About the legend of the Great Wall of Qi
The Great Wall of Qi, with a history of more than 2,500 years, is one of the oldest, most preserved and largest surface cultural relics in China. It is a symbol of the Chinese nation. cultural treasures. It carries countless historical stories of fighting and iron horses, flashes of swords, thunderous killings, blood-stained battlefields, and evocative stories. In addition to its own epic story that has gone through many vicissitudes of life and is filled with smoke, there are also a vast sea of ??legends widely circulated among the people along the Qi Great Wall. These folk tales are rich in content, simple in text, touching in plot, fluent in writing, and catchy. Some of them are based on historical facts and rendered into mysterious and tragic odes, while some are added with strong emotions out of hatred for the rulers. The whipping not only creates a vivid upper-class figure that people admire, but also a vivid story of the common people. These folk oral literatures have a long history and have been passed down from generation to generation, creating a splendid culture and greatly enriching the cultural connotation of the Qi Great Wall. Due to the huge number, it is impossible to list them in detail. Now we only select a few memes related to the Great Wall of Qi to be introduced below.
Meng Jiangnu cried over the Great Wall
For thousands of years, the story of Meng Jiangnu crying over the Great Wall has been widely circulated in China and is well known to every household, including women and children. However, for a long time, people have mistakenly believed that Meng Jiangnu was crying for the Great Wall of Qin, but they did not know that it was actually the Great Wall of Qi.
The basis of this story comes from the historical fact of "Qiliang wife crying for her husband". It first appeared in "Zuo Zhuan·Xiangong 23rd Year" (550 BC). Qizhuang Gong sent troops to attack Ju State. Qi Liang, the vanguard of the Qi army, died in the battle with Ju State. On the way back to the country, Qizhuang Gong's squadron was on the outskirts of Ju City. I met Qi Liang's wife outside and expressed condolences to her. When Qi Liang's wife learned that her husband had died in the battle, she was so sad that she refused to accept condolences in the suburbs. Qi Zhuanggong went to Qi Liang's house to hold a memorial ceremony for him.
During the Warring States Period, the book "Tan Gong" quoted Zeng Zi and added the phrase "his wife cried in sorrow when she met the coffin on the road" to this historical fact. "Mencius Gaozi Xia" records Chunyu Kun's words: "The wife of Qiliang was good at crying for her husband and changed the national custom." Thus, the historical event of "crying for her husband" became a popular song of "elegy".
During the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Xiang said in "The Biography of the Martyr Woman": "Qiliang's wife had no children, no relatives inside or outside the five genus, that is, she had no place to return to, so she pillowed her husband's corpse under the city and cried. It is so sincere and touching that everyone who passes by it sheds tears for it, and in ten days the city collapses." At this point, the story has evolved from "elegy" to "collapse of the city."
During the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a Qin music called Qiliang’s Wife Sighs, which was said to be composed by Qiliang’s wife.
In the Western Jin Dynasty, Cui Bao's "Annotations on Ancient and Modern Times" contains: "Qi Zhi's wife resisted and cried for a long time, and Qi Ducheng collapsed because of it, so she threw herself into the water and died." It is said that Qiliang's wife cried loudly and brought down the capital of Qi Kingdom.
In the Tang Dynasty, the poet monk Guan Xiu wrote the poem "Qiliang's Wife":
The Qin Dynasty has no way and the seas are dry, and the Great Wall is built to cover the northern Hu.
It takes ten thousand miles to build people and earth, but the virgin woman of Qiliang cries.
If there is no father above, there will be no husband in the middle, and if there is no son below, I will be alone again and again.
City No. 1 collapsed and the scene was bitter, and the bones of No. 1 Qiliang were unearthed.
Exhausted and hungry, the young man on the road is no stranger to each other.
Guan Xiu actually turned Qiliang into a Qin Dynasty citizen and built him into the city wall. His wife cried and broke the Qin Great Wall. From then on, Qiliang's wife and Meng Jiangnu who later evolved into Qin Great Wall had an indissoluble bond.
Since Qi Liang and Qi Liang’s wife were from the Qi State during the Spring and Autumn Period, it is of course impossible for the incident to occur at the Qin Great Wall built by Qin Shihuang more than 300 years later. In fact, the famous historian Mr. Gu Jiegang conducted a systematic study on this as early as the 1930s, and wrote a series of articles such as "Transformation of Meng Jiangnu's Story" and "Research on Meng Jiangnu's Story", concluding that Meng Jiangnu was crying because of The Great Wall of Qi, not the Great Wall of Qin.
Meng Jiangnu threw herself into the Hongshi River and died
There is a Changcheng Village in Wande Town at the junction of Changqing County and Tai'an. There are undulating mountains on the east and west sides, and in the middle is a narrow north-south strip about two miles wide. Plain, now the Beijing-Shanghai Railway, Beijing-Shanghai Expressway and 104 National Highway pass through here. The Qi Great Wall passes through the village from west to east, so it was originally called Changchengpu. To this day, the remains of the city wall are obvious beside the village and on the mountains on both sides.
This has been the north-south transportation hub since ancient times. There are original ancient buildings on the north and south streets of the village. The tallest building in the center of the street is the "Guojie Pavilion", which is an important pass of the Qi Great Wall. The Guojie Pavilion has three floors, with an arched stone door on the bottom floor. The Jade Emperor is worshiped on the pavilion, and there are four stone tablets on the pavilion.
Guojie Pavilion was demolished during the Cultural Revolution, but the ruins can still be identified.
Chongshou Temple is located on the northwest side of Guojie Pavilion, covering an area of ??more than 10,000 square meters. It is the largest ancient building complex. The year when it was first built is unknown, but it was rebuilt during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. The complete stele is now intact and was rebuilt in the 27th year of Kangxi's reign in the Qing Dynasty. Chongshou Temple has the main hall and the east and west side halls. There are three bronze statues in the main hall, each weighing about three thousand kilograms. The lotus seat is more than one meter high. The statues of the Eighteen Arhats were removed in the early 1950s, and the main hall building was demolished in the late 1950s. The ruins of Chongshou Temple are occupied by a school. The last monk in the temple is now named Zhao Xuewen, and he is now working as a bricklayer in the school.
More than thirty meters southeast of the pavilion is the Huanggu Courtyard. It is said that Wanli's sister became a monk here. Villager Zhao Dianyi's family still keeps a fragment of the stele "Reconstruction of the Imperial Aunt's Courtyard".
Next to the Guojie Pavilion, there was originally a larger "Jiang Nu Temple", with three rooms facing south, nineteen steps, and a three-step two-hole bridge. In front of the temple, there were three trees surrounded by two There are more than ten ancient cypresses and monuments. There is a statue of Meng Jiangnu in the temple, with statues of boys on both sides, and stories about Meng Jiangnu are painted on the walls. In the late 1950s, the statues in the temple were demolished and converted into primary school classrooms. In 1973, the Meng Jiangnu Temple was demolished. The remaining fragments of the monument were used as building materials for building wells and houses. Daoguang's "Changqing County Chronicle" of the Qing Dynasty quoted "Old Chronicles" to say about the Great Wall: "The county governs ninety miles to the southeast. The speaker said that the county governs seventy miles south of the Five Ridges, and the ridges enter the east for the Great Wall. The natives built it because of the Great Wall. Jiang Lienu Historian Mr. Gu Jiegang said: "The Changchengpu in the middle of the road from Zhangxia to Tai'an is the hometown of Meng Jiang, where there is the Jiangnu Temple."
The Dasha River originating from the western foot of Mount Tai flows through Changcheng Village. There is a reservoir on the east side, which is known locally as Hongshijiang River.
Villagers in Changcheng Village have said from generation to generation that Meng Jiangnu was a native of this village. When she heard that her husband had died at the construction site of the Great Wall, she was heartbroken and cried at the foot of the Great Wall every day. Finally, she threw herself into the Red Stone River and died. To commemorate her touching deeds, the "Jiang Nu Temple" was built by the Hongshi River. There are still three families of Jiang surnamed villagers in Changcheng Village, and they claim to be Meng Jiangnu's clansmen.
Steamed Bun Soup
There is a not too high hill in the south of Dache Mountain in Xishan Township, Anqiu County. There is a pair of stone peaks near the west side of the top of the mountain, which is like a mountain gate into the mountain. There are many round white stones scattered on the green northern hillside. From a distance, they look like dumplings scattered all over the hillside. The local people call this mountain "馉饳 Tangwang" ("馉饳" means dumplings in the dialect of Jiaodong area, Shandong Province). The Great Wall of Qi was built on the ridge of this mountain, and the ruins of the collapsed Great Wall are still clearly visible. The origin of the name of the mountain "Fuji Tangwang" records a tragic historical story that is widely circulated in the local area.
According to local legend, when Meng Jiangnu’s husband was drafted to build the Great Wall, Meng Jiangnu often came to deliver food and clothing to her husband. The poor husband worked very hard and wanted to improve his life, so he specially made dumplings and carried them up the mountain in earthen pots. After entering the mountain gate, she couldn't find her husband anywhere. After repeated inquiries, she learned that her husband, who was overworked, had died in the line of duty. The news was like thunder, and the grief-stricken Meng Jiangnu immediately fell to the ground and fainted. The earthen jar was broken, and the mandarin soup flowed down from the top of the mountain, spread all over the hillside, and immediately turned into stone.
Build the Great Wall to the south to block floods, and build the Great Wall to the north to block soldiers
In the area of ??Guangli and Dongzhang (ancient Pingyin) where the Great Wall of Qi started, there is a widespread saying that "Build the Great Wall to the south to block the floods" "Water, the Great Wall was built in the north to stop the soldiers", "The iron ox climbed the tree and lived in Guangzhou" and other ancient stories about the construction of water conservancy and the Qi Great Wall.
It is said from generation to generation here that in ancient times the Yellow River (Jishui) "only protected the west of the river, but not the east of the river", so floods often occurred in the Guangli and Dongzhang areas, forming a lake. A vast ocean. Liu Taijin, a 74-year-old farmer in Guangli Village who was harvesting in the fields, said: "There are iron piles on the top of Mashan Mountain to tie the boat cables."
This story tells that the Guji River flooded Guangli and Gupingyin on the east bank due to the construction of dams on the west bank. The water rose to the top of Mashan Mountain, which is 512 meters above sea level. The extent of the ship. If this is true, then not to mention Guangli and Pingyin, even Jinan and Tai'an will be submerged under the water! Of course this is just a legend.
How can an iron bull climb a tree? It turned out that a child named "Iron Bull" climbed up a tree to avoid the flood disaster. Guangli is a larger village where you need to stay overnight.
In order to prevent the river from flooding, the State of Qi also built dykes on the east bank of Jishui to block the water. Later, the dykes that blocked the water were developed into the Great Wall for military purposes, which is the origin of "Building the Great Wall in the South to Block Floods" . "The Great Wall was built in the north to stop the soldiers" means that the Great Wall later built in the northern mountainous area was not used to block water, but was specifically used to defend against foreign invasion.
The Great Wall was built until it reached Nail Head Cliff, which was lowered forty miles
At the northwest foot of Mount Tai, at the junction of Changqing and Tai'an, there is a cliff peak with an altitude of 800 meters called "Nail Head Cliff" " is where the Great Wall of Qi passes.
It is said that when the Qi Great Wall was built, the mountains and steep slopes and cliffs where it was built made it difficult to transport building materials and it was also difficult to climb up empty. The wall could not be built up for a long time, which angered the Marquis of Qi. The Marquis of Qi beheaded the general who was leading the construction and nailed his head to the cliff as a warning to others, threatening the laborers to continue to build the Great Wall. Despite this, the Great Wall was never built up, and was only built to the bottom of the cliff. From here there is no wall for forty miles east. Since then, there has been a local legend that "the Great Wall was built to the top of the cliff and dropped forty miles", which has been passed down to this day.
Field inspection also confirmed that there is indeed no city wall built in the 35 miles from Naitou Cliff to Niushan Pass. However, legends are legends after all. The real reason why the city wall was not built in this section is because the city wall was replaced by mountains connected by mountains with an altitude of 800 to 900 meters.
The Twelve Sun Wheels Rotate
People along the Great Wall of Qi widely spread the legend that in order to prevent invasion by other countries, the State of Qi recruited a large number of workers to build the Great Wall of Qi. At that time, there were twelve suns in the sky. A sun wheel rotates, so that there is only daytime and no night for 24 hours, forcing the workers to have no time to sleep and rest. The people who built the Great Wall were hungry, thirsty, and exhausted, causing death to occur from time to time. After death, the body was Built into the city wall. This story is widely circulated because of the working people's hatred of the rulers for their disregard for people's lives and lives.
During the Qi Great Wall inspection, many villagers along the Great Wall reported that human bones were dug out from the city wall when the city wall was being dug up to build Dazhai fields in the 1970s. According to Li Ruizhen, a 71-year-old man from Guangli Village in Changqing County, he personally participated in the construction of the motorized well at "Lingzitou" at the starting point of the Great Wall in 1971. The motorized well was 25 meters in diameter and 4 meters deep. More than 20 human bones.
The Story of General Chang
There was originally the "General Chang Temple" on the north side of Muling Pass on the border between Yishui and Linqu, with an iron statue of General Chang inside. There is a Weizi Mountain 478 meters above sea level on the Great Wall line 5.5 kilometers west of Muling Pass. On the top of the mountain is the ruins of "Dianjiang Terrace", also known as "Zhanjiang Terrace". The two sites of Mulingguan and Zhanjiangtai record the same story of the Great Wall of Qi.
The Mulingguan area is an important gateway for Yue, Chu, Lu, and Ju in the south of Qi to attack the hinterland of Qi. Qi built two Great Walls in the north and south and two passes here to strengthen prevention. It is said that the credit for this strategic fortification should be attributed to General Chang.
During the Warring States Period, when General Chang was ordered to build the Great Wall in this area, he took the initiative to build two Great Walls at Daxian Mountain and Caoshan Pavilion, and built Muling Pass and Daguan. General Chang's actions were against the wishes of the King of Qi, so he was beheaded by the King of Qi at the "Dianjiang Platform" in the name of "mistakenly building the Great Wall". This place was originally called the "Beheading Platform".
Later, Chu State indeed sent troops to attack Qi State from here. It took a lot of effort, fought hard, and lost many troops. Only half of them were killed or wounded before they broke through Muling Pass. After continuing to advance 5.5 kilometers, they again Encountered a Great Wall and a big pass. The exhausted Chu army asked the local people: "How many Great Walls and passes like this are there?" The answer was: "There are exactly ten Great Walls like this!" The frightened Chu army was frightened. Silenced, he did not dare to attack rashly again, so he retreated.
Only then did King Qi realize that it was correct to build two Great Walls at that time, and he regretted accidentally killing General Chang. He ordered the construction of "General Chang Temple" and built an iron statue of the general to commemorate his merits.
The Legend of General Yang Ting
Yangting Mountain is located at the junction of Fuguanzhuang Township, Yishui County and Dongguan Town, Ju County, with an altitude of 319.4 meters. The Great Wall of Qi from the west passes through this ridge 1,200 meters eastward is Sanling Mountain, where the two Great Walls in the north and south meet. The Qi Great Wall enters Juxian County from Sanling Mountain. There is a "Beheading Platform" on the hilltop on the west side of Yangting Mountain. There is a village in Ju County on the east side of Yangting Mountain called "Yangting Guanzhuang". The names of "Yangting Mountain" and "Yangting Guanzhuang" come from General Yang Ting.
At that time, General Yang Ting was ordered by King Qi to build the Great Wall. General Yang made full use of the terrain and built the wall along the ridges of the mountains, making the Great Wall more dangerous, easier to defend and harder to attack. However, doing so violated the King of Qi's will to build from Yishan to the east all the way to the sea. Therefore, General Yang Ting was beheaded on this mountain by the King of Qi, and the "Beheading Platform" came from this. Then the King of Qi ordered that on Another Great Wall was built on the gentle ground on the south side.
Later, when the Chu State attacked Qi State, they first broke through the Great Wall built on flat ground, and then when they attacked the Great Wall on the mountains on the northern line, they failed to break it. From then on, the King of Qi realized that General Yang Ting's approach was correct. He repented and vindicated General Yang Ting. He named the place where Yang Ting beheaded "Yang Tingshan" and the village where General Yang Ting lived was named "Yang Ting Guanzhuang". To commemorate.
Huanggu became a monk
There is a "Changchengpu" at the junction of Changqing and Tai'an, now called Changcheng Village, so named because the Great Wall of Qi passes through the village. There used to be a tall Qi Great Wall closed on the north and south streets of the village called "Guojie Pavilion". There is a popular saying among the people in the village that "from Nanjing to Beijing, Guojie Pavilion is the highest." There is a temple on the southeast side of "Guojie Pavilion" called "Huangguyuan", which is dedicated to the sister of Emperor Wanli of the Ming Dynasty.
Back then, the mother and sister of Emperor Wanli came to Mount Tai to offer incense. When they passed by the "Guojie Pavilion", they suddenly fell off the sedan. After seeing it, the imperial doctor said: "The emperor's aunt cannot get married." Wanli's mother made a wish My daughter became a nun here, so she built the "Huangguyuan" and Wanli's sister became a nun here. From then on, whenever the civil and military ministers of all dynasties passed by "Guojie Pavilion", the civil servants got off their sedan chairs and the military attachés dismounted their horses.
To this day, villager Zhao Dianyi's family still preserves a fragment of the stele "Reconstruction of the Imperial Aunt's Courtyard".
Zhao Kuangyin's battle with Han Tong at Muling Pass
The story of Zhao Kuangyin's battle with Han Tong at Muling Pass before he ascended the throne is widely circulated among the people around Yishan.
When Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin started his business, he led his troops to fight and garrisoned horses on the battlefield. When they came to Muling Pass, they encountered Han Tong, the general guarding the pass of the Later Zhou Dynasty, who was in danger and resisted. It is said that Han Tong is the reincarnation of a gibbon, and his arms are the same as those of ordinary people during normal times, but in war, his arms can reach more than ten feet long, and he has the courage of ten thousand men. Zhao Kuangyin was highly skilled in martial arts and led his troops to fight with Han Tong in a fierce battle at Muling Pass. However, he was defeated in the battle and lost his troops and generals, so he retreated to Daguan to rest and recuperate. Due to the fatigue of the consecutive days of fighting, he soon fell asleep, and dreamed of the bright-headed and white-bearded god saying: "Although Han Tong's arms are long, they have been bound by me. If we fight again tomorrow, Han Tong can be captured." Zhao Kuangyin understood, kowtowed and said: "If the gods can help me, defeat Han Tong and win the world, I will definitely rebuild the temple and build a golden body." The next day they fought again, but Han Tong's divine arm could no longer be extended and was captured by Zhao Kuangyin. In order to avenge his past, he tied Han Tong's feet, tied him to the back of a horse and dragged him southward until he died.
Today, there are three natural villages of Mazhan, Daotuo and Hanjiaqu in the Yishui area south of Mulingguan. "Ma Zhan" is the place where Zhao Kuangyin lived and rested his horse; "Dao Tuo" is the place where Zhao Kuangyin dragged Han Tong through; "Hanjiaqu" is the place where Han Tong died.
After Zhao Kuangyin established the Song Dynasty and ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, he felt grateful for God's kindness and ordered the reconstruction of Dongzhen Temple and the statue of Yishan God, which became a good story.
Laozi’s Medicine Picking Mountain
There is a medicine picking mountain 495.1 meters above sea level at the junction of Zheshan Township and Zhaohu Township in Anqiu County. The Great Wall starts from Chengding Mountain in the northeast. Coming here, we pass through the top of Zhaiyao Mountain and head toward Lijiading in the southwest. The ruins of the city wall are tall.
Legend has it that Li Er (commonly known as Laozi), the founder of Taoism in the Chu State during the Spring and Autumn Period, once collected medicine in this mountain, hence the name "Medicine Picking Mountain". There is a huge cave on the northwest side of the mountain, which is said to be the place where Laozi made alchemy, named "Laozi Cave".
There used to be nearly a hundred ancient buildings on the top of the mountain, which were of considerable size. Unfortunately, most of them have collapsed, but the foundations of the ancient buildings still exist. Only the "Jinqueyun Palace", which is entirely built with stones, has a vault structure and has two floors, has been preserved relatively completely. The upper floor of this palace is dedicated to Lao Tzu, and the lower floor is dedicated to the Jade Emperor. This arrangement is puzzling. Could it be that I have a higher status than the Jade Emperor? According to legend, this is because "Laozi came first, and then Heaven".
There is Dalaozi Village at the foot of Zhaiyao Mountain, which is now the seat of the Zheshan Township Government. Almost all of the more than 4,000 households in the village have the surname Li. According to the Li family tree, descendants of Laozi have moved here since the Han Dynasty, and the Li family is still in contact with descendants of Laozi in Henan and Anhui.
Huangchao Village and Huangchao Tomb
Huangchao, a Yuanju native of Caozhou, Shandong, was the leader of the peasant uprising in the late Tang Dynasty. Huang Chao launched a peasant uprising in 875 AD, conquered Guangzhou in the south and captured Chang'an in the west. He went through 12 provinces, fought tens of thousands of miles, and fought bloody battles for 10 years. Later, he was defeated and retreated to the Taishan area, trying to use the danger of the Qi Great Wall to regain his strength and make a comeback, and finally committed suicide in the Langhu Valley in Laiwu.
There is a mountain on the boundary between Wande Town in Changqing and Daolang Town in Tai'an, with an altitude of 628.8 meters. The Great Wall of Qi comes from Jiazi Mountain in the west and passes through this mountain to Wuhuayan Mountain in the east.
Legend has it that in the late Tang Dynasty, the peasant uprising army led by Huang Chao was defeated by the government army and set up camp in this mountain. This is where the mountain name Huangchao Village comes from.
There is a "line of sky" and double mountain gates in the west of Huangchao Village, a little general platform in the north, and a ridge in the southeast with a length of more than 500 meters, a flat ridge, no trees and only wild grass, which is locally called "Paoma Ridge" ", which is where Huang Chaojun trained his troops. There are villages such as Shangying and Xiaying in Wande at the northern foot of Huangchao Village. There is also a village named Shi Hutong, which was originally called Shizhai City. It is said that it was the place where officers and soldiers of the Tang Dynasty were stationed and fought when they besieged Huangchao Village.
There is Ladder Mountain on the boundary between Licheng Liubu and Tai'an Xiagang. The Qi Great Wall running from southwest to northeast runs along this ridge. There is Paoma Ridge with a gentle ridge in Liubu, Shanyin City, which is about 4 kilometers long (now Jinan Wildlife Park). There is Huangchao Village in the west of Paoma Ridge. Legend has it that Huang Chao stationed and practiced martial arts here. There is Bamu Di Village in Xiagang, Tai'an, Shanyang. There is Huangchao Tomb in the south of the village, which is 27 meters from north to south, 14 meters from east to west, and 6.25 meters high. Local legend has it that when Huang Chao's soldiers were defeated and fled, their hat ran away. In order to prevent the officers and soldiers chasing them from getting the hat, the soldiers hid the hat and buried it here later. Therefore, Huang Chao's tomb is actually Huang Chao's tomb. . There are several surrounding villages named after Huang Chao: Huang Chao fled here because of Huang Chao's defeat. He was unbearably thirsty. God gave him a well, but he couldn't reach it while riding a horse. The soldiers pulled down the front legs of the horse so that Huang Chao could scoop water. Therefore, The legend of the name of Xianggouzhuang Village was to undermine the morale of Huang Chao's army. Emperor Xizong of the Tang Dynasty inscribed the plaque "Jiang Kouzhuang" in his own handwriting and hung it on the locust tree at the head of the village. However, the people secretly changed it to "Xianggouzhuang". "Zhuang" brought good luck to Huang Chao, so the village was called Xianggouzhuang; Jiaojiayu is the homophonic pronunciation of "Zhaojiayu", and it is said that Huang Chao made armor; Lamayu was here because Huang Chao was defeated, and the people and horses were exhausted, so they pulled the horses. It got its name after passing through this place.
Chengding Mountain, the Ancient and Modern Battlefield
There is a mountain at the junction of Huiqu, Haiquan and Anshang Townships in Anqiu County. It is named "Chengding Mountain" because there is the Qi Great Wall on the top of the mountain. Mountain". The mountain runs northeast to southwest, with a length of more than 2,800 meters and a width of more than 1,700 meters. The mountain is 446 meters above sea level and has a flat top. The Great Wall comes here from Fengshan in the northwest, passes through Wangjunding, and turns south at the mountain.
Since ancient times, this mountain has been a battleground for military strategists. To this day, there are city walls on the mountain made of large round basalt rocks from the Cold War era, as well as stone single-man bunkers used in modern warfare. It is also rare to see the middle of the ancient city wall being hollowed out to build a large-scale fortification. The city walls are crisscrossed here, and military facilities are everywhere. It has become a museum of military facilities.
It is said that when King Xuan of Qi built the Great Wall here, he used Sun Bin's tactics to build the Great Wall into a "fascination array", which contained secrets. Once the enemy broke in, they would lose their way and be unable to escape the disaster. During the Tang Dynasty, the Anlushan rebels once camped here. They were pursued by Generalissimo Guo Ziyi, who fled in a hurry and accidentally entered the ecstasy formation and died.
In 1943, patriotic general Yu Xuezhong led the 51st Army of the former Kuomintang in a fierce battle for seven days and nights. He broke through the enemy's siege and stained the top of the city with blood. He annihilated more than a thousand Japanese invaders and bravely fought against the Japanese invaders. This heroic deed is still widely praised among the people.
To the south of Qinglong Bridge and north of Juyongguan near the Badaling Great Wall in Beijing, there is a place called "Wuguitou", which is described as extremely dangerous. It can be said that "one man can guard the pass, and ten thousand men cannot open it". It is Guangou One of the seventy-two scenes. It was originally called "Luan Bei Gou". Legend has it that Zhu Di, the king of Yan, swept north and led hundreds of thousands of troops. He was invincible along the way. However, after passing Juyong Pass, he was stopped at the "Luan Chai Gou" pass. The Ming army surrendered for a long time. The cost was high and even after dozens of days of attacking, King Yan was very angry. When he was at his wits' end, someone suggested: "There are five brothers of Ren, Yi, Li, Zhi, and Xin of the Huo family nearby who were small leaders in the Yuan Dynasty and had the unique skill of firing artillery. They can be invited to help in the battle." Soon, King Yan then hired the five brothers of the Fire clan, Taishan, to serve him with great courtesy. A few days later, the Fire brothers brought cannons and gunpowder to the front of the battle formation. They took a good look at the terrain and aimed at the target. The five brothers of the Fire Clan were worthy of being expert artillerymen. Cannonballs flew towards the Yuan army's position, and every shot was fired without missing a beat. In just a short time, the iron wall of defense was destroyed by the artillery one by one. The Yuan soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and the remaining Abandoned the pass and fled. King Yan led his army to pursue the victory and successfully occupied the "Lanchaigou" pass. The five brothers of the Fire clan achieved military exploits, but they only gained short-lived glory.
Later, when King Yan became the emperor, he was uncharacteristically worried about the five brothers of the Huo family, thinking that they were really unreliable. If they changed their minds and rebelled, and aimed their cannons at me, King Yan, wouldn't the world I conquered be taken away by them? Therefore, they decided to eradicate them, and framed them as "spies" and wanted to commit treason and other groundless charges. They were arrested and beheaded, and five of their heads were hung in Luanchaigou for public display. This move aroused the indignation of the people, accusing King Yan of being lawless and ungrateful. This voice of resentment soon reached the ears of the King of Yan. The King of Yan was deeply afraid of the people's rebellion, so in order to win over the people, he named the five brothers of the Fire family the "Five Ghost Gods of Wealth" and established them west of the Guangou Stone Buddha Temple. Visit the "Five Ghosts Temple of Wealth" to enjoy the incense from generation to generation. "Five Ghost Heads" got its name from this. Later generations thought that the word "Ghost" was unlucky, so they changed it to "Wu Guitou". Today, you can still see the carved words on the rock wall at the entrance of the old Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway Cave. "Wuguitou" has three big characters.