1. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Taoism was basically formed in Shanxi, and Taoist temples and temples were built in a few places. Qingliang Mountain records: the Eastern Han Dynasty Yongping years Wutai Mountain realm that there are Taoists, Taoism called Wutai Mountain for Zifu Mountain, had built Zifu Temple. The North and South Dynasties are an important historical period in the development of Taoism in Shanxi.
Shanxi under the rule of the Northern Wei Dynasty was the birthplace and center of activity of the Northern Heavenly Masters Taoism, Shanxi Taoism has entered the first historical peak. The Tang Dynasty rulers wanted to borrow Laozi Li Dan to consolidate their dominance, and Shanxi Taoism entered another period of historical prosperity. During the Qing Dynasty, all sects of Taoism stagnated as Buddha was honored and Taoism was suppressed.
2. During the Spring and Autumn period of the Duke of Jin, the family of Zhao Dun of Shanxi was murdered by the military general Tu Gan Jia, leaving only a newborn baby, the Zhao orphans.
In order to save the only bloodline of the Zhao family, the Princess of Jin, the mother of the Zhao orphans, entrusted Cheng Ying, a doctor in Kusawa, to take the orphans away and hanged herself. Cheng Ying hid Zhao's orphan in a medicine chest and tried to take him out of the palace, but he came across Han Jue, a subordinate of Tu Gan Jia. But he met Han Jue, a subordinate of Tu Gan Jia, who knew that he was a good and loyal man, so he let Cheng Ying and Zhao's orphans go, and then killed himself.
Tu Jia failed to find the orphans, so he ordered all the children between the ages of one month and half a year to be imprisoned, and said that if those who harbored the orphans didn't give up their children, he would kill them all. Cheng Ying, desperate for help, found Gongsun Pestle, a retired minister of Jin, and agreed with him to replace Zhao's orphans with his own children.
After all the arrangements were made, Cheng Ying falsely denounced Gongsun Pestle and lured Tu Gan Jia to Gongsun Pestle's home, where he found the fake orphans; after Tu Gan Jia killed the fake orphans, Gongsun Pestle committed suicide by hitting a step.
Cheng Ying raised Zhao's orphans in shame and humiliation. 20 years later, Zhao's orphans grew up, and after learning the truth, they killed Tu Gan Jia and avenged their bloodshed.
3. There is a very famous mountain in Shanxi called Mianshan. The scenery of Mianshan is really good, but without Jie Zhitui, Mianshan is just an ordinary mountain. And because of Kai Zhitui, Mianshan has a soul.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, the Prince of Jin, Chong Er, fled the country and lived a hard life, and the man who followed him, Jie Zi Pui, went so far as to cut off a piece of meat from his own leg to feed him.
Later, Chong Er returned to Jin and became the king of the state (i.e., Duke Wen of Jin, one of the Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period), and rewarded all the followers of his exile, but only Jie Zi Tui refused to accept the reward, and took his mother to live in Mianshan Mountain, refusing to come out.
Duke Wen of Jin had no choice but to set the mountain on fire, and thought that Jie Zi Tui, who was filial to his mother, would surely come out with his old mother. But the fire killed Jie Zi Tui and his mother.
In order to honor the memory of Jie Zi Tui, Duke Wen of Jin ordered that on this day every year, fire was forbidden and families could only eat raw and cold food, which is the origin of the Cold Food Festival.
4, Shanxi has a Hongdong County, a small place, not small fame. The reason why Hongdong is famous, one is the big locust tree, the other is Su San prison.
"If you ask where the ancestors are, Shanxi Hongdong locust tree", the locust tree is famous because it is involved in the history of the Ming Dynasty that a large-scale immigration. However, after nearly a thousand years of history, the locust tree has long been gone. Instead, the famous Su San prison remains as it was then.
Su San since Wang Shunqing left, vowed not to take customers. The pimp used a trick to sell him with Shanxi rich merchant Shen Yanlin as a concubine, Shen's wife and Zhao Supervisor of fornication, poisoned Shen, and then falsely accused Su San, the county officials were bribed to ask Su San into a capital offense. The old police officer Chong Gongdao to carry Su San from Hongdong to Taiyuan retrial, on the way, Su San told the encounter, Chong Gongdao to persuade.
5, the land in the north of Shanxi is barren, natural disasters are frequent, and the poor living environment forces many people in the north of Jin to make a living outside the mouth. "Hequ BaoDeZhou, ten years nine not harvest, men go out of the mouth, women digging vegetables" Shanxi old rhyme fully explains the "go west mouth" for natural disasters caused by the starving people.
Qing Guangxu three to five years, Shanxi and other provinces in three years of drought, known as the "Dingwu strange drought" of the most serious drought in modern times, and even some areas of the inch of rain did not fall.
Natural disasters caused by population displacement to Xinzhou, Yanbei and other northern Jinbei region is the most prominent. The barren land and harsh natural environment in the northern Jin states and counties forced a large number of people to leave their homeland.
For example, "Yang Gao is located in the North Block, moraine is very good, high soil, yellow sand, full of low soil, alkali halogen difficult to plow ...... barren people poor, nothing thick hide, a shortage of failure, the displacement is unbearable."
In the barren land, cold climate, no Chuanliu irrigation in the harsh natural environment, Jinbei people live in hardship. Whenever there was a disaster or failure, people had to be displaced and run out of their mouths to make a living.
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