Canal people Sun Jian said that the canal 丨 the only temple of shensha on the canal

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Commentary: Hu Chenrui Is a student of Qi Yue Media College of Cangzhou Normal University

The only temple on the canal

In the past, on the Grand Canal of Beijing and Hangzhou, in order to pray for calm wind and waves, all the way to tranquility, there were many water temples, river temples, and even sea temples on both sides of the river, and the various gods of worship included the Dragon King, Xiao Sheng, Erlang, Sanguan, Zhenwu Emperor, and even the Almighty God Guan Laoye, and so on.

Located in the northeast of the Nanhuan Bridge in present-day QingXian County, downhill from the river embankment, in the Shenshan Temple Village, which was the south of the former Old Second Middle School Playground, there was once a unique sand god worship on the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal - Shensha Temple.

The reason for the appearance of the Shensha Temple is that the Tuotuo River, as the only river in the Cangzhou section of the South Canal, joins the canal channel in the south of Qingxian City, Baojiazui, and one of the eight scenic spots in Qingxian County in the past is called the Confluence of Huwei, which is said to be here.

At least since the Ming Dynasty, the Tuotuo River has joined the canal in Baojiazui, because the water current stirs up the sediment in the canal, rushes to the east side of the riverbed, causing special siltation, when the ship passes here, it is easy to run aground, affecting the normal water transport and journey, so people built a temple here, burned incense and prostrated their heads, and prayed "Sand gods, sand ancestors, go down the river!" Stop plugging you up! ”

It is not known when the Shensha Temple was built. As the name of the village, the Shensha Temple was first seen in the "Qifu Yicang Map" painted by Fang Guancheng, the governor of Qianlong in the eighteenth year of Qianlong (1743).

Jiaqing's "Qingxian Chronicle" says that there is dark sand in the Baojiazui River, "the boat is shallow here, pray for the response." Liu Qingzhang, one of the practitioners of the Qingxian Chronicle of the Republic of China and a devotee, wrote a poem called "Shensha Temple": "I love shensha temple, and there is a bay outside the door." The embankment ring resembles a cloud ridge, and the cattle lie on the hill (called the Weihe Tuniu also). The willows are dark, and the birds fly back. There are no carriages and horses in the ruts, and the winding path is narrow and biased. There are only a few people's homes, and there is no smoke left over the fireworks. When the Xuanxuan was opened, he left Sang Ma Tian. Anderson is a man of his heart, and he speaks highly of the Emperor. (Collected Poems of Hengmen, vol. VIII)

During the Qianlong period, the Tuotuo River was diverted to the north, the sand was gone, people did not have to burn incense and pray, and the temple soon collapsed, but the village still existed, and the name of the village was still there. However, in the 1980s, the "Compilation of Qingxian Geographical Names Data" and the "Qingxian Chronicle" published in recent years were both falsely rumored, and according to the pronunciation of the local people, the Shensha Temple was changed to the Shenshan Temple, losing the unique canal culture contained in this place name.

(Mr. Pan Hongbin of Qingxian County also contributed to this article, and I would like to thank you!) ）

Sun Jian is the director of the Cangzhou Regional Culture Research Institute.

He is the author of "Cangzhou Jujube Dialect", "Cangzhou Folklore", "Cangzhou Lion Dialect", "Cangzhou Story", "Great Talent Ji Xiaolan", "Ji Xiaolan Lianyu Shuzhi", "Ji Xiaolan Silhouette", "Ji Xiaolan Yanming Detailed Notes", "Ji Xiaolan Shi Chengkao", "Dai Ming Said Deeds Chronicle", "Zhiwei Lu Wen Banknote", etc., "Selected Poems of Cangzhou in Past Dynasties", "Eight Views of Cangzhou Poetry Collection of Past Dynasties", etc., "Compilation of Three Records" and "Liu Daichuan Gong exhaustion faithful record", participating in the editing of "Our Grand Canal" (poetry volume, property volume), large cultural magazine "Culture Cangzhou", etc., the dot school collation has "Compilation of Three Records", "Liu Daichuan Gong exhaustion zhonglu", participated in the editing of "Our Grand Canal" (poetry volume, property volume), large cultural magazine "Culture Cangzhou" (Fang Yu Scroll, Wind Andi Scroll, Yuhe Scroll, Temple of Literature Scroll).

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