Hong Tong immigrant ballads

The locust tree in Hongdong, Shanxi Province is a famous relocation site in Ming Dynasty at home and abroad, and it is also a holy place for hundreds of millions of descendants of locust tree immigrants to seek roots and worship their ancestors.

Hundreds of years later, a popular folk song is still circulating all over the motherland: Ask me where my ancestors are? Sophora japonica in Hong Tong, Shaanxi. What's your ancestral home? Old storks nest under the big locust tree.

According to the data in the Migration of Sophora japonica in Hongdong, Shanxi Province, during the Hongwu and Yongle periods of the Ming Dynasty, there were 18 large-scale immigrants from Shanxi to Hebei, Shandong, Henan and Baoding, and * * * was distributed in 18 provinces and cities and more than 500 counties and cities.

For hundreds of years, people who went to Hongtong pagoda tree to seek roots and worship their ancestors, as well as literati, were all in awe and filled with emotion.

Places of interest must be linked by names.

A few days ago, "Yuan Yi Yuan" and his party walked into the locust tree in Hongdong, feeling and reliving the magnificent official immigration incident of that year, and noticed several couplets left by the locust tree.

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Part One: Letters from Yu Yan; Bottom line: block the crowd.

These eight-word couplets are written on the forehead of the ancient Huai archway.

At the ancient pagoda tree in Hongtong County, next to Guangji Temple, which was built in the second year of Zhenguan in Tang Dynasty, there is a pagoda tree in Han Dynasty.

The tree is surrounded by trees, which block out the sun. The ancient official road that runs through the north and south, through the shade. Over time, the old stork built a huge nest, as big as a wheel, with branches and grass leaves among the branches of the big locust tree.

Standing under the big pagoda tree and looking up, you will see the big pagoda tree dotted around, which is very spectacular.

The "reputation extension" in couplets means to praise its beauty and make its reputation spread far and wide. And "A Book". Jia, praise, praise. It refers to a beautiful tree in the locust tree.

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Part I: Liu wants to come to Huai, where you have to feel far away from the countryside; Bottom line: The water source is woody, and I still miss my hometown today.

After reading this couplet, the friends of "Yuan Yi Yuan" can't help but be moved and their eyes are moist.

The villagers who were forced to emigrate from the old locust tree either took the loess from their hometown or smashed the pot as a souvenir. Most of them break off the branches of the big locust tree as a souvenir.

"Willows come and trees go" is a sad scene when willows and trees are closed to bid farewell. Nowadays, people admire the reputation of the old pagoda tree and come here.

"Water source is woody", water is active and trees have roots. The second part is to teach the world to think about the source of drinking water, not forgetting the source, tracing back to the source and not forgetting the hometown.

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The first part: Conan butterfly seeks trees; Bottom line: Northland stopped recognizing Xiangzi.

The word "Conan Dream Butterfly" in this couplet tells two stories. First, in the biography of Conan's satrap compiled by Li Gongzuo in the Tang Dynasty, the hero Chun dreamed that he had become the satrap of Huai 'an. ? Be famous for a while and enjoy all the splendor. But later defeated, he became a prisoner of the order.

When she woke up, Chun saw a hole under the locust tree, which was an experience in her dream.

The other is that Zhuang Zhou's dream turned into a butterfly, flying vividly and making people dream. ...

"Stop north" means stopping the horse to recognize his hometown outside the north city.

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The first part: traces of trees still exist, jade peaks are green, Fenshui flows, and warblers move here from Gigi Lai; Bottom line: the ancient pagoda is immortal, the postal route is seen again, storks' nests are everywhere, and now the cranes are returned to the state.

The author of this couplet is Sun Pikang in the Republic of China.

After moving from my beautiful hometown to another place, I always dream of returning to my hometown. All I see are big locust trees and old storks' nests, so my thoughts are still deeply hidden in my heart.

The "Yufeng" in couplets refers to Huotai Mountain in Linfen City, Shanxi Province, also known as Huoshan and Taiyue Mountain. "Federation" refers to the Buddhist countries such as the Lotus World, and actually refers to Guangsheng Temple next to the old pagoda tree in Hong Tong.

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The first part: ancient Huai preserves historical sites, and the story of 500 years repeats itself. You can rub trees without complaining about willows to the border. The second part: sipping tea in the new pavilion, leaving tourists for three thousand miles and looking at the railing. Sure enough, the battlements are lotus flowers.

In the Tang Dynasty, Wang Zhihuan once wrote a famous poem "Poems on the Embankment": The Yellow River is far above the white clouds, and it is a lonely mountain. Why use the elegy of willow to complain about the delay of spring, old Yumenguan, a spring breeze is not blowing!

The ancients often played the flute to express the pain of parting.

In the first couplet poem, "the border crossing resents the willow" is a metaphor for the homesickness of the expeditionary force. In this regard, the author mentioned the homesickness of emigrating to other places. The phrase "sip your name on the new pavilion" in the second part refers to that you drink tea and come to the pavilion where the ancient pagoda tree is located.

If you visit the locust tree in Hongdong, you will find that the places of interest here are couplets, which are far more than that. In view of space reasons, we have temporarily selected the above items for everyone to share.

What do you think or feel after reading these couplets? Welcome to leave a message for interaction.

References:

China Buddhism, Shanxi cultural relics tourism, Hongtong county annals, Sophora Immigrants annals, etc.

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