Ancient plank road of Mingyue Gorge

Ancient plank road of Mingyue Gorge

Mingyue gorge ancient plank road is located at the mouth of Jialing River in Chaotian District of Guangyuan City. It is the starting point of the national Jianmen Shu Road scenic tourism line and a key cultural relic protection unit at the provincial level.

Mingyue gorge plank road was excavated from the Warring States period to the Song Dynasty. The earliest one has a history of more than 2300 years. Domestic experts call it "three outstanding ancient buildings comparable to the great wall and the canal". In Li Bai's Shu Dao Nan, there are "six dragons returning to the sun on the top, and a shockwave reverse turning back to Sichuan on the bottom.". Huang Hu's flying is not enough, ape and oyster want to cross the sorrow and climb "is a true portrayal of this dangerous terrain.

Mingyue gorge, where the ancient plank road site is located, integrates six ancient and modern roads in one gorge, including Jialing River waterway, pre Qin plank road, Baocheng railway, Zhufu Road, national highway 108 and Jinniu post road. It is known as "China Road Traffic Museum" and "living fossil" of China Road traffic. It was on this ancient plank road in the pre Qin period that many important historical events took place, such as Xiao He renovated the plank road, Zhuge Liang prayed for the mountain six times, Emperor Ming of Tang Dynasty was lucky to Shu, and Li Baizhuang wrote "the difficulty of Shu Road", which added a strong historical and cultural accumulation to the ancient plank road.

History and culture

The world-famous ancient plank road, the great wall and the canal are listed as the three outstanding buildings in ancient China, which are the crystallization of the diligence and wisdom of the ancestors of the Shu Han Dynasty. The ancient plank road of Mingyue gorge is the most dangerous one with the most scientific shape and structure, the best preserved and the most ancient plank road style among all plank roads in China.

The ancient plank road of Mingyue gorge before Qin Dynasty fully embodies the three-dimensional cultural pattern of historical traffic, culture and science and technology. Its unique high-grade culture and rich connotation make it a rare research material for scholars and a good place for nostalgia, lyricism and self-cultivation. Mingyue gorge was an important communication channel between Shu and Guanzhong and Central Plains for a long time. In the Qin and Han Dynasties, Mingyue gorge became an important channel for the rulers to control the Western Qin Dynasty in the north and control Bashu in the south. According to historical records, the plank road was excavated at the end of the spring and Autumn period and was widely used by people in the middle of the Warring States period. It is said that Liu Bang and Xiao He entered Guanzhong through this plank road. During the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Liang attacked Cao Wei in the north, and the account of the Chinese army was also set at the post of Chibi near Mingyue gorge.

There are also exquisite stone carvings of Song Dynasty tombs, Xiaohe stele site, and Qibi post where Zhuge Liang wrote a memorial to Houchu Shibiao during the northern expedition of Cao Wei. Many foreign friends come to Guangyuan to enjoy seeing the style of ancient plank road. CCTV's "Shenzhou Caifeng", "Zhengda variety show" and more than 40 other TV stations have produced special columns to introduce them. People's Daily published evaluation articles, and films and TV plays such as the romance of the Three Kingdoms, King Liu Bang of the Han Dynasty and the garland under the mountains were filmed on location in Mingyue gorge. Today, although the real ancient plank road no longer exists, its far-reaching influence and long history will make its historical records remain famous and its relics remain.

Surrounding environment

Chaotian gorge is located in the north of Guangyuan City, about 30 kilometers south of Chaotian Town, and two kilometers south of Jialing River. The total length of the gorge is about 4 kilometers, the width is about 100 meters, and the stone cliffs stand on both sides. To the east of the gorge is the famous Chaotian ridge, which is about 2 kilometers deep. It is a gorge formed by the Jialing River breaking through the mountains. Chaotian gorge can be called the throat of the throat of Shu Road. It is the only channel connecting the north and the south. The terrain is steep and advantaged.

Related records

According to the records of Yuanhe County, Jiange road extends from the southwest of Yichang county to Dajian town Zhuge Liang was in charge of Shu, and he chiseled stones to build the attic road of Feiliang. " "The stele of the way to raise pen post road" records in detail, which clearly describes the time, route and engineering difficulties of repairing the plank road. It is an important supporting material for the study of traffic roads and Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition. In Tang Dynasty, Song Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty, Ming Dynasty, Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China and new China, the culture in the gorge has its own characteristics, but all of them developed with the traffic road as the main body.

Poets such as Li Bai, Du Fu, Lu You, Yang Shen, Li Diaoyuan and Zhang Daqian left many paintings and poems through Guangyuan Dynasty.

Address: Chaotian Town, Chaotian District, Guangyuan City, Sichuan Province

Longitude: 105.89282568816

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