Xieyuguan Village

Xieyuguan Village

Xieyuguan village is located 13 kilometers south of Mei County, Baoji City, Shaanxi Province. It is now merged with jigusi village to form xiegu village, where Qishan, Mei County and Taibai counties meet. Generally speaking, there is the meaning of "one man is in charge of the pass and ten thousand men are not allowed to open it". At that time, Shu and Wei were entangled by the Weihe River in Guanzhong. Zhuge Liang led the Shu army out of Qishan six times, mostly through the Baoxie ancient road. Xieyu pass is a place where the autumn wind is bleak. It interprets many solemn and stirring legends and preserves the remains of wind and dust for thousands of years. There are two people in the valley. They are called baoxiegu in the north and baoxiegu in the south. It is 470 Li long. The mountains on both sides are steep. In ancient times, it was a place for military strategists to control Sichuan and Sichuan.

Village style

Xieyu pass has East and West passes, which are under the jurisdiction of Qimei county. Xieyu village in Dongguan, an ancient castle, has been destroyed by war, leaving only half of the ruins. It is a street about 300 meters long and 5 meters wide from north to south. There are many shops and stalls on both sides. Especially in the golden autumn season, people in twos and threes are looking for an open space beside the street to set up shops for picking wild chestnuts, pecans, Schisandra chinensis and other mountain goods. The goods are fresh and cheap, and buyers don't bargain. They sell out before noon.

In contrast, Xiguan is much more desolate, with only a dozen families, adjacent to a miscellaneous goods store and a forestry checkpoint. But Xiguan is an ancient post station of the Three Kingdoms, which leads directly to wuzhangyuan via luoxingbao path, which is more mysterious. It is said that in the autumn of 234 A.D., when Zhuge Liang stationed his troops in wuzhangyuan for the fifth Northern Expedition, Wei Yanji, the pioneer of Shu, reported the military situation and rushed into the account recklessly. He carried the wind to attack the lamp, causing the star to fall and Kong Ming to drive the crane. In order to prevent Sima Yi, the commander of Wei, the army of Shu retreated quietly from wuzhangyuan, luoxingbao and xieyuguan along Baoxie Road, secretly but not publicly, to Mianxian County in Hanzhong, where they mourned. Therefore Xieyu Xiguan has become the northernmost post station of Baoxie ancient road for thousands of years. Most of the literati and refined scholars travel from Wuzhang to the south, along the valley and along the gully, personally experience the plank road, trace and visit the ancient times, and capture the clues of Zhuge Liang's six trips out of Qishan.

The stone dam across the river between the East and the West Pass was built in 1935 by the famous water conservancy expert Li Yizhi and Jingluo Engineering Bureau on the site of Meigong canal. The length of the stone dam is about 300 meters, with a drop difference of 6 meters. All the stones are made and pasted by the river stone selected by the draftsmen on the spot, and the joints are filled with mortar, which is solid and smooth. If there is a flood season, the waterfall formed by the fall of the stone dam is magnificent, shocking and spectacular. When the situation is usually weak, the water falls like a curtain, and the villagers who come and go between Dongguan and Xiguan pull up their trousers and wade barefoot across the dam. There are also urchins chasing and frolicking on the wide dam surface. Regardless of the situation, water splashes everywhere, causing the anger of adults carrying mountain goods on their shoulders.

Reservoir construction

Major project construction -- Shitouhe Reservoir

The history of Xieyu pass was written in the 1970s and 1980s: tens of thousands of migrant workers from Guozhen, Fengxiang, Qishan, Meixian, Fufeng, Wugong, Zhouzhi, Xingping, Xianyang and nearly 1000 workers from Shaanxi Hydropower Engineering Bureau were stationed on both banks of Shitouhe River in front of Xieyu pass. They worked hard to build Shitouhe Reservoir, the tallest clay core earth rock dam in Asia.

All the migrant workers in each county are young and strong basic militia. They are called corps and set up battalions, companies, platoons and shifts. The management system follows the army's style. Inside and outside the barracks, blackboard newspapers, walls and banners are full of passionate slogans, such as fighting for heaven and earth, making up one's mind, not afraid of sacrifice, working hard for three months and fighting for 100 days. At the construction site of nuodea, red flags are on display, people are surging, bulldozers are roaring, muck trucks are shuttling, hammers and chisels are hitting, air guns are drilling, and the sound of carrying stones and ramming is the most beautiful symphony in dam engineering. In that month, life was very hard. The builders lived in a shed built of reed and linoleum, slept in straw buns, ate pickled porridge and black steamed buns, and ate a meal of saozi noodles or rice with some meat and fishy fried vegetables for ten and a half days. It was like celebrating the new year. They were so excited that they pounded the bowls and basins,.

From October 1971 to the Mid Autumn Festival of 1985, a dam with a height of 114 meters, a length of 590 meters, a top width of 10 meters and a reservoir capacity of 150 million cubic meters was finally built to store water after 14 years of hard work and sweat of 10000 builders. The original intention of building Shitouhe Reservoir is irrigation, power generation and flood control. It is not expected that soon after its completion, new functions will be added to benefit urban residents - providing drinking water for the four cities in Guanzhong, namely Xi'an, Xianyang, Yangling and Baoji. Shitouhe Reservoir has become a real "Guanzhong water tower". It is commendable that in order to protect the water source, the original plan to build xieyuguan tourist scenic spot suddenly came to an end. Tourism resources give way to water resources and ecological protection, reflecting the open-minded high wind of xieyuguan people.

Never forget the well digger. When the Shitouhe River, which originated in Qiuquan of Taibai Mountain, is clean, clean, pollution-free, and high-quality drinking water flows into thousands of households, moistening the hearts of urban residents, I think they will not only smile on their faces, but also be grateful. They are full of respect for the builders of Shitouhe Reservoir.

Youyou Xieyu pass, the surging stone river. Every year, spring, summer, autumn and winter, it carries history, develops civilization, benefits people's livelihood and lives on. Nowadays, more and more people come here to visit their youth, to enjoy the autumn, or to look back on the past. Facing the millennium old pass, they look up at the Baizhang dam. No matter how loud they sing, no matter how deep they feel, they sit and lie as they please. They have no end to return.

special snacks

1. Guojia stewed meat

Guojia stewed meat continues the traditional method of stewing, and each process is extremely exquisite. From the selection of breeding pigs to the natural breeding, it is processed by hand with the natural spring water of Shitouhe Reservoir. The essence of the stewed meat is the gravy, which has been used for a hundred years. The taste is pure and authentic. Unfortunately, although Guojia stewed meat enjoys a high reputation in the local area, it is "fat but not greasy", It's a pity that Guo Gengsheng's stewed meat is only for family members. This kind of cooked meat is not for sale. During the period of stewing, the flavor is attractive and attracts countless customers to buy it. The old man's forthright spirit will say "if you want to eat, say it and taste it casually".

2. Juanshi Mahua

Juanshi Mahua uses a unique secret recipe. Every process is also hand-made. The fried Mahua is crisp on the outside and crisp in the inside. The color is golden. There is a custom of visiting relatives on New Year's day in the local area. One of the gifts must be Mahua. The custom is exquisite and the production is excellent. It has become a well-known folk food in the local area It is affectionately known as "Mahua Xishi", and the inheritor of juanxicui is the wife of Guo Xiaoan, the eldest son of Guo family.

3. Whistle face

4. Steamed bread

5. Guojiamianpi

Rolling noodle is evolved from lengtao noodle in Tang Dynasty. It has the characteristics of somersault, softness, cool fragrance, hot and sour taste and is suitable for all seasons. It is one of the foods with ethnic flavor in Northwest China. Its dough is well-known for its excellent material selection, rigorous technology and exquisite seasoning. It is cool and delicious with "white, thin, smooth, soft, gluten and fragrant". Now it is an important food in Guanzhong. Qishan noodle, formerly known as "Yujing powder", is related to the emperor. It is said that during the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, Wang Tongjiang, a native of Qishan, came back to his hometown from the Imperial Palace in Beijing and passed on his apprenticeship. Also known as "brewing skin", "wheat flour skin" and so on. Nowadays, Qishan "Mianpi" is the most authentic "Mianpi" in the folk life of Shaanxi.

In pursuit of its origin, some people of the older generation said that "Mianpi" originated from Xieyu pass and is popular today. The most famous local product is Liangpi made by Guo Xiaoping of Guo family. It has good color, fragrance and taste, and has a high reputation in the local area.

Main attractions

1. Myth stone: general stone, crouching tiger stone and cockscomb stone

There are three boulders on the Nuoda river bank: Jiangjun stone, Wohu stone and JIGUANSHI. Known as the "three treasures of Xieyu pass", no one knows it within a radius of 80 Li. Standing on the east side of wenjiashan overlooking, Xikou general Shi looks like a majestic general, standing upright, and like a sword piercing the green sky. It is said that Zhao Yun, the general of the five tigers, once held a gun and tied his horse here, so he got the name. In the middle of the river bed, a huge natural stone tiger was standing beside a pool of water. It was covetous and awe inspiring, adding some dignity to Xieyu pass. JIGUANSHI, near the east gate of the stone dam blocking the river, was like a golden rooster, charming and naive. The older generation called it Shenji, Yiming three counties There is a divine chicken warning to help villagers get out of danger. It is said that these three stones are the three treasures of suppressing evil. In the past thousands of years, numerous mountain torrents have broken out, and no matter how turbulent and rampant they are, they have never been submerged. No wonder before the flood season, you can see that these three precious stones are wrapped with a lot of red cloth strips, which express the pious peace and blessing of the villagers in and out of the mountains.

2. River blocking stone dam [commonly known as "danger" by local people]

There is a canal gate at both ends of the stone dam. The Dongguan canal gate is divided into two main canals 500 meters downstream, which respectively irrigate tens of thousands of mu of fertile land in dozens of towns in Qimei county. The water of Xiguan canal sluice passes through the artificial canal on the half slope of luoxingbao and slowly goes northward, moistening the fertile wuzhangyuan of 12 square kilometers. This is the national famous water conservancy project in the 1950s - shuishangwuzhangyuan, which is a miracle of water conservancy construction in the early days of the people's Republic of China. I am the father of a senior high school classmate surnamed Du, who made outstanding achievements in wuzhangyuan water conservancy project and was once received by Premier Zhou Enlai

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