In Handan, there is no place like Fukouxian that has more or less, joy or sorrow, causal and chain relationships with each stage of Handan's history. In Fukou, you can travel through the history of each period of Handan.
With mountains as the curtain, the shore as the stage, and the water as the music, Fukou has staged a thrilling historical drama of Handan.
As the curtain of Drum Mountain and Shenlu Mountain, one north and one south, forming a wide Grand Canyon, because there are springs originating from the canyon, such as soup in the kettle, so it is called Fushui, and because Fushui originates here, it is called Fukou. Fukou is one of the east-west traffic throats of the ancient Taihang Mountain, so it is called "Fukou Xuan", which is one of the "Taihang Eight Dragons". The ancients said: "Even the mountains are interrupted." "Whoever breaks off two mountains to become a pass, is called a pass." The Taihang Baxi is the throat passage between the ancient Jin, Hebei and Yu provinces through the Taihang Mountains, and is the location of an important military pass between the intertwined mountains of the three provinces. Guo Yuansheng's "Narrative Record" of the Jin Dynasty contains: Taihang first began in Hanoi, north to Youzhou, Fan Baxi: the first Yu Xuan Guanxi, now belongs to Jiyuan County, Henan Province, in the west of the county eleven li; The second Tai Xing Chen, the third Bai Chen, these two are now in Hanoi; the fourth Fukou 陉, to Ye Xi; Fifth Jinghen; the sixth flying fox, a Wangduguan; the seventh Puyin, which is in Zhongshan; The Eighth Army was in Youzhou.
From Fukou in the present-day Fengfeng mining area, it passed through Cishan Mountain, Xiangtangpu, Shentou Ridge, Licheng, Lucheng, and finally entered Changzhi, the hinterland of Shanxi, that is, Shangdang. The earliest historical drama interpreted is the story between "Shanxi" and "Shandong". At that time, the Zhao family, who were still high-ranking officials in the Jin state, established their own enclave in Handan through this passage. After that, through here, he established his own Zhao state in Handan. The strength of the state of Zhao increasingly became an obstacle for the state of Qin to go east to Fukou and dominate the Central Plains, and the two countries fought for more than a hundred years in the mountain valley between Fukou and Shanxi, winning and losing each other, and finally in the ancient road "Battle of Changping" in Fukou, the Qin army killed 400,000 Zhao troops, and since then the state of Zhao has been on the defensive, and finally lost to the state of Qin.
After the beginning of the Han Dynasty, Fukou was still not lonely, and many merchants in Shanxi passed here to do business in Handan's "commercial capital", leaving a string of horse hooves and camel bells on the shore of Fushui.
At the end of the Han Dynasty, with the turmoil of war, Fukou once again ushered in one war after another. The warring sides either won or lost by the risk of Fukou. "Cao Cao Fukou Invited to Attack Yuan Shang" is a famous example of defeat in ancient times by virtue of Fukou Chen's danger. In May of the ninth year of Jian'an (204), Cao Cao occupied Yecheng, and in July, Yuan Shao's son Yuan Shang led an army of more than 10,000 people to rescue Yecheng. Cao Cao's subordinates advised Cao Cao: "Yuan Shang's army is a returning division, and it is better to avoid them if people fight on their own." Cao Cao said, "If Yuan Shang is coming from the Great Avenue, he should avoid them; If he came from the West Mountain Path, he would have been captured. Gai Fa Yun: "Watch the enemy's movements." "It means that if Yuan Shang comes from the avenue, he really has the heart of mortality, people fight for themselves, if they come out of Fukou, then they have the heart to protect themselves according to danger, and their morale is insufficient." As a result, Yuan Shang came out of Xishan Fukou along the path, camped at the edge of the water, raised fire at night and moved accordingly in the city, was attacked by Cao Cao and defeated Zhongshan.
After that, Cao Cao pacified the chaos and went back and forth several times. In the eleventh year of Jian'an (206), Cao Cao recruited Gao Gan, who was Yuan Shao's nephew, and rebelled after Cao surrendered, when the tun soldiers were at the Huguan Pass. Cao Cao sent troops from Yecheng, took the road to Fukou, and went north to Taihang Mountain, when it was in the first moon, the North Wind traced the number, and Wan Mu Xiao killed, Cao Cao waved his pen and wrote the ancient "Bitter Cold Travel":
Go north to Taihang Mountain, how difficult it is!
The sheep's intestines are bent, and the wheels are destroyed.
What a bleak tree! The sound of the north wind is sad.
The bear squatted at me, and the tiger and leopard cried.
There are few people in the valley, and the snow falls!
Long neck sigh, long travel.
How depressed am I? Thinking about returning east.
The water depth bridge is infinite, and the middle road is wandering.
Nuisance lost road,twilight 无宿栖。
The day of travel is far away, and the people and horses are hungry at the same time.
The bearer is paid, and the axe ice is held as a chyme.
Sorrow and poetry, leisurely make me mourn.
After Cao Cao's death, the Three Kingdoms became established, and Fukou became an important administrative region of the Wei state, and in the third year of the early Huang Dynasty (222), Linshui County was established in the "right of Fukou", named after Linfushui. This was the first time that Fukou became the political and economic center of one side. In the Jin Dynasty, there was a Linshui County Ling Dou Yun, who was recorded in the local chronicle for "conscientious duty, Shimin Yuexi", and was venerated in the "famous palace" of ancient Cizhou. After more than three hundred years of peace, by the end of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Ge Rong led his troops to revolt, and Fukou Yan once again witnessed the bloodshed of the war.
Na Ge Rong was a native of the Xianbei tribe in the north, led the Hebei People's Army to dominate Hebei, and killed the Queen of Wei and claimed to be the Son of Heaven. In the first year of the Northern Wei dynasty Wutai (528), he led troops to besiege Yecheng, and the number was million. The Wei Zhu Guo general Er Zhurong led 7,000 elite troops, and traveled as far east as Fukou. Ge Rong fought several victories in succession, arrogantly underestimating the enemy, and said to his men: "This is very easy to fight, just bring a long rope and tie them up." Then he ordered the army to wait for the enemy for tens of miles in northern Ye. Erzhu Rong's submerged army marched into the Fukou Valley, and ordered the governor to lead more than 100 cavalry in one place, each of which led more than 100 cavalrymen, lined up, raised dust and noise, confused the enemy, and forced each other to fight, each with a wooden stick in his sleeve, not with a number of merits for killing the head, but with a wooden stick to beat the horse, and soared into battle. Under the order, Er Zhurong took the lead to rush into the formation alone, and the other soldiers then fell into the formation, at this time, the drums sounded in unison, the dust and smoke billowed out, the people roared and the horses neighed, and the inside and outside attacked together, Ge Rong's formation was in chaos, the soldiers surrendered, and Ge Rong was also captured in the formation. This is a famous example in Chinese history of winning with less, relying on the risk of Fukouxian to win more.
In the third year of the Yong'an reign of Northern Wei (530), another Xianbei clan came from Fukou, named Gao Huan. Gao Huan later coerced the Northern Wei emperor to Yecheng to establish Eastern Wei, and Fukou became his passage between the Ye capital and the accompanying capital Jinyang. By the time of his son Gao Yang, the Northern Qi regime was established. Northern Qi took more care of the passage to Shanxi in Fukou, and successively excavated the Nanbei Xiangtang Grottoes and the stone carvings of the Wahuang Palace along the way, forming a Northern Qi cultural belt. The Nanxiangtang Grottoes are located on the right side of Fukou, and from then on, the big Buddha in the grotto, with his eyes slightly closed, stared at the endless people coming and going in Fukou, showing a mysterious smile and was noncommittal.
As a result, Fukou began to stage a new historical drama. In the first year of Tang Yongtai (765), Xue Song, the envoy of Lian Cha of Hebei Domain, passed through Fukou and heard that Linshui County had been set up here, so he ordered Zhaoyi County to be placed here. In the tenth year of the Tang dynasty (775), Wei Bojiedu caused Tian Chengsi to induce the Zhaoyi generals to cause chaos, and Tian Chengsi ordered his subordinate general Lu Zizhi to lead an army of more than 10,000 people, and the tun army was ready to attack Cizhou. The Tang army came to rescue Cizhou and the two armies met in Fukou. The officials and troops set up camp and closed the village to be proud of the Luzi period. Lu Zizhi ordered 10,000 infantry to surround the official and military camp, and sent 4,000 soldiers from the mountain to attack the official camp. At the same time, another army of officers and troops who came to rescue Cizhou fought a decisive battle with Lu Zizhi, so the mountain and the mountain attacked Lu Zizhi's army at the same time, and a bloody battle was fought in Fukou.
The blood of the war was washed away by the water of the Fuyang River, and Fukou was still an ancient Fukou Province, and the dead soldiers went with the water, leaving only a historical symbol, this symbol called Zhaoguan, which was the result of the court's compromise with the two major clan towns Weibo Jiedu (now Daimyo) and Zhaoyi Jiedu (present-day Changzhi), which made the establishment of Zhaoguan in Fukou, imposed customs duties, and at the same time, also made Fukou Zhaoguan a smuggling place, known as "Zhaoyi Food", some merchants made a fortune on this, and some merchants went bankrupt because of this. However, in the present-day East Paper Mill Village, the stone scroll of "Ancient Zhaoguan" is still preserved.
Perhaps the Buddha on the right side of Fukou could not bear to see Fukou shed blood again, and after the Song Dynasty, Fukou became a commercial channel for the benefit of the people of Shanxi and Shandong. Ceramics from Pengcheng, mountain goods from the western mountains, and coal are transported by this addition. In the Ming Dynasty, a large number of dragon and phoenix wine altars, transported by this exchange, went to the Guanglu Temple in Beijing, and finally entered the imperial palace to serve wine for the emperor. The emperor of the Ming Dynasty was good, so the official built the largest beamless hall north of the Yangtze River in Fukouxian - the Jade Emperor Siming Liangless Pavilion.
Temples, grottoes, Taoist temples, in the slow flow of Fukou water, Fukou is still the historical Fukou Yan; With rubber dams, Yuanbaoshan Park, endless streams of cars, and a continuous stream of shops on the roadside, Fukou is already a non-historical Fukou Town.
The trend of the times is vast, tomorrow, what kind of historical drama will be staged in Fukou, the mountains and rivers here will become faithful recorders.
Source: Li Chunshe