Chen Changlong | Recalling the edge water at the foot of Wang Chu
Bianshui flow, Surabaya flow, flows to Guazhou Gudutou. Wu Shan is a little sad. Think long and hate long, until it's time to pay back. Yueming people lean on the building.
-Bai Juyi? Sauvignon Blanc? Bianshuiliu
I recited this song "Water on the Border" when I was a student. The winding water, lingering feelings, the pain of lovesickness and the pain of parting are all vividly displayed. It is indeed a masterpiece with concise words and rich meanings.
However, I didn't expect that the place where I live now, right under my feet, is the vast Bianshui flowing eastward in that poem 700 years ago.
Dapeng Town is a place worthy of praise and pride. It is more appropriate to describe it as "the hometown of Peng Zu at the foot of King Chu". Chu Mountain in the south of the city is the tomb of Liu Jiao, the first generation king of Chu in the Western Han Dynasty. There is a village in the west of the town called "Dapeng Collection", which was named by Peng Zufeng, the ancestor of the ancient Dapeng Kingdom. Up to now, historical sites such as Pengzu Temple, Pengzu Temple, Pengzujing and Peng Zu Tomb have been preserved. Xuzhou was called Pengcheng in ancient times, which originated from this.
Looking south from the window, the hills piled up by the seal of the Chu tomb have grown into lush forests. I used to be curious: the tomb site is generally on Shan Zhinan Slope, and Chaoyang Slope is the so-called treasure house of geomantic omen. Why did this mausoleum choose Yin Shan? Later, I found the answer: the northern part of King Chushan is a treasure trove of ancient geomantic omen. It turns out that at the foot of the mountain in the north of the mountain, there is a big river that winds eastward and dies, called water intake.
The water was originally edge water. "Bianshui, before the Jin and Sui Dynasties, refers to the waterway trunk line that started in Xingyang, Henan, followed the Wolf Soup Canal in the east, got water, and flowed into Surabaya when it arrived in Xuzhou". ? Deshui is the name of the waters from Shangqiu to Xuzhou after Bianshui flows eastward through Kaifeng.
North of the King of Chu Mountain, at the foot of Da Peng, it turned out to be the ancient Bianshui Road.
Time flies and things change. I lift the veil of historical dust to recall the ups and downs of Bianshui through the ages.
During the Northern Song Dynasty, Kaifeng became a metropolis extending in all directions and gathering in all directions because of this vast Bianhe River. It connects the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, and continuously transports grain and materials from all over the country into Kaifeng.
There was a saying in the Yuan Dynasty, "One Soviet Union and Two Sidebeams". Bianhe River is intertwined with boats, with fertile land, rich products and numerous towns on both sides. Every autumn, the Bianhe River rises, and the blue waves are like a silver chain. "first frost's autumn sounds like a river, and the west wind is white." Autumn wind bursts, reeds are like snow, the waves are rough and the sound of water is clear. This is probably the reason for the "autumn sound of Bianshui".
Xuzhou, an ancient city, naturally has its specific natural geographical environment. "All the founding capital, not at the foot, will be above Guang Chuan. Don't go near the drought when you are high, but use enough water; Don't go near the water, but the ditch is provincial. " The location of a city is advantageous because its natural resources are either at the foot of the mountain or by the river. Building a city near the water is convenient for production and life, military defense and water transportation. Pengcheng, located at the intersection of Bianshui and Surabaya, is the only place that connects the Central Plains to the west and wuyue to the south. When people talk about Cheng Peng, they often describe it as "communicating while thinking" and "clearing the left and right sides". Bianshui flows from west to east and Surabaya flows from north to south. Border temples meet at the foot of Xuzhou, surrounded by mountains on all sides, with 72 mountains in size, naturally surrounded, forming a stable and peaceful living environment, which determines the best location of Xuzhou ancient city. Therefore, as early as the Xia and Shang Dynasties, Peng Cheng was the capital of Da Peng State.
From the perspective of geomantic omen, Pengcheng is a treasure trove of geomantic omen. According to Feng Shui, cities should be built at the intersection of rivers around hills and mountains, so that "life" can gather and overflow, and then "Long Mai" can be formed along the mountains. The location of the city is often called the "Dragon Cave", which is the most suitable place to live. The left and right sides of the city are like mountains with arms and wings, that is, left Qinglong and right White Tiger. Xuzhou has a strict landscape pattern: Xuzhou City is the "Dragon Cave", Yunlong Mountain is the backing, Jiuli Mountain is the "Long Mai", and it confronts Tongxiao Mountain (now Chuwang Mountain) in the east and west, respectively, as "Qinglong" and "White Tiger", with Bi as the assistant. The mountains and rivers are continuous and surrounded by mountains and rivers, which contains a unique concept of Feng Shui.
? Xuzhou, known as "the land of the eternal dragonfly and the hometown of a generation of emperors", is the hometown and the place of prosperity of Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty. The rulers of the Han Dynasty attached great importance to Wolong. In the second year after Liu Bang proclaimed himself emperor (20 1 year), he named his younger brother Jiao, King Chu of Wei Liu, and King Chu Yuan of posthumous title, and passed them on to the 12th generation.
People in Han Dynasty regarded death as life. "The emperor of the Han Dynasty became a mausoleum one year after he ascended the throne, and one-third of the tributes in the world were used to fill the mausoleum." ? There was a system in the Han dynasty: the king was sealed and buried. The emperor of the Han Dynasty also built a mausoleum the following year. In the hills around Xuzhou, the birthplace of Chinese culture, there are eighteen tombs of kings, which are collectively called "Xuzhou Eighteen Han Tombs".
Xuzhou, the capital of the King of Chu in Han Dynasty, was favored by the royal family for its fantastic scenery. In order to find the treasures of mountains and rivers, the kings of Chu all chose the hills along the Sishui River as their tombs. Wang Jiaoliu, the first generation of Chu Yuan, chose the tomb site in Dapeng Town today, with Wang Chushan in the south and Bianshui in the north. He chiseled stones for earth, and the mountain was the tomb.
? "Records of Counties and Counties in the Later Han Dynasty" says: "There is a mountain twenty miles west of Pengcheng, and there is the tomb of King Chu Yuan in the mountain."
Li Daoyuan's Notes on Water Classics records: "Parallel imports (Xuzhou to Shangqiu, near the water) are in the east longitude to the north of Xiaoshan (now Chuwang Mountain), and there is a tomb of Chu King in the shade of the mountain, which is round on the top and round on the bottom, surrounded by stones, more than ten feet high and hundreds of steps. After more than a dozen graves, the stone also knows. "
Liu's mausoleum is located on Tongxiao Mountain in the west of the city. There are three reasons for textual research: First, the geomantic omen is excellent, surrounded by green mountains and green waters, surrounded by green mountains, with convenient communication between the two places, prosperous industries, favorable weather, favorable geographical conditions and harmonious people; Second, the direction is exactly the same. The Chu Tomb is not far from the Chu Palace, and the east and west directions are in a straight line. Third, it is convenient to remember. Pengcheng is the only way to the capital Chang 'an. Later generations will naturally think of that memory when they pass by. It can be seen that the location of the tomb is quite elegant.
Bianshui and waterway once flourished, and it was a "golden waterway" in Tang and Song Dynasties. After Tang Gaozong changed Luoyang to the East Capital, Bianshui grain transportation increased greatly. By the first year of Tianbao, the grain transported to Kyoto was as high as 4 million stones, which was extremely prosperous.
Kaifeng was the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, and Bianshui became the most important waterway artery. Bianshui not only brought unprecedented prosperity to Bianjing at that time, but also ensured the food and clothing of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Beijing, and also made some counties and cities along Bianshui develop rapidly. Sung Hoon 1072, a Japanese monk, walked along the Bianshui River and saw a sea of people on the streets of Sizhou, "buying and selling expensive food is like Hangzhou". It can be seen that Bianshui has made great contributions to economic prosperity.
Castle peak can't cover up, after all, it flows east. How many past events will be lost in the dust of history.
The Northern Song Dynasty perished, and the war continued. In addition, the Yellow River seized the branch and entered the Huai River, and the sediment ran down, resulting in siltation of the river. In the second year of Jianyan in the Southern Song Dynasty (1 128), Emperor Gaozong ordered the destruction of the side canal waterway in order to prevent Jinbing from advancing by boat. Since then, the branch canal has been gradually cut off, the water transport has been blocked, and the river channel has been silted up and abandoned.
Bianshui has been broken, and prosperity is no longer there. An eternal river was finally lost in the red dust of history. Leave nothing behind, and future generations will sigh.
Today, the ruins of the old site of the Bianhe River have become a bustling city, streets and buildings, replacing the boat in the past. The expressway from Kaifeng to Xuzhou via Shangqiu (3 10 National Road) is several feet higher than the fields on both sides, and it is faintly visible that its subgrade is a river bank that once faced the water.
At the foot of the king of Chu, there is a village called Zhakou, and now there is no "door". This ancient place name is the best commemoration of the opening of the Bianshui River a hundred years ago. To the east of the mountain, there is a clear canal called Zhahe, which flows northward into the Old Yellow River, that is, the "Jing Gou Ruins" in Shui Jing Zhu and Water Intake. On the bank of Zhahe River, there is a fengcun in the north of Zhuang, and there is a place called Gaotou (originally referred to as flood control dam). The high riverbank has long been razed to the ground, and now it is a flat farmland, but the place name called Gaotou has been passed down from generation to generation.
Now, after two thousand years of soil erosion, the huge sealed mound of Chu tomb has lost its momentum. The boulders laid around the grave were also pulled by the villagers to pave the way and bridge, and the grave was covered with weeds and Vitex negundo.
The new green branches are another spring. I climbed up the Chushan Mountain and leaned against the railing overlooking the ancient Bianshui Road. Reminiscent of the turbulent sea and the beautiful face of the blue waves; Surprised by the prosperity of 3 thousand, in a blink of an eye, things are different; Alas, the green water is ruthless, leaving the lonely Chushan with endless thoughts. ...
"Bianshui, Surabaya, flows to Guazhou ancient ferry. Wushan little sorrow ... ". The heartless Bianhe River has been cut off, and only one ship is carrying away hate and heading for Xuzhou. "Thinking long and hating long", where can we find the prosperity and eternal flood of Bianshui?
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