Reading | Ancient Castle on the Wilderness

Author:Banyue talk about new media Time:2022.09.24

At noon, the sun shone brightly in the air, making the outline of the ancient castle in the Hexi Corridor. This ancient castle is located between Maobala Village, Hongshan kiln town in Hongshan, Yongchang County and the famous scenic spot.

From Maobara to the car ditch, you can see that the Great Wall built in two Han Dynasty and Ming Dynasty extended from east to west.

Zhao Yanhua, the cultural specialty of Hongshan Kiln Town, tells the story of "mother and child wall". She led us to the west seven or eighty steps, pointing at the Ming Great Wall and said, "Look, that is the famous 'mother and child wall'." She said that when it was rumored, when the Great Wall in the Ming Dynasty On the basis of the Great Wall, the remaining Han Great Wall was wrapped in it and built it. Following her gestures, there are obvious cracks on both sides of the Ming Great Wall and the middle wall. The walls on both sides are like the warm arms of the mother, and the middle wall is like a baby. Zhao Yanhua said with a smile, so this city wall is also called "mother and child wall". Zhao Yanhua's ancestors moved from the Dahuai Tree of Shanxi after the repairs of the Ming Great Wall. At that time, many people moved over Yongchang, and they all called it under the big locust tree.

Walking the wasteland, at the foot of the Ming Great Wall on the south, it is vaguely like an ancient castle, less than 100 meters away from the Great Wall of the north. The wall of the city wall is wide and thick than any of the ancient castles I have seen. When you come to the West City Wall, the sand is almost as tall as the city wall, forming a slope, and even cattle and sheep can easily climb up. We know the importance of protecting the site, and we dare not board the castle wall, just standing on the sand next to the castle wall.

The whole picture of the ancient castle is presented. The wall of the South Gate City is tall and majestic, and the walls rammed on the loess on both sides are close to ten meters. The rough outline of the city gate is faintly arguing. Beicheng Wall and Ming Great Wall are next to the northeast corner. The city walls are wide and strong and well -preserved. The walls on the east are tall and wide, and a carriage can be walked on it. However, the appearance of the east gate is a bit vague. The accumulated sand and soil fill the entire city gate, and the city can be distinguished.

The city is spacious and flat. It seems that the land has been planted and the land that has been reclaimed by the plow head is stunned, but it is covered by weeds and yellow sand. Due to the loose soil, it is often washed by the rainstorm in the summer and autumn seasons. The epidermis has been rolled up, forming a hard scoop, like an armor of the ancient soldiers.

Several people turned around the ancient castle, and they were silent in all times, and they would make a loud noise.

Because far away from the village, for many years, the ancient castle has hardly been damaged by artificial destruction, but it has only been eroded by nature, and it has basically maintained its original appearance.

"At that time, Jin Ge iron horses, swallowing thousands of miles like a tiger." A large amount of food, water and other strategic supplies stored in the castle, full of soldiers from the north and south of the Greater River. When the weather was fine, the soldiers opened the gate and packed and practiced on the surrounding grass. His hissing, shouting, and cattle and sheep sounded. At night, the sound of Hu Yan and the flute of Si Xiang sounded leisurely, and the night sky was extremely harsh in the silent night sky, making people overwhelmed.

The sentinel at the mouth opened his eyes day and night, watching the surroundings vigilantly. Once a strong enemy is found, the wolf smoke will be lit and passed to the beacon. Instantly, the dust rolled and inserted directly. The soldiers in the castle immediately put on the armor, picked up a knife and bow and arrow to the city's head, and closely monitored the movement of the strong enemy. Once the strong enemy is found to attack the castle, it will bend the bow and arrow, the pebble -sized stone flew towards the enemy line at the same time, smashing the horses ...

With the footprint of history, all this has disappeared. The mountains and rivers are still, the castle is still, and the moon is still the same. The soldiers of the year had left with the wind, adding infinite sighs to countless later people! Xu Xilin, a well -known modern democratic revolutionary, sang in "Out of the Plug": The military song should sing a big knife ring, and vowed to destroy Hu Nu out of Yuguan. Only the deskto field died for the country, why should the horse gorge wrap the corpse.

According to the research of Yongchang scholars, Mao Xianxue, historical records, a whistle team is active in the border of the Ming Dynasty. Its responsibilities and functions are similar to today's scouts. Burning shortage, persuasion, command agency of the enemy, intelligence investigations and transmission of intelligence and wars. Their name is "Non -Night". At that time, although Maobara built the Great Wall, there were nomadic tribes on the seventy miles away from the Great Wall. The people of these tribes are all Mingzi people. In addition to grazing and asking for life, they also have a mission to convey intelligence to the army who guard the Great Wall. Once the enemy is discovered, it will be passed on to the guards on the Great Wall as soon as possible. Several pier and tables of Maobara are specifically responsible for transmitting information, and there are four defenders in each pier.

According to the "Five Liang Quanzhi", after the Han Dynasty, a powerful ethnic force has not been formed in the grassland in the northern part of Yongchang. By the time of the Song Dynasty, it was under the jurisdiction of Xixia and nearly a century of the Yuan Dynasty. It was governed by Mongolia. The Great Wall naturally lost its value. Since ancient times, the villagers of Maobara have been dominated by Mao. Mao Blala is Mongolian, which means "bitter spring", ancient name Jin Lu Shancheng. The Western Jin Dynasty built Jinlu City in Yijin Lushan to take the western defense land in Liangzhou. It can be seen that Mao Bala has a spring since ancient times, and the spring water is bitter. Where is the "bitter spring"?

Judging from the environment around Mobla, the white thorns, shuttle, gemfloids, sour sour, grass, cotton, flower sticks, and artemisia annua, etc. The water here contains a large amount of salt and alkali ingredients.

Looking at the grassland around the ancient castle, the lush grass, and the large -area saline -alkali beach, I suddenly realized it. This is the "bitter spring" that people are looking for. Because this is a wetland, the water sources are continuously exuded from the ground, and a large saline -alkali beach is naturally formed. Due to the bitter water quality, a white -ray case was formed on the surface. I think that if people dig three feet from then on, there will be a spring water. Unfortunately, due to the bitterness of the water quality, the dug -of -spring eyes were abandoned after the ancients tried, and they were gradually buried by sand. Although people cannot drink "bitter spring", but animals such as camels, horses, cattle, sheep, etc., this has always been a fertile pasture.