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"Yellow Spring" in Zhengzhou? Myths and legends unknown to the local natives

"Yellow Spring" in Zhengzhou? Myths and legends unknown to the local natives

Guys who are sealed at home by the epidemic, TV is tired of watching it, mobile phone is tired, change your eyes? Today, let's listen to the story - Zhengzhou, as a city with a history of more than 3600 years, has many myths and legends in the streets and alleys.

Some of these secrets may not even be known to the old Zhengzhou people.

There are myths and legends, folk tales, historical allusions... Through the excavation, collation, multi-party verification of the interesting Jun, and processing and finishing (adding oil and vinegar), sorted out two articles about the secrets of Zhengzhou, today we first talk about the types of myths and legends, the next article about culture, within a week and everyone to meet, don't worry.

"Yellow Spring" in Zhengzhou? Myths and legends unknown to the local natives

Madu Village, Yaoqiao Township, Jinshui District, Zhengzhou City, the name is very strange, but it contains a myth and legend.

There are many versions of the "Mud Horse Crossing Kang King", the most widely circulated is in the last year of the Northern Song Dynasty, when Zhao Shuo, who was the King of Kang, went to the Jin camp as a hostage, and the Jin soldiers escorted him north, on the way, Zhao Shuo escaped, fled to Cizhou, stayed overnight at the Cui Fu Jun Temple, and in the dream, the gods told the Jin soldiers that they were coming.

"Yellow Spring" in Zhengzhou? Myths and legends unknown to the local natives

| legend of King Dukang of mud horses

Zhao Zhao woke up and saw that there were horses outside the temple, so he rode wildly on horses. This horse actually carried Zhao Zhao across a tributary of the Yellow River, and after crossing the river, it turned into a clay sculpture horse.

In 1958, the Hong Kong Guozhen Film Company also used this story as the theme to shoot a Cantonese opera film "Mud Horse Crossing Kang Wang", which was directed by Feng Zhigang and starred Luo Jianlang, Luo Yanqing, Phoenix Girl, Liang Xingbo, Li Haiquan and so on.

"Yellow Spring" in Zhengzhou? Myths and legends unknown to the local natives

| the poster of that year

The story is still quite legendary. Whether it is true or not, anyway, the ancients believed it, believing that the place where King Kang got off his horse was a happy place, and it was here that camped and multiplied, forming today's Madu Village.

"Yellow Spring" in Zhengzhou? Myths and legends unknown to the local natives

Dayu Zhishui is also a widely circulated folk story, but when telling stories, it often misses an important place in the story: Zhengzhou Dengfeng Shucheng Town.

According to legend, during the Yao and Shun periods, floods were flooded, and the people did not have a good life, although they were vigorously rectified, but the effect was very small.

"Yellow Spring" in Zhengzhou? Myths and legends unknown to the local natives

| there are many folk records about Dayu Zhishui

Dayu, who was the leader of the Xia tribe at the time, took over the heavy responsibility of controlling water, passed through the door of the house three times without entering, and worked hard to create a new method of canal diversion to control the water, and at the same time diverted the water of the Yellow River to the southeast, and excavated the first artificial river in history, the Yu River.

Under his leadership, floods were effectively harnessed and the people were no longer flooded.

The heroic Dayu also won the support of various tribes and various states, and was elected as the heir by Shun, and later took the throne, with the capital Yangcheng (present-day Dengfeng Chengcheng Town). Yu Ben was the leader of the Xia Hou clan, so after taking the throne, the dynasty established was called the Xia Dynasty.

"Yellow Spring" in Zhengzhou? Myths and legends unknown to the local natives

| statue of Dayu

Xia Chuanzi, the family of the world, has since opened the monarchy hereditary system.

In recent archaeological excavations, an ancient city of more than 300,000 square meters, newly discovered on the west bank of the Wudu River in Dengfeng, coincides with the "Yudu YangCheng" in the literature.

"Yellow Spring" in Zhengzhou? Myths and legends unknown to the local natives

Since we talk about Dayu Zhishui, it is necessary to talk about The Mountain, which is definitely more famous than Huangshan in the minds of the 80s and 90s of Zhengzhou's small partners.

When I was a child, going to Mt. Yaoshan was a tourist, and adults often smoked a kind of choking "cigar" - The Mt. Yao Cannon.

"Yellow Spring" in Zhengzhou? Myths and legends unknown to the local natives

| Zhengzhou classic - Shan Cannon

During the reign of Da Yu, he found the giant python acting strangely and drew his sword to chase it. Seeing that Dayu was brave and fierce, the python had to turn around for a while and run towards the East Sea.

The python was wounded and bleeding, and the waterway left by the bend of the huge body muddied the river water, which became today's Jiuqu Yellow River.

"Yellow Spring" in Zhengzhou? Myths and legends unknown to the local natives

| really like a snake

Dayu fought with the python for seven days and seven nights, and finally killed the python. The hundred mile python body transforms into a python-shaped mountain, which people call python mountain, also known as python ridge. Later generations thought that the python character was too scary, so it was rumored to be "Qiu Shan".

"Yellow Spring" in Zhengzhou? Myths and legends unknown to the local natives

Now Zhengzhou, the earliest legend is a boat.

It is said that in ancient times, one day the county official of Guancheng (now Guancheng District) was sitting in the hall, and suddenly the sky shook and rushed to the beach temple for help.

"Yellow Spring" in Zhengzhou? Myths and legends unknown to the local natives

丨 A postcard of the Kaiyuan Temple Pagoda published in France around 1910

The senior monk of the beach temple said: The place where we live is actually a large ship moored on the shore of Putazawa, with its head facing west and tail in the east.

I have been floating on the water, and now I have been floating to the foot of Song Mountain and I can't walk on the rocks, so I keep shaking. An iron anchor must be used to calm down in order to be safe.

The county magistrate immediately asked the blacksmith to cast a jack-in-the-box iron anchor on the lobby, and the lobby was no longer shaking.

"Yellow Spring" in Zhengzhou? Myths and legends unknown to the local natives

丨 In 1976, Zhengzhou Daily reprinted the edition of "Zhengxian Zhi: Ancient Pagoda Qingyun"

Folk once circulated a song: "Zhengzhou is like a boat, parked next to the garden, the tower is a mast, all the way to the west, the iron anchor is placed in the lobby, and the county town does not shake."

The bow of the ship is west and tail in the east, which confirms the high and east low terrain of Zhengzhou, like a large ship moored on the shore, and the tall Kaiyuan Temple Tower is the mast of this ship.

"Yellow Spring" in Zhengzhou? Myths and legends unknown to the local natives

Huangquan, in mythology, refers to the place where people live after death. The ancients believed that the heavens and the earth were yellow, and the spring was underground, so it was called yellow spring.

There is a record in the history of the Zheng family that Zheng Wugong and his wife Wu Jiangsheng had two sons. Wu Jiang almost died when he gave birth to a child, and since then he has hated the child and loved the child.

"Yellow Spring" in Zhengzhou? Myths and legends unknown to the local natives

丨 The picture of the Yellow Springs in the game

Duke Wu of Zheng passed away, and the eldest son inherited the throne according to the ancient system and was given the title of Duke of Zhengzhuang. Wu Jiang was angry that Xiao'er did not inherit the throne, and she conspired with Xiao'er to join forces to seize power.

The news leaked, the younger son was defeated, and he drew his sword and killed himself. Zheng Zhuang angrily put Wu Jiang under house arrest and vowed, "Don't go to Huangquan, don't see each other."

But Zheng Zhuanggong is a filial piety, and he has been thinking about his mother for a long time, but he is not good at repenting.

"Yellow Spring" in Zhengzhou? Myths and legends unknown to the local natives

丨Huangquan recognizes his mother

The minister gave Zheng Zhuanggong an idea, saying that the Yellow Spring is underground, and if you dig a tunnel, find the spring water, build the underground palace, and meet your mother in the underground palace, it is like seeing your mother in Huangquan.

In this way, he fulfilled his filial piety and did not break his oath. Zheng Zhuanggong was overjoyed, digging a spring day and night to cover the underground palace, and finally met Wu Jiang at the "Yellow Spring", and the mother and son both hugged and cried and said goodbye.

There is a stele in Xinmixiang Mountain, which proves to be the place where the mother was dug up, and a few meters below the stele is the Yellow Spring.

However, this legend of Huangquan is used all over the country, including Liangshan in Sichuan, Jinan in Shandong, Changzhi in Shanxi, etc., and even Zhengzhou has Xinmi, Xinzheng, Xingyang and several places.

"Yellow Spring" in Zhengzhou? Myths and legends unknown to the local natives

Of course, the article is limited in space, and it is impossible to list the legends about Zhengzhou one by one, and the interesting jun selects some representative examples that are widely circulated in the folk and are more familiar to people.

From these legends, it is not difficult to see that the people of Zhengzhou still attach great importance to "loyalty and filial piety", which is also in line with the character of the Central Plains people.

"Yellow Spring" in Zhengzhou? Myths and legends unknown to the local natives

丨 Behind the city, there are many stories

I hope that when our next generation is pestering to tell stories, in addition to the little tadpole looking for mothers, wolves have come to these, they are involved in the culture around them.

PS: Under the preview, the next secret that The indigenous people of Zhengzhou do not know - the cultural story is in preparation, and we will see each other soon, so stay tuned.

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"Yellow Spring" in Zhengzhou? Myths and legends unknown to the local natives
"Yellow Spring" in Zhengzhou? Myths and legends unknown to the local natives
"Yellow Spring" in Zhengzhou? Myths and legends unknown to the local natives
"Yellow Spring" in Zhengzhou? Myths and legends unknown to the local natives

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