The phoenix dance dragon flies through the lake

Text: Zhou Anyong

Xingjing is born of water and is also named after water. The two major tributaries of the Xinghe River and the Jinghe River meet in the northeast of the county seat of Xingjing, called the Xingjing River. In ancient times, it was also called The Leyong River and the Deer Drinking River.

In December 2008, the Chuanwanggong Power Station, which was damned in Longyu Village, Xintian Town, stored water to generate electricity, and the Xingjing River became Xingjing Lake. From the river into the lake, there is less wildness and uninhibited, more tolerance and peace. A lake and a clear wave deposit the thick history on both sides of the two rivers in the heart, and presents the richness and beauty of reality to the world.

On both sides of the lake are high mountains, called Tianfeng Mountain on one side and Longyou Mountain on the other. On both sides of the lakeside, there are still two ancient villages, one called the Downdown Dam and the other called Xintian Station.

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In the west of Xingjing Lake, there are mountains named Lotus Peak, peaks named Baozi, and the land is divided into front and back dams. When the administrative division was not adjusted, the former Juba belonged to the former Tianfeng Township, the latter Juba belonged to the former Baofeng Township, and the two townships were collectively called Tianbao Township, that is, "Wuhua Tianbao, Renjie Diling".

There is a Tianchi on Tianfeng Mountain, as the name suggests, it is a natural pool, surrounded by mountains on three sides, the pond is shaped like a moon, and it is known as a phoenix eye. There are two springs in the pool, one is the water, and the other is the autumn water. The water is a spring at the bottom of the pond, and the autumn water is a mountain spring, which is water before autumn and disappears after autumn. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, due to the needs of irrigation, the dam was built at the outlet to strengthen and improve, the depth of the pond was about 7 meters, and the pool area was more than 40 mu.

Tianfeng Mountain was called Zhuangshan in ancient times, which originated from the "Guan Zi Shan Quan Number" saying that "tang mints coins with the copper of Zhuang Shan". Guan Zhong, as a Qi Xiang, has also been through business, has run an enterprise, is a well-informed person, and what he wants to say is true, but he has no evidence so far. However, the "Bashu Seal" disproves Guan Zhong's statement. The "Bashu Seal" was produced around the time of the Enlightened Dynasty. Therefore, the copper mines here in shangshi were effectively developed. Mr. Duan Yu said in his "Jade Fortress Floating Clouds Change Ancient and Modern" that Zhuangshan refers to Yandao Copper Mountain, and the raw materials needed for Sanxingdui bronzes come from Yandao in the northern foothills of Qionglai Mountain.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, most of the gold in the Chu State came from the Lishui area of Yunnan, which had to be transported from Xingjing to the Yangtze River from the Qingyi River, and this road of transporting gold was called Zhuang Dao. In order to strengthen the management of gold transportation, the King of Chu set up a gold transportation manager in Xingjing, and Mr. Xu Zhongshu said that this general manager was called the King of Minshan Villa. ZhuangShan has Zhuang Wang, the road is called Zhuang Dao, and it goes with nature.

In 312 BC, King Huiwen of Qin placed Yan Dao and enfeoffed his half-brother Li Li (樗里病) with the title of "Yan Jun", and Yan Dao became the land of "Food Yi" of Yan Li Disease. In addition to strengthening the military and political management of the localities, King Huiwen of Qin also concentrated manpower on expanding the scale of mining and smelting copper in Yandao Tongshan, providing a large amount of high-quality copper materials for the princes of the Qin State.

Baozi Mountain is a peak of Tongshan Mountain, and according to the Chronicle of Yu Xinglie, Emperor Wen gave Deng Tongshu County Yandao Tongshan self-minted money, "Deng's money, cloth the world". In many places on Tianfeng Mountain, there are still mining pits, and there are still a large number of slag left on the slopes, and five-baht coins have been unearthed. This is the remnant of DengTong's copper mining and smelting, and the locals call these remnants "money nests" and "money slags".

If Deng Tong wants to cast money in Tongshan, he must have rich minerals, convenient transportation, sufficient energy, and a large number of technicians. In the area of Tianfeng and Baofeng in the territory of Xingjing, copper production was produced in the 1950s and 1960s, including Chengtang, Enlightened, Spring and Autumn Warring States, Western Han Dynasty to Ming, Qing Dynasty, Republic of China and the 1950s and 1960s.

Xingjing, a border fortress in southwest China in ancient times, had developed transportation. As early as the Yin Shang era of more than 1,000 years BC, the Qiang people entered the Brahmaputra Valley to establish an agricultural society, and they exchanged yaks, horses, and medicinal materials for tea, bronze and other industrial products from the Han people. At that time, Luding Shen Village was the largest distribution center for trade with yak tribes. After the founding of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the annual tribute of the Shu Marquis who was divided by King Wu of Zhou included tea, and the Xingjing County Chronicle (1998 edition) said that "the planting of tea trees in the county began in the Western Zhou", which originated from this. Similarly, Han merchants went to the Xichang area, exchanged servants and horses, and sold them to Bashu and to the Capital Division, so that "Bashu Yin was rich". Sima Xiang opened the southwest Yi, from Linqiong through Huojing, out of Qinglong Pass, into the Tsingyi River Valley, out of Feixian Pass, across the Tianquan River, along the Xingjing River to reach the ancient city of Yandao, and as far as Yunnan.

In 1970, when xintian middle school was built, a section of the ancient city platform base was excavated, made of rammed earth, and there were many jomon pottery fragments, Han Dynasty tiles, and many Han tombs around the city, which were the former site of Dengtong City, and here were cast a large number of bronzes from the pre-Qin period. Therefore, the place of the bottom dam is a large-scale commodity distribution center on the Southern Silk Road, but it has been annihilated for too long, and the name of the postal station cannot be said. Now Xintian Town is formed by the merger of the former Fushun Township, Miaogang Township, Tianfeng Township and Shilong Township, the entire Xingjing Lake belongs to the xintian Township, the town government seat of the bottom dam, has built two industrial parks, Xingtai Tea Industry built a Xinyi Tea Factory here, set tea planting, processing, sales in one, the main production of Tibetan tea, the ancient road and smell the aroma of tea.

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Longyou Mountain is on the east side of Xingjing Lake, on the mountain is the name of Feilongguan, in the territory of Babu Town in Yucheng District. Cross the Tea Horse Ancient Road in Ya'an, trek from Yucheng District, and cross over to the west of The Xiangling Mountains to the Tibetan area. In the millennia, it has witnessed the glory of yesterday's key roads of commerce and trade, and also witnessed the hardships of generations of porters.

Looking up, the flying dragon flew in the sky, looking down, and the stone dragon dived to the ground.

At the foot of the Flying Dragon Pass, there is a Ichthyosaur Village, which resembles a huge carp lying on its side in a valley. Next to the fields and the cement-covered ancient road, the clear irrigation water flows happily from the "Mingyue Weir" under the Feilong Pass. At the tail end of the big weir, there is a hidden weir, which is the "stone dragon" that is famous in the local area, and the original Shilong Township is also named after it.

"Stone Dragon" is a very figurative title, similar to what we now call "inverted rainbow pipe". The "Pipe Degree" says that the water "goes down to the high, that is, it stays and does not work, so it is high above it, and it is collared", that is, to store water at a high place, use a tile cylinder as a drainage pipe, and use the high pressure of the inlet and outlet to supply water.

The "Stone Dragon" was built by a local man named Shi Chao'an during the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, but Shi Chao'an did not learn the technique from Guan Zhong, but when he went to Japan at the age of 30, he discovered a local "siphon" drainage system that was hollowed out and connected into a pipe. Thinking that his hometown had hundreds of acres of high-altitude dryland, Shi Chaoan introduced this technology and built this dark weir to solve the problem of "fish mouth" terrace watering. Because the weir meanders in the mountain fields and is located under the Flying Dragon Pass, like a long dragon, the villagers call it a "stone dragon". After the completion of the "Shilong", the local water conservancy system was improved, the agricultural conditions improved, and it became a place rich in rice. And its name has become the name of the place here.

The new station under the Feilong Pass was set up in the Ming Dynasty, named Xindian, and during the Chongzhen period, the station was abolished. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the Tang soldiers passed on official documents, and the site of the pond was on Matang. In the sixty years of the Kangxi Dynasty, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, Nian Qianyao, set up fourteen shops in Xingjing, and xintian station was one of them.

After the new station, it is located on the dragon tour mountain, and the former Xingjing lake is listed in the fourth batch of traditional Chinese villages. For hundreds of years, Laojie has carried the footsteps of passers-by from the south to the north, with many shops, local specialties and various snacks, and also gathered the business spirit and popularity of the four townships and eight miles, which was the most lively rural market town in Xingjing County in the past. On the second, fifth and eighth days of the lunar calendar, the surrounding villagers carry mountain goods here to sell along the street, or buy some knives and hoes and ploughs, and buy some oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, which is a strong mountain flavor.

The old street is not long, three or four hundred meters. The streets are not wide, and there are more than enough. On both sides of the street, the one-color green tile wooden houses, eroded by the years, cracked and incomplete carved galleries and columns indicate the prosperity of the past.

Xingshengdian is a relatively well-preserved tea horse inn, which can accommodate more than 100 people to live. Walking into the store, the two patios are connected back and forth, the old house is deep, and the sky is dark. On the left side of the patio is an empty place, which is the horse leash at that time.

As the key point of the Tea Horse Trail, Lao Jie is a place for officials, pedestrians, merchants and porters to stop. In that year, Prince Yunli of Guo was instructed to take care of Tibet, passing through here, and once took a nap here. It flourishes according to the Word, and it decays because of the Word. In the twenty-second year of Guangxu (1896), the new road was opened through Ya (An) Xing (Jing) in Jizigang. In the thirty-second year of Guangxu (1906), the Fuxing (Maliu) field was set up in Qinglong Township, and the new station was getting colder. In December 1998, after the opening of Xing (Jing) Tian (Quan) Road, the market was moved to the bottom of the dam.

Nowadays, the bluestone slabs on the streets of Xintian station have been paved with smooth cement pavement, and the brand-new houses at the end of the village form a strong contrast with the old street, which is a deep accumulation of years, and the new village is the inevitable progress and development. The new Tiantian Bridge replaces the Jindu and Suoqiao bridges, connecting the two ancient coaching inns in parallel. The bells of the horse gang on the Silk Road, the long whistle of the porter on the Tea Horse Ancient Road, the new village with red tiles and white walls, and the distant mountains and near the trees under the blue sky and white clouds are all silently collected by Yingjing Lake. The water gushes through the source of the river, the front wave makes the back wave, and the back wave promotes the front wave. In the morning and evening, the lake surface is lightly veiled, the egrets are flying, a leaf boat is rippled, and the image of "Mengdu Fishing Song" is also seen.