Tomb of Dong Yong

Tomb of Dong Yong

Dong Yong's tomb is on the right side of his father's tomb on the shore of Donghu Lake, 2.5 kilometers south of Xiaogan City.

It is said that in the old days, the townspeople looked forward to it and practiced deafness for many times. Later, it became desolate. The existing site is connected with the stone tablet erected in 1836. One pass is 2.1 meters high and 0.9 meters wide, with seven characters of "Tomb of Dong Gongyong, the filial son of Han Dynasty" in the middle; the other pass is 1.4 meters high and 0.5 meters wide, with ten characters of "Tomb of Dong Gongyong, the filial son of Han Dynasty". Calligraphy is meaningful, mellow and thought-provoking. Surrounded by smoke and willows, the path is winding, which is quite interesting.

Dong Yongsheng's life

Since Dong Yong is a real figure in history, where is his hometown? All theories are basically the same. In the stone carvings of Wu's tombs in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the story picture of Dong Yong points out that "Dong Yong is a thousand Chengren.". In addition, the painting of filial son, the story of SouShen, the dictionary of Chinese names and the Chinese dictionary all point out that Dong Yong was a Qiancheng of Han Dynasty. Gancheng began in the Warring States period, "named after Qijing public horse Qiancheng, who often hunted here." In the Han Dynasty, it was a county. Gancheng county and Gancheng county are located in the east of today's Gaoqing County and adjacent to today's Boxing County in the East

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There is also Dong Yong's tomb in Wuzhi County, Henan Province

Dong Yong's tomb is also found in Dongtai, Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province

There is also Dong Yong's tomb in hanjiawo village, Zibo City, Shandong Province. Hanjiawo village is said to be the place where Dong Yong sold himself to his father. 　　

Basic introduction

In the northeast of Dong Yong's tomb, that is, on the North Bank of the 18 Li River mouth, there is a tall, straight, simple and vigorous old locust tree. Next to the tree is a "Temple of fordsheng". It is said that Dong Yong and the seven fairies were married by the old locust tree and the God of land. In order to pay off the debt, Dong Yong and the seven fairies worked in the Cao family's compound. It is said that in order to find fresh water to cook silk, the silk reeling well that the seven fairies used gold hairpin to dig out is still in the courtyard. There is a round stone fence at the mouth of the well, "the mouth is small and deep, and the taste is very sweet, and the drought does not dry up.". Every spring deep, well grass, root length Zhang Yu, people think that fairy trace. "During the reign of emperor qiangshun, Li Cheng built a six corner Pavilion on the well, and Chu Shihuang, the Taizhou division, wrote a poem and carved stone

The goddess of heaven often says "jinjinglan", but the fruit water is still cold. Bo Xing Ying sea for biography, sigh evil never filial son difficult. There is a Ganchang River in the southeast of Cao's courtyard. It is said that the Jade Emperor sent a general to capture the seven fairies and return to heaven. She was ordered to bathe here to clean her Ganchang and earthly customs. There is a Zilang river not far away. It is said that this is the last place to separate Dong Yong and the seven fairies. Both of them cry in other places. There is a "shezitou" by the river where the seven fairies send their children to Dong Shui one year later. Shen Dan, a poet of the Qing Dynasty, wrote a poem in Langhe: his filial son, Danchen, gehaoliu, is said to be connected with the world.

He weaves three hundred pieces a day, and pays ten thousand yuan to his master.

When you have finished your work, I will leave you, but I don't know where the clouds are.

The moon shines on Xixi for thousands of years, but the crane on the top of Goushi mountain has not returned. In the southeast of Dong Yong's tomb, there is a phoenix spring, which is said to be the place where the seven fairies came down to bathe. In 1973, the northern Jiangsu oil exploration team drilled in this well and discovered a hot spring. The well of Fenghuang spring is 2200m deep, the water temperature is 36.6-4l.3 ℃, and the daily water spray is more than 140 tons. According to the determination of experts, the spring water contains lithium, iron, manganese, zinc and other trace elements beneficial to human health. Many people drink or have taken a bath, and they have actually cured diseases that have not been cured for many years. So the village committee built a water tower and a bathroom. In 1985, Mr. Shen Binglin, the chairman of Hong Kong Daye Weaving Co., Ltd., also came here with admiration. He drank the sweet spring water and bathed in the clear "Phoenix pool". He was full of praise. He generously donated more than 100000 yuan to Shanghai Landscape Design Institute to design and build a spa sanatorium covering 16 or 7 mu. In the courtyard, the pines and cypresses are green, the flowers and plants are luxuriant, the winding paths lead to seclusion, and the rockeries, bamboo pavilions and waterside pavilions are scattered among them. From the perspective of climbing the building, the sanatorium is surrounded by rivers and harbors, swaying reeds and willows. In Xixi, there are more than 50 place names related to Dong Yong and the seven fairies. Every year, many Chinese and foreign tourists come to visit and look for the ancient.

Famous scenic spot

Shengsendai

It is said that there is a earthen platform of more than ten feet near Dong's tomb. Archaeologists once excavated pottery pieces from the Western Zhou Dynasty on the platform, while local people say that this platform is the place where the seventh elder sister bid farewell to Dong Yong, which is called "shengxiantai". Under the stage, there is a "fairy pool" with rippling blue waves. It is said that fairies often play and bathe here.

There are several steps on the west slope of shengxiantai, which is called "one hundred steps to climb the ladder". The local people say that this was originally the ladder connecting heaven and earth. Fairies often follow the ladder down to the earth to play, and the people on the earth also climb the ladder to the sky to have a look. For a long time, they annoyed the Jade Emperor and ordered the God to tear down the ladder. From then on, the heaven and earth were divided into two parts, leaving only these steps on the ground. Not far from the "ladder", there is a mound rising from the ground. Under the mound are 13 hills. This is the "rice mountain".

Legend has it that the seven fairies gave their son Dong Tianbao a gourd with rice, and told him that he could only cook one grain of rice to satisfy his hunger at a time. Later, thirteen rich men's sons took the rice gourd together and poured all the rice in the gourd into the pot to cook. In an instant, the rice in the pot swelled into a rice mountain and put the thirteen rich men's sons under it.

Historical legend

20 kilometers west from Wuzhi County, for centuries, women, old people, children and children here have been praising an eternal topic, that is, the moving legend of Dong Yong and the seven fairies. One by one, they speak in such a vivid and lively way, and their pride is revealed in their eyebrows.

Dong Yongsheng was born on the third day of the second month of the lunar calendar in 14 BC. His father, Dong Xiu, knew how to forge iron and make wood. He lived in Dadong, Wuzhi. Dadong village was destroyed by Qinhe River and moved to Xiaodong village. When she was very young, her mother didn't want to be bullied by villains and killed herself. With a shoulder pole and Dong Yonghe's luggage, his father fled to Gaoping, Shanxi Province, where he made a living by striking iron. Dong Xiu is a good craftsman and loyal man, and is very popular with the local people. After living in Gaoping for a few years, she found a stepmother for Dong Yong, and her mother and son are close as flesh and blood. Later, he lived in Chang'an. At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Wang Mang usurped the throne, Chang'an was in turmoil, and his father fell ill again. His father brought his wife and children back to Xiaodong village in Wuzhi and died a year later. At that time, Dong Yong was only 12 years old, and his heart was very sad. Seeing that their family was too poor, the villagers were willing to help him bury his father. However, young Dong Yong was very filial. He said that his father had been a carpenter and blacksmith all his life, and he died without a coffin. As a son, he would rather be a "grinding donkey" himself than buy a coffin for his father to bury and support his stepmother. To the east of Xiaodong village, there is a Fu village. There is a rich man in Fu village. Besides being called Fu Yuan, he has a business name in Xiaodong market town. The owner of the business shop agreed that Mr. Fu bought a coffin to help Dong Yong bury his father, and Dong Yong went to the Fu family to serve as a slave for life. At that time, Shi Shi, Shi Ma and the stone mill and stone mill used by Dong Yong are still there.

Since then, every day before dawn, Dong Yong got up to work in Fu village. At night, he took care of his stepmother with a rice can. After a long time, he walked out a path in the field. Although the farmers cherished the land, they were moved by Dong Yong's filial piety and kept the path he had taken. Even the grass on the path was moved. It fell East in the morning and West in the evening. It did not trip Dong Yong's feet. The story of Dong Yong selling himself to bury his father, becoming a "Modao donkey" and getting up early and coming back late to take care of his stepmother has spread far and wide. It has moved the imperial court, moved heaven, and moved seven fairies, one of the daughters of the queen mother. After coming down to earth at the luoxiantai of Xiafan village, they call the wind and rain on Dong Yong's way home and meet Dong Yong under a big locust tree in Huaiyin temple I want to be close to Dong Yongcheng. Dong Yong said that he sold himself as a slave and could not afford a daughter-in-law. He also said that there was no human evidence or material evidence. Seven elder sister said that she was willing to suffer poverty with him, so she took Sophora tree as the medium and land as the evidence. Dong would never believe it unless the Lord of the land appeared to testify and the old tree spoke. So the old tree began to say that they had been married in their previous lives. Dong Yong and his seventh sister got married under the tree.

Seven elder sister want to redeem Dong Yong, pay yuan Wai to make things difficult, let seven elder sister in three days to weave a hundred yellow silk, but give is messy silk. The seventh sister burned incense and turned to her sisters for help. In one night, she finished weaving 100 colorful yellow silk. In exchange for Dong Yong's freedom, she lived a happy life of men's farming and women's weaving. Just a hundred days later, the Jade Emperor found out that the seventh elder sister had come down to earth and sent her back to heaven. The seventh sister was pregnant and agreed to return their children to the place where they met one year later. The next year, Dong Yong took back his son, and the story that couldn't be completed finally had a relatively satisfactory ending. Because the story contained too many unrealistic life dreams in more than 2000 years, it was so charming and prosperous that it always went deep into people's hearts.

Dong Yong and the seven fairies are three or four miles east of Xiaodong village, which is beside Huaiyin temple where Dong Yong and the seven fairies are married. Zhao Faping, who is in his 60s, also talks about the local dialect slang with great interest. His father teaches his son, and he will say, "if you want to marry a fairy, you should first see your virtue." When talking about marriage, the sisters will say from the bottom of their hearts: "if you marry, you should marry Dong Yong. Only if you are smart, capable and not crafty, can you be satisfied." Young men and women decide to live their lives in private. They will ask the right person: "go, kowtow at Dong Yong's tomb, and hold hands at Huaiyin temple. Heaven and earth will never change their minds in this life and the afterlife!" one thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven

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