The main attractions of Cang Xie Ridge

The original mausoleum gate of Cang Xie Ridge is called Chaotianmen (see "Chaotianmen"), which is made of hard brick and wood, with a plaque under the eaves and the word "Shi Huang Lin" written on it. There is no tomb gate now, and I don't know when it was taken. The ancient stone archway, stone lion and stone carving in front of the mausoleum were built by Liu Bikuan, the magistrate of Nanle County in Qin Long period of Ming Dynasty, but unfortunately, they were destroyed in the Cultural Revolution. It was restored in the 1990s. A pair of white marble watchtowers, wrapped in dragons, have extraordinary momentum and are very beautiful and spectacular. In the north of Wang Zhu, there are a pair of stone lions more than six feet high, squatting in front of the Paihanyu memorial archway. The stone archway has four columns and three rows, and the four columns are towering over the sky, and they sit with their heads held high. The square seat is lotus-shaped, and the zodiac is carved on the drum-holding stone. The center of the memorial archway was inscribed by Zhang, secretary of Nanle County Committee of China. Box books: Yu Gu Qu and Ghost Night Cry, inscribed by Ling Nie of Nanle County. According to Huai Nan Zi, creating characters in Cang Xie is an earth-shattering event. The Yellow Emperor issued imperial edicts in late spring and early summer, announcing the success of Cangjie's word-making, and calling on people all over the world to * * * the ambition of Xi. On this day, an unusual rain fell in the sky, leaving countless Gu Mi, so later generations named this day Grain Rain, which became one of the 24 solar terms. At this time, people heard the devil crying and moaning at night. It is an earth-shattering cry. This is the origin of "rainy ghosts cry at night".

Later generations' explanation of "when it rains millet, ghosts cry at night" is that Cang Xie created characters, which accelerated and promoted human civilization. People were thirsty for knowledge and competed to read and learn the characters created by Cang Xie. The Emperor of Heaven is worried that people will only learn Chinese characters and forget to farm. Because spring will soon pass, and if we miss the farming season, the countryside will be deserted, so we planted millet to remind and warn people not to forget the farming season. People mastered the written language and began to get smarter. Some bad guys and demons who usually fool the people were frightened and ran to the wild in the dark and cried. Do these explanations conform to the original intention of the ancients? From now on, many books have said it, which makes sense. There are a pair of tall stone owls in northern Fang Zisheng. Owl, originally a fierce bird, is a strange bird called owl by later generations. Its original meaning is mascot, which is quite different from people's understanding today.

Further on, there is a pair of Weng Zhong, who carved stones during the Qin Long period of the Ming Dynasty. One old and one young, things stand opposite each other. The carved lines are smooth, delicate and natural.

It is said that there are a pair of stone dragons in the stone carving in front of Cang Xie Mountain. The stone carvings of the whole mausoleum are birds in the sky, lions on the ground and dragons in the water. The three are integrated and magnificent. After the restoration, there are three stone tablets lined up in front of Cang Xie Ridge. There is a giant plaque inscribed by State Councilor Chen in the middle, with faucets and flowers on both sides, which is very beautiful. On the front of the monument, there are three Chinese characters "Cang Xie Ridge", which are vigorous and powerful.

The inscription on the tablet is written by Nie Suo, which records that the rebuilt Cangling is conical and brick wall with unique design. The perimeter of the mausoleum wall is 36.5 meters, which symbolizes the number of 365 days a year. The city wall is bounded by brick piles and divided into 12 sections, which means one year 12 months. Each section is 3 meters long, 3. 1 meter or 2.8 meters long, indicating different days in each month.

The edge of the mausoleum is relatively flat, which is formed by tourists walking and trampling. There is a local custom that when people pay homage to Cangling, they must climb the mausoleum and walk around it for three weeks, saying that this can protect them from backache and leg pain and keep them healthy. Of course, this is only people's kindness, and it is a sign that people worship the word Saint Cang Xie.

The grass on the mausoleum is lush and people call it children's grass. There is a local saying that "a grass is broken and a son is born; Dig a root and have a baby. Whoever wants to have a boy or girl, go to Cangling to get grass, tie it with a red rope, hold it in his arms, name it, call home all the way, put grass or roots under the sheets, and ensure that you will have the child you want in the future.

No one is picky about whether the custom is so effective. There is a 30-foot-long platform behind Cang Xie Ridge, which is said to be Cang Xie's desk. There is an ancient pavilion on the stage, which is called Cang Pavilion or Liu Bookstore. According to legend, Cang Xie invented six kinds of Chinese characters-pictographic, knowing, pictophonetic, indicating, borrowing and annotating. Of course, the characters in Cangjie are mainly pictographs, with literacy and finger-pointing. Xu Shen, a scholar in the Eastern Han Dynasty, summed up the theory when he compiled the first dictionary "Shuo Wen Jie Zi" in China.

Today, the book-making desk has been leveled to the ground. The desk doesn't exist, so the pavilion is attached. People are anxious about saints. Unexpectedly, a hexagonal two-story wooden pavilion built in 1994 was destroyed by strong wind on the 28th day of the first month of 1995. The head gate of Cang Xie Temple is called "Chaotianmen", which was originally three hard mountains, but was later changed.

Construction of arch coupons with three rooms and three doors. Outside the Chaotianmen Gate, there stood a pair of stone watches, with mighty stone lions lying on both sides. There is a stone tablet in the middle of the gate: "Stone Emperor Temple". Ask Fiona Fang, the magistrate of Nanle County, in the year of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty. "Wenzong" and "Zizu" in the books on both sides were inscribed by Gong Shengkong Shangyi in Qufu during the reign of Kangxi. Kong Shangyi is not famous, but his brother is a famous writer and the author of the famous drama Peach Blossom Fan. Based on the love story between Hou Chaozong and Li in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, the play describes the different positions of different figures in the period of great social change. There are two stone tablets in Chaotianmen, which are tall and straight. They were erected during the apocalypse of the Ming Dynasty. On the east side of the tablet is engraved "the ancestor of the three religions" and on the west side is engraved "the Sect of all saints". All eight words are nearly two feet square. The obelisk was erected according to the imperial edict. At that time, the court had six departments: officials, households, rituals, soldiers, punishments and workers. Three ministers attended the ceremony, namely Cui, the official capital, Li, the minister of industry, and Li, the minister of punishment. Also attending the monument were Wei Guangwei, a scholar of the Cabinet (Prime Minister), Liang Tianqi, the censor, and more than 100 officials, including the magistrate of Daming Prefecture and the magistrate of Fuxian County. The owner of the monument is Ye Tingxiu, a famous "Ye Qingtian" in China history, which further increases tourists' awe of another monument and their reverence for Cangsi.

There are two interesting stories recorded on the square tablet:

During the apocalypse of the Ming Dynasty, Wei Guangwei, a university student, Cui Shangshu of the official department, Li Shangshu of the criminal department, Li Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry and Liang Tianqi, a supervisor, were ordered to build the Confucius Temple here. When it was completed, people erected a huge monument to commemorate its prosperity. Officials at all levels in Daming House were so busy that they took part in it one after another, and put Ye Tingxiu (now a native of Fanxian County) in charge of Nanle County. Nanle is too poor to pay a huge sum of money. Ye Tingxiu asked the magistrate Yin Xian. The magistrate called on all counties in Daming Prefecture to donate money, and first promised to donate silver 12, and his subordinate officials also took the lead in signing up. Seeing that the county magistrate took the lead, the county magistrate also generously promised to donate five taels of silver to each person. Ye Tingxiu was honest and trustworthy. When he saw that the money had been obtained, he did it quickly. When Ye Tingxiu collected money from you after erecting the monument, he found that the magistrate, the judge and others breached the contract and paid nothing. Other counties also want to emulate their superiors and are unwilling to give money, but because of Ye Tingxiu's face, they have to bite the bullet and take one or two pieces of silver, which is also a job. Ye Tingxiu never admired his boss, so he made a speech: "If you embarrass me for a while, I will let you lose a few lives." So, he ordered people to engrave the words "donate two pieces of silver" under the aliases of the famous magistrate Xiang Xian and Si Gongkong, and then add the word "no gift". In the names of other counties, the words "stop donating one or two" were added after "donating five taels of silver". All the officials in Daming House knew that they were wrong, but they were afraid to say so. As a result, the two stone tablets became several wordless words.

A disgrace to feudal officials who believed in it. I wanted to be remembered by future generations, but it has been stinking for hundreds of years. Up to now, the handwriting on the square tablet of "the ancestor of the three religions" is still legible. According to this, we can get a glimpse of the true face of many officials in feudal society, and at the same time we can understand Ye Tingxiu, who is known as "Ye Qingtian".

The left side of the square tablet of "the Sect of All Saints" is recorded. Ming Yingzong. The emperor felt a dream and ordered a visit to Master Cang's mausoleum and temple. Zhang Qing, the magistrate of Nanle County, disrespected Cang Xie and concealed it. However, for fear of being accused by the holy family, three temples were hastily built to sacrifice young prisoners (sheep and pigs), which violated the custom of sacrificing cattle, sheep and pigs. Soon, Zhang Qing returned to his hometown to worship his ancestors, capsized in the river and drowned his family. The inscription reads, "The whole family was buried in the belly of a river fish. Isn't it a punishment for the anger of the Holy Father (Cang Xie)? " Although this statement is far-fetched, it is conceivable that people at that time respected the word master Shengcang. The hall for the elderly, also known as the main hall, is commonly known as Daxiong Hall, which is named after the huge plaque of the hall for the elderly under the eaves in front of the hall.

The main hall is a Ming dynasty building, which consists of a worship hall and a main hall. There are three halls, which were built in August of the fourth year of Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty. Supported by two stone pillars on the front eaves of the temple, the stone pillars are beautifully carved and can be called masterpieces of Ming carving. There is a couplet on the column: the first couplet is "Hundred Kings Jingyang and Zhi Dai Bound Ropes to Help the Universe", and the second couplet is "Wan Shengchong Zun Wen Cheng Zheng Qi Gan Kun". The upper and lower couplets are all engraved with Yang seal, and the font is beautiful. There is a line engraved on the upper right of the couplet.

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The main hall is the top of the hall, with four eaves and a flying angle. Antique and spectacular, it will be built for seven years tomorrow. The main hall is five rooms wide and three rooms deep. Eight thick wooden pillars in the temple stand on the basis of stone pillars covered with pots, supporting the roof of Si 'a. Most of the wooden pillars have couplets, and there is an inscription for the door of a famous Ming Dynasty Wang Jiuru:

Part One: Gui Ling wrote a book to reveal the secrets of heaven and earth.

Bottom line: I started a moral biography of sages.

There are also woodcut couplets in the hatchback, inscribed for Ye Tingxiu in Ming Dynasty:

The first part: write books, mountains, water and paintings with Rhett.

Bottom line: Cha Lingwen started with the emperor and the teacher who created the characters.

In the middle of the main hall is a shrine, which houses the golden statue of Cang Xie. Cang Xie has four bright eyes, a long beard and a drooping crown, just like an emperor. There are two couplets on each side of the shrine. Outside is Ye Tingxiu's inscription: Part I: Birds and feathers are far away; Bottom line: The achievements of emperors in past dynasties have been honored and rewarded. Inside are Sun-Moon couplets inscribed by Kou Zhun, a famous historical figure in the Song Dynasty. The sun-moon couplet is called "Pangu's gentle hometown" and the moon couplet is called "Tian Kai's home of saints".

When was the famous historical figure Kou Zhun inscribed in Nanle Cang Xie Temple? This matter has something to do with the alliance of Buddhist temples. After the signing of the contract of "Union of Single Sources", Song Zhenzong was overjoyed and wrote a poem "Qidan Leaving the Country", which was written by Kou Zhun and carved by famous artists. This is a memorial tablet. Song Zhenzong transferred troops back to Beijing and ordered Kou Zhun to stay behind and take charge of the aftermath of Daming House.

Nanle County belonged to Daming House in the Northern Song Dynasty. After becoming an official, Kou Zhun became an official in Daming and was very familiar with Nanle. After the retreat of Liao soldiers, Kou Zhun went north from Puyang to Nanle, and when he saw the devastation of Liao soldiers, his heart was filled with indignation. One day in September, Kou Zhun, escorted by attendants, crossed many rivers and came to Cang Xie Temple. He visited Master St. Cang Xie, carefully watched the memorial tablet of the Scholars, and finally offered a sacrifice to Cang Xie's mausoleum. The magistrate of Nanle County who accompanied Kou Zhun told Kou Zhun that San Cang Xie was from Nanle County. Born in Shiguan Village on the south bank of the Temple on the 24th of the first month, he died in Baishui, Shaanxi Province, and was buried in Sang Zi (hometown), with only a cenotaph. Kou Zhun said: "Born in Sri Lanka and buried in Sri Lanka are the light of people in the city." Then, Kou Zhun said, I have worked in Daming Mansion for several years, and I know that this place is in Xiu Jie area, where people are outstanding and Tessa thrives, and there are many people handed down from generation to generation. Militarism and wars have plagued the Lebanese people for many years, leading to the decline of agriculture and mulberry fields and the desolation of farmland. I feel a great responsibility. Later, Kou Zhun and others retreated to the main hall of Cang Xie Temple and looked at the golden statue of Master Cang, filled with emotion. In order to express his determination to serve his country and his reverence for Cang Xie, Kou Zhun ordered someone to wait on him with pen and ink, and wrote down ten Chinese characters of "Pangu Gentle" and "Open the Sage's House", and then wrote the word "Day" at the top of the first part of the book, and the word "Month" at the top of the second part of the book, which showed my Kou Zhun's determination to defend the country of Song to the death.

After the couplets were written, the Nanle magistrate ordered people to carve them carefully, make them into wooden couplets and hang them in the temple.

There is a circular stone tablet on the east side of the shrine, which was erected by Wang Yue, the minister of the Ministry of War during Hongzhi period in Ming Dynasty. There is a portrait of Cang Xie on it, and the four characters of "ancient portrait" are engraved on the tablet. This portrait of Cang Xie is very precious, which is earlier than that of Ming Wanli and Emperor Chongzhen. There are four directions of Cang Xie Ling Temple: "Lotus Pond in the east, Fanshui County in the west, wulongkou in the south and Heilongtan in the north". Today, the four geographical locations are different, but they are roughly the same.

The lotus pond is located about two miles east of the temple. It used to be a river bend, with many rivers and dried up water. Among them, there are green lilies, kingfishers dancing, white geese ups and downs, and red carp looming. People built hundreds of walls around the pool, with willows outside and curved bridges inside, which is really a place frequented by tourists. Among the eight scenes of Nanle sung by the ancients, "Lotus is full of boiling water" refers to this place. Wucun people still call it the bend of the river. The lotus pond was washed away by the Zhanghe River in Guangxu period, and now there is only one bend left.

Panshui County is a county in the Sui Dynasty and a province in the early Tang Dynasty. Changle was built, and it was impermanent after it was built. Panshui County is located in the west of Lisanmiao, which is now Bianma Town. It is said that there are "ten steps and two wells, four doors and three suspension bridges". Panshui County was flooded by the river in the Tang Dynasty, so there is still a saying that "Panshui County lost water".

Wulongkou has different legends. Shiguan Village (now wucun), the hometown of sages, is opposite to five hutong streets in Cangmiao, such as Wulong Jushou Temple Mausoleum. It is said that there are five-color dragons around Cang Xie Ling Temple. Qinglong is hidden in the south river of Temple, Black Dragon is hidden in the Black Dragon Pool in the north of Temple, White Dragon lies at the bottom of the lotus pond in the east of Temple, and red (red) dragons are coiled around numerous water city moats. Only Huang Longxiong is in the middle, stationed in Cangling Cangmiao, and is the mount of Cangfu. On Cang Xie's birthday (January 24th), five dragons gathered in the south of the temple to worship Cang Xie. Of course, these are legends and there is no way to study them. According to the four directions, it seems that the first statement is slightly more reasonable. Five hutong streets are located in the south of the temple, facing Cangmiao. The farmhouses on both sides of the street are filled with smog all year round, like a five-pillar Qing Xiang, with fireworks constantly every year. Whether it is reasonable for the ancients to adopt this idea. Black Dragon Pool is more than ten miles north of the temple, now known as Baishuitan. Why the Black Dragon Pool evolved into a white water pool is related to folklore. According to legend, Baishuitan, formerly known as Black Dragon Pool, is the residence of the Black Dragon. Because the dragon originally lived in the lotus pond, which was flooded by water, the white dragon lost its place to live, so he took refuge in the black dragon, and the two dragons lived together in the black dragon pond. As the saying goes, "two dragons are not in harmony." Soon, the two dragons had an argument, the black dragon fled, and the white dragon entered its cave, so it was renamed Bailongtan. Because the traditional dragon character is not easy to write, later generations changed the dragon into water and a white pool for simplicity. Of course, this is only the legend of the origin of the village name, which may be different from the historical facts. But as an interesting story, it is not without benefits.

The hall for people of all ages is located on a five-foot platform with an altar in front and stone railings around it. There are several steps ahead, all paved with stone strips. The main hall has five ridges, green glazed tile roof and blue brick wall. The whole building is grand, solemn and gorgeous. A door opens behind the shrine of the main hall, which leads directly to the Tibetan architecture. There are many stone tablets in front of the steps, including 1 stone tablet in Yuan Dynasty, more than 20 stone tablets in the first year of Wanli in Ming Dynasty, seven years of apocalypse, eight years of Chongzhen, ten years of Kangxi, twenty-five years of Qianlong, ten years of Xianfeng, one year of Guangxu, Republic of China and modern times. Nowadays, there are many stone carvings scattered in the village, either as cornerstones or blocked by walls, which need to be collected and protected urgently. Cang Xie Lougu, called Houlou, is the tallest building in Cang Xie Temple, with three bedrooms and two floors. Covered with green glazed tiles and red walls, it is located on a pedestal more than ten feet high, and it is steep and straight.

The meaning and use of Tibetan architecture, similar to various temples, indicates the place where scriptures are collected, while the Tibetan family building of Tibetan temples has another meaning. Cangjie made characters and carved them on the tortoise shell bone with a knife. Later generations built this building for Zi Sheng to collect Oracle bones, hence the name Zangjialou.

This pavilion has a front door and two windows. The same is true on the second floor, except that there is a window on the east and west sides. There is a wooden plaque under the eaves of the building, which was inscribed by the famous warlord Sun Dianying. Sun Dianying was once famous for stealing the treasures of Dongling, and was called "the thief of Dongling". In the 11th year of the Republic of China (1922), he served as the ambassador of Daming Town, and wrote this plaque for the sake of art..

The legend that the "scripture-storing building" was originally the "scripture-storing building" is quite popular, but Sun Dianying changed the word "scripture" to "A", but it is little known.

Sun Dianying is a rich man in Yongcheng, Henan. He has never read poetry books since he was a child, but he is good at dancing guns, swords and halberds. When he was young, he specialized in scoundrels. Later, he used his own money to buy the title of "Mingwei".

Being an official will inevitably make friends with powerful literati. 192 1 a Mid-Autumn Festival night, Sun Dianying and five or six local literati were drinking and enjoying the moon in the garden of a famous city. Speaking of wine, some people suggest making couplets to help people solve the problem. You say you write couplets, I will write couplets, and you can't pay a fine. Chen Mou sat on the head of the Sun Temple and saw the moon and stars reflected in the water. He said, "Big Dipper, it's 14 o'clock underwater." . It's time for Sun Dianying to get off the bottom line, and let him sweat, scratch his head, keep his mouth straight, uh-huh, speechless. Zhang, sitting next to Sun Dianying, hurriedly said, "General Sun is drunk, so I'll draw a line." . At this moment, there happened to be a lone goose flying through the air. Zhang Yue said, "The solitary geese in the south building fly with shadows in the middle of the moon."

Sun Dianying was humiliated and decided to find someone to teach him to read and write. Where did he get the patience? It was abandoned in a few days. He always talks with some literati while drinking, and visits the hometown and places of interest of the literati in Daming House. When he visits them, he pays his respects and learns to be elegant and polite. On this day, it was suddenly reported that wucun, Nanle County, 35 miles away from Daming, is the hometown of Cang Xie, the sage of word-making, and there is Cang Xie Ling Temple. Sun Dianying heard that, rushed here.

At that time, it was the spring of the 11th year of the Republic of China, that is, at the beginning of A.D. 1922, Sun Dianying led his entourage, riding a sedan chair and a horse, crowding round to the Cang Xie Ridge Temple in Nanle County. He ordered someone to explain to him the couplet of Kou Zhun, the heavenly official in the Song Dynasty: "Pangu is gentle and gentle, which opens the home of the saints", as well as the ministers of the Ministry of Punishment, the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Official Affairs in the Ming Dynasty, as well as the two monuments of "the ancestor of the three religions" and "the Sect of the saints" set up by the university students and the imperial history.

Listening, Sun Dianying was filled with emotion, thinking, they have all set up a monument for future generations to admire, how can I let future generations know that I am Sun Dianying? As he walked, he thought, and suddenly he looked up and saw the tall back building with a plaque on it, which read "The Tibetan Classics Building". Sun Dianying smiled and said, "Wrong, wrong." The attendant was puzzled and asked, "What's the matter, sir?" Sun Dianying said, "I don't know anything else. This sutra building is only available in monasteries. It belongs to the Tibetan scriptures. The word saint is not a monk. What scripture is hidden? Change them, change them. " But what word to change? He thought for a moment, but somehow it occurred to him that the word of holy election was first engraved on Oracle Bone Inscriptions. Yes! Change "Jing" to "A". The "Tibetan Scripture Building" was changed to "Tibetan Scripture Building". So, when he returned, he ordered someone to build a plaque, which read "Cang Xie Building" and signed it as "Sun Dianying's title".

Sun Dianying, a clever man, wants to become immortal through the inscription. He only knows that there are temples.

The "Tibetan Scripture Building" is known as the "ancestor of the three religions". Cang Xie Temple was once presided over by Taoist priests, and their scriptures were placed in the Tibetan Scripture Building. It makes sense that the building is called Buddhist scripture building.

Sun Dianying hit the nail on the head and asked very accurately, because Cang Xie is the best choice of words after all. Since then, the plaque of "Cang Xie House" has been hung on the back floor of Cang Xie Temple.

In this building, Cang Xie and his wife are sitting in colored sculptures, with serene expressions and flowing eyes. There are three waiters on each side, with different postures and vivid expressions. Nowadays, incense is burned in Tibetan houses all year round, and kind men and women sincerely worship and sing Nuo Nuo and wish disaster. Above the vast Ye Ping in northern Henan, it can be regarded as a scenic spot with unique connotation, interest and a glimpse of folk customs. The well of the old house is said to be the drinking well of the old house in St. Cang Xie, located between Cangling and Cangmiao.

This well is an ancient blue brick well, about ten meters deep. According to textual research, this blue brick was in the Ming Dynasty, indicating that this ancient well was restored in the Ming Dynasty.

Although the shape of this well is ordinary, there is an interesting story in it. So according to the ancient legend, this well is a holy well, which is very effective. Well water is not only sweet, but also can be used to make wine, which can cure all diseases. Therefore, in the 1970s and 1980s, people from hundreds of miles away came to fetch water to cure diseases. It is also said that the fine magnetic tableware originally produced in the well is no longer effective because it is not returned after being used by some people.

Legend is just a legend. Although it reflects people's spiritual desire and pursuit in a sense, or expresses a certain will, it is not equal to reality after all. It just puts a mysterious coat on the cultural landscape of Cangling Cangsi.

There is a stone tablet beside the well, engraved with the words "Old House Well" and signed "February Dragon".

As a famous historic site in northeast Henan, it naturally has its merits. However, with the changes of years and the erosion of wind and rain, this cultural landscape is also constantly adding rings, smeared with a wisp of quaint and mysterious emotional appeal. Long-term poor management has made her more and more depressed and gradually depressed. Many people are calling and praying with the words created by Cang Xie: Save Master Cang! People are looking forward to the early emergence of a brilliant "God" place to welcome Chinese characters users from all corners of the country and master Cang's disciples. Cang Xie Temple, whose construction date is unknown. According to the existing inscriptions in the temple, "it has not been replaced since the Han and Tang Dynasties". Today's Cang Xie Temple was built in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, covering an area of about 2,700 square meters, facing south, with a pair of stone pillars, beautifully carved and elegant; The gate and the second gate are hard mountain buildings, and the worship hall, the main hall and the sleeping pavilion are generous and beautiful. There are inscriptions on the seals of famous people in Ming Dynasty and stone carvings of Cang Xie and his wife. There are many steles in the temple, pines and cypresses, willows and pavilions, and the whole building is magnificent.