Talk about the old story of Quyu ancient town
Super rich "Li Shiwan". When the historical rings flew to a certain year in the Ming Dynasty, Quyu ancient town had developed and prospered to a prosperous state of "shops are shoulder to shoulder, the eaves are adjacent, there is a bridge on the river, and you don't get wet when you walk around the town on rainy days". Just as Zhenchuan Fort in Yulin was called "Little Beijing" by northern Shaanxi people in history, Quyu Town in Linxian County was called "Little Suzhou" in Shanxi-Shaanxi Canyon at that time. At the same time that Qikou Town became the richest man in western Shanxi in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, a super-rich man "Li Shiwan" was born in Quyu Ancient Town in the Ming Dynasty-there were hundreds of thousands of valuable things in the society at that time, so this nickname was given!
The extremes of things must be reversed, and the extremes of things must be reversed. God wants to accept "Li 100 thousand", which will affect the whole ancient town. On New Year's Day, the daughter-in-law of "Li Shiwan" was the first to leave the hospital in the morning. A bird perched on a tree said, "Li Shiwan, Li Shiwan, the Year of the Donkey has passed? Year of the Horse? " The new daughter-in-law didn't understand what it meant, thinking that horses were better than donkeys, and casually replied, "The Year of the Horse is over." That year was the year of the horse. First the sky burns, then the flood washes away. With the ashes of "Li Shiwan" disappearing in the west, "Little Suzhou" also destroyed people and fled …
Quyu village reborn from the fire. After "Little Suzhou" was destroyed, a fleeing citizen moved upstream along the Yellow River. When he traveled 200 kilometers north to Hequ County, he found a winding ditch there, which was very similar to his home that had just been destroyed. When I feel homesick, I will stop moving forward and settle down in the new village. In order not to forget my roots, I regard my hometown as my hometown, and the new village as my old village, still named Quyu Village. After hundreds of years, Quyu Village, Hequ County, which inherits the struggle gene of Quyu ancient town, has created immortal achievements beyond its ancestors in agricultural Dazhai, and has become a real model in the national agricultural Dazhai. In the 1970s, the fixed assets of each household exceeded 10,000 yuan! As time goes on, the relationship between the old and new songs and phrases becomes more and more blurred. But just a few years ago, three Qufu people from Hequ County came to Qufu County to seek their roots and ancestors with genealogy in their hands. Trees are high in thousands of feet, and fallen leaves return to their roots. Ancestor culture has been deeply dissolved into the blood of every Chinese son and daughter.
Historical data support. "Qikouzhi" clearly records: "During the Qianlong period, there were many floods. After the destruction of Quyu and backstage towns, the businessmen from the two towns moved south to Qikou to build a new city. " Although this time is at least 100 years later than the story of "Li 100,000" circulated by Quyu people, after the discussion of relevant experts, the general conclusion is all from oral history, which is difficult to verify, but at least two points can be explained: (1) Before the prosperity of Qikou Town, Quyu ancient town was a very prosperous market town in Linxian County; (2) It is an indisputable fact that Quyu ancient town was destroyed by flood.
The 99-hole half courtyard of Baidaoyu Village, 5 kilometers south of Quyu Town, is the first quadrangle in Linxian County. Is her relationship with Quyu Ancient Town similar to Qikou Town and Lijiashan? Before the catastrophic flood of 1976, Kaiyang Beach left so many luxurious tombs, showing the glory of ancestors to future generations in silence. At the beginning of liberation, there were two cypress trees in Zhonggushan Temple in Quyu, which were no thinner than Zhengjue Temple. This is another proof of the thousand-year history of Quyu ancient town. Today, there are more than 30 surnames of 2000 people in Quyu, which shows that the ancient town of Quyu was a place with a large population flow yesterday. Every paragraph, every story, even every tree, grass and tree reflects the long and beautiful history of Quyu ancient town. I can't help asking, if Erqi created the "Feng Shui" in Qikou Town, what "Feng Shui" did Quyu Ancient Town make its fortune?
Appreciate the past scenery of Quyu ancient town
I have heard the old story of Quyu ancient town countless times since I was a child, but I have always been suspicious: in a county with poor natural conditions that "does not have the basic conditions for human survival", in that historical dynasty with almost pure agricultural economy, what conditions can Quyu town accumulate so much wealth and become a "small Suzhou"? Until the Yellow Highway was opened, I stood at a certain position several kilometers upstream of Quyu Town, and when I looked back at the ancient town, I couldn't help being suddenly enlightened. I found the "Feng Shui" that the ancestors of the town created immortal history hundreds of years ago!
Ten miles long beach raw fish. The Yellow River draws two inconspicuous arcs here: one is that the Yellow River leans westward, and the other is that the mountains shrink eastward. Between this deviation and contraction, a full ten miles of beach was vacated. According to the statement that the historical width of Quyu section of the Yellow River is only "talking across the river" and "herding sheep can throw stones at Shaanxi", this long beach should have a maximum area of about 9,000 mu, which is conservative, because ebb and flow will account for part of it. It should be a good opportunity for 2000 people in the whole farming society to live in Quyu Village and Kaiyang Village, supplemented by Quyu Valley and Kaiyang Valley and 2000 mu of mountain land. This is a treasure trove of geomantic omen in Linxian County, 3,000 miles across the country, Chung Shan Man. It's too far away to say clearly, but until the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, the population of Linxian County was only 20,000. It is not difficult to imagine that Quyu ancient town was one of the main population concentrated areas in Linxian County at a very early time.
The rise of five avenues. Agricultural society is also inseparable from exchange. Qufu's population advantage and geographical advantage determine that it is the first choice for gathering and trading market in Fiona Fang within 30 miles 100 village. In the history of using legs instead of walking and donkey instead of walking as the main mode of transportation, Quyu can radiate five roads that can be called roads at that time, which is relatively easy to walk compared with most other villages in Linxian County that "go out without acres of land and climb mountains", or Quyu can attract people from five directions to go to the market: 30 miles south along the Yellow River to Congluoyu; 30 miles north along the Yellow River to Xinglinzhuang; Nanshan Road goes to Zhengjue Temple for 30 miles; Explore Miaojiayan 30 miles from a road in Beishan; Entering Quyugou for 30 miles can radiate half of Shitou Township and half of Leijiazhai Township. In addition, people from Keng Town, Dianzhen Town, Yukou Town and Mutouyu Township in Shaanxi Province on the other side of Quyu Yellow River are also frequent visitors to Quyu collection. If there is no business and no wealth, there will be prosperity if there is gathering. While facilitating villagers' communication, the people in Quyu Town naturally benefit the most.
Next to the ancient town of Huang Hefu. The well-known Suiyuan-Qikou-Jinzhong flood and drought commercial road was banned before the middle of Qing Dynasty, but the regional commercial activities between the upper and lower reaches of this province and between Shanxi and Shaanxi are still going on. Because Quyu Town is convenient on the water, it can sell the goods from Fugu, Baode, jia county and other places back, and because the information in history is blocked, I'm afraid the business is better and the profits are relatively stable, and over time, Quyu was rich at that time, and it was natural to be envied. Saying "Suzhou" is just a metaphor in Xiaotian, which not only shows that Suzhou is too famous, but also shows that our local history is poor, but also has a beautiful yearning. Rich product "Li 100,000" should be the truth that there is no need to enlarge the shadow. As for when Quyu ancient town was destroyed, I have no way to verify it. I think it is neither clear nor clear. Which villages and towns along the river have withstood the test of one or two major floods? Quyu Beach has changed from several thousand mu to several hundred mu, which is undoubtedly the result of repeated erosion by previous floods.
Talk about some urgent matters in Quyu ancient town.
In the past century, the opening of beijing-baotou railway and the depression of the Yellow River shipping industry accelerated the decline of Quyu. The popularization of highway traffic in the whole society makes the development of Quyu ancient town, which is at the dead end of traffic, lag behind. When another millennium comes, Quyu ancient town has once again ushered in the dawn of prosperity. The completion of county and township oil roads and highways along the Yellow River is very obvious to the economic development of Quyu ancient town. However, every time I think about two things about the ancient town, I have to worry.
Rain rot of jujube. One side of the soil and water raises one side of the people, and the ancient town of Quyu is blessed with jujube trees. The annual output of red dates in the town has reached 6.5438+million kilograms, which is the guarantee for the basic life of Qufu people. What is worrying is that jujube trees often rain. In many years, it has achieved fruitful results and a bumper harvest is in sight, but it has watched the jujube trees rot in the continuous autumn rain. In order to control corruption, with the support and guidance of the government, many ovens were built, which reduced the disaster losses to some extent. However, a considerable part of it is rotten on the branches and can't enter the oven. In the face of frequent natural disasters, jujube farmers are helpless, which is called "the year of heaven"
Actually, not necessarily. The prevention and control of jujube pests 30 years ago was also a success of longevity theory, so Shanxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences won the second prize of national scientific and technological progress. A young girl who is going to study in the United States should be treated by a scholar. There are also some practical papers on the internet that prove the scholar's point of view to some extent. Jujube farmers also have a lot of experience in preventing rot in practice to be summarized and applied. Can it be inferred that the problem of jujube rot is no longer a "forbidden zone" of science and technology? Worried, I would like to make a suggestion: In view of the fact that nearly one million people along the Yellow River in Lvliang rely on red dates as their basic source of livelihood, can the municipal government take out 10% of the lost funds of red dates at one time and invest them in the corresponding agricultural institutions to carry out special research, supplemented by mobilizing grassroots cadres to sum up the experience of the masses, and strive to control jujube disasters, benefit jujube farmers and promote the coordinated development of Lvliang? If successful, the lives of these vulnerable groups who are close to the Yellow River, have the thinnest land, the least information and the narrowest way out will be basically guaranteed.
Protection of beaches and towns. Quyu Town was born because of its natural long dike, but the "land of geomantic omen" on which the ancient town started in the past was destroyed by long-term erosion due to the rising riverbed of the Yellow River and repeated visits by catastrophic floods. The second largest beach in Shanxi-Shaanxi Gorge in history, there are only two small beaches, Qianquyu Beach and Kaiyang Beach, each with hundreds of acres of land. Houquyu Beach, which originally lived at the waist of Shili Long Beach, has long since disappeared, from Dongshan to Xishan. As the saying goes, all rivers are water. In Qufu, the Yellow River is higher than the small river. In recent decades, the once-in-a-decade flood in Quyugou is about to enter the town. In order to prevent floods and protect the town, from 30 years ago, the former and later Qufu people made unremitting efforts to build dikes and prevent floods year after year with various forces such as voluntary work, village accumulation and government support, and the project of preventing ditches and protecting the town achieved initial results. Such a phased achievement has made Qu Yuren feel at ease in summer.
However, the yellow dike in Quyu ancient town has not yet started construction, and the awareness of preventing yellow is generally paralyzed. Objectively speaking, the Yellow River has been in Langao for 35 years. More than half of Qufu people have never seen the waves of the Yellow River, so it is difficult to have a sense of prevention, and it is even more difficult to attract enough attention from the government. We should not forget the lessons of history. If "Lishiwan" was washed away by floods for a long time in the Ming Dynasty, then 1976 The Yellow River flood on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month caused the Xiajiayao in Sodagan village to collapse and crush people, which led to the painful lesson of the biggest natural disaster in Linxian history.
There has been no major flood in the middle reaches of the Yellow River for more than 30 years. The concepts of once in 50 years, once in a hundred years and once in a thousand years, which are often used in water conservancy work, may be an extremely severe test for the remaining hundreds of acres of beaches. In order to effectively protect the fertile land on which the people of this ancient town depend, protect the only "Feng Shui" left in the ancient town for thousands of years, and reserve space for the sustainable development of the ancient town, we call on the government and people of insight to pay enough attention to strive for the investment of water conservancy and soil conservation funds, or fully consider the historical value of Quyu ancient town when expanding and repairing along the Yellow River, learn from the practice of Mutouyu Township, carefully plan, reasonably tilt and help the poor. Protecting Tan Liang means protecting the ancient town!
History is silent, and the ancient town is silent; Remember the past and learn from the future. Today's people must not forget the lessons of history, plan ahead and take precautions before they happen. Only in this way can they live better than their ancestors and benefit the present and future generations.