The door hangs "Sizhitang" to refuse the gift
Behind the Guifeng Township Clinic in Ruian City, there is an antique Yang family ancestral hall. There is a plaque with "Yang Sizhitang" written on it hanging in the main hall at the back of the ancestral hall.
According to the "Book of the Later Han·Yang Zhen Biography": During the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a prefect named Yang Zhen. When he was the governor of Jingzhou, he recommended the talented Wang Mi as the magistrate of Changyi County. Later, Yang Zhen was transferred to Donglai as the prefect, and passed through Changyi County when he was appointed. After Wang Mi learned the news, he immediately took 10 kilograms of gold with him to visit his mentor Yang Zhen overnight. When Yang Zhen saw Wang Mi sending this heavy gift, he was scolded angrily. Yang Zhen believes that if he wants to be an upright and honest official, he must put an end to this unhealthy habit of giving gifts. Therefore, he hung a plaque with the words "Sizhitang" written by his relatives on the front door of his house, warning his subordinates not to "give gifts". From then on, people surnamed Yang took their ancestor Yang Zhen as a role model and hung a "Yang Sizhitang" plaque in the ancestral hall they built as a "traditional education" for their descendants.
Han Liuxiu and Chengan Stream
There is a stream on the Chengan bank of Huling Town. There is no water on a sunny day. The beach is full of cobblestones. There is an article about Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty. What a beautiful legend!
According to legend, when Liu Xiu of the Han Dynasty fled to Cheng'an, he was so hungry that he grumbled alone and wished he could sit down, rest, and find something to eat. Just as he sat down next to a big maple tree by the stream, he saw a village woman squatting by the stream washing cabbage (white radish). Liu Xiu slowly walked over, saluted her and said, "Sister-in-law, I haven't eaten for a few days since I've been out, and I'm very hungry. Could you please do me a favor and give me a vegetable to eat?" Xiu had been on the run for several months, and his clothes were ragged and he looked very embarrassed. Seeing his shabby appearance, the village woman thought he was a beggar, so she glared at him and threw away a small turnip covered in yellow mud angrily.
When Liu Xiu of the Han Dynasty saw the village woman ridiculing him like this, he pointed his fingers towards the bank of the stream in an aura, and recited as he walked:
The flow in the east pit, the flow in the west pit,
< p>There is no water to wash the vegetables on the bank;The small water rock passes under it,
The big water covers it.
Oddly enough, as soon as Han Liu Xiu finished reading, the small mountain stream that originally flowed with gurgling water suddenly became all cobblestones and was so dry that there was no drop of water. The village woman who was still squatting by the stream washing vegetables felt very strange when she saw that the water in the creek suddenly stopped. Later, she thought in her mind: Could it be that the person who just asked for food was a saint? She wanted to catch up and ask for help, but she put her hands on the awning and looked around, but there was no trace of the man just now. From that day on, the small mountain stream in front of the bank changed: there was no water in the stream on sunny days, and the stream filled both banks on rainy days. The ballad that Liu Xiu of the Han Dynasty recited is still circulated in the local area today.
He Tiequ
According to legend, during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, a wise man named He Tiequ came out of Shangbutan area in Yong'an. His calligraphy art was famous far and wide. The three words "Luoxi Temple" are the calligraphy treasures he left behind! When He Tiequ was a boy, although he was talented and intelligent, he was very naughty when he was studying in a private school and often made noises with his classmates. Later, He Tiequ worked hard to practice calligraphy. After practicing for less than a year, his calligraphy improved greatly. In order to practice a word well, he often scratched the skirt of his clothes with his fingers while walking. Later, his font became his own and he was good at regular script. Because He Tiequu had high attainments in the art of calligraphy, most of the plaques on the palaces and temples in the four villages and eight villages, and the couplets on the pavilions and pavilions were written by him. It is said that the couplet "The white tiger enters Dongguan and the dragon's head exits toward the north" inscribed by He Tiequ for the Longyan Palace in Yong'an was highly praised by Huang Shaoji, a famous historical figure in Ruian who later became an official bachelor!
Longjing
The Longjing Scenic Area in Huling Town, Ruian, is full of mountains and densely covered dragon ponds. Legend has it that a long time ago, there were frequent droughts in the mountains and there was no harvest. Later, a dragon came to the mountain. Whenever there was no rain for a long time, it would appear, and then it would rain heavily. The crops were saved, and the people in the mountains lived a happy life. To commemorate this dragon, people called the surrounding mountain villages Longjing Mountain.
Jinji Mountain
At the junction of Guifeng Township, Ruian City, the hometown of overseas Chinese, Lilin Township, Wencheng County, and Tangyang Township, Qingtian County, there is Jinzi Mountain, also called Jinji Mountain . Speaking of the origin of Jinji Mountain, there is such a story circulating here.
In the early years, there was a centipede spirit on this high mountain who had practiced Taoism for thousands of years and was very impressive.
This centipede spirit often comes out of its hole and kills and injures many passers-by. It also spits poisonous juice from its mouth and flows into the creek. People in the villages near the foot of the mountain became sick and died after drinking the stream water. Everyone was eager to get rid of this centipede spirit as soon as possible.
There is a lady named Bai Xiugu at the foot of the mountain. She heard that there was an old nun in Baiyun Nunnery who had excellent medical skills, so she went to learn medicine from the old nun. After studying for a year, the old nun gave her a bag of herbs. When she went home and walked to Jinzi Mountain, she heard a chicken clucking in the grass. When she went to take a look, she saw that it was a big golden chicken with an injured leg. She concluded that the big golden rooster was bitten by a venomous snake and beast, so she applied medicine to it. After a while, the golden rooster's legs and feet healed. He nodded to Bai Xiugu, called a few times, flapped his wings and flew away.
One day, Bai Xiugu went up the mountain to collect medicine. A centipede spirit emerged from the grass and bit her leg. The Centipede Spirit was about to suck her blood when suddenly he heard a big golden rooster flying from the valley and pecked the Centipede Spirit several times on the head. The Centipede Spirit rolled a few times and died. The big golden rooster opened its mouth to suck the poison from the girl's leg, and Bai Xiugu was saved. The big golden rooster flapped its wings and lay in front of her knees, asking Bai Xiugu to ride on its back and fly down the mountain.
Bai Xiugu later became a well-known herbalist. She often treated poor people from all over the world and was praised by people. In order to commemorate the merits of the Golden Rooster in eliminating harm, people named this high mountain "Golden Rooster Mountain".
Jinjishan Tourist Area is a mountain-type tourist area dominated by mountain scenery and revolutionary historical sites, interspersed with valleys and wonders. On the 15-hectare mountainous land, there are more than 50 natural and cultural attractions including peaks, mountains, streams, valleys, rocks, walls, waterfalls, villages, monuments and pavilions, which are majestic and rich in connotation.
Jinji Mountain, formerly known as Jinzi Mountain, also known as Jingzhi Mountain, is located 41.5 kilometers northwest of the city. It belongs to the southern branch of the Donggong Mountain Range. The main peak is 1,320.7 meters above sea level, which is the highest peak in the city. Looking at the main peak from a distance, it looks like an old man sitting upright with a shawl, so it is named "Jinzi Mountain" and nicknamed Jinji Mountain. The two peaks face each other and tower into the clouds. The surrounding mountains look like a swimming dragon or a crouching tiger, guarding the foot of the mountain. The jagged rocks on the hillside, surrounded by precipitous cliffs, strange peaks and deep valleys, together with the flowers, plants and trees all over the mountain, together form a moving gallery.
You will be at the top of the mountain, and you will have a panoramic view of the mountains. Standing on the top of Jinzi Mountain, you can see the sky as far as the eye can see. Between the clouds and mist, the mountain peaks and the city seem to be hidden or visible. Dawn and dusk, rising sun and sunset, are like a dream, the sea of ??clouds is rolling, and the mountains are hidden. It is worthy of the reputation of "Little Huangshan". In spring, the mountain flowers are blooming and extremely enchanting; in summer, the mountain wind and water vapor soak the muscles and nourish the lungs; in autumn, the mountains are full of grains and the sky is clear and clear; in the cold winter, the rime is diffuse, with hundreds of feet of icicles, thousands of miles of ice, and thousands of pear blossoms. .
Shuiwei is a rice pounding equipment driven by water power in ancient times. "Book of Jin" says: "Nowadays, people make water wheels with shafts that can be several feet long and run through horizontal logs, intersecting like a rolling wheel. When the water stirs the wheel, the horizontal logs between the shafts hit the tops of the rows of rice mills, and they fall together. "Three Kingdoms·Wei Zhi·Zhang Ji Zhuan" records that "the envoys manage the house and make water dams"; Cen Shen also has this sentence in his poem "Passing Panshi Temple at Night": "There are flowers hidden on the bank." Water dam, stream reflects the wind furnace"; "Encyclopedia of Agricultural Administration·Water Conservancy" contains: "Du Yu made a continuous machine drum". This shows that Shuidi has a long history. The water hammer in the Shui Lei papermaking workshop group in Huling Town, Ruian is used in the production process of papermaking and "brushing". The "brush" is pounded and pounded by the water hammer, and water is added and stirred at the same time to form flocculent paper velvet.
The Huling Mountain area of ??Ruian, Zhejiang has a long history of papermaking. According to the Wenzhou Literature Series "Qihai Suo Tan", Wenzhou had already begun to produce paper in the Tang and Song Dynasties in ancient times. The main raw materials for the production of paper are hemp in Sichuan, rattan bark in Yanxi, mulberry bark in the north, seaweed on the coast, and bamboo in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. From the Tang Dynasty to the early Ming Dynasty, the paper was a tribute to the imperial court. Therefore, historically, the imperial court had a papermaking bureau in Wenzhou until the production of the paper ceased in the fifth year of Xuande in the Ming Dynasty (1430). Then papermaking technology was introduced from Fujian, and the production of screen paper, which also used moso bamboo as raw material, developed rapidly. It was not until the reform and opening up that screen paper production gradually declined.
According to the Genealogy of the Zhao Family in Loushan, Longgang Gong, the 12th ancestor of the Zhao family, built a water dam in Loushan to develop earth paper production. According to the "Ruian County Chronicle of the Republic of China", the local paper industry includes Nanping eight-inch, six-nine-inch, two-fine paper, etc., with a total annual output of 2,061,410 kilograms. The households are all in Taoshan District, including 213 households in Xianfang Township and 325 households in Yaozhuang Township. There are 298 households in Huling Town.