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Time and Space Tunnel - The Dream of the Spring and Autumn Family and Country (10)
Text/Jiang Feng
Standing in the ripe field, the autumn sun sprinkles the wilderness, and the ancient ginkgo tree presents a dazzling golden color, with fluttering leaves, paved with splendid embroidery.
In the distance, Dahu Mountain, Furong Mountain, Houjia Mountain, Fuwang Mountain, towering majestically, meandering and undulating; gushing river, spanning ancient times, flowing through the Xia Shang Zhou, witnessing the prosperity of the ancient country in the Tanhe River; flowing through the Qin and Han Dynasties, Tang And Song Dynasties, Yuan Ming and Qing Dynasties, witnessing the fire and tranquility of this ancient land, witnessing the wind and rain and serenity of a family. The flow of water is like the reproduction and rhythm of life, giving birth to the endless culture of Chu Chu.
It was as if I had walked for more than a thousand years, and I didn't know how many dynasties I had gone through, and I had returned here. However, the dreams that are farther and farther away keep coming, that is the bronze phantom of more than three thousand years ago, that is the exquisite elegance of the Four Sheep Fangzun, that is the quaint and vigorous sound of the big copper, that is the noble beauty of the Qingyang Princess, and that is the brilliant light of civilization in the Tan river.
In April 1938, the three brothers of Jiang Jingshu, Jiang Jingqiao and Jiang Xiqiao in Huangcaiyueshan Village planted sweet potatoes on the mountain, and with a "clanging" sound, they actually dug up the "treasure of the town hall" that later became the National Museum of China - The Four Sheep Fangzun.
One day in 1959, a farmer surnamed Jiang in Huangcaizhai Mountain Village went up the mountain to cultivate the land, and dug up the only Bronze Fangding of the Shang Dynasty found in the world with a mysterious smile and a four-faced human head.
On May 17, 1963, after a flood, Jiang Fuzong, the accountant of the Tanheli Production Team of the Huangwu Commune's Zhai Zi Brigade, passed through the Shuixi River, a tributary of the Huangwu Commune, and fished out a green jar filled with jade pipes and jade beads, which turned out to be a Bronze Beast Face PatternEd Liang Jie of the Shang Dynasty.
In 1983, a villager surnamed Jiang in HuangcaiYueshan Village planted sweet potatoes, and excavated a 221.5-kilogram Shang Dynasty elephant pattern large bronze cymbal that weighed 221.5 kilograms and was currently the heaviest in the world, known as the "King of Chinese Cymbals", just 200 meters from the site where Siyang Fangzun was found.
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Since the 1920s, more than 1,500 Pieces of Shangzhou Bronzes have been excavated in and around Huangcai, of which more than 300 are uniquely shaped, exquisitely decorated, and exquisitely cast Shangzhou Bronzes, which are of great value. For example, the Four Sheep Fang Zun, the Human Face Fang Ding, the Animal Face Pattern Urn (224 pieces of copper axes stored inside), the "癸" 卣 (which contains more than 320 pieces of jade such as rings, jue, and pipes), the "Ge" 卣 (which contains more than 1,170 pieces of jade such as beads and pipes), the cloud pattern (accompanied by exquisite jade such as the ring, the jue, the tiger, and the fish), the elephant pattern large copper cymbal (weighing 221.5 kg) and so on. Ningxiang is famous at home and abroad as the "Hometown of Bronze" and is known as the "Bronze Cultural Center of Southern China".
From 2003 to 2004, the Hunan Institute of Archaeology excavated the archaeological excavation of Tanheli in Lishan Village, Huangwu Town, and the ruins of the ancient city hidden more than 3,000 years ago under this quiet land were suddenly exposed to people's vision. "There is nothing on the ground, and there are thousands of underground weather", here is a 23,000 square meters of ancient city of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, and the ancient city of Tanheli in Ningxiang was rated as "the top ten archaeological discoveries in the country in 2004".
A very strange phenomenon, today's Jiang surname people live the most densely populated places, such as Lishan Village, Yueshan Village, Huangcai Village, Qingyang Village, etc., is the place where the most bronze ware is found, and many bronze treasures are also found by people surnamed Jiang. More than a thousand years ago, Jiang Dehou, the ancestor of the Jiang surname, was ordered to immigrate, and the Lishan Under the Lishan Mountain in the Yellow Wood Basin where he lived was also near the ruins of the ancient city of Tanheli.
Is this a historical coincidence? Or is there another reason?
Some scholars believe that Huangcai was the birthplace of the Jiuli and Xuanyu tribes; during the Yao Shunyu and Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties, Huangcai was the capital of the Three Miao Fang Kingdoms. The surname of Xuan you is Jiang, and according to the "Ancient Songs of the Miao People", the ancestor of the Miao people is Sanmiao, and its ancestor is Jiang Yang.
Yang Qing, a special researcher of the China Asia-Pacific Economic Research Center and the author of "Dragon Culture in Dongting Lake Area" and "Dongting Lake Area - The Origin of Civilization", believes that the stone tables, stone benches, stone axes, stone knives, stone pillars, stalagmites, etc. found in Huangcai Jiumu Cave are human habitation sites more than 10,000 years ago, and they are the places where Shennong Yandi lived. The names of Lishan Village and Qingyang Village have been preserved to this day.
Thus, there is another version of Jiang Dehou's migration of huangcai.
Historically, the official position of Imperial Physician was not good. As an inspector, the upright Imperial Master saw that the minister was doing whatever he wanted, and he was bound to impeach, and when he saw the emperor's mistakes, he had to point them out, but he often offended people and the emperor, and if he did not do well, he would be dismissed or even killed. During the time of Emperor Jing of Han, the Imperial Grand Master Chao was innocently killed. Wei Zheng of the Tang Dynasty also served as an inspector of imperial history, which was the best, because he met a good emperor, Tang Taizong Li Shimin, but sometimes Tang Taizong also hated him and hated him so much that he had to kill this puppet. Jiang Dehou's seventh ancestor, Jiang Gongfu, also served as a counselor and was also the prime minister, but because he was jealous and hateful, he loved to give advice, and was demoted to Quanzhou in Fujian and Jizhou in Jiangxi.
After the Tang Dynasty, such a turbulent era, Jiang Dehou, as the imperial master, had a straight personality, one said one, two said two, and there was no sand in his eyes. He repeatedly advised the hedonistic emperor Li Cunxun. Emperor Li Shimin of the Wei Dynasty believed that "using copper as a mirror can be a proper dress" and "using people as a mirror can make clear gains and losses", but Li Cunxun was not Li Shimin, and Emperor Li Cunxun reprimanded Jiang Dehou's advice in court. Jiang Dehou wanted to resign and return to his hometown of Jiangxi, but the emperor refused to let him go to the remote Hunan, which also had the meaning of depreciation, but after all, the emperor still cared about Jiang's good, and issued an edict, which led to the "edict immigration".
Since the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, bronze vessels have been discovered successively in the Huangcai Creek and the Shuishui River Basin. Jiang Dehou was well-read in history books, and he knew the Tang Dynasty Prime Minister Pei Xiu's support for the construction of the Miyin Zen Temple on The Mountain of Fushan, where he spent his old age and was buried here; he also knew the origin of Qingyang Town and the ancient history of Huang Cai. The Xuanyu tribe is in Huangcai, the Sanmiao Duyi is in Huangcai, and the Lishan Kingdom and Qingyang Kingdom are in Huangcai, but they have disappeared in the smoke clouds of historical wars.
The ancient civilizations of the South are no longer documented. The famous historian Zhou Gucheng believes that Chinese civilization originated in the Yangtze River Basin, but in human history, the areas of agricultural civilization were often defeated by nomadic peoples due to superior natural conditions. Professor Du Gangjian of Hunan University believes that world civilization originated in the west of Xiangxi (Southwest China), Professor Huangshi of Central South University believes that Chinese civilization originated in the south (Hunan), Hunan unearthed the earliest modern form of human tooth fossils (Daoxian Fuyan Cave), the world's earliest cultivated rice and rice species (Daoxian Jade Toad Rock), pottery (Daoxian Jade Toad Rock), rice fields (Lixian County Head Mountain), religious sacrifice sites (Huaihua Hongjiang High Temple), and also unearthed many early human bronzes (Ningxiang Yellow Material). Ten thousand years ago, five thousand years ago, three thousand years ago, Ningxiang Huangcai, what kind of civilization did there have here? History, in this land, what kind of prosperous dream has been made? There is no longer any evidence for the text. However, the stone cores used by humans 300,000 years ago, the stone knives, stone axes, and stone benches used by humans 10,000 years ago, the clay pots, clay pots, and a large number of pottery pieces used by humans 5,000 years ago, the exquisite bronze ware such as the Siyang Fangzun used 3,000 years ago, the grand ancient city of Tanheli more than 3,000 years ago, and so on, all tell the ancient times, the prosperity of the past, and the glory of the past. The ancient city of Tanheli excavated in 2004 has accumulated multiple layers of ancient history and culture, flooding the water again and again, drowning history again and again.
A bustling capital, suddenly disappeared without a trace, in the history of China and foreign countries is still a lot. For example, the island of Atlantis mentioned in Plato's "Dialogues"; the Troy recorded in the Greek poet Homer's epic poem "Iliad"; the ancient City of Maya in Mexico in South America; Angkor Wat in Cambodia; the ancient country of Loulan on the Silk Road recorded in the "Chronicle of History"; the Bohai state that the Tang Emperor asked Li Bai to write a reply; and so on. The bronze civilization of Huangshuo and the civilization of Tanheli seem to be earlier than the history of these ancient cities.
How many things have risen and fallen through the ages, the jinge iron horse, the war beacon, the ancient Xuanyu tribe, the Sanmiao people, the Lishan country, the Qingyang country were forced to migrate around, starting from Huangcai, all the way to the west, to the north, to the south, I don't know where they were scattered, so that after the Qin and Han Dynasties, it was difficult to find even a descendant of Huangcai.
The middle-aged Jiang Dehou immigrated to Huangcai and settled in Huangcai, that is, to find roots, is to find ancient history. The three great ancestors of the Chinese nation, the Yellow Emperor, the Yan Emperor, and Xuan You, two of them were surnamed Jiang, and they all left footprints in Huangcai. Perhaps, at that time, there were still a little traces of the ancient city in the Tanhe River, unlike today's excavations, which were full of arable land. He settled his home in Shuletian, not far from the ancient city of Tanheli.
The plain where the Ripe Happy Fields, the Waters and the Streams meet, is beautiful and rich. The water of the creek connects the valley and the ancient fragrant tree of Qingyang Mountain. The water flows down, connecting the Xiang River and the Yangtze River and merging into the sea. The Shuishui and Xixi river basins are the birthplace of the ancient Tanheli civilization. The descendants of the Jiang surname develop along this ancient Liangshui River Valley, and survive, and multiply, to find roots, to trace the traces of the distant ancestors of the Jiang surname, to find the fragments of ancient history.
Bronze Museum.
Looking for the ancient Tanheli civilization, perhaps, this is the true intention of the ancestor of the Jiang surname to immigrate to Huang Cai.
In December 2013, the construction project of "Tanheli National Archaeological Site Park" with a planned area of 1198 mu was approved by the state, becoming the only cultural heritage protection and utilization project in Ningxiang that was included in the national key support, and the former site of "Jianggong Temple" was within the planning scope. After 2015, the Tanheli Bronze Museum and the Tanheli Ancient City were built successively, and officially opened to the public in July 2017.
The "Jiang Gong Temple" with a thousand years of history and culture should also be restored to its original appearance, becoming part of the core area of tanheli ancient city, radiating all scenic spots such as the surrounding Sha Tin Red Cultural Zone, the Fengshan Buddhist Cultural Zone, the Xiangzikou Zhuangyuan Cultural Zone, the Huxiang Lixue Cultural Zone, the Thousand Buddha Cave and the Yueshan Fragrant Tree Natural Landscape Area, and become the highlights of historical and cultural tourism in western Changsha.
In 1958, the "High Gorge Came out of Ping Lake", cut off the water and built the Huangcai Reservoir, making the restless River quiet and gentle. Qingyang Lake, the blue waves, leisurely water, flowing through the quiet charcoal river wilderness, flowing through the ancient Jiang Gong Bridge, flowing through the morning and evening glow, flowing through the spring flower sea, flowing through the winter ice and snow, flowing to the distant place of dreams.
Ginger water, Wei shui, Tianshui, Ganshui, shuishui, flowing in the long years of five thousand years; flowing to the Yellow River, the Yangtze River, running into the rough sea, into the blood of this ancient nation, one by one Yanhuang descendants. (The pictures in this article are provided by the author)
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Jiang Feng, real name: Jiang Taijun, a native of Huangcai Town, Ningxiang City, graduated from the Department of Chinese of Central China Normal University, served as a university teacher, associate professor, and is currently the director of the Hunan Agricultural Situation Analysis and Research Center.