Lingling is a district under the jurisdiction of Yongzhou, and it is my native hometown. Fewer people know the name Lingling. In fact, the name "Lingling" is even older than Yongzhou, dating back to the Qin and Han Dynasties. Qin Shihuang implemented the county system, starting from Lingling County, but not the current jurisdiction. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty named Liu Xian, the son of Changsha Wang Liufa, as the marquis of Quanling, whose jurisdiction is now Lingling, so Lingling was also called Quanling in ancient times.
Lingling has a long history and beautiful scenery. It is an ancient historical and cultural city. Ouyang Xiu once wrote a poem "Lingling Fu":
Painting used to know Lingling county, but today I know that painting is not as good as painting. The battlements are on the Xiao water, and there are more mountains and rivers. The inn is as quiet as a fish, and the rocks are empty and bright for reading. Want to buy three acres of land in Yuxi, hand-picked Mao Dong actually moved.
It can be seen that Lingling has beautiful scenery and excellent scenery. It is a good place for reading, fishing and living.
Xiaoshuihe
Lingling is located in the upper reaches of Xiangjiang River, where Xiangshui meets Xiaoshui. Xiaoshui flows through Lingling from north to south and flows into Xiangjiang River on Pingdao Island. "Notes on Water Classics Xiang Shui" says: "Clear water is deep if you have no intention." This river is beautiful and elegant, and the water is clear and green. She has been flowing for thousands of years, witnessed the rise and fall of Lingling and raised generation after generation.
I have seen water in some places. Although they are famous far and near, they can't compare with the river beside me. Qinhuai River is too dusty, West Lake is too commercialized and Lijiang River is too lively. Only this small river is natural, simple, quiet, beautiful, leisurely, shallow and leisurely. There is no laughter from tourists, no industrial pollution, only her own pulse is flowing. She is like a virgin, walking through the depths of history, quietly flowing in the noisy world, giving impetuous people a pure land.
It was on this river that Liu Zongyuan, wearing a hat and hemp fiber, fished alone in the silence of heavy snow and the disappearance of birds and animals, and completed his spiritual salvation. The song "Jiang Xue" left by him is well-known, and his lofty and transcendental thought of getting rid of worldly things is highly praised by intellectuals in past dynasties.
It is also on this river that Liu Zongyuan immersed himself in the mountains and rivers and used this clear river to resolve his loneliness and anger of political frustration. He wrote The Fisherman:
The fisherman rests on the western hills at night, learns the clear water in the morning, and cooks for firewood. The sun disappears like a cloud, and the sound of sculls comes from green mountains and green waters. Looking back, the fishing boat has drifted below the horizon, and white clouds are floating in the mountains, chasing each other.
The people of Sri Lanka have passed away, but the mountains and rivers are still charming. The master's feelings and talents have been integrated into this landscape and have been admired for thousands of years. No wonder Lu You praised Xiaoxiang: "If you spend a lot of money, you will get Yamanosuke. If you don't reach Xiaoxiang, there will be no poetry. "
Xiakedu
There is a Xiake Ferry to the west of Xiaoshui, formerly called Huangye Valley Ferry. Because Xu Xiake, a geographer in the Ming Dynasty, once passed through here, in memory of him, it was renamed Xiakedu. Xiakedu is one of the five ancient crossings in Lingling ancient city.
In the past, people traveled between the east and the west, waiting for the ferry here. When I was studying, there was a ferry between the two sides, which was pulled by a diesel engine. Once they start, they make a lot of noise. The fare was only 20 cents, which was later increased to 50 cents.
Time goes on, and the transition from here must be a small garbage by hand. So later, I read Mr. Shen Congwen's "Border Town" and read the words of two grandchildren who pulled the ferry to send people across the river, and the scene of Xiake crossing the ferry clearly emerged in my mind.
Now, the ferry has disappeared, and a beautiful and strong pontoon bridge has been built on the river, which not only connects the two cities, but also becomes a scene of the ancient city. Especially at night, the lights are bright and sparkling, and people come and go on the bridge, which is very lively.
In fact, as early as the Yuan Dynasty, in order to facilitate people on both sides of the strait to cross the river, a pontoon bridge called Zhengping Bridge was built here. The name of the bridge has a profound meaning, taking the meaning of "a gentleman is equal to his politics" from the ancient sages.
Xiake are all paved with large bluestones and arched stone gates. I always suspected that this was the city gate. Every time I go here, I will feel a heavy sense of history. Now it has become a place for punching cards in online celebrities, and taking pictures here is particularly artistic.
Liu Zi Street and Yuxi.
From Xiake to the stairs, you come to Liu Zi Street. It is also paved with bluestone, and both sides of the street are paved with wooden boards, which is antique. Every time I walk through this street, Zheng Chouyu's "mistake" always comes back to my ears:
I walked across the south of the Yangtze River/in the season, I looked like lotus flowers falling/the east wind didn't come, the catkins in March didn't fly/your heart was like a small lonely city/the street was like bluestone/the spring curtain in March was silent/your heart was a small window/my horseshoe was a beautiful mistake/I was not a passer-by. ...
How many hooves have you heard on this post road paved with ancient bluestones? How many passers-by have come and gone? Who is whose dream lover? How many times did you fall in the middle of the season? Everything is unknown, and everything is lost in the dust of history.
A little further, it's Liuzi Temple. Of course, it was built in memory of Liu Zongyuan. After Liu was relegated to Yongzhou, he first lived in Foucault and later moved to Xishan-this is the place. Here, he wrote the famous Eight Chapters of Yongzhou and Preface of Yuxi Poetry.
The steps in front of Liuzi Temple come down, which is Yuxi.
It's Yuxi of Liu Zongyuan.
The stream is crystal clear, with lush vegetation and rugged rocks on both sides. Liu said it was "steep and rocky" and "quiet and shallow", but it was "good at learning all kinds of things, clear and beautiful, clear and clear." Thousands of years have passed, it is still Yuxi written by Liu, retaining its original style and features, and it can also be "a fool laughs and admires, but is happy."
In the past two years, a large-scale overhaul has been carried out on both sides of Yuxi, and an "ancient city" has been artificially built, all of which are antique buildings with high cornices. At night, the lights are bright and the voices are noisy. People of all colors wear ancient costumes and shuttle through the city, posing for photos. There are also Caotang music, Wang Pan Festival Dance and so on. , deafening, really lively.
But I think this strong commercial atmosphere masks the beauty of Yuxi.
Shuijing lane
To the east of Xiaoshui, Linjiang is the west gate. There are many alleys around the west gate, and most of the "Nine Wells and Eighteen Alleys" in the old Lingling are concentrated here.
One of the most famous is Crystal Lane. Crystal Lane is an old east-west alley. The buildings on both sides of the alley are mostly brick and wood structures, mottled walls and decayed wooden doors, giving people a sense of vicissitudes. There is a family with a pair of couplets written by Xiao Zhuan hanging on both sides of the heavy wooden door: "Poems and books are handed down from family to family, and there are people in ancient wells", which is full of ancient meaning.
As long as you walk into the hutong a little, you will see a famous ancient well. Its name is Quanquan. Further down the alley, there is an ancient well named Ai Shi. Before there was running water, the surrounding residents drew well water from these two wells for washing clothes and vegetables, cooking rice and making mud. Clear and sweet well water nourishes smart and simple people and cultivates simple and simple folk customs.
In an ancient house next to Chunquan Well, it specializes in making salted duck in Crystal Lane, and its registered trademark is "Chunquan Brand". The salted duck in Crystal Lane is the favorite of Yongzhou people because of its exquisite materials, spicy and delicious flavor.
Walking into Crystal Lane, I stepped into the fiery life of Old Lingling. Narrow alleys, ancient wooden doors, stone doorframes, wind and rain eroded walls and ancient wells are all telling you that distant history.
The alley is quiet and cold, and there are few pedestrians. Occasionally, three or five old people sit around the alley and pull their beards (a card activity that Yongzhou people often play). There is a burning fire next to it, which is made of wood. The smell of burning trees gives people a sense of leisure and peace of mind. In the alley, Tao Yuanming wrote that "dogs bark in the deep alley and chickens crow on the top of mulberry trees", but outside the alley, there are bustling crowds coming and going.
Dongshan
A few hundred meters to the east from Daximen is Dongshan.
Yang Wanli has a poem "Love Dongshan Mountain when it is sunny and snowy, and soft red light rushes to Yinshan Mountain". In the poem, Dongshan is this Dongshan. Dongshan, also known as the high mountain, is recorded in Yongzhou Fuzhi: "Fucheng is high and low, surrounded by hills, with high mountains as the most important." It is connected with the east corner of the city, hence the name Dongshan. " It can be seen that its geographical location is quite high. The ancient trees on the mountain are towering, the shade is everywhere and the natural scenery is beautiful. Walking in the meantime, the air is fresh, birds and flowers are fragrant, but I feel relaxed and happy.
Dongshan is also a place where everyone gathers. There are many cultural landscapes in the mountains, such as Confucius Temple, Wu Temple, Flame Mountain and Qingshan Temple, which are all worth seeing.
The Confucian Temple is naturally a place dedicated to Confucius in Wen Sheng. This building is grand in scale and momentum. When I walked into the temple, I felt solemn. How many literati have been influenced by Confucius' spirit of joining the WTO for thousands of years! It can be said that from ancient times to the present, intellectuals in China have more or less the shadow of Confucianism.
There are two white marble columns and two lapis lazuli columns under the eaves in front of the temple, on which are the reliefs of dragon and phoenix dances. There are plaques inscribed by Zhu on "loyalty and filial piety" and "honesty" in the hall. A scholar who can keep these two words in mind is a real scholar!
The Wu Temple is dedicated to Guan Yu, the martial saint. It's only a stone's throw from the Confucian Temple. It is also a dignified and majestic building with red walls and blue tiles and high eaves. There are four lapis lazuli dragon and phoenix pillars carved with male and female dragons in the temple. The faucet is very big, and each dragon has a big bead in its mouth. Two of the female dragons are also holding the little dragon. It looks so lifelike that it seems to fly away. Seeing these four stone pillars, I can't help sighing the greatness of ancient masons. Without any help from modern machinery, how did they carve the dragon and phoenix so vividly? How did you erect these four big stone pillars? It is hard to imagine.
Different from Wen Sheng's Confucius' "eternal model" and "virtue matches heaven and earth", Guan Yu, a military commander, is famous for his loyalty. There was a couplet in front of the statue of Guan Yunchang in the temple:
This night, did you hold a candle to avoid thinking of Han in your heart?
Huarong Road did not repay the good deeds, and there was no Cao in his eyes that day.
Praise is Guan Yunchang's loyalty and integrity.
The coexistence of Confucian temple and martial temple shows the idea that Lingling people respect literature and martial arts.
Adjacent to the Wu Temple is Hokkeji. Hokkeji, also known as Kozanji Temple, is at the top of Dongshan Mountain. The building is simple and solemn, surrounded by dense ancient trees and elegant environment. There is a bell tower and drum tower in the hall, and the sound is melodious and far-reaching. "Mountain Temple Night Bell" is one of the eight scenic spots in Yongzhou.
When Liu Zongyuan was demoted to Yongzhou, he often came to this temple to make friends. This is his spiritual home. I think the bells and drums may have comforted his lonely heart. Accompanied by melodious bells and drums, he wrote New Works of West Pavilion in Yongzhou, Poems of Building West Pavilion in North Pavilion, Preface of Poems of Drinking Night at West Pavilion in North Pavilion, etc. To express his feelings.
Green Tian 'an Temple is located behind Hockey's Hall of Heroes, where Huai Su, a famous calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty, became a monk and practiced calligraphy. Huai Su "has no paper in the nursery, and more than 10,000 bananas are planted for sowing, hence the name". According to legend, when Huai Su was studying, he wrote thousands of banana leaves in one day, and his bald pen became a grave and ink rushed into a pool. Therefore, there are historical sites such as Bizuka and Mo Chi beside the Green Temple. Today, although there are not as many as 10,000 plantains in that banana forest, the green leaves are stretched and covered with leaves. "It doesn't rain, it is still chilly", which is refreshing.
Although Huai Su is a monk, what is in the wonderful cup will make him drunk every time he drinks it. When you are drunk, you write on the wall, clothes and utensils at will. People call it a "drunken monk". Li Baiyou has a poem about Huai Su:
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My teacher was drunk, so he leaned on the rope bed and swept thousands of sheets in a short while. Wind and rain shake the rustling, falling flowers and snow. On the wall, a row of numbers as big as buckets.
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I could see it then.
Lingling is like this, and the landscape and humanities complement each other. I only remember one or two things, but there are Lingling Building, Pingzhou Academy, Xiangling Mountain and Zhoujia Courtyard that are not involved.