In Lingshan, most people know that there is a writing mountain! Because Wenbi Mountain is only 8 kilometers away from the county seat, it echoes Liu Fengshan in the county seat, and you can see it when you look south from the county seat. Because Wenbi Mountain is a mountain with historical and cultural relics in Lingshan, Wenbi Peak at the top of the mountain has many ancient legends among the people. Since its completion, Wenbifeng has been deeply attracting groups of local poets. Now it is also a good place for people from the county seat and surrounding villages to climb mountains and go hiking!
The first hill on the ridge, upward, the whole ridge extends to the top of the mountain (even to the east of Wenbi Peak); From then on, the whole mountain looks like a crouching tiger, with two folded ridges on the left and right, such as the forelimbs of a tiger. In front of the mountain is an open field across the road, and a stream in the middle winds from southeast to northwest, just like the "jade belt wrapped around the waist" in the book.
The ridges extending southward from the seventh and eighth hills form two extremely vivid swans with wings, bodies, heads and mouths. The local people said, "This is a field where geese tread on water! Good feng shui! " (Note: "Male goose treads on water" refers to male and female goose 0), which looks like it at first sight! The wings of two geese are draped over each other, embracing each other from left to right, lifelike and full of amorous feelings! Up to the ninth mountain, a boulder "grows" on the shoulder of this mountain. It is said that this is the "seal" brought by Long Mai! The grass is lush and the whole hillside is covered with lush thatch. The thatch is full of white tidbits, silvery white in the sun, swaying in the breeze and graceful. Looking down directly from the ninth grade mountain to the south, the three ridges descend almost like cliffs, but extend slowly in the middle. These three ridges and the tenth grade mountain are already the backbone of the main vein of Wenbi Mountain, and the main peak of Wenbi Mountain and its summit, like a beacon tower, appear in our east. Looking back at the mountain ridge that just passed, it is like a huge mountain peak, twisting from side to side, extremely vivid and powerful! Looking to the southwest, you can see that Fairy Ridge in the distance really looks like a girl lying on her back. The head has clear facial features, clear body curves, long hair floating to the southeast, and the abdomen and lower limbs extending to the northwest, which is very vivid.
Came to the top of Wenbi Peak at an altitude of 50 1.5 meters, and finally got in touch with Wenbi Peak at zero distance. Wenbi Peak is a stepped octahedral peak tower with 19 floors, each with a height of 33cm and a width of 18cm. Each floor of the octagonal tower is 4.5 meters wide and about 36 meters in circumference. Top edge 2m, perimeter 16m, diagonal width 5m; The hypotenuse is 6.8 meters high. Climbing to the top of the tower, I saw that the shell of the peak tower was made of sand, mud and lime, with a thickness of about 40 cm. There is a cross-shaped partition wall with a thickness of 33 cm, which is also made of sand, mud and lime, connected with the four peak walls, and the rest of the space is filled with yellow mud. The middle cross-shaped partition wall points to the southeast and northwest directions respectively; The east-west internal partition wall extends to the shape of the tower, forming a pair of ear protectors for the peak tower. Ear protectors are also made of sand, mud and lime mixed and rammed by peaks. They are trapezoidal, with a peak ear thickness of 73 cm and a base protruding by 2. 1 m, which is as high as ten levels of the peak tower, that is, 3.3 meters high.
Regarding the origin of Wenbifeng, the old people in the village said that because Lingshan is a treasure trove of geomantic omen and outstanding people, Maanshan, located in the east of the county, is a "Shangjingma", and the talents of Lingshan will "ride" this BMW to Beijing to be an official; However, in order to prevent Lingshan talents from entering the official capital, the "national teacher" of the court occupied the position of senior officials; So, on the top of Guanliang Mountain in Xinxu Town, south of the county seat behind Shangjingma, a big pillar was nailed to tie the "Shangjingma" and destroy the geomantic omen of Lingshan. Since then, no one in Lingshan has been an official in the court. Liang Guanshan has since been called Wenbi Mountain.
This kind of folklore is a bit magical, and it is still widely circulated. It is believed that Wenbi Peak destroyed the geomantic omen of Lingshan. In actual history, the purpose, background and reason of building Wenbi Peak are exactly the opposite of this legend, not to destroy Feng Shui, but to make up for its shortcomings!
According to the records of Lingshan County in Qing Dynasty and Republic of China, the construction of Wenbi Peak in the old days had different meanings and important social background. During the Qing Dynasty, the social atmosphere in Lingshan was very bad. Thieves, thieves and prostitutes prevailed. The root cause was the poor quality and ignorance of the people at that time. Therefore, with the joint efforts of the county government and people from all walks of life, measures have been taken to intensify academic research. In the 26th year of Kangxi (AD 1687), Chi Weicheng, a magistrate of a county, founded Xiling Academy. Forty-one years (A.D. 1702), "The school established by the state is based on promoting learning and educating people, and it is a classic". When the Confucian Temple was rebuilt in the fifty-eighth year of Kangxi (A.D. 17 19), Li Peiren, the magistrate of a county, also wrote an inscription for the reconstruction of the Confucian Temple: "If you build a city to educate the people in ancient and modern times, you should seek all religions and learn all kinds. Therefore, there must be temples in the city to show that the county government attaches importance to education and advocates learning. " In the first year of Qianlong (A.D. 1736), in order to promote education and change social atmosphere, "Li Zhi County began to invite famous teachers to revive benevolence and righteousness." In the same year, the county government also paid allowances to faculty and staff. "If two faculty members share the same salary, it is not enough to support honesty. Since the spring of the first year of Qianlong, we have given full salaries according to the level of each member and will always follow this example. " During the Qianlong period, the county government allocated a lot of study fields and rented silver to allocate voluntary schools. Because it is an off-campus venture, it is more active than before. "In addition, the county government and people from all walks of life also vigorously built the square building of academic officials such as Govin and Wen Ming. To create a strong atmosphere to promote learning and cultivate talents. In this upsurge of promoting learning and educating people, "the people in the market, Lao Ji and Zhang Shu, advocate building a peak of literary style in Liangguan Mountain and Confucian Temple". It seems that when they are building the peak of their writing style, it is of great significance to revitalize the writing style, purify the social atmosphere and make Lingshan quickly become a scholar and a talent. When Wenbifeng was completed, Wang Jiaxian, a scholar, wrote a poem: "It is still an old pen bed, standing tall and shining on the palace wall. You don't need farsightedness to eat meat. Flowers should have dreamed of Jiang Lang. Clouds are protected only when they are connected with five colors. -it is better to make a fateful phone call. Since then, the sky has become a starry mountain. "From this background, we can see that the intention and function of building Wenbifeng are obvious.
It is said that the construction of this tower was supervised by Lao Ji and Zhang Faqi. There are 25 floors in the tower plateau, which collapsed many times due to wind and rain, and now only 19 floor is left. The northeast part of the tower, which is now separated by the middle transverse wall, has collapsed to the bottom of the tower; Other faces were covered with cracks and thatch. The main reason for the collapse may be that the pagoda was rammed layer by layer, and the bones and muscles (such as bamboo pieces and steel bars) were not attached to the walls in and between layers, so that the original upper six floors were separated from the lower nineteen floors and fell down. At the same time, because the center of the tower is rammed with yellow mud, there is no batch of mortar at the top of the tower, and rainwater is poured from the middle of the top, and there are no drainage holes around the peak. Therefore, when it rains heavily, the rain pours out from the yellow mud at the top, which leads to the expansion and rupture of the peak, and the thatch and shrub epiphytes in the cracks further form and accelerate the plant weathering of the peak tower, which eventually leads to the collapse of the peak tower.
This "Lingshan No.1 Antique" was born in feudal society, spanning four centuries and several dynasties. Although it is so young compared with the Great Wall in the north, it is so old for today's generation of reform and opening up! She inherited the beauty of Li Xiang, exuded the simplicity of the people and flashed the wisdom of ancient literati. Today, she still turns into a splendid cultural landscape with unique charm and heavy historical accumulation, which deeply attracts people from generation to generation in Lingshan!