Chapter Forty-Eight: The White Horse Crossing The Platform of the Four Women
Hakuba Ferry.
The golden embankment is divided into brocade cables, and the white horse crosses the lotus boat.
This place was originally just an ordinary place, but in this ordinary place, it secretly carries the thousand-year-old safety of China, I have imagined this place countless times in my mind, but I have never been able to make up what it looks like here, until today I finally see it.
Before coming, we had done a survey, the White Horse Ferry is an important Gujin Ferry, because it is located in the Yellow River, guarding the north-south main road, its geographical location is extremely important, in the "Historical Records" has recorded that the White Horse Railway, in order to show the princes to imitate the shape of the system, then the world knows where to go, so it has been a place where soldiers must fight for thousands of years.
But what is presented in front of us now is not the ancient ferry port that we imagined that the soldiers must fight, but a circular platform ruins, and next to the ruins is a majestic ancient temple, no matter how we look at it, it is not in the slightest match with the white horse ferry we know.
We looked blankly at the ruins and ancient temples in front of us, looking at each other and not knowing what to do.
Shen Lang looked east and west, and his frowning brows were full of his incomprehension.
"Brother Chuan, Brother Ting, what's going on, how can Baima Ferry be a temple?"
I've never been here, so I can only look at Chun Ting, and Chun Ting doesn't seem to know anything about this place, so I turned my eyes to Ling Xuan.
Ling Xuan spread his hands in a helpless manner, after getting out of the car, all his emotions in the car had disappeared, if I hadn't been in the same car with him, I really couldn't imagine that he would have such extreme mood swings in the car just now.
"Brother Ting, don't look at me, I don't know, I scolded me when I mentioned you casually before, how dare I understand more, for fear of angering you."
Everyone stood in place, looking up at the ancient temple in the distance, and no one knew what to do next.
Just when we were at a loss, we found that on the side of the road not far ahead, there was a kind old man who was leisurely basking in the sun on the deck chair, so Yi He asked his men to disperse and secretly followed, and a few of us walked over slowly, intending to learn more about this place in the mouth of this old man.
"Excuse me, old man, where is this place?"
It was Qi Zhi who opened her mouth to ask, she was petite and cute, and she has always been quite liked, and she is naturally much stronger than us when she speaks.
"The little girl doesn't seem to be a local, here, this place is called Si Nutai, and that temple is called Huanghua Temple."
Sure enough, the old man heard Qi Zhi's voice, opened his eyes and looked at her, and his dissatisfaction with being disturbed quickly turned into his love for Qi Zhi.
"Four women's platforms? Old man, isn't this the White Horse Ferry? ”
After Shen Lang heard the old man's answer, he squatted beside the old man and pretended to be curious and asked.
"Once this was indeed the White Horse Ferry, but it has long been abandoned, and after it was abandoned, it was renamed the Four Women's Terrace, future generations, what is the purpose of your coming here?"
The old man first explained, and then, seeing that we were quite interested in this place, asked us curiously about our intentions. Institutions
"It's such an old man, we are from the Institute of History, I heard that there is a white horse ferry here, and I plan to come here to collect materials to make a special topic related to the ancient ferry, but unfortunately we didn't figure it out before we came, it turned out that this place has been deserted, which is really a pity."
Seeing that the old man was suspicious, Ling Xuan hurriedly spoke, found a suitable reason between the lightning and flint, and dealt with the past with a disappointed face.
What Ling Xuan said was reasonable, the old man did not doubt it after hearing it, and because of the reason Ling Xuan said, the old man was very interested and began to tell us about the relevant records here.
Here was built in the Warring States Period, abandoned in Jin Mingchang five years of the Yellow River south, we see now the ruins of the circular platform, is the local population of the four female platform, as for what soldiers must fight for the place of the saying, the origin of Wagangzhai and so on, these we already knew in advance, so we did not listen carefully, what really interests us is another story told by the old man.
As an important ferry port of the Yellow River, countless life and death are performed one by one on the bank of Baimajin every day, and in the face of the surging Yellow River, most of the people who come and go are full of emotions and thoughts.
And the most famous, since the generation of poet immortal Li Taibai, Li Bai resigned from Beijing and left Beijing to the north to Baimajin, ready to cross the Yellow River to travel Youyan, and when he stood in front of Baimajin, the wind rose here, the mount raised its head to the north and hissed, he was suddenly touched by the turbulent waves and the wind of the call sign, and wrote the poem "White Horse" with a pen.
The general sent a white horse and crossed the Yellow River. The flute drum is full of rivers and mountains, and the waves are surging. Wu'an has a vibrating tile, and Yishui has no cold song. Iron riding is like a snow-capped mountain, drinking and drying. Raise troops to hunt the moon cave, and turn the strategy towards that. Leaning on the sword to climb Yanran, the side is saga. Thousands of miles away from depression, there are many cultivated fields. Sweep away the desert and wrap up the tiger and Jinge.
After listening to it, I couldn't help but secretly think about it, the dignified generation of poet Li Taibai would actually write a poem for this place, thinking of Li Bai's era, and then thinking of the construction time of the Thousand Buddha Temple, I couldn't help but have a bold guess in my heart......
"Old man, although this place has been deserted, after all, it was once such an important ferry, why did you give up the name of Baimadu and call this place the Four Women's Platform instead?"
It was Xue Nan who interrupted my thoughts, she listened to the old man talk about it for a long time, but she could say a lot about what we already knew, so she couldn't help but change the topic.
"That's because of a tragic story."
The old man sighed with emotion, and then explained it to us.
In the second year of Emperor Heping of the Han Dynasty, the Yellow River broke again, and this place was naturally suffering from the flood because it was close to the Yellow River, and I don't know who came up with an idea to find two girls who belonged to the dragon and two tigers, and buried these four girls in the four corners of Tiantai Mountain on the day of the Midyear Festival on July 15, so that the flood would not flood again.
The Taishou here had no choice but to believe the sorcerer's statement, so he ordered the officials of Huaxian County and Jun County to find two girls who belonged to the dragon and two tigers, but since they knew that the chosen girl would be buried alive, none of the villagers refused to admit that their children were these two genera, and seeing that the fifteenth day of July was approaching, the two counties did not even find a girl.
Coincidentally, the county order of Jun County happened to have two daughters, one of the dragon and the other of the tiger, he really had no choice, and finally had to endure the pain and hand over his two children, and the county order of Huaxian County saw that the deadline had arrived, and in the end, he didn't care about the appearance, just bought two girls to fill up the number.
And later, when the river god knew that the county order of Huaxian County was disrespectful to it, he controlled the flood to flow only to the south, since then Jun County got rid of the river disaster, the flood disaster in Huaxian County has become more and more serious, in order to commemorate these four girls, people will call the Yellow River embankment near here Longhu Embankment, and this place will be renamed Si Nu Tai, which is the origin of the White Horse Ferry renamed Si Nu Tai.
After listening, everyone couldn't help but feel sorry for the girl who threw herself into the river, and sure enough, as the old man said, this is indeed a tragic story.
After listening to the old man's story, we have a general understanding of this place.
But after understanding, a serious question arises.
Now that this White Horse Ferry is deserted, where do we go to find the statue hidden here?