Now, if you take a bus to Linyi, you will see: just south of the old bus station in the county, there is a shining golden yak standing on a platform dozens of meters high. The bull's head is held high, and its open mouth seems to be emitting a deafening roar; the golden hairs stand on the top of the thick and strong neck; the whole body is strong and powerful, with prominent tendons; the powerful tail is raised back; the four legs are as strong as pillars, and they are solid and powerful. Nailed on a high platform. This sacred cow seems to be sending out the cry of the times, calling for a better future.
This is the city logo of Linyi County: the rising cow.
Yes, Linyi City is commonly known as "Wanniu City" and its ancient name was Liqiu. The entire old town of the county is like a "crouching cow". The commanding heights of Yingbin Road in the county - the office of the old county committee (commonly known as the North "Ten" Street) is the junction of the bull's head and its body. It turns out to be higher than the surrounding blocks. It was a few meters out and was leveled many times after many road constructions. Although it was left behind a lot, it was still much higher than the surrounding area.
This lying cow is said to be a sacred cow that can bring wealth and well-being. In order to prevent wandering. A long street is like a heavy martingale, tightly tied to the neck of the sacred cow, allowing him to continue to cultivate and cultivate for the people of the small town.
Although Linyi is a small town. , but has a long history of legends. The story of "Plough Hill" recorded in historical records during the Zhou Dynasty certainly shows that it has a long history, but it still exists in the large depression covered with rubble in the southeast of the small town. The ground is silently telling the frightening and lamentable legend of immortality
One of the legends: The destruction of the city when the cock crows
There is a place named Southeast of Linyi, Shandong. The place called "Crowing City" is low-lying and overgrown with weeds. Why is it called "Crowing City"? It turns out that there was an ancient city called "Crowing City" in a short time. It was flooded and destroyed and became a large depression, which was renamed "Chicken Crowing Depression". How did the Rooster Crow City be destroyed?
Legend has it that the Rooster Crow City was very prosperous before its destruction. Every day, there is an endless stream of business people, performers, market-goers, and opera singers in the city, which is really lively. However, as the economy develops, people's hearts gradually turn bad. A teenage beggar came to Cock City with a dog-beating stick. She came to the door of a house, and the hostess was baking pancakes. She said, "Sister-in-law, please give me a bite. Let's eat. I haven't had a bite of food in three days. "Who would have thought that the woman who was baking single cakes looked up and saw a gray-haired beggar, and scolded her with raised eyebrows: "You old beggar, there is food for you to eat, hurry up! "At this time, the child of that family had just finished pooping and shouted: "Mom, wipe your butt for me." "The woman cursed and picked up a piece of cake to wipe the child's buttocks and threw it aside. When the Queen Mother saw that the people in the city were so bad that she would rather wipe the child's buttocks with a cake than give alms to a poor person. , he left Cockcrow City and returned to the sky. When the Jade Emperor saw that the people in Cockcrow City were so bad, he decided to bring disaster as punishment.
Taibai Jinxing couldn't bear to bring disaster to the people here. I came up with a plan, dressed up as a foreign oil seller, and shouted along the street: "I am selling oil, one gourd is four taels, four gourds are half a catty (in ancient times it was sixteen liang per catty), come and buy oil!" "When people saw this old oil seller, he was so stupid that he couldn't even add up. It was clear that one gourd was four taels of oil, and four gourds was one pound of oil, but he said four gourds were half a pound. So people crowded forward to buy four gourds. Gourd sells a pound of oil, but he only pays half a pound of oil, and no one tells the old oil seller, leaving him to do a loss-making business.
There was a family named Lu living in the city. There were only three people. A woman lived with a son and a daughter. She was loyal and sincere to others. She couldn't bear to let outsiders suffer, so she just bought a bottle of oil and said: "Old man, you made a miscalculation. The four gourds are not half a catty, but one catty of oil. If you sell them like this, you will lose your capital.
"
When Taibai Jinxing saw that this woman was the only one who was honest and kind in the whole city, he sighed at the sinister nature of people's hearts. He took out a small paper boat from his pocket and gave it to her and said: I It's the Taibai Venus. You should keep this paper boat with you. You can take it out in times of crisis to keep you safe. Then he told her, "The flowers on the shoulder pole are blooming, the lion's eyes are red, and the rooster is gone." At that time, if you have a kind heart, you will only save the bees and ants. "After saying that, she disappeared in a blink of an eye. Sister Lu knew that this was the enlightenment of the immortal, and she quickly knelt down and kowtowed. She really couldn't bear to let the whole city suffer, so she told people about it. But the impetuous people didn't believe it, and some People also laughed at her for talking in her sleep in broad daylight.
On September 9th of this year, the city was very lively, and people from all over the country flocked to the city to sell paper flowers. The old man was carrying a pole on his shoulders, with two bundles of hay tied at both ends. The hay was covered with red and green paper flowers. As soon as he entered the city, he shouted at the top of his lungs: "Selling flowers, selling flowers!" Come and buy it, it's too late. "He shouted as he walked towards the Earth Temple in the north of the city. At this time, his actions had already responded to the sentence "The poles are blooming", but the poor people didn't care.
At the entrance of the Earth Temple There was a pair of stone lions. Around noon, another persimmon seller came. People who had been playing for a long time were tired and thirsty. When they saw the sweet and big persimmons, they all rushed to buy them. One of them was a lazy man and wolfed them down. Persimmon, I put the persimmon skin on the stone lion's eyes, which happened to fulfill the saying "the lion's eyes are red".
It happened that Mrs. Lu also came with her two children at this time. Going to the market. She saw the old man selling paper flowers at a glance, and then turned around and saw the red-eyed stone lion. She knew that a disaster was about to happen, and she quickly ran out of the city with her children, shouting: Run for your life. , disaster was coming. At this time, people laughed at her and said she was crazy.
Just after Sister Lu escaped from the market with her children, a strong wind came, dark clouds covered the sky, and the city was dark. I couldn't see my fingers, then thunder tore through the sky, and heavy rain poured down like a burst of Tianhe. As Mrs. Lu and her children ran, they saw the water rising behind them and the waves surging. At this time, she remembered the small paper sent by the gods. She had been carrying the boat with her, so she took out the paper boat and it turned into a real boat in an instant. Mrs. Lu led the child on to the boat, and the whole family floated along with it. After saving many bees and ants, we finally reached the shore after the heavy rain and the fog cleared. After Mrs. Lu took her children ashore, she looked back and saw that the city had sunk into the water, and there was only a vast depression behind her. They were the only ones in the city who survived, and later the depression was renamed "Chicken Crying Depression"
Later, Sister Lu's son was secretly helped by Beezi and Ant when he was an examiner. , miraculously passed high school smoothly. From then on, the family lived a happy life
Legend 2: The Changes of Liqiu
There is a mound in the southeast of Linyi City, which is said to be King Mu of Zhou. Inspired by his mother Danzhu's teaching that "it's good to roam", he traveled here in eight horses, drank horses in Luoshui, and read in Liqiu. Later, he was named "Mu Tianzi Reading Station" according to "The Biography of Emperor Mu". "Ji Dong Jia Xu, the emperor traveled eastward and studied in Liqiu"
King Zhou Cheng destroyed Pu Gu's family and granted Jiang Ziya the title of Qi State. Qi doctor Xi Peng plowed fields and gathered food here. It is called Liqiu, and Xing Dong's poem "Liqiu" says: "Liqiu is a town that has been passed down from generation to generation, and the name Liqiu is ancient. A piece of Mu is full of autumn, and the clouds are in love with the cup of soil." In the past, where Emperor Mu studied, today Linyi people have inherited the virtue of studying from generation to generation. Linyi City has successively built Tongren Academy, Liqiu Academy and Litai Academy since ancient times.
Litai Academy has been renovated and expanded many times. It has two verandas and sixteen rooms, six halberd gates, twelve dining rooms, and eighteen couplet houses. It has Dacheng Hall, Minglun Hall, and Lingxing Gate. He Jinxianmen, etc., bought a land of more than 49 acres and 6 cents, and relied on rent to support their studies. After Xing Tong resigned from office in the Ming Dynasty, he built a garden in Liqiu Land. "History of the Ming Dynasty": "The poultry house was built in the ancient Liqiu", Xing Dong wrote in a poem: "My family has a poultry house, and the house is next to the Liqiu platform. "Xing Tong concentrated on poetry, calligraphy and painting in Guli Qiutai. His calligraphy and Dong Qichang's were famous in the north and south of the Yangtze River, and they were famous throughout Jiuzhou.
In 1952, Shandong Provincial Linyi Middle School was established at the former site of Liqiu Academy. In 1956, it was renamed Shandong Province Linyi No. 1 Middle School. It is now developed into the New Century Commercial Garden residential area.
Rivers are flowing across the river and things are changing. What kind of story will this ancient town tell in its changes?
※ Part of the text in this article is quoted from "Linyi Literary and Historical Materials". I would like to express my gratitude to the author. ?
? July 22, 2018