After more than 2,000 years of vicissitudes, the ancient post road in Meiguan is still intact. Meiguan is a natural barrier across Jiangxi and Guangdong provinces, where the mountains are steep and the peaks are facing each other, which is a battleground for military strategists in past dynasties. Meiling in Meiguan is a section of Daguanling, one of the Five Mountains (Nanling), so Meiling, also known as Daguanling, has always been famous for plum blossoms. Mei Juan, the son of Gou Jian, the King of Yue, built a city here and planted plum trees on the ridge, hence the name. In 2 14 BC, Zhao Lun led his troops into Guangdong via Meiling, and set up Hengpu Pass at Lingkou, also known as Qin Pass, which was the earliest pass in Meiling. In the fourth year of Kaiyuan in the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Jiuling ordered people to expand the ancient road in two years, with a width of 2-4 meters and a length of 8 kilometers, paved with bluestones and pebbles.
The existing Guanlou was built in the Song Jiayou period, and it is a masonry structure, simple and magnificent. The "Southern Guangdong Xiongguan" at the northern threshold and the "Lingnan First Pass" at the southern threshold were inscribed by Jie Jiang, the magistrate of Nanxiong during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. On the north side of Guanlou, there is a tall stone tablet engraved with two powerful characters "Meiling" in regular script, which was set up by Zhang Fengxiang, the magistrate of Nanxiong in Kangxi period of Qing Dynasty. The Meiguan Ancient Road is the best preserved ancient post road in China, and its charming and unique plum blossom scenery has attracted literati from all previous dynasties to enjoy plum blossoms, inscribe poems and carve monuments here, which is really a "plum blossom poem all the way". Chen Yi, the founding marshal, also wrote his masterpiece meiling three chapters here.
Attractions; Ling Jie Bridge is an important bridge on the ancient post road. It is a single-hole stone arch bridge, located on Meishan water, with steep terrain and deep water. The bridge is 8.5m long, 3.65m wide and1.3m high. It is made of granite. Legend has it that in the past, this bridge was covered with a tile shed to shelter from the wind and rain. Column holes can still be seen in the stones on both sides of the bridge. It was built in the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, and Zhu Hua donated money to rebuild it in the Hongzhi period of the Ming Dynasty. At that time, the county magistrate wrote it down and named it Ling Jie Qiaokou.
Meiling post house, also known as "post house", is a place where ancient officials and couriers stayed and exchanged horses and chariots, and it is also an institution for transmitting military information and news. According to records, in the Zhou Dynasty, China built a building on the main road to provide accommodation for former officials and postmen. Postal service has a history of more than 3000 years, but there are not many sites and cultural relics left behind. The ancient post station mainly played the role of receiving letters and messengers. I had to deliver a letter for several days, so it was called "a letter from home is worth a ton of gold". Meiling Gang, also known as Dayu Gang. County annals: 20 kilometers south of Shuicheng, the mountains are undulating and towering, and the old inn in the north is engraved with "Plum Blossom Country". In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the inn moved to the city's post gate. Say water horse post. There are chariots and horses on land and red boats on waterways. There is also a donkey shed in the post house, with 80 people sent by the groom, several red boats and 20 horses. The rebuilt Meiling Post Office was built by the county people's government in 199 1 year. The site is located in the east of Ling Jie Bridge, at the foot of Meiling, and it is said to be the ancient dismount. Sitting in an east-west antique building, it is a Hakka flip-flop design, which is divided into two parts, the front is a tortuous corridor, and the back is a semi-circular house composed of several columns. Between the corridor and the house, a semi-circular courtyard is formed. The gate is the rest peak, with yellow glass and red lacquer powder columns. The couplet: Nan 'an is half broken with water, that is, Meicheng Mountain Flower.
Yun Qi Pavilion, formerly known as Banshan Pavilion. Founded in the Song Dynasty, it was even more famous in the 13th year of Guangxu (1887) when Zhou Hao, the magistrate of Nan 'an, was rebuilt. Yun Qi Pavilion is one of the scenic spots in Meiling Scenic Area. This museum was built in 199 1 and funded by Jiangxi Provincial Tourism Bureau. Covering an area of 27 square meters, it is hexagonal, with a side length of 1.85 meters and a pavilion height of 7.44 meters. There are railings and cement benches around for tourists to rest and enjoy the scenery. The pavilion roof and ground are inlaid with plum blossom patterns, which are light and beautiful. Pavilion column couplets, recorded in the pavilion couplets in the Qing Dynasty: come to the south to drink water, and return to the fairy to carry Lingbei Cloud. On the original site of this exhibition hall, a "Mei Jie Pavilion" was built. It was built to commemorate Chiang Kai-shek's visit to Meiling in 1946, but the people were very dissatisfied with it, because the pavilion was built to search for people's fat and paste. Therefore, the "Mei Jie Pavilion" was destroyed shortly after its completion.
General Yu Temple is located between the pavilion and Meiguan, on a relatively open hillside dozens of meters west of the ancient post road. The General Yu Temple was built to commemorate Yu Sheng's meritorious service in defending Meiling in Han Dynasty. General Yu's surname is Yu, a famous scene. In the fifth year of Ding Yuan in the Han Dynasty (1 12), after Yang Pu, a ship general, took care of South Vietnam, he and his brothers stationed troops in Lingbei to build Yucheng and defend Meiling. Because he is the boss, he is called Dayu. After his death, people here built shrines to commemorate his achievements. Dayu County was originally named Dayu, and Meiling was called Yuling to commemorate General Yu Sheng.
According to legend, the temple site was originally the place where the Han garrison camped. 199 1 year, Dayu county people's government chose this place to build the general temple and the Chaohan platform. The shrine is an antique temple-style brick-wood structure with three bays and 90 square meters. There is a statue of General Yu in the main hall, and couplets are engraved on the pillars in front of the shrine:
There may be no plum blossom, just say the general's surname; From now on, I can pass by Guangdong, and I hope I will never forget the romantic life of the Prime Minister.
A few steps in front of the shrine, there is a concrete platform surrounded by a kitchen with stone railings, called Hantai, which is said to be the flag-raising place in An Lushan in the Han Dynasty. The flag-raising in ancient times was similar to today's. Raising the military flag shows that this is a garrison camp, and it is also a form of showing soldiers' loyalty to the court and the country.
Located at the top of Meiling Mountain, Meiguan Building stands on the watershed of Meiling with the trend of "combining the north and the south", so it is called "crossing two provinces in one step". In ancient times, there was no connection here. In the pre-Qin period, Meiling was the "southern gate" of Chu, also known as the "southern gate". After Qin Shihuang unified China, Hengpu Pass was established here. The former site is located on this Xiong Yu highway and is called Xiaomei Pass. Today, the rest of the museum building is called Damei Museum. It is a key cultural relic protection unit in Jiangxi Province. Meiguan was founded in the eighth year of Song Jiaqing (1063). County annals: "Jiangxi has the right to punish the Nan 'an army, and Cai Ting stands in Meiguan to divide the river and the wide world. "Because of the war in Meiguan, Guanlou was overhauled, and the existing remnant Guanlou was rebuilt in the 26th year of Wanli of Ming Dynasty (1598). In the past, Guanlou was divided into two floors, the upper floor was the tile roof and the lower floor was the city gate. Today, the upstairs has collapsed, leaving only the door closed. The entrance is 5.5 meters deep, 3.5 meters wide and 3.5 meters high. There are gates and bolt holes on both sides of the door, so there are several overlapping doors. It is really "one person's strength, invincible in the world." On the city gate, there are stone tablets in the north and south, and the inscription on the stone tablet in the south is "South Guangdong Xiongguan" in four Chinese characters, without any signature. On both sides of the city gate, there are couplets that say, "May pedestrians quench their thirst and riot. "... is a topic of Li Hua in Ming Ting in the early years of Guangxu. The five characters "Lingnan No.1 Pass" are engraved on the stone tablet of the North Gate, and the inscription is signed by Jiang, the governor of Nanxiong during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. The east is the only path to climb the building. Three meters to the west, stands a huge red stone tablet engraved with the Chinese character "Meiling". The monument is 2.7m high and1.2m wide. It was inscribed by the magistrate during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, and the words were vigorous and powerful.
Meiguan has always been a battleground for military strategists. The north and south of Meiling have been ancient battlefields since ancient times, and many heroes in history have left traces here. In modern times, the Northern Expeditionary Army led by Sun Yat-sen entered Jiangxi via Meiguan, and Mao Zedong and Zhu De also led Gongsijun to capture Meiling. Peng led the army to a stalemate with the White Army here, and later organized the famous Shuikou Campaign of Changchang with the Red Army, which defeated the encirclement and suppression of 20 regiments of the White Army in Meiling area. After the Red Army's Long March, Chen Yi and Xiang Ying broke through the Central Soviet Area and established a guerrilla base area with Meiling as the center here. They persisted in guerrilla warfare for three years. Chen Yi wrote such brilliant poems as Deng Da Yu Ling, Smuggling into Meiguan and meiling three chapters.
Meiguan was also a tax collection checkpoint in ancient times, with tax cards and lijin cards, and salt tax and stamp duty were levied on north and south goods. In feudal times, it was an important place for the state treasury to collect income. According to historical records, during Jiaqing period of Qing Dynasty, the business tax of Dayuling was twice as high as that of Wuchang Pass 1200. It can be seen that Mei tariff card played an important role in the national treasury income at that time.
Meiguan is a place where people seek the past to win. Recently, leaders of Chen Pixian, Zhiyong Mao and other countries and armies, as well as social celebrities such as Li, Yu Guangyuan and Zhao Zhongxiang visited Meiguan. The film and television industry also filmed news documentaries such as Meiling Spark, From Slave to General and Hakka with Meiling and Meiguan as the location, so Meiling and Meiguan are well-known at home and abroad.
Yunfeng Temple, also known as Guajiao Temple. The original temple is located on the south slope of Guanlou, in an open space to the east of Liuzu Temple. There are statues of Zhang Jiuling and Zhang Bi in the temple, so it is also called Zhanggong Temple, or "Zhang Er" Temple, to commemorate their achievements in opening up the ridge and repairing the post road. The shrine was destroyed in the Cultural Revolution, leaving only a poem tablet with Hunan written on it. There is a cloud in Yunfeng Temple: Tie stopped riding flowers and went down to the temple gate, which covered the Lingtou cloud.
Today, Yunfeng Temple has moved to the foot of Lingbei Mountain, next to the ancient post road (donated by Buddhist believers). There is a very popular story in Guajiao Temple: It is said that there was a monk named Zhengyi in ancient Zen Buddhism who wanted to build a temple in Dayushan to preach Buddhism. So he went to a rich man's house in Wengyuan, Guangdong Province to ask for money. Unexpectedly, the rich man is very stingy, not only does not give money, but also has a very annoying problem. He said, "There are 65,438+000 new houses here. If the monk can even move the base, even if I dedicate myself to the Buddha. " Zheng Yi had no choice but to return to Jiangxi. On the way, he met Lv Dongbin of the Eight Immortals and saw Zheng Yi depressed. Originally, the immortal Buddha was not bound. This time, Lv Dongbin asked Zheng Yi: "Why are you so sad?" Zhengyi told the truth. Hearing this, Lu Xian returned to the rich man's house to beg with justice. The rich man saw the two of them and smiled and said, "I'm not refusing charity." As long as you can move away, it is my charity. " "Are you kidding?" Lu Xian demanded at this moment. Where did the rich man know the immortal's skill, he immediately replied, "What you say must be done." So Lu Xian did what he did. He provoked this 100 house with a wooden stick and flew away. Just as I was about to fly over Meiling Pass, another monk jumped out and asked Lu Xian for a house, saying, "Leave one for me to practice here!" So, Lu Xian tore down a room and put it on the open space on the south slope, which became Guajiao Temple. The remaining 99 rooms were placed in Yashan, becoming Lingyan Temple. Guajiao Temple has a joint day:
When I hang the horn, I am the owner of the roof, and I still imagine the style of the Millennium;
If you look up and want to ask, you can put it in the middle of the mountain and lead a thousand plum blossoms in a test tube.
Ancient temples are hidden in the mountains, and people are tired outside.
The messenger stopped riding under the flowers, and the temple gate deeply covered the gate of Yunfeng Temple (Guajiao Temple) on Lingyutou Cloud * Dayu Mountain.
Zhuo Xiquan, also known as Zhang Xiquan. There are two ancient roads in Meiguan. One is at the north gate of Meiling Mountain, now called Liuzuquan. One is located on the south slope, with a large spring, and has been introduced into the Sixth Ancestral Temple. Now it has been used as well water, and there is a big stone next to it, which is a "potted stone" for tourists to watch.