Acacia is located on the Acacia River at the southern foot of Fenghuang Mountain in Tongling. It survived in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. This is a strange maple tree. It turned out to be two trees, planted on the east and west banks of the river respectively. The two trunks are connected together on the river, with a diameter of more than 3 meters and a height of about 25 meters. This ancient tree is luxuriant in branches and leaves, like a green canopy covering the river. This river is named "Acacia River" because of its trees. Looking from afar, acacia trees, different plants work together to "connect branches", like a pair of lovers hugging each other and being affectionate; Looking closely at the acacia tree, the shadow of the tree is reflected in the Qingxi, just like a mandarin duck playing in the water, which also gives people the illusion of firm love. According to legend, Feng Gongzi of Hedong and Miss Yao of Hexi studied together since childhood, and they were childhood friends. Later, due to the decline of the Feng family, although Feng Gongzi was knowledgeable and wrote well, he went to Beijing to take the exam, but there was no silver for the examiner to take the exam. Feng Gongzi became depressed because of this muddy secular road, and returned home sick. On the way, his illness suddenly increased and he died tragically by the roadside. Miss Yao was shocked to hear the bad news and brought the maid to the funeral. Seeing the tragic death of Phoenix, she was heartbroken and died beside Phoenix. When the maid saw that the young lady was dead, she immediately killed her on the stone by the roadside. Because of the feudal clan rules, unmarried Feng Gongzi and Miss Yao were buried in coffins on both sides of the Acacia River, and the maids were also buried in another coffin beside Miss Yao's grave. Over the years, a maple tree has grown on both sides of this river. It gradually leans in the middle of the river and grows into a whole, becoming today's "acacia". There is also a tree in the girl's grave, which is called "girl tree". Later, an author in Tongling specially created a TV script "The Legend of Acacia" based on this material and put it on the screen. In the process of historical changes, the local people have always regarded acacia as a symbol of love and marriage, and carefully protected it. Many young people took photos with trees as the background and vowed to grow old together.
These are just simple versions of this love story. In fact, there are more detailed and romantic stories about acacia.
A long time ago, there was a young man and a young woman who loved each other very much. Men are handsome, kind, hardworking and brave, while women are beautiful and gentle. They love each other deeply, and they often rely on each other to weave their future dreams ... They never imagined that their marriage was blocked in all directions, and the woman lived in tears from now on, and the man struggled in helpless boundless love. An old lady with white hair floated in on a night when she couldn't see her fingers and said to the couple, "There is a long-lived Ganoderma lucidum on Chigula Mountain in the distance, which is called Hope Ruyi Zhi. If you can get half of this one, you will live happily together forever. "
In order to love and live with the people he loves, the man decided to find this eternal Ganoderma lucidum no matter how far and how hard the journey is. On a night without stars and the moon, the man decided to go on his way. A woman sent away the man she loved in tears. "Don't cry, I will find this ganoderma lucidum, and then you are my real bride. I will come back, wait for me-my love. " The man choked and said. "I don't cry, I'm waiting for you to come back. It's just how hard the road ahead is. You should take care of yourself. I am waiting for you to come back and be your bride. " Women can't go on crying. The weak body looks so helpless under the night sky. The man hugged his beloved woman tightly and kissed her tearful face, because he knew in his heart that he would never come back. If he can't find this ganoderma lucidum, it means that he will never see his beloved woman again. Whether this kind of grass can be found, he doesn't know ... his eyes are opposite and his eyes are hazy. ...
Go home, the way back is too dark. I can't stand you going alone. I'll be back soon. The man walked back step by step with tears in his eyes and embarked on a journey. The sad cries of women left in the night sky echoed for a long time. The woman stood there motionless, the man's shadow gradually disappeared in the night sky, but the woman still didn't leave. After the man left, the woman waited for him at the entrance of the village every day. She blessed and prayed for him. A woman knows that a man loves him and he will come back soon. Year after year, day after day, spring comes and goes, flowers bloom and fall, but men never come back.
The woman's black hair began to turn gray and her beautiful face began to become haggard, but there was still no news of the man. The woman decided not to go home and built a hut at the entrance of the village. Women should wait for him to come back here and wait for him where they are separated. ...
Men go through hardships, go from village to village, and climb mountains and mountains. In winter, the snow froze the way forward, and men dug with their hands and moved on; In summer, the scorching sun, he also forgot to stop in a hurry for the love in his heart. The man kept walking, looking for Ganoderma lucidum. As a result of long-term walking, his shoes were torn and his feet festered. Ruthless years have carved ravines on his vicissitudes of life. This man doesn't know that he has been gone for fifty years. Finally, he couldn't walk any further. At the moment when he was about to fall down, he shed tears of despair, like a lion in a deep valley, howling at the sky, echoing in the valley and shaking the whole earth. Suddenly, a halo appeared on the top of the mountain in front of him, and his eyes lit up. It turned out that he had found the grass of hope for fifty years. He climbed to the top of the mountain rolling and crawling, and finally got the grass of hope. Suddenly, a voice sounded in his ear: "this grass is called hope." If two lovers eat it, they will live happily together forever, but this grass has no soil to raise him and can only live for three days. " If the person you love doesn't see it within three days, the grass will disappear. "
"ah! Three days! " This man suddenly fell into the abyss of despair, crying in hope, surprise and despair ... Finally, his infatuation and persistence touched the mountain god: "If you want to give the woman you love within three days, you must become a pigeon, but if there is no fate, the second you return to her, she will leave you. If there is fate, you will live happily together forever." The man said excitedly, "I do." Please turn me into a pigeon quickly. I hope to see my beloved woman one day earlier. " With that, the man turned into a white dove, with the so-called grass of hope in his mouth tightly, and flew home in a hurry. ...
And the women are still waiting at the village entrance, waiting for the man to return. Her tears stopped flowing, but her heart didn't die. At the last moment of her life, God was moved by her infatuation and persistence and decided to make an exception for her: "You spent your whole life waiting for the person you were waiting for. Do you have any wishes at the end of your life? I can satisfy you. " "He will come back, just delayed the trip on the road, or lost, can't find the way home. Let me turn into a tree and wait for him here forever to shelter him from the wind and rain. He can rest on my trunk when he is tired, and cut off my branches to keep warm when he is cold. " God satisfied the woman's request, and the woman looked up at the distance. She clearly saw a pigeon, a white pigeon, flying in this direction in a hurry, and at this moment, the woman disappeared ... a tree with lush foliage appeared, but the difference was that there were silver drops of water on each branch. Later, people said it was a woman's tears, lovesick tears.
The man turned into a pigeon and flew back after two days. When he flew to the village, he saw his beloved woman, but he was much haggard than before. He tried to fly to the woman, but the closer he got, the less he could see her face. When he flew to the woman, she disappeared, but there was a tree in front of him. Water drops fall from the leaves of this branch, like a continuous drizzle in spring. The water droplets wet the white dove, but the dove kept desperately looking for the woman she loved. Seeing that Ganoderma lucidum is about to wither, pigeons have no strength. He landed on the branch and surrounded it. Suddenly, he let out a cry. A scarlet thing fell from the tree, and a small tree grew where it fell. The pigeon stayed in the tree forever, waiting for it. And he finally didn't know that this tree was the woman he loved. He is in the arms of the person he loves ... this just confirms a legend. If a person never waits for the person he wants to wait for but never gives up, he will turn into a tree, just wait, wait, wait for a beautiful and desolate dream and spiritual salvation that will never come.
Bi Er Yucheng will write a poem tomorrow.
Days Mirror Lake is located in the north of Changjiang West Road, the main urban road. Dishan is naturally divided into East Lake, South Lake and North Lake, and the three lakes are connected by water, about 5 kilometers away from Tongguan Mountain. There is a well in the lake called patio. The lake is named after the well and the garden. The patio is a great wonder in Tianjinghu Park. Because there is spring water underground, it is about 2 meters higher than the lake all the year round. There are also two beautiful and moving legends here: one is that a thief from the celestial world went to Tongguan Mountain (the highest mountain in Tongling, but the altitude is only over 200 meters, because Tongling is a typical hilly area in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River) a long time ago to steal the treasure of Zhenshan Mountain. The boat sailed to Days Mirror Lake and was discovered by the old god guarding the mountain, so he learned to crow. In an instant, cocks in the four fields crowed one after another, and the thief looked eager to escape. Another way of saying it is that the little girl of the Dragon King in the East China Sea secretly traveled one day, avoiding the rivers and seas, taking the patio and swimming in the lake. When she saw a simple and honest fisherman, she became a beautiful conch. Caught by the fisherman, the fisherman couldn't bear to sell rice to feed his blind mother and put it in a jar. Since then, there has been a miracle at home. There is no shortage of rice in the jar, and there is firewood in the kitchen. Young people go out early and return late. One day, the fisherman suddenly came back near noon and saw a beautiful young woman doing housework, and the mystery was solved. Just as a pair of lovers were happy and loving, the Dragon King sent a dragon to look for his little daughter, saw the truth, and forced her to return to the Dragon Palace by violence. The dragon girl refused to accept it and struggled to resist. The dragon took advantage of the situation and killed people, trying to suck up the lake, dry up the seedlings and catch the dragon girl. The dragon girl turned into a huge conch, sucked seawater from the patio, and made up her mind to "not be a golden jade leaf in the fairy world, and swear to protect human life", so she died of exhaustion and turned into a snail mountain with evergreen pines and cypresses in this urban area. At the beginning of the garden, the courtyard was built around the spring, and the earth and stone were built into Zhongzhou Island (the South Island was built as a landscape). After that, Tsutenkaku was built on Zhongzhou Island, and Jing Quan was led to a small pool through Longkou, and then dropped into the lake to show the water level difference.
The park covers an area of 1.646 mu, including the lake 1.222 mu, and there are seven distinctive hills around the lake. Since the opening of 1972, the park has built more than 30 amusement places and scenic spots, such as children's playground, roller skating rink, cruise wharf, patio teahouse, Qin Yi garden promenade, waterside pavilion, zigzag bridge, crane mouth, forest of steles and peony garden. Coupled with the lighting project and the decoration of two squares, it can be said that famous mountains compete for water and new scenery compete for historical sites. Specifically, it can be divided into eight scenic spots, such as "five pines win the tour, singing at night and smelling the pestle, red scales of wooden fish and three thousand scrolls". Among them, "Wusong Shengyou" is the main attraction of the park, with the largest land area from the park gate to Nanhu Jiuqu Bridge, with Wusong Mountain in the middle. Li Bai, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, visited the house twice and lingered for a long time, and wrote, "I love the pleasure of bronze officials, and I will never return it." Want to return to the dance sleeve, destroy the five Songshan mountains. "Waiting to praise Tongling's immortal poem 1 1. When Shixian came to visit for the first time, he built a study in Wusong Mountain to live in Wusong Bookstore for recreation. Su Shi and Huang Tingjian, great poets in Song Dynasty, traveled in Wusong in the footsteps of poets, and built pavilions on the mountains to recite poems for Su Huang. Later, Li Gang, a famous official, famous poets Wang, Wang, Wang, Wang, Wang, Wang, Wang, Wang, Wang, Wang, Wang, Wang, Wang, Wang, Wang, Wang and Wang, Wang, Wang, Wang, Wang and Wang, Wang, Wang, Wang, Wang, Wang, Wang, Wang, Wang, Wang, Wang, Wang, Wang, Wang, Wang, Wang, Wang, Wang, Wang, Wang, Wang Wusong Bookstore was repeatedly destroyed and built, rebuilt in Song Dynasty and renamed Li Taibai Ancestral Temple; Rebuilt in Ming Dynasty, renamed Taibai Bookstore. Because Tianjinghu Park is poetic and fascinating, Zhang Zeng, the late famous calligrapher and former chairman of the Anhui Provincial Political Consultative Conference, splashed ink: "The willows on the bank of the embankment are thousands of miles around, and there is a lake outside the mountain. The scenery in the eyes is a picture scroll, and Tongling is not necessarily inferior to Gusu. "Days Mirror Lake is a poem like a song, which always symbolizes the optimistic attitude and romantic mood of Tongling people. I hope tian teacher can visit us in Tongling sometime:)
The three bronze cultures have a long history.
Tongling is a city with a long history of copper culture. As early as the Shang Dynasty, there was a history of casting bronze. From the bronzes unearthed today, it can be seen that the "Jue" made in the early Shang Dynasty had a high level of craftsmanship. Tongling is the hometown of eight treasures. As the saying goes, "gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, ginger, garlic and hemp". The output of copper accounts for the largest proportion in the whole non-ferrous metals. There are six large mines and two smelters in this city. The annual output of electrolytic copper is 30,000 tons, and the crude copper production capacity is 65,000-70,000 tons. Because Tongling is a place where copper is produced, the culture of Tongling is related to "copper". Tongling area has a large scale of ancient mining and metallurgy. Up to now, nearly 100 mining and metallurgy sites have been discovered. Tongling covers an area of 600 square kilometers. Its time span from Shang and Zhou Dynasties to Tang and Song Dynasties is about 2000 years. According to the analysis of specimens collected from various sites, the pottery bowls, pottery sculptures and stone arrows unearthed from Mu Yushan site in Shizishan ancient mining area have the shape characteristics of Shang and Zhou Dynasties. The pottery bowls and pieces unearthed in the "Wanyingshan Site" in Fenghuang Mountain ancient mining area have the characteristics of the Western Zhou Dynasty. The slab tiles, pipe tiles and household utensils in the "surface building site" in Tongguanshan ancient mining area are the remains of Han Dynasty. The pottery bowls unearthed in Jiaochong site and the white porcelain bowls unearthed in Hucun site have the modeling characteristics of Song Dynasty. According to archaeological investigation, it is estimated that the surface "copper smelting slag" left over from the Qin Dynasty to the Tang and Song Dynasties in Tongling area is about 6.5438+million tons. If the ratio of copper slag is 654.38+0: 654.38+05, the output of copper is about 600,000 tons. Because of this, the ancient mining in Tongling was highly valued by the court. Tongling has set up a "bronze official" since the Western Han Dynasty. Tongguan Town was established in the Eastern Han Dynasty; Qi Liang set up "Megan Leaf"; Tang set up "Yi 'an County"; The northern song dynasty set up "yongfeng prison"; By the Southern Song Dynasty, copper mining basically stopped, because all the surface mines were dug up. Megan Ye was established in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, and the "Copper Official Supervisor" was established in the Qing Dynasty.
Tongling, as a representative of ancient and modern bronze culture, is well-founded, and the Jinniu Cave, which still exists, is the most powerful witness. Jinniudong ancient mining site is a national key cultural relics protection unit and AA-level national tourist scenic spot (spot), located in Fenghuang Village, Xinqiao Township, Tongling County, 34 kilometers away from Tongling City. It was originally a small hill, named after an ancient cave called Jinniu Cave on the hillside in the west. In the early 1980s, experts from Anhui Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Tongling Cultural Relics Management Office and Institute of Natural Science and Technology History of Chinese Academy of Sciences conducted many archaeological excavations here. Judging from many ancient mining tunnels, a batch of mining tools and pottery utensils unearthed, the age of Jinniudong ancient mining site began in the Spring and Autumn Period. At that time, the mining activity should be open-pit mining at first, and then continue to dig deep along the vein. Clear well, drift and inclined shaft are all wood supporting structures, including semi-frame type and box type. The shaft of the shaft adopts the structure of "tongue-and-groove box intensive support", and the top ends of the support columns are all Y-joints. Both sides of the roadway and the ceiling are protected with wooden sticks and boards, and some are capped with bamboo mats. The mining method is horizontal slicing from bottom to top. In addition to a number of excavation tools such as copper chisel, iron axe, iron hoe, bamboo frame and wooden bucket, a large number of wood carbon chips were found in the mine. It is estimated that craftsmen at that time had mastered the technology of "hot mining". In order to show people the mining and smelting technology and rich cultural connotation of ancient copper mines in China and develop the cultural and historical landscape dominated by copper, 1992, with the attention and concern of National Cultural Heritage Administration and Anhui Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau, Tongling Municipal People's Government allocated funds to restore and protect Jinniudong site, becoming the second ancient copper mine site officially opened to the outside world after Tonglushan ancient copper mine site in Hubei Province, and has received hundreds of thousands of Chinese and foreign tourists. The restored Jinniudong site is magnificent. On the east cliff stands eight cursive characters of "Jinniudong Ancient Mining Site", each 4 square meters square. The 92 cement columns symbolizing "1992" are connected by bronze chains and surrounded by pines and cypresses, giving people the unique solemnity and solemnity of the ancient copper mine site. There is a black stone tablet in the middle of the entrance, with six gold-inlaid characters of "Jinniudong Ancient Mining Area" on the front and a brief introduction to the site on the back. There is a spacious parking lot in the west, a site exhibition hall in the north, and a stele gallery and mineral forest in Tongling area along the Xiangsi River in the southwest. The cone-shaped spatial grid supported on the slope of the site is like an open giant umbrella, which covers the exposed ancient mine tightly, making people feel mysterious and daydream. The air corridor set up on the north slope of the site allows the audience to get close to the mining lane on the hanging wall and enjoy the spectacular scene of the ancient site. In addition, on the surrounding rock of the site, the cultural relics department is also preparing to restore one or two ancient mining lanes so that the audience can directly experience the life of ancient miners. Jinniudong ancient mining area, which integrates natural landscape and human landscape, has become an important cultural relic tourist attraction in the copper capital.
Interestingly, long before the site was discovered, there was a legend about Jinniu Cave in Fenghuang Mountain: It is said that hundreds of years ago, crops in the fields around Fenghuang Mountain were often trampled and eaten by an animal, and someone was waiting on the mountainside to find a Taurus coming in and out of the cave. One day, a white-haired old man passed by here and understood the mystery, knowing that he would use a fairy grass to lure the Taurus out of the hole. The old man found a kind of fairy grass on the zhaobi of a rich local family, so he spent a lot of money to buy it. This aroused the suspicion of the head of the household and asked why. The white-haired old man had to say, "There is a golden bull in the cave of Jiuwuling. I want your fairy grass to draw it out." The layman asked him how to catch Taurus. The old man said, "You should put 998 1 wooden boat in the river in front of the cave, and the board of the boat is covered with soybeans." Then, you can walk around the cave with the fairy grass, and the Taurus will come out of the cave to eat grass. At this time, as long as you run to the last ship with fairy grass, Taurus will catch up. Because the soybeans are slippery, the Taurus has no strength after passing 8 1 boat, so you can catch it. " After listening to this, the layman didn't want to sell the fairy grass, so he pieced it together by himself. When he got the 7749 boat, he couldn't wait to take the grass to lead the cattle. Sure enough, a Taurus came out of the hole, and the layman ran backwards until he reached the 49th boat. But Taurus still has the strength to eat the fairy grass in one bite and push the layman into the river. At this time, the white-haired old man came, grabbed the cow's nose and crossed the Yangtze River by boat from Xuba, doing nothing. After landing, the boatman asked the old man for money. The old man pointed to the boat and said, "Isn't the money already given?" . The boatman saw that there was only a pile of cow dung at the bow, and when he looked back for the old man, the old man and Taurus were gone. In a rage, the boatman shoveled cow dung into the river. Who knows that the crack on the ship's board is a little cow dung turned into glittering gold. The boatman looked at the river regretfully, but the cow dung shoveled into the river had grown into a river continent. Later it was called Jinshazhou, and the place where Taurus landed was called Jinniupu. This small cave in Phoenix Mountain is named Jinniu Cave.
Si Tongling specialty Houjunlai
Tongling ginger is one of the "eight treasures" in Tongling, a perennial herb and an annual cultivated crop. Scientific identification by Horticulture Institute of Anhui Academy of Agricultural Sciences shows that it belongs to the type of white ginger and row ginger. Fresh ginger skin is slightly yellow, ginger pieces are Buddha-shaped, and petals are thick and dense. Ginger is full, white, tender and juicy, spicy and not choking, and it is a multifunctional edible product. Tongling ginger is famous for its "big skin and thin skin, more juice and less residue, and crispy meat". Tongling ginger is very nutritious. According to the analysis of laboratory data, ginger contains not only gingerol, gingerol and ginger oil, but also protein 1.4%, sugar 8% and fat 0.7%. In addition, there are calcium, phosphorus, iron, carotene, thiamine, riboflavin, nicotinic acid, antithrombotic, inorganic salts and other essential nutrients. Ginger has the functions of invigorating stomach, stopping bleeding, promoting qi circulation, dispelling cold, resolving phlegm and detoxicating, sweating and clearing heat, seasoning vegetables and stimulating appetite. Tongling people like to eat ginger and regard it as a good medicine. Tongling has a folk song: "A piece of ginger is better than a prescription" and "A cup of ginger soup is suitable for all ages". Ginger contains volatile gingerol and gingerol, which has the functions of promoting blood circulation, dispelling cold, removing dampness and sweating. In addition, it also has the effects of invigorating stomach, stopping vomiting, removing fishy smell and eliminating edema. Therefore, doctors and folk proverbs say, "Don't panic if you have ginger at home", and there is also a saying that eating radish in winter and ginger in summer doesn't bother doctors to prescribe medicine.
The nutritional composition of ginger is similar to that of onion and garlic. It also contains protein, sugar, vitamins and other substances, and contains plant antibiotics, and its sterilization effect is no less than that of onion and garlic. Ginger also contains more volatile oil, which can inhibit the absorption of cholesterol and prevent cholesterol from accumulating in liver and serum. Ginger soup boiled with ginger and brown sugar can promote blood circulation to drive away cold and prevent colds. It has been a good medicine for colds since ancient times.
Tongling has a long history of producing ginger, which was planted as early as the Spring and Autumn Period. During the Northern Song Dynasty, Tongling became a famous ginger producing area in China and was listed as a tribute of the imperial court. According to Jiajing's Tongling County Records, Tongling ginger has become a "hot" specialty in the Ming Dynasty. "The city produces ginger, garlic, ramie, peony bark and the like, and there are vendors nearby, but most of them are vendors in distant cities." (clear. Zhao Jinfeng). Qing Shunzhi 13 (1656) recorded in Tongling County Records and Products that the output of ginger at that time was "not less than100000 tons per year". During the Republic of China, the annual output was about 720 tons. There are six private companies dealing in ginger in Datong, which buy fresh ginger every year and sell it to Anqing, Wuhu, Zhenjiang and Yangzhou. Famous sauce gardens such as Hu Yumei in Anqing, Simei in Yangzhou and Hengshun in Zhenjiang bought Tongling ginger to process sugar iced ginger, sweet and sour ginger and sauce ginger. In the early days of the People's Republic of China, ginger was still managed by private businessmen. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, due to one-sided grain production, the planting area of ginger was affected and the yield was also reduced. In the 1980s, under the guidance of actively developing diversified business policies, the area and output increased continuously. Except for some ginger purchased by supply and marketing cooperatives, most of them are directly purchased by the director of the sauce factory or transported to the market for self-sale. From 1964 to 1990, 1966 was the largest purchasing volume of the supply and marketing department, with a total purchase of 60,800 kilograms, and 1978 was the smallest, with only 350 kilograms. In 1970s, the annual planting area hovered around 200 mu, and the annual output of ginger was generally around 150 tons. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, ginger planting developed rapidly. In 1980, 3 15 mu of ginger was planted, with a total output of 324.3 tons. 1985 planted 945 mu of ginger, with a total output of 1 122.6 tons; 1990 planting ginger 1362 mu, yield113 kg, total output 15 16 tons. With the development of ginger industrialization, the enthusiasm of ginger farmers is unprecedented. In 2005, the planting area of ginger has reached 8000 mu, and the total output has reached 1 10,000 tons. A number of leading enterprises have emerged, with more than 40 varieties of products in five categories. Tongguanle brand appetizing ginger selenium-enriched Tongling white ginger, Heping brand sweet and sour ginger won the title of famous agricultural products in Anhui Province, and Courtyard brand sweet and sour ginger won the title of characteristic agricultural products in Anhui Province. Ginger products are sold in surrounding counties and cities, supermarkets in some large and medium-sized cities and markets exported to the European Union. Su Shi, a poet in the Song Dynasty, recorded the legend of Jiang in Dongpo Miscellanies. Jingci Temple, an 80-year-old monk in Qiantang, Hangzhou, was described with a childlike face. "He persuaded Jiang for forty years, so he is not old." . Legend has it that White Snake stole Xiancao to save Xu Xian. This fairy grass is ginger bud. Ginger is also called "rejuvenation grass" and ginger soup is also called "rejuvenation soup". That's probably why.