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Yingpan Village, Yucheng County, was once an ancient market, formerly known as Renfeng Collection, which was named after the fair's fair trade. Li Zicheng, the leader of the peasant uprising army in the late Ming Dynasty, once camped here, and later renamed it "Yingpanji". Yingkuo Town, the hometown of Mulan not far from here, is also an ancient market. According to legend, the town was named after an ancient training ground. Thousands of years of war have made these two historic towns more famous in the world.
camp a: grateful for the name of Wang yi village
at the end of the Ming dynasty, the government was corrupt, the eunuchs were autocratic, and the people were in poverty. In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, after Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, led the rebel army to attack and return to Shangqiu County, the German government, the army continued to advance eastward.
Soon, the rebel army was stationed in Renfengji (now Yingpanji), more than 3 kilometers northeast of Shangqiu County, Guide House. One day, Li Zicheng led the rebel army to catch up with the defeated troops of the Ming Dynasty, passing through Xiaochenzhuang village in the east of Mamuji (now the residence of Yucheng county government), and suddenly remembered that there was an old friend Chen Youshan in this village.
It turns out that Chen Youshan met Li Zicheng when he went to Beijing to take the exam that year. Because they share the same interests, they became friends. At that time, the government was corrupt and the examination room was dark. Both of them fell into disrepute in Sun Shan. After breaking up, Li Zicheng returned to Shaanxi, organized a peasant uprising team and became the leader of the peasant uprising army, while Chen Youshan, who was honest and dutiful, made a living by farming after returning to Chen Zhuang.
When Li Zicheng walked into the Chen family, he saw Chen Youshan and his wife crying. At this time, Chen Youshan never dreamed that his brother, who had been away for more than 1 years, would come to see him.
Seeing Chen Youshan's heartbroken appearance, Li Zicheng asked him at once. Chen Youshan cried and said, "My daughter Ying Ying, who is still under 16 years old, was robbed by a bully last night to get married. Wolves come as rich and powerful. How can a poor people dare to file a lawsuit with this wicked person? Only watch their daughter fall into the wolf's den. " Upon hearing this, Li Zicheng was so angry that he couldn't say goodbye to Chen Youshan, so he rode back to Renfengji camp and prepared to attack the lair where the wolf was inferior.
"Wolf is inferior" is the nickname of Bei Tianzuo. He is a big bully in Beilou Village, 5 kilometers south of Mamuji City. With his wealth and power, he runs rampant in the village and does all kinds of evil. The local people mentioned that "wolves are not as good as wolves", and they all hated it.
At dawn the next day, Li Zicheng led thousands of soldiers to attack Beilou Village, the lair of "the wolf is inferior". Less than an hour after the fighting, the rebel army broke into the village, captured "Wolf is inferior" alive, rescued the girl Chen Ying, and beheaded "Wolf is inferior" for public.
Before the rebel army withdrew, it opened the granary of "Wolf is inferior" and distributed it to the poor people.
Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, camped in the village around Renfengji for less than 1 days, and eradicated more than 4 local bullies. The local people cheered: "Kill pigs and sheep to meet the king, and the king will not accept food; Good men should be rebels, killing the rich and helping the poor. "
shortly after Li Zicheng led the rebel army away, the people in Renfengji area renamed Renfengji "Yingpanji Village" to show their gratitude to the King Chuang for his great kindness in eliminating violence and helping the poor.
The legend about the "Princess Tomb" in the east of Yingpanji Village makes the former Renfengji more magical.
According to legend, Renfengji is named after a treasure land. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, a southern Feng Shui gentleman went to Renfeng Collection and said privately, "Renfeng Collection looks like a phoenix, and soon there will be an empress Lu." Later, it was really said by Mr. Feng Shui.
in the summer of Yongle period in Ming dynasty, the emperor ordered an imperial envoy to lead 3, imperial forest soldiers to choose an empress in Renfengji village. At that time, at the east end of Renfengji village, there was a farmer named Lu. Although his wife was handsome, she gave birth to an ugly girl named "Fenger". When Fenger was 12 years old, she didn't know how to dress herself. Her nose kept running all day, and people called her "Ugly Ni". In the year of the beauty contest, Lu Fenger was 18 years old. When she heard that the emperor chose the empress, she boldly went to be elected. On the way, she stopped at the lotus pond to wash her face, and in a blink of an eye, she became a beautiful woman.
It turns out that Lu Fenger is the daughter of the Jade Emperor, and golden couple was reincarnated into the world just because she was smiling at the golden boy in the Jade Palace who had not yet been reincarnated. The jade girl was reincarnated as Lu Fenger, and the golden boy was reincarnated as Emperor Yongle. In order to protect Lu Fenger's chastity, the Queen Mother deliberately turned Lu Fenger into an ugly girl.
On that day, Lu Fenger went to the beauty pageant, and Nanhai Guanyin Bodhisattva came to enlighten her. Guanyin in the South China Sea stood in the clouds and sprinkled a few drops of fairy water on the lotus pond where Lu Fenger washed his face from the air, and Lu Fenger was transformed into a jade girl.
When Lu Fenger was chosen as the empress, she was escorted to Beijing by the Imperial Guards and left Renfengji. Unexpectedly, when the Lu family was searching for roots and investigating the remains of stone tablets left by their ancestors, someone accidentally dug up the soil and shoveled off several Lu Wei buds in the soil. At that time, it was seen that blood was leached from the node of Lu Wei bud. In an instant, the blood welled up and soon formed a long ditch. The blood flowed out along the long ditch and flowed westward from the Lujia graveyard into a well in the west of Renfengji. Later, people called that well "Niangniang Well".
Three days later, the southern Mr. Feng Shui came to Renfengji Village again. At that time, he was a centenarian. When he heard the anecdote of Lu Wei's bud bleeding out of Lu Jia's graveyard, he shook his head and said, "The white Lu Wei is like the imperial belt of the official. When it breaks, blood will flow out. Not only can the descendants of the Lu family not go out to the official, but I am afraid that Empress Lu is also unlucky." After that, Mr. Feng Shui left Renfengji Village in a hurry.
Sure enough, Empress Lu was sitting in a sedan chair before she was carried into the capital. She just walked to the Lugou Bridge, suddenly caught a sudden illness and died. When Emperor Yongle heard this, he sent a decree to send the body of Empress Lu back to Renfengji Village for burial according to the royal gift. Since then, people have called the tall grave built in the eastern suburb of Renfengji Village "Princess Tomb".
Shortly after the burial of Empress Lu, Emperor Yongle sent an imperial envoy to Renfengji Village to set up a stone workshop across the street to commemorate the death of Empress Lu.
Although Empress Lu died before she reached the palace, this beautiful legend has been widely circulated in eastern Henan.
bYingkuo: "General Filial Piety" promotes his reputation
According to historical records, the former site of Yingkuo Town in Yucheng County was the capital of the ancient "finished country", which was later changed to "finished state" and county, also known as "finished city". In the Sui Dynasty, there was Wei Mulan, a heroine who joined the army on behalf of her father. Her village in Weizhuang was originally in the east of "Wancheng", so there was a poem of "going out to help the generals" in Mulan Ci. According to legend, the town is a place where soldiers often fight, and it was once full of war. It was named after the ancient training ground. In the Jin Dynasty, Yingkuo Town was named as Suiyang. After the Ming Dynasty, it was referred to as "Yingkuo" and belonged to Shangqiu County. After the founding of New China, it was placed in Gushu County, and it was only in Yucheng County in 1954.
according to research, yingkuo town is a thousand-year-old town, which is the site of Dawenkou culture in the late Neolithic age, with an area of about 2, square meters. Experts believe that Yingkuo is not only the site of the late Dawenkou culture in the Neolithic Age, but also the cultural site of Longshan culture and Shang, Zhou, Han and Tang Dynasties. It is indeed an ancient town site with a history of more than 5,5 years.
But this historic town is famous all over the world because of a woman who disguised as a man and fought in the battlefield for 12 years. For thousands of years, in Yucheng County, Mulan's hometown, the people have compiled Mulan's life story with admiration to commemorate this legendary hero.
In the Southern and Northern Dynasties, there was a Wei Zhuang near Yingkuoji in Yucheng. A member named Wei lived on the Zhuang, and a magnolia tree with a thick bowl grew in front of the courtyard of Wei Yuan. This tree was given to Mr. Wei 1 years ago when he was visiting his friends in Mulan Mountain. At that time, the magnolia tree was only the size of an egg. When a friend handed it to him, he said, "This is a unique root magnolia in Mulan Mountain, which only has long leaves and does not bloom. According to the legend of the elderly, if you can see this tree blooming, you must plant it. The day this tree blooms, it is just the time when the tree planter blessed me. I have arrived in seventy years of age, and I am afraid it will be difficult to have this blessing. I hereby give it to you. " Mr. Wei went home and planted this tree in front of the court. It took ten years in a flash. Mr. Wei worked hard to water it every year, expecting it to blossom, but it never sprouted. Mr. Wei was curious and asked a gardener to manage it. After careful repair from root to tip, the gardener finally made the Mulan tree blossom a white flower in spring. Mr. Wei was very happy and said in public, "Mulan is blooming today, and the villagers are feasting their eyes. Finally, many years of hard work have not been wasted!" Just then, Mr. Wei's wife suddenly cried in the room. Knowing that her delivery date had arrived, Mr. Wei quickly called two experienced old women to deliver the baby. Just listening to the baby crying loudly, the old woman came out to report the good news: "Madam gave birth to a daughter." Many people congratulated Mr. and Mrs. Wei, and some said, "This really corresponds to the words of that friend of Mulan Mountain." Some said, "Brother Wei, I think this daughter should be named Magnolia!" From then on, the girl's name was "Magnolia". Later, she joined the army for her father, made great contributions, and her reputation passed around, but "Magnolia" was called "Mulan".
Mulan Ancestral Hall is located in dazhouzhuang village, yingkuo town, 35km south of Yucheng county, where stone tablets about Mulan's life have been preserved. The stone tablet has a history of nearly 7 years, with a height of 3.6m and a width of 1m. Mulan Ancestral Hall was founded in the Tang Dynasty, and the main hall was rebuilt in the Jin Dynasty, with a statue of Mulan. Mulan Ancestral Hall covers an area of more than 4 mu and has more than 1 buildings, all of which were destroyed by war in 1943. Only the stone tablets of the Yuan and Qing Dynasties still bear the glorious deeds of this heroine.
The inscription reads roughly as follows: "Hua Mulan, whose original name is Wei, was named Mulan, and she was also a descendant of Bo in the Sui Dynasty. The name of the village was originally Weizhuang (now Dazhouzhuang), and the area around Yingkuo, south of Yucheng County, was returned to Bojun in the Yuan Dynasty. Due to frequent wars at the end of Sui Dynasty, the recruitment of brave men had been exhausted, so Mulan took the place of her father, disguised as a man, and fought eight wars out of ten, making great achievements. The son of heaven liked his courage and awarded him the title of Shangshu. Mulan did not accept this, and when she returned the troops, she built a study room, released her Rong clothes, and put on her boudoir clothes, all of which were astounded ... The guards returned with a vibration, and they heard something different about the DPRK. Call back to Korea, want to accept the palace. The general refused with an oath of death, and his power increased, so he committed suicide. " Later, he was awarded "General Xiao Lie".
There are more than 3, words in the stone tablet, which accurately records Mulan's birthplace, surname, deeds and family information. This stone tablet strongly proves that Mulan is a native of Dazhangzhuang Village in the camp.
On November 11th, 27, Yucheng County was officially recognized as the hometown of Mulan by the Ministry of Culture, and the cultural legend of Mulan was designated as a national intangible cultural heritage. Since then, Yingkuo Town has been famous all over the world for its unique cultural landscape.