The alliance of Buddhist temples is bounded by Baigou. Is Baigou in Baoding today?

One is that on the vast central Hebei plain, there once was a river that originated from Laishan in Laiyuan County and flowed through Laishui, Dingxing and Gaobeidian. At that time, the river was sparkling and leisurely fish and shrimp were playing happily. Lotus flowers are in full bloom, and the fragrance bursts, attracting many waterfowl to jump and sing; On both sides of the river, the grass is green, the flowers are a little bit, and butterflies are dancing ... This river is the ancient Baigou River, and Baigou River also gave birth to the glory of Baigou in the ancient town with its beauty and kindness. Baigou, located in the hinterland of the Beijing-Tianjin-Baoding Triangle, is named after the numerous Bai Furong in the river. According to historical records, as early as 1800 years ago, Baigou had a strong water transport capacity and the embryonic form of a commercial town. In the Song Dynasty, she had become a prosperous land and water wharf. For hundreds of years, she kept a prosperous scene of "crossing Qian Fan and gathering merchants". By the Qing Dynasty, she gradually became a commodity distribution center with "goods passing through the north and south of the Yangtze River and business flowing through Kyushu", which was extremely prosperous. Therefore, Baigou is called "the metropolis in the south of Beijing". Baigou has a long history. During the Song and Liao Dynasties, the history of Baigou River as the boundary between the two countries was staged. In September of the first year of Jingdezhen, Song Zhenzong (A.D. 1004), Emperor Lu Ye Longxu of Liao Dynasty led the Qidan army to invade the Song Dynasty on a large scale. In November, its main force came to the named state (now Puyang, Henan Province), which was almost equal to Kaifeng in the Capital of Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty was frightened by the ruling and opposition, and learned that politician Wang Qinruo proposed to move south to Jinling. Kou Zhun, then prime minister, advocated resistance. He ruled out public discussion, and urged Song Zhenzong to personally expedition. Song Zhenzong finally adopted his suggestion and approached the front to bid. The generals in the Song Dynasty saw the emperor's personal expedition, which greatly boosted their morale and fought bravely. They shot and killed Xiao Dalan, the envoy of Liao army, and won a great victory, which preserved the dignity of the Northern Song Dynasty and wrote a glorious chapter in the history of Chinese anti-aggression. Unfortunately, Song Zhenzong was afraid of the enemy, and he insisted on making peace in the case of military victory. He sent envoys to conclude a peace treaty with Liao, losing 65,438+2 million pieces of Liao currency and silver and 200,000 pieces of silk every year. Taking Baigou River as the dividing line between the two sides, it was called "Ehime League" in history. At that time, the old channel of Baigou River flowed northward from Baigou Town, which was a famous Liao-Song boundary river. After the Single Source Alliance, due to the relative social stability and the economic development between the North and the South, Liao and Song Dynasties began to send envoys to each other frequently. There are deep mountain canyons in the south and desert Gobi in the north. The road is hard and long. In order to facilitate the communication between the envoys of both sides, a post road was specially built, and post houses were also built at regular intervals for the messengers to stay and board. Therefore, a long post road linked the North and South Dynasties. The first post office on Li Qian Post Road is located in the north of Baigou River. For more than 100 years after the  Union, the Liao and Song Dynasties exchanged official envoys 1600, and the envoys of both dynasties were senior officials. At that time, the emperor of Liao followed the example of the Central Plains and greeted the envoys of Song with Han etiquette. After the Song envoy returned to the south, he also presented the geography, customs and internal affairs of the Liao Dynasty as "quotations" to the Song Emperor. As we all know, Fan Chengda, as an emissary, described the scenery and geography of Liangxiang Chestnut and Liu Lihe Shiqiao. There were many famous historical figures in the Song Dynasty, who used to be passers-by on the Liao Post Road. Fu Bi, then Tai Changcheng, Bao Zheng, Guo-zi-jian diploma "Bao Qingtian", great writer Ouyang Xiu, famous scientists Shen Kuo, Su Zhe, Cai Jing, Gao Qiu, Tong Guan, etc. They were all envoys sent by the Emperor of the Song Dynasty to Liao. The relatively peaceful situation has also brought great benefits to the border people in Liao and Song Dynasties, so the legal trade on both sides of Baigou River is extremely prosperous. Monopolizing the market, in today's words, is border trade. According to historical records, the border trade of Baigou River was very prosperous at that time. Song Dynasty obtained more than 400,000 taels of silver from monopoly trade every year. Now we can imagine; The daily busy scene of merchant ships on Baigou River. In the 26th year of Liao Dynasty (A.D. 1008), Yanjing invited the Song Dynasty to buy wheat seeds because of the drought, which was quickly approved by the Song Dynasty, ensuring the timely sowing of Yanjing farmers. Monopoly trade not only communicated the material exchange between people of all ethnic groups on both sides of Baigou River, but also benefited the government, including horse trading. For example, in the third year of Jingdezhen in the Song Dynasty (A.D. 1006), it was stipulated: "Where the government treasury is as old as before, silks, lacquerware and rice should be added, and those who enter it are money, cloth, sheep, horses and camels, aged 400,000 or above." At that time, the number of horses purchased from the border trade was amazing, which alleviated the influence of the shortage of military horses on the troops in the Northern Song Dynasty to some extent. In a word,/kloc-Bazaar, which was built on the Baigou River more than 0/000 years ago, not only further promoted the local economic development, but also accelerated the sinicization process of the Khitan people in Liao country, which was of very positive historical significance to promoting the civilization and progress of the society at that time. Secondly, Baigou River has involved many historical events and figures since ancient times. For example, in the third year of Yongxi in Song Taizong, the Liao army invaded the Northern Song Dynasty with 654.38+ 10,000 troops, and the Song army divided things to meet the enemy. Cao Bin, commander-in-chief of East Road, led 65,438+Wan Songbing, who was defeated by tens of thousands of cavalry led by Liao, and was wiped out by Liao in Baigou River area. Commander in chief Cao Bin fled back alone. At that time, Baigou River was blocked by Song Jun's body and cut off! What a bitter battle this is! There is also a famous battle on the Baigou River in history. In the second year of Wen Jian in Ming Dynasty (AD 1400), Judy, the prince of Yan, and Wen Jian, his nephew, competed for the throne. In April of that year, the Yanshi Division led by Chu Emperor launched an unprecedented fierce battle between Baigou River and Li Jinglong, which was the famous battle of Baigou River in history. Li Jinglong has an army of 600,000 troops and excellent firearms. Yanshi only has 654.38+ 10,000 troops. After several days of fierce fighting, Yanshi defeated Li Jun, and the death toll exceeded 654.38 million. The Battle of Baigou River is a famous battle in the history of China, with fewer battles winning more. Baigou Ancient Town not only carries a heavy thousand-year history and culture, but also treasures a historical memory of Zhao Yan civilization. In the long history, many scholars and patriots wrote poems about Baigou, which witnessed the vicissitudes and changes of Baigou. Wang Anshi, who served as the head of the Liao delegation for many times, wrote a poem "Bai Gou Xing" when welcoming the Liao delegation, recording the reception scene of that year: "Baigou River covers an area and sends envoys to meet each other every year. Envoys often come to shoot foxes and rabbits, but Han soldiers don't preach omens. Wan Li hoes and picks up the wall, and the leaves are all over the plain. Li Mu and Lian Po don't even say it. " Su Song, a famous politician, writer and diplomat in the Northern Song Dynasty, made many missions to Liao. As an emissary living in the south for a long time, when he first saw this colorful northern scenery, he couldn't help being excited and intoxicated. When Su Song first entered Baigou at the junction of Song and Liao Dynasties, he wrote the poem "When he first crossed Baigou, he looked at Yanshan Mountain in the north": "Castle Peak is like a wall, like a plate, and thousands of miles are plowed. Zhaozhou, the Yu emperor, has a vast territory, and the books of the Han family were sealed. Following the prosperity of Tianbao, it is a pity that Yong Xi is hard to come out. Today's saints are far away, and the soldiers are righteous. " In the winter of A.D. 1055, Ouyang Xiu, a writer of the Northern Song Dynasty, sent an envoy to Liao, wrote a poem "Five Words in the Road" and said to Baigou Bridge: "The new moon is bleak in the wild and the border town is full of corners. Divide the water across the bridge and look back to appreciate Nanhong. Geographical mountains and rivers are separated, and astronomy, sun and moon are the same. Children can walk and women can bow. " Why do you want to "look back and smile, envy Nanhong"? This expresses deep homesickness. Ouyang Xiu also wrote down such a poem after returning to the south: "Baigou looks at palms in the south, and the pavilion is ten miles long and five miles long. Wax snow sells as lightly as spring breeze, and grass grows like fire. Guests from afar come home to meet them with tea, and a trip home is a pleasure. Although people have four ambitions, they don't have to go on expeditions frequently. " Liu Yin, one of the "two great Confucians in the North" in Yuan Dynasty, is also a person worth mentioning. Liu Yin, a native of Xu Shui, Hebei Province, was literate at the age of 3, wrote poetry at the age of 6 and wrote a composition at the age of 7. His two seven-metrical poems Du Baigou and Bai Gou have always been admired and circulated by people. First, read "Crossing Baigou": "first frost in Jimen is sad in water, and Ma Chong crosses Baigou in cold weather. The mountains and rivers in Zhao Yan are divided into towns, and the scenery in Liao and Jin is different from that in Zhongzhou. Huang Yun defends the lonely city in the late ancient times, while the west wind sets and the geese fall in autumn. Everyone in the world knows that it is half dry and it is difficult to vote alone. " The author was born in Sri Lanka. This poem is about Zhao Yan in late autumn. In the setting sun and the bleak west wind, the hero rode a horse alone and broke through the frost. The last sentence was about a person walking in the world, and his bosom friend dispersed. This poem is lofty in artistic conception, gloomy and vigorous, and expresses the poet's strong patriotic feelings. Reading this poem can make people feel the charm of the "generous elegy" of the hero of Yanzhao. Wang, a versatile female scholar during the reign of Qianlong in Qing Dynasty, once wrote a lot of travel poems, among which The Feeling of Baigou River is a very commendable poem: "I can't think about it all the time, but the sun is thin and the sand is yellow. There are many new graves in Shijie, and the battlefield is empty. A broken person digging a farm tool and a broken bone will create a ghost wind in autumn. From calling to talking about the road ahead in the dark, sad songs fly infinitely. " This poem is not only neat in antithesis, but also gloomy in emotional tone, which makes it feel heavy to read. The "Battle of Jingnan" of that year has become an immortal historical memory in the hearts of future generations. Shijie became a mound and was smashed into a farm tool. How many sighs of ups and downs, how many historical changes, all slowly passed away in a sad song and a touch of sunset. Thirdly, Baigou, now the capital of luggage in China, was once the famous hometown of clay sculpture in China. It is said that Baigou clay sculpture has a history of more than 300 years. It originated in Beiliuzhuang Village, west of Baigou Town, and began in Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty. From the last skills of several families to the popular characteristic handicrafts, Baigou area actually developed into the hometown of clay sculpture in the north in the late Qing Dynasty. At that time, almost every village in Baigou, such as South and North Liu Zhuang and Winch Handle, started with clay figurines, commonly known as "clay dolls" or "inch people", which were vivid and interesting. The bottom of the clay figurine is also equipped with reed flute or plastic whistle, which is cheap, very popular among rural children and widely sold. Baigou mud toys are always popular in Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and temple fairs. Later, the number of artists increased, and the number of clay figurines, Buddha statues, birds and animals reached more than a foot. After the founding of New China, with the improvement of people's appreciation of culture and art, clay sculpture artists began to create a number of dramatic figures, such as Mu, Yu, Journey to the West, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and hundreds of works of art reflecting modern life, such as tractors, trucks, cars and bumper harvests in Qingfeng. Especially after the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, the spring breeze of reform and opening up spread throughout China, and the Party's policy of enriching the people was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. In order to make a fortune, Baigou people "crossed the sea with eight immortals-each showing his magical powers". In this excellent form, many farmers are engaged in making clay toys, which is a family sideline. At that time, the dry stone bridge section of Baigou Old Street was a concentrated sales place for mud toys, and later became a famous mud goods market in China. The 1980s and 1990s were the most prosperous period of Baigou clay market, and Baigou clay sculpture was deeply loved by people for its unique artistic style. Not only do they sell well in North China and Northeast China, but they are also collected by national art galleries and even exported to Japan, Singapore, Canada and other countries.