Wang Yao, whose real name is Wutai Mountain, is located at 1.5 km east of Yaoxian County. It is said to be the secluded place of Sun Simiao, the drug king. In order to commemorate his superb medical skills and noble medical ethics, people changed Wutai Mountain to Wang Yaoshan. (It was called "Jade Mountain in Qing Dynasty" in Tang Dynasty, and Wutai Mountain in Song, Jin and Ming Dynasties. ) The altitude of Wang Yao is 1 100 meters, which is composed of five small peaks at the top of the mountain, such as platforms, which are high and without danger. The Wutai Mountain Records compiled by Qiao Shining at the end of the Ming Dynasty contains: "Wutai Mountain has its own proper names, namely Ruiying Mountain in the east, Yuntai Mountain in the south, Xiantai Mountain in the west, Huaxian Mountain in the north, Tiantai Mountain in the middle, and the five mountains are opposite, and the top is like a platform." Until some stone tablets in the Qing Dynasty, this mountain was still called Wutai Mountain, and the name of Wang Yaoshan should be circulated among the people.
Sun Simiao and Yaowangshan
Wutai Mountain, also known as Wang Yaoshan, is closely related to Sun Simiao, a great physician in the late Sui and early Tang Dynasties. Sun Simiao, a native of Jingzhao Huayuan (now Yaoxian), was sickly since childhood. At the age of eighteen, he decided to study medicine and became proficient in medical skills. The court summoned him many times, but he refused to resign, so he lived in seclusion among the people to relieve the people's suffering. He also dabbled in hundreds of classics and history, and had a deep study of Taoism. He summed up his medical knowledge and experience before the Tang Dynasty and wrote two books, Qian Jin Fang and Qian Jin Fang Yi. According to Wutai Mountain Records, Sun Simiao once lived in seclusion in Hua Sendai (commonly known as Taixuan Cave) on Wutai Mountain. After his death, people built temples and monuments to commemorate him with infinite respect. Since the Song and Jin Dynasties, the rulers have praised Sun Simiao for many times as a "real person with wonderful response" and called his shrine an "elite hall". In the sixth year of Qin Long, Mu Zong, Ming Taizu, carved Sun Simiao's medical books on five stones and put them on the mountain. Probably from then on, people sought medical advice, copied their prescriptions, and regarded Sun Simiao as the king of medicine. Wutai Mountain is also known as Medicine king of the hill. According to folklore, Emperor Taizong cured the queen's illness by revealing the imperial list and praised him as the "King of Medicine", hence the name of "King of Medicine".
Every year on the second day of the second lunar month, there is a grand temple fair dedicated to Sun Simiao on the mountain, and the Wang Yaodian on the mountain is also cleaned and filled with lanterns. People from all directions nearby helped the old and brought the young, came to worship the King of Medicine, brought offerings of incense sticks and posted couplets. Some people draw lots to ask questions, some seek medical treatment, some make wishes to thank God, some pray for the safety of their families, and some come to worship God in the mountains. The temple fair lasts for ten days, during which there are six days of opera singing, and on the last night of February 1 1, there is also an all-night performance of "Dawn Play". According to legend, after the temple fair, there will always be a little rain on the 12th every year, which is called "washing Shan Yu".
Monuments of "Thousands of Pure Gold and Precious Medicine" and "Sea Fairy Prescription"
There are many stone tablets related to Sun Simiao in Wang Yao, among which the two most famous ones are the Ming-carved "Thousand-gold Treasure Medicine" and "Sea Fairy Prescription". The tablet of "Qianjinbao" extracts an important part of Sun Simiao's "Qianjinfang", and * * * has a tablet engraved on both sides of yin and yang. The tablet of "Fairy Square on the Sea" is engraved on both sides of yin and yang, and is divided into three parts. The first part is on the pillow, the second part is the book of health preservation, and the third part is the prescription of various diseases.
There is a touching legend about the origin of the stone tablet "Yao Yao is precious". In his later years, Yao Wang lived in Taixuan Cave in Wutai Mountain, and people came to see him every day. The drug king thought: After I died a hundred years ago, who will I go to see if I am sick? So he came up with a good idea. He invited a stonemason to carve all the precious secret recipes and prescriptions accumulated in his life on a big stone column, and indicate the diseases treated by each prescription. After the big stone column was carved, the drug king made people stand on Wutai Mountain. After the death of the drug king, it is as convenient for people to go to the big stone pillar on the mountain to find a prescription as when the drug king was alive. People affectionately call Dashizhu "big doctor".
The medical book "Fairy Prescription on the Sea" was handed down by the people as a gift from the Dragon King. One spring, the third prince of the Dragon King became a little white snake and was scratched by a group of children playing on the beach. Fortunately, Sun Simiao saved him and put him back into the water. To repay Sun Simiao, the Dragon King invited him to visit the Dragon Palace. All the gold, silver and jewels that the Dragon King gave Sun Simiao declined. Just as the Dragon King was in a dilemma and didn't know what to give him, the Third Prince remembered the "Sea Fairy Workshop" hidden in the Dragon Palace and gave it to Sun Simiao at the risk of the emperor's prohibition.
Yaoxian stele forest
Eighty-three stone carvings known as "Yaoxian Forest of Steles" are displayed in the North Cave of Wangyaoshan. The collection of these stone carvings began in the late Qing Dynasty. At that time, two statues in Guangyuan Temple, which was destroyed by flash floods in the southeast corner outside the county, were exposed by the river, and the local people moved them into the small temple at the east gate of the county. In the early Qing Dynasty, Ren Shizhu, the headmaster of Yaoxian High School, found the "Master Tablet of Zhang Heshang Temple" in Xiwenjiabao County and moved it to the school. Later, he moved the statues found in the riverbed one by one. 1935, Lei Tianyi, a squire of Yaoxian County, concentrated all kinds of steles in temples around the county, together with several primary schools, in Xicang, the county, and named it "Yaoxian stele forest", which was also quite famous in the country at that time. Now all the stone tablets in the virgin forest have been moved to Wang Yao. The most precious stone carvings in this batch are "Zhang Heshang Temple Master Monument", "Yao Statue Monument" and "Statue Monument". "Yao Statue Monument" is the "Yao Boduo Statue Monument" that has been circulating all over the country for decades. It was carved in the 20th year of Wei Taihe, with a height of1.4m. Seven statues were carved on it, and six people supported it. On the right side of the monument, the words "Taoist Yao supports" are engraved, and the back and lower parts of both sides are engraved. Carving is simple and vigorous, and calligraphy is vigorous. "Zheng Guang Statue Monument" is 1 m high, and its head is broken. Judging from the remaining parts, the statues above are Buddha and monk, and there are many words on the tablet, which is a model of calligraphy in the Northern Wei Dynasty. These statues date from the Northern Wei Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, providing reliable data for studying the development of Buddhism and the changes in stone carving methods.