We all know that Israel has a Dead Sea, but we all know that there is also a Dead Sea in China, that is, the Salt Lake in Yuncheng, Shanxi. Yuncheng Salt Lake and the United States Utah Great Salt Lake, Russia Siberia Kuchuk Salt Lake, and known as the world's three major sodium sulfate type inland salt lake, people can float in the water, so it is known as "China's Dead Sea".
Yuncheng Yanhu South is surrounded by the verdant and steep Zhongtiao Mountain, north of Emei MingtiaoGang, east of Shuishui Yaotai, west of the Yellow River Gudu, is the largest lake in Shanxi Province. Here there are thousands of silver islands, blue waves, lake sparkling, since ancient times there is a "silver lake" beauty.
Yuncheng Salt Lake was called "Hedong Salt Pond" in ancient times, and the salt produced was called "Hedong Salt", which was famous throughout the country for its more than 4,000 years of salt production history. In ancient times, the Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor launched a tribal war with Xuan You at the salt lake and gained control of the salt lake, and since then there has been the theory of Yan Huang's grandson. When Emperor Shun inspected the Salt Lake in Yuncheng, he excitedly stroked the piano and sang the "Song of the South Wind": "The Kaoru of the South Wind can relieve the sorrow of our people; when the South Wind is Xi, it can fu the wealth of the people", which highly summarizes the unique social and economic value of the Yuncheng Salt Lake. Now, Yuncheng's famous Nanfeng Chemical Group, which is named after it, develops chemical products based on the brine of Yuncheng Salt Lake and is the largest inorganic salt production base in the country.
Hedong salt was originally exposed to sunlight, natural crystallization after the collection of work, with the increase in the number of people, the demand for salt is growing, the production process continues to improve, to the Tang Dynasty appeared "five-step salt production method", also known as "reclamation and drying method". People divide the salt lake into furrows, and manually control the brine concentration, shortening the salt production time and increasing the amount of salt produced. This salt production method predates the European sun-based salt method by more than 1100 years, and is called "the living fossil in the history of ancient Chinese science and technology" by british scientist Dr. Joseph Needham, which is the birthplace of the world's salt culture and is also included in the national intangible cultural heritage list.
The "five-step salt production method" fully reflects the wisdom and wisdom of the Chinese nation, and the increase in salt production has created huge wealth. During the Tang and Song dynasties, the salt tax of Yuncheng Salt Lake once accounted for 1/6-1/8 of the country's total financial revenue, which was a veritable national treasure, which gave birth to the world-famous Jin merchants and made significant contributions to the survival and reproduction of the Chinese nation.
In the history of the mainland salt industry, Yuncheng Salt Lake occupies an important page, from which salt "goes out of Qinlong in the west, Fan Deng in the south, Yan Dynasty in the north, and Zhou and Song dynasties in the east", which has become one of the important salt transportation centers radiating throughout the country. Yuncheng is also named after the "City of Salt Transport".
The salt in the lake is weaving and dotted with dots, and the water on the four sides of the beach is vast and sparkling, and the salt piles that are as white as snow reflect the lake water, forming a spectacle of "a pool of snow in the middle of the ages".
Yuncheng Salt Lake contains a lot of sodium, calcium, magnesium and other elements, when the temperature rises in the summer, the salt-loving algae in the lake multiply in large quantities, and the pigments contained in the lake make the lake water appear beautiful pink. When the temperature is lower than 0 ° in winter, magnesium sulfate will crystallize from the brine, naturally forming a crystal clear, diverse shape of pink "magnesium flower", brilliant into the shape of a diamond. This unique scenery is known as the "Colorful Salt Lake".
Yuncheng Salt Lake has three musts: floating in the Dead Sea, black mud health, and hot springs. The lake is rich in salt, the density of the lake is greater than the density of the human body, and the buoyancy generated is 30% higher than that of fresh water, so people can naturally float up after entering the water, the water is not bellyless, and it can also swim in the blue waves without swimming.
People come here not only for salt water floating, but also for black mud bathing, salt lake black mud is rich in a variety of minerals and trace elements beneficial to the human body, is the best skin care and beauty products. Using black mud to apply to the face and body can cleanse and nourish the skin, and also has a significant effect on some diseases.
Originating from the deep geothermal mineral water of more than 2,000 meters deep in the salt lake, the annual water temperature of the spring mouth is 68 ° C, because the water contains high iron and salt, the spring color is like rust red, known as China's red soup "golden spring". These peculiarities of the salt lake are stunning.
The Jiuqu Yellow River gave birth to Chinese civilization, and the Yuncheng Salt Lake gave birth to Chinese salt culture. Sit by the pink salt lake, enjoy the strange scenery of the salt lake, also taste the profundity and infinite charm of Chinese salt culture and Yellow River culture, and listen to the long footsteps of the evolution of human civilization.
The Chinese Dead Sea and the Tale of the West Chamber seem to be incomparable, but they are related to the same place. In Yuncheng there is a legendary temple that has been immortalized for thousands of years because of the love story, that is, the Pushou Temple in Yongji. The temples in the world do not talk about love, only the Yongji Pu salvation temple. This is the place where the story of the famous classical opera "West Chamber" takes place.
The Yuan Dynasty drama master Wang Fushi's miscellaneous drama "The Tale of the West Chamber" narrates a moving love story: During the first year of Tang Zhen, the former Dynasty Cui Xiangguo died of illness, and Lady Zheng took her daughter Yingying, the maid Red Lady and the little boy Huanlang and dozens of people to help the coffin back to their hometown, and there was an obstacle on the way, and they temporarily stayed in the Pushou Temple. Scholar Zhang Sheng went to Beijing to catch the exam, encountered rain on the way, went to the Universal Salvation Temple to temporarily avoid playing, happened to meet Cui Yingying, and the two fell in love at first sight. In order to pursue yingying, Zhang Sheng did not go to the beijing master, so he borrowed a box in the temple to live.
Sun Feihu, the general guarding the Pujin Bridge, heard that Cui Yingying looked like a flower and looked like a heavenly immortal, so he led 5,000 soldiers to surround the temple and wanted to rob yingying as his wife. Lady Cui was helpless to ask for help, and was forced to promise that those who had retired from the thieves would marry the warbler and accompany the dowry. So Zhang Sheng wrote a letter to his friend Du Qi, the white horse general, and Du Qi's rescue troops arrived, and Sun Feihu's soldiers were defeated and captured. Unexpectedly, Lady Cui did not believe what she said, and after the siege was lifted, she was married and refused to marry her daughter to Zhang Sheng, and Zhang Sheng fell ill because of this.
The maid Red Lady was involved in the red line under the moon, and Zhang Sheng and Yingying were able to meet late at night, which was noticed by Lady Cui, and was furious, torturing Red Niang, who argued with reason, cleverly persuaded Lady Cui, and finally agreed to give Ying Ying to Zhang Sheng. "Red Lady" became synonymous with matchmakers from this. Zhang Sheng bid farewell to the warblers, went to Beijing to catch the examination, won the title, and finally became a lover.
"The Tale of the West Chamber" is a well-known classical drama masterpiece in the mainland, the story of Zhang Sheng and Cui Yingying breaking through the feudal shackles and pursuing the freedom of love has made young men and women of all dynasties yearn for it, and the Universal Salvation Temple has also become a world-famous love holy place.
Pushou Temple was founded in the Tang Wu Zetian period, formerly known as Xiyong Qingyuan, is a Buddhist Ten Square Zen Temple. Legend has it that during the Fifth Dynasty, Hedong Jiedu rebelled, and the Later Han sent Guo Wei to fight. Because of the strong defense, Guo Wei besieged Puzhou (蒲州, in present-day Yongji) for a year, and could not conquer it, so he summoned monks from the Western Yongqing Temple to ask for countermeasures. The monk said: The general sends a good heart to the city of Keyi! Guo Wei immediately folded the arrow and swore an oath: On the day of the city, he will not kill a single person. The next day, he did capture puzhou city. Since then, The Western Yong Qingyuan has been renamed Pushou Temple.
Pushou Temple was built on the head of Emeiyuan in the ancient city of Yongji Puzhou, where the terrain is high and open, the view is wide, and the temple sits north and faces south, condescending, and is built according to the yuan. The layout of the building is three-story platforms, east, middle and west, and the scale is magnificent and unique. From the top to the bottom, the temple pavilion, the gallery stupa, according to the posture, gradually ascended, giving people a majestic, dignified, upright and handsome feeling.
On the high platform, the 17-meter-high bell tower has a soaring cornice and is majestic, and the bell tower is a heavy-eaves mountain-style imitation Tang Dynasty building, with two floors, surrounded by doors and windows, corridors and railings for tourists to ascend and look out. There is a huge bell hanging in the building, and the front of the building is linked to "high standard across the vault, 100-foot dangerous building; the bell vibrates the world, and all thoughts are empty and enlightens the world", which has a strong Buddhist charm and is also appropriate.
In the compromise of "The Siege of the White Horse" in the "Tale of the West Chamber", Zhang Sheng invited the old lady and elder Faben to climb this building to watch the battle between the two armies and the battle of the white horse general to capture Sun Feihu. Today, climbing the stairs and looking down, imagining the scene of the battle of "half a million thieves, sweeping away when rolling up the floating clouds", and experiencing the taste of "generals on the white horse who are righteous and thin clouds, and the scrivener pen array sweeps a thousand troops", I can't help but feel thousands of feelings.
After passing the bell tower, continue upwards, in the courtyard of the tower stands a simple and elegant thirteen-story four-sided cone-shaped brick tower with an inner square and outer square hollow barrel eaves, 40 meters high, formerly known as the stupa, because the story of Zhang Sheng and Cui Yingying in the West Chamber records takes place under the tower, so it is commonly known as "Warbler Tower".
The Warbler Tower is not only quaint and spectacular, but also known for its special structure, exquisite craftsmanship, and strange echo effect "Universal Rescue Toad Sound". Together with the Echo Wall of the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, the Pagoda of Baolun Temple in Sanmenxia, and the "Sound of Stone Qinqin" in the Tongnan Great Buddha Temple in Sichuan, it is known as the Four Great Echo Buildings of the Mainland. It is also known as the World's Six Great Chi Pagodas with the Shaking Head Tower in Shan State, Myanmar, the Music Tower in Szolnok, Hungary, the Shanta in Marax, Morocco, the Clock Tower in Paris, France, and the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy.
It is said that when you hit the stone on the west side of the Warbler Tower, you will hear the crisp and pleasant "Kwa! Wow! "The sound of frogs. There was a frog-striking platform in Tacitus, and I hit it with stones, and I really heard a similar frog chirping, and I couldn't help but marvel at it. This strange phenomenon is one of the eight scenic spots of Yongji in ancient times, attracting countless people to come here, where people bow their heads to hit stones, listen to the frogs, linger on the back and forth, and marvel. This has been a mystery for hundreds of years, until the late 1980s, when it was uncovered by fieldwork and testing by scientists.
Behind the Yingying Pagoda is the Daxiong Treasure Hall, and the three large stone carved Buddha statues on the Shrine are relics of the late Southern and Northern Dynasties, which are rare artistic treasures. Zhang Sheng's "borrowed box" Xi xuan was in the west corner of this hall.
The Ewha-in Temple on the east side of the Daxiong Treasure Hall, commonly known as the "Warbler Temple", is the temporary residence of the Cui Yingying family to live in the Pu salvation temple. The plaque of "Pear Blossom Deep Courtyard" on the quaint and exquisite weeping flower gate is eye-catching, and the poetry of "Pear Blossom Courtyard Dissolving Moon, Willow Pond Light Breeze" on both sides shows the elegance and tranquility of here.
This is a small courtyard with the characteristics of northern Chinese folklore. Sitting north facing south, the south has a courtyard gate, the north main room is the old lady's room, and the west wing room is the room of the warbler and the red bride. The East Wing is Huan Lang's living room. The plots of "Lai Marriage", "Invitation to Banquet", "Jumping the Wall", and "Torture Red" in "The Tale of the West Chamber" all occur in this courtyard.
The small and exquisite Ewha Courtyard still silently tells that gentle love story. Where the green moss is mottled, who knows how many fangs are close to the steps; in the floating of dark incense, how many soft whispers have been whispered. That "when the moon is in the west wing, the windward household is half open." The flowers and shadows on the partition wall moved, and it was suspected that the jade people came" The ancient song of "unconsciously and leisurely came to mind, which led me into the reverie of "like a fool, and the heart is like a drunk".
The advent of the "Tale of the West Chamber" made the Temple of Universal Salvation famous. Beautiful and moving love stories have been shaking people's hearts for thousands of years. I also specially came to this holy place of love to feel the beauty of love, and I hope that there are lovers in the world who will eventually become dependents.
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