Our reporter Gui Juan and Shi Linjing
In Henan Province, with a population of over 100 million, Jiyuan City, with a total population of only over 700,000, is undoubtedly a "pocket town". It is the smallest city in Henan and the only county-level city directly under the central government.
Jiyuan in history is a lively place.
Shaokang moved to the original place, Emperor Chujuyuan, Xia, Shang, and Zhou, all of which were the interior of Gyeonggi; from the Warring States Period to the Han Dynasty, Jiyuan was famous for its wealth as "Zheyi".
It is also the hometown of Yu Gong and the birthplace of Jishui, one of China's "Four Dus".
5000 years ago, the ancestor of the Chinese nation, the Yellow Emperor, worshipped the sky on the top of Wangwu Mountain in his territory, defeated Chiyou, and unified China.
It is also the largest silver production base in China, with an annual output of 3,600 tons of silver.
Recently, Jiyuan has become popular because of a "slap". In fact, this small city in Central Plains has never lacked "flow" since ancient times.
The spirit of Yu Gong, the soul of a city
Thousands of years ago, there was an old man named Yugong in a mountain village with inconvenient transportation. He made up his mind to move away the two Great Mountain King's houses and Taihang.
Relatives and friends said it was impossible, and a man named Zhisou even mocked him.
But he resisted all opinions and led his descendants to dig soil and move mountains day after day.
He said that the mountain will not increase and increase, but there are endless descendants. As long as you persevere, one day the mountain will be removed.
This is the fable "The Foolish Old Man Moves the Mountain" that is known to almost all women and children in China.
The birthplace of this story is Jiyuan, Henan, known as the hometown of Yu Gong.
Today, the Wangwu and Taihang mountains still stand tall, but the interconnection between people and the outside world has been realized.
"Taihang and Wangwu two mountains, seven hundred miles square, ten thousand yuan high..." Yugong Yishan is an ancient fable first seen in "Liezi·Tangwen". It tells the story of Yugong's perseverance and endless digging, and the interpretation of China Excellent traditional cultural genes of the nation's endless and hardworking people.
Yugong Yishan is a very important spiritual pillar in the bones of Jiyuan people.
"As a national spirit, it may have more than one place of origin, but the old fool is our Jiyuan people." said Ma Donghai, director of the Jiyuan City Local History Office.
Speaking of Yugong, Jiyuan people are more accustomed to adding the word "old" in front of the word, which expresses the kindness of the native people.
In June 1945, the War of Resistance Against Japan entered an important juncture of winning the final victory. Mao Zedong made the closing speech of the Party's Seventh Congress with the title "Foolish Old Man Moves the Mountain", calling on the whole party to "make up your mind, not be afraid of sacrifices, overcome all difficulties, and strive for victory."
The spirit of Yugong Yishan has since become a powerful ideological guide for the Chinese Communist Party to unite and lead the people of the country to overcome all difficulties and obstacles and move from victory to victory.
Since the founding of New China for more than 70 years, the spirit of Yu Gong Yishan has been interpreted more vividly in Jiyuan.
In the 1950s, due to the suffering of the raging Mang River, the people of Jiyuan prepared their own dry food and used shank, shovels and baskets to tame the Mang River little by little. They once became a model for the whole country and friendly countries to learn from.
In the 1960s, the people of Jiyuan, with no experts, no materials, and no mechanical equipment, relied on the tenacity of "Foolish Old Man to Move Mountains" to excavate "artificial Tianhe"-Yinqinji Mang Canal between lofty mountains.
To commemorate that period of history, later generations changed the Yinqinji Mangqu to Yugongqu.
In the 21st century, the people of Jiyuan spent 8 years successively building water supply projects such as Budaigou, Tiantan Mountain, Dayu Dongshan, etc., which solved the drinking water problem of 140,000 people in mountainous areas. On the South Taihang Mountain, which has a lot of rocks and little soil, “pin embroidery” , Planting trees on rocks and afforesting more than 100,000 acres have turned barren hills into forests.
From legend to reality, the spirit of Yugong Yishan condensed into the spirit of Jiyuan city, which became the background of the city's struggle.
Starting in 2017, Jiyuan will set up June 11 every year as the "Foolish Old Man Yishan Spirit Memorial Day".
Entering Jiyuan, the imprints of Yugong Yishan City Mark, Yugong Yishan Group Sculptures, Yu Highway and Yugong Village can be seen everywhere.
The Yugong Yishan Cadre Academy and the Yugong Yishan Spirit Memorial Hall have become the main front for spreading the Yugong Yishan spirit.
At the foot of the Wangwu Mountain, the Yugong Yishan Red Educational Base overlooks the Wangwu Mountain and the Taihang Mountain.
The huge mountains seem to be telling the moving scene of Foolish Old Man moving the mountain back then.
The late Jiyuan poet Wang Huairang once wrote in his poem "A Faraway Story Today": "We feel that this story is real, and it happens around us; our vision, the visual character, Very vivid, you live among us."
A fable, a spirit, passed on for thousands of years.
As an important part of our national spirit, the spirit of Yugong Yishan is the precious spiritual wealth of the Chinese nation, and it has also become the city spirit of Jiyuan.
One of the four dukes, a river that was named "gong" and "king"
Jiyuan is named after the birthplace of Jishui.
Entering Jiyuan means entering the depths of Taihang and Wangwu.
In addition to horse riding or driving, the predecessors may also come by the river.
The river is called Jishui.
The ancient Jishui, the Yangtze River, the Yellow River, and the Huai River are also called "Sidu".
"Erya Shishui" records: "The rivers, rivers, Huai and Ji are the four dus, and those who originate from the sea are also those who inject the sea." "Sidus" are four very important in our country, which flows from west to east and flows independently. The river of the sea.
In ancient times, the emperor often worshipped the famous mountains and rivers in the world in order to express merits or pray for blessings. The Five Sacred Mountains and Sidu were the main objects of worship.
Historically, this river was named the "King of Qingyuan" by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, the "King of Qingyuan Loyalty" by Huizong of Song Dynasty, and the "king of Sian Chay of Qingyuan" by Yuan Renzong.
But how can such a fine water, along with the Yangtze River, the Yellow River, and the Huai River, be tied to the Sidu?
Tang Taizong once had such a question. He asked the minister Xu Jingzong: "The torrents of the world do not contain ceremonial ceremonies, and Ji Shui is so fine that it respects Sidu, why?"
Xu Jingzong replied: "To blaspheme is to speak alone, not because of the remaining water alone can go to the sea, the undercurrent of the economy is constantly extinct, although the shape is subtle, it is unique and respectable." It means that although the water is subtle, it can flow into it alone. Hai, Ji Shui's tenacious spirit of not giving up on each other's oath is the reason why it always ranks among the four dukes.
In the eyes of the ancients, Jishui is very mysterious and mysterious.
Crossing the Yellow River without being muddy, encountering mountains without being discouraged, out of the plains, the Jedi lie down, all the way three hidden, tenacious.
People admire the tenaciousness of Jishui, which is “the turbid water is not stained”, but it is small but struggling to flow into the sea alone.
However, such an answer cannot fully explain the reason why Jidu has been respected for thousands of years.
Jiyuan writer Jiang Yan believes that the quality of Jishui can be seen from the titles given to Jishui by the emperors of the past dynasties. Almost all titles contain the word "Qing".
This "qing", on the one hand, explains the cleanness of Jishui water quality, and on the other hand, it shows the "clean and noble" feelings that the ancients have long derived from Jishui.
An earlier record of Jishui in ancient Chinese writings should be the "Book of Songs": "There are bitter leaves in the ground, and there are deep wading. The deep is strong, and the shallow is uncovered." It depicts the appearance of Jishui in four seasons.
"Chun Qiu Shuo Ci" and "Fun Su Tong" directly use two transparent and straightforward sentences to respect Ji Shui to a certain height of personality: "Ji, Qi Ye, Qi Ye is also measured." "Ji, Qi Ye Qi, Du Ye, Zhen Ye.” The Jishui with Qingliu as promised was regarded as a polite, relaxed river as early as the Spring and Autumn Period.
Bai Juyi sings at the source of Jishui: "I call it one word today, whoever asks for nobleness. Only Qingji will stay together forever." In the eyes of the poet, there is no more pure river than Jishui. .
It is a pity that in 1855, the Tongwaxiang of the Yellow River breached, causing the sixth major diversion of the Yellow River, taking the economy into the sea, and then disappearing the water.
But in Jiyuan, Ji Shui seems to be there all the time, babbling.
The writer Wang Jianbing once wrote: I know that the emperor respects the mountains, but I didn't want to respect a piece of water so much.
In fact, Jishui hasn't disappeared in a day, what is the appearance of the Yellow River, what is it like.
When the two sides of the Yellow River sang about the harvest, Ji Shui might be smiling in the dark.
For seven thousand years, a city "chosen" by history
What Jiyuan people talk about is much more than this spirit.
History favors Jiyuan.
As early as more than 7,000 years ago, there were human inhabitants here. Cultural sites such as Peiligang, Yangshao, and Longshan witnessed the rich cultural connotation and long history of the ancient city. Xia, Shang, and Zhou, all of which were inland in Gyeonggi, became the royal love of that period. From the Spring and Autumn and Warring States to the Han Dynasty, it was entrusted several times to the Hou State; after the tenth year of Emperor Kaihuang in Sui Dynasty (AD 590), all emperors of all dynasties set up prefectures, prefectures, or counties here, making this place a The famous "Fuyi".
In Jiyuan, you can also see many archetypes of Chinese creation myths and legends: Nüwa's colorful stones to replenish the sky, Milky Way Valley, the Yellow River, loess, and baby cliffs made by Tuan Earth, the Tiantan Mountain where the emperor worships the sky, and Dayu's water control Balixia, the medicine cabinet mountain where Shennong gathers herbs...
There are many ancient cultural sites in Jiyuan.
Among them, the ruins of the original city of Xiaduyuan are large in scale and rich in content, satisfying people's guesses about the Xia Dynasty.
The ancient city of Zhe State flourished in the Warring States Period and flourished in the Qin and Han Dynasties.
The Qinhe plank road stretches for hundreds of miles, and you can still imagine the scene of the transfer of grain and grass and the neighing of war horses.
The Great Wall of the Northern Qi Dynasty, which lies between the Wangwu Mountains of the Yellow River, has staged countless battles between swords and soldiers.
Fangkou’s ancient water conservancy facilities are still playing the role of benefiting the people.
In the historical evolution of thousands of years, Jiyuan has never been treated down.
There are rich natural resources here, with more than 40 kinds of proven mineral deposits.
It has the largest lead-gold smelting base in Asia and the largest silver production base in China, with an annual silver production capacity of 3,600 tons.
"The earliest silver production in Jiyuan can be traced back to the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties more than 300 years ago. According to legend, at the Gusao Mountain in the Wanshan cluster at the southern end of the Taihang Mountains, people dig into the mountains to extract silver and other metals." Ma Donghai said.
Today, the output value of Jiyuan's non-ferrous metal industry will exceed 100 billion yuan.
The New Year’s Eve is approaching, and every household in this small town in northern Henan has begun to talk about it. Food is often ranked first in the Jiyuan people’s New Year’s list.
The Jiyuan people’s emphasis on food can be seen from the unearthed cultural relics: a bronze statue with animal face patterns in the Western Zhou Dynasty, a Han glazed pottery barbecue grill, a Han Dynasty sheep-slaughtering pottery figurine, and a Han Dynasty fish and duck pond... These are enough to satisfy people's dreams of the ancients' New Year's Eve dinner.