Huizhou Huang Chao

Huangchao Mountain is 67 1 m above sea level, which is not prominent in Huizhou, which is rich in scenic resources. Not as high as Mount Luofu, not as beautiful as Nankun Mountain. It is not even the first peak in Huiyang District. However, Huang Chao is the only mountain in our city named after historical celebrities. Its characteristics lie not only in this, but also in the beautiful natural environment and exquisite stone scenery on the mountain, which have great tourism potential. As early as 10 years ago, the voices and plans for developing Huang Chao's tourism resources kept pouring out, but for various reasons, Huang Chao was still unknown to people. In the past three years, the reporter started from Maxi Village, Hu Yong Town, Xinwei Town, Guo Hua Village and Dingshan Village, Zhenlong Town, Huiyang District, and climbed to the top from the south, north and west, and collected a lot of information about Huang Chao. I believe that the veil of Huangchao Mountain has been lifted to some extent. Reason: If Huang Chao wants to know about Huang Chao in Guangdong, he can't help but mention Huang Chao, who led the peasant uprising in the late Tang Dynasty. According to relevant historical records, in December of the fifth year of Ganfu (878), Huang Chao led an army to capture Fuzhou, Huang Chao invaded Guangdong at the beginning of the following year and Guangzhou in September of the same year. Although Huang Chao moved to Guangdong for less than a year, he left many related place names and legends in northern and eastern Guangdong, and Huang Chao is one of them. Some domestic scholars who hold the theory of "from Fujian to Guangdong" believe that after Huang Chao captured Fuzhou, the route to Guangdong was along the coast, passing through Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Hanjiang River and Dongjiang River valley in eastern Guangdong, and finally captured Guangzhou. Therefore, before Huang Chao army enters Guangzhou, it must capture Zhou Xun (the upper reaches of Dongjiang River) before it can enter Guangzhou along the banks of Dongjiang River. The steep Huang Chao, 30 kilometers away from Huizhou city, is a fortress in the southeast of Guangdong. Huang Chao once camped in Huang Chao. It is worth noting that Huang Chao is not unique to Huizhou. Fujian, Hunan, Jiangxi and northern Guangdong all have places directly named after Huang Chao, and there are at least five in Huang Chao alone. Wherever Huang Chao's army went, it almost left relevant place names or legends. It is no coincidence that so many place names are named after the same person. Many scholars and experts believe that once the names of historical figures become place names, they have the characteristics of long-term inheritance and not easy to mutate. Therefore, Huang Chao is likely to be named Huang Chao by later generations to commemorate the peasant leader Huang Chao. Another Hakka custom supports this view: there is a custom of hanging kudzu vine every year in the Dragon Boat Festival in Hakka areas. The origin of kudzu vine stems from the Huang Chao Uprising. It is said that Huang Chao felt the virtue of a Hakka woman, and let Hakka hang kudzu vine to avoid war. Because Huang Chao is very kind to Hakkas, Huangchao Mountain is of great significance to Huiyang where Hakkas live in compact communities. Wonder: The place name and legend of "Flying Stone" on the boulder are of historical value, but if Huangchao Mountain itself does not have a unique temperament, it will be an inconspicuous mountain. Climb to the top from the northeast slope of Huangchao Mountain, then cross a hill to the west, and you can see a flat peak plain. Looking from a distance, huge stone landscapes followed, which made tourists sincerely sigh. The most spectacular stone scenes are Dieshi Fairy Palace, Baishi Cliff and Fairy Cave. The so-called stacked stone fairy palace is a palace made of stone. Below is a boulder, with a boulder on it and a "flying stone" on it. Although this grotesque flying stone is not tall and majestic, it is also steep and majestic, and it looks wobbly enough for people to stop and watch and sigh the magic of nature. After visiting Shi Die Fairy Palace, experts said that this flying stone should be integrated with the mountain at the bottom. After hundreds of thousands of years of weathering and rain erosion, the rock with the largest particle size at the top developed into a ball, and finally formed such a pictographic stone spectacle with ornamental value. Compared with the mountains of stones, the "Fairy Palace" looks shabby. This is a hill temple dedicated to an old man known as the "King of Seven Dishes of Stars". The mountain temple next to the flying stone is only in ruins, and some broken stone tablets are scattered everywhere. From the words on the stone tablet, we can vaguely see an old story: a lonely old man once lived here. The old man was kind-hearted and helped many farmers who went hunting in the mountains. After his death, people missed him and built this temple here. There is a tombstone at 0/0 meter from this temple/kloc-0, which reads "Fude Old Man's Tomb". It can be seen that the old man didn't even leave his surname, so the villagers called him "Old Man Ford". Judging from the raw materials and handwriting of the stone tablet, it should be a relic before the Republic of China. Baishi Cliff is located on the steep ridge in the west of Huang Chao, and the cliffs on both sides are almost vertical. Walking on it is inevitably scary. On the north and right side of Baishi Cliff, there is a group of huge stones that seem to grow horizontally, which is what the locals call immortal cave. The Fairy Cave is not a real cave, but actually a huge stone shelf on several big stones, forming a huge space that can accommodate 10 people. The hole is very narrow, only one person can pass through, and the hole is flat. It is said that Xianren Cave was the headquarters of the guerrillas in those days, and it was highly concealed. There is also a name called "Yaopo Stone" in Xianren Cave, and the "Yaopo" spoken by Hakkas is the eagle. Only overlooking the immortal cave can we find out the appearance of Chu Ying. The two huge stones on the left and right are eagle wings, and the eagle head in the middle is magnificent. History: If we don't pay attention to the ancient plank road and the arsenal, it will be difficult to find the ancient plank road on Huang Chao Mountain. Before S357 provincial highway connects G205 national highway and Huidan highway, Maxi, Tiger Claw and Laoweixia villages in Hu Yong town in the north of Huangchao Mountain have not been connected with the outside world, so they can only take mountain roads. Among them, the two ancient roads to the south are plank roads crossing Huangchao Mountain: one is along the northern slope of Huangchao Mountain, over several ridges, through the tip of Mazong, directly to the east waist of the main peak of Huang Chao, and across the ridge to Guo Hua Village of Xinxu Town; One is from the north slope of Huangchao Mountain to the southeast, passing Shuangtian and Zhoutian Village in autumn, leading to fresh water and Aotou. These two ancient roads have been used until the early 1950s, and they are an important way of life for the old Hakkas in this area. It was not until the cement road was opened that the people in the mountains completely bid farewell to the plank road with a history of hundreds of years. Nowadays, except for the Shuangtian Ancient Road, which was occupied by the reservoir and lost its original appearance, other ancient roads on the mountain are still faintly visible. This ancient road, whose construction date can't be verified, twists and turns, like a historical scroll of stone carving, faithfully records the hardworking, pioneering and enterprising spirit of Hakka ancestors in Huangchaoshan area. In addition to the ancient plank road, there is also a little-known revolutionary relic on Huang Chao Mountain, which is the former site of the underground arsenal of Mandongwo Dong Zhong. During the period from 1938 to 1948, Mandongwo has always been a small base of Dongjiang guerrillas, and the terrain that is easy to defend and difficult to attack makes revolutionary soldiers very relieved. From 194 1 to 1943, the column set up a gun maintenance point in Mandongwo, which was responsible for gun maintenance in Qiuchang, Xinwei, Zhenlong, Chen Jiang, Tonghu, Lilin and Hu Yong. During the period from 1942 to 1944, Dongjiang column was still making bullets in Mandongwo! Nowadays, it is as difficult to find the traces left by soldiers when they made bullets as it is to find the remains of the Huang Chao Uprising Army. Nowadays, things have changed, and it has become a part forgotten by many people. According to the tourism development plan of Huiyang District, Huang Chao will be built into an ecological pastoral leisure area. If possible, we must record the historical legends of Huang Chao and let future generations know about our ancestors.