Acheng and its Yang Valley
Text/Zhang Great Wall
Looking at the topic, you must be a little confused, according to the current administrative division and affiliation, the correct introduction should be "Yanggu County A Town". What everyone does not know is that in ancient times, Yanggu was a subsidiary of Acheng, they have a cultural connection between lips and teeth, and they are also the main components of the ancestral poor sang, the source of Chinese agricultural civilization, the ancient culture of place names, and the humanities are in harmony. These place name cultural symbols, I have conducted many years of research and demonstration, and concluded that the area with Acheng as the center of the hundred miles is the ancient poor and ancient country. The relationship between "Acheng" and "Yanggu" is the relationship between the imperial city and the Sun Temple outside the Chaoyang Gate later. Successive Chinese emperors have held festivals at the altar outside the Chaoyang Gate of the Imperial City on the Spring Equinox, and Acheng and Yanggu are the source of their culture.
First, roughly describe these two place names, and then streamline the argument and trace the source.
A city
A read e. Acheng is a town in Yanggu County, fifty miles north-east of the city, with an ancient place name. Ancient called "Ayi", referred to as A or Ke, commonly known as ancient Ayi, one of the meanings of Yi is also a city.
The origin of ejiao and amu is here.
During the Qin and Han dynasties, "Dong'a County" was set up here, and after 486, during the Wei (Northern Wei Taihe Decade) period due to floods, Dong'a County was moved to the east, and the town of Yue'a City was later set up again near the original site. There are still hundreds of meters of ruins in the ruins of the ancient city. Archaeology has found that the great city of the Han Dynasty was superimposed on top of the small city of "Longshan Culture", and there were excavations of "Yangshao Culture" pottery. A well is still there, there is an ancient stele, which reads "Ancient A well". Ejiao is still the main local industry, which has not faded for thousands of years.
Yang Valley
Jingyang Gang, Lion Building, Wusong Fighting Tiger, this article does not express the story of these Young Yanggu, only the name. The present-day Yanggu County was moved here during the Song Dynasty (1006); previously, the Sui Kai Emperor established the county in the sixteenth year, and the city pool was in the west of Jingyanggang, which was carried out as "Yanggu Valley of shuiwucheng"; going back up, the Spring and Autumn Period was called "Yangguyi", the address was in the northeast of Dongping Lake, and the three villages of Wanggudian (Yanggudian) in the old county of Dongping County; further up, it was the place of the spring equinox sunrise in Yanggu -------, and it was also the birthplace of China's first calendar "Yellow Emperor Calendar".
Bucket to star shift, river migration, cultural changes, Yanggu evolved into Guyi, Yanggu and other place names in the local area, Yanggu name from Yi county, westward migration many times, and finally in 1006 moved Mengdian (now Yanggu), from more than forty miles to the east of Ayi, migrated to more than fifty miles in the west, from Yanggu to Yanggu, after nearly five thousand years.
The capital of China is poor Sanggu'ayi
Why is Guyi the "Capital of China"? Because it is the Yellow Emperor's capital!
Gu'ayi is referred to as A and Ke. "History": "The Yellow Emperor Ishik Yu Zhuolu (not a place name, the meaning of chasing deer in the Central Plains)". A is Gu Ayi. "Imperial Century": "The Yellow Emperor took the throne of poor Sanden". The Classic of Mountains and Seas Yuan Ke notes: "The so-called Ganyuan, Tang (Yang) Valley, and Poor Sanggai are also in one place. "Century of Emperors": "The Yellow Emperor was enthroned by the poor Sanden Emperor and later moved to Qufu." "Shao Haoyi was in poor Sang, and in order to ascend to the throne, Duqufu, so he was called Poor Sang Emperor." "The emperor was poor at the beginning, and the shangqiu moved to the emperor's hill." Emperor Huan was the capital of the poor Sang "Great Thorn City", and the Great Thorn City was in Liren Town (also known as Daji City) in the old county township of Dongping County. Yuan Ke's "Ganyuan" is also mentioned in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", "Ganshan, Ganshui out of Yan, born Ganyuan", in the southeast direction of Guyi, about fifty miles, is the spring of hongfan town in Pingyin County today. The spring is in the middle of the mountainside, its appearance is the shape of the Ganzi, the perennial "sweet water out of the yan", there are large ravines and ancient ruins under the mountain.
Jin Du's pre-notes and Emperor Fu's "Imperial Century" are both based on poor sang in northern Lubei. In fact, it is an area with Gu'ayi as the center of the area of hundreds of miles, and some historical materials are also called "empty sang".
The culture of the ancient Ayi Longshan cultural town and the Qin and Han dynasties is superimposed. The small town should be the city of three miles, because Mencius said: "the city of three miles (Duyi), the Guo of the seven miles", A town still retains the cultural symbols such as "Acheng", "Xiaocheng", "Gaomen", "Haihui" and other cultural symbols as village names. The explanation of the Zhonggao Gate in the Cihai sea is: the fifth gate of the ancient imperial city, also known as the National Gate and the Guo Gate. My understanding is that the small city represents the ancient Ayi (Yellow Emperor Duyi); Gaomen is the Guomen gate outside the imperial city; the word Haihui, here is the world-famous "Haihui Temple", the Buddhist "Haihui" word is another matter, here is the cultural source is the meaning of the four seas. The ancient Ayi Qin Dynasty Ayutthaya is about 4x4 miles, the scale is very rare, there are legends that it is an unbuilt Qin Dynasty imperial city.
Although the ancient Ayi small city is not a magnificent imperial city in the concept of great China, the vast majority of our humanistic memory and surname culture are based on Yanhuang, and the "Three Mile City" in the ancient era is already a high-standard imperial city. It is also rumored that "the ancient a well was dug by the Yan Emperor", so the Yellow Emperor Was also the Yi of the Yan Emperor, and the capital of Yan Huang was the capital of China, which deserved it!
The cultural symbol of A place name has also been a tall word in history: Qujing Yue'a (also known as Sijing Yue'a).
Cultural evolution, radiation, A evolved many place names: Qufu (Qufu originally means A), Qu'a (Jiangsu, Qufu + A) Dong'a County, Xi'a County, A Town, Dong'a Town, Sang'a Town (Guan County, Poor Sang + A), Yang'a (Henan Xinxiang City, Yanggu + A).
A, as the earliest cultural symbol of China's capital city, was also very royal in the Qin Dynasty, which is known as the first palace in the world.
Guyi, as the central capital of the Yellow Emperor era, has a high value for the study of ancient history.
The Yang Valley of Ayi and its evolution
There is Yushan On the north bank of the Yellow River forty miles east of Guyi, there is Yanggu Mountain on the south bank, which is the place where the spring equinox sunrise of Ayi is ------- Yang Valley.
"Shi Ben Zuo" "Yellow Emperor Envoy Xi and Zhan Ri". The spring equinox and autumn equinox are fixed at the sunrise point of the Yanggu Valley in the eastern suburbs of Ayi, plus the winter and summer solstices, and the initial fixed annual cycle is four o'clock. The YaoDian also records: "Divide, fate Xi Zhongzhai 嵎夷曰旸谷". Yushan is a false rumor of Shengshan Mountain, and Yanggu Mountain is Yanggu Mountain. The "Records of the Land of Wei" says: "The county has Gucheng Mountain, the mountain out of Wenshi, the land of Yang Valley", the Qing Dynasty Duan Yujue "Commentary on the Interpretation of The Text": "堣夷 (嵎夷), in Jizhou Yanggu, Yang Ge Ben As Yang, now Zheng. ”
"Spring Dawn on Gushan Mountain" is the first of the eight ancient scenery of Yanggu, that is, the sunrise of the spring equinox on Yanggu Mountain, and the day and night are divided equally. Above Yushan Mountain, there is the altar of the "Longshan Culture" site, which is the cultural relic of the Poor Sang Era, and the "house" of the Shengyi Yanggu is here.
Why did the ancients attach so much importance to the spring equinox? Reading this passage of the YaoDian, you will understand: "It is the fate of XiHe, Qin Ruohao Heaven, the calendar is like the sun, the moon and the stars, and the time of honoring the people." Fen (Spring Equinox), FengXi Zhongzhai 嵎夷, 曰旸谷. Yin Bin out of the sun, Ping Rank Dong Zuo. In the middle of the day, the star bird, to Yin Zhongchun. The people are analyzed, and the birds and beasts are tailed. "This is the earliest documentary record of agricultural civilization. And in our Yang valley, or the ancient poor sang area, is the area with the most distinct seasons. In Yanggu City, the ancients also attached a "day in the middle" land, on the west side of the old county, the legend is "shadowless land". Shadowless land is the phenomenon of summer solstice, and Yanggu is the spring equinox, it seems that after the Yang Valley moved over, people at that time misunderstood the meaning of the word "day", and set up a piece of "day in the middle" called "shadowless land". I dare to correct it: shadowlessly, what should be interpreted is that "Yanggu is a place with four distinct seasons" ------ the day of the spring equinox.
The source of Chinese culture, Yanggu and Guyi, was almost submerged, because these cultures were solidified into royal cultures by later generations. The sun altar outside the Chaoyang Gate of the Imperial City of Beijing is the place where the emperor celebrates the spring equinox, and the source of culture is here. It is the "Longshan Cultural Altar" (Cao Zhi Tomb Platform) of Dong'ayu Mountain, which is also the Yang Valley of ancient Ayi. The Temple of Heaven, the place where the emperor prays for the New Year, is the cultural evolution that originated in Taoqiu (20 miles southeast of Ancient Ayi, the birthplace of the Yellow Emperor), and the Shouzhang Shou character originates from Taoqiu. The Temple of Heaven of the imperial dynasties was located in the southeast of the imperial city, because the peach hill was in the southeast of The Ancient Ayi. This layout is to commemorate the Yellow Emperor, the ancestor of humanities, and also the Heavenly Emperor, commonly known as the Jade Emperor. The local sea culture has evolved into a pool of royal gardens, such as Beijing's Beihai, Zhonghai, Nanhai, West Sea, etc., and the royal family is called the sea at random.
Cultural evolution and radiation, the local Yanggu evolved into Yangguyi and Yanggu County. The valley culture also derives from the valley country, the valley eup, the valley (grain) city, as well as the grain hill, the upper valley, the grain cooked and so on. There are more than 40 Haiming villages around Yanggu County, which belong to the ancient Sea culture in the hometown, which means that the former "West Sea Coast", "In the Four Seas", Haihui Imperial Capital, Zhaozi China (Jingshi, Capital City is China), poor Sang culture is attached to Yanggu, so that Yanggu inherits many ancient legends.
For example: in the north of Yanggu, there is Mi (mi) City, the city of Fuxi; Yanggu is the place where the Fuxi sect people watch Yang sowing grain; the first mountain under the heavens --- the spring dawn of the valley mountain; the twenty-four solar terms were formulated in Yanggu; the ancient Ajing was dug by Emperor Yan; the story of the ancient willow tree heavenly garden; the story of prince Doubao; the story of Huimengtai; the story of Sun Zhenzhan Pang Juan's ecstasy array; the story of Zhang Liang in Western Hanzhuang; the layout of Yanggu City in the "Four Seas" means poor mulberry; it also copied the "three mountains without seeing the mountain" of Gushan, Huangshan, and Guishan; the first mountain stele, and so on. The list goes on and on.
Yanggu has undergone several major historical changes in the Xia Dynasty Valley Period (after which the valley splits into grain), the Shang Zhou Yang Guyi Era (located in the northeast of Dongping Lake, present-day Yanggudian), the Sui Kai Emperor's sixteenth-year jianxian (Jingyanggang west 'Shuiwu City') and the Song Dynasty Qiancheng (1006 moved Mengdian is now Yanggu), from the eastern suburb of Ayi Yanggu to the western suburb of The Valley, the name of Yanggu lasted for about 5,000 years.
Originally, there was a "small valley" in the Yanggu land of Ayi, which was the earliest valley country, and then migrated, and the Zhou Dynasty fell in Gucheng County, Hubei Province. After that, the Qin Dynasty established Gucheng County in Xiaogu, and then the Ming Dynasty Dong'a County was relocated to this area and changed to Dong'a. The Dong'azhi Institute was relocated again, and this place is now called Dong'a Town, which belongs to Pingyin County.
After the Middle Ages Chinese avoided the poor characters, mulberry and mourning harmonic sounds, but also avoided the custom, only using words such as mulberry zi and sang ma to imply hometown, hometown, father and elder. Many ancient place names have changed due to cultural changes. As a capital noun, as early as the Zhou Dynasty, it was replaced by the word "Jing", the capital of Zhou, and the imperial city of later generations often used the Beijing character as the capital name, such as Xijing, Nanjing, Tokyo, and Beijing.
The poor Sang and Yanggu cultures have evolved, and with the changes of the imperial cities of the past, every eastern part of the imperial capital should have a "Yanggu", or a place name with the word "Chao". The Yang Valley in the Southern Shang Capital, I think it should be "Yanshan Mountain"; the Yang Valley of Yin Ruins or "Chaocheng"; the Yang Valley in Luoyang is suspected of Xinzheng, because it is attached to the "Hometown of the Yellow Emperor". After the concept of the state was finalized, yanggu broke away from the capital city, forming the national eastern sunrise place Known as Yanggu, and also generated the concept of poor mulberry in the east, and even said to be "Dongyi". This led to the Yanggu Rizhao theory, the Weihai theory (there is Yanggu Village), the Liaoxi saying (Chaoyang, Dongsong), the Lelang saying (Korea), the Japanese saying (Sunrise Country, Fuso), and so on. Originally, the Eastern Suburbs of Ancient Ayi, Shengyi and Yanggu (Dongyi), with the expansion of national territory and the radiation of culture, continued to move east, Dongyi generally refers to more and more farther, and the Chinese cultural circle is getting bigger and bigger.
Acheng and Yanggu, from the ancient poor Sang, cultural inheritance, you have me, I have you. Despite the flooding of the great river and the change of wind and clouds, these place name cultural symbols have always silently declared that this is the source of the memory of Chinese civilization and the ancestral home of the descendants of Yanhuang.
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【About the author】Zhang Changcheng, male, born in 1961. He is a member of the Liaocheng Geographical Names Culture Society, a member of the Liaocheng Traditional Culture Research Association, and a director of the Taiqian County Historical and Cultural Research Association.