Baojian Gorge

Baojian Gorge

BINGSHU Baojian gorge is located in the western part of Xiling Gorge, between Xiangxi River and Miaohe river. It is said that it is a relic of Zhuge Liang in the Three Kingdoms period. In fact, the so-called "book of war" is actually a relic of the ancient hanging coffin buried in the crevice of the cliff on the north bank. The "sword" under it is just a protruding rock block on the collapsed cliff.

brief introduction

BINGSHU Baojian gorge, also known as Micang gorge. Located between Xintan and Xiangxi, it is about 4 km long. In the crevice of the cliff on the North Bank of the canyon, it seems that there is something like a book. It is said that it is Zhuge Liang's "book of war". There is a stone protruding from the bottom of the book of war stone, which is thick on the top and sharp on the bottom, and points vertically to the river. It looks like a relief sword stone. This is the "sword stone". This section of the gap, known as the "sword of war gap.".

textual research

archaeology

Through the field research of archaeologists, the so-called "book of war" is a relic of the ancient hanging coffin on the hillside of the stone. A medicine collector, with a long rope around his waist, fell vertically from the top of the mountain into the cave, opened the hanging coffin, and took out copper bowls, swords, etc. The so-called "sword" is a rock block protruding from the cliff, which is formed by the collapse of limestone along the vertically developed joints

In the sky, Yin Fu is different, mountains and rivers are always proud heroes.

At the end of the wonderful book, I'm going to climb the cloud ladder.

Human history

It is said that when Zhuge Liang entered Sichuan, he passed by the Three Gorges. He once hid a Book of war and a sword written by himself on the cliffs which are difficult to climb by the river, so that later brave warriors could take it. The above poem is the work of later generations. In addition, some people think that "the art of war is in one mind, the book of war is always solid, and if it is abandoned in the gorge, I'm afraid that future generations will make mistakes.". Zhuge Liang's use of military force was always based on people, time and local conditions, and he never stuck to books. Therefore, it is not unreasonable that he decided to abandon his own military book in the valley in order to make no mistake for later generations.

Today, people can see the "book of war" and the "sword" abandoned by Zhuge Liang on the cliff of the north of the river about five or six miles down the Xiangxi River.

geology

BINGSHU Baojian gorge is also called Micang gorge. On the opposite side of the sword, there is a cave under the overhanging rock at the mouth of the gorge. When the wind blows, the dust leaks into the rock along the stone hole, like grain accumulated all the year round. It is said that it was Zhuge Liang's rice barn.

The Baojian gorge is about 4 kilometers long, with Baituo and xiaoqingtan on both sides of the gorge. In 1978, a stone statue of Quyuan was excavated in xiaoqingtan. It is a relic of Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty. It has been moved to Quyuan Memorial Hall in Zigui County.

Down from xiaoqingtan, there are rocks on the North Bank of the river, such as people fishing with poles, which is called "Jiang Taigong fishing". Further down, there is a moon hole near the water under the cliff. When the water rises and the sun shines on the hole, it looks like a full moon. After the moon cave, we sent troops to shubaojian gorge, followed by the famous Qingtan.

geographical position

The Baojian gorge is about 4 kilometers long, with Baituo and xiaoqingtan on both sides of the gorge. In 1978, a stone statue of Quyuan was excavated in xiaoqingtan. It is a relic of the Jiajing reign of the Ming Dynasty and has been moved to the Quyuan Memorial Hall in Zigui County. It is said that Zhuge Liang left a long sword and two books of war in the western expedition to Shu, which got his name from the cliff of the Three Gorges. In fact, the so-called "book of war" is a few box shaped objects in the half waist gap, which is an ancient rock coffin; the so-called "sword" is a pillar of rock, but at first glance, it looks like a huge relief sword inserted in the torrent.

legend

There are two other legends about this section of the canyon: one is that Zhuge Liang wrote a book about his life experience in military use. Once he was seriously ill, and people around him did not deserve to be awarded, and he was afraid that later life would swallow it alive. He commanded the battle according to his book and stuck to his old book. He chose a dangerous place and put the book on a cliff that is difficult to climb, so that future generations with talent and ambition can get it. On the other hand, at the end of the Qin Dynasty, during the Chu Han war, Liu Bang had a counselor named Zhang Liang. He was proficient in military books and resourceful. He annihilated Xiang Yu's elite troops in the first battle. Xiang Yu fled to Wujiang alone and killed himself. So Chu died and Hanxing died. After Zhang Liang died, he hid his weapons here.

According to records, when Wang Guozhou, the governor of Tang Yazhou (today's Ya'an, Sichuan), passed through the gorge, he saw something like a coffin in the hanging rock. People once climbed to see that there were still bones in the coffin between the rocks. It was also known as "iron coffin spirit trace", so it was called iron coffin gorge. In modern times, there were also medicine collectors who took out bronze swords and other cultural relics from the stone cave of Suiren at the top of the mountain, which confirmed that the so-called book of war was the remains of ancient Ba people's rock coffin.

On the opposite side of the sword of war, there is a cave under the overhanging rock at the mouth of the gorge. When the wind blows, the dust leaks into the rock along the stone hole, just like the grain accumulated all the year round. It is said that it was the rice barn where Zhuge Liang used to collect grain, so it is also called "rice barn gorge".

Experts solve puzzles

Experts in the book of war

China News Agency, Three Gorges, June 3 (quan'anhua, Gao Bingxi) - cultural relics workers in Zigui have taken out the "book of war" - hanging coffin from the crevice of the cliff. The mystery hidden on the cliff for thousands of years has been revealed after the Three Gorges Reservoir impounded 110 meters.

BINGSHU Baojian gorge is a unique scenic spot in Xiling Gorge of the Three Gorges. It is said that Zhuge Liang left a long sword and two books of war in the western expedition to Shu, which got his name from the cliff of the Three Gorges.

It is understood that the thousand year book of war is actually three thousand year hanging coffins. Because it is difficult to excavate the high hanging cliff and can add mystery to the Three Gorges, it has not been excavated.

On June 3, 2003, the water level of the Three Gorges Dam reached 110 meters, only about four meters away from the hanging coffin.

Cultural relic experts from Zigui County Cultural Tourism Bureau and Quyuan Memorial Hall entered the rock crevice to number and sort the coffins, and took out three hanging coffins from the cliff crevice. According to Tang shougui, who participated in the excavation work, no cultural relics were found in the first coffin. In the second coffin, eight copper spears with human heads were found, which are very delicate. There is also a cultural relic like the half side of the fenugreek. The cultural relics in the coffin are neatly arranged, which are divided into the first three pieces, the middle three pieces and the last three pieces. The third coffin contains a sword one meter long, which seems to have written records. In addition, there are several bows and arrows with bronze head and wooden tail. Each coffin has two holes in the wood, which is said to be used for hanging the coffin. There are red, black and white patterns on both sides of the coffin. According to the staff involved in the excavation, it may be made of paint, which is very elegant. The cultural relics that have been rescued are displayed in the Quyuan Memorial Hall in Zigui.

As the cultural relics in the coffin could not be cleared and identified, curator Mei did not want to disclose the specific contents of the Chinese objects in the coffin, but did not deny what Mr. Tang shougui said. Mei Yunlai, who has rich experience in excavating cultural relics, affirms that judging from the dozens of cultural relics that have been cleared up, the hanging coffin is from the Warring States period more than 2000 years ago. He said that the excavation and rescue work of the hanging coffin cultural relics has been approved by the provincial and municipal cultural relics administration departments.

The sword gorge of the book of war will be submerged by the river, and the hanging coffin of the book of war will become people's permanent memory. However, Mei Yunlai believes that cultural relics experts will carefully clean up and excavate the hanging coffin relics, so as to provide more historical evidence for people who pay attention to the culture and history of the Three Gorges.

Address: Zigui County, Yichang City, between Xiangxi and Miaohe in the west section of Xiling Gorge of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River

Longitude: 110.76791095734

Latitude: 30.954513514282

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