2013-03-30
At the moment of farewell, the shadows of the mountains overlapped, the peaks towered, and the green pines and cypresses spread all over the mountains, although the friends who were traveling with me seemed to be unfinished, but I knew that this trip to Shouxian was still a successful end.
The sunset light is still shining, the flowers under the Bagong Mountain are blooming just right, looking back, the pear blossoms are like snow, the peach blossoms are like dreams, and the large areas of rape flowers are gently swaying in the wind, how can everything not teach people to stay and forget, but the heart is moving! This unexpected surprise, of course, is due to Brother Lan An, who is known as the wind of Meng.
From receiving the phone call to boarding Lan An Brother's car with The Elder Sister of Seawater and Ms. Lijun successively, for this time from east to west, from Huainan to Shou County, it is clear that there is an infinite vision in the heart. I also know that for the three of them, in the midst of a hundred busy schedules, under the premise of visiting the ancient city several times, what a deep friendship it should be to accompany me here! Until everyone climbed the south gate of the ancient city of Shouxian together, the Tongshui Gate, until they saw each other excitedly pressing the shutter again and again, they felt a little guilt lurking in their hearts, and there was a slight loosening.
Shou County, known in ancient times as Shouchun, Shouyang and Shouzhou, is the birthplace of Chu culture. However, whether it is Chu, Han, three kingdoms and two Jin, or the Tang after that, the five generations after that, and the Northern Song Dynasty after that, all of them have left a strong mark in Chinese history because of the danger of their terrain. I would like to ask every descendant of Yan Huang, which one does not know how to "throw a whip and break the flow"? Which one does not know that "the wind and cranes are loud, and the grass and trees are soldiers"? No wonder the ancient sages want to write "white birds and lines of heaven in the water, green wu thousand obstacles and wild clouds", to write "the vague long Huai goes endlessly, pedestrians go alone to the Shouyang Building" - without being immersed, it is impossible to deeply understand the vicissitudes and thickness of the ancient city.
Although the ancient city wall of Shouxian county is rebuilt for the Southern Song Dynasty, it can be calculated carefully, and it is enough for eight hundred years. Eight hundred years of heavenly wind and sea rain, eight hundred years of war erosion, when it swallows the heavens, majestic posture, still stands steeply on the south bank of Huaishui, the foothills of the Bagong Mountains, can not help but make people feel its miracle. Undoubtedly, the deliberate repairs of the dynasties and the new China have been the basis for supporting the proud standing of a majestic city, but the repairers have deliberately left a trace of the ancient city's gray hair. In the interval when Brother Lan An took a picture of Ms. Lijun, Sister Haishui pointed to the cornice painting column on the South Gate Tower (Tongshui Gate) and said, That is history! It turned out that not only had a few of the huge columns faded red paint, revealing the cracks of the vicious Ruosi below, but even more, the bottom of each giant pillar had decayed sporadically, like the uneven teeth of the old man of the wind candle.
Overlooking the city, the moat under the city is sparkling and clear, sometimes there are leisurely water birds crossing the river, sometimes there are safe women washing across the shore, the spring breeze is gentle, and the green willows are blowing on the embankment. Brother Lan An smiled and walked over and said go to the East Gate, where the original appearance of history has been preserved to the greatest extent - for this sentence, I have been deliberating on the car, and I have been looking forward to a face-to-face collision with history. The east gate of the ancient city of Shouxian is called Binyang Gate, and compared to the almost new South Gate, this is the destination of our trip.
Looking up from under the city, the sense of historical precipitation, layering and presence spontaneously emerged. The Binyang Gate Tower is about ten meters high, and a quarter of the bottom is a stone barrier, and up to the top, it is all paved with cyan city bricks. Whether it is a strip of stone or a city brick, it has been largely weathered and decayed, and if you touch those faults with your hand, you will fall down. Stepping out of the inner city gate, the bluestone ground under his feet was staggered, but each piece was smooth, and what was even more shocking was the four ruts that snaked from outside the city. The middle two have one finger deep and two fingers wide, living next to each other, and the left and right two are far apart and slightly shallower. Needless to say, the rut in the middle is of course the masterpiece of countless unicycles over the centuries, and as for the left and right, it should be the rolling of the carriage and the sedan of that year. "Zhumen wine smells of flesh, the road has frozen bones", the real toiling masses, how many can afford to sit in carriages and cars? After all, the rich and noble are rare, so even the ruts are much more superficial, and the "meat eaters despise" really cannot withstand the consumption of history.
The walls of the city gate are mottled, and some vague handwriting and patterns can be seen on the strips of stone above, according to Ms. Lijun, which is said to be related to their location. The most impressive thing is the stone on the north side of the inner city gate, which is engraved with the scene of a large snake chasing a small bird, the strokes are simple, but vivid and simple, which brings the viewer into a solemn atmosphere. Whether it is the inner city gate or the outer city gate, you can find the latch of the jack gate of that year, huge and deep, you can imagine how difficult it would be to break through once the foreign enemy attacked. As for the urn city between the two gates, so far stepping in, you can still feel a hint of intimidation but frightening suffocation, so everyone ridiculed, if this is raining arrows, plus rolling wood and stones, there will be nothing to be spared, so it can also be concluded that the castle that has always been strong has been breached from the inside, and it is all over the world.
Unlike the city towers at the South Gate (Tongmiao Gate), there are many relics on the East City Tower (Binyang Gate). On each side of the tower there is a stele of the gan, the head of the dragon and the back of the turtle, the limbs of Kong Wu, but the west side of the one has been relieved of the burden of the unknown time, the back armor is cold, and the east side, even if there is still one, is already a stele, wordless gaze, unspeakable emptiness and loneliness. Immediately next to the west side of gantu, is a well-preserved black stele from the Qing Guangxu period, the reverse side records the undulating hooks of the ancient city, and the front is an intuitive map of the inner city, you can see the streets and alleys, dotted with trees. Brother Lan An introduced himself with his usual sprinkling, he said that the ancient city wall not only plays the function of resisting enemies, but also can prevent floods, such as the recent 1991 flood, the water surface is almost the same as the city wall, but in the end, the ancient city once again showed its deep heritage, saving the lives of more than 100,000 people in the city.
Walking in the ancient city, such as walking in a heavy historical masterpiece, trance dreams back to a thousand years, trance incarnated into a tile of the ancient city wall, incarnated into a certain cloud on the ancient city. The layout of the streets and alleys of the ancient city probably follows the old system, although it is somewhat forced, it also limits the rapid flow of people and traffic. Slow and leisurely old people, slow and leisurely children, slow and leisurely rows, through the car window, the two ladies bluntly expressed the envy of the leisurely life in the ancient city, and I was trying my best to persuade Brother Lan An that there was no need to look for a "big rescue". "Great Rescue" is a special name of the ancient city, mainly flour, accompanied by pork plate oil, kumquat cake, walnut kernels, green plum, green and red silk, rock sugar, sugar, sugar osmanthus flower, etc., fried, golden color, crisp and delicious.
Speaking of "great rescue", we must say Song Taizu. Legend has it that in 956, Later Zhou Shizong marched on the southern kingdom of Huai and ordered the general Zhao Kuangyin to lead an army to attack Shou County. After a complete nine-month battle, Zhao Kuangyin finally broke through the city, but due to overwork, Zhao Kuangyin was difficult to enter for several days, and the water and rice were difficult to enter, which quickly destroyed all the soldiers of the army. At that time, a chef in the city offered some kind of special round pastry, and Zhao Kuangyin was actually in the middle of the heart, and his appetite was greatly opened. Later, talking about this matter, he said to his subordinates: "That Kurama labor, the post-war disease, thanks to it saved the driver." So people called this pastry "the great rescue.". Legend has it that there are many credible ingredients in this thing, and there is no need to speculate too much, the so-called "savior" has always depended on the wisdom of the authorities, not on a certain weapon, a certain kind of food. Also in Shou County, also in the early Song Dynasty, the famous Southern Tang general Lin Renzhao offered advice to the rear lord Li Yu: The Song people broke through the Southern Jing and Later Shu states, the soldiers and horses were tired, it was advisable to take Huainan directly, and it would be possible to turn the tide of the war at once and turn defense into attack. But it is this empty repentance that "the most hasty resignation temple day, the church still plays the parting song." The emperor of the ancient words who wept to Gong'e not only did not adopt Lin Mou's strategy, but also won the Song people's divisive plan, beheaded Lin Renzhao, self-destructed the Great Wall, and finally fell into the fate of being killed by the forbidden dove.
Sigh, the world is like a chess piece. Driving away from the ancient city, the so-called five tastes and miscellaneous tastes in the chest, want to say something, but can not find the port that needs to be mentioned in the underworld, so they look more out of the window and look at the wild in the spring wind. Walking and walking, even if I and the two ladies have a little tiredness, not to mention the Lan An brother who has a disease, but the brother is afraid that we are not happy, this has the beginning of the Bagong mountain forest park trip, then the sunset West Mountain, and then the distant period of return.
In Zhang Ziyi (as Gong Er) and Liang Chaowei (as Ip Man) version of the movie "A Generation of Grandmasters", Gong Er said to Ip Man, "It was my luck that I met you at the best moment... If you think about saying that there are no regrets in life, it is all a gamble. If there is no regret in life, how boring it should be. These words made people listen to the pain in their hearts, and they swirled and suddenly. What's so bad about being able to meet and get together, even if there's a parting, a sense of regret? Yu Gong II is, Yu Ancient City is, then, Yu Wu's peers are also restored.