Dingguang Temple Fengshui
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Living in the city for a long time, I have a different kind of loneliness. Only through weekend leisure, wandering around the ancient city wall in the east of the city, washing your eyes with spring tributes and borrowing the green pavilions of Wansongshan and Mazuyan can you talk about loneliness.
Then, it suddenly occurred to me that I haven't been near the fields or dating the countryside for some time.
Dating the country is actually dating nature. This time, the place where I was admitted was a lively and deserted place-Zhaijiao Village, Sanxi Township, Ganxian County.
Just like the name of Sanxi Township, its name is as simple as the wind or grass in Shan Ye. Sanxi Township is famous for the confluence of three unknown streams. Zhaijiu 'ao is famous for many canyons formed by many Yan Dan mountains.
For me, this is a virgin scenic spot. However, historically, it used to be a prosperous and vicissitudes place. The villagers told me that this is the only way from Ganzhou to Xingguo, that is, an old post road. I think this Zhaijiu 'ao really has such a profound cultural connotation, and it is a very good place.
It is with this feeling of exploring the mysteries of history and nature that I entered Zhaijiu 'ao and its landscape and human landscape.
The first thing that caught my eye was the magnificent General Village. The name of Jiangjunzhai is heroic, which is naturally the most legendary story of Zhaijiu 'ao. What is the legend?
Villagers relish: Yue Jiajun broke in the Southern Song Dynasty! Before the cottage was conquered, there were thousands of "mountain thieves" guarding it, and the "mountain thieves" who took the mountain as the king occupied it for several years, and there were earth-shattering things everywhere. Finally, the local government was forced to report to the imperial court, and Yue Fei, an anti-gold hero, came from the border to suppress it. Yue Fei, who is resourceful, adopts the tactics of containment and no attack. Of course, this dangerous situation of "one person is above ten thousand people" is not easy to achieve. Yue Jiajun used a dark night to tie up the captured apes by burning incense, and then drove them to Jiangjunzhai. The officers and men set off firecrackers around the stronghold, causing a storm. "Mountain bandits" woke up in the middle of the night, only to see the flames around the stronghold, thinking that Yue Jiajun had entered the mountain. He was so scared that he fled everywhere. As a result, all of them were captured and the stronghold was broken in one fell swoop. General Yue Jiajun occupied the stronghold, and the villagers have since called this village General Village.
Today, this story can only be used to prove the grandeur of Jiangjunzhai. In fact, throughout Yue Fei's life, this is in the same strain as his philosophy. He served the country all his life, which is consistent with Wang Yangming, who later came to Gannan to quell the chaos. Considering this, we Gannan people should naturally understand.
The village in front of General was speechless. It sheltered "mountain thieves" and became the village of generals, and its magical posture has always attracted tourists. From the south of the stockade, where the slope is slightly gentle, we approached Jiangjun Village to look for the ancient mountain road that still exists vaguely.
The door of the hut built by Hongyan boulder is old and vicissitudes, and the ruins are broken. In the face of cultural people visiting after a thousand years, there is no vitality. There are not many relics on the top of the village. Even the spring well that the villagers drank was buried by excited young people during the Cultural Revolution. The dense weeds covered it further, so that we couldn't find any traces.
Only the fresh wild wind on the top of the mountain and the beautiful Metasequoia glyptostroboides, especially the "Nine Lions Worship the Elephant" Danxia spectacle scanned in the west, gave birth to poetic growth, expanded my imagination and grew spiritual wings.
Nine lions worshipping elephants is actually a natural landscape. And this scene can only be observed from the general's village. Looking around, Danxia landform is everywhere at the foot of a village of three square kilometers in Fiona Fang. Or lion, big pictograph, saddle or stone tripod. What's especially wonderful is that nine rocks in the west of Jiangjunzhai are facing the rocks, creating a very vivid scene of "Nine Lions Worship Elephants"!
From this, I think of the folk sacrifice scene of "Nine Lions Worship Elephants", a living fossil of Shangyou County culture, which I saw at the Gannan Folk Culture Exhibition. At that time, I was fascinated by the vivid and magnificent cultural landscape. Today, it is an exciting feeling to face the miracle of the earth.
I traveled all over Zhaijiu 'ao Scenic Area and suddenly found that there really is an ancient post road here! It meanders lazily from Ganzhou and Jiangkou, bypassing the northwest side of Danxia Scenic Area in Zhaijiu 'ao, and then meanders north to Xingguo County. Because the road is not bumpy, unusually wide, and there is no need to pave cobblestones on the road surface, you can't see the old and scarred old post road like Dayu Meiling or Dai Yu Bridge in Xinfeng Hushan.
I think there is a reason why the historical traces of the ancient post road in Zhaijiu 'ao disappeared. Perhaps it is because of its smooth road. When there is a smooth road, it seems that everyone walks like a river, and the scenery is easy to create, but it is also easy to destroy. In that case, how can there be traces of old things, ancient relics? !
Of course, in areas without historical sites, culture does not mean that people cannot settle down. For example, Jiang Jingguo came here when he was in Gannan. During his tenure, it was quite common for him to publicize, educate and inspect everywhere, go to Xingguo North, or just stop in this village and visit Jiu 'ao. Because, in those days, there was a school that he advocated transforming from the old school, which was located at the foot of Dingguang Mountain in the "Nine Lions" Rock.
At Dingguang Temple at the foot of Dingguang Mountain, we listened to the villagers telling stories again. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Zhaijiu 'ao was in the only way through the post road because of its beautiful scenery, which made it convenient to travel and spread its reputation far and wide. Dingguang Temple was even once influenced by its gods and even shocked the royal family.
Legend has it that a great official of Ming Dynasty swam from Jiangnan to Zhaijiu 'ao, and saw towering old trees, cool breeze in Xu Lai and steep rocks. He said happily, "This is the golden cave of things and treasures!" " After returning to Beijing, he invited the emperor to build a Taoist shrine here. Since then, bells, drums, gongs and drums have been heard in temples of more than 300 square meters, and hundreds of court officials from Fiona Fang and even thousands of miles away have come here one after another. Soon, Ming Taizu ordered the Dingguang Temple to be changed to Dingguangshan Taoist College. Since then, Taoism has flourished here, and Taoists from all over the south have poured in, forming a village centered on Taoism-the name of Taoist village has come from this and is still in use today.
Unfortunately, the mountains and rivers are eternal and the years are ruthless. Now that the Taoist priest is gone, the village is scattered. The domain name that people live in is still the same, called Zhaijiu 'ao. Today's Dingguang Temple has long lost the glory of the Ming Dynasty. In the near future, a simple temple, relying on Dingguang Mountain, is lightly guarding the water-like time of Chunhua Qiuyue. However, the villagers are still proud that even the monks of Bao Hua Temple have to come to Dingguangshan Taoist College in Zhaijiu 'ao to gather and study!
What are the temples in Bao Hua? Twenty kilometers north of Zhaijiu 'ao, one of the oldest and most culturally rich temples in southern China, there is an incense temple, in which wonderful legends such as Mazu's residence, eighteen monks, thousand beds and wooden wells are circulated.
After chewing the history and culture of Zhaijiu 'ao, we can't help singing about the natural scenery of Zhaijiu 'ao. The scenery of Zhaijiu 'ao with Danxia Wonderland as the core is undoubtedly unique.
In fact, it was appreciated by passers-by on the post road thousands of years ago, and it was only after the opening of the expressway in the last century that it retired in Shan Ye. It's just that this retirement was a long time ago and almost made the world forget its beauty.
Unfortunately, I can't find any songs and poems about it at hand. Perhaps passers-by just took it as the habitat of soul and body in a hurry and forgot to put it into words when the breeze bathed and the landscape rested.
In addition, there are several unusual things in Zhaijiu 'ao, such as camphor and seven-color grass, which deeply touched me.
I have always admired our Cinnamomum camphora in southern Jiangxi. I remember that in the early 1990s, I went to Beijing on business, and the gift I brought to my friend was a camphor box. It can be seen that the gifts that Beijingers like best from Gannan people are not navel oranges and Daphne, but camphor trees from Gannan.
Later, because of the obsession with landscape creation, the scenic spots went further, only to find that camphor trees are not only auspicious trees, but also linked with the great man Mao Zedong-Jinggangshan is the resting place for Mao Zedong on the Red Army's grain picking road, and there are one or more huge camphor trees at the entrance of the ancestral temple where Egret Mao Zedong and Zhu De meet in Ganxian, the placer gold dam where Ruijin Mao Zedong works and lives, or Yeping and Marble Mountain.
After decades, these camphor trees are still flourishing, as if absorbing the spirit of great men. They are full of heroic spirit and flowers, holding high a will and sending a greeting.
There are so many camphor trees in Zhaijiu 'ao that people who enter Zhaijiu 'ao think they have entered the hometown of camphor trees. The camphor trees here are very simple, and naturally grow by streams, rocks or adjacent bamboo forests. They are neither winding nor independent. At that time, I thought that perhaps it was this natural and harmonious living condition that led to their survival from generation to generation and the growth of their families.
My love for camphor tree is largely due to its fragrance. The fragrance of camphor tree is fresh and natural, elegant and pleasant, refreshing. No wonder literati love to call camphor tree camphor tree.
Cinnamomum camphora in Zhaijiu 'ao, because of its huge quantity and fragrant fragrance, has turned this land of Danxia into a fragrant valley. Therefore, walking in this village and breathing the fragrance makes people feel like walking in the fragrance. The artistic conception and philosophical thought of poetry are easy to form-sucking the fragrance of Cinnamomum camphora in the towering Danxia mountain rock is like sucking the fragrance of your daughter in the hard material world. Isn't it a charming feeling? !
In addition to Cinnamomum camphora, what is surprising is the seven-color grass in Zhaijiu 'ao. In the shadow of the tall rock wall, in a deep valley, the seven-color grass crawling on the ground is growing wildly.
Seven-color grass is not its name, but even the villagers don't know its name. However, the villagers unexpectedly and cleverly discovered the strangeness of this grass-it glows every time it meets the sun and changes the angle of contact with the sun, and the color becomes an illusion! We were so surprised that we picked them and played with them. Are there any nonferrous metals in the seven-color grass growing under this rock? Observing the seven-color grass with dense branches and leaves, I thought about it.
Interestingly, out of the valley, the seven-color grass in your hand has become ordinary, and it has become no better. It seems that the seven-color grass in this village, like Ganoderma lucidum, loses its aura when it leaves the place where it grows.
What is really aura is the water in Zhaijiu 'ao. Although the stream in Zhaijiu 'ao seems to be thinner, it is full of poetry and painting with its gurgling, gurgling and clear appearance. From Jiangjunzhai to Maanshan and then to Dingguang Mountain, this winding Qingxi passes around the rock like a green belt, adding many fresh spiritual elements to the rock that has been sleeping for thousands of years.
Mountains and rivers are always companions. Junshan has tenderness because of water, and Xiushui has backbone because of mountains. The beauty of mountains and rivers in southern Jiangxi generally shows this law, such as Hanxian Cave in Huichang, Luohanyan in Ruijin and Dongjiangyuan in Anyuan. There is little water in Tongtianyan, Ganzhou, and the spirituality is much worse.
The stream in Zhaijiu 'ao is not far away, but it is also clear and lovely. Looking closely, the gravel, fish and shrimp at the bottom of the water are either crystal clear or graceful. Walking, I occasionally see a pheasant flying by the stream, a stone bridge sweeping the water in the air, or a shepherd boy beating and dancing, or a village woman washing clothes and stepping on her feet ... I always feel that a beautiful picture of rural nature unfolds before my eyes.
May 2004