Pujian Lianquan is a famous scenic spot in Baiyun Mountain, Guangzhou. It is said that some new cultural landscapes have been added recently. I went to visit it a few days ago. As expected, there are historical sites in the deep valleys and stories about the long streams. Starting from the entrance of Pugu, many new calligraphy stone carvings with the content of promoting good and suppressing evil have been erected on both sides of the avenue. All the way to the small bridge in front of the cliff and the flowing water, a stone sculpture of "Zheng Xian collecting medicine" appears in front of you: Zheng Xian holds a medicine hoe in his left hand. Holding the precious herbal medicine he had found with so much hard work in his right hand, he stood on the bank of Pujian with a smile. Next to a medicine boy squatted happily, a pair of white cranes danced happily in the water. According to legend, Zheng Xian was an alchemist in the Qin Dynasty, and his original name was Zheng Anqi. When Qin Shihuang traveled eastward to the East China Sea in Shandong Province, he suddenly fell seriously ill. The imperial doctors were at a loss, so local officials recommended Zheng Anqi to the emperor. Zheng Anqi's medicine cured his illness and Qin Shihuang valued him, hoping to stay with him to find the elixir of immortality for him. However, Zheng Anqi was not moved by profit, but he also knew that Qin Shihuang was domineering, so he had to flee to Guangzhou and build a house in Baiyun Mountain. Lived in a shed. He often carried a gourd on his back to practice medicine and sell medicine in the surrounding villages to treat the poor people. Once, in order to rescue a seriously ill patient who was suffering from heat and poison, Zheng Anqi took out his treasured secret book to find a prescription, and inadvertently exposed his identity. Qin Shihuang heard that Zheng Anqi had found many good medicines in Pujian Lianquan, and ordered him to pay tribute immediately. Zheng Anqi didn't want to give in, so he found a towering cliff and jumped down. Unexpectedly, as soon as he left the ground, he felt his body flying lightly. The locals only saw a crane carrying Zheng Anqi's body and flying straight into the sky. Because this day happened to be the 24th of the seventh lunar month, people designated this day as Zheng Xian’s birthday. Later, in order to commemorate Zheng Anqi, people built a Zheng Xian Temple near the hut where he lived (today's Yunyan at the Summit Square). Next to the bridge, there is a row of comic strips of stone carvings of Zheng Xian collecting medicine, showing the story of Zheng Xian collecting medicine to cure diseases and saving lives and injuries in Baiyun Mountain, vividly and concretely reproducing the image of Zheng Xian.
? Walk up the stone steps along the stream and pass through the scenic spot called "Moonlight over the Lotus Pond". You can't help but stop in front of a stone tablet titled "The Legend of Pujian Lianquan". It introduced that Pujian was called "Ganxi Jian" in ancient times because of its extremely sweet and cold taste, which was different from the normal flow. There were calamus with nine knots an inch growing beside the stream. It was also called "Pujian" in ancient times. To the east of Pujian, there was a flying spring hanging on the wall like a curtain. It is called "Lianquan" or "Lianquan". Su Dongpo, a great writer of the Song Dynasty, left poems when he visited. We also checked historical data and learned that the oldest temple in Baiyun Mountain is Puxian Temple, located in the upper reaches of the original Puxian River. It is said that it was built in the second year of Baoli in the Tang Dynasty (826). It is said that in front of the temple is the alchemy place of the immortal doctor Zheng Anqi. It is majestic and has a wonderful scenery. With countless tall trees and mountains full of smiling flowers, visitors feel like they are in a fairyland. When the famous scholar Su Dongpo was exiled to Lingnan, he once visited Pujian Temple and enjoyed the beautiful scenery with the abbot, Monk Dexin. They had a great conversation. He took the opportunity to inscribe the word "dining Pu" on the rock wall, but it is a pity that it is difficult to find it today. Su Dongpo wrote two more poems, one of which is "Gift to the Elder of Pujian": "How can there be any flowers in the epiphyllum in the excellent bowl? I ask the master who sings this song? I have obtained peaches and bamboos from the beauty, but I am not looking for jujube melons in Anqi. Yan Yan There are tigers while sitting in the forest, and no crows are heard behind the tall bamboos. Since ancient times, holy tours have also promised to send a cart for the pine boat." Another poem "Inscribed on Guangzhou Pujian Temple": "There is no need for the mountain monk to guide me. , Looking for clouds out of the mountain spring. Thousands of ancient trees stand on the ground, and hundreds of feet of flying waves leak into the sky. In the past, the calamus alchemist's house, and now only the flowers are smiling, saying that Emperor Qin wants to learn from immortals." >
Perhaps the most iconic scenery is located halfway up the mountain: a stream of water surges like flying water, and the word "Pu Jian" carved on the wall looks like a giant painting. Not far away, four stones with the words "Dongpo Diversion" engraved on them are arranged along the edge of the stream from high to low, making the statue of Su Dongpo standing in front of the cliff even taller and more lifelike. Plague often occurred in Guangzhou during the Song Dynasty. Su Dongpo analyzed that the main reason should be caused by unclean drinking water. He proposed to introduce the spring water of Baiyun Mountain into Guangzhou. Specifically, he dug a stone trough under the Dishui Rock to store the water from hundreds of feet of flying waves, and then used five pipes to line it up. Large bamboo tubes are used to guide spring water to various small stone troughs in the city along the terrain, making it convenient for residents to draw water nearby. After this method was adopted, the plague no longer occurred in Guangzhou for a long time, and the citizens benefited greatly from the "tap water".
Su Dongpo in the statue holds a bamboo pole in his left hand and a bamboo hat hanging down in his right hand. It is unclear whether he is meditating on how to relieve the people's worries, or is still considering the best plan to divert water.
? Natural scenery and historical and cultural landscapes will complement each other if they can be skillfully integrated. "Zheng Xian collecting herbs" and "Dongpo water diversion" in Pugu Lianquan can be regarded as examples. When looking back at the present and recalling the past, historical relics are floating or corroborated in the natural scenery; when traveling around mountains and rivers, stories are more widely understood and spread.