Which direction is Liuchi Lane located in Tongcheng, Anhui?

In the southwest of Tongcheng, Anhui, there is an alley with a length of 100 meter and a width of 2 meters. There has been a story since Kangxi. This story is the famous "Six-foot Lane".

The former site of "Liuchi Lane" has been valued by governments and departments at all levels since the 1980s, and it became a key cultural relic protection unit in the city from 65438 to 0985. Allocate 1993 special funds for restoration and site expansion 1999. Today, the main buildings in Liuchi Lane are lanes, stone archways and leisure squares, poems and paintings, rockeries and so on. It has become a national 3A-level tourist attraction.

Origin of Liuchi Lane

There is a story circulating in history, which originated from a dispute between neighbors in Zhang Jiahe.

During the reign of Emperor Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Ying was a university student in Wenhua Hall and a minister of rites. This position is equivalent to the prime minister in the Tang and Song Dynasties, with a high official position and a very high official position. In addition, his son, Zhang, was admitted as a scholar and served as an official in North Korea. At that time, the Zhang family was very famous in Tongcheng, Anhui. Both father and son are Beijing officials, and everything in their hometown is taken care of by the old housekeeper.

One day, Zhang Ying's family is going to build a house, and the boundary is very close to the neighbor Ye Jia. There was a scholar in Yejia at that time, and his family was good, but he was still a far cry from the Zhang family. At this moment, Ye Jia proposed that the Zhang family set aside a path.

However, the housekeeper of the Zhang family disagreed, because the title deed of his family was clearly written, "to the wall of Ye surname". In other words, if we want to leave a way, the Zhang family will suffer. Even if you want to stay on the road, you have to step back a few feet each.

As the saying goes, "the prime minister has seven officials." The old housekeeper feels that she is the head of the prime minister's family, and besides, it is justified to build such a wall. The opinion of a poor scholar in Ye's family is not worth paying attention to.

So the old housekeeper ordered the workers to build a new wall along the root of Yejia city wall. This Ye Xiucai is a stubborn temper. When he saw the Zhang family building a fence, he couldn't swallow this breath. The scholar can write by himself, and a paper-like proclamation reached the county government, and a lawsuit was started.

At this time, some people advised the scholar that the Zhang family's background was related, and besides, it was better to give up. But the stubborn scholar refused to listen and threatened to go to court. When the old housekeeper saw that something was wrong, she quickly wrote a letter to brinton.

Soon, the old housekeeper received a reply from her master. The letter didn't say much, only four poems:

"Thousands of miles of books are only for the wall, why not let him three feet? The Great Wall of Wan Li is still there today, and Qin Shihuang is not seen. "

The housekeeper read the poem and understood the master's meaning. So he came and told the scholar that the Zhang family would tear down the wall tomorrow and step back three feet to make way. Ye Xiucai thought he was teasing him, but he didn't believe it at all.

At this time, the housekeeper showed Zhang Ying's poems to the scholar, who is also a scholar. After reading it, he was ashamed and said with great emotion, "Prime Minister Zhang is so generous."

The next morning, the Zhang family began to tear down the wall and retreated three feet. Ye Xiucai got excited when he saw it. He also tore down his own wall and retreated three feet. So an alley with a length of 100 meters and a width of 6 feet was formed between Zhang and Ye, which was called "Liuchi Lane".