After the winter solstice, in the afternoon sunshine to find a free, I drove east to ten kilometers to the Song Jian Lake, want to go to enjoy some of her winter lakes and sky color.
Song Jian Lake is located in the southeast of Changzhou, Yao Guan Town, north-south length of about five kilometers, east and west of about three kilometers, the existing water area of more than 4,000 acres, like a warm jade buckle embellished in the chest of the Dragon City, and like a huge jewel set in the town of Yao Guan in the east.
Song Jianhu formerly known as Linjin Hu, the original formation of the Yangtze River Delta when the low-lying swampy areas. To the Eastern Jin Dynasty Southern Song Dynasty, Song Emperor Liu Yilong led the civil and military ministers hunting to this place, see swamps everywhere, so he ordered a thorough eradication, repair the lake to expand the soil, so that she has become a place of abundance and beauty of the blessing of generations. Also makes the Song Jian Lake become the dragon city four big lakes (Ge Ge Lake, Song Jian Lake, Yang Lake, Chang Dang Lake) in the second big freshwater lake. Fish and shrimp in the lake are delicious, lotus root is tender and diamond is fat, aquatic vegetation is numerous, bird species are complicated. Therefore, Song Jian Lake is also called Song Jian Lake.
The south shore of Songjian Lake, there used to be an old stone arch bridge, because it is located in a town called Qingcheng market side of a river, it is called Qingcheng Bridge. It has a large two small hollow, the bridge is steep and high, on the bridge can look at the southern sky and white clouds, down the bridge can be viewed in the ancient town of ancient charm (to this day, there are still many visible bamboo and wood structure of the building in the story of their former charm). Standing on the bridge, looking north over the fence, the blue ripples show, sparkling; South view, jade belt fluttering, silver dragon flying south. Spring listen to the frog drum, summer tea cicadas, fall hear insects singing, winter snow dance. Rainbow floating in the Qingcheng River, Qingcheng Bridge, are white stone masonry, the only piece of yellowish stone, and only this seemingly indecent yellow stone, but to the Qingcheng Bridge on the mysterious white veil.
It is that piece of yellow stone, there is a smooth rounded hole, which inhabits a thousand years of cultivation of the jade snail, every time to the wind and the moon in the dead of night, it will be transformed into a beautiful woman, to the Songjian lakeshore to play. Due to her presence, the land of Qingcheng was blessed with good weather and good harvests year after year. However, one day, Qingcheng came to a Jiangxi man, he found out the secret, so he used magic spells, captured the jade snail, and since then, making Qingcheng this piece of land originally rich and beautiful often flooding into disaster.
There used to be another Qingcheng Temple by the Qingcheng River, originally named Qingduan Zen Temple. The founder of the temple is the famous Luo Binwang, one of the Four Heroes of the early Tang Dynasty (he and Wang Bo, Yang Jiong, Lu Zhaolin), Luo Binwang was smart since childhood, and quite literate. When he was seven years old, he was faced with the scene of blue spring water and white geese playing in the water, and he blurted out, "Geese, geese, geese, singing to the sky with curled necks, white feathers floating in green water, red palms plucking clear waves." This popular "Aria Goose" is still known to women and children today. He later made "in prison aria cicadas" is a thousand years of excellent, to cicadas than Xing, to cicadas allegory of their own, allegory in the object, trust deep, cicadas, people are one, expressing the poet's high integrity but "by the time the emblems of cordiality" of the grief and sadness of the feelings: "the western land cicadas singing, the southern crown of the guest thought deep". ......"
In 684 A.D., Luo Binwang was dissatisfied with the rule of Wu Zetian, who had changed the name of Tang to Zhou, and, after much planning, he joined Li Jingye, the then-assassin of Meizhou, in a crusade against Wu Zetian, aiming at restoring the world of Tang. Unexpectedly, when the army traveled to today's Yangzhou, a rebel general, Wang Naxiang, appeared in the army, killed Li Jingye, and pursued Luo Binwang. In a panic, Luo Binwang jumped into the Yangtze River, but fortunately he was rescued by a boat and escaped to Qingcheng on the shore of Songjian Lake. After seeing the elegant scenery of Songjian Lake, he built a temple and became a monk. However, he still had a long-cherished wish to restore the Tang Dynasty and clean up the dust and demons, so he named the Zen temple as Qingduan Temple. However, a few years later, Luo Binwang's ambition was not fulfilled, but he died of illness in the Qingduan Temple.
With the flow of time, the water of Songjian Lake rippled to the end of the Northern Song Dynasty. One day, the ancient Song Jianhu ushered in another emperor - Song Gaozong. Bereft of power and humiliated, Zhao Jiu came to the Qingduan Temple, surrounded by a group of old ministers. He saw that the great general Han Shizhong was constantly drilling his navy in the Song Jian Lake, standing on the south bank of the Grand Canal, blocking the southward march of Jin Wuzhu's army. At the same time, Yue Fei, who was loyal to his country, was stationed in the area of today's Drowning City Park, so he had the courage to stay at the Qingduan Temple. For a time, the Qingduan Temple became a temporary palace, also became a temporary "command headquarters". It is his arrival, so that the Qingduan Temple renamed Qingcheng Zen Temple, but also because of his stay, Qingcheng west of the remote view has an imperial name.
It is said that Zhao Jiu one night, after waking up suddenly found that the west of the Temple of Qingcheng a fire red, panicked, he thought it was the Jin soldiers to call, and quickly shouted "help!" When the guards arrived, they told him, "That's the Kiln Light!" It turns out that the west is now the town of Yao Guan location, when a large number of production of bricks and tiles, every night kiln light four, the whole sky is lit up with a red. Understand that Zhao Gong said four times in a row: "Oh, kiln light, kiln light, kiln light ......", so this place has a kiln light this name. Later, people disliked the word "kiln" is not elegant, it was changed into the word "remote"; and the word "light" is unlucky, it was changed into the word "guan The word "light" is not auspicious, so it was changed to "guan", which gave rise to the place name of Yao Guan.
The north shore of Songjian Lake is adjacent to the present Zhongwu Scenic Boulevard, where there is an ancient castle whose layout resembles the structure of the Spring and Autumn Drowned City of 2,500 years ago - three rivers and three walls. With the barrier of the Grand Canal, it was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it could not be said to be wise, and it was said to be the place where Han Shizhong drilled his navy back then.
Not far from this ancient castle, there is a semi-yang spring, spring water year-round bubbling out, meandering into the Songjian Lake, the first drink of the well water feel some cold, and then drink it again feel slightly hot, mellow taste.
On the north shore there are still a lot of monuments and sites, there *** and Premier Zhou Enlai's grandfather Zhou Liangqing's tomb - Zhou San Wang tomb, there is the Northern Song Dynasty great writer Su Dongpo came to Songjian Lake to play in the boarding place - Xigou dock, there are full of beautiful love stories, the Cowherd Temple, the legend says that the water is a little cold, and then drink it is hot, the taste is beautiful. Love story of the Cowherd Temple, the legend of the story of the cowherd and the weaving maiden happened here ......
On the eastern shore of Songjian Lake, there is a lake oasis shaped like a cross of arms, where the water quality is beautiful, cool and simple, boiled water for tea, poured into the teacups, full but not overflowing, where it is also a good place for people to rest on the outskirts of the countryside.
Although Songjian Lake has been through the second man-made whale, and was constantly eaten, but many places still maintain the original ecological style, is a 3a level of tourist attractions. In recent years, the government has planned and developed a park with the characteristics of Jiangnan - Tak Garden, which is a park in the center of the lake and an excellent choice for tourists and residents to play and rest.
Approaching the garden, a person-high rectangular boulder lying in front of the door, the hot gold "garden" in the sun, shining gold, the left side of the first sword-shaped stone straight into the clouds. Picking up the steps, a four-tiered ladder of waterfalls flowing down in front of you, and the sound of gushing spring water form a wonderful melody of rising and falling, which is a perfect counterpoint. The ensuing scene is warm like jade pool abyss, emerald green water plants dense green, from the view of those remaining leaf stems, here in the spring and summer used to be lotus and lotus inhabited the same waters, just in the contemplation of the time, the two banks of the water almost at the same time out of the tall fountains, just like the two rows of jade trees protruding in front of the eyes, in an instant, the water surface of the green boiled.
Steps up, just turn around, see a bridge over the blue waves of the lake, thus connecting the shore island. High in the middle of the bridge, an antique pavilion towering, far away from the pavilion lintel written in four big green characters: hundred steps to get lucky. Needless to think, the meaning of this bridge with alabaster stone is only a hundred paces away, also shows that from the shore to the other side of only a hundred paces. Standing in the pavilion, looking north, in the vastness of the smoke, an island of green trees floating in the water, birds flying. The west bank is a colorful white walls and black tiles of the classical architecture of Jiangnan, along the coast of the twists and turns of the trestle and the water parterre, adding to the charm of those homes. South of the bridge is a piece of open water, from time to time there are some water fowls, so that the calm surface of the river ripples, the sunlight is just like the satin 'folds, issued by the sparkling waves of light. Looking east, there is the green willow draped island in the center of the lake, although it is winter only a few camellias in the embellishment, but the whole island is still full of green.
When you turn around and go down the bridge, there are three paths. The east is to the cherry blossom forest, the northeast is a water trestle, because the west side of the side of a pavilion of ancient charm, warped eaves want to fly, it is very eye-catching, so I put my foot to go. A weeping willow branches dense, not only curtain-like blocked off the lake, but also covered the pavilion lintel. When I wandered to the pavilion's east side, only to see this pavilion is called "listen to the lotus pavilion", do not understand the meaning of the I can not help but look around, when I fell on the north side of the lake only suddenly realized. The surface of the lake crookedly pestle a lot of withered lotus leaves, broken lotus handle, drooping rosettes, each gazing at their own ink-colored reflection in the water, how to look at is a thick and thin ink scrolls, quietly spread on the lake.
The color of the lotus can be collected, the fragrance of the lotus can be heard, the rhyme of the lotus can be tasted, only to listen to the lotus for the name, why?
Or the breeze dance, withered lotus leaves then rubbed out the rustling sound, swinging lotus seed in the low impact sound, those broken handle is constantly in the lake swaying, hit the ripples at the same time, but also splashed out the subtle sound of clattering ...... I finally understand the source of the name of the pavilion. I think, if it is spring and summer to this endless lotus lake, the sky lotus leaves infinite blue, reflecting the sun lotus flowers different red, the wind undulation, the rain bearing drops, birds fly fish dive, how can not play a wonderful music of the sky it? Listening to the rain under the lotus, the fragrance of the lotus in the wind, wonderful.
Continue northbound, abandon the sunshine lawn in disregard, over the lake farm gate and not into the village in my mind, is the village always have other roads into the village, only glanced into the village of the road is old stone road, two sides planted with tall trees - known as the northern great husband of the poplar, in the smoky south, it is a little to see! In the smoky south of the river, it is a rare species of deciduous trees, indicating that this is already late winter. The occasional sparse bamboo house dotted with grass, seems to have curls of smoke in the rise.
To the north, there is a small bridge built of alabaster and towering across the river, which is a stone arch bridge with traditional Jiangnan colors. A small river only a few meters wide meandering in the north of the farm, the river water is crystal clear, swimming fish can be seen, like a warm ribbon fluttering, thus also highlighting the quiet and elegant and peaceful atmosphere of the farm.
Looking down at the north, the line of sight was again a pavilion by the lake and the water blocked, vermilion color and classical structure, quickly pulled my footsteps, far away from the pavilion lintel can be seen on the big green letters: reed shadow pavilion. In the blue waves of the other side of the river, although the yellow reeds of the reed leaves all fall off, the tip of the dixie flower also sprinkled off the white flowers, but left the dark purple flower spikes are still rising and falling, the air swaying into the lake dance in the lake, in the lake to form a log-colored wall, it's not difficult to imagine, if it is the arrival of spring and summer, the lake is certainly a lake of emerald.
Just when I want to go around the pavilion fine, low, choose the path, can not help but "ah" a sound, a sculpture of a foot has been really messed up buffalo is four hooves and hard to rush to me, the head is low over the knee, the two sharp horns are to my top, the posture, the eyes are live is the matador before the red cloth of the bulls, scared me instinctively! I instinctively took a few steps back. When I calmed down a bit, I walked to the monument in front of it with anxiety: the golden ox out of the water.
This sculpture is telling me a long time ago legend: the Eastern Jin Dynasty, in this lake area, there is a sacred cow often in the mid-autumn time, every time the lake surface, the lake water will instantly become two halves of the arrow to ascend the shore to eat a kind of spirit on the shore of the silk grass. Another day was a treasure hunt from jiangxi here found, on a high price to buy a farmer's home mortar in the growth of silk grass, the unknown homeowner even the mortar scrubbed clean, waiting to leave the fixed amount of money buyers to take. Did not expect the buyer to come after exclaiming: "Pity! Pity!" See silk grass has died, the jiangxi man said the original story: he is not to buy the old stone mortar, but to buy the silk grass, to lure to catch the golden calf in the lake, now the silk grass has died, the deposit I do not want. I don't want the deposit. The farmer felt strange, at midnight, picked up the dead silk grass, came to my present feet, try some. Unexpectedly, just as he came here soon, the floating clouds blocked the face of the moon, the lake in a flash of golden light, clattering into two halves, a golden bull swooped ashore, scared the farmer rushed to hide in his home, watched the golden bull, kicking as flying to the west, according to the witnesses at the time said: that the golden bull in the town of today's running into the earth after the disappearance of the bull. According to the monument, this sacred cow later in the town of Pennsylvania and caused a legend, but the author is not known, can not talk nonsense.
Probably I just screamed, disturbed the east of the pond in the heron, the group flew up, the elegant posture and white feathers really have the charm of the swan. So I walked towards the pond, such as mirror water, not yet stood firm, I saw a number of water fowl swish into the water, but also from time to time to reveal the surface of the water, seems to be examining me whether there is no hostility, when they found that I have no hand, only began to swim slowly in the water to and fro. It turns out that the lake area is divided into dozens of large and small fish ponds, under the sun, they seem to be a grain of broken diamonds inlaid in the eastern shore of Songjian Lake.
I don't like fishing, I don't have to look forward to the shore of the few people who are quietly fishing, and I'll go south along the winding forest road. The first thing you need to do is to get a good deal of money to pay for the services of the company. Two rows of lush camphor trees like that piece of yellowish lime green edging, but also the reeds thrown in the air in the water sleeves in the breeze in the ups and downs. The world seems to be dead and silent, but when you are not close, you will find that it is full of vitality, dancing sparrows, flying waxbills, and the singing of the wild painted eyebrow ...... so lush reeds, every year in the spring green, not to mention the season of rain and smoke, that is, the morning mist or the night dew will give it a layer of thin veil, hazy with its The story of the past and present is a legend. A meandering trail extends in the reeds in a curved way, and walking on it is more like a fairyland.
Inevitably, the willow darkness will be bright, just when you feel difficult to trace, the open space in a sudden sun hanging in the sky, the blue sky is low, the clouds are white, as if they are in a dialogue with the lake. Through the tall bamboo gatehouse, raise your eyes to see a wooden bridge towering over the blue water flowing river. The canal with Jiangnan style can be said to be the world of bamboo: clusters of phoenix-tail, green jade just, even those houses and toilets are built around bamboo. The sparse courtyard or facing the lawn, or door to meet the blue water, behind the house is a clear color of the bamboo surroundings, highlighting the people of Jiangnan would rather eat meat, can not live without bamboo love and habits, but also bring us into the ancient village.
When I slipped my eyes from the bamboo tops, I found in front of the four independent bamboo walls of the lintel of the grass house, respectively, written: jasmine, rose, lilac, lily and other four kinds of flowers, Thuja through the soft, very eye-catching. A little thought, only to realize that the original lakeside agriturismo place here, you can fish in front of the court, you can pick pears behind the yard, you can dig bamboo shoots in the east, you can pick vegetables in the west....... Thirsty lakeside wells to make tea, tired of the bamboo beds perched on the annoyance of the quiet quiet to wash the heart, is indeed a benefit.
Bypassing the bamboo house, walking in the green bamboo path to reminisce, unconsciously stepped on the snake line dragon swim on the lake trestle, just crossing the reeds high above the head, stepped on the lake water wave, still green money lotus and pine needle grass rendering the lake water into a lake of spring color. In the middle of this water trestle, there is an overhead pavilion (water pavilion), looking west at the setting sun and the red sun **** Mu lake, and the green behind each other for embellishment, each other for contrast.
Walking in this curved, straight to the entrance when I came in the trestle, in the evening sun in the folds of the lake, seems to tell you a legend of the origins of Songjian Lake: many times the courtesy of the king of the country Jiza, Eguan Bo belt on the mission to the State of Qi, when he dusty way to the State of Xu, found that the king of the Xu to wash the dust for him in the seat on his waist on the sword, and then promised to the king of the sword to the king of the Xu, but because of the envoys to wear a sword in accordance with the rules, the King of the Xu. However, as he was an envoy, it was customary for him to wear the sword, and he would definitely deliver it when he returned. But when he came back on the way to send the sword to the King of Xu, found that the King of Xu has already died, the graveside sacrifice, mound tree hanging sword, suddenly, the wind and rain suddenly, the sword out of the sheath, like a rainbow flying to the smoky south of the Yangtze River, fell into the Songjian Lake, became the treasure of the town lake. Therefore, Song Jian Lake is also known as "send sword lake."
Not coincidentally, Songjian Lake is known as Send Sword Lake there is a legend: two male and female pythons from Kunshan, in the guise of two demonic lotus flowers, tempting superstitious people to ascend to immortality. After being recognized by the Changzhou Prefect, the use of a peach wood sword to kill the male python, change the lake for "Send Immortal Lake". The female python changed her human form into a beautiful woman, who went to the palace to charm the emperor and demanded the heart and liver of the governor of Changzhou to be used as medicine. Changzhou prefectural magistrate will trick, secretly with a peach wood sword and behead the female python. The emperor ordered the governor to send the peach wood sword into the hu, to it forever town lake monster, and named the lake as "send sword lake".
Like the wide, vast lake in front of you, there are many legends about Songjian Lake, or poignant, or sad, or lingering, or beautiful, countless, if you have the interest, may wish to step on the smoke wave, swim in the Songjian Lake, where you will surely have your favorite scenery, you can enjoy the Songjian Lake, which has retained the original charm of the style.
In the park out of the gate, listening to a few retired old man in the discussion that: the government in order to protect this "virgin lake", has decided to Song Jian Lake planning for the 7.5 square kilometers of wetland parks, will be returned to the lake, back to the lake, back to the lake, back to the lake, back to the city, to restore her primitive appearance, so that she, like the West Taihu Lake, as an ecological tourist area. The tourist area.