Chapter 1803

Yunmengze, also known as yunmengdaze, is the general name of ancient lakes in Jianghan area.

In the pre-Qin period, yunmengze covered a vast area of about 450 kilometers. In addition, the surrounding mountains were unfathomable and unpredictable. Among them, the responsibility of the situation and the difficulties and dangers of the environment contained countless ancient secrets.

Later, due to the sediment deposition of the Yangtze River and sweat, the scope of yunmengze gradually decreased, the lake became land, the land became a plain, and the Sanghai Cangtian. Thousands of years later, the lake had been reduced by half in the Wei, Jin, northern and Southern Dynasties, and disintegrated into dotted small lakes in the Tang and Song dynasties. Since then, some small lakes have been silted and flattened, while others have expanded, such as today's Honghu Lake.

According to Zuozhuan, Guoyu and Sima Xiangru's Zixu Fu, yunmengze was the first royal hunting area of the state of Chu in the pre-Qin period. The area is quite vast. It starts from the foot of Dabie Mountain and Mufu mountain in the East, along the Yangtze River, to the Sichuan Chongqing border in the west, to Jingshan in the north, to the edge of the tributary of the Yangtze River in the south, and borders Lingnan, including mountains, forests and Chuanze in an endless stream, It is named after the largest lake "yunmengze".

Yunmengze is named after "Yunmeng", but they are not the same concept. In the spring and Autumn period, dream in Chu dialect means "HuZe", which is connected with Liang. Later, due to the sediment deposition of the Yangtze River, yunmengze is divided into North and south parts. The north of the Yangtze River is a swamp area, while the South maintains a vast water surface, with crisscross rivers and dotted lakes, The Jingjiang River, known as the "nine winding ileum", runs through it, forming a typical land delta landscape. At the same time, due to the decline of the earth's crust, many huge depressions or underground karst caves have been formed, with complex terrain.

Today's yunmengze, the ground may be 10000 high mountains, and the lower part is boundless karst caves. Ordinary explorers will never dare to go deep into them.

In addition, since entering the historical period with written records, the ancient cloud Mengze has evolved into a staggered form of plain lake and marsh.

Among the existing ancient books, yunmengze was first found in the record of "yunmengtu Zuoyi" in Shangshu Yugong, followed by "Zhouli Zhifang": "qizedou is called Yunmeng", as well as the ten soups in Erya Shidi, and the "cloud dream of Chu" in the nine soups of "Lv's spring and autumn · youshilan" and "Huainanzi · zhuxingxun".

These records only say that yunmengze is in Jingzhou and Chu, but do not specify the specific location. For example, in historical records · biographies of goods colonization: "Jiangling is the capital of Yingdu... There is yunmengrao in the East"; According to the book of rivers and canals, "in Chu, there is a wild cloud dream of the Han River flowing through the canal in the west", which means that the canal is dug from Yingdu to the Han River in the East and passes through the cloud dream in the middle; "Shuijing · the location of Yugong mountain's waterside" also says that yunmengze is "in the east of Huarong County, Nanjun", and the location of Huarong's old city is consistent with that described in the historical records.

Throughout the dynasties, legends about yunmengze have emerged one after another. For example, Song Yu, a disciple of Qu Yuan, said in the famous song poem "Fu of the high Tang Dynasty" that the former king of Chu visited yunmengze in the past, and the goddess of dream said, "my concubine is in the sun of Wushan and the resistance of gaoqiu. Once it is morning clouds and evening rain. Day and night, under the balcony."

Biographies of Wenyuan in the book of the later Han Dynasty: King Ling of Chu has traveled in the clouds and dreams and rested on the Jingtai. The Huaihe River ahead, the waves of Dongting on the left, Peng Li on the right and Wushan on the south. Look far and wide, gallop and watch all day. Gu said to Zuo Yixiang, "it's so rich that you can leave your old age and forget to die!"

The "Wushan mountain" in this allusion is not the Wushan mountain of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, but the Wushan mountain of yunmengze, which was called "Yangtai mountain" in ancient times. After the Wei and Jin Dynasties, it was falsely spread and praised by people, so there was a direct statement of the Three Gorges.

As for the location of Yangtai mountain, according to the records of Fang Yu Shenglan, there is a Pei Jing stele at the 35 Li south of Hanchuan County, or where Song Yu wrote the Fu of the high Tang Dynasty.

According to the records in the annals of the peaceful world Huainan Road: "the balcony temple is twenty-five miles south of the county. There is Yangtai mountain. The mountain is in the sun of the Han River, and the shape of the mountain is like a platform. According to Song Yu's Ode to the high Tang Dynasty, the king of Chu and Xiang traveled in the cloud dream, and the goddess of dream said: 'my concubine is in the sun of Wushan, the barrier of gaoqiu. Day and night, under the Yangtai', so there is a temple.

The legend of King Huai's dream of meeting the goddess took place in the balcony mountain.

It is said that Emperor Yan's daughter is the most beautiful and affectionate woman. She likes to look forward to and dream of a young girl in the flower season. In several dreams, a handsome boy stepped on colorful auspicious clouds to pick her up, but was repeatedly awakened by the spirit magpie.

As the saying goes, heaven envies beauty, and a beautiful woman dies. Yaoji lingers for no reason. Her bed collapses and suffers from an unknown and incurable disease. No one in the world can hear her wonderful song. Although Yan Emperor is the God of medicine, medicine can cure disease and can't cure life. Finally, she died. Her body was buried on the south slope of Wuxian mountain, and the fragrant soul floated to Guyao mountain and turned into a fragrant flower? Grass.

So there's a rumor,? The grass has bright yellow flowers, twin leaves and dodder like fruit. If a woman takes it, it will become bright, beautiful and likable. She said,? The grass absorbs the essence of the day and the moon at night. After several years, she became a goddess of Wushan, named Yaoji.

Thousands and thousands of years later, during the Warring States period, King Huai of Chu went to yunmengze, Hubei Province to hunt and take a nap in the Gaotang hall. In the hazy, he saw a woman who was graceful and graceful, and came in with money and money. He said to himself: "the Ji daughter of the emperor, named Yaoji, died before she left. She was granted the platform of Wushan mountain. Her soul is grass, which is actually called Ganoderma lucidum."

When the king of Chu saw that she was endowed with the wonderful nature of yin and Yang in heaven and earth, and contained all the beauty between heaven and earth, he lamented that her appearance was incomparable and amazing, so he loved her and left a romantic story.

After Chu Huai and Wang Meng woke up, Yao Jifang's shadow disappeared, but the fragrance remained.

King Huai of Chu couldn't forget his love for Yaoji and found Wushan on the Yunmeng balcony. However, he saw the beautiful peaks and clouds. According to the legend of the village, this cloud was transformed by the goddess. It belonged to heaven from above and into the abyss from below. It was as luxuriant as pines and as beautiful as Jiaoji. So he built a pavilion on the riverside of Wushan, named "Chaoyun", to show his memory.

Later Song Yu took this as a story and wrote Chu Ci works such as Gao Tang Fu and goddess Fu. The literary achievement is that Qu Yuan didn't fill this chapter. He always felt that there was something missing. Maybe it was too easy for the protagonists. Let's give him some obstacles later.

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