Yijun County, Shaanxi Province, is an extremely beautiful place. Clear skies, blue skies and white clouds, deep greenery. Yijun County, which is specially loved and blessed by nature, once had a stone dragon and a stone tiger descend on a farmer's home 24 years ago.
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Yijun County, located in the central part of Shaanxi Province, the north of Tongchuan City, is in the combination of the Guanzhong Plain and the Huangshi Plateau in northern Shaanxi, belongs to the Meridian Ridge Bridge Mountain System, with a minimum altitude of 622 meters and a maximum altitude of 1734 meters, which belongs to the temperate continental monsoon climate zone, with a total area of 1531 square kilometers and a population of 100,000.
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The story I want to tell in this article is that it happened in Yijun County, Yunmeng Township Mountain Changhe Village.
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This is a strange and strange thing that ordinary people can't crack for decades. Thousands of worlds, thousands of strange, all kinds of strange, but can really let people touch, it is also a rare thing.
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Created by heaven and earth, a realistic stone dragon and a living stone tiger were found in the home of a farmer who did not want to be named in the changhe village of Yunmeng Township, Yijun County, Shaanxi Province.
Yijun County Yunmeng Township Shan Changhe Village, located in the south of Yijun County, 55 kilometers away from The county seat of Yijun County, is "the furthest village under the jurisdiction of Yunmeng Township, in 2018 withdrew from the sequence of greedy villages, before the Shan changhe Village was inconvenient to traffic and backward in economic development," (excerpt from Yijun County Local Introduction).
The discovery of the Shilongshi Tiger incident in Changhe Village, Yunmeng Township, Yijun County, was reported in local newspapers in that year.
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Time back to April 1997, the farmer's family found Shi Long and Shi Hu news did not go away, the news wanted to cover up can not be covered, the more people do not want to know, but stimulated more people, and more people want to know. Out of curiosity, people from nearby villages come to watch every day.
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Stone dragons and stone tigers are naturally formed, without any traces of artificial carving and processing.
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The stone dragon and the stone tiger are similar in size, the limbs are sound, about 70 cm long, the shape occupies space, the stone dragon is about 30 cm wide, and the stone tiger is about 25 cm wide, all of which are gray-brown. The stone dragon is soaring, has a peaceful appearance, and the scales are arranged in an orderly manner. The stone tiger takes a reclining position, the form is full of vigilance, and the tiger's tail curls under the body. The eyes of Shi Long and Shi Hu are particularly evocative, realistic, lifelike, and sparkling.
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Interestingly, Shi Long and Shi Hu lacked friendship and fulfilled the allusion of the dragon and tiger fighting, and in order to please the master's family, they avoided fighting and performed their duties. The distance between the dragon and the tiger is about 9 meters, and the dragon disk is directly above the bottom wall of the main earthen cave kiln, living in harmony with the master's family; the tiger, a single shadow, only occupies the upper right side of the wall of the earthen cave cellar, and the tiger looks at the courtyard safely.
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According to the village cadres of Shanchanghe Village in the county and the owner of this farmer, when the farmer was digging a cave seven years ago, when he was excavating the kiln surface, he accidentally saw a stone in the soil, and he did not pay much attention to it. The excavation of the cave took several years intermittently, and the discovery of Shi Long was even more unexpected and surprising. When the cave was about to be completed, it was found when the bottom wall of the cellar was shoveled, and after cleaning up the stone dragon's body, it was a surprise to everyone, and it was immediately preserved in the same place.
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This farmer regards these two things as rare treasures and cherishes them very much. It is also regarded as having the spirit of the gods in this kiln, and is afraid of offending the gods, so it is not used.
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This cave is about 10 meters deep, about 5 meters wide and about 3 meters high, which is the earthen cave that local villagers generally dig themselves, which is more like this for accommodation and debris.
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When Shi Long and Shi Hu were discovered, the wrens and their party, together with the relevant personnel of the county and the village, heard the news and went to visit in the late autumn of 1997.
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The stone dragon and the stone tiger may be a gift specially prepared by nature for this farmer, maybe it may be a chance encounter, and it may need to be guessed, but it cannot be said to be a strange thing.
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There are many things in the world that are difficult to say clearly. The strange and strange things that happened to the wrench and his party happened to the stone dragon in the farmer's house.
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We went to visit and inevitably took pictures. First took a few pictures in the farmer's yard, and then took a few pictures of Shi Hu, and then deliberately went to the cave to take pictures of Shi Long. The lighting in the cave is somewhat dim, and flash is used to fill the light when taking pictures. But strange things began to appear one after another, the flash just couldn't open, and it couldn't be operated several times over and over again. Want to find a larger light bulb and flashlight, the farmer's home is not, the surrounding farmers live far away, there is really no good way, had to make up for the Shilong to take a photo, afraid that the cave light is not good, they deliberately gave the Shilong a few more photos. After returning, the film was sent to the photo studio for processing, and the film was printed out, but only the pictures of the courtyard and Shi Hu were there. The photo of the courtyard is clear, the photo of Shi Hu is blurry and unclear, Shi Long has no photo, and the film of Shi Long is empty white. This matter is strange, feel strange, with doubts repeatedly check the camera, the camera does not have any problems, and tried the flash, it is also good. The camera at that time was different from the camera of today. The one I use is a Nissan Ricoh high-end camera that has been with me for many years, and the configuration is very professional, which is the ideal tool that journalists usually use.
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In order to photograph the stone dragon, I went back and forth three times, and the result was that I did not shoot the stone dragon three times. The last two sessions of the process are just repeating the first experience. Confused, 24 years later, I still haven't figured it out. Why take a picture of this farmer's courtyard? The ambiguity of the pat tiger? Why doesn't the flash turn on? And why did I shoot the stone dragon three times, but I didn't shoot it, and I didn't have an image when I took it, it was empty white?
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The stone dragon and stone tiger created by the divine craftsmen who condensed nature are still there, and whether this farmer's home has been relocated or not, I don't know with the passage of time. In the past few days, I am very happy to hear that the cultivation of Chinese medicinal materials and pig breeding in this village is booming, and now the farmer's life is also open and smiling.
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Years may erase some of people's memories, but the deepest memories always evoke memories of that year.
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Think about it, the mountain changhe village in the depths of the mountains was wrapped in green, and everywhere was full of spring colors. Wisps of cooking smoke rise in the courtyards of farmhouses, as if to take you into a paradise, perhaps this is the reason why shi dragons and stone tigers have come here.
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Dragon and tiger are the most common combination of our Chinese national culture. Strangely enough, it came to this farmer's house. One is the dragon who ascended to heaven and entered the sea, and the other is the king of the hundred beasts who rules the jungle. A dragon and a tiger, dutifully and affectionately guarding his master, an ordinary farmer.
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In the world, there are many strange phenomena and strange things, which need to be looked at with scientific eyes.
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The vast universe will one day be unveiled.
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Note: The image comes from the Today's Headlines gallery