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The web drama "The Wrath of the Ghost Blowing Lights" tells the story of Chen Yulou, the leader of the Xieling Mountains, who joined forces with the warlord Luo Laowei and the partridge whistle of the mountain taoist to explore the tomb of the Yuan in Xiangxi Bottle Mountain.
The novel is fictional, but few people know that in Shimen County, northwest of Hunan Province, there is indeed a bottle mountain, and among the peaks of the bottle mountain, there is indeed a mountain that looks similar to a gourd.
Don't you think nature is too peculiar?
The place where Huju Mountain is located is the boundary ridge between The two provinces of Hunan and Hubei, near 30 degrees north latitude, the altitude of the peak is generally above 2000 meters, and the main peak is as high as 2098.7 meters, which is the roof ridge of Hunan. In ancient times, it belonged to the Ba people's country, and later gradually evolved into nearly ten ethnic groups such as the Tujia and Miao.
My master, Master Lingwu, is a native of Luoping Township, Shimen County, and Luoping Township is in the boundary of Hu bottle mountain, and I had the privilege of going to master's hometown and visiting the bottle mountain by the way.
Hu bottle mountain is a set of Huangshan Xiongxiong, Huashan Danger, Suoxi Wonder, Guilin Show in one of the wonderland, the canyon is indeed very beautiful, can attract me, is the legend of The Bottle Mountain.
In the local area, I listened to a lot of legends, two of which attracted my interest, the first one is similar to "Nuqing Xiangxi", "Nuqing Xiangxi" is looking for the tomb of the great general of the Yuan Dynasty, and the Hu bottle mountain has the legend of the tomb of the Cuban king.
After the Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin took the throne, the king of Fengba was a king with a different surname, and during the reign of Emperor Duzong of Song, the sixth generation of the king of Ba disobeyed the jurisdiction of the Great Song, and the xingbing army attacked the surrounding villages and robbed a lot of property, and the King of Song repeatedly warned, helpless to rise up in the army, and finally the king of Ba was defeated and died in the rebellion. In order to appease these kings with different surnames, the King of Song gave him a lot of gold and silver treasures, and buried the King of Ba on the Pot Bottle Mountain. Legend has it that in the tomb of King Ba, in addition to countless rare treasures, there is also a bead of fixed face given by the King of Song, it is said that the living people contain beads, which can keep their faces from aging, and the dead people can keep their bodies from rotting.
When the coffin of King Ba went up the mountain, there were eighteen strong men carrying coffins, eighteen strong men carrying coffins to the cornices, and finally entering the tomb, eighteen strong men martyred the Lord, and the corpses were hanging on the cliffs, leaving behind the scenery of "Hanging Coffin Mountain", "Dingyan Slope", "Ba King's Palace" and so on.
It is said that the tomb of Ba Wang is guarded by white tigers and white snakes, and outsiders cannot approach it. No one has verified that the legend is somewhat true, but since the Ming Dynasty, people have constantly entered the mountains to find the royal tomb, either falling to their deaths in the canyon or in vain.
It is strange that when scientists studied the primary forest of Hujia Mountain, they found rare animals such as albino clouded leopards, South China tigers, apes, big spirit cats, golden pheasants, jungle pythons and so on. Why these animals are albino is still a mystery, and scientists can't find an answer.
Since 1985, there have been national archaeologists, stationed in hujushan town for many years, and only evacuated after 5 years, and the locals heard that some troops had entered and many people had died. But such rumors do not have much credibility.
In 1994, Huju Mountain was listed as an ecological nature reserve by UNESCO. Whether it is to protect the ecology or to protect the tomb of Ba Wang, it is unknown.
Nowadays, Hujia Mountain has been developed into a tourist spot, and many places can be visited, but some places are guarded by locals to prevent outsiders from entering.
The second story I want to tell is related to Chiang Kai-shek. Chiang Kai-shek's original name was Chiang Chi-qing, so why did he change his name to "Jieshi"? It turned out to be related to a man named Lin Dexuan in Shimen County.
Lin Dexuan was Sun Yat-sen's right-hand man, a member of the first League, and a kuomintang elder, he was both literate and martial, warm and open-minded, once studied in Japan, when he was in Japan, he met Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Kai-shek had a lot of friendship.
When Chiang Kai-shek saw that Lin Dexuan would carry a blue-gray stone wherever he went, he felt very strange and asked what was going on. Lin Dexuan did not hide it either, and said the origin of this "spirit stone".
It turned out that when Lin Dexuan was young, he often went to the river to touch the fish, and once when he touched the fish on the shore, he did not expect to step on a stone, fell down in the river at once, and the fish in his hand was gone, he grabbed the stone under his feet and was about to break it, but he was surprised, only to see that above the stone, there seemed to be a white-bearded old man, who was looking at him and smiling. He turned the stone over and over again to see that there were several white marks on the blue-gray stone, both like a white-bearded old man and like a grassy "jie" character.
He was curious, so he took the stone home. That night, he had a dream in which a white-bearded immortal said to him, "When the waters rise, I transform myself, and after years of training, I gather my divine energy, and if I am a wise person in this world, I will bring the god to life." After that, if you do the work of the world, you must worship the descendants of Ziya, and the grass people will hide a hundred miles away, and there will be a path of martial fingering. Remember, remember. ”
After Lin Dexuan woke up from the dream, he remembered the verses in the dream, so he told his father about this strange dream and verse. After the father saw the stone, he also felt very strange, so he asked several old people to consult, and one of the old men explained that the person in the dream was Jiang Ziya, which was to let the child worship Jiang Ziya's descendants as a teacher!
There is a local martial artist named Jiang Maozhai who has both culture and martial arts, and is a descendant of Jiang Ziya. So Lin Dexuan came to the door with a gift and begged Jiang Maozhai to accept Lin Dexuan as a disciple. After Jiang Maozhai saw the strange stone, he asked Lin Dexuan to take it with him at all times, saying that this spirit stone was his lucky star.
It is very strange to say that Lin Dexuan has been blessed with high stars since then, graduated from Hunan Benmu Academy (later known as Hunan Gongwutang), joined the new army of the Qing Dynasty, fought many times, and the people around him were killed and wounded countless times, but he did not have anything at all, from platoon leader step by step to pipe belt, assistant staff, and standard unification. He witnessed the corruption of the Qing officialdom and was dissatisfied.
In 1904, Lin Dexuan passed through Changsha to meet with Huang Xing, the leader of the Huaxing Association, Song Jiaoren and others to discuss the matters of the revolution, and secretly purchased guns with Liu Fuji, Hu Youhua and others to recruit members and prepare for an armed uprising. Betrayed by traitors and wanted by the Qing court, he had to go into exile in Japan, during which time he met Sun Yat-sen, who was trusted by his like-mindedness. In August of the following year (1905), Sun Yat-sen established the League in Japan, and Lin Dexuan was one of the first members, during which he met Chiang Kai-shek, who was also called Chiang Zhiqing at this time. But it didn't take long for Chiang Kai-shek to return to China. The two met again in 1909, when Chiang Kai-shek was studying at the Zhenwu School in Tokyo and also joined the League.
At this time, Chiang Kai-shek changed his name from the original Chiang Chi-ching to "Chiang Kai-shek", with the character "Jieshi". Chiang Kai-shek and Lin Dexuan had more and more contacts, and the two admired each other and had a sense of pity for each other.
When Lin Dexuan learned that Chiang Kai-shek had changed his name to Chiang Kai-shek and that the word "Jieshi" was "Jieshi", he took out the spirit stone and showed it to Chiang Kai-shek, and then told Chiang Kai-shek the origin of the spirit stone. Chiang Kai-shek looked at the word "介" on the spirit stone and liked it very much. Lin Dexuan felt that Chiang Kai-shek was related to the spirit stone, so he gave the spirit stone to the beauty of adulthood and gave a poem: "Heaven and earth have spirituality, and the stones are born of pots; hands touch the stone face, and the rich and noble follow you." Jiang Huishi said: "The eldest brother gave the spirit stone, and Zhongzheng was frightened; the heavens and the earth and the people were noble, and from then on, jieshi was called."
Since then, Chiang Kai-shek has become "Chiang Kai-shek."
Strange to say, after Lingshi followed Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Kai-shek soared step by step, while Lin Dexuan died of illness in 1928 and was posthumously awarded the title of general of the army.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, chiang kai-shek returned to Nanjing from Chongqing, and for some unknown reason, the stone actually disappeared, and chiang kai-shek went downhill. In 1975, on his deathbed in Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek sighed: "Jieshi is around, and he will not come to Taiwan."
This is the story of Chiang Kai-shek and the Spirit Stone of the Kettle Bottle Mountain, although the characters are real, but the events have an element of fabrication.
In fact, the real history of Chiang Kai-shek's name change is based on the "Zhou Yi", "Zhou Yi" Yu Gua's "June 2" words: "between the stone, not all the time, Zhen Ji"; "Not all the time, Sadayoshi, Ichinasa." "Li Jianhou, xingshi."
Meaning: Those who become great things are conducive to the marching and fighting of the feudal state.
Chiang Kai-shek, who was studying at the "Zhenwu Academy" in Japan, was influenced by the revolutionary ideas of the League and was determined to expel the Manchus and restore China. Therefore, his name change also reflects his lofty ambitions.
This is the real story of Jiang Zhiqing's name change.
Every scenic place has beautiful legends, and the same is true of Hu bottle mountain, after all, it is on the mysterious 30 degrees north latitude, and there are more mysteries waiting for people to solve.