296. Feel the true meaning of Dayu
Qingchuan Pavilion was first built by Fan Zhizhen, the prefect of Hanyang during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, when repairing the Yuji Palace (originally Yuwang Temple) that was built in the Shaoxing period of the Southern Song Dynasty (1131), and was named after the sentence meaning of "Hanyang Tree in the Qingchuan Calendar" in Cui Hao's "Yellow Crane Tower".
In fact, it is convenient to put a little bit in Qingchuan, Xu Le just thought it was a tourist attraction, and it turned out to be the Qingchuan Pavilion that only existed in Yuwang Temple!
Xu Le looked at the introduction, Qingchuan Pavilion and the Yellow Crane Tower, Guqin Terrace, and called the three major scenic spots in Jianghan. It is located on the Yugong Rock of Qilu Lulu of Hanyang, Jianghan City, Jinghan Province, facing the Yellow Crane Tower of Snake Mountain across the river, it is the only place of scenic spot standing near the river, and is called "the first building in Chutian".
Xu Le looked at the introduction of the scenic spot, the whole covers an area of about 10,000 square meters, the plane is triangular, by the Qingchuan Pavilion, Yuji Palace, Tiemen Pass three main buildings and Yubei Pavilion, Chaozong Pavilion, Chubo Pavilion, Jing Chu Xiongfeng Monument, Dunbentang Monument and archway, Linjiang revetment, winding path corridor and other more than a dozen ancillary buildings.
The current pavilion is rebuilt in 85 years according to the style of Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, covering an area of 386 square meters and 17.5 meters high. Its bottom layer is five rooms wide and four rooms deep; The top floor is three rooms wide and two rooms deep. Granite pedestal, red wall and vermilion columns, heavy eaves rest on the top of the mountain black tube tile roof, reinforced concrete imitation wood structure, doors and windows railings are wooden, vermilion lacquer painting.
The four corners of the roof protrude outward, deep out of the eaves, and high and warped. The front archway hangs the "Qingchuan Pavilion" golden plaque. Its north side is the "garden in the garden", the garden is full of grass, bamboo and trees, thin stones, quiet and elegant.
Yuji Palace stands side by side in the southwest side of Qingchuan Pavilion, formerly known as Yuwang Temple, was built in the Shaoxing period of the Southern Song Dynasty, and has been destroyed several times.
The two walked in, and the canopy ceiling corridors on both sides of the central axis were connected with the palace room, forming a rectangular patio. There is a courtyard on its west side, and there is a four-corner pavilion with a spire outside the courtyard.
In the pavilion, there are fragments of Yu stele carved by Li Zhenyi in the 35th year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty and the stone carving of Mao Hui Jianyu stele carved by Li Zhenyi. Yuji Palace and the rebuilt Iron Gate Pass and Qingchuan Pavilion form an ancient building complex.
Yuji Palace covers an area of 380 square meters, is composed of the main hall, the front hall, the left and right corridors, the patio, etc., is the representative wooden building of the Qing Dynasty that exists not much in the Jianghan area. Tiemen Pass, was built in the Three Kingdoms period, "Wu and Wei contended, set about this." ”
Yu Ji Xing Palace (Yu Wang Palace), the real name of Yu Temple, was founded by Sinong Shaoqing Zhang Tiren in the Southern Song Dynasty Shaoxing (1131) years, and later became the place where the Jiang and Han dynasties worshiped Yu.
Tomorrow Qi changed the Yu temple to "Yu Ji Palace", on the basis of the original sacrifice to Yu, and enshrined Hou Ji, Boyi, eight yuan, eight Kai and other sages.
Xu Le saw the stone archway of Yu Gongji in the south of Qingchuan Pavilion, and the back was written on the story of the original Yuan Taizu to record the merits of Dayu, the Han people have forgotten that here is the credit of Dayu to control the water, and the ethnic minorities all remember, which can not help but sigh!
Xu Le shook his head!
Think about it, Dayu is divided into Kyushu, Jingzhou is one of them, that should really exist, theoretically from Zhengfu here, plus the middle of Jiahu and Panlong City, it shows that the territory of Daxia is really able to reach here, but also from another level to prove that the land of Jingchu is the main body of the Han Dynasty, and has nothing to do with Sanmiao, in fact, today's Sanmiao is a descendant of Yanhuang, but it has always been the kind of wildness that Chi You has!
This is the connection point of the Yangtze River and the Han River, and it is the Central Plains region where the descendants of the Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor live together, so it is also an important activity area for Dayu to control the water. For thousands of years, the Yangtze River and the Han River have given the blessings and well-being of the people of the Jiang and Han Rivers, but every time the river rushes forward, the Yangtze River and the Han River have an incredible and strange layout, and in a moment, the thousands of miles of fertile fields have become a boundless country. In order to subdue the unruly, dammed the dams, flooded the fertile fields, and brought disaster to the people, the people of Jianghan for generations have fought bravely against the flood with their strong and unyielding will for a long time.
In order to take Dayu as the spiritual totem of the Jianghan people to tame the flood, always remember that Dayu had stopped on the Guishan stone rock by the Hanyang River, observed the water potential, studied the strategy of guiding the river and dredging the river, and finally eliminated the merit of the flood disaster in the Jianghan region, and named the stone rock Yu Gongji.
According to historical records, from the Southern Song Dynasty, there is a Dayu temple on Yu Gongji, during the Ming generation of the Apocalypse, the Dayu temple was changed to "Yu Ji Xinggong", on the basis of the original single sacrifice to Yu, and added the remains of eighteen sages such as Houji to worship together.
Yu Gongji is a sacred place for generations of Jianghan indigenous people, for this ancient hero Huaiyuan. Xu Le wants to think about ancient times, as if he has returned to the historical years full of desolation thousands of years ago, and entered the magnificent and vast mythical realm. Recalling the rugged and mighty group portraits that give people a strong visual impact, I feel the primitive tension, as if telling a heroic story that has been passed down for thousands of years and is a household name, deducing the most primitive understanding of our ancestors' relationship between man and nature, and the most creative and arduous achievements; It praises the great tribal leader who loved the people and led the Chinese ancestors to fight against nature. The story of Dayu's water control, although it has already become the history of more than 4,000 years ago, but Dayu's exploits have been later generations, Dayu's spirit is with the peace of the earth, raising the sails, reluctant day and night, rushing into the sea, becoming the eternal beauty of the Chinese national spirit.
Xu Le looked at those introductions and thought that Dayu's life was full of legends. Kun Fusheng Yu, the cry when he was born, broke the dawn and shocked the world, and his birth opened the prelude to Chinese civilization. From the beginning of life, Dayu's shoulders are destined to write the solemn mission of history, he wants to control the water, to fight the most powerful Yellow River. Of course, he won in the end. But his greatness does not lie in his achievements, but in the bitter process of more than ten years of water control. Dayu passed the door three times and did not enter, his wife was pregnant with Liujia, and he was obsessed and looking forward to it across the river, and finally turned into a stone that stood tenaciously. It is said that once the Yellow River overflowed, and the surface of the river was churning and surging, and a giant dragon appeared. Everyone has no master, but Dayu is calm, saying that he is a god descending to earth and scaring away the dragon.
Dayu is a tribal leader who cares about the suffering of the people. Once, he saw a man who was so poor that he sold his child, and Yu ransomed the child back; When he saw that some of the people had nothing to eat, he asked Houji to distribute the only grain to the people. Yu wore tattered clothes, ate shoddy food, lived in a simple tent, and personally held a hoe every day, taking the lead in doing the hardest and dirtiest work. Over the years, the hairs on his legs and arms were stripped off, his palms and soles were calloused, his body was dry, and his face was dark. After thirteen years of hard work, he led the ancestors of the tribe to split countless mountains, dredge countless rivers, and build countless embankments, so that all the rivers in the world flow to the sea, and finally succeeded in controlling the water and curing the flood at all. The land that had just receded from the flood was too wet, so Yu asked Yifa to plant seeds for the people and teach them to grow rice.
Dayu's exploits and bravery made him emperor. During the solemn sacrificial ceremony, Emperor Shun gave Yu a piece of black jade to commend his merits and announce success and the great rule of the world to all the people of heaven and earth. Soon he was named Yu as his uncle, and Xia (now Wanxian County, Yuzhou) was his feudal country. Yu's prestige reached its peak, and the people praised it: "If it weren't for Yu, we would have become fish and turtles long ago." Di Shun praised Yu and said: "Yu, Yu! You are my arms, thighs, ears, and eyes. I want to do good for the people, and you help me. I want to observe the heavens, know the sun, moon and stars, write and embroider clothes, and you advise me. I want to listen to the six laws, five tones and eight tones to control the chaos and preach the five virtues, you help me. You never slander me to my face. With your sincerity, virtue and example, you have made the DPRK and China innocent. You have carried forward my holy virtues, and your credit is great! ”
Xu Le looked at those pictures and texts, and seemed to have received an unprecedented impact and baptism in his heart, he greedily captured the figure of history, and did not want to miss any details. However, these huge gatherings could not help but be oppressive, and the heaviness of the darkness frightened him, and he felt that he needed an empty platform to exhale, to digest, to enlighten, to question the vast and profound universe, to think freely and clearly.
So Xu Le closed his eyes and stood quietly in front of the stone stele, as if he was talking to Dayu's soul, understanding the dignity of the soul, listening to the echoes of the ancients, and feeling the greatness of the past. He seems to have seen the real Dayu! That mighty Dayu was in front of him, looking so solemn and sacred.
His eyebrows revealed a firm determination, and his pupils radiated incomparable brilliance.
Xu Le suddenly felt his insignificance, like particles in the dust, a wave in the sea; Like a scoop in the water of three thousand, a tree in the green wood. Emperor Dayu is an ordinary person and a leader who struggles with the people on the front line. He relied on the flesh and blood of his parents to contain the disaster and contain the most vicious Yellow River. Dayu looked as if he was looking at Xu Le, but Xu Le didn't dare to look at him directly. Looking at Dayu's tall body, he tried hard to look into his eyes, seemed to feel his life, and clearly heard his slightly tragic self-talk, he said I don't regret losing my wife; He said that the Yellow River is surging, and even if I become the emperor, I can't let it go; He said that I am not very great, and that all the credit goes to the people!
Xu Le knows that in the early ancient humans, the flood was a worldwide story, and the ancient Chinese civilization also began with the struggle between human beings and the flood, whether it is the legend of Dayu's water control, or the story of Noah's Ark in the West, it shows that in the ancient flood era, people have begun to fight against the flood.
Comparing these two legends, you can find that in the face of the same flood, Dayu summed up the lessons of his father's failure to build embankments and waterproofing, and after investigation and research, he found that the land of Kyushu was high in the west and low in the east, so he dredged the riverbed and dug channels, "holding the hoe, taking the people first, suppressing the flood for thirteen years, and not entering the house three times." He worked tirelessly, wearing a hat and wearing a hat, footprints all over Kyushu, surveying the situation of mountains and rivers, making hundreds of rivers enter the sea, and finally there was a situation of "Kyushu is sparse, Jiuze is sprinkled, and Zhuxia Ai'an" has become a beautiful talk that has been passed down through the ages of the Chinese nation and known to women and children.
The Book of Genesis of the Bible records another way of dealing with the flood: God dislikes human beings for doing too much evil, and in order to punish the sins of the world, he will flood the world. Noah was inspired by God to build a large ship and bring his family and all the animals to the ship, one male and one female, to escape the devastation of the flood. When the flood waters receded, Noah released another pigeon to inquire about the situation in his homeland. Soon the pigeon flew back with an olive branch and reported that the land was safe. Since then, the ark has become synonymous with a kind of savior, and the dove and olive branch have become a symbol of peace and tranquility.
These two stories have been passed down through the ages in the East and the West, accumulating their respective civilizations, encompassing the differences between Chinese and Western cultures, interpreting a colorful cultural world, and presenting a gorgeous and colorful picture of human civilization. The story of "Noah's Ark" emphasizes the divine power of God and the luck of the survivors, and it is the plot of building the ark to escape the monstrous flood under the hint of God. Although there are also episodes of the Emperor of Heaven punishing the people with the flood, Kun and Yu did not succumb to fate, nor did they try to hide in any "ark" to avoid disasters, but led the people to fight against the flood with the strong perseverance of "perseverance, gold and stone can be carved", and finally won the victory. Therefore, unlike Noah's Ark, the mythical story of Kun and Yu controlling the water is full of self-improvement and grandeur.
Dayu is a culture, Dayu is a spirit. Walking into the world of Dayu, Xu Le felt that he had thoroughly experienced the curiosity and worship of human beings for nature, the unyielding struggle against disasters and hardships, the admiration and love for heroes, and the yearning for a better life. Before Xia Qi opened the country and established the first slave dynasty in China, from the opening of the world in Pangu to the last emperor of the "Three Emperors and Five Emperors", Dayu's distant imagination is full of magical power, covering the ancient history of China with a veil of mystery. The myth and legend of Dayu is a true record of the exploration of nature and the universe by ancient human beings under the condition of extremely low level of productivity, and it is also the embodiment of the persistent spirit of conquering nature and transforming nature. This is a kind of unremitting spirit that inspires the Chinese nation to overcome all kinds of difficulties and obstacles in the long historical process, and finally surpass itself and achieve the goal that it wants to strive for. Dayu's control of the water, is it a heroic and wonderful historical truth, or a profound "mythical" story? In fact, these are not important, the important thing is the historical merits of Dayu's water control, and the concept of water control shown in the process of water control and the great spirit of hard work for the tribe and the tribal alliance and the Chinese nation has always advocated and praised the virtue of "for the people", which is the spiritual wealth that this nation and this country must always cherish.