? Author/Langyan Shiying walked into the ancient town of Datong hidden in the mountains. At the intersection of the streets where people come and go, we saw shops everywhere, modern goods and ancient town delicacies, matched with those ancient wooden houses, both

The integration of ancient civilization and modern civilization also displays the architectural style of the ancient town in the "Ming and Qing" eras here.

In this western Sichuan style and the unique house architectural art of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the eaves and corners of the streets in Datong Ancient Town fully display its ancient history.

Wooden structures, small blue tiles, overhanging corners, stilted buildings, simple wooden windows, and bluestone slabs underfoot. Although these "late Ming and early Qing" buildings have experienced more than 300 years of dust and baptism, they still stand firm as ever.

, Jingwan is located in the ancient town of Datong, less than 20 kilometers west of Qionglai.

Datong Ancient Town is not big, but it has a different painting style from other ancient towns.

Savoring it carefully, it looks like a sleeping man or a fairy standing at the foot of Nanshan Mountain and Jiuding Mountain. The water from the source of the two streams merges on the twin rivers in Datong Ancient Town to form the water of Mozi River.

Slowly flows to the southeast.

Because it hides thousands of years of past events, it brings us into the dust of history, and may reveal the former prosperity of Datong Ancient Town.

The history of Datong takes us back to 2,000 to 3,000 years ago. We can imagine what Datong Ancient Town, a little-known town, was like a thousand years ago.

What happened...?

History is sometimes objective and transparent because someone has always recorded its process.

History is sometimes mysterious, because no one records its thousands of years of loneliness.

As early as the Western Zhou Dynasty, there was a legend that "Ma Chengzi" practiced Taoism in Datong, Qionglai, and became an immortal at Heming Mountain in Dayi.

Before the Xia and Shang dynasties, there was also a legend about people named "Hong Lingzi" who became immortals.

Judging from the Paleolithic Age (ancient stone coins) unearthed in Datong, humans were inhabited in Datong seven or eight thousand years ago. And judging from the Paleolithic Age (ancient stone coins) unearthed in Datong between the Neolithic Age and the Bronze Age (red bronze ware)

Look, if you go to Datong three thousand years ago, there will be very prosperous tribes.

From the perspective of historical exploration, before the pre-Qin Dynasty, Datong should be under the jurisdiction of (? country).

At that time, before King Qin Hui ordered Zhang Yi to establish Linqiong in Shu, Linqiong should belong to the intersection area of ??three ancient Shu kingdoms. The ancient city of Linqiong at that time should be a "river island" between the three ancient Shu kingdoms.

The territory west of the (殿河: present-day Xihe) and (殿水: present-day Wenjingjiang) rivers at that time should be the territory of the Western Ancient (?国).

And from the south of the then (? River: today's Xihe) to the east of the then (? River) and (Pu River) to the east of (now: Nanhe), it should be the ancient (Shu Kingdom) territory at that time.

Then south of the then (Pushui: today's Wenjingjiang River) and southwest of the current (now: Nanhe) should be the ancient (Qiong Kingdom) territory.

Starting along the intersections of the east, west, north and south of the ancient town, we can see many relics left by history at the top of the mountain, on the roadside, in the fields, and in the streams.

Just like the ancient (stone coins) from the Neolithic Age that were discovered in Datong, one is still preserved as evidence.

In Yanyan Village, close to Datong Ancient Street, there is a place called "Yanjingba". There are 6 salt wells, 1 ancient salt well, and 5 more (ancient salt wells: Meihua Well) buried in farmland that have not been excavated.

It was built before the Tang Dynasty, during the Republic of China, and in 1957 after liberation. This is an unchanging rule. Thousands of years ago, Datong discovered "salt."

"So, it makes sense that many people should have moved to Datong thousands of years ago because of "salt". There is a salt well among them, which the locals call "Baguajing". It is in the shape of an octagon, and the locals say it is from the Tang Dynasty.

There were salt wells in the Tang Dynasty, but from the perspective of the well, there are "Taoist" legacy. So, is it possible that its age has exceeded the Tang Dynasty to the Western Han Dynasty, because in the Western Han Dynasty, Chinese "Taoism" originated and became popular in Qionglai Datong.

, Dayi, and more than ten surrounding counties and cities. During the Western Han Dynasty, "Taoism" in Datong was flourishing. There was also a place named "Meizijing". There were five old salt wells in the shape of plum blossoms buried under the fields, which the locals called "Meizijing".

Plum Blossom Wells". It is reported that in 1957, a salt well mining team from Pengshan County came here to build salt wells and dug out "five plum blossom-shaped salt wells. After the old master who mined the salt wells discovered them, he said they were a thousand-year-old thing.

They couldn't move casually, so they still buried these five old salt wells for protection.

In Datong, there are thousands of ancient salt wells. The "Book of Han", "Book of Tang" and "History of Song" record: (There are two ancient smoke wells in Linqiong, named: "Jinfeng" and "Fangchi". The method of mining salt wells and the extraction of salt water

The method is the "initiation" of China).

There are ancient tombs, ancient temples and Zen forest Buddhist sects in the Han and Tang Dynasties, as well as thousand-year-old cypresses from the Han and Tang Dynasties, and a group of stone carvings and cliff statues in Stalagmite Mountain from the Northern Wei Dynasty to the middle and late Tang Dynasty.

There are inscriptions, and there are faint words on it during the Republic of China. On the upper right side there are the words "Jin Yu Gong Da Xing Yong" on the upper right corner, and in the middle part there are the words "Dali San" unearthed in the Kongjiashan Village Committee.

The title of the stele of "Zhuwa Temple" is also "(Lianghuang Daxing)", and the title of the stele of the cliff statues in Stalagmite Mountain was ("Wanghuang Shang Jin Yugong Daxing Yong"). This further proves that during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the name of the ancient town of Datong was (Daxing).

Historical records indicate that Datong was once known as (Daxing), and the name "Daxing" lasted for two thousand years until the period of Zhang Xianzhong's massacre of Sichuan, the Qing Dynasty, and the Republic of China. These all record the history and culture of Datong.

The stories spread among the people tell the story of its unknown and dusty past.