Iron rhinoceros, commonly known as iron ox, is used to calm the water surface. There are generally two explanations: one is that iron is gold and the mother of water, so mosquito dragons are afraid of it; On the one hand, rhinoceros is a magical cow, which can plow fields and belongs to Kun beast. Kun is soil in the five elements, and soil can overcome water. There are many Iron Rhino in Hezhen River in the lower reaches of the Yellow River:
There are two Iron Rhino at Gubaizui Ferry in Guangwu Town, Xingyang, Henan. According to local legend, the Yellow River is flooded with evil spirits frequently, and only Iron Rhino can suppress the evil spirits in the river. One of the two iron cows fell into the river in his early years, and the other was moved to Gubaikou Village for preservation. This iron rhinoceros is cast of alloy iron, creeping, with a base of 0.89 ~ 0.57 m, a length of 1m and a height of 0.4m m. The inscription on the back of the rhinoceros is: Taurus Taurus, the head of the snake, the town of Mangshan, and the river does not flow south. A cow's buttocks engraved with Tang poetry: the mountains cover the day, and the ocean drains the golden river. On the auspicious day of the ecliptic in September of the 13th year of Wen Qianlong's reign, Kaifeng took in a monk named Lin, each with his own pocket. The Yellow River dare not flow south. After a hundred years, the remaining iron rhinoceros was placed on the river bank. At 1980, someone realized its preciousness and moved it into the village. However, on a certain day in 198 1, it was suddenly stolen and its whereabouts are still unknown. The iron rhinoceros in Hongmiao Village, lankao county is also recorded. The Yi Feng County Records updated in the early years of the Republic of China are:
In front of the Fire Temple in Shibao Village (now Hongmiao Village), an iron cow was lying on the ground with its head held high, and its angle was two inches higher than the ground. It succumbed to its tail, less than four feet long, but from a distance, it was a huge cow. There is an inscription under the right rib, and the inscription is illegible, but there is the word "Shuide" in front and the words "Daqing", "Gan" and "44 years" at the end, which is still slightly legible. It was cast in the forty-four years before the reform. Kaifeng iron rhinoceros is the most famous. Rhinoceros is located in the northeast suburb of Kaifeng, and there is a village nearby called Tieniu Village. The rhinoceros is about 2 meters high, with a single horn facing the sky. It was built by Yu Qian (1398- 1457), a politician of the Ming Dynasty. In the 20th year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (1387) and the 8th year of Yongle (14 10), the Yellow River burst twice in Kaifeng, and the affected area was huge. At the time of crisis, Yu Qian was appointed as the governor of Henan. Xuande five years (1430), went to Kaifeng to take office alone. After investigating the water regime of the Yellow River and taking control measures, it was cast into iron rhinoceros in the eleventh year of the Orthodox Church (1446). The iron rhinoceros and the true inscription were handwritten and cast on the back of the rhinoceros. Its inscription reads:
A hundred melted Jin Xuan melted into a golden stream, and it changed. Weah played this game to fill the whole court.
Dibo never stops. Mount Tai in An Ruo is rock-solid, and monsters lurk in it.
I'm dying, I'm dying, I'm dying, I'm drowning in the rain, I'm plowing, I'm weaving.
The four seasons are in order, and the magical power is changeable. The banquet of hundreds of millions of Yan's family is the bow of heaven.
Only the emperor's power can also have mediocre promises.
At that time, Iron Rhino was placed in the newly-built Huilongguan on the bank of the Yellow River. In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty (1642), the Yellow River burst, Huilongguan was razed to the ground by the Yellow River, and Tiexi was deeply mired in mud. During the reign of Shunzhi in Qing Dynasty, iron rhinoceros was dug up. During the Kangxi period, Governor Yan Xingbang was in charge of Henan, and there was no major flood for three years. So in the thirtieth year of Kangxi (169 1), the temple was rebuilt, and Huilongguan was changed to Tiexi Town River Temple, with the front yard dedicated to the four kings of the river god Jinlong, the backyard with Iron Rhino and the north facing the river.
Yan Xingbang personally wrote an article and rebuilt the river temple monument and the iron rhinoceros inscription monument in Tiexi Town. The full text of "Iron Rhinoceros Inscription" is:
In the middle of the late Ming Dynasty, Yu Zhongcheng threw rhinoceros to suppress Feng Yi.
Xiaoshun monster has been lurking for more than 200 years, and the old shop has its back to the rhinoceros.
I came to Henan to drown me, and the holy spirit of the son of heaven, Bailing Huanji, won in Liu Huang.
Two houses for two days don't look like pavilions, trees or rhinos.
Inscription with Wei Jindi, rich jade pattern and Shao Ganzhe.
Since then, in the 21st year of Daoguang (184 1), the Yellow River burst in zhang wan, and Tiexi Temple was destroyed in the flood, but the two monuments erected by Tiexi and Yan Xingbang were preserved. 1940, the Japanese invaders plundered Iron Rhino to Kaifeng City, and the villagers of Tieniu Village struggled to dissolve the iron weapons and finally managed to recover Iron Rhino. In recent years, in order to display local cultural relics and develop the Yellow River tourism, the Yellow River Affairs Bureau in the suburb of Kaifeng originally planned to move Tieniu to the scenic spot, but the villagers in Tieniu village firmly disagreed with the relocation on the grounds that Tieniu village was indispensable. The River Affairs Bureau respected the wishes of the masses, changed the plan, and cast a statue according to the original appearance of the rhinoceros, so that Kaifeng had two Iron Rhino. The real rhinoceros and two historic sites remain in the north of Tieniu Village. I went to the village to find out that there are more than 100 families with mixed surnames, most of which are Yan, Ren and Wang. The village is located in a low-lying area, built on a mound, similar to a platform house on the Yellow River beach.
There are many kinds of rice and lotus roots planted in the fields around the village.
The new cast iron rhinoceros is placed in the Yellow River tourist area in Liuyuankou, which is under construction. The platform is used as a guardrail and willows are planted around it. The iron rhinoceros faces the Yellow River. Before standing, the rhinoceros can bathe in the river wind and smell the whistling sound. There is a Iron Rhino on the stage and a fan embedded in the seat.
Town river iron rhinoceros tablet, the inscription is:
Hezhen Tiexi was built by Henan Governor Yu Qian in May of the 11th year of Ming Dynasty (AD 1446). It is the first batch of cultural relics protection units in Henan Province, and its initial target is Tieniu Village in the northeast of Kaifeng City. The Tiexi Town River more than 500 years ago can only reflect the strong desire of Kaifeng people to subdue the Yellow River with divine power. However, not only did Iron Rhino fail to control the river, but even it was difficult to protect itself. After two breaches, it was buried in the ground by the sediment of the Yellow River. From 65438 to 0948, the people managed the Yellow River, relying on industrial defense and civil air defense to ensure the An Lan of the Yellow River for more than 40 years. Today, we focus on cast iron rhinoceros to remind people not to forget the river disaster, to be prepared for danger in times of peace, to unite and manage the Yellow River better. Zhengzhou Huayuankou Yellow River Tourist Area also placed an iron rhinoceros in a prominent position, which was also recast according to Kaifeng's iron rhinoceros-in fact, there is only one book named Kaifeng Iron Rhino, which has a special shape and is generally considered to be the author who was familiar with Kaifeng in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, and recorded various relics of Kaifeng in the Ming Dynasty. The author's name can no longer be verified. Proofread by Kong, published by Zhongzhou Ancient Books Publishing House in August 1984. According to the book, the original Kaifeng outer city, the outer city enters the city every day, and takes 223 steps on Thursday 18. Only the foundation address was left, and the door was not repaired, so it was filled with soil in case of river disaster. He also said: according to legend, in Tokyo, there is a bull market, three mountains are not obvious, and five doors are not opposite. This city is famous for lying cows. It is located on a big river. Cattle and soil belong to the genus, and soil can win water. Facing the west of the city, its cattle swallowed the river first to come to the king.
All that's left is three or four doors. It's enough to turn slowly. It's crooked and uneven, but static electricity can brake. Outside the city, there is a big iron cow on the embankment of the northeast levee. The town of rivers and lakes in the distance has its name. Three mountains and Yimen three mountains are within Fucheng. There is a mountain to the south of Daliangmen, which has become a city, so it is not called a mountain. In the thoroughfare lane, we have reached Yan, not to mention Fushan; Langhe enters the city, drowning three or four feet or two or three feet. From the west gate to the east, the water is only two or three feet deep; The water in Fantong Building is only one or two feet from the east to mountain products Street, and then it turns to the east and goes north. There is not enough water, so you can see the mountains from the water. Here, the city is named Lying Cow, and there is a big iron cow on the far bank of the northeast outside the city. There are naturally religious reasons for taking this name. At the same time, the layout of urban buildings is opposite, with three or four doors instead of rushing, streets and lanes complement each other and rivers enter the city. ...
The ups and downs, the beautiful scenery, all these vaguely seem to indicate that waterproof and emergency measures were taken into account at the beginning of the city construction. This reminds me of a saying in many cities near the water that three mountains are missing.
The prototype of rhinoceros is a cow, but it is a god cow. The person who designed it naturally wanted it to be different from the cows in life. The most obvious difference is that it has only one corner. But once it returns to people's lives, everyone agrees with its essence, and Tiexi is also proud of it, but the village name is not Tiexi Village, but Tieniu Village. The difference between iron rhinoceros and iron ox is also explained by legends and stories, so that it still belongs to a group of cattle. There is a legend in "Kaifeng Folk Tales Integration", which has a good sense of humor:
A long time ago, there was a story about an iron cow eating wheat seedlings in Tieniu Village.
One morning, an old man collecting dung in Tieniu Village went to collect dung outside the village and passed by his wheat field. He found that the wheat seedlings in the wheat field had been eaten by something. The next day, the wheat seedlings in other people's wheat fields in the village were also gnawed one by one. On the third day, all the wheat seedlings in the village were chewed up. At that time, the whole village was very strange, and everyone decided. Heart to see what is going on.
That night, there was a man watching in the dark in every wheat field. Suddenly, something dark was gnawing at the wheat seedlings in a wheat field. He approached slowly to look. It seems to be an iron cow. The next day, he told the villagers what he saw. At first, no one believed it. Later, everyone discussed it, and a few more people took a look at it at night. In the evening, Tieniu came out to eat wheat seedlings again. Take a closer look. It is really an iron cow. This anger does not come from the same place. They hit the iron cow with sticks, shovels and shoulder poles, so they knocked out a corner of the iron cow and shoveled off its ears. From then on, the iron cow never came out to eat wheat seedlings. But so far, the iron cow has only one horn, and its ears can no longer grow.
In this way, rhinoceros is still a cow, a broken cow.