Volume II, Chapter 31

Dear Tourists: Hello everyone! First of all, please let me extend a warm welcome to you on behalf of the staff of Hubei Education International Travel Service. Welcome to the "Three Kingdoms Wu Chu Land, Chibi Ancient Battlefield". I am the tour guide of your trip to the Red Cliff of the Three Kingdoms, my name is Liu Yaping, you can call me Xiao Liu. The one sitting next to me is Master Li, who is the driver today, who took us to explore the ancient battlefield of Chibi. Master Li has a lot of driving experience, so he doesn't have to worry about driving safety. I'm glad to have the opportunity to visit with you, and I hope my sincerity can be exchanged for your happiness!

Speaking of the Battle of Chibi, it can be said that everyone knows that Cao Cao personally led an army of 800,000 troops to the south in an attempt to eliminate the two countries of Wu and Shu, and the Sun-Liu coalition army only used 50,000 people to win the entire war, and the most important turning point was in this Chibi War. Not to mention that this is one of the few examples in military history where less wins more, the story of the Three Kingdoms that happened before and after this battle is enough for us to come here to remember this history.

Chibi Scenic Area is located in the northwest of Chibi City in the southeast of Hubei Province. "The two dragons fought to decide the male and female, the Chibi building ship swept the ground, the fire shone on the sky and the sea of clouds, and Zhou Yu broke Cao Gong here." The "Red Cliff" in the poem of Li Bai, the great poet of the Tang Dynasty, is the ancient battlefield of the Three Kingdoms that everyone wants to visit today. Chibi is now the only ancient battlefield site in China that still has its original appearance, and it attracts Chinese and foreign tourists with its rich and profound cultural connotation. Why can the Battle of Chibi defeat the many with fewer and the inferior over the superior? Let's roam the red cliffs, hang the ancients, and explore the mysteries. The rich cultural connotation contained in the Battle of Chibi is mainly "good and skillful". Nowadays, the market competition is in full swing, and the world's people who chase life goals are as strong as forests, if you can appreciate the wisdom of the ancestors from Chibi tourism and use the past for the present, it will be worth the trip.

Dajiangdong goes to the waves, the eternal romantic characters, a song "Nian Nujiao. "Chibi Nostalgia" makes us feel the magnificent scenery of "the waves crashing on the shore and rolling up thousands of piles of snow" in the poems of Su Da Wenhao. Here I have to mention the two red cliffs in Hubei. Wen Chibi in Huanggang, Wu Chibi in Xianning. After Su Shi was demoted to Huangzhou, which is now Huanggang, he suddenly sighed with emotion on the cliff that seemed to be the Red Cliff War by the river, and wrote "Red Cliff Fu" with a pen, and the actual Red Cliff War took place on the riverside of Chibi Town in Chibi City. That's where we went.

Tourists and friends came to the Three Kingdoms Chibi Ancient Battlefield Scenic Area, which was rebuilt in 2005 and is now divided into a ruins area and an antique building area. The seven powerful characters of "Three Kingdoms Chibi Ancient Battlefield" at the entrance were inscribed by former President Xi on November 4, 2007. The relics area includes the Conferral Hall, the Fengxiao Nunnery, the thousand-year-old ginkgo, the Three Kingdoms Sculpture Garden, the Baifeng Platform, the cliff stone carvings, and the Chibi Cultural Relics Exhibition Hall. The antique building area is mainly composed of the racecourse, the Chibi Tower, the golden city, the earth city and the Shenwu platform.

The place where we are now is Chibi Jitou. Chibi Jitou is located on the south bank of the Yangtze River, we look around, in the Yangtze River south of the riverside plain only this Chibi Mountain, it is like a sharp sword obliquely inserted into the heart of the river, there is a great tendency to cut off the Yangtze River. Looking up at the other side, that is the Wulin Ancient Village where Cao Cao was stationed in the past, where human and horse bones up to 1 meter deep have been found, as well as bronze horse shoes marked with the year name of the year. Ulin was a narrow corridor in the past, divided into upper, middle and lower three parts, the upper Ulin is Cao Cao's infantry, the lower Ulin is the cavalry, and the middle Ulin is Cao Cao's headquarters and the place where the water city is located.

Let's look at the Yijiang Pavilion again. Yijiang Pavilion was originally Zhou Yu's forward observation post and command post, named after the Chibi Mountain such as Kunpeng's wings obliquely inserted into the heart of the river, and was built by Cai Hanqing. Please look at this couplet on the pavilion pillar, which is abbreviated according to the poet Zhu Yizhun in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Let's look at Shanglian: the river is ruthlessly red, and when the lease was hung, who didn't know the good way to prosper and dominate. This is to say that fire and water are merciless, and war is merciless. During the Battle of Chibi, the river here was red by the relentless fire, and now when we look back on those years, we will naturally think of this famous example of winning more with less and defeating the strong with the weak. Zibu refers to Zhang Zhao, an old minister of the Three Dynasties of Eastern Wu, and an official and a long history. Xingba is Gan Ning, a young naval general in Eastern Wu, who was originally a subordinate of Jiangxia Huangzu, and after defecting to Eastern Wu, he offered advice to Sun Quan, first taking Jiangxia and then Jingzhou, in order to consolidate the foundation of Jiangdong. This proposition was strongly opposed by Zhang Zhao, and at the critical moment, Sun Quan distinguished right from wrong, tried to eliminate dissent, and adopted Gan Xingba's good strategy. This joint is based on the dispute between Gan Ning and Zhang Zhao, and praises Sun Quan for his good policies. Let's take a look at the next couplet: the lakes and mountains are blue, leaving behind the traces of victory, and I still think that Zhou Lang is worth Lu Di's wind badge. Zhou Lang refers to Zhou Yu, during the Battle of Chibi, he mainly attacked by fire, burned Cao Cao's army chain of water cities, and burned Cao Cao's grand blueprint to the ground. Lu Di refers to Lu Xun, according to the "Three Kingdoms, Wu Zhi, Lu Xun Biography": in the 24th year of Jian'an (219 AD), Lu Xun and Lu Meng used a strategy to seize Jingzhou, and in the first year of Huangwu in Eastern Wu (222 AD), Liu Bei led an army of 700,000 in Shu to avenge Guan Yu and crusade against Eastern Wu. Lu Xun led his troops in Yiling, used fire to attack, and burned Liu Bei's company camp for 700 miles. Liu Bei retreated to Fengjie, Sichuan, and died in the White Emperor City. The two of them have made great contributions in the annals of history and are known as the "Three Kingdoms and Two Fires". After the founding of the country, Zhou Yu and Lu Xun faced the crisis twice, and they had to consolidate the foundation of Soochow. And because when the two of them made meritorious contributions, they were both in the weak crown, and they were opposed by Zhang Zhao and others, and Sun Quan had the ability to exclude public opinion, reuse young generals, and build a miracle for all generations. "Romance of the Three Kingdoms: Wu Zhi" commented on Sun Quan: "Can bend down and endure humiliation, be talented and virtuous, have the wonder of hooking and practice, and the masterpiece of the British, so he can be good at Jiangbiao and become a Dingzhi industry." The whole couplet integrates scene, lyricism, and history, and uses the stories of several civil servants and military generals in the history of Eastern Wu to make contributions to the Eastern Wu regime, and praises Sun Quan for being able to know how to make good use of people at critical moments and is a wise monarch.

Speaking of which, everyone knows that during the Battle of Chibi, Zhou Yu was the commander-in-chief of the Sun-Liu coalition army. The stone statue of Zhou Yu in front of us was inaugurated in the autumn of 1990 and designed by Cheng Dexing of the Hubei Provincial Museum. The shape of Zhou Yu's statue combines the dual advantages of Han portrait stone carving, Northern Wei stone carving and modern architectural art, combining realism with freehand, considering both the historical environment and the service of tourism, and emphasizing the latter. Zhou Yu's robe design reflects this characteristic, from the front, the east wind blows, and the robe floats to the northwest, which coincides with the southeast wind direction of Kong Ming's altar sacrifice; On the reverse side, it looks like a stone wall, which is consistent with the "red cliff". The design of the base is unique. The pattern carved by the knife and axe symbolizes the stormy waves that hit the shore, and the three levels are a metaphor for "rolling up a thousand piles of snow", which is taken from Su Shi's words