Chapter 460: Is the Flaming Mountain on Fire?
The car was parked in the parking lot, Zhang Yang and He Xiaoman simply cleaned up after breakfast, called the two little guys, and then got out of the car and took out the balance bike.
There are sightseeing cars in the scenic area, but he prefers the freedom of the balance bike, and he also has to take two little guys in, at this point he has to thank the social circle accumulated by the previous live broadcast, which has laid a good foundation for him this time and including future live broadcasts.
At least some places where pets are not allowed to go in can find someone to say a word to, and drones can be more free during live broadcasts.
The tradition of Xia Guo is a humane society, everyone who comes and goes always can't avoid owing each other favors or walking to help each other, plus the flamboyant live broadcast has a good publicity effect, and after the old man said hello to the person in charge here, he got the green light.
There are not so many restrictions on the side of the Flaming Mountain, because it is quite early in the morning, there are not many tourists on the side of the Flaming Mountain, only three or three in the front of the queue, Zhang Yang They came over after buying tickets, they each drove a balance car with two little guys to drive inside, of course, it is inevitable that the tourists present are envious of their balance bikes.
There is an intersection on both sides of the small square near the ticket office on the Flaming Mountain, which is a winding mountain road in the main scenic area of the Flaming Mountain, and visitors here can take pictures at the bottom of the mountain to see the characteristic landforms here, feel the heat here, or take a car to the top of the mountain to enjoy the more magnificent scenery.
Zhang Yang directly decided to take the highway for a turn, and after coming down, he could basically walk around the Flaming Mountain completely, of course, there were several other scenic spots, but he hadn't thought about it yet.
The Flame Mountain has its unique natural appearance, and in the late Ming Dynasty, Wu Chengen wrote the story of Tang Sanzang's obstruction of the Flame Mountain, and the story of Sun Wukong's three borrowing banana fans into the famous ancient "Journey to the West", linking the Flame Mountain with Tang Seng, Sun Wukong, Iron Fan Princess, and the Bull Demon King, making the Flame Mountain magically colorful and becoming a strange mountain in the world.
Visitors to the Flame Mountain, can also see the Tang monk passing by the bolted horse pile - the pillar volley of the mountain stone is still standing in the Shengjinkou;
A flat-topped hillside in the distance is a stepping stone for Tang Seng to get on the horse;
Tie the horse pile to the east, there is a peak across the canyon with a boulder that looks like a long mouth, which is called the Bajie Stone;
While looking at the strange scene, he talked about the story of Sun Monkey who used the iron fan princess banana fan to extinguish the fire of the Flame Mountain, which had a unique flavor at that time.
"I don't know if you have read the dialogue in the original book and the plot. 'Dare to ask my father-in-law, why do you return to the heat in autumn?'
Tang Seng Xitian passed by the Flame Mountain and met an old man, so he asked this sentence at that time, and the old man's answer at that time was.
'The land is called a mountain of flames, there is no spring and no autumn, and it is hot all year round. ’
This is an allusion that can be seen in "Journey to the West", but there is also a folklore about Flaming Mountain.
In Uyghur folklore, there is an evil dragon in the depths of the Tianshan Mountains, which eats boys and girls, and the local supreme ruler Shatok Bukhara Khan sent Hala and Zhuo to subdue the evil dragon in order to eliminate harm to the people.
After a thrilling fierce battle, the evil dragon was killed by Hala and Zhuo in the Qijiaojing in the northeast of Turpan, and then the evil dragon walked west with injuries, and the blood stained the whole mountain, so the Uyghurs called this mountain the Red Mountain, which is what we call the Flame Mountain. ”
The wind on the mountain in the morning was quite strong, especially when he came to the halfway point of the mountain, Zhang Yang quickly stopped the car and put the windbreaker he brought out in the morning over to He Xiaoman, and then returned to his balance car to take a look at the barrage.
"A layman's question, don't laugh, why is the Flaming Mountain called that? Is it because the mountain is on fire?"
"Don't say it, look at the cracks on the surface of the mountain, they really dry up and crack like they have been burned by fire!"
"Brother Yang, let's popularize it first, and then we'll go up and see it when it's over. !”
"I heard from the classmate next to me just now that there is a record in the history books that the Flaming Mountain used to be a sea of fire?
For this question, Zhang Yang was actually prepared, because he was also very curious, in fact, the scenic spot is like that, what is really easy to arouse people's interest is the past and present life of this Flame Mountain, how did he appear? And then why did it become like this?
At this time, a sightseeing bus full of tourists had just passed by Zhang Yang, and then they heard the tour guide on the bus introducing them to the tourists through the microphone.
"Friends, you must know that the Flame Mountain was once a sea of fire, when Zhao Kuangyi, the king of the Jin Dynasty, was in charge of food, clothing, housing and transportation, and Wang Yande, an official from Daming County, Hebei Province, said in the "Gaochang Travel Record", "Beiting Beishan, there is often smoke rising in the mountain, but there are no clouds. At night, the flame is like a torch, and the birds and mice are all red. "The North Courtyard and the North Mountain here are talking about the Flame Mountain......."
However, as the sightseeing bus went away, the tour guide's voice gradually became smaller until it disappeared, and the people in the live broadcast room only heard a rough idea through the drone, and then they were even more anxious to urge Zhang Yang.
"2333 Brother Yang, hurry up, your job is about to be robbed by other tour guides!"
"Cut, how can the tour guide know more about our Brother Yang, hehe, I'm Brother Yang's brainless fan, hehe!"
"The girl upstairs, I'm also a brainless fan, why don't we talk in private?"
"But this Flame Mountain is really beautiful, it looks red from the air, and it really looks like a flame burning!"
"Why don't you call it a flaming mountain, especially when the sun rises and the temperature here rises, then the feeling will be even more real!"
He Xiaoman was also interested in what the tour guide on the sightseeing bus had just passed, and she was having fun with the two little ones in front of her, and she also drove a balance bike to Zhang Yang's side, looking at Zhang Yang with a curious baby......
"Okay, then I'll start with what the tour guide didn't finish just now, Wang Yande's "Gaochang Xingji" said that everyone heard it just now, but this work was in 981 AD, he was ordered to set off from Kaifeng, and sent Gaochang to the current Turpan Basin in Xinjiang.
Two years later, he returned to Kaifeng with more than 100 Gaochang officials, and wrote "Wang Yande Makes Gaochang Ji", also known as "Xizhou Jicheng", which describes Gaochang and what he saw and heard along the way and customs, and this work was later included in the "History of the Song Dynasty".
At the same time, when the Tang Dynasty poet Cen Shen passed through the Flame Mountain for the first time, he also wrote the poem "Jing Volcano", which reads: "The volcano is seen today, and it is abrupt Puchangdong. The red flame burns the clouds, and the hot atmosphere is steaming and empty. I don't know the yin and yang charcoal, why do you burn it alone. When I came to the harsh winter, there was a lot of wind under the mountain. People and horses sweat hard, who knows how to create and transform. ’
In fact, he held the ambition of making meritorious contributions, left the Beijing division of Chang'an to go to Anxi to take office, passing through Puchang, the flame mountain in front of him, when the flames in front of his eyes soared, the spectacle was magnificent, aroused his pride, so he wrote the poem "through the volcano".
In fact, these descriptions are all exaggerated techniques of romanticism, and what these two people saw at that time was not a burning mountain of flames at all, but they did not stick to the elaborate carvings of the red rock and scorched earth in the near view of the volcano, but were decorated from the 'red flame' and 'hot atmosphere' in the distance. ”
Listening to Zhang Yang's explanation, He Xiaoman couldn't help but say beside him.
"Husband, that means that the books and poems written by these two people just now are all exaggerated, and they are not what the tour guide said just now, this is a sea of fire?"
It's no wonder He Xiaoman has this kind of doubt, hearing Zhang Yang's words, the people in the live broadcast room also have the same idea, it turned out to be just an exaggerated description of the ancients, and I thought it was true.
However, then Zhang Yang told a more distant story, completely refuting what he had just said, but it was not a reversal, but what he said was more distant than what Wang Yande and Cen Shen had seen.