Bayu Landscape Scenic Spots have a long history

1. The spirit of the people has a long history

Water alone is not enough to become a scenic spot based on natural scenery. The Chinese nation has always paid attention to the unity of nature and man, which is a philosophical consciousness and aesthetic pursuit of an ideal realm, and it is difficult to seek the true and perfect in the actual existence. However, it is possible to talk about the interaction between heaven and man and the complementarity of heaven and man. From the simple dialectics of pre-Qin Confucianism and Dao Xianzhe, to the Qingxuan talk of the literati of the Wei and Jin Dynasties and the Southern and Northern Dynasties, to the fashion of visiting the famous rivers and mountains for thousands of years since the Sui and Tang dynasties, people's understanding of this relationship has become increasingly clear.

In the forty-sixth year of the Ming Dynasty (1618), the "Records of Famous Places in Shuzhong" compiled by Cao Xueyu of Tongru was published, and his friend Zhong Yi, a famous writer of essays, wrote a preface to it, pointing out: "All height and depth can be landscapes, and landscapes cannot be victorious; all landscapes can be high and profound, and the victory of landscapes and rivers cannot be self-named." Landscape people, waiting and famous people also. This means that landscapes cannot become famous attractions by themselves alone, but must become famous attractions with the help of external forces. According to his vision, the external force "Yue Shi, Yue Poetry, Yue Wen, the Three, the Eye of The Landscape and water." The meaning is that the three types of humanistic products of historical personnel, poetry inscriptions, and historical relics are the key to the landscape becoming a scenic spot.

Zhong Yu's statement may not be perfect, but he does reveal the essence of the scenic spots in the landscape, which are all applicable to the famous scenic spots in China, and the Bayu area is no exception. It should only be noted that the "things" he mentioned are not limited to the events of the emperors and generals and Ru Lin Wenyuan recorded in the history of the past, but should also include the creative activities of the masses of the people to transform nature and promote social development, as well as myths, folklore, religious acts, and so on. "Things" is the outline, and the poems and inscriptions, monuments and cultural relics are all in it, and there is no need to juxtapose the three items.

Tracing the cultural history of Bayu, we can trace back to the Wushan Ape Man period more than 2 million years ago, and its ruins remain in the keel slope of Longping Village, Miaoyu Township, Wushan County. Not far from there, on the tertiary terrace at the confluence of the South Bank of the Yangtze River and The Daixi at the mouth of the Qutang Gorge, there are Daxi cultural sites; on the secondary terrace on the left bank of the lower reaches of the Daning River, there are Weijia Liangzi Cultural Sites, both of which belong to the late Neolithic period. In the meantime, from Tongliang and Hechuan to Zhongxian and Fengjie, there are many relics of the Xianba civilization from the Paleolithic to the Neolithic age coexisting with the landscape, showing the production mode and living conditions of the Bayu ancestors. Especially in the area of Yunyang and Wuxi, the Jurassic salt layer is well preserved, and the ancestors of Bayu have learned how to collect and use it. In the foothills of Baoyuan Mountain in the depths of Wushan Mountain, the salt springs are still gushing continuously, the Yanyuan cultural sites in Ningchang Town, Wuxi County, are rare and extremely precious in the world, and the remains of the Pinzi Zhan Dao on the Daning River and its tributaries are likely to be closely related to the transport of salt, and together they are combined into a brilliant chapter of the Xianba civilization, declaring that the Bayu landscape has nurtured the Bayu ancestors, and the Bayu ancestors have also developed the Bayu landscape with their own labor and wisdom, and the interaction between heaven and man also leads to the complementarity of heaven and man.

The earliest, largest, deepest and farthest ancient figure who had the earliest, deepest and farthest influence on the Bayu landscape was undoubtedly Yu. Legend has it that Yu was a native of Shinuo, Wenchuan (present-day western Wenchuan County, Sichuan), who, in order to control the flood, began to guide the river from the Min River, married the daughter of Tu Shan in Tu Shan in Jiangzhou (present-day Chongqing), and gave birth to a son named Qi. After three days of marriage, he left his wife and left, and for 13 years, he did not enter the house three times, and the father and son did not meet each other. The daughter of the Tushan clan stood by the river and waited for her husband to return, and then turned into a huge stone, which was the fugui stone on the south side of the Yangtze River facing the ChaotianMen Gate. So far, there is a Yu Cave on Tu Mountain, and the place where the qi was born is called the bullet (birth) stone. Historically, Tushan also had the Temple of King Yu and the Temple of Tu Hou, which still existed at the end of the Ming Dynasty. Although according to the research, Yu is more likely to be a Tushan people in Anhui, and The Tushan in Chongqing is the name taken by the Tushan people of the Ba people after they moved west, not forgetting the ancestral customs and posthumously worshipping the ancestral mountain, but the Great Yu Zhishui has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and is closely linked with the Tushan mountain in Chongqing. The Qing Dynasty poet Zhang Qingtao wrote a poem called "Tu Shan", which clearly stated that "Chao County (in Anhui Province) fights for Tu Mountain, Hui Ji (in Zhejiang Province) fights for Yu Cave, and the King of Xia is no longer born. Loudly sighed, "Woo woo, Kyushu chiseling is all Yu Gong, high mountains and rivers are all incomprehensible, Hu Weihu can calm the water and soil to drive away dragons and snakes, can not expand the heart of the heart of the pound!" Nowadays, in the Nan'an District where Tushan Mountain is located in Chongqing and other areas, many cultural people actively excavate the Dayu culture, which has humanistic roots.

Yu left tushan and went east, "decisively Wushan, let the river pass east", and the historical legends and myths and stories further blended together. In the Chijia Mountain, the control of water encountered obstacles, 12 evil dragon corpses piled up into a solid cliff, lofty mountains block the river, Yu turned into a yellow bear desperately vaulted, the top of the head broke the blood flow still can not be arched, so it attracted a close friend scalper. The scalper struggled to use the horn top, and the two giant horns bent to no avail. This made Yao Ji, the 23rd daughter of the Queen Mother of the West, know, and Yao Ji sent 6 attendants to help Da Yu cure the water and sweep away the bones of the evil dragon. Later, he also gave Yu a book of the Shangqing Treasure Classic, helping him continue to dredge the Nine Sects. It is precisely for this reason that there is now a dragon cutting platform on the staggered side of the Qutang Gorge, a teaching platform at the foot of the Feifeng Mountain in Wuxia, a Huangniu Rock in the Xiling Gorge, and a Huangling Temple under the rock, commemorating the work of water control achieved by the combined efforts of heaven and man.

The mythological story about Yaoji has been rendered by literature and is doubly beautiful and vivid. It first appeared in the "Gao Tang Fu" and "Goddess Endowment" of the Chu people Song Yu at the end of the Warring States period. The former's so-called "the platform of the clouds and the yang, looking up to the view of the Tang Dynasty", the depiction of the clouds and rain in the dream of the King of Chu, has been breathtaking people for thousands of years to the beautiful landscape of the clouds and rains of Wushan Mountain, and directly compares "once the vicissitudes of the sea as water" and "except that Wushan Mountain is not a cloud", and the relics of the Gao Tang Temple are still in the mouth of the Wuxia Gorge. The latter's so-called "moving fog grain with Xu Bu Xi, whispering the sound of the Shanshan; looking at the rest of the curtain and looking at the Xi, if the waves will be lan", the most prominent sleeve female peak in wushan mountain is anthropomorphized, depicting the style and posture, beautiful eyes flowing, from ancient times to the present, people pass under it, it is inevitable to deeply admire the style of the goddess. Jing yi wen chuan, Wen Because Jing Zhang, Yu Zi can be seen.

In the pre-Qin period, Jiangzhou (present-day chongqing center), Yu (present-day Fuling District), Pingdu (present-day Fengdu County), and Matjiang (present-day Hechuan City) in Bayu successively served as the capital of the Bazi State or Beidu, and "the tombs of the first kings were mostly in Yu", so Fuling District had the xiaotianxi ruins, Fengdu County had the ruins of Yandun Fort, and Hechuan City had the ruins of the Bapu culture. In the late period of the Baguo Kingdom, there is the historical story of Baman Zi Shetou Baocheng, and its loyalty spirit runs through Changhong, spreading to The Hundred Dynasties, and the name of Chungju (present-day Chungju) is derived from it, and there is bawangtai in the local area, and there is also the tomb of General Ba in the center of Chongqing. In 316 BC, Qin destroyed Ba, and two years later, the Qin general Zhang Yi built the city of Jiangzhou, laying the foundation for the Shanshui City, which is still a city sandwiched between two rivers in the center of Chongqing.