Thousands of miles of Tao River, it seems that only the rich Lintao.
Lintao County is located in the lower reaches of the Tao River, a fertile field, a wide river valley, fertile arable land, rich products, and prosperous culture. There are several major events in history that are very famous in Longyou:
First, she was the first officially appointed "cultural county" in Gansu Province. During the Ming Dynasty's Wanli Dynasty, Yang Jisheng, a famous Wanli minister who had fought with the famous minister Yan Song for half a lifetime and was demoted to Lintao, also known as Yang Jiaoshan, had opened the Jiaoshan Academy on the Eastern Mountains of Lintao. Local colleges at the county level are relatively scarce in the Longzhong area, and Lintao may be the only one. Due to the good cultural heritage, before liberation, there may be more talents in Lintao County, the old society. Therefore, Lintao has always been a famous and officially recognized cultural county in Gansu.
Second, when Lintao was just liberated, the 100,000-strong army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army entered Xinjiang, reclaimed the border, and in order to help solve the problem of soldiers becoming a family and respond to the call of the state, Lintao County mobilized and organized 3,000 female soldiers into Xinjiang at one time in the fifties, so Lintao County later became a famous "Zhangren County", and there were sons-in-law all over the country.
Third, the painted pottery pots of the Lintao Majia kiln are very famous, this kind of faience pottery was found in 1924 by an archaeologist named Anderson in Sweden, who ran to the ground of Lintao to dig around and excavated for the first time in Lintao's Xiping. Until now, as long as the shape of the jar is good, the pattern painted on it or like fish or like water is well protected, the pottery and color are in the same period, the jar is the real thing, and the price on the market is dead expensive. Because Majiayao faience pottery is also an important piece of material evidence to be used by historians when judging Chinese history.
The fourth is about the Warring States Qin Great Wall related to The Great Wall of Qin, which has taught us. Teacher Yimin is the "sour acid" that we were once called by the Dido people, that is, the geography teacher of the students of Lintao Normal School, Teacher Sun seems to be a Lintao person, but his speech and lecture accent in memory do not look like each other. The thing related to Teacher Sun and also related to Min County, which is also under the jurisdiction of Dingxi City, is that Lintao County is the western "beginning" of the famous Warring States Qin Great Wall, and the address is in the thirty mile pier of Xintian Town, north of Lintao City today. Of course, this matter has been officially determined in the archaeological circles, and the Warring States Qin Great Wall began in present-day Lintao, which is written in the country's history textbooks. However, the folk culture circles and academic circles in Lintao and Minxian county who are fighting over this matter are still unclear about the lawsuit.
Fifth, in the south of Lintao City, there is also a Tang Dynasty "Geshuhan JiGong Monument". In fact, now it looks like a few irregular large stones, the original engraving on the top of the more words, now the weathering is serious, there is not much left. In fact, this Geshuhan is the person who once wrote in the Tang poem, "The Big Dipper is seven stars high, and Geshu carries a knife at night." Still thinking about herding horses, I did not dare to cross Lintao. "This Geshu is Pigeshu, and this Lintao is Pilintao." In several counties under dingxi management, the one who can still find a shadow in Tang poetry may also be a Lintao county. Although the author of this poem, which is both like a poem and a folk song, has a very low status in the whole Tang dynasty poetry, and people call it a "Western Contempt", but in the end, there can still be a Tang Dynasty poem mentioned in this place, even if it is more cultured.
Based on the above aspects of the situation, Lintao has always been a place with a very deep cultural heritage, it is such a cultured place, their local people were in the 1980s, but they looked down on us as a group of teachers, calling us "sour", ugly, and I don't know what the reason and what it means? It may also be that at that time, the local teachers, including the students who were teachers, had a low income level, in the society or walking on the streets of Lintao, they did not spend money generously, they were stingy in dealing with people, they were timid and indecent, they were trembling and shrinking for people, and they had a bad impression of people in other places? Of course this is nonsense.
Min County and Lintao are geographically subordinate to Longyou, with the same diameter of Shangmin County in the south and Lintao in the north. Since the autumn of 1985, both counties have been under the jurisdiction of the then Dingxi District, which is now Dingxi City. Historically, Min County was called Lintao during the Qin Dynasty, Lintao Was called Di Dao at the same time, and now Lintao County and Min County were in Qin Shi Huang, because there was such a time period of intersection in the names of the two counties, so on the issue of the western beginning of the Qin Great Wall, it is more accurate to say that it should be the western beginning of the "Warring States Qin Great Wall", and the literary and historical researchers of the two counties have been arguing for many years.
Our Dingxi area is not big to say, the old caliber is 20330 square kilometers, but the cultural heritage is very deep, so there are still many things that are not clear about culture. For example, as one of the four major cultures in Gansu, the birthplace of "Li culture" is in Longxi or Lintao, "the world under the Li clan out of Longxi", or "the world under the Li clan out of Lintao", this is also a "Wen mo lawsuit" that is not clear. Because, the original Didao, which is today's Lintao, was still the seat of the famous Longxi County. Originally, I did not find out, I always thought that the county administration of "Longxi County" in the past was in present-day Longxi, and only later did I read some information to know that when Qin Shi Huang first divided the world into 36 counties, Longxi County was one of them, and the county administration of Longxi County was in present-day Lintao and not in Longxi. Even on Renshou Mountain, which is also in the county town of Longxi County, there is a temple related to "Li Culture", and there is also a piece of "Li Family Dragon Palace" on the north gate of the county town under the mountain, but because the industries in these two places used to belong to two different units of the government, when everyone ran the project to compete for investment more than ten years ago, the people of the two units could not talk together, the road could not reach one, and one family hid from one. It is not surprising that such things have been seen a lot. In fact, they are all normal, that is, what everyone calls "the ass determines the head of the thing", there is no principle. Things that were thousands of years ago or hundreds of years ago are not clear, and it is normal not to understand them. A person who lives for a short period of several decades often can't even remember his relatives or things he passed through when he was a child. A few years ago, I also heard that there is a West Rock Mountain in the west of Dingxi City, and in the back mountain of the top of the mountain, there are several large areas of old cemeteries of the surrounding countrymen, living in a mountain bay, with a large area, good feng shui, and the graves are next to each other. There was a careless person who, three years after the death of his old man, moved the grave of the old man of his family, but did not bother to move the grave of someone else's family who was about the same location. In the end, I got a lawsuit and took a lot of money to settle things.
Gansu is one of the places with the most ruins of the Great Wall in the country, except for the Ming Great Wall, which is the Great Wall of Qin. There is no dispute about the Ming Great Wall from Shanhaiguan to Jiayuguan, and the western end of the Warring States Qin Great Wall originated from present-day Lintao County according to the current junior high school history textbooks. Its archaeological basis is Sun Yimin, the former geography teacher of Lintao Normal School, who spent more than ten years from the early 1970s to the early 1980s and carried out a large number of in-depth field archaeological work, and published an archaeological research article on "the western part of the Warring States Qin Great Wall began in Lintao" in Guangming Daily in 1982. After this article was published, the national history textbook unified the western part of the Warring States Qin Great Wall, which was revised from the original Min County to Lintao County and is still in use today. This conclusion is subversive, which has caused some very big repercussions and controversies in the "Great Wall Academic Circles" at that time and even in today's "Great Wall Academic Circles".
More than 2,000 years ago, the ancients used unique natural barriers in the western region's territorial expansion and strategic defense, taking the Great Wall, the Tao River, and the trenches as elements to build the Western Qin Great Wall with great strategic defense functions. At the very low level of productivity at that time, this defense system built solely by manpower is a great miracle in the eyes of the present. The historical and cultural value of the Warring States Qin Great Wall plays a pivotal role in the cultural history of the Great Wall of China, but looking at the whole country, the academic value of the Warring States Qin Great Wall, whether it began in Min County or began in Lintao, has always not been universally valued by the majority of experts and scholars. Longzhong area is mainly within the scope of Dingxi City, the Great Wall resources are very much, the state of preservation is still relatively good, this high-quality cultural resources if given time, it will definitely be the cone in the bag, with the continuous deepening of archaeological work and research, sooner or later will stand out! As people in Dingxi, we must still have this kind of cultural self-confidence.
From the perspective of historical evolution, the importance of Min County and Lintao in the history of China's exploration of the western border hammer and the importance of establishing the county system are indistinguishable. Min County, as the beginning of the Qin Great Wall, is not entirely empty, Min County scholars have sorted out many historical documents, such as the Tang Dynasty's "Yuanhe County Chronicle", the Song Dynasty's "Taiping Huanyu Record", the Ming Dynasty's "Reading history of Fang Youji", etc., that these documents all talk about the western part of the Qin Great Wall begun in Min County. However, after more than 2,000 years of changes in the wind and clouds, in the many field examinations carried out so far, the trench fortresses and other aspects that are the constituent elements of the Great Wall have been found in Min County, but only the remains of the Great Wall that can be most convincing have not found the physical object. Therefore, since the beginning of Lintao, the ruins of the Great Wall on the weiyuan, Longxi, Tongwei, and Jingning lines were discovered by Teacher Sun Yimin, and after this achievement was officially confirmed by Guangming Daily, this thousand-year-old lawsuit seems to have been settled temporarily, but in fact, among the scholars and literati in the two counties, the issue of the western beginning of the Warring States Qin Great Wall is still spoken of.
In the mid-1980s, CCTV filmed a large-scale feature film "Looking at the Great Wall", and two young reporters found Teacher Yimin and filmed it in Teacher Sun's office. At that time, the Lintao Normal School was next door to the present-day Lintao No. 1 Middle School, and there were two small open spaces in between. The gate of the teacher's school sits north to south, and after entering the gate is a long cement hardened corridor, on both sides of the corridor are four rows of bungalow classrooms or teachers' offices, the last row of which is also the end of the yongdao, and the houses on both sides are not separated by the yongdao, they are connected. Teacher Yimin's office is in the middle, facing the central corridor. This small room was full of all kinds of cultural relics collected by Teacher Yimin during years of field archaeological excavations along the Great Wall, and the two young people accidentally broke one of the large and neat rope-patterned Hanwa tiles, and the two asked Teacher Sun with big eyes and small eyes, "Does it matter?" "At that time, the reporters from Beijing who were so energetic at that time caused trouble, what did you let a teacher in a small place say?" I had to say it didn't matter.
Teacher Yimin used to be our teacher when we were studying teacher training, and from a personal point of view, we must be inclined to the view that the Warring States Great Wall of Qin originated in Lintao. From the remains of the Great Wall that have been recognized by the academic community and found in field archaeology, starting from Lintao, along Lintao Xintian Town, Balipu Township, Yaodian Township into Weiyuan, Longxi, Tongwei, Jingning, Ningxia, and then all the way north, to the present, it is still fully supporting the archaeological conclusions of Teacher Sun Yimin. However, over the years, many experts and scholars in Min county, from the perspective of seeking truth and seeking truth, have also been working the ground in Minzhou to find the geographical evidence that the Great Wall of Qin really began in Min County, although the remains of the Great Wall of the Great Wall have not been found so far, but also as the constituent elements of the Great Wall in that historical period, the remains of trenches and fortresses have been found a lot, and in some important national archaeological academic journals published a series of important articles on the beginning of the Qin Great Wall in Min County. As laymen, what these articles say also seem to make a lot of sense. In fact, this issue is too professional and complicated, so as the superior competent departments in the work of literature and literature in Min County and Lintao County, and many experts in the field of literature and literature in Dingxi City and even Gansu Province, they may also avoid judging this kind of "literary and ink lawsuit", so most of the time they have adopted a method of "making peace with thin mud", not taking a stand, not speaking, not taking sides, watching the "experts" in your county quarrel on their own. It may be a problem in their sidewalk, but going out of this door is actually not a problem in society.
In the past two years, local experts have also invented a new method to circumvent and mediate this contradiction, that is, to subdivide the Great Wall of Qin into two types, the first of which is the "Warring States Qin Great Wall", that is, the Great Wall of Qin Shi Huang's grandfather Qin Zhaoxiang Wang Xiu, whose western part is the present Lintao. The second is the "Great Wall of Qin Shi Huang" about fifty years later, that is, the Great Wall repaired by Sun Qin Shi Huang, which began in present-day Min County. If this view is really true, is it also necessary for experts in relevant fields to write a more solid article and put this issue at the level of such as "Guangming Daily" to make an academic decision?
Last year, I saw a lot of information about the Qin Great Wall in the Ruins of the Qin Shi Huang Palace in Beidaihe, Hebei Province, which was also a confused account, and did not subdivide the "Great Wall of Qin during the Warring States Period" and the "Great Wall of Qin during the Qin Shi Huang Period", and was generally called "Qin Great Wall". On the legend hanging on the wall, the western part marked in the "Schematic Map of the Great Wall of Qin Wanli" is the location of present-day Lintao; and the location of present-day Min County is marked in the "Qin Shi Huang Patrol Map", which is also relatively chaotic, so that those of us from Near Lintao and Min County, who are also locals, look at it, and the result is that it is not good to look at it, and the more you look at it, the more confused you are.
Legend has it that the mink cicadas and Dong Zhuo during the Three Kingdoms period were also from Lintao or Min County, so now are the people of both places like to fight for mink cicadas and do not want to fight dong Zhuo? In fact, in history, Dong Zhuo did have his own person, whether the mink cicada has it or not is not certain, the probability is not. The only source of this incident is that the theory of "Lintao" is derived from the "Three Kingdoms Zhiping Dialect", "The marten cicada introduced herself to Wang Yun: the concubine's original surname is Ren, the parent is Lü Bu, and she has lost herself since Lintaoguan." In the past two years, Rice Fat in Shaanxi and Xinzhou in Shanxi have also joined in the fight for this thing. In fact, modern people argue that there is not much point in arguing about this kind of thing, but when the government people go out to attract investment and do local propaganda, they may be of some use, and there is no other use. Just like whether Longzhong is in Nanyang or Xiangyang, this is always a confused account, and for such problems, the two places, all parties, and everyone should take what they need.
