"Lan Ke Ren" In Shishi Mountain, Xin'an County, during the Jin Dynasty, Wang Zhi came to cut wood. He saw several boys playing chess and singing, and Zhi Yin listened to it. The boy takes an object with the substance, such as a date stone, and holds it in the substance without feeling hungry. After a while, the boy said, "Why don't you go?" Now that he has returned, he has no trace of his time. ("Shu Yi Ji" by Liang Renfang of the Southern Dynasties) Shishi Mountain in Xin'an County. In the Jin Dynasty, a king named Wang Zhi came to the mountain when he was cutting firewood. He saw several boys, some playing chess and some singing. Wang Zhi If the question comes, go and listen. The boy gave the king something shaped like a date stone. After he swallowed the thing, he no longer felt hungry. After a while, the boy said to him: Why don't you leave? Wang Zhi then stood up. When he looked at his axe, he saw that the wooden ax handle was completely rotten. When he returned to the world, his contemporaries were gone. Legend has it that during the Western Jin Dynasty, a young farmer named Wang Zhi went up the mountain to collect firewood and came to the entrance of Wang Qiaoxian Cave. Wang Zhi was bold and curious, thinking, people say there are immortals in the cave, why don't I go in and see what happens? Because the entrance of the cave is very small, only one person can pass through it. The cave is more than three feet deep and about ten feet wide and high. Wang Zhi couldn't see anything when he entered the cave. Suddenly, light seemed to shine through from the top of the cave, and two old men with gray hair and childlike faces were playing Go. Wang Zhisu was good at playing chess, and was immediately attracted by the superb chess skills of the two old men. The two old men seemed not to notice anyone entering the cave. They ate jujubes while playing chess, and sometimes handed jujubes to Wang Zhi to eat. After watching a game of chess, the old man said to Wang Zhi, "It's time for you to go home." Wang Zhi leaned over to pick up the axe, but he didn't expect that the axe (axe handle) had rotted away, leaving only the iron axe. When Wang Zhi returned to the village, he didn't recognize anyone. When he asked his parents, he found out that they had been dead for more than a hundred years. From then on, later generations called this mountain "Lanke Mountain". Wang Zhi stayed in the mountain for a while, and great changes had taken place in the world. This story is often used to describe the great changes in the world. Liu Yuxi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, quoted this allusion in the sentence "When you go to the countryside to look like a bad person" in "Rewarding Lotte People at Yangzhou and Seeing Gifts at Banquets". The poet compared himself with the king's quality to express his feeling of being separated from another world due to the vicissitudes of personnel changes more than 20 years after he was demoted and left the capital. Looking through the vast ancient books, we can see that the earliest record of this legend is mainly from "Zhilin" written by Yu Xi (281-356) of Jin Dynasty: "There is a stone room in Xin'an Mountain. Wang Zhi entered the room and saw two boys playing chess. "Looking at it, the game is not over yet. It is no longer good to think that the firewood he was fighting has rotted and returned to his hometown." "Shu Yi Ji" written by Liang Renfang (460-508) of the Southern Dynasties said: "Xin'an." In Shishi Mountain, during the Jin Dynasty, Wang Zhi was cutting wood. He saw several boys playing chess and singing. The boy took something with him, such as a date core, and he held it in his chest without feeling hungry. After a while, the boy said, "Why not?" "Go?" After being detained, there will be no trace of the old man. "From the above two records, we can see that there are two main points in the beautiful legend of "Lan Ke": First, it is located in Xin'an. , the mountain is named Shishi; secondly, the protagonist is Wang Zhi, and the main content is to watch chess and lose. Based on the above two points, let’s analyze and judge Lanke Mountain and places with similar legends across the country. The main ones that conform to and are close to this legend include Quzhou in Zhejiang, Xin'an in Luoyang in Henan, Lanke Mountain in Gaoyao, Zhaoqing, Guangdong, and Qizi Mountain in Lingchuan, Shanxi. First, let’s analyze the location. Quzhou, Zhejiang, was renamed Xin’an in the first year of Taikang in the Western Jin Dynasty (280 AD). It went through the Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and Sui Dynasties until it was changed to Xi’an in the Xiantong period of the Tang Dynasty (860-873). It was Gaoyao in Zhaoqing, Guangdong, and in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Gaoyao was changed to Duanzhou in the early Sui Dynasty (581), Xin'an under Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty (605), Duanzhou in the Tang Dynasty (618), and Zhaoqing after the Song Dynasty. Gaoyao now belongs to Zhaoqing. Quzhou, Zhejiang, has been called Xin'an for more than 600 years, while Gaoyao, Zhaoqing, Guangdong, has only been called Xin'an for more than 10 years. Quzhou in Zhejiang was called Xin'an during the Jin Dynasty, but Gaoyao in Guangdong was not established during the Jin Dynasty. Lanke Mountain in Gaoyao, Zhaoqing, Guangdong is also known as Fuke Mountain, and Lanke Mountain in Quzhou, Zhejiang is also known as Shishi Mountain, etc. Xin'an County in Henan was formerly known as Dongyuan. It was renamed Xin'an during the Northern Zhou Dynasty. It was moved to a new location in the Tang Dynasty and the name has not changed since then. Unlike Quzhou, Zhejiang, although Xin'an County was established in the third year of Chuping (192) of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was renamed Xin'an by the first year of Taikang (280). Lingchuan in Shanxi was established in the Sui Dynasty and has not been renamed. Looking through the "Dictionary of Ancient and Modern Place Names in China", in addition to Quzhou and Gaoyao, Xin'an was also formerly known as Macheng in Hubei, Pengcheng in Sichuan, Changshan in Zhejiang, the east of Kaiping County in Guangdong, and the east of Ba County in Beijing. Among these, there are no Lankeshan and Lanke. legend. Analyzing the main content, the protagonist of the Lanke story in Quzhou, Zhejiang is Wang Zhi, also known as Zixian, commonly known as the prince. His family has an old mother and younger brother Wang Gui. Wang Zhi makes a living by collecting wood. The story in the middle is the same as recorded in history books. It ends with Wang Zhi watching the chess game puzzled and waiting to ask for advice. The boy (young man) has disappeared. Wang Zhi missed his mother and young brother at home. He turned around to copy the ax and found that the ax handle was rotten. After returning home, everything has changed, and home no longer exists. After inquiring, people said that it had been more than a hundred years since Wang Zhi went up to the mountain to cut firewood and never returned. Later, Wang Zhi returned to Lanke Mountain, attained enlightenment and became an immortal. In Langke Mountain, a high place in Zhaoqing, Guangdong, the protagonist is also Wang Zhi, and the gods are the two immortals from the south and the north (some say they are red pine nuts). Wang Zhi eats flat peaches, and the rest are about the same. As for Lanke Mountain in Xin'an, Luoyang, Henan, the protagonist is Wang Qiao. Some people mistakenly think that Wang Qiao is a woodcutter named Wang, but it is actually different. Wang Qiao is a deity worshiped by Taoism. Du Guangting's "Biography of the Immortals of the Wang Family" says: "There are three Wang Qiaos, the prince Jin Wang Qiao, the magistrate Wang Qiao of Ye County, and the carnivorous Zhi Wang Qiao. They are all immortals with the same name.
"What is more illustrative of the problem is that there is a poem stele in front of Wang Qiaoxian Cave, titled "Iron Ax Poetry inscribed on Lanke Mountain in Henan Prefecture". The poem shows that Lanke Mountain should be located in the south of the Yangtze River, not Zhongzhou. And Some scholars have confirmed that Qizi Mountain in Lingchuan, Shanxi Province is the birthplace of Go. The mountain is also called Jizi Mountain and Mouqi Mountain. The names of the mountains are different. Although the legend of Lanke is similar, the protagonist is Li Chan and there are two gods. Old man, the story is in front of Jizi Cave. From the analysis of Lanke Mountain and legends in the above places, Quzhou in Zhejiang and Gaoyao in Zhaoqing, Guangdong are the closest to the records of Yu Xi and Ren Fang. But what should be paid attention to is that. Neither Yu Xi nor Ren Fang gave a detailed description of the topography of Shishi Mountain (Lanke Mountain). The only recent description by the two of them is Meng Jiao's poem cited above, which says, "As long as the stone bridge is there, "Ling Danhong alone". The title of this poem is "Lanke Mountain Stone Bridge". It can be seen that the stone bridge (bridge) across the sky is an important topography and landform of Lanke Mountain. Lanke Mountain, also known as Shiqiao Mountain, Quzhou, Zhejiang, The main peak of Shishi Mountain and Xuanshi Ban is like a huge stone bridge. The main cave under the stone bridge is 10 meters high, 30 meters wide from east to west, and 20 meters deep from north to south. However, Lanke Mountain in Gaoyao, Zhaoqing, Guangdong only has Lankeping and Lanke. Temple (old extant), etc., there are no topography such as stone beams and stone bridges. According to "Sui Shu·Jing Ji Zhi" and "Dong Tian Zhuan", "Wang Zhizhe was a native of Dongyang (Sui, Xin'an). Dongyang). "Song Dynasty Zhang Junfang's "Yunji Qizhu" said that "Lanke Mountain is in the hiding place of King Xin'an in Quzhou, and it is the thirtieth cave mountain in the world." Many subsequent classics mostly believe that Lanke Mountain is in Quzhou. Even more convincing is "Lanke Mountain" Yu Xi, the author of "Zhilin", was from Yuyao, Zhejiang; Ren Fang, the author of "Shu Yi Ji", was a prefect in Xin'an (now Chun'an West, Zhejiang), and Meng Jiao, a Tang Dynasty native, was from Wukang, Huzhou (now Deqing, Zhejiang). In Zhejiang, the relevant descriptions of Langke Mountain in Quzhou should be relatively credible. To sum up, the author believes that the most convincing place for the legend of "Wang Zhilanke" is Chen Zude in Quzhou, Zhejiang. The gentleman calls it "Go Wonderland" and it is well deserved.