The legend of Pingjiang Duzi Temple
The legend of the apparition of Du Fu's tomb spring water
Deng Rongsheng wrote an oral account by Old Master He
Duzi Temple, also known as Du Zi Ancestral Hall, Du Fu Tomb, Du Fu Temple. It is located in Tingting Lake, Xiaotian Village, Anding Town, Pingjiang County. The temple enshrines the only great idol, the poet Du Fu, which is a temple in the Changjiang (ancient name of Pingjiang) that advocates the pilgrimage of the edified believers. Behind the temple is the relics of Du Fu's resting place, and it is also the only authentic tomb in the country with Du Fu's remains.
Tingting Lake is located in the former Changjiang County Zhizhong County Ping (Tangpingjiang County Seat) a few miles south of the Xiaotian Village. It is bordered by Yunshan Mountain to the east and Tianyue Mufu Mountain to the north, and is a hill formed by the gentle extension of the Fushou Mountain Range. Looking around, the layers of mountains are stacked, lush, and stretch for hundreds of miles; surrounded by hills and hills, staggered, dense oil and tea, bamboo forests; the miluo river runs by, and the two sides of the woye plain domain, a horse Pingchuan, known as the Changjiang granary.
The "lake" known as the patio lake is actually a small mountain pond, and the water of this pond is only gathered by the rainy water in the sky. Because of its small pond the size of a "patio" and the fact that there is no runoff water, it is jokingly called "lake" by the romantic Changjiang people in exaggerated ways. Coincidentally, although the area around Patio Lake is located on a hill with a higher terrain, no matter how arid it is, it never lacks water, and there is always a gush of sweetness oozing from the ground to nourish the people. For thousands of years, people living in this area have lived a life of drought and flood, food and clothing. So much so that the folk have always regarded this area as a treasure land of feng shui, a blessed land of caves!
Due to the unique geographical environment of Patio Lake and the hard work of people, the people in this area live a self-sufficient, food and clothing life all year round.
Time is like an arrow, and the sun and moon are like shuttles. Unconsciously, it had reached the fifth year of the Tang Dynasty's calendar, and the season had entered the early winter season, when suddenly one day the county magistrate came forward to bury a coffin coffin here. Later, people here heard that the tomb was buried by a court official named Du Fu, or a great literary hero who could write poetry!
According to the ceremonial law at that time, after the death and burial of a loved one, his descendants must be accompanied by the grave for three years, otherwise they did not follow the filial piety system, which was a serious violation of the law and would be punished by law. Of course, the ancient people's filial piety is also a very conscious thing, not to mention the Du family who came from a famous family! After Du Fu's tomb was built, Du Fu's son Du Zongwu built a grass hut next to Du Fu's tomb, and then lived with it. Because Du Fu's family went to Changjiang to vote for Fei Yin (Fei Yin, also known as Fei Zhijun, who was an official in Changjiang at that time), he temporarily lived in the county government (Zhongxian Ping) apartment, and there were no other relatives and friends in Changjiang, nor did he have a fixed house to live in. Therefore, with the financial support of the county government, the mountain soil was added next to the tomb and the tomb was expanded. Du Zongwu's whole family simply lived in the tomb together, and they lived a pastoral life of living with the tomb while doing their filial piety to guard the tomb.
Since Du Fu was buried in Xiaotian Tingting Lake, the news spread ten times and ten hundred, and soon spread throughout the neighboring eight townships of Changjiang. People came to Du Zongwu's house curiously, and they felt great admiration for the foreigners in this family who were "washi" (dialect: speaking) and were all "beating" (dialect: foreign population sounds) of this family! They think that they come from a big place, and the port (dialect: outside world) is seen a lot, not to mention the officials from Luoyang Capital! As a result, the family of Du Fu's son Du Zongwu was even more worshipped. I hope that I and my children and grandchildren can also read and study like Zongwu, know literacy, and know the book!
As the saying goes, "If your children and grandchildren don't read, where will the officials come from!" Under the influence of "studying to become an official" and "becoming an official and getting rich", how people hope that future generations can also prosper and prosper, rise to the rank of official and get rich, and shine in the court! As people's awareness of the expectation that their children and grandchildren can read and write continues to rise, the call for the construction of temples for Du Fu is also getting higher and higher, and it just so happens that some coincidences in nature have also followed! No, there is still such a story in the folk!
According to legend, during the Gwanghwa years of the late Tang Dynasty, the whole territory of the Changjiang River has not rained for three consecutive years, the Miluo River has long been cut off and dried up, and the draft of people and animals has been very difficult, so people will look for water everywhere to quench their thirst. Just when the earth was dry and the people were not happy, only Dingkou, who lived in the area of Patio Lake and hundreds of smoke stoves, never had difficulty drinking water! It turned out that there was a particularly special well less than ten meters away from Du Fu's tomb, and it was this well that solved the people's worries!
It is also strange to say that the water quality of this well is clear and the texture is sweet and pure, if it encounters a flood disaster, the flash flood flows, the well is never submerged, and the water is still clear to the bottom. Even in the face of such a drought disaster that did not rain for three years, the spring water never dried up, and the Qin water (spring water) has been continuously moisturizing this side of the land. It not only ensured drinking water for thousands of people and livestock in the adjacent area, but also watered this large area of farmland. As soon as the news spread, the mountain people of the eight townships in ten miles came to Du Fu's tomb one after another to beg for (get) water, resulting in an endless stream of people coming and going throughout the dry season.
According to the ancient customs of Pingjiang, in addition to the mortal management of the people, the immortal world also has a set of management institutions. Such as the main city god, mountain god, land, well god, etc. all have management functions, and at every moment in their respective scope of the function. The farther Dingkou is not managed by the same "mountain god and land", and if you want to go to the range of water that does not belong to your own traditional water intake, it can only be "begging", so it is called "begging for water". And to go to the well less than ten meters in front of Du Fu's tomb to get water, of course, to ask the poet Du Fu for water! Therefore, when fetching water, they would reverently bow down to Du Fu's grave, and some of them would burn incense and pray for the blessing of the god Zimei.
Since people had eaten the sweet well water in front of Du Fu's tomb, they not only felt that there were fewer diseases, but people generally felt refreshed, and their work was also strong, and some of them had headaches and stomachaches and drank the divine water immediately after drinking. Then someone found that there were more than a dozen people in the mouth of Ding who drank the water from the well before Du Fu's grave, and there were several people who were still not the first in the high school. Some children who can't read have suddenly improved their grades, and the stupid children who love to skip school and play have also changed their ways to obedience and love to study. In response to this change, people invariably remembered the well in front of Du Fu's tomb in Tinghu Lake, thinking that it was the divine water that drank the well in front of Du Fu's tomb. For a time, Du Fu was protecting the people of Changjiang, and Du Fu was showing his spirit! The saying of the god well in front of Du Fu's tomb has spread in all directions! There are also some good deeds that there are two stupid children in the sandy area who have become spiritual (smart) after drinking the water of the patio lake, and there are dozens of stubborn children in Aotou Mountain, Xiaotangpu and other places who have also become smarter because they have eaten the water of the patio lake. It was even rumored that a deaf child in Baling had asked god for water from the Du Fu Temple from a hundred miles away, and it was actually cured. Since then, Du Fu is a god, and the word of being a god has spread in the Changjiang Yi Realm, and those who come to worship Du Fu and ask for water and ask for divination are even more day and day.
At this moment, a piece of heart disease in the Changjiang official palace has always been hanging on the heart! That is, the poetry saint Du Fu has been resting in the county for hundreds of years, and it is a pity that no temple has been built for it so far!
According to the regulations of the Tang Dynasty at that time, the three religions of Confucianism, Interpretation and Taoism in China were distinguished by "Confucianism" (Wen) to build "temples"; "Interpretation" to build "temples"; and "Tao" to build "views". According to Du Fu's achievements during his lifetime and the love of the people, it is entirely necessary to build a temple to place a golden body and show future generations. Only because of the lack of financial resources has not been able to achieve the wish, now Du Fu in my Changyi apparition is one of the great blessings of the whole territory. Therefore, he immediately went along with the trend, funded and the local people built a temple for people to hang and worship next to Du Fu's tomb, and shaped Du Fu's appearance into a golden body, offering incense day and night, so there was a Duzi Temple.
After the Duzi Temple was built, the devotees who went to the Duzi Temple in Xiaotianting Lake to worship Du Fu were endless, and the incense before the god case was exuberant and the green smoke was every year. Believers in Changjiangjing's Changshou Street, Guanyiling, Mufu Mountain, Zhongxian Ping, JinpuGuan, Xiaotangpu, Yugongqiao, and other areas of Changjiang Province, all children's copying (enlightenment), meeting tests, township examinations, temple examinations, and examination institute examinations, and other things related to reading and reading, must go to the Duzi Temple to ask for signatures and ask for the blessing of the Great Sage of Zimei. Even the believers in the borders of Liuyang, Xiaochangsha, Tongcheng, Hubei, and Jiangxi were not afraid of Lu Yao, took plates of rice and rice, walked for ten and a half days and a half to the Duzi Temple to ask god for precipitation, and blessed their descendants to seek meritorious names, hoping to honor their ancestors!
Among the many devotees who went to the Duzi Temple to worship, many of them were literati and inkers, and in addition to kneeling and asking for blessings, they could not help but pay homage to the poems. His representative works include Xu Tuntian's "Tomb of Du Gongbu":
"Water meets Miluo, and the heart of heaven exists deeply."
The distant ministry died to accompany the soul of the doctor.
It has been lost through the ages, and the wind and turmoil have the same source.
The mountains are not hanging, and the cold sun is under the Western Plains. ”
Du Fu's tomb has undergone ten dynastic changes, suffered more than 1,300 years of wind and frost, although it has been repaired many times, but the legendary well has still been preserved to this day. However, the wells of that year were no longer drinking water, because the local people all used convenient tap water. For safety and aesthetic reasons, the well has been converted into a small pool made of bricks, and the water in the pool will never dry up. Many tourists who come to pay homage to Du Fu's tomb, especially parents with small children, will go to the pool to take a handful of spring water and tap it on the children's foreheads to show "wake up". I hope to dip into the literary tone of the poem Saint Du Fu, and hope that the children will be more intelligent, successful in their studies, and become the materials of the pillars in the future to serve the motherland!
About the Author
Deng Rongsheng, a member of the Communist Party of China, worked in the southern Xinjiang of the motherland and later served in the party and government departments of Pingjiang County. He likes to excavate local history and intangible cultural heritage, and has long studied the culture of the Du Fu family in Pingjiang, and has published dozens of articles in the media. He is the author of "Du Fu in Pingjiang", "Collection of Ancient Poems in Pingjiang", and co-edited "Pingjiang Dialect" and other works. He participated in the compilation of the "Pingjiang Intangible Cultural Heritage" series of books, "Pingjiang Blue Culture", "Hundred-year-old Founding General Zhang Zhen", and the main author of "Pingjiang Memory and Customs" published by Hunan People's Publishing House. Participated in the compilation of "Yueyang Geographical Names Story" transformed into the national "Gazetteer" and "Gazetteer Dictionary".
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