On the origin of the city and the owner of the city of drowning in the end of who, historians and archaeologists have different opinions, so far is still inconclusive. It is said that Drowned City was once the capital of the state of Amen at the end of the Shang Dynasty and the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, and the Amen ruler was the monarch of the state of Amen in the east of Qufu in Shandong Province at that time. Legend has it that the king of Ami was the king of the Ami Kingdom who started a rebellion in collusion with the descendant of Shang Dynasty, Wu Geng, and was destroyed by King Cheng of Zhou. After being destroyed by King Cheng of Zhou, the king led the remnants of his army to escape from Shandong to the south of the Yangtze River, where he dug the river as a moat and piled up the earth as a city, which is still called "Ami". Because the ancient character "淹" with three dots of water and "am" without three dots of water are commonly used, they have been passed down to this day, thus the name "Drowned City". Another story is that in the late Spring and Autumn period, Ji Zha, the son of Wu, was dissatisfied with Helu's assassination of Wang Biao and his seizure of the throne, and was determined to break with Helu's tyrannical politics, and "would never enter the state of Wu", so he built a city and dug a river in his fiefdom, Yanling, to show his determination to stay in the river, and helped to give his name to the "Drowning Castle". Naturally, the owner of Drowning City is Jiza. Drowning City, this historical city, along with many unsolved mysteries, to be archaeologists, historians to unravel the mystery. According to historical records, the highest wall of the ancient city of Drowning 20 meters, the base of the wall is 25-30 meters wide, all rammed by the mud and become.
3000 years of wind and rain, left behind are the masterpiece of creation. Objective existence there is the Jiangnan water town full of clear blue water, there is a fertile field of thousands of years left behind geometric-like monuments, as well as many hidden in the underground of the Chinese people's splendid culture. Wading in the middle of it is like entering a paradise outside the world, giving people an ancient, quiet, deep feeling. People here have this saying: "Beijing in Ming and Qing Dynasties, Xi'an in Sui and Tang Dynasties, and Drowned City in Spring and Autumn". It can be seen that "Drowned City in people's minds unusual attraction. The central government and the provincial and municipal departments decided to step up the development of the drowned city to make it one of the famous tourist spots in Taihu Lake Scenic Area.
Since 1958, the drowning city unearthed a large number of geometric printed pottery jars, cylinders, urns, bowls and bronze (such as bronze chimes, bronze tripod), in the inner city excavated dug out of the dugout, sensational Chinese archaeology, the largest one for the whole section of the nanmu fire-roasted and axe chiseled, 11 meters long, 0.9 meters wide, 0.45 meters deep, was known as "the world's first boat!
The largest one is a whole section of nanmu fire-roasted and axe-hewn, 11 meters long, 0.9 meters wide, 0.45 meters deep, known as "the world's first boat", now treasured in the Beijing Museum.
China Spring and Autumn Drowned City Tourist Area
China Spring and Autumn Drowned City Tourist Area is located in the center of Wujin District, Changzhou City, the core part of the scenic area - Spring and Autumn Drowned City ruins, which covers an area of 300 hectares, is more than 2,500 years old, and archaeologically confirmed to be the construction of Spring and Autumn Period.1988 was listed as a national key In 1988, it was listed as a national key cultural relics protection unit, and now it has been listed in the preparatory list for the declaration of world cultural heritage by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage. It is the most well-preserved and oldest ground-level city site of the Spring and Autumn Period in China.
From 2003 by the Changzhou Wujin District Government organization, and together with nationally renowned experts over the years, after a number of program demonstration and modification and improvement of the final determination of the drowned city ruins of the tourism area protection and utilization of the master plan. Based on the original ecological protection within the city and the protection and development outside the city, the Drowned City will be built into a tourism area with "one center, one ring and five districts". The plan established six functional areas: Drowning City Spring and Autumn Paradise, Drowning City Spring and Autumn Ruins Park, Drowning City traditional commercial neighborhoods, Drowning City Wildlife World, Drowning City Spring and Autumn Cultural Expansion Area, Bao Lin Zen Temple.
The traditional commercial workshop of Drowning City is located in the eastern part of Drowning City outside the protected area, covering an area of 235 acres, imitating the Han and Tang Dynasty style architecture, with a total construction area of 45,000 square meters, consisting of three ancient cultural streets: the Chinese Medicine Street, the Culture Street, and the Gourmet Street. The three ancient streets are all near the harbor and back to the river, there are water pavilion near the river, water wall gate, dry pedal ferry, long barge, stone river bridge, river port corridor and other buildings, quiet and clean, picturesque.
Drowning City outside the city to the south for the Drowning City Wildlife World site, covering an area of 2,000 acres, according to the habits of wild animals, imitating the natural environment of the animal origin, featuring ecological wildlife free-range, is a collection of animal wildlife viewing, recreation, science and education as one of the large-scale comprehensive theme parks. To nearly 10,000 heads (only) from all over the world rare and endangered wild animals for centralized display, is currently the only one in Jiangsu super large-scale wildlife park.
Drowning City Museum is located in the traditional commercial streets of the city of drowning in the cultural street, for the face of the east two-story imitation of the Han Dynasty building. Existing "history river rhyme", "collection of paintings and calligraphy" and "spring and autumn drowning city" three basic exhibition halls and a temporary exhibition hall.
"History of the river rhyme" according to the historical order of the display of more than 400 pieces of cultural relics, so that the audience intuitively witnessed Wujin's brilliant history of growth; collection of painting and calligraphy hall introduces the Wujin traditional painting and calligraphy art profile, the audience can enjoy the Ming and Qing Dynasty and the modern 40 calligraphy and painting masterpiece; Spring and Autumn Drowned City Hall by the drowning city of unearthed artifacts, The Spring and Autumn Drowned City Hall consists of excavated artifacts, large-scale photographs of the drowned city, large-scale sand table of the drowned city and the ruins of the Spring and Autumn Capital, canoe production, ground diffraction and other multi-media and the Spring and Autumn Drowned City short film combination.
Baolin Zen Temple is located in the Spring and Autumn Drowned City Ruins Park about 1 kilometer west of the beginning. The temple was built by the Northern Zhou Xiaomin Emperor (557) Sheye, the name of the Fahua, Song changed to the present name. Chongning years (1102 ~ 1106) soldiers destroyed. Ming Yongle three years (1405) by the monk but Xin abbot rebuilt the temple. Ming Zhengde bingyin eight years (1513), jinling bikkhu foyuan, fasheng fund-raising front and rear two halls. At its peak, there were 1,408 halls, spectacular, incense burning.
Tourism area is under planning and construction of the Drowning City Spring and Autumn Paradise is a combination of cultural amusement and cultural recreation of humanities theme parks, amusement tourism design techniques, from the Spring and Autumn period of political, military, economic, cultural and other aspects of the material, set up the Spring and Autumn period of the cultural context of the static ornamental projects, interactive performance projects and experiential amusement projects. Make visitors and the Spring and Autumn culture "zero distance" communication,
Greatly enhance the infectious power of traditional culture. According to the order of visit, the entire Spring and Autumn Paradise is divided into five functional areas, respectively, the entrance service area, the Garden of the Hundred Sons, the Spring and Autumn Cultural Performance Area, the Spring and Autumn Theme Experience Area and the Spring and Autumn Folk Culture Area.
The ancient Spring and Autumn culture and modern amusement facilities in this perfect and organic integration, tourists in the process of playing to their heart's content, not only can enjoy the joy and excitement of the amusement project, but also taste the rich and heavy flavor of the Spring and Autumn history and culture.
"A walk of a thousand years, Spring and Autumn to see the drowned city". In line with the opening of the park, increase marketing efforts, 30 episodes of large-scale historical drama "Spring and Autumn Drowning City" has been filmed; CCTV "Explore. Discovery" program shot 3 episodes of the documentary - "Mystery of the Drowned City", at the end of 2009 to start broadcasting. At present, the Spring and Autumn Drowned City Tourism Zone has been built and opened to the public Drowned City traditional commercial workshops, Drowned City Spring and Autumn Ruins Park, Drowned City Wild Animal World, Spring and Autumn Drowned City Museum and the Spring and Autumn Cultural Park being developed and constructed will together constitute the overall attraction of Spring and Autumn Culture of the Drowned City, comprehensively and scientifically displaying the Drowned City culture and the Spring and Autumn Culture, and perfectly enhancing the overall cultural tastes of the Drowned City Tourism Zone. China Spring and Autumn Drowned City Tourism Zone has gradually become a bright and dazzling tourism star in the Yangtze River Delta region. The family name of the square state, the people have always revered the turtle custom, and therefore by the "big turtle" and the text for the "am", as the name of the country, marking the sublimation of the sacred imagery of their clan emblems: the turtle that is, amen clan.
Later, the Amam tribe was destroyed by King Wu of Zhou during his crusade against Yin Zhou because they followed Shang Zhou. The tribe migrated to the eastern part of Qufu in Shandong Province. Unexpectedly, a few years later, the Amu Kingdom was again involved in the "Three Supervisors" rebellion, and was once again killed by Zhou Gongdan in his eastward campaign, and the king of the Amu Kingdom was mutilated. The tribesmen had to embrace the new king and migrate to the land of Huaiyi. However, King Cheng, the new ruler of Zhou Dynasty, was worried that the Amam tribe still had the intention to rebel and wanted to kill them all, so he led his troops to conquer the area in person. The young king had no choice but to flee with his people to the southeast again.
They fled to the Yangtze River, but were stopped by the river. Hearing the sound of pursuing soldiers getting closer and closer, Little Amigo was so anxious that he was at a loss for words, and looked up to the sky and sighed: "The sky is killing my amigo!" He said he wanted to jump into the river to kill himself. At this time, a turtle he brought along with him suddenly spoke up and said, "Don't worry, my lord!" He jumped out of the car. This is a strange turtle, body length six feet, was disliked by others, is small Amen Jun since childhood to raise. Just see this six feet turtle quickly climbed to the water's edge, stretching his neck to drink up the water. But heard the water rattling, by the turtle big mouth big mouth into the belly. Turtle it, see the water will be long, not long as big as more than ten feet square. At this time, the six-legged turtle signaled the small Amazons and clan members to stand on its back. Strangely enough, Little Amigo and his people stood up in order, but did not feel crowded. When the turtle saw all the people standing up, it instructed them not to open their eyes.
The six-footed turtle let out a long whistle, and suddenly the wind was fierce, flying sand, six-foot turtle center two feet into a pair of two feet long wings, rise up in the air, the blink of an eye will fly across the river. Landed on the south bank, the six-footed turtle retracted wings, even to the southeast to climb quickly. Clansmen standing on the back of the turtle although stable, just hear the whistling wind in the ear, also scared all hugged into a ball, no one dare to open their eyes.
I don't know how long it took, but the six-legged turtle finally collapsed from exhaustion as it crawled to a swampy wasteland in the south of the river. It stopped and turned to see if there were any pursuers behind it. When it is difficult to turn around to the northwest to see, only a vast expanse of barren swampy land, only to put down their hearts. Unexpectedly, it turned around, but no longer able to move, just a furnace incense work will die of gas, the body slowly plunged into the wetlands, protruding a square miles of turtle-shaped pattern.
Small Amamune and his people cried loudly at the sight. In order to commemorate the great kindness of the six-legged tortoise, Little Amamune ordered to build a city in the shape of a tortoise on the ground, so that the tortoise could stay with the Amamune people forever.
Afterwards, Amagi became a tortoise shape, the turtle's head, tail and six feet into eight rivers, Amagi city gate is located in the mouth of the turtle, toward the northwest. Unable to help this project is large, the clan in the swamp walking is very difficult, coupled with simple tools, labor efficiency is low, so digging the river to build the city progress is very slow. This is the first time I have seen the Amagi in the world, and it is the first time I have seen the Amagi in the world.
On this night, Amakasu was again worried, and kept thinking hard until the early hours of the morning before drifting off to sleep. In his sleep, he suddenly saw the god turtle, covered in wounds, coming through the door. Amune rushed to meet him and said, "Where does the king live?" The turtle said, "Don't ask. If you are not strong enough to build a river, you can dig a hole in my belly, and there are two small turtles to help you." Said, the turtle with claws to pick open the belly, immediately blood flow. Amune see this, crying and wake up. The next day, Amarigun according to the dream of the tortoise said, in the center of the tortoise-shaped ground digging up. Half a day's work, dug into two zhang deep hole, see the hole in the hole really sleep a yellow and a white two small turtles. Amen Jun carefully will be two small turtle hold up. I know that these two small turtles see the wind will grow, in a short time will grow into more than ten feet square, "hoo" sound drilled into the swamp, according to the tortoise-shaped pattern of arching soil to create the river.
Two small turtles arch ah, pile ah, three days and three nights in a row, finally arched out of the three ring-shaped river, built into three ring-shaped city. After the completion of the city, the two little turtles returned to their original form and jumped into the two deep caves to lie still.
Later, the clan called the two deep caves located in the sub-city "Golden Well" and "Jade Well". Legend has it that whenever there are seven clouds in the sky, the golden well where the golden tortoise hides will be filled with drums and music, and the golden light will shine. In the other jade well (also known as the jade turtle well), the small white turtle lays an egg every ten days, which is as big as a fist and crystal clear. Eggs accumulate over time, constantly piled up at the bottom of the well, so that the well such as starlight twinkling, white jade. It is said that if someone eats this white turtle egg, eat a can get rid of diseases, two can be strong body, three can prolong life. Of course, it is difficult for the general public to eat it, and only those who are virtuous and good can enjoy it.
The two wells survived for more than 2,000 years, until the Guangxu period was obliterated.
Legend Three: Drowning King Chopper
In the west side of the outer city of Drowning City, north-south arrangement of three tall mounds, locals call it the head of the pier, belly pier and foot pier. About these three mounds, there is a very moving story.
The word is that the amune caused amune city, soon, the lady gave birth to a daughter. Amamune then to three Amam River for the meaning of the daughter named Miao. Princess Miao since childhood smart and kind, grew to 15 years old when he fell like the expenditure of water hibiscus, delicate, is the jewel of the Amamune couple. Princess Miao hard-working and kind, gentle and beautiful, good at sericulture and spinning and weaving, but also a passion for music, chess, calligraphy and painting, can sing and dance, is a good girl with both talent and appearance.
The neighboring city of Liucheng's ambitious son Yan, coveted the territory of Amagi City, but also to the Princess Miao coveted, so they colluded with Amagi City's money-grubbing wood doctor, deceived the Amagi King's trust, and became Amagi City's extra horse harnessed by the side of a team. One day, when Amamune was out of town, Gongzi Yan stole the Princess's name and the key to the back garden, stealing Amamune's treasure of the city, the White Jade Turtle.
When he was trying to escape from the city with the white jade tortoise in his arms, he ran into the princess coming back from the military training ground. Seeing this, the princess accused Gong Ziyan of his despicable behavior and wanted to be punished by military justice. Seeing that the matter was exposed, Gong Zi Yan pretended to be very guilty and asked the princess for forgiveness. And then, when the princess was not paying attention, he drew his short sword - Gong Ziyan's copper sword pierced through the princess's chest, and the kind heart was pierced by the evil merciless sword. The princess had no time to call out, no time to take another look at the soil and water that fed her, and fell into a pool of blood.
Duke Yan, who was heartless enough to stab Princess Miao to death, fled in a hurry. When the king of Amam got the news, he rushed back to Amam City, intercepted Yan halfway, and captured the White Jade Turtle after a fight.
Amamune returned to Zicheng, see his daughter's tragic death, can not help but cry, grief, so the white jade tortoise and other treasures accompanied by the princess, buried in the inner city wall. Amen is afraid of future theft of the treasures in the tomb of the princess, so in the funeral of the air built three cairns, so that others can not distinguish between the real and the fake.
After that, people remembered Princess Miao and went to pay tribute to her during the Ching Ming Festival. At the same time to bring a handful of soil, added to the princess grave, soil planting trees. Over time, the Princess tomb piled up into three large high mound. In order to facilitate pointing, people give these three piers in turn named head pier, belly pier and foot pier.
Because people visit the Princess tomb, the wish is very effective, and then people will be called Princess Miao "Hundred Spirit Princess". Thus, a poignant legend spread throughout the ages, and is still touching.
Legend 4: Ama King Jin Suo
The year of the original drowning city has been called Ama City. Legend has it that a long, long time ago, there was a treacherous and greedy local rich man, overrunning the Amagi River. One summer, the rich man hired a few fishermen to go fishing in the Amagi River. The old rich man was afraid that the fishermen would secretly hide and take, in addition to sending Zhuang Ding to guard the river, he also personally sat down to supervise the three days and two days.
The eighth day of fishing, a fisherman suddenly fished out a rope from the river, the rope head is as thick as an arm, in the sunlight gold glittering, dazzling. "Baby!" At the sight of it, the old rich man's heart grated. He hurriedly rushed to the river and shouted, "Quickly put it down, this is the treasure left by my ancestors, specially placed in the river to suppress feng shui!" He also made a fuss to scare the fishermen, whoever casually took this treasure rope, there will be the disaster of extermination, and will also involve the whole city people suffered disaster. Upon hearing this, the fishermen hurriedly threw the rope into the river.
That night, the old rich man took his son and quietly came to the river in the moonlight. The two of them rowed their boat to the place where the fishermen had fished for the rope during the day, and put a row of rolling hooks into the river. Soon, the hooks tied the rope, father and son will pull up. Just pulled up a small section, the old rich man was eager to bend down, licked the rope with his tongue, surprised and exclaimed: "sweet, is gold!" This discovery made the old rich man father and son were ecstatic. Two people completely ignored the back pain hand weakness, in the boat one after another, desperately pulling up.
Pulling ah pull ah, the two pulled a good half day, the gold rope will soon be the boat's center cabin filled. Strange to say, this gold rope is like there is no end in general, no matter how to pull can not be finished. Soon, the front cabin is also full, the rear cabin is full, the river has been leveled the edge of the boat. However, the old rich man is pulling in the interest, where willing to let go, or pull and pull. Finally, the boat can not afford to carry it, the river water rushing into the cabin, the boat quickly sinking, in the blink of an eye on the bottom of the river. At this time, the old rich man wanted to throw away the gold rope upward. But the golden rope was like sticking to his hand, and he could not shake it off. In a short while, the old rich man father and son sank to the bottom of the river, drowned in a bellyful of drowning river water - drowning!
Originally, the purple and gold rope was the fiber rope that the king of Amoy tied to the canoe, and then the king of Amoy sank to the bottom of the river when he lost his army. Usually, people can't see anything, only in the late night of August 15 every year, when the bright moon is in the sky, you can see a burst of golden light straight into the sky, and no one has ever fished anything. Unluckily, this golden rope was found by the greedy old man, and the greedy old man was retributed by being dragged alive into the river and drowned by the golden rope.
Since then, Amagi has been called "Drowned City".
Legend No. 5: Fire Attack on Amam City
Legend has it that in the northeast corner of Amam City, there is a city called Liucheng. The king of Liou coveted Amam City for a long time, and he knew that he wouldn't win by force
so he tried to win Amam's trust by pleasing the king of Amam with all sorts of favors. Later, Yan, the son of the king, was recruited by the king as the emperor's son-in-law.
Not long afterward, Duke Yan gave Amamune the idea of planting thistles all over the outer city wall. The sharp thorns of the thistles were so dense that even the dogs could not get into them, so they could strengthen the city's defense. On hearing this, Lord Ami thought it was a good idea, so he ordered the army and people to follow the plan. Seeing the success of one plan, Duke Yan came up with a second idea, asking Amamune to plant lentils all over the inner city walls, saying that when the lentils bloomed, they were purple and pink, and became a natural decorative barrier for the city of Amamune with the splendor of the clouds. Duke Yan's careful thinking and his tactics to get what he wanted were again praised by Amamune.
In the hot summer, Amamune stood at the head of Zicheng City to watch and saw the lentil blossoms blooming in a reddish haze. Thinking that the picturesque submerged city would be an impregnable fortress, Amune was very happy.
But once winter came, the dog thistles with their sharp thorns, the natural defense on the earthen city wall, withered, and the lentil vine, once a wonder of the wall with green leaves and red flowers, withered and yellowed. The king of Liou thought the time had come, so he first asked Duke Yan to steal the white jade tortoise, the treasure of the Amami Kingdom, and then sent his troops to attack the city after the failure.
The king's soldiers shot rockets at the dog thistles and lentil vines on the inner wall of the city, and then the whole city burned into a sea of flames, and the king's son took the opportunity to capture the city. The king of Amam, after defeat, ran around, contacted the neighboring three countries, and three days later moved heavy troops back to Amam City and wiped out the king's father and son in one fell swoop.
Legend 6: Yao Ling Bells
"Yao Ling Bells," as its name implies, is the place where the bells are rung, and it was originally used by the king of the city to save his life and make his mind clear.
Originally, the Ami tribe is a square country in the north, only because their ancestors helped the evil-doers, and were crushed by the King of Zhou three times, and fled to this place. In order to make the clan and future generations to remember the lessons of the past, and strive for strength, the small Amam June built Amam City, the first thing is to choose the inner city on the hillock to set up a place in the tree hanging a half-half a person high bronze bell. Every morning and evening, Amamune led his ministers here to repent for the bad behavior of their predecessors and to swear an oath of determination to strengthen the country.
Every time, the master of ceremonies would ring the bell, and the sound of the bell urged people to work hard. Later, because of the unique terrain here, through the three rivers, it was also used as a military defense peak fire platform. It is said that whenever the enemy was detected, Amagi would ring the bell here to warn the whole city to enter a state of war. When the enemy attacked Amagi, Amagi himself rang the bell here, calling on the people and the army to protect the city.
From the later archaeology found that the Spring and Autumn Period, the three moats are string communication, in today's surface 1.8 meters below, there are still two Spring and Autumn period of the river site.
Legend No. 7: Longquan Tongjiang
In the outer city river in the southeast of Drowned City, there is a place called Longquan, also known as Longtan, where the flow of water is inexhaustible for years. Legend has it that when the divine tortoise saved the amanites from crossing the river, it sucked up all the water of the Yangtze River. After landing here, it will leave a bellyful of water here. Who knows, this water seeped into the ground, but connected to the Yangtze River. Therefore, the water here is crystal clear, sweet and delicious, completely different from the local water quality.
This water is clear and muddy where it connects with the outer river. Crops watered by this Longquan water also grow exceptionally well, producing rice, yams, beans and other foods of superior quality and nutritional multiplication.
Qing Xianfeng six years (1856) drought, thousands of miles of red land, when a hundred rivers dry cracked, but the only drowning city inside and outside the city of the river water as clear as usual, the water flow has not dried up, the reason is that there is a dragon spring, the drowning city people and the neighboring villagers rely on the water of the dragon spring to get through the catastrophe.
There is a mythological story about the Dragon Lady and the Jade Turtle, as well as a ballad that says, "The water of the Dragon Spring comes from the East China Sea, and the fragrance and sweetness of the Dragon Spring will not be withered for 10,000 years, and it nourishes all the creatures on both sides of the river, and it's a gold and red dragon lady and a white turtle." Legend has it that this was once the place where Princess Miao rowed her boat to play in the water.
Legend No. 8: Yue Fei's troops in Drowning City
In the spring of the fourth year of the Song Dynasty (1130 A.D.), Yue Fei led his troops in Changzhou's Drowning City, controlling Guangde to the south and Liyang to the west, and intercepting the army of Wanyan Zongbi's return to the north across the river.
Yue Fei organized training for his soldiers in the short time he was stationed in Yuncheng. Yue Fei's requirements for the army is extremely strict, soldiers without authorization to take one of the people's hemp used to bind grass, that is, beheaded order. He paid special attention to the practice of soldiers, rushing hillsides, jumping trenches, are wearing heavy armor practice. Yue Fei was able to fire left and right, and his soldiers were able to fire left and right.
The soldiers who had received rigorous training and acted in strict accordance with the orders would not waver even if they were suddenly confronted by the enemy. Marshal Yue reward and punishment, care for the soldiers, often for the sick to adjust the medicine; generals and soldiers expedition, he often sympathy for their families. Those who died in combat, raise their children. Where there is reward, are equally divided among the men.
Yue Fei physically, living a simple life. He is said to have famously said, "If civil officials are not greedy for money and military officials are not afraid of death, the world will be peaceful." It was what he said to his generals when he went out to attack the enemy in Drowned City.
At that time, the Jin soldiers occupied Liyang, Yue Fei sent Liu Jing to lead the troops, attacked by night, killed 500 enemies, captured alive the female and Han army and the pseudo-Liyang governor and other 12 people, recovered Liyang. The Jin soldiers ran away from the south and burned and captured everywhere, and the Jin soldiers fled to Jinquan Township of Yixing. Yue Fei led his army to Yixing and met with the Jin soldiers in the south of Yixing city, and both sides started a fierce battle in Baihe field. Yue Fei personally led the army and the gold soldiers killed, the two sides of the army gate to the remote, the war drums thud, horses and men hissing, swords and spears and halberds of the impact of the sound, mixed like the pine waves and bamboo tsunami, dust clouded sky. Yue Fei crossed the gun jumping horse, thousands of children killed more and more courageous, the gold soldiers, fleeing to the north in distress. Yue Fei chased for a while, sent Yue Yun rate of troops to often combat.
According to legend, Yue Fei personally led the troops camped 20 miles from the city of Changzhou drowning city, Zhang Xian, Wang Gui, Fu Qing to lead the troops and horses, ambush division Qishuyan bridge south, Fu Qing, Wang Wan led the troops ambush west river beach, and made Yue Yun, Zhang Xian led the troops pretending to be routed troops ambush new locks, sent Li Dao, Yao Zheng east and west to support, stay Liu Jing guard camp. Not a few days, Yue Fei personally led a thousand Yuejia army, and the gold soldiers met in the eastern suburbs of Changzhou, the two sides began a bloody battle. At once, the sound of war drums, ambushes four, Yue Fei four battles were successful, Woodruff led the army to the west, the enemy dead and wounded and drowned people can not be counted. Yue Fei and from the back of the cover, the gold soldiers dead 15 miles, captured the female real ten thousand young master Li Sumire, Han children Li Predicate and other 11 people.
The Jin soldiers fled west when a fire burned Changzhou into a pile of ruins. Yue Fei led the troops to pursue, to Jiankang, in the Qingshui Pavilion again and the Jin soldiers, and won a great victory, the enemy dead body ten miles, captured the female real Bohai Han army forty-five people, more chopped earrings soldiers 175 people, won the armor and drums countless gold.
The Marshal Yue Marshal House in the city of drowning on the slope (now the location of Nanbian Village), the Marshal House for the north south of the six halls, horizontal width of six zhang, depth of two zhang six, the eaves of one zhang three feet high six, outside the door of the red columns have a hug thick. Handsome house in front of the door to hold a pillar on a couplet, the first couplet says: military officials are not afraid of death; the second couplet: civil officials do not covet money; horizontal scroll: loyalty to the country. The ruins of this marshal's mansion were demolished by local businessman Meng Er Bud in 1930, and the wood was transported to Gaotian Village outside the city to build the Zhuang Family Ancestral Hall. To 1990, the Zhuang family ancestral hall was demolished, the wood was bought to build a factory.
Legend 9: Yue Shuai ink treasure stayed drowning city
Yue Fei is a famous general of both military and civil, in China's thousands of years of history, only a few.
Jianyan four years (1130 AD), Yue Fei 28 years old, led 2,000 soldiers and the Jin soldiers war in Changzhou city. After recapturing Changzhou from the Jin, he proceeded to sweep through the Jin soldiers, recovering a large portion of lost territory in Jiangnan, including Zhenjiang and Jiankang (present-day Nanjing). In the same year in Yixing, Liyang, Guangde, broken Guo Ji and other bandits, six battles six victories, so that the people from the ravages of suffering. Yue Fei's spirit of patriotism and loyalty to the country is still widely celebrated by the people of China.
But people seldom know that when Yue's army was stationed in Dengcheng, Yue Fei had left poems and ink treasures.
Lore has it that when Yue Fei was ordered to go to Viling (Changzhou) to fight against the Jin army, he visited Zhang Wan, a high priest, when he passed by Yixing Zhang (Zhang) Creek, and inscribed the poem "Seven Poems? Zhang Creek to Zhang Wan", the poem said: "no intention to buy wine to visit the youth, the mirror empty contempt white hair new. Flowers under the young man should laugh at me, drooping won the horse to visit the high people."
The first line of the poem, "no heart", said the original unintentional, things out of nature. "visit", the word report, said. "Youth", here as a solution to the teenage years. The second sentence "contempt", that is, sigh. The last sentence "drooping", said sagging appearance, or as "gradually" solution. The "wasp", refers to the thin, tired and sick. The "high man", said the world of people, mostly refers to hermits, here refers to Zhang Wan. Zhang Wan answered the poem said: "meet each other do not remember the spring, the eyes are not old nor new. All the people who seek for sound and color are evil and delusional, and I don't think that I am a hermit without a doubt."
The later Yue Shuai this poem Le stone stored in the drowning city, "Changzhou Prefectural Records" records, to the Qing dynasty Kangxi thirty-four years (1695), "now Le stone still exists". Since then, the monument, now no evidence.
Meanwhile, Changzhou has also discovered two handwritten inscriptions from Yue Fei's cantonment of Drowned City. One is the inscription of Yue Fei to the descendants of Su Dongpo in Changzhou, "Meishan Su's heirloom treasure", and the other is the inscription of Yue Fei to the Wujin Wang's genealogy: "Wang's Shibao".
Legend 10: Xingyong monk alone repair thatched nunnery
Qing Shunzhi two years (b not year, 1645), more than 50 years old Sichuan monk Xingyong traveled to the East China Sea Dragon Pond, from the Maoshan Mountain over the mountain after the road through the Wujin. Happened to hear that the southern part of Wujin has an ancient city ruins, drowning creek monuments, curved water around, cypresses, quite similar to the empty mountains without dust and secular realm, do not feel interested in, stride rushed to. Line Yong monks in the drowning city tour for a moment, to the city but saw the temple weather does not cover, Guanyin Daishi and the Bodhisattva statues of decay, can not help but sigh, and then compassionate, and immediately wished to rebuild this temple.
So he changed his plan to go east and decided to make preliminary repairs to the temple. Three days later, he chose more than one acre of land in Zicheng, wielding a pickaxe to excavate the foundation of the nunnery. Since then, the monk has been working day and night, rain or shine, accumulating bricks and tiles, and building his own hut.
Over the years, he chopped wood and water, shoulder and foot cracks, grueling. At first, the people in the neighborhood were indifferent, and it was rare for anyone to help. The monk of the line Yong nature of old sincerity, not good out to raise money, will only carry only the money expenses, save rations, frugal life. Sometimes, he would recite sutras and preach for those who sought Buddha's help, and received a small honorarium. Slowly, the honorarium for chanting sutras accumulated.
Later, the benefactors were touched to learn that he was so honest and did not care about fame and fortune, and they all helped him. It can be said that accumulation of sand into a tower, set armpit into a fur. 10 years down, the nunnery house built, Xing Yong monk and purchased the police bells and drums and other equipment, the wall is complete, the ground grinding bricks, planting pines and bamboos, the statue of the Buddha restored, the incense does not stop, the drums and bells sound again.
At this time, the line Yong monk has been 73 years old. Kangxi Xin late years (1668) on the seventh day of the first month, the monks Le stone memorial, the neighbors praise.
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