What are the stories related to Hangu Pass? The more the better.

1, the purple east

According to the Records of the Grand Historian, at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, Li Dan, the pillar Shi Laozi, saw the decline of the Zhou Dynasty, and went to the west to live in seclusion. 491 BC, Hangu Pass, Yin Xi, early in the morning from home, standing on an earthen platform (now Zhan Zi building) saw the east purple gas, haze, view of the celestial wonders, ecstatic, shouting "purple gas to the east, there will be a foreigner through".

Busy ordering the customs officials to clean up the streets, waiting for the foreigner, and, indeed, see an old man silver hair, elegant, and upside down riding a green ox to the door to come. Yin Xi was busy to go forward to meet, inform the name, sincerely invited the talented son in this small residence. The scholar gladly obeyed, and here he wrote the five-thousand-word Tao Te Ching, which will be famous for thousands of years. Since then, all the lintels and spring couplets around Hangu Pass have been written with the phrase "Purple energy comes from the east", which has been passed down to this day to indicate good luck.

2. Elixir of immortality to save the people

When Laozi was writing Tao Te Ching in Hangu Pass, his mount, the Green Ox, was kept by a local farmer. At that time, a plague was spreading in the area of Hangu Pass, killing many people, and there was nothing the doctor could do about it. One day, Lao Zi's green ox did not eat or drink, so the keeper was anxious. He looked for Langzhong, Langzhong said that people are not good to see, and even worse to see the cattle, the feeder stalking hard to let the cattle look, Langzhong let people help up, the cattle can not stand, just click more than a sudden click out of a meatball (is now said to be cattle yellow), cattle only as a relief, open mouth to eat grass.

The groom was delighted, busy meat ball home, soaked into a small pill, sent to the sick Guanmin. The patients ate it and immediately felt lighter. People said it was an elixir of immortality in order to thank Laozi for saving their lives with the green ox. To this day, Lingbao still has the custom of the 23rd day of the first month for the Ox Festival. On this day, the door of every house is pasted with the pattern of the green ox cut out of yellow paper, and written on it, "The 23rd day of the first month of the new year, the old man in the sky makes the elixir, and the golden ox is pasted on the door of every house to keep peace all the year round".

3, the cock and the dog

Warring States period, Qi's Meng Changjun hospitable hi Yin reputation, King Zhaoxiang of Qin heard, want to let Meng Changjun to Qin **** figure the big plan. He sent his brother, Jingyang Jun, to Qi as a hostage and invited Meng Chang Jun to join Qin as a minister. The king of Qin later reversed his decision and wanted to kill him, but for fear of being reviled, he temporarily imprisoned Meng Chang Jun.

After returning to his homeland, Jingyang Jun heard the news and went to ask Xingji to save Meng Changjun. She asked for the white fur coat that Meng Chang Jun had already given to the king of Qin. After a doorkeeper entered the storehouse through the dog hole, the night watchman heard the noise, the doorkeeper learned the dog barking, tricked the night watchman, stole the fox and white fur coat, and gave it to Xing Ji. The only way to get the paperwork is to give it to her. Meng Chang Jun and his party fled to Hangu Pass in a panic in the middle of the night, when the rules of the pass were that "the cock crows to open and close the pass at sundown".

The situation was critical as the pursuers were approaching from behind. At this time, a gatekeeper stood in the earth mound to learn the cock crowing, and the surrounding roosters all crowed together, so the gatekeeper was busy opening and closing the gate, and Meng Changjun and his party hurriedly went out of the Hangu Pass.

4. Emperor Xuanzong changed his name

After Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, Li Longji, ascended to the throne, he thought of alchemy to become an immortal, and there were a lot of priests and Taoist priests who offered pills to his family for promotion. At that time, there was a senator in the House of Chen Wanggui, called Tian Tongxiu. One day in the morning court, said he dreamed at night that Tai Shang Laojun met him in Hangu Pass Danfeng building, Laozi said in the place where he wrote the scriptures, buried a peach symbol, who can get it, who can get the world.

Hearing this, Emperor Xuanzong immediately ordered Tian Tongxiu to bring people to Hangu Pass, where Laozi wrote the scriptures, digging three feet into the ground, dug out a peach symbol, engraved with the word "wood", the ministers interpreted as forty-eight. Said Laozi can bless Xuanzong sat forty-eight years under the sun. Emperor Xuanzong was so happy that he changed the number of Kaiyuan to Tianbao, established Laozi as Emperor Taishang Xuanyuan, and changed Taolin County to Lingbao County.

5, Gongsun white horse

Warring States period, the State of Zhao's Prince Ping Yuan's disciples have a named Gongsun Long, want to think of Qin to travel to study. At that time, a virulent infectious disease was prevalent among the horses in the area of Zhao. When Qin learned of this, it posted a notice at the Hangu Pass, the eastern gate of Qin, that no horse from Zhao was allowed to enter the pass. On this day, Gongsun Long rode a white horse to Hangu Pass, and checked the symbols to pass through the gate. He was about to pass through the gate, but the official stopped him and said, "You can pass through the gate as a human being, but you cannot pass through the gate as a horse. Gongsun Long was not happy that his horse could not pass through the gate. The white horse is not a horse, how can we not let it pass?

The official said, "A white horse is also a horse! Gongsunlong said: am I Gongsunlong is a dragon? The official was stunned by the question. He also said: white horse, horse and white, or white and horse, for example, want horse, give yellow horse, black horse can, but want white horse, give yellow horse, black horse can not. This means that the white horse and the horse are two different things, but also that the white horse is not a horse, so why can't it pass? Before the official could understand, he rode his horse across the Hangu Pass.

The argument that a white horse is not a horse was a very important thing in philosophy at that time. It shows that ancient Chinese thinkers had long been thinking about the relationship between the general and the individual.

Expanded Information

Hangu Pass, located in the city of Lingbao, Henan Province, which is located in the west according to the plateau, east of the absolute stream, south of the Qinling Mountains, north of the Yellow River, is one of the earliest built in the history of China's majestic pass fortress.

Historically, there are two Hangu Passes: Qin Pass is located in Wangdian Village, 15 kilometers north of Lingbao City, Henan Province, about 75 kilometers away from Sanmenxia City; Han Pass moved east to Xin'an County, Luoyang, 150 kilometers away from Qin Pass in the west. Because of its location in the "two capitals of the ancient road", close to the banks of the Yellow River, because the pass is in the valley, deep and dangerous as a letter, so it is called Hangu Pass.

References:

Hangu Pass - Baidu Encyclopedia