Fangyingtai site

Fangyingtai site

Fangyingtai site of East Lake is located at the side of fruit lake and near Shuanghu bridge in Wuhan East Lake scenic area. It is a famous scenic spot in the scenic area and also the excavation site of historical relics of East Lake. East Lake Falcon terrace East Lake Falcon terrace is about 7 meters high and covers an area of about 8000 square meters. Above luxuriant grass, green trees around, a clear lake, boundless smoke. Fangyingtai in Donghu was discovered in 1956. In 1965, Hubei Provincial Museum made the first archaeological excavation of fangyingtai, and found some rice husk burnt soil of Japonica rice. It is confirmed that it is a Neolithic site, belonging to Qujialing culture type, 5000-6000 years ago. The site contains cultural relics of Neolithic age, Western Zhou Dynasty and Song Dynasty, with Neolithic tombs as the main body. In 1997, the second archaeological excavation of fangyingtai was carried out by Wuhan Museum, and some damaged pottery or pieces of Neolithic age were unearthed. More than 20 tombs of the Tang and Song dynasties were excavated at the upper level of the site. This archaeological discovery fully shows that as early as 6000 years ago, there were human activities in the East Lake of Wuhan, which pushed the human history of the East Lake to thousands of years ago.

Name and origin

The East Lake Falcon terrace is on the Bank of the southwest corner of the East Lake. It is said that Li Bai, the great poet of the Tang Dynasty, rescued and released a goshawk from a clip on this platform after paying homage to Li Beihai's former residence in the third year of Qianyuan (760). Therefore, this platform was gradually called "Fangying platform". In recent years, some scholars believe that Li Bai, the great poet of the Tang Dynasty, probably watched the eagle on this platform or watched others release the eagle. Therefore, this platform should be called "watching the eagle platform" instead of "releasing the eagle platform". However, this platform was originally an eagle platform. And until the beginning of the last century, there were hunters who put eagles on this platform. And the purpose of its Hawking is only to cooperate with the hanging array to hunt deer chickens in the East Lake. Fangyingtai is located in the middle of the west of the flat water area of the East Lake. Obviously, from the perspective of hunters, its geographical location is very moderate. Fangyingtai's geographical location is relatively low. In the early years, the pole grass and lotus growing on the shore of the lake were almost as high as the foot base of fangyingtai. Obviously, from the perspective of hunters, this place needs a soil The table. Therefore, it is reasonable for the platform to be built in this place.

Li Bai and fangyingtai

In 760 ad, Li Bai, a poet, came to Wuhan to visit Li Beihai's former residence at the West foot of Hongshan mountain in Luohong scenic area of East Lake. He walked to the edge of the vast East Lake and saw a earthen platform. He looked up and looked far away. As soon as he got on the stage, he saw a goshawk caught by the clip. He immediately opened the clip and let the goshawk fly. Later, because Li Bai once boarded this platform to release the eagle, it was called "release the eagle platform". Li Bai loved Eagles all his life. When he traveled to the north, he wrote two pieces of "watching and releasing White Eagles". One of them is "in December of cold winter, the goshawk is eighty-nine hair, saying that the sparrow should not mourn each other. It has its own high sky." What about Li Bai's remains in the East Lake? It is said that Li Bai, the poet, wanted to make achievements after he married and settled down in Anlu. Unexpectedly, his official career was difficult and dangerous, and he ran into a wall everywhere, which made him so angry that he failed to accomplish anything after all! One day, he came to Jiangxia to visit Li Yong's former residence in the eastern suburbs. When he thought of the death of others, his family was left in the cold, and his family was poor. Only because he left some handwriting did a few scholars visit him occasionally. Li Bai announced his name, and Li Yong's son welcomed him into the room. On the wall, there was a middle hall inscribed by Li Yong: "those who learn from me die, and those who learn from me are vulgar.". The handwriting is very impressive. It's really a rare good word. But why can't it learn? Li Bai Lue thought about it, understood it, pointed to the middle hall and said, "it's really hard to make a family and write really good words." The words just touched Li Bai's pain, and he thought to himself, "ah ah, it's better to hear than to see. Officialdom is really dirty and vulgar. Li Bai's good shoes don't step on stinky dog dung. Why should I squeeze in to get angry? It's better to be light without an official. He was so depressed that he left home. He could not forget Li Yong's sad image and the nave he left behind. It was even more difficult to forget his poor son. After a few days, he came to visit again. He didn't want to be deserted. His master went to Longquan Temple by Liangzi Lake to be a monk. Li Bai was very sad. He walked eastward along the northern foot of Hongshan mountain alone. When he came to the lake, he saw the beautiful scenery of the lake and the lush flowers and trees, so he sat down on the ground to have a rest. Suddenly I heard a scream of "Chou Chou" in the grass, accompanied by a sound of "fluttering edge". He pushed aside the trees to see that it was the hunter's cover that caught a baby eagle. I saw the hawk struggling, but how can not get rid of the shackles. Li Bai knew that the hunter would soon come to take it away, take it home to feed and tame it, and then drive it to capture other prey and become an accomplice of the hunter. What a pity! Li Bai thought and went forward, untied the noose on the chick's feet and let it go. The young eagle was not excited, circled Li Bai in the sky for several times, and finally flew away. Li Bai looked at the flying Eagles for a long time. His life was full of ups and downs. Then he became more and more happy. He could not help but feel a lot of emotion and moaned: "it's hard to travel, it's hard to travel.". Where are you today? I will mount a long wind some day and break the heavy waves, and set my cloudy sail straight and bridge the deep, deep sea. He made up his mind to live an extraordinary life. From then on, Li Bai was like a hawk in the sky, traveling all over the world, drinking and singing, and no longer wanted to be an official. It is said that because Li Bai let off eagles in the East Lake, there were many Eagles here and they all flew very high.

Story of Fangying

The purpose of Hawking is only to cooperate with the hanging array to hunt deer in the East Lake. Swertia deer is a kind of migratory bird that mainly feeds on a kind of grass called water grass in the lake. Generally speaking, the grass growing in the lake is called water grass, but there is a kind of grass in the lake called water grass. At least that's what some old fishermen on the East Lake used to call this grass. This kind of grass called water grass not only grows long and thin, but also has a long growth cycle. Therefore, this kind of grass has buds almost all year round. The main food of Swertia deer is the tender buds of this kind of grass. The East Lake is just one of the many migration places of Swertia deer in the process of North-South migration. In the past, there were many aquatic plants and roe deer in the East Lake. Even in the late 1960s, most of the water area in the lake was covered with aquatic plants. In some places near the shore of the lake, aquatic plants grew to the surface of the water. In winter, roe deer also grew one by one. Sometimes from a distance, they looked like black gauze on the surface of the lake. Relatively speaking, the east side of fangyingtai Near East Lake is a flat water area with east-west trend, so the wind is usually flat and the waves are small; and the water is shallow and grass is luxuriant. Therefore, in winter, the water surface of this water area is often "spread" by pieces of black gauze. Generally speaking, Swertia deer are more afraid of eagles, and eagles also like to catch Swertia deer, especially individual or outlying Swertia deer, which are easily attacked by Eagles. Therefore, it is not easy for Swertia deer to leave the colony unless there are no eagles in or near this water area for a long time. Generally, the eagle does not catch the deer head-on directly, but takes a circuitous tactic. If the eagle catches the deer head-on, the deer will immediately turn around and fly to the waters far away from the shore. Eagles do not capture their prey in the waters far offshore. If the eagle doesn't harvest outside the deer flock, sometimes it will think directly about the deer flock's mind; if the eagle wants to think about the deer flock's mind, it will fly from the shadow of the lake bank to a certain height above the deer flock's periphery, and then it will fly downward and slant toward the sky above the deer flock. At this time, the Swertia deer found that the eagle from the outer air is not too high and not too far down to fly towards the sky of their own group, the Swertia deer from the edge of the group immediately flew towards the middle of the group, and the Swertia deer from the middle of the group also immediately took off, forming a cone like a hill, and circling rapidly in a counter clockwise direction. At the same time, a very low voice was also found in their mouth And the bleak cry. At this time, the eagle also circled with the roe deer on the top of the "cone". Generally, after two or three circles, it immediately took a roe deer circling around the "cone" as the target and quickly caught it. It is said that the hunter who released the eagle called this phenomenon or the whole process of this phenomenon as "suppressing the deer". Because Eagles can actively create the phenomenon of "suppression of deer chickens", hunters artificially raise and release flying eagles to create this phenomenon, and cooperate with the hanging array to hunt deer chickens in the lake or East Lake. Because of the innate nature of the hawk, once released, it will immediately fly from the shadow of the lake bank to a certain height above the periphery of the hanging array, and then it will fly downward and obliquely towards the sky above the hanging array, forcing or luring the roe deer to circle rapidly in the hanging array or some edge part, so that a small part of the roe deer will automatically cover the looper of the hanging array in the process of rapid circling . The so-called hanging set array is a circle similar to the figure of eight trigrams inserted by the hunter with a bamboo stick in the lake not far from the shore. According to the trend of the figure, there are three rows of loopers between the bamboo stick and the bamboo stick. Fangyingtai is located in the middle of the flat water area of East Lake

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