Ranger County Lieutenant
Recently, a teacher and friend made a guest radio topic program, talking about the old locust tree, and its excitement overflowed into words when expressing the national locust planted all over Weinan, deep roots and leafy leaves, and also a homesickness tree. This also triggered many associations of the author's old locust tree in Weinan. As early as 1200 years ago, there was a good story of Weinan County's weiwei acacia.
During the reign of Tang Zhenyuan (785-805), the financial officials sent a message to Zhang Zhao, a lieutenant of Weinan County, asking for the cutting down of the large locust trees on the Official Road of Liangjing. The "Two Capitals Official Road" is the road from Chang'an in Kyoto to Luoyang in the east, and the county seat of Weinan is in it. The avenue is lined with locust trees and lush greenery. Zhang Zao believed that this was extremely inappropriate for cutting down the "official locust", and he wrote to direct advice. The reasons are roughly as follows: the official locust is not easy to come by, benefiting the country and the people; in the past, Tang Gaozu's westward march into the pass, Tang Xuanzong's Taishan feng zen, all rested in the shade of this locust. The "Book of Poetry and Gantang" tells that Zhao Bo once worked under the Gantang tree, and later generations were reluctant to cut down the tree in order to commemorate him, which is called "Gantang's Beloved", the ancients were still like this, why should we?
The appeal was successful, the Weinan locust tree was saved, and Zhang Zao was praised as the "Lieutenant of Forest Ranger County".
Zhang Zao's "official locust" refers to the locust tree planted next to the official road in the official palace, and the two capital official roads are the most prominent. If the locust tree is planted on both sides of the street, it is called the street locust, and the street is called locust street, locust ya or locust qu. Speaking of "Qu", it also leads to a "Nine Qu" incident that is contemporary of Zhang Zao.
In the fourteenth year of the Zhenyuan Dynasty (798), Wu Shuo served as Kyo Zhaoyin (equivalent to the mayor of Kyoto), and this person was cautious in his words and deeds. When the street locust is rare, the functional departments use elm trees to replant. After Wu Zhuo, who was nearly a rare person, found out, he immediately seemed to have changed his personality, and stopped screaming, even if he ordered the planting of locust trees, and finally shouted "Yu Fei Jiu Qu Play", which means that the elm trees are not worthy of the momentum of this Jiu Qu Street. The name "Huai Qu" is well known in the sky. Qu refers to the main roads that are accessible in all directions, and the Nine Qu means that these roads cross each other. Weinan County, with its special geographical location, has always been an important post station and palace in the official road of the two capitals. Today, the stone carving of the gate of Weinan County, "Three Qin Key Roads, Eight Provinces Through Qu", is still clearly visible, and the Dongfeng Avenue in front of the gate, with its verdant locust trees, seems to be obsessed with watching over the protection of the forest county, intending or accompanying the people of Weinan from ancient times to the present, from the present to the Ming.
"National Locust" "Family Locust"
In fact, "Guan Huai" has deep roots.
"Lady, gentleman." The beautiful lady of Heyang married King Wen of Zhou and had ten sons, especially King Wu and the Duke of Zhou. King Wu destroyed Shang Jianzhou, and the Zhou metric system made music. Zhou Gong was the "ancestor of culture", and the Zhou Dynasty was the founder of Chinese civilization. According to the representative works of Zhou Gong Thought, "Zhou Li" and "Shang Shu", three locust trees were planted outside the Zhou court, which is called "three locusts in the face, three public positions", which means that the three important ministers of the state, Taishi, Taifu, and Taibao, stand under the locust tree and discuss the state with Zhou Tianzi. In layman's terms, a good man has three gangs, a good man is Zhou Tianzi, and the three gangs are the three ministers. Acacia, Huaiye. Zhou Tianzi has the world in his heart, and the three ministers are both "Huaiyu" and "Huaicai", that is, they have both moral integrity and ability, and are loyal and patriotic. In addition, locust wood psychic. Lingzhi Lingxing, also known as Tiantian Star and Dragon Star, is the main agricultural affair. Farming is not separated from the soil, just like fish are not separated from the water. The sacrificial locust tree is sacrificed to the earth god, and the agricultural god Houji is eaten. The earth god is called "Society", the god of agriculture is "稷", and the locust tree is a metaphor for sheji, which refers to the state. The words "national locust" and "family locust" are endowed with the family and the world, and also represent high-ranking officials and nobles.
Legacy of locust city
In the last years of the Western Han Dynasty, a reading market arose near Taigaku in Kyoto. Under hundreds of rows of locust trees, students read books, literati talk, as well as books, study rooms and other items, exchanged for sale, so called "locust city". People sighed: Acacia, guanye, xueye. However, huaishi soon declined with the collapse of Wang Mang's new policy, until Yang Zhen, a Chinese yin of the Eastern Han Dynasty, was born, and the "legacy of Huaishi" was a revival, and Yang Zhen was also a brilliant example of "learning" and "official".
Yang Zhen, zi Boqi, famous and prestigious, but he lost his father prematurely. From about the age of 20, Yang Zhen inherited his father's business and began his teaching career. He first served his mother at Niuxinyukou at the foot of Mount Hua, while using his father's former school to collect apprentices. Like Confucius, he had no class in teaching, so there was an endless stream of scholars. The Huayue Collection records: "When Yang Zhenwei was young, he lived here to teach and apprentice, and scholars followed it like a city. Its land is multi-locust, because of the name of locust city. After his mother's death, Yang Zhen passed on the book at the Huayue Temple and in today's Lingbao Museum in Henan. Yang Zhen has been teaching for 30 years, and the total number of students has exceeded 3,000. Among the students, Yu Fang was the most famous, and he was the official of Sikong during the reign of Emperor Huan of Han. At that time, Yang Zhen was praised as the "Master of Kansai".
After the age of 50, Yang Zhen entered the career path and was promoted to Situ and Taiwei during the Han An Emperor's reign. At that time, the three dukes of the official system were Taiwei, Situ and Sikong. Particularly rare is Yang Zhen's son Yang Bing, grandson Yang Ci, and great-grandson Yang Biao, who all performed their duties as lieutenants during the reigns of Emperor Huan of Han, Emperor Ling of Han, and Emperor Xian of Han, respectively.
Li Baishiyun: "Kansai Yang Boqi, Han Ri used to be called Xian. Four generations of three dukes, the breeze spreads the sky. "The front hall of the Huayin YangGong Ancestral Hall has the inscription: Huai City Relics Leave Good Governance, Tongting Relics Shangkan Book.
Refer to the tree and cherish it
Kyoto Mayor Wu Zhuan stopped "replanting with elm" and ordered the planting of locust trees instead. Two years later, Wu Zhuo died, and his descendants "pointed to the tree and cherished it". Acacia, nostalgia, nostalgia for the deceased, nostalgia for relatives and friends, nostalgia for hometown.
Among the Three Sages of Weinan, bai juyi, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, and Kou Zhun, a famous northern song of the Northern Song Dynasty, both of whom are closely related to the locust tree.
In 814, the 43-year-old Bai Juyi ended the sad time of filial piety for his mother and returned to Chang'an to serve as the "Prince Zuo Zanshan Doctor", equivalent to the director of the office of the Prince's Mansion, and finally the future can be expected. Who knew that the assassination of the prime minister occurred the following year, and he was suspected of "overstepping his duties" and degrading Jiangzhou (江州, in modern Jiujiang, Jiangxi) in the south. In 817 AD, Bai Juyi composed the poem "Early Cicada", "Remembering the past in Dongye, listening to the palace locust flowers." Infinite thoughts in this day and age, clouds and trees around the city." The gist is to recall that when I was the director of the Prince's Mansion in the past, I always listened to the cicadas under the locust tree, and now I have a thousand thoughts, full of sorrow, thinking of my hometown relatives and friends, and making people dream of this place of the city. The acacia tree is a locust tree planted in the palace. Yunshu refers to the parting of relatives and friends, which should be Bai Juyihua's use of Du Fu's "Spring Remembrance of Li Bai" verse "Weibei Spring Tree, Jiangdong Sun Twilight Cloud", which is also "the thought of the cloud tree". We have reason to believe that Du Fushi's "Weibei Spring Tree" should refer to the old locust tree in Weibei, and Bai Juyi's "cloud tree" tree should be the old locust tree in Weinan.
In 819, Bai Juyi, who was nearly half a hundred years old, went to Zhongzhou (present-day Chongqing). Homesickness is particularly strong, so the poem "Ting Huai". The poem reads as follows:
In the south, only the green locust trees are rare.
Seven or eight of the ten kinds died, and even the living were fragmented.
Under the court of He This County, a single Plant.
Misty green tobacco leaves, yellow flower branches.
My house is on the water, and this shade is in front of the mound.
Suddenly I saw the end of the world, and I remembered when I was in the old garden.
Life has emotions, and encountering things involves thoughts.
The trees are jufur, and the situation is known to the old relatives.
As the name suggests, acacia refers to the locust trees planted in the courtyard, while the green locust trees are said to be lush and green after weathering the wind and rain. Bai Juyi's poems are straightforward and affectionate, although the locust tree is widely planted, but it grows on the homeland of the northern hometown, where is it. According to the "Biography of the Great Tang", Bai Juyi confessed to himself that south of Chungju, there is no shadow of the locust tree.
Folk writer Wang Anning's "Words of Kou Zhun" introduced that when the Northern Song Dynasty famous Xiang Kou Zhun was a child, he picked up a locust sapling in the field, and he carefully dug up the soil and planted it in the place where he was born - Zhujia Village (now called Xiang Village) in Guandi Town, Linwei District. Xiao Kou Zhun thrived with the small locust tree, and he learned to climb the tree and learn to pick up bird eggs in the dense branches. As Kou Zhun's officials grew bigger and bigger, the locust tree also grew cheerfully, "in the summer, its huge canopy shades the sky, and four or five trailers can be parked in the shade, which becomes a good place for villagers to cool off and chat."
In the third year of Jingde (1006), the 46-year-old Kou Zhun was dismissed from his post and went to Shaanzhou to become Zhizhou. Kou Zhun thought of his hometown and the hand-planted locust tree, and he rode back to Li on a donkey along the old Liangjing Official Road. The townspeople rushed to tell each other, and gathered Kou Zhun under his hand to plant locusts.
Kou was demoted, and arrived in Nanbinlei Prefecture at the age of 62, where he died of illness in September of the following year. His poem "Winter Hokusai" can reflect his nostalgia and affection. Poetry Cloud:
The cold wind fluttered in the garden, and the ai ri ming window sat in Hokusai.
Idly reminiscing about the old mountain has not been obtained, and the old tour shows the cloud cliff.
Kou Zhun once again elaborated on bai Juyi's meaning of "court locust". The locust trees in the courtyard were blown by the cold wind, expecting the warm sun to shine on the book window to the south. At the same time, Kou Zhun expanded the poem of the late Tang Dynasty poet Guan Xiu, "Remembering the mountain has not been obtained, and painting it is also pitiful", what comes to mind is the scene of him climbing Mount Hua with his father at the age of 7, when there was no more trouble, he actually wrote a poem about Mount Hua: "Only the sky is above, and there is no mountain and Qi." Raise your head to the red sun approaching, look back at the low white clouds. "Now things are human, the deceased are like si, what about the pride and ambition of childhood, and the hand-planted locust?"
Hand-planted locust oak wind and rain. A thousand years later, the tree was hollowed out and the farmers sheltered from the rain. Legend has it that the tree hole was so big that four people sat around and played cards. Today, "only half of the tree remains, and the new shoots emitted from below have grown into towering trees."
The world's first locust
One day, the author visited the ancient city of Tongguan. The tour guide pointed to a pile of locust tree stumps outside the West Gate and said that the story of Cao Cao cutting his beard and abandoning his robe took place here. Ma Chao pursued cao cao on horseback, and Cao Cao circled around the locust tree. Ma Chao stabbed at the past, not wanting to stab the locust tree, and when he pulled it out, He had already gone far. The tour guide then sighed that the old locust tree was cut down during the "Cultural Revolution", but it was a pity! It seems that some people want to ask questions, because the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" does not "cut the beard and abandon the robe". But most people may be thinking that if there were no locust tree, history would not repeat itself! Thinking like this, everyone was extremely unhappy, clamoring to see the ancient locust. Therefore, the tour guide led everyone to Shangshan Village in Tongyu Town, where there was an old locust tree, and its ID card was a blue iron sign, which stated that it was 1700 years old. The tree is 17 meters high, 3.1 meters in circumference, and the canopy covers an area of 150 square meters. According to time calculations, this tree roughly fell in the short-lived Western Jin Dynasty. Tourists ask questions, and the tour guide is vague.
Even the old locust tree in Lingao Town, Baishui County, which is known as the "first locust in the world" and renamed Fengjiashan Village as "Ancient Locust Village", also has two theories, one is han locust, 2000 years ago, and the other is Tang locust, 1400 years ago. No matter what year it is, the legend of the locust tree is sad. Miaoling woman borrowed the locust to avoid the rain, fell in love with the man at first sight, so she worshiped the locust as a matchmaker and married. But the good times did not last long, the woman was swept away by the fierce wind, and the man was martyred to hit the locust. The villagers held a funeral for them under the locust tree. The locust tree has not fallen green leaves for three years. After that, the grain here is abundant, and the people and livestock are prosperous.
In contrast, the most valuable writing is the old locust tree in Chengguan Qili Village (also known as "Da Huai Zhuang") in Heyang County, and the identity certification given to it by the Heyang County Greening Committee is: the age of the tree is 1500 years. The stone inscription under the tree is "Seven Mile Ancient Locust", and the villagers say that the tree requires 8 adults to hold hands to hold together. More noteworthy is that zhang dayou, the "three shangshu", was a native, and the harsh and harsh Yongzheng Emperor regarded him as his teacher, and repeatedly inscribed poems and plaques to praise him. In the fifty-fourth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1715), Zhang Dayou wrote the "Record of the Great Huai" during the period of filial piety for his mother.
Zhang Dayou said that there are 6 locust trees around his home, and the big locust tree planted by his ancestors is kind. This tree is deeply rooted, "those who rise from the ground, like dragons, like tigers lying down"; this tree "has thousands of branches and leaves, and is like a cloud hanging in the sky, and the shade is several acres". Zhang Dayou confessed that he had traveled to many places, including Yanzhao Qilu, the land of Jianghuai, and the Biansai Desert, "the best trees and rare trees and strange grasses I saw, and I can't remember it", but none of the locust trees in his hometown were "many and prosperous". He said emotionally, "Although in the past twenty years, the eunuchs have been in the dynasty, and the god of the form of the locust has never been in the dream, but cannot forget it", and finally he blessed it, and his home and country feelings were touching. The text is as follows: Locust Gu Jiamu, human spirit. May the dwellers have no wilderness, no wilderness of agriculture, no wilderness of industry and commerce, and prosperity of the new moon, so that they will flourish with this locust forever.
This means that the locust tree is originally an auspicious tree, and people are more psychic than trees. Pray that the hometown readers will not waste their studies, the farmers will not waste their fields, the workers and businessmen will not waste business, and everyone will change with each passing day and harvest full, so that they can be as lush as the big locust tree, blessing the descendants, and the big locust tree, let the wanderer miss forever.
Author: Guo Fahong