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Hazy tower

Hazy Tower is located in the west of Baota Town, jianhu county City, Jiangsu Province, at Jinghui Temple in Baota Village. It is said that the tower was built in the Tang dynasty and is a cultural relic protection unit in Jiangsu province? .

According to legend, at the end of Sui Dynasty, Li Shimin came to the coastal area of Huainan during the crusade, and stationed dozens of military camps on the west bank of Sheyang River, ready to fight against the Suwen troops of the Beggars' Sect stationed in Meiyukou, Hedong, and determined to destroy them on the coast of the East China Sea. Li was afraid that his intelligence was untrue, so he disguised himself late one night and went to the enemy camp alone to find out about Gai Jun's movements, only to be discovered by Gai Jun's patrol. When Gai Suwen was informed, he immediately led the troops to gallop and chased them with a whip. As soon as Li Shimin saw it, he rode from north to south. He was in a hurry and accidentally fell into the river ahead. The horse rolled in the river and finally climbed to the south bank. Now this small river is called "Manigou" (about 3 kilometers north of Hazy Tower, and its west mouth is connected with Sheyang River). After landing, Li Shimin only heard the enemy shouting ShaSheng, chasing after him, so he mounted his horse and continued to run south, desperate to be caught up in the dark. At this time, I came to a village in front (now a hazy village) and saw a ruined temple and an abandoned dry well in the grass in the southwest corner. The pursuer was almost shouting. He immediately dismounted and tied his horse to the stone pillar in front of the temple, and jumped into the dry well himself. As soon as he jumped into the well, several Okumos immediately set up a net at the wellhead to cover it. Three big frogs urinated on the internet, too, and the internet was full of water droplets. Red Horse thinks that if I don't avoid the enemy, I will never let go of the investigation. The red horse covered in mud kicked off the white stone pillar and jumped into the ruined temple to become a mud horse. After Sui Jun arrived, they looked for people everywhere, but I didn't know where Li Shimin was hiding. Someone said, "Are you hiding in the well?" Sui Bing led the team and said,' Bah! Idiot! There are cobwebs and dew on the wellhead! Why is it in the well? "。 Li Shimin was trembling with fear at the bottom of the well, hiding in the underground south of the well, and the atmosphere was afraid to come out. Gai Suwen didn't find out at all. There is a little soldier in the temple who whips when he sees a mud horse. Only a little mud fell, and nothing else happened. Suddenly I heard a horse barking in the east outside the temple, and the enemy concluded that Li Shimin had fled to the east. They got off Zhuangzi and chased them all the way to the east, but Li Shimin dodged a bullet. After the pursuers had gone far, the red horse got off the platform and came to the dry well. Li Shimin grabbed the horse's leg and climbed to the wellhead to leave the dry well. When Li Shimin got dressed, he found that the jade belt on his waist had fallen into the well, but he couldn't take it out. He whipped his horse and urged him to continue to flee to the south. He saw the Xitang River blocking the road ahead and had to run eastward along the hazy street on the north bank of Xitang River. After a long walk, he found a fishing boat with lights on and begged him to cross the river. But the ship is very small and can only carry people. At this time, the horse must be driven into the water to swim in the river. The locals call this ferry "Madu". The fishing boat didn't go near the south bank when it turned off the lights at night. The enemy has reached the north bank of Hebei. When Li Shimin crossed the river, he shot an arrow at the fishing boat, but missed it. After landing, Li Shimin dared not stop and ran all the way forward, whipping and urging his horse. When I arrived at Gaozuo Street, the horse slipped into the air because of too much force, and ran far away before dismounting to find the whip. Because it was dark and we couldn't find a whip, we had to pick up a branch and ride on the horse. The whip handle of Sophora japonica fell in the pond and later grew into a thousand-year-old tree. Trees are leafy, and you can also know the weather conditions such as drought and flood in that year. Before and after Qingming, the branches sweated. This year, the leaves of the main waterlogged leaves turned yellow, and the main drought. The locals regard it as a sacred tree, and the incense is endless day and night. When did you die? 1973 was cut down because of the residual roots of construction land. To commemorate this tree, Gao Zuoren named an old street in the town "Tang Huai Road". Because Li Shimin couldn't tell the direction at night, he had to follow the horse along a small ditch. At this time, it was dead of night, and Li Shimin was sleepy. Suddenly he saw a farmer watching the car drive ahead and stopped for a while to let the horse drink water. After dawn, Li Shimin didn't dare to stay long, so he quickly washed away all the dirt on his horse's back by a small river. Later, the local people called this river "mud washing ditch" (in the hazy town of Jianyang, Tarnum, 0.5km away from Tayo10). When he saw a bridge on the abrupt grain river in front of him in the morning fog, he urged the bridge to be called "Jade Belt Bridge", and suddenly remembered that his belt had fallen into the well. It turns out that after Li Shimin escaped, Yudai thought I was the emperor's personal bodyguard, so how could I leave? Then I rolled in the well, turned into a dragon, jumped out of the wellhead and entered the Sheyang River in the west of the well. When Jiaolong got the water, he went upstream and came to the abrupt Wugu River at the mouth of Xienigou River, waiting for the emperor to cross the river and return to camp. When Li Shimin got off the bridge on the west bank and looked back, he didn't see the bridge. He saw the jade belt lying in front of the horse, so he picked it up, adjusted his clothes and rode back to the camp quickly.

After Li Shimin grasped the actual military situation, he fought with Gai Jun the next day and won a great victory. After this disaster, Li Shimin proclaimed himself Emperor Taizong. To thank God for saving his life, he sent Weichi Gong to build the tower on a dry well. The emperor is a dragon, so he called it the Menglong Tower. Which means "underground dragon". Later, because of the moonlit night, I wrote "Menglong" as "hazy".

The local farmers in the hazy village are not afraid of evil spirits, and the only thing they are afraid of is the tower god. If you have something at home, go to the tower to pray and ask the tower god to give you good luck and peace. The hazy tower brick is made of glutinous rice juice. After years of wind and rain erosion, cracks have emerged between bricks. It is said that sticking tiles on pagodas does not hurt old people. In order to prevent backache and backache during the busy farming season, people around the pagoda came to insert bricks and tiles on the pagoda. Some people want to cure low back pain, and they will come from far away and put bricks in the pagoda. In this way, year after year, old joints are filled and new joints continue to be blocked. When the lower seam is full, stand on the stool and stuff it high. Due to the settlement of the tower, the small tiles stuck in the cracks could not be pulled out for about two months, and they were homogenized, and the color was basically similar to that of the original tower bricks, which was blue-gray. In addition, some people are afraid of "not being able to catch" when giving birth. Before giving birth, they will knock a small tower brick on the pagoda and wrap it in red cloth. Please take it home and ask the tower god to protect the safety of adults and children. When giving birth, they will bring some fish and fruit to thank the tower god. When naming a child, you must also bring the word "tower".

1April, 998, after maintenance, the hazy tower reappeared the past glory of the ancient pagoda with a brand-new look, and continued to write a new chapter in history in front of tourists at home and abroad.

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Small knowledge of place names:

"Hazy"? As a specific place name, the place names extended by the hazy tower mainly refer to hazy street and Bao? Tower? Zhuang 1.5 square kilometers is located in the original 1, 2 and 9 villagers' groups of Baota Village, Baota Town, jianhu county.

Hazy is located east of Sheyang River and north of Xiqiao River. This is the intersection of Sheyang River, Xihua River and Jialiang River, which is called Sanchakou by local people. The west bank of Sanchakou is Yongxing Village, Donggou Town, Funing County, the east bank is Dajian Village, Gaozuo Town, jianhu county, and the north bank is Baota Village, Baota Town, jianhu county.

3.？ The "hazy" historical administrative region belonged to Yancheng County in the early years of the Republic of China, collectively known as Northwest Township of Yancheng. 194 1 years ago, Funing county was under its jurisdiction. 194 1 year later, Jianyang county was established, and Manigou, a tributary of Sheyang River in the east, was under its jurisdiction. . 195 1 year, Jianyang county was renamed as jianhu county, which is still in use today.

& lt& lt apotheosis legend >>? (Zhang Sloppy Pull Pagoda)

? Hazy tower?

The Hazy Pagoda is located in Jinghui Temple in Baota Village, Baota Town, jianhu county, Jiangsu Province. It is a stupa buried in Jinghui Temple. According to the legend of the local villagers, this tower was pulled from Jiangnan by the immortal Zhang Sloppy to help the local people exorcise evil spirits. ?

Legend has it that there is an ancient well in the hazy village, which leads directly to the East China Sea, and there are three princes of the Dragon King living in the well. The Dragon King of the East China Sea is bent on expanding the sea to this hazy place. Although the sea often overflows, he can't take it. He used his power to spread the wind and rain, and it often rained heavily in hazy areas, and underground water surged everywhere in the Wang Yang. The crops have failed for many years, and people can hardly live. People tried to cover the wellhead with iron plates, but it was raining and seawater flooding could not be stopped.

One day, a new monk came to Jinghui Temple in Zhuangshang, and he also brought a little apprentice. This master is Zhang, with a long beard, disheveled clothes and untidy appearance. I heard that he still has some magical powers. The apprentice's name is Ge Liang. When the wheat harvest season is foggy, it is often rainy for days. Zhang was unkempt and heard from the local people that it had been like this for many years, thinking that the dragon in this well was evil every year, causing floods. How can you not restrain yourself? But your existing skills are not enough. You have to go outside and learn from the master! Zhang came to Yancheng Bridge untidily, stayed on the bridge for more than ten days, and finally waited until Tota Li Tian, who was going to Penglai Wonderland, passed by the bridge. He just hugged Shi Xian's thigh and explained that he wanted to learn from the teacher and save the dragon from the disaster. Three years later, he began to return to obscurity.

One night, Zhang sloppily dreamed that the Dragon King had sent another token for rain. He knew that this hazy place would suffer another flood tomorrow. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "the heavenly king covers the earth and the tiger, and the pagoda town is a river demon". To suppress dragons, you have to use pagodas, and it takes a lot of effort to pull pagodas. Zhang slovenly said to him, "It depends on your help to curb the dragon. I have to pull out a pagoda in Jiangnan overnight to stop the dragon. It takes a long rope to pull the pagoda, and it's fast. You can only use chaff to rub the rope. You can rub the chaff rope. " Zhang found half a basket of chaff in the village and handed it to him. You should make 9,999 pieces of chaff rope before midnight tonight. "Ge Liang said," How can you rub the rope with this bran? " Zhang slovenly said, "I'll start with you. You can rub it right away. " Zhang said unkempt and grabbed a handful of bran to rub one end of the rope, but he couldn't get it up. I was so anxious that I shook my head and my beard touched the chaff on the basket. I was arrested and rubbed with chaff. Ah! This can be polished. Then, he cut off the end of the rope tied to Hu Shao and rubbed it for Ge Liang. Zhang went to the village to borrow cattle untidily. Ge Liang rubbed it again and again, but he couldn't pick up the end of the chaff rope. He was so anxious that his hands went straight to his head. Just then, the braid on his head fell off, and he just grabbed the end of a sloppy bran rope and opened the dust. Immediately, the chaff swam straight into his hand like a harpoon. Ge Liang was pleasantly surprised. In a short time, he rubbed out 9999 chaff ropes. There is still a two-part allegorical saying circulating around Jianhu: "Use chaff to rub the rope-the first person to lose money". At this time, Zhang borrowed the cow untidily and came back. Ge Liang asked where the cow was. Zhang pointed to the door untidily and saw the shadow of nine cows. There are no mountains here. Where is the tiger? I caught two gecko worms from the eaves of my ruined temple. Ge Liang said: How is this possible? ? Zhang said unkemptly, "just call it a tiger." Cut off the chaff rope attached to her hair and handed it to Zhang without trimming. Zhang sloppily carried the chaff rope on his shoulder and hurried to the south of the Yangtze River to find Tara. He chose a three-story ancient pagoda on the Lingshan Mountain in the south of the Yangtze River, put down a set of ropes, put them up and pulled them back. Pull, pull, pull to the mouth of the Yangtze River, and suddenly there is a strong wind and waves. It turned out that the Dragon King sent the eldest prince out to sea to make trouble. The pagoda was shaken to the top of the tower and fell into the sea at the mouth of the Yangtze River and sank to the bottom of the sea. It was just picked up by Laofahai passing by the Yangtze River and put into the Cishou Tower of Jinshan Temple in Zhenjiang as the top of the tower. Zhang was sloppy and had to pull the remaining three pagodas into the darkness before dawn. When Xiaolong saw the pagoda, he was shocked and turned to run. Zhang held down the faucet untidily and rolled straight on the ground. The marks on the ground formed a winding ditch for a while and became a "small floating ditch" for a while. Zhang sloppily rushed the pagoda to the wellhead and killed the dragon. When I got home, I couldn't find Ge Liang. I was very anxious. It turns out that something happened at home after Lata went out. The Dragon King heard from the shrimp soldiers that Zhang was unkempt and went to Lata in the south of the Yangtze River at night, but he didn't know where he went. He sent someone to ask Ge Liang a question. When Ge Liang saw the bad guys coming, he asked Lata and said, I don't know. When soldiers and crabs meet Ge Liang, they will take him away and take him back to the Dragon Palace for interrogation after being beaten. On the way, I saw Ge Liang dead, so I threw him into the river, which is now the "Jialianghe". After Ge Liang was thrown into the river, he went downstream into Sheyang River and returned to the pagoda root through the small floating ditch. Zhang found the ditch untidily, picked it up, burst into tears and said, "! You open your eyes and see the pagoda being pulled back. Ge Liang looked at the pagoda, nodded, closed his eyes and never opened them again. After burying his apprentice untidily, Zhang left this hazy place alone. People in the village were very surprised to see the pagoda, so they went to the temple to thank Zhang slovenly, but after searching, there was no one, so they knelt on the ground and kowtowed to heaven to thank them. Some people say that Zhang's untidiness is the embodiment of Jigong monk. If there is trouble, there is me.

When the Dragon King of the East China Sea saw the real prince, he was very sad because of the pagoda. He sat in the Dragon Palace all day thinking hard and finally came up with a deadly plan to knock down the pagoda. He invited three other sea dragons to discuss how to take action to save the little dragon. One night, a strong wind suddenly blew in the rime area, and the rainstorm flashed and thundered. The Dragon King of the East China Sea led the shrimp soldiers and crabs to push hard at the tower root, and the other three dragon kings wrapped the dragon whiskers around the top of the tower and pulled them to the northwest under the action of the wind. When the pagoda swayed and tilted, the little dragon broke free and fled back to the sea. At this time, the Tianmen suddenly opened, and the immortal law enforcement patrol team came here and shouted, "The bold old man can't stop, and King Tota is coming." He threw a bundle of fairy ropes in the sky and took the East China Sea Dragon King to heaven for judgment. Due to the sudden flood at night, many local people were killed or injured. The Dragon King of the East China Sea is bold, making trouble without permission, hurting people for no reason and violating dogma. The Jade Emperor decreed that "an old dragon can strip away a thousand years, but a hundred miles of sea can only retreat". Since then, the Dragon King of the East China Sea has never dared to act rashly, and the land of Yellow Beach has been extended eastward.

Hazy from the pagoda, the sea no longer flows back. People live a carefree, prosperous and happy life. ?

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* [overview of hazy tower system]?

? The hazy tower is located at the intersection of Sheyang River, Xitang River and Jialiang River, about 200 meters east of Sheyang River, about 260 meters north of Xitang River and 26 kilometers away from Jianhu County. 3340 degrees north latitude? 04.7 ",east longitude 1 19? 34' 17.8 ",with the floor elevation of+3.85m. It is located in Jinghui Temple, Baota Village, Baota Town, jianhu county. On October 22nd, 2002/kloc-0, the People's Government of Jiangsu Province announced it as a "Cultural Relics Protection Unit in Jiangsu Province".

The date of construction of this tower is not recorded in detail in the literature, only Guangxu & gt reporter: "The Rime Tower is in front of Jinghui Temple in Rime Town, southwest China. The temple was built by Tang Wude in three years, and the tower should be built at the same time. " The 2009 edition & gt records: "The hazy pagoda, which is said to have been built in the Tang Dynasty, is the pagoda where the Buddhist relics are buried in Jinghui Temple". The tower sits facing south, which is a three-story octagonal brick-wood mixed pavilion tower. There are two steps at the bottom, each tower room is equipped with wooden floors, escalators spiral up between floors, and tower gates are installed at the top. The whole tower is made of clear water, with a length of 39 and a width of 16? 7 cm thick Song-style blue brick, built with glutinous rice mortar. There are ten doors in the tower, nine large and one small. The main entrance on the first floor faces south and there is a small door in the north. The four doors on the second floor face southeast, southwest, northwest and northeast respectively, and the four doors on the third floor face east, south, west and north respectively. The bottom of octagon is1.90m long, and the outside of cornice is 2.24m long. The remaining height of the tower before repair is 15.2m, and the total height after repair is 18.84m (from the indoor terrace to the gate top). The tower foundation is rammed into the stratum with several wooden stakes, and stones are rammed between the wooden stakes for reinforcement. Thick planks are laid on the wooden stakes, and then the tower is built on the planks. When testing the foundation endurance, it is found that the geological conditions below 7 meters below the surface are different, and the soil quality in the northwest of the tower foundation is obviously looser than that in the south, which is the reason why the tower body leans to the northwest. Although the shape of the tower has three floors, the height of each floor is relatively high, which is 660 cm, 565,438+00 cm and 350 cm from bottom to top respectively. Before maintenance, the remaining inner diameter of the top of the third floor tower was only 150 cm. If it is a five-story tower, the plane area of the top floor will be smaller according to this calculation, and the whole tower body will be pointed. There is a door to the north of the tower that enters the mezzanine, and the tower will climb up from this door. The tower is octagonal inside and outside. Because the bottom floor is a brick dome, the wall at the bottom floor is thicker than the second or third floor. The wall thickness of the first to third floors is 1 17 cm, 93 cm and 90 cm respectively. The inner diameters of the tower are 167 cm, 2 18 cm and 180 cm from bottom to top respectively. The hazy tower is the only existing three-story tower in Jiangsu province, which provides valuable physical data for the study of ancient buildings in northern Jiangsu and has very important research value. ? As a specific place name, "hazy" has been handed down together with the legend of "Menglong" in the dry well, mainly referring to the hazy village (Baotazhuang) and hazy street (called hazy town in ancient times) in Baota Village.

* * [Archaeological excavation of hazy tower]

1982 on may 2 1 day, experts from Jiangsu provincial cultural relics management Committee and Nanjing museum came to the rime pagoda for field investigation and formally excavated the pagoda.

Archaeological discovery: an "underground palace" was placed 42 cm (six-story brick) at the bottom of the tower. The plane of the underground palace is octagonal, each side is 55 cm long and the depth is 147 cm. This wall is a dome 57 cm high. A road to the south of the underground palace is 2 14 cm long, 67 cm deep and 42 cm wide. The brick Sumitomo in the north of the underground palace is 69 cm high and 39 cm long. A relic stone letter with a height of 34.4 cm, a width of 35.2 cm, a length of 65.7 cm, and a cover height of 14.4 cm was placed in the east-west direction on the Sumitomo of the underground palace. The top of the cover is engraved with the words "buried relic letter" in block letters, and the vertical plane at the top of the cover is 4.4 cm. There is a rectangular groove at the bottom of the stone culvert, which is 29.5 cm long, 17 cm wide and 8.5 cm deep. Around the stone letter (except the bottom), one of the typical carving techniques in the Song Dynasty, "shrinking flat chisel", was carved with patterns, which were very beautiful. At the bottom of the letter are two running sheep. The former has its hind hoof touching the ground and its front hoof leaping, while the latter has its hooves flying, its head held high, and its body standing upright and looking back to summon, which has a very distinct life breath. The exterior of the stone box and between the upper and lower covers are decorated with brown-purple paint oil and sealed. 100 More than one "Taiping Bao Tong" copper coin is embedded in the groove at the bottom of the stone letter, and a silver coffin is placed in the direction D. The silver coffin is 9 cm long, 5.5 cm wide and 6.7 cm high. It is inserted from the base of the upper cover, with the upper cover as the top and engraved with "... Eight Years of Yuanfeng". The base is guizu-shaped, and the feet move slightly outward. There are relics, agate, glass (crystal), red beads (jade) and plant stems in the silver coffin? A few pieces, probably the so-called seven treasures in Buddhism, were wrapped in apricot silk outside the silver coffin. The "relic stone letter" and "silver coffin" unearthed in the underground palace are relics of the Song Dynasty and have high artistic value.

* * * [Emergency repair of hazy tower]

Before maintenance, the hazy tower was seriously damaged. The tower inclines from north to west, with the top deviating from the center by 85cm. The top of the tower reaches the sky, and there are many cracks in the tower, which is in danger of collapse. ? Accordingly, with the great attention of the higher government and the strong support of local cadres, the ancient pagoda was completely restored with an investment of 300,000 yuan. Yancheng Museum is responsible for the design of renovation scheme, and the ancient building maintenance team of Changshu Cultural Management Institute won the bid for construction. 1April 8, 998. Mainly from the following aspects to repair:

1. Foundation treatment: In order to prevent the tower from inclining to the northwest, the foundation was partially reinforced. In the southeast of the tower, an arc foundation groove is dug and concrete is poured inward to increase the overall weight of the southern foundation and make the tower no longer tilt to the northwest.

? 2. Clean the tower, uproot weeds and trees, clean up residual cracks in bricks, and dismantle loose bricks.

3. Repair the tower body, and the specifications, materials and colors of the supplementary bricks are consistent with the original tower bricks. For the ground floor and some parts with large surface defects, reinforced masonry is used for reinforcement, and two reinforced concrete ring beams are added in the hidden places of the second and third floors to increase their firmness.

4. Repair the niches of the dome roof and the bottom gatehouse. At the height of 120 cm from the ground of the north wall of the tower room on the first floor, a coupon-type Buddhist shrine with a height of 80m and a width of 42 cm was restored.

? 5. Restore wooden stairs to make it easier for managers to get up and down.

6. Alternately jump out and repair the waist eaves of each floor with the laminated brick water chestnut teeth to complete the octagonal stone corner beam, and the wing corner comes out of the eaves.

7. Complete buttress arches and flat seats at all levels.

8. Roof protection: In order to better protect the rime tower from wind and rain erosion, the top of the tower should be covered with tiles and lightning rods on the basis of the original overlapping collection.

9. The ground around the tower is made of bluestone, and culverts are arranged outside the courtyard to facilitate drainage.

At the end of February, 65438 was completed and accepted. Through this overhaul, the Millennium Pagoda reappeared. The hazy tower provides valuable physical data for the study of ancient buildings in northern Jiangsu, which is of great value.

1February, 999, this hazy tower reopened to tourists.