Suoyang Ancient City Suoxiuse Prose

Listen to the name of the ancient city of Suoyang, which is heroic and romantic, exaggerated and naive, full of strange ideas and full of poetic sentiment ...

First, the green painted doors.

Crossing the river by stepping on the stones, I came to the gate of Suoyang City. The first thing that grabs my eyes is the beautiful scenery here: the big tree that three people hug together is towering; Rows of cypress trees, straight end to end; A hug of thick mulberry trees, branches and forks turn around like snakes; The palm-sized mulberry leaves are thick and thick, and they are airtight; There are several red willows as thick as buckets. Although the crown is not big, such a thick tree body is surprising! They set each other off, giving people the feeling that they are tall and strange. Such a big tree, even one of them, is rarely seen near Fiona Fang. What's more, they are so busy together that they embrace each other, each showing its own heroic posture and each showing its own strangeness. Plus, all kinds of Tian He covered with slopes and mountains, * * * together form the beautiful scenery of the ancient city village of Suoyang.

my eyes are full of green temptations, and my eyes are full of amazing scenery!

In particular, the two big poplars with three people in their arms are generally stout and of the same height, which were planted at the same time in a long time. The two trees are about 11 meters apart, such as two columns, which support a tall gatehouse, covered with green crowns and greeted passers-by in shade. The "column" of the tree on the left, seen from one side, is round and broad, but turned to the back, which makes people sweat: the tree is hollow from the ground to the top of people's heads, with no skin, and the hollow is deeper than the center of the tree, like an upright groove, in which a person stands, so spacious that he can't get close to his body. The giant tree is more than 3 meters high, with a crown of about 2 meters. It is lush and magnificent, but how can it support such a tall figure only by the superficial epidermis of the remnant around half a circle? What about the nutrients and water needed to transport trees? With such a huge trauma on the tree, how can it withstand the ravages of storms? The tree, showing its complete side to people, hides its huge traumatic residual body behind its back, endures the pain that people can't understand, and builds a magnificent "green color door" for people's support!

this is my first impression of the ancient city.

second, mottled ancient city.

From a distance, the ancient city of Suoyang looks like a gourd. The wind can't blow it, and the snow can't hold it down. It has been hanging firmly on the mountain ridge for thousands of years. The beacon tower of the ancient city on the top of the beam is like a gourd handle. The peak on the top of the beam is high and narrow, which is the upper part of the gourd. The mountain city in the lower part is flat and wide, and the hillside is surrounded by deep ditches on both sides, and the rain flows to both sides along the mountain trend, thus forming the waist of the gourd. The ditch under the hillside is a small river. Although the river bank is wide, the river is thin, and there are a row of stones in the river. When crossing the river, step by step, step by step. The city is in the middle of the mountain, with the top of the mountain in the north, Luanshitou River in the south, Suozigou in the west, gully cliff in the east, and a trench dug at the top of Beishan Mountain, with a depth of 7 meters and a width of 4 meters. The city wall is relatively well preserved. On the west side of the city wall, there is a remnant city gate hole, which connects the inside and outside of the city. The door hole is 2 meters high. 6 meters, 1 wide. 8 meters, 1 depth. 3 meters, made of red sandstone.

According to an old man surnamed Gao in his sixties, when he was young, there were many residents in the city. A group of children often went to the city to play and picked up a lot of arrowheads and pottery pieces, but they didn't know anything about cultural relics at that time, and they didn't keep those things ... He sighed with regret.

Listen to the old people:

Xue Dingshan and Fan Lihua guarded this city ...

Let me open the floodgate of memory.

Lift the corner veil, and the veil layer by layer wraps the true face of the ancient city.

I really want to lift a corner of the veil.

Suoyang City is also called Tongqing City, and Tongqing City was established in the Northern Song Dynasty. It was the garrison place of the ancient Fuyan generation. "History of Song Dynasty Geography" contains its location: "It is 6 miles south of Jintangzhai and 3 miles west of Zhen 'an City." The city wall is 2 meters in circumference and covers an area of 44 mu.

The words of an old man named Gao reminded me of Xue Ding Shan's Journey to the West. In rural areas, the stories of Xue Rengui's Expedition to the East and Xue Dingshan's Expedition to the West are well known to women and children. Searching for memory, I remembered that the Tang King was trapped in Suoyang City. Looking east and west, I found the damaged "Xue Ding Shan Expedition to the West". The story is based on Suoyang City. It is said that the Tang King led Xue Rengui to make a personal expedition, strayed into Suoyang City and was trapped by Su Baotong, the uncle of Xiliang. Qin Huaiyu, the son-in-law, was killed in battle, and Xue Rengui was wounded by a dart. Finally, Xue Dingshan, who had been studying for seven years, led his troops to come to the rescue, defeated enemy soldiers and rescued the Tang King and his father Xue Rengui. The book also tells the story of Fan Lihua and Xue Dingshan getting acquainted with each other before the battle and finally getting married. What interests me in this book is that it is said that Suoyang City is a throat area leading to Xiliang. "Ten gates set up twenty cannons, and six are on the mountain." Obviously, these descriptions are very close to the actual Suoyang City.

after all, novels are novels, which cannot be used as the basis for textual research, but Xue Dingshan's expedition to the west is real. I looked up the Book of the Old Tang Dynasty, and there are records of Xue Rengui and his son in the biographies. However, Xue Dingshan's original name was Xue Ne, and the Book of the Old Tang Dynasty says, "He is dull and brave, silent, strong in the face of great enemies", and "He is tired and has the meritorious military service when he is in the border town for a long time". At that time, the Khitan and Xi joined forces with the Turks to deal with Tang Jun. In the summer of the second year of Kaiyuan, Du Fan's generals bifurcation Dayan and begging for Li Xu led hundreds of troops to attack Lintao's army, and then entered Koulanzhou and Weiyou. Xue Ne led his troops to attack, first at Wujie Post, and then at the Long Castle, and rescued him from the flood in Liuzhi Township, sweeping away the border troubles, and was named General Zuo Yu-Lin and Duke Pingyang.

Folklore coincides with novels and history, which can only prove that Xue Ne (Xue Dingshan) was stationed in Suoyang, and historical celebrities added luster to the ancient city, which also increased Wuqicheng's weight as a famous historical city.

third, lock yang.

it was noon when Yangcheng was locked.

Because I was eager to board the ancient city of Suoyang, I was in a hurry, and suddenly there was a family standing in front. At the bottom of the wall where the sun was scattered in the shade, a big black dog who looked after the house rested his head on his forelimb, half awake and half asleep, and peeped at me coming to the door. Two hens were radiating in the shade, and several small-tailed cold sheep in the sheepfold had already entered the lunch break state. The whole farmhouse and the cottage sank into a quiet harmony. On the wooden chair in front of the door, sat a hunchbacked white-haired old man who looked sleepy. Asking about visiting the elderly is my "compulsory course", not to mention meeting face to face, so naturally I can't miss the opportunity. As soon as the old man heard that I wanted to know the history of the ancient city, he enthusiastically led me into his house and started a conversation.

The old man's name is Gao Jingfu, who is 78 years old and a local. When I asked about the history of the ancient city, he told me that earlier, he couldn't say for sure, it was often said by the elders that after their ancestors moved here from Shanxi's big pagoda tree, the brave nomadic people often invaded here, and the ancestors suffered many killings and robberies. So people living in this land built cities to resist under the initiation of successive governments. Later, his father told him about a war that took place during the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty. At that time, the soldiers guarding the city and the people in the city were all killed in this war, and the river in front of the door was dyed red with blood.

The war, the abominable war, brought a devastating blow to northern Shaanxi. From the Qin and Han dynasties to the end of the Qing Dynasty, it has been uninterrupted for more than two thousand years. During the Ming dynasty, there were three large-scale immigrants to northern Shaanxi. On the eve of national liberation, this area was still sparsely populated. No wonder, walking in the ravines of northern Shaanxi, we often meet abandoned castles, and there is no trace of people, only broken walls is telling something. After listening to the old man's story, I was thinking that human beings should have a better living condition, a higher living style and a more harmonious life than war. What a heavy history it is that the ancestors who lived in this land and pursued peace were restless and even lost their lives all day long in the course of conquering and expanding the territory and fighting and killing by the rulers of past dynasties.

I asked Mr. Gao if he had found any antique toys in the ancient city.

He smiled and said, "Is it my turn? It has been shaved and robbed by bandits and grave robbers! In the early years, bandits and robbers came to the city to grab treasures in broad daylight, and they carried them down the mountain with donkey packs and horses, throwing broken porcelain cans everywhere. Later, the grave robbers robbed the tomb again and again, and let them get rid of it! "

I bid farewell to the old man and stepped into the ancient city along the narrow path. I was immediately fascinated by the beautiful scenery of the ancient city. Lift up your eyes and look around, and the depressed mood is swept away. The farmland in Taiwan has been folded into jade. The most eye-catching thing is a sunflower in front of us, with a round golden "shield" on top of a thick sunflower pole, like a team of defenders guarding the city, holding a shield to defend against intruders. The round sunflower plate spews golden petals, and the petals are gently brushed by the breeze, just like the girls dancing lightly, and a few bees are flying around the sunflower plate. On the next stage, it was black-green millet, the straw was as thick as a finger, and the millet ears bent and bowed their heads, as if thinking about how to repay the cultivation of the land; The other field is millet, the color is green and shiny, and the ears of millet are thick, long and curved, which are heavy in the hand; In the two rooms further up, there is a peach forest that has only been bearing fruit for two years. Although it is not big, it tastes very sweet. The young man in charge of Taoyuan was wearing a bright red vest, and he was very enthusiastic when he saw me. He wouldn't let me go until he ate peaches.

I visited the historical and cultural sites of Wuqi in the ancient city of Suoyang, and felt the beauty of pure rural scenery by the Ningsai River. My mood was firmly caught in the net of the cultural accumulation of this ancient city and the scenery of Shan Ye. I feel that my life has entered a state of returning to nature at this moment, and life seems to be integrated with the ancient city of Cynomorium, where Shan Ye is the skeleton castle and the river is the skin and blood.

Standing on the ancient city wall beside Taoyuan for a long time, I suddenly found that the whole ancient city was bathed in sunshine. The hillside where the ancient city is located is very sunny, and the sunshine can't be broken from morning till night. I immediately understood why this city is called Suoyang City. The ancient city really locked the sunshine in the city, and only today did it show its charm. I couldn't help saying to myself: Lock Yang, Lock Yang ...