The Historical Story of Kuancheng County

Kuancheng legend refers to three ancient legends about the origin of Changchun ancient city before it was destroyed by Mongolia. Ancient Changchun was known as "one crane, three tigers and seven unicorns", and Kuancheng was called he cheng, Tiger City and Lucheng because of three ancient legends here. But today, Changchun is really worthy of these three reputations, because Changchun is the capital of Jilin Province, and Jilin has the most beautiful wild nature reserve of red-crowned cranes to the sea. There is also the largest wild Siberian tiger nature reserve in China, and Changchun itself has a good reputation as the hometown of sika deer, so these three legends illustrate the abundant wild animals in this ancient capital and its surrounding areas from today's perspective. Legend One, A Crane and "he cheng" Legend has it that the ancient capital of Su Shen was originally Zion City (now Liaoyuan City, Jilin Province). When Song Qi, the second emperor of Su Shen, went hunting in the southern foothills of the western hills in the north, he found a place by the Yishui River, with a particularly beautiful scenery. A flock of birds are flying in the sky, their heads are red and lovely. King Su Shen likes it very much. He couldn't bear to kill the bird, so he asked the most knowledgeable minister what it was. The minister had never seen it before, so he told the emperor that the bird might be a migratory bird that flew to China from other countries for the summer. Seeing the red on the bird's head, it should be a happy bird. Later, the emperor sent someone to catch some live birds and send them back to the hunting ground in Wang Du for breeding, but I didn't know that even when I arrived in Wang Du, all the birds died. Later, the emperor always thought of the beautiful Xishan hunting ground and beautiful birds. In order to see this beautiful bird every day, the next year, he decided to build a new Wang Du in the south of the Western Hills. In 2000 BC, New Wang Du was built and named Xi Du. The design of this Chinese bird is engraved on the walls and doors of the capital. Since then, the history of Changchun ancient city has been opened. Later, in the communication with Shiwei people in East Lake, I found that this beautiful bird is a crane. The Central Plains and Shiwei people saw the design of the crane on the gate, and heard that the king moved the capital here because the emperor saw a crane. They used to call this king why. Legend Two, Three Tigers and "Tiger City" Legend has it that in 902 AD, under the leadership of Emperor Lu Ye Po, the Khitans attacked the ministries of Jurchen eastward. When they just captured Bailong House in Longzhou, a major town in northern Shao, it was the day of delivery. In order to capture Po in Huanglong City, Longzhou, a military town in the north, they forgot the Queen Mother. In order to prevent the Jurchen in the city from rebelling, a group of people were left to protect the Queen Mother and lead the army north. On the way to fight Huanglong in the north, Baoji was overjoyed to see the dragon in the sky. At the same time, the queen mother Shu and those who protected his birth met with resistance from the jurchen. They saw three tigers falling from the sky, protecting the Queen Mother Shu, and they also retreated from the rebellious Nuzhen. Thanks to the protection of these three tigers, the Queen Mother of Shu successfully gave birth to the Prince, and Baoji also successfully captured Huanglong. When he returned to Longzhou, he was more happy to see the prince and named him Yelushi. The city was also renamed Yeludeguang, and the legend of the three dragons and tigers appeared on the day when Yeludeguang was born. Later, the story of the birth of the three tigers protecting the prince was widely circulated, and the tiger city became another name of this ancient city. Later, Yeludeguang had three tiger sculptures. Legend has it that in the year of Kirin and Lucheng113, the emperor of Liao Dynasty and most of the Qidan people moved to the Central Plains, and most of the people in Yeludeguang City lived in Jurchen. The Khitans often bully Nuzhen here, take away the property of Nuzhen, and make the people in the city miserable and poor. Many people starved to death in the streets of Qidan. Legend has it that one day, a beautiful glow appeared over the whole city. A fairy came to the world in a carriage carrying seven Kirin. Seven Kirin brought the people in the city to far south of the city. In a short time, groups of animals covered with plum blossoms came from all over the mountains. The fairy told these people that this animal is called sika deer. You can raise these deer here, and their meat can be peeled off to make clothes. They'll let you. Later, Wan Yan Honglie unified the ministries of Jurchen, established Daikin Kingdom, and changed Yeludeguang City back to Longzhou, later called Longzhou Kuancheng. The story of God Seven Kirin saving the people in the city is widely circulated. Because of the sika deer brought by the gods to the people, many people began to raise them, and Kuancheng became a veritable Lucheng.