Chapter 59 Wangcong Temple
Chi Xueli pushed two lunch boxes over and said with a smile: "Looking at you like this, my sister feels that all the hard work has been wasted. Let's eat quickly."
Zhou Zhi looked at the clock on the wall: "Oh, it's almost twelve o'clock?"
"I just know! I told you that my sister's weekend is very precious. I've borrowed my car and you won't stop going out to play, right?!"
"Go there, you have to go there. , except for Jingcheng Confucian Temple, we haven’t played it seriously yet.”
After coming out of the guest house, there was a Toyota SUV parked downstairs. After the three of them got in the car, Chi Xueli began to wonder: "Where are we going? How about going to the zoo?"
Zhou Zhi was also thinking: "In the city There must be too many people here, and it’s not convenient for my sister... Hey, there must be a place Qingjing, if we go there, my sister can visit freely.”
“Where?”
“Pidu, Wangcong Temple”
This place. Chi Xueli didn’t even know: “What temple?”
"Wang is Emperor Wang. Sister Xue Li must know that he is Du Yu; Emperor Cong is his prime minister, Turtle Ling. Because of his merits in controlling floods, Du Yu gave him the Zen throne and is the successor of Emperor Wang."
This was the first time that Chi Xueli knew Zhou Zhi's ability in this area: "You are so good at elbows!"
"That place is not famous now." Zhou Zhi said, "It must be deserted. Sister Xueli He helped us a lot, so I’m going to be my sister’s tour guide as a reward.”
Chi Xueli smiled: “It’s funny, you’re from out of town and you’re a local tour guide!”
Yang He said. : "Sister Xue Li, I certify that I worked as a tour guide at the Jingcheng Confucian Temple. I gathered thirty or forty people to listen. I charged a tour guide fee of one yuan per person and had a hot pot meal!"
"So awesome!" Chi Xueli said in surprise: "Then go to Wangcong Temple! Make a deal first and listen to complaints if you are not satisfied!"
Even in later generations, Wangcong Temple was a relatively deserted place. , which is even more unseemly today.
It was only in 1985 that it was listed as a key cultural relic protection unit in CD City. It is not even a cultural relic protection unit in Sichuan Province. Now it can be described as desolate.
"Is this place still open for sightseeing?" Xue Li was shocked when he got off the car and said, "But it's really deserted."
"This is called authentic." Zhou Zhi said to this He was very satisfied: "Maybe we won't see this again in a few years. I'll take a good photo of Sister Chi later."
It's barely a park here, but it's surrounded by walls and requires entrance fees, so no one comes.
The fare was cheap. Chi Xueli had a press card and Zhou Zhi had a Writers Association membership card. Yang He paid 50 cents.
The three of them entered the gate. Chi Xueli couldn't hide his disappointment. He looked at Zhou Zhi and said bitterly: "If you can't talk about it today, I will leave you here and let you walk back by yourself! ”
“Haha Ha...Don't worry, sister, I won't disappoint you."
The three of them traveled together, and Zhou Zhi began to explain: "First of all, I want to ask my sister a question, who opened the Dujiangyan Baopingkou?"
"Li Bing and his son, there is the Erwang Temple there." Chi Xueli rolled his eyes at Zhou Zhi: "Do you still need to ask?"
"Since you ask, it means a trap has been set." Zhou Zhi smiled and said: "Now teach me Sister, be good and you will be able to give a more accurate answer when others ask you this question in the future - the Dujiangyan Baopingkou was first discovered by Du Yu; Turtle Ling began to guide the river to control the water from there, and was finally perfected by Li Bing As a whole, it becomes the Dujiangyan Project."
"Really?" Chi Xueli didn't believe it: "You are lying, right?"
"Why did I lie to you? "Zhou Zhi said Said: "This starts from the origin of the ancient Shu Kingdom..."
Although the ancestral hall is desolate, the architectural structure is generally there, there are more than two hundred ancient cypresses, and two hundred surrounding Rice's Otsuka.
Zhou Zhi took Chi Xueli and Yang He to visit one place after another.
“The earliest civilization of the ancient Shu Kingdom had nothing to do with the Chengdu Plain. Instead, it traced from Jiazhou along the Minjiang River to the border of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, to the Yellow River Basin connecting the Qilian Passage, and then along the Yellow River Turn to the southeast , arriving at the Loess Plateau, the core area of Chinese civilization. "
"This forms a channel that connects the Yangtze River Civilization and the Yellow River Civilization and allows ancient people to migrate and move - the Minjiang Civilization Corridor."
< br>"The ancestors of ancient Shu actually mainly lived in the areas where the Yi, Qiang, and Tibetan people are today. The clothing and appearance of those ancestors are also preserved in the clothing and appearance of the Yi and Qiang people."
"Until the Tang Dynasty, this These passages still play a role in civilization migration. In the Tang Dynasty, a group of Tubo people traveled from the upper reaches of the Minjiang River to the vicinity of Yinchuan, and eventually flourished and established a dynasty - Xixia."
This information is something that Chi Xueliang doesn't know, and it can't be found in ordinary books nowadays. It can be seen that Chi Xueliang is very interested in this, and she can't help but become fascinated by it.
"Where did the Shu people enter the Shuchuan Plain? It was from here."
"They found a passage at the foot of Yulei Mountain in the upper reaches of the Minjiang River. From there, they can The most convenient way is to enter the Sichuan Plain from the Minjiang River Basin.”
"So Du Yu took his tribe and occupied the entrance of this passage to the Shuchuan Plain. This is the origin of Pidu."
"So Yang Xiong recorded in "The Chronicles of Emperor Shu": Du Yu' was the king of Yufu, and his disciples were all in Pi, which is the city of Dujuan.'"
"Du Yu became the Queen of Shu and was called Emperor Wang. At that time, the Minjiang River flooded and flooded the western Sichuan plain. Prime Minister Bieling came from the Yangtze River Basin and had experience in water control, so Emperor Wang ordered him to control the water."
"Bie Ling Split the Yulei Mountain, cut out the mouth of the treasure bottle, dredge the water of the Minjiang River, turn floods into water conservancy, and turn the Western Sea into farmland, allowing the western Sichuan Plain to move from the fishing and hunting civilization of the Yufu era to the farming and mulberry civilization of the Wangcong era."< br>< br>"This project laid the foundation for the Dujiangyan Irrigation Project. Afterwards, Emperor Wang retired to the Western Mountains and abdicated to the emperor in Bieling, who was called Emperor Cong."
"There is a record in the county annals of Pixian County that the sacrifice of Emperor Wang was Chongde The temple' was originally located at the Erwang Temple in Guanxian County."
"The Records of the Two Emperors of Minyang" records: "After Emperor Cong died, he was buried in Pi. There was an old temple, and the ancient city went south to Guo. One mile'."
"It wasn't until the reign of Emperor Qi Ming in the Southern Dynasties that the governor Liu Jilian moved the Chongde Temple from Guankou to the Congdi Temple in Pixian County. Later, it merged with the Congdi Temple and became the 'Wangcong Temple' that jointly worshiped the two emperors." "Later, the temple was built here. There is a popular saying: 'Dragon Boat Festival worships Qu Yuan, and Minyang pays tribute to Lord Du'"
"So the ancestral halls in the world are like Han Zhao in the capital of Shu. The Lie Temple, also commonly known as the Wuhou Temple, has one main entrance, while the Wangcong Temple is dedicated to the two emperors, so it has two main entrances, the north and the south. "
"This is also the only one in southwest my country. The temple is the largest imperial tomb dedicated to the two emperors. "
In front of the two emperors' tombs are erected stone tablets of "The Mausoleum of Ancient Emperor Wang" and "The Mausoleum of Ancient Cong Emperor" respectively. The stele is more than ten feet high, and the lower part is engraved with "Xiong Kewu Li, but Mao Xin Shu".
"These two tombs are virtual tombs. They were actually built during the reign of Emperor Renzong of the Northern Song Dynasty." Zhou Zhi said: "These two steles were destroyed before, and the current two are replicas."
Continued Zhou Zhi came down and walked in front, explaining the story of the two people along the way, looking at the scenery and buildings.
The architectural style here is different from other ancestral temples. Although the original ancestral temple was built according to the plan of Yu Mausoleum on Kuaiji Mountain, because one temple worships two masters, it is divided into two gardens.
The south is Zigui Garden and the north is Lianyi Garden.
Zigui is the cuckoo, and the cuckoo is the incarnation of Du Yu;
Ripples are related to water. According to legend, the turtle spirit is a Jing people who turned into a corpse and swam upstream from the Yangtze River to Pidu.
Located near the water, there are pavilions and pavilions such as "Daosun Tower" and "Tingjuan Tower".
Each building has its own allusion. Daosun is the regenerated rice after the rice is cut, which shows that rice in Sichuan could be harvested twice a year at that time.
“Tingjuan”, Chi Xueli rushed to answer, and naturally it was the “Tingjuan” that “cuckoo sings and the blood ape moans”.
Looking at the large body of water in Wangcong Temple, the Turtle Spirit Pond, which runs from north to south, Zhou Zhi said: "Actually, I think the allusion of the cuckoo crying for blood needs to be discussed."
"What do you mean?"
"Yang He should know that the cuckoo is also called cuckoo. When it is time to cultivate in the spring..."
"It will shout 'Sleep tight'," "Get up quickly!" Yang He said.
“So ‘Wang Di’s spring heart entrusts the cuckoo’, even if it is not the poet’s original intention, but just based on the literal meaning, can there be another interpretation?”
“This is what Wang Di opened up. Farming civilization, I hope that everyone will not be lazy when it is time to sow seeds in the spring, and they will turn into cuckoos after death and continue their mission.”
"This historical turning point is very important. From then on, the Sichuan Plain has gradually turned into a fertile field thousands of miles away, a land of abundance."
"Today, Sichuan has become the country's largest grain and pig province. The important liquor and sericulture provinces were actually the solid foundation laid during the Second Emperor period. ”
After finishing speaking, he pointed to a pair of couplets on both sides of the sacrificial hall: "So later generations made this couplet, leaving a legacy of virtue for thousands of years, in pursuit of Xu Chongshen."
Chi Xueli looked at the couplet, But it is written like this -
The Kingdom of Shu was unprecedented. After the surrender of Guanchang, the land was at the beginning, and the emperor and his ministers were three generations away;
The people of Ba chase the land, and when the flowers and phoenixes come, the cuckoos sing, and there are many winds and rains in the two tombs.
There are also statues of the two emperors in the hall. The three of them went in and bowed respectfully to the two emperors.
After coming out of the palace, Zhou Zhi continued to guide Chi Xueliang: "People in Shudu love to play and are good at farming. In the late Qing Dynasty, there was a poet named Li Bingling. In view of the warlords' melee situation at that time, he wrote a poem "Taicheng Road" "
"The silkworms and cypresses were planted in the early days of the country. Friends.
Where does the soul go? There are only three paths of smoke and a few piles of dust.
The green walls and red walls attract passers-by as they come and go.
In those days, heroes competed with each other, and some monarchs and ministers yielded to farmers and farmers to control the water.
The fortunes succeeded Tang and Yu, and the great contributions were made to Yuji, and the mountains and rivers of Western Shu were consolidated forever.
Chunfeng is ancient.
Laughing at the Five Seasons and Six Dynasties, the Central Plains were divided.
Proclaiming himself emperor or king brings troubles to the world. "
"We Shuchuan people are amateurs in civil wars and desperate in foreign wars. The root of this is probably the gene cultivated by history. "
Chi Xueli smiled and said: "This is indeed a good place. It's funny that I am so close. I only learned so much today. "
Zhou Zhi said: "There is another custom here. After transplanting the rice seedlings, everyone will come here and hold a singing competition. ”
"People will throw plums at girls and their daughters-in-law. It is said that whoever suffers more will have more babies."
"Some mothers-in-law are impatient, so they specially drag their daughters-in-law to Wangcong Temple on this day. Picking plums.”
“What a pity, we can no longer see that scene.”
(End of this chapter)