Eight Scenes of Xiapi in Gupi Town

The historic city Xiapi. Friends who have seen the Romance of the Three Kingdoms must be familiar with this place name. The site of the ancient city is located in Gupi Town, Suining County.

Ji Yunlong, a scholar and Xiapi native during the reign of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, once wrote a poem for the beautiful scenery of his hometown:

Eight scenic spots in Xiapi

Yiwu is connected with Surabaya, and the peaks stand in the sky.

The bridge walked three times in the mud, and the sheep temple heard the bell at night.

Seeing the rainbow on the ground, the fishing boat lit up a river at night.

Jathyapple is still there, but the view of the lake is different.

Eight Scenes of Xiabi-Giant Mountain Scenery

When it comes to outstanding people, you can't help but mention giant mountains. Jushan is on the northern border of Suining, 35 kilometers away from the county seat, with an altitude of 2 13 meters. The mountain is majestic, steep and not dangerous. It is said that hundreds of millions of years ago, this giant mountain was a complete stone, solid and huge, surrounded by a sea, and the whole mountain was just a rock protruding from the sea. This mountain is not only majestic and beautiful, but also because of the Mituo Temple, Kangxi Palace and many historical celebrities on the mountain, which left magnificent poems for this giant mountain, and put a mysterious color on this giant mountain, making it a famous mountain through the ages.

As soon as I entered the gate at the foot of the Western Mountain, I saw three vigorous and powerful characters "Geyi Mountain" on the first forehead, and the words "Mountain height" and "water length" were written on both sides of the forehead; The following couplet reads: "One mountain lies in Pippi Town, and two rivers run in Guzhou in parallel." There is an inscription on the back of the mountain gate: "The moon is bright in yen", and the couplets on both sides are: "Wearing sunset glow, looking at the moon and worrying about the west; Dip in the morning dew and watch the sunrise in the East China Sea. " The content of the couplet shows the beauty of mountains and rivers and reproduces the glory of Guzhou Town. If you go up the mountain from the south gate, the towering mountain gate is displayed in front of the tourists, only to see the four characters of "Giant Peak Protruding" on the top, elegant and graceful, and the "exploration" on the east side is parallel to the "exploration" on the west side, dignified and beautiful. The couplet at the bottom reads: "Ziqi came to Guzhou to add Hui Qin, Xia Hongying went to Yiling to cross Hui Jin in the west", and the couplet at the bottom of the mountain gate reads: "Hiding in the deep mountains is a handsome man, and Gu Pi nurtures a wise man". If tourists climb to the top, they can walk along the trapezoidal steps and climb the stairs, and they can still enjoy the beautiful scenery of the mountains and rivers. This mountain is a land of hidden dragons and crouching tigers, with beautiful peaks and clouds, colorful and talented people. Climbing to the top of the mountain, I saw the eaves of the temple pecking high, each occupying the terrain, glazed tile houses, antique and shining; East and west mountain arms each build a pavilion, cornices and corners, echoing from afar; The West Pavilion is called Fushan Pavilion, with Ge Yi Fu Shan written in the Book of Changes in the Ming Dynasty, and the East Pavilion is called Ge Hongjing Pavilion (in front of Gexian Cave). Ge Hongjing in the pavilion is covered with a hexagonal pyramid stone weighing more than 400 kilograms. There are still broken stone walls in Dongshan during the war. There is a deep cave of ancient Tibetan soldiers at the waist of Dongshan Mountain, which can accommodate thousands of soldiers.

The main peak of this mountain is like a giant, sitting with his back facing north and south, holding his head high, which is amazing. Two canyons are formed under the armpits extending from the east and west arms. The flowing water gurgles down from two small bridges at the foot of the mountain and flows into a stream, heading for the distance ... Standing at the summit, you can see the ups and downs of the mountains in the north and the green hills are like beautiful mountains; Looking east at Lake Rome, it is endless and blue; Looking south at Qing' an Reservoir, the smoke is vast and clear as a mirror; Looking at the rolling mountains in the west, the mountains are towering. Looking around, you can see the beauty of the earth, just like the ink painting written by a generation of Chinese painting masters! Distant mountains, city walls, factories and lakes are looming, and thousands of trees are green cages and Lin Tao bursts; Roads and rivers have become long and narrow floating belts, tied between endless green fields.

In spring, the grass in the mountains is swaying with the wind, just like soldiers on the battlefield. When the southeast wind blows, it's like a thousand troops pressing on the top of the mountain. The grass is blue and the scene is spectacular. Mulberry trees on the mountainside are red and crystal clear, just like 10 thousand red pearls dotted with mountains and rivers, pregnant with aura. The locust trees in the mountains are dense, round and green. The white clouds at the top of the giant peak are long and refreshing.

Surrounded by mountains and waters, Yangshan, Bangeshan, Xiangshan, Wangshan, Xiaoshan, Taishan, Erlongshan and Tangshan are all around, but the giant mountain is particularly prominent in the north. Legend has it that there is a golden horse grinding golden beans in the giant mountain, which means Baoshan. In fact, this mountain really has treasures. 1975 According to the investigation by the Fifth Exploration Team of Jiangsu Province, the total reserves of quartzite in Gupiju Mountain, Bange Mountain and Yangshan Mountain reached 450 million tons.

After liberation, the China People's Liberation Army set up an air defense radar station at the top of the mountain. 1982, the local government added a TV repeater at the top of the mountain to benefit the people. Yangshan, also known as Yangshan, is located one mile north of Xiapi Ancient Road (now the central area of Gupi Town) and five miles south of Bango Mountain. The mountain is 35 meters above sea level. The "Tiger Mountain" and "Tiger Spring" in Shannan are buried under the dam built by Pan Jixun to prevent the old Yellow River from flooding during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. The northern part of the mountain is opposite to Lushan Mountain, Bange Mountain and Erlong Mountain, and the northern corner of Shanxi Province is flattened due to road construction, which is called "sheep cutting feet".

According to the Records of the Later Han Dynasty and Pizhou, in A.D. 193, when Danyang people were appointed as Xiapi Township in the Eastern Han Dynasty, a pagoda temple was built on Yangshan Mountain, two miles southwest of Xiapi City. Baota Temple has a golden plate at the top and a heavy building at the bottom, which can accommodate more than 3,000 people. There is a pagoda in Baota Temple. There are nine gold plates (nine bronze mirrors) on the pagoda: four sides and eight sides, and one side in the middle, hence the name Nine Mirror Pagoda. The nine-mirror tower built of masonry is octagonal and nine-level, with cornices and upturned corners on each floor. There are 480 Buddha statues inside and outside the tower, decorated with golden clothes. The tower, with 148 steps, spirals to the top of the tower and is the earliest pagoda in China.

Futu Temple was renamed Jiujing Temple because of Jiujing Pagoda, and it was renamed Sakyamuni Temple in Zhenguan period of Tang Dynasty, which was the predecessor of Yangshan Shan Zong Temple. Unfortunately, the Nine Mirrors Tower was destroyed in the Song and Jin Wars.

Shan Zong Temple is also called Yangshan Temple. It is said that before Shenjiapi, a little goat walked into a temple in front of the mountain. Hearing the bleating of the little goat, the old monk closed the scriptures and came out to drive away. Before the old monk went back to the meditation room to read a few lines, the little goat gave a cry in front of him and the old monk was driven out again. When the little goat crowed for the third time, the old monk thought, which sheep got lost in the middle of the night and came to the temple, it is better to follow it and send it to the master's house. When the little goat was driven to a mountain by the old monk, suddenly the little goat disappeared. At this time, I saw a blue light on the surface of Gupi City, and the old monk felt that the mountains shook and the whole Xiapi immediately became Zeguo. At this time, the old monk woke up and thought that God had sent a little goat to lead the way and save me. Later, the old monk named the mountain "Yangshan" and built a Yangshan Temple on the mountain to show his gratitude.

Every year, the eighth day of the fourth lunar month is the birth day of Buddha. On that day, people from more than ten counties, including Pixian, Sui, Tongxian, Suxian and Huai 'an, gathered in front of Yangshan Temple, where all the disciples of the Buddha crossed their hands and meditated. Those who seek medical treatment, worship Buddha and divination, burn incense and worship; Businessmen gather in the alleys at the foot of the mountain to trade in various commodities, and more curious people come here to enjoy the scenery ... Yangshan Temple Fair is formed every year.

The temple fair initially changed from a single prayer to worship Buddha to a commercial market form, which promoted the social and economic prosperity of Xiapi. During the Qianlong period, temple fairs were the most prosperous, with 1.5 million people flocking to them. Later, Yangshan Temple Fair became a material exchange meeting, all kinds of agricultural and sideline products, handicrafts, clothing, cloth and so on. And most businessmen set up stalls in the open space to do business, and the business is very prosperous.

"Shan Zong Temple" is the first of all the temples in Xiapi, with 180 Buddhist temples, which are magnificent and lifelike. The temple is surrounded by cypresses, exotic flowers and plants, and lush. This temple is very large in scale. From the foot of the mountain, you can see the couplets on the mountain gate, which are "three treasures on the seashore for thousands of years, and a Zen forest on Yangshan for generations". They are elegant, smart and radiant. Its halls are spread out from bottom to top according to the mountain situation; It is followed by King Kong Exhibition (national support, growth, big eyes and more listening), Jieyin Temple, Daci Hall and Luohan Hall. The back building is the statue of an imperial concubine (three palaces downstairs), the east courtyard is Yamaraja Hall, and the west courtyard is Du Xuanting Hall. A bronze statue of Tathagata, with thousands of buddhas cast on it, weighs 4800 Jin. Metaphorically, the eighth day of April is the Buddha's birthday. In Zen, incense and chanting are constant, and it is at its peak. Yangshan Lifo is a Buddha statue in the back hall of Shan Zong Temple, which holds the sky in one hand and the ground in the other. According to legend, in order to build Yangshan Temple, Ji Dian, a Buddhist monk, moved to Suzhou and was rejected by a rich man. Ji Dian drove the magic weapon on the cloud to roll the mahogany sandalwood of Fushanlin down the mountain, enter Surabaya along the canal, and go out of Yangshan well. When the temple was built, a piece of mahogany remained in the well and stood as a Buddha.

Shan Zong Temple in Yangshan has a solid structure, which has survived the earthquake and the Yellow River burst its banks without damaging a brick or tile. Unfortunately, this famous ancient temple was destroyed by the Japanese invasion of China. The only remaining Tonghua Palace on Yangshan Mountain is the Temple of Fire, commonly known as the Temple of Fire. There are five doors in the temple, and the upper part is the theater. The entrance is the square, and then the entrance is the three halls. When we arrived at the Intermediate People's Court, there were five "Mars Zhenjun Hall" in the middle, three on the left and three on the right. Huatuo Hall in the East Courtyard and three rooms in the backyard are dedicated to "Guan Sheng Di Jun". * * * Four courtyards with more than 30 rooms.

Yangshan is rich in mineral resources. During the Cultural Revolution, the timely mine was opened on this mountain. Although it has achieved certain economic benefits, it has also destroyed the mountains and forests. After the protection of the local government, three-fifths of the mountains were preserved. By the 1980s, the policy of freedom of religious belief of the CPC Central Committee had been fully implemented. In April 2002, Xuzhou Municipal Bureau of Religious Affairs approved the restoration of Yangshan Buddhist Dojo. With the support and initiative of governments at all levels and social elites, the rebuilt "Three Temples" was completed in May 2003, and this 60-acre Buddhist Dojo was renamed "Mituo Temple". The temple is surrounded by pines and cypresses, ginkgo trees, and the golden palace is majestic and antique, which is the holy land of ancient temple scenery.

When you bypass the temple, climb to the top of Yangshan Mountain on foot, stand on the ruins of Nine Mirror Pagoda and look around, you can only see rolling mountains, green hills, criss-crossing river networks and gurgling clear water. Overlooking the ancient land, the trees are lush. If you take the main road, the fields are vast, with layers of green waves, full of vitality and colorful weather.

The restoration of Yangshan Buddhist Dojo shows contemporary achievements and the wishes of Buddhists. Nowadays, the Buddhist incense of Yangshan Zen Forest is filled with Sanskrit sounds, and tourists are in an endless stream. It is said that in BC 173, Sean was dissatisfied with the rule of the Qin Dynasty and recruited an assassin to assassinate Qin Shihuang. Later, due to the failure of the attack, he fled to Xiapi to hide and met Huang Shigong. Huang Shigong deliberately took off his shoes and asked Sean to put them on him. Sean listened to Yumen's instructions. Seeing that this scholar can be made of plastic, Huang Shigong called Sean to the bridge. After several temptations, he thought the student was honest and trustworthy, so he gave him the Taigong Military Book. Sean won the gauntlet and voted for Liu Bang. He planned the peasant uprising war at the end of Qin Dynasty and won it thousands of miles away. This legendary story has been handed down by local people to this day.

An ancient building with a winding path in the park is exquisitely designed, imitating the architecture of the Han Dynasty, beautiful and elegant in shape, simple and elegant, surrounded by cloister-style architecture, and the three characters "Into Love Hall" are hung on the door, which is particularly eye-catching. The portrait of Huang Shigong and some banners and poems are hung in the hall, which is awe-inspiring. The rockery in the backyard of the temple is made of Taihu stone, and a small pavilion is planned to be built at the top of the mountain. On the right is the "Liu Hou Temple" in the garden. There is a statue of Sean in the main hall, surrounded by a wall chart of Sean's deeds. The yard is full of flowers and trees, which has a quiet feeling in the garden.

There are still some unfinished landscapes in the park, which are a bit messy, but the grass and trees there still make us feel quaint and warm. Being in this beautiful environment, smelling the fresh air mixed with the long-lost local flavor is intoxicating. Those humble grasses, which come out from the cracks in the walls and bricks, are full of vitality and more reverie.

Walking out of the green grass and running to the rock pond, there is a row of willow trees, which are shaded by 35% to 35%, and there is a lonely tree lying on the pond, which is dry and curved, with lush foliage, which is a unique charm. Yishui, from Zhaquan, Yishan, Linqu County, Shandong Province, flows south, passes through Xiapi for 45 kilometers, and flows southwest into Surabaya (now the old course of the Yellow River). Dance water, which originated in Zhuzi, Feixian County, Shandong Province, flows south through Wuyuan West, then turns east, then turns to Xiapi, and flows into Surabaya in the southwest. Yiwu two rivers flow side by side in Surabaya, but strange bedfellows is totally different.

Nowadays, dancing water and Surabaya no longer exist, and Yishui diverted to the north, which is now yi river. In 290 BC (twenty-five years of King Hao Zhou), when Wang Yan of Song Kang stayed in Pi, she accidentally picked a mulberry woman to be petrified, sighing as a peerless beauty, and ordered her husband Han Ping to give her a wife, and petrified it with songs:

There are birds in Nanshan and birds in Beishan.

Birds fly high, what can we do!

Hua Jia was robbed and Han committed suicide. Song Wang threatened petrochemical in Qinglingtai, and petrochemical wrote a poem to answer:

Qi Fei, the bird and the magpie, don't chase the phoenix.

My concubine is Shu Ren, and I don't like King Song.

Later, Petrifaction fell to his death. The villagers hated the remnants of the Song Dynasty, sympathized with Han Ping's unjust, false and misjudged cases, and respected the chastity of Petrifaction, so they erected a monument on their graves. The White Gate Tower is the south gate of Xiapi City, which was built by Song Xianggong in the Spring and Autumn Period. Anyone who has read "The History of the Three Kingdoms" knows that the 19th time of the book "The Death of Lu Bu at the White Gate Tower in Pi City" describes the details of Cao Cao's capture of Lu Bu at the White Gate Tower. Cao Cao grabbed Lu Bu at the White Gate Tower and hanged himself here.

During the Jin Dynasty, Shi Chong, a rich man in Xiapi, rebuilt the White Gate Tower with the whole of Bai Yushi for this historical event, and wrote the words "White Gate Tower" on it. At the beginning of the founding of New China, the word "White Gate Tower" can still be seen on the ruins of the old city lake wall, but there is no doubt whether it was written by Shi Chong. Since then, although Xiapi has undergone several changes and even experienced a devastating earthquake in the seventh year of Kangxi, this building still stands here. It can be said that the White Gate Tower passed through Cang Sang, which is a witness of Xiapi's history, and it seems to be telling later generations about blood shed in the Three Kingdoms period.

The Baimenlou in Xiapi once wrote a brilliant stroke for the history of China. Poets and literati of all ages wrote inscriptions for his poems. In Song Dynasty, Chen Shidao's Eleven Nights at the White Gate Tower was written by Wu Cheng'en, a great writer in The Journey to the West and a figure in Ming Dynasty, with the note "White Gate Tower has been lost". Thus, the charm of the White Gate Tower is endless. Regrettably, the White Gate Tower, which witnessed the cultural landscape in the history of the Three Kingdoms War, was not destroyed by wars and natural disasters in previous dynasties, but disappeared in the glorious history of overhauling water conservancy after liberation.