Legend of Huoqiu Watergate Pond?

The old county records that Huoqiu's landscape wins: the mountain ring is southwest and the water surrounds the northeast. This mountain is the remnant vein of Dabie Mountain, which winds for hundreds of kilometers from south to north from Charlotte Mountain, Guanshan Mountain, Anyang Mountain, Maanshan Mountain, Monkey Mountain and Changshan Mountain to Gubi Mountain, forming a natural corridor in the southwest of Huoqiu. As for water, it is really rich. Five inland rivers, Pi River, Feng River, Shi River and Quan River, run through the north and south, and meet the Huaihe River to form three major lakes. Huoqiu County is surrounded by three lakes: Chengxi Lake, Chengdong Lake and Jiangjia Lake. Surrounded by three lakes, there is a bright pearl-Watergate Pond. Shuimen Pond, called Dayepi in ancient times, was built by Sun Yin Shuai, commander-in-chief of Chu State in the Spring and Autumn Period over 600 BC, with a history of over 2,600 years. It is said that Watergate Pond was built earlier than Anfengtang, so it is also known as "the first gutang in the world". As the commander-in-chief of Chu (equivalent to the prime minister), why did Sun Shuai choose to build a large-scale water conservancy project in Huoqiu? Because Sun Shuai lived in Huoqiu, the story of Sun Shuai burying a snake happened here, and the remains of his snake still remain in the city. Because it is his native land, he is very familiar with the beautiful scenery and geographical environment here. Huoqiu county is built on the mountain, but there is a large depression in the north of the county. "Toads squeeze urine, crops soak in water", nine kinds of crops are not harvested, which has become a swamp, and the surrounding hills are short of water for irrigation, which has affected the harvest. So there was the folk song "Three years of drought, three years of waterlogging and three years of locusts flying all over the sky". When Sun Shuai became the Lingyin of Chu, he made up his mind to lead the people to build Watergate Pond. When there is a lot of rain, water can be led to the pond for storage, which can reduce the flooded area. When the weather is dry, water will be released for irrigation, so that more than 65438+ ten thousand farmland around will be protected from drought and flood disasters. When Shuimen pond was first built, it occupied an area of10.2 million mu, and dozens of acres of surrounding fields were irrigated by it. In the hilly area of "drought in three years and drought in five years", the role of Shuimen pond in agricultural development in history can be imagined. "Due to the long history, the pond is gradually silting up and there is not much water storage. When it encounters drought, it will dry up, and the powerful nearby will try their best to occupy it. They will plant saplings in summer and wheat in winter, and they will try their best to fulfill the legacy of their sages. " During the reign of Yongzheng and Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, there were frequent lawsuits in the county. In the 16th year of Qianlong, Ding Shu, a magistrate of a county, discovered that there were 130 pond households, planting 2800 mu, and confiscating six stones per mu of rice. In the eighteenth year of Qianlong, Zhang Hai, a magistrate of a county, chased rice 1560, and the price was changed to 980 taels of silver. As the cost of repairing the dike, four people, including Quan Guo, who was the first to occupy the species, will be put into prison and punished as a warning. In order to keep Du strongmen's covetousness, Zhang Gang, a clever and careful inspector, was entrusted to delimit four boundary sites by the pond, measuring the pond area of 8,500 mu, with 58 miles and 8 points around the pond, and building a boundary pillar every other mile at the junction of the pond and the field, with the pond inside the mound and the field outside the mound. It was ordered to pull out all the uncut wheat in the pond, and everyone was convinced, and a monument was erected to prohibit the reclamation of the pond forever. Zhang Xian-ling wrote with emotion in his personal work "Stone Carving in Qingshui Gate Pond": "It is the husband's responsibility to promote benefits and eliminate disadvantages, and it is also the people's responsibility to promote benefits and eliminate disadvantages, that is, you can start your own business without following the records of predecessors. What's more, our predecessors have created it for thousands of years, and they can't protect it if they steal it, so that the legacy of our predecessors is lost in today's world. What's the name of Changren? "Zhang county is really a little pioneering spirit. He instructed the director of the pond to lead the residents to dig the silt in the agricultural gap every year and cultivate boundary markers. " Make it stand in sight and indelible, the pond deepens and the boundary is solid, while the sage's legacy is stored, and the irrigation workers are permanent and not bad. "However, in the society of small-scale peasant economy, it is forbidden to occupy the Watergate pond." Although the official copy was retained, the covetousness of the stubborn people did not stop. "On the eve of liberation, most of Watergate Pond was occupied by strongmen, and the rest became barren ponds. Legend has it that there is a golden bull in Shuimen pond, and it can only be called ashore by shaking Ganoderma lucidum at midnight. There was a farmer who traveled all over 99 mountains and finally picked Ganoderma lucidum. At midnight, he stood on the Li San Bridge, shaking his hand and shouting "Oh, oh, oh, oh! "I saw the Taurus approaching on the waves and opened its mouth. When the farmer saw it, he was scared to death under the bridge. Since then, no one in the two places can hold Taurus. Thanks to the party's policy of enriching the people, Shuimentang, a golden bull, was finally praised by courageous and knowledgeable farmers in the 1980s. With the development of economy and the progress of society, Watergate Pond has become a scenic Watergate Park and a resort for people's leisure travel. Gutang is full of youth. When the spring is bright, you stand on the wild leather pavilion and look around. The tall statue of Sun Shuai 'ao stands in the wind, with a vast water surface and a myriad of weather. Foggy in the distance, sparkling in the vicinity, flashing thousands of golden lights. Bamboo Island, Crystal Palace, Children's Paradise and Ecological Park built on the breakwater have their own characteristics. Thousands of pear trees planted around Chi Pan are lush. When the pear trees are in full bloom, they are full of pink flowers, as if a long bank surrounded by snow has been built, and the intoxicating fragrance floats for miles away. Looking out of the pond, the fields are connected, the buildings are criss-crossed, the wheat seedlings are green, the rape flowers are as bright as clouds, and it is refreshing to see the East Lake and West Lake from a distance.