Traveling to southern Jiangsu, Jinling (Nanjing), "Su Xichang", Yangzhou, Jingkou (Zhenjiang), can be described as a beautiful scenery everywhere, there are many stories, and the small town of Guazhou is a scenic spot that I unexpectedly harvested on the way from Yangzhou to Jingkou (Zhenjiang).
Jingkou is the ancient name of Zhenjiang Three Kingdoms Era, guazhou is a small town on the yangzhou river. Since the ancient Yangtze River Graben divided Yangzhou and Zhenjiang on both sides of the river, guazhou is the only way from Yangzhou to Zhenjiang.
(Network photo: Guazhou Gudu)
Guazhou is located at the confluence of the ancient canal and the Yangtze River in the southwest of Yangzhou, across the river from the Jinshan Temple in Zhenjiang. According to records, Guazhou was first located in the middle of the great river, surrounded by water on all sides, and then because of the silt accumulation, it was connected to the land, because the shape was like a melon, so it was named Guazhou.
Guazhou has always been the gateway to Yangzhou, and the ancients said: "Although Guazhou is a projectile, it overlooks the Mouth of Jingkou, connecting Jiankang (Nanjing), jicanghai, Xiangdajiang, and the throat of the seven provinces." "Guazhou has been known as "the first Xiong town in Jianghuai" and "a thousand-year-old ferry" since ancient times. Whether it is Wang Anshi's "Jingkou Guazhou a water room, Zhongshan is only separated by a few heavy mountains." The spring breeze is on the south bank of the Green River, when will the bright moon shine on me. "Still land travel" building boat snow night Guazhou ferry, iron horse autumn wind scattered. The name of Guazhou has been passed down through the ages, and it is a place where literati of all generations gathered, so it is called "Shizhou".
In 1994, I once crossed the river here by ferry because I went to Jiangyin for a mission, and now a cable-stayed "Runyang Bridge", which is known as the second in the world's Third Asia, connects the two ancient cities into one, and the bridge connects the ancient town of Yangzhou in the north to Guazhou and the ancient town of Jiangzhou to the south.
Our bus left Downtown Yangzhou and drove onto Guazhou Ancient Town Avenue. All the way south, looking at the scenery of Tianyuan outside the car window, I can't help but give birth to this Guazhou I don't know if it is the ancient Guazhou that the literati inkers have recited thousands of poems and poems for thousands of years? "Lonely Guazhou" is difficult to find, leaving only the sad song of Du Shiniang Guazhou's ancient crossing of the angry and sinking treasure chest that has been sung through the ages.
Today, it takes a few minutes from Guazhougu to cross the Runyang Bridge to Zhenjiang. During the Three Kingdoms period, Sun Quan of Eastern Wu built a capital here, and after moving the capital to Nanjing, it was renamed Jingkou, and the Sui and Tang Dynasties were also called Runzhou. "Runyang Bridge" "Run" word, I want to finish here.
Zhenjiang is located in a traffic fortress, the Yangtze River east-west shipping, the Grand Canal runs through the north and south, therefore, this place has been a place of contention for soldiers since ancient times. And Zhenjiang's Jinshan, Jiaoshan and Beigushan added the spirit of Zhong Lingxiu to it. Emperor Wu of Liang once left the reputation of "the first country in the world" here.
(Network photo: Golden Mountain Temple Mountain Gate)
Zhenjiang Tour only arranges one attraction of Golden Mountain Temple. Many of my companions have visited the Golden Mountain Temple, so I propose to go to the Ganlu Temple in the Beigu Mountain Scenic Area, where there are the relics of Liu Beizhao of the Three Kingdoms Sun Liu Alliance, where Li Bai, Su Shi, Miti, and Xin Shuyi all left poetry and ink treasures. However, the tour guide Mr. Tao said: It is impossible to change the itinerary, although it is a re-visit to the Golden Mountain Temple, but everyone's interest is still undiminished. This ancient temple, which was built in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and flourished in the Tang and Song dynasties, also has many allusions that have been passed down to this day: Xiang Yue Fei was passed by this temple on the way back to Beijing by the gold medal class master, and he dreamed of the two dogs at night, regretting not listening to the temple's host to explain the "prison" to persuade him to go into hiding in the temple, and brewing the allusion of the regret of the murder of the Fengbo Pavilion. The "Cining Pagoda", the top of the golden mountain in the temple, became the legend of the highest birthday gift pretext for Liu Doufu's empty-handed entry into Beijing to pay homage to Empress Dowager Cixi.
(Network photo: Jinshan Temple Cining Pagoda)
There is also the story of Liang Hongyu, the wife of the famous anti-Jin general Han Shizhong, who beat the drum to fight the Golden Soldiers.
However, the most famous is the legend of "water flooding the golden mountain Fahai Shiwei". It is said that the legendary Fa Haishi is the temple ancestor Pei Touto, who is the son of The Tang Dynasty Prime Minister Pei Xiu, who practiced in this Zexin Temple, and one day dug up some gold on the mountain and built the temple with the golden repair temple, and the mountain was named Jinshan, and the people of Zexin Temple changed it to Jinshan Temple.
From this point of view, "Fahai" is classified as a "good person", but historical legends are legends after all, and no one can change history. Mr. Tao, the tour guide, said that a few years ago, someone found a white snake, a green snake, and a golden python on the mountain, and raised it in a room, thinking that it was the apparition of the white lady, which confirmed the legend of the white snake. However, if you want to see this object, you need to pay an additional ticket price of thirty yuan per person, and no one in the team has this interest. Originally a beautiful legend, it was really worse than "painting a snake and adding feet".
About author:Chai Hongde, pen name: Dahai, RedDi, Qixun, Yijiayan, Hebei Gu'an, member of China Financial Writers Association and Book Association, honorary chairman of Shandong Financial Writers Association, member of Shandong Prose Literature Society and Poetry Society, China Rural Financial Photography Association. He was a member of the first and second terms of the Financial Writers Association. His works have been published in shandong literature, Chinese financial literature, financial literature, military story society, Chinese financial culture and other publications, and he is the chief editor of many literary collections and the author of a personal essay collection "Thirty-six Years".
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