Why does Taizhou, the "City of Mountains and Seas", prefer mountains and seas?

"The water is like the waves in the eyes, and the mountains are like the peaks of the eyebrows. If you want to ask pedestrians where to go? The place where the eyebrows are full." Wang Guan, a man of the Song Dynasty, described the south of the Yangtze River this way.

On New Year's Day in 2000, the first ray of dawn in China's new millennium fell "between the eyebrows" of Taizhou's Kuocang Mountain Peak and Haibin Shitang Town within a few dozen seconds.

Apart from this kind of "God's favor", Taizhou is very inconspicuous in eastern Zhejiang and even the whole country. Many people even pronounce tāizhou as táizhou.

Named after Tiantai Mountain, the birth of Taizhou can be said to have its own halo.

Facing the sea, as Chinese people continue to integrate into the world, it is synonymous with opportunities.

However, what do mountains and seas mean to Taizhou?

They are the skin and bones of Taizhou. They have blocked Taizhou people from exploring the world, and they have also given Taizhou its strength.

There are many cities facing mountains and seas. What is special about Taizhou's "grievances and hatreds" with mountains and seas?

1. A public case: What did Li Bai dream about?

Taizhou is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the vast and continuous hills of Zhejiang and Fujian form a siege to Taizhou.

It has Yandang as the screen in the south, Kuocang as the peak in the west, and embraces the sea in the east, with 12 island groups and 691 islands listed in its embrace.

The offshore plain has vast tidal flats and water networks; in the northwest, there are continuous mountains and thousands of beautiful rocks.

The most famous among them is naturally Tiantai Mountain, a place of pilgrimage in the hearts of poets of the Tang Dynasty.

Tiantai Mountain has three meanings: broad, medium and narrow.

According to Sun Chuo from Jin Dynasty, in a broad sense, the Tiantai lineage "has Fangzhang and Penglai when it touches the sea" (referring to the Zhoushan Islands), and "Siming and Tiantai when it lands" (the main peak of Siming Mountain is in today's Shengzhou, Shaoxing). It is majestic and majestic.

The ancients even believed that it was the boundary between the two stars Dou and Niu, and also corresponded to the Taisu (that is, the Santai star) in the sky, so it was called "Tiantai".

Tiantai Mountain in Zhongyi refers to Taizhou. Since the Tang Dynasty, Tiantai Mountain has become so famous that scholars simply named a state after this mountain. It was changed several times during the period and is still used today.

In the narrow sense, Tiantai Mountain is the general name for all the mountains in Tiantai County. It is a branch of Xianxia Ridge, stretching from the southwest to the northeast and separating the Cao'e River and the Yongjiang River.

The mountain is mainly composed of granite, with many hanging rocks, many cliffs and many waterfalls, making it a natural and unique place.

Wei Yuan of the Qing Dynasty once praised, "The waterfall at Yandang is full of smoke, the waterfall at Zhongtiao is thunderous, but the waterfall at Tiantai is unique because of its strange stone beams." Looking at Shiliang Waterfall from a distance, it looks like a heavenly being lying on his side on the top of a mountain, with his arms stretched out to support himself.

Open a big mouth and release a waterfall like the Milky Way falling from the sky, with majestic momentum.

Li Bai once visited Shanzhong three times and visited the rooftop twice, leaving behind the most poetic poem "Dream Wandering in Tianmu and Saying Farewell", which talks about the Tianmu Mountain next door (in today's Xinchang, Shaoxing), and mentions "Forty thousand people on the rooftop"

"Eight thousand feet" seems to be a foreshadowing of "the desire to fall to the southeast", highlighting the majesty of Tianmu Mountain.

However, in the Tang Dynasty, Tianmu Mountain and Tiantai Mountain both belonged to the jurisdiction of ancient Taizhou. Today, they belong to Shaoxing and Taizhou respectively. A public case was triggered between the two cities because of "a dream of a poet" - what did Li Bai dream about?

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Dating back to the Tianbao period, Yuezhou (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang) at that time governed six counties: Kuaiji, Shanyin, Zhuji, Yuyao, Yan, and Yongxing (Xiaoshan). Taizhou included Linhai, Shifeng, Ninghai, Huangyan, and Xiangshan.

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It was not until the Five Dynasties after the Tang Dynasty that Taiwan was divided and Xinchang County was established, which was under the jurisdiction of Yuezhou.

The so-called "cutting Tai and dividing Shan" means that thirteen townships were separated from Shan County, and Tianmu, Wozhou and other places in the northwest of Tiantai were cut off to establish Xinchang County, which is today's Xinchang, Shaoxing.

In other words, when Shixian visited Tianmu, it did still belong to ancient Taizhou. Taibai probably traveled all over Tiantai and was nostalgic for it.

And the scenery I dreamed about after returning home should also be the rooftop wonderland that is reflected in the mountains and intertwined in my memory.

Shaoxing people naturally sneered at this, but Taizhou people were unconvinced.

But it is undeniable that the Tianma, which "overwhelms the five mountains and covers the Chicheng", has been taken away. Even though the rooftop is still the brightest pearl on the road of Tang poetry in eastern Zhejiang, even though the cloud brocade and azaleas all over the mountain look like clouds, Sui Mei, Sui Mei,

Tang Zhang and Song Bai witnessed the ups and downs of EMI, and ultimately lost their romance as poets and immortals.

2. Linhai, no sea in sight. Head east from Linhai City, Taizhou, along the Lingjiang River, enter the Jiaojiang River, and arrive at the Jiaojiang River estuary, where the outline of the coast becomes clear. The drive takes about an hour.

From this point of view, looking at the sea from Linhai is indeed a beautiful misunderstanding.

The person who caused this misunderstanding was Sun Quan, the overlord of Soochow during the Three Kingdoms period.

Taizhou has always been associated with mountains and seas.

In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, King Yao of the East China Sea established the Dongou Kingdom (the capital is in today's Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province) and set up Huipu County, covering today's Taizhou, Wenzhou, and Lishui.

Huipu County was incorporated into ancient Yinzhou during the Guangwu Zhongxing Period, and was reestablished as Zhang'an County in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

When Soochow came to the east, Zhang An established himself near the sea. According to "Taiping Huanyu Ji", on the one hand, it was because there was a "Linhai Mountain" in the north of the county, and the name of the mountain was taken from the "Linhai River" (the ancient name of Lingjiang) that went around the mountain.

), this river is a tributary of the Jiaojiang River and leads directly to the East China Sea; on the other hand, it is also because of Sun Quan's lifelong feelings about rivers and seas. He grew up in the east of the Yangtze River where the water network is crisscrossed. The foundation laid by his military life was also along the river, with Chibi and Yiling in front of him.

After the war, Zhuge Zhi and others were sent to "float thousands of soldiers on the sea to seek Yizhou" (today's Taiwan), and even his palace was known as the "Linhai Palace".