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Recently, Shanshan Sanya began to have a little interest in archaeology, and for the city where she lived, Guangzhou, she clearly knew that it was an ancient capital with a history of more than 2,000 years. So, what was Guangzhou like more than 2,000 years ago? You know, the history of more than 2,000 years and more than 2,000 years is based on a rough statement recorded in ancient books, not that the history of Guangzhou is only more than 2,000 years. Shanshan Sanya for a long period of time, pay special attention to some "archaeological" information, including many times to see guangzhou Zengcheng "Jinlan Temple Village" this place, found the Shell Hill cultural site, here is the earliest prehistoric site of guangzhou's current archaeological discovery age, after many confirmations, it was determined that this place was once the place where the Baiyue people lived in the Neolithic Age. In order to learn more, on a free weekend, Shanshan Sanya came to visit the "Kinlan Temple Village".
Jinlansi Village is located in the Sanjiang Plain area of Shitan Town, Zengcheng District, Guangzhou, and is a well-known hometown of fish and rice, consisting of five cooperatives in the east, south, west, Shanwei and Guancun. Shanshan Sanya departed from downtown Guangzhou, first took the subway to Zengcheng Square Station, and then positioned "Jinlan Temple" to call for an online car. On the way into the village, the driver chatted with me: to go to Cam Ranh Temple, is it to worship the Buddha? Hearing the driver's question, I couldn't help but laugh, the driver is obviously not a village or a local, but it is no wonder that the driver will ask this, many people who do not understand the situation will think that this is a temple when they first contact the name "Jinlan Temple", but in fact, the "Jinlan Temple" in Zengcheng District, Guangzhou, is the name of the ancient village. The car drove from a straight cement road into Cam Ranh Si Village, along the road side of the road planted with vegetables, fruits, rice paddies, after driving for a while, after crossing the Beiyuan River bridge, I got out of the car and began to visit Cam Ran Si Village. At this time, the long river of the Beiyuan River gushed out in front of the eyes of the three women of Shanshan.
Jinlansi Village was once a water town where rivers cross, and the waterway traffic here is quite developed, including a section of an artificial canal with important historical allusions, called "Liu Wangyong". According to legend, in the late Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, the emperor of the Southern Han Dynasty, in order to escape the war in the Central Plains, initially lived in Luofu Mountain, and after the establishment of the Southern Han Kingdom, he dug a canal from Zengcheng Zengjiang River to Luofu Mountain to facilitate future retreat, but this canal was not completed in the end, and the Southern Han Kingdom was finally dispersed.
The broken wall on the banks of the Yuanjiang River is the place where the Jinlan Temple Beqiu Cultural Site was found. The Shell Hill Site is a type of paleoinhabited site characterized by a large number of human remaining and discarded shells, most of which belong to the Neolithic period. In 1956, the provincial cultural relics census team first discovered the shell hill site of Jinlan Temple, and in 1961, it was excavated, with three cultural layers: upper, middle and lower. The upper layer belongs to the cultural relics of the Warring States period, the middle and lower layers are the remnants of the Neolithic period, and the lower layers have unearthed choppers, smashing tools, shoulder stone axes, hammers, chisels and other beating and grinding stone tools. Found a large pile of shells, animal and fish bones, stone tools and other accumulation of cultural layers, and found nearby 4 ancient tombs, excavated cultural relics are stone axes, stone knives, stone phosphorus, stone, clay pots, pottery bowls, pottery ancestors, mussel rings, perforated shells, fish backbone beads, etc., the most precious is more than 6,000 years ago faience pottery, this site with three layers of cultural accumulation, it provides an important stratigraphic basis for the study of the morning and evening relationship between ancient cultural sites in Guangdong Province, confirming that the Baiyue people lived in this area.
Shanshan Sanya walked up the bridge of the Yuanjiang River and looked out, at this time, it was difficult to see what it looked like 6,000 years ago, everything could only rely on imagination, but on the edge of the Yuanjiang River, when the Yuanjiang Wharf, which had been abandoned, revealed the obvious vicissitudes of the years. Yuanjiang used to be a busy traffic artery, once upon a time, you can take a boat to Zengjiang, Dongjiang, Pearl River, you can go to Dongguan, Huizhou, Guangzhou, and even go to the world. Only today, the main traffic here is no longer the operation of the boat, standing here, all you feel is quiet.
After stopping for a while at the bridge of the Yuanjiang River, the three ladies of Shanshan began to enter the Village of Jinlan Temple, and what appeared in front of me was the Tianhou Temple and the Hongsheng Temple, which stood side by side. The village of Cam Ranh Si has always been plagued by floods, so these two temples were built to bless the platform. In the space near the river in front of the two temples, there is a large rectangular bronze statue with the words "Jinlan Temple" engraved in traditional characters. The location of this large bronze ding is the location of the original "Golden Lotus Temple" (later changed to Jinlan Temple) in the village, and it is also the place where the name of the village originates. In fact, when Shanshan Sanya first saw the village of Jinlan Temple, she also thought about "Jinlan Jieyi", Meilan Zhuju is known as the four gentlemen in the flower, the orchid is known as the ancestor of Xiangzu, and people often use Jinlan to praise brotherhood and personality charm. When the ancients worshipped, they prostrated themselves in turn, and then the elders read the "Golden Orchid Spectrum". Thus, over time, it became the "Golden Orchid Knot". So, what is the relationship between The Village of Kinransa and The Golden Lotus Temple and the Jimlan Jieyi?
The written history of Jinlansi Village dates back to the fourth year of the Southern Song Dynasty, that is, in 1256, Yao Qiliu, who lived in Sanjiang Chuxi Village at that time, came to the river several miles away to build a Maoliao to release ducks, one night, he saw a red place in the place where he had built Maoliao, thinking that it was Maoliao that caught fire, when he rushed to fight the fire, he found that Maoliao was safe and sound, feeling very magical, so this place where the red light appeared was an auspicious and blessed place, and he moved here ever since. Before Yao Qiliu moved here to live here, there were already people surnamed Zhou fishing and farming here, and there was a dilapidated Golden Lotus Temple here, but at that time there was no village, it was a deserted place, and after Yao Qiliu came here to settle down, another family surnamed Hong moved in. Since then, yao, zhou, and hong surnames have been in the same boat on the same land, living in harmony, building nests and villages together, in order to show the determination of generations to live in harmony, they have jinlian temple in Jieyi Jinlan, and the village has since been named "Jinlan Village".
Later, the relevant surnames moved in, and the village of Jinlansi formed a pattern of Zhou, Yao, Hong, and Guanduo. However, in the long historical development, the people with the surnames of Yao and Guan have become more and more prosperous, and the population of zhou surnames has gradually decreased and continued to move out, and after the last family surnamed Hong moved to Shilong, Dongguan before liberation, only the surnames of Yao and Guan were left in Jinlansi Village. Only now, when the villagers of Jinlan Temple worship their ancestors, they will read "Zhoujia Land, Yao Family Landlord" when they open the first sentence, which is to attach importance to the Yijie Jinlan in that year, and also means that the villagers do not forget that they have developed in the Zhou surname land.
Day after day, year after year, the Golden Lotus Temple has been gone for a long time, even the oldest man in the village has not seen this legendary Golden Lotus Temple, the world knows that the Jinlan Temple Village, is a beautiful and rich fish and rice town, or the site of the Beiqiu cultural site, is the place where the former Guangzhou was inscribed with written records.
Under a banyan tree in front of the Hongsheng Temple and the Tin Hau Temple, Shanshan Sanma asked the old people in the village why the Golden Lotus Temple, which carries the origin of the name of the Village of Jinlan Temple, had disappeared. Are there still footprints in the village? Old people told me that the Golden Lotus Temple was probably destroyed during the Qing Dynasty, and today, the Golden Lotus Temple has left two ancient bells, one in the Hongsheng Temple and the other in the Guangzhou Museum for safekeeping. Because the Hongsheng Temple was not open at this time, shanshan sanma did not have the opportunity to see this ancient bell, which was a pity.
Bidding farewell to the old man under the banyan tree, Shanshan Sanya will continue to walk into the village of Cam Ranh Temple, visit the ancient buildings and ancient streets and alleys in the village, and look for the remaining ancient culture in this ancient village. Stay tuned.
So, have you ever known about the historical development of Guangzhou? Have you ever seen what Guangzhou looked like before it was written? Do you know the earliest prehistoric site in Guangzhou, the "Shell Hill Ruins of Jinlan Temple Village"? When you hear about Kinlansa Village, do you think of the temple or the righteous knot Of Kinlan? For such an ancient village with such a history, are you interested in coming and seeing it? Welcome to leave a comment! This article is a copyrighted work, without the written authorization of Shanshan Sanya, it is strictly forbidden to carry, reprint, or wash the manuscript. If you need to reprint, please contact the author Shanshan Sanya, thank you