Duan, also known as Datong by the locals, is the place where the Yao people live. There are two monuments here, one was originally an ancient post station, but now it is deserted, and the other is an ancient forest.

After the Luopun War, the Ming Dynasty Wanli 17 years set up the Xining County Inspection Division Yamen here, strengthened the suppression and control of ethnic minorities, built a city wall and a post station, after the inspection Department moved to Huaixiang, digging a wall to become a post station. In the 22nd year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, Xinfeng, Reform, Congshan, and Dingkang all returned to Gaoxin City, and the digging lost its role as a post station. The city wall has been demolished, the foundation of the wall still exists, 285 meters long from east to west, and 195 meters wide from north to south.

Because there is no maintenance and repair, it is even more vicissitudes and decay here, everyone has seen it and said that it is very historical, but unfortunately it is too little. Among them, some travelers who love cultural landscapes immediately took pictures.

"History is always disappearing, and it's a pity that these relics are gone! Always fall prey. Doesn't the town government care? A traveler said bitterly that every time he saw these ruins, especially the monuments that had not been maintained in the slightest, he always felt a sense of sadness.

"The local economy is not good, unless the state allocates funds, it really can't be managed. You want to! How many such relics do we have in our country? You should know better than I do. How much does the state need to spend to manage it all? If you rely on the local area alone, the economy will not be good, and it is possible to repair such a place where no one is looking? Ye Qijun's family is also in the system, and his words naturally have the meaning of maintenance.

The others listened silently for a while, wanting to say something, but they just couldn't say it. Sometimes, we always blame the government for inaction. But if you think about it from a different perspective, people in the government generally have to look at the big picture. Nor can it be exhaustive. In places like Heqian Town, the officialdom atmosphere has already been calculated. There is nothing like corruption and bribery. Among them, a large part of the reason is related to the local folk customs, and the place is not rich, and there are no conditions for corruption.

Chu Jiaqiang led everyone to the ancient forest on the side. This ancient forest is also very vicissitudes, and the thick ancient trees are like a group of old people, which seem to witness the changes of history.

One of them is a cypress with a chest circumference of 2.3 meters and a height of 22 meters. The skin color is dark red. After investigation by the Forestry Department of Guangdong Province, it was listed as one of the precious tree species protected by the state in 1964. Next to the cypress, there are two cow tendon trees with a bust of more than 3 meters. There is a holly tree with a chest circumference of 2.8 meters 30 meters to the right of the cow tendon tree, and two tall chestnut trees next to it. 27 meters down from cypress. A banyan tree with a chest circumference of 8.7 meters and a height of 32 meters stands by the river, with five thick roots like upside-down giant palms covering the riverbed and sticking to the bottom of the river.

Legend has it that in ancient times, there was often a white horse running out of Dayuan at night to drink water. People thought it was strange, so they followed and inspected, and the white horse suddenly turned into a large mountain, and the shape of the mountain resembled a horse, so people called the mountain 'Hakuba Mountain', and the village at the foot of the mountain was called Hakuba Village. And build a white horse temple to worship. As a result, the ancient forest has been preserved.

"These trees are really big, they must be hundreds of years old, right?" Chen Wu touched the body of the tree and asked.

Chu Jiaqiang nodded: "This is Bian Bai, I don't know how old I am." I heard that there are hundreds of years. In the past, people from the Provincial Forestry Department came down to check it and designated it as a national protected plant, but there were no protection measures. Fortunately, these trees are close to the White Horse Temple, and the trees around the temple cannot be cut down, and they have a status of respect in the hearts of the people and will not destroy them. Otherwise, such a big tree would have been cut down and pulled away. ”

"It's amazing that there's a banyan tree so big here. But the banyan tree seems to grow very quickly. The biggest I've ever seen is the new one. The banyan tree is a giant tree, covering an area that is unimaginable. One tourist spoke.

Chu Jiaqiang smiled and didn't speak, he had also heard of Little Bird Paradise, there were textbooks before, it seemed to be written by Ba Jin, and he thought it was an exaggeration at the time. Because I have seen many big trees, the largest is not as big as Ba Jin described.

He once saw a towering giant tree with the old Taoist priest, very tall, and the white clouds seemed to float on the top, so big that it was going to be surrounded by a person. I heard the old Taoist priest say that the tree is a thousand years old. And Ba Jin said that the banyan tree in Bird's Paradise is only a few hundred years old, how can it be bigger than a thousand-year-old tree? Later, I learned that the growth of banyan trees is very terrifying.

"How did the five stumps go down, you don't seem to have that strength in this town, right?" Li Quan lifted his glasses and looked at the five large tree stumps in the river, each of which was close to a meter thick, which surprised him a little. I don't understand why I drove five huge piles to the bottom of the river!

"Huh! You read it wrong. That's not what people fight down. Originally, there were five trees there. Later, the White Horse Temple was built, and some people said that the five trees were feng shui trees, and it was the best to carve Bodhisattvas. So, the locals cut it down, carved it into a bodhisattva, and enshrined it in the White Horse Temple. Chu Jiaqiang explained that these trees could not be cut down originally, but there were also very special circumstances, just like the five.

After a turn in the ancient forest, everyone came to the White Horse Temple below and put on a stick of incense in the temple, which is also the request of tourists. Although many people don't believe this, but for a fun, donate a sesame oil money by the way. The people who watched the temple were about to regard these people as the God of Wealth, and immediately made tea to greet everyone.

"I found that although you are not rich in these places, it seems that almost every larger village has a temple, and the interior is still very richly decorated, and these carvers are very good." Zhou Furong purely regarded the white horse prince, He Xiangu, the land lord, the civil and military double stars, and the Bodhisattva enshrined above as works of art.

"The beliefs of the people are sometimes difficult to understand." Chu Jiaqiang didn't want to make more comments, and it was not good to say these things in the temple. If his second uncle and second aunt were present, he would definitely be scolded.

When the hearts of ordinary people are very simple, their faith will become very strong. They may rather suffer more than let the incense in the temple be broken, a phenomenon that is very incredible to the people in the city.

"Master, do you have any talisman for sale in this temple? I'd like to take a few back. A middle-aged female tourist asked.

Chu Jiaqiang almost laughed, the tourist actually regarded the temple watcher as a master. The person who watched the temple was also stunned, and then hurriedly ran inside, rummaged through a lot, and then turned out a box. Under the strange gaze of everyone, he took out a key and opened the lock neatly.

Everyone looked at it, and the box was still wrapped in noble yellow silk, as if it was very precious. The man opened the silk, and there was a pile of jade inside, including jade peach, jade Buddha, and jade bodhisattva.

"Men wear Bodhisattvas, women wear Buddhas, children wear jade peaches, you pick them yourself, they are all five yuan a piece, and those who donated incense money just now don't need to pay any more, no matter how much they donate, otherwise the gods will blame. This is the time when the temple fair was held in the past, and someone had already opened the light. The man explained. Make everything clear so that everyone is not upset.

Five yuan a piece, it is indeed not expensive, after all, the piece of jade is real, plus carving, it is estimated that the temple will not make any money. People may have opened the temple fair specifically for the villagers and people who came to watch, and they didn't intend to make money. From this, it can also be seen that the folk customs here are very good, at least there is no cheesiness to let the gods get money. Unlike some temples, it is purely to make money, taking advantage of the people's beliefs, and digging out their minds to drill into the money hole.

Therefore, almost everyone stepped forward to pick a few pieces. There wasn't much left, and some people couldn't get it. The man who watched the temple had to smile and said, "I'm sorry, that's all that's left." By the way, there are some cloth talismans below, and those who don't have jade talismans can take a few, all of them are the same, and the gods will protect them. ”

Leaving the White Horse Temple, some people sighed: "The people here are really simple, although they are not very rich, but they feel very good." ”……)

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