The origin of the top prize in Jiangshan Jianglangshan Scenic Area

There is a tower on the mountain opposite Qingyang's ancestral residence in Jianglangshan, called "Qingyang Tower". In fact, this is what it was called later. Its real name is "Wenfeng Tower". The function of building a tower is either to "hold the mountain" or to "lock water". Both of these towers belong to a type of Feng Shui tower - the Shengwei Tower. As for Wenfeng Tower, it is slightly different. If the main purpose of people building the Shengwei Pagoda is to suppress evil and make up for the situation, then the main purpose of building the Wenfeng Pagoda is to promote cultural prosperity and promote the imperial examination: "Every capital, province, prefecture, county, township, If the village is unfavorable to the literati and does not have Kejia, you can choose an auspicious place in the four directions of A, Xun, Bing, and Ding and set up a Wenbi pinnacle. As long as it is higher than another mountain, you can make Kejia or set up Wenbi on the mountain. Or build tall towers on flat ground, they are all called Wenbi Peak. "Qingyang Wenfeng Tower was built in the Song Dynasty. Two major events occurred in Qingyang of the Song Dynasty. First, in the first year of Kaixi, Mao Zizhi, a descendant of Qingyang, became the number one scholar in high school. Became the first number one scholar in the history of Jiangshan. Second, Mao, the champion, knew that he supported Han Zhou in the Northern Expedition to the Jin soldiers, but was defeated again. Han Zhou was killed by the queen. Mao knew that he had inherited his father's ancestral ambitions and supported Prime Minister Han Wanzhou in the Northern Expedition to fight against the Jin Dynasty and regain the Central Plains. However, after the failure of the Northern Expedition, he was dismissed as the No. 1 Scholar for "initiating the use of troops." After several years of depression, he passed away at the age of 36. In order to change this situation of "disadvantage for literati", the Qingyang Mao clan built this seven-level, six-sided pavilion-style hollow brick tower on the mountain opposite their ancestral home. It is said that after the tower was built, Mao's literati flourished again in their official careers, and this continues to this day.