In the era of cold weapons in China, there have been many wars, there will be harm, there are victors and losers, there are heroes and fame, there are white bones buried in the wilderness, but in this place in present-day Shanxi, two thousand years ago, a tragic war broke out, changing the direction of history, and after more than two thousand years, the impact of war is still engraved on this land.
This place is the city of Gaoping under the jurisdiction of Jincheng In the southeast of Shanxi Province, and this name seems to be unknown today, but in ancient times, its name can be described as a big name and a household name. Gaoping City, known as Changping in ancient times, has always been an important military strategic place in terms of geographical location, and because of the Battle of Changping that broke out here in the Warring States Period, this originally nameless small city suddenly shone in ancient Chinese history.
Battle of Changping
The Battle of Changping broke out around 260 BC, this battle lasted three years, and the two sides of the battle were the most powerful princely states in the world at that time, the State of Qin and the State of Zhao, in order to win the victory of this battle, the State of Qin and the State of Zhao can be said to pour all their strength into the war, the number of people on both sides into the war is as high as hundreds of thousands, the commanders of both sides of this war are also the best military talents in the country, the military commander of the Qin State is Bai Qi, and the Zhao State is incorruptible, the two sides are facing each other on the front line of Changping, and the war once showed a state of glue. However, later, Zhao Guozhong made a counter-plan, using Zhao Kuo instead of the veteran general Lian Po, and finally Zhao Kuo, who was talking about soldiers on paper, was defeated, and the Qin army led by Bai Qi broke the Zhao army.
In order to prevent the Zhao army from returning to rebellion, the zhao army was brutally killed by more than 400,000 people, leaving only a few hundred minor children to return to Handan, and after this war, the Zhao state almost had a family of filial piety, and the war that determined the fate of the two countries finally ended with huge casualties of the Zhao state, and the changping where the war was located was piled up with corpses, and the battle of Changping also became one of the most tragic wars in the era of cold weapons.
Gaoping bone pit
Although the Battle of Changping ended for more than two thousand years, but the trauma of the war seems to have never been erased, on this ancient land, there are still many shadows of war, and now Gaoping City still has many ruins such as Daliangshan, Lianpotun and Qinlei, and in the Village of Gukou in Gaoping City, there is also a temple in the country that only sacrifices war - Skull Temple. Legend has it that during the Tang Xuanzong period, he once inspected this place, saw white bones all over the field, and at night he could faintly hear the sound of ghosts crying, so he chose a tall one in the skeleton, and the temple tree statue sacrifice was the origin of the skeleton temple, and later the lord of the skull temple became Zhao Kuo and his wife, and this monument is preserved to this day, as if it is still telling this tragic battle.
Skull Temple
In the Battle of Changping, Bai Qi brutally killed hundreds of thousands of Zhao soldiers, causing the locals to hate Bai Qi, in order to express hatred, the locals invented a food - white meat, that is, roasted tofu, named white meat, to show the hatred for Bai Qi, today's Gaoping City, you can still see the white meat this food, the impact of the war that has been passed down for two thousand years is still passed through this ancient food.
White flesh
In today's Gaoping City, there are still excavations of bone pits, according to expert research, this is the place where the Qin army pit killed the Zhao army, and the impact of this war is still affecting here for two thousand years, which makes people inevitably sigh, as if they are silently telling the tragedy of this war to future generations.