Do you know the Jade Emperor View? A place that even the emperor likes.

Do you know the Jade Emperor View? A place that even the emperor likes!

"Jade Emperor View" is the name of the highest ridge in Wuyang gao yang cun, Zhongxian County. The terrain here is steep, and eight ancient stone gates occupy the dangerous pass in Fiona Fang's Qibali. Standing on the fortress, walking to a hill in the southeast is the highest point of Gaozhai Village and even the original Wuyang Town (now Wuyang Street). Climbing to the top of the mountain, you can have a bird's eye view of Populus euphratica, which is refreshing. At the beginning of 1950, a Taoist temple with a magnificent and peculiar structure and a history of nearly several hundred years still stood at this highest point. This is the famous Jade Emperor Temple.

Why is it only called Jade Emperor View, and nothing else? First of all, it was built to let the jade emperor descend to earth and observe the sufferings of the people. In addition, it is said that Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty once built his capital here. These two legends have been handed down from generation to generation, and the locals still remember them vividly.

According to legend, during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Yuhuangguan area was still a towering forest of birds and animals, and it has always been a good place for hunting in the paddock. Emperor Qianlong was a king of Wen Tao. He had a wide range of hobbies and could do anything. I especially like to travel, do geological surveys and observe people's feelings.

One year, Gan Long led dozens of followers and guards, set out from Beijing and passed by the river. He wants to visit Jiangnan and feel its beauty. He also went to Fengdu famous mountain to burn incense and realized his wish. Pray for God to bless the prosperity of the Qing Dynasty. In order not to disturb the local officials and people along the way, they just dress up as businessmen and eat and live as simply as possible.

Cross the Wuyang boundary in Zhongzhou, cross the Sanling, cross the Tianxian Bridge, bypass the Yanger River, reach Ranjiaping, and climb the Wangshubao. The idyllic scenery, strange mountains and strange water along the way, seeing Gan Long's heart full of joy, intoxicated with it. In particular, the eight stone gates standing in Zhaipingguan are like eight faucets, echoing the eight rolling hills in the distance. I know eight living dragons are eager to try. At that time, every villager had an important strategic position of "one person guarding the door and ten thousand people not opening the door".

In the fog, Ganlong felt that the whole Zhaiping was crawling. He thought for a moment: Isn't this the Longshan treasure he is looking for? If the imperial capital is built here, the Yangtze River is connected with the front water, and the land and water are directly connected. There is Fangdou Mountain as a screen behind, and there are inexhaustible treasures. Isn't this the most wonderful imperial city in the world? Long Yan was very happy and counted the number of dragons with interest, but he was so happy. There are only eight numbers in counting, direct counting, up counting and down counting. Gan Long wants to know that dragons have been heading for the sea since ancient times, and they always return to the sea. The terrain looks good here, but there are only eight dragons here, not my home. Disappointed, Qianlong led Wei and others back to Beijing, unhappy all the way.

Back in Beijing, Gan Long and the old lady talked about their trip to the south of the Yangtze River. Speaking of going to Gaozhai Mountain to count dragons, he felt sorry and depressed. The old lady is good at Taoism and is a Taoist master. She has traveled all over Jiangnan several times with Qianlong, and she knows the charm of Jiangnan scenery and the joys and sorrows of Qianlong like the back of her hand. No one knows him better than his mother. After listening to Gan Long, she ordered, "Your Majesty, you have always been very clever, but this time you didn't count yourself in because of your carelessness. Because you are the emperor, you are just a dragon. More than 80%, isn't it Kowloon? " Hearing this, Emperor Qianlong woke up like a dream and regretted it.

The conversation between Gan Long and his mother happened to be overheard downwind of the investigation. He immediately returned to heaven and reported the information he found to the Jade Emperor. The jade emperor was puzzled and sent downwind and clairvoyance to inquire. They came by cloud and came to Gaozhai Mountain. Looking at Gaozhai Mountain from a distance: Gaosai Mountain is really extraordinary, with unique terrain and dangerous roads in the forest: the top of the mountain is covered with clouds, transpiration and clouds. Shining. Birds and beasts are active and singing; Not far from the green fields, men plow and women weave, and the smoke is curling up. It is really a rare place of feng shui on earth. After the tour, they went straight into the Heavenly Palace by cloud.

After listening to the report, the Jade Emperor liked this land very much and immediately decided to go down to Gaozhai Mountain to feel the feelings of the people and officials.

For example, one kilometer from the northern end of Gaozhai Mountain to the height, there is a village called Zaoziping, where a family named Yan lives. One of them is a middle-aged man and a long-term worker. He is honest, kind and strong. No matter which company he works for, he will do his best. Everyone is willing to ask him to work. People call him "Yan Changgong".

One night, Yan Changgong washed his hands and feet, pushed his tired body onto the bed and snored loudly. In his sleep, an old man with a gray beard and golden light stumbled to the bed and kindly said to him, "Tomorrow, there will be a fair in Honghe Town (now Yang Du Town). You must go to the show. There are good things waiting for you to do. I'm leaving! " After a warning, the old man in gray walked away from him with a smile. The next day, fish appeared in the east, and Yan Changgong seemed to fall asleep again. He saw the old man with white beard come to his bed and repeated what I said last night, emphasizing that he was going to the market.

The origin of the Jade Emperor Temple!

In addition, from Zaoziping to Honghe Town 15, there is also a section of Heba Road going upstream, passing through a section called "Jiangtan" on the way, where the water is fast and powerful. The deafening backwater head, if there are floating objects or floating bodies flowing through it, most of them will stay in this stagnant water and float, so it is also called "dead mantuo". Floating objects are generally salvaged by people nearby and handled by themselves; If it is a floating corpse, it should be salvaged and buried by a capable person.

After dawn, Yan Changgong had breakfast and carried a small basket, as if someone was urging him to go to the field. He walked quickly on his way to the market. He turned two corners, went down a slope and came to the vicinity of "Death Manto". Yan Changgong seemed to hear a burst of drum music, as if one hundred and ten people were playing on the dam. The rhythm and melody of the voice are unheard of by him. Looking at the sound, he saw nothing. He thought, maybe his ears were "open" and he ignored them. Obviously, I heard a burst of drums again. Yan Changgong stopped and looked at it carefully. After watching for a while, I still couldn't see anything. When he came to another corner, the drum music Yan Changgong heard was more pleasant and crisp. Smell speech: "You have come, you are so kind. As long as you carry me to the top of Gaozhai Mountain and put me there, you can do a great thing for the whole village. Looking around, I saw a seven-foot-long orange wooden pimple, which was mentioned in Tuojing. Yan Changgong was really frightened. He wanted to find out, but he thought, since it is good for the whole village, why not do it? Carry it on your back.

It was too frivolous, so I brought it back. After walking on Heba Road, it's almost uphill. Yan Changgong felt a little tired. Let's have a rest before we go. At the moment when the stool was on the stone ridge, he vaguely felt someone lift his basket and the yellow block of wood rolled to the ground. After handing over a bag of cigarettes, when he went to move the yellow wood block into the small basket, he couldn't lift it or even pull it open, even if he tried his best to suck it. He returned to the yard with an empty backpack and told the people in the same hospital about his dream last night and the strange things he met today.

Yan Chang respectfully invited seven or eight strong men, with ropes and wooden poles, to the place where Huang Mujie fell. They were surprised to find that an ancient seal script appeared clearly in this section of Huangmujie. The word "Jade Emperor" is very clear to some people who have seen the world: this is because the Jade Emperor descended to earth, and he asked Yan Changgong to take him to the highest place in the village, just to make that place his "home": he deliberately made Yan Changgong unable to move alone, so that everyone Qi Xin could work together to build a temple for him: he said that he would lift him to the sky. The village will do a great thing for the people in the village. He wants to bless the people in the village and live a safe and auspicious life without disaster, disease and pain! So, seven or eight people, together with Qi Xin, lifted Fuxing, stopped and stopped, stopped and stopped, and lifted Huang Mu's pimple to the highest point of the fortress.

With Tuo's good sustenance, the head of Zaoziping Yan took the lead, invited the most famous Yin and Yang division to choose the land at that time, and invited the most skilled carpenter to turn the pimple into the "Jade Emperor"; And built a palace for him. In order to raise funds for the construction of the palace, under the coordination of Yan clan leaders, donation boxes were set up in Zhongzhou, Wanzhou, Liangping, Fengdu, Shizhu and other places (counties), and all the funds raised were used to build the Jade Palace. I also invited people with the surnames of Ran and Qin nearby to participate. Donation is generous and investment is strong. Qi Xin worked together to build a palace for the Jade Emperor, which is the Jade Emperor's view.

The Jade Emperor Hall covers an area of about five acres. The whole building is simple and elegant, with curved corners, carved beams and painted buildings, red walls and blue eaves, which are in harmony with the colorful clouds in the sunrise and dusk sky, just like the jade Qionglou, which is impressive. There is a vermilion sandalwood plaque on the main entrance of the third order, and the three characters of "Jade Emperor View" jump on it and obey it forcibly. The Jade Emperor is more than two meters tall, with a golden face and a kind eye, sitting in the main hall of the Triple Hall. Immortals from all walks of life stood on both sides with different expressions, some with lovely smiles and some with lovely faces; The auspicious clouds outside the temple are full of purple air, which is a paradise on earth. After the completion of the Jade Emperor Temple, pilgrims poured in all the year round. Especially from the first day to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and on the third day of March, the sixth day of June and the sixth day of September, pilgrims from all over the world will gather here. Pray for the Jade Emperor in the Jade Emperor's Hall to bless you and keep you safe all your life.

According to the carpenter's suggestion, the yellow wood block is actually the head of camphor tree, which has certain medicinal value. The carpenter asked people to collect all the sawdust cut when carving the jade emperor, so that it could have its own wonderful use at that time. As expected, a year later, a plague swept the world and many people died. When the plague spread to the village, people remembered the carpenter's words and used the collected sawdust and sawdust to boil water as medicine soup. It is not good for people who are not sick to drink medicine soup. Since then, the "Jade Emperor" in the Jade Emperor Hall has blessed generations of villagers and lived a peaceful life. Whoever does good, who is honest and kind, will live a beautiful, smooth and safe life; Anyone who steals chickens and dogs, misbehaves and violates the laws of nature will be punished and punished by the gods. As the saying goes, "good is rewarded with good, and evil with evil."

Legends are legends, but the construction and destruction of the Jade Emperor Temple are real. According to a local old man, the Jade Buddha Temple has been built for nearly 300 years. After 1949, there are private schools and primary schools here. During the extraordinary period from 65438 to 0950, the Jade Emperor Temple was demolished by some people, and the statue of the Jade Emperor and the stone carvings of various gods were also destroyed. Destroyed stone bodhisattvas used to build dry stones or fragments left on the roadside are still everywhere. People also say that the demolition of the Jade Emperor Temple annoyed the Jade Emperor in the sky, so the natural drought for three consecutive years from 1959 to 196 1 was regarded as God's retribution and punishment for the world.

Eight stone gates in Gaozhai Village were built in the early Qing Dynasty and have a history of nearly 400 years. Due to disrepair and erosion by wind, frost, rain and snow, four of them have collapsed and are now well preserved. Among them, the best preserved is the south side of Caojiajia's original private village (now Shangba Village, Wuyang Street). The name "Gaozhai Village" is still in use today.