Meiguan ancient post road

Meiguan and ancient post road

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Meiguan ancient post road generally refers to Meiguan and ancient post road

It is located at the border between Dayu County of Jiangxi Province and Nanxiong City of Guangdong Province. Meiguan is Meiling pass. During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, General Yu Sheng built a fortress here, so Meiling was also called Dayuling. It was the first commercial road in the Tang Dynasty, only 5 feet wide, paved with cobblestones. In the Northern Song Dynasty, the post road was expanded and built, and a pass building was set up on the ridge, with a plaque of "the grand pass in southern Guangdong" and "the first pass in southern Lingnan". In the early Qing Dynasty, a "Meiling" stele was erected on the side of the building, 2.75 meters high. There have been many poems about Meiguan since ancient times, such as Tang Xianzu's Qiu FA Yu Ling in Ming Dynasty and Chen Yi's three chapters on Meiling in modern times.

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Material cultural heritage

Meiling has a forest of pines and plums. Among the six sceneries in Xiongzhou, there are "Yuling cold plum" and "Guandao qiusong". Every year in the plum blossom festival in December, the cold plum blossoms are in full bloom all over the mountains, making it a plum blossom world. It has been one of the famous places in China since ancient times. Starting from zhongguyan at the foot of the mountain and going up the ancient road, Meiling scenic spots include Dayuling road stele excavated in the Tang Dynasty, Laiyan Pavilion, Madame temple, Yuhuang hall, shibeilang, guajiao temple, fangboshi, zhuoxiquan, liuzu temple, Meiguan, etc. it takes about an hour to visit. You can explore the ancient and fly to your heart——

Historical legend

Laiyan Pavilion: it is said that in ancient times, the north Wild Geese flew over Meiling in the South and stayed in groups on the pavilion and the surrounding cliffs. In the ninth year of Yongzheng reign of the Qing Dynasty, Liang Tianlai, a famous scholar in the South China Sea, was killed for a jade pendant. In laiyanting, Meiling villagers help out and go to Beijing to report to the imperial court. It greatly increased the reputation of Laiyan Pavilion. Now there is a long couplet in the pavilion column, which says: "plum fragrance is a hundred Li, and flowers welcome the left migrants. In spite of the Buddha's bones, he bowed down to heaven, and the horse was stationed at the blue pass. Han tuizhi's Fu was full of clouds and snow. He has won Xiangzi Xianyun, sailed to Chaoshan, and written in style for more than a thousand years "Close a thousand cliffs, and the wind blows away passers-by. Burning stone house, injustice, lying alone in the wild goose Pavilion, Liang Tianlai weeping officials and corrupt officials dark. Fortunately, relying on the iron shoulder of the farmer, he was in the shape of Kyoto, where he was in the imperial palace. To this day, the old man still talks about the nine homicide cases. "

Madame Temple: according to legend, in the fourth year of Kaiyuan (716) of the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Jiuling was ordered to excavate the official road of Meiling. The project was very arduous. On the top of Meiling, the rock was hard. It was dug in the daytime and closed in the evening. It had been working for 7749 days without any progress. When she learned from her husband Zhang Jiuling that she was going to sacrifice with the blood of a pregnant woman, Qi Yifen carried a long sword that night and went to the stone at the top of Meiling mountain. Then she raised her sword and died by caesarean section. After that, the road was finally opened. Later, people built the Madame Temple because of their devotion to respecting Qi Yifen.

Chen Yi's three chapter poem Gallery in Meiling: in April 1937, the 46th division of the Kuomintang planned the "Meishan incident", falsely claiming that the central government sent people to Dayu in an attempt to trap Chen Yi. Chen Yi ventured to Dayu City, found that the situation had changed, and immediately returned to Meishan. In May, four battalions of Jiang's army surrounded Meiling. Xiang Ying, Chen Yi and other comrades were trapped for more than 20 days. Jiang's army searched the mountain day and night and found nothing, and finally set the mountain on fire. At the critical moment, there was a rainstorm, and Chen Yi and other special commission leaders were able to get out of danger. The famous "three chapters of Meiling" was written in the desperate situation.

Guajiao Temple: according to Qingyuan county annals, on October 18, the first year of emperor Liang Wu's reign, Dayu and Zhongyang, the second sons of emperor Xuanyuan, who lived in seclusion in Feilai temple, went to yanzuo Temple of Shangyuan in Shuzhou, Anhui Province to discuss with Zen master Zhenjun, the monk in charge of the temple. They said, "Feilai will live in the upper reaches of Qingyuan, build a Daochang, and establish a victory plan. Can you go?" Zhenjun is hard to refuse, so she has to nod her head. In the middle of the night, er Shu Zi used his divine power to raise yanzuo temple and fly south. I plan to fly to Qingyuan gorge before dawn. As soon as I arrived at Dayu ridge in Nanxiong, I suddenly heard the crow of chickens. I was so worried that I was caught in a corner of yanzuo Temple by a high mountain. After a hard rush, one corner of the temple fell to Meiguan in Nanxiong and turned into a temple.

Fangbo stone: in 661 A.D., Huineng made a verse for Shenxiu's verse, and obtained the mantle of Hongren, the fifth ancestor of the sixth generation. Shenxiu knows that Huineng has taken away the bowl and leads the public to pursue and kill. Huineng came to Meiling, exhausted and hungry. In order to avoid fighting with Shenxiu, he put his mantle on a big stone beside Meiling and hid in the dense forest. Shenxiu chased Meiling and saw that the bowl was on the stone, so he couldn't wait to get it. The bowl seems to weigh ten thousand jin. No matter how Shenxiu moves it, he can't move it. Seeing this, Shenxiu looked up to the sky and sighed, "heaven doesn't help me!" He turned back bitterly. Later, in order to commemorate liuzu's escape from danger in Meiling, Buddhist disciples called the stone that liuzu put on his mantle as "mantle stone".

Zhuo Xiquan: Huineng was out of danger. He was thirsty. There was no water on the mountain, so he used his staff to touch the stone, and then he came to Qingquan. The eye of the stone struck by the sixth patriarch's staff is called zhuoxi spring.

Now, after visiting Meiling, we have returned to nature, expressed our return to history and culture, and revered the ancestors of the revolution. The beautiful mountains and lush Meiling must have made us enjoy the beauty of our heart and soul.

Address: at the foot of Meiling mountain, 10 km south of Dayu County, Ganzhou City

Longitude: 114.34664

Latitude: 25.336557

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