Selected from Chen Xiangyuan's "Selected Studies on the History and Culture of Yueyang, a Famous County in Dongting".
Little Jun Mountain, 096 square kilometers, living in Dongting Lake, there are wells, springs, streams, bridges, and quite peculiar.
Junshan's new "Fate Bridge" The name of the bridge adopts the author's suggestion.
Junshan Wujing: Liu Yi, White Crane, Autumn Moon, Green Dragon, Ambergris, has always been famous. Liu Yijing was formerly known as Orange Well, named after the well's "large number of thorny oranges, ethereal and ancient", and is located on the east side of the root of Longyu Mountain. Because Li Chaowei in the Tang Dynasty created "The Biography of Liu Yi" according to "The Legend of Dongting Lake", it was the pioneering work of the Tang people who "consciously made **" Lu Xun language), which had a huge impact. Fan Zhiming of the Song Dynasty "Yueyang Fengtu Ji" contains: Junshan "has a well called Liu Yijing".
Liu Yijing Chuanshuting Chen Xiangyuan drummed and cheered for Junshan tourism
Legend has it that this well is unfathomable, Qing Guangxu's "Baling County Chronicles" contains: "The exit of the well is Xu, there is a piece of stone as the bottom, several holes are drilled to pass through the spring, and the stone is unfathomable. "According to folklore, the copper wire is tied with four taels of silk thread, and the wire is not at the bottom. In 1979, following the principle of "repairing the old as the old" when expanding and repairing, the sand and mud were cleared to a depth of more than 6 meters, the underground spring water was gushing, and the construction could not be continued with two submersible pumps, so the "caisson method" was prefabricated with reinforced cement and the conical well ring was dug and sunk, and it was only more than 12 meters deep. The well platform is built with granite, with double overlapping, and the outside is square and the inside is round. The north wall of the well is written "Liu Yijing" horizontal monument. There are stone steps in the south that can go down to the ancient money-shaped pressing well stone (the ancient money pressing well originates from the folk custom of "mountain management people Ding Shui Guan Cai", which means that the source of wealth is rolling like water, and it seems to be contrary to the spirit of Liu Yi to use it for this). The wellhead is placed with the stone carving of the double carp kissing and the waves are about to leap, and the stone wall in the well is embossed with shrimp soldiers and crabs. In 1996, it was announced as a provincial cultural relics protection unit.
The ambergris well is located at the front end of the Dragon Tongue Mountain. Legend Jun Mountain is an oolong, open the mouth to the south, the well is on the tip of the dragon's tongue, although the spring flow is not big, but the four seasons inexhaustibly drip from the dragon's tongue, just in line with the name of "ambergris". This well is a representative work of Junshan's "small and magical" man-made landscape and natural landscape. With this legendary well, the landform of Junshan's "oolong playing pearls" is more vivid. The oolong well was originally known as the manhole, and the sand turned over and gushed all the year round, so it was called the manhole. After feeling that the name was not elegant, it was named after the meaning of its place name Oolong Bay. This spring is abundant, in 1952 when the Junshan tea farm was built, the manhole was changed to a brick well, and more than 100 people used water for a long time. Qiuyuejing is on the right side of Dongting Temple, according to legend, the Song Dynasty painter Mi Fu had used this well spring ink to create "Xiaoxiang Eight Scenes, Dongting Autumn Moon Map", the color is more beautiful and beautiful than the other seven scenes, the people of the time are surprised, so it is called Qiuyuejing, and build a pavilion to commemorate it by the well. Qing Xu Changzhi "Autumn Moon Pavilion": "I haven't come to autumn, and I want to go to the pavilion to autumn moon." Xiangfei Mingjing jade platform is high, and the light is clear. There is interest in watching the moon return tonight, and only a hook will hang the toad. "Baling County Chronicles": "Qiuyuejing is in Junshan Dongting Temple, today. "* At the beginning, the mountain people washed the well and restored it to the drinking water well of the temple and the mountain people. Although the well does not exist, the autumn moon bridge and lotus pond were built next to the well, which is also very elegant.
Yunmengting Photo by Yin Sulan.
Compared with the autumn moon well, the white crane well has another peculiarity. The ancients said: "Try to cook the bird's tongue in the crane spring, and cook it to look like the color of the mountain", and the water is brown. The name of the well is "White Crane", but also because of the tea made with this well spring, the heat rising in the cup is often like the shadow of the crane, and there is the artistic conception of "a crane in the clear sky and a row of clouds, it will lead poetry to the blue sky", hence the name. The well is beside the original Chongsheng Temple, and the monks of the temple draw the well spring to cook tea to entertain guests, and the fragrance reverberates in the intestines. Unfortunately, when the Japanese army occupied Junshan, the invaders killed two unarmed fishermen and threw them into the well, thus destroying it.
Photo by Chen Yifang on July 21, 2023.
The spring outside the well can be seen in the three places recorded as the dragon spring, the Xiangshan spring, and the immortal foot washing pool. The immortal foot washing pond is under the cliff in front of the Langyin Pavilion, and it is said that Lu Xian's feet wash away the dirt of the world. Xiangshan Spring is commonly known as Guanyin Spring, and it is under the Xiangshan Mountain after the Tea Pavilion. The preface of the poem "Xiangshan Spring" by Wu Minshu of the Qing Dynasty said: "Junshan was not a famous spring in the past, and in the ravine next to Xiangshan, there are clusters of clouds, there are springs, the flow is very large, and it falls into the lake a little earlier. Ask the native people, and call for water. Longquan is seen in the Ming Dynasty Longqing "Yuezhou Mansion Chronicles" on the Junshan map, about today's Wanghu Pavilion near. Deng Chu, a native of the Ming Dynasty, once sang Longquan in "You Jun Mountain": "Suitable for seeking seclusion, climbing the mountain and listening to the spring." "It sounds like a piano, the name is Longquan, and the spring flow can be imagined. Wu Minshu said that "Junshan is an old unfamous spring", which seems to be inaccurate.
Xiangshan Spring Photo by Yin Sulan.
Because the spring flow of Junshan is abundant, it can converge into a stream around the mountain and go down into Longkou Lake, the name of this stream is called "Tiger Creek", Sun Siyi of the Ming Dynasty "Junshan Song": "The path meets the monk to cross the Tiger Creek", that is, refers to this. There are many accounts about this stream in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and Sun Yi, a Ming man, has "the cloud is clean and the stream is loose and not dry";Qing people Xu Changgu has "call monks to take the stream water directly". Tao Shu's "Junshan Ji" is more specific: "Go out of the temple and follow the stream, and watch the two caves of dragon and tiger. The stream is in front of the Chongsheng Temple, for the convenience of visitors, the "Luohan Bridge" was erected on the stream. The small bridge is full of emotion.
Junshan Jingquan is known as the best quality for cooking tea, so the Ming Dynasty poet Tan Yuanchunyun: "Linhu does not drink the lake, love to draw Liujiajing." Tea shines on the people upstairs, and Junshan breaks the shadow of the lake. "The literati and writers gathered in Yueyang Building to try tea, but they drew the well spring from Junshan, which was not all out of leisure and elegance, but the clear and sweet groundwater of Junshan, which made them fall for it.
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About the Author. Chen Xiangyuan, pen name Chen Xiangyuan, deputy research librarian of cultural museums, member of the Fourth Committee of the Yueyang CPPCC, member of the Culture and History Committee, member of the Hunan Dramatists Association and Archaeological Society, member of the Expert Advisory Committee of Yueyang National Historical and Cultural City, and expert of Yueyang Intangible Cultural Heritage Expert Database. In 1956, he started his career in art, and worked as a worker. He used to be the head and director of the Yueyang Baling Drama Troupe, and wrote and adapted more than 40 scriptsMore than 20 directors;He is the main author of "Hunan Local Opera Chronicles (3) Baling Opera Chronicles". After engaging in cultural relics work in 1989, he published 11 personal monographs, including "Yueyang Says the Ancients", "Yueyang Puzzle Solving in the Famous City of Ancient Times", "In-depth Interpretation of Yueyang Famous Places and Historic Sites", "Yueyang Historical and Cultural Controversy", "Interpretation of Yueyang Tower", etc. Participated in the editor-in-chief of "Yueyang History and Culture Series: Millennium Famous Town" and many other booksParticipated in the compilation and review of more than 20 books, such as "Dictionary of Huxiang Culture", "Dictionary of Hunan" and "Chronicles of Yueyang City".He has published more than 600 articles of various kinds, and many of his works have won national, provincial and municipal awards.