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Emperor Yao's hometown and the fire fox

At the end of the summer of 2006, at the beginning of September, when I first went to Tianjin Medical University, I remember that although it was the beginning of autumn, it was still the scorching sun, the heat was scorching, and it was extremely hot.

As soon as I entered the dormitory, I saw a thin, slightly swarthy young man sitting on the bed, and then stood up and grinned at me, revealing a mouthful of snow-white teeth, which set off the copper-black skin even more conspicuous!

I put down my luggage and smiled at him: "The weather in Tianjin is so hot, people can't stand it!" The young man smiled: "Hehe, yes, our Shanxi is much cooler than this!" My name is Tian Liang, and you are the new roommate who moved in!"

I wiped my sweat and nodded, "Well, are you from Shanxi?"

"Hey, are you from Baoding, Hebei! The two students in our dormitory just now are also from Baoding! Three of them are from Baoding! What a coincidence!" Tian Liang smiled in surprise!

I was overjoyed and said, "Yes!?" "Well, there are a lot of people in Hebei! There are only two of us in Shanxi! one in Zhejiang, one in Heilongjiang in Northeast China, and one in Shandong!" Tian Liang said with a smile. As the pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info was talking, a tall and thin young man walked in the door, a foot of 1.8 meters, strode over, turned his head to look at me, and complained angrily as he walked: "Okay, this is a broken school, isn't this our high school good! I want to drop out ******!"

Although I had never heard of Shandong, everyone could tell that this young man must be from Shandong, and I thought to myself: "This must be that Shandong classmate! I have never heard of a big man from Shandong, and sure enough! Eh, this school is indeed a bit rotten! But from this university dormitory, it can be seen that it is still a room with eight people in high school! I have never heard of this! There are a few broken basketball hoops in the playground outside, and the teaching building has not been repaired for decades!"

Later, I learned that the building in this school is the former site of the American barracks, General Marshall was stationed here, it is a key protected historical building in Tianjin, at the beginning of the 19th century, Tianjin was still a concession, here belongs to the British Concession, small western-style buildings everywhere, counting, these houses are older than my grandfather's age!

I was embarrassed to answer, and after a while, I saw the Shandong man sitting on the bed without saying a word, in a daze, not knowing what to think!

I hurriedly packed my luggage, made the bed, and picked up all the things, a few people were still a little restrained and unfamiliar, each bored to do their own thing, after a while, a few more people came in the house one after another, Tian Liang said to me: "These two are from Baoding! You are fellow countrymen!" I turned my head to look, one of them was a little short and fat, with a rich face, and the other was also thin and tall, long white and clean, with slightly curled hair!

I hurriedly asked them, "Where are you from Baoding?" "I am from Baigou!" "I am from Xushui! Are you also from Baoding!?"

"Hmm" I smiled and nodded, "I'm from Baoding Wangdu Tang County....!" Before he finished speaking, he saw a white young man who came in from behind, with slightly long ears, and said to a young man with glasses who was smiling behind him: "Zhejiang is good! There is heaven and Suzhou and Hangzhou...!Is it so hot in summer!?"

Before the bespectacled young man could answer, a cool and handsome young man with pale yellow hair appeared behind him, and said with a smile: "Our beauty is much more cheerful than refreshing! The south is hot and humid! Hey, our dormitory is all over!"

I looked at the blond young man carefully, and secretly praised in my heart: "What a good life, he is handsome! With a high nose and deep eyes, he looks a little like a Russian!" Later, I learned that he was a native of the Tahe Forest District of Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province, and at the northernmost Sino-Russian border in China, the local area is the Great Khing'an Mountains, which is rich in forests and trades with Russian ports! A dormitory of eight people is complete! Everyone is a little familiar with each other for the first time, although they are unfamiliar at the beginning, after a while, they are a little familiar, after all, they are young people, enthusiastic and active, and their emotions are a little outward!

At the beginning, the common topic was to talk about the college entrance examination topic, how the college entrance examination in various provinces and cities, how the scores, and in the evening, chatting and chatting about the customs and customs of various places, the dormitory has Shanxi in the west, Shandong in the east, Zhejiang in the south, Heilongjiang in the north, we go to school in Tianjin, but there is no local Tianjin!

I have been talking about my family in Wangdu Tang County, so that many people ask me whether you are from Wangdu or Tang County, I smiled and said: "My home is at the junction of the three counties of Wangdu Tang County and Shunping County, the village to the east is Shunping County, and the village to the west is Tang County, so my home is a three-regardless zone!" Within a radius of dozens of miles, there is also the Ranzhuang tunnel, dozens of miles say that it is not close, it is said that it is not far away, but I have never been there!

When I finished speaking, Tian Liang continued: "My home is Xiangfen County, Linfen City! You all know the Three Emperors and Five Emperors! Emperor Yao is our person there! Our place is Emperor Yao's hometown!"

When I heard it, I didn't know why my heart suddenly moved: "My house is five or six miles west of the Taihang Mountain Range, there is a mountain called Heilongtou Mountain, there is a statue of Emperor Yao on it, the reason why Wangdu is called Wangdu, is the mother of Emperor Yao climbed the mountain to Wangdi!" Thinking of this, I suddenly thought that the neighboring village is called Yaocheng, and then there is Yaoshan, there will be no reason, I said to Tian Liang: "Emperor Yao's hometown is our place, how can you be Emperor Yao's hometown!"

He was naturally unconvinced, and said: "Linfen Yao Temple is famous in the world, how can this be fake!" I was very surprised, but there was no evidence to refute it, so I had to give up, but there was a big question, and the classmates talked for a while and then changed the topic to another place, but I didn't have the heart to listen carefully, I only thought about this matter!

After a long time, about a few months, I went to the library to look for books, and accidentally found a book that introduced China's local customs, I took it out and read it, I went to school in Tianjin, and naturally needed to understand the history and culture of Tianjin, and I saw such a sentence: "The dog legs of Jingyouzi Weizuizi Baoding Mansion!" The psychology is a little unhappy, Jing Youzi, this is easy to understand, Wei Zuizi is also easy to understand, Tianjin people are very good at talking about kung fu, whether it is cross talk, or fighting and scolding the street, it is a first-class absolute talk, I don't have any derogatory meaning, it is so, but I don't understand the dog's legs, is the dog's legs running away!?

Baoding Mansion is the hometown of martial arts, the south fist and the north leg, the north leg is Baoding Mansion, the South Shaolin, the North Shaolin is well-known throughout the country, the North Shaolin is also in Baoding Mancheng County, is it praise Baoding Kung Fu is very different! This is gossip, and then it is said that the three counties of Tang County Shunping Wangdu in Baoding Mansion are one of the three major suspicious cases in the hometown of Emperor Yao! Shanxi Linfen is one of them! The other is the south of San'a, the most important of which is Shunping said, and Linfen said, but I didn't expect it to be represented by Tian Liang and I! The tomb of Emperor Yao of Linfen is thirty kilometers northeast of Linfen City, Guo Village, I was shocked when I read this, the village where my family is located is Guo Village, but it is more than ten kilometers away from Shunping West!

Fifteen kilometers south of my house is Qingdu City, two kilometers west is the imperial capital Yaocheng, three kilometers south is Bai Yao, seven or eight kilometers northwest is the ancient city known as the first capital of Tang Yao, seven or eight kilometers northeast when Yiqi Mountain, is Yao's mother's surname, one kilometer west is Gudu Mountain, the literature says that it is the emperor Ji Yun Wangyao's mother Qingdu residence, but unfortunately the mountain of several hundred meters high was later quarried and flattened! When I was at home, I heard how many pieces of porcelain jars and a lot of jade were mined in Gudu Mountain. What such a coincidence!!

Although I have doubts in my heart, but I can't find the answer, just wait for the future to explore it, a year or two later, I happened to go to Zhangjiakou, and then go to the dam, all the way around the mountain high-speed, I looked at the wild scenery outside, and sighed in my heart, I will never see this kind of scene in our place, the land is sparsely populated, the low mountains are undulating, the sky is blue, I am the first time to come, but full of curiosity, all the way to look out!

After passing through Zhangjiakou, in the middle of the dam, this horizontal bridge is elevated on the highway, and the vermilion characters are engraved on it "Yehuling" The mountain walls on both sides of the road are depicted with countless Mongolian or Xiongnu grazing cattle and horses driving scenes, this kind of rock murals, concise brushwork, the image is expressive, look at it, the mural seems to come alive, the ears seem to come to the grassland ten thousand horses galloping neighing, the shepherd's long howl and shouting, I don't know why I suddenly shivered a little, the scenery here seems to have seen in a dream, indescribable familiarity, and some indescribable gloomy fear!

Later, I searched on the Internet, only to know that this wild fox ridge also enjoys a great name, in history has been a fight innumerable, is a very famous throat and ancient battlefield, the most famous one, is Genghis Khan defeated the Jin State in this Yan Chengyu, won the most critical battle, since then the south, unified the United States, he sat down the most famous Han bachelor is known as the "Southern Su Wu" Hao Jing, successively served as a bachelor of Hanlin, Zhaoxinguan University, Feng Ji Guogong, Zhen Wenzhong, in the history of the rumored "Hao Jing South Prisoner" is him!

Why mention such a story here, then everyone knows, because it is rumored that the Yuan Dynasty was in Baoding Mansion Shunping Yaodu Yaocheng dug up a piece of "Han Chengyang Lingtai Tablet", the handwriting on it is a little blurred, and then was obtained by the Duke of Ji Guo Hao Jing, in the local investigation, it is also found that many Yao Emperor monuments, plus there is a legend of Yaomu Cave, Hao Jing decided that Yao's mother was born in Tang County, since then this point of view has spread all over the world, from the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, Yaodu's hometown is a big dispute!

I sat in a passenger car along the mountain highway all the way up, after the winding mountains, the terrain calmed down, and walked for half a moment, the eyes suddenly widened, a boundless wilderness, "the sky is vast and vast" although it is more cliché, but it is more appropriate, here is the grassland on the dam, because it is early spring, can not see the slightest green, but the remnant snow of winter has not melted, sometimes white flowers, some are made of saline-alkali sedimentation, but it is not easy to distinguish, the car traveled for an hour, before arriving at the destination of the birch peel ridge!

This time just released the movie "Painted Skin", I was confused when I first heard the three words "Birch Ridge", I don't know which three words, my head always thought of "Painting Peel Ridge", every time I thought about it, I couldn't help but feel creepy, and then although I inquired and corrected it a few times, but the word "Painted Peel Ridge" in my mind was already deeply impressed, lingering, but the next story was coincidental and coincidental, and the protagonist of Birch Ridge and Painting Peel Ridge was the same - a red-haired fox!

The story of this red-haired fox was told to me by my college girlfriend, whose hometown is the grassland of Bashang, where almost everyone knows all kinds of strange stories about this red-haired fox!

I live in the home of an old local herdsman, and the customs here are very different from ours. The old shepherd is more than 60 years old, after the wind and rain of the plateau, his face is already full of copper black, the wrinkles on his face are like the ravines of the Loess Plateau, desolate and horizontal, I sit on the kang head, the old man brought a bowl of cooked raw milk, pure natural pure milk, there is a thick layer of cream skin floating on it, but I am not blessed, the milky smell of the milk, it is really a bit heavy, I want to drink it several times, but it is to the mouth and put down!

The old man seemed to be surprised, and smiled and said: "You baby can't drink this raw milk, hehe!" After that, I picked up a mouth and drank most of the bowl, I was embarrassed to say: "I'm really sorry, uncle, I...."The old man waved his hand, signaling that I don't have to care, sat cross-legged on the kang and said to me: "I heard the girl baby boy say that you are here for the red-haired fox!" The girl girl in his mouth is my girlfriend, his niece, really counting, I should call him the third aunt, I immediately became interested, nodded hurriedly: "Well, the red-haired fox..."

The old man smiled, took out the dry tobacco bottle from his pocket, slowly came out of the tobacco leaves, rolled into a dry tobacco roll, slowly smoked, the smoke sprayed out, the eyes seemed to be gradually blurred, I didn't dare to disturb, took out the mobile phone, turned on the tape recorder mode, and waited for the old man to speak! Who knew that after waiting for a long time, the old man was still silent, and after a while, I saw the wrinkles on the old man's face seemed to shake rapidly, the corners of his eyes narrowed slightly, and the eyes seemed to flash a trace of cold light, and then seemed to show a touch of fear, suddenly. cough-cough-cough——! "The old man stroked his chest and coughed violently, I don't know if he choked on his cigarette, or remembered something from the past, and was frightened!

I hurriedly stepped forward to support the old man, and the old man coughed for a long time before slowly stopping: "I'm old, I'm afraid I won't live for a few years, hehe!" I comforted: "Uncle, your body is so strong, it's not a problem to live for a hundred years!"

The old man smiled and said, "Hundred-year-old!?Isn't that the old fox fairy!" After a pause, he continued: "The old fox fairy is the red-haired fox, and the locals call it the fire fox, the bearded old fairy! The fire fox, I heard my father say that this fire fox was already here when he was a child, and I grew up watching this fire fox, and it was already so big when I saw it—" I said and gestured with my hand, and it was half a meter long, and I couldn't help but ask, "Is it so big!?"

The old man nodded and said, "Well, it's as big as the big yellow dog in the courtyard!?" I still can't believe it, I always think that the fox is only the size of a rabbit, or at most the size of a duck and goose, of course, this is my imagination, because I have never seen a fox, and I don't know what it looks like, how big it is, I didn't expect this fire fox to be so big, the big yellow dog in the courtyard is very huge, it can be called a giant dog, more than half a meter high, one meter and a half meters long. If it's that big, it's amazing!

The old man continued: "These years seem to be a little older than when I was a child! I remember that every day when I went to the slope to graze sheep, the fire fox would sit on the slope from afar, staring at me! It was motionless! We did not dare to provoke it, and we could only guard it from a distance, its wisdom was not under people!" I nodded and said: "The fox has a reputation for cunning! Not to mention this hundred-year-old fox! It is the ultimate among foxes!"

I asked to go grazing with the old man tomorrow to see if I could be lucky enough to meet this legendary fire fox, and the old man smiled and said: "I haven't seen it for two or three years, and it is rumored in the village that the bearded old fairy has turned into an immortal! But I heard that the old man Bart in the next village saw it once in the back of the mountain in the winter last year! I haven't heard of anyone who has seen it in the future! You will follow me tomorrow, I'm afraid it will be a waste of effort!"

I whispered, I came all the way here for this fire fox, if I go back like this, I can say that I have little gain, and it is difficult to explain to myself, listening to the old man's words, although I know that tomorrow will be hopeless, but I still have a trace of thought in my heart, just thinking about that: "What if, what if..."

Tomorrow the weather is very sunny, I and the old man drove fifty or sixty sheep to the hillside behind the village, the reason why it became the birch bark ridge here is not without reason, the soil slope is planted with a hundred and ten rows of birch trees, straight into the distance stretched, the old man said: "This birch, there was no before, this is later built three north shelter forest planted, you see how good it grows now!"

I nodded and said, "Hmm!" The eyes were searched around, the old man saw me like this, hehe smiled, drank a few times in his mouth, raised the long whip in his hand and made a few loud sounds, and slowly drove the sheep forward, I followed behind, and I don't know how many roads I walked, seeing that it was dark, the old man drove the sheep back again, I saw this, the last bit of hope in my heart was gone, and when I returned to the residence, it was completely dark, and the old man saw that I looked like he was not giving up, and he smiled and said: "Baby, the bearded old fairy hooked your soul!"

On the second day, I said goodbye to my old man, and looked at the birch forest stretching in the distance on the bus, as if I saw an old shepherd grazing sheep on the slope, squatting in the distance with this fiery fox, staring into the distance....

There is a famous myth about Yao marrying Tu Shannu in ancient mythology, which is recorded in Zhao Ye's "Wu Chu Chunqiu" volume 6 "Yue Wang Wuyu Biography" in the Eastern Han Dynasty. This myth says that Yao went to Tushan, saw a nine-tailed white fox, and heard the nine-tailed white fox song sung by the Tushan people, and felt that his marriage should be here, so he married Tushan girl. The mythical nine-tailed white fox is changed by Tu Shan's girl, and the nine-tailed white fox is Tu Shan's spirit animal. If you marry Tushan Nu, you can be happy and prosperous. Therefore, when Yao saw Tu Shanhu, he actually saw Tu Shannu, so he decided to marry her...

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Wild Fox Ridge

Year: Meta Author: Zhou Boqi

Kaolin Izumo table, the day is cold.

The frost is cold at four o'clock, and the stars are close at hand.

Its yin controls the Shuo part, and its yang connects the Yan pass.

The valley is deep and unpredictable, and the ladder is a hundred plates.

The grass is draped, and the rocks are rugged.

The wheels and hooves are mixed, and my horse is used to it.

Suddenly, in the nine heavens, the bustle was bustling.

Liangang bundles are heavy, arching the walls of the city.

Stop the whip and look back at the momentum.

The cotton clothes were suddenly reduced, and the sweat was dripping for a long time.

Pavilion willow shade ancient road, garden fruit on the royal feast.

Although the realm is in the north, look for the thistle.

The beginning is separated by a ridge, and the climate is very cold.

The name of the small yi is Xuanping, which is separated by two houses.

Cattle and sheep are resting in the year, and the soil is fertile and special.

The savage respects the official, and the chaimen is not extended.

Recuperate Jia Chengping, Yu traces the ancient first.

The Han and Tang dynasties were bound, and now they are the same as the Central Plains.

How difficult it is to create a map!

Zhang Huang and I have six divisions, and Jintang is forever deep.