Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 191 Stone Toad Town

After crossing the dam in the middle of the river, Shima Town is in front of you.

Here is also a strange thing. The boat sailed from the head of the middle dam to the end of the middle dam, but it didn't stop at the middle dam. It had to stop at the small pier in Shima Town on the riverside after the two rivers rejoined.

Like Rongshan Town, Shima Town was built at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, because there is a huge stone shaped like a toad at the end of the old street next to the pier, and people call it the Toad Stone, hence the name of the Toad.

More than a hundred steps in front of Hama Stone, there is a spring gushing out from the crevice of the stone. The spring water is clear and sweet. People built a well here, named Hama Well.

However, because Shima Town lacks the support of a large national-level factory, the structure is still the same as that of the old town, which is much smaller than Rongshan Town. It is only an old street.

There are many farmers selling green fruits on the old street, and the quality is very good.

Green fruit is olive. Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" contains: "Olive, although this fruit is ripe, its color is also green, so it is commonly called green fruit."

In the Fujian and Guangdong regions, green fruits are mostly salted and candied. For example, when Su Dongpo tasted green fruits in Lingnan, he wrote, "Green seeds drop red salt one after another, and the taste is bitter and harsh. When it is slightly sweet, it will return to the cheeks, and it has been poured with cliff honey." Very sweet".The description is to eat with salt.

In Jiachuan, this fruit is mainly eaten raw.

There is also stewed pork belly with it, which is the same as stewed pork belly with bitter scorpion, which is the top grade for clearing fetal heat and detoxifying fetus.

The taste of this fruit is actually very strange, it is sour and astringent at the beginning, but after chewing the initial sourness, it will be full of sweetness.

Therefore, it is deeply loved by Jiachuan people, and there is even a folk song singing about it-"A green fruit with two pointed ends, the skin is crispy and fresh, and it tastes a bit astringent at the beginning, and you only know the aftertaste is sweet after a long time."

Because of this characteristic of "bitter first and then sweet", "Compendium of Materia Medica" also specifically mentioned a point: "Its taste is bitter, and it will return to sweetness after a long time. Wang Yuanzhi's honest words are harsh, and chaos is thinking about it, so he is called Jianguo".

Jin Jihan's "Nanshan Vegetables and Trees" contains: "Although the taste of olives is bitter, the fragrance of the mouth is better than the fragrance of chicken tongue, and it is a tribute at the age of Wu, and it is bestowed on close servants."

That is to say, it also has the effect of cleaning the mouth and refreshing the breath.

The friends are all from Jiachuan, and they like it very much, so Zhou Zhi picked a good one and bought a few catties. After inquiring, he found out that this green fruit is a local specialty of Shima Town.

This is another strange thing, obviously there is only one waterway, sour green fruits are abundant on the shore here, while sweet sugar cane and longan are abundant in the heart of the river.

Then the farmer boasted that the green fruits of his family were harvested from the old tree, and everyone in the town knew that it was the oldest tree behind Qingyuan Palace.

Eh?Zhou Zhi felt as if he had heard something good, and after inquiring again, it turned out that there was an old temple in the town called "Qingyuan Palace", and the god worshiped there was called "Chuan Zhu".

Zhou Zhi suddenly became interested: "So Qingyuan Palace is actually Chuanzhu Temple?"

The old farmer said: "Yes, our Shima Qingyuan Palace has had a large temple fair since the Ming Dynasty. The first month is the Shangjiuhui, the March is the Qingjiao Festival, the June is the most lively Chuanzhuhui, and there is a Lantern Festival in September. Pole will."

Zhou Zhi said, "That must be the busiest event in the Sichuan Lord's Association."

"We have a saying that this is the bustle: whenever there is an event, thousands of people come and go, half of Jiangjin, half of Jiachuan, there is a lot of people, and the incense is constantly burning..." The old farmer was happy: "Huh? But you, little baby, do you know all about it?"

"Hey," Zhou Zhi also smiled, "I also know that Chuan Zhu's birthday is June [-], right?"

"Right!"

Zhou Zhi stood up: "Old man, where is Qingyuan Palace? Let's take a look."

"There is a 500-year-old big camphor in Qingyuan Palace, which is easy to find!" After talking with Zhou Zhi, the old farmer said, "You guys came here to play in Jiachuan? Then we also have Daiyun Pavilion, Dengyun Temple, Qianfoyan, you all go and see it!"

"Really?" Zhou Zhi originally planned to visit Zhongba, but he didn't expect that there are so many scenic spots in Shima Town, so he hurriedly inquired about the places and the time of the last ferry to the island.

Qingyuan Palace is really easy to find. A stone staircase at the end of the old street leads to it. The main reason is that a big camphor tree on the right side of the main entrance square is too conspicuous.

There are exactly forty steps in the front of the palace, and there are eight flower terraces on both sides of the steps. After walking the steps, there is the mountain gate, which is a stone archway with six reliefs of Taoist legends.Above the main entrance of the stone archway is engraved with the word "imperial decree", with a prime minister on each side.There are three big characters "Qingyuan Palace" in the horizontal book on the lower forehead, and the writing power is quite good.

There is no need for any tickets here, so you can play at will. After entering the mountain gate, you can find that this is a representative work of a typical clubhouse + temple building.

The theme buildings include the stage, Chuanzhu Hall, Lingguan Hall, Jade Emperor Hall, Sun Moon Pavilion, Qingfeng Pavilion, and a garden with many century-old trees.

After checking the inscriptions, we found out that this temple was built in the fifth year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty. As the old farmer who sold green fruits said, it was almost 500 years ago.

The whole temple is very distinctive, it is not only a standard traditional building, but also a "compound courtyard" with a unique style in traditional buildings.

The entire temple is surrounded by three-foot-high wind and fire walls.The temple is a beam-lifting brick, wood and stone structure.The carved reliefs are of exquisite craftsmanship, the corners of the cornices are raised, and the floor is paved with slate.

The big pattern is three halls and one theater building in the courtyard, symmetrical on both sides, and there are two high pavilions on the left and right, namely Wenwu Kuixing Tower.

On both sides of the stage, there are also left and right guest rooms for men and women.

The front and rear halls are supported by 32 large columns, and like the Fawang Temple in Jiachuan, they use stone columns.

It has the characteristics of Ming and Qing Dynasties. In addition, the latter is a very distinctive place, that is, the green glazed tiles are used uniformly on the top of the entire temple, which perfectly matches the lush green shade of the towering old trees around the temple.

While everyone is visiting, Zhou Zhi spreads knowledge to everyone,

The Chuanzhu meeting is actually an important custom of the people in western Chongqing, southern Sichuan, and northern Guizhou.

The [-]th of June in the lunar calendar is the "birthday" of Li Bing, the sage of water control. Because of the legacy of the Dujiangyan Water Conservancy Project, Li Bing is revered by the people of Bashu as "the Lord of Sichuan" and "Great Bodhisattva".

Therefore, every year around the [-]th of June in the lunar calendar, the people will organize sacrificial activities, forming the "Chuanzhu Temple Fair".

According to local customs, during the event, the statue of Li Bing is usually carried on a trip, and folk activities such as fetching water, praying for blessings, and offering sacrifices are held to express the nostalgia for Li Bing and pray for good weather and good harvests.

During this period, it is of course inevitable to hold lantern festivals, temple fairs and folk drama performances.

Zhang Xinyi said: "I used to only know Dujiangyan and Erwang Temple, but I didn't know that there are temples dedicated to Li Bing even in Jiachuan and Yuzhou further downstream."

"Actually, there are many theories about the origin of Sichuan Lord. Some say it is Yang Jian, a minister of the Shang Dynasty; Achievement figures."

"Furthermore, the custom of offering sacrifices to the Lord of Sichuan is not limited to the Bashu region, but is also held in Yunnan, Guizhou, Hubei, and Shaanxi provinces."

"Just like Emperor Wangcong, no matter how many times these temples and ancestral halls have been destroyed due to war or political factors, as long as people understand their deeds, they will always restore those ancestral halls after the limelight has passed. Repair and rebuild."

"What's this called? This is the real thing, and it will always live in the hearts of the people."

(End of this chapter)