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Qingcheng is a living ancient city with a history of thousands of years. Starting from the ancestors of Xia and Zhou Dynasties, this is a treasure trove of geomantic omen, so Qingcheng is still one of the most worthwhile tourist attractions in Qingyang, suitable for everyone. Zhou Zuling Scenic Area has a strong sense of history; Mayiyi Folk Culture Village in Yaowangdong Health Town has concentrated all kinds of small landscapes and snacks. The Rouyuan River is rippling in blue waves, and the modern glass bridge, sightseeing platform and playground are suitable for citizens' leisure and full of lively fireworks. Chinese Medicine Museum, Agricultural Culture Museum and other places are suitable for high-level professionals to study carefully. ...
I have been to Qingcheng many times by myself or with my friends. Every time I go, I will see "Goose Pond Cave Scenic Area" written on the sloping wall on the roadside, but I don't know where to enter the cave and I haven't seen anyone moving on it. So I subjectively assume that there must be a "hole" on the hillside, and there are probably geese in it, so I don't care.
In Tomb-Sweeping Day in 20 19, I visited Qingcheng again. Standing at the top of Mayiyi Folk Culture Village, looking across the street, I saw that the Echidong Scenic Area is divided into several floors, with exquisite architecture and pavilions. Look carefully again, there is obviously no way to go up the avenue by the river, but it seems that you can go down from the high Qingcheng County, so I especially want to see it.
Passing through the tall and majestic antique tower "Jiahuimen" in Qingcheng, under the guidance of a low and unremarkable road sign "Echidong Scenic Area", we walked into a narrow alley and reached the end.
Compared with other scenic spots, Etangdong is really lonely. I was the only one walking on the steep steps, listening to my footsteps, walking across the eight-acre platform, then going down and then going down to the bottom. ...
Ah, the scenery under the cave is infinite! The cave is tall and spacious, well-made, solid and beautiful, and the ancient stone carvings embedded in the cave wall give people a profound and mysterious feeling. But it's obviously underground outside the wall. The bottom of the cave is like a pool with water, and there are two holes up and down which communicate with the Rouyuan River outside. Through those two holes, you can see the clear Rouyuan River outside.
Go back to the platform above, browse the caves on the sloping wall, walk around the Wen Yuan Pavilion, look at the ancient Cooper, and then stand on the open platform and look out. You can see the Zhouzuling Scenic Area and the opposite Ant Post Folk Culture Village. The tall city walls are guarded and the soft river flows slowly under your feet. Why does it feel special here?
I quietly searched all the information here, doing rational combing and thinking, trying to interpret the mysterious password hidden here. ...
Legend has it that "Goose Pond Cave" is the place where Zhou ancestors raised geese, so listen to it. It is said that "keeping geese" is to prevent invasion and alarm. "Goose" is alert, but I think it is hanging. Where can there be war information only by geese? It is reasonable to say that this is a place built to prevent foreign enemies from invading and getting water for the soldiers and civilians in the city, so as to avoid the shortage of water for the soldiers and civilians in the city, because the Rouyuan River can obviously be fought, not to mention "the stone wall can't fall down, the goose pond hole doesn't need to be scooped up, and the dragon king can't send firewood to burn it"? But in the long history of thousands of years, it used to be a religious shrine and a romantic place for literati to sing and dance. How can we ensure that foreigners will not know this secret? Probably the place where people in the city get water. It is said that this is a secret information channel leading to outside the city. It's possible, just like the manor of a large family in Zhouzhuang, a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, there is a back channel, where you can directly escape from the river by boat, and the hole leading to Rouyuan River can completely go out. It is said that this is a secret prison, and it is also possible to guard the entrance. This is a closed world. It is said that "masking training" can be carried out here, perhaps because the upper and lower floors here are very similar to the structure of the city gate, and there are urns. It is said that this is the location of the "Goose Pond Spring Water", the first of the eight scenic spots in Qingcheng. This may be true. Seeing the scenery here has a unique flavor!
According to records, in Anhua County (Qingcheng) in the Tang Dynasty, Li Kexin first organized the dredging of Goose Pond Cave, which has been repaired since the Song Dynasty. The seven stone carvings embedded in the wall of the upper cave are the results of repairing the "Echi Cave" in the Song, Ming and Qing Dynasties. There used to be many beautiful words and decorations on the wall of the water intake tunnel, but they were destroyed by soldiers and earthquakes. The most famous poem handed down from generation to generation is the poem "Looking at Goose Pond" by Jiajing Wang You. It is said that there used to be a four-character stone carving inscribed by Fan Zhongyan, but unfortunately I can't see it. Fan Zhongyan dare not say his inscription, but I believe his old man's house must have been to "Echidong", because he once knew Gyeongju and fought against Yuanhao here, so it is impossible not to see this facility with important defense value. Although there is no data to show that Li Mengyang has been here, I believe that Li Mengyang, a great writer in Ming Dynasty who advocated that "literature must be in Qin and Han Dynasties and poetry must flourish in Tang Dynasty" and insisted that "true poetry is among the people", must have been to "Echidong" because he was born in Qingcheng and didn't return to his hometown in Henan until he was ten years old. 65-year-old, 438+09, returned to Qingcheng for a period of time, and took the exam in Chang 'an. With the romance of a writer and the sensitive personality of a politician,
As can be seen from the high wall barriers here, the ancient city of Qingcheng is indeed a mystery. It relies on unique mountains and rivers to build the city. It is not only surrounded by two rivers, like a phoenix spreading its wings, but also cuts the natural platform along the river into a city. The city is on the city wall, with an average wall height of 3 1 m and a height of 40-50 m, which is much higher than the plane ancient cities such as Xi 'an and Nanjing, and is the highest city wall in China. Moreover, because the wall is integrated, the thickness of the wall can be extended indefinitely, making it the thickest wall in China. In addition, because of its unique structure, there is a wall-crossing tunnel running through the city, and there is also an "Echidong" tunnel from the city through a 7-meter-deep stone layer to the bottom of the river hundreds of meters.
According to an online article by Zhang, 65,438+000 years ago, the world-class explorer CD Bruce compared Qingcheng to a large Edinburgh castle in his masterpiece Out of the Western Regions, calling it "the most charming", which was comparable to any ancient castle that could still be seen in Europe at that time. The city wall is so strong that it is difficult to destroy it even with a new cannon. In the summer of the third year of Xining in Song Shenzong (1070), Xixia soldiers attacked Gyeongju in two ways, with more than 200,000 troops and more than 30,000 military forces. They rode to the gates of Gyeongju for nine days, but they retreated. In the 10th year of Shaoxing in Song Dynasty (1 140), the nomads from the Golden Army attacked Qingcheng, and all Chen Han and Song Wannian held on. Nomads from "looking out of the city" had to retreat. Ming Taizu (Zhu Yuanzhang) was in Hongwu for three years (1370), and Xu Da, Ming Taizu, thought that Qingcheng was a Wei Cheng with excellent soldiers, so he made a detour to Lintao first. In the fifth year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1866), the Ningxia Hui people uprising army Ma Zhenghe led 50,000 to 60,000 people to besiege Qingcheng for more than a month. Of course, no matter how thick the wall is, it can't stop the torrent of the times and has been conquered many times, but the enemy has also paid a very heavy price.
From this point of view, the goose pond cave, which is now slightly lonely, hides the infinite wisdom and magnificent history of the ancients. It may be an elegant place for ancient literati to linger, or it may have been the focus and hot spot of political culture. There may have been fierce battles and touching stories here. ...