Four female shrines in Shandong: Yu
In October, Chen Bing went out of Doumen, fearing the fatigue of land travel, and gave up the boat. The ship will sail for six or seven days before it reaches the cliff of the Yellow River. After passing a village, the wind was too strong to drive, so I leaned on the boat. The man said, "These four women's towns are also." At first, I didn't know the names of these four women. Stop less and the wind will die down. Lying on the boat is boring. From the cliff to the shore, looking at the desert yellow sand, the city people can't stay indoors and can't rest. At the end of the city, there is an ancient temple, if there is no one. Just get started. A palace monument, covered with vines and moss. The ancient trees in front of the monument are leafless, bare and dragon-shaped. Turn right in one direction and enter the old house only three yards away. There are two figures in the middle seat, an old man with fat eyebrows and ancient costume, an old man with white hair and a high bun, and modern decoration. There are four people sitting on each side. Although they are dressed in Confucian clothes and crowned with Confucian clothes, they have trimmed their eyebrows and white teeth and are beautiful women. I'm quite suspicious, and I can't ask. It is the vine that peels off the moss, wipes its text and reads it, covering it as a monument. When the tablet was loaded with Emperor Jing of Han Dynasty, there was an elder named Fu, who was kind, fifty years old, childless and gave birth to four daughters, all of whom were virtuous and polite. On his father's birthday, his father said, "I am 50 years old and have no children. Why should I celebrate my birthday?" The fourth daughter said sadly, "the father's period is also for the last support in the child's life." If the child is a woman, he can also replace his son as an adoptive parent, and parents don't have to worry. " Tomorrow, all men's clothes will be changed, and four women will not marry to serve their relatives. Before the Buddha entered China, he only read the Five Classics and more than 100 books of this week's Qin Dynasty, and he was as knowledgeable as a scholar. Sometimes it's not bad. Dehua is in the village. Cooper in front of the court, with dragon claws on the leaves and scales on his body, is golden and brilliant. Salt in the village was shocked and thought it was caused by Xiaogan. If so, thirty years. One day, God drummed into the court, and the tree became a dragon, carrying Weng and his daughter away. People in the village felt it, so they built it into a shrine, and now it is the location of the tree and the remains.
Oh! From Emperor Han Jing to now, I don't know for thousands of years, and I have studied the maps and records of the East. There is no so-called "four women's shrine", but Xiaogan's newspaper is only in the wilderness. It is an anecdote about the ancients, and there are many clouds among the forgotten.
The above records are contained in the book "New Records of Yuchu" written during the reign of Kangxi. According to Juck Zhang, the editor-in-chief of this book, it was written by Kangxi Guihai. This year is the 22nd year of Kangxi, that is, the year of 1683. Tian Wen was born in 1635. When this book was written and published, Tian Wen was a 48-year-old middle-aged man.
The message of this article is:
1. At least during the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty, Si Nv Temple had built shrines, tree monuments and statues to pay homage to Si Nv Xian Gu and Mu Fu. But also become a landscape and affect the folk customs of one side. Because "erecting a monument" is a grand ceremony that affects local politicians and people, if it is not very influential and well-known in the local area, the problem of erecting a monument will never happen! This is nearly 200 years earlier than Tian Wen's birth date! When did this trend begin? The available information is uncertain. It should be said that it was gradually formed during the period of 1,621 years from Han Jing to Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty. The starting time of Si Nv Temple can be any of these years.
2. At this time, there is only this monument in the "Four Female Towns", and there is only the legend of four female fairies and martial arts Mu Fu!