There is a mountain range in the place where the Buyi And Miao people live in Guizhou, called Wumeng Mountain. This mountain has a branch, called Guanling, also known as Guansuoling, located on the bank of the Baling River, on the west side near the East Street of Guansuo Town.
There are folk rumors that the name "Guan Suo Ling" was given by General Guan Suo, because he was stationed here.
Seeing this, you may have a question: Who is Guan Suo?
Speaking of Guan Suo, many people are not impressed by him. Guan Suo was Guan Yu's third son, and when Jingzhou was captured by enemy forces, he fled to Baojiazhuang to recuperate. Later, after hearing that the enemies of Eastern Wu had died, Guan Suo returned to Shu Han and returned to Zhuge Liang's command and marched south with him. So, is Guanling named after Guansuo? What kind of story happened between GuanLing and it?
Don't worry, we will talk about the origin of the name "Guanling" today and the reasons for its fame.
In 225 AD, Zhuge Liang led his troops to fight south to quell the war, hoping to restore the Han Dynasty. And Guan Suo, as one of his generals, naturally followed the southern expedition. One day, Guan Suo fought against the rebels, and after a war, the rebels felt that they could not defeat Guan Suo, so they ran to a high mountain, after which Guan Suo took advantage of the victory and chased after him, and followed the enemy to this mountain.
At that time, it was the middle of the summer, the weather was very hot, and the soldiers wanted to drink water, but their water had already been drunk. At this moment, Guan Suo's war horse suddenly broke free of the reins and slammed its head into a pile of rocks. The soldiers were puzzled by this. After a while, water suddenly flowed out of the crevices of the rocks, and the horses drank the water cheerfully.
Faced with this situation, the soldiers exclaimed in surprise and immediately reacted: "There is water, and the horses have planed out the water in the rocks." Suddenly, the soldiers gathered around the pile of rocks, hoping to drink some water. However, the horses blocked the soldiers with their own bodies. When it had finished replenishing its water, it poured a dip in the water, and then looked at the soldiers proudly, as if to say, "I drive this water, and I can only drink it." ”
Seeing this, Guan Suo was very angry, and he took the horse whip in his hand and hit the horse hard. The horse was in pain, ran to the ridge, and kept shouting at Guan Suo. Seeing this, Guan Suo was very annoyed, and he jerked out the saber from his waist, inserted it into the hollow, and said, "Is it true that only a horse can plan out water, but no man can plane water?" After listening, the soldiers bowed their heads in sorrow.
After a while, the soldiers were surprised to find that there was water flowing out of Guan Suo's knife body. Therefore, Guan Suo grasped the handle of the knife and stabbed it hard into the place where the water seeped, and for a while, the water kept flowing out. Seeing this, the soldiers were very happy, and everyone surrounded the water source and drank vigorously. In this way, the morale that was originally low because of the lack of water rose instantly, so that Guan Suo suddenly defeated the enemy army and occupied the top of the mountain.
Later, in order to commemorate Guan Suo, people named this mountain after Guan Suo. At the same time, the place where the horses were planed out of the water was called the "horse planing well", and the well that was poked out by the Guansuo battle knife was called the "knife well".
This is the origin of the name Guansoling and the reason for its fame.
In recent years, archaeologists have found many well-preserved fossils of marine reptiles and sea lilies in Guansoling. By tracing the origin of these fossils, people have found a paleontological population, which has made Guansoling reappear in people's field of vision.
According to long-term investigators, this paleontological group was formed during the Late Triassic period, about 220 million years from now. Because this paleontological group is very close to the Huangguoshu Waterfall Scenic Area, it is mainly composed of marine reptiles and marine lily fossils. In addition, it includes many other types of fossils, such as vertebrates and invertebrates with associated polyphylae.
These rare marine fossils show us a relatively complete paleocean marine ecosystem. Therefore, some people regard this paleontology as a major discovery in history, which is not only conducive to human research on the evolutionary process of marine life, but also has great significance in the study of biology, geography and stratigraphy in the Triassic period.
In addition, the paleontological population of Guansoling is also an important evidence of the comprehensive restoration of marine ecosystems during the Triassic period. This will not only help us to study the recovery of marine life during the Triassic period, but also help us to restore the appearance of the ancient ocean and explore the origin of human beings, which is the second reason for the fame of Guansoling.
It can be seen that Guansuoling is not an ordinary mountain, and there are many unknown secrets hidden in it, which constantly attract people to go. We firmly believe that human beings will one day dig out the fossil code hidden in the mountains and then solve the mystery of human history.
In fact, in addition to the legend of Guansoling, there are many special foods, among which, about Ling dog meat and Guanling shear powder. "Guanling shear powder" is one of the traditional foods of Guanling Autonomous County, also known as "Guanling One Must". It is characterized by thin as paper, white as snow, good tendons, the pot can withstand cooking, the mouth has a chewy head, mellow and seductive, delicious, and the eaters are all praised.
In addition, "Taizi Kho" is the main peak of Guansuoling, with an altitude of 1237 meters, located on the south side of the mouth of Guansuoling, with three forks at the top, majestic and dangerous. Since ancient times, they have been key passes on the passages of the two provinces of Yunnan and Qian. In the 25th year of the Republic of China (1936 AD), the Qiandian Highway was opened to traffic, and it was detoured from the eastern foothills to the waist of Lingxi to the county seat. Nowadays, Guansuoling has ancient post roads, "Prince Cave" and "Prince Pavilion" and other monuments preserved in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and is a tourist attraction for people.
In fact, there has been a lot of debate in history about whether Guan Suo existed or not. Moreover, it is recorded that Guan Yu's descendants were killed by Pang De's son Pang Hui during the Han Dynasty, see the "Book of Shu" quoted by Pei Songzhi in the "Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, Shu Shu and Guan Yu Biography". At that time, Pang Hui accompanied Zhong Hui and Deng Aifa Shu Han, and Shu Han perished, and in order to avenge his father's revenge, he "destroyed the Guan family." ”
However, in Jingzhou, the descendants of Yu were passed down from generation to generation. According to the "Chronicle of Jingzhou Prefecture" during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, when Guan Ping accompanied his father to guard Jingzhou, he married the daughter of Zhao Yun and had a son named Guan Fan. When Wu Bing attacked Jingzhou, Guan Ping's wife escaped from Jingzhou City with her eight-year-old son, changed her surname, and avoided living in the countryside, until the Western Jin Dynasty destroyed Wu to unify the whole country, only to return to Jingzhou City, restore the Guan surname, live in Jingzhou for generations, and take the tomb as her home...
Resources:
【Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Legend of Waterfall Township"】