Author: Feng Jianguo
Culture, like air, is everywhere, especially the hometown customs and culture, it is deeply immersed in everyone's blood, and generations of people will not be extinguished. Speaking of the profound cultural heritage of our hometown Yuncheng, it has a full factual basis, first of all, it is manifested in the title, whether it is called Hedong or Yuncheng, it contains a deep and image connotation. Looking at our ancient Chinese place names, they are mostly crowned by the geographical location of the mountains and rivers, which may be the unique charm of our Chinese language. For example, the names of hebei henan, Guangdong guangxi, Hubei hunan and other provinces and regions, after reading their geographical orientation are clear at a glance. Our Yuncheng is no exception, the name of Yuncheng, the city of salt transport also. The city was built because of the salt pond, and passed down from generation to generation because of the salt transport, and has the reputation of the cradle of Chinese civilization.
Yuncheng is also located in the east of the Yellow River, named Hedong in ancient times, the river has flowed since ancient times, and the style of the millennium is still the same. Standing on the top of Mount Zhongtiao, you can see the Yellow River coming from the north like a big husband, and going to the east like a beautiful woman, giving a vast wilderness. In Chinese feng shui, negative mountains and water, the place where rivers and mountains appear together, is a good feng shui. When we yuncheng were created in heaven and earth, the landscape and water constituted the momentum of the mother's embrace, thus giving birth to the Chinese nation. In 2006, when it was rated as one of the top ten charming cities in China by CCTV, the award speech given was: "Shungeng Lishan, Yu Chisel Longmen, Changzu Silkworm Breeding, Hou Ji Jia Yong." Chinese culture sways all the way from here, through the Han wind and Tang rain, experience the Song Yun Yuansheng, the Yongle Palace laughs about the past and the past, and the Stork Tower overlooks the Three Jin Dynasty. Here is the theme park of five thousand years of civilization, and the loyalty and integrity of Guan Gong is the city's long-standing humanistic spirit. The root of China, the state of integrity, the city of great luck - Shanxi Yuncheng. ”
The award speech is said to have been written by Mr. Yi Zhongtian with ink, and it is everyone's style to be horizontal and horizontal, and it is full of praise. The reciter is a famous host of CCTV, and the reading is also enthusiastic, golden and jade, and it has received full applause from the hall at the moment. People from all walks of life in Yuncheng also relished this, and all of them praised it, taking it as a pride of Daigo. However, as Yuncheng people, if we think about it carefully, it is not difficult to find that in this seemingly wonderful rhetoric, only the most essential thing of Yuncheng is missing. Salt ponds also. Why? The reason is very simple, if there is no salt pond, will there be yuncheng, a thousand-year-old city? Will it be known as the cradle of Chinese civilization? Will there be a radiant charm of traditional culture? The answer is self-evident.
Of course, Mr. Yi, the author of the award, is not a person from Yuncheng, even if he is a well-known contemporary cultural scholar, he may not have a comprehensive and profound understanding of the humanities, history and geography of Yuncheng. Moreover, most of the propaganda slogans like this are put forward by ourselves, and it is completely strange that others have forgotten their ancestors. How can a person who doesn't even know much about his hometown ask others to know so much about it? How can you make others aware of your own faintness? If someone could have pointed out that year, changing the city of great luck in the award speech to the city of salt transportation would have lost this unnecessary defect. Of course, this is only their own opinion, say it to talk about everyone laughing, or can not climb the elegant hall.
However, it is born beautiful and flawed, which does not affect the historical fact that our Yuncheng has gathered humanities since ancient times, with many talents and brilliant cultures. Moreover, many historical sources also prove that the titles of "China", "Zhonghua", "Huaxia" and so on are inextricably linked to our Yuncheng. For example, the three great humanistic ancestors of our nation, Emperor Yan, Emperor Huang and Xuan You, once competed for the salt resources here and launched the first large-scale war in Chinese history. The three emperors of Yao, Shun, and Yu, also relying on the benefits of the salt pond, all built a capital here and became the source of the beginning of Chinese civilization. China's first slave dynasty, Xia, was also born in this yellow land, and its capital city is called Anyi, and the ruins are near the county of this summer.
We usually warn future generations not to forget to dig wells, and all this under our feet is entirely because of the pond known as "a pool of snow through the ages". And just saying this "盬" character, it is specially tailored for Yuncheng Yanchi in the Chinese Dictionary, I don't know how many such specific places in China can enjoy such a distinguished courtesy? In fact, it is precisely because of the existence of immortal salt ponds that historians believe that the early civilizations that are closely related to human material spirit originated in Yuncheng, such as sericulture, farming, salt industry, plate construction, clothing, food, shelter, and transportation. If nothing else, there are as many as 90 national security cultural relics protection units alone, which is more than the total number of some provinces and municipalities in the whole territory. Moreover, the intangible cultural heritage project is also at the forefront of the country, which is really a veritable museum of ancient civilizations.
It is also in this way that our hometown has been full of people and humanities since ancient times, and in this land full of cultural atmosphere, there are endless generations of public generals, literati and inkers, and there is no shortage of generations. Not to mention the well-known beautiful stories such as Bole Soma, Wu Xian Made Drums, Yi Di Brewing, Dong Father FengLong, etc., just saying that historical celebrities such as Shuomu stars is enough to sing half of the stage of Chinese history. Such as Guan Longkui, Wei Wengong, Jin Wengong, Yi Dun, Xun Quan, Zhang Yi, Sima Qian, Guan Yu, Wang Bo, Wang Wei, Lü Dongbin, Xue Rengui, Liu Zongyuan, Sima Guang, Guan Hanqing, Xue Xuan, Yang Shenxiu, etc., which one is not a reflection of The Humanistic History of China? And the Pei, Liu, Xue, and Wang families, which one is not brilliant in the forest of the world's clans? Shi Ruo was happy, roared a voice Pu opera, sang two eyebrows, hummed a few words of affection, and immediately became overjoyed.
Let's look at the ancient ruins group represented by Xihoudu, Jiaohe, Xiyin, and Yuwangcheng; the ancient tomb groups represented by the tombs of Emperor Shun, the Gongzu tomb of Jinwen, the tomb of Sima Guang, and the tomb of Xue Xuan; the groups of temples and Taoist temples represented by the Guandi Temple, houtu ancestral hall, Yongle Temple, Pushou Temple, Wangu Temple, Taiyin Temple, and Duiyun Cave; the tower groups represented by stork towers, autumn wind towers, feiyun towers, Anyi Pagodas, Yingying Pagodas, and Longxing Pagodas; the monument groups represented by the Eastern Han Dynasty Jianning, Sima WenGuo Gong Shendao, Biluo Stele, and Pinghuai West Steles; and the Yongle Palace. The mural group represented by the murals of Jiyi Temple and Qinglong Temple; the cast sculpture group represented by Tang Kaiyuan's big iron bull; the scenic landscape group represented by Lishan, Wulaofeng, Gufeng Mountain, Shuiyukou, etc.; the intangible cultural treasures such as Yuncheng Fu Tonghui, Xincheng Niyan County Flying Dragon, Guan Gong Gong Drum, Jishan Flower Drum, wanrong joke, as well as paper-cutting, fabric art, root carving, cloud carving, face sculpture and other unique folk culture in Yuncheng, are even more unique and unique at home and abroad.
Looking back on the past, where to find such a brilliant cultural classic? Where can you find it? If it is to explore the "earth altar" of China's emperors who first sacrificed to the god of the land, when it was the Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor who "swept the ground for the altar of Fenyin", its address was the Houtu Ancestral Hall in Wanrong County. If we go deep into ancient times, we will also see the Fossils of the Chinese Century Ape unearthed in Yuanqu County, which pushed forward the time of human origin by as much as 10 million years, overturning the conclusion that human beings originated in Africa; the burnt bone residues unearthed by Xihoudu also pointed to the empirical evidence of the sacred flame of human civilization to 1.8 million years ago... Someone said: When you come to the land of Yuncheng, as long as you give me three or two days, I can send you five thousand years of Chinese civilization history, millions of years of human birth source. In my opinion, although this statement is slightly "arrogant", it is not excessive at all.
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