Lying cow lying cow, experienced thousands of autumns,
In this prosperous world, ambition is rewarded!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the history and origin of WoniuCheng</h1>
A city, in addition to its official title, often has an alias, such as Jinan called Quancheng, Guangzhou called Wuyangcheng, Lhasa called Sunshine City, Nanjing called Stone City, Chengdu called Furong City and so on. Xingtai City also has an alias, called Woniu City, its name has been at least a thousand years old, niu, can be described as the city totem of Xingtai City.
In ancient times, cattle were a symbol of good fortune. According to historical records: Xingtai City was first built by Zu Yiqian Xing, to the Western Zhou Period, after the Marquis of Xingfeng was rebuilt, in the Spring and Autumn Period, the city was damaged by Rong Di, Qi Huangong led Cao Wei to assist the Xing State to rebuild, the Warring States period was the Zhao State Xindu, built the Xin Palace, Tantai, the Han Dynasty for xiangguo City, after the Sixteen Kingdoms period of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Zhao Emperor Shi Le expanded the Xiangguo City, built 4 sub-city arch guards, the city has Jiande Palace, Shan Yuting, Taiwu Hall, Hundred Foot Tower, Lingfeng Nine Hall, Guanque Terrace, Xianyang Hall, Kunhua Hall and other magnificent buildings.
Sui, Tang, Song and Jin Dynasties Xingzhou City is the seat of state, county, county, Xingzhou City is everywhere a prosperous scene, shops and liquor stores, Tang Dynasty Xingzhou is the production place of white porcelain in the south of The Qing Dynasty and north, silver-like snow-white porcelain, known as the world's noble and lowly common reputation, at that time Xingzhou City was the national white porcelain trading center, known as the world's rich merchants first. During the Song and Jin dynasties, Xingzhou City was an important commercial and military town in northern China, with the garrison of the Anguo Army and the Forbidden Army. During the Northern Song Dynasty, Xingzhou stabbed Guo Jin to be repaired to brick and stone, the city wall was six zhang thick, it could lie on the cattle, easy to defend and difficult to attack, there was the Niuwei River in the north of the city, and there were tethered cattle stones in the south of the city, so it was commonly known as the Lying Cow City. Shen Kuo recorded in the "Mengxi Pen Talk": Xingzhou City, Guo Jin defended the Western Mountains when he built, wide six zhang, can lie cattle, commonly known as lying cattle city. It is said that there is a Oxtail River in the east of the city, because of the name.
In the Yuan Dynasty, it was upgraded to Shunde FuCheng, after the Xingzhou Dazhi, Shunde Fu became the "first ruling district" of the whole country in the Yuan Dynasty, during the Ming Dynasty, the household department allocated funds to repair the Shunde Fu City, the city wall circumference was 13 miles and 20 zhang, the height was 3 zhang 6 feet, and the thickness was 6 zhang, and at the same time the Nanguan city wall was built, the guancheng circumference was 7 miles, the height was 2 zhang 2 feet, the base thickness was 3 zhangyu, and there were six zhai gates on the west, south and east sides. Shops in Nanguan City are like forests, merchants are like clouds, Nijin Doujin, and rich parties. It is the road of the nine provinces crown covered, the area where the elite gathering of hundreds of products, fireworks and fireworks, merchant spokes, the important town of Kinan, and the Tianfu Yuanxiong.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > The Legend of Woniucheng 1:</h1>
A long time ago, the xingtai area had beautiful mountains and rivers, abundant water and grass, hundreds of springs flowing, and fertile fields and uninhabited fields. A young couple, who had wandered here to see the fertile wilderness and no one inhabited, settled down, they worked tirelessly at sunrise, worked hard and did not cultivate animals, and later moved the Emperor of Heaven to send cattle to help them cultivate. Since then, the productive forces have grown day by day, and the descendants of the couple have multiplied and gradually developed into a large town.
The town is located in the front of the Taihang Mountain, which is prone to flash floods and threatens the safety of the city. But it is said that whenever a flash flood breaks out, when the flood forces the city, there are sacred cows descending from the sky and lying on the head of Xingtai City, when the flood rises, the sacred cow roars, the city wall is three feet long, the water rises high, but the flood always floods the city wall, the sacred cow repeatedly blesses the people of Xingtai to avoid floods and live and work in peace, in order to commemorate the merits of the sacred cow, so the name of the city is named after the lying cow, called the lying cow city, referred to as the cow city.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Legend of Woniu 2:</h1>
Once upon a time, the land around Xingtai was fertile and rich in water and grass. The brothers Ji Yun and Ji Sheng, who have been hunting on the Taihang Mountains for many years, when they went down the mountain one day, they saw a sacred cow, with its head south and tail north, lying on the ground. At that time, the cattle were a symbol of good harvest auspiciousness, so they led a group of people to defeat the "black dragon" with wisdom and bravery, and then everyone settled down in the place where the sacred cow lay, multiplied, and gradually formed a town, and people affectionately called their town Woniu City.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the remnants of the lying cow bionic</h1>
So far, Xingtai City has a lot of stories about cattle. In the south of the city, there are East Niujiao Village, West Niujiao Village, the north of the city has the Oxtail River crossing the east and west, and there are Niushi Street, Cattle Horde, Cow Heart Pit, Cow Hoof Pit and so on in the city. In addition, there are some changed place names, such as South Long Street, North Long Street, which is said to be a change of the intestines of the sacred cow, which was originally written as South "Intestine" Street and North "Intestine" Street. The village of Shuboying on the outskirts of the city is where the Ji Yun and Ji Sheng brothers lived. The sculpture symbolizing "Woniu City", once lying horizontally in the city center, is now relocated to Dahuoquan Park in Xingtai City. It symbolizes the kind, simple aspirations of the people of Xingtai. It also adds a new look to the famous city of Xingtai!
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the "Monument to Woniu City"</h1>
Xingtaizhi is also an ancient famous city also dates back to the Yin Zhou Zhushu Chronicle, there are Shangzu Yijiu Ancestral Qiyuan in Gengqian capital in Xingzhi said, Zhou Dynasty Seal Zhou Gongzi in Xingli Xinghouguo, Qin Zhidu County, Chu Han Dynasty Xiangguo, Sui reform Longgang County, Song reform Xingtai County, and the commonly known city as Woniu City, there are still East and West Niujiao, Longjie, Liver Lane, Niuwei River place names and Tethered Cattle Bridge, Bull's Eye Well and other sites, and scenic spots such as Baiquan, KongQiao, Kaiyuan Temple, Qingfeng Lou, Dahuo Spring, Yurang Bridge, Octagonal Mandarin Water Well and so on are distributed among them.
Or ask "What is the name of the city after the lying cow:?"
County Zhiyun: "Chengkuo Erzhang (author's note: should be six zhang), the name of the upper lying cow." ”
It is not credible to say that the city is wide enough to lay cattle all over the world, and why is this city uniquely famous?
Kaozhi folklore Woniu City name origin has a different origin, its slight cloud in ancient times a couple wandered here, saw the fertile wilderness for hundreds of miles and no one, so settled, day and night hard work, and bitter no cultivated livestock, sincerely feel the emperor of heaven, descending cattle to help its farming, since the production of daily population is increasingly prosperous, so the city was built.
It was also rumored that the flood forced the city, and the cattle lay on the head of the city, and the water rose to the top of the city, and the people were spared from disaster, so they named the city of Lying Cow. Although this statement is a myth, it is quite profound, the so-called heavenly emperor, the embodiment of the ideal and power of the working people to conquer nature, and the true color of the cow, simple and diligent, self-denial, the symbol of the character of the real laborer, Tang Liu Zongyuan's "Cow Endowment", Song Li Gang's "Yong Niu Poem", the modern literary hero Lu Xun's poetry, most of the valuable and valuable of the cattle are highly praised, and the sages of ancient and modern times love the cattle and are not selfish, because they are self-referential, and the ancestors of the Xing people also use the name of the cattle to show their industriousness and the world's ears, saying that they lie down, or also" But all sentient beings are full, do not hesitate to lie sick and lie in the sun", calling: lying cattle lying cattle, experienced thousands of autumns, now in the prosperous world, ambition should be rewarded, on the occasion of the motherland's ZTE, will be more dedicated to the gift, the people of our city for the statue and inscription of its deeds, the intention is to use the spirit of cattle self-encouragement to revitalize China, we encourage its encouragement.
Xingtai Municipal People's Government
December 1, 1983 A.D
The "Shunde Fu Zhi" said: "Xingzhou is thick and sweet, the characters are produced in between, there are more real and less floating, the folk customs are simple, and the people's hearts are simple." Thick and thin, courageous and righteous... Anxious to be public and private, still in Zhou, Yan Zhao's generous wind still exists. This is exactly the spiritual portrayal of the people of Xingtai "Niucheng", the spirit of the industrious, simple, kind, brave and bold, and dare to take responsibility.
Statue of the sacred cow on the wall of the ancient city of Xingtai
Sculpture of Woniucheng in Xingtaida Huoquan Park