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Place names of dragons

There are many place names with dragons in Beijing. Roughly speaking, there are more than 200. No matter in urban areas, suburbs or counties, no matter in mountainous areas or plains, almost any district or county has dragon place names.

Among the dragon place names in Beijing, there are streets and lanes, such as Longtoujing Street, Erlong Road, Shanglong Lane and Longjia Hutong. Some are village names, such as Qinglongqiao Town, Longwantun, Longmenzhuang and Beilong Village. Some are the names of mountains, such as Longshan, Jiulong Mountain, Panlong Mountain and Gulong Mountain. Some are water names, such as Dalonghe, longtan lake, Bailongtan and Longyan Spring. Some are scenic spots, such as Longqingxia, Longmenjian, Bailongtan and Heilongtan. Others were originally temples and temples, which evolved into place names, such as Longwang Temple, Longquan Temple and Huilongguan. These place names with dragon characters are really varied. These dragon place names are just the place names in use today. Other dragon names have been abandoned or changed to historical names, such as Longqingzhou. At that time, Yanqing County was named Geshan County when it was in Liao and Jin Dynasties. Yuan Renzong was born in Xiangshui Garden in the county, so after Yuan Renzong acceded to the throne, he upgraded Gashan County to a state. Because the emperor in the past was regarded as the "real dragon emperor", the birth and accession to the throne of the emperor was of course festive, so the name of Gashan County was changed to Longqingzhou. In the early Ming Dynasty, Qin Long Prefecture was abolished, and when Yongle was re-established, the state name was changed to Qin Long. That is to say, the "dragon" of the "real dragon emperor" was changed to the "prosperous" dragon, because in the eyes of the rulers of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty could never be a dragon. Although only one word has been changed, the pronunciation is the same, but the meaning is completely different. During the period of Qin Long in Ming Dynasty, in order to avoid the taboo of the year number of Mu Zong in Ming Dynasty, Qin Long was changed to Yanqing. Longqingzhou, a place name in the Yuan Dynasty, has become a historical place name, but its good name has revived and become one of the new 16 scenic spots in Beijing. This is Longqing Gorge.

If you pay a little attention, you will find that some dragon names in Beijing can form a place name dragon. Among the names of dragons that have disappeared, there is a place called "Yi Long", which is Shanjiankou Street in Chongwen District. Although dragons no longer exist, many dragon names can still form today's dragons. Among the existing dragon names in Beijing, which one can form a dragon?

The first is the faucet. There is a village in Lixian Township, Daxing County. According to legend, it was built in the Ming Dynasty, and it was called "Dragon Head". How did this village name come from? It turns out that there is a sand mountain in the north of this village, which was formed by the flood deposition of Yongding River in history. This sand mountain is four or five meters high and covers an area of more than ten acres. It lies like a dragon and is called the "dragon body". Later, a temple was built in front of Shagang. There are two spring eyes in front of the temple, like longan. When the temple evolved into a village, it took the name of "Dragon Head". In addition, there is a northwest-southeast oblique street in Xicheng District, named Longtoujing Street. It is said that there used to be a well in this street, which was called "the head well". There is an ancient temple near the well, and the incense is not very prosperous. In the Qing dynasty, there was a great drought, and the water was dripping like gold, but the well water at the source was always very prosperous. One day, someone came to the well to fetch water and saw a faucet shaking in the well, as if spitting water. The news spread and people rushed to watch it, so Rentoujing was renamed as Longtoujing. The original ancient temple has also been changed into a temple dedicated to the Dragon King, and the incense is flourishing. In fact, there is no faucet in the well, but the kiss on the temple is reflected in the well water, forming a faucet. According to the study of unearthed epitaphs, some comrades believe that the name Longtoujing evolved from Longdao Township. Longdao Township is a place name in the northern suburb of Youzhou City in Tang Dynasty. Tang Youzhou City is located in today's Guang 'anmen area. The pronunciation of Longdao and Longtou is similar, so it is more credible to say that Longtou Well evolved from Longdao Township. In this way, the name Longtoujing has a long history.

There are longkou, longan, dragon horn and dragon beard on the faucet. Among the dragon place names in Beijing, besides not seeing the dragon horn, there are really names such as longan, Longkou and Longxu! There is a perennial spring named Longyan Spring in Xiaonian Village, Gaoyakou Township, Changping County. There is a reservoir not far south of Dayu in Mentougou District. Its name is Longkou Reservoir, and its mouth is also a mouth. The famous Longxugou in Chongwen District flows from the north and east of the Temple of Heaven to the southeast outside Beijing. This Longxugou is probably the old road in the lower reaches of the ancient Gaoliang River. Probably because Beijing was the capital of the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the place where the emperor who claimed to be the "real dragon emperor" lived, this river channel also had the reputation of Longxugou. Before liberation, it was a stinking ditch, where dirt drifted and mosquitoes and flies bred. Immediately after liberation, it was completely rectified and turned into a clear water ditch. Lao She, a people's artist, took the change of this ditch as the theme, wrote the famous play Longxugou, and then made it into a movie. Although Longxugou has been transformed into an underground river, the newly built streets and residential areas on its upper and both sides are still named after it, such as Longxugou Road and Longxugou Beili.

The dragon is the leader. Among the dragon names in Beijing, Beilong Village and Longgu Mountain are related to the dragon's body. Beilong Village is located in the northwest of Haidian District, west of Jinshan, so it is named because the mountain looks like Beilong. Gulong is a famous mountain at home and abroad, located in the west of Zhoukoudian in Fangshan District. Named after the mountain is rich in traditional Chinese medicine keel. Where did these keels come from? As we all know, about 500,000 to 600,000 years ago, in the natural cave on this hill, there lived a primitive human being, that is, "Beijinger". About 10 million years ago, new Neanderthals lived here. About 18000 years ago, cavemen also lived in this cave on the top of the mountain. Beijingers, Xindong people and cavemen are all primitive humans in the Paleolithic Age. After they died, their bones remained in caves and became fossils. At the same time, a large number of animal bones they killed also piled up in caves and became fossils. Due to the lack of necessary scientific knowledge, the ancients mistook these fossils for keel remains. This is a precious medicinal material. Because from Beijingers to cavemen, they have lived in caves on the mountain for a long time, hundreds of thousands of years, so this mountain produces many keels, and people call this mountain Gulong Mountain. Since the first discovery of Peking man's skull fossils in the 1920s, Longgu Mountain has enjoyed a good reputation at home and abroad. Because it is the hometown of Beijingers, Neanderthals and Neanderthals, and it is also a scientific base for studying ancient humans and vertebrate paleontology.

Everyone knows that dragons have four claws. Only two dragon names in Beijing are related to dragon claws, one is the Dragon Claw Huai Hutong in Xuanwu District, and the other is the Dragon Claw Tree in Chaoyang District in the west of Taoranting Park. In the north of xiaohongmen, the origin of these two dragon place names is obviously related to the shape of trees. That is to say, there was once a locust tree that looked like a dragon's paw in Longzhouhuai Hutong, but what kind of tree grew in Longzhoushu Village? You can't tell from the place names alone, so it must be the same. Because the tree shape of the locust is really like a dragon's paw.

Since the dragon names in Beijing are dragon head, dragon mouth, longan, dragon beard, keel, dragon back and dragon claw, isn't this the place name dragon?

Having said that, you may naturally ask a question: Why are there so many dragon names in Beijing? We have to find the answer from the meaning of the word "dragon".

Dragon, a magical animal in China's ancient legends, lives in the sea, rivers or deep pools. It can make clouds and rain for the benefit of mankind, so people worship it and are superstitious about it. Where there is deep pool and clear water, people call it "Longtan". Wherever there are abundant springs, people regard it as "Longquan" Where there is a deep valley exit, people call it "Longmen". Where rivers often flood, people build the Dragon King Temple nearby and pray for the dragon king's blessing. This is one of the main reasons why there are many dragon names in Beijing.

On the other hand, it is precisely because of the dragon's style that it became the symbol of feudal emperors. In the past, the emperor called himself "the real dragon emperor", and the descendants of the emperor were called "Dragon Son". Therefore, some ground objects related to feudal emperors are often named after the word "dragon". For example, the Summer Palace is a royal garden in the Qing Dynasty, and the island of Kunming Lake in the park is called Longwang Temple. The sluice on the east side of Kunming Lake is called Erlong Sluice. The arch bridge in the northwest of Kunming Lake is called Qinglong Bridge. Another example is that there are two hills outside the Ming Tombs, just like two generals, Hum and Ha, guarding the southeast gate of the Mausoleum. These two hills are named Fengshan and Longshan. Nanyuan was a royal garden in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, where emperors hunted and played. Therefore, the north and south rivers, which originated in or near the park, were named Longhe and Fenghe respectively. And the list goes on. Because Beijing is the capital of Liao Dynasty, which was built here in Jin, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, the dragon names in Beijing are more and more concentrated than those in other places.

The place names of these dragons mentioned above can form a "place name dragon". Although this dragon is deformed, it has two faucets, two dragon whiskers, a longan, a dragon back, a keel and two dragon claws, but it has extraordinary skills and magical power, and its skills and magical power are also revealed through the name of the dragon. First of all, it can change many colors. It is a chameleon. Sometimes white, lying in Bailongtan, Miyun County. Sometimes it is dark and hidden in Miyun Black Dragon Pool. Sometimes it is yellow, making waves in Huanglong Beach in Shijingshan District. Sometimes blue, in Qinglong Lake in Shijingshan District, clouds gather and rain turns. Sometimes it turns red, and there is Red Dragon Pool in Yanqing County. Sometimes it turns golden, so Pinggu County has the Golden Dragon Hall. Although the name dragon in Beijing is changeable in color, it is mainly black and white. So Bailongtan and Heilongtan in Beijing are also quite famous. Bailongtan was selected as one of the sixteen new scenic spots in Beijing. I won't waste my breath here, but I still want to introduce you to Black Dragon Pool! Black Dragon Pool is located in the northwest of Shichengzi Township, Miyun County. This is a four-kilometer-long canyon, formerly known as Gulou Valley. According to legend, in ancient times, Bailong and Black Dragon were brothers and both lived in Bailongtan. After growing up and separating, the honest brother Black Dragon took the initiative to give the good place of Bailongtan to his younger brother Bailong, and came to Gulou Valley by himself. At that time, there was not a drop of water and an inch of grass in the Gulou Valley, and there were barren hills and mountains everywhere. The black dragon planted grass for nothing. Seeing that this young man is honest and hardworking, the ancestor Yunmeng on Daxi Mountain gave him a silver belt and 18 orbs. This silver belt is the Gulou Valley River. Although it is only 20 miles long, the drop is more than 800 meters, and the accumulated water along the way piles up into more than ten deep pools, just like a string of balls. Black Dragon Pool is one of them. There is a famous scene here called "dragon splitting stone", which is two huge stones, each with a room, with a natural passage 4 meters long and 70 centimeters wide in the middle. These two boulders were originally a whole stone, but one year when there was a flood, the black dragon went down the mountain by water and was blocked by this boulder. With the help of thunder and lightning, the angry black dragon raised its claws and shook the mountains, splitting them into two, forming a great spectacle.

The place name dragon in Beijing is not only a color-changing dragon, but also a deformed dragon. Sometimes when it comes back from swimming, it stops moving and becomes Wolong. There is Wolong Village in Yongding Township, Mentougou District. According to local legend, the hill in the southwest of the village is the head of a stone dragon. Its tail is in Jietai Temple, and its faucet is close to Yongding River, just like a stone dragon stretching its head to drink water in Yongding River. People call this mountain Wollongong, hence the name of the village. Sometimes it is very active and takes off, so there is Feilongqiao Hutong in the west of Wang Hongbin Street in Dongcheng District, named after the bridge. There used to be a stone bridge built in Ming Dynasty nearby, named Feihong Bridge, which was renamed Feilong Bridge in Qing Dynasty. This bridge is made of white marble, with beautiful shape and originality. The bridge railing is carved with lions, dragons, frogs, fish, shrimps, marine animals, etc., and engraved with water ripple patterns. There are Feihong archway at the north and south ends of the bridge, and skylight pavilion and cloud shadow pavilion at the east and west sides; There is a rockery in the north of the bridge, a xiudong at the foot of the mountain, a dry cloud hall on the mountain, and Xuling Pavilion and Yufeng Pavilion on both sides of the hall, which really looks like a masterpiece of landscape painting. It's a pity that I can't see this beautiful scenery today. Only this Feilongqiao Hutong gives people infinite reverie. Sometimes it curls up and becomes Panlong Mountain in Shijingshan District. Now the mountain is densely forested and lush, and there are abundant resources such as grindstones and shale at the foot of the mountain. The famous fahai temple is hidden in the mountainside southeast of Panlong. Ming Dynasty murals in temples are rare artistic treasures and have been listed as key cultural relics protection units in Beijing.

The place name dragon in Beijing is divided into two parts at least and nine at most. Divided into two, it becomes the names of Erlongmen, Erlong Road and Erlonggang. Erlongmen, located under the east wall of the Summer Palace, is the two watergates of Kunming Lake. Because there are two faucets carved, it is named Erlongshan, and the nearby village is also called Erlongshan Village. Erlong Road is in the middle of Xicheng District. It is said that in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, there were puddles and depressions in the east of Taiping Bridge, south of Bicai Hutong and north of Damucang. In the middle of Qing Dynasty, Zheng He Buddhist Temple and other buildings were built one after another. Therefore, the puddle gradually shrinks, commonly known as Erlong Pit. In the Republic of China, the pit was filled to build roads, hence the name Erlong Road. Divided into nine and turned into Jiulong Mountain. Jiulong Mountain is located in Mentougou and belongs to Taihang Mountain range. On each side of the mountain, there are four ridges winding away like eight dragons lying back to back. Another "dragon" descended the mountain and reached Yongding River. There are rich coal seams under Jiulong Mountain. 1962, the state established Jiulongshan Forest Farm here, which has now developed into a forest area of nearly 10,000 mu. In addition, there is a Jiulong Mountain at the west exit of Chemical Industry Road outside Zuo 'anmen, Chaoyang District. According to "A Brief Introduction to Chen Yuan", "Jiulong Mountain is located on the north bank of Yongsheng Bridge in Nanding, and the soil of Liangshui River is dredged from Ganlong to Ganlong. From west to east, it is about three miles long and two to three feet high. Committee twists and turns like Youlong. Plant 10 thousand peach willows around. " This Jiulong Mountain is artificially piled up. It no longer exists.

The name of the dragon in Beijing and the magical power of chiseling stones and splitting mountains have created beautiful scenic spots for people. Longqingxia and Longmenjian are two examples. Let's talk about Longqingxia first. Comrades who have been to Longqingxia in Yanqing County can enjoy the scenery known as the "Little Lijiang River" in Beijing. The towering dam of Longqingxia Reservoir connects two mountains with a width of 40 to 50 meters. The dam is like a huge white lock that locks the dragon. Climbing the dam overlooking the north, the dark green water reflects mountains and white clouds. The east and west mountains stand like knives, tens of feet high. Longqing Gorge may be named after this gorge. After crossing the boat, there is a great feeling of "mountains and heavy waters are suspicious and there is no way out" and "a bright future is another village". Water is like a ribbon, winding, and the mountains don't turn, as if there is no end. Every corner of the mountain is a landscape. Various rocks are like drawn swords, sledgehammers, tigers with their heads held high and elephants with their heads twisted ... Therefore, people named them "Tathagata Mountain", "Jiguanzi Mountain" and "Jingang Mountain" according to their shapes. Longmenjian is located in the northwest of Yanjiatai, Qingshui Township, Mentougou District. There are the steep rise of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, the beautiful scenery of Guilin, the waterfalls of Kuanglu and the overlapping springs of Huangshan. Therefore, people praise Longmen Creek with the praises of "Yanjing Three Gorges", "Small Guilin in the west of Beijing" and "landscape bonsai in nature". Seeing is believing. Let's wait until you visit Longmen Creek before seeing the scenery there.

Why is the place name dragon in Beijing so magical? Because it has a magic weapon, hidden in a ravine in Fangshan District, this ravine is Longbaoyu.

Beijing's "place name dragon" is still a love expert! It once fell in love with a tiger, and the Dragon Tiger Terrace in Changping County is where they fell in love. Probably because the tiger is too fierce, the dragon finally abandoned it and chose Phoenix. The couple are almost inseparable. They sometimes date in the Ming Tombs, so there are Longshan and Fengshan outside the Dongshan entrance of the Ming Tombs. Sometimes it runs in the fields of Daxing county, so there are Longhe and Fenghe rivers in Daxing county. After falling in love, they became husband and wife again, settled in the "Dragon and Phoenix Lane" near Fayuan Temple in Xuanwu District, and lived a happy life.