Is the Red Cliff written by Su Shi in Red Cliff Fu the location of the ancient battlefield of the Three Kingdoms?
Chibi city, Hubei (formerly Puyin County) is known as the southern gate of Hubei. Chibi Mountain, located on the south bank of the Yangtze River more than 40 kilometers northwest of chibi city, is a connected Changling Mountain. There are three valleys on the mountain. The head is called Chibi Mountain, the middle is called Nanping Mountain, and the end is called Jinluan Mountain.
Climb to the top of Chibi Mountain, stand on the cliff near the river, lean against the railing and look north. The river is surging. Legend here is that Zhou Yu commanded the post of water war that year. On the other side of the Yangtze River is the Wulin (now the Wulin Collection on the north bank of the Yangtze River in the northeast of Honghu Lake, Hubei Province), which was the base camp of Cao Cao when the Wulin was burned.
This is another controversial place, because there have been different opinions about the location of Battle of Red Cliffs since the Northern and Southern Dynasties. One of the most powerful voices said that the ancient battlefield of Chibi is located on the south bank of the Yangtze River, about 40 kilometers northwest of Puyin (now chibi city, Hubei), opposite to the Wulin in the north of the Yangtze River. In modern times, the theory of "Red Cliff in Pu Xian" became a public opinion in the history circle. The main basis is: According to the relevant records in the History of the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao's marching route to the south is Xinye-Xiangyang-Dangyang-Jiangling-Chibi. Cao Jun lost the first battle in Chibi on the south bank of the Yangtze River and retreated to the Wulin north of the Yangtze River. Later, he was defeated by fire in Wulin and fled from Huarong Road to Jiangling (now Jingzhou City, Hubei Province). Today, Puyin Chibi, Honghu Wulin and Huarong Ancient Road in the northeast of Jianli, Hubei Province are exactly the same as the terrain orientation of Chibi Wulin War and the route of Cao Jun's defeat of Jiangling recorded in the History of the Three Kingdoms. In recent decades, more than 0/000 pieces of cultural relics such as knives, spears, swords, halberds, axes, arrows, bronze mirrors and coins have been found underground in Puyin Chibi. Archaeologists identified these iron weapons, bronze mirrors and copper coins as relics of the late Eastern Han Dynasty. These are the ironclad evidences that Pu Xian Chibi is the ancient battlefield of Chibi-Wulin War.
The second voice said that the ancient battlefield was in the northwest of Huanggang (Huangzhou) in Hubei. Those who hold this view take Su Shi (Dongpo), a great writer in the Northern Song Dynasty, as an argument, when he relegated Huangzhou, he wrote the famous sentences "Before and After Fu on the Red Cliff" and "Niannujiao Nostalgia on Chibi", and think that Su Shi wrote the ancient battlefield in Chibi. However, Su Shi wrote clearly in the poem "Looking Back on Chibi": "On the west side of the old base area, humanity is the Chibi in the Three Kingdoms of Zhou Lang." This obviously means that he only heard this legend from the local population to express his admiration for the heroes of the Three Kingdoms and his feeling that his ambition is hard to be rewarded. Can such romantic association be regarded as the conclusion of textual research?
Because of this, people have called Huangzhou Chibi "Dongpo Chibi" or "Wenchibi" for a long time. Call Pu Xian Chibi "Three Kingdoms Chibi" or "Wu Chibi". Both of them have their own characteristics and unique cultural values.