Jiang Duyun followed the old man Lu and walked around.

I found a place to rest my mother, she was not a cultivator after all, and she was a little tired after a long journey. The first place to go is the Demon Suppression Tower. When the monks came to Chang'an City, they all loved to come to this place.

In the Demon Descending Tower, Jiang Duyun listened to the roars of those demon beasts and followed behind the old man deer, without any waves in his heart. In her hands, there is a black python, which is also an ancient beast. She wasn't afraid of these monsters at all, but she was still interested.

At this time, on the second floor of the Demon Suppression Tower, they met two people.

A white-haired old man with a very burly figure. There is also a scholar in Confucian clothes, with beautiful eyebrows. He looked at Jiang Duyun and smiled slightly. Then he passed by her and looked like a nice person.

Jiang Duyun was a little strange and asked, "These two people don't look like master and apprentice, nor do they look like father and son. ”

Old Man Lu smiled: "These two people are from the Demon Sect, poor people." “

Jiang Duyun shrugged, she didn't know anyone from the Demon Sect. She was in the Demon Slaying Tower, wandering around, but she didn't find any good places. So, I walked to a fence and began to look at Chang'an City.

It is very high here, and you can see the scene of Chang'an City.

Old Man Lu walked over and said, "You look at Chang'an City, doesn't it look like a big array? Now that the Dao Gate is rising, Chang'an City may also be in danger." I'm too old to hold this big array, don't you really think about it?"

Jiang Duyun looked into the distance and said, "I really don't want to think about it. ”

Master Lu sighed and said, "Guarding the big array here, you can help Xie Baoshu." ”

Hearing this, Jiang Duyun was stunned for a moment, and her heart swayed a little.

Looking up, outside the Demon Suppression Tower, it is Suzaku Street. This street divides Chang'an City into two parts, east and west, east of the street is under the jurisdiction of Wannian County, and west of the street is under the jurisdiction of Chang'an County. With this as the boundary, it extends from the Mingde Gate in the middle of the south of the city, and a straight road goes straight to Nanshan Shitouyu.

"Cuitai Zhuang does not know why, there is a north-south road in front of the village, commonly known as the Tianmen boundary, the Mingde Gate of the North Zhijing City, the Vermilion Bird Gate of the Imperial City, and the Chengtian Gate of the Palace City. At that time, the south gate of Chang'an was extended from the Imperial City Suzaku Gate, and the Mingde Gate of Kuocheng was the first south gate of Chang'an City. Suzaku Avenue is in Chang'an City and is the only avenue that enters the inner city of Chang'an. Every day, envoys and merchants from many countries in the world have to enter Chang'an City through the Mingde Gate.

The Vermilion Bird Gate of the Tang Dynasty is straight to the Chengtian Gate of the Miyagi City in the north and the Mingde Gate of the South Gate of the Outer Guocheng City, forming the central axis of the whole city. The north and south streets under the gate are the central streets of the whole city, among which the section from Zhuque Gate to Mingde Gate outside Guocheng is called Zhuquemen Street, and the section from Zhuque Gate to Chengtianmen Imperial City is called Chengtianmen Street. Chengtianmen Street is called Tianmen Street, referred to as Tianjie Street, because it directly leads to the Taiji Palace where the emperor lived and dealt with the government. The so-called Heavenly Street is naturally closely related to the "sky" of Chengtianmen.

Jiang Duyun felt that this Chang'an City was indeed like a big array.

Chengtianmen Street inside the Suzaku Gate and Suzaku Street outside the Suzaku Gate should actually be the same street, and they should both be called Heavenly Street. This street connects the Mingde Gate,

Vermilion Bird Gate, Chengtian Gate, Xuanwu Gate are on a line from north to south, and the south direction is the Zhonglong Zhonglong Zhongnan Mountain, which is the "dragon vein" of Chang'an City.

The poet Han Yuyou's poem "Outside the Eighteen Members of the Water Department in Early Spring" praises this street: "The light rain on the heavenly street is as moist as a crisp, and the grass is close but there is nothing. It is the most beneficial spring of the year, and it is absolutely better than the smoke and willows in the imperial capital. "It's fascinating to read.

Jiang Duyun has read a lot of books on the mountain these days, and basically dabbled in the poems and essays of the Tang Dynasty.

Han Yu's residence is in Jing'an Fang, the fifth square of the second column in the east of Zhuque Street, and he also has a poem "Go to the West of the Street Early to Present Lu Li Erzhong Sheren": "The east and west of the heavenly street are different, and only the fate becomes a tour." The moon is bright and the ditch is dawning, and the cicadas are singing in the autumn of the embankment tree. It seems that he went from the east of Suzaku Street, where he lived, to the temple west of the street to worship the Buddha. This poem also proves that Han Yu also called Suzaku Street Heavenly Street.

In addition, Han Yu's "Please Honor the Table" also mentions Heavenly Street: "Ximu Heavenly Street, the stars are clear". Of course, there are many poems in Datang that describe this magnificent and wide street. There is a prime minister poet Zhang said's "and Zhang Jian Guan Pardon": "The sun is in Shuangque, and the heavenly street is like a hundred gods." Rez relieved his anger and rebuilt Yin Chun. Zhang said that Yongle Fang, which lives in the east of Zhuque Street, is adjacent to the north and south of Jing'an Fang of Han Yu.

Du Mu's "Autumn Evening": "The silver candle autumn light cold painting screen, light Luo small fan fluttering fireflies. The night of Tianjie is as cool as water, lying down to watch the morning glory Vega. "Du Mu's house is in Anrenfang, which is close to Suzaku Street.

Luo Yin's "Snow Ji": "The snow in Nanshan is clear, and the cold air is turning strong. I am sad to see the grass in the sky, green and want to live. This poem is the same as Han Yu's image of "the light rain in the heavenly street is as moist as a crisp, and the grass color is close but there is nothing", which is all the grass of the heavenly street. However, these two sentences of Han poems are outstanding through the ages, and they naturally outperform Luo Yin's poems.

Then there is Cao Song's "Wude Hall Retreats and Looks at the Spring of Jiuqu": "The Jade Palace retreats at the beginning, and the heavenly street looks at spring." The first rain in the south mountain, the north is clean and dust-free. Luo Ye's "Fangcao": "In the heavenly street on the bank of the Qujiang River, there are many cars and horses in the two places. Weng Chengzan's "Morningside": "The cold fog of the heavenly street is closed, and the scenery is sad in the morning. Huai has no color because of the rain, chrysanthemum has the spirit for autumn. ”

When Jiang Duyun read these poems before, he thought they were very beautiful, but now he seems to know that the poems can only show a part of the beauty. She looked at the old man deer and asked, "The guardian of this great array, why did you choose me and not others?"

The old man Lu smiled: "You may not believe it when you say it, I can see people's hearts." ”

In his eyes, the hearts of the world are black and white.

There are only a few people who are red.

Jiang Duyun's heart is the most special, and it is star-colored. She is also a qi practitioner, and she is really suitable to be her heir. It depends on whether she is willing or not, and the old man Lu moves out of Xie Baoshu, which is also selfish. He is approaching his lifespan, and he can't find a better disciple.

Jiang Duyun looked into the distance and said, "I'll think about it." ”

She yearns for freedom, but when it comes to Xie Baoshu, she has to reconsider.

The "Heavenly Street" from Suzaku Gate to Chengtian Gate is also known as "Huai Street".

The street trees on both sides of Tongqu Street and Fangxiang Street in Chang'an City are also mainly planted with locust trees, which are inherited from the Han Dynasty

Command. The locust tree is a native tree species in Guanzhong area, which is not only easy to plant and grow, but also has dense and dense leaves, which can be shaded by green shade and shade to cool off the heat. Therefore, the tree is called the Tang Acacia, also known as the National Acacia, and it is the only tree among the trees named after the Tang State.

It is different from the acacia tree, that is, the long white locust flower, which is picked and steamed with flour to eat, called locust flower wheat rice. The flowering of the Chinese acacia is two months late to the summer, the flowers are light green, and some are purple, poisonous and inedible. However, the leaves of the national acacia are edible and can be made into locust leaf cakes.

Du Fu's poem "Sophora Leaf Cold Tao": "Green and high locust leaves, picking and paying for the Chinese kitchen; new noodles come to the market, the juice is like a match. ”

In the Tang Dynasty, the acacia leaf cake is a delicacy that ordinary people and even emperors will eat.

The locust trees in Chang'an City were generally planted from the early Sui Dynasty, and were more commonly planted in the Tang Dynasty. On both sides of Suzaku Street, the locust trees are arranged particularly neatly, so Suzaku Street has the reputation of "Huai Street". Of course, "Huai Street" is not dedicated to Suzaku Street, and all the streets between the locust trees will be called "Huai Street" in the future.

During the Tang Dezong, there was a Jing Zhaoyin named Wu Miao, when the locust tree in Guanjie was missing, the division made up for the gap with an elm tree, and Wu Miao's knowledge said: "Yu is not the play of Jiuqu", that is, the elm tree is not worthy of the momentum of Jiuqu Street at all. Immediately ordered to plant the locust tree. At that time, Chang'an Avenue was wide and straight, open and open, and the locust trees on both sides were lush like honor guards, like the guards of the Yamen, and people also called "Huai Street" "Huai Ya".

This national acacia was really valued by people back then, and it led to a lot of interesting anecdotes. According to the "Sanfu Yellow Map": the Han Dynasty planted rows of locust trees on the street near Taixue, and the Taishu gathered on the first and fifteenth days of the new month to exchange living and learning utensils, and people called it "Huai City".

People also often refer to the scientific examination with Huai, the year of the examination is called "Huaiqiu", the examination is called "stepping on Huai", and the month of the examination is called Huaihuang. The poet Li Nao's "Chronicles of the Middle Years of Qin" contains: "Jin Shi Xia Di, in July of that year, rededicated a new text, seeking a solution, saying: 'Huaihua Huang, busy lifting children'. ”

The locust tree is also widely planted in the palace, called "Shougong Huai"; the locust tree is planted in front of the official office, called "Huaifu", so the locust tree is also called "official locust"; the common people think that the locust tree attracts wealth and likes to plant it in front of the door.

The Suzaku Gate and Suzaku Street are the most dazzling, and the years of illumination are in the Sui and Tang dynasties, and the imperial court often holds grand celebrations and other activities here. In the ninth year of Emperor Kaihuang of the Sui Dynasty, Yang Guanghe, who was still the king of Jin at that time, and Yang Su, the minister of the minister, led an army of 500,000 to break through Jiankang, captured Chen Shubao, the queen of Chen, destroyed the Chen State, ended the division between the north and the south during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and realized the unification of the whole country.

On the day of the return of the class teacher, Emperor Wen of Sui Yang Jian "personally respected the Vermilion Bird Gate Lao Triumphant Division, and rewarded him for his celebration." From outside the door, the accumulation of cloth and silk in the middle of the road, equal to Nanguo, was awarded in the second order, and the cost was more than 3 million sections". The Vermilion Bird Gate ushered in the first grand festival after his completion, and also opened the curtain of Chang'an City step by step towards glory.

Also, Jiang Duyun knew that Master Xuanzang, who had learned scriptures from the West Heaven, had been welcomed back on this heavenly street.

Master Xuanzang lasted 16 years and went to India for 16 years

After learning from the scriptures and going through hardships, he finally returned to Chang'an, and the Tang Taizong who was in the eastern capital of Luoyang at that time sent Fang Xuanling to stay in the capital. The road more than 20 miles outside the Suzaku Gate was crowded with people on both sides, full of welcoming crowds who had rushed to hear the news.

It is reported that Master Xuanzang brought back the Buddhist scriptures and Buddha statues on display at the south end of Suzaku Street, inviting people to watch. The crowd of people vying for the view, from the Suzaku Gate to the Hongfu Temple where Xuanzang lived, lined up into a long queue for dozens of miles, burning incense and scattering flowers, drumming and music, and the voices of people were boiling.

Everyone wants to see Xuanzang's true face of "the pine wind and water moon are not enough to compare with its Qinghua, and the fairy dew pearl can read its Langrun". Later, when the Master moved to the Temple of Mercy and Grace, hundreds of thousands of people in Chang'an stood on both sides of Zhuque Street with fragrant flowers and candles to welcome the Master. The scene was extremely hot, and Suzaku Street witnessed the most solemn and solemn historical moment of this Buddhist event.

In Chang'an City, there are many famous poets living on both sides of Zhuque Street, which can be called a "poetry street", where how many romances of literati and are deduced.

According to Wu Bolun's "A Brief History of Xi'an", it is recorded: "The poet Jia Dao, riding a thin donkey across Zhuque Street, because the autumn wind is high, the yellow leaves fall to the ground, came up with a sentence 'falling leaves are full of Chang'an', when he thought hard, and came up with the sentence 'the autumn wind blows Weishui', he was overjoyed, and unconsciously collided with the honor guard of Jingzhao Yin Liu Qichu and was detained overnight.

Later, he rode a donkey and recited poems, and when he repeatedly considered whether it was better to use the word "knock" or the word "push" in the sentence "monk knocking on the door under the moon", and constantly used his hands to compare and push the posture, he unexpectedly rushed into the honor guard of Jingzhao Yin Hanyu. After explaining the situation, Han Yu said that it was better to use 'knock', and the two became friends since then. In this way, not only was the historical allusion of "scrutiny" born, but Jia Dao also became a student of Han Yu.

Han Yuke is one of the leaders of the literary world, and there are many students who worship under Han Yumen, including Li He, Li Ao, Zhang Ji, Liu Cha, etc., all of whom belong to the first son of Hanmen, and Zhang's home is in West Yankangfang, Zhuque Street.

At that time, Suzaku Street was not inhabited by ordinary people, and most of them were important ministers of the court, such as prime ministers and dukes, who came and went in purple court clothes. So at that time, people called this street "Zimo".

Liu Yuxi caused trouble and was degraded for the Xuandu view poem, which happened on this Suzaku Street, and the poem inscribed was "Yuan and ten years, from Langzhou to Beijing, the play to see the flowers of the gentlemen", the poem said: "Zimo red dust is blowing on the face, and no one is going to see the flowers back." The peach trees in the Xuandu Temple are all planted after Liu Lang goes. ”

Zimo" refers to Suzaku Street, Xuandu Temple is in the west of Suzaku Street, and the east of the street is opposite to Xingshan Temple. Because this section of the road lies on a high slope from east to west, it is located in the Chang'an Imperial City "Ninety-Five Noble Position", that is, the Son of Heaven, "I don't want ordinary people to live in it, so I put the Xuandu Temple, Daxingshan Temple to town." ”

There were peach blossoms and peony gardens in Xuanduguan back then, which are now destroyed. Zheng Gu's "Evening Return to the West of the Street" also mentions "Zimo": "The spring water of the royal ditch surrounds the idle square, and the return of the letter horse is on the short wall." The famous garden is near Zimo, and the evening breeze brings peony fragrance.

Li Dong's "Gift to Chang'an Bilangzhong": "Gaomen cold swamp water clouds, heron knows the owner of Zhu Yi. Half of the lungs are sunny with snow, and the side of the heavenly street is quiet and dust-free. The heron in this poem knows Zhuyi, and Zimo Hongchen all alludes to Suzaku Street.

Liu

Yu Xi lives in the Guangfu Fang in the east of Zhuque Street, and the Chongye Fang of the Xuandu Temple in the west of the street is diagonally opposite the door. The matter had to start with Liu Yuxi and Liu Zongyuan and others going to Chang'an Xuandu to watch the flowers.

Liu Yuxi saw that the peach blossoms in the Xuandu Temple were full of flowers, and he touched the scene, so he wrote this famous poem "Yuan and Ten Years, Summoned from Langzhou to Beijing, and Gave Flowers to the Gentlemen". The first two sentences are realistic, and Chang'an originally had the custom of seeing flowers in spring.

The Tang people's heavy peony ethos. Although the peach blossoms also attract a lot of viewers, the flowers are not high. Liu Yuxi also has "willow branch words" said: "The peach and plum in the east of the city are exhausted, and they are like weeping poplars for infinite time", showing his contempt for peach blossoms, and the last two sentences in the poem title "Playing to see the flowers of the gentlemen" and the last two sentences have the meaning of banter and irony, and the peach blossoms are metaphorical to the powerful, and they have been promoted in the case of squeezing out of the court, that is, the peach blossoms in the Xuandu Temple were planted after Liu Lang went.

In this way, the poem touches on a very sensitive issue at that time: Tang Xianzong himself ascended the throne by forcing the palace and killed his father soon after. As a result, Liu was once again demoted to Bozhou, that is, now Zunyi, Guizhou, at that time was in a wild place, the road was far away, it was more difficult to walk, Liu Yuxi had an eighty old mother, and it was very inconvenient to carry it.

Liu Zongyuan is his good friend, and at this moment he is also crossing the river in the mud, and he is difficult to protect, so he will be relegated to Liuzhou to do the history of assassination, then Liuzhou is now Liuzhou City, Guangxi, although it was also a remote place at that time, but on the whole it may be a little better than Banzhou in the wilderness. In short, Liu Zongyuan generously stood up at this time and wrote a piece of music overnight, saying that for the sake of Liu Yuxi's eighty-year-old mother, he hoped that the imperial court would change their tune. Liu Zongyuan's recital probably also played a role, and the imperial court finally decided to reassign Liu Yuxi to the Lianzhou Assassin History.

Four years later, Liu Yuxi went to Luoyang and returned to Chang'an, because of Pei Du's recommendation, he once again entered the court as an official and was a bachelor of the Xian Palace. This year is the spring of the second year of Yamato. Liu Yuxi made another poem "Revisiting the Xuandu View": "Half of the 100-acre garden is moss, and the peach blossoms are clean and the cauliflower is blooming. Where is the Taoist priest planting peaches now? Liu Lang is here again today. ”

This poem vividly expresses his indignation and disobedience, the so-called "former Liu Lang is here again" is indeed backbone enough, has the courage to meet the struggle at any time, and does not compromise with the evil forces, and despises the spirit of the powerful. It has always been admired by future generations.

Jiang Duyun thought for a long time and said, "This big array, if you really need me, I can stay." But I have to go back to the Star Palace and ask the patriarch. ”

Old Man Lu smiled: "Why bother so much. ”

He stretched out his hand, and in this demon subduing tower, a formation suddenly lit up. After a while, a faint voice came: "Surnamed Lu, you can dare to kidnap my disciple of the Star Palace." ”

This voice is very gentle, and it is the ancestor of the Star Palace.

Old Man Lu didn't panic at all and said, "You know, it's a good thing for her. ”

Indeed, the voice fell silent. After a long time, she said, "Fate is like this, since this is the case, little Twilight is you."

It's decided. Anyway, everywhere, you can see the stars. ”

With that, the formation vanished.

The monks of the Astral House pay attention to fate, as well as the stars.

Jiang Duyun asked, "Staying, can you really help Brother Baoshu?"

Old Man Lu nodded and said, "I know that Xie Baoshu is about to go to Dongxing Shizhou to seek revenge on his father." You stay here and take over the big formation, and you can definitely help him in the future. Of course, the premise is to protect Chang'an City first. ”

Jiang Duyun pondered for a moment and said, "Then I am willing." ”

Chang'an City is a good place, she and her mother like it, and it is not a bad thing to stay here for the rest of their lives.

In particular, it can also help Xie Baoshu.

He is the noble person of her life, how can this kind of great favor be repaid?

(End of chapter)