Liu Zongyuan (773 -8 19), a native of Xiezhou Town, Yuncheng, Shanxi Province, is the grandson of Liu Qing, the seventh Duke of Yin Ji in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and is known as Liu Hedong. A famous writer, thinker and politician in the Tang Dynasty, once launched the ancient prose movement with Han Yu, one of the "Eight Masters in the Tang and Song Dynasties", and was called "Liu Han" in the world, "Liu Liu" with Liu Yuxi, and "Wang Meng" with Wang Wei, Meng Haoran and Wei.
Eight Records of Yongzhou
1, Travel Notes of Xishan Banquet
In the fourth year of Tang Yuanhe (AD 809), Liu Zongyuan lived in Huokeji, Dongshan in the city. Yes, this river is Xishan. After Liu Zongyuan's visit to Jiang, he wrote the travel notes of "The Beginning of the Western Mountain Banquet". Xishan refers to the hilly area on the west bank of Xiaoshui, starting from Chaoyangyan in the south and connecting Huangmaoling in the north, which is now Niangziling.
2. Cobalt pool
The Story of Coburn Lake was written a few days after visiting the Western Hills. Kemu Lake is located in the northwest of Yuxi City on the right side of Liuzi Temple, Hexi Liu Zi Street, Lingling District, Yongzhou City. In ancient times, the iron was called cobham, and the bottom of the riverbed of cobham Lake was full of natural stones, which sank deeply and the pool surface was like an ancient iron, hence the name.
3. The Western Hills of Cobain Lake
The West Hill of Coburn Lake was written eight days after visiting the West Hill. Xiqiaoqiu, under the road from Liu Zi Street to Yongzhou People's Hospital, next to Yuxi. This is already a residential building, and there are bamboo forests by the stream. Under the bamboo bushes, many stone heads push each other like teeth and are reflected in the water, which is what Liu Zongyuan refers to as "if cattle and horses drink in the stream".
4. Story of Xiaoshitang (full name: to Xiaoshitang in Xiaoqiu West)
Xiaoshitang, next to Yuxi, the water level has risen after the construction of hydropower station in the lower reaches. Although it is clear, the former site has been submerged. We can find Xiaoshitang according to Liu Zongyuan's One Hundred and Twenty Steps from Shanxi. In 2002, in order to protect the cultural heritage, Yongzhou City blew up the dam and restored the original appearance of Xiaoshitang.
5. Yuan Jia's thirst
It is about Wuhuali from the south gate of Yongzhou, and there is a Shagouwan village opposite Nanjindu. There is a "shallow pond" in front of the village, and the aquatic plants are heavy. Guandaozhou is the largest, about 100 meters long and 27 meters wide. There is a grotesque stone island next to it. Yuan Jiake in Liu Zongyuan's article (homophonic with hè and Brown) is here.
6. Shiquji
Shi Qu Ji was written in the seventh year of Yuanhe (AD 8 12). After Yuan Jia was thirsty, there was a stream about half a mile away from Yuan Jia's thirst. There is a stone arch bridge not far from Xikou, and under the bridge is the farmer's laundry. Liu Zongyuan wrote that "going west again, falling under a stone and falling into a small pond in the north" was the former site of the stone canal.
7. discipline
Starting from the stone canal by the Xiaoshui River, I walked for a mile, climbed a dirt mountain, and arrived at Yang's home on the edge of the top. There is a stream in the north of the village, which flows through the village from the middle of the field hole in front of the village, crosses the stone arch bridge and enters Xiaoshui. This is what Liu Zongyuan called "stone flow".
8. The story of Koishiyama
The story of Xiaoyan Mountain was written in the 9th year of Yuanhe (AD 8 14). This is the last of the eight records. Xiaoshicheng Mountain is located in the north of Yuxi, Yongzhou, crossing Dongfeng Bridge to Chaoyang Street, going up the mountain road to the north, and arriving at Xiaoshicheng Mountain in a mile or so. In the Ming Dynasty, an "Shan Zhi Temple" was built on the mountainside, so "Little Rock Mountain" was also called "Shan Zhi".