In ancient times, many ancient books recorded Yun Mengze. What was Yun Mengze like?
The Yunmeng area in the hunting area of King Chu is quite vast. "In the east, it refers to the Dabie Mountain foothills and Mufu Mountain foothills east of Wuhan today and even the riverside area; in the west, it refers to the east of Yichang and Yidu today, including Songzi and Gongan areas in the south of the Yangtze River; in the north, it is almost the Dahongshan area around Suizhou, Zhongxiang and Jingshan, and it is inevitable that it has become a border with the Yangtze River." ?
in the pre-Qin period, the main body of Yunmengze was located in the east of Jingzhou (the second capital of Chu), between Jianghan and the Yangtze River in the south, which was an impact on the road delta. It is not difficult to find that this is actually the center of the core area of Chu. "Steaming clouds and dreaming, shaking Yueyang", once the 8-year-old Jingchu is long gone, but now it is deeply hidden in the memory of Chinese people. It is the spirit of Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet on the Miluo River who merged into Yunmengze (here, Dongting Lake), and the eternal poem of Fan Zhongyan, a scholar in the Song Dynasty, who was deeply concerned about the scholars and left behind that "the world is worried first, and then the world is happy".
during the Qin and Han dynasties, due to the sediment deposition brought by the Hanshui River and the Yangtze River, the Jingjiang River and the Hanjiang River inland delta were integrated, and Yunmengze was divided into many lakes of different sizes, and some areas even degenerated from lakes to swamps. Yun Mengze, once a "9-mile square", kept shrinking and moving eastward, and the main body was compressed in Huarong County at that time. In the famous Battle of Red Cliffs in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and Ming Dynasty, the defeated Cao Caobing had been able to "lead the army back from Huarong Road", but the road was muddy and difficult.
By the time of Shui Jing Zhu (a work in the late Northern Wei Dynasty), the main body of Yunmengze had moved to the east of Huarong County, and Nanyunmengze had been replaced by the newly developed delta plain.
During the Tang and Song Dynasties, the main body of Yunmengze, which was becoming shallower and shallower, was mostly filled with silt and became land. According to the county annals, "the flood season rises in summer and autumn", although "Miao is like the sea", but "the water dries up in spring and winter, which is the flat field. Zhou Yu is fifteen miles away. " When the famous poets Lu You and Fan Chengda Zhou passed through here, the once mysterious and beautiful Yunmengze was already a place full of luxuriant weeds and thieves, and it was called "a hundred miles of drought".
times have changed and things have changed. Yunmengze, which used to be "9 miles square", has now disappeared into dotted lakes and marshes, scattered among towns. The cloud dream has disappeared, and the palace is covered with moss marks; A Millennium ode to Lisao, with Wang Sun as Shu Ren.