Image: Langyatai scenery from the Internet
War horses galloped, flags fluttered, iron horses jingo, and the momentum was huge. In 219 BC, a large army accompanied by loess dust, wrapped in fierce wind and rain, ran all the way to the East China Sea.
Green mountains, cliffs and cliffs, endless seas. With a loud cry, a tall and mighty man stepped down from the "dragon car". He furrowed his brow and pressed his sword, his chest held high, and a pair of majestic eyes looked around on all sides. A flash of a smile appeared on his face, and then he strode forward, stopping in front of the cliff, pointing his finger into the distance. This scene is frozen on a platform in the Dazhu Mountain Range of Qingdao's West Coast New Area.
This extraordinary monarch was the first emperor of China, and that platform was the famous Langyatai.
One
The mountain is not high, there are immortals and spirits. The "immortals" of Langyatai are different from the demons and ghosts that haunt Laoshan Mountain, but they are real people- emperors and generals, dignitaries and dignitaries, and celebrities and inkers. Qin Shi Huang made five cruises in his lifetime, and three times he set foot here.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Langya was once an important city in the State of Qi, and the Dukes of Qi Huan and Qi Jing often visited here to inspect and play, and did not return for several months. Prior to this, the Yue King destroyed the state of Wu, moved the capital to Langya, and established the political center in Langyatai. He honored corporal Xian and sent heroic posts all over the world, and even Confucius came here with his disciples from the country of Lu.
At the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, Jiang Taigong enfeoffed the State of Qi as the Eight Gods, and the main shrine of the four times was located in Langyatai. During the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, he went to Langya three times, and his favor was no different from that of Qin Shi Huang. Li Bai, Bai Juyi and other literati bachelors came to see the wind, leaving behind a series of popular poems, making Langyatai famous in the world and fragrant for a long time.
"Langyatai" was first mentioned in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas, Hai Nei East Classic", "Langyatai in the Bohai Sea, the east of Langya". Langyatai is not a high mountain, only 183 meters, because of its shape like a platform, it is named "Langyatai". According to another legend, there were two families living in Langyatai a long time ago, and the two families added joy on the same day, and the son was named Langge and the daughter was named Langgu. Later, the evil man wants to catch the beautiful Lady Lang, and Brother Lang comes forward. Facing the pursuing soldiers, the two jumped into the sea. At the jumping sea, a mountain with two mountains closely linked together appeared, and people said that this was changed by Lang ge and Langu, and later this mountain was called "Langyatai".
Two
Langyatai is surrounded by rolling hills and trees. More than 2,000 years ago, the specific location of the Yue King's move to the capital Langya is still controversial, but the idea of moving the capital to Qingdao Langyatai has been agreed by many researchers. It is said that the Yue King took a fancy to this feng shui treasure land bordering the sea on three sides and the land on the other, and built a sea viewing platform on it.
Two hundred years later, Qin Shi Huang was fortunate to see the ruins and broken walls here, a depression, and was greatly angered, and with a single order, 30,000 households were relocated to Langyatai to revitalize Langyatai. Now people see the cloud ladder, the royal road, the hall of the fast, the hall of the dragon king, the wangyue tower, the fort, and the palace, all of which are the epitome of the prosperous times.
Langyatai has beautiful natural scenery and is a good place for people to watch the sun and watch the mirage in ancient times. Tang Kaiyuan Jinshi Xiong Yao and Qing Zhucheng scholar Li Chengzhong are recorded in their poems. It is said that the first time Qin Shi Huang saw the sea was on the way to Langyatai. The ebb and flow of the eyes and the vast and boundless water made Qin Shi Huang feel incomparably shocked, full of emotions, and strengthened his ambition to unify the world.
Langyatai's economic and military status is extraordinary. At that time, "Langya Port" was the first of the five ancient ports in China during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the ancestor port of Asia, an important maritime transportation artery, and a part of the "Belt and Road". Known as the "Northern Maritime Silk Road", this sea passage is an important maritime communication route connecting China, Japan and North Korea. Qin Shi Huang's three tireless inspections were not simply to demonstrate against the world and appease the so-called people's hearts, let alone just to see the beauty of Langya, but the motivation behind it was to consolidate the "world".
Three
The Kangxi Emperor expected to "borrow another five hundred years from heaven", so why didn't Qin Shi Huang want to do so? The fame of Langyatai also benefited from Xu Fu's entry into the sea to seek immortal medicine.
Xu Fu's name appears in Sima Qian's "History of Hengshan Lie" in Huainan, first "Xu Tian" and then "Xu Fu", which has been verified to be a Langya person, that is, the original resident of the location of Langyatai. Xu Fu is an alchemist, and worshipping ghosts and gods is his best skill. Qin Shi Huang traveled thousands of miles to Langyatai, and Xu Fu wrote that there were three sacred mountains on the sea, Penglai, Abbot, and Yingzhou, and that there were elixirs of immortality on the mountains, and asked the emperor to send virgin boys and girls to the sea to seek. This is exactly what Qin Shi Huang wanted.
Therefore, Xu Fu went to the sea three times to look for medicine, and the place of departure was in Langyatai. Each time, after Qin Shi Huang bathed and fasted, he was full of expectations, or personally sent them, or stationed in Taiwan to see them.
However, ten years of dreaming of each other only ended in ashes. Xu Fu finally "crossed the East to Fusang", and led a thousand followers to never return, but left many legends and stories between China and Japan, and became the topic of study of many disciplines such as history and navigation. This must have been a result that Qin Shi Huang had never expected in his dreams, and Xu Fu had no intention of planting willows but willows.
There is now a Xufu Hall on the southwest side of Langyatai, which was specially built in honor of Xu Fu, and it is said that Xu Fu was mainly active here in those years. The hall is divided into two halls, front and back, which is very grand. This is Xu Fu's "blessing", and more than two thousand years later, people still remember him and "evaluate his merits", which is a real "memorial", without the slightest "nothingness".
Four
The most splendid cultural heritage of Langyatai is the carved stone. When Qin Shi Huang went out on a tour, he would erect a monument and carve stones everywhere he went. In 219 BC, after Qin Shi Huang built the Langyatai, he erected a stone carving on the top of the platform, and in 209 BC, Qin II toured to Langyatai and immediately carved the edict and the names of the ministers next to the stone in his father's office. After several winds and frosts, the carved stone was broken, and the stele was lost. Later, after many searches by scholars, the scattered stele stones were put together and put into the museum, becoming a "national treasure". The carved stone located in the western part of Langyatai today is a replica, which is divided into two parts, Qin Shi Huang's "Hymn Poems" and Qin II's "Edicts", with a total of 447 characters. Through the lines, people can appreciate the "label" after the unification of the text of Qin Shi Huang in that year, and they can appreciate the power of the ancient calligraphy.
"Boom boom boom" "boom boom boom", the momentum is magnificent, the mountains and the sea are overturned, the light is like the sun and the moon, and the sound is like thunder. Shake the earth and soar straight into the clouds. This powerful drumming sound came from the mountains, from above the Langya Terrace. This is one of the scenes of the "Four Seasons Blessing Festival" held locally in Langyatai, the traditional gong and drum of Jiaodong in the north, the drum music of the lion drum in guangdong in the south, plus the self-created "Langyatai Four Seasons Drum Music", which knocks the square miles "deafening". The sound traveled along the surface of the sea, across the East Sea, across the ocean, and toward the firmament.
Nowadays, Langyatai has long become a national key scenic spot, and the Millennium Grand View exudes a charming brilliance and shines brightly.