The gate of death

The gate of death

The gate of hell is a pass in Chinese mythology. In reality, according to the entry of Cihai: "Guimenguan, the name of the ancient pass. In the west of Beiliu County, Guangxi, there is a confrontation between Beiliu county and Yulin County. Here, there is a confrontation between the two peaks, and Zhongcheng is closed, only 30 steps in between. Because it is located in tropical and subtropical humid environment. In ancient times, there was a lot of miasma, mosquitoes, mice and ants. At night, it was covered by a white fog, and the crow of the bird was very terrible.

interpretation

Explanation one

In traditional Chinese legend, the boundary between yin and Yang is beyond the boundary; the edge of death. Yuan Yang Xianzhi "cold pavilion" the fourth fold: "in the gate of death to seize this frozen body." "Journey to the west" Chapter 10: "suddenly saw a city, hanging on the gate of a big card, written on the" pylorus hell gate "seven big gold characters." Guo Peng's Liu Yasheng: "it's rare for a man like him to stand at the gate of death and make fun of himself!"

Explanation 2

The name of the ancient pass is called "Yin Yang Dao" in the province. Yudi Jisheng was named Guimen pass, which was renamed Hangu pass in Xuande middle of Ming Dynasty. In the west of Beiliu City in Guangxi, it is located between Beiliu and Yulin. There is a confrontation between the two peaks, which is 30 steps wide, commonly known as the ghost gate. In ancient times, there was a traffic rush to Qin, Lian, Lei, Qiong and Jiaozhi. General Ma Yuan of Fubo of Han Dynasty took Jiaozhi as an example. Because of the epidemic, few of them survived. As the saying goes: "the gate of death, ten people go, nine do not return." So it's called "ghost gate". The poets of Tang and Song dynasties were banished to the wilderness, through which the dead met one after another.

Explanation 3

It refers to a dangerous situation. Yuan fankang's "bamboo boat" the first fold: "I and you kick the gate of death, open the Huai'an Road, a pillow Nanke enlightenment. Stop being entangled by the name of Li Suo again. " Chapter 14 of Lao Can's Travels: "the sale of Cuihuan is enough for him It's pitiful to see an honest child sent to the gate of hell. " Laoshe's "exuviation" is the second: "even if Tianjin is the gate of death, they have to break out and be a free man."

Ancient pass name

Guimenguan, Beiliu City, Guangxi

Guangxi Beiliu City Guimenguan, also known as Tianmenguan. It is located in Tianmen Mountain, gancun village, Beiliu Town, Beiliu City, with the ancient name of Guimenguan. In 1429, it was changed to Tianmen pass. At that time, people carved three characters of "Tianmen pass" on the stone wall of Shandong side. Beside it, there was a small poem: "travel thousands of miles to Tianguan pass, see the sea and mountains from the end of the world, cut the spines and look for the old inscription, and still intend to return it to the north.". Today, the three characters of Menguan are still impressive. Because of its long history, the writing of that poem is not clear.

According to the entry in Cihai: "Guimenguan, the name of the ancient pass. In the west of Beiliu County, Guangxi, there is a confrontation between Beiliu county and Yulin County. Guimen pass is recorded in ancient books. It is said that it is "high cliff gorge, dangerous situation, double peak confrontation, like closing the door. If you pass here, you will enter Guimen". In ancient times, it was a necessary passage from the Central Plains to Qin, Lian, Lei, Qiong and Jiaozhi. Many celebrities passed through it. From the Han Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, the rulers took it as a place for relegated criminals. For example, Li Deyu, Prime Minister of the Tang Dynasty, and Su Dongpo, a scholar of the Song Dynasty, were demoted to Hainan. After Li Deyu came to Hainan, he wrote a poem: "once you go ten thousand miles, you will know where you are, and you will live through the ghost gate" to describe the remote environment and the dangerous road when you passed the ghost gate. "Xingdi Jisheng" was named Guimen pass, which was renamed Tianmen pass in Ming Dynasty. Xu Xiake, an outstanding geographer of the Ming Dynasty, made an investigation from Luchuan to Beiliu in 1637. In Xu Xiake's travel notes, he wrote: "the gate of ghosts is ten miles north of the river, and the two peaks are opposite each other. When passing by, there is a saying that" ten people go to the gate of ghosts, and nine people don't return it. ". There are too many words

In March 1986, the people's Government of Beiliu county (now Beiliu City) announced it as a cultural relic protection unit.

In reality, there are ghosts. Guimenguan (also known as Tianmenguan) is located in the west of Beiliu County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, at the junction of 60000 mountains and Darong mountains. Because there are too many miasma and pestilence here, it's hard for those who go there to survive, so it's called "ghost gate". In the Southern Song Dynasty, the general record of geography "Yu Di Ji Sheng" was named "Gui men Guan"; in the Ming Dynasty, it was renamed "Tian Men Guan". Li Deyu, the Prime Minister of the Tang Dynasty, Su Dongpo, the poet of the Song Dynasty, and Xu Xiake, the travel expert of the Ming Dynasty, all passed through this pass.

Before the Tang Dynasty, "Guimenguan" had a variety of names. It is said in the old book of Tang Dynasty and the book of Yu Di Ji Sheng that Guimen pass was originally called Guimen pass. In the Yuan Dynasty, the Lian visiting envoy changed it to Kuixing pass, and in the Ming Dynasty, it was also called Siming pass. In the fifth year of Xuande in the Ming Dynasty (1430), three characters "Tianmenguan" and a small poem were carved on the stone wall on the east side of the mountain gate, saying: "travel thousands of miles to get to Tianguan. You can see the sea and the mountain from the end of the world. You can cut the spines and find the old inscription on the cliffs, and you still want to return it to the north." So far, the three big characters of "Tianmenguan" still stand out on the cliff, but the little poem is illegible.

The title of "Guimenguan" came into being after the Tang Dynasty. What really made Guimenguan well-known and famous is Li Deyu, Prime Minister of the Tang Dynasty, who wrote "demote Yazhou": "where is Yazhou, where is Guimenguan born?" At that time, he was relegated to Hainan and was at the lowest point of his official career. When he passed through the gate of death, his sorrow suddenly came to his heart, and he could not help singing the boundless sadness and despair. At that time, the communication between the Central Plains and the South became more and more frequent, but compared with the Central Plains, the traffic in the South was still very closed. To the south of Guimenguan, the road is dangerous and desolate. The smell of "miasma" caused by tropical and subtropical humid environment is suffocating. Qin, Lian, Lei and Qiong are the places where the feudal dynasty exiled the "rebellious officials", especially Qiongdao, which is "half a year's flight for birds", desolate and desolate, sparsely populated, with the end of the world and boundless Cape. The officials who are used to living in the north and the central plains are relegated. After passing through the gate of death, they almost have no hope of survival. Since then, the name of "Guimenguan" has surpassed other original names and spread to the present day.

Since the Tang Dynasty, "the gate of ghosts" has become one of the most famous poets in the world. Xu Xiake, a great geographer of the Ming Dynasty, wrote in his travel notes: "the gate of ghosts is ten li to the west of the North stream, with steep cliffs and deep valleys, and two peaks opposite each other. When you pass by it, there is a saying:" the gate of ghosts, ten people go, nine people don't return it. " There are too many words The precipitous terror of the gate of death is on the paper. Zhu Lin, a Cantonese in the Ming Dynasty, returned to the north after leaving office in Qiongshan County, and wrote a poem out of the gate of Ghosts: "the northward flow is still in sight, I like to go out of the gate of ghosts. I'm glad I'm all right.

In the past, many people did not return, but now I am the only one. Looking back at Qiongshan County, I can see the miasma in my head. " The poet released his ecstasy and excitement to his heart's content. It seems that what he is far away from is not the gate of death, but the door of life and death! Among the celebrities who have been relegated through the gate of hell in the past dynasties, Su Dongpo, a great literary giant in the Song Dynasty, has to be mentioned. Su Dongpo was demoted to Danzhou, Hainan, and his brother Su Zhe was demoted to Leizhou. Su Dongpo, 62, and his son Su Guo first went to Tengzhou to have a talk with Su Zhe. Then they took a boat to the dock of Dongsha street in Beiliu City, and went to Danzhou through the gloomy and terrible gate. Su Dongpo lived in Danzhou for three years. Until 1100, song zhezong died and song Huizong Zhao Ji succeeded. Su Dongpo's life had a turn for the better. In the same year, Su Dongpo was demoted to Lianzhou, where conditions were better. He had just arrived and was ready to take office. He was pardoned again. The imperial court allowed him to return to the north, and appointed him as the deputy regiment training envoy of Shuzhou. As a result, Su Dongpo and his son Su Guo set out from Lianzhou to go north, passing through Bobai, Yulin and Beiliu, and then passed through the well-known ghost gate again. I don't know whether it's ecstasy or excitement, but he wrote "crossing the gate of hell" with great poetic interest: "since crossing the gate of hell, the destiny comes from the people; the northerners shed tears, the southerners laugh, and the Qingzhang TIANTI asks the cuckoo." It means that after passing through the gate of hell, human life is just like the urn boat with human bones in the south. It runs dangerously in the river without any guarantee of safety. Near the city of Beiliu, he chanted another sentence: "Yang Fen should know the number of heaven's reason. After the ghost gate comes out, it is human." The hope of political rebirth revived in his heart, and he happily chanted: "the end of the world has been used to meeting people and days, and the way back is still more joyful than ghosts." In the same year, Su Dongpo and his son easily walked through the gate of death and stayed in Beiliu again. It is said that all the people in the city came to see Su's elegant demeanor at that time. All afternoon, accompanied by the county magistrate and the squires, Su Dongpo watched the "autumn wave of Guishui" in Beiliu river. Su Dongpo wrote poems and chanted the autumn wind. Several hours later, he was reluctant to say goodbye to the common people of Beiliu. When the water of Guijiang river became clear and shallow, he was unable to sail, so he hired someone to set up bamboo rafts at Guijiang Wharf in the east of the city. At dusk, Su Dongpo and his son Su Guo set up their bamboo rafts in the setting sun and set off all the way north along the clear Guijiang river. In order to commemorate Su Dongpo, people built a "Jingsu building" where he boarded a raft and returned to the north. The image of Dongpo returning to the north by raft was carved into stone and inlaid in the gable to admire for all ages. The stone statue has been well preserved and has become a cultural landscape of the North stream.

Guimenguan has always been an important traffic road. Cihai, a large comprehensive dictionary, records that Guimenguan, the ancient name of Guimenguan, is located in the west of Beiliu County, Guangxi. The boundary is between Beiliu and Yulin counties. There is a confrontation between the two peaks, and Zhongcheng is closed. In ancient times, it was the main traffic to Qin, Lian, Lei, Qiong and Jiaozhi.

As early as the Western Zhou Dynasty, at the beginning of China's ancient maritime exchanges with the outside world, Yuetang, in the 10th year of King Cheng of Zhou Dynasty (1054 BC), sent envoys to zhouduhao to pay tribute to the royal family of Zhou Dynasty. The road is far away, the mountains and rivers block it

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