Nine big frogs, one carrying the other, piled up layer by layer. What do these mean? What is their origin?
Many friends think that "Nine Frogs Statue" is a scenic spot in Sun Moon Lake. It's really not that complicated.
These nine big frogs are neither places of interest nor aquatic animals. On the contrary, they are not special at all and are often criticized.
1999, Sun Moon Lake newly established landscape management office, referred to as "air duct office".
This unit is similar to our tourism bureau. At that time, in order to express congratulations and commemoration, local artist Shen was invited to make this bronze sculpture about four meters high-nine frogs.
Frog modeling is adopted because our ancient ancestors have a deep-rooted "frog worship".
Frogs are big and croak. Every time they breed in the pond, there are hundreds of them. In the eyes of the ancients, it was a symbol of having children and reproducing offspring.
Among the unearthed cultural relics, there are frog totems, ranging from frog-patterned jars in Majiayao to jade frogs and seismographs in Liangzhu culture. The tomb of King Cuo of Zhongshan unearthed in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, also found all kinds of small jade frogs with both form and spirit, representing endless prayers.
This is the case with the "Nine Frogs" in Sun Moon Lake. The nine big frogs have different postures and expressions, which are quite lively.
It's just that the bronze statue has just been erected, and something big has happened in the local area.
"Nine Frogs Overlap" was established in 1999. In that year, a strong earthquake of magnitude 7.6 occurred in Nantou, Taiwan Province Province!
This earthquake happened very strangely, and it is still a special case in the history of earthquakes until today.
Generally speaking, Taiwan Province Province is located at the junction of the Eurasian plate and the Philippine Sea plate, and it is an earthquake-prone area. However, the earthquakes in Taiwan Province Province mainly occurred in the eastern coastal areas such as Hualien and Yinan, and Nantou, where Sun Moon Lake is located, is located in the central mountain range, which is not an earthquake-active area.
However,1September 2, 1999165438, an earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale occurred in Nantou, with a focal depth of 8 kilometers, resulting in a fault zone of 105 kilometers on the surface.
The "9.2 1 Nantou Earthquake" was the largest earthquake in Taiwan Province Province at the end of the 20th century. Cities and villages near the earthquake fault suffered catastrophic damage, and many places were razed to the ground, resulting in 23,265,438+0 deaths and more than 8,000 injuries.
Unexpectedly, after this natural disaster, people pointed the root of the earthquake to the "portrait of nine frogs" in Sun Moon Lake, saying that these nine big frogs destroyed the local geomantic omen. Even an earthquake researcher surnamed Sun in Taiwan Province Province, through the Taiwan Province media, vowed that since nine bronze frogs were stacked in Sun Moon Lake, the level of earthquake activity in Nantou area began to rise.
It is really a teacher of yin and yang to associate the statue of Nine Frogs with the earthquake, but this statement is easy to make people think blindly and confuse people for many years. So that in 20 13, there was another earthquake in nantou, and many people went to "smash frogs to eliminate the disaster" ...
At best, this "nine-frog overlapping image" in Sun Moon Lake is a scenic spot device placed on the frog head trail, which uses a little residual heat as a hydrological measurement sign and uses the number of frogs exposed to the water to indicate the water level.
When there is a lot of water, one or two frogs are usually exposed, and it is not uncommon for nine frogs to come out together like this. In March of 20 13, the spring rain didn't come, the water level of Sun Moon Lake dropped by 4.5 meters, and nine frogs appeared in unison. It's not even once every ten years.
Taiwan Province Province is a rainy island, and Taiwan Province Province has drought. Putting these two things together sounds illogical, doesn't it?
It's easy to understand with a little explanation.
The average annual rainfall in Taiwan Province Province is about 25 10/0mm, which is 2.6 times of the average annual rainfall in the world. The world ranking can be 12 and 13. There is no doubt that Taiwan Province Province is a region with abundant rainfall.
However, the island of Taiwan Province Province is long and narrow from north to south, high in the east and low in the west, with more rainfall and less rainfall storage, so it will be dry when there is less rainfall every year.
Since there is little rainfall, why not build several reservoirs to store water and prevent drought?
I don't know that either!
As it is now, nine big frogs have been born in Sun Moon Lake because of drought. Shouldn't we build water conservancy, artificial rainfall and actively fight drought?
But people must do something to pray for rain. In this case, Jam Hsiao is also stupid. ...
As the largest natural lake in Taiwan Province Province, Sun Moon Lake is the top stream of scenic spots in China.
Because, in the Chinese textbook of the second grade of primary school, there is a text of "Sun Moon Lake". Over the years, our Chinese textbooks have been revised repeatedly, such as who is the cutest person, the five strong men of Langyashan, Liu Hulan ... But this Sun Moon Lake has never been moved, and it has always been a compulsory course in Chinese classes in primary schools.
Because this lesson represents the feelings of the country and people towards Taiwan Province Province.
I hope Sun Moon Lake will come back soon and put the frog back in the well ... No, put the frog back in the water.
"In the morning, there is a thin layer of fog floating on the lake. The morning star on the horizon and the small lights on the mountain are all faintly reflected in the lake. "
It is the Sun Moon Lake in our collective memory.