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The legend of Woyun Pavilion, White Horse Hall and Fengrui Hall
Text | Liu Qiujie
Liu Qiujie, pen name Qiu Ge, was born in 1954 in Tangwan, Yuantian Township, Lianyuan County. He has worked as a farmer, a private teacher, a film projectionist, a safety supervisor, a secretary, an office director, etc., and has authored "Symphonic Poems of Friendship" and "Collected Letters". Click at the top #Dou Kasayama Autumn Song Storytelling # to see more historical articles.
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Folk tales and legends are one of the important categories in folklore. In a broad sense, folk tales are oral literary works created and disseminated by working people in the form of prose with fictional content, which is the general name for all folk prose works, and Loudi Lianyuan and other places are called "speaking fearful (white) words", "talking about the scriptures", "ripping up the bombs" and so on.
According to the analysis of Mr. Qi Lingyun, professor of the School of Literature and Journalism of Xiangtan University and doctor of folklore, "From the Integration of Chinese Folk Literature to the Publishing Project of Chinese Folk Literature Departments: The Evolution of Folk Literature Collection Methods and Principles". The collection and collation of folk tales is divided into five periods:
1. The period of the song and ballad movement
2. Yan'an period
3, early founding of the country
4. Three sets of integration periods
5. The period of publication engineering of the major departments
In 1986, three sets of folk literature in Loudi area and even Lianyuan County were published separately.
The folktales and legends I have collected (one, two, three, four, etc.) are largely absent from the works published in the previous four periods.
First, the legend of Woyun Pavilion
More than a hundred years ago, in July of the fifth year of Qing Xianfeng (1855), Deng Qiyu (1839-1916), 16 years old in Wanbaoping Mozi Stone Cave ChongWan, took three tung leaf rice as dry food, along the Xiang (Township) - An (Hua) Ancient Road, from Mozishi through Qingxi City and then over the Yue passing, passing through Mingjingjingjing, Lantian and Meicheng to Anhua Dongping Tea Shop for apprenticeship. At that time, the Da'ao at the junction of Xiangxiang and Anhua was high and densely forested and deserted. Because of the fatigue of walking, hot and thirsty. After scooping water from a pond next to Da'ao Road, he slept on a bluestone slab under a tree on the side of the road. When I woke up, I made a wish in a conversation with the nearby mountain people who were chopping firewood: I just dreamed that I had made a fortune. If I really get rich in the future, I must go here to build a tea pavilion for passing merchants to rest. He also asked the bodhisattva of the temple to bless him.
At the north gate of Woyun Pavilion, the ancient stone slab road is still faintly visible
In the thirty-first year of the Qing Dynasty (1905), Deng Qiyu, a wealthy merchant who made a fortune in the tea business in Anhua Dongping, did not forget his promise and his own wishes fifty years ago, raised huge funds from Anhua Dongping, Xiangxiang, Anhua and other places, and built the Da'ao Pavilion for the first major. In Xiangxiang, at the junction of Anhua, the barren mountains and wild mountains of Da'ao, after all kinds of hardships, lasted three years, and built the Woyun Pavilion in the thirty-fourth year of Guangxu (1908).
For more than a hundred years, the descendants of the sage Deng Qiyu have not forgotten the karmic deeds of their predecessors and have donated money several times to major or participate in the ancient pavilion. Local villages and villagers also make free and voluntary contributions to passers-by to burn tea and send water for daily maintenance. The wind of public welfare in the ancient pavilion continues to this day.
The south gate of Woyunting, in front of the door is the Xiang'an Ancient Stone Road
On February 28, 2019, the Hunan Provincial People's Government issued the Notice on Announcing the Tenth Batch of Provincial Cultural Relics Protection Units, and Woyunting was included in the tenth batch of provincial cultural relics protection units.
Narrator: Nie Furu, male (1949- ) first Chinese, mining engineer, former safety supervisor of the security station in Doukashan Town.
Retired cadres: Liu Qiujie, male (1954- ) Gao Chinese, accountant, former secretary of the enterprise office of Doujiashan Town, Lianyuan City, retired cadre.
Recording date: December 15, 2006
Location: Doujiashan Town, Lianyuan City, Hunan Province.
Source of the story: Oral tradition of the narrator's father. His father was originally a woyunting pavilion keeper.
Second, a handful of silver cannot buy a piece of land
In the fifth year of Qing Xianfeng (1855), Xiao Qingyan, a fierce general of the Xiang Army and then the viceroy of Anhui, prepared to build the "White Horse Hall" in Mabeitang, Xiaojia, Ganxi. To the left of the seat where the house was designed, there is a family surnamed Xiao who has built a house. At that time, General Xiao Qingyan led the Zhenzhong Battalion of the Xiang Army to a fierce battle with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Army in Jiangxi, so he entrusted his cousin and nephew to negotiate with the other side, intending to buy the foundation and house.
In the end, the bid is as high as one basket (basket) of silver, and the other party buys a basket (valley) land (Xiangxiang paddy field measurement unit, a grain field, which refers to the field area that can harvest a basket of rice [about 50 catties]. At that time, each mu of paddy field was about three shoulders [dan] valley), but the other party firmly refused to sell it to Xiao Qingyan's family. General Xiao Qingyan and his relatives also did not use their power to forcibly buy or seize each other's land. For more than a hundred years, several neighbors have been at peace with each other. Left behind a good story that "Admiral Xiao, a piece of silver can't buy a piece of land".
A panoramic view of The White Horse Hall, the contemporary building in the lower right corner of the picture is built for the neighbors. Photographed in 2017
Ancient buildings are restored with modern buildings adjacent to each other
Narrator: Xiao Lianqiu, male (1930-1996), chu xiao culture, farmer.
Recording time: February 5, 1993 Recording location: Ganxi Chong, Ganxi Township, Lianyuan City, Hunan Province
Source of the story: Oral tradition of the narrator's father.
Third, Seiko meticulously elaborates the White Horse Hall
In the seventh year of Xianfeng (1857), when the White Horse Hall of Xiao Qingyan, the commander of Anhui and the general of the Xiang Army, was built, there were hundreds of craftsmen and thousands of workers every day, more than 100 kitchen cooks, and ten large pots of rice. The rice noodle material, boat by boat, was unloaded from the Lianshui Wharf in Yangjiatan. Silver is packed in leather baskets and material baskets. From the stone road of Purification and Qingxi, more than ten quintals are transported to the construction site of Baima Tang every day, and the flow is endless, which is spectacular.
The construction requirements of the White Horse Hall are extremely strict, even to the point of harshness. Every day, only fifty green bricks and thirty earthen bricks are allowed to be built, and the masonry is flattened, and the bricks must be ground flat with grinding stone. The master carpenter carved a carved board for more than thirty days. A carved gray window, first inlaid with wooden strips by a carpenter, then painted with mountain paint, and then made by a sculptor craftsman with tung oil, lime, glutinous rice juice, egg white, and tile ash, it takes more than 100 days to make.
The White Horse Hall was built for more than four years. It was completed in the ninth year of Xianfeng, that is, in 1859 AD.
Ancient and modern, the former is the repair of the white horse hall trough door, and the latter is the exquisitely carved treasure vase, window, window eaves, after more than 160 years of wind, snow, rain and frost and stand majestically.
Decades later, local farmers still remember helping General Xiao build the White Horse Hall and eating a full meal for several years. After eating enough, and getting copper money, the exquisite craftsmanship made this century-old governor's palace, which is also a kind of poverty alleviation in ancient times.
Narrator: Xiao Lianqiu, male (1930-1996), chu xiao culture, farmer.
Date of recording: February 5, 1993
Location: Ganxi Chong, Ganxi Township, Lianyuan City, Hunan Province
Fourth, four reverse soup to save the cousin
In the early years of the Republic of China, Xiao Zhenru, a famous doctor in Huxiang and a cousin of Ganxi Fengrui Hall, suffered from constipation when he was more than 40 years old and sought medical treatment in the countryside. Lang Zhongjun believed that he was caused by the fire, and every time he opened the medicine under the stool to treat, the result was that after taking the medicine, not only did it have no effect, but even the urination was affected and did not work smoothly. Gradually from the lower abdomen to the stomach are swollen, the chest cavity can feel the fullness, very uncomfortable.
I can't eat food, I can't drink water, I often want to vomit, I have been taking medication for several months, but I still don't see the effect, but my condition is getting worse and worse. The doctor who treated him said that the disease should be increased in the dose of glauber's salt and rhubarb (bitter cold diarrhea), so he took three doses of medicine in a row, and the result was more serious, the bowel movements could not be solved, and he was bedridden.
Ganxi Xiaojia Fengrui Hall
At this time, Xiao Zhenru returned home from changsha medical center. After hearing that his uncle was seriously ill, he hurried to his uncle's house. I saw that my cousin's face was gray, his body was emaciated, his tongue was thick and gray, his incision pulse was slow and tight, and he was bedridden.
The cousin told Xiao Zhenru: "Since I got sick, I have found a lot of Langzhong to see, and the prescription for curing the disease has been changed several times, but it has not worked, but it is getting worse and worse, and now I feel that I am going to be unable to do it!" Then, let the family take out all the prescriptions and show them to Xiao Zhenru.
After Xiao Zhenru saw it, he was surprised and said: "These medicines are not used correctly, fortunately, the last time I took the glauber's salt and rhubarb have not caused abdominal pain and diarrhea, otherwise I would not have seen you today, and now you are very dangerous!" ”
The cousin was horrified and said, "How can these medicines be so wrong!" When I first got sick, not only did Lang Zhong think that I was caused by fire, but even I thought that I was caused by fire, and taking Glauber's salt and rhubarb on fire constipation was the right medicine, there was no excretion, and I thought it was not enough medicine. ”
Xiao Zhenru explained: "No, these drugs are just the opposite of your illness, and the doctor who treated you did not diagnose it correctly, let alone your own judgment." Today I came, and although your illness is dangerous, there is still salvation. But I'm afraid you won't believe me, and once others talk about you, you will waver and change the prescription. So I don't dare to treat you easily. ”
My cousin said, "I'm dying, and I've tried all the other doctors' medicines, but to no avail." Today you treat me, no matter what medicine I can accept, even if I die, I will not change. ”
So Xiao Zhenru prescribed a prescription: "Wufu one or two five dollars, northern ginger one or two five dollars, old ginger one or two, powder licorice one or two five dollars." ”
Before the prescription was finished, my cousin had an objection: "These medicines are all fierce hot medicines, and the dosage is so large, how to eat it?" ”
Xiao Zhenru said, "You will know if you take the medicine." ”
After the medicine was bought, he instructed his son to fill it with a large jar of water, fry it at one time, remove the dregs, let it cool, and take the medicine three times. However, the cousin still did not dare to drink it all at once because of doubt and fear, and only ate it once in the night. The next morning, the feeling of vomiting was much less, the chest and abdomen were more comfortable, not too stuffy, and wanted to eat some thin porridge. Because of the effect, I dared to continue to take the medicine, and drank both doses of medicine on the same day.
By the next day, the symptoms of vomiting were eliminated, the chest and abdomen were further relaxed, and there was an appetite, asking for porridge, and eating like a normal person. The cousin no longer had any doubts, took the medicine as required, and wanted to cure the disease quickly.
Zhen Zhenru thought that the root of his uncle's illness was relatively deep, it was difficult to cure it in the short term, and the Changsha Medical Center could not be left unattended, so on the basis of the original prescription, he added "half sulfur pills" to two or two, requiring that every morning with light ginger soup to send three dollars, divided into three days. After taking the medicine, Xiao Zhenru returned to the medical hall.
On the fourth day after he returned, just after dawn, a letter from his hometown came and asked him to go home quickly and go to his uncle's house. As soon as he entered the door of his uncle's house, his cousin came over and held Xiao Zhenru's hand tightly and said, "Don't be afraid, I called you to tell you the good news!" Since you went back, I took three doses of medicine first, and my body did not feel any heat, but my abdomen was much more comfortable, the amount of food increased, and my body became more and more comfortable. In addition to drinking the soup medicine, I swallowed the pill in three parts. The next day, as before, the soup pills went hand in hand, and the pills had been eaten. Today before dawn, the abdomen began to ring, there is a feeling of relief, I let my son help me to the toilet, the urine and urine are solved, first hard and then wet, thick and sticky continuously, about half a bucket in an instant, the disease is immediately better. So hurry to tell you and reassure you. ”
Xiao Zhenru stayed behind to eat breakfast with his cousin, and at the dinner table, the cousin asked Xiao Zhenru: "What is the cause of my illness, and why the medicines I took before have no effect, but aggravate the disease." Why does the medicine you prescribe to me have such a miraculous effect? ”
Xiao Zhenru said, "The truth here is rather profound, and since you want to know, I will try to explain it." People's stomach and intestines are like the drainage ditch at home, the chest and abdomen seem to be the main house, your illness is because the internal organs and yang qi are weak, as if it is a cold winter, and the drainage ditch at home is frozen in the deep winter and cannot drain water. If you want to dredge, you must wait for the hot sun to be empty, and the temperature rises to melt the solid ice. This truth is known to women and children, but doctors are confused. So at the beginning of your illness, you use moisturizing medicine, just like continuing to water on solid ice, but freezing thicker and stronger. In the end, the bowel movements were blocked, and the stomach was full of swelling. At this time, continuing to use the bitter cold medicines of glauber and rhubarb is tantamount to worsening and more serious blockage, just like the cold air spreading from the ditch to the main house. If the downward route of the qi is blocked, it will go upwards, so it will spread from the belly to the chest septum, and finally even the throat will form an occlusion, resulting in vomiting often. This time, I use a large dose of Xinwen medicine for you, just to let the sun shine on the main house, melt the ice and snow, and dredge the ditch, so the effect is fast. ”
The cousin exclaimed, "That's it, that's it!" ”
After Xiao Zhenru probed the pulse, he continued to use the "Tongmai Four Reverse Plus Ginseng Soup" for the aftermath. A month later, the two saw each other again. The cousin smiled and said to Xiao Zhenru, "I almost died of that previous illness, thanks to you saving me, the medical skills are really god." However, at that time, there were still doubts, which was a shame! ”
Xiao Zhenru's prescription is the famous "four reverse soup". Since then, Xiao Zhenru's apricot forest story of "saving the cousin by one hand" has been passed down in Xiangxiang.
Xiao Zhenru (1857-1927) Zi Bozhang, Xiangxiang purified forty-two Duganxi FengruiTang people (now Lianyuan City, Doujiashan Town, Fengrui Village) Huxiang famous doctor, son inherited his father's business, in the countryside, Changsha, Shuikoushan Mining Bureau and other places for more than fifty years. There is a Classic of Traditional Chinese Medicine,"The Case of The Hidden Garden". This medical case has been included in this book.
Narrator: Xiao Lianqiu Male (1930-1996) Early Primary Culture, Farmer.
Date of recording: July 25, 1994
Source of the story: Oral tradition of the narrator's father. This story is widely spread in the Xiao family of Ganxi, the Xiao family of Xiuxi, and the Xiao family of Jianxi.
5. Dried (pronounced gān) Dried langua (modern story)
I am a rural woman in Heguan Gantang, and in 1998, I went to Guangdong to work. When I went, I took more than three hundred yuan with me, and after taking the train in Loudi, I bought snacks such as soda, melon seeds, and fruits, and placed them on the coffee table. Sipping snacks, drinking drinks, listening to the sound of the train whistle, the sound of running as if calling "Oh..., Guangdong Guangxi, Guangdong Guangxi, Guangdong Guangxi, Guangdong Guangxi..." When the train accelerates, the running sound is even better: "Oh..., seven yuan eight, seven eight, seven eight, seven eight..." Listening to this beautiful sound, thinking that you can earn seven yuan and eight yuan in Guangdong every day. I made the way to Guangzhou very smoothly.
After I arrived in Guangdong, because of my older age and low education, I did not find a job for more than half a month. The money it brought in was also spent very little. I had no choice but to buy a train ticket to return home. When I went back to my hometown to take the train, I didn't say drinks and snacks on the coffee table, and even sipping rice became a problem. At this time, only the sound of the train whistle and running was heard, which made people annoyed: "Hey..., dry dry lang melon, dry dry lang melon, dry dry lang melon, dry dry lang melon..." (dry dry lang gua, Lianyuan dialect, means to spend money to the fullest.) ）
Narrator: Wu Yinglong, male (1963-), Gao Chinese, accountant, cadre of the Industrial and Information Technology Office of Doujiashan Town.
Date: May 10, 2003
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