Time flies. I've been in Shandong for 31 years, and I miss my hometown for more than 3 years. In May 217, I returned to my hometown and witnessed the rapid changes in my hometown. My mind was full of pride. My hometown, Hancheng, is a famous historical and cultural city, a treasure trove of Chinese dragons, with profound cultural connotations and numerous places of interest. There are legends of Dayu controlling water and carp jumping at Longmen, Sima Temple, Confucian Temple, ancient street customs, Longmen scenic spots, the treasures of Dangjia Village, the Eighth Route Army's eastward crossing of Longmen Ancient Crossing against Japan ... and of course, the fragrant mutton Hele.

People in Hancheng may not be impressed, but when it comes to Sima Qian of Shi Sheng who wrote Historical Records, I think most people know that Sima Temple is a business card for cultural tourism in Hancheng.

Sima Qian Temple is located on the hill in the southeast of Zhichuan Town, 1 kilometers south of hancheng city, Shaanxi Province, more than ten miles away from my hometown Beishousi Village. It is adjacent to the Yellow River in the east and Liangshan Mountain in the west, where the water is lingering, and it is the champion of all the scenic spots in Hancheng.

We know that Historical Records is a biographical history book written by Sima Qian, a historian of the Western Han Dynasty. It is the first biographical general history in the history of China and is listed as the first of the "Twenty-four History". It records the history of more than 3, years from the ancient legendary Huangdi era to the four years of Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty. Together with the later History of Han, History of Later Han and History of the Three Kingdoms, they are called "the first four histories". The book Historical Records includes twelve biographies (records of emperors' political achievements in past dynasties), thirty families (records of princes in vassal states and Han dynasties, the rise and fall of nobles), seventy biographies (records of words and deeds of important people), ten tables (chronology of major events) and eight books (records of ceremonies, music, temperament, calendars, astronomy, meditation and water conservancy), * * *

Historical Records had a far-reaching impact on the development of later historiography and literature.

Historical Records is also regarded as an excellent literary work, which plays an important role in the history of China literature. It is praised by Lu Xun as "the swan song of historians, the poem Li Sao without rhyme" and has high literary value.

In Hancheng, there is a clay statue of Sima Qian in the Northern Song Dynasty. This statue does not sit in danger like a normal statue, but its face is slightly tilted to the north. I remember the last time I went back to my hometown, two high school classmates took me to visit Sima Temple again. While chatting, my old classmates asked me two questions. One was about why the statue's face was facing north. One question is why the descendants of Sima Qian are "Feng surname" and "the same surname". Later, I looked up relevant information and learned that the first question was legendary. According to legend, Sima Qian's statue faced north overnight after it was molded, because there were two people in the north who worried Sima Qian, one was Li Ling and the other was Su Wu. Sima Qian said a fair word for Li Ling in those days, and was punished by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Sima Qian's face was tilted to the north, hoping that Li Ling could come back, clarify his grievances and avenge him. Su Wu was a good friend of Sima Qian, who was an envoy of the Han Dynasty to the Huns. After being severely rejected in persuading Su Wu to submit, the Huns became angry from embarrassment and sent Su Wu to Beihai to shepherd sheep, saying that when the ram gave birth to the lamb, it was time for Su Wu to return to Chang 'an. After many hardships and twists and turns, Su Wu returned to the Han Dynasty after nineteen years. However, when he came back, Sima Qian was no longer alive, and two good friends never met each other until they died. In a Suwu Temple more than ten kilometers north of Sima Qian Temple, according to historical records, the trees planted around Suwu Temple grow strangely, and all the cypress branches extend to the south, which is the direction where Ma Qian Temple is located. People say that Sima Qian and Su Wu are really sincere, and they are still thinking about each other after their death. These are the two scenic spots in Hancheng, namely "Supananko" and "Taishi Gaofen".

The second problem is that the descendants of Sima Qian later separated the surname "Sima" and gave it to two families. Nagato added two points before "Ma" and changed it to "Feng". The second family added a vertical beside the word "Si" and changed it to "Tong", and returned to the ancestral home of Gaomen in Hancheng to rebuild their homeland and named it "Xu Cun". Second, from the structure of the word "Xu", it is composed of "Shuangliren" and "Yu", implying that there are two surnames "Feng" and "Tong". There has always been a custom in Xu Cun: Feng Tong is not divided, Feng Tong is not married, Feng Tong * * * enters a ancestral temple, and * * * worships an ancestor. I heard from my old classmate Duan Shi that Sima Qian's ancestral home was Nangaomen Village in the north of our village, and later he moved to "Xu Cun" because of an earthquake in Nangaomen. Interested friends can refer to my classmate Zhu Ma's fantastic blog "Thinking about Longmen".

Hancheng has been a good place since ancient times! I will always wish my hometown prosperity! Also welcome friends to travel to Hancheng!