Luoshan Temple The history of Luoshan Temple

On the ninth day of September in the tenth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1637), an old man of over 500 walked alone in the northern suburb of Nanning. "He crossed the Guandi Temple in the north bridge of the town to the west, three miles to the west, arrived at Hengtang, and looked east at Xianpo. So I walked five miles west and saw that Shura was already in the northeast, and the road became smaller. " Walk along the path, cross a swift stream and cross Songkhla village. "The more you climb the mountain, the heavier the mountain, and the more you gain. The smaller the bridge, the bigger the road. There is a temple on the left side of the road, with complete halls and pavilions. I couldn't see anyone, so Jia went straight to the north. " -This old man is Xu Xiake. In his travels, he described his journey of exploring and climbing shura.

Because it is the only complete travel notes in Nanning, Xu Xiake's Journey to the West in Guangdong II is very precious to Nanning. The ancients liked to climb mountains on September 9, and Xu Xiake climbed Luoshan on this day. Is it a coincidence or is it intentional?

In Xu Xiake's Travels, the organizer Ji has a comment: "This is a record, which I got by chance in the chaos. I don't know when it will be." After reading Luo Shi, I know it's Diary of Double Ninth Festival. Record it, record the journey of this day. No, it's the same. If Yun ascends the mountain to make meritorious deeds and lives up to Chen Fang, Xiake will pay nine times a day. " From this, we can guess that Xu Xiake climbed Luoxiushan in order to "climb high and make contributions, and live up to glory". In today's view, Luo Xiushan is far less famous than Qingxiu Mountain. Many people don't even know that there is a Luo Xiushan in Nanning.

Xiao Xia and Luo Feng: One of the Eight Scenes in Ancient Yongning.

Among the eight scenic spots in the ancient Yongjiang River, there is a "clear day with clouds and fog in Luofeng". Luo Feng, namely Luo Xiushan, looked up the Annals of Nanning compiled by Guo Nanxiu in Ming Dynasty in Guangxi Library. Among them, the "Nanning Fucheng Map" painted Qingxiu Mountain and Luoxiu Mountain, one east and one north, far opposite. But on the current map of Nanning, there is no sign of Luo Xiushan. In the annals of Nanning from 65438 to 0998, there were a few words introducing that Luoshan Temple was located in Luoxiuling, Chili Village, Anji Town. I found a brief record of Luo Xiushan in the suburbs of Nanning:

Luo Xiushan, also known as Tonggu Mountain, is located in Li Po, Datang Village, Anji Town, with an altitude of 136.9 meters. According to legend, Shura, a famous scholar in Jin Dynasty, lived in seclusion and died as an immortal. According to the inscription, in the third year of the Tang Dynasty, monks built a temple on the mountain, named Shura Temple, hence the name Luo Xiushan. Song is a tourist attraction with a pavilion on the mountain. Xu Xiake, a geographer in Ming Dynasty, has been here. "Luo" is one of the eight scenic spots in ancient Yongning, which has lost its original features.

Shura ancient temple: leisurely reading in an idle incense burner

Reading Xu Xiake's Travels of Luo Xiushan, one moment in the west, one moment in the east and one moment in the north, with bridges and water, makes people see flowers in the fog. But with a guide to lead the way, half of the roads are newly built cement roads, and cars can drive straight in. In less than half an hour, we saw Luoxiushan. The "small bridge" written by Xu Xiake has already become a cement bridge that can accommodate large trucks. Although the road to the foot of Shura Mountain is a rugged dirt road, and it is getting narrower and narrower, cars can still drive all the way to the foot of the mountain. On the roadside, you can see the temples on the mountain.

According to the travel notes, the Shura Temple that Xu Xiake saw at that time had two halls and two pavilions. When he came down from the top of the mountain, he entered the temple, but the temple was empty. So he "crawled around" and went down the mountain. There were three temples in front of and behind the original Shura Temple, which were magnificent, but a fire before liberation destroyed this thousand-year-old temple. Later, on the ruins of the ancient temple, the villagers rebuilt two simple temples, one at the foot of the mountain called Shura Temple and the other at the hillside called Luoshan Temple.

Now, several old ladies live in Shura Temple, and Deng Xinjiao, who is over 70 years old, has lived here for 23 years. She has a sketch in her hand, which is a seven-story tower. It is said that it was drawn according to the memories of the old people.

Walking out of Shura Temple and looking up along the mountain road, I saw many broken blue bricks along the way, which were the fragments left by Luoshan Temple before. Halfway up the mountain, standing in front of Luoshan Temple, you can see fields, buildings and houses, and the mountain breeze is Xu Lai, which is refreshing. In this temple, two old gentlemen look after the temple. Luoshan Temple was rebuilt in 1996, but there are three incense burners in the temple, which are left over from the original ancient temple, and several pairs of cornerstones are preserved.

It is said that there used to be a flying clock in this ancient temple. The old people in the village still remember that the diameter of the clock is 1 meter wide. When I was a child, there was an adult hidden in the clock. Legend has it that this ancient temple rings the flying bell at a fixed time every day. Because Luo Xiushan and Qing Xiushan look at each other, the bell rings one after another. There were no tall buildings in ancient Nanning, and the whole Nanning could hear the bells of flying clocks. Unfortunately, this flying clock and the inscription in the temple were smashed during the Cultural Revolution.

In the backyard of Luoshan Temple, there is a pond called Longtan, and the water will not be exhausted all year round. No matter how dry it is, even if the farmer's fish pond at the foot of the mountain dries up, the pond halfway up the mountain is still full of water, which is really puzzling.

Summit: Nanning's famous mountains come down in one continuous line

In Luo Xiushan's diary, Xu Xiake wrote that Luo Xiushan and Ma Pushan are connected together, and the peaks are scattered. On the way to the mountain climbing, he lost his way, sat in the shade of a pine tree and waited for passers-by, and no one was seen until the afternoon, but he "missed the peak, that is, from south to east." When he reached the summit, Xu Xiake described in detail the Nanning landform he saw when he climbed to the top of Shura Mountain: "The top of the mountain is connected to Matui in the west and Huanghua in the east to Pennsylvania. Gaiqimai comes from Dongshan, Qujing, passes through Yongning, Yucheng and Sien, and reaches Yibin in the east. The south is the northern mountain of your county, and the east is the western mountain of Zhou Xun, so it began. " Xu Xiake also believes that Wang Xianpo and Qingxiu Mountain are actually in the same vein as Shura: "The pulse of Nanning, from Luoxiu East to South, Gangtuo winds for several miles, becoming Wang Xianpo, and counties and cities lean on it. And the east branch goes south, forming green hills, which is the mouth of a county. Castle peak horses retreat from the east and west, and the back ring is big. Pyongyang is 30 miles apart in the middle, and the border line Kaiyang has never been so spacious. "

After reading these, it is easy for us to understand why Xu Xiake went to Luoxiu Mountain ―― Compared with previous trips before the age of 50, Xu Xiake's trip to the southwest was very rich in geographical investigation. He no longer focuses on scenic spots and entertains himself in the scenery; It is no longer to satisfy your curiosity without thinking. As a well-informed traveler who traveled all over China, he deeply felt that there were too many mistakes in China's ancient books and other geographical documents, which were confined to the Central Plains, and there were many gaps to be filled. Based on this consideration, during this trip to Wan Li, Xu Xiake has always focused on the investigation of geographical phenomena, and then explored its internal laws. With a rigorous scientific attitude, he explored the ins and outs of rivers and water systems, the strike distribution and geomorphological characteristics of mountains, the location, structure and rock morphology of caves, and geographical phenomena such as plants, animals, rocks, minerals and hydrology. On the way of investigation, he sometimes met a big temple and didn't go in, but he was eager to climb the main peak of the mountain range and find the watershed. According to Xu Xiake's account, he climbed Luojia Mountain mainly to inspect the landform and the distribution of mountains in Nanning.

On the left of Shura, there is a cave. Before liberation, some thieves stole the villagers' cattle and took them to Wuming on the other side of the mountain to sell. Most people are afraid to enter this cave. In the 1970s, the relevant departments blew up the cave and blocked the entrance. A few years ago, Nantan Expressway was built, and the highway just passed under the hole. As soon as the hook machine dug, a big snake climbed out of the hole. The worker killed the snake with a hook machine, which weighed more than 5 kilograms! The snake catcher outside the village said that the big snakes are a pair, and one is hidden in the cave, so no one dares to enter that cave so far.

On the left of Shura, there is Wuzhishan, which looks like five fingers. There is also a hole in this mountain, which was discovered when the road was being built. The tunnels in the cave are deep and vary in height. Who dug it? Which dynasty? Is it for air defense or something? No one can tell, and it is still a mystery.

The right side of Shura Mountain is connected with Paradise Ridge, and there is a mountain spring halfway up Paradise Ridge. Since the 1980s, several elderly people in Nanning have often come here on foot every week or two to fetch water from mineral water bottles. They say this mountain spring is very sweet.

In Tiantangling, there used to be a Longtan waterfall with a drop of more than 20 meters, and the pool below the waterfall was 10 meters wide. Before liberation, the old people in the village often went fishing by the pond and once saw a turtle as big as a dustpan surface. The villagers also used the cow rope hanging on the stone to detect the depth of the pool, and actually received 9 cow ropes! At that time, many young people liked to ride bicycles to play, so people called Longtan Waterfall Lover's Valley. An old man in the village looks after bicycles for tourists in Lover Valley. He looked at them at a glance for nearly 20 years. Until 2000, the expressway from Nanning to Shuiren in Hechi was completed, and the hook machine hooked off half the mountain and filled the Longtan. ...