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How can a good locust tree come up with five colors? That's interesting.
In longxing temple, a national key cultural protection unit in Xindi County, almost everyone can see the majesty of the pagoda in the photos taken; if you want to take a full-body portrait of this ancient pagoda, you must stand under the foundation of the platform near the distant mountain gate; in all the photos, there are still two ancient locust trees at the entrance of the main hall under the ancient tower.
Aerial view of two ancient locusts
Don't dare to underestimate these two old trees, they are the famous "five-colored ancient locust" in Shanxi.
What's going on? Let's start with the physical objects.
Not only do you have to ask: Locust trees are all green leaves and white flowers, but how can they be five colors?
The gilded plaque of Longxing Temple was written by Zhao Puchu, the former president of the Buddhist Association, and just after entering the mountain gate, you can find a lush greenery in front of you, and there is a strange locust tree in front of the front yard of the temple, which the new Dai people call "treasure tree".
Longxing Temple
Zhao Puchu wrote the temple gate
The trunk, foliage and branches of this treasure tree are no different from those of ordinary people, but it is said that the flowering season has a great personality.
Other places locust trees are all white flowers, but these two trees are different, from the petals to the flower buds, from the outside to the inside divided into five layers of color, from tender white to yellow-green, from yellow-green to pink, to pink, and finally purple red (crimson red), layer by layer, it is not magical.
For thousands of years, this ancient tree has been known as the "treasure tree", and every time this locust flower blooms, countless outsiders come to see it, which is very lively.
Unfortunately, when I went, it was autumn, and I thought that the flowers had just finished blooming and I didn't catch up with the identification.
But why can the locust tree in this temple make five colors?
It is said that the history of this ancient locust tree dates back to the Spring and Autumn Period, when the great power of the Jin Dynasty was replaced by a new lord, the Jin Linggong. This Jin Linggong just liked to listen to rumors, and he revered the servant Tu Anjia and did a lot of bad things that lost his conscience.
Jin Ling's favorite letter Tu An Jia
The name of the Xiangguo of the Jin Dynasty was Zhao Dun, and he wrote many times to advise the monarch, but not only did he not get listened to, but he made the Jin Linggong very disgusted, and even had the idea of finding assassins to assassinate this old minister.
Tu Anjia had a protégé named Ju Ji who was a great warrior, and he was ordered to infiltrate the Xiangye Mansion to assassinate Zhao Dun.
Assassination scene in the movie "The Orphan of Zhao"
When the assassin came to the Zhao family, he looked at it from a distance: an old man with hair and white hair, trembling and sitting under an oil lamp, was flipping through the books, looking at the furnishings in this room, it was simply simple, worse than the homes of ordinary people, it was really the rhythm that even the thieves could finally walk with tears when they came.
This assassin looked: dare to be inconsistent with the owner's account, this information is not right?
However, not killing today is disloyalty, sorry for the entrustment of the owner, and it was really a fatal thing to lose faith in people at that time; but let's do it, the imperial court has lost a pillar of the country, that is unrighteous, what to do?
Thinking about it, there was no other way but to drop the steel knife and crash into the large locust tree in front of the court to die, and this locust tree also blossomed from five-colored flowers to pay tribute to the loyal spirit of this righteous soldier.
The above story, put in today's terms, from the historical facts, there are many places that do not understand;
However, today we are not pursuing its authenticity, but to borrow things to illustrate the loyalty and integrity of Shanxi people.
To tell the legend, the story of Li Yangbing's angry smashing of the stone stele on the Biluo Monument of the Tang Dynasty seems to be more poignant, and even the classics are recorded in a dignified manner.
Li Yangbing was a calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty, and after the completion of the Biluo Monument, it was rumored that it was really a ghostly workmanship, which made him itchy, and he immediately wanted to insert his wings to see clearly in Daizhou.
Li Yangbing's seal book works left in Xiamen
However, after all, he was a Tu County Order, and he could not be separated; he was so next to each other, until the autumn of the following year, when he was promoted, and he took the good opportunity to take office, and he came to the Longxing Temple in Daizhou without stopping.
When Li Yangbing saw the Biluo Monument with his own eyes, he was already shocked and unable to speak.
This seal book is really magical, the pen is dragon and snake, the use of the law is round, a school of style, every bit of the essence of the calligraphy is revealed, it is simply envious of death!
Li Yangbing copied in front of the monument for several days, and when he lay down at night to rest, he was still pondering the calligraphy structure, and he could not bear to leave for several days.
However, time is not waiting for anyone, even if it is not willing to leave.
Li Yangbing data map
After Li Yangbing returned, he worked hard for thirteen years to be strong and practiced calligraphy hard, just to reproduce the charm of the seal book on the Biluo Monument, but after these ten years, when he returned to Daizhou to compare in front of this monument, he was stunned to find that his law book was really less than one-third of the stele, let alone to suppress it.
In a fit of rage, he lifted the guy up and smashed it on the stone stele, and a piece of the Biluo stele was smashed off, leaving three gaps...
Extant traces of broken monuments
As for whether this stone stele was smashed by Li Yangbing or whether it was committed by the military disasters during the song and Yuan wars, it is up to the benevolent to see the wise, and we will not draw conclusions.
(The author is a reporter from Tourism News/ Han Jing, a senior tour guide in Shanxi)
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