Brief introduction of Longwangjian in huangpi district
In huangpi district, in the north of Wuhan, there is a "barren hill", about 60 kilometers away from the center of Wuhan. The mountains are overgrown with weeds, and there are neither beautiful flowers nor dense trees. Because it is different from the definition of general tourist attractions, few tourists come here to play. But at the same time, broken walls on this "barren mountain" attracts hordes of backpackers.
This "barren mountain" is called Longwangjian, with an altitude of 385.6 meters. There is a stone village on Longwangjian, and the broken wall on the mountain is the ruins of this stone village.
Looking at the Dragon King's Tip from a distance, you can see a walled village with a length of 12.5km, which lies on the top of the mountain and is comparable to the majestic Great Wall of Wan Li, hence the nickname "Wuhan Great Wall".
Longwangzhai was built in the Ming Dynasty, when Huangpi Village was often looted by bandits. In order to resist bandits, the villagers built the Dragon King's Tip Shi Cun in the air.
The construction of Shi Cun at the Dragon King's Tip embodies the wisdom of ancient people in China, both aesthetically and functionally. When you come to the remaining stone village, you will be surprised to find that the solid walls of the village are actually made of pieces of unpolished dry stones. You can't find the same stone here. They are long or short, or complete or broken, and they bite each other and jointly defend the homeland on which the people depend.
Because the whole stockade is made of stones, people can't help wondering how people found so many different stones and transported them to the mountains in the Ming Dynasty when transportation was underdeveloped.
In fact, most of the stones are made from local materials, and the cracks in the village wall can be filled directly with gravel. After the whole big stone is heated with fire, it is cooled with cold water. Hot and cold react alternately, and the big stone splits into small stones. Finally, people transport and build small stones with different shapes.
As a bungalow with a capacity of 10,000 people, Longwangjian Shi Cun must meet the basic living function of the building. Even though the Stone Village has been destroyed, you can still find enclosed spaces of all sizes during the tour.
These spaces provide rich imagination for tourists. As you can imagine, here is the warehouse, here is the market, and here is the rice shop.
The vicissitudes of stone walls seem to be silently telling the story of daily necessities. The lake at the foot of the mountain separates the mountain, and the clever ancestors used it as a reservoir in the cottage to provide sweet drinking water for the villagers.
People are moved by historical sites, which is often caused by the rendering of the natural environment. The reason why Shi Cun at Longwangjian can arouse people's feelings is also related to the wanton growth of weeds on Longwangjian Mountain.
Different from other mountains with rich vegetation and beautiful scenery, the vegetation on the tip of the Dragon King is single, and the height of the tree is not terrible. The most prominent is the weeds in the mountains. Weeds here are endless, and most of them are half a person's height.
In autumn, the weeds in the mountains become golden meadows like rice fields, dotted with several dark green trees, giving people a vast and desolate feeling.
Many people in Wuhan also call this place "Wugong Mountain". Indeed, the Dragon King's Tip in autumn looks like a venue for martial arts novels. Coupled with the Dragon King Village in broken walls on the top of the mountain, this bleak feeling is even more touching, but few people come here to play.
People who have lived in the city for a long time will inevitably lose some chivalry in their hearts, but you may find this long-lost chivalry in the dragon king tips. When the autumn wind sweeps over the grass tip, you will inevitably imagine a scene of war, so what are you waiting for? Come to Longwangjian and feel this gift from nature.
A brief introduction to the history of Longwangjian in Huangpi
This Bing Gu village has prospered for more than 400 years in the long river of history. Until 1868 (Xianfeng, the tenth year of Emperor Wen of Qing Dynasty), this feudal landlord armed castle, which was used to resist bandits, withdrew from the historical stage with the failure of the Qing Taiping Army and the collapse of the East-West Nian Army. Here it is 1877 (three years after Guangxu in Qing Dynasty, it has been gradually abandoned and turned into an empty castle without people.
From the satellite map, Wuhan is a plain, and only Longwangjian is an endless mountain range. I can feel what it means to fall grass in a dense forest with weeds as high as one person. In ancient times, bandits from outside the city raided the city from here and harassed the people. People have built many fortifications here, that is, the ruins of castles, city walls and bunkers we see here now.
There are more than 200 castle bunkers in Bing Gu Village of Longwangjian, the largest can reach 1 1,000 square meters, and the smallest is only a few square meters. Bing Gu Village is made up of some local stone slabs piled up one after another. This mountain is so steep that it is hard to imagine how many hardships people have gone through to build such a large-scale Bing Gu village. Who the hell is it? When was the village of Bing Gu built here?
It dates back more than 600 years to AD 1456 (7 years in Jingtai, Ming Dynasty). At that time, the Ming Dynasty was politically corrupt and suffered from drought for years, which caused social unrest. Bandits come to Huangpi's village from time to time to burn and rob. In order to resist these foreign bandits, the local villagers gathered together to raise funds and built this Bing Gu Village on the top of the Dragon King Jianshan Mountain.
It was not until A.D. 1494 (the seventh year of Hongzhi in the Ming Dynasty) that this barracks was built. At that time, Huangpi county magistrate Liu Changxu went to congratulate him. And named the castle Yong 'anzhai, meaning long-term peace, and this plaque is still in the home of a villager at the foot of the mountain. After the completion of Longwangjian Bing Gu Village, the besieged stone village chief 12.5km, with an area of about10.5km2, was magnificent and stood among the misty peaks, with an average height of 3.5m At that time, there were more than 2,000 large and small houses, and the highest peak could accommodate more than 10000 people. It was a veritable air fortress.
Judging from the remaining structure, the function of this Bing Gu village is very complete. There is a reservoir on the mountainside of Bing Gu Village to store water, which can at least solve the drinking water problem of 10000 people. There are many traces of artificial planting beside the top of the mountain, so people in those days could achieve self-sufficiency at the top of the mountain. Moreover, from the perspective of azimuth layout, the above functions are very complete, including warehouses, barracks, houses and livestock. Even a market for selling things, this commercial street with market function is called Tianjie. There are inns, pawn shops, blacksmiths, pharmacies, grocery stores, rice shops, tailor shops, carpenters' shops, mills, dye shops, casinos and brothels. There is also a temple and a Taoist temple for everyone to pray. At the foot of the valley near Bing Gu Village, there are large and small stone houses scattered everywhere. There is a boulder on the top of the camp with a deep cave on it. It is said that it is a flagpole used to insert the camp flag.
On the cliff of Zhaiding Temple site. Overlooking this dilapidated village in Bing Gu, I can still recall the bustling scene here hundreds of years ago. From the initial stage of construction, people were busy carrying slates and stones, and then gradually moved in to avoid disasters, so that the supporting facilities here could be used for people to live for a long time. The ups and downs of hundreds of years have filled this Bing Gu village with stories, and it has gradually drifted away with the roar of mountain wind and the gallop of high-speed rail under the mountain.