The Twenty-eighth Story of Tian Jia An( "The Story of Tian Jia An" once had a "dragon vein" in Tian Jia An - The Roe Mound"
Author: Zhao Aili
March 8
It is the day of the second month of the lunar calendar "the dragon rises", the grass and trees sprout, all things recover, from ancient times to the present, the "dragon" in the consciousness of the Chinese, is the god that dominates all things, and Tian Jia'an was detected as a "dragon vein" in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, and Tian Jia'an is indeed a feng shui treasure land of outstanding people.
Tianjia'an is a place that is both young and ancient, saying that it is young, because it flourished and developed at the beginning of the last century, due to coal, and was officially set up in 1918, so far there is only a history of more than 100 years of development, but it is a very old place, as early as the Neolithic to the Shang Dynasty, Tianjia'an has a crowd living here, and there are pottery kiln sites.
The ancient kiln site is located in Tianjia'an Huai Shun North Road Bridge 50 meters southeast, that is, the original Xinghua Building diagonally opposite, there was originally a bridge, as well as Moso Bamboo Garden, the ancient kiln site north of the Longwanggou East Line tributary, an area of more than 10,000 square meters, since ancient times people have been called "Zhangdunzi", Zhang, is an ancient animal very similar to the deer, the pier, is the place above the ground.
"Zhangdunzi" is a place that we often passed when we were children and are very familiar with it, that is the only way to go to the Xinhua Bookstore on Guoqing Road, the kiln site is about five meters above the ground, the soil is black brown, the pottery is rich, there are red pottery, gray pottery, black pottery, sand pottery, etc., large and small utensils and shapes, and various ornaments can be seen on the utensils, the earliest pottery is the Neolithic era, after the early years of the Ming Dynasty, and continue to burn kilns here, of course, that has become history, the bridge has long been gone, the kiln site has also been flooded by commercial buildings, ancient" The roe deer pier "is gone."
When I was a child, I often went to The National Day Road, passing through here, I never thought that this place was such an ancient place, and there were still so many ancient ceramics, otherwise I would have to pick up one or two, which was a priceless treasure!
In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, during the Hongwu period, in order to ensure the continuation of the Zhu dynasty, Liu Bowen, the founding general of the Ming Dynasty, sent people to explore the "dragon vein" everywhere, and after exploration, it was found that on the south bank of the Huai River, which is now the Tianjia'an, there was indeed a "dragon vein", that is, from the Huangcheng kiln through the Dongshang kiln, and the Zhangdunzi in the Tianjia'an, to the three kilns are a "dragon vein", the Huangcheng kiln is the dragon's head, the upper kiln is the dragon's neck, the roe mound is the dragon's belly, the three kilns are the dragon's tail, and the three kilns are in the west of the current Celebrity Hotel.
In the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, in order to ensure the stability of the Jiangshan, was very afraid of the emergence of the "dragon vein" in the folk, if anyone buried the ancestral grave on the "dragon vein", the descendants would appear "True Dragon Heavenly Son", and seize the Zhu family's world, in order to cure the lurking "true dragon", Liu Bowen played Zhu Yuanzhang, and wanted to burn off the "dragon vein".
Liu Bowen ordered 72 fire kilns to be built on the dragon head (Huangcheng kiln), dragon neck (shang kiln), dragon belly (the roe mound in Tianjia'an), longwei (three kilns), etc., firing bricks, tiles, pottery, and burning the "dragon vein", so he left a number of fire kiln sites in Tianjia'an, of course, this is a legend, but according to research, these are indeed ancient kiln sites, and this just shows that Huainan is indeed a feng shui treasure land.
Dragon, is the legendary god, non-human can compare, since the ancient Yellow Emperor, it is rooted in the consciousness of every Chinese, the dragon is a symbol of power, honor, majesty, thousands of years of feudal society, the dragon has been dedicated to the royal family, the emperor is the "true dragon Tianzi", as well as "Dragon Yan, Dragon Court, Dragon Robe, Dragon Chair, Dragon Dragon, Dragon Son, Dragon Sun ...", it also represents success and luck, but also metaphorically extraordinary, outstanding, dragon is the spirit of the Chinese nation, Huainan many places in the place name with the word "dragon", That is the "dragon" traces left behind by the ancient Dahuainan, and it can also be seen through the name, such as Jiulonggang, Longwanggou (from the Dragon King Temple on the original Huai River), Longhu Park, the old dragon's eye (that is, longquan) ,...... "dragon" is really closely connected with Huainan, may this "dragon vein" in Tianjia Nunnery always lead the people of Huainan to take off, bless you – the beautiful Dahuainan!