From Henan to Shanxi, you have to go up the Taihang Mountains.
There are two villages on the top of the hill, one called The Car Stopping Village and the other called Patio Pass.
For thousands of years, the majestic Taihang Mountains have been blocking the traffic between the three provinces of Jinji and Henan, but in ancient times, there were such eight passages, which became the throat of the three provinces of Jinxi and Hebei through the Taihang Mountains, which people called "Taihang Eight Mountains", which has always been a place of contention for soldiers.
Among them, in the Taihang Mountains that connect Shanxi and Henan, there is one of the most dangerous sections, because it is rugged and winding in the mountains, winding and bending, and shaped like a sheep intestine, so it is called sheep intestines. The idiom we know as "sheep gut trail" refers to this path.
In the Battle of Changping, Qin attacked Zhao, and Lian Po stood firm. Qin Xiang Fan Sui sent people to Zhao with thousands of gold and carried out counter-plans. King Zhao made a plan to replace General Lian with Zhao Kuo, who could only talk on paper. The King of Qin secretly adjusted Bai Qi to be a general, and surprisingly cut off Zhao Kuo's rear road. Prince Zhaoxiang of Qin went to Yewang of Korea (present-day Qinyang, Henan), sent troops to Changping (高平, Shanxi), cut off Zhao's rescue troops and grain routes, and finally Qin won a complete victory, and more than 400,000 Zhao troops were all killed.
Cao Cao wrote "Bitter Cold Walk" here
In the eleventh year of the Eastern Han Dynasty (206 AD), Cao Cao's Tun Bing Ye Wang (present-day Qinyang, Henan) sent troops to expand the Yanggu Bandao and attack Taihang. The bowl city defender Gao Gan surrendered first and then defected, and was pursued and killed by Cao Cao. "Bitter Cold Walk" was composed while passing through The Sheep Gut Saka.
Go north to the Taihang Mountains, and it is difficult to be majestic!
The sheep's intestines are bent, and the wheels are destroyed.
Trees Ho Shaw! The north wind is mourning.
The bear crouched at me, and the tiger and leopard cried in the middle of the road.
There are few people in the valley, and the snow falls on He Feifei!
Long sighs on the neck, and travels far away.
Why am I depressed? I want to go back to the east.
The water is deep and the bridge is broken, and the middle road is wandering.
Nuisance lost road,Akkaure Shukusu.
The day of travel is far away, and the people and horses are hungry at the same time.
The bag is paid, and the axe is held as a slurry.
Sorrowful poems, leisurely make me mourn.
Tang Xuanzong wrote poems here
The sheep gut trail describes a narrow and winding path. This idiom comes from Tang Xuanzong Li Longji's "Early Climbing taihang Mountain Speech Zhi". During the first year of the Tang Dynasty, when Tang Xuanzong Li Longji ascended to Taihang Yanggusaka, his passion surged up, and he could not help himself, and wrote "Early Deng Taihang Mountain Speech Zhi".
Early climbing of the Taihang Mountains in the Middle Of the Word
Qing Dadu Heyang, condensed on the Taixing.
Fire Dragon Bright Bird Road, iron riding around the intestines of the sheep.
The white mist buried the yin, and Dan Xia helped XiaoGuang.
The spring contains sumac, and the mountain wood has residual frost.
The wild old hut is the house, and the woodcutter is the dress.
Xuanfeng asked Qi Ai, and Dun Custom advised Gengsang.
Liang De Kuo Xianzhe, Hui You Mu Xi Emperor.
If it is not because of this exhibition of righteousness, why should it be hanging down.
The "Eight-Character Army" is here to resist gold
In the last year of the Northern Song Dynasty, when the Jin State Railway rode south to invade, the Northern Song soldiers and civilians who did not want to submit to the Jin Dynasty established an anti-Jin rebel army on the Taihang Mountain, and the famous anti-Jin hero Yue Fei also went north to the Taihang Mountain. Among the many anti-Jin rebels, a "eight-character army" led by Wang Yan, a general of the Southern Song Dynasty, is the most famous.
The "Wanli Tea Ceremony" enters Shanxi from here
The Wanli Tea Ceremony, also known as the Tea Road, starts from Wuyishan City, Fujian Province, China, passes through Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Henan, Shanxi, Hebei and Inner Mongolia 7 provinces (autonomous regions), passes through Kulun (now the capital of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar) to the treaty port Kyakhta on the Border between China and Russia, a total distance of about 4760 kilometers, it is another international trade route connecting Eurasia after the "Silk Road". Among them, the Shanxi section of the Wanli Tea Ceremony connects the north and south tea ceremonies, and the sheep intestines are one of the important passages for the south tea to enter Shanxi from the north.
The village is related to Confucius.
Legend has it that Confucius traveled around the world, preached and lectured, and after Zheng Guo's lobbying, he drove straight to the Jin Dynasty. When he and his entourage of disciples came to the jin border patio to close a mountain village (in the territory of present-day Jinmiaopu Town), they saw that some children were playing with stone construction and refused to give way. One of them, a naughty boy named Xiang Qi, questioned Confucius with the saying that "only cars go around the city, and no city gives cars". Confucius saw that Xiangqiao was small, but he had superiority, so he bowed down as a teacher and asked his disciples to go around the "city".
According to another legend, Confucius led his disciples to climb the Taihang Mountain to a village entrance, only to see a few children squatting on the ground playing, blocking the way. As soon as Confucius and his disciples looked, an official road passed through the village from south to north, with Shiyan on the left and cliffs and ditches on the right, and the children could not walk without getting up to give way.
Confucius's protégé Shouted in the car: "Dodge, dodge!" A child named Xiang Qiu (tuó) listened, first stunned, then looked at Confucius and his party, and said to the other children: "This man is so unreasonable, ignore him, continue to play, see if he dares to pick him." "Say what to do."
Zi Luman thought that he shouted this, the children would give way, but unexpectedly touched a nail, unhappy in his heart, said to the child: "Sitting on the car is my teacher Confucius, he wants to preach in the Jin kingdom, you avoid, let's go over okay?" When Xiao Xiangqiao heard that it was the current sage Confucius, his eyes rolled and he said, "Since it is Old Mr. Kong on the car, I have a few questions I want to ask him, and after answering, I will let you go." Zi Lu hurriedly said, "Of course!" Saying that he led Xiang Qiao to the front of the car, the children also gathered around.
After Zilu explained to Confucius, Confucius said, "Well, please talk." Xiang Qi pointed to a pine forest on the left slope and asked, "Look at the pine tree on the hillside, why is it evergreen all year round?" ”
Confucius thought for a moment and said, "That's because it has a solid heart, is oily and hardy, and can be evergreen all year round." Xiang Qi continued: "The heart of bamboo is empty, and there is no oil, why can it be evergreen all year round?" Confucius did not answer immediately.
Xiang Qi saw that he did not speak, and asked: "Why did the housekeeper goose see outsiders calling so loudly, and it could be heard for miles away?" Confucius said, "That's because the goose's neck is long." Xiang Qiao said: "The toad has a short neck, but when it is called at night, it can also travel for miles, why is this?" ”
When the children listened, they "boomed" and laughed. Confucius was speechless again, thinking to himself: Am I going to lose people in front of this child today? Beads of sweat oozed from his face. Xiang Xi continued to ask, "Have you ever eaten persimmons?" Why do the persimmons on the persimmon tree face red to the east and the green face to the west before they ripen? ”
Confucius replied, "That's because of the sun." Xiang Qiao said: "That carrot does not see the sun in the ground, but it is red, and the leaves on the top are commonly how the sun is green?" ”
Xiang Xi continued to ask: "There is another question, the sun has just risen in the morning, it looks very large, indicating that it is close to the ground, but it is not hot." At noon, the sun rose to the sky, and it looked small, as if it was far from the ground, but the heat was unbearable. Is the sun close to the ground in the morning or close to the ground at noon? ”
Confucius could not answer clearly. He brushed his beard, got out of the car with a long shirt, and bent down to worship Xiang Qiao as his teacher. Xiang Qi and the children quickly said, "Don't dare, don't dare." Only then did he hide by the side of the road and let Confucius walk over.
Confucius was sullen and unhappy, and traveled another fifteen miles north to a key place at the pass, the Tingtian Guancun. The patio is lying on a mountain peak, with a deep ditch on the left and a cliff on the right, and the official road through the village runs from south to north. It was noon, and when Confucius and his party came to the village and saw a restaurant, they stopped to rest and eat lunch.
There is a pavilion on the high ground opposite this restaurant, and a walnut tree grows next to your excellency's stone steps. Confucius was eating when suddenly the cry of "chirping and chirping" kept coming out. He followed the prestige and saw only a small gray rat, holding a walnut, and calling at him with its tail cocked. The more he looked at it, the more interesting he felt, and the more he listened, the more he felt that the cry seemed to be "salute, salute, salute, salute"! He couldn't help but sigh, "This child of Jin Guo is so clever, even the beasts are so knowledgeable." This time I traveled around the Jin Dynasty, and I wanted to preach and give lectures, but it seemed unnecessary. So, after the meal, he hurriedly turned around and returned, and went down the Taihang Mountain.
After Confucius closed the car at the patio, the people called the village where Xiangqiao stopped the car as the "car village". A temple of literature and an archway were built in the south of Tingguancun. The main hall of the Temple of Literature has statues of Confucius, Yan Hui, Zilu and other ten people, and the left and right compartments have the spiritual seats of seventy-two sages. Every year, there are talents and literati from all over the world to worship. The prints on the return car are still legible on the bluestone road slab.
During the Ming Dynasty, Feng Yan, the prefect of Zezhou, also erected a stone stele of "Confucius's Return to the Car" here as a memorial.
As early as the second year of The Eastern Han Dynasty, Confucius's nineteenth generation grandson built the Confucius Temple here to commemorate Confucius's "return".
Source: Zezhou Culture (Comprehensive Collation)