor ordered the inscriptions of the whole country above the prefecture and county level, and the next year, the emperor felt it and ordered the whole country to "destroy its monuments". The stele that exists in Rongshui was re-engraved in Laojun Cave by Shen Wei, the great-grandson of Shen Qian, a great-grandson of shen qian among the "party people", when he was an official in Rongzhou.
The Forever Forbidden Monument is located in Gaowengtun Songnu pass, Dali Village, Liangzhai Township. The stele is 1.2 meters high and 0.08 meters wide, and stands on the sixth day of november in the ninth year of the Qing Dynasty (1883). The inscription recounts the process of erecting the monument to the miao leaders of liping province, Guizhou, huitongfu and township regiments, and relevant "buried rock" organizations. The inscription contains the names of 43 Hmong leaders and is now well preserved.
Tongshou Charter Monument is located in Maple Pass, 500 meters northeast of Maple Village, Baiyun Township. The stele is 0.9 meters high and 0.45 meters wide, and was erected in the tenth year of the Qing Dynasty (1871). The inscription recounts the fact that Qin Baiyu, the retired military meritorious secretary of Liupin at that time, and others met with the local Miao villagers to make a pact with the local Miao villagers, and the inscription is clear.
Locust Monument located at the foot of Luoshan Mountain in Guding Village, Rongshui Township (now used to pave bridges), standing in May of the thirteenth year of Qing Daoguang (1833), the inscription records that the locusts seriously endangered local crops, farmers raised funds, with several iron cannons roaring to drive away locusts, the list of funds raised 93 households, because the stele is a bridge, some of the text has been damaged.
Ancient architecture
Rongshan Temple is located on the mountainside of Rongshan Mountain in Beilu Village, Yongle Township. It was built in the first year of Ming Chongzhen (1628), divided into Wenchang, Kuixing Pavilion, Wen pagoda and other buildings. The temple is dedicated to Han Wengong and the three-day Buddha statue, which was destroyed during the Daoguang years and rebuilt, and there are hundreds of stone steps leading to the mountainside, and the remaining Wen Pagoda is 4 meters high, 1.2 meters in diameter, hexagonal, brick structure, and the pagoda is painted with figures and landscape decorations.
Nan Ping Temple is located in the county seat of Nanji'an Street. Originally built during the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, it is 7 meters wide, 12 meters deep and 8 meters high, with brick and wood structure and single eaves courtyard style building. The interior is divided into the main hall, Fubo Palace, Wangjiang Tower and other parts, and the main hall is dedicated to the Eastern Han Dynasty Fubo general Ma Yuan. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the "Liuzhou Daily" office moved to this temple to work, and in recent years, the masses have donated money to renovate it.
Three Realms Temple is located 1000 meters northeast of the Dongtou Township government station, was built in the Qing Dynasty and rebuilt in the 13th year of the Republic of China (1924). It is 12 meters wide, 4 meters deep and 3.5 meters high. It is divided into three rooms, the middle room is a brick and wood structure, the left and right two rooms are frame beam wood veneer structure, and the single eaves bungalow type building. Every year in the spring of the second month of the lunar calendar, the Dong people of Zhaishun Village gather in the temple to sacrifice. In 1930, when the Red Seventh Army passed through Dongtou, it held a meeting in the southeast of the Three Realms Temple. The temple is now intact.
Panwang Temple is located in the southwest of Tonglian Village, Yingdong Yao Nationality Township, and its founding date is unknown. It is 9 meters wide, 3.5 meters deep and 3 meters high. Frame beam wood plank structure, single eaves bungalow style building. The temple now houses 24 idols of the gods. The iron bell is served in good condition.
Cai Yong Bridge, formerly known as Tangyin Bridge, is also known as Ji'an Bridge. It is located at the confluence of Danjiang and Rongjiang in the south of the county. It is 19 meters long, 7 meters wide and 10 meters from the water surface. Strip stone structure, single-hole building. The bridge railing consists of stone slabs and stone columns. It was built in the fifth year of Song Chunxi (1558), and repaired in the forty-first year of the Qing Kangxi Dynasty (1707), the fifth year of Qianlong (1740) and the eleventh year of Jiaqing (1806). There is a stele of "Tang Yin Bridge". The bridge deck is complete, and there is a crack in the top of the bridge hole.
Yumin Bridge, also known as Nanguan Bridge, is located at the confluence of the Belt River and the Rong River in Datong Street, the county seat. It is about 25 meters long, about 8 meters wide, and more than 10 meters from the water surface. Originally built during the Ming Hongwu period, it was repeatedly repaired during the Ming Wanli, Qing Yongzheng and Qianlong years, and there is a stele of "Yumin Bridge". The old one-hole arch bridge was a stone. It was rebuilt in 1958 as a three-hole arch bridge and renamed "Jiefang Bridge". In 1982, the bridge deck was expanded, and the extension was partly cement.
Tongji, Huimin Bridge is located 2.5 kilometers south of the county, in front of the Zhenxian Rock On the Lingshou Creek, commonly known as the Lingshou Bridge, the two bridges are 50 meters apart, one is 20 meters long, 5 meters wide, 9 meters from the water surface, a stone structure, a single-hole arch bridge. Du Yingran was built during the Song Dynasty and is now well preserved.
Gaoqiao is located 1 km northwest of Gaoqiao Village in Hemu Town. 16 meters long, 5 meters wide, 6 meters from the water surface, strip stone structure, single-hole arch bridge. The date of construction is unknown, but it is now intact.
Dujing Bridge is located 400 meters southeast of Dujing Village, Xiangfan Township, with a girder structure and a tiled wooden plank on the bridge deck. It is 27 meters long, 2.5 meters wide and 6 meters above the water surface. The piers are made of pulp brick. The pulp is made by mixing brown sugar, glutinous rice, bamboo hemp powder, yellow clay, etc. There was a fire in the 1950s, but the piers were not damaged in the slightest. The date of construction is unknown.
Niugang Bridge is located on Niugang Road, 1.5 km to 7 km northeast of the county seat. There were 24 bridges of different sizes and sizes, along Niugang Road to pumice, and 9 in the territory, which were single-hole arch bridges with stone structures, all of which were built by Pan Ruilong, a wealthy household in Dajiang Village (now part of Rong'an County) from the 53rd year of the Qianlong Dynasty (1778) to the second year of Jiaqing (1979).
The east of the city wall runs from the northeast corner of the current Rongshui Middle School to the current court trial division, and the south ends from the court trial division to the current post and telecommunications bureau. It starts from the Post and Telecommunications Bureau in the west to the procuratorate, and in the north from the procuratorate to the southeast corner of Rongzhong. The city once opened four gates, namely the Small East Gate, the Great East Gate, the South Gate, and the West Gate. The small east gate is called Desheng Gate, the south gate is called Zhenyuan Gate, and the west gate is called Weimen. The city wall was built in the Tang Dynasty, and after the Song Dynasty, various dynasties have repeatedly repaired and expanded, and the Republic of China has been demolished one after another. At present, only the remnants of this section of the Wangjiang Tower in the southeast direction of the river are left. 1985 Government appropriations for restoration. The restored outer wall of this section is about 20 meters long, 6.8 meters high and 0.4 meters thick, and the south of the city starts from the current Jiefang Bridge to the dormitory of the current county vice food company, and from the dormitory of the vice food company to the northwest corner of the Aimin Bridge. The north starts from the residential area in the northwest corner of Aimin Bridge to the southeast corner of the current Water and Power Bureau. The city has been bulldozed for construction.
Wangjiang Tower is located in the southeast corner of the county seat, which is the residence of the Second Marquis of Liang wu in the Song Dynasty. It was originally built in the Song Dynasty and has been repeatedly repaired since. The area is about 70 square meters, brick and wood structure. Hard hilltop single-eaves courtyard building.
Located 800 meters east of the Pingdi River in Gongdong Township, the Fortress Building Group was built in the Light Years of the Qing Dynasty, and then expanded year by year, and was perfected in the early years of the Republic of China. Brick and wood structure, hard hilltop closed building, 8 existing. Covering an area of about 1,500 square meters, the bunker tower is surrounded by gun port lookout windows. Due to disrepair, the planks have partially decayed.
Beiting is located 30 meters east of Yangjiatun in Jitang, Hemu Town, with a width of 7 meters and a height of 22 meters, brick and wood structure, single eaves Andhiyama bungalow style building. Inside the pavilion, there are 11 stone tablets with various contents, which were built before the Qianlong era of the Qing Dynasty and are basically well preserved.
Ancient ruins
Jiangkou Ruins Jiangkou, also known as Yakou, is located 100 meters southwest of DonghuaJiangkou Village in Rongshui Township, a triangular terrace where the Rongjiang and Dadong rivers meet. The terraces are more than 20 meters above the water surface of the Rongjiang River, facing the Rongjiang River, east of the Dadong River, gradually tilting from southeast to north, the slope is not large, relatively open, the range is about 600 square meters. The terraces were originally cultivated land, the topsoil was disturbed, the site was seriously damaged, and the stone tools were widely found in the disturbed stone piles, and some of them were pushed to the edge of the Rongjiang River. The main relics of the site are stone tools, with striking stone tools and polished stone tools. There are also some semi-finished stone chips. Strikers include choppers, pointed ones, flattened, chic-shaped, and some individually coarse. Grinding stone tools mainly include stone axes, stone knives, stone spears, etc., the striker is a traditional one-way strike, and the grinding stone tools are sharpened with blades on both sides. The stonework mass is sandstone. The specimens in the collection are all collected on the surface, and the connotation of the cultural layer has not yet been explored.
The cultural relics found at the Duxiu Shandong Rock Cave Site are mainly in the gray-black sand layer about 3 meters from the mouth of the cave and the left side of the cave entrance, and the accumulation is interspersed with an ancient coin of "Kaiyuan Tongbao" and some relics of modern times. The relics are mainly sand-filled pottery pieces, mostly red pottery, and there are also a small amount of blue-gray-black. The pottery pieces have been broken, the tread is of different thicknesses and thicknesses, and the ornamentation is mostly plain, followed by rope pattern, and then coarse check, and some have water ripples and cone patterns, and the mouth edge has two kinds of open mouths and true mouths. There are two kinds of utensils: pots and bowls.
In addition, in the north of YatouTun in Xiakuo Village, Rongshui Town, it was initially found that 4 pieces of stone tools were cut and smashed, and 1 piece of sharp stones was found. In addition to some Neolithic artifacts found in Dalingtou, Xiakuo Village, Rongshui Town, rough checkered pottery pieces of the Han Dynasty were also found.
The Back Pocket Mountain Smelting Site is located at the foot of back pocket mountain 400 meters northeast of Beigao Village, 35 kilometers south of the county seat. The site extends northeast from the foothills of the Back Pocket Mountain to the area around the Muwang Reservoir. It is about 2 km long and 40 m wide, and each smelting point has an area of 80 square meters. Crucibles and ballast are found on the ground at the smelting site. The crucible pot is mostly half-cut, trapezoidal, with a diameter of 8 cm, a height of 40 cm, and a spiral pattern inside.
Taiping Junpan Yingpan, two large and small, is located in the foothills of Rhino Ridge Mountain, northwest of Dongyang Village, Yongle Township. The large camp is 42 meters long and 48 meters wide, with a total area of about 2,000 square meters. Two trenches were dug around the camp, the outer trench was 3 meters wide, 1.5 meters deep, and the inner trench was 3.5 meters wide. Along the trench was an earthen wall about 2 meters high and about 2 meters thick. The small camp is garden-shaped and covers an area of about 900 square meters. It is surrounded by an earthen wall about 1 meter high, with no trenches. Yingpan was built in the eleventh year of The Qing Dynasty, when Shi Dakai, the king of the Taiping Army, led his troops through the county.
Tombs
According to the Qing "Records of RongXian County", the tomb of He Xianfu, the general of the Yuan Dynasty, Xuanwu Guan Rongzhou, was in the tomb of He Xianfu in the current Rongshui Town. The tomb of Li Fang, the political envoy of Zuobu in Ming Yunnan, is in Yatou Village, now Rongshui Town. The tomb of Li Yunjian, deputy envoy of the Ming Dynasty, is in the village of Gaoqiao in present-day Hemu Town.
The Liao Tomb Group is located 1 km northeast of Pingdi Village in Gongdong Township, with a total of 6 sites. The earliest of these is the tomb of Liao Wencai. The tomb is 1 meter high and 4.5 meters in diameter, and was buried in the 26th year of Qing Guangxu. In addition to the masonry of strip stones, the outer part of the tomb and the tombstone are equipped with a layer of stone slabs carved with dragons, phoenixes, flowers and birds, and its carving is extremely delicate. The stele of Liao Wencai's tomb has three other layers of carved tile stele hats, the top layer is 0.3 meters wide, the central layer is 0.8 meters wide, each carved a pair of open-billed carp on the left and right, the third layer is 1.2 meters wide, and a bat is carved in the central relief, and two three-dimensional dragons with a distance of 0.1 meters in front of the monument are straight vertically, and two lateral dragons are embossed on the left and right. There is a couplet on the front. In the Qing Dynasty, the Liao family was a hereditary house of recipients, and now 6 tombs are basically complete.
Modern historical sites
Lingyun Martyrs Memorial Tower is located in the southwest of Lindong Village, Antai Township, the tower is 5 meters high, the base is two meters square, and the brick structure. Martyr Ling Yun was a native of Hengzhou (now Hengyang), Hunan Province, and served as a staff officer of the Seventh Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. The tombstone was erected by the Red Seventh Army in 1930, and the memorial tower was built by the Rongshui County People's Government in 1984.
Liubei Martyrs Memorial Tower is located 1 km northeast of the Yongle Township Government Station, built in 1987, the tower is 7 meters high, the base is 1.2 meters square, brick structure, behind the tower stands the tombstone of the martyrs of the Liubei Liberation Corps who died in various battles.
The Revolution Memorial Tower is located on the mountainside of Laozi Mountain in the south of the county town, with a height of about 9 meters, a base of 3 meters square, and a brick structure. Built in 1979, the tower is flanked by tombstones of martyrs such as Tao Baohuan.
The site of the CPC Rong County Working Committee is located in Xizhai, Yongle Township. The area is about 80 square meters. The RongXian Working Committee of the Communist Party of China was established in 1945 and became the Liubei Working Committee of the Communist Party of China in 1949. The original building was destroyed, and on July 1, 1986, the county people's government erected a stone stele at the site as a symbol.
The former site of the Liubei Headquarters is located in Qin Village, Yongle Rural Area, the house is 10 meters long, 5 meters wide and 7 meters high, brick and wood structure, single eaves soft hilltop bungalow style building. In June 1949, the headquarters was transferred from Xizhai to this office, and it was the command center of the Liubei Liberation Corps. The current site is basically intact.
Xizhai Breakthrough Site Located in Xizhai, Yongle Township, the house is 7 meters wide, 3 meters high, 8 meters deep, double-bay, a single-eaves bungalow-style building, where Lin Runliang, leader of the Liubei General Brigade, was besieged by the enemy, and at a critical juncture, they wrote slogans on the wall with blood, and finally with the assistance of comrades on the periphery, they broke through and were saved. The old site is basically preserved.
Shi Fangzhi
