Random talk: Yuci Maoerling -3

"Maoerling" is located in the east of Yuci City, to the pig's head grave in the west of Yuanwo Village in the east, to Beishan Road under the ridge in the west, which is today's Zhongdu Road, and to the north of Wang Hu Village in the north. It is three kilometers wide from east to west and five kilometers long from north to south, which is about 15 square kilometers. It is an important barrier for Yuci. No matter the mountain entering from Taihang Mountain, as long as it passes through Yuci, it must cross this Maoerling, which is the east gate of Yuci and the east gate of Taiyuan Basin.

According to the local old man, before Yuci built the railway, people who went out from above Maoerling or walked back along Maoerling had to pass through this Maoerling. This will naturally bring business opportunities to people living under the ridge, and people who go out will have to make up for the dry food on the road; Go back hungry and drink a bowl of mutton soup after going down the mountain to replenish your tired body. This is the reason why Yang Hao Street is now. Therefore, Maoerling is naturally a place to sit on the ground and make money, and it has also interpreted too many legends and stories. Generations of Yuci people are proud of Maoerling, and it has become a place where old Yuci people linger.

This Maoerling is a treasure trove of geomantic omen in Yu Wei, and it is also a place for generations of Yuci people to worry about. Outside the ridge, they are heading for a foreign land. Inside the ridge, they are home. Generations of people have taken root here and naturally regarded Maoerling as their home.

According to the old man, with the development of society, although the railways in Shanxi and Hebei were opened to traffic, Shanxi's economy at that time was backward and people were also very frugal. They still prefer to walk to Xingtai rather than spend a few silver dollars on train tickets to Zheng Tai Railway. In fact, before there was a railway, people around Taiyuan also followed this road out of Shanxi. At that time, Shanxi merchants did not take this road less. Go through this "Maoerling" and walk east along that path. If you have good feet, you can reach Xingtai in seven days. The eight days with bad feet are here. There is also a saying in history that "seven are tight and eight are slow". That's how it came about.

Located on Maoerling in the east of Yuci City, the dense ancient tombs are distributed in the range of 2700 meters from north to south and 0/500 meters from east to west. This ancient tomb group faithfully records the social development history of Yuci area for two thousand years. Over the years, more than 600 historical tombs of the Spring and Autumn Period, Warring States Period, Qin, Han, Tang and Song Dynasties have been unearthed in Maoerling ancient tombs, and more than 5,000 cultural relics have been unearthed. Among them, there were the most tombs in the Warring States period. Most of the tombs of the Warring States in this area are earth pits and caves. The grave is very deep, ranging from four or five meters to eight or nine meters. Although these burial utensils and coffins have been decayed for a long time, there are many funerary objects unearthed, including ceramics, bronzes, jade articles and stone tools.

? Special correspondent.