In the past, Guizhou (called Hulu City during the Three Kingdoms period)
When you arrive in Guizhou, you should feel like going home. But I don't, never have.
Leaving Guizhou, there should be some sadness. But I didn't, I just felt heavy and psychologically pressured. I don’t know Qu Yuan’s state of mind when he left his hometown, and I don’t know what his sister said when she said goodbye to him. I only know that the name of Guizhou coincides with the return of Qu Yuan’s body to his hometown by the sacred fish after his death. Of course, there is also the Dragon Boat Festival. Legendary stories of eating rice dumplings and racing dragon boats. ?
The river beach under Guizhou City?
Oh, Guizhou City is both close and far away from me!
Over time, Guizhou and I have a psychological "knot". With the launch of the Three Gorges Project, the construction of a new city in Zigui County and the relocation of residents from the old city, Guizhou has been emptied of people. Walking in the dilapidated streets during the day and listening to the river waves flowing through the ages in the evening, I tried to have a conversation with Guizhou: with my eyes and my heart.
Kowloon rushing to the river (Photo by He Huaiqiang)
I asked: Don’t you feel lonely when people are gone and the buildings are empty?
Guizhou City remained silent. "Nine dragons running across the river" under my feet are the pillars, but they are playing with the waves of the river and splashing on me. Suddenly I smiled knowingly, and Jier laughed loudly. This laughter was transmitted to Jiang Tao, and Jiang Tao hugged Guizhou Chenggen and said goodbye!
Climbing up the river bank, I walked into the dilapidated Guizhou City again. God seemed to lament the vicissitudes of the world and the loneliness of the ancient city, and cried silently. Tears have wet the seedlings, the houses, the mountains and rivers of the Xiajiang River, and the yellowed history books...
"The Classic of Mountains and Seas" about "The minister of Emperor Qi of the Xia Dynasty was called Meng Tu, and the Secretary The legend "God Yu Ba" helps us understand that the Zigui area, located in the Xiangxi River Valley in western Hubei, was originally the activity area of ??the early Ba people. Later, after the Ba people formed the Linjunba Kingdom in the Qingjiang River Basin, the Zigui area formed a relative gap area due to the departure of most of the Ba people. Around the middle and late Shang Dynasty, a group of returnees from the Central Plains who had become homeless due to rebellion came to visit, and a "returnee" appeared here. "Hanshu Geography" says: "Zigui means returning to the hometown, so it means returning to the country." The second volume of Guo Moruo's "Manuscripts of Chinese History" believes that Wu Ding's "Fighting to Guibai (Uncle)" in the Yinxu oracle bone inscriptions refers to the ancient return to the country in "Zigui, Hubei today". Gui and Kui have the same pronunciation, and they can be used interchangeably, and the ancestor of the Guiyi people was called "Kui". Therefore, in ancient times, Guiguo was also called "Kui Country", and Guixiang was also called "Kui Township". This is the origin of the surname "Kui Ziguo".
In the sun of Wushan, Zi returned to his hometown. ""Shui Jing Zhu·Jiang Shui" also said: "There was Xiong Zhi, a direct descendant of the ancient Chu, who lived in Kui because he was disabled and was a vassal of Chu. Son."
What's going on?
It turns out that the "Kuizi Kingdom" with the surname Gui appeared and existed until the Western Zhou Dynasty, that is, during the reign of King Hui of Zhou Dynasty. The Chu State had become increasingly powerful and could not tolerate Guiguo with a different surname existing nearby. So Xiong Yan, the king of Chu, granted the title of his elder brother Xiong Zhi's son to the land of Gui, replacing the king of Gui whose surname was "Kuizi". However, since most of the local people are Guiyi people, the name of their ancestor "Kui" is still used as the country's name.
In fact, the earliest names of Zigui were "Guixiang" and "Guicheng". Guizhou was the later name, and the current name Zigui is related to Qu Yuan. "Shui Jing Zhu·Jiang Shui" said: "Zigui County, the geographical annals say: Guizi country. Yuan Song said: Qu Yuan's wise sister, after hearing that Qu Yuan was exiled, also came back, implying that he would be lenient. The villagers hope that he will follow him. , because it is called Zigui." As for Fengjie being called Kuizhou and Kuifu, that was a matter of the Tang Dynasty. Kuizhou was established in the Tang Dynasty, and the state government was in Fengjie.
Consulting ancient books is a tiring job. The smoke of history shrouds Guizhou. Can I, a late visitor, still be able to see the influential figures of all dynasties through the smoke of war? There are only two people who can be read alive in the history books, one is Qu Yuan and the other is Zhaojun Wang Qiang. Staring at Guizhou, no matter how he asked questions, Guizhou always remained silent.
Silence is golden. After repeatedly looking through the antiques, the appearance of Guizhou finally became clear:
Zigui, the land of Wu County in the Qin Dynasty, was established in Zigui County in the Han Dynasty. In the Northern Zhou Dynasty, it was renamed Changning County. In the Sui Dynasty, it was renamed Zigui County. In the Tang Dynasty, Guizhou was established and Zigui County was governed. Xun changed the state to Badong County and renamed it Guizhou. In the Song Dynasty, it was called Guizhou Badong County; at the end of the Song Dynasty, Yuan soldiers arrived in the north of the Yangtze River and moved the county to Qutuo in the south of the Yangtze River, then to Xintan and then to Baisha Nanpu. In the Yuan Dynasty, it was called Guizhou Road, and it was later demoted to a prefecture. In the Ming Dynasty, the prefecture was abolished and restored. During the Jiajing period, the prefecture was moved to the old administration of Jiangbei (now the seat of Zigui County), and Zigui County was transferred to the prefecture. It belongs to Yichang Prefecture in the Qing Dynasty. In the Republic of China, the state was changed to Zigui County, which belongs to Jingyi Road...
Now, Zigui County has been moved eastward to Maoping in the south of the Yangtze River due to the Three Gorges Project. The ancient city of Guizhou will sink to the bottom of the reservoir in the near future. Our eyes faded.
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The blasted old city of Guizhou
Oh, the city cannot last forever, Jiang Tao cannot stay for a long time, and people cannot live forever... Guizhou is no longer there, and Chu State is no longer there. , but Quyuan Temple is still there, and the Xiajiang River still flows year after year, month by month, and day by day!
In the wind and rain, I hope you can always enter my dreamland...
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