Volume II, Chapter 66
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, and also metaphorically represents the Three Kingdoms. The base of the statue is 2 meters wide and 3 meters long, and the figure is 6.85 meters high, carved from 26 granite stones. The 8.58-meter-tall stone statue is as tall as five adults combined. You see Zhou Dudu holding a sharp sword, his eyes are heroic, and he is not afraid in the face of more than 200,000 strong enemies of Cao Jun, and the whole statue shows Zhou Yu's heroism of "wanting to compete with Cao Gong" vividly.
As we all know, the period of the Three Kingdoms, and Wolong Kong Ming's same name is the phoenix pangtong, these two are the two famous people who lived in seclusion in Xiangyang, the phoenix brood is specially designed to commemorate the battle of Chibi in the "serial plan" of Pang Tong built, it was built in the Qing Daoguang twenty-six years (that is, AD 1846), originally nine major halls, because of the destruction in the war, now only the last heavy construction area of 300 square meters, divided into three halls, the main hall enshrines the whole body statue of Mr. Feng Chia, there is a couplet on both sides of the statue:
There are many taboos in creation, and the dragon and phoenix are not allowed to return to one room;
If the gentleman does not die, the country may not be allowed three points.
People have legends: Wolong and phoenix chicks can settle the world with one piece, and Liu Bei is determined to sweep away the heroes. Kuang Fu Han room, he not only got Kong Ming, but also got the phoenix Pang Tong, but unfortunately "the creation is more taboo, the dragon and the phoenix are not allowed to return to the same room", as a result, the same wisdom of the incarnation Pang Tong died at an early age, if Pang Tong does not die, it is very likely that the history of the Three Kingdoms will be another matter, of course, this lower link is an evaluation of Pang Tong's higher realm.
The Conferral Hall will show the stories of the 36 strategies in the Three Kingdoms, and everyone can experience the wisdom in them. Feng Yan Nunnery is to commemorate Mr. Feng Yan Pang Tong built, the earliest for the nine major halls, after repeated wars, the last only one layer was retained, there was "Wolong Phoenix Chicks, get one to get the world" said, Liu Bei got both, but did not get the world, this also fulfilled another sentence "one mountain does not allow two tigers". Although Pang Tong is extremely ugly, his wisdom is no less than that of Kong Ming, but it is a pity that he is too narrow-minded, otherwise the history of the Three Kingdoms will be rewritten. However, Mr. Feng Xiao played an indispensable role in the Battle of Chibi, and it was precisely because he presented a series of plans to Cao Cao that Cao Jun's warships were completely wiped out, so why did Pang Tong contribute to Cao Cao and help Liu Bei? It is said that Cao Cao disliked Pang Tong's ugly appearance and did not reuse it, and Pang Tong could only live in seclusion at the foot of Jinluan Mountain all day long, planting vegetables and making tea, and Liu Bei and Kong Ming decided to reuse him after discovering this genius, so in order to repay the kindness of the encounter, Pang Tong helped Sun and Liu to join forces. And the inscription on the Feng Xian'an "absolutely sweet and less" is exactly when Kong Ming came here to drink tea, he felt that Pang Tong's tea was very sweet, and it was rare in the world. Their relationship is deeply visible.
The ginkgo tree planted by Pang Tong at the entrance of the temple is more than 1,800 years old, and the wonder of the hermaphroditic community is also rare in the world. Let's guess their male and female in a moment!
In the Three Kingdoms Sculpture Garden, Liu Guan, Zhang Taoyuan, Sanjieyi, Cao Cao's Qingmei Cooking Wine Discussion Hero, Zhang Fei's horizontal knife immediately roared Duan Changbanqiao, Lu Bu Fengyi Pavilion and other character stories, wait and listen to me one by one.
Worshipping the wind platform to get along is the place where Zhuge Liang sacrifices to the sky and borrows the east wind. And the cliff stone carving is the most essence of the whole scenic spot, on the vast river, between the fiery red cliffs, impressively engraved with the word "red cliff", according to legend, Zhou Lang waved his sword on the stone wall after winning the battle carved the word "red cliff", later after the research of archaeological experts, these two words are engraved by the Tang people, and the symbol of the word Luan in the middle is the representative of the fire phoenix in Taoism, it is a fire of the year, burned the entire river surface of the year, also burned the current tourism market, attracting countless Chinese and foreign tourists to visit.
Finally, we want to visit the Chibi War Array Pavilion, which is located in Zilong Beach on the right side of Chibi Mountain, is China's first special exhibition hall with the theme of ancient war history, in October 1994, the state and local investment of 4.5 million yuan was built, with a total area of 2069 square meters, the peculiar shape has its specific meaning. The first sentence of the opening sentence of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is: "All major events in the world must be divided for a long time, and they must be divided for a long time." The circular top in the middle of the exhibition hall occupies the center majestically, covering three rooms, symbolizing the unity of the motherland and symbolizing the unity; The three semi-independent rooms next to it represent the three kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu after the Chibi War, which means points; The round top in the middle is made of imitation of Zhou Yu's helmet, reflecting the commander-in-chief of the Red Cliff War - Zhou Yu. The plane looks like a Tai Chi gossip map, symbolizing Zhuge Liang, and the side looks like an ancient warship, reflecting the Chibi War based on water, and the overall look looks like a hot wheel, highlighting the fire attack of the Chibi War, the whole exhibition hall contains a hall and three rooms, it is rich in murals, models, charts, cultural relics, cultural and historical materials and seven groups of wax figures, a group of large-scale imitation Tang Sancai character statues, in order to show the general situation of the war zone of the Chibi War, social history and the whole process, so that people can move from reality to history, It reproduces the humanistic history of the late Eastern Han Dynasty and the spectacular scene of the Red Cliff soldiers of the Three Kingdoms at that time, and the recently released epic blockbuster "Red Cliff" will also add a lot of color to the ancient Three Kingdoms battlefield.
After visiting so many historical monuments, we might as well go to the racecourse to experience the thrill of galloping, climb to the top of the Chibi Pagoda to feel the extreme eyes of Chu Tianshu overlooking the Yangtze River, and travel through the modern and ancient historical scenes!
Okay, tourists and friends Chibi ancient battlefield tour has come to an end here, my explanation or on the way has deficiencies, please bear with me, and please point out my inconsiderateness. Thank you! Everyone is free to move, we will meet at the gate at 16 o'clock, please remember that our license plate is 123456.... also