The Hunt for The Monument
——Remember Xingtai grassroots archaeological inscription rubbing enthusiast Bai Quanzhong
There is a laid-off worker Bai Quanzhong in Xingtai, who is nearly a flower armour, has a strong body, and has a net name of Wufang Vowel, who has opened an antique shop in Xingtai Antique City, the shop is not large, and the ancient monument is famous in the city, which is well-known in the industry.
The old white culture is not high, but it can update the original thousand-word small article every day, posted on the public account, because it thinks that it is a grass people, powerless and powerless, often ending in "white talk". However, "bai said" never "did in vain", often to go deep into the most realistic front line to visit, excavate ancient villages, ancient post roads, ancient inscriptions, do many realistic things, so as to enrich and make up for the shortcomings of "Xing culture" in their hometown.
His small article, if you can calm down and read 10 articles in a row, you will have a new understanding of his "big idle man", it turns out that he is not an "idle person" who "hangs out every day", let alone a "rioter" who harasses others everywhere, but he is doing the most practical and realistic historical and cultural traceability work every day! It's just that you don't understand.
Regarding the "Xingtai Ancient Yidao Inscription", he made three years of visits - all recorded in the Wufang vowel [Bai Quanzhong's Visiting Monument].
The visit to this topic originated from a moment in 2012 when he was making jinshizhi at Xingtai Kaiyuan Temple, that is, the deputy director of the Hebei Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau inspected the production of inscriptions in Xingtai Kaiyuan Ancient Temple, and during this period, the deputy director took out a volume of "Inscriptions on the Ming Great Wall in Hebei", when the old white grass browsed, it was found that the Great Wall of China seemed to jump across Xingtai to the Wu'an area of Handan, maybe we did not have the Great Wall in Xingtai? So after thinking about it, he sent a blog post questioning "Research on the Ancient Great Wall along the Xingtai Line" and Sina, http://www.xtrb.cn/xxsp/2012-11/13/content_385332.htm, which was also reproduced in the local Xingtai Network at the time, http://www.xtrb.cn/xxsp/node_3111.htm. To this end, he began a long visit, which lasted for a long time intermittently, of course, he still persevered, overcame many difficulties, and silently persevered!
On the contrary, in the Xingtai "cultural relics circles" and the historical circles, the problem of "ancient Yidao inscriptions" related to "Maling Pass" is negated, and one by one they confidently say: "Maling Pass" and "Hedu Ling" have no record of relevant inscriptions, so when did the "Great Wall" in western Xingtai originate? Is it really the "Ming Dynasty"? When Shi Le founded the country in Xingdi, did he not fortify with the Jin state?
To this end, Lao Bai has spent a lot of energy and time, looking for relevant written records, and has also received the full support of experts such as Zhang Jian, a teacher of the Institute of Modern History of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences!
Of course, today because of the epidemic situation was closed at home, idle boredom, he sent his relevant "Great Wall Research" by Teacher Zhang Jian once, and then with Li Jie and Liu Lingxue, each carrying more than 20 kilograms of items, began to make a formal production of the "MalingGuan Inscription" and began a formal visit to the "Taihang Mountain Ancient Yidao Inscription"!
The Xingtai County Chronicle also records the defensive settings of the Great Wall at Malingkou, Huangyuguan, Qingfengling, Zhiguoshikou, Luluo (Luluo) Ridge, Fuziyan, Zhuang'erjiao, and Cargo Lang Shenkou under the mountains and rivers. Some passes also have piers and suspension bridges.
To the west of Xingtai is Heshun County in Shanxi, which is basically demarcated along the Taihang Mountains. In the "Chronicle of Heshun County", there is also a basically same record of this section of the Great Wall. "Heshun County Chronicle" Volume 10 Preface · Old Preface: Heshunbian Jin Province Dongqian, under the northern neighbor of Liaozhou. Qidian is connected to the Yu Domain, the Four Ridges Ring, the mountains are winding, and the peak of the Taihang is located. Another old preamble, Liang Yu (Spring and Autumn Liang Yuzi Food Yi) is also a mountain, Yi is located between the deep rock relics valley, the customs are simple and simple, the keeper is called Yi, the rule is the land, although it is secluded and Kun Lian Zhiyu, the old is the first key pass of the eastern jin dynasty. There are seven civil and military personnel, nine barracks, and four ridges, all of which belong to border defense.
In the south to Liaozhou, west of the ancient Wei, north of the water, east of the direct subordinate and Shundong border defense land, each pass is generally composed of a city wall, Guanmen, camp fort, official hall, enemy tower, beacon tower, construction and monuments clearly recorded: Huangyu Gushu, Hanxin Old Village, Huangyuling, Yuanru Village, Taoshupingling, Fengmenling, Maling, Fuziling, Malingling, Furnace Yanling and Songziling, etc., have been equipped with a barracks, a pier, and five smoke piers. These are obviously the settings at the pass of the Great Wall. However, the date of its setting is unknown.
Among them, the Great Wall of Malingguan is one hundred and sixty miles away from Xingtai City, on the west-west side of Mingshuizhang Village in Songjiazhuang Township, ninety-five miles away from Heshun County, one hundred and twenty miles from Xingtai City, between the White Tiger Mountain (Bulao Qingshan) and Niu Qunyuan, which is located at the highest point of the Taihang Mountains, and sixteen miles north of the Great Wall of Heduling. Sixty miles to the south is the mouth of Qingfeng Ridge, the mountain is high, and the two mouths are related to the wall, and the corner of the Yellow Yu Pass is opposite. In the old days, there were two gates in the east and west, enemy buildings, suspension bridges, official halls, barracks, and defensive soldiers.
On the top of the gate, there is a ming dynasty stele, the inscription "Xingzhou Xishan Guan'ai", the inscription has the words "Ming Jiajing" and other words, which is a monument to the construction or repair of the Great Wall of Maling Pass carved during or after the Ming Jiajing period. Most of the walls and battlements of the Great Wall at Malingguan are well preserved
On the east side of the Huangbeiyan Great Wall, a Ming Dynasty stone stele is preserved, and the yin carved vertical line "Guo Public Relations" three large letters, the right side vertically writes "Directly under the Shunde Province Supervisor Tongzhi Guanxi Guo Ooo Yuan." The "Left Book" Jiajing Twenty-one Years Of The Year of Nongyin Midsummer Jidan Dian Shi Gaowen According to the Shunde Fu Zhi Zhi, Guo Gong's public relations was built for the Shunde Fu Tongzhi Guo Conglu Road Supervisor, hence the name.
Therefore, old Bai was convinced that Xingtai had the Great Wall, which was certain. Li Jianli's "Introduction to the Architecture of the Great Wall of Hebei Ming" published in the 7th issue of "Cultural Relics Spring and Autumn" in 2003 pointed out that the Great Wall, also known as the border wall, the saiyuan and the changyuan in the Ming Dynasty, refers to the boundary wall built on the border. The Outer Great Wall is also known as the outer side, and the Inner Great Wall is also known as the inner side; there are several heavy side walls called the big side or the head side, the second side, the third side, etc. Therefore, after the Ming Dynasty, the local chronicle called the Great Wall "the border wall is understandable." Whether this was built during the Ming Dynasty or whether the Ming Dynasty renovated the old Great Wall facilities here is another issue.
According to the changes of the times, Lao Bai traced and sorted out the origin of the Great Wall in Xingtai.
1. The Great Wall of the Zhao Kingdom in Xingtai
Wang Guoliang's "Examination of the History of the Great Wall of China" says in the preface: Qi, Zhao, Wei, and Yan built the Great Wall and won the unification of Qin. Then Yuan, Wei, Qi, and Zhou built the Great Wall, and Yang sui unified it. In the end, Zhu Ming blocked the Imperial Mengyuan, and the Pheasant Fortress snaked for four thousand miles, which is still new.
According to the "Examination of the History of the Great Wall of China": There are two places on the Zhao Great Wall. 1. According to the "Chronicle of the Xiongnu", "King Wuling of Zhao also changed his vulgar hu costume, learned to ride and shoot, and broke the forest hu and Lou Fu in the north. Building the Great Wall, [Justice]: Zhiyun: "The Great Wall of King Wuling of Zhao is in the north of Shanyang County, Shuozhou. 【Justice】: There are lianshan mountains in the north of Linrong County, dangerous to the Great Wall, and its mountains are interrupted, and the two peaks are steep, and the local custom is gao que ye. Most of this Great Wall is in Inner Mongolia.
The "History of the Zhao Shijia" records: "In the seventeenth year of Suhou (333 BC), the Great Wall was built." It is also said: In the spring of the nineteenth year of the Wuling King (307 BC), "summoned the building to slow down the plot: "Because of the changes in the world, my former king took the land of Changnan Domain, which belonged to the danger of blocking Zhangfu, and built the Great Wall."
The "History of zhao shijia" records that Zhao built the Great Wall in two places: 1. "In the sixth year of Chenghou, Zhongshan built the Great Wall"; 2. "Seventeen years after suhou, build the Great Wall." [Justice]: Liu Bozhuangyun "cover from the north of the clouds to the generation". Press: The Great Wall of Zhao runs from the north and west of Ulzhou to the north of Lanzhou, as far as the Zhao boundary. It is also suspected that this Great Wall is north of Zhangshui and south of Zhao. That is to say, Zhao also had a purpose in building the Great Wall, that is, to "hinder the thrift of Zhangfu". In this way, "it is also suspected that this Great Wall is north of Zhangshui and the southern boundary of Zhao" has a basis.
Zhanghe is the Zhanghe River, and Fuyang River is the Fuyang River. "Heshun County Chronicle" contains: Zhangshui has two, one out of the county west of a hundred miles eight FuLing, the name of Xiao Zhangshui. It flows through the Hehuanghualing Water in Yushe County, to the HehuangShui in the west of Wuxiang County, and to the northeast of Xiangyuan County. A out of leping county Shaoshan Dashi Valley, flowing through the county east Heliang Yushui, turning southeast to Jiaozhang Village, confluence east injection, Zhangshui ring belt: Zhangshui has two, one from the county north to the east, one from the county west east flow. Wrap around each other, and there is such a thing as a belt. This means that this Zhangshui water is flowing from the east of Heshun County into Zhao Di.
"Longping County Chronicle" Qing Wang Yuan Qi "Mainland Zetu Said": "Since the Wanli Calendar, Zhangshui decided to qu Zhou, into Fuyang, because of the name Xiaozhanghe. And through the mainland (Ze) and north, Saiyu Longping, also known as the Gufu River. "Shunde Fu Zhi" Pingxiang County: Fuyang River in the east of the city seven miles, Guangping Province Jize County flows northeast through Ren County, and then north through Zhao Prefecture Longping County, to Ningjin County.
Located in the north of "The North of The Water, the Southern Boundary of Zhao, that is, the North of the Water, the area around the shang towns of present-day Linzhang, Ci County, and Cheng'an County in Hebei (the ruins still exist), and it is easy to understand the north to Xingtai County and Neiqiu County.
2. Xingtai Han Great Wall
The Book of later Han Dynasty Zhu Jing King Duma Liu Fujian Ma Lie biography XII: In the twelfth year of Jianwu, Du Mao town guarded the north side, sent out pawns, built pavilions (guard pavilions and earthen forts for watching and monitoring enemy situations), and repaired beacons. In the fourteenth year of Jianwu, Ma Cheng rode on behalf of the general Du Mao to control the barrier, from the West River to Weiqiao, the river to Anyi, Taiyuan to Jingxing, Zhongshan to Yi, all building Baobi, starting beacons, and waiting for ten miles. Zhongshan is ruled by Ding County, Hebei. Yi (邺), in the Eastern Han Dynasty, belonged to Ji Prefecture (冀州, in modern Linzhang County, Henan), forty miles southwest of present-day Linzhang County, Henan. The section of the Great Wall from Zhongshan to Yi is from the northeast of present-day Zhengding County, Hebei to Linzhang, Henan. In the meantime, it has passed through the boundaries of Zanhuang, Lincheng, Xingtai and other places. That is, Wang Guoliang's "Examination of the History of the Great Wall of China": "However, the barrier built this time runs from the south of Ding County in Hebei to the southwest of Linzhang County, Henan.
Qianlong's fifteenth-year "Shunde Fu Zhi" has two poems:
Wang Shizhen "Yellow Yuling"
Taihang is endlessly blue and sorrowful, and Yuzhai has a long harvest.
Purple qi emerges from the sea in the east, and the Yellow River flows west of Hanguan.
The bridge whip suddenly moved the double Hong, and the Diao Dou frequently knocked Wan Ma Qiu.
Bo Fa is still listed to this day, teaching people to helplessly say and state.
The first title is Li Panlong
Before the High Land in the Autumn of Xiling, the cold shadow of Maling stepped on the distant sky.
The mountains are constantly floating clouds, and the long stream is hanging in the sunset.
The ground is dangerously closed and the gorge is urgent, and the mountain is cutting the wall and hanging on the flying spring.
Who people green clay rice, there is a guest air song white stone chapter. It is the Han Dynasty Pass here.
3. Xingtaiming Great Wall
The Ming Great Wall in Xingtai should be a Great Wall rebuilt or repaired on the basis of the Great Wall of Zhao and the Great Wall of Han. This section of the Great Wall belongs to the Great Wall under the jurisdiction of Shanxi Town. According to Wang Guoliang's "Examination of the History of the Great Wall of China" in Shanxi Town, the Great Wall stretched from Guguan (NiangziGuannan) in Pingding County, Yangquan to Huangyuling (east of Heshun County, Shanxi, southwest of Xingtai City). It is the Great Wall that now runs between Shanxi and Hebei.
The Ming Great Wall in Xingtai is made up of a number of passes. According to the survey passes, there are: Hedu Ridge, JinxiuTang, Yaoliang Pass, Maling Pass, Chen Songkou, Maling Ridge, Furnace Yan Ridge, Songzi Ridge, Huangyu Pass, Qingfeng Ridge, Zhiguo Ridge, Luluo (Luluo) Ridge, Wang Sanpu, FuziYan, Zhuang'erjiao, Cargo Lang Shenkou and Shahe City's Huangbei Rock, Several Rocks, and Dalingkou, and nearly twenty other places, each pass is generally composed of a city wall, a gate, a camp fort, an official hall, an enemy tower, and a beacon tower.
Lao Bai was fully affirmed from the words of these experts - the "Great Wall" of Xingtai originated from Zhao Guoshile! In order to resist the attack of the master, special "border wall" and other settings, of course, in this process the old whites still carry out a very difficult investigation, during the "Maling Pass" production of rubbings, the most difficult is to find the problem of inscriptions! Everything belongs to all the costs paid for visiting the "Xing Culture", it doesn't matter...
In order to investigate the ancient Great Wall of Xingtai, they overcame the unfamiliarity of the mountain road, and overcame the suffering of "no water", in the hot summer can not bathe is the biggest problem, they are in the eaves of the house under the "falling water" tank, draw a small scoop of rainwater, wash their hands together, wash the ink on their hands, eat, rest, and the next day can only wear sweaty and hard clothes to the place where the "Maling Pass" has an inscription! Because there is no water to wash you, no water to make you take a good bath, and there is no water to wash your clothes.
Once this inscription many people know, a truncated abandoned inscription lying on the road, Lao Bai is determined to repair it, to return to find a professional store to buy professional glue, to go to the second time is to repair together with Dr. Li Jie of Guangzong County, so as not to be abandoned under the cliff. Of course, they have had a lot of such work, lao bai repeated, of course, due to the shortage of water, often use their drinking water for a day, two bottles of mineral water to make rubbings! Because you have to carry these necessary waters up the mountain, you can't go down the mountain at noon, and each person is two bottles of water a day...
At the "suspension bridge ditch", they accidentally found thirteen inscriptions, which is unimaginable, they were excited as if they had won the victory in the fight against the epidemic, using the word cheer and jump to express the mood at that time, a line randomly opened the utensils they carried, and then, paper, paper, drying, inking, and began to expand the monument, the happiness in their hearts could not be expressed in words! In this vicinity, three cliff carvings were found, of course, these are the most beautiful contributions to their visit to the "Great Wall" in Xingtai! It is also the most realistic payment!
The discovery of these inscriptions and cliff carvings is a verification of the auxiliary data related to the "Taihang Mountain Ancient Yidao" in Xingtai, and is also a "supplementary evidence" to the history of Xingtai! At least it fills in the fallacy of "Maling Pass" and "no inscription"! It has broken the erroneous cognition of "Maling Pass" in the cultural relics and historian circles for many years, and also filled in the shortcomings of the "Taihang Mountain Xingtai Ancient Great Wall Inscription"!
Lao Bai said that perhaps a belief determines a person's life path, this may be the truth, Lao Bai said, the daily tens of thousands of steps represent their itinerary, they will not go to the "playground" to walk 10,000 steps to play when they are bored...
Lao Bai and his like-minded friends, there is no source of funds, everyone volunteered to risk life and death after three times of visits and productions of more than ten days, and finally all the relevant materials of the inscriptions and cliff stone carvings at the "Suspension Bridge Ditch" were all produced, becoming a relatively complete system of "Maling Guanbei Carvings"!
Now, it is rumored that the state is going to do greater protection along the "Ancient Great Wall" of China, which is a good thing, which is also the recognition and protection of China's ancient cultural relics, ancient ruins, and ancient royal roads!
The level of excitement when Lao Bai and his friends first walked to the "Cliff Carving" should be seen from this photo at that time! This is the moment of becoming the first group of visitors to the "Xingtai Ancient Great Wall"! Every time they cheered and jumped at the "new discovery", the excitement could not be expressed in any language.
He said, don't you believe me? That's when you didn't encounter situations and facts that risked danger and futile efforts.
Please think: Friends drive from Guangzong County in the morning, travel to Xingtai City to pull up Laobai, and then travel more than 70 kilometers of mountain roads, come to "Maling Pass", and then experience rock climbing, if you do not find the relevant inscriptions, what kind of mood will you be? This time alone is 150 kilometers, if you don't find the relevant inscription, how are you feeling? Do you know how much these trips will cost? One is a laid-off worker, the other is an individual doctor, how much money can be earned in a day to fight the epidemic and save people? You don't know about these costs, and you won't know at all, but they say they think it's worth it, it's worth it!
After they arrived at "Maling Pass" that time, they asked the group of "walking and wild tours" again, but they did not know what to do, which was a pity. They went to inquire about the "old man herding sheep" and learned that there was an inscription on the "suspension bridge ditch", so they went down the mountain, and an accident occurred on the way, and Lao Bai slipped and walked out of the mountain path for 2 or 3 meters and was dragged by his companions.
He found that the shoes worn on the feet were usually easy to take off and wear, and their shoelaces were loose, causing the feet to move left and right in the shoes, and one foot was unstable and caused by slippage, so Lao Bai tightened the shoelaces again and advanced towards the "suspension bridge ditch"!
After a period of visiting, the "suspension bridge ditch" was finally found, so everyone was pleasantly surprised to find that as many as 13 inscriptions existed, and there was a remnant stele standing about 30 meters on the east side of the "suspension bridge ditch", and there was still half of the stele lying on the south side of the road, feeling the need to protect it, so after flipping and moving to the north side of the road, it was determined to repair this inscription.
After returning home, along the "Xinxing Road" in Xingtai, he began to look for special glue for "sticky stones", and then bought two kinds of adhesive in a store and put them at home to bring a restoration inscription when he went to "Maling Pass" next time.
The inscription is of "Han White Jade" quality, and the inscription is horizontal: for the welfare of the people! The content is vertically written at the beginning of the right: Maling Avenue is rebuilt, and the people of Xingxi have demanded that in order to make the traffic permanent, pedestrians must be loved! Date: December 15, 1937, Republic of China! The stele still has the name of the craftsman: Linxian stonemason Wang Renyu!
According to the time calculation, it should be that the Xingtai area has been liberated (Xingtai was liberated on September 24, 1945, and it was also the first liberated city in New China!). Not one of them... But the inscription has a 'sickle hammer' five stars, and the appearance of a crossed flag may be the product of a specific period? At least it is the "official inscription" because the material of the inscription was deliberately pulled here after being made in other places, and the reason for this needs to be studied...
Lao Bai believes that it is reasonable to say that the official roads need to be repaired frequently, and the road surface can be repaired after it is irregular, so as to reduce the unsafe travel of people, and there will certainly be no potholes, which can be seen in the difference from the road conditions of "Maling Pass" and "Jingxing Pass". The difference between maintenance and repair can be seen in the usual way.
Cabbage grows quietly on the corner of this place. Emerald green leaf veins, exposed to the sun, showing timidity and cowardice, "moss" around this shade, but also quietly breathing and growing, breathing, is a pure land of "Malingguan"...
This is the May 3, 2021 chongfang "Maling Pass", when he met netizens "lonely forward", he blurted out that he recognized Lao Bai, and repeatedly said: Your visit to the monument is too difficult! After the exchange, they took a photo in front of the restored inscription, and Lao Bai said that this was the first and probably the last photo of the "Taihang Mountain Ancient Post Road" that was intentionally taken!
Lao Bai told me: The visit to the "Taihang Mountain Ancient Yidao Inscription" in the Taihang Mountains early and greedy in the dark, although it can now be used as a node, but our past is still worth remembering! Frost festival weather is cold, can not go to the mountains to do rubbing, just do some indoor work, wait for next year's spring warm flowers, and then go to the Taihang Mountains to find monuments.