Butterfly Ridge Sunny
The fourth in the Gantry Impression series
Sun Weiliang
A friend sent a video of her walking through the leafy, dry-grassed Huling Ancient Road, looking for the beauty of the past. Huling in the sunset is very beautiful, I remember that I have climbed over Huling more than once to walk relatives, and more than once looked at the ridge, watching the familiar ancient town getting smaller and smaller, seeing the green mountains and clouds.
Huling is a small ridge on the hill west of Longmen, which was previously underdeveloped by traffic, and is the main passage connecting Chang'an and Longmen. Huling used to be called "Butterfly Ridge", because the ridge edge of the mountain range stretched, like a huge butterfly fluttering wings and flying and named, and then somehow became "Huling", the natural village at the foot of the mountain is called Hulingxia Village. According to the ancestors, this place has always been called "fire horn", although the villagers live by farming, but the fields are always dry and water-scarce.
What's going on? There is a record in the "Legend of the Dragon Gate Story" written by teacher Sun Wenxi. It is said that a long time ago, the village of Hulingxia encountered a major drought, the field cracked, and the rice that was about to be pregnant was about to die. An elder in the village thought that the white dragon of Longmen Mountain could call the wind and rain, so he organized his clan to carry the dragon barrel to the dragon pond on the mountain. With an incomparably pious mood, everyone prayed three times and prostrated nine times, and in an instant, the sky was foggy, and the white expanse was white, and in an instant the fog dissipated, and the sky was clear. Looking down, fish, shrimp, and crabs floated around in the dragon pond, and the elder quickly grabbed a crucian carp (which is said to be the embodiment of the dragon), put it into the dragon barrel, bowed deeply, and went down the mountain happily. The village has already set up an altar to pray for rain, and the elderly hold the crucian carp in both hands and welcome it to the center of the altar, and the clan follows the worship and prays for the fall of Ganlin. The next day, it rained, the drought was alleviated, and the rice was moistened. According to the solitaire regulations, after the rainfall, the "dragon" should be sent back to Longtan. At this time, some villagers said: It is a pity that such a large fish is put back in Longtan! Let's kill it and have a steamed crucian carp. Everyone killed the fish to scale, burned the fire on the pot, watched the hot air rising vigorously, and opened the lid to watch, and the result was that the pot was empty, there was no fish or plate, only a pot of hot water remained. Since then, the rain has no longer patronized Hulingxia Village, and the villagers can no longer receive the help of the Dragon God, and the village has fallen under the name of "Burning Horn".
Bailong was originally to punish Hulingxia Village, but as a result, it achieved a landscape of the village, the Butterfly Ridge Qingxia, which became one of the eight old scenery of Longmen. In fact, from the scientific level of analysis, "Butterfly Ridge Qingxia" is a natural landscape - sunset xia, its formation is related to sunlight scattering. When the weather is clear, sunlight enters the atmosphere, encountering atmospheric molecules and particles suspended in the atmosphere, which scatter sunlight. According to the law of scattering, the light of purple, blue, cyan and other colors with shorter wavelengths in sunlight is most likely to be scattered, while the light transmission ability of red, orange, yellow and other colors with longer wavelengths is very strong. As a result, the sky is tinged with brilliant colors. Hulingxia Village is located in the west of Longmen Ancient Town, which is where the sun sets, so there are often fiery red or golden sunsets.
When the evening glow stains the red hills and the fire-like colors are on the ridge, Huling is like a butterfly flying in the sunset, so this landscape is called "Butterfly Ridge Qingxia". Many ancients were obsessed with this and left many beautiful poems, a cloud:
A cold day of empty rain,
The forest is born with a strong wind.
Trailing canes idly outside the mountains,
The sky is endless and the sunset is red.
Clouds again:
The mountain is sloping with butterfly wings,
The ridge head is bright and bright.
The red silk is about to scatter the poetry,
The bottom of the pen is full of dreams.
Re-cloud:
Sunset pavilion view horizontally,
Half of it is left as sunset.
Seeing the autumn forest red like a brocade,
Butterflies love spring flowers.
Huling is not tall or long, and can be crossed in about half an hour. The steps along the road are made of pebbles, there is a pavilion on the ridge, and there is a legend of "stone drawers" halfway through the road. In the first few years of work, there were brothers in Chang'an, and we would often cross the ridge to celebrate the festival dinner. Later, everyone was transferred, and the traffic became more and more developed, so it was rarely patronized. In at least 20 years, I haven't climbed Huling.
It's time to set a time, go to Huling to see the infinite scenery in the sunset, and go to the ancient road to relive the memories of youth.