Follow the Han River west, cross the Tuguanpu Bridge, and enter the Dragon King Temple Ditch. Follow the valley, twist and turn, all the way south. After turning over a pass, downhill, we came to the Nanxigou (Lanxigou) watershed. Yiba Village is distributed on both sides of Nanxigou. Surrounded by mountains on all sides and open and flat in the middle, it is a typical mountain flat dam.
Scenery of The Village of Yiba today
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the "Rural Chronicle of Qiuxian County" said that the Yiba was the ancient Han River Station, and there was still a "Yiguan Tomb" at that time. In the Gazetteer, there is, "In the fifth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1301), a post station for the transmission of official documents was established here." What is right and wrong? unknown. MianXian and Ningqiang still have names such as QingyangYi, Da'anYi, Jinniuyi, and Berlinyi, which were once important transportation nodes on the Shu Road. The post dam can be called "post", it should be the same, once at a certain time, this place may have been an official road. Of course, perhaps due to the short existence of the caravanserai, there are not many reliable records.
The former site of The Post Dam Temple
At the site of the former Yiba Elementary School, it is said that there was a Yiba Temple in the early years. Next to nanxi ditch, there is a small hill bag with lush trees, and the old site of The Post Dam Temple is on this small hill bag. I thought this was the site of the so-called "Yiguan Tomb", but when I turned up the hill, I found that there was a stone mountain at my feet. The top of the mountain is tens of meters square, it is still flat, not only manpower to open up, or the work of heaven? In the old days, the temple was built on top of it, and it was really advantageous. The steep cliff on the east side of the hill is more than ten meters high, and the lower side is nanxi ditch. I wonder if the ancient station was located here?
Zhuo Bishan, Riding Dragon Mountain, and Dragon King Gou in the "Epitaph of the Marquis of Zhongwu" during the Jiaqing period
To the east of the post dam, there is an old pass at the foot of the Li family mountain, and the predecessors have verified that this place is the old site of Shiding Pass. To the south, enter the Weixi Ditch, turn over the Bian Mountain, and reach the Yellow Dam River Valley, which was once the Rongqiu Ancient Road. To the west, along the Nanxi Ditch, you can enter the Yudai River, the southern source of the Han River. Yiba is like a land of four wars, and the traffic geographical location should not be underestimated.
Former "Yiba Township" area
During the Beiyang government period, qiuxian was divided into four districts: east, west, south and north, eleven sections, and one hundred and twenty cards. Among them, the "undertaker gentleman" station in the western district is in Yiba Village, which has jurisdiction over ten brands: Tuguanpu, Frustrated Shuipu, Longwanggou, Cijiaoba, Yiba, Weixigou, Brickyard, Xuanshuiping, Chenjiawan and Zhengjiaying. Later, the county government changed, and Yiba Village became the office of Zhuobi Lianbao in the third Baojia District of Chu County. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the new county system was implemented, and the county was divided into thirteen townships. Among them, the Zhuobi Township Office was still located in Yiba Village, which at that time had jurisdiction over Cijiaoba, Longwanggou, Yiba, Weixigou and Xuanshuiping Wubao.
On the steep slope road, look up at the Jade Emperor Temple on Mount Qilong (Qilin Mountain).
Yiba Village is bordered by Lijia Dashan (Taizu Mountain) to the south, Qilong Mountain (Qilin Mountain) to the east, Zhuobi Mountain to the north, and Large and Small Tiantai Mountains to the south. One of the most commendable is riding the Dragon Mountain. Riding dragon mountain is a folk custom, which should actually be called Qilin Mountain, but riding a dragon and a qilin are already connected. If you want to ride the Dragon Mountain, you have to enter the Dry Dam Zi Ditch. Follow the road between the ditches until you reach the end, and you can come to the Jade Emperor Temple of Qilong Mountain (Qilin Mountain). The mountain road on Mount Long is extremely steep.
Ride the Dragon Mountain (Qilin Mountain) on the Jade Emperor Temple
The Jade Emperor Temple has ancient trees towering in the sky, and there are still three ancient trees left. The side cypress at the door is more than five hundred years old, and the two can hug each other. On the cliff on the side of the Jade Emperor Temple, there is also a yellow tree and a cork oak, which are two hundred years old.
An ancient monument in the Temple of the Jade Emperor
The remaining ancient stele in the Jade Emperor Temple has become indistinct. The earliest surviving party stele was erected during the Jiaqing period. The cypress tree in front of the door and the stone stele inside the door can imagine the long history of this place.
The Account of the Song Treasury in the Ta Kung Pao
In the ninth year of the Republic of China (1920), the poor people in sichuan and Shaanxi regions, in order to resist the cruel exploitation of feudal warlords, broke out a vigorous "red lantern uprising". "Anti-power, equal rich", this is the slogan of the red light rebel army at that time. Song Jinku, a yiba villager who had participated in the Xi'an Uprising of the Xinhai Revolution, was one of the leaders of this rebel army, and the poor people he led were stationed in the Jade Emperor Temple on the Mount of the Dragon. On the thirteenth day of the eighth lunar month (September 24) of that year, Wang Hong'en of the 15th Mixed Brigade of the Army, a Beiyang warlord stationed in Ning and Qiu, was ordered to besiege Mount Qilong. Song Jinku led the rebel army, according to the favorable terrain, and defeated Wang Hong'en's army in the chaotic stone cellar of Mount Qilong. Later, taking advantage of the victory and chasing, the rebel army occupied longwanggou and Tuguanpu, and the important supply line of the reactionary warlords, Sichuan and Shaanxi, was blocked, and the rebel army was momentarily boosted. Encouraged by this, the poor people of Ning, Luo, and Qiu counties rose up one after another and joined the red-light sect's uprising. At that time, the western mountains of the Hanzhong region were full of red light rebels.
Ancient trees on the cliffs of Dragon Mountain (yellow oak, cork oak)
After this, the Beiyang warlord government mobilized a large army to encircle and suppress the uprising. In the middle of the ninth month of the lunar calendar of that year, all the armies in the Hanzhong region gathered in Ningqiang and Qiuxian Counties, and Song Jinku and other rebel leaders were captured alive by the Beiyang warlord Diao Bingshan. After some torture by the reactionary warlords, Song Jinku died in Hujiaba, Ningqiang County. But in the hearts of the poor people who have been oppressed, exploited, and enslaved for generations, the flame of resistance ignited by forerunners such as the Song Treasury has never been extinguished. It was not until a few years later, with the arrival of the red army, that the poor people really found their way forward.
Ride the Dragon Mountain (Kirin Mountain) strange rocks
Mount Dragon Riding (Kirin Mountain) is a unique stone mountain covered with granite. It is said that the name of the unicorn is because some stone on the mountain resembles a unicorn. Washed by the years, worn by wind and rain, riding on the dragon mountain is strange and rugged, such as stone forest, such as dragon's ridge, or vicious, or abrupt. But against the backdrop of blue sky, white clouds and green trees, it is so harmonious and natural. It is only far away in the mountains and forests, the land is sparsely populated, and it is still "raised in the deep boudoir people do not know."
Unripe August melon
The August melon on the Dragon Mountain is sweet and delicious. August melon, is an evergreen woody vine that grows widely in the area south of the Qinling Mountains, so named because its fruit ripens in August. August melon prefers a cool and humid environment, and it is generally seen in the mixed woods in the semi-shade of the mountains. The fruit of the August melon, which looks like a cashew nut, turns its hull from brown to purple when ripe. The flesh under the thick shell is unattainable. One day earlier, the fruit will not crack, and one day later, the cracked fruit may become a good meal for mountain birds and insects. The shell of the August melon is said to be a traditional Chinese medicine.
The ripe August melon, the white is the pulp
When I was a child, the memory of being singed by lily (pronounced he) spicy seeds is very memorable, and the spicy seeds are also known as foreign spicy seeds, and the Hanzhong people do not say stings, but say 蠚 (音he). The Classic of Mountains and Seas says, "(Kunlun Hills) has birds, whose shape is like a bee, as big as a mandarin duck, known as Qinyuan, and the birds and beasts die, and the wood withers." "And this unassuming poisonous weed, nettle, is more memorable than a spicy seed." Nettle, shudi called lily, Du Fu in the poem "Weeding", once wrote that "its poison is very poisonous bee worm, its multi-mi Dao Zhou". This is the most poisonous grass in the suburbs of autumn.
Nettle grass
The spiny hairs of nettle are rich in silica, hard and hollow, and will break after being pierced into the skin, bringing not only physical puncture damage, but also causing substances such as formic acid (formic acid) in the thorn hairs to be released, thus being damaged by the properties of chemicals, making the wound as sharp as being burned by fire, similar to the pain of being bitten by ants, and blistering when severe.
Desert Porcupine: The Thorn of nettle, still can't escape the fate of being eaten"
Zhang Xianzhong, who was said to have been injured by nettles in Shudi in his early years, was angry and angry, believing that Shudi was "grass evil and people are evil", and some people even said that the later "Eight Kings Slaughter Sichuan" was the beginning of this small nettle grass. Although it is a historical joke. But it is conceivable how abominable the reputation of nettle grass has been since ancient times!
Zhuo Bishan in the New Chronicle of Qiuxian County
To the north of Yiba Village, over the mountain beams, there is a Dragon King Ditch. Zhuobi Village is located just upstream of Longwanggou, which used to be under the jurisdiction of Yiba. Zhuobi Village is named after Zhuobi Mountain on the west side of the village. According to the Kangxi Twenty-Eighth Year (1689) Teng Tianshou Xiu's "Records of Hannan County", "Zhuo Bi Qinglan" was once one of the Ten Scenic Spots of Jiuqiu County. On a sunny day, the tall and beautiful Zhuobi Mountain is often shrouded in clouds. To the north, Longwanggou can reach Tuguanpu on the Han River, and to the south can reach The Village of Yiba, which was once used as a post station. This north-south valley must have been a bustling traffic artery at some point. Coming and going, more people walking on the road, the scenery on the side of the road will be discovered, named, and recorded.
Look sideways at ZhuoBi Mountain
The Southern Song Dynasty Zhu Mu compiled the "Traces of Fang Yousheng", which says, "Zhuo Bi Mountain, in the quagmire valley of the southern twenty miles of Xi County, a peak is cut. "QiuXian was formerly known as Xi County, and the Dragon King Valley at that time was known as the Valley of the Muddy Pond, which should be the earliest record of Zhuo Bi Mountain. Looking at Zhuo Pen Mountain up close, it comes alive like a brush inserted upside down on a pen holder. But it is different from the current brush, but similar to the Tang Dynasty brush - chicken distance pen (because of its shape like the protruding distance behind the chicken claw). The brush before the Middle Ages is very precious due to the material, and after the ancients wrote, the brush would be inserted upside down on the pen holder to control the water after washing the pen to prevent the refill from being damaged. After the Song Dynasty, the Sanzhuo pen began to be widely popular, which was different from the previous chicken distance pen. From this, it can even be speculated that the origin of the name of Zhuo Bishan was recorded earlier than the "Fang Yu Sheng Traces".
The pen holder in the mural is inserted with a brush upside down (Xuanhua Liao Tomb Mural, Cultural Relics Publishing House)
Qing Kangxi's "Chronicle of QiuXian County" once wrote that Zhuo Bi Mountain "peaks and peaks are cut up, shaped like a pen bed, and holy water is poured out, and the drought does not dry up." During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, praying for rain and rain, he sealed the 'Lingji Dragon King', and the monument is still said to be there. "There is a water source under Zhuobi Mountain, and it has not dried up during the great drought season. Dragon King Gully Water is called holy water, or clear spring water, and this name should have originated from the zhuobi mountain. During the Song and Yuan dynasties, the local people prayed for rain and blessings here, basically responding to every request. This matter was even known to the imperial court thousands of miles away, and ordered the Dragon King under Zhuo Bishan to be named the "Dragon King of Lingji". To this day, next to the ravine under Zhuobi Mountain, there is also the site of the Dragon King Temple. And the Dragon King Ditch is named after this Dragon King Temple.
The former site of the Dragon King Temple under ZhuoBi Mountain
In the Guangxu period of the "New Chronicle of Qiuxian County", the record of Zhuo Bishan was added. "The surname of the inhabitants of the mountain is Song, the native yun: this dragon once married the daughter of the Song clan as a lady. The words are eloquent, and the news is widely heard. After this, the "Rural Chronicle of Qiuxian County" also wrote that the Dragon King Temple was built in the fourth year of Song Qingyuan (1198), and the ancient stele of the past was also reproduced, and the stele read "Lingji Dragon King Temple". Moreover, the Song women married by the Dragon King also had statues enshrined. The more recent the historical record, the more details there are. After the Dragon King Temple was built, the folklore about the "Dragon King" was also more colorful. This is not only a kind of reverence for heaven and earth in the old era, but more importantly, the common people who rely on the sky to eat in the agricultural era have the desire for smooth wind and rain.
The mountain road next to the Dragon King Temple
Although it is only separated by a low mountain beam, compared with the Nanxi Ditch where Yiba Village is located, the Dragon King Ditch under Zhuobi Mountain is obviously full of water. The Nanxi Ditch, which originates from the Lijia Mountains, and the Weixi Ditch further south, are seasonal rivers, and most of the time there is no flowing water at the bottom of the ditch, and only the rainy season will cause the mountains and rivers to rise sharply. The source of the Dragon King Ditch comes from Zhuobi Mountain, listening to the sound of babbling water, all the way north, and back to the banks of the Han River.
Zhuo Bi mountain overlooks the Dragon King Ditch in the distance
Author: Tian Jin
Source: Chingtien y