Chapter 1456 Baigong Temple
"If you are interested, you can experience the fun of archaeological excavation under the guidance of our team members." Professor Li is really transparent, and of course he knows about the foundation's big financiers. To have a good relationship.
"Is it okay?" Lin Wanqiu was pleasantly surprised. She had handled many things, as far back as the early Shang Dynasty, but they had never come from the scene.
"Let's not disturb the work of the work team too much." Zhou Zhi said: "So it's better to work in groups of two."
Everyone was happy when this was said, Sima Zhao Zhixin is known to everyone on the road.
Under the guidance of the archaeological team, Zhou Zhi and Jiang Shuyi took photos at the excavation site in Gaojia Town to record the location and state of the stone tools when they were unearthed. Then they cleaned up the surrounding soil and unearthed a gravel "pointed tool" ".
Then Zhou Zhi began to have wild imaginations. The Yellow Emperor's ability to defeat Chi You, apart from those weird legends, could it be related to this?
The stone tools used in the lower reaches of the river are mostly gravel and sandstone, while the stone tools used in the middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River are mostly agate, gravel, and quartz. In terms of the hardness of weapons, it seems that the Yellow Emperor has an advantage over Chi You.
The difference in weapons generation is often the key to military victory, isn't it?
Leaving Fengdu, the next stop is Zhong County.
Zhongxian County was named Zhongzhou in ancient times. God seems to be particularly fond of this place. In this small county, there are many famous people in history.
The first one is Ba Manzi, a general of Ba during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. When there was civil strife in Ba, King Ba asked Chu to send troops to help quell the civil strife, and promised three cities as reward.
After Chu helped Ba to quell the civil strife, he sent envoys to Ba to ask for the city's promise. Ba Manzi believed that the country could not be divided. As a minister, he could not secede the city privately. However, failure to fulfill his promise would be dishonest, and cutting off the country would be disloyal. Ba Manzi said, "Give me my head to thank him. The city cannot be taken." So he cut his own throat to serve as an envoy of Chu.
The story of Ba Manzi leaving the city with his head and being both loyal and trustworthy has been widely praised in history and established the characteristics of this county.
After that, there were Yan Yan, Gan Ning, and Wen Li, a loyal and honest official of the Western Jin Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, the city of Nanjing was destroyed, and more than two hundred officials surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. However, Gao Zhuo, the minister of the Ministry of punishment, committed suicide.
The most famous one is the only heroine in Chinese history who is recorded in the official biographies of generals instead of the biographies of martyrs, and the only female general Qin Liangyu who was awarded a title based on her military exploits.
There are countless other modern and contemporary celebrities, as well as countless places of interest.
When traveling through the so-called Three Gorges, boats usually only dock at Shibaozhai downstream, and then let tourists go ashore to visit Shibaozhai, but Zhongxian County does not stop there.
But there is also a good place in Zhongxian County that most people who visit the Three Gorges cannot visit, and that is Baigong Temple.
In 818 AD, Bai Juyi was demoted to be the governor of Zhongzhou. During his tenure in Zhongzhou, Bai Juyi cared about the people and led the people of Zhongzhou to open mountains and build roads, plant trees and flowers, and share the joys and sorrows with the people.
During his tenure in Chungju, he wrote more than 100 masterpieces that were very influential at that time and later generations.
Zhongzhou people called him the Four Sages together with Liu Yan, Lu Zhi and Li Jifu. In the Song Dynasty, they built the Four Sages Pavilion as a commemoration.
In the third year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, Ma Yicong, the magistrate of Zhongzhou, knew that Bai Juyi was loved by the people when he was an official in Zhongzhou, so he proposed to build a separate temple to offer sacrifices. It has three couplets in the Chengtang Hall and two pavilions in the Zuiyin Pavilion." It is hoped that "gentlemen in the future will expand it and grow together with the Bashan Shu River."
As he wished, this place underwent an expansion in the early Qing Dynasty, and a second expansion in the 10th year of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty. The expanded Baigong Temple finally reached a considerable scale.
With Zhou Zhi as a tour guide, it is very interesting to visit Baigong Temple. Zhou Zhi knows a lot about the allusions here, and the explanation is very rich.
Baigong Temple is divided into two levels of terraces, built near the river and mountains, and is magnificent.
Wander up the large stone staircase more than two feet in front of the door. On the left are towering trees and on the right are towering stacks. After climbing the stairs, you will arrive at the gate of Baigong Temple.
The gate is an archway with four pillars and three bays on the third floor. It has blue and green glazed tiles on the top and bright yellow walls on the bottom. It is very special. The three characters "Baigong Temple" are written horizontally on the plaque, and the door couplet is also very special. It is different from the ordinary inscriptions, but it is in raised characters: "The legacy of the mountains and rivers is praised by the people of the mountains and rivers, and the great poet is admired by hundreds of generations."
"The word "great poet" has been overused in modern times." Zhou Zhi planned to test his friends: "But in ancient times, this title was not very popular. Bai Juyi's nickname Does anyone know what it is? ”
"Poetry Demon, I learned it in high school." Fang Wenyu said.
Except for Li Laosan, everyone nodded to show that they remembered.
Zhou Zhi shook his head and said: "The Poet Demon's statement comes from a sentence in one of his own poems: Drunk madness also caused the Poet Demon to become angry, and he chanted sadly to the west at noon."
"But actually he also has a nickname, called 'Poetry King'."
"Where did this nickname come from? Does he dare to call himself one?" Zhang Lu asked.
"Of course I don't dare. This nickname should have come from the island country."
"Island country? Bai Juyi's poems are still spread to the island country?"
"Of course. "Zhou Zhi said: "Not only has it spread to the island country, because 'Le Tian Ti' is straightforward and easy to understand, It is especially respected by the literati of the island country who are not very advanced in Sinology. Since Wang Changling can be named the "Qi Jue Emperor", it is not surprising that Bai Juyi was named the king. "
As soon as you enter the gatehouse, turn right and you will see the Baiyuan. The couplets also have the embossed character "The floating clouds are not related to the name Juyi, but the word is Lotte, created by heaven."
“This couplet is very well written.” Lin Wanqiu said: “Bai Juyi’s characters and nicknames are embedded in it.”
"Well, this is the cultural level of China's Tang Dynasty. An emperor's literary talent is so great."
"Emperor? Is this written by the emperor?" Li Laosan was shocked.
"Of course it's not the word." Zhou Zhi said: "But this is a sentence taken from the elegy written by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty to Bai Juyi."
After finishing speaking, he recited: "Zhuyu In the fiftieth year of Lianzhu, who taught Ming Lu to write poems and immortals? Lotte. The boy recited the song of Everlasting Sorrow, and Hu'er was able to sing the pipa piece. , Bai Juyi really compared himself to the emperor as a poet."
"I would say that the emperor of the Tang Dynasty was quite enlightened." Wei Fei said: ""Song of Everlasting Sorrow" didn't say anything good about the Tang royal family, right? First he indulged in drinking, sex and music and ignored the government affairs, and then he was driven to us by An Lushan's rebellion. In Shuzhong, where will I be under house arrest when I return to Chang'an..."
"There are many autumn grasses in the south of the West Palace, and the fallen leaves are full of red leaves." Zhang Lu added to Wei Fei.
"That's right! Later on, I started to believe in gods and ghosts." Wei Fei clapped his hands: "Then Tang Xuanzong was still proud of the domestic 'boys interpreting the song of everlasting regret'. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, Lao Bai No matter how many heads a family has, it’s not enough to lose them!”
“Just kidding, Xuanzong is known as the most brilliant emperor in the late Tang Dynasty, and is known as the ‘Little Taizong’.”
< br>"It's a pity that in the eighth year of Dazhong, Xuanzong conspired with Linghu Gui to remove the eunuchs. As a result, the secret was leaked and the matter was not done. Instead, the conflict between the Nanya and the North Division intensified. In the end, he died from long-term use of elixirs. Too early. If he had lived a few more years, he might not have had the bad things that happened when the eunuchs in the late Tang Dynasty controlled the government. "
(End of this chapter)