(Chapter II) Village name: From a beautiful legend.

I don't know such a thing. When was the village name of Zaoshupo changed to Sizhuang Village? What is the reason? The villagers are very puzzled: maybe a temple was built in the village before? Maybe there used to be a temple in the village? Ancestors must have their reasons for doing this. Ask dad? Father said he didn't know. In my mind, my village is the name now.

In the third year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, the founder came on foot from Mayi County, Shuozhou, carrying the Buddha Guanyin, in order to pray for the peace of the Buddha. I wonder, does the name change of ancestors have anything to do with South Kannonji? South Kannonji has no impression in my mind. According to my father, South Kannonji was demolished on 1958. The reason for the demolition seems to be related to the construction of railways and canals. It is located at the junction of southwest lane and canal in the village.

The villagers recalled that South Kannonji sat facing south, with its back to the ancestral graves and facing the village. The cave was built into a pavilion and the temple was built on the pavilion. There is a stone road in the west of the temple, where people enter the temple to worship Buddha. Below the temple is a cave made of stone for people to walk in. After the demolition of Nanguanyin Temple, the villagers invited Nanguanyin to go to Grandma Temple in the west of the village.

People also tell such a story, which means that there was no Sizhuang Village, Nanyaotou and Zaopo in the past. Baishi, in the east of the village, used to be called the ancient village. There is an ancient temple in the village called Shousheng Temple.

According to the 83rd1page of the Complete Works of Shanxi Temple, Shousheng Temple was built in the Ming Dynasty with an unknown date and its address is Baishi Village. The existing situation is as follows: "Eighteen Arhats Hall, THE TEMPLE OF JIALAN Hall, Tianwang Temple, Longwang Temple and Guandi Temple are well preserved." Xinzhou Literature and History DataNo.1127 has the following words: "Shousheng Temple, located in Baishi Village, Xiazuo Township, was built in the Ming Dynasty and is a municipal insurance unit. According to the inscription in May of the thirty-eighth year of Qing Qianlong, it was built in the Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty. Overall layout: the Great Buddha Hall is in the center, and the left and right affiliated halls are Eighteen Arhats Hall and THE TEMPLE OF JIALAN Hall; In front of the Buddha Hall is the Heavenly King Hall, with the Dragon King in the east and the Guandi Temple in the west. There are three halls in Tianwang Temple, wide and deep, and the inscription on the ridge purlin was made in the first year of Ming Chenghua. There are seven arches on the front eaves, which were copied and paved four times, and the rest were built in the Qing Dynasty. The preservation is relatively complete. "

Sizhuang Village, formerly the land of Shousheng Temple, was once called Tian Zhuangzi. Later, Shousheng Temple incense reached its peak, and more and more people came to Shousheng Temple to worship Buddha and offer incense, and the land used for temples also increased year by year. The land in the temple has increased, and the number of tenants employed, that is, people who farm the land for the temple, has also increased accordingly. Thus, it developed into a village.

"Xinzhou Zhili Prefecture Records" (Qing Xiu? Volume 16 has the following words: Shengshou Temple, one in Qicun and one in Baishi Village. Shousheng Temple, in Sizhuang Village.

I think, no matter from any aspect, the Annals of Xinzhou Zhili Prefecture is more authoritative and credible than the Complete Works of Shanxi Temple Views published in March 1995.

The origin of the name of Sizhuang Village should be directly related to "Shousheng Temple".

At this time, a carriage drove out of my mind: a wheel said: jujube tree slopes to Sizhuang; On the other wheel, it says: from earth hole to tile house. This carriage should be the history that people who know how to read and hyphenate often say.

This is my hometown: located in the southwest of Xinzhou City, formerly called Chengnan Township, now it is changed to Douluo Town. One kilometer east of the village is Baishi Village, and further east are Su Village, Xiazuo Village, Douluo Village and Guancheng Village. Guancheng Village is located at the foot of Zhoushan. Zhoushan is the legendary place where Dayu tied his boat when he was controlling water. "Taiping Universe" records: "Zhoushan, Yao is flooded, and the ship is here." Zhoushan got its name. Therefore, Xinzhou was once an underwater world.

To the south of the village is the North Tongpu Railway Line. After crossing the railway, it is the south kiln head, which is the jujube slope mentioned above, and further south is Wufeng Mountain. Next to the railway, there is a grand canal called Baishi Grand Canal. Some people say it was built by Huang Luo Lu of Baishi Village, while others say it was built by the Ming government. There is no written record.

This canal, which draws the Muma River from Yinshan Mountain, runs from west to east along the north of Muzhuang Village, passes through Sizhuang Village, and then flows to Baishi Village. It is about ten li long. The villagers said that people in the three villages used to fight because of the length of water use. Finally, a method was agreed: burning incense and dividing water. It means to light a wick before opening a canal, and determine the water consumption time of a village according to the people in the village, or according to the land in the village, and then according to the burning length of the wick.

Across the river is Xiahebei Village, which looks like a "golden moth drowning". There are legends, allusions, I don't know, and history remains to be verified. To the west is the railway station, and after the railway station is Muzhuang Village. From Muzhuang Village to the west is Yinshan Mountain. Volume 6 of Xinzhou Zhili Prefecture Records (Qing Xiu) has the following words: "Frozen snow in Yinshan Mountain, Shilimuzhuang, southwest of Xinzhou, Xixia Moon."

It is said that "the dark mountain eats stones" is a beautiful myth. Yinshan Mountain is located 20 kilometers southwest of Xinzhou City, west of Muzhuang Village. The mountain is low, with a north-south trend, with Muma River in the north and Huluchuan in the west. The terrain is dangerous. Surprisingly, these two rivers are all above the Yinshan Mountain, and the sand and gravel in the riverbed are tumbling, the water is turbid and the rapids are surging. Flowing out of Yinshan Mountain, it became clear water and fine sand, and gigalith was completely extinct. According to legend, pebbles are eaten by Yinshan, so there is a saying that "Yinshan eats stones and Yuxian builds iron". That is the reality. The sand of Muma River to the east of Yinshan Mountain looks like soybeans, and its color is white and red, so it is called bean paste. It is also said that the sand is named bean paste because it is taken from bean Luo. There are different opinions, and it is difficult to distinguish between true and false.

Above Yinshan Mountain is Zhuangmo Town.

Speaking of Zhuangmo Town, I think of a famous person, who is the predecessor of Gong Liu, a famous contemporary poet and writer. 1970, Mr. Wang and his daughter (Xiao Ming Mai, born in 1958) came to fengcun Brigade of Zhuangmo Commune in Xinxian County to receive labor reform for poor middle peasants. Mr. Wang has a bad eye, so the villagers take care of him and only let him do some farm work to collect manure. He always confuses mules and horse manure with mud and clay, which is difficult to distinguish. At this time, the villagers deliberately put livestock manure in a conspicuous place. Some villagers even dumped the collected excrement into baskets for the elderly. ...

Mr. Wang likes singing. During the break, he led everyone to sing and beat the time, and then taught him sentence by sentence ... everyone in the village liked him and called him Lao Liu. Later, Mr. Wang was transferred to the Xinxian Cultural Center, where he often went to the library to read books and also tutored literary lovers.

Mr. Wang, as the name implies, has a straightforward personality. On one occasion, the county party secretary went to a village to participate in drought relief. A poetry lover who accompanied him immediately wrote a poem, in which there is such a sentence: the secretary came to our village to fight drought, and the mountains and rivers greeted him with a smile. This "poet" is holding a "masterpiece", please correct me. Mr. A little thinking, handy:

The secretary came to our village to fight drought, and the poor middle peasants welcomed him;

The secretary came in for a drink, and the crops were ten times thirstier than me.

There is still an element of eulogizing "leadership", but there is no kitsch.

At that time, I was still young and had not met my husband. Later, in the third issue of Selected Novels (1985), I read the novel "Eggs First, Chickens Later" written by my husband, which contains many dialects of our country. For example, call dad big, call a few trees and branches (pronounced Bo) trees, and call mom Bo (pronounced Bo). To this end, Mr. Wang created a word that I couldn't type on the computer. The word is "female", a "white" word, pronounced as Bo, which means the same as mother or mother. Also, people often say squat, where we call kicking.

Even the name of the village in the novel, Mr. Wang actually gave a name: Nianzhuang. This mill is the word turning mill. Stone mill and stone mill are both stone tools, and their relationship is very close. Nian Zhuang is actually Zhuang Nian, that is, Zhuang Mo. This is my guess, and maybe it is also my husband's ulterior motives. However, what is certain is that Zhuangmo Village left an unforgettable memory for Mr. Wang ... This land and the villagers living here all have feelings for Mr. Wang, otherwise he would not use the village name "Nianzhuang".

Attachment: Biography of Gong Liu, a famous contemporary poet and writer.

Gong Liu is a famous contemporary poet and writer. Formerly known as Liu, also known as Liu Gengzhi, born in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, 1927 on March 7. /kloc-began to write poetry in 0/939, 1946 worked part-time at Chung Cheng University and participated in the student movement. 1948 went into exile in Shanghai at the beginning, and then went to Hong Kong to join the National Federation of Students led by the * * * production party. After the liberation of Guangzhou, he joined the People's Liberation Army and marched southwest with the troops. /kloc-joined the Chinese Writers Association in 0/954 and published the first book of poetry, Bianguan Short Song. 65438-0956 worked in the General Political Department of the People's Liberation Army, and 65438-0957 became a "Rightist". From 65438 to 0978, he returned to the poetry circle and published poetry collections: In the North, Selected Poems of Gongliu, Yin Lingzhi and White Flowers? Red flowers, rambling grass, cactus, camel, big Shanghai, South Boat and North Horse, etc. 198 1 won the National Award for Excellent New Poetry for Young and Middle-aged Poets, and was the dean of the College of Literature of Anhui Branch of Chinese Writers Association.

He passed away on October 7th, 2003/KLOC-0.

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