Cultural exploration source · ancient town's fire well

Editor's note:

Feel the charm of traditional culture and explore the culture of Tianfu. Hongxing News Network and Chengdu Mobile News jointly launched the column "Cultural Exploration". In this issue, take you into the ancient town of Huojing, Chengdu, understand the village customs, living environment, and architectural characteristics of the ancient town, listen to the voice of ancient culture, feel history Thick.

The world's first fire well leads to a period of past

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, the people of the fire found the underground fire, called the "Shenhuo", and used the "Shenhuo" to cook salt, and the "fire well" was named after it. Later, because Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of Shu Han, came here to inspect the production of the salt industry, so it was also called "Zhuge Jing". Of course, Shenhuo was given by God. The fire well boiled salt leading the world first. It was more than 1700 years early in the UK, so it was known as: the world's first fire, the world's first well.

In 2005, in order to show this brilliant history to more people, the local government set up a stone monument at the site of Zhengjiaba, Hujing Town, and held a grand unveiling ceremony. In order to facilitate tourists who came to visit, they also It is a dam of about 2,000 square meters around it around it. The fire well is about half a meter high, the gray -black Han brick is built, and the diamond pattern of the brick wall is still clear. The inner diameter of the ancient well is 1 meter, and the well is hexagonal. Looking down, the fire was not seen, and there was a clear water in the well to see the figure. Beside the well, a stone monument made of red sandstone stands tall. The monument is 6 meters high, and the top sculpture is rising. On the front of the monument, facing the big road, the five big characters of the "Han Dynasty Ancient Fire well" can be seen from the distance; the side is "the world's first well." The other side is engraved with small characters, which records the historical facts of ancient fire wells since the Han Dynasty. Of course, the names of enthusiastic people have donated. Now, around its monument, it has extended to build a well -well square and a small tourist garden, and set up leisure scenes such as corridor seats.

Anyone who has read the "Three Kingdoms" knows that in order to commemorate Zhuge Kongming's benefit of the people, the ancestors of the fire well named the nearby hill "Wolonggang" and built an octagonal temple on the mountain to worship it specifically The statue of Kong Ming. On the New Year, people ignite the light light in front of the idol. And this Kong Lantern is said to be the octagonal lanterns used by Zhuge Liang in that year. Because so many winds remember the relationship between Zhuge Liang and the fire well, an ancient nursery rhyme collected by the locals also described this: "There are stars in the sky / fire wells in the ground / Confucius / Kong Minglai Fire / Go Look at the hexagonal well / hexagonal well / fire is large / water is clear / boiled salt brilliant crystals. "

China No. 1 Female No. 1 Top Speech

The ancient town and the champion are inextricably linked. The champion bridge, the Chongye Mountain, the imperial examination examination, etc., have always been a topic of women and children in ancient town and familiar. There are several particularly famous women in the history of Sichuan, Zhuo Wenjun, Mrs. Hua Rui, Xue Tao, and so on. Their story has been circulating. Fire well has the first female champion "Huang Chongzheng" in Chinese history. After the fame has been padded, the version of the story is not inferior. Historical materials said that Huang Chongzheng, a former Shu period of the former Shu period, worked and goodwill, piano, calligraphy and painting, all of them. It is said that after an adult, often women dressed up men's clothing, traveled outside, and later lived in the mountains. There are many ways to say about her life. Among them, some of them tested Zhongyuan, who was appreciated by the prime minister and was appointed as an agent to join the army. It wasn't until the prime minister wanted to recruit her as a concubine, and Huang Chongzheng stated that her daughter had lived in the Tonggu Mountain. Another said that Joe was renamed and entered Beijing to rush to examine, "Lianzhong Sanyuan" and "No. 1 and No.". There was no way, Huang Chongzheng had to return to the solitary stone hill after returning to the fire well, and then the lone stone mountain became Chongyu Mountain. Her grave also became "the tomb of Wang Shu's female champion Huang Chongzheng", and Huang Chongzheng himself himself The title of "China's First Female Champion" was even more crowned, thus achieved a good story.

Today, in 1922, the "No. 1 Bridge" located in the south of the village south of the village is still well preserved. The stele standing in the tea garden is complete. The pattern is lifelike, simple and elegant. In the head of the monument, there are three regular script characters of the "No. 1 Bridge". There is a couplet on the left and right monuments. One said: "The matter is to do this, and the matter is temporarily raised with the Republic of China. The second is: "The cloud tree on the river cover the fish hole, and the gods on the cliff shine in the carp pond." There is also the second deputy on the back of the monument. One said: "The green mountains are crusted, the green level is wave across the stone bridge." The locals worshiped this monument as a god, and a red paper was posted on the middle of the stone monument. It is said that on the way to the exam in Beijing, Huang Chongzheng met the big water in the river, and she set a grand wish. In the future, she would repair the bridge here to report to the hometown. Is this bridge built?

Teacher Gao Yikui wrote that Chongya Mountain is the first peak of the south of the town of fire well, and the three sanctuary relics in the south of the mountains. The Three Holy Palace is the ancient temple that worships Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei. Going forward to Daping Mountain, in the green jungle is the tomb of Chongyu. There are ancient tombstones standing in front of the grave. The best ancient tombstone of the relic. About a hundred meters along the westward line of the road, it is the famous ancient old -fashioned Tongzhi (1866) Chongya Tower was built in the Qing Dynasty. The road is rugged and can only walk.

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