In the middle of the 18th century, the sea pearl stone in painting
Old Guangzhou blowing water, often mention the past of such a stone:
He once looked at the height of Yuexiu Mountain, and the north and south were the same;
Not only Chinese literati sing harmony, but also see foreign painters write scenes;
In peacetime, it is a garden, and in wartime it becomes a fort;
What used to be the "feng shui stone" of a city is now the "house cornerstone" of the first floor;
Once shot and disappeared, and then a shovel and naked reappeared;
The true body has entered the earth, and the soul has wandered upstream in the sky;
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At the beginning, the southern river of Panyu City was like a sea, known as "Zhuhai", "Xiaohai" or "Guangdong River". In the middle of the water, there are hundreds of small islands floating and sinking.
Mid-17th century, Haizhu Stone (bottom left)
On the river surface of the nearby city, there are three small islands around the city, the east is the floating hill stone (located in the area of Shigang Street and Jijin Lane in present-day Liwan), the middle is the Haizhu Stone, and the west is the Haiyin Stone (located at the intersection of the present-day Guangjiu Avenue and the Guangjiusan Road).
These three small islands are actually giant reefs in the river, which have existed for a long time. All are tertiary to Cretaceous red sandstone system, the whole body is red, belonging to the category of "red sandstone" known today. The three islands are the closest to the city, convenient to and fro, and there are scenic spots, so people call them "Three Stones of Yangcheng".
Although these reefs are very hard, they are ultimately inferior to natural creation and human construction. From the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, the three stones were buried in the ground one after another. Among them, the pumicular stone disappeared the earliest, the sea pearl stone was the latest, and it was lost and reappeared, although it was only partial.
Haizhu Stone, also known as "Walking Pearl Stone" and "Haizhu Zhou", lies in an east-west direction across the river, more than 100 meters long and more than 50 meters wide (now roughly range: west to the south of Yingzhu Street on the Long Causeway, at least the children's library in the east, between the North and South Changdi Avenue and Yanjiang West Road), several meters above the river surface. To its south, there is the big brother "JiangnanZhou" - the base is also a red sandstone construction. The continent later developed into a large island in the middle of the river, and inherited the big name of Haizhu Stone , "Haizhu Island", and the administrative district was called "Haizhu District". In addition, place names such as Haizhu Bridge, Haizhu Road, Haizhu Square, Yingzhu Street, and Lianzhu Street are all derived from Haizhu Stone.
In 1815, the Haizhu Stone (Haizhu Temple) and the Haiyin Stone (East Fortress) in the river.
In the "Three Stones of Yangcheng", there are many stories of haizhu stones, such as the water of the Pearl River and the Gonggun.
Some people jokingly said that its origin - "walking pearls into the sea into the stone" legend, can be called the two legends of Guangzhou together with the legend of the five sheep.
In various versions, the core of the legend is a "bead". The most widely spread, said that this bead is a gem from an exotic land - the Yang Flint Orb. Originally a beloved object of Zhao Tuo, the king of South Vietnam, it was stolen from the tomb of the king by a poet surnamed Cui who had received the guidance of the gods in the Tang Dynasty, and it was also in the hands of a Persian merchant. When the boat travels in the river, the gem turns into a white light and dives into the water, becoming a boulder, which is called "sea pearl stone"; the big river where the boat travels is the "Pearl River". During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the waters where the Haizhu Stone was located were called "Shenzhupu".
In the 17th century, the Dutch painted the sea pearl stone
This legend has both fictional elements - poets stealing pearls, leaving pearls into stones, but also real history - during the Qin and Han Dynasties, Guangzhou has become a distribution center for rare treasures such as "rhinoceros horns, elephant teeth, jade, pearls"; in the Tang Dynasty, the big food merchants living in Guangzhou's Fangfang, there were many jewels in the trade.
Regardless of the virtual or the real, standing in the middle of the river, there are thousands of sails passing by. If it has a spirit, it will remember the past spring and autumn events in Guangzhou:
After the great food and Persia ravaged Guangzhou, they floated away from the sea (Tang); the sound of nongzhi's high-level siege of the city (Song); the rice was sold south to the north, and the Guangzhou, Fu, Zhejiang, and sand ships shuttled endlessly (Song); the cannons of Shangkexi bombarded the city (Qing); the ships of the thirteen lines came and went (Qing); the humiliation of the "Dutch Fort" (1655); the hatred of the haizhu fort being destroyed twice (Opium War); the scenery of the Haizhu Park built in conjunction with the establishment of the city...
It is no exaggeration to say that Guangzhou's millennium of ups and downs will be experienced or witnessed.
No wonder some people say that reading Haizhu Stone is like reading a brief history of Guangzhou!
Deeply.
In 1907, the sea pearl stone on the map
Of course, Haizhu Stone is remembered by old Guangzhou, mainly because it was once lively, angry, and beautiful enough. The Qing Dynasty poet Wang Shizhen recorded such a scene in the "Guangzhou Tour Xiaozhi": "Haizhu Stone is in the middle of the river, there is Cidu Temple on the top, overlooking the river water, the water belt Yangcheng, the boat fishing boat, the exchange is picturesque, and it is a place for Cantonese people to compete for the ferry."
Sea pearl stone in a postcard
City people who seek happiness certainly like this.
People come and go, so they accumulate a thick humanities,
The boulders in the river are therefore no longer described as indifferent.
At the latest, during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, the flowers of humanity on the sea pearl stone began to bloom. At that time, the king of the Southern Han Dynasty built a temple on the island, Cidu Temple, and the people who never liked to chew words directly called it "Haizhu Temple". When ushered in, it is natural that those literati and inkers and their chants are indispensable.
During the Republic of China period, the sea pearl stone before landfilling
Among the people who came and went, the most famous was of course Su Dongpo, a great scholar of the Song Dynasty, who left a poem with the title of "You Haizhu Temple" (also left poems in the name of Haizhu Temple or Cidu Temple, including the Song people Lü Ding, the Ming Dynasty's Hai Rui, Zhao Chongxin, Liang Shaoqiu, Liu Kezheng, He Jinxiu, Deng Shiyu, Xu Tianxi, Chen Bangyan, and the Qing dynasty Chen Gongyin. Some people have made statistics, and there are more than 50 poems depicted in Haizhu Stone or Haizhu Temple and Cidu Temple). Zhang Zhensun, the only ruler of Guangdong in the Song Dynasty, and the first one who had formed a dragon head meeting here. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Chen Zizhuang, a native of the South China Sea, once paid tribute to Li Zhongjian's ancestral hall. In the Qing Dynasty, Wang Shizhen (1634-1711) was ordered to come to the Nanhai Temple in 1685 to pay homage to the South China Sea and visit here; The famous lingnan poet and calligrapher Li Jian (1747-1799) once lived in Haizhu Temple, and was caused a sensation by refusing to come to Guangzhou to see yuan Ming, a red man of the dynasty, who refused to come to Guangzhou to see him, and the famous scholar Shen Fu (1763-1832) came here and left a sketch for Haizhu Temple in the famous work "Six Records of Floating Life"...
They were all hurried visitors, and only one of them was able to establish his soul on the island. He was the first tanhua li angying in the history of Guangdong scientific expeditions (Ziwenxi, courtesy name "Zhongjian", 1201-1257, Panyu people). In his youth, he studied on the Haizhu Stone, and later donated funds to rebuild the defunct Cidu Temple; in 1235, he joined forces with his teacher Cui He (Zengchengren), who had resigned from his official post, to dissuade the rebel army that had besieged the city and save the city from chaos. In order to commemorate this compatriot who had the grace of saving his life and was known for his courage, the people of Guangzhou built the Li Zhongjian Ancestral Hall (Wenxi Ancestral Hall) and the Tanhuatai (destroyed during the Republic of China) next to the Cidu Temple.
Outstanding. Since the Ming Dynasty, this square inch of the river has become a scenic spot, and every time the Dragon Boat Festival and the middle of summer, many tourists will go to the island to watch dragon boat races, or play in the Pearl River. One of the eight scenic spots of Yangcheng, "Pearl River Tranquility", which takes it as the core, goes hand in hand with the "Yuexiu Songtao" with Yuexiu Mountain as the core. This is its highlight moment.
During the Republic of China, Haizhu Park was built here, but this beautiful scenery soon became a masterpiece.
Haizhu Park
In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the haizhu stone in the heart of the river was infinitely close to the north shore due to silt accumulation. During the Republic of China, although it was still beautiful, the prosperity of the Long Causeway and the people's desire for land at the time, the reef was finally sentenced to death. One day in 1931, after dozens of cannons sounded here, the stone shattered and the incense disappeared. After being buried, Haizhu Stone became an integral part of the north bank of the Pearl River, on which a road called "Haizhu New Causeway" was built.
This cannon sound destroyed the thousand-year-old wind and moon of the Sea Pearl Stone. But at that time, Chen Jitang, the "Southern Heavenly King" who agreed to blow up the stone, estimated that there was no concept of cultural relics protection. He wanted real money.
Since then, the mutilated body of Haizhu Stone has been annihilated in the ground.
Excavated sea pearl stone (partial)
In 2000, an engineering team accidentally discovered a sea pearl buried 3 meters deep underground. After some treatment, parts of this boulder were excavated for display, right on the side of the road, naked. More, on the other hand, are pressed by tall buildings. This part, people jokingly call it "the cornerstone of the house".
Many times, the red rock standing on the side of the road, people walk by, and they ignore it.
Fortunately, there are many People in Guangzhou who understand it and love it. Ye Quanzhi, an astronomical enthusiast of the Southern Cross Society in Guangdong, is one of them. He co-discovered asteroid 273836. At his suggestion, the asteroid that traveled around the sky was officially named "Haizhu Stone Star" and the English name "hoijyusek" (Yale Pinyin in Cantonese).
"Haizhu Stone is a huge stone in the Pearl River that has been regarded as one of the symbols of Guangzhou for centuries." This statement from the communiqué of the International Minor Planet Center actually points out that the sea pearl stone is an indispensable "true soul" to the old city of Guangzhou.
This soul swims in the sky with the sea pearl stone star.
This star and this stone, wandering in light years, are in heaven and on earth.
Conclusion: The reappearance of the sea pearl stone and the name of the heavens, this is a happy event. After all, within the old city of Guangzhou, such a landscape with both physical geography and human history is rare (Yaozhou is counted as one). It's just that at the moment it's in an awkward position. Nowadays, the video and text materials about it are actually very sufficient, and with the existing physical objects and maps, it is a small exhibition (long-term) that can not only display the history of the southward advance of the old city of Guangzhou, but also present the history and culture of Haizhu Stone. It depends on whether there is anyone who has a pattern, feelings, and vision compared to Chen Jitang.