Yang Guo, Anhui Province is Lao Zi's hometown?

Laozi has made outstanding contributions to the cultural development of the Chinese nation, and people want to know where this great man was born. However, due to the different descriptions of Laozi's birthplace in history, people have argued. Many experts believe that the historical evidence of Laozi's hometown of Yang Guo is conclusive, thus solving this eternal mystery.

Laozi was the lover of the Song Dynasty.

According to the historical records, Lao Zi is from Qurenli, Lixian Township, Chu County, while the Fairy Biography says Ren Chenren, Bian Shao Lao says Chu Xiang County, Lu Deming's Lao Zi Yinyi says Lao Zi is from Lixian Township, and the historical records record Ren Liren and Ren Liren. Mr. Ma Xulun proved that "Laozi was from Qurenli, Li Xiang, Chuku County" was tampered with by later generations, and at the same time, it further proved that Chen Guoxiang's statement was wrong. He pulled the rope and said, "The four books continue to explain." He said, "The bitter county belongs to Chen. Lao Tzu was born in Chu, and Chen was destroyed by King Hui of Chu. Three years after being named Lin in the Spring and Autumn Period, Confucius died. What about Lao Dan? Shi Guanchu lives in a bitter county, and it is wrong to treat Laozi as a Chu. " After the sound test, Ge Hong's "Fairy Biography" complained about the county people; Bian Shao's "Laozi Ming" refers to people in Chuxiang County. After the Spring and Autumn Period, Xiang County was barren and empty, but now it is bitter, and it is still a mistake in history books. Huangfu Mi's Biography of Gao Shi is the cloud of Chen Ren, and the Preface to Classic Interpretation is the cloud of Chen Ren. However, Ceng Li Wen Shu quoted Historical Records as the bitter county of Chen Guozhi. Is it based on something else? "Therefore, Ma Xulun introduced Laozi with Sima Qian's Records of the Pre-Qin Human Body as an example." Gaiyue is also a lover, a Mongolian in Zhuangzi and a Beijinger in Shen Buhai. "And BianShao's" Lao Tzu Ming "said that the lover is probably here. This is of course an inference, and it is also based on facts. Emperor Huan of the Eastern Han Dynasty built Tianjing Palace and Laozi Temple in and respectively in eight years, and wrote Laozi's knowledge in the Imperial edict of Bianshao. His attitude is very cautious. As the emperor's favorite consort, he had to look for the authoritative work Historical Records. As a Chen Xiang, he is very familiar with the local conditions and customs, so he wrote a story about Chu Xiang people who are contrary to Qu Renli in Laixiang, Guxian County. Sima Qian probably also said that Laozi was a native of Chuxiang County. In Historical Records of Laozi, he said: "There is a saying:' Laozi is also a native of Chu', and' Yi' means that in this case, Historical Records was originally written for Chu, not for Chen." This is reasonable and irrefutable, thus denying Laozi's theory of Chen Renli. In addition, Ma Xulun demonstrated and further reached his own conclusion that Lao Zi was the lover of the Song Dynasty.

(2) Lao Tzu's hometown is in the north of the Wohe River, where the valley water enters the Wohe River.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Bian Shaofeng wrote Laozi Ming: "Laozi, a native of Chuxiang County ... the water is in its yang". "Notes on Water Classics" Volume 23: "Valley water enters vortex water in the east from now on". According to the map of the Eastern Han Dynasty in 64-65 in Volume II of Atlas of Chinese History, Wu Jia, which is surrounded by both sides of Laozi's hometown in Guoyang County, has entered the vortex. Therefore, laojunmiao, five kilometers north of Guoyang County, is not only a place where the water in the vortex is in the sun, but also a place where the grain water enters the vortex, while Taiqing Palace in Luyi County, Henan Province is both a shadow of the vortex and a place where no grain water enters the vortex.

(3) A variety of local chronicles record that Tianjing Palace is the birthplace of Laozi.

Today, the site of Taiqing Palace in Zhabei Town, Guoyang County belongs to Yuzhou in ancient times. It was located at the junction of Song and Chen in the Spring and Autumn Period and was later annexed by Chu. In the Western Han Dynasty, it belonged to Pei. Bozhou has been under its jurisdiction since Sui and Tang Dynasties. In the third year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty (1864), when Guoyang County was founded, Shisanbao was separated from Bozhou and Taiqing Palace was later transferred to Yang Guo. Cultural Relics Unearthed from Taiqing Palace Site in Guoyang County

Tianjing Palace Zhizhai was built in the eighth year of Yan Xi in the Eastern Han Dynasty (A.D. 165), formerly known as Laozi Temple. Emperor Gaihuan dreamed that Lao Zi went down to the palace, so he gave a temple to Lao Zi in his hometown. During the construction of the temple, Emperor Huan sent Zhong Chang's servants Zuo Xun and Guan Ba to supervise the repair, and ordered Chen Xiangbian to write an inscription on Laozi's tablet. Since then, in the years of Cao Wei, Huang San (222) and Sui (58 1 year), temples have been built one after another to expand the scale. Li Tang, with Laozi as his ancestor, greatly respected him, repeatedly added titles, honored this temple as the ancestral hall, and built it grandly. In the third year of Emperor Gaozu Wude (620), the sixth year of Emperor Taizong Zhenguan (627), the first year of Emperor Gaozong Ganfeng (666) and the first year of Wuzhou Guangzhai (684), palaces and palaces were built here one after another, which were magnificent and not inferior to the Imperial Capital. In the second year of Tianbao (743), the palace was named Taiqing Palace. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, it was destroyed by soldiers and was in ruins. In the Northern Song Dynasty, Dazhongxiang House was rebuilt from the sixth year (10 13) to the second year of Tianxi (10 18), and the temple looks better than that of the Tang Dynasty. Bachelor Hanlin has been devoted to writing inscriptions. In the Jingkang Rebellion, the temple was first robbed by soldiers and then burned, and the temple was completely unrecognizable. Although it was built repeatedly in the Jin Dynasty, compared with the heyday of the Tang and Song Dynasties, the scale is far from it. Since Yuan Shizu, Taoism has flourished again, and this palace was newly built and renamed Tianjing Palace. Shunshun for three years, it was built on a large scale again, and Tianjing Palace reappeared in the past. Zhang Qiyan, a bachelor of Hanlin, wrote an article for this purpose, and the inscription was included in various ancient books. During the period of Zheng De's Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty and Kangxi in Qing Dynasty, it was repaired. During the reign of Qianlong and Jiaqing, it was still called the grand deep hall, with exquisite scale, medium statue and strict Taoism. There were frequent wars in the late Qing Dynasty, and temples became increasingly decadent. At first, there was a sigh that "Danzao burned cold grass, and the audience was empty with Shi Niu".

(4) The cultural relics unearthed in Yang Guo are consistent with historical records.

Tianjing Palace is located five kilometers north of Guoyang County, with more than 20 historical sites built and restored since the Yuan Dynasty. Although many of them are broken, Zhang Qiyan's inscription "Tianjing Palace Monument" reads: "Tianjing Palace is also the place where the old man was born". The palace is in Funing Town, the father of the city. Today, Tianjing Palace in the north of Guoyang County is only a dozen kilometers away from Funing Town, the father of the city. What's the point of belonging to this town? Taiqing Palace in Luyi County, Henan Province, which is more than 50 kilometers away from Funing Town, has never belonged to the town. In the Ming Dynasty, Zhengde Chongzhen rebuilt the (remnant) monument: "According to the previous dynasties, Tianjing Palace was built in Yan Xi for eight years. Go west to Bozhou (Bo County) for a hundred miles. The birthplace of Mr. Tianjinggong ... Tianjinggong is surrounded by two waters in the vortex valley ... The water in the valley has since entered the vortex river in the east. " There is no valley water around Taiqing Palace in Luyi County. In the eighth year of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty, the tablet of the Taoist ancestor Laojun said: "The Taoist ancestor Li Laojun ... because of his birthday, I have a carefree garden ... The remains of the Taoist temple of Xiangong are still there, such as the old Laozi Temple of Tianjinggong on the north bank of Xiaohezi (Shui Gu) in the northeast of Zuoyimen Town (now Bo County and Bozhou)." Zuoyimen Town, 30 miles northeast, is located in Tianjing Palace, five kilometers north of Guoyang County.

(5) Yang Guo has the landmark landscape of Laozi's hometown.

According to historical records, there are two unique landscapes in Laozi's hometown, one is Meteor Garden, and the other is Jiulong Well. It is precisely because these two landscapes are not available elsewhere that they are called landmark landscapes. Kowloon Well is the witness of history. One of the Jiulong wells discovered in Guoyang County is surrounded by a meteor garden. These two landscapes, which are closely related to the birthplace of Laozi, were discovered in Taiqing Palace, Yang Guo, providing strong evidence that Laozi was born here.

The meteor garden is recorded in many local chronicles, that is, "there are stars in the garden, so I am born" and so on. Whether there is such a thing or not, it is a fact that later generations call the place where Laozi was born "Meteor Garden". Guoyang County not only excavated the former site of Meteor Garden, but also unearthed the stone tablet of "Ancient Meteor Garden" and the remnants of Laozi. The missing part is obviously the word "hometown", which is not found in Lu Yi Taiqing Palace.

The origin of Jiulong Well is also related to a myth and legend. According to Youlong, the orthodox Taoist priest, when I was born, "Wan He Kong Xiang, Jiulong spit water, bathed in sacred posture, where dragons came out, became nine wells." The archaeological summary of Wang Benchu, an expert from the Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, said: Nine ancient wells were found in the former Meteor Garden site, and one of them has been cleaned, "initially designated as a well in the Spring and Autumn Period". Three of the other eight wells were repaired in the Han Dynasty, and the other five were rebuilt in the Song Dynasty.