Caixi Village: Legendary Memory on the Ancient Post Road

Our reporter Wu/map? Huang Xiucong added

At the beginning of Sui and Tang Dynasties, the imperial court built post roads and post stations all over the country. "A Brief Comment on the Laws of the Tang Dynasty, Volume 25" said: "Postal services were originally prepared for military speed." It can be seen that the early postal system served the army. In the future, the postal system will be gradually improved, from military to civilian, which is one of the important conditions for the rise of social production and the progress of social civilization since the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

In the fifth year of Tang Wude (622), the court set up Fengzhou in ancient county of Nan 'an, and the state ruled Fengzhou in Nan 'an today, leading Nan 'an, Putian and Longxi counties; In the first year of IX (700 years), Wu Rongfu was established in Licheng, Quanzhou, which governs Nan 'an, Putian, Longxi and Qingyuan counties. In the second year of Jing Yun (765,438+065,438+0), Wurong Prefecture was renamed Quanzhou, which was subordinate to the Dudufu of Zhou Min, and the establishment of Quanzhou began. The Book of the New Tang Dynasty Baiguan Zhi says: "Whoever has a post station within 30 miles, the postman is 1,639, which is the highest in the world." Although the historical materials of Quanzhou Post Road in Tang Dynasty have been lost today, it is not difficult to see that there must be post roads and post stations between Quanzhou, Nan 'an, Putian and Longxi (roughly in Zhangzhou today) at that time.

In the Song Dynasty, the post road became the first choice for people's transportation. The Record of Scenic Spots said: "(Quanzhou) Song took Jianzhou from the northwest, left the Yicheng Gate in the west of the city, passed through Nan 'an Taikou Post, Yongchun Taoyuan Post, Dehua Longqun Post and Shangmao Post, arrived in Youxi County, and passed through Xiqin to Yanping, avoiding the danger of Fuzhou Dayi River, and was later abandoned. Song Qingyuan Post Station, in front of Luoyang Bridge, went out of the city to Chaotianmen in the north of the city, left from Baihongshan to Xianyou to Fuzhou, and then abandoned ... "Before Luoyang Bridge was built, it was two important roads leading to the provincial capital in Quanzhou.

Little known is that during the Song and Yuan Dynasties, there was an ancient post road between the mountains from Nan 'an to Anxi. One end of this road connects the villages on both sides of the Xixi River in Gande, Anxi, and the other end connects the ancient ferry near Jiuri Mountain. The whole post road runs along the river and is called "River Silk Road". The ancient official road (Hayes Ancient Post Road) in Caixi Village, Luncang Town, Nan 'an belongs to Neiliao Township, No.27, Nan 'an County, right in the middle of this ancient road, and there are still traces of ancient Qingshi Road in the local area.

Huang Xiucong, a native of Caixi who is familiar with the history of Caixi Ancient Road, told the reporter: "During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Quanzhou rose to the top of the world, and Hayes developed economically. Xixi has thus become an important freight river. It is said that ancient Dehua porcelain was transported to Anxi and almost swept the Xixi cargo ship. Anxi tea merchants can't hire a boat, so they have to take the way of picking horses, go to Cao Tian, Cai Xi via Yunlin, transfer to Neiliao, go through Anshanguan and Li Antang, or rent horses at Merrill Lynch (formerly known as Marin), then go to Fengzhou, sell the goods to dentists, and then return. People come and go, day after day, forming a prosperous ancient post road in Neiliao. "

Surprisingly, Mount An, the pass of the ancient post road in Caixi, is really a treasure trove of geomantic omen. It is called "Tian Zi Cave" and is full of legends. Wang Zhaoruo, who was guarding Minchong County in the Southern Song Dynasty, and Huang Juncheng, the sixth ancestor of the Huang family in Puxi, who escaped from the Yashan naval battle, all set out from here. Their humanities are thriving and they have become civilians and military scholars. Huang Shimei, the sixth ancestor of Anshan, even won the honor of "Three Tin" by the emperor, and the legend of "Tian Zi Cave" was passed down from generation to generation.

According to legend, there was a bird "Polo Bird" in ancient times, and there were two songkhla kilns (now preserved) on Mount An, which resembled the eyes of Polo Bird. The villagers call this mountain "Boluo Cave", that is, Tian Zi Cave.

Ancient emperors watched the celestial phenomena at night and counted eighteen Tian Zi caves in southern Fujian, and Anshan was one of them. He sent a former official on horseback to investigate.

The riding officer came to Anshan along the ancient post road, observed its topography and geomantic omen, and determined that it was the cave of the Emperor, so it was difficult to break through.

I saw a peasant woman transplanting rice at that time. The court official asked, "How many Chinese fir trees do you plant all day long?"

The peasant woman couldn't answer, thinking it was not clear. When she got home, she kept talking about it, wondering how anyone could ask me such a question. The baby still in the black basket suddenly spoke when he heard his mother chanting. He told his mother, "The rider will pass by later. When you see him, you will ask,' riding a horse, how many tens of thousands of manes are there from the horse's head to the ponytail?' "

The peasant woman did the same. Hearing this, the rider was surprised and asked, "You couldn't answer before, so why are you asking me this question now?" Can anyone help you? " Without much thought, the honest peasant woman answered truthfully, "My son in the basket taught me."

Unexpectedly, this answer caused a catastrophe. Riding a horse, the official thought that a baby would have such wisdom, and this must be the "future son of heaven" he was looking for, so he went back and reported it to the court. The imperial court immediately sent 108,000 soldiers and horses to capture the "son of heaven" and wanted to break the hole.

When the imperial soldiers and horses arrived, the "Emperor of Heaven" quickly asked his mother to stir the rice in the rice jar clockwise and counterclockwise for three times, so that the rice in the rice jar would become a tribe against the imperial soldiers and horses. I didn't expect the peasant woman to come out of order when she was nervous. Most of the soldiers and horses stirred up are lame, and their combat effectiveness is greatly reduced.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the "son of heaven" quickly asked his mother to bring a cup of ancient tea and sprinkle it around the ditch to turn the water into a moat. Unexpectedly, in the panic, the peasant woman fell down again, and the ancient tea spilled all over the floor and became a beach (now).

When the moat was not built, the imperial soldiers and horses went straight into a big mistake, and the "son of heaven" had to hide in the pumpkin. The imperial soldiers and horses can't find the "emperor" anywhere, and they are about to return to the DPRK. A general suddenly saw how the pumpkins on the ground grew so luxuriantly. Remembering that what he saw before was all yellow, he cut off the pumpkin vine with one sword. At that time, the emperor's blood spilled three miles on a strange stone (later called "the emperor's stone", which has survived to this day).

In this way, the son of heaven in Anshan did not succeed, but it became a beautiful talk passed down from mouth to mouth by Cai Xi people after dinner.

Recently, the Huang family in Anshan discovered a thread-bound handwritten genealogy preserved for 257 years, which opened an amazing history. This ancient genealogy was restored at noon in the twenty-seventh year of Qianlong (1762), and was arranged by Huang Shimei, the sixth ancestor of Anshan Huang family (given the title of "Three Tin of Emperor's Grace" by Qianlong) on his 60th birthday. Its opening preface transcribes the Book of Tears written by Huang, the second ancestor of the Huang family in Puxi, and records the historical fact that Huang protected Wang Cunzhao in Puxi.

It turns out that Huang Juncheng, the ancestor of Anshan Huang, is the sixth ancestor of Puxihuang.

Huang Tiancong, the ancestor of the Huang family in Puxi, was the commander-in-chief of the Southern Song Dynasty and the first commander-in-chief of the Imperial Army. The first grandparent, Zhao, was named Princess (First Lady). The second ancestor Huang (Song Lizong Zhao Yunci, nephew, Jinshi) married the sister Princess Zhao Guangyi (Mrs. Yipin) at the end of the Song Dynasty, who was a business classmate in Wen Tianxiang. They were very close and sometimes sang together. Premier Wen called Huang Tiancong "Ruibo" and prefaced his works and genealogy.

In the stormy Song Dynasty, Huang, Wen Tianxiang, Lu Xiufu, Zhang Shijie, Xu Dafu, etc. When the second aunt heard the news, she joined forces to fight against the invasion of Yuan soldiers. Because of weakness, the Song Dynasty had run out of luck, and despite the support of people with lofty ideals, it was still unable to return to heaven. Because of repeated wars and defeats, Zhao Min, the master of the Song Dynasty, was buried in the sea, and Wen Tianxiang and Zhang Shijie were also arrested or killed one after another, but Huang's determination to resist the enemy never wavered. In the Battle of Cliff Mountain, Lu Xiufu carried his young master Zhao Min to the sea and died, while Zhang Shijie was martyred. The Zhao dynasty has perished.

Huang's heart still lingers. He won sixteen warships to protect Zhao's orphan, Zhao Re, the king of Minchong County, and wanted to return to Fuzhou for assembly. Unexpectedly, the ship 12 was sunk by Hurricane Lu Yu, while the other four ships and Huang were present. When passing through Zhangzhou, the ship lost control and could not move forward, so it had to abandon the ship and go ashore. Zhao Ruohe also changed his surname to Huang Mingzhuo. When Huang Tian was the third son, he settled in Longhai with Huang, hid in Puxi, surrounded by mountains, and successively built Puxi Castle (Huang) and Fuan Fort. The Huang family in Puxi had a Yuan Dynasty, which undertook the mission of "opposing the Yuan Dynasty and restoring the Song Dynasty", but it failed to send troops several times.

Huang Juncheng, who came to Lushan in the sixth generation, and the first grandparents of Huang in Lushan were also Zhao Ruo, the king of Minchong County, and his descendants. In this way, the descendants of the royal family in the Southern Song Dynasty survived from generation to generation.

The legend of Anshan point is a legend, but the discovery of Anshan Huanggu genealogy makes the legend of Anshan point have certain historical rationality. In this way, the ancient post road in Cai Xi has a mysterious and heavy historical color.

Cai Xi Liaoyang Palace (also known as Liaoyang Palace Lingyingtang) is located at the top of Liaoyang Mountain in Caixi Village. Liaoyang Mountain has a magnificent terrain, with mountains and valleys hidden in the clouds, and peaks and valleys fly in summer. The whole mountain is like a huge lion holding its head high and whistling in the sky. Mountain shadows sway, and cold springs wash stones. Together with Heyangliao and Shi Qi Village, it is called "Three Lions" mountain range. According to legend, Mr. Feng Shui once asserted: "The three lions walk together, and the dragon boat closes its mouth. Feng Shui does that (Minnan dialect, meaning' correct'), and the gauze cap is ninety-nine. "

Passing through the gate of the solemn "Liaoyang Holy Land", climbing up the steps along the road pavilion, and gradually reaching the top of the mountain, what you see is a palace with high eaves and crooked teeth, which is magnificent and simple, making people feel a majestic power. There are pavilions around the palace, and there is a worship pavilion in front of the gate. Two pairs of diabase carved dragon columns stand in the worship pavilion, and the dragon body is winding and seems to want to fly. The whole pavilion is covered with eaves and walls, carved with beams and painted with buildings. There are also two bibcock gourds that have crossed the dragon sword and piled in the middle of the roof, which is amazing. There is a gold-plated plaque "Lingyingtang Ancient Land" embedded in the beam, which is antique.

As soon as I entered the hall, I looked up and saw three princes sitting side by side in the resplendent shrine, all of whom were black-faced and not angry. It is reported that the three princes in Liaoyang Palace are Sun, She and Chi. There is a pillar in front of the shrine: "To see the good and evil between the dead and the dead, we must distinguish the right and wrong between the dead and the dead." In the main hall, there is also a "graceful and elegant, mysterious and solemn after transformation; Righteousness knot Jin Lan, command patrol inaugural Ling Wei prominent ","Sansheng Ling Wei jade realm; The column couplet, like "protecting the gold for thousands of years", silently tells the legendary deeds of the three princes. The back hall is dedicated to the statues of his wife and mother, and the phoenix crown is gorgeous, and the whole palace is filled with rich Minnan flavor. On the left and right walls of the main hall, there are inscriptions on the reconstruction of Liaoyang Palace. According to records, Liaoyang Palace was built in the late Ming Dynasty and has a history of more than 400 years.

According to Chen, secretary-general of Liaoyang Palace Management Committee, Prince Chi was born in Tianfu (Nanjing) during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. According to legend, Chiyou was born as a military commander, loyal to Geng Jie, and upright as an official. Later, he was awarded the position of Zhangzhou Daotai. On his way to his post, he met two Xuanyi people on Xiaoying Ridge, seven kilometers east of Tong 'an Maxiang (now Xiang 'an Maxiang). After talking all the way, Chi Ran realized that the two men were plague messengers, who were ordered by Emperor Haotian to spread plague medicine to Zhangzhou and cut off the population. Chi Ran was surprised and immediately decided to replace the suffering of thousands of people in Zhang Jun with his own body. After he got the plague messenger drunk with wine, he took his plague medicine orally, died of poisoning in an instant, his face was black, and he was worshipped as a god in Weiyuantang in Maxiang. When the jade emperor heard about this, he felt his kindness and named him "the king of the patrol". Today, there are many touching stories circulating among the people, such as "Fighting with saints", "expelling the plague in the next room", "eliminating the plague in the next street" and "treating paralysis with magic spells".

According to another introduction, Sun, surnamed Sun Guotai, was born in Shandong (Jinan) during the Sui and Tang Dynasties. He was a scholar and later entered this stage. Sun Guotai is knowledgeable, upright, caring and caring for the people, becoming a god, making him a prince, ranking seventh in the "12 major tours" circulated among the people. She, whose real name is She Mingjun, was born in Taiyuan County, Shanxi Province in the Ming Dynasty. He is a warrior of Wu, loyal and patriotic, proficient in the art of war, and brave and good at fighting. After feathering into a god, he was named a prince, ranking eighth in the "Twelve Great Tours".

Sun, She and Chi belong to three historical figures in different regions. Why did they meet in Cai Xi, Luncang and Nan 'an and be enshrined in Liaoyang Palace? Hong Shaolin, a writer in Nan 'an, said that this was caused by the charm of the ancient post road. Liaoyang Palace in Cai Xi is next to the ancient post road. It used to be a gathering place for businessmen from all over the world, and their beliefs were exchanged here, which was finally recognized by the people and even passed down from generation to generation, becoming a traditional culture. In Cai Xi, it is said that after the three princes became gods, they traveled here, occasionally got together and remained faithful to each other, so they married Jin Lan and had a beautiful talk. Wu is a local cultural celebrity. He once wrote a poem praising: "After thousands of years of vicissitudes, the loyal soul will last forever, and all the people in Puji will be honored. Ling Ying, the third king, inherited the Taoist tradition, and De Chuifu descended to Gankun. "

Chen Peng, a researcher at Quanzhou Cultural Relics Protection Research Center, said that there are many magical folklore stories in Liaoyang Palace, which are the cultural connotations accumulated in Liaoyang Palace for hundreds of years, rare intangible cultural heritage, sovereign culture with unique local characteristics and spiritual and cultural treasures worth inheriting and carrying forward.

The signature of this poem in Liaoyang Palace also attracted the attention of Wang Shimin, the full-time deputy director of the former historical committee of Quanzhou CPPCC. In many temples in southern Fujian, there are poems signed, which is one of the ancient folk divination methods in China, and most of them make predictions in the form of poems. According to Wang Shimin, the 36 poems signed by Cai Xiliao, Yang Gongling and Tang Ying are all seven verses of modern poetry, which are written in strict accordance with the rules of metrical poetry in terms of word number, level tone and rhyme. At the same time, the wording and sentences are also quite distinctive. For example, one of them said, "Wang Dao shines selflessly in all directions, and patrols the sky to seize the divine light." Lingyin depends on the soil, defending the country and defending the folk music Yongkang. "Plain and standard, rhyming neatly, words easy to understand, easy to read. The concept of "protecting the country and the people" highlighted by it is also the core element of Wang Ye's belief and the display of local people's simple values.

The "Three Kings Culture" circulating in Liaoyang Palace advocates being kind to others, promoting good and restraining evil, and purifying the soul. Now this belief culture has spread at home and abroad. According to reports, Liaoyang Palace is now a household name, and its furnaces are all over Hongkong, Macau, Taiwan Province Province, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and other places. Among them, the "Lingying Society" in Raja Uda, Beihai City, Malaysia is quite famous. The palace was built in 1846, also known as the "Prince's Palace". Dedicated to the four princes Sun, She, Chi and Lei. Full of incense, full of the colors of China temples. Now it has become an important exhibition point of folk culture in Beihai, Malaysia. This shows that the "Three Kings Culture" of Liaoyang Palace has spread overseas, with new development and dissemination.

Shifoyan, located at the foot of Miao Feng Mountain in Caixi Village, is one of the "Twenty-seven Capitals of Britain" and "Seven Rocks and Eight Courtyards" in ancient times. With rugged rocks, Miao Feng is known as the "all-southern Buddha country" because of the stone carving of Tomi Buddha statue in Song Dynasty. Many literati left excellent poems on the stone Buddha.

Miaofeng has strange peaks and beautiful scenery. There are ancient banyan trees at the foot of the mountain, flowing springs in the mountain stream, blue flowers in the valley, singing rock birds and even cutting rocks. The cliff is towering, or like a bird or a beast; Or a stone gate or a cave; Or take Shiping as an example, it can seat forty or fifty people, or pile up half the stones and soar into the sky; Full of beautiful scenery, this is a spectacle.

According to Nan 'an County Records, "During the Xichun period of Song Dynasty (A.D.1174-1189), the stone carved by Qingxi people was Tommy Buddha, which was several feet high, also known as stone Buddha rock." After the stone Buddha is carved, there are rock houses, incense is flourishing and tourists are like clouds.

"Nan 'an County Records" also said: "Ming will be abolished. Jinlidong (Editor's Note: Jinlidong, Zimaoshan) is a natural monk. He dreamed of a feather at night and passed a wonderful peak in the morning. According to his appearance, he is like a dream. With Bai Wei Shuai Wang, Wu Yuan was revived and later destroyed. Intimacy is another novelty. "Huang Heqing, a scholar in Nan 'an in Ming Dynasty, boarded a poem. Its poem cloud:

The Buddha opened a strange image, but it was incredibly overwhelming.

There was a stone in front of me. After the illusion, I remembered three lives.

Yu Dinglong still roars, and the bronze camel marks are spiritual.

Gan is immortal, but rotten bones are more vivid.

From Hong's Journey to the Stone Buddha Rock in Qing Dynasty, we can see that in addition to "worshiping the stone Buddha in the Vatican Palace", there are inscriptions of "Great Mercy and Great Compassion" written by Guanyin Pavilion, abbot and Hong Chengchou, a native of Zinongshan. There are also two seven-meter poems:

one

Try for love, Bifeng Road turns cloudy.

The Zen gate does not lock the old smoke, and the cold dog is deeply silent.

Tomorrow, dragons and snakes worry about guests, leaving the building to make trouble.

Only the huge stones are towering, and the clouds remain unchanged from ancient times to modern times.

two

Who said Miao Feng was particularly eccentric and nodded thoughtfully?

He is obsessed with sculpture, but it is natural.

Under the moon, the pine forest is divided into treasure torches, and there is a furnace of smoke on the cloud.

When did you get the warning? I scratched my head and asked the next day.

Led by Huang Qifeng and Huang Xiucong of Caixi Village, we set out from Liaoyang Palace and searched for traces of the ancient post road along Neiliao Reservoir. The mountain road is winding, but we find that the ancient post road has been greatly damaged since modern times, and there are few original bluestone sections left. Near Neiliao Reservoir, the noise is hidden, and the land in autumn and winter is quiet and restrained. Finally, an ancient post road opened in front of us. "The ancient official road (that is, the ancient post road) leads to Neiliao Reservoir from a small bluestone road in Caixi, and a large section has been submerged by Neiliao Reservoir. This ancient road also extends to the port of Baiying and the end of a mountain, and a part of Qingshiban Road should still be preserved. When I was a child, there were many grinding marks on the bluestone board. It is said that this ancient official road has a history of thousands of years. " Huang Xiucong said this.

"According to legend, historical celebrities such as Hong Chengchou, the ancient British capital, have to go this way when they return home. There is also a water pool called Wrestling Matan in the territory, and the area around Caixi Baiheng is rich in porcelain clay mines. The ancient kiln site in Nankeng, which caused a sensation in archaeology, is right next to the ancient post office. It is the largest and most well-preserved ancient kiln site group in Fujian Province so far. It is conceivable that Anxi's tea and Nankeng's porcelain will be sold at home and abroad from now on. This is a veritable Stegu Post Road. " Huang Xiucong said.

Cen Can, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, once met an old friend in the post road and wrote a poem, "Hou Sangyi is happy to meet Yan Henan in the middle of the city." The poem said: "Centrifuge and Mo Wen, Chuncao should know it." Indeed, the ancient post road may gradually drift away, but those stories and prosperity will still be remembered by people through Liaoyang Palace, Shifoyan and other post road relics, as well as folk word of mouth, and will continue to spread.