Yuan Zhongmin
In the ancient city of Lingling Huangtianpu Town, there is a Shundi Temple Village, named for the ancient Shundi Temple that once stood.
I stopped for a long time in front of the ruins of the Shundi Ancient Temple to reminisce about history. I tasted and experienced its ancient meaning, and saw its style and charm.
According to historical records, Emperor Shun stayed here during his southern tour. "Stampede" refers to the carriages and horses, ceremonial guards, etc. when the ancient emperors traveled.
Emperor Shun is one of the legendary three emperors and five emperors of ancient continents. In that year, Shun inherited the position of leader of Yao Chanjang, and Yao also married his two daughters, Empress E and Nu Ying, to Shun. In his later years, Shun also followed Emperor Yao's example and ceded the imperial throne to Yu.
Shun is the common ancestor of the Chinese nation, one of the founders of Chinese morality and an important founder of Chinese civilization.
Travel back in time to more than 4,000 years. When Emperor Shun was 100 years old, in order to experience the people's feelings, he "served three seedlings with virtue" and went to the south to patrol, and several small boats went up the Xiang River. One day, when a strong wind prevented his boat, Emperor Shun stayed for one night in a small village on the west bank of the Xiang River in the boundary of present-day Lingling. In the village, Emperor Shun looked at the magnificent rivers and mountains, and suddenly sighed with emotion. In the end, because of his old age and infirmity, he soon "collapsed in the wilderness of the sky and was buried in Jiangnan Jiujiu", highlighting Emperor Shun's family and country feelings of "only for the sake of life and not for life", and also interpreted the name of "Lingling" that has been passed down through the ages.
In order to commemorate Emperor Shun's stay in the small village, people built the Shundi Temple on the bank of the Xiangjiang River in the village, and called the small village Yucun, later changed to Chengcun, and then later renamed Shundi Temple Village. "He Clan Genealogy" "City Village House Map": "The ancient name is Yu Village, because of the attempt to establish the capital city of Yongzhou in the former Ming Dynasty, so it is called Chengcun." "It shows that in the former Ming Dynasty, the government had envisaged to set up the Yongzhou Mansion here.
Shundi Temple Village is full of cultural relics and is an open Shundi History Shun Cultural Museum. The demeanor displayed by the ancient temples, ancient roads, ancient towers, ancient monuments, ancient bridges, ancient wells, ancient dams, etc., has a strong ancient atmosphere, spreads a long and heavy heritage, and permeates the vicissitudes of the past.
The village branch secretary Daniel Zhang told me that most of the Shundi Temple villages had the surname, and a few surnamed Zhang and Qin. The "He Clan Genealogy" records the origin of the He clan: "The first ancestor Ri Gao Gong moved from Maquanbu, Wuxi County, Changzhou, Jiangnan to the city village of Quanling Xixiang..."
From the "He Clan Genealogy", in front of the Shundi Temple, there is a large road, that is, the Hunan Ancient Road, leading to Yongzhou Mansion. Shundi Temple is located on the east side of the ancient road, on the west bank of the Xiang River, and is built on the gentle mountain. Shundi Temple Qiongyu high-rise, sitting east facing west, solemn and solemn, composed of Shinto, noon gate, worship hall, main hall, etc., the scale and momentum are magnificent. There is a statue of Emperor Shun in the main hall, sitting in front of him, and the qi is Xuanang. There is an ancestral hall built on the right side of the temple.
There are many shops on the west side of the ancient road under the Shundi Temple, and there are theaters and He ancestral halls. Behind the temple are mountains, in front of Xiangshui, on the left and right are Tiandong and villages, and there are Wujia Ancestral Hall, Liujia Ancestral Hall, and Qijia Ancestral Hall around. The environment is elegant, very wide and majestic, echoing the Shundi Mausoleum in Ningyuan.
The Shundi Temple, the theater, etc. extend on a central axis.
In the past, the government had to organize annual festivals or temple fairs here, and spontaneous festivals were held all year round.
The bridges, dams, wells, towers, and temples here are all dubbed the word "Dragon".
To the right of Shundi Temple, a small stream runs through the village and flows into the Xiang River. There is a community altar by the stream. The creek is two or three feet wide and about three or five feet deep, and the water is clear and quiet, nourishing the villagers and fields on both sides. The water and grass in the stream sway, and the kingfishers chirp by the stream.
The Dragon Bridge on the creek is very old, single-hole, bluestone masonry, stone paving, and horse-drawn carriages. Although the bridge is thin and still a little old, it still stands there strongly. At each end of the bridge, a camphor tree stands upright, although not very tall and large, but also some years old, the bark is wrinkled, rough and mottled, the leaves are thick and branched, and the leaves cover the bridge deck. The vines on the trees are entangled, and some branches reach into the stream, and when the wind blows, the branches scratch the surface of the water, and they are slightly spotted. When I walked under the bridge, I saw a bluestone slab that was used to step on the stream, shining blue, and it was covered with dense small lettering. It is a stele, which may be a merit monument or an offering to Emperor Shun. There are village women squatting on bluestone slabs to wash their clothes, and the water surface ripples and ripples, like open lotus flowers.
Not far downstream from the Dragon Bridge, there is a Dragon Dam, and there is a Dragon Well next to it.
On the bank of the Xiangjiang River, there are also Hui Long An and Hui Long Pagoda, both 15 meters away from Xiang Shui.
The genealogy contains two plays of the Shundi Temple:
First: Miao Wu around the platform to see the colorful sleeves of neon clothes Wan'er two steps Yu Yu;
Qingyin Painting Pavilion listened to the green Xiaoqiong pipe still eight hundred songs.
the second: Sheng Ge Ethereal Han Yin Wen Lu Feng;
The Xiangjiang River is reflected in the smoke.
It can be seen that the Shundi Temple was one of the scenes of singing and dancing in those years.
The genealogy records that the Shundi Temple before the Qing Dynasty was very grand: "During the Yongzheng period, the glory of Dongyu and the prosperity of monks were everywhere west of the city." The cycle of heavenly fortune is uneven. But the good times did not last long, and about seventy years later, "at the end of Qianlong, the monks of Buxiao came out, wasted their fields, destroyed their courtyards, and reached the beginning of Jiaqing..."
Many years ago, the bad luck of the Shundi Temple struck again and it was demolished. The villagers came here to move bricks and tiles, tear down doors and windows, and carry them home and pile them up. The Shundi Temple was soon flattened, leaving only barren grass and silence, breeze and fallen leaves, desolation and desert.
The homes of the villagers of Shundimiao Village are scattered with a large number of stone carvings, inscriptions and ancient building components. I saw the bluestone pedestals of some houses, or round, square or hexagonal, on which were embossed with butterflies, bats, lotus flowers and other motifs; There are also many large bluestone tablets under the cutting boards for chopping vegetables in families, thick green bricks used for chicken pens, steps, etc., all of which are the original of Shundi Temple...
In 2017, when the Xiangjiang River swelled, the water level of the stream rose, and the village was flooded, and some villagers salvaged half of the stage from the stream to carve couplets, but the paint was taken off and the words were difficult to read.
A thousand sails passed by the side of the sinking boat.
More than 4,000 years of human fireworks have disappeared in the long river of history, and the essence of Shun culture and morality has been integrated into the Chinese bloodline, and has been passed down from generation to generation.
Thousands of years have passed, the people of the former Yu Village, the later Chengcun, and then the Shundi Temple Village, with their unremitting persistence, have watched the spirit and culture of Shundi and the ancient and vicissitudes of Shundi Temple.
From the Shundi Ancient Temple, I touched the sadness of "zero waves of rivers and mountains and autumn winds".
From the Dragon Ancient Bridge, I saw the history of "sad and extremely eyed spring".
From the couplet woodcut, I saw the vicissitudes of "the goose sparrow is silent and empty".
From the inscription of the memory tablet, I read the helplessness of "the sound of geese goes far to Xiaoxiang".
From the clear Xiangshui water, I heard the sound of "hearing this sound at the docking place of the flat boat".
A bay of Xiangshui connects north and south, and the spirit of Emperor Shun runs through ancient and modern times.
Today, I am standing in Shundi Temple Village, but I see the Xiangshui gushing, winding north, the mountains are winding, like a screen stretching, the water is shining and the mountains are dotted. It shows a magnificent picture of the rich history of the villagers, the beauty of culture, the beauty of mountains and rivers, and the beauty of happiness.