If you want to know how fast the "eight hundred mile plus urgent" is, you may wish to come to my hometown of Pingding County, Shanxi Province. Every day on the sixteenth day of the first month, Dongzhai Village in Niangziguan Town will hold a folk performance activity called "Running Horse Platoon", which truly reproduces the scene dedicated to the transmission of emergency information in ancient times.
According to relevant historical materials, the folk activity of "running horses and platoons" in Xiadongzhai originated in the Han Dynasty and flourished in the Tang Dynasty, which was a way for the army stationed in "Dong Zhuolei" at that time to convey information.
According to the "Chronicle of Pingding County", during the Middle Ping Period of the Eastern Han Dynasty (184~189), Dong Zhuo served as a state pastor and inspected the place several times, seeing that the mountain terrain (Lower Dongzhai Village) was steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack, so he built fortifications here and set up garrisons, known in history as "Dong Zhuo Lei".
The Qing Dynasty Gu Zuyu's "Minutes of Reading Historical Opinion" says: "Dong Zhuolei is ninety miles northeast of the prefecture. Wei Shouzhi called The Way of Zhuocheng. Unity Zhiyun: Tang placed the Chengtian Army here, and Gaiquan was close to Wei Zeguan, which was defended by the Chengtian Army during the Tang Dynasty. ”
XiadongZhai is not more than ten miles away from Niangzi Pass, which is the throat of Jindi to Yan Zhao, the location is very dangerous, and in ancient times it has always been a place where soldiers must fight.
Nanshan, known as Purple Mountain in ancient times, was the former place of Zhang Fengcheng's "Chengtian Army City" in the first year of the Tang Dynasty (766), and pei du also stationed troops here when Pei Du marched on Heshuo in the year of Changqing Yi (821).
In the fourth year (979) of the Taiping Revival of the Song Dynasty, the "Chengtian Army" was abolished and renamed "Chengtian Zhai", and Dong Zhuolei was called "Chengtian Dong Zhai", referred to as Dong Zhai for short, which has been used to this day.
Xiadongzhai as an ancient military station, often have messengers riding by, in order to commemorate the ancestors, the lower Dongzhai people will be the ancient soldiers riding to convey information activities gradually evolved into a folk activity.
The "warriors" who run horses will ride on their own farm horses, wear various costumes, carry "official documents", wear red belts with the words "National Frontier Matters Are Urgent, Report to the Beijing Division", "100,000 Fire Emergencies, No Obstruction" and "Guan Pass Station, All the Way", and ride naked horses in a bluestone alley in the village that is 100 meters long and about 4 meters wide.
For more than a thousand years, whether it was war or famine, the running horse platoon has never been interrupted in this small village. In this village, which has only 500 or 600 people on weekdays, thousands of tourists gather every year on the 16th day of the first month.
In 2017, Xinhua News Agency broadcast the grand running horse row here to the global synchronous network. According to the Xinhua News Agency, 250,000 overseas viewers watched online that day, locking their eyes on this small village. #My hometown my year ##阳泉头条 #
