Chang'an, also known as Hojing and Xijing, was the economic and cultural center of ancient China for a long time, and was the city with the longest time as the capital in ancient China, and was called "the four ancient capitals of the world" together with Rome in Italy, Athens in Greece and Cairo in Egypt.

There are thirteen dynasties that have built their capitals here: Western Zhou, Qin, Western Han, Xin, Eastern Han, Western Jin, Former Zhao, Former Qin, Later Qin, Western Wei, Northern Zhou, Sui, Tang and other thirteen dynasties, which lasted for 1,140 years.

On the way, I was bored and I introduced the history of Chang'an, although I have never been to Chang'an, but for everyone who loves history, this thousand-year-old capital is full of mystery and yearning.

"Chang'an, I understand, but Brother Chuan, what does that mean longevity, is there really any place in Chang'an that has not disappeared for thousands of years and still exists?"

Shen Lang asked me suspiciously.

I smiled and told Shen Lang,

"This place is not a thousand-year-old in the true sense, eight rivers surround Chang'an, this mysterious place, just above one of the waters."

"I know this, didn't you say it before, the eight rivers around Chang'an refer to the eight rivers of Wei, Jing, Feng, Waterlogging, Wei, Zhu, Chan, and Ba, which surround Chang'an like stars and moons, but which river is it?"

Shen Lang was still full of doubts after listening to what I said.

I pretended to be profound, and spat out a passage from an ancient book.

"In the "Yonglu" has recorded a place, this place is the most Chang'an Chong, all from the west and east and enter and exit the two passes, Tong two passes, the road must be through."

After listening to me, Shen Lang was still puzzled, but Xue Nan suddenly realized.

"The high and dangerous buildings are low and the dust is low, and the Baqiao climbs and folds a frequency. The contemplation song is a ruthless tree, and it is only given away if you don't understand it. Forever, forever bridge, send guests here, fold willows and farewell, I also know where it is. ”

Hearing the farewell of the willow, Shen Lang finally opened his mind and couldn't stop shouting excitedly.

"Every year the willow color, the Baling is injured, the Baqiao folds the willows, it turns out to be the Baqiao!"

Xue Nan also smiled, exploring the secrets of a thousand years, as long as there is a little gain, there will be a great sense of achievement, after all, it has been sealed for thousands of years, and who mortal has not had a heart to explore treasures?

Baqiao, has always been in the Guanzhong traffic hub, it connects the main traffic arteries in the east of Xi'an. "Yonglu" pointed out: "This place is the most important place in Chang'an, and those who enter and exit the two passes of Yao and Tong from the west and east will have to pass through it."

Wang Changling of the Tang Dynasty also said in his "Baqiao Fu": "Only in Ba, only in the source, when the Qin land rushes, the east of Qu is bound, dragged to the side, if the Changhong has not been turned."

However, the history of building bridges on the Bahe River is not limited to the Tang Dynasty, and can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period at the earliest.

In that year, Qin Mugong dominated Xirong, changed the original water to Bashui, and built a bridge on the river, so it was called "Ba", which is also the oldest stone pier bridge in China. In the third year of Wang Mang's reign, the Baqiao flood, Wang Mang thought that this was not an auspicious omen, so he changed the name of the bridge to "Changcun Bridge".

In the Tang Dynasty, a post station was set up on the Baqiao, and all relatives and friends were sent to the east, and they generally had to be sent to the Baqiao before breaking up, and the willow branches at the head of the bridge were broken off. Over time, it has become a unique custom to break willows and give away willows.

The real meaning of the statue is to represent the Changcun Bridge in the ancient capital of the Thirteen Dynasties around Chang'an, that is, the Baqiao!

When you arrive in Chang'an, the city shows what the ancient capital of a thousand years should look like, majestic and magnificent, which makes people can't help but think of how magnificent it should be here as the first capital city called "Beijing" thousands of years ago.

We were afraid that we would not be familiar with life here, but we didn't think that Xue Nan was actually from Chang'an.

When we arrived at her own place, Xue Nan had to do the friendship of the landlord, first invited us to eat the most authentic Chang'an snacks, and in the evening her friends came to greet us, saying that they wanted to wash the dust for us.

After being busy for a long time, I finally found the real clue, and the smile on everyone's face was uncontrollable, and I couldn't help but drink a few more glasses, and when I woke up, it was already the next day.

The next day, I packed up properly and went to Baqiao, looking at the Baqiao in front of me, I couldn't help but think a lot.

According to the "Hanshu Geographical Chronicle", the Bahe River "was said to nourish water in ancient times, and Qin Mugong changed his name to Zhang Bagong". In order to show his martial arts to dominate Xirong, Qin Mugong even took on the hegemonic color of the river name.

However, later generations of geographers seem to be unwilling to admit this fact, and inadvertently add a three-point water in front of the word ba, and it becomes bashui.

Since then, the eastern part of Chang'an has formed a kind of "Ba" character culture, such as "Bacheng", "Bashang", "Baling", "Batou", "Baqiao Folding Willow", "Baliu Wind and Snow", "Baqiao Wound Farewell" and so on, all of which have a certain historical origin with Bashui.

But now the problem has come again, the Baqiao was once washed away by the flood, the original bridge has been completely demolished, and the eight-car track double-sided bridge has been rebuilt. Now the Baqiao in our eyes is a new reinforced concrete slab bridge with a strong modern atmosphere, and it cannot be the ancient Baqiao that was hidden in the secret thousands of years ago.

Thinking of this, Xue Nan didn't wait for me to ask her, turned around and got into the car, and didn't forget to call me and Shen Lang.

"Let's go, it's not this, I'll take you to the real Baqiao."

Going around and around, it seems that every clue means something, and it seems that every clue is not what we are really looking for. I looked at Xue Nan, trying to figure out how many Baqiao there were.

Xue Nan told us slowly, because we are not locals, we may not know that there are two Baqiao, one is the one we just went to see, and the other is the former site of the Sui Dynasty Baqiao that the locals accidentally discovered when they were collecting sand from the Bahe River.

Xinba Bridge is a new type of reinforced concrete slab bridge, and the site of Baqiao found by taking sand is Sui Bridge, because it is in the south of the original Baqiao site, it is called "South Bridge", and the willows are widely planted on both sides of the bridge, and the ancient meaning of the Baqiao folding willows is taken, if it is the secret of the thousand-year-old inheritance, the old site must have more possibilities than the current Baqiao.

Xue Nan said that the old site of Baqiao is in the eastern suburbs of Xi'an, and we went around and around to the place where the old site is located.

I saw that there were ten bridge piers in the middle of the Bahe River in the eastern suburbs of Chang'an, and these piers washed away the thousand-year-old sediment covered on the body, all of which were bluestone substrates, and the giant turtles facing the water raised their heads.

The bluestones are connected by rivets, each pier is about three meters wide, the interval between the piers and the piers is six meters, the east and west across the Bahe River are about 80 meters long, and in the riverbed at 300 meters away from the site, there are also complete piers and many wooden piles arranged in an orderly manner.

At the easternmost pier, a stone carved dragon head is lifelike, it is about 50 centimeters long, the pattern on it is clear, the lines are rough, it is very powerful, and the direction of the dragon head is opposite to the direction of the water flow, for thousands of years, it has been watching the rushing river of the Bahe River, and there has been no change.

I looked at the old site of Baqiao and frowned, Xue Nan asked me what I found, and I told her not to worry about it first, and to take a closer look.

Walking around the old site a few times, the doubts in his heart increased instead of decreasing, and pulled Xue Nan and Shen Lang to the side and told them that there was something wrong with this place.

"It's all said that it's the old site, isn't it normal to be destroyed after a long time, what's the problem?"

Shen Lang asked me curiously.

I told Shen Lang that during the Sui and Tang dynasties, there were people who said that evil dragons came out of the water, and the evil dragons would disrupt the fortunes of the Tang Dynasty. When Taizong heard about this, he sent a generation of strange people Yuan Tiangang to Bashui to find out, Yuan Tiangang carefully observed and found that there was indeed an evil dragon, so he ordered someone to rebuild the Baqiao, and suppressed it with the Qinglong Raising Head.

Since ancient times, China has believed in feng shui, and all such important buildings must follow the saying of feng shui, and this is what Taizong sent Yuan Tiangang to do, and the people who built it dare not make mistakes.

And this old site is in the eastern suburbs of Chang'an, Chang'an is the land of Longxing, the east belongs to the wood in the five elements, and there are no too towering buildings and mountains nearby, which is a good Qinglong Feng Shui Bureau.

"Brother Chuan, didn't you say that there is a problem here, you yourself said that the feng shui here is so good, where will there be a problem."

Shen Lang was even more puzzled after listening to my words, it seemed that he didn't understand why I spoke back, and refuted himself.

"The green dragon is a good feng shui bureau, and the construction of a building here can not only stabilize the dragon qi of Chang'an, but also make the building itself immortal for thousands of years, but the problem lies in the building itself, you see this dragon head."

I explained to them seriously, and at the same time frowned and asked Xue Nan and Shen Lang to look at the dragon's head.

The dragon's head is located at the easternmost pier, about fifty centimeters long, with a clear pattern on it, and the lines are rough, but the direction of the dragon's head is opposite to the direction of the water, and what I said is wrong is in this dragon's head.

If the green dragon raises its head, the dragon carved here must be facing east, the bridge piers are all bluestone substrates, the water surface is like a giant turtle with its head high, the giant turtle is like Xuanwu, and the dragon head looks west, the good green dragon heads up and becomes a trapped dragon looking back, Xuanwu is trapped on the back of the dragon looking back, the main thing is unfavorable, since the person who presided over the construction of this bridge is Yuan Tiangang, how can there be such a mistake.

"What will happen if the green dragon raises its head and becomes a sleepy dragon?"

This time, it was Xue Nan who couldn't help but ask me.

"The trapped dragon looks back, not to the east but to the west, Xuanwu carries the trapped dragon to the west, from the middle to the west, the Tang Dynasty to the soil to establish the country, and Xuanwu for the water, the five elements of the water and wood and not conducive to the soil, the trapped dragon to get the water to fly to the sky, not only not good for the soil but for the gold, gold, the main killing soldiers, according to this feng shui bureau, a hundred years later is destined to have a golden life, all the way to the sword and soldiers to kill more than to attack Chang'an!"

Xue Nan thought about it when he heard this, and opened his mouth in shock.

"Wait until September 8 of the next year, and I will kill a hundred flowers after the flowers bloom. The heavenly incense array penetrates Chang'an, and the city is full of golden armor. The Tang Dynasty was destroyed by the Huangchao Uprising, and the Huangchao ...... It is the man of the golden life! ”

"That's right, this is not a feng shui bureau to suppress the evil dragon at all, but to break the trapping dragon Xiangtian situation of Li Tang's national fortune, Yuan Tiangang is not to protect Li Tang's country, on the contrary, he is going to destroy the national fortune of the Tang Dynasty!"

My expression was very rich, and I was puzzled and shocked, and I couldn't understand why this generation of strange people was doing such things here.

"But Brother Chuan, even if Yuan Tiangang ruins the national fortunes of the Tang Dynasty, what does this have to do with us?"

What Shen Lang said is not unreasonable, we are not going to explore who the Tang Dynasty was destroyed, but to explore the truth of Guanshan, and the only thing that can hide the truth here is ......

I pointed to the faucet and said to Xue Nan and Shen Lang.

"The secret is hidden under the dragon's head."

Since ancient times, the feng shui bureau has a formation eye, and whether this bureau is a green dragon raising its head or a sleepy dragon soaring to the sky, the array eye is the dragon head carved in this stone, if there is something hidden here, it can only be buried under the dragon head.

"There are people around here, and you can be seen when you dig it, and even if you can dig it, it's just the three of us, and you have to dig until the Year of the Monkey!"

What Shen Lang said is true, if it is up to the three of us, we may not be able to know the truth hidden under the dragon head in a few decades.

Just when I was embarrassed, Xue Nan turned around and left, Shen Lang asked her where she was going, she told me and Shen Lang, let us go back and rest in peace, tomorrow she will take us to meet a person, and this person has a way to let us see the truth hidden under the dragon's head.